I gently shook Mi Zhen's hand: "Happy cooperation, and I would like to introduce myself again, my name is Mo Zhi, and I am the daughter of one of the protagonists in the story you want to tell me." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I'll be able to adapt to your new identity in no time!" Mi Zhen teased with a smile, "But now that you know the origin of the White Snake, I won't bother to explain its background and origin." As for my grandfather's affairs, I'll just add some facts that Su Baichang didn't know. But I still have to tell you again, my grandfather never knew Su Baichang, he never met this man, he didn't trade with him, in fact, my grandfather didn't even trade jewelry. My grandfather was a grain merchant. Su Baichang is not the White Snake he got from my grandfather. Furnishings were very important to my grandfather, and he wouldn't sell him easily. ”

"That's why I said that there are still loopholes in Su Baichang's story." I finished the last sip of soda in the bottle and hiccuped comfortably.

Mizhen laughed again, and she also leaned lazily on the back of the couch like me: "Okay, I'll tell you the real story now." ”

"I've heard too many stories. Let's get to the point, right? What is Su Baichang hiding? "I'm a little anxious to know the truth

Mi Zhen blinked and laughed: "My grandfather has never sold this necklace, and the White Snake is the one he entrusted your father to transfer it to my mother." ”

"My dad?" I looked at Mi Zhen in surprise, "So it was my father who met your grandfather at the beginning, and it was my father who got the white snake necklace?" ”

"That's right." Mi Zhen nodded, "When your father went to Bangkok, he met my grandfather. At that time, your father's company was negotiating the fragrant rice business with your grandfather's company, and it happened that your father was going to your grandfather's company to study and investigate, and even wanted to sign a contract for cooperation. That night, my grandfather held a small reception for your father, because only your father and grandfather were drinking at that time, so the two quickly got acquainted with each other and chatted more warmly. It may be that they drank too much, and the two of them didn't talk as stiffly as they did at the beginning. Your father told me that when I was a child, I spent a month in my hometown and cried about going home. As a result, my grandfather inadvertently asked where your father's hometown was. When your father said the name of his hometown, he made his grandfather sober up in that instant. He repeatedly asked for the address of your father's hometown. Your father was so drunk that he repeated it to his grandfather over and over again, and later mentioned a few neighboring cities in order to make it clearer. At that time, my grandfather suddenly felt that the blood was flowing backwards to his heart, and his whole body froze. He didn't expect his father to come from a place he knew all too well. A place that has tormented him for nearly half his life. He left the party until the next day when my grandfather recovered from his memories and made a special visit to your father the next day. And this trip made a connection between your father and the White Snake, and asked your father about the White Snake. Although your father was very reluctant to accept my grandfather's request at first. ”

I looked at Mi Zhen with some doubts: "What is it that made your grandfather suffer for half his life?" Or is it because of the war? "I know people who suffer from post-traumatic disorder because they have participated in brutal wars and experienced the death of loved ones and comrades, but Mi Zhen's words greatly exceeded my expectations.

"That's only a part, of course, it's also related to the war, Su Baichang should have mentioned to you that my grandfather took a break after the victory in the Battle of Midway, and participated in the war against Japan on the Sino-Indian front according to the order, right? At that time, after my grandfather came to western Yunnan with the army, because of the sneak attack of the Japanese army, my grandfather's troops were forced to hide in the mountains and forests. Although it was not summer at that time, there would still be miasma rising in the primeval forests of western Yunnan. Soon most of the people in the team fell behind due to poisoning because of the miasma, you know what I mean. Mizhen glanced at me to make sure I understood what she meant before continuing, "Anyway, when the few few of them were almost lost in the forest, a man who was hunting in the forest rescued them, took them back to the cottage, and used herbs to free them from the miasma and let them gradually regain consciousness. It was the little sister of the hunting brother who took care of them at that time, and it was also my grandmother. When I was young, my grandmother was very beautiful, with beautiful big eyes and a healthy complexion with a tan, and her figure was not thin, but a well-proportioned muscular body. If my grandmother was born now, she should probably become a very popular supermodel. Grandma and doctors are all beautiful, even after grandpa left, she went through ups and downs alone with her children, but grandma is still beautiful. Even before her death, the years had turned her black hair gray, but she still retained her innate elegance. In my memory, my grandmother has always lived calmly no matter what kind of environment she was in. Even if my grandmother is old, even if time has carved the traces of time on her beautiful face, it is still difficult to hide the beauty of her youth, you will rarely find a tired look on his face, even in the midst of illness, she still maintains neatness and dignity. I remember the moment she closed her eyes before she died, and her eyes were still not cloudy from the pain. Grandma was always vigorous in her actions, but she smiled very gently. Many times, when I think of my grandmother, I think of Yeats's poem "When You're Old" for Maute Gunney. I think that poem may be a silhouette of the love between my grandfather and grandmother. I believe that more than one person fell in love with her beautiful and strong grandmother, and my grandfather was just one of their suitors, and of course the luckiest of them. Grandma Among the many suitors, Grandma chose Grandpa, who was very shy at that time. ”

"Sounds like a very romantic love story." I couldn't help but interject.

Mi Zhen smiled bitterly when she heard me say this: "That is only the beginning of this story, in that era, not every romance would have a good ending, for various reasons, many people love each other but can't stay together." After recovering from his injuries, my grandfather's unit had to leave the jungle and continue the battle on the Sino-Indian front. Grandpa is leaving, which is very painful and even unbearable for the two young people who have fallen in love. But grandpa can't stay, and grandma, you know that in those days, people's thinking was very long-term conservative, and they didn't want their cottage girls to marry outsiders like grandpa. The strongest opposition is my grandmother's brother, who is very opposed to my sister marrying my grandfather, a person of unknown origin, even if he knows that his grandfather is a soldier in the war against Japan, as my grandmother's brother, he still refuses my grandmother's request to leave for various reasons. In fact, it is not difficult to understand his feelings. As an elder brother, he was afraid that his sister would marry far away and be bullied but he couldn't help, and secondly, his grandmother's brother didn't know what kind of future and what kind of hardship this grandfather from a far away place would give his grandmother. He understands the love of his grandmother and grandfather, but he does not agree that they will be together for the rest of their lives. So on the day my grandfather and the others left the village, my grandmother's brother took my grandmother away and locked her in a cave outside the cottage that was used to temporarily escape the disaster. He didn't want his sister to face unknown dangers, he thought that locking them up like this would stop his sister's seemingly reckless decision. But my grandmother still informed my grandfather of this in advance. Because there were not many people in the village who could write, my grandmother followed her father down the mountain to sell herbs, and she learned a few words. Grandma secretly wrote a note and stuffed it into the crack in the door of the room where Grandpa was resting, asking Grandpa to find a way to take her away when he left the village. Because it was written in Chinese, only my grandfather knew about it, and my grandfather didn't make a noise, but just secretly hid the note. The rest of the village was illiterate, and no one else knew about it except my grandmother and grandfather. After my grandfather's troops left the cottage, my grandfather specially applied to the captain to rescue my grandmother. For the sake of the captain, who wanted to walk through the mountains and forests without being harmed by the miasma in the mountains and forests again, in addition to the herbal packs given by the mountain people to maintain their sanity, they also needed a guide who could take them away and a doctor who could help them get out of danger after they were injured in the forest at the necessary moments, so the captain approved his grandfather's request and asked him to meet them after rescuing his grandmother. In this way, my grandmother and my grandfather left the mountain village where she had been living and became a temporary military doctor in my grandfather's army. ”

"Maybe your grandmother's brother did this on purpose?" I whispered, "Actually, he acquiesced to his sister's private agreement from the beginning, maybe for life." Wouldn't it be safer for him to keep his sister at home? Why do you want to lock up your sister far away from the village with the thankless effort? Have you ever thought about it, maybe he just because the traditions in the village are inconvenient to openly support his sister, so he can only use this seemingly clumsy method to indulge his sister to pursue his love. Taking my sister away from the village is actually helping her sister escape, isn't it? ”

I thought that Mi Zhen would be dissatisfied with my words, but Mi Zhen's expression brightened, and she smiled and nodded in agreement with my statement: "That's right, in fact, grandma has always known, so she will leave with my grandfather without hesitation." But after her grandfather left, she was afraid that her brother would be disappointed, and her grandmother never told her brother the truth. Later, when I was sorting out my grandmother's belongings, I read my grandmother's letter to her brother, which only said that my grandfather died in battle, and there was no more news about my grandfather. Grandma has been thanking her brother, and the two of them have been tacitly guarding grandma's love when she was young. ”

"Then why did your grandfather leave your grandmother? And why did you just say that Nian's mother was born illegally? "For fear of irritating Mi Zhen, I didn't dare to continue.

But Mi Zhen laughed again: "When my grandfather left my grandmother, I didn't know that my grandmother was pregnant, and it was my grandfather who left by my grandmother." ”