The anonymous letter sent in the middle of the night is the prayer of the dead, the struggle of the darkness, and the collapse of faith.

No one informed my father when he was sent back. His return was like a sudden change in his mother when he saw a plate that had fallen from his hand. I saw this scene with my own eyes in the kitchen. The moment my father saw my mother, he didn't seem to have a look of surprise, but found a place to sit down and pick up the teacup on the table and drank two sips:

"Why are you back?"

My mother went to the stove and picked up a broom and swept the broken plates on the floor into the dustpan:

"Pingping and your dad went to get me back."

My father nodded, then took out a bag of cigarettes from his pocket and smoked one from it. He put it down when he was about to pick up the lighter:

"Get me something to eat."

The mother did not answer him, turned around and washed the pot and beat two eggs, stir-fryed rice for my father. There was nothing to say on that night, and my mother helped my father clean up and then went to bed. How could she say that my father looked weird, as if he had completely changed, and she had not changed as normal as she had been a long time ago, but she always felt something strange, as if she had experienced something on that construction site.

My father didn't mention anything about him these days when he went out. The grandmother called him to ask his uncle but didn't ask any questions. After the introduction of his grandfather, my mother went to work in a paper bag factory run by a relative from afar, and my father contacted the previous foreman again. At that time, I thought that this family had finally reached a day where I could live a stable life.

My uncle came back from the construction site, and the grandmother immediately rode a tricycle to his sister's house and found my uncle. My uncle did not talk much to her. Instead, he ran directly to the courtyard to find my father. After chatting with him for a while, I saw my father return to the kitchen in frustration and drink a sip of wine. I don't know if I didn't hear it clearly, but he seemed to say:

"He was dead, too."

That night, my father drank a lot of wine, and he hadn't drunk so much since he came back. But it seemed that what they talked about did not affect my father too much. The next day he went to work as usual, but after he came back, he lay alone in bed drinking rice wine, and was unwilling to communicate with anyone.

Until one day, a postman rode a motorcycle to the door of the compound and shouted:

"Who is Xu Minfeng? Come out and you will trust me."

Since I can remember, the courtyard has never received any letters, never. This sudden letter aroused my curiosity. My father was not at home, so I helped him take them first and put them in the drawer beside his bed. The teacher taught me that you should not open other people's letters at will, let alone my father's letters. If I opened them, I would be beaten up, but I saw the word "chong" written on the envelope.

When my father came back, I told him another letter. He didn't react much, but after eating, he picked up the letter and looked at it. After reading it, somehow, he suddenly laughed and drank half a glass of rice wine. The look that he hadn't been there these days appeared in his eyes, as if he had returned to his original state.

I have never read this letter, but later when my father talked about it to me, it was mentioned. The letter was kept in a box. There were only a few photos of him and a letter. I didn't remember to open it just now. The letter was not written in the format taught by the teacher, but was casual. The envelope was torn apart by my father many years ago, and some marks left by the rice wine were stained on it. The envelope was opened and the paper read: Brothers Xu Minfeng personally opened it.

“Brother Xu:

When you see this letter, I believe someone has conveyed my death message to you. But don’t worry, I am still alive, even better than before. I am different from you. I have not learned much culture and I don’t know how to express it to you in the letter. I try to write and you try to understand.

In fact, the real boss of the tomb this time is a rich local man in your place. I don’t know how rich he can do this under the noses of so many people. I have been cheating outside for so many years. At first, I spent some small buckets, and later I even went to fortune telling to sell leather shoes. But in the local dialect, the lean camel is bigger than a horse, so they came to me and hope I could help them get into the ground. After all, I am also a member of the Zhang family.

You should still remember that big foreman, his name is Jinzi. In fact, he is not an ordinary person. His ancestors are still in our industry, but their reputation is not as big as our Zhang family. Moreover, I have known him for more than ten years. He has learned a lot of skills like me, but he has never set up a few tombs at all. He has been outside for several years and has been in a stumbling block. If I hadn't persuaded him, he wouldn't have agreed to those people to do this.

According to their requirements, we arrived two days earlier than the workers to survey the terrain in advance. Do I remember something like the Jin Ding Acupoint that had to memorize more familiar than my birth date since childhood? I had already figured out where the Shengmen was. But it was not enough to rely on the two of us to wade through this water. So I pretended to be a famous but incompetent liar, and Jin Zi told anyone directly that he had the ability to touch gold.

When you came to this construction site, I felt that you were different. You looked smarter than others, so I thought it was the most appropriate to make friends with you. So like those workers, I revealed that my ancestors were fighting, and then you appeared in front of me without my expectations. But when I didn’t expect that, you were not only smart but also a good person. I really treated you as my brother. Apart from this real plan, what I told you is true.

Under my induced elm heads, the Shengmen was found not long after. In fact, before I came, I had inquired about the descendants of a royal family that had been left over from a long time ago, and also suppressed the legend of evil beasts. The scale of this tomb made me think of that person at once, and my intuition told me that this was the tomb of the descendants of that royal family.

That night, we drank too much and entered the grave. You should still remember that time. That day, a Taoist priest in a yellow robe came. The boss said that this person was also from our Zhang family. I went to ask, who knew that this kid was just a pretender. Jinzi and I asked casually, and he was exposed. His surname was Zhang, but he had no connection with our Zhang family at all. He was just a cheating food and drink. I heard that this trip was made more, so we came to take advantage of the situation, so we took him to accompany us. That day I drank with you, and I originally wanted to tell you the truth, but I was afraid you would not believe it.

That night, Jinzi and the liar went in first, and no one dared to go in and look at the big night. They thought to go in and get two good things first. The liar was fooled by us to try the waters. Who knew that he won the lottery as soon as the door opened, and he met us as soon as he died. I took you in just to take you in and get two good things together, but no one expected that this happened.

Those bosses and foremen thought that the liar was afraid of running away, so no one remembered him at all. I won’t say it when we entered the tomb later. You should still remember it. As for why you fainted when you touched the jade bi. But the things in the tomb were all evil. Maybe it was because your physique was just right, but this treasure was cheaper for me.

After you left, the workers continued to go deeper under the comfort of the foreman. This tomb is more complicated than we imagined. There is a door behind each treasure chest, which is different from the tomb door outside. There is no distinction between the door of life and death. After entering, it will be a big maze.

Fortunately, the owner of the tomb of each maze would leave something valuable to dissuade us from moving forward. But only a few people retreated, and most of them were rolled into the maze. Jinzi and I met in the tomb without everyone knowing it, which was God helped me. We both entered the main tomb chamber first than everyone else. At this time, Jinzi and I appeared in the tomb, which was exactly the same as I thought. It records the life experience and life of this descendant of the royal family, but there are some things I did not expect.

I remember you told me that your family first moved there from this place, and the records above also said that his descendants moved to your current part. So I was wondering if...

Before I could finish reading it carefully, it was because the boss was unwilling to continue wandering around in the maze, so he ordered the people above to force the tomb with a machine. Before Jinzi could open the coffin to make money, he heard the sound of the machine above hitting the ground with force, and the tomb chamber immediately collapsed.

So Jinzi and I immediately made a hole in the soil around the tomb and temporarily built a place to curl up. At night, Jinzi and I sneaked away. Those people thought we were dead under the collapse, but in fact, they didn't. Jinzi and I were not learning this skill in vain.

It’s really lucky that there are no zongzi in this tomb. I don’t know if it’s because the zongzi is a legend or there is no burial at all.

Jinzi and I sold the stolen treasures. Now he no longer has to go back to the construction site, and I no longer have to continue drifting outside. We two plan to gather a few more people to return to our old business. I want to break away from the Zhang family and fight for my own world. I know you will cheer for me, brother.

I hope you can get rich at home in the future. We both will definitely have a few more drinks when we have the chance!

Zhang Chong”

There was no date written on the letter. After reading it, I put it back in the envelope and hid it in the box. In fact, I had already learned the story from my father's mouth and knew that there was Zhang Chong. My father did not get rich like Zhang Chong, nor did I know whether Zhang Chong had fulfilled his ideal and became a famous lieutenant.

My father returned to being energetic from the day he received the letter. I don’t know if he was looking forward to the next meeting with Zhang Chong, or if he was sure that his brother would one day fulfill his ideals. Sometimes a man’s relationship is not in his words, perhaps just a glass of wine and a cigarette.

People who are swollen and fat always have a heart of inferiority. I am such a person. When I was a child, I must look like I also have it. Perhaps only in this way can I comfort my inferiority heart.

After Xiaotao and I found out where Sun Tian’s family lived, they went around their doorstep every day. Sometimes they happened to meet Sun Tian to play, which may be the happiest time every day. One day, Sun Tian wrote a string of numbers on paper, and she told me that the string of numbers was a number of a social software. She asked me if I had a number of this social software, and I said without thinking that I had one. But in fact, the computer was still a rare object, with neighbors next door, only our family didn’t. I also asked my father and mother that I wanted to buy a computer several times, but it didn’t succeed once, and sometimes it even caused my father to beat him.

So I remembered that my uncle had a computer at home, and that her daughter Xiangxiang would definitely be willing to help me get this number. So it didn't take long to get a number, but I lost the paper with Sun Tian's number. Perhaps this was the only chance in my life, and I accidentally lost it.

My father is a person who doesn’t like to use electronic products very much. He even thinks that there is no need to contact the phone, and he has never installed a phone at home. From Xiaolingtong to mobile phones, he has changed several times. My father has not even one of them. But I don’t know why one day my father wanted to buy a mobile phone.

So my mother and I followed him to the town to buy a mobile phone, which cost a total of 1,000 yuan. This was already a good mobile phone at that time, but the reason for buying it was that the screen of this flip phone could be turned around. I have only seen this mobile phone in TV advertisements.

However, my father lost interest in it after buying it for a few days, and he didn't use it much. Suddenly one day he got drunk, and he took out the phone and called me:

"I'll give this phone to you. I'll ask your mother to take you to the street to apply for a phone card. But it's not allowed to be used all the time, just play for a while every day."

I don’t know if my father thought of my demands but because of the high price of the computer, or if he was tired of playing with this phone. Just when I hurried to Sun Tian’s door with this phone, I realized that Sun Tian had packed up his things and left with her mother. This was what her grandmother told me. Then I remembered that the six years of life in elementary school had ended, and I was finally about to enter the junior high school life I longed for.

But I never thought that the disappearance of primary school days also disappeared into my life with Sun Tian again. Her household registration did not support her continuing to stay in public junior high school, so she was admitted to a private middle school with Shin-Cheng. The story between Sun Tian and me also ended at this time, and her next story was of course with Shin-Cheng.

When Shinqing was in elementary school, he had a good impression of my deskmate, the tall girl who bullied me all day long. But when I didn't expect that when he arrived in middle school, he actually got closer and closer to Sun Tian.
Chapter completed!