Chapter 16: The Story of the Underworld
Unexpectedly, this kid was still stunned, the "cadres" of the family were all surprised, and the bloodthirsty and ruthless swordsman Chu Zihang, the violent foreign mercenary Caesar, subconsciously looked at Sakura, wondering how she would solve this situation.
"Hey, almost, right?" Lu Mingfei said in Chinese, "I see this kid is quite stunned, this is really important."
But Sakura didn't react at all, just stared coldly at Noda Shou's every move, cutting fingers is a kind of ritual in the underworld, of course, you can't say cut it, before cutting it, Noda Shou still has a few things to do before he can comply with the rules.
"Me! Noda Kotobuki! I voluntarily apologized to my family, no one coerced me in any form, I knew that I had violated my family's family rules, and I willingly accepted the punishment!" Noda Shou held his head high and said loudly.
"Even if you cut your fingers, the traces of your mistakes will still remain, and in the eyes of my family, you are still a person who made mistakes," Sakura said solemnly, "Have you figured it out?"
"Figured it out! It's nothing for a man to make mistakes in the world! The key is to be responsible! I can still hold a bat with one of my tail fingers cut off, and a man who can hold a bat will be able to stand up straight on the streets of Kabukicho!" Noda Shou looked resolute and said seriously.
"Standing up straight on the streets of Kabukicho? It's hard to say whether people who have made mistakes are qualified to be the third generation of the Noda group."
The corners of Noda Shou's eyes twitched slightly: "Don't dare to face the wrong man, and you don't deserve to be the third generation of the Noda group!"
"You just said that Miss Zhen is not exaggerating, you did threaten her to increase the protection fee, right?"
"It's all my fault! Every word comes out of my mouth, and every word that comes out of a man's mouth is ironclad and cannot be swallowed back when he says it!"
"Oh, so this is the so-called Extreme Culture?" Lu Mingfei lowered his voice to express his exclamation, "It looks like a strong man in the style of Hong Kong comics."
"Strong logic?" Caesar sensitively sensed the keyword, and lowered his voice to express doubt.
"It's roughly equivalent to things like "Weakness is the original sin", "Even if I die, my soul will still support me on the battlefield", and "A man's friendship is stronger than King Kong." Lu Mingfei explained.
"That last sentence sounds like a lot of feeling, I agree." Caesar said.
"Then now officially announce the punishment of your family, and you must answer all the next questions truthfully." Sakura said.
"Yes!"
"You're Noda Shou from the Noda Group, aren't you?"
"Yes! Noda Kotobuki, Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, follows Kozo, the leader of the group!" Noda Shou looked up and replied.
"Eighteen, right?"
"Yes!" Noda Shou clenched the hilt of the knife, and hot blood rushed in his chest.
"You have a crush on Miss Zhen?"
"Ahem...... Ahem!" Lu Mingfei almost erupted, his eyes turned between Noda Shou and Aso, revealing an expression of sudden realization.
Noda Shou's face quickly turned red, and the expression on his face was like a small animal that had been stepped on by its tail, and he was frightened and fierce.
"No, no, no...... It's not!" He stammered.
"As a candidate for the third generation of the Noda group, you read manga at night in the toy store where the little girl works, and you have been reading Miss Zhen for more than 20 hours in a week. Are you really that idle? Not only that, but every time you come, you pay for your own coffee, change into neat clothes, and you even have your hair done." Sakura picked up the aluminum baseball bat and threw it in front of Noda Shou, "You also engraved the name of Miss Shin on the bat."
Lu Mingfei picked up the bat, looked at it carefully, and nodded: "It's carved very carefully."
"Ahh Seeing the words engraved on the handle of the bat, Aso covered his face helplessly.
"We men ......" Noda Shou still wanted to struggle.
"Middle school students shut up!" Sakura unceremoniously slashed the knife in the center of Noda Shou's head. "Go and apologize to Miss Zhen for working in this shop for three months. If there is no protection fee for the toy store in the family's rules, this fee is exempted. You have to obey the rules of the shop while you're helping."
Sakura withdrew her dagger
"That's the punishment, go ahead."
Lu Mingfei turned back to Yuan Zhisheng and asked, "Is this your Japanese underworld love?"
"Japanese comic-style love, when you see a girl, you try your best to entangle and make her notice herself." Yuan Zhisheng said, "There are many young people in the underworld who have little knowledge and a relatively low level of education, and their methods of chasing girls are learned from comics."
Lu Ming glanced thoughtfully at the counter, Noda Shou was apologizing to Zhen, his words were sincere mixed with the habitual strong language, which sounded like a confession was better than an apology. Really at a loss, I can only respond vaguely, saying that my father has been a friend in the country, and I still need to ask my father's opinion first, and my grandmother is also very old, and she will probably be a little afraid of the gangsters, and I ask Noda Shou not to bother to visit.
Lu Mingfei turned his head to look at the toy store again, frowned, and walked to the counter.
Both Noda Shou and Aso were quiet, not knowing what this cadre of the family wanted to do.
"Your name is ...... Aso? Right?" Lu Mingfei asked in half-baked Japanese, "I have a few questions for you."
Sakura rushed over and explained to the timid man, "Don't be afraid, just answer the questions with peace of mind, our family has its own rules, and we won't interfere with ordinary people casually."
"Yes...... Yes." It's really a promise.
"How old are you?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"18 ...... this year"
"Just graduated from high school?"
"Yes......"
"You value this job?"
"Yes...... Yes, I just joined the company......
Lu Mingfei nodded, and continued to ask with a pleasant face, "How many people are in your family?" Are your parents divorced?"
"Yes...... My father is abroad, and my grandmother is the only one at home." Answer truthfully.
"Life is hard, isn't it?"
"It's okay, it'll be much better when the job stabilizes." It's really relaxing a bit.
"Have you ever been in a relationship?"
"No...... Nope." I was nervous again.
"Do you have any plans to go to college?" Lu Mingfei asked again.
"Yes!" Aso Zhen raised her head, and when she talked about this topic, her eyes immediately flashed, "I want to work for a year first, save enough money to go to college, and then go to school, and after college, I can barely maintain my work-study program."
"Is that so? That's a great idea." Lu Mingfei smiled slightly, then turned his head to look at Noda Shou, his expression became serious, "You heard it too, right? Now you know how much trouble you've caused others, right? As a man, you can like a girl, but you must not become an obstacle to others!"
Noda Shou lowered his head in some shame, but still said, "I...... I'm not going to give up!"
Lu Mingfei gave him a burst of chestnut: "Who told you to give up! Do you just want to run away if you make someone so annoying?"
"I'll take responsibility!" Noda Shou said loudly.
Lu Mingfei gave him another burst: "What responsibility do you want to bear!" If you really like people, you have to work hard to make yourself worthy of them!"
"What are you going to do then......" Noda Shou covered his head and said aggrievedly.
Lu Mingfei turned to Sakura and asked, "Do you have that kind of underworld, a college class or something?"
"Yes." Sakura replied.
"Really?" Lu Mingfei was a little surprised.
"In some mid-level and high-level affairs of the underworld, there is a need for a group of people with higher education and quality, so my family and several gangs in the top ranks have organized this kind of similar refresher class, and after training, they will be sent to universities for further study, so that young people can arm their minds with knowledge." Sakura said.
"Can those young people who are mixed with the underworld really be able to sit still and study?" Lu Mingfei was a little puzzled.
"We are the underworld, and the underworld naturally has the means of the underworld to make them study voluntarily." Sakura said lightly.
Lu Mingfei didn't have any doubts, he looked at Noda Shou, and his eyes became cold: "Noda Shou, right? Since you keep talking
What kind of man is it, let me see your determination as a man!"
Obviously, Noda Shou was very fond of this, and when he heard this, he felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood: "Yes!"
"Since you're a man, there's nothing you can't do, so—" Half of Lu Mingfei's face was hidden in the shadows of the light, looking gloomy and compassionate, "Do you dare to accept a challenge?"
"As a man, the word 'don't dare' will never come out of my mouth!" Noda Shou is high-spirited and authentic.
"Good! Very energetic!" Lu Mingfei applauded, "Since that's the case, there's no problem with going to college, right?"
"No...... Before last...... Go to college?" Noda Shougang agreed without thinking, but when he realized what this official of the family was talking about, he was surprised that his tone changed.
Lu Mingfei said to Sakura: "I think this kid is very enthusiastic, and he is also stunned, he may not be able to learn if he really works hard, I want to fight for a place in the advanced class for him, how about it?"
"It's not a big deal, but it's hard to learn in the refresher course, after all, it's difficult to make up for their knowledge in a short period of time, so you have to get the consent of the person concerned and sign a no-liability contract." Sakura replied.
"You're a professional in this area, go talk to him, if he doesn't agree, then forget it." Lu Mingfei said.
Sakura then pulled Noda Shou's back collar and took him aside to talk about something.
Lu Mingfei looked at Aso Zhen, and saw that her eyes were looking at Noda Shou with a hint of worry, so he explained: "Don't worry, their conversation over there is a good thing for that kid, and no matter how many people ask for it, they can't ask for it."
"That kid is not bad by nature, but he lacks some education, but I'm afraid that your affairs are not so simple to understand." Lu Mingfei said, "Take your job as an example, you called and alarmed the family, even if the family does not pursue it, this matter has been settled, will your shopkeeper not mind at all if he knows about this matter?"
Aso's face suddenly turned pale, she finally understood, and alarmed the yakuza family to deal with this matter, no matter what the result is, this toy store probably has no reason to keep her, since this matter was exposed, she has already lost this job.
Chu Zihang and Caesar walked over, and when they saw that Aso really looked like he was about to cry, Caesar frowned and said, "Why are you scaring other little girls?"
"It's a lesson, persuade a serious little girl not to get too involved in the underworld," Lu Mingfei said, "Such a little girl should have a better future."
"Things in the underworld are indeed complicated, and it's better for ordinary people not to get involved." Yuan Zhisheng walked over, looked at Lu Mingfei and said, "You want Noda Shou to go to a university advanced class, so that he won't pester Miss Zhen in the future, right? If it goes well, Miss Zhen will go to college in the future, and she is not a person with an underworld gangster like Noda Shou after all."
"Just give them a chance to get better." Lu Mingfei said lightly, "If Noda Shou really likes other people's little girls so much, then after going to college, he can be regarded as a good person, and he is not exactly a person from two worlds, if he doesn't like it so much, he will not lose the opportunity to go to college, and he will be more confident to chase the girl he likes in the future, right?"
"People still have to be good, and only when they are good can they be good, and only then can they live a good life."
Lu Mingfei knocked on the counter, pointed at Yuan Zhisheng and said to Aso Zhen: "This is our young master, the young master is kind-hearted, and promised to say hello to your shopkeeper, so that the shopkeeper will not dismiss you, why don't you thank the young master?"
Aso's tears flowed out as soon as he brushed the ground, bowed and thanked Yuan Zhisheng again and again, Yuan Zhisheng glanced at Lu Mingfei, so he had to help Aso Zhen and encourage a few words: "This matter is also responsible for the family's work mistakes, you are a good boy, you have to work hard in the future."
After comforting Aso Shin here, Sakura also came back with Noda Shou over there, and I don't know what Sakura said to Noda Shou, this kid looked at Aso Shin a little crampedly, and said, "Miss Zhen, I'm ...... I also have plans to go to college, and I'll try to keep up with you! Please advise me in the future!"
After speaking, Noda Shou bowed deeply to Aso: "I've been giving you trouble these days! I'm so sorry!"
Shinya Aso
Embarrassed, he bowed to Noda Shou, "I'm sorry that something is wrong with me!"
The young people over there bowed to each other, and Gen Zhisheng said to the trio, "Sorry for the arrangement, there are some good nightclubs nearby, do you want to go and sit?"
Lu Mingfei glanced back at the rows of comics on the bookshelf, a little reluctant, when he was still in Shilan Middle School, the conditions were limited, and the comics he read were all pirated, and now the bookshelves here are full of genuine comics, neatly stacked, even if he doesn't understand it, just touching it has a feeling of realizing his dream, he actually wants to stay in this store for a while, but the nominal leader of the group is Caesar after all, he has done enough things today, and the itinerary and the like still have to wait for Caesar's opinion.
"It's better to sit here first when it's raining so heavily," Chu Zihang said suddenly, "I'll talk about it when the rain is lighter."
Lu Mingfei was stunned, this kind of lame reason can only be said by Chu Zihang seriously, they are driving a Ferrari, no matter how heavy the rain is, as long as it does not affect the driving, it doesn't matter when you leave.
But with Chu Zihang's serious tone and expression, people can't help but really start thinking about whether it is really inappropriate to go out now, and it seems to make sense if you think about it carefully?
So everyone turned their attention to Caesar.