"I understand, auntie."

"If it hadn't been for You've begged me, I wouldn't have come to see you." Saying that, she sighed and asked me, "Chen Mo, what do you think of Youyou?" ”

I took a deep breath and said in the words I had prepared a long time ago, "Auntie, I should not be confused with the affairs of the association and the Hayakawa family. In order to consolidate my power, and to get your support, let me marry Youyou, I will not allow myself to do such a thing. ”

"Every decision you make now is a matter of life and death for your subordinates, and as a leader, you are very willful."

I nodded, "My cadres will come here to see me in two days, and I will tell them about my decision." If they feel that I have betrayed them by doing so, and that I must go to their in-laws to ensure their interests in order to maintain our brotherly relationship, then they have nothing to say whether they will withdraw, or if they will replace me. ”

Shoko Hayakawa showed an expression of approval, "You're very good, and I don't want you to marry Yuyou with such a mentality." But, Chen, this association has given us extremely favorable conditions. My husband is also a very moral person, not to mention that you also had kindness to our Hayakawa family before. But in the face of huge interests, morality seems ethereal. ”

Of course, I knew that if Hayakawa Oak broke his previous agreement with me and let him cooperate with the association, the association must have given him benefits that he couldn't refuse.

I tentatively asked, "What kind of bargaining chips does the association give?" You've decided to ......"

Shoko Hayakawa shook her head, "I don't know the specifics, and...... At the moment he is still hesitating. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, which is probably good news, right?

"Even if we fall to the side of the association in the end, we will not let the association attack you during the mirage, which is our last morality to you."

I sighed and nodded.

Then I sent her out the door, and before leaving, Shoko Hayakawa turned to me and said, "If you want to see Yuyu, you can go directly to Hayakawa's house, she will be very happy." ”

"Can I go and see Youyou?"

She smiled and said, "We were also afraid that she would lose her temper and run away with you without saying a word, so we temporarily locked her up at home." But if a guest comes to visit, they will definitely not be turned away. ”

Seeing off Mrs. Hayakawa, I suddenly fell into hesitation. Do you want to touch Hayakawa Oak and Nine Ghost Ryoma? At least let me know what conditions the association has for them.

Peony I asked, "Are you going?" What if it's a trap? ”

I nodded, "You must know I'm here, and you have to meet me anyway, otherwise she won't be able to talk about it in the first place." As for whether it's a trap or not, I'm already in a mirage, and they can do it at any time if they want to deal with me. ”

In order to confirm that Mrs. Hayakawa did not lie to me, I simply swaggered out onto the streets of Oita Castle in the evening. Peony and Lin lurked in the shadows and followed me. As for Chen Ke, I asked her to dress up a little and follow me. To outsiders, I was an unsuspecting tourist who was walking around the streets of Dabancheng with a young girl.

Daban City has the reputation of the capital of the extreme east and the thousand-year-old magic capital, and countless pedestrians passed by me, and the next moment they disappeared into the sea of people.

The nights here are some of the busiest in the eastern world, and I had a taste of the city on a midsummer night, but I didn't have the heart to revisit.

I walked into a pedestrian alley where a lounge with a simple exterior caught my eye. The sake here has been famous for a long time, and I have become more and more enthusiastic about tobacco and alcohol over the years, so I decided to go in and have a drink or two.

But as soon as I stepped up the stairs and opened the door, a woman in a kimono stumbled out, snorted down several steps in a row, and fell directly on the road outside. She wore very formal makeup so that I couldn't see her face clearly, I thought she should be very beautiful, she was twenty-six or seventeen years old, and she was probably a prostitute in the lounge.

Then a man in a suit and trench coat also walked out, followed by two men wearing leather clothes with studs, he pointed to the woman on the ground and said, "Do you still want to open the door for business?" If you don't pay back, you will smash your store! ”

The woman propped her hands on the ground, lowered her head and said in a resentful tone, "Boss, how can I pay you back if you don't let me do business?" ”

This woman's accent surprised me for a while, it was an authentic southern accent! Although most of the Chinese languages in the Eastern world are spoken, there are still many local sounds, and their mirage alone is divided into Kansai dialect and Kanto dialect, not to mention our Chinese country.

The man in the suit had a fierce look on his face, and I saw that he still had a black tattoo on his neck, and said viciously, "Why do you pay it back?" Go sell it! At this moment, he seemed to finally see me standing stupidly on the side, shook his hand at me and said, "It's closed, let's drink and go somewhere else!" ”

I looked at the woman on the ground with an inquiring look, "Are you closed?" ”

She seemed to be surprised by my reaction, and shook her head in a wooden manner, wouldn't ordinary people have fled far away by this time?

"Okay, you take care of your affairs first, I'll go inside and wait, and then come and serve me a drink when I'm done."

I ignored the gazes of those people and walked straight into the store with Chen Ke. The store is small and has only four tables, which can accommodate up to a dozen people. At this moment, the table was all knocked over, and there was a mess inside, and there was obviously an argument before.

I sat down in a clean corner with Chen Ke, and she asked me, "Are you interested in that woman?" My sister is right next to me. ”

"You grew up abroad, so you can't hear it, that woman is from southern Jiangsu, next door to our Sichuan and Shu provinces, and she is half a fellow countryman."

At this time, there were still voices of argument coming from the door. It was a long time before the woman from earlier came running towards us with small steps. Then she knelt down in front of me and said, "I'm sorry about this guest, can I make a request......

I nodded and motioned for her to continue.

"Could you please ...... Let's make an advance on the drink. Otherwise they don't go, I'...... Can't entertain you. Of course, I also know that this is a very excessive request, and you can refuse it. ”

I smiled and pulled out all the bills from my wallet and placed them on the table. She took only three of them, bowed down to me in a gesture of thanks, and then took out a few loose change from the drawer behind the cash register and went out together to hand them to the three men from earlier.

After sending them away, she brought me two jugs of sake, one sashimi, one sushi, and one fruit bowl. When she was done, she thanked me again and went to clean up the mess under the other tables.

I took a sip of sake, and it had a very different taste, and it was mixed with the smell of mint.

"Where's Sunan?" I asked suddenly, turning to her back as she was cleaning.

The woman turned to look at me in surprise, showed a 'so it was' expression, and said with a smile, "Xunnan's." ”

"Oh? It's a great place, and I've been there quite a few times. ”

So we chatted, and finally she simply sat next to me and drank with me, and seeing that Chen Ke didn't drink, she made her a cup of tea.

I learned that her name is Li Xihe, and she followed her father to open a shop here when she was 16 years old, and she has been here for 10 years. She and her father took care of the shop, and when she heard that the debt collector was coming today, her father went out early in the morning to hide the debt.

"He's not afraid that you'll be left alone here? What do you owe? ”

"Gambling debts." Li Xihe sighed and said, "Originally, he adopted me so that he could do things for him. ”

Li Xihe is the kind of woman who knows a lot of stories at a glance, and getting along with such a woman is like drinking a pot of old wine, and everyone is drunk if the wine is not drunk.

The aura she exudes seems to tempt you to find out, and when you don't take the initiative to speak, she suddenly becomes very well-behaved and quiet, and if you have to use one word to describe it, it is 'harmless'. Being too shrewd is something that not many people dare to provoke women, and women who are not shrewd at all often do things for nothing in the name of love. Li Xihe is a woman who is between shrewdness and unshrewdness.