Chapter 16: The Great Lies
During his time in the hospital, Chen Zhi repeatedly studied the "Archives of Technical Experts of the Youth Forge Factory" taken out of the basement, which recorded that his father, Chen Yiyang, had indeed worked in the Youth Forge from 1989 to 1992 as a confidential metal development engineer.
He saw that his father's resume read:
In 1977 (at the age of 15), he graduated from the junior class of national key projects
In 1980 (18 years old), he received a special direction training class at Capital University of Science and Technology
1984 (22 years old) National Master of Special Science and Technology
His father's father, who was also an authoritative expert of the Ministry of Scientific Research, mainly engaged in precision instrument manufacturing and scientific research and development, and died in 1992.
Next to the resume, there is a red stamp with "Confidential" printed on it. Although Chen Zhi couldn't fully understand it, he understood that his father's resume was too stylish. Moreover, his grandfather was an expert in scientific research? He was really a little blindsided, his father rarely mentioned Chen Zhi's grandfather, but occasionally Chen Zhi asked, and his father immediately scolded him, saying that Chen Zhi's grandfather was not worthy of Chen Zhi to mention, and if he mentioned it again, he would be beaten, and he was very excited.
"Since my father is such a stylish person, why did he come to Z Steel to be such an ordinary worker?" Chen Zhi wondered. What he couldn't understand the most was the sentence "gastrointestinal alcohol allergy" written on the document. Since his father has gastrointestinal alcohol allergy, why does he still drink so hard?
Chen Zhi checked on the Internet, and patients with gastrointestinal alcohol allergy have unbearable pain in the stomach and intestines when drinking, which is very painful. He thought about his father's past, it was simply a drunkard, if the pain caused by alcohol greatly exceeded the pleasure caused by alcohol, then why did he drink so hard? Unless, something more terrible than pain threatens him.
During that time, Chen Zhi checked the meaning of the words on these resumes on the Internet, and rarely mentioned this information on the Internet, only to see a post about the national key project junior class, saying that it was a legendary study class for talented teenagers, and the students in it were all genius teenagers with IQs of more than 180 selected by national scientific research institutions throughout the country, Chen Zhi knew that Newton's IQ was 190, so his father was as smart as Newton? Chen Zhi is unbelievable. If his grandfather is a high-IQ person, and so is his father, then Chen Zhi should not be stupid in theory, so why did he become what he is now? Could it be that his brain is inherited from his mother? And..., Chen Zhi's thinking has become a mess.
After Chen Zhi went through the basement tour, he already had some mental tolerance and judgment, and he was already fifty percent sure of what he doubted now. He flipped out the old photo album at home and went to find a photo of himself with his mother when he was a child. When he was about a year old, her mother took a lot of photos with him, including a group photo of going to the park, and an art photo of mother and son. Their mother and son looked very similar, his mother had waist-length hair at that time, her face was painted with delicate makeup, she was dressed very fashionably, and she hugged Chen Zhi and smiled brightly. But Chen Zhi didn't have any photos after he was two years old, and there wasn't even a personal photo of his mother in the album.
Looking at these photos, Chen Zhi was already ninety percent sure in his heart, and after he smoked a cigarette, he dialed his mother's phone.
"What's the matter?" There was another cold voice.
"Mom, my dad's nursing home wants to change the ward for my dad, and I need to sign a family consent form, I want you to sign, where do you live? I'm going to look for you. Chen Zhi said.
There was silence for a few seconds, "Don't come to me, I'll look for you later." After saying that, he hung up on the other side of the phone.
After Chen Zhi hung up the phone, he first went to the copy agency downstairs to print out a "Consent Form for the Transfer of Family Members of the Nursing Home" and typed it according to the template on the Internet. After finishing it, he returned home, found a small piece of sandpaper, cut a small strip with scissors, carefully glued it to the pen grip part of the pen with 502 glue, and then placed it in the window to dry naturally.
After about half an hour, the came, she had her own key, opened the door and walked in.
He saw that his mother was still the same, with short ear-length hair, no makeup, and a cheap women's bag in his hand.
"Where?" said coldly.
"Mom, your hair is blown by the wind, comb it." Chen Zhi handed over the wooden comb.
His mother didn't reach out to take it, shook her hair and said, "No, where can I sign it?" ”
"Here," Chen Zhi handed over the document and pen.
Chen Zhi's mother stretched out her hand to take it, signed it quickly, then raised her eyes and looked at Chen Zhi carefully, and asked, "Where have you been these days?" ”
"I didn't go anywhere, I went to a friend's house for two days." Chen Zhi replied.
Chen Zhima threw the pen on the table, turned around and left without saying anything.
The next few days were the most conflicting days for Chen Zhi, he was waiting for a result, which was related to the result of the first half of his life. A week later, the results came out, and the moment Chen Zhi saw the results, tears flowed uncontrollably.
The next day, Chen Zhi went to see his father in a nursing home, and he first tied the military knife to his leg and drove towards his father's nursing home.
When he arrived at the nursing home, he saw his father still leaning against the window and drooling as usual, and his hands were shaking. At this time, the nurse in the ward walked in with a drip cart.
"When are we going to change the ward for your father, your mother came to ask us the day before yesterday and said that you said it. What's the matter? Tell you, this is already the cheapest, and there is no cheaper one. The nurse said very unhappily.
"What? Has my mom been here? Chen Zhi's head buzzed, "It's really fast!" ”。
After the nurse left, he sat on the edge of his father's bed, took out the "Youth Forge Technical Expert File" and said: "Dad, listen carefully to me, I have recently met some very powerful people, they know one of my former elementary school teachers, and they can't explain a word or two. But I've been to the basement of the youth forge and I know you used to work there, and here's your file with your resume on it, and you remember that you have an alcohol allergy. Chen Zhi shook the booklet, "I suspect that you are pretending to be crazy now, what are you hiding from unspeakable, just the two of us now, you can just tell me in a whisper." If there's a camera or a monitor in this room, you're going to blink three times now. ”
Chen Zhi's father's eyes were fixed on the "Young Forge Technical Expert File", his expression was very serious, and he didn't drool anymore, his lips trembled, and he blinked. Suddenly, he looked at Chen Zhi's back, and immediately returned to the appearance of the stroke just now.
Chen Zhi subconsciously looked back, at the door, his mother didn't know when he was standing there, his two eyes looked at him coldly, his mother's hair was slanted to the right, and a small piece of scalp was exposed on the left, blood red, as if it had been peeled off.