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大雪无痕10日期:2007-11-09 12:25:46 点击: 作者: 来源:In the evening, Fang Yulin hurried with Fang Yuzhu to a common restaurant. When they pushed the door of a private room, they were surprised to see that there had already been five or six young men and women sitting there, who were about Yulin’s age. That day, Yuzhu unexpectedly met one of Yulin’s old classmates working at the Job-Introducing Office of the District Labor Bureau when she went there job-hunting. The classmate said excitedly that he hadn’t met Yulin for so many years and that his classmates also missed him very much. So the brother and sister were invited to this restaurant which was said to be managed by another of their old classmates. But when they pushed the door open, Yuzhu was puzzled to find that all the people were reading newspapers attentively and were sitting with backs towards them. They felt rather awkward. “Not here?’ Yuzhu stared suspiciously at the waitress, who was wearing a wrinkled old silk cheongsam. Yulin, who was born sensitive, looked around and felt something might be wrong. He was about to withdraw when two strong men suddenly emerged from behind the door, grabbed him by the wrist and shouted, “Fang Yulin, do you want to escape?” Hearing that, all the young men and women pretending to be reading, laid down their newspapers and smiled to the ‘captured’ Yulin, “You have bit the hook in the end.” Yuzhu was so scared that she shouted anxiously, “What are you doing?” Two women pulled Yuzhu with a smile and said in a low voice, “Don’t worry. Just stay here quietly.” Yulin was their ‘leader’ when they were in NO. 25 Middle School, but he hadn’t contacted with them since he graduated. For this, these classmates had long been simmering with rage and been seeking chances to teach him a lesson for they thought that Fang was looking down upon them 8when he became a policeman, who was supposed to ‘cheat the defendants after cheating the plaintiffs” “Are you so proud? Have you forgotten who you are after you became a damned vice-head?” “No… No…” Not listening to him, they bound him tightly in no time with a rope which they had prepared beforehand. “Brother…Brother…” “We have been looking for you so many times, but you should have ignored us! You, damned policeman!” “Please listen to my explanation…” “What to explain? Go and throw him to the Da Song River.” Yulin pretended to struggle and shouted, “No… No… I haven’t got a wife yet. If I’m dismissed like that, I’ll feel seriously wronged… In all these years, I’m not ignoring you on purpose. I just have my own difficulty. What’s more, even if I had been sentenced to ‘death’, you should allow me to make the final statement.” “OK, listen to him.” Untying him, the men and women surrounded him, eager to listen to his explanations. After a long pause, Yulin raised his head slowly and asked, “Do you believe what I’ll say?” “That depends on what you are saying. We’ll believe you of course if you tell the truth.” “OK, I tell you. In fact, it’s very simple. Only one reason: I have no face to meet you because I’m just a policeman with no achievements.” After that, Yulin uttered no words. The classmates looked at each other and got silent. They knew that Yulin was telling the truth. Yulin was the most excellent and alertest student among them. In the words of their head-teacher, he should have entered “Yulin, you can change your career. Why do you hang yourself on one tree?” They calmed down and tried to persuade him with emotion. “To tell you the truth, we’ve invited you here to help you change your mind so that you can work here.” One of them said, “I’ll specially make you Manager of the Security Department of my company. If Yuzhu agrees, she can come here to be a cashier. I’ll give you this amount of money every year.” With these words, he stretched out five fingers. Yuzhu asked boldly, “Five thousand?” The old classmate curled his lips and said, “Do you intending to humiliate me on purpose?” Yuzhu took a deep breath and managed to ask, “Fifty thousand?” The classmate said, “Just so-so.” Hearing this, all the classmates present couldn’t refrain from clapping their hands. It was already midnight when they came home. There was not a single soul to be seen on the road. They walked silently. Yuzhu frequently stole a glance at Yulin, wanting to say something to him. However, Yulin seemed to have been lost in thought, completely ignoring Yuzhu’s delicate attitude. After a while, a snow-cleaning cart was suddenly turning around the corner and coming straight towards them. Yulin was still going on as if he hadn’t noticed it. So Yuzhu hurriedly dragged him, letting the cart brush past. The driver popped his head out and cursed them rudely, “Want to die?” Yuzhu chased the cart and also condemned, “You want to die yourself!” The driver didn’t answer her and went away. But Yulin was still standing in the middle of the road, staring straight at the restaurant not far away behind him. Most lamps of the restaurant had gone out, leaving the red and green neon characters twinkling lonely above the door. A fifty thousand yuan of salary may be too little to be worth considering for the white collars for those living in big cities. However, it was still unimaginable to get it legally for the ordinary but sacred policeman in a common city, who was now holding fast to the national emblem on his cap. All these years, who had said to him, “Do it and you will get fifty thousand? Fifty thousand! With such an annual income, all the practical problems at present would be solved in a couple of years. Indeed, he had no other extravagant hopes. It’s enough to get fifty thousand. That night, Yulin suffered insomnia again. In the darkness, he sat up. So did Yuzhu at the other side of the curtain. Yulin asked in a low voice, “What are you doing?” Yuzhu also asked, “What are you doing?” From the inside room came a fit of coughing. Yulin quickly lay down silently. So did Yuzhu. |
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