from the past to the future

The sunshine in the morning is infinitely beautiful, especially the morning when you don’t have to rush to work and clock in.

Holding the steering wheel, Li Xu turned her head to look at the locator installed on the car from time to time, which was displaying a map of the area around her current location, and the red dot on the screen continued to flash, gradually approaching the target flag.She followed the positioning instructions and turned a corner, while paying attention to the roads on both sides, while looking for the house number of the destination.

Finally, that word appeared in her sight.

Having memorized the approximate location, Li Xu found a parking space nearby, then turned around and walked over, "This is it." After repeatedly confirming that the address was correct, Li Xu walked in with confidence.

She asked for leave today, just to come here to meet someone.

As soon as he walked into the door, he saw a girl running from the corridor, flicking her ponytail behind her head, Sha was lively and cute, and she was still holding a dueling monster card in her hand, Li Xu hurried out He stopped her, "Wait a minute, please!"

The girl didn't realize that she was calling her at first, and when Li Xu called out again, she stopped and turned around to look over, blinking her eyes, and asked timidly, "Big sister, who are you?" ?”

Li Xu walked over, squatted in front of the girl and looked at her, and said softly: "I'm sorry, my sister is here to find someone, can you tell me where he is?"

"Well, yes!" Although she didn't know the person in front of her, she felt that this sister was not a bad person. The girl smiled and nodded, "I can take you there too. Who is my sister looking for?"

"It's just..." Li Xu stopped talking suddenly, she remembered what Ling Ya said, that person didn't seem to tell the children here about his identity, so she could only...

"Is there a grandpa here who plays duel monsters with you every day? Um... Named Thomas?"

"Ah, does it mean that big sister also came to fight with Grandpa Thomas?"

"also?"

"After Grandpa Thomas came here, older brothers and sisters he didn't know would often come to him for a duel. Grandpa would always drive them away angrily, but he wouldn't drive away Brother Ling Ya."

"Haha, is that so?" Ling Ya never mentioned this point, besides, how could he be willing to drive Ling Ya away, "Then, can you take me there?"

"Well! My sister is so beautiful, grandpa will definitely not drive you away!"

"Your mouth is quite sweet." Li Xu happily reached out and hooked the girl's nose, and the girl laughed because of her action, "What's your name?"

"clear!"

"Please give me your advice, Qing, my name is Lixu."

"Well! Sister Lixu, come with me!" Nuqing grabbed Lixu's hand and told her about Grandpa Thomas while leading her the way. Lixu also listened quietly, and then she realized that, together with Thomas Everything related to grandpa is almost inseparable from elder brother Ling Ya.Qing said that Grandpa Thomas seemed to like Brother Ling Ya very much, as long as he was around, he would smile very happily, and sometimes the two would go to the small garden in the backyard to whisper.Li Xu was naturally not surprised by these things, after all, the relationship between brother and that person didn't just happen every year or two.

"Grandpa should have woken up now, and he should be staying in the room at this time."

IV's room was on the first floor, and Li Xu arrived not long after Haru led her away.Qing knocked on the door, and heard a vague answer from inside, then turned her head and smiled at Li Xu, pulled the doorknob and walked in with Li Xu.

IV was half lying on the bed, with a brown coat draped over his shoulders. He seemed to have just woken up, and he looked a little dazed, so that he couldn't recognize the person in front of him when Li Xu entered the door Who was it, just when he saw a blue figure, he subconsciously called out his name, "Ling Ya?"

"I'm sorry I'm not Ling Ya, long time no see, f...Thomas."

"You're my younger sister!?" This scared IV soberly. When he finally saw Li Xu's face clearly, his expression of surprise was beyond words, "Why, are you here?"

"Can't you come and see an old friend?"

"Do grandpa and sister know each other?" Qing raised her head and looked back and forth between Lixu and IV.

There are some things that cannot be said in front of the child, Li Xu half bent down, stroked Qing's head, and said softly: "My sister wants to say a few words to Grandpa Thomas, can you help my sister look at the door outside?"

"Eh? Why?"

"...Can you promise not to reveal the secret?" Li Xu deliberately showed a very serious and mysterious expression.

"I promise!" Qing nodded vigorously.

"Well, let me tell you, I'm actually..." Li Xu whispered something in Qing's ear, and Qing showed a very shocked expression.

"Eh? Eh! It seems very powerful!" However, Li Xu's explanation was also somewhat vague to her ears. Although she didn't understand it very well, Qing couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, so the rest of our conversation can't be heard by anyone, can you help sister?"

"no problem!"

"Thank you... Ah, and, if brother Ling Ya comes over, remember to knock on the door to remind sister?"

"it is good!"

Qing happily ran out the door, turned around and made a face at IV, and then closed the door.Li Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief and faced IV, who was looking at her with a very subtle expression.Li Xu naturally knew what his expression meant, because even she herself felt a little guilty, but in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding, it should be okay to exaggerate some things, right?

"What did you say to Qing, I always feel like you've caused me some trouble..."

"It's just a little nonsense, you can explain it clearly, can't you?"

"Haha." IV laughed twice, the other party's unreasonableness was exactly the same as her brother's, but obviously the latter would not tell such a lame lie, let alone a little girl under seven years old, "Then, you can answer Did I have a question from before?"

"Before? Oh, you mean the reason I came here? I just passed by by chance. The name of the hospital here is familiar. I remembered Ling Ya mentioned it, so I came in to have a look."

"Oh~ it's just by chance." I came to this place by chance, I asked the little girl to lead the way by chance, I came to this room by chance, and I deliberately dismissed others, all these were all by chance.

Li Xu thought, if it wasn't for the fact that IV's current state was no longer as good as when she was young, and she didn't want to be charged with bullying the elderly, she would definitely punch him, and then took out the mirror to let him take a closer look at her expression. How annoying, "Okay... I just want to ask you about Ling Ya's recent situation."

"Aren't you living together now?"

"That's right... But you also know that I leave early and come back late all day because of work, so I haven't had a good chat with Ling Ya."

"It is true that I heard Ling Ya say that you are very busy at work, and that Drube is the same."

"Yeah..." Li Xu sighed helplessly, "It's okay that Ling Ya and we rarely get together, at least we want to know what Ling Ya did when we were not around."

"That guy is no longer a child." IV waved his hand.

"IV, you just have to answer my questions obediently." Li Xu raised her eyebrows, thinking that it was not her turn to be preached by the other party in terms of age, so she straightened her waist and raised her chin, showing an unhappy mood.

"Okay, just ask."

"That's right." Li Xu shook his hair, then asked, "What does he usually do here?"

"It's very ordinary, playing with the children, helping to bake cookies in the kitchen, and occasionally dueling with me."

"that's it?"

"What else?"

"I heard from Qing that you often go on trysts with Ling Ya."

"..." IV was subtly silent, obviously choked by these words and didn't know what to say.

"It seems that there is indeed such a thing." Li Xu switched the position of her legs, leaned back on the back of the chair, narrowed her eyes, as if she was thinking about something.

"……younger sister?"

"You... When will you remember to call me by my name! You must have forgotten it?!"

"Don't speak so loudly to the elderly, sister, and forgive the fact that the memory of the older people is not very good."

"Who said memory will fail when you get older!" the Ice Queen, who was over a thousand years old, shouted angrily.

"..."

"Forget it, let's get back to business." Li Xu helplessly raised his forehead, changed the subject, but asked a question unrelated to the previous question, "Where have you disappeared in recent years?"

Li Xu paused, and then added, "Ling Ya has been asking for news about you."

"... Various things happened, I just went to relax." IV obviously didn't intend to explain any more about this.

Li Xu glared at him angrily, "Ling Ya, didn't he ask you anything? Why did you come back suddenly? What are you going to do... No, it should be, what else can you do?"

"What do you mean?"

"Your body... has almost reached its limit."

"...You noticed it." IV couldn't help being surprised, but soon changed back to his original self, "It's okay, I should be able to hold on for a while, and my physical condition has improved recently, maybe time will come. It's longer than I thought."

"Really..." Li Xu knew very well that these words were just self-deception, because even IV himself didn't realize that there was no conviction in his eyes, but a deep self-mockery.From the very beginning, he knew his physical condition clearly.

"IV."

"what?"

"So far, thank you."

"Hey, I always feel that you are giving me a death notice, what is going on, are you cursing me!"

"Wha...! It's rare for me to thank you for being so terrible! You really don't understand people, don't you have a gentleman's etiquette for women!"

"Because it's really unusual." IV laughed, "That younger sister of Ryoga, Kamdai Rio would thank me."

Don't you remember clearly, my name.

However, Li Xu realized that she couldn't even laugh.