Chapter 3: The Reversal of Destiny (This chapter is free)

Zhang Ke was still shocked when he returned home. He replaced the blood-stained T-shirt and shorts and stuffed them into the washing machine. The old-fashioned little swan double-bucket washing machine turned, and there was a crackling sound.

Although I don’t know what happened, it is unquestionable that I am in the real world. In terms of time, I went back to the summer of 14 years ago, that is, the summer of 1994.

Zhang Ke remembered that he was only sixteen years old at that time.

Zhang Ke curled up on the sofa, and his memory of his sixteen-year-old was a little blurred. He thought that before he had a high fever, he should have obtained the high school entrance examination results, but his grades were not bad. He ranked third in the Xicheng District High School Entrance Examination in 1994. On the day when the high school entrance examination results came out, he rushed to the provincial inspection team to investigate Tang Xueqian's problems, so he could hardly feel the joy brought by the high school entrance examination results at home.

Zhang Ke was confused and didn't know what expression he should use to face what was about to happen.

It was getting darker and neither of my parents came back.

The symptoms of high fever have subsided, but I was so hungry in my stomach that I had no idea of ​​eating. Zhang Ke looked up at the quartz clock hanging above the wall opposite. It was almost the evening news time. Turn on the TV and was playing Zhang Manyu's Lix shampoo advertisement. By 2008, Lix had lost its name, and many people had even forgotten this brand. But in Zhang Ke's memory, in addition to Zhang Manyu's version, Lix shampoo advertisement also had Carina Lau, Chung Chuhong version, and MAGGIE

Version, Li Ruotong version. Zhang Ke likes the MAGGIE version of Lix shampoo advertisement the most. The MAGGIE is extremely charming, like a orchid, showing a temperament that blends East and West, and even women can't help but be attracted. It is said that after this advertisement was broadcast, Lix's sales surged by three times. Many women in supermarkets looked extremely happy with Lix with MAGGIE pictures packaged, as if using her can be as beautiful as her. Of course, this is a very beautiful wish.

Zhang Ke bent his fingers and knocked his temples. He remembered that Chen Ning had just read the MAGGIE advertisement and switched to the lexi shampoo. When he thought of Chen Ning, Zhang Ke felt a little tingling, thinking that Chen Ning had no memory of himself at this time, and it was not until four years later that he could meet in another city.

Now, the memories with Chen Ning should be a past that has not yet happened.

Zhang Ke's lips raised slightly, but he didn't smile, and his thinking could not be corrected for a while.

When Zhang Ke recalled the past that had not yet happened, the evening news in Haizhou began, which was about some meetings that did not leave any impression on Zhang Ke. For example, the bell tower square incident, the provincial inspection team investigated Tang Xueqian, and the evening news was not mentioned at all. Zhang Ke didn't care about these. He just wanted to see how social news reported the car accident on North Street.

"...At around 4:15 pm, a major car accident occurred on the east side of Daijiaqiao Bus Station on Beijie Road, Xicheng District. Four people have died and three others were injured, and two of them were seriously injured. The scene of the incident was located at Daijiaqiao Station on Beijie Street, Xicheng District. A dump truck with a sign of Hai A48854 turned from Dongsheng Road and entered Beijie Road. It suddenly lost control and rushed to the sidewalk on the sidewalk, breaking the poplar tree with a bowl on the sidewalk, knocking down four men playing cards under the shade of the sidewalk trees.

There was another young man watching next to him and was also hit by a dump truck. According to passers-by, the young man's daughter was also falling in front of the dump truck, and a boy bravely rushed over to rescue him. According to passers-by, the dump truck almost turned off the sidewalk against the body of the rescue boy, and collided with a Jetta truck driving from east to west along North Street. It was confirmed that the dump truck driver was driving under the influence of drunkenness and entered the city from Beiguan. He has been speeding. He has been detained by the police according to law..."

From Beiguan to Beijie, you have to pass several important intersections. The driver drives drunk and speeds. If you are usually stopped by the traffic police, but on this day, nearly 100 employees of Xinguang Paper Factory made trouble in the Bell Tower Square, most of the traffic police in Xicheng District were transferred to maintain order. This is also a factor in the accident.

The screen shows the tragic situation after the car accident: broken poplar trees, Jetta cars that were almost lifted off the roof, dismembered small square tables, playing cards all over the floor, solidified blood... Compared to the car accident that Zhang Ke saw in the news fourteen years ago, except for the little girl escaping from under the wheels, there is nothing else.

There was no photo of the little girl broadcast in the news. Zhang Ke recalled the little girl's delicate face and thought that if such a beautiful little girl died in a car accident, it would be very regrettable.

There is no simple repetition in the world. The car accident happened, but the little girl escaped from under the wheel. Thinking of this, Zhang Ke felt a little better. Since he could save the little girl from under the wheel, he could reverse the fate of the entire family.

The more Zhang Ke thought about it, the more excited he became. He returned to his body when he was sixteen years old, but his mind had experiences that no one else had experienced. He also knew the truth about the Tang Xueqian case that most people don’t know now is that the Tang Xueqian case will change the fate of his family in the future.

The impact of the car accident was greatly weakened, and Zhang Ke felt hungry and had no strength to consider more complicated things. There was no ready-made food in the kitchen. He cooked a pot of clean water and put half a bag of noodles after the water boiled.

Zhang Ke put noodles in a bowl and sat back on the sofa in the living room and was about to fill his stomach. His parents opened the door from outside and came in.

Liang Gezhen saw his son Zhang Ke sitting on the sofa holding a bowl of noodles. He forgot the troubles outside for a moment and asked happily: "Is the fever cured?"

Facing his father and mother who are more than 10 years younger, he felt a little uncomfortable. Zhang Ke swallowed the noodles while answering vaguely: "Okay, hungry."

"It's good to know that you're hungry..." Zhang Zhixing said, throwing his briefcase on the sofa. He was still helpless in his eyebrows. He sat on the sofa with a deep body sinking into the sofa. His eyes were almost full of despair.

"How is Uncle Tang's affairs?" Zhang Ke asked tentatively.

"Oh..." Zhang Zhixing responded, without saying a word, nor turned his head to look at him.

Zhang Ke knew that in his father's eyes, he was still the ignorant boy of sixteen years old, and he was not the object of discussing the problem. Zhang Ke put the bowl on the glass table, stood up and said, "I don't know when you will come back, so I won't give you the note now..."

"I'll do it..." Liang Gezhen rubbed her hands and wanted to go to the kitchen.

Zhang Ke pressed his mother's shoulder and asked her to sit on the sofa: "There is nothing difficult."

Sprinkle chopped green onions on the noodles, and specially fryed poached eggs on the noodles, and came out with two bowls of noodles. Zhang Ke found that his parents were sitting on the sofa and had almost never moved, and was worried about Tang Xueqian's affairs.

When Zhang Zhixing saw his son Zhang Ke bring out the noodles, he took a bowl, endured the scalding, ate it clean, pushed the bowl, leaned back, closed his eyes and thought about the problem, but his mind was in a mess, and he had no clue at all, and he couldn't think of anything. He took a chess box from the study room, put it on the glass table in the living room, and brought a chess book to prepare for the chess record. Whenever his thinking went into a blind spot, Zhang Zhixing was used to finding someone to play chess and change his mind. In this case, I am afraid that no one would be willing to come to the door, and playing chess record can also calm his mind.

Zhang Ke learned Go since he was a child. Until the fifth grade of elementary school, his mother Liang Gezhen blocked him and refused to let him continue to learn. He said that learning Go delayed his studies, and that his personality of learning Go was relatively boring. However, after a huge change in his family, Zhang Ke picked up Go again when he was in high school, and his current level was quite good.

Zhang Ke helped spread the folding chessboard. Seeing his father dropping more than a dozen black and white pieces, he knew that his father was playing a famous game played by Xu Fengzhu in 1983. Zhang Ke was very familiar with the chess scores in his father's hand. When he picked up Go again after he arrived in high school, he learned this chess score. He had a deep impression of Xu Fengzhu's games of chess, and he could almost be put out without reading the chess score. After his father put a black piece, Zhang Ke picked up a white piece and responded.

Zhang Zhixing looked up at his son Zhang Ke, then looked at the chess score. Without saying a word, another black spot was dropped. Seeing that his son responded accurately, he asked in confusion: "Have you ever hit this score?"

"Well, remember some of Xu Fengzhu's chess game..."

"It's not that your mother won't let you play Go..."

"Secretly..."

"Oh," Zhang Zhixing didn't doubt it. After all, his son officially studied chess until he was in the fifth grade and picked up all the pieces on the chessboard back to the chess box. "Since I haven't thrown it, I'll play with me..."

Liang Gezhen did not open her mouth to stop him, and cleaned up the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash them.

In another world, Zhang Ke even started to think of being a Go teacher after graduating from college; however, after his father came to work in the municipal government, he rarely had time to get in touch with Go. His father's chess skills were still after he was removed from public office, but in the current world, these things have not happened yet.

Zhang Ke knew that his Go level was a little higher than his father at this time. He finished the game. Whether it was the beginning, mid-game or end, Zhang Ke’s advantage was quite obvious. Zhang Ke licked his lips and glanced at his father: “Do you want to look at me?”

"You kid..." Zhang Zhixing reached out and patted Zhang Ke on the back of his head. He was surprised by his chess skills, but laughed, "When is the level so high that he can play with Xu Hongbo?"

Although Xu Hongbo was only amateur fifth stage, he was known as the godfather of Go in Haizhou City. He founded the Haizhou Chess Academy. After his father was removed from public office, he also learned Go again from Xu Hongbo. Later, he was unable to make it at Haizhou University, so Xu Hongbo took him in.

Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Do you want to have three sons?"

"Let me have two sons first, and Xu Hongbo will only let me have two sons..."

It was almost impossible to feel the passage of time. At the end of the second game, the quartz clock had just struck eleven o'clock.

"It's already so late..." Zhang Zhixing looked at the window, "I still lose half a minute. My level is no worse than the chess players in Haizhou Chess Academy. Don't worry about whether you have a future prospect. If it really doesn't work, you can be a professional chess player. Professional chess players have been trained since childhood..."

Zhang Ke also looked out the window. The street lights outside the window were dim and the shadows on the treetops were reflected on the glass. My father said this, probably because he was worried that this incident would have a bad impact on his future life.

Zhang Ke has never known what his father thought in the incident in 1994. He was still young at that time, and it was only many years later that he gradually understood the truth about the Tang Xueqian case.

Of course, since I can do it again, Zhang Ke doesn't want to be a professional chess player: "Uncle Tang's chess is also good. Last time the municipal government organized a competition with the Chess Academy, I heard that Uncle Tang also beat the professional chess player of the Chess Academy..."

"Tang Xueqian is still the deputy mayor, and he is the honorary president of Haizhou Chess Academy. His level is worse than mine, but he just likes playing Go..." Zhang Zhixing sighed, "I'm afraid he has no mind to play chess now..."

Zhang Ke was thinking about how to bring the topic to the Tang Xueqian case; he probably told his father directly that he had experienced the next fourteen years. In about five years, the truth of the Tang Xueqian case will be revealed. Dad may not accept such a fact, and he might even send himself to a mental hospital.

"Why should I go out and avoid it when Secretary Ye said that Uncle Tang asked you to go out and avoid it?" Zhang Ke asked in a daze.

"Oh, you didn't sleep at that time?"

"I heard a sentence or two in a daze," said Zhang Ke, "I didn't open my eyes and saw someone. I heard it was Secretary Ye's voice..."

"Nothing happened, don't worry..." Zhang Zhixing touched his son's head in a heavy mood, sighed, but asked again, "Zhang Ke, what do you think of Uncle Tang?"

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Liang Gezhen came out of the bedroom and came over to clean up the chessboard. "You don't know what kind of person Tang Xueqian is, but you have to ask your son? You don't know the organizational procedures, you can't do not understand the organizational procedures. The provincial inspection team's isolation and review of Tang Xueqian cannot be without substantial evidence. Now it's just collecting more evidence of crimes. It's spreading outside. Is the human resources manager of Xinfeng Group called Xu Si? She is the woman Tang Xueqian outside. Jiang Mingcheng gave Tang Xueqian money through this fairy. That fairy was able to work in Xinfeng Group before, and it was also a greeting by Tang Xueqian... These stories are spread with noses and eyes. Do you think it's really groundless?"

Jiang Mingcheng is the general manager of Xinfeng Group. The Xu Si he and his mother mentioned were both key figures in the Tang Xueqian case. Xu Si was the deputy manager of the Personnel Department of Xinfeng Group before the Tang Xueqian case. He was also the woman who fought for later in rumors. In 1994, Xu Si told the provincial inspection team that Tang Xueqian had sent Tang Xueqian to prison by accepting Jiang Mingcheng's bribes. In the Tang Xueqian case, she was exempted from criminal punishment, but in 1999, she was imprisoned with Ding Xiangshan. After a year of imprisonment, she heard that she committed suicide in prison. Zhang Ke was also the first time she saw Xu Si during the trial of Ding Xiangshan case in 1999. At that time, Xu Si had been detained in the detention center for several months. In Zhang Ke's memory, she was jailed with the haggard face but had the destruction of beauty.
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