Mr. Dong's hometown is in mainland China. When talking about those days, he couldn't help but sigh: "Back then, the country changed drastically and the people suffered. Even now, many of the scenes I saw on the mainland back then still feel like a thorn in my throat."
When this was mentioned, Liang Lisheng and Nie Rong both nodded and, unusually, expressed their approval of the mainland: "Having experienced such a great disaster, the mainland is doing quite well now. It is said that everyone can now have enough to eat."
Separated by only a strip of water, sharing a deep bond of kinship, they are genuinely grateful that mainlanders can have enough to eat.
But Nie Yao actually said, "Although the mainland has faced difficulties, it has also received support from all sides. What hardship is there?"
People like Nie Rong and Liang Lisheng have always done business with the West and don't pay much attention to the mainland. Their sense of kinship is also very shallow. But Dong Ye is different. Most of his underlings are from the mainland. Moreover, when Nie Yao talked about such a heavy history, he spoke with a sarcastic tone, which made Dong Ye unable to bear it.
It was only because he was facing Nie Rong that his tone was slightly better, but his words were still very harsh.
He said, "I've often heard people say that Mr. Nie was a great father, and all his sons turned out well, but this child..."
Suddenly raising his eyebrows, he said, "You've been going out too much since you became an adult, haven't you gone astray?"
Nie Rong always favored his second son and never criticized him himself, so he was naturally unhappy when others criticized him.
However, Nie Yao was indeed wrong, so he gently reprimanded his son: "Ayao, Mr. Dong is having a serious conversation with you. You are not allowed to make such inappropriate jokes."
Nie Yao had already given up and stopped pretending, even confronting his father: "What I said is the truth."
Master Dong could tell that Nie Rong had raised a traitor.
His greatest hatred in life was for traitors. His eyebrows twitched wildly, and his smile was ferocious: "Then tell me, Second Young Master, who helped us back then?"
Believe it or not, the book Nie Yao was holding contained evidence, specifically a photograph.
In that photo, a man dressed in what appears to be a Kwantung Army uniform is carrying an elderly Chinese woman on his back.
Nie Yao pointed to the photo and said, "Do you see that? In 1937, the Northeast was hit by outbreaks of plague, cholera and anthrax. These international humanitarian soldiers went to help those poor people who had been abandoned by the government."
As the saying goes, you state your reasoning, and I state mine.
This book, "The Story of Bacteria," contains detailed records of various epidemics that broke out in Northeast China, and the photos are all from that era. But there's an old saying that the truth cannot be hidden, and the falsehood cannot be made true. After all, Dong Ye hadn't experienced it firsthand. He carefully examined the photos and was still thinking about how to refute them. Chen Rou knew that these kinds of things were all staged, and she still tried to reason with them. Just then, Song Yuanchao, who finally couldn't hold back any longer, was about to use his experience to slap Nie Yao in the face.
He said first, "Second Master, although it's a black and white photo, the old woman's eyes are closed, and her face looks like she's dead. So I'm confident in my deduction that this old woman is a dead person and the photo was staged."
Nie Yao found it ridiculous: "It's just a black and white photo, and it's not very big. The old woman wasn't breathing. How can you be sure she's dead? That's irresponsible and absurd reasoning."
Song Yuanchao wanted to hear that, so he knelt down in front of Nie Yao and pointed to the photo again, saying, "I'm sure she's dead."
Nie Yao found it even more ridiculous: "You want to force me to do this for such a small thing?"
Then look at Nie Rong: "Very good, in order to justify everything A-Zhao has done, you've all resorted to calling a deer a horse."
Nie Rong also felt that Song Yuanchao was too talkative and too arbitrary.
He ordered, "Song Zai, get out of the way!"
Song Yuanchao only had one superior, Chen Rou, and if she didn't stop him, he would continue talking.
He said, "Sir, I'm sure this old woman is dead!"
Nie Rong was furious and looked at Chen Rou: "A Rou, your bodyguard talks too much."
Chen Rou didn't notice anything unusual in the photo, but she instinctively trusted her comrade and sensed that Song Yuanchao wanted Nie Yao to take the matter seriously and teach him a lesson. So she asked Nie Yao, "What if Song can convince you?"
Nie Yao scoffed: "He can't convince me."
Although Chen Rou also wanted to slap him a few times, she patiently continued, "If he can prove that the old lady was already dead at the time, Mr. Nie Yao, you should know that you are now arbitrarily hurting the feelings of a huge nation."
As she spoke, she stood in front of him, hands behind her back, legs crossed, and head turned to the side.
The first time Nie Yao saw her, she used her Snow Maple Blade to slash his uncle several times, turning him into a human stump.
Despite his desire to die and his seemingly reckless abandon, he didn't want to die as a human stump.
So when the woman possessed by a ghost suddenly becomes serious, he will also be afraid.
Taking a deep breath, he said, "I'm willing to apologize."
Song Yuanchao couldn't contain himself any longer. He turned to the side, adjusted his posture, and pointed to the photo again. He said, "The old lady in the photo has unusually small feet. I think you all know why. She had her feet bound, right?"
Nie Yao didn't understand what bound feet were, but Nie Rong and Liang Lisheng did, and they both nodded at the same time.
Song Yuanchao looked at Nie Yao for a moment, then said, "My grandmother also bound her feet, and she still does now, so I know that bound feet are pointed at the front and rounded at the back, and women like to draw circular patterns on their heels..."
While everyone was thinking, he grabbed a book and slapped it open: "See that? The old lady's heels are in front and her toes are behind. That means both of her legs are broken, most likely broken by force!"
The question then becomes: "How can a woman in her seventies or eighties survive if she loses both legs, and how long can she live?"
Liang Lisheng grabbed the book, looked at it carefully, and nodded emphatically.
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