Text: Chapter 71
I was awakened from my sleep by a shrill ringing ringtone, and I slowly opened my eyes, and I rubbed my eyes with my hands as if a layer of gray fog had appeared in front of me. But the shrill bell kept ringing, and I reached out and dropped the alarm clock next to the bedside to the floor.
"Different Space"
Syllable!
I smashed the alarm clock and the world finally fell silent. I slowly turned my head to look at the alarm clock that had fallen on the ground, and it was already 8 o'clock in the morning.
"Hey!" At this point, I sighed
Today is Monday, which was supposed to be my day of work, but unfortunately my company closed down yesterday and I was officially unemployed. I was originally engaged in the computer industry, and it was easy to find other companies in this job, but at this time I felt a little tired, so I planned to use this time to take a good rest, anyway, there were still some savings in the passbook.
My name is Kim Tae, I was raised by my mother since I was a child, I have never met my father from the beginning, and my father has never appeared in my dictionary. Unfortunately, my mother passed away three years ago, and it was cancer. I felt like my sky was going to fall, and I cried at home for a whole week. And now I have no relatives in this world, at least that's what I think.
At this point, I washed up briefly, then ate a little bit at the restaurant outside and then went home. I turned on the TV and watched the boring program inside, when a quick phone rang, I immediately got up from the couch and picked up the phone, what I didn't expect was that it was this phone call that introduced me to a completely uncanny world, a world unknown to humanity.
When I picked up the phone, the other side of the phone was already saying, "Hello, may I ask if your father's name is Kim Tae-il?" ”
I was shocked by the question on the other side of the phone, although I had never met my father, but I had learned my father's name from my mother, and his name was indeed Kim Tae-il.
"Yes, you are?" At this moment, I felt a look of confusion and asked
"Is your mother's name Li Li?" The other person on the phone asked me again
"Yes, yes, how do you know, who are you?" At this time, I was even more puzzled when I heard my mother's name on the other side of the phone
"Hello Mr. Jin Tai, we are a law firm here, we have been looking for you for more than a month, and we have finally found you" At this moment, the tone on the other side of the phone was very excited
"Looking for me?" At this moment, I asked with some doubts
"I'm sorry we have some very unfortunate news for you," the tone on the other end of the phone suddenly lowered
"Tell me," I was very curious at the moment
"Your father Kim Tae-il died" The voice on the other side of the phone was so low that I couldn't tell what was going on after listening to it for the first time
"Can you make that clear?" I ask them to revert at this point
"Your father has died," said a very loud voice on the other end of the phone
"My father?" I could hardly believe my ears at the moment, I had never seen my father again, how could he have died? And how did the person on the other side of the phone find me?
"Can you come to our law firm if it's convenient for you?" At this point, the other side of the phone began to ask pleadingly
"Yes, you can give me the address," I said after a moment's hesitation
Soon I found the law firm at the address given to me on the phone. It was in a shop on the side of the street, and I looked up at the sign of the office, the name. The name of the firm is the name number. Looks like there's nothing wrong here. I slowly walked into the name office, and when I entered the hall of the name office, there was already a very young man standing there waiting for my arrival.
"You must be Mr. Kim Tae," he said, and immediately stepped forward to shake my hand
"Yes, hello," I said politely and shook his hand
"My name is Lu Yu, and I am the secretary of this firm, please come with me" At this moment, Lu Yu led me to the door of an office
"Our lawyer Li is waiting for you, please come in" At this time, Lu Yu knocked on the door, and then I walked in
At this moment, I saw a man in his fifties at his desk, and when he saw me, he immediately stood up and said to me very politely, "Hello Mr. Kim Tae"
"Hello," I replied, and sat down across from him
"You must be wondering what the hell is going on right now, right?" He said to me
"Well, I don't know," I said, looking at him
"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Lu Tao, I opened this law firm, and the little boy just now is my son, his name is Lu Yu," Lu Tao said
"Why do you know my name and you're looking for me?" I couldn't wait to ask
"We were commissioned by your father to do this," Lu Tao said to me at this time
"My father?" I'm a little confused
"Yes, I know you never met your father, but your father left all his property to you before he died," Lu Tao said to me at this time
"Property?" At this moment, I was very shocked by what Lu Tao said suddenly, because I never dared to believe that my father would leave a property to his son whom he had never met before he died
"What kind of property?" I asked softly
"Isn't it hard to wonder how your father died?" At this time, Lu Tao reminded me
"By the way, how did he die?" I looked straight at Lu Tao at this time
"Heart disease," Lu Tao seemed to feel a little uncomfortable when he said it at this time
"He has a heart condition?" I'm going to say it at this point
"Yes, he died of a heart attack," Lu Tao said
"This is what he left for you," Lu Tao at this time took out a shoe box from under his feet after speaking, and the box was not very large, and it could be seen that there would not be many things here
"My father left it?" I stood up as soon as I saw the box and opened the lid of the box
There really wasn't anything in the box, and beyond a very conspicuous set of keys was a very old wallet, and I took out the keys in front of me at the moment, the keys were very heavy, and I could tell from the keys that this set of keys had not been used for a long time. The key was already covered in rust. Then under the key were several old black and white photographs, which I took out one by one, and the people on these old photos obviously had a father and a mother, but even if it was my father, I couldn't recognize it at the moment. There were only seven photos in total, and I was watching each one very carefully at this time, while Lu Tao was sitting in his seat and watching me, but he didn't bother me. I looked at the photos one by one, but I could already tell who my father was, and a small man in the photo was my father, and my father was very good-looking, even if it was just a black and white photo, you could clearly see his handsome appearance from the photo.
After looking at the photos, I took out the contents of the box one by one, and I looked at everything very carefully. Soon the box was empty. Looks like that's all my father left me. At this moment, I slowly put my father's relics back.
"I'm done," Lu Tao asked me at this moment
I didn't answer, I just nodded.
"Actually, your father left a house for you," Lu Tao said to me at this moment
"House?" At the moment, I am even more curious about what kind of house Lu Tao is talking about
"Otherwise, how did that bunch of keys come from," Lu Tao reminded me at this time
At this moment, it dawned on me, yes, the key. If you have the key, of course you will have a house.
"Shall we go and see it now?" At this moment, Lu Tao asked me
At this time, I looked at the sky, and it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
"Let's still be tomorrow, it's a little late today," I said to Lu Tao at this time
"Okay, you go home and rest, we'll be waiting for you here early tomorrow morning," Lu Tao said to me
So I returned home with a box of things my father had left for me. At this time, I put my father's relics on my bed, and then I sat on the edge of the bed, and took out my father's relics again, because I had looked at everything in the box very carefully, so now I have nothing to look at, but now these things are all in front of me, and these things are the last relics left to me by my father, whom I have never met. Although I had never met my father, my eyes were slowly moistening at the moment, maybe this is human nature. Just as I was putting the contents of the box back into the box, I suddenly noticed a small almost imperceptible gap at the bottom of the box, and I slowly turned the box over at this moment, and then I found that there seemed to be a piece of paper in the gap, and I carefully pulled the paper out at this moment.
I slowly opened the paper because I knew it was supposed to be a letter.
My dear child!
I was no longer alive when you read this letter, but don't be sad or sad, I haven't taken good care of you and your mother in this life, which is the biggest regret of my life. My son, I miss you so much, I really want to, but I can't just get out of there, I still have my mission undone. I know you must hate me very much, because you have never seen me, but I will not blame you, maybe my death is not worth mentioning to you at all, and you will not feel sad at this moment, because this is my retribution, but my son I want you to live well in the house I left you, you must remember that the things in the house must not be moved, nor can other people live with you, let alone sell the house, this is the only request I have for you. Son, you must remember!
At this time, after reading the letter, I did not feel moved, but felt a trace of doubt. What about my father's sudden appearance, and the house he left me? What exactly is hidden inside the house? Why did my father keep mentioning in his letters that he should not sell his house and that he should not live with anyone else? Maybe the answer to all of this will be revealed tomorrow. At this time, I slowly carried my father's letter in my pocket. Then I walked out of the house, I had made an appointment with a colleague to go to dinner today, so I quickly met with him, he was my best friend when I was in the company, and now he has found another company to do computer programming, he also tried to persuade me to go, but I still didn't choose a job.
At this moment, he saw my puzzled face and asked, "Jintai, what's wrong with you today?" ”
I hesitated for a moment, but finally I was going to tell him what had happened today. After listening to my words, he naturally felt a little shocked. Because it all really looks like a plot in a novel, but he really appeared in front of my eyes. At this moment, my friend said to me after reading my father's letter to me: "I think your father has a lot to say to you, and it seems that you should take a good look at this letter."
"What? Why? "At this moment, I feel a little puzzled
"You know, when you want to hear a person speak, you don't listen to what he says, but listen to what he doesn't say"
Perhaps my friend was right, but I came home in the evening and took out my father's letter again, and I read it very carefully, but I still didn't see anything different in it. Did my father really just tell me these things?
I'm lying alone in bed at the moment, thinking about it, and then falling asleep.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already the next morning, and I looked at my watch, it was now six o'clock, so I quickly washed up and went to the famous law firm. At this moment, Lu Tao and Lu Yu, father and son, were already waiting for me at the gate of the office, and I hurriedly ran over.
"I'm sorry I'm late," I said apologetically
"It's okay, let's go now," Lu Yu said at this time, opening the door of a car in front of him
I sat in, and at this time Lu Tao and Lu Yu also sat in.
"Our journey today is very long," Lu Tao said to me at this moment
"It's long?" I have some doubts at this moment
"Yes, the house your father left you is on the outskirts of the city, and the journey is four and a half hours," Lu Yu, who was sitting next to me at the moment, explained to me
"The suburbs? Four and a half hours? "At this time, I seemed a little blind, because I never thought that the house left by my father was such a remote place
And so the three of us set off. Along the way, I learned some things about my father from Lu Yu and Lu Tao, although these things were the first time I learned about them, but I didn't feel surprised at all. And Lu Tao and Lu Yu are also two of his father's few friends. My father used to be a very ordinary worker, he worked very hard every day, but during the month he was looking at a house for a friend, he actually did something that shocked everyone, and that was to abandon my mother, who was pregnant at the time. My mother was in so much pain that she even thought about dying, but it was my presence that prevented the tragedy from happening. I don't know why my father made such a stunning decision in a month, but at this point I am almost certain that my father's departure must have something to do with this mysterious house. Because this is the house that he mentions most in his letter.
The four-and-a-half-hour journey was not as difficult as we imagined, and soon we were out of the city, and we came to a woodland for a while, when Lu Tao stopped the car and said to me, "Can you see a house a hundred meters ahead?" ”
At this time, I carefully watched the scene in front of me, and there was indeed a small three-story building with a single building less than 100 meters in front of my eyes. Although the house looks very old from the outside, the overall appearance is quite good. It looks like this house is indeed a good thing. At this time, Lu Tao and I, Lu Yu and his son got out of the car, because our car could no longer drive forward, because there was a thorn forest in front of us, and we had to walk to get to the house. Soon we came to the house that my father had left me.
At this moment, I stood in front of the front door of the house and looked at the house, which was very dilapidated on the outside, but it still maintained the classical architectural style. At the moment, I am holding the box that my father left behind. Then I slowly took out the string of precipitated keys in the box, I walked to the door of the house, and began to insert the key into the door lock, maybe the house is really too dilapidated, the key in my hand keeps twisting left and right in the door lock but still not opened. But at this time, Lu Tao came over, he took the key in my hand, and then aimed at the door lock.
Click! Click!
The door opened.
"Really good," I said to Lu Tao at this moment
At this moment, Lu Tao smiled at me and walked into the room. At this time, Lu Yu and I also followed.
"You come here a lot, huh?" At this time, I asked Lu Tao
"I've been here twice," Lu Tao replied to me at this moment
At this moment, I walked into the house, the first place I stood was a long aisle, on my left hand side is a living room of more than 30 square meters, it seems that this living room should be the largest room in the house. And right in front of me was a kitchen, but it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. The stove and cooktop above the kitchen were in a dilapidated state. On the road to the kitchen is a small storage room. At this moment, I slowly walked over and tugged at the doorknob of the storage room.
Can't open.
I couldn't open it, it looked like it was locked, and I looked at the set of keys in my hand, and I thought that this set of keys would really come in handy in the future.