January 1971, Shanghai Medical College.
Teaching office on the second floor.
"Teacher Zhan, Teacher Zhan, why did you fall asleep here?"
It was the coldest time of winter and a cold wind was blowing outside. As the visitor pushed the door open, the cold wind took the opportunity to sweep into the house, making the papers in the room crackle. The charcoal basin glowed red and the person lying on the table moved his elbows.
—Why is it so cold
Zhan Aiping didn't open her eyes, she mumbled, "Old Man Gu, is the heating in our house turned off?"
"Teacher Zhan, what are you talking about in your sleep? Old man, heater?" The person who came in let out a breath and rubbed her hands. She put down the things in her hands, picked up the tongs to fiddle with the charcoal fire. She squatted down, opened the cabinet under the table, and took out three big sweet potatoes.
The woman lying on the table finally woke up. She sat up and saw first a blinding white light and then clear, bright colors. There were portraits of great men on the wall, a half-torn calendar, and a mahogany desk in front of her with newspapers and photos underneath, covered with transparent glass, and small, black fonts clearly recognizable.
There was a pile of books and documents on the table, as well as an enamel pot with a red "happiness" character printed on it reflecting a peony flower.
The open register shows today's date: January 3, 1971.
People's Daily: We demand that...
Zhan Aiping shuddered suddenly, she blinked, and then widened her eyes in disbelief. The black and white newspaper fonts under the glass plate were very small, like flies. At this distance, she was not wearing reading glasses, but she could still see it clearly.
"Grandma Zhan", now 73 years old, suspected that she was dreaming.
She turned her head and glanced at the calendar on the wall, her eyes dull as she read: "1971..."
It was just the year 2020 and it was already the year 2021, but at her age now, she actually dreamed of things that happened fifty years ago.
"Teacher Zhan, would you like some roasted sweet potatoes? Let me bury one for you. You don't look very happy today. Did you have a fight with Teacher He? Your wedding date has been set, and we're all waiting to drink your wedding wine." Teacher Jiang peeled off a layer of ash and threw two big sweet potatoes into the charcoal basin.
She looked up and saw Zhan Aiping, and paused.
There are many beauties in Shanghai, many of them are elegant beauties. Even in this day and age, when everyone is gray, the women in the city still pay attention to fashion and style in private. They love to dress up and know how to dress up. They are very fashionable and beautiful.
Zhan Aiping's beauty is different from this delicate beauty. Even the fat and big clothes can't hide her exquisite figure. She is very tall, with straight and long legs. During the New Year's Day performance, she wore a special dance skirt, and her long legs dazzled everyone's eyes.
She had an oval face with bright and beautiful features. Her beauty was as sharp as a knife and very aggressive, as if it could hurt people, making people dare not desecrate her.
Every time Teacher Jiang saw her, he couldn't help but think of the word "red rose".
Zhan Aiping is a flaming red rose. Even in the snowy winter, she still blooms as warmly and brightly as fire.
It's just that Zhan Aiping today lacked that aggressive aura. Perhaps she had just woken up, her face looked much softer, which made people suddenly realize how beautiful she was!
Zhan Aiping frowned and looked at Xiao Jiang. She raised her finger and said, "Jiang, your last name is Jiang, right..."
She struggled to recall some memories of the past, but the more she tried, the more headache she felt and she couldn't remember.
This room also looked familiar, as if she had been here before.
Teacher Xiao Jiang covered her mouth and laughed: "Teacher Zhan, you must have been sleepy, have you forgotten me?"
Zhan Aiping: "You said I want to get married?"
"With Mr. He from Guanghua University! Mr. He is such a gentle and considerate man. We female teachers, who wouldn't envy you..."
Teacher He, He Mingzhang
Bah, bah, bah, what bad luck! Grandma Zhan thought to herself that she shouldn’t even dream about this kind of thing.
She and Old Man Gu had just celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary, and she would dream about her husband whenever she wanted.
Zhan Aiping was married twice in her life. The first time was to that bastard He Mingzhang, and the second time was to old man Gu. When she married old man Gu, she was already over 60 years old. They were both in their 60s, but they were loving and sweet, and their relationship was getting better day by day.
Where is her husband, Gu
"Hiss—" Zhan Aiping pinched herself and she gasped sharply. It hurt so much!
But she was still dreaming. When she opened her eyes, she was not sleeping next to her husband. She went back to fifty years ago, to 1971, to when she was twenty-three years old, to before she married He Mingzhang.
In the words of those young people, she, an old woman, was reborn, but her life was peaceful and smooth, and she and her husband lived a happy and loving life. She didn't want to be reborn.
but…
She, a 73-year-old old lady, returned to the age of 23. Is there such a good thing in the world? ! ! !
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"Teacher Zhan, these sweet potatoes should be ready. Pick one."
Zhan Aiping and Teacher Xiao Jiang sat around the charcoal basin eating roasted sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes just pulled out of the charcoal ash were black and covered with a layer of ash. The skin had already turned black. She and Xiao Jiang wrapped the sweet potatoes with paper, wiped the ash off the surface casually, broke them in half, and the golden sweet potato flesh was steaming, emitting an enticing aroma as if it was free.
The fragrance of sweet potatoes dispelled the coldness in the room.
Xiao Jiang was eating sweet potatoes and yelled: "Oh my, it's so hot, it's hot, it's hot... Oh, it's so warm, it warms my hands..."
Zhan Aiping finished a whole sweet potato in just a few bites. After eating the hot sweet potato, she felt like she was back in the 1970s.
A young body is still good.
After eating such a roasted sweet potato, it only makes a sound when it enters the stomach and cannot fill the stomach at all. As people get older, their teeth are not good and their appetite is not very good. Old Gu laughed at her and said that she had a cat stomach and only ate three or two bites.
Zhan Aiping ate a lot when she was young, especially when she was serving in the army and attending military school. She was like a starving ghost. Every time it was mealtime, the cafeteria was like a swarm of locusts.
After eating the roasted sweet potatoes, Zhan Aiping began to think about the current situation.
She returned to the age of 23, which was a good age. This was the turning point in her life. After she chose to marry He Mingzhang, Zhan Aiping's life began to go downhill completely.
Looking back at the seventy years before her rebirth, Zhan Aiping’s life curve was like an “N”.
Zhan Aiping was born in 1948, one year before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Her parents were both military officers. She grew up in a compound. She was a pampered child and the envy of everyone. She wanted to be the "king of children" when she was young. When she grew up, she had good grades and skipped grades. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she was admitted to the Military Medical University. Her years at the Military Medical University were the most glorious days of her youth.
After graduation, everything came to a halt.
But that was just the youthful spirit when I was in school.
A military doctor is a soldier first and then a doctor. At that time, Zhan Aiping was proud of her medical talent and was full of ambition. She began to feel that her responsibilities and training as a soldier delayed her from studying medicine. She wanted to go to a big hospital, she wanted to be on the operating table, she wanted to cure diseases and save lives, instead of going to the company and treating minor illnesses every day.
Her hard work and talent enabled her to enter the hospital at a young age and successfully become a surgeon.
Others all praised her: women are as good as men.
However, at this time, the 20-year-old Zhan Aiping discovered that she could not become a good doctor.
Just because she can't see through life and death.
Treating illnesses and saving lives is never a game or an exercise. No matter how skilled a person is in medicine, he cannot cure a person who is destined to die.
Many people say that doctors in hospitals seem cold-blooded and heartless, but they have to learn to be cold-blooded and heartless, and watch people die calmly and numbly. People are always dying in hospitals, and there are always people who cannot be rescued. They don't have time to be sad, as they have to treat the next patient.
After a failed operation, Zhan Aiping could no longer lift the scalpel.
This scalpel is too heavy.
Her every move concerns a person's life or death.
"Xiao Zhan, you are too strong-willed."
"You're too hard on yourself."
"It's not your fault."
Zhan Aiping fell into self-doubt and pain. Her teacher asked her to take a vacation. During the vacation, she had a fierce quarrel with her family and even became estranged from her younger brother. She lived in a daze every day, feeling worse than death, until she met He Mingzhang.
On the surface, He Mingzhang appears to be a gentle, easy-going and considerate man. He studied history, is good at talking to people, and is also good at comforting her.
With his sweet words, Zhan Aiping came out of the temporary pain, but fell into a deeper quagmire.
He Mingzhang said that she had a mental illness and encouraged and taught her to apply for medical retirement, and then to transfer to a medical school as an assistant teacher.
He Mingzhang pursued her and she married He Mingzhang.
It was only after marrying He Mingzhang that Zhan Aiping realized that there were such disgusting, hypocritical and lying men in this world.
He set a trap and brainwashed her with appeasement and deception, like boiling a frog in warm water. He gave her a little care and concern, exaggerated his efforts in words, constantly blackmailed her morally, and demanded that she give him the full return. He kept on pua her, and eventually she lost her job, gave birth to three daughters and a son for him, and became a housewife, doing housework day after day... The once darling of heaven disappeared completely.
How disgusting can He Mingzhang be
When they were separated, the drive took six hours, and the round trip took twelve hours. He Mingzhang always said on the phone that he missed her and wanted to see her, but he never took the initiative to see her. He always asked her to travel thousands of miles to find him, and asked her to fully cooperate with his time and all his work.
Zhan Aiping asked him to take a ride to see her, and he said confidently: "Your teacher is free, and I only have one day off. If you come to see me, we can spend a day together. I love you so much, and I want to spend more time with you."
One time, Zhan Aiping couldn't help herself and said, "If you want to see me so much, why don't you take the initiative to come to me once, even if it's just for an hour."
She asked him to come see her, but he didn't come to see her.
hehe.
There are too many such things to count, and he is always right.
This man always speaks with bandit logic and lies. When she found out that he had an illegitimate child before marriage, He Mingzhang said, "I kept it a secret from him for your own good. You would definitely be sad if you knew, so I won't tell you... This is a white lie!"
"Although this is deception, it is well-intentioned, Pingping. I really like you. I was not afraid that you would not marry me."
She even overheard him saying to his friends in private: "… She is a red rose with thorns, a cat with nails, and I just want to pull out all her thorns and remove all her nails."
Thinking back on it all, I still feel as disgusted as if I had eaten a fly. He Mingzhang is a disgusting bug. He is a selfish, egoistic person who is full of lies.
When Zhan Aiping reached middle age, she came to her senses, divorced him, and even sent him to prison. However, her children blamed her for being cold-blooded and heartless. Each of these children was like He Mingzhang, worshipping foreign things, taking shortcuts, committing academic fraud, and not following the right path. Later, they immigrated abroad one by one.
Zhan Aiping ended up being alone, without any relatives or friends. The once darling of heaven had fallen into such a state. How could she have the face to see her old friends? She even dared not use the name Zhan Aiping anymore.
Later, Zhan Aiping still liked medicine. Although she could no longer pick up a scalpel, she taught herself Chinese medicine in her middle age and became an apprentice to a famous teacher. Later, she followed her teacher to treat an "old general" whose identity was kept secret. When they met, she realized that the "old general" who was full of merits was Gu Sheng.
Gu Sheng is two years older than her. They grew up in the same compound and often fought when they were young. They are sworn enemies and the "twin stars" of the compound.
It’s just that they are over fifty years old, one is an old general full of glory, and the other is an unknown old Chinese medicine practitioner.
Gu Sheng recognized her. He had suffered many injuries when he was young, and Zhan Aiping stayed with him to help him recuperate.
She found out that Gu Sheng had never married in his life, but only adopted the children of two of his comrades. Zhan Aiping even secretly laughed at his good name. Isn't Gu Sheng "destined to be alone"
Zhan Aiping felt a little comforted in her heart. The twin stars in their compound back then ended up being alone together.
But she never thought that he would give her a happy and perfect love, propose to her at the age of sixty, and she married him at the age of sixty-three when he was sixty-five.
Now Zhan Aiping has been reborn and returned to fifty years ago.
She is twenty-three years old and unmarried.
Gu Sheng, 25 years old, unmarried.
In this life, she wants to live another life, she wants to pick up the scalpel again, and she wants to marry her childhood enemy.
(End of this chapter)