Standing on the street of Ravenham, Claire looked at the huge body art photos hanging on the surface of some high-rise buildings, and felt that it was not charming at all, it was called stinky fart!

Tripathi is 72 years old this year, and he has obviously stepped into the ranks of the elderly, but he still doesn't accept his old age, and he posted photos of his youth all over the streets, even in a third-tier town like Ravenham.

What an incorrigible guy.

Bai Yue said in a snarky tone, "He...... FORCED JIAN ON ME. ”

Bai Hao teased: "Don't worry, you have an NC aura protector, and you won't get pregnant." ”

Roy couldn't help but laugh, looked at Yingluo with a sympathetic look, and asked, "Has he been doing this all along?" ”

Yingluo nodded and said, "When I was a child, I thought he was so handsome." ”

Linglong also nodded: "Mom said the same thing." ”

Roy touched his face and thought to himself, he's more handsome than me.

Bai Hao gritted his teeth with hatred and cursed this old thing to die on the woman's belly.

For the first time, Claire felt the urge to strangle Tripathy, how many girls have been poisoned by this guy, what a damn thing!

Engaging in idolatry to the point of him can be said to be unprecedented.

Others are great, bright, and correct, and he is good, and the whole is a bodybuilder.

Yingluo and Linglong's expressions were very complicated, and they couldn't tell whether they were joy, melancholy, or sadness......

For them, there is the excitement of seeing their loved ones soon, and the sadness of recalling past memories.

Linglong has a strong habit and purses her lips and is silent.

Yingluo pinched the hem of her shirt, glanced back at Roy, and sighed softly. She wondered what she would say about those experiences after meeting her parents. And how to introduce them.

The two sisters know that Brother Tang is a very good person, but will the family think so? Will they be let go back?

None of this is known.

Claire summoned two taxis, asked for Ming's home address, and drove quickly to her destination.

Ten minutes later, several people got out of the car, and a residential area appeared in front of them. There are no high-rise buildings, and there are no noisy crowds, and there are a few benches on the left and right of the boulevard, which looks like it has been some years.

The turquoise lawn spreads out to a small two-story building not far away, and the garden is full of flowers and flowers.

The air is filled with an intoxicating fragrance and butterflies fluttering.

Claire walked silently, wondering when she would return to such a peaceful life.

Bai Hao, Roy, and Bai Yue walked at the back, also silent, as if infected by the silence of the three girls in front.

The leaves are dappled in the sunlight. There is no wind, and the silence is a little scary.

It was afternoon, the whole residential area was filled with a lazy smell, there were clean cats lying on the side of the pool under the umbrella napping, hearing the footsteps from far and near, casually opened their eyes and swept the 3 men and 3 women who were silently far away, and continued to close and enjoy the peace of the afternoon.

Are Mom and Dad at home? Who will open the door? What kind of expressions do you have when you see them?

Close to the door. Yingluo's mood became more complicated, and she felt that she was not in decline. It's like being hung in the air by a rope.

She wanted to run as hard as she could, knock on the door, throw herself into her mom or dad's arms and cry. But...... For some reason, I feel intimidated. The closer you get to the door, the stronger the feeling, like a mountain. Hold her shoulders and slow her down.

She knew that Linglong felt the same way.

Because many times, they will see each other in their hearts and read each other.

Claire stopped suddenly. Immersed in cranky thoughts, she almost hit her head.

"Yingluo, Linglong, don't be nervous." The always gentle girl patted them both on the shoulder and whispered, "Go, good girl, they are waiting for you to come home." ”

The two sisters' eyes were slightly red, and they nodded vigorously, gently pushed open the milky white fence wooden door, and walked along the central path to the door.

Linglong pressed the doorbell with a slightly shaky hand.

Ding dong......

The sound is clear and far-reaching, breaking the tranquility of the small courtyard.

About a minute later, the door opened from the inside, and a man in his early 40s appeared in view.

Roy scratched his scalp with a blank expression, he remembered that Yingluo said that his parents were authentic Han Chinese, why was the man who opened the door a white man?

Claire also noticed that something was wrong with the scene in front of her, so she pushed open the wooden door and walked out into the courtyard.

Yingluo and Linglong stayed in place, and the emotions brewing in their hearts were like being sealed by a piece of ice, and they were indescribably uncomfortable.

"Excuse me...... Who are you looking for? ”

The white man was polite, and when he saw the two strange girls with stunned expressions, he thought they must have knocked on the wrong door.

"I ...... I ......"

Yingluo's anxious tears were about to flow out, and she never thought that it was her own home, but it was a stranger who opened the door. What about Mom and Dad, where are they?

Linglong's ability to control her emotions was better, and she looked at the white man's face that seemed to be stunned and surprised, and seemed to suddenly remember something, and said, "I'm looking for ......."

She failed to get her father's name out when the question was interrupted by a sudden voice behind the white man.

"Honey, what's going on, who's outside the door?"

The voice is so familiar, so kind, so nostalgic.

There were two more lines of tears on Yingluo's face, one by one, like pearls, falling to the ground and shattering.

Linglong didn't say the rest of the words, but instead choked hard, tears rolling in her eyes.

That voice was clearly the woman who had accompanied them for more than ten years - their mother used to hum sweet songs at night to lull them to sleep; once tirelessly told them to eat well and not to be picky eaters; once told them in a stern tone that they can't lie, lying is not a good child; used to mingle with Dad's laughter, so that joy floated throughout every Chinese New Year's Eve, every Christmas Eve, and their birthday party; Once......

The voice that used to be extremely familiar and extremely attached was affectionately calling the man they didn't know "dear" in front of them.

What's going on? What the hell is going on?

She felt a mess in her heart, her emotions were almost broken, and those words were clearly on her lips, but she couldn't say them anyway. All that came up her throat was choking and sourness, and tears were like beaded curtains with broken threads, wetting the beloved bow in front of her shirt and drenching her restless heart.

"Xialan, you...... Come here. The man called out loudly, as if he could see something on the sisters' faces. Then it comes to mind the things that came before.

With the sound of hurried footsteps, a thin figure flashed out from behind the door.

A white and innocent face, but with many traces of age, appeared between the man and the door frame.

If she is ten years younger, she is definitely a beautiful woman, and more importantly...... She clearly has eyebrows and eyes similar to Yingluo and Linglong, and her face shape is almost carved out of a mold.

She didn't go out of the room, she stopped at a position behind the white man, and looked through the gap at the two young girls across from her with a blank face. The thin body trembled slightly, but the words became speechless and choked, like a copy of Linglong.

The white man walked out of the door with great interest, came to the courtyard, looked at Claire and the others with a complicated expression, and only stretched out his hand for a long time to introduce himself: "George." ”

Claire shook his hand and said a random pseudonym.

George said, "Anyway. Thank you. ”

Claire glanced at him, and quickly figured out why the man had added "anyway" before "thank you."

Although she didn't know what happened between the two sisters' parents. But from George's point of view, the return of Linglong and Yingluo is bound to remind the partner of the previous suffering, and even bring shock to the relationship between the two.

But from a reasonable point of view, she is doing a good deed, which may make Lu Xialan revisit that painful experience, but also reunite the mother and daughter. You deserve a "thank you".

Life is so twisty and changeable, sometimes it can be very frustrating.

"Mom's ......"

Yingluo finally shouted out the words stuck in her throat, and threw herself into her mother's arms with open arms.

Many times, it is clear that you can control your emotions in front of people, and even pretend that nothing is happening. But when you see your real relatives and their familiar faces, the emotions that have accumulated in your heart will pour out like a flood, and you can't stop them.

The Morning Star is a big family, however, no matter how warm it is, it does not have the warmth of a mother's embrace.

This comes from the family affection that blood is thicker than water, and it is something that no one else can replace. Tang Fang knew this, so he asked Linglong and Yingluo to go home no matter what, and report their safety to the second elder.

This is the responsibility of the human child, and it is also his responsibility.

It wasn't until he boarded the "Morning Star", experienced many hardships along the way, and saw all kinds of life, that he really understood a truth, just like a man can not be just a tool for earning money for a family, and he is the same for the crew of the "Morning Star".

"Yingluo...... My baby. ”

Linglong and Yingluo, as twin sisters, have a very high degree of similarity in appearance, and few people can recognize who is the sister and who is the younger sister at the first time, even if they are closest to Claire, Bai Hao, Roy and others, they have to be judged by combining the clothing habits of the two sisters and their very different temperaments.

As a mother, the first time she saw two people, she knew which one was Linglong and which one was Yingluo, even though she hadn't seen them for 2 years, even if they had grown taller, grown up, and became more beautiful.

She put her arms around the necks of the two of them, kissed this, and kissed that again, crying like a tearful person.

The people in the courtyard looked moved, and Bai Hao thought of his dead brother again, and bit his lip to make a bloody mark.

Roy wondered if his parents, who were far away, would pray like the omniscient and all-powerful God every day, that he would return to them safely.

While George was happy for the three people, he faintly showed a little melancholy.

Linglong was the first to control the emotions in her heart, broke free from her mother's arms, and asked an important question that had been held in her heart for a long time and scorched her soul like a fire: "Mom, where is my dad?" Father...... Where is it? ”

Lu Xialan's body trembled, and her eyes revealed a love-hate emotion, but more sadness and helplessness.

She looked at Linglong's longing eyes, silent, but her sadness grew.

Yingluo wiped the tears from her face and asked with red eyes, "Yes." Where's Dad? Where's Dad? Who was that man just now? ”

"Mom...... What happened to you? Why don't you speak? ”

She still didn't speak, as if trapped in a memory...... Full of sad memories inside.

Gradually, those sorrows changed and were replaced by something called "despair".

"Mom...... What the hell is going on? ”

Linglong thought of a very bad situation, so bad that she didn't know how to face it.

The tears that Yingluo had just stopped welled up again, and her delicate face became no longer beautiful.

"Mom, you mean. Where's Dad? Where did Dad go? ”

Their father was a good gentleman, so temperamental that people were speechless. When the two were very naughty and troublesome, their mother would reprimand them in a harsh tone, and sometimes they would use corporal punishment to educate them, whenever this happened. The big fat bear with a chubby face will appear in a grotesque and honest image, first soothing the mother in a violent state with kind words, and then creating a chance for the two sisters to slip away.

Because he has a pair of thick big hands, a chubby body, a big fleshy belly, likes to wear dark gray T-shirts, and looks a lot like the big fat bear in the cartoon. often pinched his waist and commanded him to take this and that, and even some unclear neighbors would think that their pets were called big fat bears.

In front of his wife, he is an unassertive person, and in front of his daughter, he is a submissive person, playing the role of a dad to some extent.

That's how he props up a family. Let the wife live happily and the daughter grow up healthily.

If you have to ask two girls to pick out the closest one among their parents. The answer must be their father. But today, under this roof are only the mother and another man, and their father is nowhere to be found.

George walked back to the door from the courtyard, and held the pale Lu Xialan as he walked into the house. He said, "I'll talk about this matter." ”

Yingluo and Linglong followed into the room and found that the furnishings in the room had all changed, sofas, tables and chairs, decorative paintings, bonsai and ...... There were no family portraits on the walls, no crystal frames on the table, and the fish in the aquarium had changed color. The fridge door is clean and there are no more colorful cartoon stickers......

Except for this room, everything is different from the original.

As you can see, they're still very new, and they should have been here for less than a few months.

George carried Lu Xialan into the bedroom, and after a while of kind words to soothe him, he returned to the living room and beckoned a few people to sit down.

When I went to the kitchen to prepare coffee, I saw the blank eyes of the two of them, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry." ”

"If it weren't for the lack of money, I would have even replaced the house."

These words seem to hurt people, but they are not hurtful.

Claire nodded, and said secretly, no matter what, he was a good person.

The coffee was quickly served, pushed in order to several people, and then glanced at the bedroom, he sat down next to the coffee table, and slowly explained what happened after Linglong and Yingluo disappeared.

It's the weekend, and there are few people on the streets in the afternoon, except for three or five teenagers under the oak trees, as if they are sharing their newly bought comic books and other little secrets that are not for outsiders to know.

The atmosphere in the living room is like the street outside, very oppressive, only the water vapor floating along the coffee cup brings a touch of agility to the whole room.

Claire's face was a little ugly, and she finally knew why the Chinese word "family broken" was put together with "people died".

After Linglong and Yingluo disappeared, their father Guan Jiaping and mother Lu Xialan searched for a long time, did not work for a whole year, did not stop to rest, and searched for their whereabouts through various channels.

It's a pity that the efforts of the common family are facing the dark and deep cosmic sea, facing the trafficker groups that travel around the country and have deep friendships with nobles and powerful people at all levels, and facing the inaction of government functional departments. These efforts are just a grasshopper shaking a tree, and a mantis arm is a car.

Guan Jiaping does not admit defeat, to be precise, he will not give up.

Yingluo and Linglong are the driving force of his life, and this family is everything to him.

During that year, the husband and wife experienced many setbacks, even if Lu Xialan persuaded him to give up, saying, "This is fate, let's accept fate, people...... After all, you can't fight God. ”

Guan Jiaping has never been a stubborn person, however, this time he chose to be stubborn to the end.

Under extremely heavy financial pressure, he tried to bribe the police officers and magistrates, and from some things that the official deliberately covered up, he knew the name of this trafficking syndicate "Alice", and more or less learned a little background about the organization.

This is a large transnational criminal syndicate that has long been active in imperial states such as the Monya Empire, the Sulu Empire, and the United Kingdom of Tulanx, and its history can be traced back to the collapse of the Star Alliance government.

Like Maxwell? Stewart, Helens? Tyrants like Abdul are able to establish state power. Komodo, chairman of the Rover Technology Consortium, and Hirohiko Iga, chairman of Iga Industrial, can start from scratch and become a giant in the Star Alliance's military industry. Some criminal gangs and mercenary organizations have also taken advantage of the great chaos in the world to rapidly expand their power, taking advantage of the contradictions between countries to obtain huge profits by criminal means.

For example, the "Red Martyrs Party" entrenched in the borders of the Star Alliance, such as the "Burning Legion", a mercenary organization with a royal background in the Phoenix Empire, such as the "Third Committee", which was hit hard in the Blue Revolution, and the extremist religious organization "Genesis".

Of course, even in the event of a devastating blow during the Blue Revolution, the Third Committee was much more powerful than the "Red Martyrs", the Burning Legion, and the Book of Genesis. The Third Committee Pirates who roam the borders of the Star Alliance, the Phoenix Federation, and the Silver Eagle Regiment are just a branch of the entire organization, which makes the border armies of the three countries very troubled, and you can imagine how strong the overall strength is, even if it is inferior to the Supreme Security Council, it is extremely limited.

And "Alice", who kidnapped Linglong and Yingluo, is an existence at the same level as the above-mentioned terrorist organization in terms of fame. Perhaps its military strength is not very strong, but because of its deep roots and close relationship with the aristocratic classes of various countries, it is a criminal organization that is fully integrated into the grassroots society, and its adaptability, concealment, and vitality far exceed that of an organization like "Genesis".

As the saying goes, the wildfire can't be blown inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows. (To be continued......)