Chapter 6 Chapter Six

Looking out from the window on the fourth floor of the teaching auxiliary building of Huahai Junior High School, across the playground in the middle is a relatively new five-story teaching building opposite.The two longitudinal ends of the playground are the school gate, and the other end is a row of wide one-story houses at right angles, including the canteen, gymnasium and warehouse.Behind the bungalow is a small playground that occupies four basketball courts. Various sports equipment are erected beside the playground, and dense and short evergreen shrubs are planted along the wall. This is the pattern of the entire junior high school.

Standing in front of the window of the reference room, Tong Xiao couldn't help touching the cold iron window frame. This kind of window is rare now.The teaching auxiliary building of Huahai Middle School was built in the 1950s, and it has been the main teaching place of the school until the 1980s. In the 1990s, when the school was expanded, a new five-story building opposite was built.After the reform of the teaching system, Huahai Middle School, a key middle school in Shanghai, was split into two schools, a high school and a junior high school.The high school part is now a boarding system, and it is one of the few high schools with the highest teaching quality in Shanghai. Every year, countless parents who hope to have a successful child try their best to send their children to it.The new campus of Huahai Senior High School is not too far from here. There is a new modern teaching building in Yishi, and the attached student dormitory area also has an indoor swimming pool and a gymnasium. The facilities are complete and the environment is beautiful.The original site of Huahai Middle School was converted into a private junior high school. Because it is located in a prime location in the city center, it is basically impossible to expand and renovate, so the overall environment is a bit cramped and simple.

But it is only here that one can vaguely feel what Huahai Middle School was like back then. In 1984, Yin Huiru jumped from the window where Tong Xiao was standing now.At the moment when she walked into chaos, did her eyes stop for a while on the rusty iron window frame? ... No, Tong Xiao thinks, it is more likely that at that moment, there was nothing else in front of her eyes, only the person she was talking to with her heart, and she told him - it was all my fault. Express all grievances and grievances in one sentence, and then, she abandons the world without the slightest nostalgia. It's a pity that Yin Huiru only discarded his reason in the end, but left his life behind.So, the person she was talking to with the last sobriety, did he hear her heart?Did he understand the absoluteness of her weeping blood?Did he accept her confession? —Did he forgive her?

If such a person does exist, as Tong Xiao imagined, who is he?Where is he now?After so many years, has he ever seen her with all the gods gone?What happened between them? "Officer Tong, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting." Tong Xiao turned around, and a tall young girl with a ponytail came into the room, holding a folder in her hand.Tong Xiao quickly showed a smile all over his face: "Oh, I'm sorry to bother you during the holiday." During the winter vacation, in order to go to Huahai Junior High School to investigate Zhang Huabin's information, Tong Xiao had no choice but to use his identity as a police officer of the City Bureau's Criminal Investigation Corps, causing the teacher Jin, who was in charge of the reference room, to come to the school specially.

Teacher Jin smiled generously: "I need it for work, it's nothing. But I'm worried that I won't be able to help you." She sat down at the desk and said to the computer: "When you called last time, I searched School archives. Although the original student records remained in our junior high school after the school was split, the materials you want are relatively early, and the school has limited space. The original materials have been sorted out several times, and basically all are simplified and entered into the database. Yes. The Zhang Huabin you mentioned can only find the simplest information from the computer."

Tong Xiao leaned in front of the computer, and he already knew all these contents: Zhang Huabin, male, was born on July 10, 1966. From 1978 to 1984, he studied in Huahai Middle School. In 1984, he graduated from middle school but failed to enter the university. Later, he was called into Shanghai Jinjiang Hotel to participate in vocational training in hotel services. So much for the record. Tong Xiao sighed: "Hey, this Zhang Huabin is really not very good. He went to Huahai Middle School but he still hasn't been admitted to university. It's a waste of resources in key middle schools!"

Teacher Jin smiled and said, "That was in 1984, and the rate of college admissions was much lower than it is now. Even graduates from Huahai Middle School may not all be admitted to college. This is quite normal." "Officer Tong, how are you? These materials are not very useful, are they?" Tong Xiao nodded quickly: "Oh, useful, useful. In addition, Zhang Huabin's father used to be a substitute physical education teacher in Huahai Middle School. Can you find information about this?" "Zhang Huabin's father? What's his name?" Tong Xiao took out a notebook from his messenger bag: "My name is Zhang Guangrong, and he is an Indonesian overseas Chinese who returned to China in the early 1960s." This is what he found out from the household registration information of the police station, but it is also very simple.Because of the repeated riots in Indonesia and the persecution of overseas Chinese by the Indonesian government, Zhang Guangrong fled back to China with dozens of other overseas Chinese in the early 1960s.The only well-documented evidence is that during the ten years from 1965 to 1975, he organized rebel art teams in toy factories and cotton mills. After Huahai Middle School resumed normal teaching in 1975, Zhang Guangrong worked as a substitute physical education teacher for a period of time, but at the beginning of 1976, he accidentally slipped and died after getting drunk on a winter night.The specific situation could not be found in the database, so Tong Xiao could only go to Huahai Middle School to try his luck.

Teacher Jin clicked the mouse a few times, shook his head and said, "The students' information will stay with us, and the teacher's information will be transferred to the senior high school. Or you can go to Huahai Senior High School to inquire. But I don't think there is any way to check there." What the hell, the school files during the 'Cultural Revolution' were seriously damaged, and substitute teachers like this, with a short tenure, probably didn't have any serious records." Tong Xiaoyin's face darkened, yes, why didn't he think of this.It seems that there is very little hope of finding out the situation of Zhang Huabin and his son through formal channels. The only way is to find witnesses from that era.He made up his mind to go to Huahai Senior High School as soon as possible, looking for information about the old teacher who was still alive, and maybe he could ask something from the mouth of the living.

"Officer Tong, I found this in the filing cabinet just now, take a look." Tong Xiao took a look, and it turned out to be a group photo of Zhang Fahuang.Teacher Jin said: "This is the graduation photo of Zhang Huabin's class in 1984. Although it is black and white, the portrait is still clear to me, but I don't know who is him." Tong Xiao looked carefully from the front to the back, and found that they were all plain-clothed boys and girls, and they all had the silly looks of that era. They all looked alike, and it was almost impossible to tell who was who. But Tong Xiao still smiled: "That's good. Although we don't know Zhang Huabin, someone must recognize him. Teacher Jin, can I take this photo away?"

"Of course." Teacher Jin felt relieved, "Please just register on the data lending record." An hour later, Tong Xiao took a taxi to the New Jinjiang Hotel. After getting off the taxi, Tong Xiao stood on the side of the street and raised his head. Looking at the towering circular roof of the hotel, he immediately realized that he had made a mistake—the New Jinjiang Hotel didn’t exist in 1984, and Zhang Huabin must have participated in the Waiter training at the old Jinjiang Hotel.Tong Xiao tapped his head, why is he getting more and more stupid!He turned up the collar of his leather jacket and walked towards the old Jinjiang Hotel against the howling wind.

His investigation at the old Jinjiang Hotel still yields little.Seeing the arrival of the Municipal Bureau, the comrades in charge of security were very enthusiastic, and quickly searched the database, but the information that could be found was still pitifully small.Tong Xiao only got a few words as follows: Zhang Huabin was called into the sixth hotel service training class in September 1984, and officially started working after half a year of study.no photo. Tong Xiao didn't ask to check the records of the hotel manager back then. With Zhang Huabin's humble position, even if he found the hotel manager at that time, no one would remember him. He put his hands in his pockets and walked out of the hotel lobby with his neck shrunk.Walking across the large lawn in front of him, under the shadow of the main building, Tong Xiao grinned his teeth in the cold, and quickly walked towards the courtyard gate, when a loud shout suddenly sounded in his ear: "Get over there! There's a car!" Tong Xiao hurriedly dodged to the side, and a blue BMW brushed his clothes and drove past.Tong Xiao was still in a daze, and was dragged to the foot of the wall: "Hey, look, it's the driveway, be careful!" "Oh," Tong Xiao saw the eye-catching sign of the car dealership. He knew he was wrong, so he smiled at the doorman who was staring at him, "Hehe, hehe, don't be shy." The doorman looked older, but he was straight, and the hotel uniform coat looked good on him.He waved to Tong Xiao angrily, signaling him to leave quickly.Tong Xiao slid out knowingly, but turned back before reaching the gate of the courtyard. "Master, is it Lao Jinjiang?" Tong Xiao took out a cigarette and handed it over. The guard glanced at Tong Xiao and said, "Don't eat cigarettes when you go to work." Even though he said that, his expression was kind: "What's the matter?" Tong Xiao was very happy, and hurried forward: "Uh, I Help a friend find out about a person who worked as a doorman and bellman here more than 20 years ago. I asked around and no one knew about it. When I saw it, I knew that Nong is an old senior of Ge Ge, and he must be able to help!" He said these words so passionately that steam was coming out of his head. "Well, who do you want to ask?" The other party was straightforward. "A man named Zhang Huabin, who participated in service training at the end of 1984, officially took up the job half a year later, and resigned in 1986. Do you have any impression?" The guard thought for a moment, "Don't forget." Tong Xiao was disappointed, and he was really unwilling to leave like this, so he took out the notebook from his messenger bag, took out the photo inside, and handed it to the guard: "He is in this photo, do you recognize it?" "Who the hell is it?" "I don't know each other either..." Tong Xiao was extremely guilty, "I knew it was from this class." The doorman held up the photo and tried to identify it. The stubble of hair under the big hat fluttered in the cold wind, revealing a faint grayness. "Oh! I recognize Le! It turned out to be Yi!" Suddenly, such words popped out of his mouth. "Ah?!" Tong Xiao rushed forward, "Who? Which?" "Oh, be careful! What are you doing!" The guard glared at Tong Xiao reproachfully, and pointed to a person in the photo, "It's Yi, Zhang Huabin, who am I, I just remembered!" Tong Xiao snatched the photo, a skinny boy with exquisite facial features, he looks pretty when you look closely, especially those sunken eyes like those of Westerners, which somehow made Tong Xiao feel a little familiar... "Tsk tsk tsk, Zhang Huabin, alas, Yi Chenguang was involved in a big incident by a Japanese, and he did something evil. I almost didn't want to live at a glance. I remembered, I remembered..." The guard uncle continued to shake his head. . "Japanese?! What's the matter?!" Tong Xiao raised his voice. On the contrary, the guard showed a strange smile on his face, and waved to Tong Xiao: "Come here, let me tell you what to say." Tong Xiao quickly stretched out his ears, and the uncle whispered in his ear for a while, and Tong Xiao's complexion changed more and more. It got darker and darker, and finally it was as dark as the dark side of the main hotel building. The doorman finally finished speaking, Tong Xiao was silent for a moment, then took out another photo in his satchel: "Master, take a look at this person again, does he look familiar?" "Hmm... ah, is Ge Wu a Japanese?!" "Master, are you sure?" "Definitely. It looks old and fat, but Yi has been here many times, and Ala Ning is old and refreshing!" Tong Xiao let out a long breath, his mood did not suddenly brighten because of this unexpected breakthrough, but became heavy instead. Dai Xi did not go to work in the company until the next afternoon as Li Weilian had allowed.It was past ten when she woke up, Meng Feiyang had already gone to work, but left cake and yogurt for her on the table for breakfast.Dai Xi put on a suit skirt and put on light makeup. She felt that she was quite in line with the dress code, so she hurried out and arrived at the company before lunch time. The atmosphere in the company was unusual. While all the people were engrossed in their work, they showed rare uneasiness and commotion. From the occasional whispers, flashes of mutual eyes, and obviously faster-than-usual movements, Dai Xi could Feel the tension of colleagues.What happened? Dai Xi turned on the computer, thinking about it, I should ask Lisa for advice. "Girl, are you here? How was last night?" Lisa asked on msn. "Well, it's pretty good." Dai Xi typed out a question, "What's weird in the company, did something special happen?" "Hehe, check your email." Not long after Dai Xi started working, she didn't receive a few emails every day, and they were basically notifications sent to all employees.At the moment, there is only one new email in her mailbox, and the sender is Li Weilian. Dai Xi opened the email calmly. She glanced at the recipient column, and it was indeed sent to all employees.In addition, she also noticed that the email was sent at three o'clock in the morning this morning. This email is Li Weilian's New Year speech as the president of West Bund Chemical Greater China. The title is: "For a better life." It turns out that although West Bund Chemicals established a Chinese representative office in Shenzhen in 1988, it was not until the end of 1997 when the Chinese branch moved to Shanghai and Li Weilian officially became the general manager that the Chinese company began to implement Chinese administrative policies and had a president. New Year speech. Therefore, this is the eleventh Chinese New Year speech made by Weilian Li as the general manager of the Chinese company and the president of the Greater China region. In his speech, Li Weilian first reviewed the development of West Bund Chemicals China in the past year and even the past ten years.He summed it up like this: "The rapid expansion of the business of West Bank Chemicals in China has linked the entire Greater China region. In 2003, the Asia-Pacific region was separated from the Far East region, and the Greater China region dominated by China became the main force in the Asia-Pacific region. West Bund Chemicals was not the first multinational enterprise to enter the Chinese market, but it has grasped the pulse of China's rise well. In China, West Bund Chemicals not only maintains the advantages of a global enterprise with a long history, profound culture and large scale, but also fully Adapting to the characteristics of the Chinese market, it has achieved a leading position in the market with its unique creativity and flexible and efficient execution." Compared with the vision formulated by West Bund Chemical China ten years ago: "Introduce the best quality and most suitable products in the global chemical field to China, fully participate in China's economic development, and make West Bund Chemical one of the driving forces to improve the living standards of the Chinese people." Li Weilian concluded: "We have undoubtedly achieved our original goal. West Bund Chemical has provided China with a wealth of chemical products over the past ten years. These products not only come from West Bund Chemical Manufacturing, but also come from other world-renowned chemical companies. First-class products. As a manufacturing company, among the branches of West Bund Chemical around the world, only the Chinese company has been specially approved by the board of directors to adopt a business model combining sales and trade, and has achieved great success." The topic of the next speech changed, and Li Weilian began to describe the vision and goals of West Bund Chemical China in the next ten years: "...After repeated thinking and discussions, with the support of the global headquarters and the board of directors, the vision of West Bund Chemicals China has been adjusted to: 'Continue to introduce high-quality products to China, promote cutting-edge technologies for quality life, and cooperate in production and technological innovation. In terms of people-oriented philosophy, we will create value together with China, improve the quality of life of the Chinese people, and grow together with China's economic development.'” He explained in detail the connotation of this new vision, including continuing to consolidate the existing advantages of West Bund Chemical in sales and trade, and continuously enriching the product line; importing more high-tech cutting-edge products to China, through training, technology transfer and Cooperative production and other means to help improve the level of Chinese counterparts; on the basis of existing joint ventures, continue to vigorously develop joint venture production models, bring more and more products to China for production, and provide joint ventures with technology, equipment and management Enterprises provide full support; West Bund Chemicals will establish the first global R&D center in China in 2009... and will fully participate in China's social life, and establish West Bund on the basis of many humanistic concepts such as environmental protection, quality of life, and social return. Chemical image, and create new value from it. As a newcomer who has just joined West Bund Chemical for two weeks, Dai Xi does not have a deep understanding of the company's vision, and the chemical industry is completely foggy for her.At this point in the speech, just when she was feeling rather difficult, Li Weilian's words suddenly caught her eyes, because he raised such a question: "As an employee of West Bank Chemical, I know that you can recite the company's mission backwards when you first joined the company. It is not difficult to recite it—'To create a better life', this is the mission of West Bank Chemical .But have you really thought about: What is a good life? What is the meaning of a good life for the company, the market, customers and every employee?" The following chapters on this question can be described as hearty and vivid, which made Dai Xi's blood boil when he read it. "It must be pointed out that the new vision will bring fundamental changes to West Bund Chemicals China. All aspects of our organizational structure, talent pool, and administrative regulations must be changed for this newly constructed vision. In the past of the Chinese company In the past ten years, we have worked hard for the company's mission within a limited scope, but it is far from enough. From now on, West Bank Chemicals China Company will strive to a new level, and we will use all our enthusiasm and strength to prove: "We are not only a century-old multinational enterprise, but we can also adapt to the times and regional characteristics and change as needed; "We can not only use products to influence customers, but also use technology to enrich life; "We can not only use sales to occupy the market, but also use cooperation to support peers; “We are not only able to attract the best talents, but also to develop and promote them, and provide them with room to develop; "We can not only gain profits from the Chinese market, but also share ideas with the Chinese people, create value, and give back to society; "We not only work to grow our business, we also work wholeheartedly to make life better. "By no means can it be said that this is what the good life is all about, but at least I can be sure that we are on the right path. I am passionate about the changes that are coming, and I am sure you are too, because understanding this new Vision will find that being in such a transformation is facing an opportunity to create brilliance by yourself. "Once the goal is set, execution becomes the key. Change begins at this moment. The company will immediately establish a core team to restructure the organization and business, led by me, and the global CEO Alex Sean will grasp the direction for the reorganization and provide the most powerful Support. The restructuring plan of the first-level organization will be completed before April 1 this year, and the company's business modules and personnel structure will be restructured before July 1. This will be a process of survival of the fittest, and it will also be an opportunity full of opportunities In this process, everyone will be reassessed and positioned, and get a new position that matches the goals of the organization. From now on, you should think about how to accept challenges, adapt to changes, and seek new development. I only I want to emphasize again that what you are facing is an unprecedented opportunity. "It's all about creating a better life."