Old Zhao was not at home at the time of the accident, he was in college out of town, and by the time his aunt called him, his parents had been missing for a week. Because I really couldn't find it, I just notified Lao Zhao, who was going to school.

Lao Zhao was still a hairy guy back then, and after learning that his parents had an accident in the field, he ran to the local area regardless of it. Although the earthquake had passed, the aftershocks continued, and many roads leading to the disaster area were blocked.

When Lao Zhao finally arrived at the area where his parents had an accident, he was told that the search and rescue had been stopped. He really couldn't accept this reality at that time, and wanted to go up the mountain to find it himself, but was stopped because the mountain was really too dangerous at that time.

In the end, he had to wait for news from his parents while volunteering in the local area. But God did not fulfill people's wishes, and those who waited with him for news from their families, whether they were alive or dead, all had a quasi-child letter, except for him......

Disappearance is the last two words he gets, and it is also the final definition of his parents' whereabouts. At first, he didn't believe that his parents were dead, and he knew that they would come back sooner or later.

It was too long to "sooner or later", and it wasn't until his aunt finally went to bring Lao Zhao back to school from the disaster area. Since then, as soon as the school is closed, he will go to the disaster area to look for people, but every time he is disappointed.

At one point, he even really found two skeletons, but unfortunately the forensic doctor came to take a look and said that they were two men, and they were not more than 30 years old. It was later determined that these two men were the two boys who had been lost in a nearby village a few years earlier.

The two went up the mountain to play together, but they never returned. The forensic doctor saw from the skeleton that both of them had fractures of varying degrees, and they should have fallen off the cliff and were seriously injured, but because they were never found, they finally died.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment! It was also from that time that his aunt did not agree to him coming again, because if he continued, not only would his studies be wasted, but he would also be wasted. Since then, Lao Zhao has never had the idea of going back to look for it. It wasn't until some time ago when I was helping to find his classmates that I had some hope.

I had the heart to help him, but I was afraid that he would be stunned again like a person who had been thirsty for a long time suddenly seeing water, so I didn't say too much, after all, if I couldn't find it again, wouldn't I have to hit him again!

It's still the old rule, I'll let Lao Zhao go back to find some relics of his parents before their deaths, and they must be the ones they love the most. But Lao Zhao said that he didn't know what his parents loved, but fortunately, their old house was always there, and he never touched the things at home, just looking forward to the day when his parents could return to that home.

Lao Zhao's previous home was in a small county town more than 100 kilometers away from here, so in order to be able to find what I said, he asked for two days off from the hospital, and returned to his hometown where he had lived for more than ten years with Ding and me.

This county is not large, with a population of more than 100,000. The aunt who had always been very attentive to him had always lived here. The first thing he did when he returned here was to visit his aunt and tell her that he was going to look for his parents' bones again.

The current Lao Zhao is no longer the hairy young man he was back then, he is now a calm, capable, and assertive attending doctor, and he can already be responsible for every choice he makes.

And the aunt didn't stop him this time, because she saw that her nephew had grown into the heart of her brother and sister-in-law, so she naturally had nothing to worry about.

That night, the three of us went back to the old house of the Zhao family, which was located in an old building for the families of employees. This house is still the house that the school assigned to his father back then, and now although the building is empty, Lao Zhao is still reluctant to sell it.

Lao Zhao just said that no one has lived in this house for many years, and he was afraid that we would not be used to it, so he thought about booking a room for us in a hotel outside. I waved my hand and said, "Come on, you don't know what a bad environment we've all slept in!"

He saw that I insisted on not staying in the hotel, so he didn't say anything, after all, they are not outsiders, and if the house is not clean, it will be clean, how can it be much better than the hotel where everyone sleeps, right?

Their house was on the third floor, and when we went back, we found that few of the buildings were lit. When I asked, I found out that the buildings in this area were too old, and several of them had become dangerous buildings, so the government funded and asked the old buildings to be reclaimed. Repair what can be repaired, and dismantle what can't be repaired.

So most of the people who live here now have moved to other places, and the remaining houses are waiting for the government to plan the land for other uses, and then give them new resettlement houses.

As soon as I walked into the hallway, I felt that the temperature around me had dropped by a few degrees. I don't know why, this kind of building that is more than 20 years old has a natural shade, of course, the same shade in winter and summer.

When Lao Zhao opened the door with the key, a smell of long-term uninhabited people poured out from inside. So he immediately went in and opened all the windows to ventilate and diffuse the smell inside......

The room is quite clean, not like no one has lived in 10 years, and the furniture is covered with a white cloth, and you can use it when you take it off. Lao Zhao said that his aunt also had the key to their house, and she would come over to clean it several times a year.

In her words, if no one lives in the house, it can't be left uncleaned for a long time, otherwise there will be something else to live in if no one lives! I laughed when I heard it, but I didn't expect that Aunt Zhao was also a knowledgeable person.

Lao Zhao's family is very bookish, especially his father's study, which is a Chinese teacher's study at a glance, and the entire wall of historical masterpieces, some of which are even written in Chinese.

On the wall of the living room hung photos taken by the family of three, and Lao Zhao pointed to one of them and said, "This is the last family photo I took together before I went to college." ”

Hearing him say this, I took a closer look, and Lao Zhao at that time was really childish.

The area of this old building is not large, it is more than 70 square meters, because there is an extra study, so the area of the two bedrooms is very limited. The east bedroom, which was supposed to be where his parents lived, had nothing but a double bed and a large wardrobe.

In Lao Zhao's room, there were still a lot of things, which were full of all the honors he had won since he was a child. I took a closer look, but I didn't expect Lao Zhao to be a good student with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor!