In my room, I sat him on the couch and I comforted him with many words. He stopped crying. He's just going to do it. Sometimes his swollen eyes stared blankly at me, sometimes he looked at the door.

"I'll go outside for a while," he said suddenly, standing up.

"Okay," I said just one word, and didn't follow him out. I felt tired and sat on the soft couch and didn't want to move again.

I thought he would come in again. But after more than half an hour, I could not hear his voice. Later, when I went outside the door, there was no sign of him in the garden. He's gone, and he should be gone.

I didn't hear the story of his father from the child's mouth, and I felt lonely and unhappy. But I don't want to go out on the street, and I don't want to sleep. In order to dispel loneliness, I put all my heart and soul into my novels.

I wrote a lot about this day. I was touched by the story I made up. The old coachman was beaten at the door of the teahouse and went to the blind woman with a scar. He fell in front of her door.

……

"What's wrong with you?" The woman was taken aback, she fumbled and asked with concern. She grabbed his outstretched hand.

"I stumbled," the coachman replied with a reluctant smile.

"Ahh Does it hurt? She bent down.

"No injury, I don't hurt at all!" The coachman laughed as he wiped the blood from his face. But tears were already streaming down her cheeks.

……

It was as if these two men were speaking right in front of my eyes. They are living, they are suffering. And they afflicted my heart with their pains. Just when I couldn't stand it anymore, Lao Wen suddenly ran into the room angrily and reported: "There is a pre-plan." According to him, this is the second pre-alert this year. I looked at my watch and knew that it was already 10:30 a.m., and I did not expect the enemy planes to fly into the city, but I took the opportunity to put down my pen.

I asked Lao Wen, have the lord and wife left? He replied that after lunch, they accompanied his aunt and wife out to buy things, and now they are eating tea and listening to the bamboo piano in the "Rope Creek Garden" outside the north gate. He also told me that Master Hu went to school in the morning and had not yet returned. I asked him again if all the people in the mansion were going out of the city to hide from the alarm. He said that after the "air raid" was released, everyone up and down the mansion left, and only Li Laohan stayed to watch his family. Li Laohan must not have run the alarm, and no one could convince him.

I also had some gossip with Lao Wen, and the air raid siren, which had been absent for a long time, suddenly sounded.

"Mr. Li, you go quickly," Lao Wen said in a panic.

"You go first, I'll go later," I replied. I felt tired and didn't want to run many miles under the sun.

Lao Wen is gone. The garden gradually fell into silence. It's a drowsy silence. I slept on the couch for a while. When I opened my eyes, I still couldn't hear the human voice.

I stood up. My tiredness is gone. I walked out of the lower flower hall and stood in front of the door for a while, noticing that the green in the garden was getting thicker. I walked out of the garden along the stone railing again.

I walked to the gate, and Li Laohan sat quietly on the Taishi chair. There were only a handful of uniformed people on the street.

"Mr. Li, aren't you leaving?" Li Laohan asked respectfully.

"I want to wait for the 'emergency' to go," I said, and sat down on the bench across from the Taishi's chair.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to run far before I leave 'urgently', and it's better to leave early," he told me with concern.

"It doesn't matter if you can't go far. It's always time to get to the walls," I said nonchalantly.

He was silent. But I continued: "Old man Li, please tell me the truth. Why did you three masters leave? Why didn't you let us take him to the hospital? Why wouldn't he go home? "This time I took a single-handed, point-and-go approach.

He froze. I looked at him with both eyes and said earnestly: "I am willing to help him, and I am also willing to help your little master." Why won't you tell me the truth? ”

"Mr. Lai, it's not that I don't tell the truth. There is not a single lie in what I said this morning. His voice trembled so loudly that he lowered his head and didn't look at me. I knew he was about to cry.

"But why did he get it? Why should he be so bitterly ruined by himself? I forced myself to ask, and I didn't give him a moment to think.

"Alas," he let out a long sigh; "Mr. Li, you don't know, if you take a wrong step, your life will be over. It's not easy for him to turn back. That's how our third master is. You'll understand as soon as I talk about him. He spent all the family property, he felt sorry for the family, and then he regretted it very much, and he was embarrassed to use his son's money, so he hid it, incognito, and refused to let the family know, but he found it for the little master. The little master often sends him money, food and drink to him, and folds flowers to him, and the flowers that the little master folds in our mansion are sent to the third master, and the third master likes the camellia in the mansion. ”

I know that what Li Laohan said is not all true, he at least concealed some things. But I didn't let him go, and I went on to ask:

"Why don't you third wife and eldest young master ignore him?"

Li Laohan buried his head a little deeper. I thought he wouldn't answer me. I sat silently across from him, my eyes falling to the heart of the street. A few pedestrians carrying bags and holding children walked past the door. I heard a man's rough voice say, "Hurry up!" Enemy planes are coming! "Actually, there was no emergency alert at this time.

Li Laohan raised his head, tears were still rolling down his cheeks, and the saliva sticking to his white beard was shining.

"I don't really understand this. The eldest young master is not quite right with the third master. In the year of selling the mansion, the eldest young master graduated and returned to the province to work in the bank. The third master has been begging his aunt to rent a small mansion for several years, and the third wife has no way to take him. When the eldest young master comes back, he often helps the third wife quarrel with the third master. I don't know how, the third master moved out. The eldest young master didn't look for him either, only the younger young master remembered his father and went around looking for him, only to meet him on the street later. The three old men live in the Great Immortal Temple. The little young master followed him all the way to the Great Immortal Temple, and the third master had no choice, so he told the truth to the little young master......"

I didn't dare to look at the expression on Old Man Li's face. I just listened attentively to what he was saying. Suddenly, the alarm was lifted. He also kept his mouth shut. His words raised new questions for me. I tried to ask him, but he got up and walked silently out of the gate.

"The man who is a husband and a father must have been driven out of the house by his wife and son." - This thought suddenly lit up in my head.

Li Laohan has already revealed enough secrets, and I should let him be quiet for a while.