Chapter 37 Li Ke

After wandering around Italy for seven days and giving great help to the fashion industry in cities such as Milan, Yi Chen returned to London with a satisfied Feli. Of course, before returning to London, Yi Chen visited the terrified David again and warned him sternly: "Mr. David, I will arrange some interesting plans for you, but if your wife leaks some tone, I will make you regret why she was born in this life."

David nodded repeatedly and agreed, and Yi Chen then returned home.

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

Yi Chen took off his coat casually, threw it on the sofa, poured a glass of wine himself, drank it all, and then said to the young man: "What should I drink?"

The young man with a white skin, wearing a pair of wide-brimmed glasses, was thin and looked literary and weak, shook his head to Yi Chen and said, "Thank you, I won't drink." The long, somewhat messy hair also swayed gently twice.

Yi Chen looked at him for a long time, looked carefully at his slightly worn jeans, a jacket with a little slit on his sleeves, and leather shoes that seemed to have not been wiped for a few days. He slowly sat on the sofa and said to him: "Please sit down, may I ask your surname?... Forget it, you don't understand my accent, so we'll use English."

The young man smiled and said a little restrainedly: "Don't let your surname be Li, Li Ke." After that, he sat opposite Yi Chen.

Yi Chen clapped his hands: "Phil, send some drinks to Mr. Li Ke. He doesn't drink alcohol. So, coffee, tea or other juices, come on as soon as possible."

Li Ke quickly said: "You're welcome, you're welcome... Mr. Yi, you're looking for a history student, but the major I'm here to study is mathematics, so it may be of limited help to you."

Yi Chen looked at him deeply, took out his jade pendant, put it on his little finger and wandered around him for a few times, signaling Phil to pour a glass of juice for Li Ke, and sat up and asked him: "Well, let's not talk about anything else, why are you coming to the UK to study mathematics? I'm very curious... Can't you get a good education in China?... To be honest, judging from your appearance, your financial conditions are not very good, why do you have to come to the UK?"

Li Ke looked at Yi Chen and found that Yi Chen was asking him very seriously and seriously, and did not mean to make fun of him. He couldn't help but say in a very serious tone: "Then, let me tell the truth, you may not understand the current situation in the education industry in China... Well, I don't have any background and I won't be able to establish a relationship with my mentor. With other factors, it's better to go abroad to try your luck. At least foreign professors treat everyone equally. As long as you work hard, you will always have a day to stand out."

Yi Chen licked his lips, gently stroked his chin, and suddenly asked Li Ke a question: "Now many young people in China... Well, from the Internet, they now have a tendency called Haji and Haji and Haji. Can you tell me what this means?"

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

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

Li Ke frowned and stood up and said, "Mr. Yi, I am a tutor. I don't think you have the qualifications or authority to question me like this... As you said just now, my financial conditions are not very good. Now I still have to rely on cleaning dishes every day to make a living, but you can't interrogate me like a prisoner... Sorry, I've said goodbye."

Li Ke walked towards the door strode. Phil and Gore frowned, quickly stopped 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, less than 1.70 meters tall, hit Phil's tall body without fear, and sneered: "Have I come to the gang's nest? Are you so domineering?"

Yi Chen felt a little funny. Isn’t this place just a gang of the underworld? But this kid is very brave, well... how to say it, it’s a bit like the kind of pedantic integrity of traditional Chinese literati just now.

Li Ke's body was bounced back by Phil, and he took a few steps back with a little unsteady standing.

Yi Chen said lightly: "Mr. Li Ke, I admire your temper very much... So, let me be honest, what I want is a history teacher, a person who can tell me a history with objective and without any subjective feelings... So, I asked you what you evaluate yourself, and I have no other meaning."

Li Ke turned around and looked at Yi Chen and asked, "What is history?"

Yi Chen gently turned the jade pendant on his hand, stared at Li Ke's eyes tightly and said, "Are you interested in teaching me the history related to Japan? I really want to know the specific situation of this history... I have read a lot of history books, but to be honest, I am not a person who is suitable for me to study and study. The effect is very bad, very bad, and I have never had any clues. I think you may be able to help me."

After pausing, Yi Chen said frankly: "Besides, as you said just now, I am the leader of a gang gang, and this is really a gang of a gang... Well, I have too many things to do, and I can't have too much time to study, so I need someone who can teach me the summary information... Now, let me ask again, what is your evaluation of myself? If your answer can satisfy me, I am willing to pay you a thousand pounds an hour... Maybe, I will also give you a little help."

Li Ke opened his mouth wide and looked at the gentle Chinese who claimed to be the leader of the underworld, a gentle and Chinese who was the same age as him. Li Ke sat back on the sofa and looked at Yi Chen and asked, "So, why do you need to be familiar with this period of history?"

Yi Chen smiled and said, "Tell me your evaluation of myself, and then, I will tell you the reason, okay? I have always been very fair, very fair in doing things."

Li Ke nodded slowly and said softly: "Then, let me talk first... Maybe, in the eyes of my classmates and teachers, I am a taciturn, not good at communicating, and not public relations specialty student... But, if it is just about the history you want to know, I can say very responsibly that I am at least a person who loves my motherland, will not betray my conscience, and deserve my ancestors. That's it, I have nothing else to say."

Yi Chen's keen insight deeply felt the sincerity in Li Ke's words, and he smiled with satisfaction: "Then, I can also tell you why I want to understand this history... I grew up in an environment that is almost isolated from the world, and I know nothing about some common sense... As I said, I am a gang leader in London, and my organization has some business cooperation with the Japanese Yamaguchi group. Unfortunately, a group of Chinese weirdos, who organized a 'longmen', asked me to give an explanation about the cooperation with the Japanese."

Yi Chen spread his hands and said, "I am a serious person. I don't know what's wrong with working with the Japanese. Although I really don't like their hypocrisy and treacherous... Ha, they actually have the idea of ​​planning for me, but I am a person who cares about practical interests. I will not break off contact with them until I have given me sufficient reasons... Now, start the timekeeping, Mr. Li Ke, you can give a lecture."

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

Li Ke nodded, thought for a moment, took a sip of juice and said, "If you want to really 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 most developed country in the world, representing the highest civilization in the world. At that time, you can see from the comparison of the ages of history books that they were still in a very backward period..."

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The explanation for three hours a day was at the beginning. Yi Chen was attentive to listen to Li Ke’s lecture. Three days later, the idle Jester, the curious Phile, the curious Phile, the Phil, the Gore, the sitting next to him, and the stunned Kane, also joined the ranks of listening to the lecture.

Li Ke was telling the story in a sensible way in comparison with the history book. Jester suddenly punched the sofa and jumped up and said, "Haha, boss, the president named Jiang is an idiot. Don't he know that putting the enemy into his home is the most dangerous thing? Look, the richest land in the north gave it to the enemy without resistance. Do you want the enemy to sharpen the knife to stab him?"

Kane waved the pistol in his hand and said in a muffled voice: "Enemy should kill them as soon as possible, and not give them a chance to develop... With hundreds of thousands of troops in his arms, he would not even resist... Humph, coward."

Yi Chen waved his hand: "We cannot evaluate the right or wrong of historical figures. Those things have nothing to do with us. What I want to know is Tang Biao and the others, why do they have such a deep hatred for Japan... Maybe, I can understand a little bit. When your kindness is trampled on again and again, when your thousand-year glory is randomly insulted, this hatred must be removed with blood."

Li Ke flipped the pages of the book and whispered: "I just explain these things according to the true nature of history... Next, I want to talk about the Battle of Nanjing."

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

Li Ke licked his lips and said a little bitterly: "The official number is 300,000 people. In fact, after statistics from some organizations, the massacred people may be around 450,000... No one can figure out the specific number. I think if you can get some videotapes from that time, maybe you can deeply understand what these blood stains left to the Chinese people."

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

Li Ke spread his hands and said, "I don't know, I only know that some foreigners were present at that time. They secretly filmed some videos, and later it was released for a while... I don't know where it was."

Yi Chen quickly took out his cell phone and dialed a number: "Oh, my dear, have you returned to London?"

David's terrified answer came from there: "Yes, yes, I've been back the day before yesterday... Are you, what's wrong?"

Yi Chen smiled and said, "Dear David, why are you afraid of me so much? Well, okay, do you have those videos on your hands? Don't tell me that you don't know the relevant information. You are the Military Intelligence Bureau. Although your six nests were destroyed, the other departments should have videos about the massacre in Nanjing, China? Well? God, don't tell me that there is no..."

David said happily there: "Yes, yes, Mr. Yi, I remember a department that has copies of these videos. I think I can make them for you in three hours?"

Yi Chen said with satisfaction: "Look, my dear, I said that it is always good to make friends too much. If 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 confused: "Mr. Li Ke, please continue. I think we can watch those videos tonight. Don't be surprised. People like us always need some friends to save ourselves from harm."

Li Ke nodded quickly and began to continue to tell the past and present...

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No one knows what Yi Chen was thinking after watching those videos. No one knows, because Yi Chen smiled from beginning to end and watched these videos. He kept smiling relaxedly, and he drank some red wine and ate two olives from time to time.

Perhaps only Sally knew something a little. She secretly glanced at Yi Chen when watching the video and found that there was a kind of light that she was very familiar with in the eyes of the huge anaconda in the Amazon primeval forest. The cold, with no other breath except death, a trace of coldness that can freeze people's hearts.

Fei Li had long been unable to bear it, and she secretly left the stage halfway, so she did not notice something wrong with Yi Chen.

Li Ke can be said to be a very qualified tutor. He can always find some fragmented information on the Internet to make up for the incompleteness of those history books.

After half a month of lectures, Yi Chen smiled and said to Li Ke: "Thank you, Teacher Li Ke, you are a qualified tutor... Thank you so much. I think it takes less than half a year to send a reply to our lovely compatriots... Well, this is a little bit of a small meaning."

Yi Chen held a gold card in both hands and handed it to Li Ke, smiling and said, "There is $200,000 in it, and the password is your birthday. I think you won't forget that I asked about your personal information, right?"

Li Ke's hand seemed to touch a red iron piece, and quickly put the gold card on the coffee table in front of him, shook his head and said, "Too much, too much, well, in fact, in this half month's class, I'll be satisfied if you only give one thousand pounds."

Yi Chen looked at Li Ke and smiled kindly: "It's okay, it's really okay... Believe me, I won't be able to use any tricks on you yet. This is a little bit of my wish. Thank you for teaching me in the past half month. Although these things cannot let me make me decide anything completely, they can already explain a large part of the matter."

Li Ke shook his head and said, "Mr. Yi, I never charge anything that does not belong to me. Even if you say, a reward of one thousand pounds per hour is far more than what I deserve."

Yi Chen smiled and nodded and said, "So, in order to make you feel at ease, I will solve a problem for me, okay? If you can give me an answer that I can satisfy, then you are qualified to get the money."

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

Yi Chen said seriously: "Maybe he is worth it."

Li Ke also became serious: "So, ask, I see if I can give you a satisfactory answer."

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

Li Ke looked at Yi Chen blankly. Jester almost choked to death by a mouthful of marijuana smoke, and ran to the corridor to cough; Phil, Gore and others looked blank, and they didn't know why Yi Chen asked this question at all.

Yi Chen continued to ask: "I found that many Chinese people like to curse on the Internet: 'I fuck the ancestor of so-and-so-someone.' or add some other modification sentences, which shows that this is very scolding. So, Mr. Li Ke, tell me, what do you think of the word 'ances'?"

Li Ke bit his lips tightly, and there was no answer for a long time. His mind was organizing everything he could think of in a mess.

Yi Chen looked at Li Ke with hope, looking at the white-faced scholar who was powerless.

After a long time, Li Ke stuttered and replied: "Ancestor? If it is simple, it is his parents, grandparents, and then those relatives with older generations... But, I don't think the word ancestor is that simple."

Yi Chen seemed to look at Li Ke with a little nervousness.

Li Ke murmured: "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, my bloodline, and my dignity as a Chinese... The word "ancestor" can probably represent the savings of all the cultures of the Chinese people's five thousand years of civilization."

Li Ke was also a little confused: "I don't know how to describe this word vividly. After all, I am just a little student. I am not a big man, and no one knows me. I am not even worthy of explaining the meaning of this word. But I think, why has China been through thousands of years of ups and downs, and it is still China... Why are all glorious civilizations, those existences that once called the ancient civilization of China, now have disappeared? Why have they all disappeared? They have left no traces except for leaving some still brilliant buildings that are remembered by people?"

"Why can China still exist? Five thousand years of storms and changes, and has experienced the invasion of powerful enemies. Regardless of natural disasters and man-made disasters, Chinese culture, Chinese spirit, Chinese backbone, or, Chinese people, the real Chinese group can still exist in the East... Why can we exist in this world?"

"Those ancestors, that is, our narrow sense, have spent their whole lives working for this country and the continuation of this nation, from the Han Dynasty's 'Those who violated my powers will be punished even if they are far away' to what Marshal Peng Dehuai said: 'Gone are the era when Western powers can occupy a country with a few cannons on the eastern coast.'... They do not exist, but what they have said and done still exists in the world."

"Because of them, the Chinese as a nation still reproduces in the world. I think the so-called ancestors refer not only to our direct relatives, but to those that represent our national integrity and our national spirit... I don't know how to describe this thing. If there is one, I would rather believe that it is the soul of the entire Chinese nation."

"Is this our ancestor?...I don't know if it is, I would rather believe that he is. No matter what our identity is, no matter where we are, this soul has been affecting us...If this is not the case, why would you use such great strength to pursue that period of history?"

"The word ancestor does not represent a specific thing. If so, then it represents the glory of the entire Chinese nation in the past and the pride of the present...what do you think?"

Yi Chen said in a daze: "Ha, but, after all, you grew up in China. You have parents and you have your own relatives. You have learned everything about China since you were a child. You have reason to love your motherland and your nation... But what about me? I was thrown away since I was a child. The person who adopted me died of illness. I remember that I always remember that I was in the garbage dump, just for a small piece of moldy and rotten food... How old was I at that time? It would not be more than three years old, right? Well? Why am I? Why do I understand these? Why do I pursue these? Why do I admit, admit what you said, whether it is my ancestor or the soul of China?"

Li Ke whispered: "It's very simple. After all, the blood flowing from your blood vessels is the same as mine, from our ancestors. Your relatives have abandoned you, but can you abandon your relatives?"

Yi Chen was silent.

Phil and Gormran.

There was no idea why two tears were left on Kane's face.

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 class to a villain named Yi Chen, you let an ignorant person see his roots and see what kind of person he is... Thank you, I think we will not have the chance to see you again in the future... I wish you success in your studies... Phil, see off guests."

Li Ke walked out silently.

Yi Chen sat for a long time and suddenly shed tears: "Yes, my relatives abandoned me, but I can't abandon my relatives... Oh my God... Tianxing Sect... China..."
Chapter completed!