Chapter XXXVII

After seven days of wandering around Italy and giving a lot of help to the fashion industry in Milan and other cities, Yi Chen returned to London with a satisfied Fili. Of course, before returning to London, Yi Chen still visited the frightened David again, and sternly warned him: "Mr. David, I will arrange some interesting plans for you, but if your wife leaks some words, I will make you regret why you were born in this life." ”

David nodded again and again in agreement, and Yi Chen went home.

Long before going to Rome, Yi Chen ordered him to find a tutor, and Phil, who was in charge of this matter, followed Yi Chen to Rome, and casually handed over this seemingly unimportant matter to his subordinates to do. To be honest, Phil's subordinates were still very efficient, and when Yi Chen returned to his living room, a young man was already waiting for him inside.

Yi Chen casually took off his coat, threw it on the sofa, poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all, and then said to the young man, "Excuse me, what do you want to drink?"

This fair-skinned, weary, thin-brimmed young man shook his head at Yi Chen and said, "Thank you, I don't drink." His long, somewhat messy hair shook slightly.

Yi Chen looked at him for a long time, carefully looked at his jeans that were a little worn, the jacket with a little slit on the sleeves, and the leather shoes that looked like they hadn't been wiped for a few days, slowly sat down on the sofa, and said to him, "Please sit, please ask your surname?...... Forget it, you don't understand my accent, so let's use English. ”

The young man laughed and said a little restrainedly: "Don't give your surname Li, Li Ke." After speaking, he sat opposite Yi Chen.

Yi Chen clapped his hands: "Phil, send some drinks to Mr. Li Ke, he doesn't drink, so coffee, tea or other juice or something, hurry up." ”

Li Ke hurriedly said: "You're welcome, you're welcome...... Mr. Yi, you are looking for a history student, but I am majoring in mathematics, so I may not be of limited help to you. ”

Yi Chen looked at him deeply, took out his jade pendant, put it on his little finger and circled it a few times, motioned to Phil to pour a glass of juice for Li Ke, sat up and asked him: "Well, let's not talk about anything else, why did you come to England to study mathematics?" I'm curious...... Isn't it possible for you to get a good education in China?...... Frankly, looking at you, your financial conditions are not very good, why do you have to come to the UK?"

Li Ke took a look at Yi Chen, and found that Yi Chen was asking him very seriously, and he didn't mean to make fun of him, so he couldn't help but say in a very serious tone: "Then, I'll tell you the truth, you may not know the current situation in the domestic education sector...... Well, I don't have any background, and I won't have a relationship with my mentor, plus other factors, it's better to go abroad to try my luck, at least foreign professors treat everyone equally, as long as you work hard, there will always be a day. ”

Yi Chen licked his lips, gently stroked his chin, and suddenly asked Li Ke such a question: "There are many young people in China now...... Well, what I can see from the Internet, they have a tendency right now, called Ha Yu and Ha Han, can you tell me what that means?"

Li Ke looked at Yi Chen and said a little coldly: "I won't sell my ancestors...... I also don't think that anything is foreign good. Maybe there are some young people in China who blindly worship foreign countries, but I'm not that kind of ...... Bastard. ”

Yi Chen smiled, leaned back easily, and said, "So, could you please evaluate yourself?"

Li Ke frowned, stood up and said, "Mr. Yi, I came to be a tutor, I don't think you have the qualifications or the right to question me like this...... As you just said, my financial situation is not very good, and I still have to make ends meet by washing dishes every day, but you can't interrogate me like a prisoner...... I'm sorry, I'm leaving. ”

Li Ke strode towards the door, Phil and Gore frowned, quickly stopped at the door, and said coldly: "I'm sorry, the boss didn't ask you to leave." ”

Li Ke was a little angry, and his thin body, which was less than 1.70 meters, slammed into Phil's tall body without fear, and sneered in his mouth: "Have I come to the nest of the underworld?

Yi Chen was a little amused in his heart, isn't this the nest of the underworld? However, this kid is very bold, huh...... How to put it, it's a bit of the kind just seen, the pedantic temperament of traditional Chinese literati.

Ricko's body was bounced back by Phil, and he took a few steps back with a little unsteady footing.

Yi Chen said lightly: "Mr. Li Ke, I appreciate your temper...... So, to be honest, I want to be a history teacher, someone who can tell me a piece of history objectively and without any subjective feelings...... That's why I asked you what you think of yourself, and I don't mean anything else. ”

Li Ke turned his head, looked at Yi Chen and asked, "Which piece of history?"

Yi Chen gently turned the jade pendant in his hand, stared at Li Ke's eyes tightly, and said, "Are you interested in teaching me the history related to this book?" I would like to know the specific situation of this period of history...... I've read a lot of history books, but, to be honest, I'm not a good person to study on my own, and the results are very bad, very bad, and I don't have a clue, and I think you might be able to help me. ”

After a pause, Yi Chen said frankly: "Besides, as you just said, I am the leader of an underworld gang, and this is really an underworld nest...... Well, I have so much to do that I can't have much time to read, so I need someone who can teach me the inductive material...... Now, let me ask you again, what do you think of yourself, and if your answer satisfies me, I am willing to pay you a thousand pounds an hour...... Perhaps, I'll give you a little help. ”

Li Ke opened his mouth wide and looked at this self-proclaimed triad leader, a gentle and elegant Chinese of his own age. Li Ke sat back on the sofa, looked at Yi Chen and asked, "So, excuse me, why are you familiar with this period of history?"

Yi Chen smiled: "Tell me what you think of yourself, and then, I'll tell you the reason, okay? I've always done things very fairly, very, very fair." ”

Li Ke nodded slowly and said softly: "Then, let me talk first...... Perhaps, in the eyes of my classmates and teachers, I was a taciturn, uncommunicative, and stupid student who did not know how to do PR...... However, if only this period of history is concerned, I can say very responsibly that I am at least a person who loves his motherland, will not betray his conscience, and is worthy of his ancestors. That's it, I don't have anything else to say. ”

Yi Chen's keen insight deeply sensed the sincerity of Li Ke's words, and he smiled with satisfaction: "Then, I can also tell you why I want to know about this history...... I grew up in a near-isolated environment, and I didn't know anything about some common sense...... As I said, I'm a gang leader in London, and my organization has some business cooperation with my own Yamaguchi-gumi. Unfortunately, a group of Chinese eccentrics organized a 'dragon gate' and asked me to give an explanation for my cooperation with Yue. ”

Yi Chen spread his hands and said, "I'm a serious person, I don't know what's wrong with cooperating with me, although I really don't like their hypocrisy and deceit...... Ha, they even tried to plot against me, but I'm a person who cares about practical interests. I'm not going to cut ties with them until I'm given a good reason...... Now, let's start the timer, Mr. Ricco, and you can give a lecture. ”

Kane walked over with a stack of history books in his arms and threw them on the coffee table in front of Ricko.

Li Ke nodded, thought for a moment, took a sip of juice and said, "If you really want to understand the history of the last century, then, maybe we should start with a dynasty in ancient China, called the Tang Dynasty. ”

"At that time, China was the most powerful and developed country in the world, representing the highest civilization in the world. And at that time, you can see from the chronological comparison of the history books, they were still in a very backward period......"

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After three days of explanation, Jester, who had nothing to do, Phil and Gore, who were in charge of serving tea and water, and Kane, who was sitting next to him, also joined the class.

Li Ke was talking about the history book with a great deal of fascination, when Jester suddenly slammed his fist on the sofa, jumped up and said: "Haha, boss, the president surnamed Chiang is an idiot, doesn't he know that it is the most dangerous thing to put the enemy into his own house?

Kane waved the pistol in his hand and said in a sullen voice: "The enemy, you should kill them at the first time, and you shouldn't give them a chance to develop...... There are hundreds of thousands of troops, and they don't put any resistance...... Hmph, coward. ”

Yi Chen waved his hand: "We can't evaluate the rights and wrongs of historical figures, those things have nothing to do with us, what I want to know is Tang Biao and them, why do they have such a deep hatred for Yueben...... Perhaps, I can understand a little bit, when your kindness is trampled on again and again, when your thousand-year-old glory is insulted at will, this kind of hatred can already be eliminated with blood. ”

Li Ke flipped the pages of the book and whispered, "I am just explaining these things as history is...... Next, I would like to talk about the Battle of Nanjing. ”

Yi Chen frowned: "Well, Nanjing? Fatadio seems to have told me, by the way, it was 300,000 people who died that time...... Massacre?"

Li Ke licked his lips and said a little bitterly: "The official figure is 300,000 people, but in fact, according to the statistics of some organizations, the number of people slaughtered may be around 450,000...... The exact numbers, no one has been able to figure out. I think if you can get some videos from that time, maybe you can deeply understand what these blood stains are like for Chinese. ”

Yi Chen was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "Is the video tape? Where is it? Is it still there?"

Li Ke spread his hands and said: "I don't know, I only know that some foreigners were present at that time, and they secretly took some videos, which were later made public for a while...... I don't know where it is. ”

Yi Chen quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "Oh, dear, are you back in London?"

David replied in a trembling voice: "Yes, yes, I was back the day before yesterday...... What's the matter with you?"

Yi Chen smiled and said, "Dear David, why are you so afraid of me? Okay, okay, do you have those tapes in your hands? Don't tell me you don't know about it, you are the Military Intelligence Agency, although the old nest of your six departments has been destroyed, but the other departments should have videos about the massacre in Nanjing, China, right? Hmm? God, don't tell me there is no ......?"

David said happily over there, "Yes, yes, Mr. Yi, I remember that there was a department that had copies of these videos, and I thought I could get them for you, in three hours?"

Yi Chen said with satisfaction: "Look, dear, I said that it is always good to make too many friends, you helped me this time, I will remember your favor." ”

After hanging up the phone, Yi Chen said to Li Ke, who was a little flustered: "Mr. Li Ke, please continue, I think, tonight, we can watch those videos." Don't be surprised, people like us always have to have some friends to keep themselves out of harm's way. ”

Li Ke nodded hurriedly and began to continue to talk about the past and present......

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No one knows what Yi Chen was thinking in his heart after watching those images, no one knows, because Yi Chen has been smiling from beginning to end after watching these videos, he has been smiling easily, and he has been drinking some red wine and eating two olives from time to time.

Maybe only Sally knew a little bit about it, she secretly glanced at Yi Chen when she watched the video, and found that in the depths of Yi Chen's smiling eyes, there was a kind of light that she was very familiar with, but only seen in the eyes of the huge forest worm in the Amazon primeval forest, the kind of cold, which had no breath except death, a trace of coldness that could freeze people's hearts.

Fei Li couldn't stand it anymore, and she secretly quit halfway, so she didn't notice anything wrong with Yi Chen.

Li Ke can be said to be a very qualified tutor, and he can always find some bits and pieces of information from the Internet to make up for the incompleteness of those history books.

After half a month of lecturing, Yi Chen smiled and said to Li Ke: "Thank you, Teacher Li Ke, you are a qualified tutor...... Thank you so much, I think that in less than half a year, I will be able to send a reply to our lovely compatriots...... Well, that's a little bit of a small thing. ”

Yi Chen held a gold card in both hands, handed it to Li Ke, and said with a smile: "There are 200,000 US dollars in it, and the password is your birth, I don't think you will forget that I once asked for your personal information, right?"

Li Ke's hand seemed to touch a piece of red-hot iron, and he hurriedly put the gold card on the coffee table in front of him, shook his head again and again, and said: "Too much, too much, well, in fact, this half a month's class, you only need to give a thousand pounds, I am very satisfied." ”

Yi Chen looked at Li Ke and smiled kindly: "It's okay, it's really okay...... Believe me, I'm not going to play any tricks on you, this is a little bit of a heart I give you, thank you for what you have taught me in the last half month. Although these things do not allow me to completely decide anything, they can already explain a lot of things. ”

Li Ke shook his head and said, "Mr. Yi, I never charge anything that doesn't belong to me, even if according to what you said, a thousand pounds an hour, this money is far more than I deserve." ”

Yi Chen laughed, nodded and said, "So, in order for you to have peace of mind, solve a problem for me, okay? If you can give me an answer that I can satisfy, then you are eligible for this money." ”

Li Ke laughed: "Are you kidding, Mr. Yi, how can a question be worth so much?"

Yi Chen said solemnly: "Maybe he's worth it." ”

Li Ke also became serious: "Then, you ask, I'll see if I can give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Yi Chen licked his lips, his eyes flickered a little, and asked a question that Li Ke will never forget for the rest of his life: "What do you think of the word 'ancestor' that the Chinese say?"

Li Ke looked at Yi Chen blankly, Jester almost choked to death from a mouthful of marijuana smoke and rushed to the corridor to cough, while Phil and Gore were blank and didn't know why Yi Chen asked this question.

Yi Chen continued to ask: "I found that many Chinese like to curse on the Internet: 'I am the ancestor of so-and-so.'" Or add some other modifiers, which shows that this is a very strong curse. So, Mr. Li Ke, tell me, what do you think of the word 'ancestor'?"

Li Ke bit his lip tightly, there was no answer for a long time, his mind was chaotically organizing everything he could think of.

Yi Chen looked at Li Ke with hopeful eyes, looking at this white-faced scholar who was powerless.

After a long time, Li Ke replied with a little stammering: "Ancestors? If it is simple, it is my parents, grandfathers and grandmothers, and then those relatives who are even older...... However, I don't think the word ancestor is so simple. ”

Yi Chen seemed to look at Li Ke a little nervously.

Li Ke muttered: "I don't know how to explain it specifically, but I only know that no matter what, I am a Chinese, and I will not betray my ancestors, that is, I will not betray my motherland, I will not sell my blood, and I will not sell my dignity as a Chinese...... The word ancestor, he can probably represent the accumulation of all the cultures of the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese. ”

Li Ke was also a little distracted: "I don't know how to describe this word vividly, after all, I'm just a small student, I'm not a big person, and no one knows me, and I don't even deserve to explain the meaning of this word." But I wonder why China is still China after thousands of years of ups and downs...... Why are all the glorious civilizations, those who used to be called ancient civilizations together with China, disappear now, why have they all disappeared, and they have left no trace except for some still glorious buildings for people to remember?"

"Why can China still exist? Five thousand years of ups and downs, after the invasion of strong enemies, regardless of natural disasters [***], the culture of the Chinese, the spirit of Chinese, the backbone of the Chinese, or in other words, Chinese, the real Chinese this group can still exist in the East...... Why do we exist in this world?"

"Those ancestors, that is, our ancestors in the narrow sense, they worked hard all their lives for the continuation of this country and this nation, from the Han Dynasty's 'those who offend my heavenly empire and heavenly might, although far away, they will be punished' to Marshal Peng Dehuai's words: 'Gone are the days when Western powers can occupy a country by setting up a few cannons on the eastern coast. ’...... They don't exist anymore, but the things they said and did are still there. ”

"Because of them, Chinese as a nation is still multiplying in the world, I think the so-called ancestors not only refer to our immediate relatives, but those, representing our national integrity, representing our national spirit...... I don't know how to describe this thing, if there is, I prefer to believe that it is the soul of the entire Chinese nation. ”

"Is this our ancestry?...... I don't know if it is, I'd rather believe that he is. No matter who we are, no matter where we are, this soul is always influencing us...... If that's not the case, why do you go so hard to follow that history?"

"The word ancestor, he does not represent a specific thing, if there is, then he represents the past glory of the entire Chinese nation and the pride of the present...... What do you say?"

Yi Chen said in a trance: "Ha, but after all, you grew up in China, you have parents, you have your own relatives, you have learned everything about China since you were a child, you have a reason to love your motherland and your own nation...... But what about me? I was thrown up as a child, and my adopter fell ill and died, and I remember, I always remember being in the garbage heap, turning through the heavy garbage, just for a small piece of moldy and rotten food...... At that time, how old was I? I wasn't more than three years old, ......was I? Why do I want to know this? Why do I want to pursue this, why do I admit it, admit what you said, whether it is the ancestors or the soul of China?"

Li Ke whispered: "It's very simple, after all, what flows in your veins is still the same as mine, the blood of our ancestors. Your relatives have abandoned you, but can you abandon your relatives?"

Yi Chen was silent.

Phil and Gore Moran.

Kane's face was filled with two tears for some unknown reason.

After a long time, Yi Chen picked up the gold card, stuffed it into Li Ke's hand, and whispered: "I hope you can remember what you said today, remember, you once taught a villain named Yi Chen, you let an ignorant person see his roots, see what kind of person he really is...... Thank you, I don't think we'll ever get a chance to see each other again...... I wish you success in your studies...... Phil, send-off. ”

Li Ke walked out in silence.

Yi Chen sat for a long time, and suddenly shed tears: "Yes, my relatives have abandoned me, but I can't abandon my relatives...... Oh, my God...... Celestial Star Sect ...... China's ......"

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