Qi Luoling came to an old community on Huaihai Middle Road. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info She took out a piece of paper, and the specific address was written in detail on the paper: No. 501, Building 3, Huawufang.

She raised her head, looked at the name of the community written on the entrance of the community, and looked at the address in her hand, it was indeed this community.

This address was given to her by Xu Xiaoya. Some time ago, she checked her medical records through a friend and inquired about her biological mother's name and address at that time.

The address left in the medical records of that year is this community, which means that she lived here at that time.

This is the earliest French Concession in Shanghai, which is located in this area. The name of this community is Huawufang. Very poetic name. The flower dock is probably from Ouyang Xiu's "Picking Mulberries": the remnant glow of the sunset on the West Lake/The flower dock Pingting?/Ten acres of waves?/The wild shore is unmanned by the boat?/The clouds are scattered on the southwest moon?...... The meaning of the flower dock is that the flower beds are raised around it.

There were several six-story buildings scattered in the community, and she searched for them one by one according to the three written on the paper. Obviously, there seems to be no logical order in which the buildings are numbered. She turned around a lot and finally found three.

Low, dilapidated buildings, with peeling facades, she stepped into the dim, damp hallway. The lights in the corridor were broken and pitch black, so she had to turn on the flashlight on her phone and walk to the fifth floor.

On the fifth floor, Qi Luoling stood outside the door, took a few deep breaths, and suppressed her excitement. In her heart, she had imagined the scene of seeing her biological mother countless times, but at this moment, she still couldn't help herself.

She gently knocked on the door three times with her hand, and the door creaked open, and a small head poked out of the door, a little boy with a tiger's head, "Auntie, who are you looking for?" “

Qi Luoling was stunned for a moment and said, "Little friend, I want to find someone named Dun Shumei." “

The little boy thought seriously for a few seconds and said, "My dad and mom don't call me by that name, and I don't call me by that name." “

"Wenwen, who's outside the door?" A woman's voice came from inside the room.

The little boy twisted his head and said loudly into the house, "Mom, it's an aunt, she's looking for someone." “

With the sound of slippers clattering, the woman opened the door a little, revealing a yellowed and haggard face. The expression on her face was blank, like that of a middle-aged woman who had been torn by the ravages of life and had no interest in anyone or anything.

"Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for a woman named Dun Shumi."

"We don't have this person here."

"No way, that's the address." Qi Luoling checked the address on the paper with the house number again, obviously not wrong.

"I told you, there is no such person at this time. I don't want to say it a second time. "The woman was impatient. Before Qi Luoling could react, he closed the door with a "bang".

Could it be that this address is wrong? Or has his birth mother moved away? She stumbled downstairs.

Not far downstairs, there is a flower platform, with a few unknown small flowers mixed with sparse and dense grass. Above the flower sills is the window sill of the residents on the first floor, and the windows are wide open, and there is a loud sound of television inside.

She couldn't help but glance, and although it was a little dark in the room, she still saw Sprite Coke and bags of melon seeds, as well as various brands of cigarettes. Apparently the ground floor has been converted into a small grocery store.

She had just walked to the window of the grocery store when a middle-aged man in his forties came out of the back room.

"What do you want to order?"

"Give me a bottle of soda."

The middle-aged man turned around, took a bottle of soda from the shelf, and handed it to Qi Luoling. She took the change out of her bag and handed it to the man.

"Little girl, did you just move in? How come I haven't seen you before? The middle-aged man squinted and struck up a conversation with her.

"I'm not a resident here." There was a wooden stool in front of the grocery store, and she sat down.

"I'm just here to inquire about one person." She pretended to be casual and looked down at her shoes.

"Did you hear that?" The middle-aged man's curiosity was aroused. Sure enough, everyone has a heart that loves gossip.

"Nope." She shook her head helplessly.

"Tell me, maybe I know. Because I've been living here for twenty years. ”

"The person I want to find, the address given to me by others is 501 Building 3, but I went to knock on the door and asked, and they didn't know the person I was looking for at all."

"Three 501s? That was the last month when the new tenants moved in. ”

"Oh, what's the landlord's name?"

"It seems that ..... seems to have a high surname, yes, yes, I remember, it is a high surname, but he is short and chubby. Are you looking for this surname Gao? “

She shook her head.

"Girl, who the hell are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for a woman named Dun Shumi."

"How old? What does it look like? “

"I'm about forty years old, and as for my appearance, I haven't seen it either."

"Tsukimi Tsuki? In your forties? Let me think about ......" the middle-aged man fell into the memory.

After about a minute, he patted his thigh and excitedly said, "I remember." “

"What do you remember?"

"I think of her, she used to be the owner of 501, and about a decade ago, she sold the house to her current landlord. Yes, yes, that's her. ”

"And you know where she is now?"

"At that time, I heard people say that when she sold her house, it seemed that she was going to a far away place."

"Far away? What is it? ”

"I heard that she was in a hurry and was in a hurry to leave. I don't know exactly what it is. The middle-aged man shook his head.

Qi Luoling was disappointed and prepared to leave the community.

Looking at the gray sky, she felt gray helplessness and depression, hesitating, unable to see the road ahead, and her heart was at a loss, where to go.

Suddenly, someone tapped her on the shoulder from behind, and she subconsciously looked back, and behind her was a stranger, an old man in his seventies.

The old man walked with a cane, he was unusually thin, his hair and eyebrows were all white, his eyebrow bones were high, his eye sockets were deep, and his small eyes were very cloudy. A face that people will never forget.

To her horror, of course, he only had one left arm. The sleeve on the right is empty, swaying from side to side with the wind, and there seems to be an indescribable sadness.

"Seeing me like this, it scares you." The old man's voice was hoarse.

She hurriedly looked away from his arm.

"No, what are you looking for from me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm abrupt, I just heard from the owner of the grocery store that you want to find someone named Dun Shumei?"

"Yes."

"I know something here, if you trust me," said the old man, pointing to a building opposite with his cane, "Come to my house, and I'll tell you." My family lives on the third floor of that building. “

She thought for a few seconds and nodded.

"I was in a car accident a few years ago, so one arm was amputated and my leg was injured. So most people are a little scared when they see me like this. The old man said as he limped into his lodgings.

Following the smooth, shiny handrail of the staircase, she came to the old man's house. The room was dark and dark, a faint incandescent lamp, very bleak. There is a large impressionist oil painting on the wall of the living room.

Qi Luoling sat down on the sofa in the living room.

"What do you want to drink? Tea or coffee? The coffee at home was left by my son when he came to me. He came to see me once a week. I suggest you drink tea anyway. Because I have all kinds of good teas here. I have green tea, flower tea, black tea and oolong tea here. ”

"Let's green tea, then." She followed his advice.

The old man turned around and went to the kitchen to make tea. Soon, he brought a cup of green tea from the kitchen and handed it to her.

The old man looked at her with a sharp look, and she was a little uncomfortable, and she couldn't think of how to ask.

"Why are you looking for Atsumi Shumi?"

"For personal reasons." She took a sip of green tea.

"What do you have to do with her? I have to understand this. The old man raised his brow and said.

A brief blank in the air.

"She could be my birth mother." She thought for a minute before replying.

The old man looked at her for a long time and said, "I wish I could see your arm." ”

"How do you know about this birthmark?" Qi Luoling asked.

"Yes, I also want to confirm your identity." The old man said

Although the request was a little strange, she did as he said, stretched out her right arm, leaned forward, and rested her arm on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

He stared hard at the arm that locked on her, as if trying to peel the birthmark off the skin with a sharp gaze.

It was a long time before he turned his gaze from the birthmark to her face, and the penetrating gaze visibly stressed her. He glanced at her twice from top to bottom, from bottom to top, and finally smiled happily and nodded in satisfaction, "You are indeed her daughter." ”

"Excuse me, old man, do you know where she went?"

"She left in a hurry, as if something urgent had happened. She told me that she was going to South Korea. ”

"She's going to South Korea?"

"Yes."

"Why did she go to South Korea?"

"She has a relative in South Korea who is her cousin. In 1992, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, her cousin's husband stayed at a university in Shanghai for more than half a year. He tried to find the descendants of the surname Dun in Shanghai, but to no avail. In the end, it was through the Shanghai government office that he found Dun Shumei. ”

"Since you have recognized your relatives overseas, why did you say that you left in a hurry?"

Because after they met, she once said that South Korea is far away, and Shanghai is the reality, and she didn't plan to follow her cousin to South Korea at that time. But within two days, she suddenly decided to go to South Korea, looking panicked. She quickly sold her house at a price below the market price and left in a hurry. ”

"You think there's something strange in this? Or is there a secret that cannot be told to others? ”

"Of course, something must have happened to her, we just don't know about it."

"You know her well?"

"Of course, my family and hers are world friends. I also grew up watching her. ”

"Do you know anything else about her?"

"When she left, she said that she would call me when she arrived in Korea, but she didn't call me for ten years, which is very abnormal. I even wonder if she's still alive in this world? ”

Qi Luoling's heart was tightened, and the old man was silent.

"Since you are her daughter, I will take you to see your grandmother and great-grandmother." The old man said.

In the afternoon, they arrived at a cemetery on the outskirts of Shanghai.

The cemetery is overgrown with trees, and the bleak sunlight shines through the lush foliage, which makes people feel a little sad. They followed the paths, passed by countless tombstones, and finally came to the two tombstones. They stood quietly in front of the tombstone for a while.

Not far from the cemetery there were several long rows of benches, and they sat down. A few sparrows flew from the woods, chirping around the stool, not afraid of people at all.

"Why is my grandmother's surname Tun and my birth mother's surname Tun? It stands to reason that they should inherit their father's surname. She asked, puzzled.

"Ordinary families are like this, but her family is different. Legend has it that the Dun family was cursed by another family a hundred years ago, so the Dun family became increasingly dilapidated, displaced, and sparsely populated. Therefore, the descendants of the Dun family, whether they are men or women, all follow the surname of Dun. This is also the main condition for their marriage. ”

"I understand, but why are there no male surnames, all female surnames?"

The old man sighed and said, "It is strange to say that there have been very few men in the surname Dun for a hundred years. Almost all of the descendants were women. The woman is upright and beautiful, with a gentle and virtuous temperament, but she has a bad fate. If you are not unladylike and abandoned by men, or you are unlucky, the fragrance is lost, and none of you can taste the bumpy fate. ”

Qi Luoling couldn't help but think of her fate, and sighed in her heart.

The old man seemed to perceive her thoughts, looked at her deeply, and said, "Maybe you are the one who changed the hundred-year-old curse." ”

"Why?"

"It has something to do with what you're looking for."

"How do you know I'm looking for something?" She looked at him in amazement.

"Of course you know, remember that the clue is a mural."

"My birth mother told you to tell me?"

The old man neither admitted nor denied it, but said: "I have been waiting for you here for ten years." ”

After saying that, he suddenly smiled inexplicably.

Finally, the old man took her to a nearby station to take the train. There are many people on the platform who want to get on the train.

The bus slowly approached, and passengers poured into the carriages. She got on the train, sat down, and looked out the window, and the platform was empty, except for the old man.

The old man stood there, staring intently at her, with a mysterious and strange smile on his face. She suddenly noticed that the old man was waving at her with his right arm, and it was clear that the right sleeve was no longer empty. The car started slowly, and through the moving window, she saw him throw away the cane in his hand, turn and walk steadily......