Chapter 3: A Reversal of Fortune
Zhang Ke was still shocked when he got home, replaced the bloodstained T-shirt and shorts, and stuffed them into the washing machine.
Although I don't know what happened, there is no doubt that I am in the real world, and in terms of time, I have returned to fourteen years ago, that is, in the summer of ninety-four.
Zhang Ke remembered that he was only sixteen years old at the time.
Zhang Ke curled up in the sofa, his memory of the sixteen years old was a little vague, thinking that he should get the results of the high school entrance examination before he had a high fever, and the results were not bad, and he ranked third in the high school entrance examination in Xicheng District in 94. On the day the results of the high school entrance examination came out, they rushed to the provincial inspection team to investigate Tang Xueqian's problem, so the family could not feel the joy brought by the results of the high school entrance examination.
Zhang Ke's heart was in a mess, and he didn't know what kind of expression to use to face what was about to happen.
It was getting dark, and my parents didn't come back.
The symptoms of high fever have subsided, but he is hungry and panicked, but he has no idea of eating, Zhang Ke looked up at the quartz clock hanging above the opposite wall, it was almost time for the evening news, turned on the TV, and Zhang Manyu's Lux shampoo advertisement was playing. By 2008, Lux had fallen, and many people had even forgotten the brand, but in Zhang Ke's memory, in addition to Zhang Manyu's version, the advertisement of Lux shampoo also included Carina Lau's version, Zhong Chuhong's version, Maggie version, and Li Ruotong's version. Zhang Ke's favorite Maggie version of Lux shampoo advertisement, the advertisement Maggie is very charming, like a orchid, showing a kind of East-West blending temperament, even women can't help but be attracted, it is said that after the broadcast of this advertisement, the sales of Lux surged by 3 times, many women in the supermarket held Lux with Maggie picture packaging, looking extremely happy, as if with her, you can be as beautiful as her, of course, this is a very good wish.
Zhang Ke knocked his fingers on his temples, remembering that Chen Ning had watched Maggie's advertisement in the first place, so he changed to Cexis shampoo. Thinking of Chen Ning, Zhang Ke's heart tingled, thinking that Chen Ning at this time had no memory of himself, and it was not until four years later that he could meet in another city.
In the present, the memories between him and Chen Ning should belong to the past that has not yet happened.
Zhang Ke's lips were slightly upturned, but he didn't smile, and his thinking couldn't be corrected for a while.
When Zhang Ke recalled the past events that had not yet happened, the Haizhou evening news began, and the content was some meetings and inspections that did not leave much impression on Zhang Ke; Things like the Bell Tower Square incident and the provincial inspection team's investigation of Tang Xueqian were not mentioned at all in the evening news, Zhang Ke didn't care about these, he just wanted to see how the car accident on North Street was reported in the social news.
“…… At about 4:15 p.m., a major car accident occurred on the east side of the Daijiaqiao bus station on Beijie Road, Xicheng District, killing 4 people and injuring 3 others, 2 of whom were seriously injured. The scene of the incident is located at Daijiaqiao Station, North Street, Xicheng District, when a muck truck with the license plate Hai A48854 turned around from Dongsheng Road into Beijie Road, it suddenly lost control and rushed to the sidewalk on the side of the road, breaking the poplar tree with a thick bowl mouth on the roadside, and knocked down four men who were playing cards in the shade of the sidewalk, and there was a young man watching from the side, who was also hit by the muck truck; According to passers-by, the young man's daughter was also falling in front of the muck truck, so that a teenager bravely rushed over to rescue, according to passers-by, the muck truck almost attached to the body of the young man who saved people turned off the sidewalk, and collided with a Jetta car along the North Street Road from east to west, it was confirmed that the driver of the muck truck was drunk driving, entered the city from Beiguan, and has been speeding, and has been detained by the police according to law......
From Beiguan into the city to North Street, to pass through several important intersections, the driver drunk driving, speeding, in other words, will be stopped by the traffic police in peacetime, but on this day, due to the Xinguang Paper Mill nearly 100 workers in the Bell Tower Square trouble, most of the traffic patrol police in Xicheng District have been transferred to maintain order, which is also a factor that caused the accident.
The screen shows the tragic situation after the car accident: the poplar tree that was broken, the Jetta with the roof almost torn off, the small square table that was dismembered, the playing cards on the ground, and the coagulated bloodstains...... Compared with the car accident that Zhang Ke saw on the news 14 years ago, there is no difference except for the little girl who escaped from under the wheel.
There was no photo of the little girl in the news, Zhang Ke recalled the delicate face of the little girl, and thought that if such a beautiful little girl really died in a car accident, it would be a pity.
The world does not simply repeat itself, the car accident happens, but the little girl escapes from under the wheels. Thinking like this, Zhang Ke's heart felt a little better, since he could save the little girl from under the wheel, he could also reverse the fate of the whole family.
The more Zhang Ke thought about it, the more excited he became, he returned to his body when he was sixteen years old, but his mind had experience that no one else had experienced, and he also knew the truth about Tang Xueqian's case, which most people don't know now, that is, Tang Xueqian's case changed the fate of his family in the future.
As a result, the impact of the car accident weakened a lot, Zhang Ke felt hungry and panicked, and he didn't have the strength to think about more complicated things, and there was nothing ready to eat in the kitchen, so he boiled a pot of water, and waited for the water to boil and put down half a bag of noodles.
Zhang Ke picked up the noodles in a bowl, sat back on the sofa in the living room, and was about to fill his stomach when his parents opened the door from outside and came in.
Liang Gezhen saw his son Zhang Ke sitting on the sofa with a bowl of noodles, forgot the distress outside for a while, and asked happily: "Is the fever better?" ”
Facing his father and mother who were more than ten years younger again, Zhang Ke felt a little awkward in his heart, and while swallowing the noodles, he replied vaguely: "Okay, hungry." ”
"It's good to know that you......'re hungry," Zhang Zhixing spoke, threw the briefcase on the sofa, and was still at a loss between his eyebrows, the person sat on the sofa heavily, his thin body was sunk into the sofa, and he could almost see that his eyes were full of despair.
"How's going with Uncle Tang?" Zhang Ke asked tentatively.
"Oh......" Zhang Zhixing responded like this, did not speak, and did not turn his head to look sideways.
Zhang Ke knew that in his father's eyes, he was still the sixteen-year-old ignorant teenager, and he was not the object of discussion. Zhang Ke put the bowl on the glass, stood up and said, "I don't know when you will come back, I didn't give you a strip, I'll give you a strip to ......"
"I'll do it anyway......" Liang Gezhen rubbed his hands and wanted to go to the kitchen.
Zhang Ke pressed his mother's shoulder and asked her to sit on the sofa: "Below, there is nothing difficult." ”
sprinkled green onions on the noodles, and specially fried poached eggs on the noodles, and came out with two bowls of noodles, Zhang Ke found that his parents were sitting on the sofa and had barely moved, worrying about Tang Xueqian's affairs.
Zhang Zhixing saw his son Zhang Ke come out with noodles, took a bowl, endured the heat, ate it cleanly, pushed the bowl, leaned back, closed his eyes and thought about the problem, but his mind was a mess, he had no clue, and he couldn't think of anything. I brought a chess box from the study, put it on the glass table in the living room, and brought a chess game to prepare to play. Whenever his thinking goes into a dead end, Zhang Zhixing is used to finding someone to play a game of chess and change his brain, and now in this situation, I am afraid that no one is willing to come to the door and play chess, which can also make the brain quiet.
Zhang Ke has learned Go since he was a child, until the fifth grade of primary school, his mother Liang Gezhen did not let him continue to learn, saying that learning Go delayed his study, and that his character of learning Go was boring. But after the great changes in his family, when he was in high school, Zhang Ke picked up Go again, and his current level is quite good.
Zhang Ke helped unfold the folding chessboard, and when he saw his father drop more than a dozen black and white pieces, he knew that his father was playing a famous game played by Xu Bongsu in 83. Zhang Ke is very familiar with the chess game in his father's hand, and when he picked up Go again after high school, he learned this chess book, and he has a deep impression of Xu Fengzhu's several games of chess, and he can put it out almost without looking at the chess game. After his father put a black seed, Zhang Ke took out a white seed and responded.
Zhang Zhixing looked up at his son Zhang Ke, looked at the chess game again, did not speak, and dropped another sunspot, seeing that his son responded to a move accurately, he asked suspiciously: "This score, have you played?" ”
"Well, Seo Bong-so's game of chess, remember some ......"
"It's not like your mom won't let you play Go......"
"Stealing the ......"
"Oh," Zhang Zhixing didn't doubt it, after all, his son didn't stop until the fifth grade to learn chess, and picked up all the chess pieces on the chessboard back to the chess box, "Since you haven't dropped it, follow me to play ......a game."
Liang Gezhen didn't say anything to stop it, packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went to the kitchen to wash them.
In another world, Zhang Ke even had the idea of becoming a Go teacher after graduating from university; However, after Dad went to work in the city government, he had little time to contact Go, and Dad's chess skills were still after he was dismissed from public office, but in the current world, none of these things have happened.
Zhang Ke knew that his Go level was higher than his father at this time, and after a game of chess, whether it was the beginning, the middle game or the end, Zhang Ke's advantage was quite obvious, Zhang Ke licked his lips and glanced at his father: "Do you want to point out?" ”
"You kid......" Zhang Zhixing stretched out his hand and patted the back of Zhang Ke's head, surprised by his chess skills, but laughed, "When is the level so high, can you go with Xu Hongbo?" ”
Although Xu Hongbo is only an amateur fifth dan, he is known as the godfather of Go in Haizhou City, and founded the Haizhou Chess Academy.
Zhang Ke smiled: "Do you want to let you have three sons?" ”
"Let the two sons first, Xu Hongbo will only let me have two sons......"
The passage of time was almost imperceptible, and at the end of the second game, the quartz clock had just struck eleven o'clock.
"It's so late...... Zhang Zhixing looked at the window, "I still lose to you half a eye, the level is no worse than the chess players of the Haizhou Chess Academy, I don't have to worry about whether you have any future prospects, it's really not good, you can be a professional chess player, a professional chess player, all of them have been trained since they were teenagers......"
Zhang Ketou also looked out the window, the street lamps outside the window were dim, and the dark shadows of the treetops were reflected on the glass.
Zhang Ke has never been clear about his father's thoughts in the incident in 94, he was still young at that time, and it was many years later that he gradually learned the truth about Tang Xueqian's case.
Of course, since he can do it all over again, Zhang Ke doesn't want to be a professional chess player: "Uncle Tang's chess is also playing well, the last time the city government organized a competition with the chess academy, I heard that Uncle Tang also won the professional chess player of the chess academy......"
"Tang Xueqian is still the deputy mayor and the honorary president of the Haizhou Chess Academy, his level is not as good as me, he just likes to play Go......" Zhang Zhixing sighed, "I'm afraid he doesn't have the heart to play chess now......"
Zhang Ke thought about how to lead the topic to Tang Xueqian's case; probably directly told his father that he had experienced the next fourteen years, and the truth of Tang Xueqian's case would be revealed in about five years, and my father would probably not accept such a fact, and he might even send himself to a mental hospital.
"I heard Secretary Ye say that Uncle Tang asked you to go out and avoid it, why did you go out to avoid it?" Zhang Ke pretended to be confused and asked.
"Oh, you didn't sleep then?"
"I heard a sentence or two in a daze," Zhang Ke said, "I didn't open my eyes to see people, I heard Secretary Ye's voice......
"Nothing happened, you don't have to worry......" Zhang Zhixing touched his son's head with a heavy heart, sighed, and asked again, "Zhang Ke, what do you think of Uncle Tang?" ”
"Why don't you sleep yet?" Liang Gezhen came out of the bedroom and walked over to clean up the chessboard, "What kind of person is Tang Xueqian, you don't know, but you want to ask your son?" You don't know the organizational procedures, the provincial inspection team isolated and examined Tang Xueqian, it is impossible that there is no substantive evidence, and now it is just collecting more criminal evidence. It was spread outside, the personnel manager of Xinfeng Group, is it called Xu Si, she is Tang Xueqian's woman outside, Jiang Mingcheng stuffed Tang Xueqian money through this goblin. That goblin was able to work in Xinfeng Group before, and it was also Tang Xueqian's greeting...... These things are spread with noses and eyes, do you think they are really groundless? ”
Jiang Mingcheng is the general manager of Xinfeng Group, and he and Xu Si mentioned by his mother are both key figures in Tang Xueqian's case, Xu Si was the deputy manager of the personnel department of Xinfeng Group before Tang Xueqian's case, and he is also the woman who Tang Xueqian and Ding Xiangshan competed for in later rumors. In the case of Tang Xueqian, she was exempted from criminal punishment, but in 99, she was imprisoned with Ding Xiangshan, and the news of her suicide in prison came out after one year of imprisonment. Zhang Ke also saw Xu Si for the first time during the trial of the Ding Xiangshan case in 99, when Xu Si had been detained in the detention center for several months, and what remained in Zhang Ke's memory was that haggard face with a destroyed residual beauty.