That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1428 The older people get, the more they fear death.
"You want to drag me into this? Old Song, you're getting bolder and bolder, even including me in your schemes? You want me to do all that shady stuff with you guys? Have you lost your mind?"

Li Ye unleashed a torrent of abuse on Lao Song, calling the old man treacherous and cunning. He was so old and didn't value his life, yet he was trying to drag Li Ye into his gang's criminal activities.

Seeing that Li Ye was angry, Old Song quickly said, "Scholar, don't misunderstand. I don't want to drag you down with me. I just want to borrow something from you."

Li Ye glanced at him and said irritably, "What do you want to borrow? Tell me first! I don't have anything illegal."

"I have the illegal stuff myself,"

Old Song chuckled and said, "I would like to borrow your set of Ming Dynasty official kiln polychrome flower and bird teapots for a while."

"A five-colored flower and bird teapot? Are you trying to fish?"

Li Ye paused for a moment before remembering that there was indeed a teapot gathering dust in his cabinet. If it weren't for the fact that this teapot was related to Nakamura Naoto, Li Ye might not have remembered it at all.

When Li Ye went to congratulate Wang Jianqiang on his housewarming, he saw Nakamura Naoto buying a set of teapots from Uncle Guan Er's house. Li Ye didn't want the teapots to fall into Wang Jianqiang's hands, so he had Lao Song and Wei Jiaxian "intercept" and buy them.

Unbeknownst to Li Ye, during the interception process, Wei Jiaxian and Lao Song used a set of counterfeit goods to discover that Guan Erda's ancestors were surnamed "Gua" and were from the lineage of the Prince.
However, he knew that this teapot set was related to the Nakamura family, so when Old Song asked him to borrow the teapot, he was definitely going to use it as bait to fish.

Li Ye was a straightforward man, and he said directly, "It's just a teapot set, I'll give it to you. But you have to be careful, don't end up being the fisherman who gets eaten by the fish, and don't die a peaceful death at your old age."

Old Song chuckled twice and said, "Don't worry, the older you get, the more you cherish your life. I'm afraid of dying too!"

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Li Ye drove his grandfather's car to Qingshui County, then made arrangements with Lao Song to go to his great-grandson's birthday party the next day. Only then did he get into his own car and return to his grandfather's house, which he rarely stayed in.

However, knowing that Li Ye and the others were coming back, his father, Li Kaijian, had already cleaned the grave yesterday and bought almost all the offerings for the grave.

Grandma Wu Juying fiddled with the items for a while, then started to get angry because Li Kaijian had bought two fewer offerings than expected.

She picked up the phone and dialed Li Kaijian's cell phone: "Kaijian, you're a grown man, and you're still shortchanging me when I ask you to buy something? I don't know how he became a general manager."

"Oh? What did you forget to buy? I'll go back and buy it in a bit."

"Forget it! We can't afford to have you as our general manager; I'll have to buy it myself."

"Yes, yes, you're the one who knows these things best, Mother. I can't tell the difference between good and bad! Let Ono drive you to buy them."

"Don't try to fool me. You're always busy with this and that, but when it came to worshiping the ancestors, you were so careless. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Li Ye listened to his grandmother scolding Li Kaijian on the phone, and found it all quite amusing.

Is Li Kaijian really careless and unable to distinguish between good and bad?

What a joke! Does Li Kaijian still need to do everything himself when buying things these days? He only needs to give one order, and his subordinates will take care of everything perfectly.

So Li Kaijian deliberately bought fewer items so that his grandmother Wu Juying could show her "undisputed role." Otherwise, look at how Wu Juying looked after scolding her son.
I felt incredibly refreshed and completely satisfied.

Scolding their son is a favorite pastime of every parent. If one day they suddenly stop scolding you, that's not a good thing.

Decades later, a heartbreaking video surfaced: an elderly father got into his son's luxury car and timidly asked, "Son, may I smoke in this car?"

The son burst into tears.

When parents no longer dare to scold their children, then those parents will be too old to do so!

So after Wu Juying finished scolding Li Kaijian, Li Ye had already grabbed his car keys and was ready to go shopping with his grandmother.

But Wu Juying said, "Xiao Ye, what do you know about offerings? Let Xiao Yu and Xiao Juan come with me, so they can see and learn. Otherwise, when I get old, who will take care of these things?"

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Li Ye never expected that one day she would be disliked by her grandmother, who usually loved to take her out to show off.

"Look, this is my eldest grandson. He graduated from Peking University and is a cadre in Beijing."

When Wen Leyu grinned and made a face at Li Ye, Li Ye realized that he was now "old hag".

What's so great about the eldest grandson? Does he have more face than this granddaughter-in-law?
[Look at my granddaughter-in-law, so cultured and refined, she's on par with my eldest grandson!] "Me too! Me too! Grandma, I'm going too!"

"Mmm, Grandma, I want to go too."

"Okay, go ahead. Xiao Bao'er and Xiao Dou'er are both more sensible than your grandpa."

Xiao Dou'er and Xiao Bao'er also clamored to go together, so Wu Juying led a large group of young women and children away in a grand procession, not even enough to fit everyone in one car.

What does it mean to have a house full of children and grandchildren? This is it.

When only Li Ye and Li Zhongfa were left at home, Li Zhongfa asked Li Ye, "Why did Lao Song come back this time?"

Knowing he couldn't hide it from Li Zhongfa, Li Ye told the truth: "Grandpa, Colonel Nakamura's family company has gone bankrupt."

However, that old man didn't hang himself; instead, he became a servant of the Ribun tribe. This time, he came to the mainland under the guise of cultural exchange, so Old Song wanted to see if there was a chance to trick him again.

"I knew that cripple wasn't telling me the truth."

Li Zhongfa cursed angrily, then asked Li Ye, "What did you say to him in the car just now?"

Li Ye didn't mention borrowing the teapot, but calmly said, "I told him not to risk his life, that he shouldn't die, it's not worth it."

"Hmph, he's a suicidal idiot, there's no way he'd listen to you!"

Li Zhongfa stood up angrily, about to go find Lao Song, but when he reached the door, he turned back.

"Ah~"

Li Zhongfa sighed and said quietly, "He can't possibly listen to me. After he broke his leg, I invited him to join the team, but he said he wanted revenge and ran away with one leg. Now he's almost dead. Who can persuade him to stay?"

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Li Ye fell silent.

Old Song once said that he dragged one leg all over Manchuria in search of the Prince's whereabouts, and this search lasted for half his life.

After a long silence between the father and son, Li Zhongfa said, "Alright, let him do what he wants if he wants to! But you absolutely cannot be implicated, understand?"

Li Ye nodded and said, "I understand, and Lao Song understands too. It won't implicate me."

But not long after Li Ye finished speaking, his cell phone rang. It was Lu Zhizhang from the capital calling.

Li Ye was a little puzzled. It was already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Why would Lu Zhizhang call him?

"What's wrong, Lao Lu? Why are you calling me at this hour? Is something the matter?"

"Li Ye, a police officer surnamed Zhang came to see you today, saying he wants to know some things."

Li Ye frowned slightly: "Officer Zhang? Which Officer Zhang? Did he say what he specifically wanted to see me about?"

Lu Zhizhang said, "He didn't say, but he brought two Japanese men with him."

"Japanese idiot?"

Li Ye suddenly remembered who that Officer Zhang was.

After Naoto Nakamura disappeared, his father went to Kyoto University with two police officers to question Li Ye, but the matter was dropped because there was no evidence.

Now that he's suddenly contacting Li Ye again, could it be that he has a new lead?
After Li Ye finished his call, Li Zhongfa asked from the side, "What happened?"

Li Ye casually said, "One of our unit's technicians was stabbed by someone at Southwest Heavy Truck last month. Another one is involved in perjury. It's almost Chinese New Year, and they want to close the case, so they asked for our opinion."

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After dealing with Li Zhongfa, Li Ye suddenly thought of a possibility.

If Officer Zhang has another lead, could it be that Old Song deliberately leaked it out?
(End of this chapter)