Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

"Today, we gather here to celebrate Luo Sanye's birthday. Congratulations to him on his 35th birthday! At the same time, congratulations to 'Roche Tire Factory' for exporting finished tires to Ford Motor Company in the United States from this year!"

On the top floor of Seventh Heaven International Hotel, in the most popular "revolving restaurant" in Shanghai, nearly a hundred well-known people from Shanghai gathered together to celebrate Rorschach's birthday.

In fact, according to the Shanghai people's birthday habit of "too big but not too small", generally only when the tenth birthday is over will they make a big fuss.

But this year is different. Although this year is only halfway through, for Luo Xiazhi, it is really a year of "happy events".

First of all, "Shanghai Roche Rubber Tire Company", which has only been in business for less than four years, has become the largest finished tire factory in China and even Asia, with an annual output of 50 tires and dealers all over the south and north.

Now that the price of rubber is rising day by day, he bought rubber plantations in Hainan and Nanyang, and it seems that what he produces every day is not rubber, but gold.

And at the beginning of the year, the tire factory received an order from the old automobile manufacturer Ford on the other side of the ocean.Tires produced in China are sold to the United States because of their excellent craftsmanship and cheaper prices than those in the United States!

Undoubtedly, this incident greatly boosted the pride of the nation. Many newspapers reported on it at length, and even "Guhan" wrote several articles praising Roche's immortal achievements in industrial development over the years.

The Nanjing side even awarded him a medal, but after receiving it, Rorschach directly threw it into the drawer.

Until the Luo family had to leave Shanghai and transfer to Hong Kong, they never took it out.

Since the opening of commercial cruise ships along the coast, the transportation of the products produced by the Luo family and the Liang family no longer relies solely on freighters on the Yangtze River.

The Luo family's maritime merchant ships have been able to open multiple sea routes.Starting from Shanghai, you can go north to Tianjin Port, Dalian Port, south to Ningbo Port, Guangzhou Port, or even Hong Kong.

Although this coastal commercial route was jointly developed with the Sun family, the Sun family did not know until the end of last year that the merchant ships of different registered nationalities that travel between various ports every day, half of the ships in the cruise ship, their behind-the-scenes bosses are actually Two brothers from the Luo family.

In just a few years, the Luo family has bought more than 50 ocean-going ships with a total tonnage of 15 tons.Accounted for one-fifth of the total tonnage of the country's ships.

God knows that with so much money from their brothers, they can make so many investments at the same time.

"Brother, you lied to me so badly."

Sun Xiaokai sighed, "You are hiding it tightly enough. It turns out that the world's boat king 'Schumann' is you - Schumann Luo. You must know that our Sun family has been trying to contact the mysterious Spaniard in Hong Kong for the past few years. 'Schumann', how much effort was spent..."

After a long time of trouble, it turned out that the "Little Boat King" was far away in the sky and close in front of us.

The one in Hong Kong, the "Panama Cruise Company" established by the Luo brothers as a cover, has become a world-renowned freight company by relying on Hong Kong's Victoria Port, one of the world's three great deep-water ports, after years of development by Ms. Long .

Ms. Long even developed a cargo ship leasing business for Luo Xiazhi, leasing the large and small cargo ships acquired by the Luo family from various countries in the form of short-term and long-term leases to freight companies around the world and factories and trading companies that need to transport goods by themselves.

This method of operation can prevent losses caused by the lack of cargo in the off-season and ships can only berth at the port; secondly, the cost of buying the ship can be recovered through the rent collected in advance.Then rely on the long-term lease contract to borrow money from the bank, and then use the loan to buy a new ship.

The Luo family had more than fifty boats, which were "rolled" out little by little in this way.

I have to say that Ms. Long is really a genius in the financial world.Her talent is not just to be the "sister bosom friend" in "Shimai SMART".

"Brother, your Sun family is not bad. Now the route on the Yangtze River is already controlled by the Sun family."

After years of hard work, the Sun family united small merchant ships on the Yangtze River and established a cruise ship association through the method of "turning parts into wholes". Finally, the "Chuanjiang route" - the most dangerous terrain on the Yangtze River, the highest risk, but the greatest benefit The airway ate it down.

With the simultaneous operation of the "Chuanjiang Waterway" on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the "Golden Waterway" on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Sun family is now a veritable "Shanghai Bund Ship King".

"It's a pity that I'm proud of the business, but frustrated in love, hey..."

Sun Xiaokai let out a long sigh.

Seeing his wife Xiao Feiyan enthusiastically hosting the show on the stage, Sun Xiaokai seemed to have returned to more than ten years ago.

At that time, he was in the atrium of Shimai Department Store, saw Xiao Feiyan who was in full bloom at that time, and fell in love with her at first sight.

For her, he even organized a "Little Feiyan Lovers Alliance".Taking advantage of being the leader of the alliance, he married the beautiful woman back home.

It's a pity that the two have been divorced and separated for many years now.

All because three years ago, after they gave birth to a daughter...

At that time, Xiao Feiyan was already running the "Feiyan Wedding Dress Shop" in Shimai Department Store in a prosperous manner.

Xiao Feiyan's bridal shop cooperates with the adjacent "Kai Kai" photo studio to launch a wedding photo-photo service that is popular in Shanghai.

For those girls who could not afford wedding dresses, as long as they come to Shimai Department Store, they can wear several sets of different wedding dresses, take photos, and be a "princess" for a day.

Many celebrities from Shanghai have bought shares in this bridal dress shop, and gradually expanded it into a "wedding photo studio" integrating wedding dress sales, rental and photo-real shooting.

Many old couples who have been married for many years but have never worn a wedding dress or took wedding photos will also walk into Xiao Feiyan's photo studio while shopping at Shimai Department Store to make up for the regrets of the past.

Although Xiao Feiyan is the young grandmother of the grand Sun family, she was sent to the hospital when she worked until the moment before she gave birth, and she almost gave birth to the baby in a car.

Unexpectedly, before the hospital bed, Sun's mother-in-law saw that Xiao Feiyan had given birth to a daughter, and immediately pulled her face down.He sneered and said: The Sun family has been passed down for three generations, I hope she recovers as soon as possible, and make persistent efforts to give birth to a son.

Xiao Feiyan is the most stubborn, and couldn't bear this tone.

On the third day after giving birth, her little sister "Xiao Bailing" was sent to the hospital to pick her up.Xiao Bailing helped her rent a house in Allen's apartment.So with the help of the sisters in the "Spring Peach Class" in turn, Xiao Feiyan finished confinement by herself.

At this time, the Sun family was going crazy looking for what she had already been looking for, and the old lady Sun repeatedly went to Shimai Department Store to ask Luo Xiazhi's important person.

If it weren't for the sake of doing business with the Sun family, Luo Xiazhi really wanted to punch this old lady Sun to death.

After confinement, Xiao Feiyan carried the child and went straight to the Luo mansion, wanting to recognize Luo Xiazhi as the child's godfather.

This made Bai Fenghuang very happy. Ever since Abao was gone, the Luo family had no children for many years.Before Luo Xiazhi agreed, she fully agreed.

Xiao Feiyan also chose a name for her daughter on her own, and decided that this girl will have the same surname as hers in the future.

What kind of thing is the Sun family?

In order to disgust the Sun's family, "Godfather" Luo Xiazhi specially made a grand full moon wine for the child at the Seventh Heaven Hotel, and entertained the old employees of Shimai Department Store and the old customers of the wedding dress shop.

The next day, Xiao Feiyan personally wrote a "divorce statement" and published it in the newspaper.

Sun Xiaokai opened the newspaper early in the morning and almost fainted.

Xiao Feiyan said in the statement: Being a saleswoman in Shimai Department Store is not afraid of divorce.Now that you have opened a store, are you afraid you can't afford to support yourself and your children?If your family wants to have a son, you will give birth yourself.I have a daughter, this life is enough.One difference and two wide, never see each other!

These words are half-written, but the meaning is clear.

Currently being used by magazines such as Women's Magazine and Women's World as a model for the rise of modern women's status, Xiao Feiyan is compared with Nora in Ibsen's drama "A Doll's House" recently performed in Shanghai.

After awakening, Nora can find a new life after "running away" only if she has her own job and career.

The "Little Feiyan" of Shimai Department Store is the "Nala" of Shanghai, China today!

Sun Xiaokai, who was "divorced", deeply reflected on the fact that he was too weak in front of his mother and did not defend his wife, which led to the current result.

No matter how his mother cried, made trouble, hanged herself, and asked him to marry another wife and concubine, he was not moved.

She even moved out from the Sun family mansion, ran to the apartment rented by Xiao Feiyan, and rented a small apartment to live in.

For the past few years, Sun Xiaokai has been working at the cruise company during the day and returning home at night to pursue his wife.

If Mr. Sun can cut off his pocket money, he might not cut off his salary.

Although "Little Feiyan" has given birth to a child, she still has the same style, and now she is a well-known female entrepreneur in Shanghai.For a time, there were even more crazy bees and butterflies chasing her than when she was single.

"Ex-husband" Sun Xiaokai is just one of many suitors now.

I heard that sometimes when Xiao Feiyan goes out on a date, he is also responsible for taking care of her children.In the evening, after calculating that the time was not too far away, standing at the door with the child in his arms, waiting for the car to take Xiao Feiyan home, Luo Xiazhi thought it was quite funny.

"I heard that the eldest lady of the Luo family has graduated from university this year and has officially taken up her post. She is in charge of the Hong Kong branch of Shimai Department Store?"

Sun Xiaokai said enviously, "When my daughter grows up, I will also train her to be the heir of our Sun family."

Since Xiao Feiyan said that "one girl is enough for this life", then "it is enough".

Sun Xiaokai is also very precious to her daughter, and visits her next door every day after work.Although Xiao Feiyan has not accepted him again so far, it does not prevent the father and daughter from contacting each other.

The three-year-old girl is the happiest time. When taking a bath, she puts a row of toy boats into the bathtub and "washes fragrantly" together.

The cute appearance makes Sun Xiaokai, a "daughter slave", so beautiful.She vowed to work hard to make her daughter a veritable "Chinese Ship Queen".

"Xiaoxiao graduated last year. In fact, before she graduated, she was an intern in the company, and she made a lot of achievements."

Speaking of his precious niece, Luo Xiazhi also had a proud smile of an old father on his face.

"Miss Luo is now a big girl, and she is ready to talk about marriage. There must be many people who want to marry the Luo family. Does the third master have someone he likes?"

A boss sitting on the other side of Rorschach came over and asked half jokingly and half seriously.

Everyone knows that Mr. Luo himself is a staunch non-marriage advocate.Not only that, he also teamed up with Boss Liang from Suzhou and Director Gu from the Shanghai Education Bureau. These three diamond-level bachelors formed a so-called "Unmarried Alliance".

It made the unmarried girls in Shanghai shed tears for a while, while the old-school people shook their heads when they heard it.

The third master Luo is not married, and the uncle of the Luo family has no intention of remarrying for so many years since his wife died.The Luo family's family business is only inherited by a girl named Luo Wanyi—this is a veritable "business empire"!

Marrying Luo Wanyi will not only save 20 years of struggle, it will be a step up to the sky?

Just for this point, since Xiaoxiao reached his full age, the endless stream of matchmakers almost broke through the threshold of Luo Mansion.

In the end, if Luo Xiazhi hadn't simply issued a statement, saying that Xiaoxiao would not fall in love before graduating from university, let alone consider getting married.It is estimated that these people can go directly to Hong Kong and propose marriage to her directly.

"As for marriage, our family absolutely respects the little girl's own ideas. She can get married whenever she wants. If she doesn't want to get married, then it's okay not to get married..."

Luo Xiazhi said lightly, with obvious displeasure already in his tone.

"Third Master, that's not what you said. The girl is old, so she can't delay..."

"Boss Ding, what are you talking about? Mr. Ala doesn't like to hear these things."

After completing the task of hosting, Xiao Feiyan came to celebrate Luo Xiazhi's birthday with a glass of wine.

"Third Master, happy birthday!"

Luo Xiazhi picked up the wine glass and winked at Sun Xiaokai who was beside him.

Sun Xiaokai also raised his wine glass and stood up, pretending to walk to Xiao Feiyan's side.

"Boss Sun, I heard that you and Xiao Feiyan divorced a long time ago...you two..."

The ignorant Boss Ding wanted to talk again, and everyone felt a sudden vibration under their feet.

Just as I was about to ask if it was an earthquake, I heard a huge boom.

The world is plunged into darkness!

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"Director Gu, it's bad! 'Shimai Department Store' and 'Seventh Heaven Hotel' were hit by bombs dropped by the Japanese army!"

In the office building of the Shanghai Education Bureau, when it was off-duty time, Gu Hanlin was about to pack up his things and go home to celebrate Luo Xiazhi's birthday when he saw his assistant rush in panicked.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he uttered such terrible news.

"how come……"

Gu Hanlin felt dizzy for a while, his feet went limp, and he fell back to his desk.

"Director, are you okay!"

The assistant hurried over and squatted beside Gu Hanlin's chair.

"no, I do not……"

After about half a minute, Gu Hanlin finally woke up slowly.

"Quick, quick... Prepare the car and go to the main road."

He struggled a few times before trembling, holding on to the desk and standing up little by little.

At the same time, Luo Yunze and Bai Fenghuang in Luo Mansion received the news that the main road was bombed, and the Seventh Heaven International Hotel two streets away was also bombed.

"Didn't you say that fighting only at sea will not harm Shanghai?"

Sitting on the back seat of the car, Bai Fenghuang was clutching his handkerchief, crying so hard, "In order to prevent Japanese warships from entering the sea, the government confiscated our three [-]-ton cruise ships. They are located on Chongming Island and Donghaikou. Preventing their warships from landing in Shanghai, how could they still be bombed?"

"That's a concession, that's a foreign concession, how dare Little Japan, how dare they?"

"The Japanese, what can't be done...they have occupied the Northeast long ago, haven't they?"

Luo Yunze, who was over fifty years old and now not as energetic as before, clenched his fists and said bitterly, "It is precisely because the Northeast was captured without any effort that the Japanese are so arrogant!"

"Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless, keep my son safe!"

Taking off the prayer beads wrapped around his wrist, Bai Fenghuang chanted while crying.

"I knew that at the beginning of the year, I received Xiaoxiao's letter. We should listen to what she said, and go to Hong Kong to live for a while. Let's see how the situation will develop. You father and son...you two brothers, why didn't you listen to her What if!"

Luo Yunze turned his head aside, looked at the panicked crowd on the street at the moment, and heard the sound of the fire brigade beating gongs and drums in the distance, silently reached out his hand to wipe away the falling tears.

"Xiaoxia will be fine...it won't be..."

For the first time, this man who was fearless felt that he was old and useless.

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"Boss, the car can't go in. The road ahead has been blown up. The people in the concession want to escape, and the people in the Chinese circle outside want to escape in. Now the whole front is messed up."

Gu Hanlin's car was parked at the entrance of the concession, and he couldn't move an inch.The mess in front of him made his assistant even wonder if this is really Shanghai.

As soon as the assistant finished speaking, Gu Hanlin opened the car door and rushed down.

Today is Luo Xiazhi's birthday, and he held a banquet at the "Seventh Heaven". When the bombing happened, he should have been at the Seventh Heaven Hotel.

The flames and dust obscured his vision, and Gu Hanlin squinted his eyes, trying to find the direction of the Seventh Heaven.

The screaming crowd ran around with their heads in their arms, and there were flames, collapsed rubble and corpses on the ground everywhere.

This financial street and commercial street, which is one of the best in China and even in the world, has now become a hell on earth.

"Seventh Heaven, where is Seventh Heaven... Where is it?"

Gu Hanlin raised his head, trying to find those conspicuous landmarks.

A weeping little girl passed him, looking for her mother somewhere.

On weekdays, he would definitely hold the girl's hand gently and send her to her mother.

But now Gu Hanlin can't care about anything, he just wants to find Luo Xiazhi, and only Luo Xiazhi!

Diagonally opposite Shimai Department Store is Qichongtian Hotel, and the transmission tower of "Tianwaitian Wireless Broadcasting Station" is the tallest building here—but what about the transmission tower!Why can't I see the launch tower!

He tried hard to find the direction of Shimai Department Store, and finally after the dust dispersed a little, he saw the once shining golden signboard, which had been bombarded with only the word "goods" hanging leisurely on the third floor. Outside the flagpole.

All it takes is a gust of wind to blow it down.

In the seven-story Shimai Department Store, the upper two floors have been completely flattened, exposing the steel and concrete inside.

In stark contrast, the safe and sound Sakura Department Store, and the "Modern Department Store" that had been acquired by Sakura Department Store long ago, were only slightly cracked due to the shock.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

Gu Hanlin cried out in pain.

"Xia Zhi, where are you!"

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Stepping through layers of rubble, avoiding the corpses and stumps that almost covered half of the road, and pushing aside the crowd who had lost their minds and ran wildly, Gu Hanlin finally arrived at the door of the Seventh Heaven International Hotel.

When he arrived, Luo Yunze and Bai Fenghuang, who had also gone through untold hardships and finally reached the gate of the seventh heaven, also saw him.

"You can't go in! It's too dangerous here!"

People from the fire brigade set up a cordon to keep them out.

Unlike the tragic main road, the situation here is slightly better. It was not directly bombed, but the fragments of two bombs splashed here.

One fell on the roof of the top floor, and the other fell on the glass awning at the door, which just happened to crush a passing American woman to death.

The piece of shrapnel upstairs just hit the back kitchen of the revolving restaurant on the roof, causing a fire.The fire brigade is doing its best to rescue the residents and staff in the building.

"Step aside!"

Although Gu Hanlin is over 40 years old, he is still physically fit. Now he only has Luo Xiazhi on his mind.Pushing away the firefighters, he rushed inside with big strides.

Under the guidance of the fire brigade, the crowd inside ran out covering their mouths and noses, but Gu Hanlin rushed inside against the flow of people.

At first, firefighters tried to blast him out.But seeing that his eyes were red, as long as someone tried to stop him, he would unceremoniously beat him aside. He was already on the verge of madness, so he could only let him run upstairs.

At the beginning, the condition of the lower floors was pretty good. With the light coming in from the outside, you can still see all kinds of furniture, decorations, and even expensive antiques scattered on the ground, as well as jewelry left by someone.

The more you go up, the darker the light, and the interior of the building that has been powered off makes it difficult to tell the direction.

The usual stairs were also blown off, and Gu Hanlin was almost crawling in the darkness, groping for broken walls and climbing up.

The summer solstice is on the top floor, go up!up!further up!

His hand was scratched open by the exposed steel bars, and tiny gravels got stuck in the wound, but Gu Hanlin didn't seem to feel the pain at all, he just wanted to go up, go forward!

When Gu Hanlin was a child, he heard from his mother that people who did bad things would go to eighteen levels of hell after death.

When he was a child, he always thought that hell was downward, but now he realized that hell can also be upward!

He walked and touched all the way, and he did not know how many broken limbs he touched.Only at this time, he will feel afraid, he is afraid that this is Luo Xiazhi's body!

At the end of the climb, he even had hallucinations. He was not in the Seventh Heaven Hotel, but looking for a little hope in the bloody sea of ​​​​the endless hell.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally saw a ray of light appear in front of him.

When the firefighters saw Gu Hanlin suddenly appearing, they all showed surprised expressions.

They were all carrying flashlights and mountain axes to climb up here. How on earth Gu Hanlin was able to run up here is incredible!

The entire corridor was filled with ashes of soot and rubble. Gu Hanlin tore off the hem of his robe and tied a knot behind his head. After a while, he was finally able to speak.

"What floor is this?"

"It's on the top floor, the fire has been extinguished, and we are saving people. No one else can wait."

"Where are the people? What about the people who were rescued? Is there anyone alive?"

Gu Hanlin stepped forward, grabbed the sleeve of the man who seemed to be in charge and asked.

"Hey! Don't delay our rescue, get out!"

The firefighters pushed him away, "Who! Someone, send this person down! Isn't this adding to the chaos!"

"Xia Zhi! Where are you Xia Zhi! Did you hear me? Here I come!"

Gu Hanlin yelled, and then couldn't help coughing.

"Summer Solstice! Answer me! Answer me!"

Dust was sucked into the mouth of the throat, and Gu Hanlin, who did not have any protective equipment, only screamed twice, and felt that his lungs were about to explode.

"Answer me! I'm Gu Hanlin!"

He endured the severe pain and continued to cry.

"Sir, come down quickly, you can't do this..."

Suddenly, Gu Hanlin pushed him away, knelt on the ground, and randomly picked up the rubble with his hands.

Yes, this is the "revolving restaurant". He had dated and ate here with Rorschach several times, and he was more familiar with it than any of them.

He touched a piece of paper and recognized it with the flashlight of the firefighters beside him—this is the wallpaper of the revolving restaurant, which Rorschach specially ordered from Italy.

He continued to grope, and found a marble statue—this is the decoration of the "Venus" sculpture on the right side of the restaurant... It should be here!

Rorschach likes to sit and eat here, right next to the statue of Venus.

Because only from this angle, he can see the wireless transmitter on the top floor of Shimai Department Store through the window.

There, is the pride of his life!

No matter how many restaurants, factories, and freight companies he opened later, Shimai Department Store is the industry he is most proud of.

"Xia Zhi, are you here? Are you here?"

He moved the heavy stones and groped hard between the gaps in the stones, even if the firefighters behind him tried to break him apart again and again, it was of no avail.

Finally, under the layers of sundries and bricks, he found a hand, a man's hand!

At that moment, Gu Hanlin felt that his breathing was almost stagnant.

On his left hand, on this man's left hand, is a ring.

He had rubbed the ring countless times in the dark.

It was an inconspicuous small platinum ring inlaid with small diamonds. It was nothing compared to the ruby ​​and sapphire rings that Rorschach usually wore as big as pigeon eggs.

That's their wedding ring.

On the ring finger of his left hand, the finger connected to the atrium in Western legend, wears the same ring.

"Summer Solstice!"

He yelled and pulled up like crazy.

Summer solstice!Here's his Rorschach solstice!He's down there!

"There's someone here! Captain! There's someone down here!"

The young man standing behind Gu Hanlin also saw Luo Xiazhi's finger, and shouted for his friends to come and save him.

Finally, with the efforts of everyone, Luo Xiazhi, who was covered in blood and half unconscious, was dug out.

In his arms, he was actually holding a woman tightly - Xiao Feiyan.

"Son! Son is out! Son!"

After standing outside for more than two hours, watching the fire brigade rescue dozens of different wounded patients and pull out an unknown number of corpses, Bai Fenghuang finally saw Gu Hanlin—he was carrying a Yes, it is the Rorschach solstice!

"son……"

Luo Yunze took her hand, pushed away everyone, and rushed forward.

"Xiao Xia, how are you? Xiao Xia, can you hear your mother?"

Looking at the two people who had almost turned into "lime men" in front of him, Bai Fenghuang's footsteps were unsteady and he fell into Luo Yunze's arms.

"Mom, I'm fine..."

Lying behind Gu Hanlin, Luo Xiazhi raised his head, revealing a weak smile.

"Auntie, Xia Zhi is fine, he just broke a leg, we'll send him to the hospital for bone resection."

Gu Hanlin raised his head.

His whole face is extremely funny now, on the cheeks covered with dust, there are two obvious white marks, winding from the corners of the eyes to the neck, it is obvious that he has cried a lot.

"I thought it was an earthquake, I got under the table..."

Luo Xiazhi took a breath and smiled, "Don't tell me, this mahogany table is solid, and the beams on it didn't hit me. Look at me, nothing happened."

"Silly boy, what are you talking about, woo woo woo... Is it okay to have a broken leg?"

Seeing that he was still in the mood to joke and make her happy, Bai Fenghuang finally relaxed his nerves and began to cry.

"Okay, okay, let's go to the hospital by car, what are you doing here?"

Luo Yunze comforted her with his arms around her shoulders.

Gu Hanlin carried Luo Xiazhi to the back of the ambulance, and supported him to lie down with his own hands.

"Let me take care of him, you go to rescue other patients."

He said to the flustered little nurse, who nodded and ordered the driver to drive the car to Renji Hospital.

"Just now, I thought I was going to die..."

Holding Gu Hanlin's hand, Luo Xiazhi said slowly after looking at the roof of the ambulance for a few seconds.

"It seems to have seen eighteen layers of hell."

"Me too……"

Kneeling beside Luo Xiazhi, Gu Hanlin took his hand, put his head on the backs of their hands, and said with lingering fear.

Gu Hanlin recalled the long, seemingly endless stairs, and the smell of blood and burning in the air, and slowly closed his eyes, "I almost thought... I was going to lose you."

If today Luo Xiazhi didn't go to Qichongtian Hotel for a banquet because of his birthday, but went to Shimai Department Store to work as usual...

He couldn't imagine what kind of madness he would fall into.

"I was thinking about it just now. If I didn't die this time, I would tell you a secret. A secret that I have wanted to tell you for more than ten years..."

"You have a secret, you can keep it from me for so many years? I don't believe it..."

Gu Hanlin kissed the back of his hand lightly, as if kissing a fragile glass handicraft.

Luo Xiazhi seemed to think of some joke, and hooked his fingers at Gu Hanlin.

Gu Hanlin put his ear to his mouth.

"Actually, I... am not from your world."

He said.

"I'm from... 100 years from now."

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At the end of August, Luo Xiazhi, who had finally removed the plaster, stood on the train platform to see Luo Yunze and Bai Fenghuang off.

Not long ago, on July [-], the Marco Polo Bridge Incident shocked the world and China officially declared war.

After hearing about the great changes in Shanghai, Xiaoxiao, who is now the general manager of Shimai in Hong Kong, sent eleven telegrams in a row, begging her father, third uncle and grandmother to leave Shanghai and settle down in Hong Kong.

After thinking about it for more than a month, Luo Xiazhi decided that he would stay in Shanghai and rebuild the bombed Shimai Department Store and Seventh Heaven Hotel.And Luo Yunze and Bai Fenghuang went south to Guangzhou to meet up with Xiaoxiao, and then went to Hong Kong together.

"Xiaoxia, do you really not want to go with us? Shanghai is very dangerous, and the concession has been controlled by the Japanese. Let's go together. What if, what if something happens again?"

Holding his son's hand, Bai Fenghuang pleaded again.

"Mom, it's okay. Your son is lucky and lucky, and he will be fine."

Luo Xiazhi looked back at Gu Hanlin, and patted the back of his mother's hand helplessly.

He was really lucky and fateful. Except for him, only less than ten people were rescued that day on the entire top floor.

But luckier than him is Xiao Feiyan.

Aside from being overly frightened and inhaling a lot of dust, it was a miracle that she was almost unharmed.

When the shrapnel flew over, Luo Xiazhi subconsciously pulled Xiao Feiyan who was closest to him, hid under the table, and hugged her tightly.Only then did the two save their lives.

But unfortunately, because Sun Xiaokai did not escape in time, he was hit by the collapsed beam and died on the spot.

When the firefighters brought his body out, they found a small steamship model in his suit pocket.

He bought it at a toy store on the way to a dinner party, and gave it to his daughter when he was about to go home.His three-year-old daughter is very talented, and she has loved all kinds of ship models and toys since she was a child.He told Xiao Feiyan that his daughter will be China's ship queen in the future.

It's a pity that he never saw the day when his daughter became the "Queen of Ships" with his own eyes.

After the war, Shanghai was in chaos and panic, and the rich chose to flee.

The fare of the train and ship going south to Guangzhou has been sold for a gold bar.

Originally, Gu Hanlin also insisted that he must leave Shanghai, but after knowing his identity as a "future man" and "predicting" the development of the war, he finally stopped insisting.

Luo Xiazhi is right, Shanghai needs him, and the country needs him.He must persist until the last moment, guard the hard-won industrial achievements, and fight the Japanese to the end!

After escaping from the Seventh Heaven Hotel that day, Luo Xiazhi told everything frankly.

Gu Hanlin also finally understood why when this person was around, he had such business means, and was able to make precise investments time and time again without missing a deal.

I also figured out why he often speaks surprisingly, jumping out some unheard of words.

And his thinking is so avant-garde - because he has been "true avant-garde" for 100 years.

"Go home... There's still a lot of work to do."

After seeing off their parents, Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin were about to walk back when they saw Li Ye standing on another platform not far away.

"Xiaoye, why are you here?"

Li Ye had asked for a week's vacation before, saying that something happened in Meiyuan and he was going to help Liang Shaolong deal with it.

How could it appear on the platform now?

Who is he sending?

Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin ran towards him quickly.

"That's the train to the North. Is that the wagon?"

Gu Hanlin looked at the black smoke left by the car from a distance, and turned his head in disbelief, "Could it be..."

That guy Liang Shaolong, he actually!

"He said that he gave me the factory in Suzhou, the factory in Guangzhou, and the rubber plantation in Nanyang."

Li Ye lowered his head.

In his hand is a sack, which contains a bunch of official and private seals, as well as various documents and keys, it seems that all of Liang Shaolong's family assets are here.

"What did he do? He just went to escort the car, right? He went to the north to deliver supplies, just like in the past?"

Rorschach asked while pulling his arm.

The war started, and military orders came to garment factories and rubber shoe factories like snowflakes.The road is not peaceful now, Liang Shaolong should just deliver the goods himself.

"He said that he...although he grew up in Shanghai, he is an out-and-out Northeast native. There is his ancestral grave outside the pass, and his father is still buried there. He can't just sit back and watch the land of his ancestors being ruined by others. "

Holding the sack tightly, Li Ye bit his lip, "He said he was going to the northeast to kill the devils. After killing all the devils, he will return to Shanghai to reunite with me."

"Little Leaf!"

Luo Xiazhi hugged the young man in front of him who had been completely lost in grief, and hot tears kept dripping.

"Stinky boy... the silent dweller