Chapter 1 Gifts from Ten Years ago
In a rental house in z city, Chen Zizi is checking the computer data while eating a bucket of instant noodles. A few messy bangs cover half of his eyes, making the guy look a bit embarrassed.
He just turned 18 yesterday and grew up in a welfare home. He not only has a mature mentality different from his peers, but if he is someone else, he will have a good rest after the college entrance examination, travel or find some good friends to get together and relax,
But Chen Ziyou is different. The day before yesterday, after the college entrance examination, he wanted to find a temporary job to earn some money during the holiday. Although the welfare home is not short of money, the children of the welfare home, when they reach the age of 18, must rely on their own efforts to earn tuition fees and living expenses for themselves. According to the words of the welfare yard, as an adult, you have to rely on yourself. Moreover, if we can earn more money and buy some snacks or school supplies for our brothers and sisters in the welfare home, they must be very happy.
"Dong Dong Dong!" Just when Chen Zizi was browsing through various employment notices in front of the computer, the door of the rental house was knocked.
"Didn't you just pay the rent yesterday? Why did the landlady knock at the door early in the morning?" Chen Zizi muttered in a low voice. He thought it was the landlady who asked for the rent again.
In fact, it's not surprising that Chen Zizi doesn't have many friends at ordinary times. Apart from one or two friends who grew up with him in the orphanage, she has no other friends. The one who can knock at the door in the early morning, there was no one before except the landlady.
"Dong dong dong!" Then the knock on the door came again, making Chen Zizi have to get up and open the door.
To Chen Ziyi's surprise, when he opened the door, he found that instead of the landlady, there was a middle-aged man in a suit and gold rimmed glasses.
"Hello, please..."
"Sorry, I don't buy insurance!" Chen Zizi slammed the door before the middle-aged man finished talking. I don't have enough money to go to college myself. How can I buy insurance? Chen Zizi smiled at himself, and was ready to continue to look for his information.
"Dong dong dong!" But as soon as he turned around, the knock on the door started again.
Chen Zizi was a little depressed when he opened the door again. Before he could speak this time, the middle-aged man hurriedly said, "Hello, I'm not selling insurance. I'm from Wanli Law Firm. Are you Mr. Chen Zizi?" The middle-aged man also handed me a business card.
"Law firm?" Chen Zizi took the business card with a puzzled face and looked at it, only to see that it was really written with the words "Zhang Yi, Wanli Law Firm".
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Chen Zizi?" the middle-aged man asked again.
Chen Zizi nodded blankly, "I'm Chen Zizi, what do you want from me?"
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Oh, well, ten years ago, someone entrusted us with something, saying that they would give it to you on Mr. Chen Zizi's eighteenth birthday."
The middle-aged man said, taking out a package from his briefcase, and carefully handed it to Chen Ziyou.
Chen Zizi took the parcel in doubt. As soon as he was ready to open it, he saw the middle-aged man again take out a document from his briefcase, "The things have been delivered, Mr. Chen Zizi, please sign here!"
Chen Zizi quickly glanced at the document and found that it was probably the purpose of completing the task entrusted, so he signed his name without any doubt.
"The entrusted task has been completed, so I will leave first. If there is any business to be handled in the future, I can come to our company. Our company has been established for decades, and we guarantee integrity and reliability!" After leaving a few words, the middle-aged man turned and left.
Chen Zizi looked at the back of the middle-aged man who had left, and suddenly felt puzzled. Why did he receive a package for no reason? And from what the man said just now, this package was commissioned ten years ago.
Then Chen Zizi closed the door, went back to the computer table, took out scissors and opened the package. Then he found that there was a one foot long iron box inside.
"What is this?" Chen Zizi looked at the box on the table blankly, and then he found that there was a gold lock on it to lock the box.
After thinking about it, Chen Zizi's heart suddenly moved, and then he began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets. Finally, after a long time of busy work, he found something from a small cabinet. It was a very small gold key.
I heard from the aunt of the orphanage's president that when Chen Zizi was sent to the orphanage as a child, this small gold key was hung around his neck. It should be a keepsake left by his relatives.
Chen Zizi took the little gold key that was almost forgotten by him and returned to the table. After hesitating for a moment, he finally slowly inserted the key into the gold lock hole on the small iron box.
After a soft sound of "click!", the little golden lock opened.
In a strange mood, Chen Zizi slowly opened the small iron box, and then he saw that there were three things in the box, a piece of paper full of words, a string of keys, and finally a palm gourd with a trace of purple in the blue.
Chen Zizi first picked up the piece of paper full of words, only to see a few lines of small words on it: "Son, for some reason, your mother and I have to trust you in the welfare home, and we also have to suffer, I hope you don't blame us. That bunch of keys is a gift we left for you when you were 18 years old. It's a three storey building with address at 514 Changxing Road, Chengxi District. And the gourd, you must always carry it with you, remember! "
After reading the note, Chen Zizi's eyes were blurred. Before he knew it, a few tears had fallen down his cheeks. Chen Zizi used to think about why his parents left him behind? But no matter how he asked the dean's aunt, she just shook her head. Chen Zizi once hated his parents and why they didn't want him.
But just after he read the note, the explanations left by his parents were not explanations. Chen Zizi's original hatred for his parents immediately dissipated. At least he knew that his parents did not want him, but sent him to the orphanage because he had to.
Chen Zizi raised his hand to wipe his tears and jumped three feet high. "I will lie in the trough. From now on, I am also a family with a house!"
A moment later, Chen Zizi took out the key in the box and the delicate looking gourd. The key is similar to an ordinary house key. There is nothing strange about it, but the green calabash is a bit strange. As soon as Chen Zizi held it in his hand, he felt a sense of coolness from the palm of his hand to his whole body, making Chen Zizi, who was originally hot and dry, feel refreshed immediately. It is June, and the weather is very hot. If you take this gourd with you every day, it is equivalent to taking an air conditioner with you?
Chen Zizi felt the green gourd in her hand with some joy. No wonder the note said that she must take the gourd with her at all times. It was a treasure!
After putting a few things on the table, Chen Zizi didn't care about the unfinished instant noodles on the table. He rushed into the bathroom to wash and get clean clothes.
Chen Zizi looked in the mirror. The man with delicate facial features was indeed a man. He was eighteen years old. I couldn't help thinking that my parents must be men and women, or I wouldn't be so handsome.
"Shifu, go to No. 514, Changxing Road, Chengxi District!" Chen Zizi stopped a taxi at the roadside, reported the address, and directly took a seat in. What he did not see was that the taxi driver's eyes flashed a strange color after hearing the address he said.
