Chapter 1: Past and Present Lives

When he regained consciousness, Zhang Ke tried his best to recover the memory of the car accident, but found that like the fragments left after the distortion of time and space, the memory did not have the realism that seemed to be touchable.

At this time, Zhang Ke slowly woke up, his eyes were covered with a layer of gray cloud, the pale yellow ceiling was a little mottled, not like a hospital ward, this color is very familiar, his own house before moving out of the city government compound, the ceiling is this color, at that time my father was the deputy secretary general of the municipal government, my mother was an ordinary cadre of the Municipal Letters and Visits Bureau, and I was still a good student......

Someone next to him was talking in a whisper.

"Mayor Tang means that you want to go out and avoid ......" just like that, and then fell silent, unable to hear how many people were standing beside him.

Zhang Ke has a strong sense of familiarity with the content and tone of this sentence: someone must have said the same thing in this tone somewhere, at some time.

I couldn't feel any pain in my body, but the back of my head felt like I was being torn apart, and the pain was so bad that I didn't have the strength to turn my head to see who was standing next to me. This kind of headache is also familiar to Zhang Ke. Zhang Ke remembers that he had a high fever during the summer vacation after graduating from junior high school, and his head hurt as badly as now, as if he had been hit in the back of his head with a wooden wedge.

At that time, it was still the ninety-four years when Tang Xueqian, the executive vice mayor of Haizhou City, was falsely accused and imprisoned, and his father, as the person who was promoted by Tang Xueqian, was greatly implicated, and the family was panicked at that time, and no one had the heart to send him to the hospital.

It was this familiar headache that made Zhang Ke suspect that he had a high fever again, not a car accident.

"Mayor Tang's words, you ponder ......" the man said again, and then he heard someone push the door and walk out, but did not enter again, and the door was closed outside.

Hearing this person mention the title of "Mayor Tang" again, Zhang Ke thought to himself: Who is this Mayor Tang, he only knows Tang Xueqian, the mayor surnamed Tang, but Tang Xueqian was falsely accused of taking bribes and imprisoned in 94 years, and was acquitted and released in 99, at that time his mental state was very bad, and he couldn't return to his leadership position after several years of recuperation, and now he is just a bad old man, which one else is the mayor surnamed Tang?

When I think of Tang Xueqian, I can't help but think of my father's ups and downs with Tang Xueqian in the past ten years.

Later, Tang Xueqian, president of Haizhou Normal College, was transferred to the city as deputy mayor, and Dad went to the city with him to work as deputy director of the second secretary of the municipal government office. stayed in the city for five or six years, Tang Xueqian became the executive deputy mayor, and his father gradually climbed to the position of deputy secretary general of the municipal government. By 94, Tang Xueqian was inspected on suspicion of accepting bribes because he presided over the restructuring of Xinfeng Group, and the province sent an inspection team to investigate. When Tang Xueqian was under quarantine review, he asked people to bring a message to his father and asked him to take shelter outside. Dad borrowed the opportunity to leave Haizhou for his uncle and grandfather's funeral, and soon after, the provincial inspection team obtained key evidence of Tang Xueqian's bribery.

After Tang Xueqian was imprisoned, his father relieved him of his public office and returned to Haizhou University to teach. At this time, Haizhou Normal University had merged with several other institutions to form Haizhou University.

It was not until 99 that Ding Xiangshan, secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee, was arrested for accepting bribes, and the court changed Tang Xueqian's innocence. Only then did people know that Tang Xueqian's bribery and imprisonment in '94 was framed by Ding Xiangshan. As for why the secretary of the municipal party committee framed the deputy mayor with a lower position than him? Some say that Ding Xiangshan and Tang Xueqian competed for a woman named Xu Si, and some said that Tang Xueqian had already grasped the evidence of Ding Xiangshan's bribery, and wanted to take the opportunity to bring down Ding Xiangshan, but let Ding Xiangshan strike first. As for what the truth is, it seems that no conclusion has been reached, but after Tang Xueqian was released from prison, his spirit was very poor, and he couldn't remember that he had asked someone to talk to his father back then. People recall the situation and rumors back then, when Dad left Haizhou when Tang Xueqian was under investigation, in their opinion, in addition to betrayal, there was also a suspicion of framing Tang Xueqian with Ding Xiangshan.

The court did not give my father a clear explanation, and my father had no place in Haizhou University, so with the help of his former colleagues, he was transferred to Haizhou Chess Academy as a janitor to fool his life. Dad I was smart, but he was mistakenly on the body of the person who brought the talk, he couldn't turn over for the rest of his life, he was depressed, and he had gray hair before he was fifty years old.

With the ups and downs of my father, the fate of the family was also quite twists and turns, and after my father left the city, my mother was quickly transferred out of the Municipal Bureau of Letters and Visits, and the efficiency of the transferred enterprise was not good, and she was laid off in 98. The family was also very financially difficult, and it was not until Zhang Ke graduated from university and became a department head and then a branch manager in Haizhou Longyu Group that the family's financial situation improved.

What time is it? Zhang Ke remembers that when he had a car accident was April 28, 2008, on the way out of the gate of the community to the bus stop, he was hit by a car that suddenly broke out, and the person lost consciousness in the air, and felt unconscious for a long time.

Although the severe headache lingered, Zhang Ke thought that it would be good to be alive, so he fell asleep again in a daze......

"The fever hasn't subsided...... a cold hand pressed on his forehead, Zhang Ke opened his eyes and saw a familiar and unfamiliar face. It is said that it is familiar because this face has been seen for 30 years, and it is said that it is strange because this face can never be so young, almost more than ten years ago, when his father Zhang Zhixing was still the deputy secretary general of the municipal government, and Liang Gezhen, the mother of an ordinary cadre of the Municipal Letters and Visits Bureau, even if there are crow's feet in the corners of her eyes, she looks much younger than women of the same age.

Zhang Ke glanced at it again suspiciously, even though the wrinkles on his forehead disappeared, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes became shallower, and the skin regained its elasticity as if it was filled with water, the person in front of him was indeed his mother Liang Gezhen, but ...... Why did mom get younger?

…… Zhang Ke looked at his mother, who was more than ten years younger, and suddenly remembered that he was lying at home in the summer of fourteen years ago, because of high fever, even if he fell asleep, his head hurt and was about to crack?

Let's dream!

As soon as Zhang Ke's eyes closed, the severe headache wedged into the back of his head devoured his consciousness, even if he woke up and broke his arm and leg, it was better than not waking up.

I don't know how long I was in a coma, when Zhang Ke woke up again, he opened his eyes and saw his mother sitting in front of the bed, with a look of concern; The left arm was wrapped around the silicone tube for infusion, the severe headache subsided, and I stretched out my hands and feet, a little weak, and I didn't feel that I had a broken arm or a missing leg......

Still dreaming, repeating the scene of 14 years ago......

Liang Gezhen saw that his son Zhang Ke woke up, the worry on his face lightened, he reached over and touched his forehead, and then pasted it on his forehead, feeling the difference in body temperature: "The fever has subsided, Zhixing, Xiao Ke's fever has subsided......"

Zhang Ke's heart was full of doubts, the feeling of being pressed on his forehead by his mother's slightly cool palm was really a feeling of being alive, his father pushed the door in from the outhouse, wearing a snow-white stand-up collar short-sleeved shirt, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his hair was messy, and his beard had not been shaved for a few days, which was the image of his father when the province sent an inspection team down because of Tang Xueqian's bribery issue fourteen years ago.

Or in a dream, right?

Zhang Ke remembered the voice he heard when he just woke up, and that person was Ye Xinming, the full-time secretary before Tang Xueqian was shuanggui. If this dream is a repetition of the scene 14 years ago, Ye Xinming should have deceived his father into leaving Haizhou in the name of Tang Xueqian.

It's sad to think that the dream repeats what I experienced fourteen years ago. Dad left Haizhou, Tang Xueqian was imprisoned for taking bribes, rumors spread, Dad became the betrayer who framed Tang Xueqian in prison, and the fate of the family was about to be surprisingly reversed. The world around him is about to become cold and cruel all of a sudden, and Zhang Ke becomes cynical after experiencing the pain of his first setback in life. And Zhang Ke before the age of sixteen, in his own words, was an innocent teenager who had no sexual experience with even his hands.

A doctor in a white coat walked in with his father, and Zhang Ke only remembered that this person's surname was Lu. Doctor Lu stretched out his hand and touched Zhang Ke's forehead, and said affirmatively: "The fever is gone, take the medicine on time, I will come again tomorrow, there is no problem, there will be no problem......

Zhang Ke's eyes fell on his hands and body under the sheet, which was indeed different from his hands at the age of thirty, and his body was also thin when he was a teenager.

If it's a dream, why is it so real? Maybe it's going back fourteen years.

Zhang Ke looked at his parents standing in front of him, he really didn't know what to say, and the patient always had a reason not to speak.

fell asleep in a daze, even if it felt so real, Zhang Ke would rather believe that it was a dream, the unjust prison fourteen years ago was a nightmare for Tang Xueqian and Zhang Ke's family, who would want to do it again?