Chapter 2 The Doomed Car Crash

　　When I woke up again, I was famished, since the feeling of hunger indicated that the body had begun to recover. 　　Bedside table set a bowl of rice, above the rest of the eggs and meat sauce, floating tempting aroma, do not feel the outside room someone, probably out. 　　Zhang Ke lying still, finally could not resist so real hunger and the temptation of food flavor, struggling to sit up, thinking that is dreaming, there is no reason to let yourself starve. Will dilute rice, eggs and meat foam poured into the stomach, and lie down for a while, hands and feet only gradually born strength. 　　Zhang Ke pushed the door to the bathroom, staring at himself in the mirror, pale face, full of sick face, chin pointed, eyes have no spirit, thin lips, lips some beard, it is sixteen years old himself, if not from the mirror to see, just think back, is not imagine so real face. 　　What's going on? Zhang Ke slapped his face, did not dare to force, some pain. The dream is not simulate the body's pain, but who can be sure, is it logical to turn back the clock? Neither can prove to be in a dream, much less believe to be in the real world, Zhang Ke does not know what in the end is out of order, so that he is in such a state. 　　Walking through the living room, his eyes swept over the calendar on the glass pedestal table - July 18, 1994 - ah, July 18th! 　　Wasn't the fever broken on July 16th? The reason why Zhang Ke clearly remembers the date when the fever broke down is because on the third day after he had a high fever when he was sixteen years old, that is, on July 18th, a vicious traffic accident in which five people were killed and three were injured took place on North Street behind the organ dormitory. 　　Zhang Ke picked up his T-shirt over his head, grabbed a handful of change from a clay pot on the standing cabinet by the door, a key with a colorful string through it - exactly the same details as in his memory, Zhang Ke would hang the key around his neck at sixteen - stuffed the key with the change into his pants pocket, and went down the downstairs. 　　Bought a copy of the day's morning paper, it is indeed July 18, Zhang Ke looked up at the sun hanging on the corner of the west side of the tall building, turned the corner, walked toward North Street. 　　At this time the north street can not see a trace of abnormality, dull air, let a person drowsy, near the corner is a building materials store, next door is a hardware store, and then past is a convenience store, hot steam, the street almost do not see pedestrians. It is here, in addition to themselves, there is no one, occasionally a car passed by. Zhang Ke stood on the street for a while, did not look like he had been in a car accident, nor could he see the abnormalities of a car accident. The high fever has just receded, the weak body can not withstand the heat, forehead sweat, Zhang Ke buried into the convenience store, stood under the whirring and scraping ceiling fan. 　　The curtain was lifted from the outside, and a young man raised the curtain above his head, allowing the young woman behind him to walk in first, holding the little girl's hand. Zhang Ke swept a glance, the young woman's face is delicate, slender waist, wearing a plain colored dress, waist narrow, chest looks more and more towering. The young woman walked through the door with the light on her back, and Zhang Ke could almost see the shape and delicate white of the young woman's plump and slender thighs through the thin skirt cloth. 　　To be young woman walked in, there is no translucent effect, Zhang Ke secretly feel pity, only think so beautiful young woman, Haizhou is extremely rare, thought the young woman has a male companion present, do not dare to be too wanton, only to see her eyes flow out of the common summer afternoon sleepy; and hold in the hands of the young woman's little girl is also quite beautiful, three or four years old, is pouting to wipe the sweat on the forehead, the eyes have a deep black. 　　Zhang Ke was a little jealous of the young man at the door, with such a beautiful wife and daughter, probably all the good things that can happen in a person's life happened to his head. 　　Youth standing in the doorway, face in, outside the light is very strong, see not really his face, the young woman back to talk to the youth, is the dialect of the north side of the area, Zhang Ke can not hear clearly, thought standing in the store also can not wait for the car accident, see the young woman holding the little girl to go inside, the little girl pointed to Zhang Ke head of the fan, excitedly shouted: "Mom, there is a wind, there is a wind! ......" 　　Zhang Ke went out, from the side of the youth missed the door to go, the youth coincidentally side over to look at something in the corner, Zhang Ke still did not see his face. Building materials store out of a middle-aged fat man, carrying two horse-clip stools in his hands, a thin man followed him, holding a deck of cards and a stack of change, his mouth shouted, "Lao Si, Biao Zi, dawdling what ......" 　　"Coming, you fucking call for mourning, such a thick voice!" A bare-chested youth picks up a small square table and walks out of the hardware store, branching out in the shade of the street, the youth behind him holding two small low stools ...... 　　Zhang Ke instantly recalled fourteen years ago about the car accident report: "west city north street a major traffic accident, a dump truck from dongsheng street turned into the north street, the driver drunk driving out of control, rushed to the sidewalk, then in the shade of the sidewalk tree playing cards four youths avoided too much ...... "Zhang Ke dingrang turned back to look at the couple and the little girl in the convenience store. At that time, this report impressed Zhang Ke, in addition to the car accident occurred in North Street, the newspaper also posted a picture of the little girl, so that people especially feel sorry. 　　A stream of blood rushed to the top of his head, and the shock paralyzed Zhang Ke's whole body and prevented him from moving! 　　"Uncle Tian's car is almost here, I'll watch outside ......" The youth in the convenience store said to the young woman, drilled out of the door curtain, only the shade of the poplar tree in front of the building materials store outside the door is the coolest, the youth glanced at Zhang Ke who stood woodenly in front of the convenience store, walked toward the shade of the tree , standing there watching those four people playing cards. 　　Can hear the sound of a heavy vehicle rolling across the asphalt in the distance, approaching the corner, seemingly without slowing down, the sound of death is so clear ...... 　　"Daddy, Mommy's giving you ice cream ......" 　　The little girl held up an ice-cream, almost popping out of the door, the dirt-colored dump truck just showed half a head from the street corner, no sign of turning. 　　The little girl missed Zhang Ke's side, and Zhang Ke almost felt the calf under the shorts give the hem of the little girl's dress a sweep; the dump truck drove through the center of the street, with no sign of turning ...... 　　The little girl jumped out of the hardware store, her feet tripped, the body knocked on the ground, ice cream smashed into the ground ...... The driver of the dump truck over there seemed to suddenly realize that he had missed the intersection, and jerked the steering wheel, the tires rubbing the asphalt issued a piercing whistling. The youth who was about to come over to assist his daughter turned around and saw the dump truck that had made a sharp U-turn in the center of the street crashing into here ...... 　　"Ah!" The young woman in front of the convenience store screamed loudly. 　　Zhang Ke brain thinking about the car accident after the little girl posted photos, looking at such a lovely little girl lying in front of their own less than five steps away, think of such a little girl's body is going to give this crazy like dump truck crushed, Zhang Ke body surged up a force, violently scurried out, reached out and copied the little girl's body to run back. 　　Dirt truck slammed into the waist-thick poplar tree, click, poplar tree waist broken into two, half of the tree hard from the middle-aged fat man's small stomach into. The dump truck paused for a moment, and then violently flung - the car did not turn off, the driver and mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal - the other three men playing poker with the young men were stunned, the body froze there, forgetting to dodge, until letting the dump truck even crashed flying. 　　The dump truck again towards Zhang Ke crashed. 　　Zhang Ke also scared blind, holding the little girl's body, do not know people to dodge to the side, holding the little girl's stiff body, desperately backward, until the body to the wall against, can not move, just tightly the little girl in his arms, looking at the dump truck rubbing the nose violently turned over, the heart almost stopped ...... 　　Dirt car violently turned out of the sidewalk, to the center of the street scurry, a Jetta car from the west, a head stuck into the dirt car under the stomach ...... 　　Zhang Ke felt wet face, a wipe of the face, a hand of blood, "wow ......" Zhang Ke suddenly cried out, and shocked and afraid, kneeling to the ground, the little girl in his arms, touching around, "did not hit ah, did not hit ah ......" 　　The corner of the mouth some fishy alkali, Zhang Ke wiped, white, brain matter? The stomach a writhing, too late to turn his head, the stomach spit out, splashing the little girl all over ...... 　　Zhang Ke remembers his own car accident, only feel the body to the hard throw out, people in the air on the loss of consciousness, also too late to feel the fear of death? Looking at the bloody scene, this time to realize the fear of the car accident and the vulnerability of people, Zhang Ke hugged the little girl sitting on the ground, lost in thought. 　　After the car accident, the crowd seemed to ooze out of the sponge, all of a sudden surrounded the street. 　　A black car leaned over, from the car down two middle-aged people, shouting, Zhang Ke's brain, a moment of sobriety, a moment of confusion, listening to the inaccurate, saw a middle-aged man came over to pick up the paralyzed on the ground of the young woman, a middle-aged man came over to pick up the little girl. Zhang Ke handed the little girl over, "I don't know if there is no bump, I don't know if there is no bump ......" 　　"The girl is fine, this young lad to get, is he rushed over to save the girl, look, so deep tire marks ......" someone said on the side, "the young man is also scared enough, should not hit, just a little bit. I'm ten meters away from here, look carefully, leg and stomach is still shaking, this young man dared to rush over to save the girl child ......" 　　Ambulance then arrived, loud ambulance bell let Zhang Ke chaotic brain a little quiet. 　　Zhang Ke did not dare to look at the person who was knocked flying, who replaced Zhang Ke did not dare to go back to this stimulus, he wiped his face, the blood dried, a moment's effort to form a scar. Hands and feet soft, struggling to stand up, muddled to the crowd outside, a nurse ran over to assist him: "You can not just walk around ......" "did not hit me, the blood is splattered, you go to care about them! ...... "The nurse froze, did not think much on the way back, and did not think to leave Zhang Ke or leave Zhang Ke's contact information. 　　Zhang Ke turned back to look for the driver, the driver lying in the second to him knocked down the roots of the poplar tree, pale, wine should have long been awake. Zhang Ke always feel to comfort him a sentence or two, and do not know where to start, grinning bitterly. Cross the Dongsheng Bridge, only to see two traffic patrol cars to North Street. 　　Zhang Ke then remembered, July 18, 1994 this day, Xicheng District, almost all the traffic patrol police were drawn to the Bell Tower Square area to maintain anecdotal order to go. Because on this day, the new light paper mill nearly a hundred employees to the bell tower square assembly trouble. Xinguang Paper Factory's old factory is located in the south of the city on the banks of the Shihang River, technologically backward, pollution is serious, the city's southern district determined to move the Xinguang Paper Factory out of the main city, in the southern suburbs of the Industrial Park to prepare for the construction of a new plant, but build a new plant, buy equipment will be exhausted by the bank loans, no liquidity, into the raw materials, has not been opened up, coupled with the workers think that the new plant is far away from the urban areas, unwilling to shut down the old factory, every now and then to the city government They gathered in front of the municipal government every now and then to cause trouble.