On the day I was born, every family hung a red flag, and I could see this festive scene every birthday when I was a child. Because I was born on the same day as the first socialist country, I remember my childhood full of superiority and revolutionary pleasure. My teenage years were spent in "**", my parents were isolated by rebels, I dropped out of school at the age of ten and lived alone, living freely but depressed, and did not dare to go out on the street for fear of being beaten, until I was fifteen years old and became a soldier at the back door before turning over and becoming a member of the revolutionary melting pot. After I retired from the army, I worked as a worker, a policeman, and a cadre in an organ, and on the whole it was quite smooth, but I did not expect that I, an "intellectual" who was often sent to the countryside for re-education before the age of 15, was almost dismissed by the government because I did not even have a junior Chinese certificate. I still smile bitterly at this, feeling that I have always been born at the wrong time in my life. The development of the teeth coincided with natural disasters and could not keep up with nutrition; When it was time to go to school, he encountered ***** and was not educated; When the job is promoted, there is a wind of academic qualifications...... Fortunately, every leader and colleague I met in every unit took good care of me and gave me the opportunity to work. The manager of the hotel saw that I was young and diligent, but there was a shortage of people at hand, so he asked the agency to let me stay for a few more days. At that time, I was on temporary secondment to fill the number, but I didn't expect to become the president of the National Tourist Hotel Association.

Later, writing novels was even more whimsical, because I read a few bad books I bought at a bookstall and found them so bad that even I could write them myself would not be worse than it. I think that although I have no academic qualifications, I have some experience, such as the "April Five" Movement, when I was sent to Tiananmen Square as a plainclothes officer, I could write a book "Plainclothes Police"; On the day of the Tangshan earthquake, he went to Tangshan for disaster relief, and he could experience "Death in Youth" once; helped the film orchestra find the Italian violin, and the time could perform "A Stormy Affair"; After being in the business world over the years, my heart has become colder, but I have more emotion like "Your Life is So Passionate". All of this, try to write it, and earn some manuscript fees to supplement your family.

I remember that at the certificate ceremony of Beijing Second International Chinese College, which somehow hired me as an adjunct professor, someone asked me what I regretted most in my life, and I replied that I had never gone to university. Now that I think about it, I didn't have the qualifications to answer wrong, so I should change to not having finished elementary school. I am not showing off my self-education, but I may always be lacking in the habit of reading and the quietness of a literati, because in my opinion, the edification of going to college is to bring you into an atmosphere, the experience itself.

Sea Rock

What is time?

Is time a circle that will return to the beginning no matter how far you go, or parallel lines that will never overlap?

- the author asks

Beginning

I'll tell you a story. It's not made up, it's an experience I've heard, seen, and even experienced myself, about a person's fate, or, about his love.

I'm also a character in this story, so I won't tell you what my name is. In addition to me, there are some people in this story who have the ins and outs and identities of them, and I will not foreshadow them, and I will talk about them when the time comes.

I've been thinking about the beginning of the story for a long time, wondering where to get in. At first, I planned to start with Pang Jiandong, who began his dream of being a criminal police officer when he was admitted to the police academy at the age of 16. Managing prisoners is far from Pang Jiandong's life ideals, and it is hard, boring and time-consuming, far less legendary than being a wise and brave criminal policeman. But Pang Jiandong has no choice, his parents are ordinary people, and they can't find any way to help him realize his life dream, no matter what unit the school assigns him to, he can only honestly go there to pay for it. For him, work is not a career or a pleasure, but an errand to earn a living.

He is not like Liu Chuan, although Liu Chuan's parents died, but his parents left him a family property that he couldn't spend even a lot of money. Just don't do anything, Liu Chuan is still well-fed!

What embarrassed Pang Jiandong the most was that his savage girlfriend who was doing literature and art had always had a soft spot for the iron-blooded pride of the criminal police because she played a police academy girl in a TV series. So Pang Jiandong has been bragging to her since he went to the police academy, saying that he studied criminal investigation to tie the girl's heart. It's a pity that Pang Jiandong went to this police academy is to train prison guards, and after graduating from junior college, he is destined to be assigned to the prison bureau, and the prison bureau assigned him to Tianhe Prison, and Tianhe Prison assigned him to an ordinary prison area, and the prison district made him a captain of the number. Although the captain also has the word "long", he is actually nothing among the correctional cadres. The new police officers who have just been assigned to the prison area are all captains, and the captains are actually the smallest soldiers. Pang Jiandong tried to make a beautiful name in front of his girlfriend: He is now a judicial policeman. But his girlfriend already knew it, and she smiled and said to him: I know, isn't it a jailer.

You see, if this story starts with Pang Jiandong, it will be related to his girlfriend, and it will be far away. Later, I decided to talk about the old bell first. Lao Zhong was the head of the prison administration section of Tianhe Prison, and later became the head of the repatriation section and the head of the prison area. In the past, the repatriation section and the prison district were called brigades, and the section chief and the prison district chief used to be called brigade leaders, so the cadres and policemen used to call Lao Zhong Da. It may have been a knee-jerk choice for me to start with Zhong Da, because he was one of the most revered figures in my life. In terms of age, although Lao Zhong is about to "know the destiny of heaven", he is undoubtedly an idol in the eyes of Pang Jiandong's group of young people. This is not because he is an advanced minister in the judicial system, but because his daily behavior and behavior are not only honest and upright, but also comfortable to look at. Moreover, Lao Zhong has been tied up by several masked people in the past, and the kidnappers have not caught them so far. Fortunately, Lao Zhong jumped from the third floor that night and escaped this catastrophe. Judging from this incident alone, it can also be seen how many stories should be hidden in those deep wrinkles on the door of Lao Zhong's head.

However, it is easy to digress from Zhong Da, and when talking about Zhong Da, it is inevitable to talk about the work in the Corey prison area, discipline production and living hygiene, etc., which is not the theme of this story. The life I want to talk about is about the fate of a person, and fate is impermanent! It's about young love, and young love is always beautiful and colorful! If there is no love story, is it still called a story?

So, I finally decided to put aside all the characters in this story and start with one thing, which is that Liu Chuan accompanied his grandmother to bury his father. After death, the interment of ashes is a routine funeral procedure, and the form is greater than the content, but the scene of Liu Chuan's father's ashes placement ceremony is extremely impressive. When the form reaches that point, it becomes the content, which is enough to be the proper beginning of the whole story.