Chapter 42: The Story of the Old King

Everyone silently took out the mutton slices, potatoes, hairy tripe, etc. in the pot, dipped them in sesame sauce and peppers, and slowly put them into their mouths. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhang Siyuan held his chin thoughtfully, and suddenly a sentence came out: "Wang Zhen, what's wrong with your father's illness?" ”

Wang Zhen's expression changed unconcealably, he lowered his head and lowered his eyes, and the chopsticks stirred in the saucer: "Why are you asking this?" ”

Zhang Siyuan said: "It's nothing, I just want to care about you when I suddenly think of it." But do you think those herbs will do the trick, or do you really believe in the Men in Black and the Red Umbrella Company? ”

I kicked Zhang Siyuan under the table and asked him to talk nonsense without any restraint. But looking at Wang Zhen's expression, there was no fluctuation, and he said lightly: "It's better than nothing." ”

Zhang Siyuan sighed, his lips squirmed a few times, and he took the beer and drank it down.

I always felt that the atmosphere at the table was too silent by certain topics, and my eyes were wandering around trying to dig out something interesting. My eyes involuntarily wandered to Wang Linshuo, who was sitting still, and suddenly remembered something, snapped his fingers and said, "Lao Wang, I have to ask you something." ”

Wang Linshuo stared at me stunned: "What? ”

I said, "After we escaped from the secret room of the Red Umbrella Company that time, you didn't agree to go to Baokang, why did the man in black pull you to the hut and say something, your attitude changed drastically......

Before I finished this sentence, my mind suddenly appeared with his expression when I asked Wang Linshuo that day, and suddenly realized that I had said the wrong thing again, and I really wanted to slap myself a few times. Although I stopped talking abruptly, it was too late, Zhang Siyuan and Wang Zhen both looked at Wang Linshuo with interest.

I regretted not knowing what to say, and said embarrassedly, "Ah...... The lamb skewers seem to be cooked, so I'll go get a few skewers. ”

Wang Linshuo raised his hand to stop me from getting up: "Don't go, don't you want to know why." ”

He said to us: "These are not unsightly things to say, and they can't be regarded as traumas, they can only be regarded as an obsession of mine." When I was in elementary school, I had a very good friend - and I'm a little embarrassed to say, I was very dull and introverted in elementary school, I didn't like to talk and I was a little thin. The little bullies in the class often bullied me, and although I tried to resist, I couldn't beat them, and I had to worry about going to school every day and didn't have any friends.

It wasn't until I was in the second grade that a new student came to my class, and he sat next to me and became my tablemate. His personality is completely opposite to mine, very outgoing and bold, daring to try things that other children don't dare to, and his family background is very good, and he often plays with toys or snacks that other children dream of.

After that, things are very routine. This kid became the king of the class and stopped the others from bullying me by sharing his toys and snacks with me while I copied his homework and taught him math problems he couldn't. Over time, we became very good friends. The story is all normal at this point, and we had a great time for two years. But one morning in the fourth grade, I ran to his house to call him to school, as usual, only to find that the door of his house was open and everything in the house had been emptied.

I was very puzzled, I couldn't understand what was going on, so I walked to school in a gloomy mood, and even forgot to eat breakfast. The first thing I did when I came to school was to run to the head teacher and ask. As a result, the teacher told me that he had dropped out of school last night, and it was said that he had dropped out in a hurry, and she still didn't know exactly why.

I froze, I didn't know how I got back to the classroom. He left in a hurry, and his textbooks and homework books were still messily piled up on the belly of the table. I looked at his crooked handwriting on the cover of the homework book, and I only felt extremely sour, and pulled out the stool to carefully sort out the books for him, faintly hoping that he would come back.

I pulled out a thick book from the innermost layer.,Just want to smooth the corners and stack it up but feel that something is wrong.,Spread it out and see.,There's a thin black cover hidden in it.。

I was very curious, and when I opened it, it turned out to be his diary. The first few articles are all running accounts, what I ate today and what I did with whom, etc., but my name appears the most in the diary.

I skimmed through the past one by one, and found that there was nothing interesting, and reading other people's diaries was also bad behavior. I was about to put it down, but it looked like something was written on the back cover.

Curious, I reopened the notebook and saw a passage with extremely messy handwriting, I couldn't read it at the time, but I only remembered some sentences such as 'Grandpa is so scary today', 'What happened to me?' 'Didn't he die, what did Dad and Uncle do in the hut again'.

I still don't understand these inexplicable words, but the feeling of fear and confusion at the time is deeply etched in my mind. ”

He let out a long breath and leaned back in his chair. Zhang Siyuan couldn't help but ask: "What do these childhood things you talked about have to do with Baokang and Red Umbrella Company?" ”

Wang Linshuo smiled bitterly: "It does sound like it can't be hit by eight poles - oh, I forgot to say, after reading it, I stuffed his diary in the middle of a stack of books, but the next day I found that it was gone." The head teacher told me that his family came to pick up the diary after school last night. I asked the teacher why he had moved away, and the teacher only said that it was a job transfer. After that he completely disappeared from my life, never to be seen again, until...... The man in black took the diary out of the drawer and gave it to me. ”

Wang Linshuo's words exploded in my ears like a muffled thunder, my eyes widened, my body leaned forward as best I could, and stared straight at Wang Linshuo. He spread his hands to us, "I know it's incredible, but it happened, and when I read the diary, I was 10,000 more shocked than you are now. ”

I snatched the thin black notebook from the man in black, and in a panic I opened it to see the crooked handwriting on the title page: Li Xikan's (Ah Mao) diary. My whole body trembled almost uncontrollably, forcibly suppressed the indescribable mood, trembling to the last page, all the childhood memories were revived, like an electric current flowing through my body.

The man in black immediately talked to me about the conditions, and said that he knew all the things that Li Xikan had experienced since he was a child, and that there was a great deal of unspeakable hidden things about his parting that time, and that his family had suffered great changes. He tried to persuade me to participate in the operation, promising to give me all his contact information when it was done, and saying that there was a good chance that I would meet him during the operation. I would never have agreed to him under normal circumstances, but that day my mind was extremely confused, and he was constantly fanning the flames in my ears......

Wang Zhen sighed several times in a row: "But his promises are also empty checks, do you have his contact information now?" ”

Wang Linshuo shook his head and said, "I don't plan to contact him anymore." ”

Although this meal was relatively heavy, it was finally untied a knot in my heart. Everyone's stomach bulged slightly, and I clearly saw Zhang Siyuan secretly loosen the belt twice, he squinted and frowned: "I really can't eat it, now when I see the meat, I only have the idea of running away, can we retreat?" ”

I glanced at the table, and roughly counted about fifty empty plates, and said in my heart that I had really made up for all the previous days, and got up and walked to the bar with my stomach in my hand, but I bumped into a man in white short sleeves.

I gasped and opened my mouth to scold, but the other party bowed slightly to me: "I'm sorry." Then he hurried forward.

I looked back at the man, pure white short-sleeved black trousers, a height of more than 1.7 meters, medium build, the kind that would be submerged if placed in a pile of people. I didn't think much about it, Zhang Siyuan next to me was already a little drunk, hooked my neck and didn't let go, and said that he wanted to treat him to this meal.

I was so impatient with him that I took his hand off my neck and said, "Please, please, even if you invite me to dinner for a year, I won't have any opinion." ”

Zhang Siyuan moved slowly, and said with drunkenness: "Please! They are all brothers who were born and died together, even if I take care of the three of you. ”

I laughed, pointed at him and said, "Okay, you say it again, I'll record it for you now." ”

I reached into the right pocket of my jacket to pull out my phone, but it was empty. I wondered and said to myself, I never put my phone on the left, and I went to touch the other pocket in confusion, but there was no cold metallic touch on my fingers. I was a little flustered and tapped my trouser pockets with both hands, but there was nothing.