Chapter 8 Hidden Loopholes in Story Connection
Mi Zhen and Mu Zixuan glanced at each other, and then Mi Zhen turned her head and confirmed with me, "You don't have any impression of the necklace at all?" ”
"Nope. www.biquge.info I insisted on denying it, "If you hadn't told me that my dad used to do jewelry business with you, and you showed me the pictures, I would have only seen this necklace on the first day." ”
"That's weird." Mi Zhen lowered her head slightly, thinking, "Uncle Mo said that this necklace was bought for you." But you say you haven't seen it. ”
In a trance, I remembered what my father had said in my mind at the moment I saw the photo, "You are a snake, of course there will be a snake on the necklace." But I can't think of anything else at the time of that sentence.
"Are you alright?" Mizhen's words interrupted my recollection, "You look particularly bad. ”
I recovered from the dizziness and smiled slightly, "Maybe it's a little heatstroke." ”
The three of us looked at each other silently, and at the end, because I really couldn't stand the current atmosphere, Mu Zixuan looked at Mi Zhen's face before saying, "Mo Zhi looks very uncomfortable now, Mi Zhen, why don't you take her to your place to rest first?" Before Mi Zhen could speak, I refused: "I think I'd better go home first, after all, I know so much news today, my mind is in a mess now, I need to sober up." ”
Mi Zhen didn't contradict me this time, and even hugged me with some sympathy: "Okay, you go back and have a good rest first, but if you can think of anything, don't forget to call me." I'm really in a hurry. ”
I nodded and took a taxi home. When I entered the house, my mother was sitting in the living room watching TV, and when she saw me coming back, she showed a surprised expression: "Didn't you say that you have to go back to work today?" ”
I forced myself to smile and said, "I want to take another day off." ”
My mother moved her lips as she watched me, but eventually swallowed her words back and looked back at the TV screen. I guess I was trying to persuade me, and I wanted to go back to my room to avoid the awkward atmosphere. But suddenly I wanted to ask my mother if she knew the mysterious clue, and Mi Zhen said that my father bought it for me, so would my mother know? Thinking like this, I sat down next to my mother. Seeing me sitting next to her, my mother thought I wanted her comfort, so she patted me lightly on the leg. I asked, "Mom, have you ever seen a serpentine diamond necklace?" ”
My mother was stunned for a moment, and looked at me with some confusion: "A snake-shaped diamond necklace?" How could I possibly have that thing? How scary does it look? Why did you talk about this all of a sudden? ”
Haven't seen it? Dad didn't bring the necklace home? Listen to your mother's tone, like she's never seen it before? Could it be that my father wants to hand it over to me? But these days to pack up his obligations and not find this necklace? If it's really as Mi Zhen said, Dad bought the necklace, then where did Dad put the necklace?
Another thing that makes me wonder is, where did my father get the money to buy the necklace? When my father was seriously ill, he handed over the financial power to my mother. If that photo is true, Dad bought the necklace from her not long ago, how can the necklace be said to be tens of thousands of yuan, Mi Zhen also said that Dad handed her all cash, so where did Dad get such a large sum of money? The most important thing is that now the necklace has disappeared out of thin air.
"What do you think? As soon as I came back today, I started talking nonsense, wasn't it too hot outside, heat stroke, right? "Mom got up and wanted to go to the kitchen to help me pour a glass of water and sober me up a bit.
I waved my hand, barely keeping a smile on my face: "No, it's just that a friend called me this morning and asked if I had ever seen a snake necklace." She said she remembered that my dad once showed her one. Maybe she's misremembering, right? ”
Mom's face was incredulous: "She must have remembered wrong." Your dad is not a show-off person, how can he casually show others the necklace, and besides, we really don't have this necklace in our family. ”
"Well, I think so too." I casually echoed a few words, but the mystery in my heart was getting bigger and bigger, so in order not to worry my mother, I concealed what Mi Zhen said. The TV show has finished broadcasting, and it has entered the advertising time, I pressed the remote control, and when I changed the channel, a program suddenly made me look at it. This is an interview with Su Baichang by a TV station, which should have been an interview a few months ago, because you can still see the white pear blossoms blooming in the spring breeze in the exterior scene. In the interview, Su Baichang introduced his family's jewelry store.
"Zhizhi, do you say that you have to give a lot of money to the TV station for this kind of show?" Mom took one look at me and asked.
"I'm really going to give it, but I want to live the same as an advertisement. If it can drive benefits, they are willing to spend as much as they want. I was perfunctory, staring intently at Su Baichang's interview. A few minutes later, Mr. Su's shop appeared on television. Su Baichang's jewelry store is in the old town. Before the liberation, it was the favorite place for literati and ink writers to buy books, calligraphy and paintings, paper and ink inkstones, antiques, and all the new things they had never seen. It was the city's first commercial street. Now this shopping street is still very lively, and it has not changed its style too much, a jar of quaint style has been passed down, and now people prefer to use it as a tourist attraction and buy some souvenirs in the shops inside after visiting. However, there are still many natives who like to shop for old things in this historic shopping street. Su Baichang's jewelry store is located in the prime location of this area. And in order to increase his performance, he even launched some low-cost crystal or other gemstone quality pendants or pendants, the price is compared to the store's ornaments and high-quality jewelry, I don't know how cheap it is. So you can always see tourists stopping inside, and it seems that the business of the store is very good.
However, my focus is not on the operation of the store. "There are a few little girls in their store who are very good-looking." The mother let out a small exclamation from the side.
The camera of the interview has shifted from the display of the store and the bustling shopping atmosphere to the sales in the store. I tried my best to find it, but there was no Mizhen in it. I thought Mi Zhen was still lying to me, but my eyes widened when I saw the camera turn to Su Baichang and reappear in the camera with a girl. Carefully identify, the girl standing behind him is Mi Zhen. Mi Zhen is wearing a different from the others in the store, although they are all Chinese uniforms, but compared to the dark uniforms worn by others, you are really wearing a goose yellow silk uniform skirt, standing gently and quietly in front of the camera, slim and looking more like a lady than today's dress.
It seems that Mi Zhen didn't lie to me, she did work in Su Baichang's shop, and Su Baichang asked her to take a few gemstone ornaments that looked very expensive and show them in front of the camera. Strange to say, unlike other jewelry stores that are placed with some auspicious gemstone carvings, or Buddha statues and other ornaments, Su Baichang's store is full of small animals, whether it is jewelry or ornament pendants. The ornament he asked Mi Zhen to show was also a statue of a cow carved from pink jade, and Su Baichang introduced that this statue of the cow symbolized the stock market. Later, he asked Mi Zhen to take out a few small cow-shaped pendants made of red coral of various shapes from the glass display case.
I focused my attention on Mizhen again, but the camera only stayed on Mizhen for a few seconds before turning back to the display on the counter. At this time, a display caught my attention, and a necklace very similar to the one I saw in the photograph appeared in the shot, and under the white gold necklace was a snake-shaped pendant, on which was a snake coiled with a beautiful ruby, except that the coiled gem was different from the diamond in the photo, and the rest of the place was almost the same as the familiar necklace I saw. What's going on? I remember Mi Zhen asking me to get this necklace back because of its unique collectible value, right? But now it seems that this is not the case, and this necklace is not a special exhibit in Su Baichang's display. Even the camera didn't stop for the necklace.
When my mother saw me staring at the TV, she was a little curious: "Zhizhi, you are really strange today." ”
"Really?" I squeezed out a smile, "Maybe I'm a little tired." Hey? What is this show? I asked, feigning surprise.
My mother was also surprised and asked me, "Didn't you call me?" I thought you were trying to see. ”
I waved my hand and touched my forehead again: "No, I didn't even notice what program was on it." I've been stunned just now. Maybe it's really heat stroke, right? After all, it's so hot outside, I do feel dizzy, so uncomfortable! As I spoke, I stood up: "I'll go into the house and rest, so you don't have to call me for dinner." I probably won't be able to eat it either. ”
"It's been a long time since you've eaten properly." Mom's face was a little gloomy.
I looked at her apologetically, "Well, I really don't have an appetite." But if I can get up in the evening, I can still eat some fruit. I'll be fine in a minute, you don't have to worry. ”
Mom didn't speak again, but fortunately, the popular comedy was being shown on the TV screen that had been tuned, and Mom was laughed at by the hero's lines and completely diverted her attention from me.
I quietly returned to my room, the magical story constantly in my mind. It's incredible, every detail in the story is true, but when put together, there is an indescribable sense of disobedience, what went wrong?