Early the next morning, I caught an early flight back to my home on Shunhe Street, where Miao Min was feeding my red-capped tiger head on the balcony.

I walked over and took the fish food, put it in the cupboard, turned around and sat down in a chair, took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked it.

"What's wrong?" Miaomin asked.

I didn't speak.

She smiled, took an ashtray and placed it next to me, touched my face with her hand and said, "Who did you meet?"

I reluctantly stretched out my hand and shook the ashes of my cigarette, and said, "I touched Wang Keke." ”

She nodded, thought about it, and said with a smile: "You tell Xiao Xu to go and see her, and I'll go see her when I'm free." ”

I looked at her in amazement.

She said, "What are you worried about?" I went to thank her, and by the way, I gave her the necklace in the drawer of the big closet. You bought that necklace for her, right?"

I picked at the back of my head in embarrassment and said, "I didn't expect it at that time!"

Miao Min stood up and sneered and said, "Hmph, I can understand." ”

Walking to the living room, she turned around and hooked her finger at me again, and said, "Come here, my sister wants to requisition you again." ”

I said, "But it's almost time to get to work." ”

Miao Min snorted, I quickly took out my phone, sent a text message to the secretary, and then walked to the bedroom.

Miao Min still flew to see Wang Keke on the same day.

When he came back in the evening, he only said one sentence: "You are not a simple king." ”

I was about to ask what I meant, and she requisitioned me again......

The next morning, when I was exercising on the balcony, Miao Min got up and stood beside me, picked up a pair of small dumbbells and started doing dumbbell exercises.

I was curious to ask her how she came up with the idea of exercising.

She looked at the rising sun without squinting and said, "I can't beat her." ”

I stopped and said, "Did you do it with her?"

"No," she said, "we had a great conversation and even drank a bottle of red wine together. ”

I didn't speak, and I didn't think about what to say.

She said: "With my eyes of many years of martial arts, she should be a master." ”

I laughed and said, "You've drunk too much." ”

She gave me a blank look and said, "Did my sister lie in front of you?"

I thought about it, and she really didn't lie in front of me, except for hiding behind her back and playing with me.

I asked strangely, "Haven't you heard that she knows martial arts?"

She said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "If she had half of her sister decisive, you would have been caught by her." ”

I smiled awkwardly and said, "You're embarrassed to say." ”

Instead, she put down her dumbbells and headed for the bathroom.

Xiao Xu retained his treatment as a technical chief engineer after making a sincere review to the unit, and was inexplicably concurrently held the administrative position of a deputy director, and finally understood the whole thing without me having to say much.

A month later, he was granted a week's leave by the leadership, and he took the opportunity to ask me to accompany her to the capital to meet his Coco mother.

My leave is also specially approved, and the meaning of the leader's phone call is very clear, since I can be summoned by the No. 1 chief, then I can go directly to the capital to find him if I have any difficulties in the future, so much more. This kind of treatment finally gave me the feeling of a person who has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven again.

We arrived in the capital on a sunny afternoon.

Xiao Xu meant that he would accompany Xiao Ling home for a meal first, and then go to me the next day and go to the bar together.

I said yes to him, but I slipped away to Bar Street alone.

When I walked to the door of the "Lan Coco" bar, the bar had not yet opened, I looked up at the sign, and was about to smoke a cigarette, when a cold voice came from behind me: "You're early." ”

I turned around, and Wang Keke, who was wearing a plain cheongsam and black leather shoes, was standing in front of me with a small bag.

I followed her into the bar, and she went into the inner room, where I smoked in the high chair as usual.

After a while, she was still wearing an apron and holding a bowl of somen noodles in front of me.

I smiled and said, "You know I haven't eaten?"

She said: "At this point, I should have been here without stopping when I got off the plane." ”

I buried my head and ate noodles, but I heard her say leisurely: "Originally, I wanted to cook for you every day, raise you fat, and then grow old with you." ”

I looked up in amazement to see two lines of tears hanging from her face.

I put down my chopsticks and looked at her quietly.

She took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, and said, "I took your necklace, it's good." Your wife is also very good, she is a master and can protect you. ”

I said, "I'm sorry. ”

But she said, "You don't know, it's me who should say I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done this." But I thought you were lonely and pitiful, and I accompanied you and raised Xiao Xu slowly, which is very good. But I was wrong. ”

My second brother was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?"

She laughed again and said, "Actually, I am very happy to see that you are living a good life now, with a wife and a son." My mission was accomplished. ”

I asked, "Mission?

She put a finger to her mouth and said, "Shhh

I looked at her strangely.

She stretched out a hand and touched my face and said, "Actually, whether it's to accompany you or save you." Or help you bring the big and small, you don't have to be grateful to me, this is my fate, and it is also my task, you may know later, but now I still can't tell you. ”

I smiled and said, "The more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, what other secrets can you have?"

She ignored me and said to herself: "You go, tell Xiao Xu not to come, don't look for me in the future, I really won't see you again next time." ”

I'm speechless.

At this time, Wang Keke walked into the inner room, and through the curtain, I saw her sitting on the sofa, burying her head, and putting her hands in her hair. His hair hung down and fluttered softly in the windless room.

I walked out of the bar and wandered aimlessly on the street, looking at this city full of lights and wine, and from time to time I walked by pairs of smiling red men and green women on the street, but I felt inexplicable sadness.

Back at the hotel, Xiao Xu was already waiting for me.

I took off my clothes and said, "Come back tomorrow, your mother said she didn't want to see you." ”

He smiled and joked with me: "Xu Sansui, how did you do it? I said that I would go with you tomorrow, you can't wait so much, aren't you afraid that I will sue you at my mother's place?"

I ignored him, poured a glass of wine at the hotel bar, and walked to the balcony alone to watch the night view.

Xiao Xu followed me to the balcony, handed me a cigarette, touched one himself, and put it to his mouth to light it. Quietly accompany me to watch the night view.

I lit a cigarette, took a puff, looked at the unpredictable night sky of various colors disturbed by the swaying pillars of light, and said softly, "Actually, what she doesn't want to see is me." ”

Xiao Xu turned his head, also looked at the night sky, and said inexplicably: "I was originally the chief technical engineer, and I was treated the same as the deputy director, but I also served as the deputy director in charge of the archives." ”

I ignored him.

"I've seen a lot of cases, some of which are classified," he said. ”

At this point, he listened.

I said, "Don't talk about secrets." ”

He smiled and said, "But some of them have already been declassified." ”

I raised my hand, and he immediately ducked to the side and said, "Got it, got it, got to the point." ”

I turned my head to look at him, and he said, "I have some authority to declassify some of the files that have passed through the ages. ”

I raised my hand again, and he hurriedly said, "I found Coco's mother's file." ”

Shocked, I grabbed him by the collar and asked, "How can she have a file with you?"

Xiao Xu broke free and said: "You are like this, you are impatient, your son is so old and you are still like this, no wonder your mother calls you Xu three years old." ”

I raised my hand again, but he staggered into the living room.

I chased him to the living room and found him sitting on the couch in the living room.

"The file says that the executor is No. 57, the name is Wang Lan, the age is twenty-one years old, the content of the task, the protection of important people, and the task deadline is written for a long time. Do you know what it means to be long-term?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know, the Time and Space Administration still cares about this? You're not a secret service. ”

But he said with contempt: "We have the power to enforce the law." ”

Probably thinking that he was sitting too formally, he stretched out his hand and climbed on the back of the sofa, stretched his feet on the coffee table and crossed them, and said, "For a long time, this person has to be protected by the executor until he dies." And this file was recorded thirteen years ago. ”

I was shocked, because thirteen years ago, it was Wang Keke, that is, when Wang Lan joined the work in our unit, according to what happened later, then the identity of this important person was about to come out.

"Have you found your grandparents' files?" I immediately thought of my family's two martyr's certificates, because only my parents' affairs could make me an important person.

"No, the archives can't even retrieve their names. Xiao Xu said regretfully, reached out and took the red wine glass I put on the coffee table and took a sip.

"Maybe it's because you don't have enough authority, their affairs are confidential, and the chief himself said it, and he has made a great contribution to the country's scientific and technological progress. I said.

"It is also possible that contributions that are not related to the study of time and space, and this kind of archive will not be transferred to us. Xiao Xu added.

"What does this executor mean?" I asked.

"It's the one who performs the space-time mission. Xiao Xu said.

"Oh, yes, there's one more thing. He took out his mobile phone, and then said: "I sent the photo to my phone, look at it, it's different from your description of Coco's mother when she was young, look, Coco's mother was beautiful when she was young." ”

The photo in the mobile phone is a young and invincible beautiful girl, and her appearance is quite high. The photo is an ID photo, the girl wears her hair tied up, a tie and a small dark blue suit. But I'm sure that the girl smiling at the camera and Wang Lan, who worked in the office next to me on the first day, are essentially different from her appearance, temperament, and even her smile, but they are closer to the current Wang Keke.

"Is it disguise?" I said.

"You've read too many martial arts novels, and you're also using disguise techniques. "Xiao Xu gave me a big white eye.

I said suspiciously, "She said she didn't want to see me anymore, should I go tomorrow?"

Xiao Xu said helplessly: "It's okay if you don't go, but how can I ask her? After all, you are the one who has a leg with her." ”

I lifted my foot and kicked him, and he ran away laughing.

Early the next morning, Xiao Xu and I rushed to the Lancoco Bar, only to see a notice of "transfer" posted on the door. I called according to the number written on the revelation, and the other party was indeed a real estate agency.

Xiao Xu still wanted to check it out, but I held him down and said, forget it, she doesn't want to see us.

Back on Shunhe Street, Xiao Xu told Miao Min about the cause and effect of this incident. Miao Min sat at the dining table and dragged her chin and thought for a while, and said leisurely: "Speaking of which, it's still my fault for this." ”

Together, we looked at her in strange eyes.

She looked at me and said, "The fence is tight, and cats and dogs can't get in." ”

I immediately froze, turned around and walked to the balcony to smoke.

Xiao Xu taught his mother that this shouldn't be said in front of me, sometimes it's too upright or something.

After work the next day, I went to No. 57-1 Bar Street alone, because it was too remote for anyone to take over, I bought it after Wang Keke disappeared, and kept it as it was, as a memory of Wang Keke.

Walking into the alley paved with bluestone slabs, I smiled when I saw the swarthy "Lan Coco" signboard surrounded by colorful lights.

When I opened the door, the interior was furnished as before.

I sat down in a high chair at the bar, pulled out a cigarette, lit it and took a puff.

A voice suddenly came from the door: "Is Boss Lan here?"

I turned around and saw a cowering middle-aged man standing in the doorway.

I said, "Are you looking for Wang Keke?"

He said, "Lan Keke, Boss Lan?"

I was shocked and pretended to be calm and asked, "You haven't met the owner of this bar?"

"I've been here many times, and there's no one here, I'm here to talk about business," he said. ”

I said, "What business?"

He walked in and looked up, and the first thing I felt when I saw this face was: obscene, very obscene.

The ugliness of his appearance and his lewd look made me feel bad for him.

"What kind of business, you just tell me. I said lightly.

"I know the rules, the password is six zeros. He pulled out a card and handed it over.

I didn't answer the card and said, "Just say it." ”

This is a short story, a big family, the second child killed his father and wife, framed the eldest and caused the separation of flesh and blood.

I listened for a long time with a frown, and said, "Just say what you want." ”

"Go back in time and stop the second child from doing bad things. He said.

Returning the card to him, I said, "I'm sorry, this business can't be done recently, and the boss has gone to the capital." ”

After inquiring about the boss, he didn't come back recently, and went out dejectedly.

I took out my mobile phone and called Xiao Xu and made an appointment to meet "Lan Keke".

He came with Xiao Ling.

When Xiao Ling saw me, he said, "Uncle Xu, I asked for it myself, and I should know more about this matter than Xiao Xu." ”

I stood behind the bar and poured a glass of wine for each of them.

"Let's start with the executor. She took a sip of her wine and said.

Xiao Ling's words surprised me. "Our research on the relationship between time and space began very early, probably shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China," she said. And the Institute of Time and Space was established not long after the start of the movement that you don't know very well, after all, it was too long ago. ”

After more than ten years of ancient book research and field investigations, the space-time singularity was finally found in several places across the country, and the space-time singularity was successfully determined to have the characteristics of periodic occurrence.

On this basis, the state has established an executive force subordinate to the National Security Bureau, whose main function is to travel to parallel universes through the singularity of time and space, change history, and radiate and influence our time and space.

"Until Xiao Xu was born and the Time and Space Administration was established, we could travel freely through time and space. The Enforcer Force was placed under the management of the Temporal and Space Authority, and became a semi-public team. She took another sip and said with a smile.

Xiao Xu continued: "The original space-time singularities have been gradually abandoned, and many of them have been lost. ”

Xiao Ling said: "But some retired executors will use the singularity of time and space they know to do something that changes the trajectory of ordinary people's lives, for example, killing people or something, these things have little to do with the direction of national history, although we are controlling, but we cannot completely exempt this kind of black market trading." ”

Xiao Xu said: "Based on what you encountered today, I guess that Coco Ma is such an executor. It was illegal for her to do so. ”

I slapped my palm on the table and said, "What is illegal? She can raise you if she doesn't do this? Can she send you to college? You can't be so unconscionable." ”

Xiao Ling hurriedly grabbed me and said, "Uncle Xu, we know and know." The problem now is to find Aunt Coco and ask her to stop doing such dangerous things, now the supervision is getting stricter and stricter, and it is very dangerous. ”

I fell silent and said, "Okay, I'll get someone to do this." ”

Xiao Ling pulled Xiao Xu away first, I sat in the bar for a long time, thinking about the cause and effect of this incident, and finally decided to ask Hans, after all, among the people I know, the only one who has contact with the underworld is the leader of the mercenary known as "China expert".