Luo Bei is twelve years old this year and is currently in the first year of a junior high school in the city. His grades are not bad in his class, and he is usually not the kind of naughty child who likes to cause trouble. His mother Zhang Li was engaged in the profession of a nurse. Although she was usually busy at work, she had always been very interested in his study and life, but in Luo Bei's memory, he seemed to spend most of his first twelve years with himself. His mother lives with him, although he is not the kind of child who is mostly a single-parent family in today's society, and his father Luo Ting also loves him and his mother very much, but even if Luo Bei racked his brains for a long time, He also may not be able to remember what his father looked like.
It may seem strange to say this, but it really happened to this twelve-year-old child, because not only could he not see his father from time to time, but his family did not have as many fathers as other families. Photos, what is even more strange is that his mother rarely mentions the existence of his father when he comes to relatives and neighbors at home, and unless it is on certain days, his father will be swept away by a man who is said to be far away. Back home, back to this little house with him and his mother.
"Ouch! My dear son, did you miss your father? How are your recent grades? Let me hold it! Hey, the weight is quite heavy haha!"
The tall and handsome man always smiled very happily when he hugged and teased 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 in him. emotion. It's obvious that 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 stayed at home for only two days and didn't have time to talk to him, but Luo Bei couldn't help it. Miss him. The most important thing is that Luo Bei can clearly feel that his mother is also thinking about their father who has not contacted them for a long time, and thinking of this, the boy who was sitting in his small room doing homework put down the ballpoint pen in his hand, With a heavy heart, he rubbed his nose.
Regarding his father's occupation, his mother rarely said that he took the initiative, but Luo Bei, who was sensitive and precocious, still vaguely knew that his father was a policeman. This kind of policeman should not be the kind of ordinary police uncles, but the kind who want to catch those big bad people in person. This may be the reason why his father Luo Ting is always not at home, and for this, his This is what his mother Zhang Li warned him after learning that he had guessed it.
"Don't take your family affairs to school to talk nonsense, and don't run around with strangers after school. Xiaobei, your father's work is very hard and dangerous, we can't cause him trouble, you have to be sensible, Qian Don't worry Mommy, okay?"
The haggard and thin face of the woman 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 the same. It's a very dangerous and great thing, because every now and then some formal aunts and uncles come to sit at his house, and every time his mother is behind his back and whispers to the strangers with complicated expressions. Saying such things.
"I can understand, let him work hard, we as family members will definitely not drag him down, nor the country... No, no, I'm not short of money, my children and I can live well, just help tell him, five years and ten years. Years, I've been waiting for him to come home..."
His mother's voice was very low when she said this, 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 a little want to cry, and he seemed to understand what their family had to bear. that heavy responsibility.
His dad is working hard to protect more people, and even though he and his mom lost a lot of time with dad because of this, it all seemed worth it. Because there are always some people who need to take on these responsibilities, even if this is not his Luobei's father, it will be someone else's father, and as long as he thinks that maybe this kind of thing will happen in the family of other children, Luobei's eyes are red. After thinking about it, I decided to forget it.
He is only twelve years old, and he still doesn't understand a lot of things. His mother taught him a lot of things. Although he has no education from 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 mother.
"Don't make your mother angry, help me protect him well, your father and I'm not here, you are the only man in this family, if any bad person dares to bully your mother, you will beat them up, do you know?"
Before leaving home last time, Luo Ting teased Luo Bei with a half-truth, but he didn't know that his stupid son had completely heard the words, and he took it seriously. He naturally didn't know that for Luobei, he had already understood the difference between his family and others, but just one year after Luobei's father Luoting left home, one day Luobei found out that his family was different from others. A strange thing happened.
There are often unfamiliar calls from his landline, sometimes his mother received it, and sometimes it was received by Luo Bei who happened to be watching TV in the living room. 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 to the downstairs district committee to pay the water bill, only Luo When Bei was alone at home, the strange phone 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. He was very afraid that some bad guy was calling, 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 he could say the words in his mouth, a voice came from the other end first. This time the call was no longer hung up as suddenly as before, because the other end soon rang a Chinese with a strong local accent. The voice of a young man, accompanied by a terrifying and weird grunt of gasping, the child curled up on the sofa only heard the man on the phone shouting like a madman.
"Luo Ting has been killed by a few of our brothers!! He took a dozen knives!! Dead!! Dead!! We are coming to kill you soon! Kill your whole family!! Kill!! Kill!!"
The phone was hung up abruptly, and the pale-faced Luo Bei covered his ears and turned back the landline in his hand. His underage body was trembling with fear, and he started crying uncontrollably within a few seconds. There were repeated words from the horrible person who was yelling in there just now, and there was no sound in the room for a while, and as long as he thought of the words that his father was dead, Luo Bei, who was still a child, turned red. Opened his eyes and cried aloud.
His dad died, got killed by those bad guys, and his dad never... never came back.
While crying, he shivered and wiped his tears. After all, Luo Bei, who was still a child, couldn't control his emotions. He didn't believe that his father died like this, but the words of the bad guy still made him scared to death, and Just when this emotion was extremely complicated and chaotic, the twelve-year-old child suddenly thought of something, and it was this incident that made him stop crying, and he stopped whimpering. .
He received the threatening call today. If it was his mother, he would be as sad as he is. The purpose of these bad guys is to scare his mother, so once they succeed, it is exactly what they wanted. . But now there is no sign to prove that his father is dead, and thinking in this way, Luo Bei wiped his tears with red eyes. After a short period of recovery, the young boy became more He just put the landline away and 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 wants to protect her, he can't let his mother know about this, and he can't let these bad people hurt his mother, because this is his father Luo Ting Before leaving the house, he made an agreement with him seriously, and thinking about it like this, the twelve-year-old boy forced himself to return to his room calmly, until his mother returned home and for the next week, he Didn't reveal the slightest bit about it.
That phone call never came, 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 often be careful to see if there were any strange people behind them Follow, after all, that terrifying phone call has been lingering in his mind.
He was afraid that one day someone would 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 just after Luo Bei held her mother's hand but couldn't bear to look back, But did not see anything.
"Xiaobei, wait here for mom, mom will go shopping and order food and come out soon, you just stand here watching the bike..."
Standing outside the market and talking to Luobei, Zhang Li nodded obediently when she saw her son carrying a schoolbag and turned to go to the vegetable market. Because the market was crowded at the moment, it was broad daylight, so Zhang Liyi I didn't pay much attention to the time, but as soon as she left, Luo Bei, who was staying 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 man The shadow suddenly blocked in front of him.
"Did your mother tell you not to run around, why are you so disobedient?"
The strange man with a cigarette said this and rubbed Luo Bei's head. Seeing this, Luo Bei took a step back in panic, but was supported by the hands behind him. When he turned his head and looked at him, he found an ordinary looking The eldest brother who couldn't be more embarrassed was looking at him helplessly, and seeing Zhang Li leave, Xiao Nanzhu, who had followed them all the way to get out of the car with the third grader, looked at this monkey child with a very vigilant look and was ready to put it away at any time. The group of uncles around them suddenly raised their eyebrows and laughed as they called out.
"In the third year of junior high, look at this kid. I'll go in and follow Zhang Li. Call me later if there is any situation. Feel free to do whatever you want. Be sure to protect yourself and make sure that the person is okay, you know?"
With such a serious attitude, Xiao Nanzhu simply ran away regardless of the embarrassed appearance of the third year stuttering. Luo Bei and the third year were left outside the vegetable market together, but the atmosphere was a little embarrassing.
Because from the simple words of Xiao Nanzhu just now, Luo Bei, the child, had already guessed that the two people who suddenly appeared were not bad people, but maybe the people who came to protect him and his mother, plus the appearance of the third year of junior high school It's not threatening, and it doesn't look like a bad person, but thinking of this, the boy who is not tall raised his head and glanced at the third grader without saying a word.
"Well, don't be afraid, if something happens, brother... I'll run with you later."
He blushed and said that. He was embarrassed to say that in the third year of junior high school, but he was always at the end of everything. If he encountered a terrifying human murderer, he would be unable to stop him. , but when the boy stared at him like this, he was still very nervous, and just when he was at a loss to think about whether to use the calendar paper on his body to fold a thousand paper cranes for Luo Bei to play with, the boy suddenly tugged at him. hands, and then said softly and stubbornly with red eyes,
"Brother... Are you also the police? You were called by my dad to protect me and mom, right... Those bad guys said my dad was dead, they were lying... Right?"