260.一直盯着电视画面看转播的美枝子知道，这时九太郎已经太虚弱了没多少力气了，他是想使完最后的一点力气讲这些话的。乘着插播的广告，美枝子眯了一会儿，眼睛也歇了歇，还没五分钟，就又听到九太郎说了起来：如果我们不去违法滋事，法权部门是不会将我们绳之于法的。我也深知自己的罪孽深重，不要再为我这样的罪人讨什么公正、公道的了，本是朽木谈何曲直？像我这样一个天生的畸形儿，这样一个仇恨和罪恶的混合体，我生活在今天本身就是对社会和谐和社会发展的一种嘲弄，本身就是对人类的正义与道德、善良与仁爱的一种扭曲，本身就是对人类繁衍遗传和进化与进步的一种玷污。为此，我万分地痛恨那场战争，但是，那二战的核爆并没让我清醒，让我成为合作与和平的使者。相反，在致残我肢体的同时，也致残了我的精神。是那场战争的余毒将我变成了一个危害社会和谐的魔头，我曾经想到过收手，但是，血管中已充满了仇恨的细胞，驱使着我不由自主地去干这干那。心地善良的人们啊！再不要为我的判重判轻、刑期长短劳费情感了，更不要为一个仅有着人体躯壳，但内心充满了憎恨一切社会活动的家伙去东拼西打了。离开我！因为我自己深知大家为我所做的一切，我自己不值也不配！心地善良的人们啊！为了不再毒害你们，更为了不再毒害我们的下一代，为了让你们永远的忘记，更为了让我们的后代永远的不知——因战争而滋孽的一切仇恨。经过几天的深思熟虑，我选择了绝食，我的绝食决不单单是讨个什么公正的审判，讨个什么刑期的长短，讨个什么你赢我输，而是我在向社会坦明这些年来对社会和谐、和平和合作的忏悔，也是在向社会咨询着这样罪恶的载体有无存在的必要性，尽管这样会很痛苦，但是……突然转播现场一片混乱，对九太郎的实况转播画面结束，视频画面开始播出静坐人群正在慢慢地离开现场的镜头。美枝子凭着自身的状况判断是因为九太郎健康情况出了问题，造成实况转播的中断。看到这她的嘴角轻轻地蠕动了一下，想要说什么，但她最后什么也没说，她流着泪水轻轻地侧了侧身子闭上了疲惫的眼睛，这次她一声没吭地选择了追随。
261.法院主审法官办公室里，电视机旁主审法官仰坐在沙发上静静地听着画面，沙发扶手上放着九太郎一案厚厚的卷宗，听着听着，这位挥锤严惩过无数罪犯的老人脸上流下了泪水。终于，他按响了电铃，女秘书走了进来，主审法官通知她请所有参加审理此案的人员立即到他的办公室来，连夜研究分析案情。
262.专访后又过了四天，二审判决下达，判主犯火钵九太郎有期徒刑五年，其他团伙成员一至四个月不等的劳役。然而，十六个人当中只有一个人（还因严重的大脑缺养已成为植物人）收到了判决书。九太郎和其他十五个同伙及他的妻子美枝子全部于绝食后的第七天而死。
263.十天后，风尘仆仆赶来的九月霜将军也没能见到儿子九太郎和儿媳美枝子，他与欧文律师拿着美枝子的遗嘱，去办理留下的各种相关的手续。然后去了孤儿院，从老院长阿奇手里接过了自己的孙子和清叶那只美丽的玉镯，老院长阿奇流着泪，精神恍惚地轻声说着：九太郎和美枝子都是刚到一岁就进了孤儿院，他俩太可怜了，是我亲自把他们带大，又看着他们上了小学、中学、大学，看到他们都长大成人了，我曾为他们高兴不已，谁成想落了个这么个结果，太可怜了，太可怜了啊！怎么不是我，而是孩子们？太不公平了！这些天来，我一直在深思着这样一个问题，是孩子们错了，还是我们的教育的失误？思来想去让我认识到了，是这个国家的社会环境和失败的教育毁了这些孩子。九太郎和美枝子的儿子又来我这儿了，我真不想也不敢想让他再在孤儿院里长大。将军您过来了，我太高兴了，打心里朝外地高兴，还有这个孩子的名字还没有起，不知起个啥名字好？九月霜回答：名字已经起好了，就叫合和吧，意于合作与和平，您说对吧？老院长阿奇高兴地说：这就好，这就好了，快带着“合和”回中国去吧，带他走吧！远离这块滋生仇恨的土壤，那天老院长阿奇讲了很多很多。
264.当天中午，在欧文的陪同下，九月霜爷孙俩登上了回国的班机。望着凌空而起的银燕，欧文打开公文包，从里面取出了信子留给女儿美枝子的那封信，只见上面写着，不见！不合！不去！六个普通的再也不能普通，但让他失败了半生的几个字，欧文再一次望了望天空中渐渐远去的飞机，他哭了，哭得是那样的老泪纵横。激动中，欧文把手中的信撕了，一边撕一边嘴里默默地祈祷着两个字——和平，他一遍遍撕着一遍遍念着，把信撕得粉碎，然后撒向了天空。
2009年3月8日写于兰州獒寮
Ami！Chogbo！
Some people are like a mountain，like water，like a mirror and like inion…
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1.Having seen off the former coach，Kama and other athletes immediately went to the manager，Mr.Zhang，in the office building.They wanted to ask him why he had changed the coach when the tournament was just around the corner and how he would arrange the training afterward.In the corridor they heard the manager was rehearsing a welcoming speech in a sonorous voice： "In Northwest China，where the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau borders inland，is embedded a great glassy lake——Qinghai Lake.Through thousands of years，the lake has inspired such legends as Sun and Moon Mountain，Reverse River，as well as beautiful songs like Faraway Place.We today gather here for the International Cycling Tour of Qinghai Lake.On behalf of Snow Lake Club，I’d like to give a warm welcome to Pierre，who are from France and will be the new coach of Snow Lake Team.The super athlete from the Kingdom of bicycling，you are welcome to be our coach and I hope you can bring us the Alpine style and the rock-like strength as your name suggests.You are welcome..."Abruptly the well-dressed manager made a pause because he found Kama and other athletes were gaping at him in suits from the door.From their eyes，they have known about the arrival of the new coach.
2.That evening，Snow Lake Team held a grand welcoming banquet for Pierre.When he turned up on the red carpet in the welcoming music，from afar Kama and Gongbu，the best players of the team，identified Pierre as their old opponent who had defeated them in an international match.Because impeded by his technical hindrance when they were dashing，they missed the third place they would otherwise have gained.As an old Chinese saying goes，when enemies come face to face，their eyes blaze with hate.Kama and Gongbu spoke in a whisper and then they went into the crowd separately.Among the crowd，Pierre was toasting to people one by one.Kama made a sign to Gongbu，who caught his message and nodded.He squeezed through the crowd toward him.When Pierre proposed a toast to Kama，Gongbu came up and intentionally nudged Pierre from behind.Their glasses ran into each other and the wine spilled out.As a result，Pierre’s elegant evening dress was stained in a riot of red.Gongbu slipped away in chaos.Kama pretended to apologize to Pierre，"I didn’t mean it.I’m sorry，really sorry." Pierre’s new dress was stained with patches of red wine，which gave him a wet blanket and he left all the presence，looking blue.Consequently，the welcoming banquet came to an end earlier and all the present leaders lost face.
3.The next morning，Pierre was accompanied to Snow Lake Team to teach his first class by the president of the Snow Lake Club as well as the leaders of Qinghai Duobaya Plateau training base.On arriving at the training ground，he began his training—— all the players were standing in a line ready to listen to him —— and among the players，he recognized unfriendly Kama and Gongbu that made an ass of him last night.However，he seemed to ignore their unkindness and rudeness of that night.Through all the training，Pierre’s target was clear —— what he expected was to win the team champion in Tour of Qinghai Lake this year by the means of his scientifically disciplined requirements and enforcedly assiduous training.In addition，Pierre hoped that Snow Lake Team would made rapid progress and become the power team in Tour of Qinghai Lake as well as the other international competitions during his training.
