Chapter 355

After this day’s banquet, Mrs. Shao stayed behind.

Zhu Yuyan couldn’t figure out her intention, so she just let someone serve her tea and didn’t say she would stay for dinner.

The two sat and talked about the gossip of the people at the banquet, Mrs. Shao finally said the main topic.

She cried in front of Zhu Yuyan.

If she wants to cry, Zhu Yuyan surely can only go forward to persuade.

The two seem to be more than a generation apart in age, but like sisters sitting together to talk. Not to mention others, Zhu Yuyan herself first felt awkward.

Zhu Yu Yan took her shoulder and noticed that the shoulder under her hand looked like only a piece of bone was left, sharp and scary.

Zhu Yu Yan: “Good sister, you cry so much that I am afraid, what is the trouble? Speak to my sister to listen to, my sister just can’t take the idea for you, but also can broaden your heart.”

In the past, she could not say this word, said it would have the suspicion of supporting the big. Now she is a married woman, there is an unwritten rule in the world, that is, as long as the person is married, everything is omnipotent, not before marriage is a child, married is an adult, before he was not told to know the things, after marriage, everything can listen to, but also what should know.

There is another rule identical with this, called having children. The birth of a child cures all diseases.

Mrs. Shao is here to ask for her help, crying to achieve the purpose on the line, and did not do more padding, straight to the point.

She said two things in total.

First, she had a Japanese ronin lover.

A Japanese ronin is a Japanese samurai.

However, after the Meiji Restoration, the social status of the samurai in Japan is not as good as it used to be. Some of the samurai enlisted in the army, and some of those who refused to enlist became vagabonds. Many of these vagabonds followed the Japanese fleet to China and acted as bodyguards for the rich Japanese, or simply became hooligans.

Mrs. Shao still has many lovers, but in the end she is not as young and beautiful as when she was Mayor Feng’s lover, so she can only win with the number of lovers if the quality of her lovers is insufficient.

Her house is rented, furniture is rented, although also earned some money, but she owes a lot of money outside, with many loan sharks have relations.

Mrs. Shaw was so bold that she ran away when she owed money to loan sharks and rented another place.

Even then it was inevitable that she would be approached.

Of course she does not want to pay back the money, loan sharks are good at borrowing money but not good at paying it back, not to mention whether she has so much money to pay it back, loan sharks are willing to lend money to her not only for money, but also for her connections and skills.

She refused to be a socialite under the control of the loan sharks, and could only find another way out.

The way out she sought was the Japanese.

Now in this city, the Japanese are the number one amulet for foreigners, just like the British, the French and the Portuguese before them.

The foreigners are also in this city on your side.

There was no way Mrs. Shaw was much worse off than she was before, and there were plenty of Japanese to choose from; she couldn’t reach the rich and powerful Japanese, nor could she find any Japanese officers, and in the end, she only found one Japanese ronin who was willing to kill for her.

Now the police station is a sham, no one arrests hooligans for murder, and even less for Japanese murder. It just so happens that the Japanese ronin and the loan sharks have gotten into a fight, so no one dares to take care of them.

Mrs. Shaw was able to get a moment’s respite.

The second thing is why she had to turn to Zhu Yuyan for help.

She was pregnant.

Zhu Yuyan’s eyes widened.

The baby, of course, is the Japanese ronin’s.

Mrs. Shao had small tears on her face, her hand covered her belly, and the expression on her face seemed to be crying or laughing.

“I am not a good person, the world does not call me to live, I struggle to this day, dare not say I have done harm, but I have not accumulated much virtue. This child …… this child ……” Mrs. Shao face tears long flow, “she probably did sins in a previous life before casting to me, I can give her what good life? ”

The woman’s face was filled with tears, “She probably did something bad in a previous life to be cast on me.

She and that unattached husband rightfully had no children. After being Mayor Feng’s lover, of course, even more can’t have a child, without a child, Mayor Feng is still willing to keep her around, with a child, Mayor Feng will immediately send her away. Compared to that, of course, she is more happy not to have a child and earn more money beside Mayor Feng.

Unfortunately, all the money she saved back then went down the drain.

After all these experiences, Mrs. Shao didn’t think she could have a child in her broken body.

As a result, God loves to play jokes and called her a mother at this very moment, and the father of the child was also a Japanese ronin.

Mrs. Shao had read books, her first husband was a soldier, and she had followed Mayor Feng for many years, so her insights were not mundane. At least she knows better than the kind people in the newspapers and on the radio: China and Japan have become enemies.

Now the newspaper and radio broadcast more than a lot of mouth proclaimed “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity is China’s opportunity for progress,” all that Japan is China’s savior, China’s future in the conscience of Japan, Japan and China with the water, and that the Japanese look very similar to the Chinese, unlike the yellow eyebrows and green eyes of the foreigners, at a glance, not a species, the Japanese are certainly not the same. Not a kind of species, the Japanese certainly do not look like foreigners, the Japanese will certainly be as good to the Chinese as their own people, and so on and so forth.

Carrot and stick, on the one hand, the market is withering, the people do not Liao Sheng, on the other hand, began to blow hard, and so on the Japanese Chamber of Commerce began to bring supplies to stand out and pacify the people, the city will soon be pacified.

Although can see such tactics, but Su Chunjun can not help, can only pretend to know nothing.

The wharves and railroads are held by the Japanese, and as long as the supplies can’t come in, the people have nothing to eat or drink, and he can’t do anything about it.

He could do nothing about it. He hated the Japanese, but he could only endure it.

Even movie stars are now touting the Japanese, so it can only be said that Japan is determined to win this city.

Mrs. Shao didn’t believe these words, she knew that this child in her womb couldn’t possibly end well once it was found out that it was a Chinese-Japanese hybrid, even if the Japanese occupied China now, would the Japanese be kind to a hybrid child at that time? Obviously they are not much better to their own people.

Zhu Yuyan: “You are trying to ……”

Mrs. Shao wiped away her tears, held her hand and said, “I want to beg you to take him in, there is no need to tell him to know who his parents are, just treat him as an abandoned child. I know you know people in the church, so when the time comes, please send him to the church so that he can grow up as a Chinese and not be told about his birth.”

If Mrs. Shao had said anything else, Zhu Yuyan would have had to push a little, but when it came to the child, it was hard for her to refuse coldly and hard.

Zhu Yu Yan said dryly, “It may not necessarily come to that …… point Are you mother and son not going to see each other later?”

Mrs. Shao smiled bitterly, “What good future can he have by following me? Other people will laugh at him. It would be better to be clean and be a child of a poor family.”

Zhu Yuyan only agreed.

Before Mrs. Shao left, Zhu Yuyan wanted to give her money, but she didn’t want it.

Mrs. Shao: “I don’t need money. Thank you, Ms. Zhu, thank you very much.”

From then on, Mrs. Shao did not come here much, but she probably guessed that Zhu Yuyan and Mrs. Suzuki had a conflict, and she often tried to send her news.

Then Zhu Yuyan heard that Mrs. Suzuki also wanted to make a commercial street, and she agreed with several people in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce to open a commercial street, that is, Zhu Yuyan had mentioned a street in Japan, and Suzuki Sanlang had never mentioned that one.

Mrs. Suzuki did not make a real Japanese street, but she helped several people in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce to open stores, just like her store, Kazuo, selling Japanese goods and services.

There was even a kimono store.

Yoshiko Suzuki probably really doesn’t know the little schemes in Saburo Suzuki’s mind, and it’s unimaginable how rusty she and Saburo Suzuki really are as a couple.

Anyway, it was after these Japanese stores suddenly opened on the street that Suzuki Saburo was learning about it.

At this point, it was already too late.

Because of Suzuki Yoshiko’s “great help”, as well as Zhu Yuyan’s Chinese wives followed the flag, these Japanese stores opened very smoothly.

They all learned the idea that Zhu Yuyan once gave to Yixiong, to give away a round of rice for three days after the opening.

There were long lines in front of the store.

Newspaper reporters came, without having to pay for many photos, to prove that the people are in fact very friendly to the Japanese, you see, there is not much opposition from the people.

A round of rice is not much, that is, the box of Japanese rice, probably is steamed rice enough for two people to eat a meal amount.

But how can the white rice not smell good?

The people lined up willingly.

However, after three days, no more rice, the people refused to come.

The Japanese military felt that these stores were doing a good job and could help the Japanese army occupy the city, so when they heard that the people refused to line up without the rice, they ordered the stores to continue to send rice to attract the people.

But the people came over to collect the rice and would not go into the stores to spend money, and the Japanese stores were on the high end of the line, so the ordinary people could not afford their goods, so they refused to give away any more rice.

As a result, the Japanese hired people to stand in line, and then invited journalists to take pictures of them and put them in the newspaper to brag about them.

When the store opened, Zhu Yuyan also brought people to celebrate, but just like Yixiong, after celebrating, the store went back to the state of being deserted.

Suzuki Yoshiko keeps saying that her shop has a very high turnover and is very popular with the Chinese.

Zhu Yuyan again credited Suzuki Yoshiko for the night market.

Although the Japanese can’t drill down to Kazuo’s store to check the accounts, they can see that the night market is booming, and since their own stores are not doing well, they all think that it is because Suzuki Yoshiko didn’t really help them.

Just then, the fact that Saburo Suzuki was quietly opening a factory in the countryside and recruiting workers to make tinplate that would be exported to the United States and Germany became known to the rest of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce.

The Japanese merchants then blew up.

Canned goods are now very tightly sold goods, tinplate as a canned goods packaging necessities, how much money can be sold is obvious, it can be said that as long as it can be produced, it will certainly make money.

Before joining the Chamber of Commerce in China, these Japanese businessmen had already discussed with each other what kind of business they were going to do in order to avoid competition in the same industry.

The reason why they gave up the can manufacturing business to Suzuki Saburo, on the one hand, was because the Suzuki family had a good relationship with the Japanese government and could get the steel, after all, without raw materials, everything would be in vain.

On the other hand, it was to cede the favor to Saburo Suzuki, the president.

But Suzuki Saburo, after all, young, his seniority is too shallow, according to be unable to convince the public, he came to China before the Chamber of Commerce on the people swore, will certainly bring everyone together in China to make a fortune, they will never eat alone.

As a result, it has not been long now, he broke his promise.

How can the Japanese Chamber of Commerce not blow up?