Chapter 494: They Provoked Me

After Li Ye and Li Li Zhongfa returned to Zaojunmiao, they were naturally caught by Li Xia Yue, Wen Wen Leyu, Yang Yang Yumin, and others waiting at home, who bombarded them with questions.

This morning, Jin Peng, Jiang Hong, and others had all come, originally wanting to go along, but grandfather Li Li Zhongfa thought it was inappropriate. A large crowd going over would instead make Li Ye look guilty.

Wen Wen Leyu quietly tugged on Li Ye's sleeve and exchanged a look with him, her expressive eyes seeming to say—Is it serious? Do I need to notify my father?

So Li Ye polished up what the old man had just said and repeated it.

Then, naturally, it provoked a round of cursing from everyone. Wang Wang Jianqiang and Li Li Dayong, the two brothers with straightforward temperaments, had even gloomier expressions.

If it weren't for the other party's special status, these two brothers might have picked up bricks on the spot to go and block their door.

"Alright, it's nothing. Xiao Xia Yue, find a restaurant and take everyone to eat first. Xiao Ye, after you finish eating, send Xiao Yu home first; don't let her family worry. Xiao Hong, stay behind..."

Li Li Zhongfa dismissed everyone cleanly and efficiently, leaving only Jiang Hong behind.

"I couldn't ask clearly on the phone yesterday. What's going on with Old Song?"

"Old Song has some connections with a lighthouse businessman named Mr. Ai. The two of them originally partnered to open that foreign language tutoring class. On the 13th day of the first lunar month, that Mr. Ai and the Japanese came to the training class..."

"I'm not asking you about that," Li Li Zhongfa waved his hand and asked in a deep voice: "I'm asking you, in the past two years in Beijing, has Old Song done anything improper? Has he caused any trouble for Xiao Ye?"

Jiang Hong slowly shook his head and said: "Old Song just likes to tinker with some junk. Although he deals with people from all walks of life quite a bit, he doesn't seem to have caused any major trouble."

"It was just last winter when he went on a long trip and didn't see anyone for several months, but to say he caused trouble for Xiao Ye... maybe that's the only thing."

"..."

Jiang Hong spoke very cautiously, and Li Li Zhongfa listened very carefully. After hearing this, he shook his head and said: "Forget it, Old Song is a crafty one. Asking you here is not as good as asking him directly. Go and find out if he can come out, and if he can, have him come see me."

Jiang Hong was stunned, then said: "Old Song just called a moment ago, saying he had already come out, and asked when it would be convenient to come see you!"

"Hmm? Heh heh~"

Li Ye ate with Wen Wen Leyu alone and then sent her home. When he returned to Zaojunmiao, he happened to run into Old Song.

Li Ye laughed and scolded: "Yo, Old Song, you came out so fast? The taste inside wasn't good, was it? Are you going to do bad things again in the future?"

Old Song chuckled and said, "The taste is alright. They don't hit or scold me, and they even provide meals. It's much more comfortable than when I was in the Japanese prison back in the day. When they kicked me out this noon, I was actually a bit reluctant to leave."

"..."

Li Ye, who had been full of anger, suddenly didn't want to discipline this guy anymore when he saw his grinning face.

He had had a leg broken and had lost half his life in a Japanese prison, and later there was the blood feud of Wei Wei Jiaxian's entire family. If you told him not to do bad things in the future, wasn't that a bit like standing and talking without back pain?

"Yo, you're reluctant? That's easy to handle! I'll send you back in right now, and I'll have them serve you well with good food and drink without hitting or scolding you, how about that?"

Grandfather Li Li Zhongfa's voice came from the main room, carrying three parts sarcasm and seven parts cold severity.

Old Song's neck immediately shrank by half. He gave Li Ye a grin and walked in without hesitation.

"Bureau Chief Li, I'm here to apologize to you. It was my incompetence that caused trouble for the top scholar. I guarantee I won't do it again in the future..."

When Old Song saw Li Li Zhongfa, he looked just like the guys in the movies carrying box cannons meeting the guerrillas, nodding and bowing without any proper form.

Li Li Zhongfa glanced at him coldly and sneered: "Then tell me, how do you guarantee it? I gave you an introduction letter back then to let you come to Beijing, thinking you could learn to be good."

"But it's only been two years, what's the matter? Has Old Master Song's old habit flared up again? Do you have to try if the Japanese bayonet is sharp?"

"Heh heh heh, Bureau Chief Li, don't mock me. I've corrected myself for so many years, how could I still have any old habits?"

Old Song laughed a few times, then said seriously: "I've been thinking about it recently. Since we've opened up, and the country encourages us to go out and do business, I've decided to respond to the country's call and take my business abroad."

"..."

Li Li Zhongfa and Li Ye were both stunned.

This trouble was indeed related to Old Song, but the grandfather and grandson didn't have the idea of forcing him to "run away overseas."

Old Song was already such an old bag of bones; if he were to die in a foreign land, wouldn't that be a sin?

But if Old Song went overseas, then nothing would involve Li Ye at all.

Even if he became a master thief, it would have nothing to do with Li Ye.

Li Ye frowned and asked: "Old Song, which country do you want to go to to expand your business?"

Old Song said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I'm short, so I'm afraid that if I go to the West, I'll only see people's backs of their heads when walking on the street, so I plan to go to the East to take a look."

"Bang~"

Li Li Zhongfa slammed the table directly and shouted: "You old thing, you still say you haven't relapsed into your old habits? You almost died in their hands back then. What's the matter? Is your neck already buried in yellow soil, and you still want to go and spar with them?"

Old Song smacked his lips, swallowed his saliva, and then laughed sheepishly: "How could I, Old Song, still have the ability to spar? But back then, they were running wild on our turf, and we couldn't block their bayonets. Can't I go over and take a leak now?"

"..."

Li Li Zhongfa and Li Ye stared blankly at Old Song, both unable to curse.

The skinny old man probably leaked when he peed, but at this moment, to the Li family grandfather and grandson, he didn't lose the feeling of being a man with a straight spine.

Li Li Zhongfa was stunned for a long while before whispering: "Old Brother Song, we are all old now, so don't toss about anymore. When you get to that place in the East, you won't be familiar with the people or the place, and you won't even have anyone to bury you if you die!"

"How could that be! Do I look like someone who doesn't want to live?"

Old Song straightened his neck and talked eloquently: "In the past two years, I've seen more than one person who returned from Japan. Now, people over there don't believe in bayonets; they believe in banknotes."

"And who said I don't know the language? Listen... Sayonara, Odonesnai, Kitakuruika, Yamete..."

"..."

You even learned 'Yamete'?

Li Ye was stunned again, because when Old Song started, it was still quite raw, but as he spoke, it became smoother and smoother, and it was no longer limited to short words and phrases; long sentences were coming out in strings, as if he had really studied it.

He suddenly remembered that Old Song had told him once that after Wei Wei Jiaxian's entire family was burned to death, he had once pursued the murderer for ten thousand miles.

So when he was pursuing the murderer back then, was he as insidious as Ma Dazui, who carried a fan in his waist and could dance Japanese dances in the TV show "Erpaoshou"?

"Ring ring ring~"

Just as the three of them were staring at each other, the phone at home suddenly rang.

Li Ye picked up the phone; it was his mother, Fu Fu Guiru, calling.

Li Li Zhongfa immediately pulled Old Song out.

"Let's go, you old stubborn donkey. I'll treat you to a drink... When you pass away, remember to pay me back for this drink!"

"That's not... this way of speaking is really unlucky. Besides, you still owe me a batch of medicine from back then! You weren't doing well in the past few years, so it wasn't easy to ask you for the debt. Now that I'm leaving without a definite date, why don't you pay me back first..."

"Pay you back my ass. If I hadn't mediated in the middle, the guerrillas would have already taken your head. That was life-buying money..."

"..."

After the two old men had walked far away, Li Ye started chatting with Fu Fu Guiru.

Recently, Fu Fu Guiru had been running between Pengcheng and Japan; she was very busy, but very fulfilled.

After the mother and son finished discussing the recent investment plan, Li Ye suddenly took out Nakamura Hiroo's business card from his pocket.

"Mom, set up a special group in the team to keep an eye on this Yokohama Nakamura Co., Ltd. for me."

"Why are you keeping an eye on them?"

"They provoked me."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 495 =====