Epiphanies of Rebirth

Every March on the day of Waking of Insects, it always rains in Li Yun City.The sound of the pattering rain mixed with the unique moist air of a small southern city wraps the body. Lin Jingzhe still can't forget this feeling until he has been away from his hometown for many years.

He suffers from insomnia, and has never slept well since the day his father died at the age of 29. Therefore, after being awakened by the sound of rain at four o'clock in the morning, he sat at the door of his house and looked at Liyun Mountain, which was covered by misty rain and fog. In 1990, Liyun Mountain had no mineral resources buried deep in the soil, so it was majestic and majestic, quite different from the devastated appearance in Lin Jingzhe's impression.

The door of the house was in a mess, the white wreaths with the word "Dian" placed crookedly by the wind, the suona randomly placed in the corner with splashes of mud, the red firecracker skin that became limp and thick after being wet...

He turned his head and his eyes fell on the cedar coffin parked alone in the living room. The raw wood brushed with ripe tung oil was red and smooth, and it was expensive. It was the favorite material of the rich in Liyun City.

Lying inside is Jiang Jipin, the grandfather that Lin Jingzhe had sent away with tears more than 20 years ago.

On the calendar with galloping horses painted on the wall, "March 1990, 3" is printed in black and white.Lin Jingzhe was immersed in a dreamlike trance, but still knew that in four days, this old man whom he had missed for half his life would be buried in the cemetery in Liyun City with drums and gongs.And his tombstone, along with the more and more brilliant development of the Jiang family, will become a sacred place where Li Yun's municipal committee will worship every year during the Ching Ming Festival.

Lin Jingzhe only remembered that she was carrying a jug of wine and drinking it by herself in front of the cemetery.That day, he had just finished his studies abroad, and when he returned to Yanshi, he rushed to Liyun non-stop. He didn't sleep for more than 40 hours, and he was extremely exhausted. He was shocked to hear the sad news that his old friend Gao Sheng was executed. He was exhausted and cried. More than that, after crying for a while, she leaned against the tombstone and fell asleep.

When he woke up again, he had returned to the day of his birthday 25 years ago.

"Jingzhe!" The regular sound of falling rain was broken by the rustling of the chain, and a semi-old bicycle came into view and stopped in front of Lin Jingzhe.The owner of the car propped one long leg on the ground, held an umbrella in one hand, and said heartily: "I guess you haven't gone out yet, come up, I'll drive you to school!"

Gao Sheng shaved his body short and wore a shabby but clean oversized school uniform, with a hand-knitted turtleneck sweater showing his head and washed out balls. Compared with the dark suits that became more and more expensive when he joined the "gang" later too much.But Lin Jingzhe hadn't seen this heartless smiling face for more than ten years.

He didn't make a sound for a long time. Gao Sheng saw that his face was pale and his expression was in a trance, but he only thought that he was overly sad because of his grandfather's death, so he didn't dare to persuade him. He just patted his 28 aggravated, and said nonchalantly: "Hurry up." Ah, shit, don't be late for self-study later!"

Lin Jingzhe reacted for a few seconds, then stood up slowly: "Wait for me for a while."

He turned around and went back to the house, but instead of carrying the schoolbag he packed the night before, he walked to the coffin and bent down to look at the thin, short old man with his eyes closed and peaceful.

This is Lin Jingzhe's most nostalgic and only trusted family member in her long life.

"Grandpa." Why don't you let me come back a few days earlier?It would be nice to hear that majestic and loving voice again.Lin Jingzhe stretched out his hand to tidy up the slightly messy hair of the old man, and his gaze passed over his young, firm, slender fingers. After a moment of hesitation, his right hand that was holding tightly to the coffin wall finally let go, his throat choked, and he showed tears A nostalgic smile came: "I'm going to school."

In Liyun City in 1990, the urban construction was not so scientific. After leaving the "rich area" of the Jiang family, the road surface began to become potholed.Lin Jingzhe sat on the back seat, holding an umbrella for Gao Sheng, jolting from time to time, feeling the cramped seat of this old-fashioned bicycle that was about to be scrapped under his buttocks, and heard the chattering voice of his young old friend in his ears: " If you got your grades today, it’s over, you’re sure you’ve failed the exam. The teacher in charge didn’t like us recently, so I guess we’ll have to write a review this time, and you’ll have to plead for me in front of my mother..."

The economy has entered an era of development. Although Liyun City, located in Qunnan Province, is only a small town, a group of "people who get rich first" have emerged.From time to time, there are cars passing by on the not-so-spacious road, most of which are Santanas with a square head and a straight face.Being hit by the dust and exhaust whizzing from the front, Lin Jingzhe woke up from the unreality that seemed to be wrapped in bubbles, and was recalled by the vivid complaints of the completely real high school boy beside him, Can't help but smile wryly.

review?It's not that simple.

1990 was the biggest turning point in Lin Jingzhe's life.This year, he was about to graduate from high school and ushered in a new starting point. However, after the death of his grandfather, the ensuing changes disrupted everything.

If all his memories are real experiences in his previous life, then in the first class after arriving at the school today, the head teacher Li Yurong will announce that a few students whose test scores are not very optimistic will be transferred to the fifth class. class news.Unfortunately, Lin Jingzhe himself, Gao Sheng, and their other friend Zhou Haitang are among them.

The grades of Gao Sheng and Zhou Haitang are not good. They have always been the thorn in Li Yurong's eyes, the thorn in the flesh of the flesh. Lin Jingzhe's original grades are very good. It's just that the reality of his grandfather's serious illness and death has recently made him in a trance, so he doesn't want to study .The bad thing is that the third year of high school is under a lot of pressure to review, and the school work is stressful. Although Lin Jingzhe has only been absent-minded for half a month, the decline in grades is already very obvious.From the top ten in the whole school, he directly fell out of the top thirty in the first class. The results of the college entrance examination are related to the upcoming teacher evaluation by the Liyun City Education Bureau. Because Gao Sheng's mother is also a teacher in the No. [-] Middle School, Li Yurong couldn't bear it. , now that the interests are at hand, she can't bear it anymore.

The senior three classes in No. [-] Middle School are from class one to class five, and the meaning of arrangement is obvious.In her previous life, Lin Jingzhe got such a transfer on the eve of the college entrance examination, and felt that she had suffered a great humiliation. Her mentality, which had already been overwhelmed by the death of her family, finally completely collapsed, and her final college entrance examination results were a mess.

This brought a series of chain consequences, and indirectly affected the trajectory of Lin Jingzhe's life.Because of his academic qualifications, his ability to work has been questioned, and his promotion may be limited.Before Li, he was always in the hopeless confusion of the future. It was not until he was 30 years old that he learned from the pain and went off to study, which stirred up the hopeless quagmire. However, at that time, he had already lost too much because of his own powerlessness. many.

His friends Gao Sheng and Zhou Haitang simply stopped studying because they were short of money, and college was too expensive at their own expense, and joined the local gang in Liyun City.It had been prosperous for a few years earlier, but the small gangs in Liyun City were dominating the local area, and when they left here, they were nothing more than a small grasshopper that could be crushed to death by a big shot.Then the wind suddenly became tight, the building collapsed as soon as it was said, the boss ran away, and the horse boy took the blame.

And myself...

Lin Jingzhe suddenly remembered the tearful father on the hospital bed before he died, his heart tightened, he was choked up for a long time, and couldn't breathe for a long time, until Gao Sheng parked his bicycle at the school gate, slipped sideways, and suddenly woke up.

"...Do you think so?" Gao Sheng asked.

Lin Jingzhe didn't listen to a word.

"Forget it." Seeing that he was at a loss, Gao Sheng took out an iron lunch box from the handbag on his side as if he was still grieving over the death of his family: "I forgot just now, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Let me bring you the scallion pancakes baked by my mother."

Gao Sheng's mother, Hu Yu, is the head teacher of Class [-], and she also teaches mathematics in other classes. Lin Jingzhe is well-known in the school for growing up with his grandfather without parents. Gao Sheng came to bring him a meal or something.

Lin Jingzhe thanked her, chewed this long-lost taste, almost shed tears.

After Gao Sheng's accident, Hu Yu became terribly old overnight, and passed away not long after the verdict was handed down. Before he died, he was still thinking about Lin Jingzhe's insomnia and insomnia.She is almost half of Lin Jingzhe's mother. On the day she was sent away, Lin Jingzhe's strength was exhausted, but when he visited Gao Sheng, he had to pretend to hide the truth easily.

In this life... in this life...

He swallowed heavily the fragrant scallion pancakes in his mouth, let his long bangs cover the tears in his eyes, and turned the corner when he heard a sneer from afar: "Lin Jingzhe? If you are like this, you still dare to come to class?"

Lin Jingzhe's heart moved, he raised his head, and it turned out to be his cousin Jiang Run, an old acquaintance.

Jiang Run is the only son of Lin Jingzhe's aunt, and Lin Jingzhe has always been at odds with him, but they both live in the small place of Liyun City, and because they are the same age and in the same class, they have been in constant conflict since childhood.

The children's conflicts are nothing more than that nonsense. Jiang Run looks down on Lin Jingzhe who has no parents and no mother, but he is always under pressure in terms of grades.After growing up, the reasons for the quarrel became much more complicated. Lin Jingzhe's grandfather, surnamed Jiang, owned a small property in Liyun City. Before he passed away, he made a will to disperse all the property among his children, but left the house he lived in with the antique collection inside. It was also assigned to Lin Jingzhe.

The old man is successful, and he also knows that his children are not magnanimous. Lin Jingzhe will be eighteen, and a pack of wolves and tigers will wait for him. How can he keep his property?It's better to keep the hard currency, which can guarantee life, not to mention the bronzes in his collection, although extremely rare, are not popular in Liyun City now, and not many people should know their value.

However, this decision was like a thunderbolt, which blew up the Jiang family.

Even the old man never thought that when he was only seriously ill, the children in the family had already thought about the destination of his treasures.No one cares about bronze wares in Liyun City, but outside this small world, there are many people who know the goods.In Qunnan Province, where Liyun City belongs, a small leader of the Provincial Council likes to collect these things. Lin Jingzhe's aunt got to know him through someone, and she boasted to Haikou early on. As soon as the old man left, he fulfilled his promise.

Unexpectedly, the old man actually made a will and left these things to Lin Jingzhe!A person with a foreign surname!He also walked the path of justice.The simple things are now complicated, Aunt Jiang is so angry that she scolds her mother at home every day these days, only wishing that Lin Jingzhe would die suddenly and suddenly.Jiang Run has heard a lot, and also knows that Lin Jingzhe ruined his own good deeds, so he was in a panic early in the morning. This time, when the results came out, he learned that Lin Jingzhe failed the exam, and he was more than 100 points lower than himself. .So I waited at the door of the class early, just waiting for Lin Jingzhe to come and mock this sentence face to face.

Lin Jingzhe didn't respond, but Gao Sheng immediately became angry, stepped forward and said loudly: "What did you say?! Say it again!"

"None of your business? Oh, I forgot, aren't you the tail of the crane in our class, Lin Jingzhe's follower? What's the matter, do you want to hit someone?" Jiang Run looked at Lin Jingzhe's thin arm provocatively. Gathered a few friends, as soon as Lin Jingzhe made a move, they would come up to help, and they had to vent their anger.When the time comes for the school to investigate, he will not be the one to do it first.

Lin Jingzhe could see through this childish carelessness at a glance. He stopped Gao Sheng, who was flushed with anger, and slowly finished the cake in his hand. Although he was not angry at this provocation, his heart was not without waves.

Because Jiang Run, or the entire Jiang family behind Jiang Run except for his grandfather, was too colorful in his life.

It was a long time before Lin Jingzhe realized what the antiques left by his grandfather meant to the Jiang family, but at this moment in his previous life, he was just an ignorant young man who had never seen the world.Grandpa's bronze wares are just a kind of emotional sustenance for him. He doesn't want to let go, but the Jiang family is bound to get it.

In the 90s, in a small city like Liyun City, the law was useless.The Jiang family was extremely bold, and when they couldn't ask for it, they blatantly transferred the antiques from the old house.Lin Jingzhe was angry, but she wanted to investigate, but her mother, who was far away in the provincial capital and had never been there since childhood, made a caring phone call at this time.

Lin Jingzhe is at the most vulnerable time, has no financial resources, and has to deal with countless winds, frosts and swords every day, and the gentle image of his mother drowns him almost instantly.Under the persuasion of that kind voice like a virgin, he chose to tolerate his "family", and under his mother's persuasion, he gave up the ordinary university in Yan City and filled in the self-financed junior college in the provincial capital where his mother was located.

After a long, long time, when he finally realized that all this was just a hoax.

The Jiang family had already secured the position of the richest man in Liyun City by relying on this generous gift.

From the corner of the eye, I saw two figures hurriedly approaching, Lin Jingzhe smiled slightly, let go of Gao Sheng, stepped forward, approached Jiang Run, and chuckled in a low voice: "I don't need you to care about my grades, compared to me, you are not as good as me." How much you care about your mother. Is she going to be pissed off these days? Be careful that she is so angry... slapping—"

Jiang Run was poked at the sore spot, and immediately jumped high, grabbed Lin Jingzhe's collar, raised his fist high with one hand, his canthus cracked, and screamed, "You fucking want to die——"

"stop!!!"

He was about to make a move, but unexpectedly, there was a thick and thick shouting sound from behind, which made him almost urinate out of fear.Looking back, Jiang Run's legs went limp, and the director of the Political and Educational Office was standing not far away from his homeroom teacher, with an ugly expression on his face.

Jiang Run was fat, tall, thin and fair Lin Jingzhe stood with him, the contrast was extremely tragic.

The director immediately scolded: "What are you doing! Are you beating your classmates openly? Do you still look like a student!"

Li Yurong, the head teacher, looked at the situation and hesitated. After all, Jiang Run's test scores were very good this time, and she was biased.

She tentatively rescued Jiang Run: "Lin Jingzhe, you are too! You mess around all day long, you can't slap a slap, you don't know how to improve your grades, and the troubles are getting worse!"

Lin Jingzhe didn't speak, just lowered his eyes, with a resigned look.

"Okay!!" The director of politics and education originally had a lot of opinions on Li Yurong's immoral thing like finding the relationship between the principal and transferring students to the class. He followed up and announced that he was very angry. Said: "Beating people, what's your name!"

Immediately, a classmate who was not used to Jiang Run reminded him, "Teacher, his name is Jiang Run!"

"Jiang Run, right?" The director couldn't understand Li Yurong, and felt sorry for Jiang Run who had become a victim. "The college entrance examination is coming soon, and you still want to bully your classmates! You must be punished! You write a self-criticism before Monday, and publicly report to him when the national flag is raised." The classmate apologizes!"

"Director——" Li Yurong was startled. It's okay to say that the self-criticism is just hurting self-esteem. It will be a big deal to remember it. It will be kept in the file. Joining the party and even graduating will be affected. My mother came to visit the relationship last time, and was going to let the school operate a recommended quota for Qunnan University to Jiang Run.

This requires students to be both good in character and learning, without any bad records. In this way, the plan of recommendation is [-]% hopeless.

The director ignored her and went straight into the classroom.

Li Yurong was displeased when she lost her face, and thought that Jiang Run's mother's promise of a guarantee of 5 yuan was in vain. She immediately became angry, glared at Jiang Run angrily, and followed in. classroom.

Outside, Jiang Run was completely stunned. He stared blankly at the backs of the two teachers, and suddenly thought of the recommendation plan his mother had mentioned. He immediately realized something, and his face turned pale.

Lin Jingzhe pulled the collar out of the opponent's limp hand, smoothed it, and patted the opponent's shoulder. This little force almost made Jiang Run limp on the ground.

He looked at the dead face of the other party, and smiled dullly: "Be strong, cousin."