That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 584: You don’t want to form an association?

"Brother, where are we going to play today? Should we go to Ueno Park mentioned in Mr. Lu Xun's book, or go to Jimbocho to browse the bookstores?"

"You guys make your own arrangements today! I'm going to meet a friend, so it's not convenient for me to bring you along."

Because Wen Leyu was a lecher and thought Li Ye was a bad guy who broke into the house in the middle of the night, Li Ye was very angry and decided to punish Wen Leyu - leaving her alone for a day and going out to play by himself.

As for what to play?
Now that you are in Riben, of course you have to see Riben’s special projects.

Fu Yiru watched Li Ye say something to his mother, borrow two bodyguards and leave without looking back. She immediately looked at Wen Leyu in surprise.

"Sister-in-law, is my brother angry with you?"

"Why is he mad? I didn't provoke him, and I'm still upset!"

Wen Leyu glanced at Li Ye's back and became angry.

Fu Yiruo shook her head slowly: "I've known you two for such a long time, and I've never seen my brother abandon you and go out to play by himself!"

"He spent so much effort this time, didn't he just want to enjoy a love journey with you? But why is he going out alone now?"

Wen Leyu thought about it for a moment, and it was actually true. Li Ye always put her first.

The girl was a little confused. Facing the teasing of a perfect boyfriend, she had a hard time resisting.

They had originally agreed to get married after graduation next year, but Wen Leyu now clearly felt that Li Ye's eyes were looking at her more and more passionately.

Some flames cannot be suppressed the more you suppress them.

[How about. Obey? ]

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Li Ye went to see Lao Song today. Lao Song left him his address yesterday. Li Ye was thinking about going over to take a look and learn about the background and style of Gao Qiao and Jie.

There is one more thing I want to ask.

A 30-kilometer drive from Tokyo will take you to Yokobin Chinatown.

After getting off the bus, Li Ye immediately felt the familiar atmosphere of home.

The whole street is lined with Chinese shops, and passers-by speak Cantonese and Hokkien. If many signs were not in traditional Chinese, Li Ye would have thought he had returned to Guangzhou in the mainland!

Lao Song's Datang Culture Society is located in the middle section of Hengbin Chinatown. It has a large storefront with four floors. The five big Chinese characters "Datang Culture Society" are written in a flamboyant style, giving it a sense of freedom and uninhibitedness.

Li Ye looked around and found that there was a Cantonese restaurant on the left side of the cultural society and a cheongsam shop on the right side.

So he started to wonder, "Is it appropriate to sell antiques here?"

Generally, antique shops are crowded with the same kind of people, such as Jinsong Tupo in Beijing at the beginning, and Panjiayuan later.
But now the place chosen by Lao Song does not seem to meet the "geographical advantages" that flower growers pay attention to.

Just at this moment, the door of the cultural society opened, and the young woman that Old Song was holding yesterday looked at Li Ye with a smile.

"Sir, are you here to see Master Song?"

"Yes, is Lao Song at home?"

"Yes, please wait for a moment. I will go and inform the master."

This woman could actually speak Chinese. Although not very standard, she had no problem communicating with Li Ye.

Li Ye was about to enter the store when the bodyguard who followed him suddenly asked, "Sir, do you want us to go in with you?"

Li Ye waved his hand and said, "Go eat something across the street. I'll treat you."

The bodyguard nodded and said, "Okay sir, if you don't come out in an hour, we will go in and take a look."

"can."

Li Ye nodded and agreed with the bodyguard's opinion.

The two bodyguards that Fu Guiru assigned to Li Ye were very vigilant and would provide professional advice in any unknown environment.

In fact, the most important thing for a bodyguard is vigilance, not the superhuman fighting ability like in the movies.

In modern times when the law is becoming more and more sound, even criminals who want to kill for money will try to strike at dark or windy times or by luring acquaintances to strike.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many people were victimized because of their wealth being exposed, but most of them were not careful enough. A little caution could avoid more than 90% of the dangers. Sometimes, even a security door could render many criminals helpless.

Of course, there were people like Abe who were attacked in the crowd, but Li Ye did not have that weight or honor at the moment.

After Li Ye entered Lao Song's cultural company, he found that there were actually two clerks in the store. Lao Song's business was quite big, and he had employed at least three people including this female apprentice.

The first floor of the store is filled with various antiques, including several calligraphy works hanging on the wall, the writing style of which is similar to that on the sign at the door.

Li Ye took a closer look and found that the signatures of these calligraphy works were all "Sanquan Shanren".

"Mr. Zhuangyuan, what do you think of these humble works of mine?"

Old Song came down from upstairs, wearing slippers and with his collar open, and he looked like one of those bohemian masters. Li Ye shook his head and said, "I don't know much about calligraphy, but today I have a better understanding of you. I admire you."

The reason why Li Ye expressed his admiration was because of the price tags below those works. Each of these pieces of calligraphy written by Lao Song was worthy of the title of "Master".

"Hey, I'm not famous yet," Lao Song said proudly, "After a while, the price will have to double."

Li Ye glanced at Lao Song and felt that he didn't seem to be bragging.

Li Zhongfa said that Old Song's family was relatively wealthy in the past, and he went to a private school since childhood, so he was considered a "scholar" in the old society, but no one had ever heard of his actual calligraphy skills.

"Zhuangyuanlang, let's go upstairs and talk."

Perhaps realizing Li Ye's doubts, Old Song smiled and led Li Ye to the tea room on the second floor and explained things to him for a long time.

"The top scholar may not understand that the Japanese calligraphy actually originated from our mainland. Compared with us, their calligraphy is even more advanced than ours."

What Lao Song said is a bit biased, but it is not nonsense, because Japanese calligraphy has been influenced by the flower-growing people in the mainland from ancient times to the present, and many well-known calligraphers’ teachers were flower-growing people.

As for now, I don’t know whether the heritage was lost due to the war, or many people are no longer interested in studying "calligraphy". Anyway, in the words of Lao Song, his calligraphy is much better than many Japanese masters.

While Lao Song was explaining to Li Ye, the female apprentice came in with tea sets, knelt down beside the two of them and began to perform tea art.
However, Old Song did not avoid her meaning and continued to criticize and denounce the Japanese calligraphy community in front of her.

Li Ye discovered that the way the female apprentice looked at Lao Song was really full of admiration. He didn't know whether she was infected by the so-called culture and art, or brainwashed by Lao Song.

Li Ye sipped the tea brewed by his female apprentice and asked Lao Song: "As far as I know, Japan's antique markets are generally in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. Why did you choose to settle in Yokohama?"

"I thought so at first, and I stayed in Kyoto for a while and got to know Junko."

Old Song pointed at the female apprentice and said with a smile, "Junko's family was in the antique business in Kyoto, but later they offended Gao Qiao's gang, so they ended up coming here."

"There are many tourists coming to Hengbin, so we don't have to worry about customers. In addition, there are many Chinese people here, so it's easy to find some helpers. I've been here for more than half a year, and I've already established myself."

"Find some helpers? You're already this old, what do you need help for?"

Li Ye looked at Old Song, whose face was beaming, and wondered if you were planning to "form an association" here?

I heard that many Japanese gangsters came from the mainland.

Old Song smiled and waved to his female apprentice.

"Junko, go downstairs and prepare the things I specified yesterday."

The female disciple Junko smiled gently and walked out backwards.

"Zhuangyuan, a hero needs three helpers. I didn't have any helpers back then, so I ended up like this. If I had..."

"Even if you had helpers back then, you couldn't defeat the army."

Li Ye interrupted directly: "Gangs will never be a match for the army. You can come to Japan to do business, but it's not so fun to cause trouble."

“No, it’s fun because this is the world of capital.”

"In the world of capital, as long as you expand your business, your power will be unimaginable."

Old Song pointed outside the tea room and said, "That Chunzi used to be a good girl from a good family. She came from a well-off family of scholars and had a good financial situation. But later she went bankrupt under the oppression of capital, and then she met me."

"I helped her pay off her debts and took her in as my apprentice, and she became completely devoted to me."

"And in Japan, there are many people like Junko. It's so easy for me to find a few helpers. Besides, I'm not rebelling. I'm just doing business in an orderly manner. Who can do anything to me?"

"Doing business in an orderly manner?"

Li Ye smiled faintly and said, "I thought you came to Hengbin to deal with the Hengbin Nakamura Corporation?"

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Old Song looked at Li Ye and slowly calmed down, changing from a smooth-talking guy to a weathered old man.

"Life must have some exciting memories!"

Old Song smiled and said, "Back then, when I first bought some good stuff for old man Nakamura, I also enjoyed the Japanese tea art.
But the old man Nakamura kept me hanging and wouldn't let me enter the port, saying that he would give me a girl as soon as I made a great contribution. I was so angry afterwards! If I hadn't been blinded, how could I have broken a leg? "

Li Ye: "."

[You are so brave! The good stuff you gave to others is all fake, and you still want them to give you a Japanese girl? You deserve it! ]

"Tsk~"

Old Song sucked his teeth and laughed, "But things change over time. Who would have thought that decades later, as long as you have money, you can do anything!"

"I just arrived here, and I have only gained a preliminary understanding of Nakamura's background. He is no longer the powerful colonel he used to be. He is just a dog raised by Gao Qiao's family."

The corners of Lao Song's mouth slowly curled up, and he once again turned into a funny person who was laughing at the world.
"Zhuangyuan, in this place, money is more useful than guns. You don't need a gun to beat a dog."

(End of this chapter)