勞燕分飛離故里

Separation with wife and hometown

周興和已經(jīng)有好長時間沒回家了，他的企業(yè)管理剛剛收到初步成效，新型產(chǎn)品試驗剛剛露出一些成功的端倪，盡管他用極大的耐心作了很大的忍讓，但家庭的矛盾還是不可遏制地總爆發(fā)了。

Zhou Xinghe had not been home for a long time; his enterprise management had just received the preliminary results, and the new product experiment had just shown some signs of success; although he had great patience and great deal of tolerance, but the family conflict was still uncontrollably erupting.

那天上午，周興和熬了一夜，正在和客戶洽談業(yè)務，劉鳳瓊來了。大概是家里經(jīng)濟出現(xiàn)些困難，她又毛焦火辣來找周興和。當著客人的面，才說兩句話，焦急的劉鳳瓊又面紅耳赤和周興和爭執(zhí)起來。當尷尬的客人從中勸說時，劉鳳瓊竟和客人也吵了起來！

That morning, Zhou Xinghe stayed up all night and was talking business with a client when Liu Fengqiong came. Probably there were some difficulties in the family economy, she was coming in a hurry for Zhou Xinghe. After a few words in the presence of the client, anxious Liu Fengqiong flushed and quarreled with Zhou Xinghe. When the embarrassed client persuaded between them, Liu Fengqiong unexpectedly quarreled with the client too!

“算了，劉鳳瓊，這是工作場合，不要在這里吵！”周興和見此情形，氣極難捺，他強忍怒火，“有什么事，我們自己回家去說?！?/p>

"Well, Liu Fengqiong, this is a work place, don't make noise here!" Seeing this, Zhou Xinghe was so angry that he tried to hold back his temper. "What's the matter? Let's go home and tell me."

劉鳳瓊也在氣頭上，她堅持不走。周興和向客人道了歉，把劉鳳瓊拉回了家里?；氐郊?，劉鳳瓊依然不依不饒，像要把這些日子來積聚在心中的怨氣全都發(fā)泄出來。周興和臉色鐵青一言不發(fā)，妻子這些日子來過分的舉止，早就激起了他極度的反感和憤怒。當劉鳳瓊大吵大鬧，上前要和周興和抓扯時，周興和心里的積怨也總的爆發(fā)了，他狠狠給了劉鳳瓊一拳——這一拳打得很重，劉鳳瓊當即就大聲呻吟起來！

Liu Fengqiong was also in anger, and she insisted not to leave. Zhou Xinghe apologized to his client and took Liu Fengqiong back home. Back home, Liu Fengqiong was still unrelenting, as if to vent out all the resentment accumulated in her heart in these days. Zhou Xinghe was pale and silent. His wife's excessive demeanour these days had already aroused his extreme disgust and anger. When Liu Fengqiong made scenes and came forward to catch and pull with Zhou Xinghe, the resentment in Zhou Xinghe's heart also broke out, and he gave Liu Fengqiong a punch - the punch was very heavy, and Liu Fengqiong immediately loudly moaned!

就是這一次沖突，夫妻兩人的矛盾就更加激化了。劉鳳瓊住進了醫(yī)院，在她憤怒已極時，向周興和提出了離婚，要周興和“滾回農(nóng)村那個窮山溝去！”

It was this conflict that intensified the contradiction between the couple. Liu fengqiong was admitted to the hospital. In her anger, she asked Zhou Xinghe for a divorce and told him to "go back to the poor mountain valley in the countryside!"

幾年來無休止的爭執(zhí)吵鬧，思想觀念上的巨大分歧，周興和的小兒子也無人照料，自己的生活也無人過問，此時，周興和對他與劉鳳瓊的婚姻已經(jīng)完全心灰意冷，加之產(chǎn)品的研制也屢遭失敗，思想上經(jīng)濟上承受著巨大的壓力，他更是內外交困舉步維艱。

With years of endless disputes and the huge difference on ideology, Zhou Xinghe's younger son was unattended, and his own life was also not taken care; at this point, Zhou Xinghe was completely dispirited and discouraged for his marriage with Liu Fengqiong; together with the failures in the development of the product, his ideological and economical conditions were both under tremendous pressure, and he was struggling in the external and internal difficulties.

在這種境況下，周興和只好安頓好兒子，把他的全部時間和精力都投入到他的產(chǎn)品研制中來，只有在極度勞累極度疲乏中，他才可能忘卻苦痛，忘記煩惱，忘卻憂愁，忘記傷心。

Under such circumstances, Zhou Xinghe had to settle down his son and devote all his time and energy to the development of his products. It was only in extreme fatigue that he could forget his pains, his troubles, his sorrows, and his heartaches.

星光黯淡，晨霜暮雪。伴隨著苦澀和孤獨，周興和的日子就這樣一天天地打發(fā)著——是天命因果的夙旨，還是飄茵落溷的偶然，陰差陽錯，正在周興和最失意最低沉的日子里，另一個女人卻意外地闖進他的視野來！

The stars were dim, and there were the morning frost and the evening snow. With bitterness and loneliness, Zhou Xinghe's life passed from day to day - it was the cause and effect of heaven, or just by accident. In the midst of zhou Xinghe's most frustrated and depressed days, another woman suddenly walked into his sight!

周興和開辦的建材廠旁邊，是鹽亭縣煙草公司的倉庫。倉庫里有個管理員姓申——我們姑且就叫她小申吧。這時她剛滿30歲，離異后帶著一個小兒子生活。由于搞產(chǎn)品研究和生產(chǎn)，周興和正好租用煙草公司院壩存放和晾曬產(chǎn)品。閑來無事時，小申懷著好奇心，經(jīng)常去參觀欣賞他們各種造型的產(chǎn)品。與此同時，她對成天沉默寡言搞研究、別人都說他是“狂人”的周興和，也產(chǎn)生了好奇心，逐漸有了了解這個人的想法。

Next to Zhou Xinghe's building materials factory was the warehouse of Yanting Tobacco Company. There was a keeper in the warehouse named Shen - let's just call her Ms. Shen. She had just turned 30 years old and was divorced with a young son. As a result of product research and production, Zhou Xinghe happened to rent the tobacco company courtyard to store and air the products. Being free and at leisure, Shen with curiosity, often visited and appreciated Xinghe’s various shapes of products. At the same time, she also generated curiosity to Zhou Xinghe who did researches all day siliently and was called "madman" by others, and had the idea to get to know this person gradually.

處于人生低谷的周興和，他其實也希望有人能了解和理解自己。見有人想了解他，他滿腹的苦衷，滿心的哀怨，以及他的抱負和理想，也漸漸向小申吐露出來。小申呢，其實也不甘心于每天守著偌大的一個倉庫，過著平淡枯燥的日子，也想能在自己人生中有一番作為。慢慢地，她對周興和了解后，她和他就有了共同的語言。周興和從心底里對小申能夠對自己創(chuàng)業(yè)艱辛的理解感到安慰，對有一個能理解自己的人吐露心聲而感到安慰；小申呢，對周興和艱苦創(chuàng)業(yè)的經(jīng)歷和刻苦鉆研精神感到欽佩，對他不幸的境遇表示了深深的同情——人與人之間有了共同的語言，難免就有了交往的基礎，一來二往，兩人都逐漸產(chǎn)生出一種說不出的感覺來。

Zhou Xinghe, who was at a low point in his life, actually wanted someone to know and understand him. When he saw someone wanted to understand him, all his bitterness, sorrow, as well as ambition and dream, were also gradually exposed to Shen. While Shen, in fact, was not willing to just guard such a large warehouse every day, living a dull and boring life, but also wanted to be able to make a difference in her own life. Slowly, after she got to know Zhou Xinghe, she and he had a common language. From the bottom of his heart, Zhou Xinghe felt comforted by Shen's understanding of the hardships of starting his own business, and also felt comforted by having a person who could understand him. While Shen admired Zhou Xinghe for his hard work and his spirit of assiduous study, and expressed her deep sympathy for his misfortune. With a common language between two people, it was inevitable that they would have a basis for communication, and both of them gradually developed an indescribable feeling.

一個小小的鹽亭城，就連張家的婆婆和媳婦吵了架，李家的老丈人和女婿打了捶，不到半天就會傳遍全城，何況兩個男女之間的頻頻接觸呢！周興和與小申交往的事，時間不長，就有那好事者把事情傳到了劉鳳瓊耳朵里。這還了得！原本就受到丈夫冷落的劉鳳瓊，這一下更是不依不饒了，在和周興和大吵一架后，將他推出了門，并向他下了最后通牒：“有我無她，有她無我，我們干脆離婚！不離婚，我就用死來成全你們！”

In the small town called Yanting, a quarrel broke out between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Zhang’s family, or a blow between the father-in-law and son-in-law of the Li’s family would spread all over the town in less than half a day, not to mention the frequent contact between a man and a woman. The contact of Zhou Xinghe and Shen was heard by Liu Fengqiong before long. Well, Liu Fengqiong, who had been snubbed by her husband, became even more unrelenting. After a big quarrel with Zhou Xinghe, she pushed him out of the door and gave him an ultimatum: "She or me, make a choice, or let's just divorce! Otherwise, I will die to fulfill you!"

如此一鬧，這件事就更弄得來滿城風雨了——這種風雨，當然毫不留情地淋濕了周興和與小申，但從某種意義上來說，又讓兩個被淋濕了的人只好同打一把傘，共同走到一個屋檐下去躲雨呀！

Such an uproar would make the affair all the more scandalous - this kind of scandal, of course, mercilessly poured to Zhou Xinghe and Shen, but in a sense, and it also let the two people be tied together, and connected more tightly!

在采訪劉鳳瓊時，談到兩人離異的事，筆者明顯感覺到，其實她對這件事的處理方式是有些后悔的。由此我就想到：有情人才成眷屬，當初兩人歷盡艱辛走到了一起，就應當對這份來之不易的情份倍加呵護和珍惜。如果兩人真的不想分手，不管是誰，當外面有風雨襲來時，他或她都不能把對方推出門外，而要想辦法留在屋里。即使對方要出門，都應該給對方一把雨傘或一頂斗笠。這樣，即使是在風雨襲來時，他或她就不會躲到別人屋檐下去避雨了呀！

In the interview with Liu Fengqiong, when talking about their divorce, the author obviously felt that she had some regrets about the way she handled this matter. From this, I think: only those who have love can be married; at the beginning, the two people went together through all the hardships, so they should be doubly care and cherish this hard-won love. If the two really don't want to break up, no matter for the male or female, when the storm strikes, he or she can't push the other out of the door, but find a way to stay inside together. Even if the other wants to go out, it should give each other an umbrella or a hat. In that way, even when the storm strikes, he or she won't be able to get under someone else's roof.

在風雨中過了半年多時間的周興和，經(jīng)過無數(shù)個日夜痛苦的考慮：既然與劉鳳瓊志不同道不合，既然這婚姻已經(jīng)名存實亡，既然自己完全無法將未竟的事業(yè)進行下去，那好，離就離吧！最后，周興和只好孤注一擲，在離婚協(xié)議書上簽下了自己的名字。

In the wind and rain, Zhou Xinghe spent more than half a year, and after countless days and nights of painful consideration, he thought: since he and Liu Fengqiong had different goals, since this marriage had already existed in name only, and since he was completely unable to carry on the unfinished business, well, they shall divorce! In the end, Zhou Xinghe had to take a gamble and signed his name on the divorce paper.

或許劉鳳瓊只是想用“離婚”這兩個字來要挾周興和，讓他在自己面前繳械投降。可當周興和簽了字，她反倒后悔不肯簽字了！周興和此時去意已定，面對劉鳳瓊的哭泣和淚水，他向她提出：“這幾年你跟著我，過得也不容易。這樣吧，離婚后，這家里的一棟房子、一切財產(chǎn)全部歸你；外面的所有債務全部由我償還，你只給我一紙離婚證書就行了?！?/p>

Perhaps, Liu Fengqiong just wanted to use the "divorce" to blackmail Zhou Xinghe and made him surrender in front of her. But when Zhou Xing signed it, she actually regretted and did not want to sign it! Zhou Xinghe had decided to leave; facing Liu Fengqiong's tears, Zhou Xinghe said to her, "It has not been easy for you to follow me these years. Well, after the divorce, the house and all the property of the family will belong to you; I'll pay all the debts out there. Just give me a divorce certificate."

離婚后，周興和并沒有立即和小申住在一起，由于怕劉鳳瓊在極度的憂郁中發(fā)生意外，周興和在半年多的時間里并沒離開家庭，當劉鳳瓊的情緒慢慢穩(wěn)定后，他卻由于身心勞累過度，染病住進了醫(yī)院。

After divorce, Zhou Xinghe did not live with Shen immediately; because he was afraid of Liu Fengqiong to have an accident in extreme melancholy, Zhou Xinghe did not leave the family for more than half a year, and when Liu Fengqiong's mood stabilized slowly, he caught an illness to be hospitalized because of the overworked body and mind.

當周興和一個人孤零零地躺在病床上，心力交瘁地思索著病愈后何去何從時，小申不避嫌疑請假來到了他的病床前，悉心照料周興和。每當周興和接過小申一杯水、一碗飯，他的心里都十分感動。同時，小申表示愿意辭去她的正式工作，以便背水一戰(zhàn)，與周興和白手起家，共同創(chuàng)業(yè)！

When Zhou Xinghe laid alone in the hospital bed, and mentally exhausted to think about what to do after recovered, Shen asked for leave from work and came to his hospital bed, and took good care of Zhou Xinghe. Every time Zhou Xinghe received a cup of water and a bowl of rice from Shen, his heart was deeply moved. Meanwhile, Shen said she was willing to quit her official job so that she and Zhou Xinghe could start their own business from scratch.

事業(yè)上能有知音，工作中能有幫手，生活上能有伴侶，能夠理解和支持他把未竟的發(fā)明創(chuàng)造進行下去，幫助他實現(xiàn)自己的人生抱負，這是周興和多年來夢寐以求的一個夙愿??！從醫(yī)院出來后，為尋求一個較為寬松的從事研究和創(chuàng)業(yè)的環(huán)境，避開周圍人們的閑言冷語，特別是避開劉鳳瓊的干擾，周興和毅然懷揣一紙離婚書，身背數(shù)十萬元的債務，分別和小申離開鹽亭縣，到了綿陽市，開始了他們新的生活，重新又在這里創(chuàng)業(yè)了。

To have a bosom friend in his career, a helper in his work and a partner in his life, who could be able to understand and support him in carrying on his unfinished inventions and help him realize his ambition in life, it was a long-cherished dream of Zhou Xinghe for many years! Out of the hospital, in order to seek a relaxed environment for the research and entrepreneurship, to avoid the gossip of people around the cruel word, especially to avoid Liu Fengqiong’s interference, Zhou Xinghe resolutely carried the divorce paper, with hundreds of thousands of debts, and left Yanting with Shen respectively, and started their new life and entrepreneurship in Mianyang City.

這是1994年的初春。這一年，周興和已經(jīng)到了不惑之年。

It was the early spring of 1994. This year, Zhou Xinghe had reached 40 years old.

然而，在綿陽這陌生的環(huán)境中，他們將又會遭遇到什么呢？福兮？禍兮？

However, in this strange environment in Mianyang, what would they encounter? Fortune? Misfortune?