An autumn rain and a cold one, located in a corner of the capital, in the Tongxin community, due to disrepair, the road is extremely muddy.

Braving the slanting wind and drizzle, Luo Ping came to this old residential area under the leadership of Liu Chao.

The doors of Building 3 201 were closed, the door frame was full of dust, Liu Chao took out the key, opened the door, and only gently pushed it, and the situation in the room was clear at a glance.

Luo Ping slowly walked into the room with tears in his eyes.

This is the house that his parents gave them after they got married, and it is also his home.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, all the furniture and electrical appliances are the style of more than ten years ago, and there is a simple shoe rack on the left hand side of the door, and a few pairs of shoes are neatly stacked.

The big ones are men's shoes, the small ones are women's shoes, and there is a small pair of children's shoes.

The heavy dust made the whole room look very dim, and the windows were covered with dirt accumulated over the years, but all this could not stop Luo Ping's excitement.

He saw a large picture frame on the opposite wall.

A young and handsome man, a beautiful and gentle woman, they stood on the green grass and hugged each other affectionately.

"Mom and Dad."

This is the first time Luo Ping has seen his mother in more than ten years, and it is also the first time to walk into his home after more than ten years.

Tears flowed silently, splashing down the dusty floor, dripping and dripping all over the one-room cottage as he walked.

"Since your parents disappeared, no one has touched it here, and what you see is pretty much what they looked like when they went out."

Liu Chao understood Luo Ping's mood at the moment, and after speaking simply, he withdrew from the room, leaving Luo Ping alone.

The little desk, the little chair, and the little bag.

Luo Ping looked at these tears and couldn't stop flowing down, he finally remembered something, remembered that when his father bought back the small desk, he was happy, and when he remembered that his mother bought him this beautiful schoolbag, he excitedly picked up the schoolbag and shouted to go to school.

There is also the fabric sofa in the living room, and I used to sit with my mother intimately watching TV.

……

The past appeared in front of him one by one, but things are still the same, and people are no longer the same.

He looked up at the huge wedding photo, and his heart was like a knife.

"Mom and Dad!"

Luo Ping couldn't hold back anymore and cried bitterly.

After fifteen years, he finally returned to his home and finally regained his memory, but his mother was gone, and his father was nowhere to be found—what could be more sad than that?

Liu Chao stood outside the door, listening to Luo Ping's suppressed cry, and there were crystal tears circulating in his eyes.

Half an hour later, Liu Chao returned to the house. Luo Ping was sitting on the sofa and staring at the photo album in front of him in a daze.

He gently patted Luo Ping on the shoulder, "Don't be too sad, no matter what, you're finally going home." ”

Luo Ping nodded, and the tears he had just held back couldn't help but flow down again.

"yes, I'm home, I'm finally home!"

He gently rubbed the photos in the album, looking at the smiling appearance of the family of three, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a knife.

After a while, Liu Chao saw that his mood seemed to have stabilized, and left the room after handing him the door key.

Luo Ping sat on the sofa for a long time, and finally looked up at his parents in the photo frame.

"Mom and Dad, I'm finally home."

He wiped tears from the corners of his eyes, went out to buy a mop and a broom, and silently began to clean.

Until nightfall, every corner of the house was cleaned by him, and the whole house was brand new, even the shoes on the shoe rack were wiped clean by him.

Although maybe no one will ever wear these shoes again.

This night Luo Ping had insomnia.

Lying on the only big bed in the house, he would be stunned when he looked at everything in the room.

Childhood memories kept appearing in front of him, and the voices and faces of his parents kept coming to his mind.

He didn't fall asleep until dawn.

In the dream, he saw his parents again, this time no longer like those previous dreams, their faces were so clear, their voices were clearly audible, they ran towards him happily, and Luo Ping also greeted them happily, wanting to hug them to the fullest.

But his hands were empty.

Luo Ping suddenly woke up from his dream, his body was already soaked with sweat, he looked at the somewhat strange and somewhat familiar room, and his nose was pantothenic again.

……

Coming out of Tongxin Community, you can walk through a badly damaged path and walk through a wide and clean street.

There is a natural café on the side of the intersection, and it is still lunch, and there are very few customers in the café, but to be exact, there are only two customers sitting by the glass window to the south.

"Uncle Liu, can you tell me about my parents?"

Liu Chao lit a cigarette and looked out the window at the street, his eyes were empty, just like the misty water vapor outside, as if he was thinking about the past that had been dormant for many years.

"Your dad and your mom are both my colleagues, they were in love for two years, and then they got married, and they had you less than a year later. You were very smart when you were a child, your parents liked you very much, and often took you to the unit to play, and your colleagues in the game also liked you. ”

Luo Ping looked down at the coffee in front of him, biting his lip tightly to prevent the tears from slipping down again.

“…… Your father is a very dedicated person, and after he came to work in the Property Bureau, he has been running around for many years and rarely has time off. The leader of the unit gave him a long vacation for a week in order to give him a complete rest. But no one expected that after your family of three went to the south, they never came back. ”

Liu Chao wiped away a tear from the corner of his eyes and continued: "My father and I are comrades-in-arms and colleagues. After the disappearance of your family of three, I went to the south several times to look for you, but I have not heard from you...... I didn't expect that a full fifteen years had passed by the time Zaijian arrived at you. ”

Luo Ping was silent, tears rolling in his eyes.

"Your father is an orphan, and your mother is from the capital and the only daughter in the family. After you disappeared, your grandfather and grandmother missed the illness and left a few years ago. ”

"Luo Ping, do you remember what happened, weishenme, your father will suddenly disappear."

Luo Ping looked up at the misty drizzle outside the window, let out a sigh of relief, and said slowly according to the memories that gradually remembered yesterday: "After Mom fell into the water, Dad hired someone to salvage in the East Lake for three days and three nights, and never found out that Mom's money was about to run out, Dad had to give up and continue to salvage." Just as we were about to return to the capital, he suddenly heard that someone had inadvertently dug up an ancient tomb in the south of Jiangcheng, so he led me over to have a look. ”

"I know that your father once called the unit, and in order to check this ancient tomb, he specially extended his vacation for two days." Liu Chao said.

"Dad found a black skin in the tomb...... It was because of this black skin that we were stopped halfway through, and in the panic, he pushed me down the mountain. ”

Luo Ping didn't tell Liu Chao the whole truth, and the cautious habits he had developed over the years made him always wary of strangers.

"Black skin?" Liu Chao pondered for a while, and suddenly looked up at Luo Ping, "Do you remember the appearance of that piece of black skin?" ”

"It's a palm-sized piece of skin, black and black, but one side has some strange white patterns."

Liu Chao was stunned, and after a while, he sighed: "I see, that's how it is." ”

"Uncle Liu, do you know that black skin?"

Liu Chao nodded: "This piece of black skin involves very important state secrets, and your father must have been targeted to protect this piece of black skin." ”

Luo Ping's heart moved, and he asked, "A piece of black skin can involve state secrets?" ”

Therefore, according to legend, during the Yin Shang period, King Zhou once secretly cast a bronze three-legged cloud dragon tripod to suppress demons and prosper the country. It is precisely because of this tripod that the historical achievements of King Zhou have been achieved. Later, after the change of dynasties, this tripod has been secretly collected by the royal family for sacrifice. Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, this bronze three-legged cloud dragon tripod suddenly disappeared and never appeared again. ”

Although Liu Chao said it superbly, Luo Ping did not regard these words as a fantasy, because the Pixiu blood in his hand was a myth in the eyes of others.

"Does Uncle Liu's tripod have anything to do with that black skin?"

Liu Chao has been working in the Property Bureau all these years, and he has long heard of these historical secrets, so when Luo Ping said the general appearance of the black skin, he will know what the black skin is for the first time.

"That black-skinned legend has a total of five pieces, and you can make a complete map by putting them together. Through this map, you can find the bronze three-legged cloud dragon tripod that has been missing for many years...... Your father was conscientious and conscientious in his work, and he was also smart and capable, and was accepted as an apprentice by Chen Lao, the deputy director at that time and an old expert who had been working on the protection of things for decades. I'm sure your dad must have seen the black leather in the bureau's collection, so when he found another piece from the tomb, he kept it in high esteem. ”

"It turns out that the fifth piece of black skin is in the property bureau."

Luo Ping's heart was slightly shaken, but he quickly thought that as a national-level material protection unit, it was reasonable to have a piece of black skin.

"Judging from your experience, most of the people who know the true origin of this black skin have been missing for so many years, maybe they have-"

"No, it won't."

Luo Ping suddenly stood up, and his face flushed with excitement.

Liu Chao looked up at him, and then sighed, and continued: "Your father has been missing for so many years, and the unit has not characterized this matter. As soon as the long vacation is over, I will report to the bureau immediately, and I believe that the bureau will definitely settle you properly. ”

Luo Ping understood his words and knew that he wanted to die for his father Shen in the line of duty, so he shook his head: "Uncle Liu, xiexie, you." But I'm sure my dad is still alive, and I'm going to find him anyway. ”