Who would sit quietly in a car waiting to attend their own funeral?
Shen Huai sat in the car and looked out of the window. The sunlight shone through the ancient elm trees on the street in front of the temple. In the shadows, it was mottled like glass, like the slumber of death, making his heart empty.
Behind the pagoda mausoleum, there were three pagodas built during the Republic of China, next to the thousand-year-old Tianning Temple.
These three pagodas were originally the private pagoda garden built by the Sun family, the largest national capital family in Donghua City during the Republic of China. They had once provided three Guanyin statues, gold, silver, and jade, and were famous in the province for a time.
On the eve of liberation, the Sun family moved overseas with their family members. The Sun family's property and the pagoda garden were then turned into public property.
In the 1950s, after the pagoda garden was turned into a people's cemetery, most of the nearby citizens stored the urns of their relatives in the pagoda cemetery. Trees thicker than arms could be seen everywhere in the garden. The waterside pavilion and rocks were also all over the garden. If one was not afraid of the bad luck of the dead, Taling Garden was the most worthy scenery in the southern suburbs of Donghua.
There was a small square outside the gate of the Tower Tomb Garden. Shen Huai parked the car on the side of the small square, under the lush green shade of a tree. He watched as a Liberation truck slowly drove over and stopped in front of the gate of the Tower Tomb Garden...
Shen Huai saw his good friend, Zhao Dong, who was also his colleague at the city steel mill. After parking the car, he got out of the driver's seat first and quickly went to the right side of the car to open the door.
The little sister came out of the car with a gray urn in her hands. Tears were still hanging on her beautiful face, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying. Shen Huai, who was sitting in the car, saw her tears fall and drip onto the steering wheel…
The relatives and friends who accompanied the funeral came down from the back of the carriage with wreaths. The elegiac couplet was written in the elegant official script of the younger sister: "The sorrowful voice is difficult to pull back the flowing clouds, and the crying voice follows the wild crane flying: Brother Dao, Sun Haiwen."
Three days had passed, and the initial shock and confusion had not completely disappeared. However, when he saw his little sister so heartbroken, Chen Huai's heart felt waves of pain. How he wanted to open the car door and rush out, telling his overly sad little sister loudly,
Xiao Li, I am Hai Wen! I'm not dead, I'm still your brother…
Unfortunately, he was now living in someone else's body. His little sister, relatives, and former colleagues no longer knew him.
Shen Huai gripped the steering wheel tightly, his nails digging deep into his flesh, but he felt no pain.
He should have died. The urn that his little sister was holding contained the ashes of his dead body, but his consciousness and soul were living in someone else's body...
There were two colleagues who accompanied him to the funeral. They did not enter the Tower Tomb Garden but walked over. They stood under the shade of the tree and smoked. They did not notice that there were people sitting in the car parked by the roadside...
"It's such a pity that Haven died just like that. If I had known this would happen, I would have gone to the city with Old Xiong…"
"Old Xiong went to the city because he wanted to transfer Haiwen away with him. It was just that the factory was cooperating with the Japanese to do technological transformation. They wanted to build a continuous casting furnace, and the factory could not do without Haiwen..."
"At the end of the day, Haiwen was soft-hearted. At that time, he was focused on following Old Xiong to the city. He relied on Monkey Gu, who was sucking up to the city leader, to get to power. Tell me, Haven has been unyielding all these years? Why was he living such a miserable life? Wasn't it just because his family didn't have any power or influence? The more talented Haiwen was, the more he would be suppressed by a person like Monkey Gu. In the end, he was afraid that Haiwen would ride on his head in the end. Haiwen's life has been really tough these years. This time, he was admitted to Yan University's PhD student. He didn't have to look after Monkey's face anymore, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen. God is so unfair…"
" Haiwen is dead. His sister, Xiao Li, was originally relying on him for survival, but now she's all alone. In fact, she's the one who's in the most pain. I don't know what to do in the future!”
Hearing his former colleagues standing by the car to defend him, Shen Huai had mixed feelings. Sun Haiwen's life was his life. Speaking of his life experiences, who knew better than him?
He graduated from the provincial university in 1986 and was assigned to the city steel mill. With a solid academic foundation, he only took a year to understand the production technology of all aspects of the city steel mill and became the absolute backbone of the factory.
Even if he had no background, he was highly valued by Xiong Wenbin, the former factory manager of the steel mill in the city (also known as Old Xiong, whom his colleagues had just talked about). In two years, he had become the workshop director and had almost set a record among the more than 300 state-owned enterprises in the city. Later, when the city steel mill built a branch factory in Xinjin, Xiong Wenbin proposed to let him be the branch manager. At that time, he had only been in the city steel mill for less than three years.
However, after Xiong Wenbin was transferred out of the city's steel mill, especially after Xiong Wenbin was quickly transferred to a sinecure department in the city, his lack of background was completely exposed.
Perhaps because he was too outstanding in the past, his outstanding talent and technical foundation had also caused him to be ostracized and suppressed. In the past two years, he had been completely kicked to the boiler room...
Actually, if she went to the city with Xiong Wenbin, her situation might not be better.
Xiong Wenbin could be said to be one of the most capable people in Dong Hua's business. In the middle and late 1980s, he managed the city steel mill and created a brilliant result of paying an annual tax of more than 300 million yuan.
Xiong Wenbin was initially transferred to the city as the deputy secretary general of the municipal government and the director of the enterprise office. Everyone thought that Xiong Wenbin would be transferred to a more important position soon.
Who would have known that Xiong Wenbin's transfer was just a ploy by some people in the city to lure the tiger away from the mountain so that it would be convenient for others to take control of the city steel mill?
Xiong Wenbin had been in the city for less than a year, but he was kicked to the position of deputy director of the policy research office of the municipal government. It was as if he had become a peripheral figure in Dong Hua's officialdom. So far, it seemed that he had no chance of making a name for himself.
If he went to the city with Xiong Wenbin, how much better would his situation be compared to the city's steel mill?
Recalling his past life, Shen Huai sat in the car, his heart filled with bitterness.
He finally understood that in a place like Dong Hua, the economy was not developed, and there were few opportunities to stand out. Moreover, it was controlled by those with backgrounds and power. No matter how capable and talented he was, it would be difficult for him to have a chance to develop.
Especially when other people were trying to steal and flatter you. Your self-preservation was the most fatal mistake.
This world was never fair.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought about leaving the city steel mill, but in Dong Hua, there weren't many places where he could use his skills.
There were a few private enterprises in Dong Hua City. They looked decent, but they were not necessarily cleaner than state-owned enterprises. The management of these family enterprises was also controlled by nepotism.
Moreover, his father had passed away at that time, his mother was seriously ill, and his sister was still young. The situation did not allow him to leave Donghua and develop elsewhere. Although he lived in the city steel mill, his income was quite stable, and he could still support the family on his own.
His mother had died of a serious illness a year ago, and he had successfully been admitted to a Ph. D. student in the economics department of Yan University. He thought that this was a chance to bring his little sister out of the small circle of Dong Hua. He did not expect an accident to happen three days ago.
On that day, Vice Chief Chen Mingde led a team into the city steel mill to inspect the most important technological transformation results of the city steel mill in recent years. He was temporarily transferred from the boiler room to serve as a technical explanation.
Just as he climbed up the thermal blast furnace and explained the technological transformation of the city steel mill over the years to Chen Mingde and the others, the rusted railing under his hand suddenly broke, causing him to fall from a height of 20 meters...
The fall was very short, and his mind was blank. He only remembered that before he fell, he hit the left shoulder of Chen Mingde's assistant secretary. After that, he lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he was already lying in the hospital. The doctors around him, as well as other people who looked familiar but could not be ruled out, looked at him with concern." Secretary Shen, Secretary Shen, you're finally awake…"
He didn't know what had happened at that time. He had heard the exact details from others."That was so close. That worker almost brushed past the tip of Chen Shi's nose and fell. It just grazed his left shoulder. Other than a dislocated shoulder, the bruise is more serious. He needs to be hospitalized for observation…"
"…The city steel mill really needs to be reorganized. Nowadays, it's fine if one or two workers fall to their deaths. If the news of Chief Chen inspecting the company and being hit by a worker gets out, the officials of Dong Hua will still have the face to go out."
It was as if at that moment, he, who was supposed to be Sun Haiwen, had inexplicably become the secretary of Deputy Chief Shi Chen Mingde, Shen Huai…
After a long time, he roughly understood what had happened.
When he fell to the ground, his consciousness had already left his body. He should have completely dissipated and bid farewell to this world. However, before he fell to the ground, he hit the left shoulder of Chen Mingde's assistant secretary.
The impact of hitting his left shoulder was nothing, but the shock of the sudden accident made Chen Mingde's secretary's soul scatter in that instant.
If consciousness was a tangible existence, Secretary Chen Mingde's consciousness would have collapsed due to the intense shock at that moment, while his consciousness would have burrowed into Secretary Chen Mingde's brain and survived.
To put it more simply, Chen Mingde's secretary was actually scared to death at that moment, and he was parasitic in Chen Mingde's secretary, Shen Huai's body...
Shen Huai's injury was not serious and he spent three days in the hospital groggily. Today, an elderly patient passed away in the hospital. The cries of his family woke him up. He suddenly realized that while he was parasitizing someone else's body and adapting to his new identity in shock and chaos, his sister must be grieving for his " accidental death " and would be lonely and helpless from then on…
Shen Huai woke up with a start. How could he care about the doctor's advice? He immediately rushed back to the city government to get a car and rushed to Meixi Town, which was located in the southeastern suburbs of the city.
Just like that, from noon onwards, Shen Huai personally witnessed his little sister holding his funeral with the help of relatives and friends, sending his body to the crematorium for cremation, and also personally watching the urn being sent to Tianning Temple's Pagoda Garden for storage…
Watching helplessly as his little sister was in despair, Shen Huai was also so helpless. His little sister, as well as his close friends and family, all treated him as a stranger.
If one was to say that one person had one world, from the moment he crashed into the ground, he had to live in the world of Chen Mingde's secretary, Shen Huai, and could not return to Sun Haiwen's world...
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