Trial Reading of the Revised Chapter 1 of 'A Merry Life in Officialdom'
Who would sit quietly in their car waiting to attend their own funeral?
Shen Huai was sitting in the car, looking out the window. The sunlight shining through the shadow of the ancient elm trees on Siqian Street was mottled in the shadows like glass, like the sleep of death, which made him feel empty in his heart.
In the pagoda cemetery at the back, there are three pagodas built during the Republic of China. It is next to the thousand-year-old Tianning Temple. It was opened as a people's cemetery in the 1950s. Most of the nearby citizens store the urns of their relatives in the pagoda cemetery. .
There was a small square outside the gate of the Ta Cemetery. Shen Huai parked his car on the edge of the small square, under the shade of green and dripping trees, and watched a Jiefang truck slowly drive over, parked in the large square of the Ta Cemetery. In front of the door...
When Shen Huai saw Zhao Dong, his friend for many years and his colleague at the city steel factory, parked the car, he got out of the driver's seat first, walked quickly around to the right side of the car, and opened the door——
The little girl came out of the car holding a lead-colored urn. There were tears on her pretty face, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying. Shen Huai, who was sitting in the car, looked at the tears falling down and dripping on the steering wheel...
Relatives and friends who accompanied the funeral came down from the rear car one after another with wreaths. The elegiac couplet was written in official script by my younger sister Juanxiu: "The sad voice is hard to hold back and the clouds linger, and the crying sound follows the wild cranes flying: I mourn my brother Sun Haiwen."
Three days have passed, and the initial shock and confusion have not completely disappeared, but now seeing his little sister in such grief, Shen Huai's heart is more clearly filled with stabbing pains, how much he wants to open the car door and rush out. , loudly told the sad little sister:
Xiao Li, I am Hai Wen! I am not dead, I am still your brother...
It's a pity that he is now living in someone else's body. His younger sister, relatives and former colleagues no longer know him.
Shen Huai gripped the steering wheel tightly with his hands, his nails dug deeply into his flesh, but he felt no pain:
He was supposed to die, and the urn held by his little sister contained the cremated ashes of his dead body, but his consciousness and soul were living in someone else's body...
There were two people accompanying him to the funeral. They were his colleagues in front of him. They did not enter the pagoda cemetery. Instead, they walked here and stood in the shade of the trees to smoke and take a rest. They did not notice that there were still people sitting in the car parked on the roadside. With people...
"It's such a pity that Haiwen died like this. If I had known this outcome, it would be better to just bite the bullet and be transferred to the city with Lao Xiong..."
"Old Xiong went to the city with the intention of transferring Haiwen away with him. But at that time, the factory was cooperating with Little Japan to carry out technical transformation and build a continuous casting furnace. The factory could not do without Haiwen..."
"In the final analysis, it was Haiwen who was soft-hearted. He only followed Lao Xiong to the city. How could he be stopped by Gu Houhou, who came to power with the eyes of the city leader in his eyes? Tell me, Haiwen has been humbled all these years. Unyielding? Why does he live in such a humiliating way? Isn’t it because he has no power at home? The more talented Haiwen is, the more he will be suppressed by people like Gu Houhou - in the final analysis, isn’t it because he is afraid that Haiwen will end up in the end? Are you going to ride on his head? Haiwen has lived a really hard life these years. This time, as a doctoral student admitted to Yanda University, he didn't have to look at the monkey's face anymore, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen. God is slandering him. It’s not fair, mother…”
"Haiwen is dead; Xiaoli and he were dependent on each other, but suddenly they became lonely. In fact, she is the one who suffers the most, and I don't know what to do in the future!"
Listening to his former colleagues standing by the car to defend himself, Shen Huai felt mixed emotions: Sun Haiwen's life is his life; when it comes to his life experience, who can know it better than himself?
He graduated from the Provincial University in 1986 and was later assigned to the city's steel factory. With his solid academic foundation, it took him just over a year to master all aspects of the city's steel factory's production technology and become an absolute master of technology in the factory. backbone.
Even though he had no background, he was highly valued by Xiong Wenbin, the former director of the city's steel mill. Within two years, he served as workshop director, setting a record among more than 300 state-owned enterprises in the city.
However, after Xiong Wenbin was transferred from the city's steel factory, and especially after Xiong Wenbin was quickly transferred to the casualty department in the city, his lack of background was completely exposed.
And his extraordinary talent and technical foundation have also made him more marginalized and suppressed. In the past two years, he has been kicked to the boiler room...
Thinking back on his past life, Shen Huai was sitting in the car with bitterness in his heart.
It's not that he has never thought about leaving the Municipal Steel Plant, but in this area of Donghua, the economy outside the system is underdeveloped. If he leaves the Municipal Steel Plant, there is no place for him to use his skills.
Furthermore, at that time, his father had passed away, his mother was seriously ill, and his younger sister was still young. The situation did not allow him to leave Donghua and develop elsewhere. Although his life in the city steel factory was miserable, his income was quite satisfactory. It's considered stable, and I can still support my family on my own.
After his mother passed away from a serious illness a year ago, he successfully admitted to the doctoral program in the Department of Economics of Yanda University. He thought this was an opportunity to take his little sister out of the small circle of Donghua, but he did not expect that an accident would happen three days ago.
On that day, Vice Mayor Chen Mingde led a team to the city's steel plant to inspect the most important technical reform achievements of the city's steel plant in recent years. He was temporarily transferred from the boiler room to provide technical explanations.
Just as he climbed onto the thermoelectric blast furnace to explain to Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde and his party the technical transformation of the city's steel plant over the years, the rusty railing under his hand suddenly broke, causing him to fall from a height of twenty meters...
The fall was short, and his mind went blank. He only remembered that before falling to the ground, he hit the left shoulder of Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde's secretary, and he lost consciousness after that.
When he woke up, he was already lying in the hospital. The doctors surrounding him and other people who looked familiar but couldn't rule out the strangeness all looked at him with concern: "Secretary Shen, Secretary Shen, you are finally here. Wake up..."
He couldn't figure out what happened at that time. He heard the specific story from someone else: "It was really dangerous. The worker almost fell off the tip of Mayor Chen's nose. Secretary Shen, you are also very lucky: I just scratched my left shoulder. In addition to the dislocation, the abrasion was quite serious and I needed to be hospitalized for observation..."
"...The city's steel factory really needs to be rectified. It's enough to kill one or two workers these days. If Mayor Chen inspects the company and is hit by workers, the news spreads that Donghua's officials will have the face to do so. go out."
It seems that at that moment, he who was supposed to be Sun Haiwen inexplicably became Shen Huai, the secretary of deputy mayor Chen Mingde...
After a long time, he finally figured out what happened:
When he fell to the ground, his consciousness had left his body, and he should have completely dissipated and said goodbye to this world. However, something unexpected happened when he hit the left shoulder of Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde's secretary before he fell to the ground.
The impact of hitting his left shoulder was nothing, but the shock of the sudden accident, which made Chen Mingde's secretary collapse at that moment.
If consciousness is a tangible existence, at that moment, Secretary Chen Mingde's consciousness collapsed due to strong shock, and his consciousness penetrated into Secretary Chen Mingde's brain and survived.
To put it more generally, Secretary Chen Mingde was actually scared to death at that moment, and he was parasitic in the body of Chen Mingde’s secretary Shen Huai...
Shen Huai's injury was not serious, and he spent three days in a daze in the hospital. Today, an elderly patient passed away in the hospital. His family's cries woke him up, and he suddenly realized that he was parasitizing other people's bodies. , while adapting to the new identity in shock and confusion, the little sister must be grieving for his "unexpected death" and will become lonely and helpless from now on...
Shen Huai woke up with a start. How could he care about the doctor's dissuasion? He immediately rushed back to the city hall, picked up a car, and drove to Meixi Town, which is adjacent to the southeastern suburbs of the city.
Shen Huai was like this. Starting from noon, he witnessed his little sister holding a funeral for him with the help of relatives and friends, sending his body to the crematorium for cremation, and watching the urn being delivered to Tianning Temple. Pagoda Cemetery comes to store...
Seeing the little sister in grief and despair, Shen Huai was so helpless: the little sister, as well as all the relatives and friends he was familiar with, regarded him as a stranger——
If one person has one world, from the moment he hits the ground, he must live in the world of Chen Mingde's secretary Shen Huai, and cannot return to the world of Sun Haiwen...g!.