Chapter 3: The Two Dons (Part I)
When Tangen woke up from his sleep on January 1, 2003, and sat on his bed in his college dormitory drenched in sweat, he just felt a headache and weakness. He didn't remember what happened in the dream as soon as he opened his eyes, he wondered that he would be woken up from a nap, and he sat on the bed and tried to remember, still clueless.
When I picked up my bedside watch, I found that it was already half past three in the afternoon, the dormitory was empty, and my roommates had all run out to play. New Year's Day means nothing to someone like him who doesn't have a girlfriend and doesn't have many friends. He couldn't think of anything else he could do other than sleep and read. So rubbing his stinging temples, he fell back on the pillow.
Later, Donn found that something was going on in his body that he didn't know - for example, he was able to understand the original film completely after his previous English score, and he suddenly became familiar with British things.
This situation lasted for half a year.
Half a year later, when he graduated from a university in the north and came to Chengdu to look for a job, he was awakened by a dream again one day. In the dark room, he finally remembered what had happened in that vague dream.
In the dream, there were two men and women, whose names he did not know, but he knew that they were his parents. They were always arguing, and the mother looked down on the father, thinking that he was a man who could not earn money to support the family. The unemployed father is under tremendous pressure, and he can only borrow wine to drown his sorrows when he runs into walls outside, and when he returns home drunk, he will inevitably have a sneer at his wife, and his mouth is not as flexible as a woman, and he is only proud of his fists.
It's a very cheesy domestic violence drama, with the screams of women and the angry roars of men, and the sound of anything being smashed filling his dreams. He felt uneasy, frightened, and overwhelmed. Faced with such a family, he didn't know what to do, and no one told him. Neither of the two adults in the middle of a fierce battle paid any attention to the feelings of a six-year-old child.
What's the use of him even if he says it?
"Mom, I'm hungry. When to eat? ”
"Find it yourself, if we still have that kind of thing in our house!"
"Daddy, I'm ......"
"Get out of the way! Don't bother me! ”
So he shut his mouth and ...... firmly Closed.
Everything in the dream was so real, including that feeling of loneliness. He doesn't know where he is in his dreams, but he can guarantee that everything in China is different, very strange, but somewhat familiar. And he has a name that doesn't conform to the traditional Chinese naming method at all - Tony. Don (tony_twain).
He didn't know why he had suddenly become a Chinese...... Previously, he knew nothing about the country. After understanding his situation, he panicked for a while - it can be seen that the real Tony. Don doesn't actually have a fake Tony in terms of "adaptation". Don Engao.
This poor Don was not without the idea of going to England, but at that time he had a fixed job, so to speak, penniless, and had to help his parents in the countryside. What does he take to buy a ticket? What to do with coiling?
When Don inexplicably arrived in England and was terrified for his own survival, Tony also inexplicably arrived in China. Isn't that the case with Donn? He's just a taciturn surname, and he's not stupid at all. Prioritize things clearly. The idea of going to the UK was suppressed by the urgent need to find a stable job to support himself. Then, during the Spring Festival, he returned to his "home" in China, and he was infected by the atmosphere of the family sitting together and enjoying the Spring Festival.
All this and my past can be described as the gap between heaven and land. For as long as he can remember, all that has filled his ears has been the noise of his parents and the sound of smashing things, his shattered home can no longer support him when he is ten years old, his mother, who is still a little good, runs away with a man who still has some money, and his father, who cannot find a job and can only work as a temporary worker, finally becomes an alcoholic and gets drunk and takes out his anger on him. After he turned eighteen, he moved out of that cold home.
Such a person, when he came home for the New Year, occasionally mentioned that it was a little cold when he went to bed at night, and the next day when an electric blanket was laid on it, who could understand that Tony at that time. Donn's mood?
After this Chinese New Year, Tony. Don cut off the idea of going to England. After a year of getting to know him, he has gradually become familiar with the Chinese way of life, and although he is still not used to it at times, it is no longer in the way. He felt ...... All this must have been arranged by God, who gave him a home that was not rich, but very warm.
He is very satisfied, and would rather exchange his body for it, it doesn't matter if the soul is possessed by a stranger's body, it is good to get used to it psychologically, and this habitation process is actually very easy. But a place that can be called "home...... It's not that easy to get.
He decided to work hard and earn more money so that his parents, who were not biological, could retire at home with peace of mind.
This is Tony once again. Donn, now the plan.
This plan was being carried out step by step before I met myself one day in May 2004 outside the Southwest Book City on Chunxi Road in Chengdu...... On this week's afternoon, when he walked through the bookstore for a day, he stood on the side of the road with a few books on Chinese history and waited to get by in the car. He caught a glimpse of a foreigner across the road, something he didn't really care about, and it wasn't uncommon to meet non-nationals on the streets of Chengdu. But he soon found that the foreigner was always staring at him, and he was going to see what the rude fellow looked like...... Then he thought that in front of him was not a street of people and cars, but a huge mirror.
In it, he saw himself a year and a half ago, the face...... He had seen his face in the mirror for thirty-four years, and at this moment he appeared on the streets of Chengdu, staring at himself intently.
Seeing the other party's expression, he suddenly affirmed that the soul in his body was the original owner of his body. There is no reason, and there is no scientific argument, and the rationale is analyzed...... He just felt a sense of intimacy and resonance suddenly born from the bottom of his heart...... Just when he was stunned, Tony across the street. Don walked towards him, and with him was a woman...... Uh, look at her immature face, maybe it should be a girl.
The man walked up to him and asked in English with a hint of Nottingham's country accent, "Sir, do you know how to get to Xinhua Park?" We're going there......"
Xinhua Park? Isn't that right near where you live? What did he mean by that? Could it be that he was hinting at something to himself?
※※※ Don felt that he should take the initiative at this time, if everyone froze here, then Shania would soon notice that something was wrong, and the child's intuition was very powerful. His identity and origin were a secret that he couldn't even be mentioned to those closest to him, and Don wasn't going to tell Shania about it.
So he crossed the street, walked straight to the person on the other side, and asked him as if he was lost. By the way, I mentioned a place that the other party should be familiar with. After asking, he stared at the other party, intending to find clues that he could use from the changes in his expression and movements.
Only Shania thought it was a little strange that there was no "Xinhua Park" in their previous itinerary.
If this Don were still his own, then he would have dealt with the problem in the same way that a random person came to him and asked him for directions, telling him how to go, and then turning around to say goodbye—he would not be so indifferent as to say that he didn't know, and he wouldn't be so enthusiastic as to lead the way himself.
But the Don in front of him was obviously distracted after hearing his question, is it so exaggerated to ask for a way to be distracted?
Donn was sure that the thought that had crossed his mind from the moment he saw him was not his former self, but the unlucky man of England: Tony. Dawn.
"Sir?" So he asked a question and woke the other party up from his daze.
"Uh, uh...... Xinhua Park, right in, right near where I live...... "The real Tony. Donn replied in stumbling English that he hadn't tried the language in a while.
Hearing the other party say this, Don En laughed: "It's great, are you going back?" We can drop by. Then, without waiting for the other party to say anything, he reached out to stop the car.
Already fully aware of Donn's intentions, the other Don knew what he had to do. "You won't be able to find a car here for half an hour." He said it in English. "Let's move forward a little." He pointed ahead.
The three of them easily stopped a car at the intersection in front, perhaps because they saw a foreigner on the side of the road, and the drivers thought that the foreigner's money was easy to make...... In the car, Tang En consciously asked the other party's name, and sure enough, it was "Tangen". This Don has very few words and is also in line with that Tony. Donn's original surname. At this point, Don no longer doubted anything.
Looking at himself sitting in the passenger seat and talking very little, he suddenly had such an idea from the bottom of his heart: Walker has officially left the team, and now he lacks an assistant coach who is good enough, knows the Forest team well enough, and can form a tacit understanding with him and communicate. A good assistant coach is much harder to find than a good head coach...... But doesn't he have a ready-made one in front of him now?
(To be continued)