the most beautiful time

Chapter 5 Are you a passerby?

A drunk at the age of 18 completely changed his life.

It was the second year he came out to work. The boss had just raised his salary. He was so excited that he bought a few bottles of wine under the instigation of his companions. He drank high-spiritedly, and when the drink reached a climax, everyone made a bet that whoever dared to drive the boss's big truck out for a walk, everyone would worship him as the boss.It was just at the age when Fanggang was unwilling to admit defeat, so relying on the strength of alcohol, he sneaked across the wall, pried open the door lock, and started the truck.

After the car got on the road, the wine in my stomach began to rise.He only felt that his feet were stepping on a ball of cotton without any foundation, and the road ahead had become two lines that sometimes overlap and sometimes separate.He strained his eyelids, accelerated the speed of the car, tried to drive through this section, and took a shortcut to return.At the moment when the car turned a corner, his head swelled and hurt again, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, making him unable to see clearly.His hand no longer obeyed his command, but rushed straight towards the railing on the side of the road.He hurriedly braked, but it was too late. A couple walking hand in hand by the side of the road had already been knocked out by the huge momentum.

He was almost frightened, his mind went blank, and after a while, he opened the car door and walked towards the couple lying on the ground step by step.When he got closer and saw the woman's swollen belly on the ground, all his wine disappeared in an instant.Then, he heard the woman's faint cry for help: Help my child.Under the dim street light, he saw the woman's eyes opened with difficulty, looking at him helplessly.Such a gaze full of sadness and deep motherhood was like a sharp whip, lashing at his body one after another.At that moment, his heart was instantly surrounded by a kind of fear from which there was no escape.This kind of fear forced him to step back step by step, and finally, he started running crazily along a path.It was when passing by a small shop that he hurriedly dialed the emergency number of the hospital, and then continued to flee in a panic while the shopkeeper looked at him suspiciously.

After running away, he never stopped.He fled to almost every city. Every time he arrived in a city, the first thing he did was to buy a newspaper to see if there was any report on the case.It was during this escape that he gradually learned about some things after he escaped.The woman's husband instinctively protected his wife when the car hit him, causing him to stop breathing 4 hours after he was sent to the hospital.The woman, relying on the strong will to save the fetus in the womb, tenaciously escaped death, and saved her child through caesarean section.Many citizens spontaneously organized and donated money and goods to this baby girl who lost her father when she was just born.His parents are among them.The picture of his mother covering her face and crying in front of the newborn had shaken him countless times in sleepless nights, but when morning came and he saw pairs of eyes under the sun, the inertia prompted him to never Run away without stopping.

He fled for ten years.During these ten years, he used the hardest and most tiring work in exchange for daily sleep.But even so, the mountain in his heart has not moved, but has become heavier over time, so that he, who is only 28 years old, has the vicissitudes of nearly 40 years old.That case, because the fugitive could not be found, gradually subsided and no one mentioned it.But the last glimpse of the young mother's despair and helplessness, in such a calm, slowly surfaced in his memory, making him think of those pair of eyes hovering on the edge of life and death, but because of the power of mother's love, when he closed his eyes every night Still warm eyes.This kind of torture tortured him day by day, the farther he escaped, the heavier the burden.Until the end, he finally couldn't bear it and started the journey back to his hometown.

According to the description in the newspaper ten years ago, he found the small town where the woman lived, and through the people there, he inquired about the woman's current residence.Almost no one can think of the "earth-shattering" car accident in his life. Many of them always look blank and say, who can remember so many car accidents?Even those who had an impression shook their heads and said, after so long, who knows where their mother and daughter have moved, maybe they married in another country.

In that summer, he walked all over the streets of the town, big and small. He believed that the mother and daughter would definitely sit in the cool wind, enjoy the cool, or talk and laugh on a certain street in the town.This belief finally guided him to meet this pair of mother and daughter on a rainy afternoon.

He first saw the ten-year-old girl with an innocent expression, and then heard someone call her, Xinsheng, go home for dinner.That name blasted a huge gap in the memory of ten years ago. How could he forget this name? It was chosen by a reporter from the newspaper to celebrate the lucky birth of the child.When he saw it at the time, he firmly engraved it in his heart and never forgot it.Looking over at Xunsheng, it was the woman who was almost engraved in his memory.

Like ten years ago, he walked towards women and children step by step.Every time he takes a step, there is something in his heart, which bursts down in large chunks; his breathing is not as cramped as he imagined, but calms down more and more. It seems that he is walking towards the time of ten years ago, until he reaches That origin was parked in the quiet night before the car accident.

He finally stood still in front of the mother and daughter.Taking a deep breath, he said with difficulty: Hello.The woman turned her head slowly, looked at him, and for a moment, he almost ran away again.He thought, if she went to call the police immediately, then he would turn around and run away, and never come back; if the woman beat and scolded him, then he would let her beat and scold him, and never fight back; if she recalled that cruel scene, If she faints, then he will send her to the hospital, leave all the money saved in the past ten years, say sorry again, and leave quietly.

However, he never thought that the woman would actually smile slightly and say: Hello, I am a passer-by. If you are thirsty, please come in and have a cup of tea.He heard a loud bang in his ears, he stepped back step by step, and then stood still ten meters away, shouting "I'm sorry" with all his strength!He turned around and ran away quickly.

The destination of his run was the local police station. After he entered, he only said one sentence: I want to surrender.After he finished speaking, he saw that ten years of time receding and disappearing in the pure angelic smile of the woman.

(End of this chapter)