1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 107: Indignation and heated discussions

Beijing Union Medical College Hospital.

It was already 9:30 in the evening, and it had been three and a half hours since Song Jianming was sent to the emergency room. At this time, the door of the emergency room was still tightly closed, and the rescue sign on the door was shining with a dazzling red light.

The hospital corridor was crowded with people at the beginning, but now only the nurses and the Song family are left.

The strong and pungent smell of medicine in the hospital irritated everyone's nose, but the family could not care less at this time.

For more than three hours, Song Jianming's safety in the hospital was still unknown. The family was extremely anxious. Song Wan, Song's mother, Song Jianchun, and Song's father looked at the door of the emergency room almost every few seconds, fearing that their eldest son Song Jianming could not be saved.

"What on earth is going on? Why would this child commit suicide? He was fine in the morning, but he became like this after going out at noon. Woo woo..."

Mother Song sat on the cold floor with red eyes. She could no longer cry and her voice was hoarse. Her whole condition was very bad. For a mother, it was a huge blow to see her own son commit suicide by taking medicine at home.

"Don't cry, mom. It's probably just a temporary upset. Besides, didn't the doctor say that if he was brought here in time, big brother would be fine."

"Don't worry, Mom. Just sit down and rest for a while. You'll be fine soon."

Song Jianchun, who was standing by, also had a look of worry on his face. He patted his mother on the back and comforted her.

Song Jianchun had no idea why his elder brother committed suicide. Now he could only wait until he was rescued to find out.

"Mom, do you still remember what big brother looked like when he went out at noon? When we were chatting in the living room at noon, big brother just walked out in a daze. You asked him what he was doing outside, and I asked him to bring back some pencils, but he ignored us."

Song Wan slumped on the ground, his face pale, his slender willow-leaf eyebrows slightly wrinkled, and analyzed calmly.

After this period of analysis, Song Wan has gradually calmed down from the collapse and panic he felt when he first discovered his elder brother's suicide.

The scene at noon is still vivid in my mind, from the moment I discovered that my eldest brother had committed suicide to the moment he stopped breathing and was sent to the hospital until now.

Song Wan has been thinking about one thing, that is, what happened between the time he came back and the time his elder brother went out?
What is the thing that can destroy a person's will to live and eventually cause him to commit suicide by taking medicine?
"The problem must have occurred during this period of time. I don't think it was necessarily after Big Brother left. The trigger for the incident happened after you came back, before Big Brother left. Could it be that this has something to do with you?"

Song Jianchun nodded. He agreed with his younger sister. This incident happened after his younger sister came back at noon.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Mother Song frowned, pushed Song Jianchun and scolded him.

"When I got back, my mother dragged me to take a shower. I didn't do anything on the way. I went out with my friends for social practice, drank a bottle of yogurt, and bought a book."

Song Wan leaned against the wall and recalled carefully.

Book?
She seemed to have thought of something, and her face suddenly changed. The book she had read roughly was about a mother and daughter from the countryside of southern Xinjiang who were abandoned by their husband, an educated youth from Beijing...

"If I remember correctly, Big Brother came back from Southern Xinjiang, right?"

Song Wan suddenly looked up and asked with burning eyes.

She had also heard Zhan Xinyu talk about this novel and knew part of the plot.

Combined with her elder brother's past experience, she thought she might have guessed part of the answer.
"Well, Jianming did come back from the countryside in southern Xinjiang. If it weren't for his female classmate, he would have had to wait several years to come back."

Father Song took a deep puff of cigarette, and the burning flame suddenly lit up. Hearing his daughter's question, he answered in a deep voice.

"I know! Big brother committed suicide because of that book! That fragrant grass!"

Song Wan suddenly stood up and spoke loudly, her mind was in a mess at this moment.

She finally understood why her eldest brother never let her touch the drawers of his desk, and why he always wrote letters but never sent them out...

All of this was because his elder brother Song Jianming had a wife who looked like Xiaofang in the countryside, and they were even pregnant with a child...

It was precisely because of this that he chose to commit suicide out of shame and anger after reading the book "Fragrant Grass".

After Song Wan explained everything to his mother, father, and second brother, they all looked at each other in disbelief. "Jianming—Jianming...he is so confused!"

Suddenly, Song's father looked ten years older while smoking.

Meanwhile, at the end of the corridor near the stairs.

A young man with a hat and a camera passed by and heard it all.

He realized that this was good news, so he immediately went downstairs to find a nurse on duty and asked her about the family's situation.

The next morning.

This news immediately made the front page of the Yanjing Daily with the headline "Returning educated youth chose to commit suicide by taking pills after seeing the fragrant grass!":
"Recently, a man from Beitaipingzhuang took sleeping pills and committed suicide at home. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and his life is temporarily safe.

The reason was that he had watched the recent hit "Fragrant Grass" and was so ashamed that he committed suicide on the spot. According to our reporter's investigation, the man was an educated youth who returned to the city. He had a short marriage in the countryside. In order to return to the city, the educated youth resolutely abandoned the rural girl... The news shocked people and made people feel deeply moved. "

Staff members from all large and small units, schools, institutions and factories in Beijing saw this report from the Yenching Daily.

"It is indeed adapted from a true story. I didn't expect that when I finished reading this novel, I was wondering whether this book would hurt the faces of those educated youth who abandoned their wives and children."

"Yes, this young man still had some conscience left. He was so ashamed that he took medicine and committed suicide."

"I just regret that this person didn't die! He's just one person. How many people are like him in the country? He has no moral integrity or righteousness. Our society cannot tolerate such people!"

"It's more embarrassing not to die than to die. Now that it's on the news, I'm afraid I'll lose all my dignity, right?"

Conversations like this appear in many places, and many people speak in quite sharp tones.

……

"Ten years ago, before the reform and opening up, people like this should have been dragged out and severely criticized!"

"It's just the right time!"

……

"Have you heard about this? A returned educated youth in Beijing committed suicide by drinking medicine after looking at fragrant grass!"

"Oh, I heard that this man is so irresponsible that he dared to commit suicide instead of bringing his wife and children from the countryside to the city!"

"I can't accept it. The current policy is like this. Although the number of educated youth going to the countryside will no longer be expanded, and those in the countryside can return home, it is very difficult for married educated youth to return. The policy is ambiguous. It's hard to solve the other half's household registration and work, not to mention the children? I think it's difficult."

Conversations like this appear everywhere.

Within a few days, reports like this one appeared all over the country like mushrooms after rain.

Since the beginning of the New Year, there have been increasing numbers of educated youth returning to the city who, unable to bear the strange looks from others and the inner torment and shame, have chosen to commit suicide.

Such overwhelming coverage attracted widespread attention, and many educated young people were discussing it heatedly, expressing indignation that they were not the same kind of people as these scum among the educated youth.

Many people call "Fragrant Grass" a book that awakens conscience.

This phenomenon quickly attracted the attention and high attention of leaders of government agencies and units across the country.

While the outside world was discussing this, early in the morning of the tenth day.

Led by Wang Meng and Zhang Guangnian, reporters from People's Daily knocked on the door of Cheng Kaiyan's home.

"Is Comrade Cheng Kaiyan here?"

A young man in his twenties, wearing glasses and with an imported camera with a mechanical aesthetic hanging on his chest, appeared in front of Cheng Kaiyan and shouted.

(End of this chapter)