Chapter 1 Rebirth in 1985



Sun Zongyuan retired honorably yesterday.

Yesterday morning, the Municipal People's Congress organized more than 40 deputy-department-level cadres and committee directors to hold a grand retirement ceremony for Sun Zongyuan in the Municipal People's Congress's large and small conference rooms. The director of the Municipal People's Congress summarized Sun Zongyuan's work over the past 40 years and generally evaluated Sun Zongyuan as a pioneering reformer, a practitioner of people's feelings, and an honest and good leader!

At the symposium, everyone recalled Director Sun’s work and said that Director Sun had worked all his life and could now go home to rest and take care of his grandson.

During the event, the appointed secretary of the municipal party committee took ten minutes to personally put a sash on Sun Zongyuan and took a photo with him. Before leaving, he said to Sun Zongyuan: "There are activities today, so I won't say much. Let's have a good drink tonight with our old brothers."

Sun Zongyu served as the Party Secretary and Director of the Municipal People's Congress two years ago. He retired to the second line due to age reasons during the change of term. He retired today. After the farewell ceremony, the People's Congress sent a car to take Sun Zongyu home.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, a car took him to Runyuan Hotel. The municipal party secretary, mayor, members of the People's Congress team and the chairman of the CPPCC, a total of ten people, shared friendship, drank and talked happily. Sun Zongyuan took advantage of the mood and drank nearly a pound of 53-proof liquor. He had no idea how he got home, but when he lay in bed at home before going to sleep, he thought, "After retirement, if there is an afterlife, I will do more and better things for the party, the country and the people."

The sound of a rooster crowing woke Sun Zongyuan up. Sun Zongyuan lay there with his eyes closed for another five or six minutes before opening his eyes. Hey, something is not right. Why is this the home where he lived forty years ago? Was he dreaming?

Sun Zongyuan rubbed his eyes, completely ignoring the fact that he was only wearing his underwear. He got out of bed and took a closer look. His young son was sleeping on the other side of the bed. He was only two years old, with saliva on his mouth. He opened the curtains and saw the familiar courtyard outside. A loofah vine was climbing up the bamboo pole to the roof of the kitchen. Smoke was coming out of the kitchen window, and he could hear the sound of his wife cooking.

Sun Zongyuan scratched his head vigorously. Could it be that he had really traveled back to forty years ago? What he said before going to bed last night, time really flowed back? Lying in bed, Sun Zongyuan's thoughts were full of thoughts. If he really traveled back to his younger days, how should he face it?

His current home is located in the staff quarters of the Liuzhuang Township Health Center in Anyang County. His wife, Xu Rui, is an obstetrician and gynecologist. They married him two years after graduating from medical school through an introduction. Now their son, Sun Chuanpeng, is two years old.

Liujiazhuang, two kilometers north of the township, is my hometown. My grandparents are still in good health, especially my 65-year-old grandfather who often works in the fields. My father works in the township grain management office, and my mother farms at home. Sun Zongyu is the eldest child in the family. His second brother Sun Zongda has graduated from junior high school and is idle at home. His younger sister Sun Zongying is in the second grade of junior high school, and his third brother Sun Zongming is only twelve years old. He is in the fifth grade of elementary school and is about to go to junior high school.

Three years ago, Sun Zongyuan graduated from a normal school and was assigned to a township middle school. He is currently a mathematics teacher in the third grade.

Sun Zongyuan looked up at the calendar on the side of the bed and realized that today was Saturday, April 29, 1985. He was born in 1963 and was 22 years old.

After rebirth, you have to change the way you live. Although you were successful in your career in your previous life, you had little successful experience, suffered many setbacks and lessons, and took many detours. With the experience of your previous life, I hope that after rebirth, I can avoid the pitfalls on the road ahead.

Sun Zongyuan was daydreaming when Xu Rui came in and said to him, "Hurry up and get up and eat. Today is the first day that Secretary Li asked you to give tutoring to his child. Don't be late."

Sun Zongyu just remembered that there was such a thing happening today. He got up in a hurry, washed up and had breakfast, picked up a few books and stuffed them into his schoolbag, and walked towards Secretary Li's home in the town staff housing compound.

Secretary Li's name is Li Jianguo. He is the secretary of the neighboring Honghua Township. He was originally the head of Liuzhuang Township. He was promoted to the secretary of Honghua Township two years ago. Xu Rui's father was originally the deputy secretary of Liuzhuang Township. After Li Jianguo passed away, he took over his position as the head of the township. The two have a good relationship in private. When they are free, Li Jianguo's wife, Aunt Song, often comes to visit Xu Rui's parents' home and has endless stories to talk about with Xu Rui's mother.

It was less than 400 meters away from the township government staff quarters, and Sun Zongyu arrived at Secretary Li's house in a few minutes. Aunt Song hurriedly called out her son and daughter: "This is your teacher Sun. She will give you two extra lessons today. You must listen carefully." After that, she made a cup of tea for Sun Zongyu, closed the door and went out.

Sun Zongyuan looked at the two restrained students and said, "Don't be nervous. This is your home. You can call me brother or brother-in-law in the future. It's not like you're calling me teacher in school."

The girl's name is Li Jie and the boy's name is Li Ning. They are twins and are both in the third grade of junior high school this year. They are not in the class taught by Sun Zongyuan. They are all okay in other subjects except mathematics. Aunt Song talked about this with her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law said that Zongyuan should give them extra lessons in his spare time. Sun Zongyuan is well-known in the county for his good math grades and has won third place in the county in a lecture competition.

Just one word from his mother-in-law enriched Sun Zongyuan's spare time. For two consecutive days, Saturday and Sunday, Sun Zongyuan gave targeted teaching based on the math knowledge points that the two students lacked. He also took out past math test papers and guided them to analyze them step by step. The two students gained a lot and their grades improved rapidly.

Aunt Song was very satisfied and told Secretary Li about this. One Sunday evening, Secretary Li called Sun Zongyuan and Sun Zongyuan's father-in-law to have dinner together at his home to deepen their relationship and talk about work.

During the dinner, Secretary Li talked about the recent difficulties Honghua Township has encountered: "Honghua Township is a mountainous township. There are no good roads. They are bumpy and winding. We want to build a road, but no one in the township knows how to do it. We went to the County Transportation Bureau for help, but there are only two technicians who are busy working on national and provincial roads every day. We are a poor township, and they look down on us. They just gave me two books to fool me."

Xu Rui's father said, "What book is that? Let me have a look at it." Secretary Li took out a book called "An Overview of Road Engineering" from his bag and said, "I don't understand it either. I used to be in the army and I was always wielding guns and artillery. I have never come into contact with these things. I found a few people in the village who neither can nor are willing to learn. It makes me so angry."

"Let me take a look," Sun Zongyuan took the book from his father-in-law, flipped through a few pages, and felt that it was not very difficult, so he said, "Uncle Li, I want to see if I can learn a little. Can you give me some time to try?"

"That's great. Take the book and study hard. If you don't understand something, I'll find someone to explain it to you. Once you've learned it, you don't have to be a teacher anymore. I'll hire you as a road technician!"

In this way, Sun Zongyuan taught mathematics to the graduating class during his time, studied "An Outline of Road Engineering" in the evening, and gave tutoring to Li Jie and Li Ning on weekends.

In a blink of an eye, they graduated from the third year of junior high school. Li Jie and Li Ning both scored more than 110 points in mathematics and more than 450 points in total. They were both admitted to the key class of the county's No. 1 High School.

Since the third year of junior high school graduates started their summer vacation half a month earlier than the first and second years, Sun Zongyuan had about two months to himself during the entire summer vacation.

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