Chapter 536: You Don't Want to Form a Society, Do You?

"Brother, where are we going to play today? Are we going to Ueno Park from Mr. Lu Xun's books, or are we going to Jimbocho to browse bookstores?"

"You guys arrange it yourselves today! I have to meet a friend, it's not convenient to bring you along."

Because Wen Wen Leyu measured a gentleman's heart with a lecher's heart and strictly guarded against Li Ye as a bad guy who broke into the door in the middle of the night, Li Ye was very angry and decided to punish Wen Wen Leyu—leave her alone for a day and go out to play by himself.

As for what to play?

Since he came to Japan, of course, he had to go and see Japan's special projects.

Fu Fu Yiruo watched Li Ye tell his mother, borrow two bodyguards, and leave without looking back, and immediately looked at Wen Wen Leyu in surprise.

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

"Why would he be angry? I didn't provoke him, and I'm not happy either!"

Wen Wen Leyu glanced at Li Ye's back, and her little temper came up.

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

"He spent so much effort this time, isn't it to enjoy a love journey with you? But why did he go out alone now?"

Wen Wen Leyu pondered for a moment, and it was actually like this; Li Ye had always put her first.

The young girl was a bit troubled; facing the flirtations of a perfect boyfriend, she was truly struggling to resist.

They had originally agreed to get married after graduation next year, but Wen Wen Leyu now clearly felt that Li Ye's gaze at her was becoming more and more intense.

Some flames are harder to suppress the more you suppress them.

【How about... submit?】

Li Ye was going to see Old Song today; Old Song left him an address, and Li Ye thought about going over to take a look, and by the way, understand the background and style of Gao Qiao Hejie and those people.

There was also something else to ask.

Driving 30 kilometers from Tokyo, he arrived at Yokohama Chinatown.

After getting off the car, Li Ye immediately felt the familiar atmosphere of his hometown.

The whole street was full of Chinese shops, and passersby were full of Cantonese and Minnan dialect; if it weren't for the fact that many signs used traditional characters, Li Ye would have thought he had returned to Yangcheng in the mainland!

Old Song's Datang Cultural Society was opened in the middle section of Yokohama Chinatown, with a large storefront, four floors high, and the five calligraphy characters "Datang Cultural Society" written in a dragon-flying and phoenix-dancing style, quite with a sense of uninhibited freedom.

Li Ye looked left and right and found that to the left of this cultural society was a Cantonese restaurant, and to the right was a cheongsam shop.

So he muttered: "Is it appropriate to sell antiques here?"

Places that sell antiques generally cluster together, like the Jinsong dirt slope at the beginning in Beijing, and the Panjiayuan later.

But the place Old Song chose now didn't seem to fit the "geographical advantage" that Chinese people pay attention to.

Just at this moment, the door of the cultural society opened, and the young woman Old Song had on his arm yesterday looked at Li Ye with a smile.

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

"Yes, is Old Song at home?"

"Yes, please wait a moment, I will go notify the Master."

This woman actually spoke Chinese; although it wasn't very standard, there was no problem communicating with Li Ye.

Li Ye stepped forward to walk into the shop, and the bodyguard who came with him suddenly asked: "Sir, do we need to go in with you?"

Li Ye waved his hand and said: "You go across the street to eat something, my treat."

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

"Okay."

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

The two bodyguards Fu Fu Guiru sent to Li Ye were very vigilant and would put forward professional opinions on any unknown environment.

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

In the modern era where laws are becoming more and more sound, even fierce bandits who kill for money will try their best to choose dark nights or acquaintance deception to take action.

There were quite a few people who were harmed because of money exposure in the 80s and 90s, but most of them were not careful enough; one carefulness could avoid more than 90% of the dangers, and sometimes even an anti-theft door could make many lawbreakers helpless.

Of course, it's not like there aren't people like Abe who were attacked in the crowd, but Li Ye at this moment didn't have that weight, nor did he have that honor.

After Li Ye entered Old Song's cultural society, he found that there were two shop assistants in the shop; Old Song had made this business quite large, and adding this female apprentice, he had hired at least three people.

The shop was full of various antiques on the first floor, and among the calligraphy hanging on the wall, the style of the brushwork was similar to the handwriting on the sign at the door.

Li Ye looked at it carefully for a few times and found that the inscriptions on these calligraphy works all had the inscription "Sanquan Hermit."

"Zhuangyuan-lang, do you have any opinions on these clumsy works of mine?"

Old Song walked down from upstairs, dragging his slippers and with his collar open, feeling like the style of those uninhibited masters.

Li Ye shook his head and said: "I don't know much about calligraphy, but today I have learned a few more things about you, admire, admire."

The reason Li Ye said admire was because the price tags under those works, the calligraphy Old Song wrote by hand, each one could live up to the title of "Master."

"Hi, I haven't made a name for myself yet," Old Song said proudly: "After a few days, the price will have to double again."

Li Ye looked at Old Song twice, feeling that he didn't seem to be bragging.

Li Li Zhongfa had said that Old Song's family was relatively wealthy in the past, and he had attended a private school since he was a child, which could be considered an "intellectual" of the old society, but no one had heard of how much skill his calligraphy had.

"Zhuangyuan-lang, let's go upstairs to chat."

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

"Zhuangyuan-lang might not know much, but in fact, Japanese calligraphy all originated from our mainland; compared to us, their calligraphy is the grandson generation..."

Old Song's words were a bit biased, but they couldn't be considered nonsense, because Japanese calligraphy has always been influenced by the Chinese mainland from ancient times to the present, and the teachers of many famous calligraphers were Chinese.

And now, I don't know if it's because the war led to the loss of inheritance, or because many people have no intention of studying "Calligraphy," anyway, according to Old Song, his characters are much stronger than many Japanese masters.

While Old Song was explaining to Li Ye, the female apprentice took the tea set and walked in, kneeling beside the two and starting to perform the tea ceremony.

And Old Song didn't avoid her, still pointing out and disparaging the Japanese calligraphy world in front of her.

And Li Ye found that the look the female apprentice gave Old Song was really worshipful; I don't know if she was infected by the so-called cultural art, or if she was brainwashed by this guy Old Song.

Li Ye tasted the clear tea made by the female apprentice and asked Old Song: "As far as I know, the antique market in Japan is generally in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. Why did you choose to settle in Yokohama?"

"I thought so too at the beginning, and I stayed in Kyoto for a period of time, and also met Junko."

Old Song smiled and pointed to the female apprentice, saying: "Junko's family in Kyoto is in the antique business, but later offended that group of people Gao Qiao, so finally came here."

"There are many people traveling to Yokohama, so don't worry about guests, and there are many Chinese people, so it's easy to find a few helpers. I've been here for more than half a year and can be considered to have stood firm."

"Find a few helpers? You are at this age, what do you want helpers for?"

Li Ye looked at Old Song, who was glowing with health, wondering if you wouldn't be "forming a society" here, right?

I heard that many underworlds in Japan came from the mainland.

Old Song smiled and waved at the female apprentice.

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

The female apprentice Junko smiled gently and backed out.

"Zhuangyuan-lang, a good man needs three helpers; I didn't have helpers back then, so I ended up in this situation. If back then..."

"Back then, even if you had helpers, you couldn't beat the army."

Li Ye interrupted directly: "Gangs will never be the opponent of the army; it's okay for you to do business in Japan, but it's not so fun to want to make trouble."

"No, it's fun, because this is the world of capital."

"In the world of capital, as long as you make the business big, then the power is unimaginably great."

Old Song pointed outside the tea room: "That Junko, she used to be a good family lady, and her family background was quite good, scholarly family and wealthy, but later went bankrupt under the oppression of capital, and then met me,"

"I helped her pay off the debt and took her as an apprentice, and she was loyal to me."

"And in Japan, there are many people like Junko. I want to find a few helpers, it's simply too easy, and I'm not going to rebel; I'm just doing business properly, who can do anything to me?"

"Doing business properly?"

Li Ye smiled indifferently: "I thought you chose to settle in Yokohama to deal with that Yokohama Nakamura Stock Company?"

Old Song looked at Li Ye and slowly calmed down, changing from a glib slippery guy into an old man who had experienced the vicissitudes of life.

"Life, always needs some exciting memories!"

Old Song smiled and said: "Thinking back then, when I just got a few good goods for the old thing Nakamura, I also enjoyed a Japanese tea ceremony once,"

"But the old thing Nakamura hung me up, wouldn't let me enter the port, saying that after I made a great contribution, he would directly give me a girl... Later, my hatred was... If I hadn't been blinded, how could I have broken a leg?"

Li Ye: "..."

【Your courage is really damn big! The good goods you gave people were all fakes, and you were still thinking about people giving you a Japanese girl? Deserved!】

"Tsk~"

Old Song sucked his teeth and smiled: "But the wind and water take turns; who would have thought that after decades, as long as there is money, everything is fine!"

"I just arrived here, and I only initially understood the background of that guy Nakamura. He is not the powerful Colonel he was back then; he is just a dog raised by the Gao Qiao family."

The corners of Old Song's mouth slowly curled up, once again transforming into the funny appearance of a person who laughs at the world.

"Zhuangyuan-lang, in this place, money is more useful than guns; beating a dog doesn't need a gun." ===== CHAPTER 537 =====