It's been a month or two since I came back from the East China Sea.

And tonight is already the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The atmosphere of the New Year is very strong, during the day at my parents' place to eat the noon New Year's dinner, with little Mike back to their home, today Dabao they will also be here with me this year.

For me, after a year, there is not much left of life. Looking at my sleeping son in the car, I don't know if I can have the privilege of watching him grow up healthy, if not, maybe it will be the two most regrettable things in my short life.

And one more thing, that secret that is close to the truth.

I went home at three o'clock in the afternoon, let my son watch cartoons at home, and I went out alone to the nearby vegetable market to buy some vegetables for tonight, after all, there were three pot-bellied men and a very edible monkey. After walking around the market, I returned home with a large bag of ingredients, and the moment I opened the door and entered, a chill hit my whole body.

I subconsciously touched my waist and wanted to pull out the gun, but I felt empty. Gently put down the ingredients, picked up the ashtray from the coffee table, and listened to the movement of his son's bedroom against the wall.

Someone else?

Two months ago, my parents told me on the phone that there were some abnormalities about their son, especially when he was alone, he often heard him talking or playing with people who didn't exist, which was very weird.

At that time, I was preoccupied with the disappearance of Weizi, and I ignored their words, but now that I really feel it, it is another feeling, a little pore.

Isn't it true that his son has been entangled in some dirty things? I nervously pinched the ashtray and walked softly to the bedroom door, and sure enough, I heard my son's voice as if he was talking to someone, and even let out an innocent laugh.

Grab the handle of the bedroom with one hand and twist it vigorously.

The door opened, and I rushed in as soon as I could, dumbfounded, there was no one in the room except little Mick. The LCD TV on the wall is still playing cartoons, could I have misheard?

"Dad, what are you doing with an ashtray in your hand?" My son looked at me innocently.

I shook the ashtray in my hand awkwardly and said, "Dad, it's more appropriate to see where to hide, Uncle Dabao is too good at smoking, I'm afraid I'll choke you when the time comes." ”

The son tilted his head to look at it, his eyes flashing with doubt.

"Keep watching!" I smiled and closed the door, relieved to think that I had probably misheard, and that I might have been too tired during this time.

Put the ashtray back on the coffee table, tie the kitchen skirt, take the purchased ingredients into the kitchen and sort them out, and only wait for the winter ice to come before stir-frying.

Sitting on the sofa and watching TV for a while, in fact, there is nothing to see the program, I was dizzy and drowsy, suddenly, the doorbell rang, I woke up, looked at the clock hanging on the wall, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, I opened the door, it was Dabao them, one by one with all kinds of wine, all kinds of snacks, all kinds of snacks, all kinds of food.

Dong Bing hugged his baby and came over with his wife.

They shouted and entered the house together, and it was immediately very lively, even Little Mike ran out of the house, and threw himself into Dabao's arms, calling for Uncle Bao to hug, I don't know why my son likes Dabao very much, maybe we are here, except for my accident, he looks more kind, and of course, there is that soft meat.

Originally, I was going to cook today, but Dongbing's wife kicked me out, saying that the kitchen should be a woman's place, and a man should go to the living room to brag. I said thank you, and then secretly motioned to Dabao to let him come to the study with me.

I don't know what's going on today, my heart is actually beating in a panic, I feel that something is going to happen, so I subconsciously called Dabao into the study, took out the dragon jade scroll from the safe, and handed it to him.

Dabao was startled and hurriedly took a step back.

He said: "Brother Xia, don't scare me, you know that this thing is valuable, how can you give it to me." Both Dongbing and Rayon are more suitable than me. ”

I shoved the torado into his arms and said, "It's because of them that I'm going to give it to you." You also know that I don't have much time to live, Dong Bing is very arrogant and easy to be bewitched, and he can do anything when his brain is hot, Lei Hong is sometimes crazy, sometimes he takes interests too seriously, and gives them the dragon scroll, God knows if he will become the second Liu Xiancheng. Only you are the most honest and trustworthy, so I will hand it over to you for safekeeping. ”

Dabao touched the jade scroll in his arms and nodded silently. I laughed and rubbed his hair, and said, "My life is wonderful enough, it's a pity that I haven't been able to go through the whole life with your brothers, but I'm also content, because we have experienced a lot of life and death together, cried together, laughed together, so I have no regrets." Don't cry, don't I have two or three years left, don't make it look like I'm going to die. ”

Dabao nodded like a child, his eyes were red. At this time, Dong Bing shouted in the living room in his loud voice: "Damn, why is it only me and Lei Hong who are drinking, what about the two of you?" Don't hide from us! ”

I yelled, "Here we go!" ”

said, patted Dabao on the shoulder, "Go, wipe away your tears, don't let Dongbing and them see jokes." ”

Back in the living room, Dong Bing and Lei Hong each had a bottle of beer in front of them, and there were already two empty bottles under their feet.

"I said, two, if you keep playing like this! Will you eat later? I smiled and lifted the wine from both of them, and said, "Stop for a while, I have something to tell you." ”

Dongbing and Lei Hong glanced at each other, put down their hands and waited quietly for my next step.

"Today is the Chinese New Year, which was a very happy thing, but I have also been together now, and I want to explain something." I thought for a moment and said.

Dong Bing shouted: "I'm damned, bamboo, listening to your tone as if you're arranging the aftermath, can you not say it, it's a big New Year, listening to the panic." ”

I waved my hand to signal him not to make a sound, and continued: "My body is not as good as day by day, I can feel this situation myself, although medically it is said that I can live for two or three years, but I may never wake up in bed one day, I thought about it for a long time, and while everyone is here today, I will explain some things." ”

Lei Hong interjected and said dejectedly: "I shouldn't have come today, the atmosphere of the New Year has been ruined by you." Bamboo, I remember that you are not the kind of person who sits idly by, why did you give up? Maybe there is another way. ”

"No way! All the clues have been broken, we can't enter the country, and the crystal palace in the East China Sea has disappeared, unless you open the sea eye again, but you have also seen the news, how many of the dragons died when they opened the sea eyes in the Indian Ocean? If so many people die for my own life, I will suffer to live, and no one can say if there is a way to get rid of the third eye in my head. ”

I lit a cigarette, closed my eyes and continued: "There must be a lot of secrets that can't be known to us in that blocked memory, and since someone doesn't let us know, then don't know." What I want to tell you today is that if I suddenly disappear one day, don't try to look for me, and if you really want to help me, take care of little Mick for me, take care of him until he reaches adulthood, and let him inherit his mother Dinah's assets in England. ”

Dong Bing slapped his face on the coffee table, puffed out his eyes, and said loudly: "No problem, even if Lao Tzu is too old to walk by then, he will pick up a gun to clear the stumbling blocks for my nephew, even if I can't do it, there is still my son!" ”

Dabao interjected: "Little Mick has grown up, why are you too old to walk when you are only in your forties?" ”

Lei Hong took a hard puff of cigarette and said in a deep voice: "Count me in!" ”

I stood up and bowed to them, they were startled by this sudden movement, and quickly dodged, "Bamboo (Brother Xia), I can't help it, our brothers who go in the water and fire, your business is our business." Even if you don't say it, we will take care of your son, and there is no need to make such a big ceremony. ”

We sat down again, poured ourselves a glass of wine, and sighed, "It's a pity that there is one person missing." ”

Time flies quickly, tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve is a little dull, but also relatively pleasant, once people drink high, all the excitement comes, Hu Tianhai's cowhide is all blown through, even the big health care that Dong Bing frequents also took advantage of the strength of the wine to blow out in front of his wife, and then the skin and flesh around the waist were pinched and bruised.

After late at night, everyone ate and drank about the same, and after helping to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, they all went together. When little Mick fell asleep, I made a cup of tea and sat in my study, opened the book of mountains and seas, and marked a few place names on a map of China that might be Buzhou Mountain.

Indeed, as Lei Hong said, I am not a person who sits idly by, since the aftermath has been explained, I have to take a look no matter what, among the two regrets in this life, I will finally have to solve one.

Open the drawer, turn out the old photo, on it is a photo of me and my old comrades-in-arms in Qinghai, touch everyone's face on the photo, maybe I should visit the old place again, to see if Longquan Township, which I had no intention of entering, can still enter.

The night of Chinese New Year's Eve is not quiet, although it is in the city, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks can still be heard outside. I yawned, cleaned up the table, and prepared to leave quietly after the New Year, the moment I just stood up.

Outside the study, there was a sudden sound of a bicycle.

I frowned, who's going to ride in my house? The door to the study was not closed, and a wheel rolled in, and when I looked closely, it was Little Mick's children's tricycle, and I was relieved, and I thought something had come in.

But I saw little Mick sitting in the stroller and slowly coming in, I put down the photo, thinking to myself that he was not asleep, why was he still riding and playing so late, and was just about to walk over, when his body suddenly stiffened.

Eyes moved to his feet.

When little Mick came in, his little feet weren't on the handlebars of the children's tricycle, how did he ride in? Suddenly, little Mick laughed innocently, the smile was beautiful, but there was a hint of weirdness.

I was a little unsure in my heart, at this time I suddenly felt a little paralyzed and cold, and when I looked closely behind my son, a cold chill filled my body, and I saw a miserable white hand on the back seat of the children's tricycle gently pushing the cart.

In the shadows outside the study door, a shadow loomed, and I widened my eyes and saw in horror that the face of that figure was wearing a bronze grimace mask, it was actually her! Female! I struggled to get up with my breathlessness, trying to go over and pick up my son and leave the house, but I hadn't even reached little Mick.

I heard my son's crisp child's voice come to me with a strange tone and asked, "Why don't you die when your mother is dead?" ”

In an instant, my whole person was like falling into an ice cave, and the shadow of death instantly shrouded me in it, and people said: The moment a person dies, there will be a lot of memories that I can't remember in my life, and it will be like a slideshow playing back in front of my eyes.

At that moment, I seemed to understand what Dinah said to me from the hospital bed: "Be careful of the people around you." Who's it, but it's too late. His vision blurred, as if he had returned to the Crystal Palace and saw the dragon relics pointed at by the armored jade corpse, and saw him open the stone box and take out a square stone slab.

The picture shattered and reassembled, I lay on the ground, as if I was going to die, and when I was dying, I saw Weizi come from walking over and squatting in front of me and touching my hair.

As far back as I remember, I asked him what it was all about.

Weizi looked at me, still smiling, and said in an ethereal voice: "The sky is the cover, the earth is the coffin, and it is for the burial of the dragon." As for the slate, mortals can't take it. ”

"What the hell!" I still asked.

Weizi's face, which seemed to smile forever, suddenly became gloomy, and whispered in my ear: "God's code! ”

PS: There's another chapter about what to say after the end.