Chapter 354
Zhu Yuyan also just thought of it, she wondered why she had not thought of it earlier!
Suzuki Saburo and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce interests are not the same!
Suzuki Saburo only wants to make money himself, not so kind really want to bring the Japanese Chamber of Commerce together to make money. The other merchants of the Japan Chamber of Commerce were just something for him to use to expand his influence.
Originally, the businessmen of the Japan Chamber of Commerce may not have to rely on him in order to do business, but this is not Japan, but China, the Japan Chamber of Commerce has to report all the behavior to the Japanese military, and only after receiving permission can it be implemented.
That was what she had heard from Yoshiko Suzuki.
It was supposed to make sure that every penny earned by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce had properly paid protection money to the Japanese military.
So it wasn’t that easy for other Japanese Chamber of Commerce merchants to set up store and make money.
Not to mention they had language problems.
Not all Japanese businessmen learned Chinese before coming to China.
On this point, Suzuki Saburo did really well.
Recently she had heard that many Japanese businessmen were flocking to places like cabarets, taking on dancers and marrying them as mistresses, but instead of buying or renting them a house, they paid them money every month and went to their homes to rest. No matter how small and messy their homes are, they don’t care.
The dancers are surprised to learn that these Japanese businessmen are trying to learn Chinese.
There are also Japanese businessmen who want to adopt a Chinese son, of course, the son will have to change his Japanese name, but the son will be able to speak Chinese. They said in the newspaper that they wanted to adopt children, in addition to attracting some scammers, there are really people who go to the door willing to do the Japanese adopted son, change the Japanese name.
These adopted sons also helped their Japanese families to set up store and do business in China.
These rumors showed that although Japanese businessmen were subject to certain restrictions, they were all trying to find ways to get around them.
Of course, Zhu Yuyan didn’t want to help them to set up business at all.
She felt that Mrs. Suzuki was the best person to help them.
She invited many Japanese people today, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, she also sent invitations according to the list of surnames, very solemn, are invited to the school of Japanese students to deliver the letter.
These Japanese students in addition to go to the military outside, the rest of the people are still in the school closed.
Zhu Yuyan invited all of them, boys as laborers, girls as waitresses.
Er Zi was sent to the kitchen and asked to sit there alone quietly folding napkins.
Zhu Yuyan spoke to Erzi through the door as she went to invite the Japanese students, but she didn’t respond. Today was the first time she had seen her in months.
Er Zi had become even paler.
Her hair had become surprisingly gray.
She was thin and her skin was dark.
Like the dead, to put it politely.
A person’s skin turns dark after excessive starvation, this is because the skin lacks nutrients and loses its healthy color and luster, it’s dying. The skin was the most important organ in a person’s body, and its change symbolized that the inside of a person’s body had become irredeemable.
She didn’t speak or look at Zhu Yuyan. Listening to Sakai-sensei, as the students still continued to bully her, bullying Futako seemed to have turned into a way for the students to play games, and no one felt guilty about it anymore.
She sighed and said, “It’s like that everywhere. People will beat a sick dog when they see it, and chickens will chase their sick companions out of the pen. It’s the same with people.”
Mr. Sakai and the other teachers took a default attitude. It seemed to be assumed that it must be her own fault that Futako was bullied by her classmates.
Futako always hid in the corners of the school, but since the teachers had to make sure the students didn’t run away, they always needed to get her back, so there was plenty of complaining about that as well.
When Zhu Yuyan went to greet the remaining male teachers, Mr. Kobayashi heard that she was still concerned about Erzi and grumbled, “No need to care about her, she’ll die in the shadows.”
Zhu Yuyan sat smiling as another male student next to her poured drinks for Mr. Kobayashi.
It was clear to all these Japanese that they would never wait for Yanji to serve men like a Japanese woman.
Zhu Yuyan: “She is our classmate, I don’t want to give her up.”
Mr. Kobayashi complimented her, “Yan Ji is really kind.”
Zhu Yuyan doesn’t want to sit with these Japanese anymore and she quickly leaves.
After laying out so much, Suzuki Yoshiko automatically walked into the trap. Japanese Chamber of Commerce people do not need to Zhu Yuyan to guide what, they have long been scrambling to Suzuki Yoshiko reclamation beg her to help them, do a little “can do” things.
Zhu Yuyan realized that Japanese people are also very good at rushing ducks onto the shelves.
“Mrs. Suzuki, you are a capable person, we all respect you and your husband’s work, and have always admired you and Mr. Suzuki’s work, you two are the best Japanese couple.” A nodding Japanese man was pouring a drink for Yoshiko Suzuki, praising her as he did so, while saying to the other Japanese around him, “Don’t you think so!”
The surrounding Japanese men and women, both male and female, who were all holding wine glasses and surrounding Suzuki Yoshiko like a circle of waitresses and underlings, nodded and hailed together at the words, “Yes, yes, that’s exactly it.”
“I’ve always been a great admirer of Mrs. Suzuki!”
“Mrs. Suzuki is so intelligent and beautiful!”
After getting Suzuki Yoshiko half-drunk, the Japanese man carefully proposed that he would like Suzuki Yoshiko to give him a little advice for his store.
Japanese man: “I would benefit greatly from your guidance! Please do come!”
The rest of the men also flocked to ask Yoshiko Suzuki to come to their stores to do some mentoring.
As a successful businesswoman who had opened a night market for the Chinese people and a high-end gift store, Ichio, Suzuki Yoshiko couldn’t refuse everyone’s enthusiastic requests, and without realizing it, she agreed to do a bunch of things.
Japanese people happy, more efforts to instill her.
Zhu Yuyan this host can do what?
Can only desperately serve wine, must let everyone eat and drink well, focus on drinking well.
Suzuki Yoshiko’s ability to drink was really good, and she ended up actually walking out.
A group of Japanese people like some kind of monster reached out their hands together to help her, she turned into a big anemone and just floated out and got into the car. Zhu Yuyan followed after her, just helping to carry the return gift to the car – Suzuki Yoshiko came with a gift, a Japanese flower arrangement.
It was said to be her own work, and Zhu Yuyan could only brag about the withered branch, trying to be as complimentary as possible.
Her return gift was a pair of ceramic wine goblets, alias “for life”, given to Mr. and Mrs. Suzuki – who is afraid of who than saving money!
I don’t know what happened to Yoshiko Suzuki when she got back, but she hired someone to do a little touting of Kazuo and Yoshiko Suzuki as advanced women in Japan, and of course she paid for the article in the newspaper out of her own pocket.
Hopefully, it would help Mrs. Suzuki’s reputation grow even bigger and get more Japanese people to go to her.
The topic of advanced women is especially hot right now, and it’s being talked about everywhere.
It used to be that women didn’t leave their doors open. Although advanced women have been talked about before, it wasn’t such a big trend then. At that time, advanced women were spoken of in a half-hearted manner, and more often than not, in a bad light. Because advanced women were always associated with the freedom of love, and the freedom of love and elopement were sisters, and neither side could tear the other apart, so to say that people were advanced women was like scolding them for not abiding by the rules of womanhood and hooking up with men all over the place.
But now it’s different, all over the world are advocating advanced women, new trend of women, that women go out to work to support the family is a very great and normal thing.
Newspapers and radio broadcasts are also full of talk about the new wave of women.
Zhu Yuyan talked to Su Chunjun about this issue.
She asked if it was because the labor force in the market had recently become scarce that women were needed to work.
Su Chunjun: “Half and half. It’s not the poor families from the past that are having problems this time.”
Zhu Yuyan nodded, this was normal. The society will never notice the lower class people, they are the middle class with houses and houses in the newspaper every day, they can’t see those who work as laundresses and yellow bus drivers, they see those who live in small houses and have radios at home.
Su Chunjun: “The situation was bad a while ago, and many people ran away. But they didn’t take their wives and families with them when they ran.”
Zhu Yuyan let out an ah, thinking that such a thing was both unexpected and reasonable.
It was tantamount to people who lived in small houses with radios in their homes now suddenly having no source of income.
And now the situation was even worse, with inflation, transportation blockades, and lack of food.
Those middle-class families are now presumed to be middle-class poor.
Su Chunjun sighed, “The old people are old, the children are still young, and only the women are left to run the household, so they have to come out and work.”
But this society just didn’t prepare too many jobs for them. Even if they were to work as maids, how could there be so many families that could afford to hire maids? Not to mention that they used to be the ones who hired the maids, and now they can’t even afford the maids anymore, and they’ve turned into coming out to work as maids themselves, in a very standard case of supply exceeding demand.
Su Chunjun: “In the end a lot of them ended up in places like cabarets.”
This is really a tragic thing on earth.
Su Chunjun didn’t say. The police force has recently found the bodies of many young women on the streets, and in the river as well. In this world now, there was no need to investigate whether it was a suicide or a homicide, just directly notify the crematorium people to come and pull it. You can pick up a dozen or so a day.
There are even bums who pick up young female corpses to go back as wives, disgusting the police force.
What happens on the street is irrelevant to the ladies and gentlemen dancing in the living room.
Zhu Yuyan has now become the same person as Mrs. Feng back then, and now Miss Zhao, with guests coming in every day, so she has to spare an afternoon every day to dedicate to treating her guests, which is to sit in the living room and let those people play on their own.
She didn’t need to say or do anything.
She had invited Mrs. Shao, and with her, she could arrange everything for them.
When Mrs. Shao returned to her old place, naturally many people were curious. She had also gotten older, the corners of her mouth already had two distinct stripes, deep, like they were carved. Her lips were painted even redder and her cheongsam was getting more and more colorful.
I heard that she had many lovers outside and became a semi-public socialite.
Mrs. Shao smiled and blocked everyone’s curiosity back, tired of socializing, she came back and sat beside Zhu Yuyan and said, “It’s so nice here.”
Her gaze was gentle, surprisingly, she was not joking or speaking politely, but was sincere.
Zhu Yuyan guessed that the years when Mayor Feng was there were probably her happiest days.