Chapter 1

When restoring consciousness, Zhang Ke tried his best to restore the memory of the car accident, but found that it was like the fragments left after the distortion of time and space, and the memory had no tangible sense of reality.

At this time, Zhang Ke woke up slowly. His eyes were covered with a gray shadow. The light yellow ceiling was mottled. It was not like a hospital ward. This color was very familiar. Before his family moved out of the municipal government compound, the ceiling was this color. At that time, his father was the Deputy Secretary General of the municipal government, his mother was an ordinary cadre of the municipal petition Bureau, and he was still a good student

There was a whispering conversation nearby.

"Mayor Tang wants you to go out and take shelter..." just like that, he fell into silence and couldn't hear several people standing around him.

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

I can't feel any pain in my body, but there is a huge pain in the back of my head. It hurts badly. I don't have the strength to turn my head to see who is standing next to me. Zhang Ke is also familiar with the feeling of headache. Zhang Ke remembers that he had a high fever in the summer vacation after graduating from junior high school. His head was as painful as now. He was hit in the back of his head with a wooden wedge.

In 1994, when Tang Xueqian, executive vice mayor of Haizhou City, was falsely accused of being imprisoned, his father, who was promoted by Tang Xueqian, was greatly implicated. At that time, the family panicked, and no one wanted to send himself to the hospital.

It was this familiar headache that made Zhang Ke suspect that he had a high fever again, rather than a car accident.

"Mayor Tang's words, think about it..." the man said again. Then he heard someone push the door and go out. He didn't come in again. The door was closed outside.

Hearing that the man mentioned the name "Mayor Tang" again, Zhang Ke thought to himself: who is this Mayor Tang? He only knows Tang Xueqian, a mayor surnamed Tang. However, Tang Xueqian was falsely accused of taking bribes and jailed in 1994. In 1999, he was acquitted. At that time, his mental state was very bad. After recuperating for several years, he was unable to return to his leadership post, Now it's just a bad old man. Who else is the mayor surnamed Tang?

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

My father returned to Haizhou Normal University after graduating as a graduate student in the early 1980s. Later, Tang Xueqian, President of Haizhou Normal University, was transferred to the city as vice mayor. My father followed him to the city as deputy director of the second Secretariat of the municipal government office. After five or six years in the city, Tang Xueqian became the executive vice mayor, and his father gradually climbed to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the municipal government. By 1994, Tang Xueqian was suspected of taking bribes because he presided over the restructuring of Xinfeng group. The province sent an inspection team to investigate. When Tang Xueqian was under quarantine examination, he asked someone to take a message to his father and let him take shelter outside. Dad lent his uncle and grandpa the opportunity to do the funeral and left Haizhou. Soon, the provincial inspection team obtained the key evidence of Tang Xueqian's bribery. Strangely enough, at this time, it was rumored that his father provided clues for the inspection team to find Tang Xueqian's handle.

After Tang Xueqian was jailed, his father dismissed him from public office and returned to Haizhou university to teach. At this time, Haizhou Normal University has merged with several other colleges and universities to become Haizhou University.

In 1999, Ding Xiangshan, Secretary of the Haizhou municipal Party committee, was arrested for taking bribes, and the Court changed Tang Xueqian's innocence. Only then did people know that Tang Xueqian's bribery and imprisonment in 1994 was framed by Ding Xiangshan. As for why did the Secretary of the municipal Party committee frame a vice mayor with a lower position than him? The judgment given by the court was vague, which gave people a lot of room for imagination. Some said that Ding Xiangshan and Tang Xueqian competed for a woman named Xu Si. Some said that Tang Xueqian had long mastered the evidence of Ding Xiangshan's bribery and wanted to take the opportunity to bring down Ding Xiangshan, but let Ding Xiangshan start first. As for what the truth is, there seems to be no conclusion, but after Tang Xueqian got out of prison, his spirit was very poor. I can't remember looking for someone to talk to his father. People recall the situation and rumors of that year. When Tang Xueqian was investigated, his father left Haizhou. In their opinion, in addition to betrayal, he was suspected of setting up Tang Xueqian with Ding Xiangshan.

The court did not give his father a clear statement. His father had no place in Haizhou University. With the help of his former colleagues, he was transferred to Haizhou Chess Academy as a guard to fool his life. Dad's wisdom all his life, but he mistook it for the speaker. He couldn't turn over all his life. He was depressed. He had white hair before he was 50.

With my father's ups and downs, the fate of the family is also quite twists and turns. After my father left the city, my mother was soon transferred out of the municipal petition Bureau. The benefits of the transferred enterprises were not good, and she was laid off in 1998. The family was once very difficult financially. It was not until Zhang Ke graduated from university and became a department head of Haizhou Longyu group and then a manager of the branch company that the economic situation of the family changed.

What time is it today? Zhang Ke remembered that he had a car accident on April 28. On April 28, 2008, on the way out of the community gate to the bus stop, he was hit and flew by a suddenly rushed car. People lost consciousness in the air and felt unconscious for a long time. There were probably some in three or four days, perhaps after the May Day holiday.

Although the severe headache lingered, Zhang Ke thought it would be good to be alive. He fell asleep again

"The fever hasn't subsided yet..." a cold hand pressed on his forehead. Zhang Ke opened his eyes and saw a familiar and strange face. It is said that this face has been familiar for 30 years. It is said that it is strange because this face can never be so young. It was almost like it was more than a decade ago. At that time, her father Zhang Zhixing was still the Deputy Secretary General of the municipal government. As an ordinary cadre of the Municipal Bureau of letters and visits, Liang Gezhen looked much younger than women of the same age even if she had crow's feet on her eyes.

Zhang Ke took another look in doubt. Even if the wrinkles on his forehead disappeared, the canthus became shallow, and the skin recovered its elasticity like water injection, the person in front of him was indeed his mother, Liang Gezhen, no doubt, but... Why did his mother become 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 14 years ago. Because of the high fever, even if he fell asleep, his head was about to crack?

Dreaming!

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

I don't know how long he 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 concern on his face; The left arm was wrapped around the silicone tube for infusion. The severe headache subsided. He stretched out his hand and feet. He was weak. He didn't feel a broken arm or leg

Still dreaming, repeating the scene 14 years ago

Liang Gezhen saw that her son Zhang Ke woke up. Her worry on her face faded. She stretched out her hand to touch his forehead and pasted it to her forehead. She felt the difference in body temperature: "the fever is gone, know what to do, and Xiao Ke's fever is gone..."

Zhang Ke was full of doubts. The feeling of being pressed on his forehead by his mother's cool palm was really the feeling of being alive. His father pushed the door in from the outer room, wearing a snow-white stand collar short sleeved shirt, his eyes were deeply sunken, his hair was messy, and his beard hadn't been shaved for a few days. It was exactly the image of his father when the provincial inspection team was sent down 14 years ago because of Tang Xueqian's bribery.

Still in a dream?

Zhang Ke thought of the voice he heard when he woke up. It was Ye Xinming, the full-time secretary before Tang Xueqian was double regulated. If this dream is a repetition of the scene 14 years ago, ye Xinming should cheat his father to leave Haizhou in the name of Tang Xueqian.

The dream repeats the experience of 14 years ago. It's sad to think about it. When his father left Haizhou, Tang Xueqian took bribes and went to prison. There were rumors everywhere. His father became a traitor who framed Tang Xueqian, and the fate of the family was about to be dramatically reversed. The world around him is about to become cold and cruel. Zhang Ke becomes cynical after experiencing the pain caused by the first setback in his life. Zhang Ke before the age of 16, in his own words, is a pure young man who has no sexual experience with both hands.

A doctor in a white coat came in with his father. Zhang Ke only remembered the man's surname Lu. Dr. Lu reached out and touched Zhang Ke's forehead. He said definitely, "the fever is gone. Take the medicine on time. I'll come again tomorrow. There's no problem, there's no problem..."

Zhang Ke's eyes fell on his hands and the body under the quilt. He was really different from his hands at the age of 30. His body was also thin as a teenager.

Since it is a dream, why is it so real? Maybe 14 years ago.

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

After sleeping in a daze, even if the feeling is so real, Zhang Kening can believe that this is a dream. The unjust prison 14 years ago was a nightmare for Tang Xueqian and Zhang Keng's family. Who would want to do it again?

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