Chinese Almanac Master

Luobei is 12 years old this year, and he is currently in the first grade of a junior high school in this city. His grades are not bad in the class, and he is not usually the kind of naughty kid who likes to cause trouble.His mother, Zhang Li, works as a nurse. Although she is busy at work, she has always been very concerned about his study and life. However, in Luobei's memory, he seems to spend most of the first 12 years with himself. His mother lives together, even though he is not the kind of child in single-parent families in today's society, his father Luo Ting also loves him and his mother very much, but even if it makes Luo Bei rack his brains for a long time, he He might not be able to remember what his father looked like.

It seems a bit strange to say this, but it really happened to this 12-year-old child, because not only can he not see his father often, but his home does not have too many photos of his father like other families What's even more strange is that his mother rarely mentions his father's existence whenever relatives and neighbors come to the house, and unless it is a certain day, his father will come from a place that is said to be far away. Go home, come back to this little room with him and his mother.

"Ouch! My precious son, do you miss your father? How are your grades recently? Let me hug you! Hey, the weight is quite heavy haha!"

The tall and handsome man always smiled happily when hugging and teasing him. Although he often couldn't even remember what grade Luo Bei was in, Luo Bei could still feel the real concern from his father from him. emotions.Obviously he hasn't seen his father for almost a year. The last time we met was this time last year. At that time, his father only stayed at home for two days and didn't have time to say anything to him, but Luo Bei still couldn't help it. Miss him.The most important thing is that Luobei can clearly feel that his mother is also missing their father who has not contacted them for a long time, and thinking of this, the boy who is sitting in his small room doing homework puts down the ballpoint pen in his hand, He rubbed his nose thoughtfully.

Regarding his father's occupation, his mother rarely said to take the initiative, but sensitive and precocious Luo Bei still vaguely knew that his father was a policeman.This kind of policeman should not be the kind of ordinary police uncle, but the kind who wants to catch the bad guys in person. This may be the reason why his father Luo Ting is always away from home. Regarding this point, his His mother Zhang Li warned him like this after learning that he had already guessed.

"Don't bring family affairs to school to talk nonsense, and don't run around with strangers after school, Xiaobei, your father works very hard and dangerous, so we can't trouble him, you also have to be sensible, Qian Don't make mom worry, okay?"

The woman's haggard and thin face looked pitiful, Luo Bei nodded quickly when he heard the words, even though he didn't understand what was going on with the sorrow and complexity in his mother's eyes, he only knew that what his father was doing was really a This is a very dangerous and great thing, because from time to time, some uncles and aunts in formal clothes come to sit at his house, and every time his mother will cry behind his back and whisper to those strangers with complex expressions Said such words.

"I can understand, let him work hard, we as family members will never drag him down, nor will we drag down the country... No no, I am not short of money, my children and I can live a good life, just help tell him, five years For ten years, I have been waiting for him to come home..."

When his mother said this, her voice was very low, but Luo Bei, who was lying in the crack of the door of the small room, still heard it. At that moment, he suddenly felt like crying, and he seemed to understand the responsibilities of their family that heavy responsibility.

His father is working hard to protect more people. Although he and his mother lost a lot of time with their father because of this, it all seems to be worth it.Because there are always some people who need to bear these responsibilities, even if this is not Luo Bei's father, it will be someone else's father, and as long as he thinks that this may happen in any other child's family, Luo Bei's eyes are red After thinking about it, I decided to forget it.

He is only 12 years old, and there are still many things he does not understand. His mother taught him a lot. Although he did not have the education of his father, he is still very sensible and independent as a boy. He knows that as the only male in the family, He needs to protect his mom.

"Don't make your mother angry, help me protect him well, your father and I are not here, you are the only man in this family, if there are any bad guys who dare to bully your mother, you just beat them up, you know?"

Before leaving home last time, Luo Ting teased Luo Bei with half-truth and half-false words, but he didn't know that his silly son had completely heard his words, and he took them seriously.He naturally didn't know that for Luobei, he had already understood the difference between his family and others, and just a year after Luobei's father Luo Ting left home, one day Luobei discovered that A strange thing happened.

There are often strange calls from his landline at home, sometimes his mother receives it, and sometimes Luo Bei who happens to be watching TV in the living room receives it. At the beginning of these calls, no one spoke, and after a while It will hang up automatically, and with these strange calls without caller ID, his mother Zhang Li seems to become a little restless, and one day his mother went downstairs to the district committee to pay the water bill, only Luo When Bei stayed at home alone, that strange call came again.

In fact, when the phone rang, Luo Bei hesitated for a moment, because he was the only one at home at the moment, and he was very afraid that some bad guy called, but when he thought that his father was a policeman, there was no reason to be afraid of these paper tigers The same bad guy, the boy who was sitting on the sofa watching TV still answered the call with a pale face after a moment of hesitation.

"Hey……"

Before the words in his mouth could be uttered, a voice came from the other end first. This time, the phone no longer hung up suddenly like before, because a Chinese voice with a strong local accent soon rang out from the other end. The voice of a young man, and after a horrible and strange panting sound, the child curled up on the sofa only heard the man on the phone yelling like a lunatic.

"Luo Ting has been killed by several of our brothers!! He was stabbed more than a dozen times!! Dead!! Dead!! We will come to kill you soon! Kill your whole family!! Kill!! Kill!!"

The phone was hung up suddenly, and the pale-faced Luo Bei covered his ears and buckled back the landline in his hand. His thin, underage body was trembling with fear, and within a few seconds he burst into tears uncontrollably. The words that the scary person yelled over and over again and again, there was no sound in the room for a while, but as long as he thought of the words that his father was dead, Luo Bei, who was still a child, turned red He closed his eyes and burst into tears.

His father is dead, killed by those bad guys, and his father will never... never come back.

While crying and trembling, he wiped away his tears. After all, Luo Bei, who was still a child, couldn't control his emotions at all. He couldn't believe that his father died just like this, but the bad guy's words still terrified him to death. Just when this kind of emotion was extremely complicated and chaotic, the 12-year-old child suddenly thought of something, and it was this thing that made him stop crying all of a sudden, not even whimpering.

Today's threatening call was received by him. If it were his mother, she would be as sad and uncomfortable as him. The purpose of these bad guys is to scare his mother, so once they succeed, it means that they really did what they wanted. up.But now there is no sign to prove that his father is dead, and thinking in his heart, Luo Bei wiped his tears with red eyes. He just put the landline away and then sat back on the sofa with a lingering fear.

His mother will be back in a while, he is the only man in the family, so he has to protect her, he can't let his mother know about it, and he can't let these bad guys hurt his mother, because it's his father Luo Ting Before leaving home, he made a serious agreement with him, and thinking about it, the 12-year-old boy sat down and returned to his room calmly. Disclosure of this matter.

That call never came back, he still went to and from school every day as before, his mother would hint to pick him up, and then they would go home together, but Luo Bei would always carefully check if there were any strange people behind them Then, after all, that horrible phone call has been lingering in his mind.

He was afraid that one day someone would come and hurt him and his mother.But on the way home with his mother that day, he always felt that someone was following him and his mother, and when Luo Bei was holding her mother's hand but couldn't bear to look back, But I didn't see anything.

"Xiaobei, you wait here for mom, mom will go shopping for some food and she will come out soon, just stand here and look at the bicycle..."

Standing outside the market and talking to Luobei like this, Zhang Li saw his son carrying a schoolbag and nodded obediently, then turned and went to the vegetable market, because the market was full of people and it was broad daylight, so Zhang Li I didn't pay much attention to the time, but as soon as she left, Luo Bei who stayed in the same place looked back and forth a little uneasy, and just when he couldn't help but want to walk around, there was a tall But the shadow suddenly blocked in front of him.

"Your mother won't let you stop running around, why are you so disobedient?"

The weird man with a cigarette in his mouth rubbed Luo Bei's head as he said so. Luo Bei took a step back in panic when he saw this, but was supported by the hands behind him. When he turned his head, he found an ordinary-looking man The elder brother, who couldn't be more embarrassed, was looking at him helplessly, and Xiao Nanzhu, who saw Zhang Li leaving and followed them all the way to get out of the car with the third grader, saw that the monkey child was very vigilant and ready to take him away. The group of old men around them looked like they were calling over, and they immediately raised their eyebrows and laughed.

"Look at this kid in the third grade of junior high school. I'll go in and follow Zhang Li. Call me if there is any situation. Do whatever you want. You must protect yourself to ensure that he is fine, do you understand?"

With such a serious attitude, Xiao Nanzhu ran away without caring about the embarrassment of the third grader stuttering. Luo Bei and the third grader were left outside the vegetable market together, but the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Because from Xiao Nanzhu's simple words just now, the child Luo Bei has already guessed that these two people who suddenly appeared are not bad people, but people who came to protect him and his mother. It wasn't threatening, and he didn't look like a bad guy, but thinking of this, the boy who was not tall raised his head and looked at Chu San with his lips pursed without saying a word.

"Well, don't be afraid, if something happens, brother... I will take you away later."

Saying this with a blushing face, I am quite embarrassed to say this in the third grade of junior high school, but he is always at the bottom of the list, if he meets a terrible human murderer, he really can't stop it However, when the boy was staring at him like this, he was still very nervous, but just when he was at a loss and was thinking whether to use the calendar paper on his body to fold a thousand paper cranes for Luobei to play with, the boy suddenly pulled him hand, then whispered but stubbornly with red eyes,

"Brother...Are you also the police? You were called by my father to protect me and my mother, right...Those bad guys said my father was dead, they are lying...Is it?"