Chapter 1 Past Lives and Present Lives

　　Recover consciousness, Zhang Ke want to try to recover the memory of the car accident, but found as if time and space distortion after the remnants of the fragments of the general, the memory does not look touchable sense of reality. 　　By this time, Zhang Ke only counted slowly woke up, eyes covered with a layer of grey shade, yellowish ceiling is somewhat mottled, not like a hospital room, this color is very familiar, their own home in the city government organs before moving out of the compound, the ceiling is this color, at that time, dad is the deputy secretary general of the municipal government, mom is the city bureau of letters and visits of the ordinary cadres, their own is still a good student... ... 　　Someone beside him was whispering. 　　"Mayor Tang means to ask you to go out and take refuge ......" Just one sound, and then silence ensued, and it was impossible to hear how many people were standing around. 　　The content and tone of this sentence, Zhang Ke has a very strong sense of familiarity: someone must have said the same words in this tone somewhere, at some point. 　　Can't feel the body where there is pain, but the back of the head has to give someone hard to break open like a huge pain, pain is so bad, no strength to turn his head to see who is standing next to him. This kind of headache feeling, Zhang Ke is also very familiar. Zhang Ke remembers himself in junior high school graduation in the summer vacation had a high fever, the head with the same pain as now, being people with wooden wedges into the back of the head like. 　　At that time or Haizhou City executive vice mayor Tang Xueqian was falsely accused of imprisonment in 1994, dad as being promoted by Tang Xueqian, was greatly implicated, then the family panicked, no one had the heart to think of sending themselves 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 heard someone push the door and walk out, did not come back in, the door let someone outside to close. 　　Hear this person once again mention "Tang mayor" this name, Zhang Ke heart: this Tang mayor is who, I only recognize Tang Xueqian this one mayor surnamed Tang, but Tang Xueqian ninety-four years was falsely accused of bribery in prison, to the ninety-nine years to change the sentence of acquittal, at that time his mental state is very bad, recuperated for a number of years, can not return to the leadership position. Leadership positions to go, and now just a bad old man, and which is the mayor surnamed Tang? 　　When I think of Tang Xueqian, I can't help but think of my dad's rough and tumble fate over the past ten years. 　　Dad graduated from graduate school in the early eighties, returned to Haizhou Teachers College to work, and later, Haizhou Teachers College President Tang Xueqian transferred to the city as deputy mayor, Dad went with him to the city, in the city government office of the secretary of the second division as deputy director. He stayed in the city for five or six years, Tang Xueqian became the executive vice mayor, and Dad gradually climbed to the position of deputy secretary-general of the municipal government. In 1994, Tang Xueqian was suspected of taking bribes because he was in charge of the restructuring of Xinfeng Group, and the provincial government sent an inspection team to investigate. When Tang Xueqian was under quarantine examination, he asked someone to bring a message to his dad, telling him to take shelter outside. Dad took the opportunity to hold a funeral for his uncle and grandfather to leave Haizhou, after a short while, the provincial inspection team obtained key evidence of Tang Xueqian's bribery, related to the strange thing is that, at this time, outside are rumors that it is Dad to provide clues to allow the inspection team to find Tang Xueqian's handle. 　　After Tang Xueqian's imprisonment, Dad was relieved of his official duties and returned to teach at Haizhou University. At this time, Haizhou Teachers College had already merged with several other institutions to become Haizhou University. 　　In 1999, Ding Xiangshan, the secretary of Haizhou Municipal Party Committee, was arrested for taking bribes, and only then did the court change Tang Xueqian's innocence. It was only then that people realized that Tang Xueqian's arrest for bribery in 1994 was a false accusation by Ding Xiangshan. As to why the municipal party secretary framed the deputy mayor, who was in a lower position than him, the court's judgment was ambiguous. The court's verdict was ambiguous, giving people a lot of room for imagination, some say that Ding Xiangshan and Tang Xueqian competed for a woman named Xu Si, some say that Tang Xueqian has long held evidence of Ding Xiangshan bribery, want to take the opportunity to bring down Ding Xiangshan, but let Ding Xiangshan first hand. As for what the truth is, as if there is no conclusion, but Tang Xueqian was released from prison, the spirit is very poor, can not remember that year had to find someone to bring words to Dad. People revisited the situation and rumors of that year, Dad left Hai Zhou that year when Tang Xueqian was under investigation, in their opinion, in addition to betrayal, there is also the suspicion of framing Tang Xueqian together with Ding Xiangshan. 　　The court did not give dad a clear statement, dad in Haizhou University also has no foothold in the help of former colleagues, transferred to the Haizhou Chess Academy as a janitor to muddle through life. Dad a life of cleverness, but mistaken in the body of the person with the words, a lifetime can not turn over, the heart of the depression and bitterness, less than fifty years old, a head of gray hair. 　　With Dad's sinking and floating, the fate of the family is also quite ups and downs, Mom in the city after Dad left, but also quickly transferred out of the city Bureau of Letters and Calls, transferred to the enterprise efficiency is not good, in 1998 on the layoff. The family once in the economy is also very difficult, until Zhang Ke graduated from college in Haizhou Longyu Group as a department head and then became a branch manager, the family's economic situation has improved. 　　What time is it today? Zhang Ke remembers his own car accident is April 28, 2008, April 28, out of the district gate to the bus station on the road, was suddenly out of a small car hit and fly, people in the air on the loss of consciousness, feel unconscious for a long time, three or four days probably have, perhaps already passed the May Day holiday. 　　Although the intense headache lingers, Zhang Ke thought to be able to live is good, confused and fell asleep again ...... 　　"The fever hasn't gone ......" A cold hand pressed on his forehead, Zhang Ke opened his eyes and saw a familiar and unfamiliar face. Said familiar is this face to see thirty years, said strange because this face can never be so young, almost more than ten years ago, when the father Zhang Zhixing is still the deputy secretary-general of the municipal government, as the municipal Bureau of Letters and Visits of an ordinary cadres of the mother Liang Gezhen even if the corners of the eyes have crow's feet, look much younger than women of the same age. 　　Zhang Ke puzzled to take another look, even if the forehead wrinkles disappeared, corner of the eye lines become shallow, the skin injected with water like restoring elasticity, the person in front of the eyes is indeed mom Liang Gezhen undoubtedly, but ...... why mom became younger? 　　...... Zhang Ke looked at more than ten years younger mom, suddenly remembered himself fourteen years ago in the summer is not lying at home because of high fever, even if you fall asleep headache is about to crack? 　　In a dream! 　　Zhang Ke eyes closed, let the wedge into the back of the head of the intense headache engulfed their consciousness, even if they woke up broken arm and leg, always better than waking up. 　　And do not know how long unconscious, Zhang Ke woke up again, opened his eyes and saw his mother sitting in front of the bed, a face of concern; left arm wrapped around the infusion of silicone tubing, intense headache has subsided, stretched out his arms and legs, some weak and powerless, did not feel there is a broken arm and leg ...... 　　Still dreaming, repeating the scene of fourteen years ago ...... 　　Liang Gezhen saw his son Zhang Ke woke up, the face of the worry faded a point, reached over and touched his forehead, and then pasted to his own forehead, feel the difference in body temperature: "The fever has subsided, Zhixing, Xiao Ke's fever subsided ......". 　　Zhang Ke heart full of doubts, was mom's slightly cool palms pressed on the forehead of the feeling but real is the feeling of living, dad pushed the door from the outer room in, wearing a washed snow-white stand-up collar short-sleeved shirts, eye sockets deep into the eye sockets, hair disheveled, mustache has a few days without shaving, it is exactly fourteen years ago, the province because of the Tang Xueqian bribery issue to send an inspection team down, the image of the father. 　　Still in a dream, right? 　　Zhang Ke at this time remembered just woke up heard the voice of that person, that person is Tang Xueqian was double regulation before the full-time secretary Ye Xinming. If this out dream was a repeat of the scene from fourteen years ago, Ye Xinming should have pretended to be Tang Xueqian and tricked dad into leaving Haizhou. 　　It's sad to think that the dream is a repeat of an experience from fourteen years ago. When dad left Hai Zhou, Tang Xue Qian was imprisoned for taking bribes, rumors spread, dad became the betrayer who framed Tang Xue Qian for imprisonment, and the fate of the family was about to be shockingly reversed. The world around us is about to become cold and cruel, Zhang Ke after experiencing the pain of life's first setbacks, become cynical. And before the age of sixteen, Zhang Ke, in his own words, is a pure love of the boy who does not even have sexual experience with both hands. 　　A doctor in a white coat walked in with his dad, and Zhang Ke only remembered that the man's last name was Lu. Dr. Lu reached out and touched Zhang Ke's forehead, affirming, "The fever is gone, the medicine is taken on time, I'll come back tomorrow, no problem, there's no problem ......" 　　Zhang Ke's eyes fell on the hands and the body under the sheet, indeed different from the thirty-year-old's own hands, the body is also the teenager's slim look. 　　If it is a dream, why is it so real? Maybe it is back to fourteen years ago may also say. 　　Zhang Ke looked at his mom and dad standing in front of him, really do not know what to say, the patient always have a reason not to speak. 　　Sleep in a daze, even if the feeling is so real, Zhang Ke would rather believe that this is a dream, fourteen years ago the wrongful imprisonment of Tang Xueqian, Zhang Ke family is a nightmare, who would want to come back again?