Chapter 11: The Sacrifice
Zhang Yizhi parked the car on the side of the road and walked down from it with a bag of rice balls. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info His hair was all white, messily attached to his scalp, a pair of dark brown eyes were sunken in the sockets, and the corners of the eyes were full of wrinkles, making him look listless.
He hobbled to a large tree on the side of the road that had been broken by his waist, and reached out to touch the scarred trunk. A few days ago, his daughter crashed her car into the tree and died. Zhang Yizhi's memory of that night was a little blurry, and he only knew that he hurried over after receiving a call from the police station. At that time, the scene was a mess, the front of my daughter's car had almost been inserted into this century-old tree, the windshield was completely shattered, and the airbags were all popped out and filled the cab.
However, Zhang Shuxian was not in the car, she was pulled out of the window by a huge inertia at the moment of the crash, and the whole person was thrown into the dense canopy, and then fell heavily to the ground.
Mrs. Zhang fainted with a scream when she saw her daughter's body, and Zhang Yizhi barely supported her body and knelt in front of the pile of pieces of meat that were easy to be found by the police, and let out a dry howl in her throat, which seemed to belong not to humans, but to the wails of wild beasts.
Later, at the police station, he overheard a conversation with the police.
"Are Zhang Shuxian's test results out? Is there alcohol in the stomach? ”
"No, nothing but a few Lantern Festivals."
For the next few days, he dreamed of his daughter, who sat at the head of his bed, shivering at him with a panicked expression.
"Shuxian, are you unwilling to go? Tell me if you have any unfulfilled wishes, and I'll help you make them happen. He stretched out his hand to his daughter, her appearance was completely different from when she was alive, the former Zhang Shuxian, her heart was quite proud, and even a little domineering, but he loved her temperament, who made her his daughter Zhang Yizhi, she was born to be a proud princess, she can live freely and freely without caring about the eyes of others. But Zhang Shuxian in the dream was like a frightened bird, as if she was guarding against something that frightened her deeply.
"Shuxian, what's wrong with you?"
"The bells are ringing...... Bell...... Murder ......" After saying these words intermittently, she gradually disappeared into the darkness. From that day on, Zhang Yi would wake up from a nightmare every night and never sleep again.
"Shuxian, Dad went to buy his favorite Lantern Festival today," he squatted down and put the bag in his hand next to the big tree, "Look at it, there are all kinds of fillings, black sesame, hawthorn, bean paste, you can eat more if you like." Zhang Yizhi's shoulders twitched, and he suddenly slammed his hand on the trunk, "You return my daughter, return my daughter." ”
After a long time, the stinging pain on the back of his hand reminded him that he couldn't go on like this, and he leaned on the trunk of the tree in exhaustion, staring blankly at the ground.
A gust of wind blew a plastic bag into Zhang Yizhi's face, and he ripped it off angrily, but found that there was a person standing in front of him. The man was wearing a pair of dark blue coarse cloth pants and a pair of army-green cloth shoes on his feet. Zhang Yizhi raised his head, and he could see that this person was leaning over to look at him, but because the night was too thick, he couldn't see his face clearly.
"This old-fashioned costume can't be some kind of homeless person," he guessed in his heart, "Could it be that he was so hungry that he saw Lantern Festival coming with him?" ”
"Let's go," Zhang Yizhi waved his hand at him impatiently, "This is for the dead, do you still think about this as a big living person." ”
The man did not speak, but he stood quietly, looking at him quietly.
"That's not right." Zhang Yizhi's heart was like being smashed by a big hammer, how could he be so confused, even forgetting such an important thing. Where is he dressed as a homeless man, and this set of blue coarse cloth clothes is not the work clothes of that time? At that time, as long as you saw this dress on the street, you would know that it must be a worker from the Jiangzhou Watch Factory. The workers are proud of it, because only their factory can distribute two sets of clothes a year, so they wear it even on their days off.
"You're ......" Zhang Yizhi raised his head again, and he squinted at the face hidden in the darkness: his hair was slightly curly, his cheeks were thin, and he looked a little familiar.
Another gust of wind blew, and the man's sleeves were blown and shaking. Zhang Yizhi looked at his hand, which was covered with calluses, and there was a long, thin scar on his ring finger.
He sat down on the ground, the scar he remembered, which had been scratched by the tweezers used to fix the watch. That day, the man was concentrating on repairing a watch sent from out of town, but he was hit by himself behind him, and as a result, one accidentally scratched his finger.
"Aikan." He said these two words with a shudder in his mouth.
"You made this watch? Really didn't use someone else's parts? Zhang Yizhi looked at the boy in front of him, his face was green, but his fingers were full of calluses.
The boy nodded vigorously and did not speak.
Zhang Yizhi held the watch in his hand, although it did not look amazing, but it walked extremely accurately, this "click" sound in his heart, it simply made every pore of him feel extremely happy.
"Aikan, do you know what it means to us if this surface energy is produced?" He asked him tentatively.
"In the future, you won't have to bring expensive imported watches."
Ai Kang's tone was very sincere, but Zhang Yizhi put a question mark in his heart: Did he really not know? Not knowing the huge benefits lurking behind this watch.
"If we hand over this watch to the government, it is likely that a watch factory will be formed in the future, and you will definitely be the right person to be the director." Zhang Yizhi's eyes turned a few times, further testing his mind.
"No, no, no," Ai Kang was so anxious that he refused, "I don't want to be a factory director, where can I be." ”
"Then you might as well give it to me," a sly light flashed in his eyes, "and I'll get you a good position in the factory in the future." ”
"As long as I can fix my watch and make a watch, I don't need anything else." His smile was shy and innocent.
"I was wrong, I was wrong." Zhang Yizhi got up and knelt on the ground, knocking at the blue figure in front of him and kowtowing desperately, his tears covered his old face, "Aikang, I shouldn't have ...... you"
The man still didn't speak, as he had been when he was younger, but suddenly a bell rang behind him.
"Click......"