Hades system

Tu He is 40 years old this year. He was a construction worker during his lifetime. He found Bai Ziren through a ghost letter, hoping that Bai Ziren could do him a favor, but when Bai Ziren arrived at the agreed place, he found that the man had just died. Less than 10 minutes.

In the dark night, on a desolate construction site, a male corpse lay face up quietly. He was wearing old overalls, and his face was full of tired and gully-like wrinkles, all around his body because of There was blood splattered from the fall, while his soul sat blankly aside, and turned his head to look at Bai Ziren in a daze when he heard the movement.

"You... hello..."

He timidly stood up and said hello. This man looked like he had lived at the bottom of the society for a long time. Even his eyes were a little flustered. He didn't dare to look directly into Bai Ziren's eyes. rubbing hands together.Even though he was an adult who was much older than Bai Ziren, he seemed a little too scared, and when the expressionless Bai Ziren walked up to him, looked at the corpse lying on the ground, and looked at him with questioning eyes , he immediately turned pale, and then stammered,

"I drank some wine...the more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable, so I jumped down...I don't really want to die...I don't really want to die...I still want to live well..."

Holding his head and whimpering lowly, the man who had drank some wine and his tongue was still a little knotted stared at the indifferent and non-human boy in front of him, and then spoke intermittently after a long time,

"I just jumped off... and died right away. I wanted to call the police, but I couldn't find the police after I died... A dead man passed by and told me that if we have anything to do in the underworld, we will call you, you It’s the person in charge of our underworld...and...you also gave me your ghost signal by the way, let me add you, so...so I gave it a try...I’m really sorry for you..."

The more he talked, the more embarrassing he became. At the end, the man simply lowered his head and began to cry. His face was filled with displeasure and loss. He was still wiping away his tears while looking at his shattered corpse. He said so much about Bai Ziren, but he exhaled a mouthful of hot breath tiredly, and then said slowly,

"Do you want to reincarnate or seek revenge? People who commit suicide generally cannot be reincarnated as humans. You can choose any animal to be reincarnated. The main reason is that you have not contributed much to society, and you decide your own life and death independently, so I can't increase your lifespan either, if you have any wish, you can tell me, I will find a way to deal with it for you..."

"Thank you... thank you..."

As soon as he heard Bai Ziren's words, he burst into tears. Tu He, who had drunk too much and ended his life hastily, seemed extremely regretful, but he insisted on this dead end, and no one forced himself.Even if he repented now, there was nothing he could do.He knew that he was so stupid, but he just couldn't suppress the desperate pain in his heart, and when Bai Ziren was almost impatient, he finally cried as if he couldn't bear it, and said,

"I beg you to avenge me. If I don't find out what's going on with this matter... I won't be willing to die even if I die. For half my life, everything about me has been punished because of this matter." I'm ruined, but I didn't know the truth until now...I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled..."

……

More than 20 years ago, Tuhe was an ordinary high school student.

At that time, many people did not realize the importance of reading and education. The older generation generally believed that having an iron rice bowl was more useful than studying and going to school. Therefore, many children even only received a few years of primary education before leaving without hesitation. left school.

Tuhe’s family conditions were not good at that time. His parents were honest workers who lived frugally. At that time, many children from neighbors who were the same age as Tuhe learned crafts early or followed their parents’ generation. They started to work, but only Tuhe persisted, and finally passed the third year of high school with excellent grades, and he went to college without hesitation regardless of the opinions of the people around him.

"That scholar from the old apprentice's family is amazing, and his grades are among the best... I heard that he is going to go to Beijing for the exam, and he will become a scientist and a big shot in the future. It's amazing..."

Some uncles and aunts in the neighbor’s house would often talk about this little scholar who studied very hard after dinner. In everyone’s eyes, Tu He was full of intelligence at that time, and he was like those who knew how to drink outside all day long. The troublemakers are different, the educated and knowledgeable Tu He has a gentle and clean aura, and even speaks softly and politely.

At that time, Tu He was indeed completely different from him after that, perhaps because he was young, so he never looked back. For the next twenty years, Tu He would live a desolate and decadent life. A young man full of ideals and aspirations, he is full of vigor and unrestrained. His head teacher once told him firmly that as long as he plays well, he can choose any good school in Beijing. He can realize his dream, become a scholar, and become a talent. , he can maximize his own value and talent, and his future, and even the future of his family, will change because of it.

Tu He thought so firmly, he has always been a leader, he was full of confidence in himself, and he showed [-] points of seriousness in the college entrance examination, which was not very competitive at that time.And in the subsequent examination process, he coped with it freely, and the questions that he knew so well flowed slowly from the tip of his pen. When he came out of the examination room, he smiled confidently at his family members standing outside the examination room , Said loudly, absolutely no problem.

Only seventeen or eighteen-year-olds are so confident, but perhaps it is because the hope they bet is too great, so when they get the result of failure, they are so unbearable.

In the end, the result of the college entrance examination was beyond everyone's expectations. Tu He, who happily went out to school to check his grades, came back in the heavy rain.His whole body was drenched, holding a report card tremblingly in his hand, he couldn't believe that what the teacher said to him at school just now was actually true, but the blow that almost broke his whole life It still made him cry uncontrollably.

He failed, he failed the exam, and he was [-] points short of the score line the teacher said. On the way back, he kept thinking about what mistakes he made to be so far away from his ideal situation. He thought He wanted to take the test again immediately, and let him check the test paper again, but when he returned to his parents in a daze, crying and telling his parents the pain and despair in his heart, his parents just looked at him complicatedly, and then used some words. Said to him in a pleading tone,

"Xiaohe... don't feel bad, let's stop studying, won't we be able to go to high school? Our family's conditions are not good, you can go to work early to help the family... Your sister has been laid off, and your father and I Your health is not good... Our family has been providing for you to study... Now don't make things difficult for your parents, okay?"

What his parents said was too realistic. For Tu He, who wholeheartedly wanted to study and go to university, it was tantamount to stabbing another knife in his heart that was already riddled with holes at that time.But what my parents said is also true. This family has given him a chance to pursue his dream. It's because he didn't live up to it. It's because he didn't have that luck, so now he can only sit here and vent his anger and helplessness to his parents. .

"Dad...Mom...I'm sorry, it's my fault, I stopped studying...I'm just a wimp, I don't have that ability...I'm a waste..."

His eyes were swollen from crying, and while shouting, Tu He kowtowed hard to his parents a few times.His heart died, on the one hand because of his failure in the college entrance examination, and on the other hand because of what his parents said.He seemed to wake up from an unreal dream, and suddenly became one of the most ordinary mediocre people in the secular world.

His review books, the masterpieces and novels he treasured, and the notes he occasionally exchanged with friends and classmates were all packed up by his mother and sold to the trash collector at the door. At that time, Tu He was standing in his yard At the door, I just watched those books being packed away in dirty snakeskin bags in such a silent manner, and the confidence and aura of the past have long since disappeared in my eyes.

He has no dreams, no beliefs, and his previous pursuits and longings ended in failure because of his incompetence. He can only pack up a shell that has been discouraged, and embark on the path arranged by his parents.

He entered the factory where his parents worked all his life, and worked as the lowest-level assembly line worker.Because this factory was counted as a state-owned enterprise at the time, it was barely an iron rice bowl.Tu He rushes to and from get off work every day, sitting numbly and busy with those unskilled jobs. He no longer thinks about the days in school before, and he looks silent and timid like every simple worker.

He thinks he can only be like this for the rest of his life, he thinks his life is just like this, but the reason why misfortune is misfortune is that it can always be worse than you imagine.

Tu He was laid off at the age of 26. At the age of 28, he finally found a job in a printing factory with the help of his old father.He married the daughter of a cobbler on the street. Two years after marriage, his wife took away all the valuables in the house and ran away. Not long after, the unlucky Tuhe was forced to lay off again because of the factory rectification at that time. , this time, no one can think about the rest of his life anymore, his parents are dead, his sister is also in a bad life, he doesn't have a decent home, and what's worse, he finds himself in his 30s , but still wimpy, accomplish nothing, and have no hope or vision for the future.

"I started to do odd jobs here and there... I was helping others on the construction site. I wanted to learn some technology, but I was stupid and couldn't learn anything. In addition, I couldn't speak. I always offended people and no one else. That kind of ability to have both sides... So I can only get worse and worse, until I am 40 years old now, and I am still the same as ten years ago, with nothing..."

Saying this, Tu He smiled at Bai Ziren bleakly, his face looked older than his actual age, perhaps because he had had enough of the hardships of life, his dim eyes were full of tears, even The fists are clenched tightly.

"All my misfortunes are because of that college entrance examination. Because of that exam, I lost my ideals and lost my self-esteem... I thought it was my incompetence that caused all this, and I also thought about living like this for the rest of my life, but A few days ago, I happened to meet a classmate who used to be in the same class as me when I was a student, and it was because of this person... that I realized how unjust my misfortune was in the first half of my life..."

The 40-year-old Tuhe is still a poor worker. He changed to another construction site three months ago. The wages here are lower than the place where he worked before, but now Tuhe is gone. What a big ambition, he just wanted to live on like this, alone without family and offspring, and just passed by in such a muddle.

The foremen here are stingy. Although this project is huge and contracted by the government, they are very harsh on the workers.Tuhe couldn’t eat enough every day, and was scolded loudly by the foreman. Although he was used to this kind of working environment, he still felt embarrassed occasionally. While scolding, he heard someone calling his name in a suspicious voice.

"Tuhe... are you the Tuhe from the eleventh middle school?"

……

The chief engineer of this project, Jiang Chucheng, is a man of the same age, same school, and former class as Tu He.

Unlike Tu He, this man, who is also 40 years old now, looks gentle and elegant.His face has the confidence and indifference of a successful person, and his eyes are peaceful and polite.

He wore a frock coat over his blazer and an ugly engineering cap on his head, but when Jiang Chucheng smiled and talked to Tu He, Tu He could still clearly feel the gap between different classes and the reason The resulting inferiority complex.

"Tu He, I haven't seen you for many years. I figured it's been 20 years, right? I still remember that you were the top talent in our class. At that time, I wanted to surpass you every day. ...But ah, I'm still crushed by you every time, you are too powerful..."

The man murmured to himself with emotion, his words were obviously not malicious, but just a kind of nostalgia and retrospect for the past, but this kind of words still felt ironic to Tu He's ears.Today, he has become the worst kind of person. Standing in front of such an amazing person, his body is covered with dirt and his face is haggard. When looking at the past, he just kept silent anxiously and embarrassingly from beginning to end, his mind was blank.

"By the way, why are you here? And you don't look very good... At the beginning, with your grades, you could really go to a key university?"

The man's doubtful question brought Tu He back to his senses, he smiled with difficulty, but still had a good temper and did not show any displeasure.Although there was some unexplainable sourness in his heart, in the end, he still said in a self-deprecating tone,

"At that time, I didn't do well in the test. I went to Teacher Wang to ask about the score immediately after the ranking was released. The score was more than 400. Teacher Wang said that it was too far from the mark... Then I didn't repeat the exam and went straight to work. I didn't do well in the past few years, so I don't have much success now... Unlike you, great engineer..."

"More than 400 points?! Teacher Wang told you that the difference is a lot?"

It was as if he had heard something unbelievable. As soon as he heard this, the man in front of Tu He immediately widened his eyes, and he frowned in some incomprehensible way. The high-spirited man in his memory spoke hesitantly,

"Tuhe, I'm not sure if you remember correctly, but I can tell you with certainty that in that year, our city's admission score was only 390 points. If you really got more than 400 points in the test, you can't Will I be admitted...because I only got 360 points..."

……

Jiang Chucheng, who scored 360 points in the test, went to university, then studied abroad, and returned to his hometown. He founded his own construction company, and now he is the chief engineer Jiang worth tens of millions.

Tu He, who scored 420 points in the exam, was told by the class teacher that he was not admitted to any school, and then spent half his life running around, mediocre. Up to now, he is just a worthless laborer.

Regarding the results of that exam, Tu He will never remember it wrong, because the memory it brings is so deep that Tu He can remember that moment until many years later, when the class teacher told him with a complicated expression, He didn't have the strong sense of frustration that he had when he passed the exam.

Tu He has long recognized himself, he knows that he can only live in such a useless way.

But now more than 20 years have passed, and suddenly someone came out and told him that everything he suffered was something he should not have endured. The sense of unreality brought by that moment even surpassed the feeling when he failed the college entrance examination. .

"I will never remember it wrong, Tuhe, you can go and check your admission results at that time... I don't know why Teacher Wang lied to you at the beginning, but... I know, it's not fair to you..."

The old classmate's words seemed to sprinkle a handful of salt on Tu He's wounded heart. He returned to his humble residence in a trance, and found the crumpled paper that he had rubbed long ago, but he was still reluctant to part with it. Lost transcript.

The above numbers clearly told him that he did score 420 points in the test at that time, and Jiang Chucheng's decisive words also reminded Tu He of many details that he ignored more than [-] years ago.

Because he believed in Teacher Wang, the head teacher, he went to her directly when he went to check his grades.

He was too ashamed when he learned that he failed the exam, so he never went back to school or contacted his classmates.

Because he was immersed in frustration, he didn't try to repeat or fight for the opportunity to study, but the result was that he was completely deceived by a teacher's lies and ruined his life.

"Just now, the more I think about it, the more I feel uncomfortable. I was thinking, why did that teacher Wang treat me like that? My grades have always been very good, and I have never offended anyone... Why did she deliberately lie to me? Why? She clearly I know how much I want to go to college, but in the end she did something like this... My whole life was ruined, it was ruined... If I had gone to college at that time, I would never have been reduced to what I am now... I rely on Why do I have to live like this... Who did this to me? What did I do wrong?"

Talking incoherently like this, Tu He became more and more sad as he spoke, and Bai Ziren didn't know what to say for a while with a desolate look on his face.He didn't quite know what was going on, but it was obvious that the teacher who played an important role in this incident had single-handedly caused the beginning of Tuhe's tragedy.Maybe Tu He's attitude is a bit negative, but what he said is not wrong. If he realizes his ideal and achieves his goal, he may not be reduced to what he is now because of depression, and finally lost his soul. life.

But there are not so many what-ifs in this world, and the tragedy has already happened. Now Tuhe just wants to know why the teacher named Wang Ru did such a thing, and Bai Ziren can help him find that teacher and ask about it. There is nothing more that can be done to seek justice for him.

"Your teacher is 73 years old this year. She was admitted to the hospital recently due to physical reasons. I checked and found that she still has [-] hours to live. If you don't mind, I can take you to see her right now... ...She is old, and she can't recognize people clearly, I can't guarantee that she can give you a complete story..."

Saying this, Bai Ziren pushed down his glasses, his face flushed a little, and his tiredness made him lose energy when speaking, but after a slight pause, he still slowly opened his mouth and said,

"But no matter what, I will help you get justice and give you the truth... I will do what I say."