Xiao Hai looked me straight in the eye and said, "The day after I came to your house, I cleaned up the bedroom upstairs, and there was a stack of things wrapped in old newspapers in the drawer of the closet. ”

I remember the mess of old newspapers she said, all of them were scrap paper, and there were indeed some photos in them, but they were too old to see clearly, I just flipped through them and threw them back into the box and didn't care about them, I don't remember the photo on the page.

Now that I heard Xiaohai say so sure and anxious, I quickly pulled her up, ran to the attic, and opened the box to find the mass of things wrapped in newspaper.

I found it very smoothly, and, there is really the one that Xiaohai said, although the photo is so old that it is a mess, and it is not clear what the characters on it look like, but the old pine tree with a crooked neck behind can still be seen clearly.

We took the whole bag of things to the study, and lay down in front of the computer to carefully compare the broken photo in our hands with the one on the website, and it would not be wrong that it was the same photo. There are no two identical leaves in the world, and there can be no two identical crooked neck trees, let alone the same angle. After careful comparison, you can also see that the buttons of the clothes and the posture of the arms are the same, which is completely consistent.

I hurriedly looked at other things wrapped in newspapers, more than 30 photos, there were single photos and double photos, and there were many group photos, but almost all of them were unrecognizable, and I couldn't see anything Mingtang, only a group photo with more than a dozen people was slightly better, at least three people's faces could be seen clearly, but unfortunately I didn't know all of them, and Xiaohai didn't know them.

In addition, there are some papers, all crumpled and tattered, and some are glued together and cannot be opened. There were a few sheets of paper that were clearly written, but they were no longer legible, leaving only puddles of black ink.

Xiaohai said: "This bag of things has been blistered. ”

I nodded and said, "It should be, but I don't know the situation, it was already like this when I first found these things, and I threw them back and didn't look at them again when I saw that it didn't make a big difference, who would have thought ......"

I can't go on.

yes, who would have thought there would be a picture of her dad in it. Actually, I should have thought of it, because that room was only occupied by Uncle Xiu and Uncle Chen.

Xiao Hai was unwilling to have such a little gain, and picked through the pile of waste paper that had been soaked in water and dried to find something valuable, but finally he was still desperate, and then sat down dejectedly and drank the cold coffee, and got up again and said that he would go to the attic to see if there were any other photos and other objects.

I went up with her.

Then, under a dusty dim electric lamp, I told her everything while looking through the old things that had been stored here.

This timing was particularly well chosen, because the things in hand avoided the embarrassment of eye contact, and the speech was as smooth as if it had been done a long time ago. The things that she couldn't say to outsiders, the things she couldn't tell to outsiders, the things that she was about to suffocate to death in her heart, and the situations that ghosts might not be able to believe when she said it, all told her one by one, including her father, who was really as old as the pictures she saw.

In the process of speaking, I was worried that she would suddenly collapse, but no, she was very calm, and classified the messy old things in the box, clothes into a pile, shoes in a pile, and paper materials were also divided into notes, photos, printed materials, newspapers, magazines, books and other categories, as if she was in the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I could tell in her nervous movements the shock she felt and the great helplessness of having to accept the truth of all this absurdity.

I said and said and said and said, and my mouth was so dry that I couldn't remember to go downstairs and pour a glass of water.

Xiaohai listened all the time, occasionally making a "hmm" or asking a simple question.

I told her that five years ago in July, my grandfather Su Mosen had something to do and then he was not heard from. Six months after he left home, a lawyer named Wang Desen came to my house and transferred all the property in Su Mosen's name to my name, saying that Su Mosen had carte blanche before he left home, and if there was no news of him for six months, he would handle the property transfer.

Xiao Hai didn't look up, and interjected very casually: "How much property?" ”

I smiled wryly and replied, "Much, much, much, much, lot, lot money, and real estate and antiques, gold, stocks, and so on." ”

She suddenly raised her head and asked, "Is he dead, so you inherited the inheritance?" ”

I said: "I hope so, but probably not, after the lawyer surnamed Wang completed all the transfer procedures, he gave me a briefcase containing my ID card, household registration book, a mobile phone, two bank cards and a pocket pistol, and also sternly instructed me not to change my mobile phone number, and to ensure that I was turned on 24 hours a day; You are not allowed to move into this house; not allowed to leave Qianzhou City; It is forbidden to go to a regular hospital for medical treatment or medical examination. Judging from these requirements, my grandfather should not have died outside, but for some reason he could not show up for the time being, but he would come back at any time in the future. ”

Xiaohai asked, "Didn't you ask the lawyer carefully?" ”

I replied a little helplessly: "I was so happy at the time, so much money, I became Bai Fumei in an instant, can my brain not be confused, so I didn't bother to ask, and when I remembered that I should ask clearly and then go back to the lawyer, I couldn't find it, his colleague said that he went abroad for further study, refused to answer which country he went to, and refused to give me his contact information." ”

Xiao Hai furrowed his eyebrows, he must be the same as me, he felt that there was a big problem here, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while, and his brain was a little messy.

After being stunned with her for a while, I suddenly laughed softly and said, "I just went back to Lawyer Wang that day and didn't find it, and after I walked out of Qingqi Law Firm, I met Bai Yafeng." ”

Xiao Hai looked at me with big black and white eyes, waiting for me to speak.

I briefly told Xiaohai about the situation that day, although I was very depressed when I didn't find Lawyer Wang, but when I thought that I had become rich and free, I was still very happy, so I bought more than 20 balloons in one go and gave them away casually, and happily walked to the front intersection, just happened to meet a group of vendors and chengguan fighting, I don't know where I got the courage, and I ran over like a woman in the rivers and lakes to meddle in things.

It was Bai Yafeng who received the alarm that day and came to deal with the group shelf incident, and that's how we met.

Xiaohai didn't say anything.

I thought of Bai Yafeng's appearance, and I was very glad that I rushed over to meddle with things that day, so I laughed softly again, and said: "Four and a half years ago, after the group incident, he called to thank me and asked me how old I was, I said twenty-two years old, in fact, I ......"

Suddenly I couldn't talk anymore because I didn't know how old I was.

I bit my mouth bitterly and looked a little sadly at the gold bracelet I was wearing on my left wrist.

There was a strange symbol engraved on the inside of the bracelet, and Uncle Xiu said it was my birthday, but I never understood it.

Xiaohai does not squeak.

I'll just go on.

I talked about the silverfish, and took out the silverfish that I hung around my neck to show her, and said, "I think you should have one too, maybe Uncle Xiu was too anxious when he left, and he didn't have time to give it to you." ”

She took the silverfish and put it in her palm and looked at it carefully, with a solemn and reverent expression.

I was afraid that she would suddenly cry, so I silenced and carefully stayed by my side.

But she was still very calm, and told me that there was a room in their house that was her father's studio, where her father used to do this and that, and sometimes she would stay by and watch him busy, and what she liked most was when he melted metal into water.

At this point, she returned the silverfish to me, and bent down to continue sorting out Sumerson's things.

I thought she was going to say something about silverfish, like she had seen Uncle Xiu make them, or maybe he had told her about the relationship between silverfish and trust.

But no, she didn't say anything more.

I think she must have known nothing about this and was really sad, she was Uncle Xiu's biological daughter, but she didn't have anything that she should have.

I have more than one.

In addition to the silverfish, the pure gold bracelet on my left wrist was also given by Uncle Xiu, and he also instructed me to carry it with me and not to take it off, because it can be used to protect myself at a critical time.

Seeing that Xiaohai didn't squeak, she didn't even ask questions, so I could only continue to talk about it, I told her how I struggled to live with Su Mosen over the years, I was forced by him to do such and such things I didn't want to do since I was a child, I was punished by him, I was abused by him, like a piece of luggage, I was taken by him from one city to another non-stop but forever isolated from normal people, I ate all the hardships that I could eat and couldn't bear in the world, and I saw all kinds of weirdness that should and shouldn't be.

I talked about Sumerson and his various anesthetics, how humiliating he had been with them to control my body over the years.

Those colorless, odorless narcotics were the weapons he used against me, and they were the biggest and most horrific nightmare of my entire life.

I also talked to Xiaohai about my jealousy of her when we first met a few days ago, because I dreamed since I was a child that I was Uncle Xiu's daughter and not Su Mosen's granddaughter.

As she said this, she was twisting to rummage through the contents of a wooden crate behind her, her hand movements stopped, but she didn't look back at me.

I smiled wryly and wiped away my tears.

Talking, talking, talking about the man who came to me with a silverfish with a terrible scar on his face, he told me that my mother was still alive and that I was from ......

Xiao Hai suddenly sat up straight and turned to me, his eyes burning, his lips trembling a little, and I was so frightened that I quickly shut up and waited for her to speak.

She raised her right hand and slashed it across her face, from the left forehead to the right side of her chin, diagonally across the entire face, and then asked me, "Is it such a long scar?" Is your face broken? ”

I nodded madly.

I really didn't expect that she knew that man too.