"A chance to escape?" I tilted my head to look at Su Baichang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Su Baichang nodded and said, "The veterans at that time saw that he had several other children who were too young, and they really couldn't bear to continue to suffer from them. Moreover, the atrocities they experienced along the way made them know that even when they arrived at the prisoner of war camp, they would be lucky and unlucky, so these veterans tried their best to save the lives of these children, and secretly planned in code words for a few days, and on the night when they were about to arrive at the prisoner of war camp, under the cover of night, several veterans helped them sharpen the ropes on their feet with sharp stones and help them escape from death. Not long after the children left, some Japanese soldiers noticed that some prisoners of war had escaped, and they didn't have to go far before they heard the gunshots, and they didn't know whether to shoot at the prisoners of war who remained in Na Ali, or to shoot at them again, fear and the desire to save their business supported them to run forward. After that, the Japanese military police searched for their tracks, and indeed found a few of them, and he and two other companions were not found until the next day, when the group of prisoners of war left. They could smell blood from afar, and they knew that the veterans who had helped them escape, and the children who had been captured, had not escaped the slaughter. The old man later recalled that they had run back to see the tragedy, the bodies piled up, and the three of them were all in a state of despair after all the silence and weeping. They did not dare to stay where they were, they ran back for some distance before they dared to run to the sea, they found a piece of driftwood that could support three people in the sea, and they were satisfied with some wild fruits in the jungle, and then they left the Bataan Peninsula by driftwood by night, and when the light of the lighthouse reached them, they dived underwater and waited until the searchlight was removed, and they returned to the surface of the water. Luckily, a few of them were watery and survived the first night. After that, they wandered aimlessly on the sea, but hunger almost killed them. But when they thought they could no longer hold on, they were found on the high seas by a Red Cross rescue ship and finally escaped death for the time being. They were treated on a rescue ship, and after the victory at the Battle of Midway on June 7, 1942, the Red Cross Rescue Pair sent them to Midway. After recovering, he continued his year-long campaign with his troops in the Solomon Islands. After the Sino-US cooperation opened the Sino-Indian front, he went with the army to western Yunnan, China, and then all the way to Shanghai at that time, and finally returned to his hometown after nearly 20 years. The Cairo Declaration signed on December 1, 1943, in which China, the United States, and Britain jointly fought against Japan until Japan surrendered unconditionally. So from the end of 1943 to the day Japan announced its unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945, he participated in the counterattack against Japan in China. After the victory, he remained in Shanghai until the spring of 1946, when he left for France to be reunited with his family, and he learned that he had no other family except his brother. The younger brother was the only one in the family who made it out of the camp alive. He and his brother met in the ruins of another concentration camp, both of them had come to look for the relics of their parents, and even before they met, they did not know that they were still alive, they hugged each other and cried. Later, among the relics, they found the diary that their mother had been secretly hiding. ”

Su Baichang paused, because of this story, his office was now filled with an atmosphere of oppressive sadness, and after a long time, he continued: "After that, they followed the instructions of the mother in the diary, and found the jewelry box that the mother had hidden in the small garden behind the house where they used to live. His mother wrote her confession at the end of the diary, regretting that she had crossed the bottom line of morality and brought such a terrible encounter to the family. The White Snake necklace was found in that jewelry box. It was the calmest appearance of the White Snake necklace. Each of its appearances carries with it a tragic story, as if it were a warning to all those who come into contact with him. When he looked at the necklace, he suddenly felt a sense of awe. He closed the box, which the brothers rarely opened for decades to come, except when they remembered their mother. As for why they chose to go to Thailand, it is indeed different from what I said before. Two years after the brothers were reunited, they received a letter from a relative who had settled in Thailand, inviting them to live there. The two brothers decided to go to Thailand to join their relatives and have stayed there ever since. ”

Then why did he want to sell his jewelry later? I remember you said it was because of lack of money, but after listening to your other version of the story, I don't think that was the real reason for him to sell the necklace. I put down the teacup in my hand and looked at Su Baichang fixedly.

Su Baichang stood up from the sofa and motioned for me to go out with him. He beckoned me to walk out and said, "Actually, I don't know the specific reason. He's doing well in Thailand, but two years before he wanted to sell the necklace, his brother had just died, and he's getting older, so he probably didn't think it was useful to keep it. After all, the origin of this necklace is not honorable, and she herself went to meet her mother in another world, and she no longer needs to see things and think about people, so she decided to sell it, and then use the income to do some good deeds, help some people, and atone for some of the sins that their family once committed. However, he knew that he could not put it in a jewelry store and that it would cause him trouble if someone who knew the goods asked about his history. Su Baichang waited for me to walk outside the door, turned around and locked the door, "Let's go to the store and have a look, I remember that there is a golden snake pendant made of gold in the shape of a white snake in the store." If you're interested, you can also take a look. But don't you really want to tell me who asked you to help? ”

I shook my head: "No, I promised her to keep it a secret." ”

Su Baichang shrugged his shoulders regretfully: "It's really unfair." ”

"I didn't promise you in the first place, and besides, finding you was just my duty to investigate." I followed Su Baichang down the stairs.

I saw the golden snake necklace in the store, and unlike the white snake I saw in the photo, the golden snake had a ruby the size of a small fingernail coiled in the middle. "The White Snake Pendant isn't that big, is it?" I always felt that this golden snake pendant was a little bigger.

Su Baichang asked the clerk to put away the necklace and nodded to me: "Be smaller, after all, a 50-carat diamond is not big, and the entire pendant radius is only 6 mm, which does not belong to a large pendant." ”

After that, under Su Baichang's introduction, I walked around his jewelry store, and I raised a question that I had in my heart yesterday: "Boss Su, why do you only have animal jewelry or ornaments in your store?" ”

Su Baichang laughed out loud after hearing this: "Didn't you notice that they all have a common characteristic?" ”

I looked around, but still shook my head: "I don't see it." ”

"Does Miss Su know what year it is?" Su Baichang did not reveal the answer directly, but asked me.

"2, 2013." I think that's a bit of a baffling question.

Su Baichang shook his head a little helplessly: "I didn't ask you this." Hey, forget it, I'll just tell you directly. What I just wanted you to say is the lunar year, and this year happens to be the year of the Lunar Moon, which is the Year of the Snake in terms of genus. ”

As soon as he mentioned the snake, both of us froze for a moment, and I smiled a little awkwardly: "It's really appropriate to ask about the white snake this year." "But my heart suddenly emptied, this year is my natal year.

When Su Baichang heard me say this, he also smiled, pointed to a jade snake statue in the store and said, "This year is the Year of the Snake, so I have some more snake-shaped decorations in the store." The biggest feature of the shop is that it sells zodiac decorations. When I first opened the store, I thought about what to buy, but then I found out that people are going to celebrate the natal year, so if you sell zodiac decorations, there will be no shortage of customers in the store. Do you think my behavior is traditional or comforting? But most people will help themselves buy something to ward off disasters in the natal year, so every year we will make an additional batch of knick-knacks and pendants corresponding to the zodiac of the year, just to avoid selling out. Just like this year, we have added some snake-related items in our store. By the way, can you take the liberty of asking Miss Su's physiognomy? I think in a few years, Miss Mo's natal year may have this kind of demand. ”

"I belong to the snake, and this year is the year of my birth." I said bluntly.

Su Baichang was stunned for a moment, but soon he laughed very commercially: "I really can't see it, the reason why I didn't tell the truth to Miss Mo at the beginning was that I mistakenly thought that Miss Mo was still in school." ”

"It's been a long time since I've been out of school."

Su Baichang nodded, and said thoughtfully: "No wonder Miss Mo is very obsessed with the story of the White Snake, maybe it is also because it is compatible with your genus." ”

Su Baichang's words made me think of the vague words in my memory for a moment: "Because you belong to a snake." "It was as if my heart was suddenly paralyzed, and I felt that the blood around me had stopped flowing again.

"Miss Mo? Miss Mo? I heard someone call me again, and I suddenly recovered from that weird feeling just now, and saw Su Baichang looking at me with a worried face. He frowned and asked me, "Miss Mo, your face is a little bad, is there something uncomfortable?" ”