Early autumn 2006, Xuzhou.

The summer heat has not completely faded, and the coolness of autumn can't wait to appear. In this city with four distinct seasons, people can clearly feel the rotation of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Yunlong Lake is full of tourists, some people are still wearing shorts and short sleeves, others have changed into long shirts, the lake surface from time to time comes the fragrance of residual lotus and the smell of aquatic plants, leisurely people enjoy the most beautiful time of the day in this cool breeze dusk.

In a photography studio called "Youth Impression" on Huxi Road, Gao Chuan, a small boss, is preparing to close his doors and leave work. For a whole day, there was not a single guest. I turned off my computer and just packed up my things when a middle-aged man walked in.

Gao Chuan hurriedly put down the schoolbag in his hand and looked at the person, who was a middle-aged man, about forty or fifty years old, looking very majestic, with slightly gray hair, and very elegantly dressed.

Takakawa's photography studio is mainly to help some young men and women take some photos, of course, from time to time there will be some older people who are fashionable or want to keep the appearance of their youth, but after all, they are a minority.

Gao Chuan hurriedly greeted: "Hello, do you want to...?"

The middle-aged man smiled at Gao Chuan, ignored him, walked into the store by himself, raised his eyes and glanced at the small studio, and then began to read the photos hanging on the wall like visiting a museum.

Most of the photos on the wall are landscape photos, taken when Takakawa was traveling in various places, and these photos are not hung on the wall to attract customers, but more because he likes them.

Gao Chuan saw that the visitor didn't speak, just looked at the photos on the wall, and explained: "Those photos are my personal travel souvenirs, posted for fun, if you want to take a photo or a solo album, there is a template here, see what style you like, I can help you design." ”

Gao Chuan said as he took the thick album template and held it in front of the middle-aged man.

But the man didn't seem to hear it, completely ignoring Gao Chuan's words, and just continued to look at the photos on the wall casually.

Gao Chuan was a little angry, but he was still patient, after all, the guest was God.

At this time, the man stopped in front of a photo, and Takakawa also looked at the man. It was a group photo, it was a commemorative photo of himself and his friend Qi Hai in Xiling Snow Mountain, when the two traveled to the snow mountain together, and took this photo at the yin and yang boundary at the top of the mountain, or asked other tourists to help take it!

Gao Chuan simply ignored the man, and sat on the sofa by himself, wanting to see what the man was going to do.

The man looked at the photo for a while, and finally spoke, and he asked Gao Chuan, "Who is the boy in this photo?" ”

Gao Chuan thought to himself, is there something wrong with this person, why are you so interested in the photos on the wall, and who has anything to do with you. But he still replied very calmly: "It's me and my friend." ”

The man nodded slightly, and then asked, "Is your friend's surname Qi?" ”

As soon as Gao Chuan heard this, he hurriedly looked at this man carefully, who is this strange man? How would he know that it was Qi Hai in the photo?

Gao Chuan is an alert person, and he quickly calculated in his heart, what is the purpose of this person's coming? Could it be that Qi Hai caused some trouble outside and was found to be accountable? Could it be that Qi Hai owes money to others? Could it be that Qi Hai caused peach blossom debts outside? No, it's impossible, Qi Hai is so rich, it's impossible to owe money to others, and it's almost impossible for a three-good young man like him who doesn't smoke, drink, or mess around outside.

Gao Chuan hesitated, he did not answer the man's question, but asked rhetorically, "Who are you and what is the matter?" ”

The man also came over and sat across from Takagawa. Gao Chuan and this man looked at each other, and couldn't help but shudder in their hearts, this man's eyes were sharp and abnormal, bursting with a vicissitudes and sensitivity that had been experienced in the world.

The man didn't answer Takakawa's question, but looked at Takakawa carefully, from head to toe and from foot to head, which made Takakawa extremely uncomfortable.

"Boy, let me ask you, is Gao Cheng your grandfather?" The middle-aged man's tone was very gentle, but there was seriousness in the mildness.

Gao Chuan shook his head and said, "No, no, you are mistaken, I haven't heard of this person." ”

When the man heard Gao Chuan's denial, he continued to ask, "Then what is your grandfather's name?" ”

Gao Chuan didn't want to reveal more of his private information, since that person found the wrong person, he had little to do with him, and it didn't seem that he was here to take pictures, so it was better to send it away.

So Gao Chuan said: "It's inconvenient for me to disclose this, we don't know each other, and I don't know the person you are talking about, if you don't have anything else, you can... I'm getting off work here. ”

When the man heard this, he had the intention of giving an order to evict the guest, but he did not care, and remained motionless and did not get up. He continued: "Okay, since you don't want to say it, I'll ask something else, you said that Gao Cheng is not your grandfather, then you should always know Qi Kun, this person is the same age as your grandfather." ”

Gao Chuan shook his head again, saying that he didn't know him, but he couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart, he and Qi Hai are both special family people, the two of them have no parents, they were raised by their respective grandfathers, Qi Hai's grandfather is called Qi Boyong, and his grandfather is called Gao Yongping, as for what the person said Qi Kun and Gao Cheng himself have indeed never heard of, but the two he said are surnamed Gao and the other surnamed Qi, or people of grandfather's age, how can there be such a coincidence? .

Gao Chuan thought again, if the two he said were indeed two old men, what was the connection? Because these two old men are very eccentric, they hardly interact with people, and they have moved into the deep mountains and old forests many years ago, and rarely come out. So who is this middle-aged man in front of you? Why ask them? There must be something I don't understand.

The middle-aged man was extremely smart, and when he saw Gao Chuan's appearance, he immediately understood his thoughts, and then said: "Boy, don't guess, the two people I'm talking about are the two people you know, but they changed their names."

When Gao Chuan heard it, it was so, in this way, the middle-aged man's words made him dare not answer easily, about changing his name, Gao Chuan had never heard his grandfather say it, if what the middle-aged man said was true, then why did the two old men change their names?

Obviously, this person knows some things that he doesn't understand, Gao Chuan has asked his grandfather countless times about his parents, but his grandfather only told him that his parents died in a car accident when he was born, and nothing else was said, Qi Hai's grandfather was the same, and it was the same set of rhetoric, saying that Qi Hai's parents also died in a car accident, and they were in the same car accident as his parents, which made Gao Chuan feel a little puzzled.

Gao Chuan's face stiffened, and he asked the middle-aged man vigilantly: "Who are you, why do you want to inquire about my grandfather?" ”

The man said: "Boy, it seems that you don't know, I, your grandfather and Qi Kun are all old acquaintances, we have participated in the Anti-Japanese War together, and we have fought Japanese devils." ”