Aunt’s Secret

Author: prretyfoot
Word count: 7205

Disclaimer: This article is adapted from dogxu’s “My Aunt’s Secret”.
If you don’t like it, change it to this.

Li Ming is 18 years old this year. He has just finished the college entrance examination and rests at home every day. Li Ming’s father died early in a car accident
After passing away, only Li Ming’s father, Li Zhigang, and Li Ming lived in the family area of ​​a printing factory.
Zhigang not only worked as a guard in the factory, but also opened a non-staple food shop near his home to sell non-staple food to earn some pocket money
.

Li Ming helps his father look after the store at home every day, and the father and son live happily. But recently Lee
Ming found that his father was always a little strange. It turned out that Li Zhigang was always away from get off work during this period of time, and only Li Ming was there every day.
Personally, I look at the store and come back at night, and every day when I come back, I look very tired, so I go to bed after washing. this day
Li Zhigang returned home at night to have dinner and get ready to wash and sleep as usual. Li Ming came to his father’s bed and asked: ”
I don’t know why Dad has worked so hard recently, but he is worried about my child’s college tuition. If this is the case, my child is willing to give up
University, and I don’t want to see my father suffer. ”

Li Zhigang looked at Li Ming who was sitting in front of him and was very moved by saying such words, so he said to Li Ming: Li Ming, don’t you
Don’t worry about Dad, Dad just went to your cousin’s house during this time, your cousin is at home alone now, enough
After hard work, I went to help her, and Li Ming nodded reassuringly after hearing this. By the way, Li Ming’s cousin is only 25 years old this year.
He is a clerk in a company, and Li Ming’s uncle is a sailor and is away all year round. do they have children, so
There is only my cousin in the family. Thinking of this, Li Ming felt that it is okay for his father to go to his cousin to help, so he didn’t
He was asking more questions, but Li Zhigang was relieved to see that Li Ming was not asking more questions. But Li Ming thought that his cousin was only 2 years old this year.
The 5-year-old father was in his 40s and went to help her clean the house, but he still felt uncomfortable when he saw his father
Being so tired, he didn’t talk, and went back to the room alone.

This night, Li Ming was always uneasy and always felt that his father was hiding something from him, and the night passed in a flash.
The next day, Li Ming went to the store to check on business as usual, and Li Zhigang was about to go out. Li Ming asked his father
: “Are you going to your cousin’s house again?” Li Zhigang replied: “Yes, your cousin is working too hard by herself, I will help
she”.

After finishing speaking, he went out. Li Ming continued to do business without thinking too much. At night, when his father came back, Li Ming saw
Seeing that there seemed to be a red mark on his father’s shoulder, as if he had been beaten by something, he hurriedly asked his father: “You
What’s the matter, why is there a red mark on the shoulder? ” Li Zhigang saw Li Ming saw his shoulder, and felt a little
Nervously said, “I accidentally fell down on the road, and my shoulder was red.” Li Zhigang hurried into the
I left my room and told Li Ming that I would not eat tonight, you can eat alone, and I will take a rest.

Li MingSeeing that his father didn’t want to say more, he didn’t ask any more. So after dinner, I went back to my room alone.
room, lying on the bed and recalling the scene just now, I can’t believe that the scar on my father’s shoulder was caused by a fall
, Even if you fall, how can you have scars on your shoulders but not on your head? The more Li Ming thought about it, the more strange he felt. feel
His father must have something to hide from him, so Li Ming secretly had a plan in his heart. The night seems to pass so fast
In the morning, Li Ming wanted to make breakfast as usual and sit down to eat it, and Li Zhigang also wanted to wake up as usual and get ready to go out.
door, Li Ming called to stop his father, saying that father went to his cousin’s house to help again? Yes, during this time your cousin has a lot of housework, so
I will go there more, after all, she is the only one in her family and everything is very hard. Then father should go after eating early
! Li Ming said. not

I’ll go to your cousin’s house to eat. You can keep these for yourself. Don’t forget to visit the store after eating! Know
By the way, father, I will go right after eating. Father smiled and nodded and went out. Li Ming also rushed to see his father going out.
He put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, got dressed and went out. It turned out that Li Ming had made up his mind at night that he would watch it with his father today.
See what the father is doing and why there are scars on his shoulders.

So Li Ming quietly followed behind Li Zhigang, seeing that Li Zhigang had indeed arrived at the door of his cousin’s house,
Then he opened the door and went in. Li Ming wanted to see what happened inside, but how could he get in without a key?
Ming remembered that the lockpicking skills he studied in the classroom before did not know if it would be useful, so Li Ming found two iron locks.
Si fiddled back and forth in the keyhole, Peng, the lock was unlocked, Li Ming secretly pushed the door open and looked in, and found that
No one was found, so he ran in quickly, but he didn’t see his father on the way, so Li Ming ran straight to the
I found my aunt was still sleeping in my aunt’s room, so I got under my aunt’s bed to see if my father would do it.
what. And the person who came in didn’t see his father along the way. How could his father disappear?