Because of the snowstorm, the school was dismissed early and the students ran home cheering.
Wen Shouren stayed in the office to grade the homework before leaving. When he passed by the classroom, he found that the lights were still on and there was a young boy sitting in the classroom.
It was Zhou Mingyang, one of the top ten students in their class, a little boy whom he liked and admired very much.
Wen Shouren felt pity for Zhou Mingyang, so he pushed the door open and walked into the classroom, asking him why he didn't go home.
Zhou Mingyang looked out the window worriedly and whispered, "Teacher, my home is far away, and I usually take the bus back. The bus must have stopped running now, so I plan to stay in school for a while and wait for my dad to pick me up after get off work in the evening."
"What time does your dad get off work?"
Zhou Mingyang said embarrassedly: "Nine o'clock."
"So late?!" Wen Shouren was surprised and helped Zhou Mingyang put away his homework book: "Don't write anymore, go home and study. It's too late now. Come on, the teacher will take you home."
That's how the accident happened.
The wind and snow were so strong that Wen Shouren was in a hurry to send the boy home. He did not see the road clearly and both he and the car rolled down the hillside.
After a deafening loud bang, Zhou Mingyang's head hit a rock in the mountains and he died on the spot.
This is truly a vicious joke played by God.
At that moment, Wen Shouren's mind went blank, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was scared silly.
In that era of family planning, behind every child was an entire family.
Wen Shouren didn't know how he got up, how he called the police, or how he told Zhou Mingyang's parents about this matter.
He was like a walking corpse, completing all this in a daze. When he went to the Zhou family to express his condolences, he was beaten out with a broom by the heartbroken Zhou parents.
That was the scene he least wanted to recall.
The Zhou family was very poor, with nothing in their house. Their two-year-old sister, Zhou Lingling, sucked her finger and asked innocently, "Why hasn't my brother come back yet?"
The tender child's voice was like a sharp knife, cutting the heart of everyone present and making it bleed.
Wen Shouren looked at Zhou's parents, who had aged more than ten years overnight, and wished that he was the one who died.
Ever since that incident, Zhou's parents have been unwilling to see him. Wen Shouren also knew that he deserved the punishment for his crime. After paying double the legal compensation, Wen Shouren also regularly transferred money to the Zhou family's bank account every month.
This habit continued until the two elders passed away. Since that incident, Wen Shouren has supported the two elders as his own biological parents.
In order to make up for my unspeakable guilt and regret.
Wen Shouren also paid a price for this. Because of this incident, he quarreled with his girlfriend, with whom he was deeply in love, and they said many unpleasant words to each other.
The person who loves you the most often knows best how to hurt you.
His girlfriend couldn't stand him anymore, so she packed her luggage and left the city overnight, and never came back from her again.
Wen Shouren didn't know that when his girlfriend left him, she was already pregnant with his child.
That year, Wen Shouren was 25 years old, and it was the most failed, painful and miserable year of his life.
He was involved in a murder lawsuit, his girlfriend left him, and he faced accusations and misunderstandings from the outside world... all these voices and the pressure of life were about to break his spine.
Wen Shouren managed to survive.
However, Zhou Mingyang's matter was always like a poisonous thorn stuck in his heart. Every time it flared up late at night, regret would crawl all over his heart like the gnawing of insects and ants.
People outside say that he is a master in the education field who has helped countless people get out of the emotional knots that have troubled them for many years.
But he could not get over his own knot throughout his life.
Zhou Lingling is Zhou Mingyang's younger sister. She is now in her thirties and has her own career and family.
Zhou Lingling's attitude towards him was much better than that of Zhou's parents. After all, she was still a babbling little girl at that time. Even if she had feelings for her brother, they were not that deep.
But there was a life between the two of them. Ever since Zhou's parents left, Zhou Lingling had lost contact with him and moved to another city, where she has never been seen since.
Why did Zhou Lingling suddenly write to him?
Wen Shouren was puzzled and tore open the envelope. Many yellowed papers fell out. Because it was too long ago, the ink on the papers had faded and one had to look carefully to make out the font.
These are pages of diaries, and judging from the handwriting, they seem to be written by Zhou Mingyang.
Wen Shouren flipped through the pages one by one in confusion, and then his body began to tremble violently. The old man covered his heart, and slowly sat down on the chair with great effort.
The diary on the letter paper was completely beyond his understanding!
What did he see?! Zhou Mingyang wrote in his diary: xxx, the most mischievous boy in the class, said mysteriously during recess that he was going to puncture the tire of Teacher Wen’s motorcycle so that Teacher Wen would fall and get ripped to pieces while riding.
We all thought it was funny, so we agreed to this prank. During the break, we took our ballpoint pens and secretly went to Teacher Zawin’s motorcycle...
The date written in the diary was exactly the day when the accident happened!!
Wen Shouren was stunned as if struck by lightning. He slowly recalled that when he first got on the motorcycle, he did feel that something was wrong with it.
The snow was so heavy at the time and it had been so long since I last saw it that my memory had long since become blurred and I couldn't remember any more details.
So, is what's written in this diary true or false?
I thought what he had experienced was dramatic enough, but I didn't expect the truth to be even more absurd.
The cause of the incident was just a bunch of extremely bored pranks by boys, which led to a tragedy and destroyed two families.
Tucked among the yellowed letter paper was a thin, newly written letter in beautiful ballpoint pen handwriting, asking him to meet up this weekend.
Signed: Zhou Lingling.
Wen Shouren pondered, this weekend? Wen Tong seemed to have final exams this week, so he could go home for winter vacation after finishing his exams.
He called Wen Tong a few days ago. The girl said she wanted to drink chicken soup, so he went to the morning market and bought a pheasant. He kept it in the yard and it clucked all day long, waiting for Wen Tong to come home and make a pot of hot chicken soup.
It would be nice to meet up on the weekend.
I've been feeling this knot for so many years, and escaping is not a solution.
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