After returning from the hospital, Li Yiyang did not go home, but went straight to his father Li Qing's residence. Originally, his mother had told him several times to take good care of his father in the hospital, but just now, Li Qing, who was asleep, kept muttering a person named "Luo Shi".

"Lotus!"

Li Yiyang repeated this name several times, but he knew very well that his mother was not called this name. Moreover, from childhood to adulthood, the family seems to have deliberately avoided his father's past, and every time they asked, they kept silent.

Li Qing's residence, Li Yiyang, is already familiar with the road, after all, he has lived here since he was a child. Because it is different from his mother's requirements for life, the two have been separated since he can remember. Usually Li Yiyang lives in the city with his mother, and only comes here during the holidays, when it is a vacation.

Because of this incident, when he was in school, he was squeezed by his classmates, saying that his parents were divorced and so on. However, Li Yiyang didn't care, because deep down he did feel that the relationship between his parents was a little alienated.

The quarrel is not noisy, but the relationship between the two seems to be colder than the quarrel, and they speak to each other very politely, so polite that it is like two strangers meeting for the first time. Li Yiyang has long been accustomed to this.

He had come to this abode this time, no more than usual, with some kind of purpose.

He cared a lot about the person named "Luo Shi", because he knew that if this heart disease was not removed, his father would never get better.

Li Qing lives in a villa in the suburbs, and it seems that the villa is a bit elevated to this dilapidated house, in Li Yiyang's words, it is just a broken tile house. Its architectural style is incompatible with this place, and Li Yiyang only learned that this is a characteristic of Chinese architecture, commonly known as "buildings" until he went to middle school.

The fence simply encloses a yard, and there is a vegetable garden in front of the door, and you can step on the bluestone path to reach the door. When Li Yiyang took out the key from his pocket, his eyes suddenly aimed at a tree not far from his left, he didn't have any research on plants, so he didn't know what kind of variety it was, but at this time he always felt that it was a little abrupt, hesitated, and walked towards the tree.

When he walked under the tree, he realized that the tree seemed to have just been moved, and it hadn't been before, looking at the newly renovated soil under his feet, Li Yiyang confirmed his conjecture.

But why did he plant such a tree in the yard? He couldn't figure it out, after all, the yard was not big, and if the tree grew up in the future, it would not be able to shade the sun tightly.

Standing in this position, he looked towards the second floor, which happened to be his father's room, and the reason why he came back here at this juncture was for one thing.

A diary!

A diary that records his father's secrets, which is also another word mentioned by Li Qing in addition to "Luo Shi" in his sleep just now. Not daring to delay more, Li Yiyang turned around and returned to the door, turning the key neatly, and after the antique-like "lock" made a "click" sound, the door was opened.

After entering, he looked around, Li Yiyang quickly targeted the bedroom on the second floor, he vaguely remembered that Li Qing had a safe, and the things that the other party valued so much must have been hidden there.

Sure enough, he soon found the safe in a mezzanine on the bedroom wall on the second floor, and was pleasantly surprised and troubled at the same time.

What is a password?

Sitting on the ground dejectedly, Li Yiyang was in trouble, he thought about it, and suddenly the corners of his mouth rose, revealing a smug smile. With the "click" sound made by the rotation of the gears, Li Yiyang's heart rose to his throat. Until the last loud "snap" sound sounded in his ears, and he exhaled.

Carefully took out a box from the inside, Li Yiyang's heart was beating vigorously and vigorously, and he felt that his hands were shaking, as if he was not holding an ordinary box, but something terrible and evil.

At that moment, he hesitated, after all, this was his father's most cherished item, if he opened it rashly like this, would the other party blame him when he found out?

But Li Yiyang couldn't think about it so much in front of him, he struggled to get up and walked to the table and put the box on top. It's a black box, wiped clean, and there's no dust at all on it. The four arc-shaped corners are painted with red carvings, and the texture of the box is somewhat strange, neither like plastic nor iron, but a bit of jade. But he had never seen the black jade before, and thinking of this, Li Yiyang's heart rose to his throat again.

The box didn't have a lock, it was just an ordinary edge box, he only held the lid and lifted it up slightly, and the box was opened.

The first thing that caught my eye was a yellowed photo, Li Yiyang picked it up suspiciously, and found that there were two in total. He carefully looked at the first photo, in which there were four people, two men and two women, standing in a row, and the first boy with a violin in his hand from left to right, Li Yiyang, recognized that it was his father. The reason why I am so sure is because this person looks almost exactly like him. Standing next to the boy was a girl with a sweet smile and long black hair hanging down her waist.

This is probably Luo Shi, Li Yiyang firmly thinks so!

There was also a girl next to Luo Shi, with shoulder-length short hair, slightly curly, a bun face, and two deep dimples when she smiled. On the far right is a golden-haired teenager, who is said to be a teenager because Li Yiyang found that he looked very young and felt similar to himself, just sixteen or seventeen years old.

There are only two people in the other photo pressed below, Li Qing and Luo Shi. The dress is the same as the previous photo, so I think it should have been taken on the same day.

Putting the photo down, Li Yiyang flipped through the remaining things in the box, only a few folded paintings and a crystal clear jade pendant, and nothing else.

"Roar, what about the diary, why is there no diary?" Li Yiyang's pupils contracted rapidly, he lifted the box and shook it down, eager to dig out a hole in it, but to his disappointment, there was indeed no diary inside.

He turned around and went to the safe again, stretched out his hand and touched it again and again, and his face couldn't help but sink.

No, there's nothing in it!

Taking a step back, the look in his eyes quickly dimmed, and he sat down in the chair dejectedly, Li Yiyang racked his brains and tried to remember. His fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, the diary, in fact, he had seen it once when he was a child.

Li Yiyang closed his eyes and recalled the scene at that time......

It was his tenth birthday, and his mother bought him a big box of cakes that he hadn't eaten at noon, and there were still some leftovers on the table. In the afternoon, he picked up a small plate and put a small piece of it in it, ready to serve it to his father.

It was a hot summer, and the fan in the house was "squeaking" and rotating, and the people outside the window were annoyed, "stinging, stinging", very noisy. Wearing a small vest and shorts, he carefully climbed to the second floor with the cake, the stairs were concrete, and the water on the soles of his feet left small footprints on them.

As soon as he entered the room, he called "Dad" crisply, and then quickly ran to Li Qing, put the cake on the table, and saw a diary next to him at a glance.

It was a very thick book, the cover of a brown brown brown paper bag, Li Yiyang felt curious, picked it up casually, and wondered: "Dad, what is this? This book is so beautiful, can you give it to me?"

As he spoke, he was about to open it, but Li Qing snatched the notebook away, looking sick.

Li Yiyang was stunned in an instant, staring at Li Qing tightly with a pair of big eyes, and after a while, he heard Li Qing's hearty laughter of "hahaha", Xu realized that he had just scared his son, he quickly pulled his face and said gently: "This is Dad's diary, do you know the diary? It is to record his own little secret, and he can't show it to others." ”

"Can't even I read it? What about my mother?

Li Yiyang, who grew up abroad, was not so proficient in Chinese, so when he heard the diary, he did not know that it was a very personal thing. Although he was very curious, his ability to observe words and emotions at a young age was not weak, and then he hurriedly continued: "Okay, then I won't look at it, I'm not so curious, Dad eat cake." ”

Li Qing touched his head and smiled dotingly......

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With a "Teng", Li Yiyang bounced up from the chair and began to search the entire room, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, not leaving any place behind, and wishing that he could not even go in the mouse hole to take a look. But to his disappointment, there was no journal in the room he had turned upside down!

He had thought about other rooms, but he always felt that he would not put the diary that was so cherished by his father, and for a moment he wondered if he had been taken to the hospital by the other party. After all, it's still possible to carry it with you.

But soon Li Yiyang denied this conjecture, because he thought that the hospital was full of people, and things were directly put into the cabinet in the ward, which would inevitably be accidentally turned over by others. And this diary is probably related to that "Luo Shi", he doesn't think his dad will do it!

Standing at the window, his brows were tightly locked, beads of sweat hung on his childish face, his heart couldn't help but be a little irritable, his eyes fell on the tree in the yard, and in an instant, it seemed that there was an electric current rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, and he quickly turned around and rushed downstairs.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I suddenly thought of something, turned back to the utility room, found a small shovel, and ran to the tree with it. Although the tree had just been moved, the careful Li Yiyang still found that it was unusual to have a small piece of soil renovated, because there was a circle of grass growing around the tree, but there was a small circle of new soil under the roots of the big tree that did not grow on it.

If you don't think about it, you won't notice it, but once you accept a certain setting in your heart, you will have a strange intuition.

He walked over, squatted down, and dug with a shovel, and sure enough, after a while, he heard the sound of "ping-pong" iron tools colliding......