"I've been in China for four years." Umeko Suzuki said, "Listen to me and know where I live." ”

"It should be Beijing." Li Keding had already heard the slight childish voice of her speech, although it was a little stiff, but it was obvious.

"You guessed it, I'll reward you with a fillet." Umeko Suzuki smiled evilly and clipped him over.

Li Keding knew that he was joking and said: "This is a punishment, which is a reward?" If you want a reward, you might as well let me eat noodles. ”

"This is easy, when I go back later, I will invite you to my home as a guest and let you eat enough." Meizi said, "My home is in the bamboo garden north of the Temple of the Sun, you go, I ask you to read my handwriting." ”

"Zhuyuan, I know there." Li Keding had passed by the bamboo garden many times and knew that it was the mansion of a wealthy Japanese businessman, but he didn't expect it to be the plum family.

"What about Li Jun? Where to stay? Umeko asked.

Li Keding swallowed the noodles, took a sip of tea, and then said: "We are not far away, my home is in Fuyu Hutong." ”

"Buyeo Hutong, I know, it's very close to Akihito University." It seems that Umeko is familiar with Akihito University.

"I'm studying at Akihito's university right now." After Li Keding's introduction, he asked again: "I don't know what Mr. Meizi is doing in Beijing?" ”

"I went to middle school in Huiwen."

"Huiwen Middle School?" Li Keding muttered, "You are there, you must be a man of the hour." ”

Speaking of the people, Li Keding unconsciously flashed Liu Zhisi's figure in front of him, but after thinking about it, Meizi is a man, and if he looks like this, he may not be as popular as Liu Zhisi.

Thinking of Yanagi Zhisi, her face was filled with warmth, and Suzuki Meizi already saw the difference, and asked him, "Do you like people of the hour?" ”

"I like it." Li Keding blurted out, and immediately thought, what do I like, do I like thoughts? Thinking so crankily, I felt that it was inappropriate, and hurriedly said, "I don't know either." ”

Seeing that he was suddenly incoherent, Meizi looked at him and smiled: "You don't have to explain, I can understand." ”

Li Keding didn't know what he understood, and felt so embarrassed to be laughed at by him, so he just lowered his head and ate noodles.

After the meal, the two drank tea for a while, and Meizi looked at the pocket watch and said, "Let's go, let's go to the movies." ”

Li Keding followed him out of the Dragon King Temple and came along the road towards the British Concession, and it was only half an hour before Suzuki Meizi took Li Keding into a theater in the British Concession.

Seeing a poster posted at the door, the film was "A Study of Blood Letters", but there were still two hours before the release, so Meizi said: "We came too early, just so I took you to meet a friend." ”

Li Keding smiled and said, "You mean to do this." ”

"You save some face." Meizi smiled too.

As she spoke, Meizi took Li Keding to an office in the theater, the door was open, and the people inside were smoking cigars, and the smoke was filling.

Seeing Meizi, the man asked, "Sir, who are you looking for?" ”

Meizi said, "I'm looking for Mr. Owen." ”

"Oh, hello! I'm Owen. The man stood up, a lot taller than the plum, and Li Keding had to look up at the man's face.

"Hello! I'm Umeko, and my father is Suzuki Ariyama. Umeko introduced herself.

"It's an honor, Mr. Plum, that your father and I are old friends." Owen came over and gave Meizi a gentle hug.

Meizi introduced him to Li Keding again, and in the same way, Owen hugged him.

Owen invited the two of them to sit down, and Meizi and Li Keding sat opposite him, and the three of them were separated by a desk.

Li Keding looked at the desk, there were two ceramic ashtrays piled up on the right side, two ceramic ashtrays, a coffee pot and cups, and a large globe on the left side.

Owen poured them coffee and asked if they wanted to smoke a cigar.

Li Keding said: "Thank you, I won't." ”

Meizi took one, thanked him, skillfully lit it, and took a small sip.

"Mr. Meizi, you have come just in time, you see, I am writing a memoir, an extremely true, touching memoir." Owen said exaggeratedly.

Meizi asked, "Is it your legendary life?" I heard my father say that you are a hero. ”

"Oh haha, I'm a hero! Thanks for the evaluation of old friends. What I wrote was my life. Owen laughed and pushed the globe from the table to Meizi and Li Keding.

Li Keding saw that above the middle finger of his right hand, he was wearing a large ring, which was inlaid with a gemstone, pink, the size of a peanut. I can't help but think that this gentleman is really interesting, how he likes to wear such exaggerated things.

Owen seemed to see Li Keding's doubts, turned the ring with his left hand, and said: "This is what my father left me, I like it very much, I always wear it on my hand, and I never leave." ”

Meizi smiled and said, "This is left by the ancestors, and it should be carried with you every day." ”

Li Keding remembered a gem in Ke Jing's hand, which was the pigeon that flew to his house during the Spring Festival, and the one that was taken out by the doctor because of the treatment of injuries was exactly the same as the one on Owen's ring.

Owen was already introducing them: "Two young gentlemen, you see, this is great England, this is beautiful York, oh, that's my hometown, where I was born. ”

"Well, you were born in York, and I was there three years ago." Meizi smiled and said, "I like York. ”

"Really? It's just wonderful. Owen was very excited, and then regretful, "But, I'm really sorry, I didn't know you went to my hometown, otherwise I would have treated you well." ”

"It's okay, I'll go again in the future, I'll be sure to inform you in advance." Meizi said, "Now, tell us about your life." ”

"It's my pleasure to tell you about my deeds." "When I grew up, I went to school in Manchester and then to London, and I worked as a soldier and a businessman. The year before last, the war broke out, and I wanted to join the army, to go to the front, to fight the German soldiers. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to Germany on the globe.

However, they refused my request. When they saw that I could speak Chinese, oh, I had been speaking Chinese since I was a child, so they asked me to come to the East and ask me to tell the East what happened in the West to the Easterners, and I thought it was righteous propaganda, so I happily came to China and Tianjin. ”

"You are amazing, you have been pursuing justice, and victory will be yours." Meizi stretched out her thumb and praised him, saying, "You are a hero, because victory belongs to heroes." ”

"I like you to be able to speak, better than your father." Owen said, and poured some coffee for Meizi and Li Keding, "You guys drink, you're welcome, what I have here is, I'll make another pot in a while." ”

Li Keding felt that Owen was very enthusiastic and talked a lot, like a chatterbox.

Owen added: "The Germans, they took millions of lives. The war is so cruel, you don't know how terrible it is to *****, when it burns, it is a sea of fire, like, like the mountain of flames in Eastern mythology. ”

Li Keding can't imagine what a ***** is, but since it can be used on the battlefield, it must be very powerful, because the purpose of weapons on the battlefield is to kill people.

"Mr. Owen, the Flaming Mountain you mentioned is a Chinese mythology, which is recorded in Journey to the West." Meizi said.

"Oh, Journey to the West, Sun Monkey, that's right, it's Chinese mythology" Owen smiled heartily, looked at Li Keding and said, "This ancient country is too mysterious, they always hide themselves under the veil, don't look at others, and don't want others to see, Mr. Li, what do you think I said?" ”

"Mr. Owen, you're right." Li Keding has no choice but to admit this fact, and this may be the sorrow of the Chinese nation.

At this time, Li Keding loved the Chinese nation deeply and felt a kind of pity for himself.

"Therefore, I want to let Chinese understand Britain and the West through the film." Owen took a deep breath of his cigar, exhaled a string of smoke rings, watched them drift away, and said, "I'm going to do a documentary here, documentary, yes, I have to show more of these." ”

"Well, I used to watch British movies a lot when I was a kid." Meizi said with a happy face, "You British people are very imaginative. ”

"Yes. However, in the past two years, British films have been very sluggish, and American and French films have entered the UK in large numbers, and everyone likes to watch them. Owen put down his cigar and gestured with his two hands, "The world is so small, since there was a film in Britain, in just thirty years, American cinema has surpassed Britain, not only film production has surpassed Britain, but even the projector is now using Edison's invention." ”

"Well, it's the same in Japan, and it's the same with Edison's invention of the Vito-Pacific projector, but Japanese movies don't look good, and I still like British and American movies." Meizi said.

Li Keding knew nothing about this, and he was already deeply aware that the exchanges between Europe, the United States and Japan were so extensive, and the exchange of science and technology was so rapid. Compared with Meizi and Owen, he is too closed to Oriental or Westerners, he does not know the essential changes that have taken place in this world, and he thinks that he understands this world, but in fact, he is like most Chinese people, closed and ignorant.

"It's good that you like British and American movies, Mr. Plum, and you're open-minded." "It's no wonder that Japan has a strong ability to learn, and I see an open-mindedness from Mr. Umeko." ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Meizi nodded and said.

Owen made a martial arts move with both hands and asked, "I heard that Japanese people love to watch martial arts action movies, you know, I watched "Chessboard Tadashinobe", I like that actor, his name is..."

"His name is Matsunosukehara, and he is very handsome." Meizi didn't wait for Owen to finish speaking, and then interrupted him, "That was the film six or seven years ago, yes, it was shot in 1909." In contrast, though, I prefer to watch documentaries. ”

"Documentaries, I have a lot of documentaries here, and Mr. Meizi and Mr. Li are welcome to watch them in the future." Owen invited.

"Is there a documentary about the war?" Meizi asked.

"Of course there is, there must be such a film, I have a documentary of submarine warfare here." Owen said, pointing behind him, there were discs, "You look at these, there are all kinds of films, I want to show them in China, I want to show them outside the British Concession, yes, especially to the residential areas of the Chinese, only then can I make the Chinese understand the outside world." ”

Meizi smiled and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the Oriental Sleeping Lion will wake up?" Napoleon had said not to wake up the sleeping lion. ”