Traffic lights, zebra crossings, pedestrians, vehicles...
Sun Tian's vision now seemed to be separated from his brain. While driving at a low speed, he kept thinking about what had just happened.
This kind of absent-minded state can easily lead to traffic accidents. Fortunately, he has driven this road at least a thousand times and is so familiar with the road conditions that it has formed muscle memory. He arrived home safely half an hour later.
It was already 10 o'clock in the evening and the villa was a little quiet.
I opened the door and went into my daughter's room to take a peek. The lovely child was sleeping soundly.
He tiptoed out and returned to his bedroom. His well-maintained wife was eating fruit and watching an unknown low-cost foreign comedy.
"You're back?"
A brief greeting was enough to say hello.
Sun Tian is a decent person. After all, he is nicknamed "Warrior Monk" among his old friends. Although he does not have to observe the temple rules, he is not likely to have affairs with other girls. His wife is always relieved about this.
However, Sun Tian was a little different today than usual. He seemed absent-minded even after greeting.
"Well, what time does Xiao An go to bed?"
"Eight o'clock. I finished my homework, played for a while, and then went to bed."
Sun Tian took off his coat and put it aside, then just lay down on the bed, rubbing his forehead with his hand, wondering what he was thinking about.
The wife used the remote control to turn down the volume of the TV, then leaned over to Sun Tian and rubbed his forehead.
"Are you tired? Are you having any problems with your business?"
Grab her hand and kiss it.
"It's okay, I just suddenly miss my parents."
Having said that, at this moment Sun Tian’s mind is still on what happened just now.
"If you miss them, we can take Xiao An with us to visit them. Take a break from work once in a while. You have so many people under you."
"Um!"
Of course, missing his parents is a comforting statement. His two fashionable parents are more fun-loving than he is. They vacation all over the world all the time. Even if he really wants to see them, he has to wait for them to come back.
Sun Tian was also hesitant about whether to ask the two elders what they thought about what happened today.
The next morning, the first thing Sun Tian did after arriving at the company was to call the company's IT department to come in and help check the computer.
He was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, smoking a cigar, looking at the tall buildings outside and the street corner in the distance that he had seen last night.
"Mr. Sun, there is no problem with your computer. The hardware and software systems are all functioning normally. Did you find rogue software or something else?"
"Oh, I'm glad you're okay. I had a blue screen last night and thought something went wrong. I don't know much about computers so I asked you to take a look."
The IT guy with big-framed glasses checked again.
"There is indeed a blue screen record, but it should be caused by an accident such as CPU overheating."
"Well, thank you for your hard work. Go and do your thing."
"Okay, Mr. Sun."
After the IT staff walked out of the office, Sun Tiancai left the window and returned to his seat.
He could have clearly said just now that his computer was hacked last night and text appeared on the screen, but he didn't say it out loud.
Sitting in front of the computer, Sun Tian asked his secretary to take out the document that had been annotated last night and distribute it to the designated person, and then he had some free time.
He turned to the computer screen, opened the search software, and subconsciously typed in the word "contract".
All of them have familiar meanings.
He smiled at himself, then changed the entry and typed in "Mysterious man in robe".
What popped up now were some interesting stories and gossip, as well as some photos and cartoon pictures of the Middle East.
'Really, what am I doing?'
I feel a little neurotic.
However, at this moment, a pop-up advertisement suddenly appeared on the web page, attracting Sun Tian's attention.
"Do you feel that your thinking is not smooth and you feel that you can't figure out the problem? Just click and you can solve all your troubles!"
The flyers are the kind of junk sales ads that are commonly seen on the Internet today. In the past, Sun Tianli would have ignored them and simply closed them.
But today, I was inexplicably concerned about what happened last night, and my heart was like a cat's paw.
The appearance and departure of the man in black robe was really too strange, especially when comparing the reactions of the people around him with his own.
I just clicked it since I had nothing to do.
But when I clicked on it, I found the content I was mentally prepared for.
The web pages are full of: To stay young, have sharp thinking and outstanding memory, you need XXX refreshing pills!
They even listed some research reports on the webpage in a very serious manner.
The first few sentences praise this fake medicine, whose name you have never heard of, as if taking it would turn you into Einstein or Sherlock Holmes.
Sun Tian felt that his intelligence was insulted. When he wanted to close the webpage, the words on the floating bar on the left made his heart skip a beat.
"Do you feel that you are sometimes powerless, or that your husband has deceived you or that your family has kept secrets from you? You can't go wrong by choosing us. XXX refreshing pills..."
Sun Tian didn’t want to know why there was such an advertisement for miracle medicine, and he didn’t read any other nonsense, but the words “hidden by family members” were magnified in front of his eyes.
Sun family, contract?
In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the "Sun family" mentioned by the man in black robe obviously does not only refer to him, Sun Tian, but the entire family.
The thought of contacting my parents came to my mind again last night.
He closed the web page and sat in a chair, thinking silently for more than ten minutes, until his secretary came over to bring him some coffee as usual and interrupted him.
After the secretary left, Sun Tian made a decision. It was just a casual question anyway, so if there was nothing serious, he would just treat it as a sickness.
He picked up the phone and called his father.
It rang almost 10 times before the call was answered.
There was the sound of wind and waves and noisy laughter on the other end of the phone.
"Hey, son? What's up? I'm at the beach with your mom."
The old man was speaking in a roaring voice over there.
"Nothing, I just miss you guys a little bit!"
"Apart from thinking about us, is there anything else? No problem, I'm going to hang up now. The beach volleyball game is about to start over there, I want to go over and take a look."
Sun Tian slapped himself on the forehead.
"No, no, no, Dad, don't hang up yet, I have something else to do."
On a beach thousands of miles away, an old man gave a smug look to an old lady sitting on a beach chair.
"Tell me, son, what's the matter?"
"Um, Dad, does our family have any ancestral agreements or something? The kind that should be kept secret?"
The old man on the phone was puzzled by this.
"What? What the hell are you talking about?"
Sun Tian didn't know how to explain it to the old man.
"It's like making a contract and having to pay it back after a long time."
"Son, have you been blackmailed? I told you long ago that the crappy list is not on the top. When my grandfather, your great-grandfather, was still alive, he always said that making money quietly is the hard truth!"
My father's tone didn't sound like he knew anything, and instead he started to educate me.
"Dad, I'm not being blackmailed. Besides, in today's society, fame is a different kind of business card. You don't understand these things. Even if the old lady... Grandpa... he..."
Sun Tian's tone suddenly slowed down.
Old master?
Generally speaking, the Sun family has a long life expectancy. Except for his grandparents who died in a car accident, his great-grandmother lived to be 98 years old, and his great-grandfather lived to be 101 years old. However, his great-grandfather was much older than his great-grandmother, so he died many years earlier.
"Why don't I remember when my great-grandmother passed away... Shit! We were all abroad at that time!"
Memory is a strange thing, and it's often not as simple as just reading in a save file.
I didn't expect that when something happens, I can't remember it at all, but once I think of it, the sealed memory will emerge along with the emotions.
Sun Tian actually didn't have many family memories of his great-grandmother, a feudal head of the household, but there was one thing he would never forget.
That "family punishment".
I remember that time when he was young and playful and ignorant, he stole something from his grandmother, which caused her to get furious.
What is it? What is it? A gem or an ancient painting?
Only a faint yellowed pattern can pass through my mind.
The memory is a bit fuzzy and I can't recall it.
"Hey son, hello? Are you still there?"
On the phone, Sun Tian’s father opened his voice because he hadn’t spoken for a long time.
"Oh! I'm here, I'm here. By the way, Dad, do you remember the time when my great-grandmother beat me when I was a child?"
"Of course I remember. You are our dearest child. I feel the pain when I hit you. But I am afraid of my grandma. Who dares to go up and beg for mercy? If the servants hadn't been gentle, you would have been lying in bed for half a month!"
Damn, that guy didn't do it lightly! Sun Tian couldn't help but complain in his heart.
"Dad, I stole something from my great-grandmother. I can't remember what it was. Was it a painting? I just remember there was a picture."
"What kind of painting is that? It's your great-grandmother's antique, an ancient scroll inlaid with silver!"
The old man is old but his memory is not bad, he told it with a smile.
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