啼笑皆非的新闻
Ironic news
自周兴和在《四川日报》上打出“寻人启事”后，妻子小申这才与他通了电话，他才知道了妻子的行踪。接到电话，周兴和心急火燎地立即驱车赶到绵阳，来到岳父母家里。
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It was not until his wife, Shen, spoke to Zhou Xinghe on the phone that he learned of his wife's whereabouts after he placed a notice for missing person in the newspaper of Sichuan Daily. After receiving the phone call, Zhou Xinghe immediately drove to Mianyang and arrived at his parents-in-law's house.
“你又来干什么？”岳母一见他，像前几次那样，就想关门谢客，“我们没找你要人，你倒三番五次来找我们要人！”
"What are you doing here again?" When his mother-in-law saw him, as she had done many times before, she wanted to shut the door and decline to receive the visitor. "We didn't ask for you," she said, "how dare you come to us again and again!"
“既然我和小申已是夫妻，我当然要对她负责。”周兴和耐着性子说道，“她给我来了电话，她就在你这里。”
"Since Shen and I are wife and husband, of course I am responsible for her." Zhou Xinghe said patiently, "She called me, and said she's right here with you."
“丢人现眼，在报纸上去打什么广告。我们是正经人家，你不怕丢人，我们还丢不起这个人。”
"It's a disgrace to put such an advertisement in the newspaper. We are respectable people; even if you are not afraid of disgrace, we cannot afford to lose the face."
“那不是打什么广告，那是‘寻人启事’。”周兴和说，“人走了几个月不露面，你们担心，我也同样担心呀！”
"It's not an advertisement. It's a notice for missing person." Zhou Xinghe said, "I am just as worried as you are that she has gone for months without showing up."
“那你来到底要想干什么？”
"And what on earth do you come for?"
“你们放心，我来既不是找她要钱，也不是找她要车。”周兴和诚恳地说，“我只是想和她见面好好谈谈，消除一些误会，让她回家大家好好过日子。”
"Don't worry, I'm not here to ask her for the money or the car." Zhou said honestly, "I just want to meet her and have a good talk, clear up some misunderstandings, and let her go home and live together well."
费了半天口舌，岳父母这才答应他们见面。
It took a lot of talking before his parents-in-law agreed him to meet her.
几个月不见，小申明显地消瘦憔悴了，可见这几月她也过得并不轻松。可在他们俩夫妻交谈时，岳父母和她姐姐、姐夫就在一旁气咻咻地守着，生怕小申吃亏。在这样的情形下，夫妻俩怎么能怎么交流感情，交换思想，达到相互谅解的目的呢？
Not seen for few months, Shen obviously was thin and gaunt, which could be seen that these months she had not been easy. But while they were talking with each other, her parents, sister and brother-in-law kept watching breathlessly and were afraid that Shen might lose out. Under such circumstances, how could the husband and wife communicate their feelings, exchange their thoughts, and achieve the mutual understanding?
“我和小申到外面单独谈谈吧。”周兴和请示岳父母。
"Shen and I shall go outside to talk alone." Zhou Xinghe asked her parents for permit.
“不行，我们要对她的安全负责！”岳父母断然拒绝，“你把她弄到外面去，谁知道会干出一些什么事情来！”
"No, we are responsible for her safety!" The parents-in-law flatly refused. "You take her out and who knows what you'll do!"
“我们现在还没离婚，在法律上我们应该还算合法夫妻吧？夫妻之间，交换一下思想，求得相互的一些谅解，这你们应该能够理解的吧？”
"We're not divorced yet. We are still legally married. You can understand the exchange of thoughts, and the search for some mutual understanding, between the husband and wife?"
“你们结婚的时候我们就不同意。”岳母大声叫了起来，“原先，你欺骗她年轻，现在再要欺骗不行了！”
"We didn't agree when you got married." Cried the mother-in-law, "You tricked her before, and now you can't trick her again!"
“退一万步讲，我和小申就是不能在一起生活了，可事情总得有个了结吧？”周兴和依然耐住性子，心平气和地说道。
"At the very least, even if Shen and I just can't live together, there has to be an end for all things, right?" Zhou Xinghe still in patience, calmly said.
“你们要了结，这可以，但我们不放心！”岳母依然坚持道。
"You want to end it, that's all right, but we're still worried for you two talking alone outside!" His mother-in-law insisted.
“那你说怎么办呢？”
"So, what do you suggest?"
“要谈就在这里谈，你有什么见不得人的东西要背着我们谈呢！”
"Here it is. What have you got to talk about behind our backs?"
“这个样子，就像做生意谈判，夫妻之间怎么能这么谈呢？”
"It's like a business negotiation then. How can a husband and wife talk like that?"
“你要叫她到外面去谈可以，但必须给我们打个借条！”岳母说道，“在什么地方谈，谈多长时间，多久把人给我们还回来！”
"You can ask her to talk outside, but you must write us an IOU!" "Said the mother-in-law, "Where to talk, how long do you want, and when can you bring her back to us!"
“可以。”一股火气从周兴和心里一下冒了出来，虽然我和小申产生了矛盾，但到目前为止，我们名义上毕竟还是合法夫妻，世界上哪有丈夫“借”自己妻子的呀！但一瞬间他冷静下来，“这样吧，你们不放心，我可以给你们打张借条，就借半天，保证在下午5点半以前给你们送回来！”
"Fine." A stream of anger came out of Zhou Xinghe's heart. Although he had conflicts with Shen, so far, they were still nominally a legal husband and wife. There was no husband in the world who "borrowed" his wife from her parents. But for a moment he calmed down, "Well, if you don't trust me, I can give you an IOU, just to borrow her half a day, and I promise to bring her back to you before 5:30 p.m."
“那你给我写！”
"Then write for me!"
一件能产生社会新闻效应，让新闻媒体倍感兴趣的事就这样发生了。
This was what happened when something produced a social news effect that made the news media interested.
周兴和在“借妻”条上这样写道：“今借到岳母黄某二女儿（即周兴和合法妻子申某），到指定地点绵阳市富乐山公园，谈心3个半小时，于当天下午5点半以前必须归还。借妻人，周兴和。”
Zhou Xinghe wrote on the note: "I borrowed the second daughter (namely Zhou Xinghe's legal wife Shen) from my mother-in-law Huang to the designated location in the Fule Mountain Park in Mianyang City for a three-and-a-half-hour conversation. She must be returned by 5:30 p.m. today. Borrower: Zhou Xinghe."
落款签名人，有周兴和岳父、岳母、小申的姐姐、姐夫，另外还有3个中间人。
The signatories included Zhou Xinghe’s father-in-law, mother-in-law, Shen's sister and brother-in-law, and three witnesses.
“小申哪，我们两人是自觉自愿走到一起来的。我们之间产生了一些矛盾，只能通过我们自己来解决，旁边的人看起来似乎是在关心你，但恐怕是别有用心哪！”周兴和说得很坦诚，“这些日子来，每当想起我们在盐亭、绵阳时经历的那些风雨，我觉得，我们就没有非得要分手的必要。”
"Shen, we came together of our own accord. There are some conflicts between us, which can only be solved by ourselves. The people around you seem to care about you, but I'm afraid they may have ulterior motives!" Zhou Xinghe said frankly, "These days, whenever I think of the difficulties that we went through in Yanting and Mianyang, I think we don't have to break up."
在富乐公园里，周兴和给小申通谈到了家庭、小孩和老人；谈到了过去、现在和将来。他劝妻子，尽管父母对她的关心无可厚非，但也要有自己的主见，更不要受到旁人的怂恿和利用。通过几个小时的交谈，他觉得自己理解了小申的苦楚，小申似乎也理解了他的苦心。最后，周兴和原谅了她拿走家里的钱、开走工厂的车、不辞而别的举动，劝说她还是回家，回到厂里一起共同办好企业。
In Fule Park, Zhou Xinghe talked to Shen about families, children and the elderly; talked about the past, the present and the future. He advised his wife, although her parents’ care was beyond reproach, but she also had to have her own independent thought, not to be encouraged and used by others. Through several hours of conversation, he felt he understood Shen's pain, and Shen seemed to understand his care and thought too. Finally, Zhou Xinghe forgave her for taking their money, driving away the factory's car and leaving without saying goodbye, and persuaded her to go home and run a good business together.
过了几天，小申通过明查暗访，确实证明周兴和没有外遇后，她离开绵阳，回到了成都的家里，回到了厂里继续工作。
A few days later, after Shen made an unannounced investigation and proved that Zhou Xinghe was not having an affair, she left Mianyang and returned to her home in Chengdu, and the factory to continue working.
但，树欲静而风不止。
But the trees want to calm down while the wind blows.
曾经撕破过的衣服，补好了难免还留有疤痕。夫妇俩想和好的初衷，在现实生活面前，在旁人“好心”地插手和怂恿下，没过几个月，不少矛盾又渐渐暴露出来。
Once the clothes were torn, it was hard not to leave a scar after mending. The couple wanted to become reconciled with good intentions, but in front of real life, in the other people’s "kind" intervening and instigation, not a few months later, many contradictions gradually exposed again.
这年秋天，随着公司经济状况好转，周兴和为了履行自己当初的承诺，把前妻王琼华和她老伴从三台接到了成都，给他们买了房子，并承担了他们的生活费；同时，为了报答当年乡亲们对他一家人的关照，周兴和又把几十个穷乡亲接到公司，给他们安排了工作，并付给他们不低的报酬；另外，他回到三台县，听说家乡魏河上的破铁船被大水冲走，老人孩子冬天过河只能蹚水时，他又慷慨地捐献了几万块钱，让村民们重新打造了一只水泥船，解决两岸村民过河难的问题。
This autumn, as the company's economic situation improved, Zhou Xinghe, in order to fulfill his original commitment, took his ex-wife Wang Qionghua and her current husband from Santai to Chengdu, bought them a house, and assumed their living expenses; at the same time, in order to repay the villagers for their care for his family, Zhou Xinghe took dozens of poor villagers to his company, arranged them with jobs, and paid them a good salary. In addition, he returned to Santai County, heard that the broken iron boat on the Weihe River was washed away by flood, and the old people and children could only wade in the water in winter, he generously donated tens of thousands of money, to let the villagers to rebuild a cement boat, and solve the problem of villagers cross the river.
这一切，难免不引起小申家人的猜忌和不满。
All this, it was hard to avoid the suspicion and dissatisfaction of Shen's family.
既然如此，后来小申的家人就提出，既然亲兄弟都要明算账，那么夫妻之间也应如此。为了体现公平，厂里每赚一笔钱，两人都要把账分开，年终最后结算，结算后归在各自名下。
In this case, Shen's family later proposed that since the blood brothers have to account, so should the husband and wife. In order to show the fairness, each sum earned in the factory shall be separated by two people in accounts, and belonged under their own names after the final settlement at the end of the year.
但，如此一来，这还算一个家吗？这还算一家人吗？这是在办企业吗？周兴和当然不答应。于是，没过几个月，经济上的矛盾又逐渐凸显出来，而且似乎还到了没有调和的境地。
But, was that still a home? Was this family? Was this running a business? Zhou Xinghe certainly refused. So, within a few months, the economic contradictions gradually emerged again, and it seemed that there was no reconciliation.
这种矛盾，有时甚至到了非常尖锐、一触即发的地步！
This contradiction, sometimes was even to a very sharp, explosive point!
2021年9月5日，《廉政内参》第4期第38页“人民心声”栏目刊登标题“我国建筑和建材领域一场颠覆性的革命”，其中第三节（第42页）小标题“愿星河新型材料的伟大发明得到国家大力推广，造福人类”的第七行摘要：“在当今中国，利用自己研发的高新科技成果走向世界的有两个人和两个项目：一个是袁隆平先生和他的杂交水稻，正在解决人们的吃饭问题；一个是周兴和先生和他的秸秆建材，正在解决人们的住房问题”。合乎科技兴国的伟大战略。
