Li Qian took Uncle Xiong, Xiao Ke and Hou Jian to eat wonton at an early shop in the market. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this restaurant was introduced by Li Kui, and there was a queue of people who drank wonton in the morning, and many of them came to eat. Li Qian arranged for Uncle Xiong to find a seat with Xiao Ke and sit down, and then pulled Hou Jian to line up in the line. It took about ten minutes to get in line, and the two of them each carried two bowls of soup wontons, plus four fried dough sticks and four braised eggs.

After a few people had eaten and drunk, they went home. Hou Jian drove away with Xiao Ke, and Li Gan sent a bowl of wonton to his second uncle, and then walked back leisurely with Xiong Jing on the side of the street. It's just that when he was about to arrive at the community, Li Gan's mobile phone suddenly rang. Li Gan took out his mobile phone and saw that it showed the words "Queen Mother", and hurriedly pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Mom? ”

"Xiao Qian, where are you?" His familiar female voice came from the other end of the line.

"I just had breakfast at my second uncle's place, and now I'm heading back. What's wrong? Li Qian said.

"I'm fine." The other end of the phone said, "Aren't you home these days?" ”

"That's right." Li Gan said unabashedly, "It's making trouble on my second uncle's side, if you don't believe it, you can call him and ask him." ”

"Oh, that's good." The female voice on the phone said, "I believe you, come back in a while." ”

"Well, right away, I'm all near our house." Li Qian said.

"Okay, come back quickly, Mom has brought you a specialty." "Hehe, it's still my mom who is the best for me."

After hanging up the phone, Li Gan's originally stretched face gradually converged into a smile.

"What's wrong?" Xiong Jing, who noticed his change, asked.

"It's fine." He turned his head and smiled at Xiong Jing, "I can't go back with you today, Uncle Xiong." ”

"It's okay, let's go home." Xiong Jing said, "After all, I have just come of age, and my parents will still be worried after running outside for so many days." ”

"They went on a tour the other day." Li Gandao.

"Really? Why didn't I take you with me? Xiong Jing asked casually.

"Who knows......" Li Qian sighed almost inaudibly, "Okay, then I'll leave Uncle Xiong first!" ”

"Well, slow down." Xiong Jing waved at him.

After Li Gan walked away, Bai Tuan suddenly jumped on Xiong Jing's shoulder, approached his ear and shouted.

"Sir~"

"Huh?"

"Brother God's house is so strange."

"Strange?"

"yes." Xiaobai said, "Brother Qian, he should be on summer vacation, right?" He doesn't have summer homework, so it stands to reason that he should go on a trip with his parents, right? And I have been observing him for a long time in the past few days, and his parents have not called him in the past few days when they are traveling, as if they don't care about him at all. ”

"Really......" Xiong Jing groaned. …… If that's the case, it's hard for this kid. ”

"But if things go the way they are going, I'm afraid it will be more and more interesting in the future."

Xiong Jing's tone changed suddenly, and his voice became deep and magnetic, as if some deep and dark inner being was speaking through Xiong Jing's vocal cords. Xiong Jing's expression also changed from the previous meek and docile, and a broken smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

He will gradually realize what kind of existence he really is, and step by step gain the power that should belong to him but was taken away from him, just like the fruit of green gradually ripening under the baptism of wind and frost. When the time comes, I'll empty his body and take that thing. At that point, no one will be able to stop me. ”

"Sir?" Listening to Xiong Jing's words, Xiaobai felt incredible. "What are you talking about?"

"Huh?!" Xiong Jing recovered suddenly, "What did I just say?" ”

"I don't know, I don't understand at all." Xiaobai looked at him and said, "It's terrible to say that you want to hollow out my brother's body." ”

"I said such horrible things?!" Xiong Jing was taken aback, "Wouldn't it?" ”

"Forget it, when I didn't say ......"

Bai Tuan didn't want to continue this topic, because even he didn't believe that the person who had just spoken was Mr. Qijia.

Li Gan walked on the way home, his expression was not relaxed. When he was about to get downstairs to his house, he deliberately stopped and sorted out his emotions. Although he understands many things very well, he still wants to act in front of his parents that he doesn't know anything, so that they don't worry about him.

He walked through the door and pressed the elevator button. Both elevators stayed on the upper floors and didn't come down for half a day. Li Gan waited impatiently, so he turned around and entered the stairwell. His house was actually on the sixth floor, and with his physical strength, it didn't take much effort to climb up.

When I got to the door of my house, I knocked on the door a few times.

"Hey, here we go~!"

A middle-aged woman's voice came from inside the door, and then the door was slammed open.

"You're back, Xiaoqian?" Li Gan's mother greeted with a smile.

"Well, I'm back~" Li Gan also smiled back, took off his canvas shoes and changed into slippers.

"We just came back, too."

Mother said as she went back to the living room to clean up. There are a lot of things on the table, there are food and souvenirs, a lot of them. Li Gan's intuition told him that these were carefully selected by his parents.

"Bought so many things?" Li Qian changed out of the clothes he had been wearing for a few days and stuffed them into the washing machine, "Have you fun?" ”

"It's fun." Li Gan's mother smiled. "If you come along, ......"

Speaking of this, she suddenly stopped, and Li Gan looked at her silently.

"Ah, that's right, I bought you something fun over there."

As if to alleviate the awkward atmosphere, Li Gan's mother hurriedly ran to the box she had opened in the living room, took out a paper bag from it, and ran over to hand it to Li Gan. Li Qian lowered his head and took it, and saw that under the transparent plastic paper on the front of the bag, there was a Peking Opera shadow puppet dyed in color, and the bag also included a bamboo stick with a hook to manipulate the shadow puppet.

"It's a shadow puppetry." Li Qian pretended to be happy and said.

"That's right." Seeing that Li Qian was happy, his mother's face also showed a wrinkled smile. "When you were young, you didn't always clamo to play shadow puppetry, but now it's okay, Mom bought it for you."

"Well, thank you, Mom." Li Gan said and looked into the living room. "By the way, what about my dad?"

"Looking for your dad? Your dad is in the study. "Oh, I'll take a look."

Pushing open the door of the study, Li Gan saw his father sitting on the desk in front of the window with his back to him, as if he was writing something.

"Dad, I'm back." Li Qian said to his father's back.

Hearing his voice, the man with his back to him turned his head and lifted his glasses.

"Oh, it's Xiao Qian." After seeing the person clearly, Li Gan's father smiled. "Are you tired these days?"

"Not tired." After answering, I suddenly felt that something was not right. "How do you know ......?"

"Your second uncle told me that he has taken you to see it in the past few days." Li Gan's father smiled, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"Dad......"

Li Qian had thousands of words to ask in an instant, but he didn't know where to start.

"Huh?" The father gave him an inquiring look.

“…… It's okay. ”

Li Gan withdrew and closed the door. Looking at the door of the study for a while, Li Gan's father's eyes revealed the emotions that had been hidden, which was a complex fusion of concern and helplessness. He sighed softly and turned his attention to his desk, where there was a half-drawn cinnabar charm.

After taking a shower, Li Qian lay down on the bed in his bedroom, staring at the shadow puppet show standing on the desk opposite.

Why? was supposed to go on a trip with three people, but it was his parents who went together, leaving him alone at home. And my father seemed to know what he was doing, but he didn't say it explicitly. Could it be that this series of events is also more or less related to their existence?

Probably not. Li Qian still rejected this idea.

His parents were both university teachers, his mother taught English and his father taught computers. Both of them are people who live their lives according to their duties, and their reputation outside is also very good. They often say that the most important thing in the world is not how much money a person has, but whether he has cultivation and connotation.

Their concepts had a great influence on Li Gan, who loved them and respected them very much, admiring his parents like ordinary children. But for some reason, sometimes, he always faintly feels a sense of disobedience.

He felt that his personality was subtly different from that of his parents - they were both honest people, who did not cause trouble outside, and would actively avoid it. But Li Qian is different, as long as he sees someone who is doing something wrong since he was a child, he will point it out, whether the other party is a teacher, an elder or a senior, he will explain what is wrong with the other party. He was never afraid of retaliation and unfair treatment from the other party, because he did not consider himself a weakling. Since he was a child, he has done well in sports and has never lost a fight. When you meet someone who is bullied outside, even if you don't know that person at all, he will help out.

But his parents told him not to provoke those who did the wrong things outside, because those people had a good chance of having backgrounds and privileges that he didn't know about. You don't have to say it when you see it, it's also a witty way of dealing with the world.

"But are we going to let them do whatever they want?" Li Gan, who was still young at the time, asked loudly, "The teacher taught us before, don't take the good as small, and don't take the evil as small. No matter how difficult it is to do good things, you must work hard to do them, and no matter how easy it is to do malicious things, you must control yourself. This is a truth that everyone understands, so why don't they understand it? ”

His parents didn't speak at the time. After a while, his father came over and touched his head.

Now he understands that he was too naïve at the time. Because in this world, as long as there are things and actions, they have their own unique truths, and even those that seem unrighteous may not be as dark as you see. It's like two sides of a coin, where there are heads and tails.

But on more than one occasion, relatives at home said he didn't look like his parents. His facial features were neither like his father nor his mother, and the relatives of the family discussed it for a long time, but they didn't know who he really looked like.