Chapter 383 Scholar Meets Soldier
"What are you talking about, Mr. Zhuangyuan? I am an honest man, how could I cheat anyone?"
When Old Song heard Li Ye's threat to "hammer him to death", his expression suddenly changed. His old face, which used to smile like a chrysanthemum, suddenly twisted, revealing his extreme grievance.
"Don't keep saying 'No. 1 Scholar' all the time. I'm the best in the province, but I can only be considered a junior scholar. You keep saying nice things to me. Do you really think I've been drugged by you and I don't know who I am?"
Li Ye changed his usual easy-going demeanor and said to Lao Song with contempt: "How can you, the owner of a pawnshop in the old society, be an honest person? Don't you know what your past is?"
"You can't say that, Mr. Champion,"
Old Song's face straightened and suddenly became full of righteousness.
"I, Old Song, was indeed guilty before, but after being reeducated in the new society, I have long since become a pioneer under the red flag.
If you don’t believe me, look at my name, Song Hongxin. My name is Song Hongxin, a red heart is like the sun.”
"Fuck you!"
Li Ye kicked Lao Song's good leg, revealing a bit of his violent nature.
"Old Song, you don't know how powerful I am, right? Go ask Master Duo. At that time, we were at Xiushui Street. I fought from one end of the alley to the other. Did I show any mercy to anyone?"
If you dare to say nonsense to me again today, believe it or not, I will break your other leg as well.
Old Song staggered after being kicked by Li Ye. He jumped twice before regaining his balance. Then his mouth pursed as if he was about to cry.
"Why are you being unreasonable, Mr. Top Scholar? Since I joined your army, I have been working very hard and I don't think I have done anything wrong to you.
Besides, you have seen what I have collected in the past two years. There are dozens of treasures that are worth keeping. I, Old Song, have not made any contributions but have worked hard."
“.”
Li Ye looked at Old Song, who was as unafraid of boiling water as a dead pig, and really admired the old man's acting skills.
Life is like a play, it all depends on acting. A second-rate person who has experienced the ups and downs of the old society is at two extremes from a soldier like Li Zhongfa, but neither of them is a simple person.
I still suffered from my age. I had just passed the age of twenty, and these old guys always mistakenly believed that I could get away with it with my decades of cunning experience.
Of course Li Ye would not be fooled, but he also did not want to play tricks with Lao Song. After all, the old man was a trickster, and if he went around in circles, he might be led astray.
So, Li Ye was prepared to be unreasonable.
"You're not planning on fooling anyone, are you?"
Li Ye smiled coldly and said, "Then I will go talk to Mr. Ai now and tell him the details of your old Song. If you are really a sincere person, then it shouldn't be a big deal, right?"
"No, no, no, don't go yet~"
Old Song quickly grabbed Li Ye and cursed the heavens and the earth, "Top Scholar, just tell me what I am suspicious of. I will explain it to you and clear this heinous injustice.
I swear, if I dare to tell a lie, I will be struck by lightning."
"I won't play guessing games with you."
Li Ye interrupted Lao Song and said, "I can't guess who you are trying to trick, but I know there is something fishy going on. Tell me the truth, or I promise to ruin your plans.
I have someone watching you every day, and I will tell everyone everything about you no matter who you deal with."
“.”
Old Song, who was very good at slipping, was finally stunned.
Just now when Li Ye said he was going to beat him up, he was not afraid at all and looked calm, even baring his teeth and making jokes.
But now hearing that Li Ye was determined to ruin his plans, he finally lost his composure.
Why is there an idiom that goes "not enough to accomplish anything, but more likely to cause failure"?
Because success is too difficult and failure is too easy.
Even if you spend ten points of your effort to achieve success, you may still be one step away from success, but if you make a small mistake with just one point of effort, all the previous ten points of effort will be wasted.
Therefore, as long as Li Ye keeps a close eye on Lao Song and makes him do bad things, all of Lao Song's schemes and plots will end in failure.
To put it bluntly, even though Old Song has been doing very well in Beijing in the past two years, if Li Ye tries to do anything bad, he will have to go back to his hometown obediently, and giving him three oceans for travel expenses is out of pity for him.
"This is a long story. Let's find a place and I'll tell it to the champion in detail."
"sure,"
Li Ye said with a fake smile: "But I have to tell you in advance, after asking you, I will ask Duoxing, and then ask Wei Jiaxian,
Then I will combine what you three said and think about it. If I find anything wrong, you know the consequences."
“.”
"How can you be so cruel, Mr. Champion?"
Old Song's tears seemed to be about to fall.
But he immediately wiped his eyes with his sleeve and said sincerely: "The number one scholar is a man of extraordinary talent and can see through everything. From now on, I, Old Song, will not dare to do anything."
Old Song's words were very certain, but Li Ye, who was extremely observant, caught a hint of panic in Old Song's eyes.
He immediately became furious: "Old Song, are you really going to continue to deceive me?"
Lao Song quickly denied it: "No, no, absolutely not. I promise not to tell even a single lie."
"Don't say anything yet. Just listen to my instructions. Kneel down, hold your head, and protect your face."
"ah?"
Old Song was stunned for a moment, then he reflexively quickly moved to the corner, hugged his head and curled up into a small ball. His movements did not seem to be able to be described as "skilled", but at least at the "proficient" level.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang~"
Li Ye used his hands and feet to attack Old Song, who was in a defensive state, and hit him until his skin and flesh cracked.
"You are not allowed to admit it. I am kindhearted. Do you think I am easy to fool? Do you think you will suffer physical pain if I ask you to answer any question you ask?"
"Today is just a small lesson for you to remember how you got the chance to turn things around."
Li Ye beat him for half a minute. Although he controlled the strength so as not to kill Lao Song, he felt relaxed and refreshed after the beating.
"Wipe the blood from your nose, and we'll find a place to talk in five minutes."
"Hey, Mr. Champion, don't get tired."
Old Song stretched his body, moved his hands and feet, made sure his bones were not broken, and couldn't help but sigh.
There is nothing more frustrating than a scholar meeting a soldier. Even if you have a lot of wisdom and strategies, they just want to compete with you to see who has the bigger fist. What can you do?
Of course, fortunately, Li Ye really has the trait of being "kind-hearted". He obviously held back just now, otherwise, who knows how many bones would have been broken.
After the battle in the back alley of Xiushui Street, after the boasting of Jin Peng, Duo Ye and others, Li Ye's reputation of fighting thirteen people alone had already spread throughout the Qingshui Gang circle. More than a dozen people all suffered fractures and serious injuries. Li Ye's real fighting strength was really not fake.
Li Ye returned to the training class and first asked Jiang Xiaoyan to help find a phone call to call his sister Li Yue to come and send Wen Leyu and Fu Yiru back.
And Lao Song is also arranging multiple stars.
He called Duoxing out and took her aside, saying with a sullen face, "Duoxing, you don't have to come tomorrow."
Duo Xing was stunned for a moment, and asked curiously, "What's wrong, Master Song? I gave Ai so many gifts, and I was about to get his true ability out. If I withdraw now, I will be at a loss."
Old Song said, "I'll use Ai's skills to teach you. I'll find a student who works and studies to teach you English. It's one-on-one teaching. I guarantee you'll learn it. You should learn it as soon as possible and then go out and explore other places."
Duo Xing rolled his eyes and said with a chuckle, "Master Song, can you hire a female student?"
Old Song flexed his teeth, as if he was about to bite someone, and said, "How about I hire two maids to serve you well?"
"Don't worry, I was wrong, Master Song, please be magnanimous and forgive me!"
Duoxing's face changed. It was obvious that the skinny Old Song in front of him made him feel very afraid.
After Duoxing left, Old Song looked at his back and kept smacking his teeth.
"You're so insidious at such a young age? You actually put a needle next to me. If I'm not careful, it will prick me and cause me to leak air."
. . . . . . . .
At eight o'clock in the evening at the end of July, when it was just getting dark, Old Song took Li Ye back to his home in Zhongguancun.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Wei Jiaxian sitting in the shade, holding a Walkman and learning English. Looking at his eyebrows that were about to be squeezed together, I knew how hard he was studying.
When Wei Jiaxian saw the two people entering the yard, he quickly stood up to greet them, but Old Song said, "Xiaoxian, watch outside and don't let anyone in."
Wei Jiaxian didn't understand, but seeing Lao Song's serious look, he closed the door for them and sat outside to guard.
Old Song cut a watermelon for Li Ye and put it on a plate, then took out a bottle of liquor and poured a cup for Li Ye and himself, and then started talking.
"Zhuangyuan, you should know that when I was young, I worked as the shopkeeper of the largest pawnshop in Dongshan provincial capital.
There were no good people in the pawnshop, and everyone was scheming against each other. I was young and hot-tempered at the time, and I was brave and aggressive. Thanks to the boss’s respect, I was able to get the highest monthly salary at a young age, 18 yuan a month. "
"Eighteen dollars was not a small amount at that time. If you said you went to the prostitutes every day to drink wine, you would be bragging. But you could never spend all the money on eating and drinking. You could never spend all the money. You could never spend all the money.
When Old Song said this, he picked up the wine cup and drank the liquor in one gulp, then he let out an "ah" and his eyes became complicated.
"Just after a year or two of my good days in the provincial capital, the Japanese soldiers changed their guard and a colonel named Nakamura came to the provincial capital.
That guy's smile doesn't look like a soldier. He particularly likes to plunder our cultural relics and present them to the dignitaries in his country."
"Because I was too outspoken, I was noticed by someone. Colonel Nakamura targeted me and forced me to help him collect antiques."
"I, Old Song, am not a good person, but I have read books of sages since I was a child. I am afraid of death when I carry a gun and go to war, but how can I do such a thing as betraying my ancestors? I'll fuck my mother's legs!"
Old Song poured himself another glass of wine and drank it in one gulp. He saw that his timid body suddenly showed a trace of righteousness.
"I originally wanted to leave the provincial capital and get away, but later I found that Nakamura was a jealous person! He couldn't tell the difference between the real and the fake.
How could I miss such a good opportunity? I immediately collected a lot of treasures for him and made a lot of money from him. He was so busy that he spent money like water every day. His pockets were full."
Li Ye finally understood what was going on when he first met Lao Song and he boasted about having seen foreign money and cheated foreigners.
It turns out that they were counterfeiting and selling fake goods, and harming the Japanese colonel!
I really have to admire his courage.
"But if this person is too arrogant, even God won't be able to bear it."
Old Song smacked his lips and sighed, "Colonel Nakamura later invited a capable man from Manchuria to Dongshan, who saw through me right away."
Li Ye asked curiously, "When Old Song first started to trick the colonel, didn't he consider being discovered?"
Old Song shook his head and said, "I was still young at that time! I thought that my fakes were so real that ordinary people couldn't tell the difference.
Those who can see this are people with a tradition and rules, so why would they help the Japanese soldiers to expose a "great hero" like me? They are still counting on me to stand in front and protect them from disasters!"
"And I also inquired at the time. It was very troublesome to pack and box the goods from Dongshan and send them to their country by car or ship.
Even if someone in their country figured it out, it would take more than half a year to figure it out, and by that time I would have already left for good."
"But who would have thought that the capable man that Colonel Nakamura invited from Manchuria was actually a prince, and he was not of the same mind as us!"
Old Song drank another cup of liquor and said with a wry smile, "Then I was arrested, broke a leg, and lost half my life."
"But guess how I got out?"
Li Ye shook his head, indicating that he couldn't guess.
Old Song smiled and said, "It was the owner of the pawnshop who paid the money, and the ladies in the building sacrificed their bodies, and together they pulled me out. I, Old Song, never thought that a cripple like me would be so valuable. Hehehehehahahahahahaha."
Old Song's smile was very strange, as if he was very happy, but also very bitter, but two lines of old tears fell down his dry face.
(End of this chapter)
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