Updated: 2012-06-27

Who would sit in the car and wait for his funeral?

Chen Huai sat in the car, looking out the window, through the sunlight spots shining from the ancient elm trees on the street in front of the temple, mottled in the shadows like glass, like a sleep of death, which made him look empty in his heart.

The pagoda cemetery behind contains three pagodas built during the Republic of China, next to the thousand-year-old temple Tianning Temple.

These three pagodas were originally the largest national capital family in Donghua City during the Republic of China. The private pagoda garden built by the Sun family once offered three statues of Guanyin, gold, silver and jade, and were famous in the province.

On the eve of liberation, the Sun family moved overseas with their family members, and the Sun family's property and the pagoda garden were then used as the official.

In the 1950s, after the pagoda garden was established as a people's cemetery, most of the nearby citizens placed their relatives' urns in the pagoda cemetery. The trees thickly wrapped around the garden can be seen everywhere, lush and lush; water pavilions, mountains and rocks are everywhere. If you are not afraid of the bad luck of the dead, the pagoda cemetery is the most worthy view of the suburbs of East China.

There is a small square outside the gate of Ta Cemetery. Chen Huai parked his car on the edge of the small square, parked under the shade of green trees, and watched a Jiefang truck slowly coming and parked in front of the gate of Ta Cemetery...

After Chen Huai saw his friend Zhao Dong, who was also his colleague at the city steel factory, parked the car firmly, got off the car from the driver's seat, quickly walked around to the right side of the car, and opened the door.

The little girl got out of the car with a lead-gray urn. Tears were still hanging on her beautiful face, and her eyes were red and swollen. She called Chen Huai, who was sitting in the car, and saw the tears falling straight down, dripping on the steering wheel...

The relatives who were attending the funeral and their fellow friends took wreaths and came down from the back carriage one after another. The couplet read the beautiful official script of the little sister: "The sad voice is hard to stop the flowing clouds, and the crying sounds are flying with the wild crane: Mourning brother Sun Haiwen."

Three days passed, and the initial shock and chaos had not completely disappeared, but at this time, seeing the little sister so sad, Chen Huai's heart was clearer. How he wanted to open the car door and rush out, and told the overly sad little sister loudly:

Xiao Li, I am Haiwen! I am not dead, I am still your brother...

It’s a pity that he lives in someone else’s body, his younger sister, relatives and former colleagues no longer know him.

Chen Huai's hand grabbed the steering wheel tightly, and his nails were deeply pinched into the flesh, without any pain:

He should have died. The urn held by his little sister contained the cremated ashes of his dead body, but his consciousness and soul lived in someone else's body...

Two people who were in the car to attend the funeral were his colleagues. They did not enter the tower cemetery, but walked here, stood under the shade of trees and smoked and rested. They did not notice that there were still people sitting in the car parked by the road...

"It's a pity that Haiwen died just like this. If I had known this ending, it would be better to have to bite the bullet and transfer it to the city with Lao Xiong..."

"Old Xiong went to the city to transfer Haiwen together. But at that time, the factory cooperated with the Japanese to carry out technical transformation and wanted to build a continuous casting furnace, and Haiwen was inseparable from the factory..."

"After all, Hawen is soft-hearted. He followed Lao Xiong to the city and licked Gu Houzi on stage by licking the ass of the city leaders. He could stop him at that time? Tell me, Hawen has been relenting over the years? Why did he live so relegated? Isn't he just because his family has no power or power? The more talented Haiwen is, the more severe it will be suppressed by people like Gu Houzi. In the end, isn't he just afraid that Haiwen will ride on him in the end? Hawen has lived a hard life these years. This time, he was admitted to Yan University, so he didn't have to look at Gu Houzi's face anymore. Unexpectedly, such a thing happened. God is unfair..."

"Haiwen is dead; his sister Xiaoli was originally dependent on him for life, but suddenly became lonely. In fact, she was the one who felt the most painful in her heart. She didn't know what to do in the future!"

Listening to his former colleagues standing by the car and holding on to his own grievances, Chen Huai felt mixed feelings: Sun Haiwen's life is his life; when talking about his life experience, who can know better than himself?

He graduated from a provincial university in 1986 and was assigned to the Municipal Steel Plant. With his solid discipline foundation, he only took more than a year to understand the production technology in all aspects of the Municipal Steel Plant and became the absolute technical backbone of the factory.

Even without background, he was highly valued by Xiong Wenbin, the former director of the city steel factory (the old Xiong who was just discussed by his colleagues). He served as the workshop director in two years, setting records in almost 300 state-owned enterprises in the city. Later, the city steel factory built a branch in Xinjin, and Xiong Wenbin proposed to let him serve as the branch manager. At that time, he had only been in the city steel factory for less than three years.

However, after Xiong Wenbin was transferred from the city's steel factory, especially after Xiong Wenbin was quickly transferred to a idle department in the city, his lack of background flaws was completely exposed.

Perhaps he was too aggressive before, and his extraordinary talent and technical foundation also caused him to be expelled and suppressed. In the past two years, he has been completely kicked into the boiler room...

In fact, when you go to the city with Xiong Wenbin, your situation may not be better.

Xiong Wenbin can be said to be one of the most capable figures in Donghua's business operations. In the mid-to-late 80 years, he managed the city's steel mill and created a brilliant achievement of over 300 million in annual profit and tax payments.

Xiong Wenbin was transferred to the city as the deputy secretary-general of the municipal government and director of the enterprise office. Everyone thought Xiong Wenbin would be transferred soon and be promoted to a more important position.

Who knows that Xiong Wenbin's transfer was just a trick of some people in the city to lure the tiger away from the mountain, so that others can control the city's steel mill?

Less than a year after Xiong Wenbin arrived in the city, he was kicked to the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government Policy Research Office as deputy director, as if he had become a marginal figure in the Donghua officialdom, and he could not see any success.

When he and Xiong Wenbin go to the city, how much better is the situation than when he is in a steel mill in the city?

Looking back on my past life, Chen Huai sat in the car and felt bitter in his heart.

He has seen through it. Places like Donghua have underdeveloped economy and have few opportunities to make a name for themselves. They are also controlled by those with backgrounds and powerful people. No matter how capable or talented he is, he will have little chance of great development.

Especially if others are clever and arrogant, and your self-discipline is the fatal mistake.

This world has never been fair.

It was not that he had thought of leaving the city steel mill, but in the Donghua area, there were not many things that would allow him to use his skills.

There are several private enterprises in Donghua City. The scale seems to be quite good, but they may not be cleaner than state-owned enterprises. The management of these family enterprises is also controlled by nepotism.

Another thing is that my father had passed away at that time, and my mother was seriously ill. My younger sister was still young, so the situation could not allow him to leave Donghua and go to other places to develop. Although he lived a frustrated life in the city steel mill, his income was quite stable, and he was able to support his family alone.

My mother died of serious illness a year ago, and he successfully passed away as a doctoral student in the Department of Economics of Yan University. I thought this time I would be the opportunity to jump out of the small circle of Donghua with my younger sister, but I didn't expect an accident would happen three days ago.

On that day, Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde led a team to the city steel plant to inspect the most important technical transformation achievements of the city steel plant in recent years. He temporarily transferred it out of the boiler room as a technical explanation.

Just as he climbed onto the thermoelectric blast furnace and explained to Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde and his party the technical transformation of the city's steel mill over the years, the rusted railing under his hands suddenly broke and asked him to fall from a height of 20 meters...

The fall time was very short, and his mind was blank. He only remembered that before falling to the ground, he hit the left shoulder of Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde's secretary, and then he was completely lost.

When he woke up, he was already lying in the hospital, the doctors around him, and other people who seemed to recognize but could not eliminate strangeness, all looked at him with concern: "Secretary Chen, Secretary Chen, you finally woke up..."

He couldn't figure out what happened at that time, and the specific story was heard from others: "It's so dangerous. The worker almost wiped the tip of Mayor Chen's nose and fell down. Secretary Chen, you are also lucky: I just wiped my left shoulder. In addition to dislocation, it was a serious abrasion and needed to be hospitalized for observation..."

"... The city steel mill should really be rectified. It would be fine if one or two workers were killed by the fall of Mayor Chen, but the news that the workers were hit by the workers would be spread, and Donghua officials would still have the face to go out."

It seemed as if at that moment, he, who should have been Sun Haiwen, inexplicably became Chen Huai, the secretary of Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde...

It took him a long time to figure out what was going on:

When he fell to the ground, his consciousness had already left his body and should have completely dissipated to say goodbye to the world; however, the incident happened when he hit Deputy Mayor Chen Mingde's left shoulder before he fell to the ground.

The impact force hitting the left shoulder was nothing, but suddenly the shock of an accident, which made Chen Mingde's secretary scatter in that moment.

If consciousness is a tangible existence, at that moment, Secretary Chen Mingde's consciousness collapsed due to strong fright, and his consciousness penetrated into Secretary Chen Mingde's mind and survived.

More commonly, Secretary Chen Mingde was actually scared to death at that moment, and he was parasitized in Secretary Chen Mingde's body...

Chen Huai's injuries were nothing serious, and he spent three days in a drowsy hospital. Today, an elderly patient died in the hospital. His family's crying woke him up. He suddenly realized that when he was parasitizing other people's bodies and adapting to his new identity in shock and chaos, his younger sister must be heartbroken for his "accidental death" and will become lonely and helpless from then on...

Chen Huai woke up in shock, how could he take care of the doctor's dissuasion? He immediately rushed back to the municipal government to get a car and rushed to Meixi Town, which was next to the southeastern suburb of the city.

Chen Huai was like this. From noon, he witnessed his younger sister holding a funeral for himself with the help of relatives and friends, sending his body to the crematorium for cremation, and watching the urns delivered to the Tianning Temple Tower Cemetery for storage...

Watching her little sister feel so heartbroken, Chen Huai is so powerless: her little sister, and his relatives and friends he is familiar with, all regard him as strangers—

If one person and one world, from the moment he fell to the ground and collided, he had to live in the world of Chen Mingde's secretary Chen Huai, and could not return to Sun Haiwen's world...
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