Chapter 3: Father
Li Zedao hurriedly got out of bed with a anxious face, but found that he was wearing a set of hospital gowns, his clothes were thrown on a chair indiscriminately, but they were wet when touched by his hands, and there was a faint salty smell, as well as the pair of worn sneakers in front of the hospital bed, and the worn-out backpack, all wet.
From this it can be seen that he was indeed fished out of the sea, but how could he have fallen into the sea? He must have knelt on the overpass to ask for help.
Thinking that Li Zedao grabbed his messy chicken nest head with some irritation, and then picked up the piece of paper on the table that was soaked in seawater and was about to stuff it into his backpack, thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't let his father see the contents of this paper no matter what, right?
So he tore up the piece of paper and put it in the garbage can, then stuffed the suit on the chair into his backpack, put on the sneakers that were still wet, and then walked out of the hospital in his hospital gown, discerned the direction, and trotted home anxiously.
Li Zedao's home is located in a shantytown near the suburbs of Phoenix City, due to various problems, it has been said that it will be demolished, but it has not been demolished, and those who have a little richer have long since moved away from this dirty and messy ghost place, and some have even added two or even three stories to the original bungalows, so that they can be compensated a little more when they are demolished in the future.
And this house is rented by his father Li Dahai, not big, about 20 square meters, it is said that it was originally a small warehouse, and later changed in order to rent it out, but it is a kitchen and toilet, 300 yuan a month, compared with the price of the house price in Phoenix City, it is really not expensive.
There are no street lights in the shantytown, and the road is a dirt road with potholes, but Li Zedao is used to discrediting this kind of road, so he doesn't find it too difficult to walk.
Although he was already out of breath, Li Zedao still trotted forward very hard, he was afraid that his sick father at home would drag his sick body out to find him because he was worried about him, in case one accidentally fell or something, Li Zedao felt that he must be crazy.
Coming to the rented bungalow, Li Zedao's heart sank slightly.
Unlike before, the dim incandescent light did not shine through the window glass, which meant that his father was not at home, and he was really worried about going out to find him.
Li Zedao decisively turned around and walked back, he was worried about his father, and he wanted to pick him up. It's just that after walking a few steps, Li Zedao stopped, and he suddenly thought, what if his father came back and found that he didn't come back and went out to look for it? In other words, it would be better to wait for him at home now, right?
Thinking that Li Zedao hurriedly turned around, trotted to the door, took out the key from his bag and opened the door and entered, and then pressed the switch next to the door to turn on the light in the room.
The room was small, with shabby furniture, but it was well organized.
And at the moment when he put the backpack down, Li Zedao's eyes were attracted by the simple little table in the corner, and there was a bowl of meat on the small table, tempting braised pork!
Li Zedao looked at the bowl of braised pork, and instinctively swallowed his saliva, he forgot the last time he ate meat.
was tempted by the braised pork to come to the table, only to find that there was a pile of hundred-yuan bills next to this bowl of meat, which made Li Zedao's heart tremble suddenly, he had really never seen so many hundred-yuan bills, and if he looked at it, it was estimated that there were more than 100 yuan, which means that there were more than 10,000 yuan here.
When did the family have so much money? Li Zedao thought, and then subconsciously, he picked up the money, but found that under the pile of money was a folded piece of paper and a boxy white jade with the length of a thumb, and a lifelike phoenix was carved on the white jade.
Li Zedao picked up the piece of jade with some confusion and looked at it a few times, then put it back on the table, picked up the paper again, and opened it.
It was densely packed with words like a rooster practicing his signature, but Li Zedao recognized it at a glance, this is his father's pen, that is to say, this word was written by his father.
At that moment, after Li Zedao glanced at it a few times, his face changed greatly, his eyes were round, and he already had a panicked and helpless look, and his body trembled even more violently at the moment, and the piece of paper slipped from the gap between his trembling fingers and fell on the bowl of meat.
"No ......" Suddenly, Li Zedao was like a lone wolf who was injured, and while yelling, he had an expression of emotional collapse with tears streaming down his face.
"No...... You can't do this, you can't ...... like this" Li Zedao roared heartbreakingly, grabbing his hair with both hands and kneeling down.
"You can't do that...... You can't just leave me alone...... Ah......h
"Bang, bang......" Li Zedao began to slam his head on the floor as if he was crazy, and soon his face was already bleeding, with a hideous expression.
"Bang, bang, bang......" Li Zedao continued to smash the floor with his head, and he didn't know how many times he smashed it, but he felt that it was dark in front of him, and his whole body was paralyzed on the ground.
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All morning, He Xiaoyu was so angry that she was not in the mood to go to the cafeteria with her colleagues to eat after class in the morning, but drove to a place she didn't want to come to at all.
Li Zedao, the student with the worst grades in the entire third year of high school, actually released her pigeons today, and didn't even let his father Li Dahai come to her in the morning, and even he didn't come to class, isn't this challenging her authority as a beautiful class teacher?
And it is still the same as before, the contact information of the guardian left by Li Zedao, that is, his father Jiang Dahai, is still unreachable, which makes He Xiaoyu have to think that Li Zedao left a fake number at all, so after class, He Xiaoyu had to drive to this dirty and messy shantytown that she didn't want to come to at all according to the contact address left by Li Zedao.
In He Xiaoyu's opinion, she is simply idle and has nothing to do, otherwise she would come to this kind of place where birds don't that she can finally reach by climbing dangerous mountains and wading through bad waters?
As the car drove into the potholed shantytown, He Xiaoyu quickly felt her butt be shaken into several pieces, and she quickly lost her way surrounded by the dilapidated houses.
At that moment, I had to stop and ask an old man who was dressed in tatters and looked honest but was actually confused, and then asked an old man who looked more colorful, and finally, the red polo finally came to the small warehouse where the Li family and his son lived, but the car could not continue to drive forward, so He Xiaoyu had to push the car door and get out of the car.
"There is still such a ghost place in Phoenix City?" He Xiaoyu muttered angrily, glad that he was not wearing high heels today, and at the same time, he cautiously walked towards the small grassy house not far away.
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"Dad, don't go...... Don't go......" Li Zedao knelt on the ground and cried with a sad face.
In front of him was a middle-aged man with a short stature and a dark face full of traces of the vicissitudes of time, looking at him with a kind smile.
"Son, for your own good, Dad must go. The middle-aged man said, "In the future, Dad will not be around, everything can only rely on you......" said, the middle-aged man slowly turned around and walked forward, and the more he walked, the more blurred the whole person became.
"Dad...... Dad......" Li Zedao screamed with tears on his face, trying to stop the middle-aged man from staying away, and suddenly stood up and planned to catch up, but his father suddenly disappeared, and the scene in front of him also changed, he was still in this twenty-square room, and there was a ray of sunlight shining through the window.
It's dawn.
Li Zedao's dull gaze swept around the room a few times, and finally landed on the paper covering the bowl of braised pork, his hand trembled slightly, and he stretched out the paper and looked at it again from beginning to end, and looked at it carefully and hard from beginning to end, word by word, and then his body trembled more and more.
The next second, as if going crazy, I tore the paper hard, and soon, the paper had turned into a pile of fragments.
"Wow......"
Li Zedao cried out, this cry was out of control, he cried hysterically, cried heartbreakingly, cried as if he was about to breathe, as if he was about to lose his breath, and cried so much that the door was knocked on by a "bang...... but he was still unconscious.
"This is Li Zedao's cry?"
Outside the door, He Xiaoyu, who knocked on the door a few times, heard the cry from inside, and the muscles on her face were already gently twitching, she could hear that this voice was a bit like Li Zedao's voice, but why did she cry so sadly?
What's wrong with him......? Something went wrong?
After a deep groan, He Xiaoyu gritted his teeth slightly, and then continued to slap the door panel harder.
In the house, Li Zedao, who was like a miserable stray dog slumped there and cried bitterly, suddenly stopped crying, his red and swollen eyes fell on the door, and his heart throbbed even more.
"Bumper ......"
"Dad......" Li Zedao's originally grief-stricken face was instantly full of surprise, and he exclaimed in surprise at the moment, and then rushed to the door in a big stride and opened the door with force.
"Dad......" Li Zedao's surprised expression instantly froze.
"Ah......h
"Li Zedao, what the hell are you doing?" He Xiaoyu's face was a little pale, his breathing was a little short, and he drank it with a displeased face, and he just wanted to reach out and pat his chest to soothe her frightened little heart, but after thinking about it, he still didn't do that.