Chapter IV
"How do you want me to be considerate?" I interrupted Hao Lei's words, "accept Feng Shao's car, house, and all kinds of help in life, and continue to be a canary without regrets, or is it his underground lover who can't see the light?
Hao Lei's startled voice came from the phone, "Zhang Yuqiao, why do you think so? Do you know that Brother Feng once quarreled with Mayor He for you, and was slapped by his father." Originally, his family had acquiesced to your marriage, but who knew that something happened later...... Forget it, think about it yourself!" He hung up a little angrily.
Even if he once loved, the last person he married was not me after all. I silently added a sentence in my heart as I put down the phone. But what happened to Hao Lei just now? I was a little puzzled, but after thinking about it, aren't Mayor He and Feng Shao all right now? Maybe I'm too worried, right?
The biggest advantage of working in the art academy is that I can feel the influence of the artistic atmosphere every day, which makes my mood calm. I have loved art since I was a child, especially oil painting and color, and I dreamed of one day opening my own exhibition. The Academy has a special benefit for employees, that is, they can study all art courses for free on Saturdays and Sundays.
So every weekend, when everyone was shopping and watching movies, I chose to stay in the studio, in the colorful drawing paper, in the sketches, trying to get close to the dream in my heart.
BJ's May already smells like summer is approaching, and when I went to the supermarket to buy drinks, I suddenly heard a text message ringing on my phone. I opened it and saw that it was sent by Peggy, "Yu Qiao, Feng Shao's father has an accident, just look at today's current political news!"
This news made my heart start to beat uneasily, I entered the two keywords "Yicheng, mayor" in the Baidu news column, and dozens of search results jumped out at once.
In a conspicuous position on the homepage, there is such a message, "Yicheng Nursing Home has made a major discovery in the liability accident, the deputy mayor is suspected of major violations of law and discipline, and the mayor knows that he does not report and intends to cover up, and is now under investigation." "Mayor He, my hand holding the phone is trembling slightly, what about Feng Shao?
I dialed Feng Shao's phone without hesitation, and no one answered it, and just when I was about to give up, the phone was connected, "Hey!" was Feng Shao's voice, low and hoarse, and a very thick nasal voice.
"Are you alright, do you have a cold?" I asked cautiously, my uneasiness easing a little when I heard his voice.
"Yu Qiao, Dad, he, been, led, gone!" Feng Shao used his father, not "my father", which made me a little moved. "My mind is messed up right now, I don't know what to do?" he said in a small voice, as if muttering to himself, as if he was speaking to me.
At this time, I suddenly heard a crisp "bang" on the other end of the phone, which was the sound of a lighter, followed by a violent cough. Feng Shao probably wanted to calm down his excitement by smoking, but he choked on the cigarette, which made my internal organs rub together in pain, I didn't know what to say to comfort him, and suddenly I felt that everything seemed pale and weak!
"Yu Qiao, don't contact me again during this time, it's not good for you to have too much contact, BJ's house and car are earned by me running a company, and they have nothing to do with my father. Hao Lei also has a bank card over there, the password is your birthday, although the money in it can't make you spend a lot of money, but it is enough for you to have food and clothing in BJ. I want you to have a better time, remember, I love you!"
"Don't say it, Uncle He will be fine, everything will be fine! I don't want anything, I just want you to be happy forever!" I cried and shouted into the other end of the phone.
Feng Shao smiled bitterly on the phone, "Happiness? I have lived according to what my father wants since I was a child, and I don't even dare to love the woman I like, people like me don't deserve happiness." Suddenly there was a sound of broken glass on the phone, I don't know what Feng Shao threw on the ground, followed by the sound of a broken water glass.
At this time, there was a young woman's crying voice, "Feng, don't be like this, ...... it should be Feng Shao's wife, I burst into tears and hung up the phone silently.
After a few heavy rains, in the blink of an eye, it was mid-June, and the hottest summer in BJ arrived, and I often felt stuffy in my chest during this hot season.
On this day, when I was buying water at the newsstand outside the art academy, I suddenly heard the stall owner say to himself, "It's terrible to be an official now, and if a real estate project kills so many people, this kind of person should be sentenced." ”
I was shocked and asked him, "What did you just say?"
"See for yourself!" the stall owner handed me the newspaper in his hand.
I took it and looked at it, and there was an eye-catching article on the open page, "Zhou Guangfu, deputy mayor of Yicheng, has seriously violated the law and discipline to the point of disregarding the people's livelihood, and Zhou Guangfu is now removed from all positions in the party and sentenced to 10 years in prison." Mayor He Qinmin is hereby removed from his position as mayor and sentenced to three years in prison. ”
"How can this be? how can this be?" I said to myself, not even taking the change, and slowly walking back step by step, suddenly feeling dizzy, and then I fell to the ground.
When I woke up, I found myself lying in a hospital bed, accompanied by the school's director of education and several young teachers, and the director saw me wake up and said to me with concern, "Xiao Zhang, have you been under a lot of work pressure lately, and you have not had a good rest?" The doctor said that your blood sugar level is too low, you must pay attention to your body, you are too thin, and you usually need to eat more nutritious food. ”
I nodded, "I'm sorry to worry you and everyone, I'm fine! "I saw that I still had a drip in my hand, so I was going to pull out the needle.
The director quickly stopped me, "You are too weak, the school will give you a day off today, take a good rest." We won't bother you!"
I lay quietly on the hospital bed, looking at the white walls and ceilings, but said silently in my heart, Feng Shao, where are you now? Are you okay? I have never been so anxious to see someone as I am at this moment, I have decided, I want to go back to Yicheng.
I asked for a leave of absence from the art academy, and in a few days it was my graduation ceremony, and I had to go back to Yicheng anyway. When the plane slowly landed in Yicheng, I couldn't help but sigh that after more than half a year, I set foot on this familiar land again.
In less than half a year, Yicheng has changed a lot, the new subway line has been started, the high-rise buildings in Yicheng New District have risen from the ground, and the new central green plaza will replace the 280-meter-high "Sofitel International" as the new significant landmark and tallest building in Yicheng.
When the taxi passed by the site of the nursing home in Yicheng, the scene there was diametrically opposed to the thriving scene of Yicheng, all the construction units had been evacuated, and the bare cement and steel frame was left standing alone in a corner of the city like a huge monster, showing a lonely and decaying scene as the sun set.
I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, leaning back in the seat of the taxi and closing my eyes, once upon a time, I was so close to happiness, as if the beautiful life of the future was within reach, but the sudden great change was like a volcanic eruption of the earth's crust, forming a Malayana trench before Feng Shao and me, which could no longer be crossed.
Back at the school, Wen Jin, Xiao Meng, and Peggy arrived at the dormitory one step ahead of me, everyone came to attend the final graduation ceremony, and also to complete the final farewell ceremony of our college days.
The moment I opened the dormitory door, it seemed like I had returned to the day of the first year of freshman year, I was standing in the middle of the room with my suitcase, everyone was looking at me and smiling, Wen Hibiscus stretched out her hand to me, "Hello, I'm Su Wen Jin!" Xiao Meng handed me a piece of Dove, "Do you want to eat chocolate?!" Peggy was holding the hanger and hanging the clothes one by one in the closet, she turned her head to look at me, "Hi, beauty!" .......
In fact, life is an encounter, and wherever you go, who you will meet seems to be arranged by God a long time ago. Sometimes, it even gives the illusion that the scenes of meeting and separation are so similar......
On the day of the graduation ceremony, we all changed into beautiful bachelor's uniforms and waited for the most sacred and important moment of our college years. The school leaders awarded us graduation certificates one by one, and when we were just about to take a group photo together, two people in uniform came over at this time, "Which one is Zhang Yuqiao?"
Everyone looked at each other, and I took two steps forward and said, "I am!" and they said politely, "We have some information to understand, please cooperate with us on this trip." Moon held my hand tightly, and I knew they were worried about me, and Moon asked the police, "What do you want her to do?" ”
An elderly policeman smiled and said, "We just want to ask Zhang Yuqiao a few questions, it won't take long, you don't have to be nervous." In this way, I wore a bachelor's uniform, and under the surprised eyes of all the teachers and students of the school, and in the whispers of my classmates, I followed the two policemen into the police car.