Chapter 37: Li Ke
After strolling around Italy for seven days and giving a big aid to the fashion industry in Milan and other cities, Yi Duan returned to London with a satisfied Phyllis. Of course, before going back to London, Yi Dust still paid a visit to the shocked David once again, and sternly warned him, "Mr. David, I will arrange some interesting plans for you, but if your wife leaks something, I will make you regret why you were born in this life."
David nodded his head repeatedly and agreed, and only then did Easy Dust hit the road.
Early before going to Rome, Yi Dust had instructed to find him a tutor, Phil who was in charge of this matter followed Yi Dust to Rome, and casually left this matter that didn't seem to be very important to his subordinates to do. To be frank, Phil's subordinates were still very efficient, when Yi Chuan returned to his parlor, a young man was already waiting for him inside.
Yi Chen casually took off his jacket and threw it on the sofa, poured himself a glass of wine and drank it all, then said to the young man, "Excuse me, can I have a drink?"
This white skinned, wearing a pair of wide rimmed glasses, thin body, weak looking young man shook his head at Yi Chuan and said, "Thank you, I don't drink." The long and somewhat disheveled hair also gently shook twice.
Yi Chuan looked at him for half a day, took a close look at his jeans that were a little worn out, his jacket that had a little open seam on the sleeve, and his shoes that looked like they hadn't been polished for a few days, slowly sat down on the sofa, and said, "Please sit down, and may I ask what your name is? Never mind, you don't understand my accent, so let's just use English."
The young man laughed and said with a bit of restraint, "Exempt from your last name, Li Ke." After saying that, he sat down opposite Yi Chuan.
Yi Duan clapped his hands, "Phil, send some drinks up for Mr. Li Ke, he doesn't drink alcohol, so coffee, tea or other juices or whatever, send them up quickly."
Li Ke hurriedly said, "No need to be polite, no need to be polite. Mr. Yi, you're looking for a student in history, but the major I came to further my studies is mathematics, so it may be of limited help to you."
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Yi Chen looked at him deeply, took out his own jade pendant, set in the big finger under the circle a few times, signaling Phil to Li Ke poured a cup of juice, sat up violently to ask him: "Well, not to mention other things, why do you want to go to the United Kingdom to retreat in mathematics? You're very badch.... Can't you get a bad education in China? Quite frankly black, looking at you, your financial condition is not whether it is bad, why must you go to England?"
Li Ke looked at Yi Duan for a while, and realized that Yi Duan was asking him in a very serious and earnest manner, and did not mean to make fun of him, so he couldn't help but say in a very serious tone as well, "Well then, I'll be honest too, you probably don't know about the situation of the education sector in the country right now.... Well, I don't have any background, and I won't be able to pull strings with my tutors, plus all other aspects, it's better to go abroad to try my luck, at least the professors abroad treat everyone equally, as long as you work hard, there's always a day when you can make a name for yourself."
Yi dust licked his lips, heavily stroked his chin, suddenly asked Li Ke such a question: "Now China's domestic few young people. Well, as you can see from the internet, there is no tendency for them to favor Japan as well as South Korea, can you tell what this means?"
Li Ke looked at Yi Duan, a little coldly said, "I will not sell their ancestors. I also won't think that whatever is foreign is better. Maybe there are some young people in China right now who blindly worship foreigners, but I'm not that kind.... Bastard."
Yi Chen smiled and leaned forward, saying, "So, would you please rate yourself as bad?"
Li Ke frowned, stood up and said, "Mr. Yi, I'm here as a tutor, I don't think you have the qualification or right to question me like that. As you just said, my financial condition is not very good, I still have to make ends meet by scrubbing dishes every day, but you can't interrogate me like a prisoner.... I'm sorry, I'll take my leave."
Liko took small steps towards the door, Phil and Gore frowned and flew slow to stop at the doorway of the room, saying hot and icy, "I'm sorry, the boss didn't tell you to leave the gate."
Li Ke was a bit fuming, his skinny body of less than one meter seventy slammed against Phil's tall body without fear, sneering, "Have I come to the triad's lair? Are you guys so overbearing?"
Yi dust outside the heart without a little bad joke, their own this outside can not be whether the white society's lair? However, this big son's guts is very small ah, uh. How to say it, very no point just to see the kind of Chinese traditional literati pedantic temperament it.
Li Ke's body was Phil bounced back, a little unsteady back a few steps.
Easy dust thickly said: ''Mr. Li Ke, you appreciate your temper. Then, to tell you frankly and blackly, you asked for no a history teacher, someone who can tell you a piece of history objectively and without any subjective feelings.... That's why you're asking if you have any opinion of yourself, you don't mean anything else."
Li Ke turned back and looked at Yi Duan and asked, "Which piece of history?"
Yiduan heavily turned the jade pendant under his hand, stared loosely into Li Ke's eyes and said, "The history with Japan, are you not interested in teaching you? You would like to know the details of this history. You have looked through very few history books, can, in vain, you are not a suitable person to study by yourself, the effect is very bad, very bad, there has been no clues, you think you may be able to help you."
After a pause, Yi dust frankly said, "Besides, as you just said, I am the leader of a triad gang, and this is really a triad lair too. Well, I have too many things going on for me to have much time to read, so I need someone who can teach me the summarized information. Now, let me ask again, what do you think of yourself? If your answer satisfies me, I am willing to pay you a thousand pounds an hour.... Perhaps, I will even do you a little favor."
Rico's mouth dropped open as he looked at this gentle, Chinese man of his own age, who claimed to be the head of white society. Li Ke sat back down on the couch and looked at Yi Duan and asked, "So, may I ask, why do you want to familiarize yourself with this part of history?"
Yi Duan smiled up, "Tell me what you think of yourself, and then, I'll tell you why, okay? I always do things very, very, very fairly."
Rico nodded quickly and said heavily, "So, you first. Perhaps, outside the eyes of your classmates and teachers, you are a silent, uncommunicative, and stupid student who doesn't run a private franchise. However, if you only want to understand this part of history, you can be very responsible to say that at least you are not a person who hates his own country, will not betray his own conscience, and can stand up to his own ancestors. On whether or not this is the case, you have nothing else bad to say."
Yi Dust's keen insight deeply sensed the sincerity in 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 an almost isolated environment, and I am simply ignorant of certain common sense.... As I said, I was a London gang leader, and my organization had some business dealings with the Japanese Yakuza. Unfortunately for me, a group of Chinese eccentrics, who have organized a 'Dragon Gate', want me to give an explanation regarding the cooperation with the Japanese."
Easy dust spread off both hands and said, "Do you a recognize false people, you do not know and the Japanese divided into no what not bad, although you false no point do not like their actual hypocrisy and treachery. They are actually planning to plot against you, can it, you are not a person who is concerned about false interests. You won't be able to cut them off without a good reason. Now, turn off the clock, Mr. Rico, and you may lecture."
Kane walked over clutching a stack of history books and dropped them on the coffee table in front of Rico.
Rico nodded his head and pondered a little before taking a sip of his juice and said, "If you want to fake your way through that period of history in the next century, then perhaps you should start with the period of an ancient Chinese dynasty called the Tang Dynasty."
"At that time, China was the most powerful and developed nation in the world, representing the highest civilization in the world. And Japan at that time, as you can see from the chronological comparison of the history books, they were still in a very backward period..."
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Three hours of lectures every day, at first it was Yi Dust who listened to Li Ke's lectures intently, three days later, Jester who had nothing to do, the curious Phyllis, Phil and Gore who were in charge of serving tea and water, and Kane who was sitting next to him and was flabbergasted, all joined in listening to the lectures as well.
Li Ke bias against the history book lecture, Jester suddenly a fist hit the sofa, bounced up to say: "Ha ha, boss, that surnamed Jiang's president is a black idiot, he does not know, put the enemy back outside their own home is the most dangerous thing? Look, the richest land in the north is given to the enemy without resistance, does he want the enemy to sharpen his knife to stab himself?"
Kane waved the pistol in his hand and said in a muffled voice, "The enemy, should be finished off at the first opportunity, and should not be given the opportunity to develop. Letting hundreds of thousands of troops go without any resistance. Hmph, cowards."
Yi dust waved his hand: "You can't evaluate the right and wrong of historical figures, those things and you have open, you want to know, no Tang Biao them, why to Japan without such a deep hatred and love.... Maybe, you can understand a little bit, when my bad heart was trampled by people again and again, when my thousand years of glory was insulted by people at will, this kind of hatred and love, already no must use blood to clear."
Li Ke flipped the pages of the book and said in a low voice, "I am only interpreting these things according to the original face of history. Next, I want to talk about the Battle of Nanking."
Easy Dust frowned, "Hmm, Nanking? Fata Dio bad like and you said that, right, no that time when three hundred thousand people lived. Massacre?"
Li Ke licked his lips and said with a bit of bitterness, "The official figure was three hundred thousand people, but actually after some organizations counted, the people who were massacred might be around four hundred and fifty thousand. No one has been able to figure out the exact number. I think that if you can get your hands on some videotapes from that time, perhaps you deeply appreciate what kind of feelings these blood stains left on the Chinese people."
Yi Chen was silent for a long time, and asked in a high voice, "Videotapes? Which outside no? Is it still dead?"
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 shot some videotapes, which were later made public for a while. I don't know where it is."
Easily dusted slowly pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number, "Oh, pro hate, you're back in London?"
David's timid reply came from over there, "Yes, yes, I've come back the day before yesterday. You, is something wrong?"
Easy Dust smiled and said, "Pro-hate little David, why are you so afraid of you? Bad, bad, do you not have those videotapes under your hand? Don't tell you you don't know the information, we don't Military Intelligence ah, although our six old nest was destroyed, can those other departments, there should be no video tapes of the massacre in Nanjing, China, right? Uh-huh? The next emperor ah, don't tell you didn't have..."
David said cheerfully over there, "Yes, yes, Mr. Yi, I remember there is a department that has copies of those films, I think I can get them for you, in three hours?"
Satisfied, Yi Dust said, "Look, pro-hate, you said it never hurts to make fewer friends, you helped this time, you'll remember your favor."
Hanging up the phone, Yi Duan said to a somewhat flabbergasted Li Ke, "Mr. Li Ke, please go on, I think, tonight, we can watch those videotapes. Don't be surprised, people like us always need some friends to keep ourselves out of harm's way."
Li Ke even nodded his head idly, and Guan ended up continuing the story of the past and present.
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No one knows Yi dust finished watching those images before, outside the heart in the end what is thinking, no one knows, because Yi dust whether from the beginning to the end of the smile to watch these videotapes, he has been in the heavy tight smile, and also from time to time drink some red wine, eat two olives.
Maybe only Sally knows something, she secretly glanced at the video watching Yi Chen, found that Yi Chen's smiling eyes, there is a kind of deep, she is very familiar with, but also only in the Amazonia primitive forest of the huge boa constrictor's eyes, that kind of ice-cold, in addition to the death of no other breath, a hint of ice-cold, can be frozen in the heart of the people.
Phyllis had long since looked away, she had sneaked in halfway through the game, so she hadn't failed to notice that something was wrong with Yi Duan.
Li Ke could be said to be a very qualified tutor, he was always able to find some bits and pieces of information from the Internet to make up for the incompleteness of those history books.
Half a month before the lecture, Yi Dust smiled and said to Li Ke: "Thank you, Mr. Li Ke, are you a qualified tutor. Thank you so much, you think, it doesn't take half a year, you can give your hateful compatriots a reply. Well, this whether a little bit of great meaning."
Yi Dust held a gold card in both hands and handed it to Li Ke, smiling, "There are two hundred thousand dollars in here, the password is your birthday, I think you won't forget that I once asked for your personal information, right?"
Li Ke's hand seems like touching a red-hot iron, even leisurely put the gold card under the coffee table behind the face, shook his head repeatedly and said, "Too little, too little, well, its vain this half month's lesson, you only need to give a thousand pounds you'll be satisfied."
Yi Dust looked at Li Ke and smiled amiably, "It's okay, it's really okay. Believe me, I'm not so much as to want to play any tricks on you, this is a small token of my gratitude to you for the things you've taught me in the last half month. Although, they are not enough to completely make me decide anything, they can already explain a large part of things."
Li Ke shook his head and said, "Mr. Yi, you never go without charging for something that doesn't belong to you, even if it's according to what you said, a thousand pounds for a big hour, I guess, this money is far more than what you deserve."
Easy Dust smiled, nodded and said, "So, in order for you to take it with a clear conscience, solve a problem for me, will you? If you can give me an answer that I can be satisfied with, then you are entitled to the money."
Li Ke laughed up and went, "You're shutting down the joke, Mr. Yi, how can a question be worth so little?"
Easy Dust said seriously, "Maybe he's worth it."
Li Ke also serious to go, "Then, you ask, you see if you can give you a satisfactory answer."
Yiduan licked his lips, his eyes flickered a little, and asked a question that would make Li Ke unforgettable for the rest of his life: "What do you think about what the Chinese call, the word 'ancestor'?"
Li Ke looked at Yi Duan dumbfounded, Jester almost let a mouthful of small hemp smoke choking live, flew to the corridor down to cough to come; Phil, Gore, whether they are a wooden face, not the slightest idea why Yi Duan asked this question.
Easy dust continue to ask: "I found that many Chinese people on the Internet, like to curse a sentence: '** so-and-so someone's ancestors.' Or they have to add some other modifying phrases, so it's obvious that it's a very strong curse. So, Mr. Li Ke, tell me, what do you think about the word 'ancestor'?"
Li Ke lived to bite his own lips, half the ground without an answer, his mind in a chaotic organization of everything he could think of West-East.
Yi dust full of hopeful eyes looking at Li Ke, looking at this handless white-faced scholar.
After a long time, Li Ke replied without any stuttering, "Ancestor? If you say simple, on their parents, grandparents, but before the generation of those relatives even more ancient it. Can, the word ancestor, you think no so simple."
Yi dust seems a little nervous looking at Li Ke.
Li Ke murmured: "You do not know exactly how to explain, but whether you only know, no matter how, you whether a Chinese, you will not sell their own ancestors, that is to say, you will not sell your motherland, will not sell your blood, will not sell your dignity as a Chinese. Ancestors this word, he small probably can represent the Chinese people five thousand years of civilization of all no cultural savings."
Li Ke is also a little out of his mind, "I don't know how to describe this word figuratively, after all, I'm just a small student, I'm not a big shot, and there's no one who knows me, I'm not even worthy of explaining the meaning of this word at all. But I think, why China has gone through thousands of years of storms, he is still China. All the glorious civilizations, all those existences that once shared the name of ancient civilizations with China, why are they all obliterated now, why have they all disappeared, they have no traces left behind except for a few still glorious buildings to be remembered?"
"Why is China still able to die in? Five thousand years of wind and rain changes, through the invasion of the weak enemy, there is the theory of earth and man-made disasters, the Chinese people's culture, the Chinese people's spirit, the Chinese people's backbone, or, the Chinese people, the false partiality of the Chinese people as a group can still die in the West. Why are you able to die under this world?"
"Those forefathers, our ancestors in the narrow sense of the word, they spent their whole lives working for the continuation of this country, this nation, from the Han Dynasty's 'Those who violate the heavenly authority of our Heavenly Kingdom will be executed even though they are far away,' to Marshal Pang Dehuai's words, 'The Western powers can be killed if a few cannons are mounted on the Oriental shores.' The time when western powers could overrun a country by mounting a few cannons on the eastern coast is gone.' . They no longer exist, but what they said and what they did still exists in the world."
"Because of them, the Chinese people as a nation are still reproducing in the world, you think the so-called ancestors, not only do not refer to those relatives in your direct line, but also those who represent your national morale, represent the spirit of your people. You don't know how to describe this Xidong, if nothing else, you'd rather believe that that would be the soul of the entire Chinese nation."
"Is this our ancestor?.... I don't know if it is, I'd rather believe he is. No matter what we are, no matter where we are, this soul has always influenced us.... If that is not the case, why have you gone to such lengths to trace that part of history?"
"The word ancestor, he doesn't represent a specific Xidong, if not, then he represents no the entire Chinese nation over the glory as well as the pride of the present.... You say?"
Yi dust a little trance said: "Ha, but, after all, you are in the domestic growth of the big, you have parents, you have their own relatives, you grew up learning all about China, you have reason to love their own motherland, love their own nation. But what about me? I was thrown up as a child, the man who adopted me got sick and died, and I remember, I always remember being in the garbage, rummaging through the heavy garbage, just for a small piece of moldy, rotten food. How old was I probably then? Couldn't have been more than three, could I? Uh-huh? I was. Why did I? Why do I want to know this? Why do I want to pursue this, why do I want to recognize, acknowledge that thing you call, whether it be an ancestor or not, whether it be a Chinese soul or not?"
Liko said in a loud voice, "It's very simple, after all, what flows outside my veins, is it still the same as yours, going from the blood of your ancestors. My relatives abandoned me, can, can I abandon my relatives?"
Yiduan was silent.
Phil and Gore were silent.
Kane's face, on the other hand, had somehow left two tears.
A long time, easy dust pick up that gold card, stuffed back Li Ke's hands, said in a loud voice: "I hope I can remember what I said today, remember, I once gave a good stick called easy dust under the class, I let a clueless person, see their own roots, see their own in the end is not what kind of a person. Thank you. I don't think you'll see each other again. Wish me luck with my studies. Phil, welcome the guests."
Rico walked out in silence.
Yi dust sat for a long time, suddenly shed tears: "No, your loved ones abandoned you, can you not abandon your loved ones.... Earth ah.... Earth Star Sect.... China."
