Chapter 406
Zhu Yuyan used to scoff at Japanese flower arrangement because she didn’t find it beautiful, but it wasn’t until she saw Sakai-sensei’s flower arrangement that she could vaguely feel the beauty of it, and although she still couldn’t tell, she did feel the mood of the flower arrangement that Sakai-sensei was talking about.
But now that she was sitting next to Yoshiko Suzuki, she couldn’t feel the beauty of her flowers in any way.
On the contrary, she only felt that the flowers she arranged were fake, like the person she was, full of hypocrisy.
Today’s flower viewing party was organized for Jinjuri, so of course she was the undisputed star of the show.
It should be so.
However, because of various reasons, Kim Joo Ri was not able to sit at the flower viewing party.
Instead, across the corridor, in another room, Gim Joo Ri could be seen sitting up with the help of a maid, her lower body covered with a quilt, and she looked like a soulless statue.
And in this side of the room, Suzuki Yoshiko and her three friends were sitting in a row, each of them had flower vessels and other things in front of them, they were all seriously creating their own, indeed solemn and serious enough.
Zhu Yuyan was not the only audience that could be seated, there were also a few maids of honor, also said to be people trusted by Mr. Yamamoto, and they were dressed differently from ordinary maids of honor, presumably the heads of the cells that guarded and disciplined Jin Juli.
Zhu Yu Yan is difficult to appreciate the work in front of her, because the gorgeous glory in front of her does not match the dying on the other side, and even more so because …… Suzuki Yoshiko really has little talent.
She used too many large flowers, originally a peony is big enough, she added several spherical chrysanthemums, large red peonies plus yellow, pink and white chrysanthemums, light green flowers are overwhelmed.
If we are to follow the Japanese interpretation of flower arranging, this pot shows her own inner world.
Not that she had a rich inner world, but it showed that she was a greedy and uncontrolled person.
However, today was clearly Yoshiko Suzuki’s home turf.
After all the works were finished, the oldest of the maids started to “tear the crap out of her” while applauding, and then all of them started to “tear the crap out of her”.
Yoshiko Suzuki thanked all the attendants in a satisfied and pleased manner.
Yoshiko Suzuki then asked everyone to enjoy the works.
Of course, the focus was on hers.
So from the maid onwards, all of them pretended to look at all the flower arrangements before stopping before her one, and then moving closer – just a nose distance away – to admire it carefully.
Zhu Yuyan had wanted to casually compliment it and leave it at that, but Suzuki Yoshiko repeatedly asked her to admire it.
— She realized that this was supposed to be an attempt to get her to do something with the piece?
She thought about it, and when she got up, she accidentally touched a branch of flowers and tipped the work over.
–She really used a lot of strength.
The flower pot itself was very solid and heavy, and it had a kendama in it, so it was really hard for her to tip it over.
She looked up as she said “Dog Minasai” and saw Suzuki Yoshiko’s literally ironic face, veins flaring in her cheeks.
“Dog Minasai.” Zhu Yuyan said sincerely.
–But, clearly you’re the one who gave me the chance.
Suzuki Yoshiko tilted her head and said sinisterly, “I don’t think Yanji didn’t do it on purpose, but this was a piece I intended to dedicate to Miss Guizi to soothe her soul, and since Yanji was the one who destroyed it, then please make another one for Miss Guizi herself.”
The maids exchanged glances and seemed to agree that this was a bit of a misnomer.
Zhu Yuyan also felt that this conspiracy was all but called a yang conspiracy, and the only redeeming quality was that the bewilderment on her face now was real.
It was true that she had never discussed this peculiar plan with Suzuki Yoshiko.
–If she really wanted to send a message to Jinjuri, why did she have to resort to flower arrangements?
She could obviously meet Jinjuri right now and just hold her hand and say it, right?
Not all plans need to be explained.
Besides, she doesn’t have a plan at all right now.
I’m sorry for letting the Suzuki couple down.
However, she felt that Suzuki and his wife had a slight misunderstanding of her plan.
–Did the Suzuki couple guess that she wanted to help Jinjuri escape?
How could that be possible? If they had any brains at all, they wouldn’t be able to figure out that this was her goal.
Then, backtracking and using common sense.
What would the Suzuki couple-or Suzuki Saburo-think she and Su Chunjun were trying to do?
Zhu Yuyan agreed to do the flower arrangement, and the maids of honor very kindly brought her various tools and flower materials.
She then got lost in thought while doing it, pondering what the Suzuki couple thought.
It was known that Suzuki Saburo had very little loyalty left to Japan.
It was known that she and Su Chunjun were enemies, not friends, with Yamamoto, and that both sides wanted to take out the other side and the other side’s country.
It is known that Suzuki Saburo is helping her.
Equivalent to, Suzuki Saburo intends to take out Yamamoto and Japan?
She thought for a moment and deleted the word “Japan” from the conclusion.
Suzuki Saburo was planning to kill Yamamoto.
He gave her the opportunity to contact Julie Kim.
“KIM Juri” can be replaced with “inside man”.
Suzuki Saburo thought that KIM Juri was her mole, and in order to murder Yamamoto, the Pillowman was really the best assassin from the point of view of assassination.
The whole logic is logical.
Zhu Yuyan inserted up a row of calabash, piled the roots with a few stones, and finished her work by inserting a few grass orchids further up.
The oldest of the maids asked, “May I ask, what is the name of this work?”
Zhu Yuyan thought for a moment and casually replied, “Spring Grass.”
The pot of spring grass was finally placed in front of Yamamoto.
The calabash grew like a leek, dark green, with finger-width leaves, slender and clumped, like weeds when they grew in the wild.
The flower vessel was round with brown etiolated spots, and at the root of the dark green calabash were several grass orchids saved together, with white and yellowish flowers, erect, and heaped with gray stones at the bottom.
Yamamoto looked at the pot of flowers and said, “Vibrant.”
Although the flower shape is simple and the material is not expensive, the pot speaks of vitality.
The flower is a metaphor for people.
This is Yan Ji’s heart.
There was no gold and jade, only vitality.
She didn’t even feel that her current life was painful, her heart was full of vitality.
Why isn’t she in pain at all? Not confused?
Her faith was so strong.
Yamamoto murmured, “There can be no mistake, she is □□□.”
The older maid inquired, “Should we send someone to kill her?”
Yamamoto thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, “Take this information and pass it to the KMT. As long as they come to arrest someone, Su Chunjun will disorganize himself.”
The maid said, “Su Chunjun could also be □□□.”
Yamamoto: “If he’s not □□, he’ll desperately try to draw a line in the sand with his wife. If he is □□, he would instead take the initiative to draw a line with Zhu Yuyan for the sake of their cause and his mission. Either way the outcome, they will turn against each other.”
Servant: “Is this woman that important? We’re going to have to pay something for this information.”
Yamamoto stared at this attendant for a moment, sighed languidly, and said, “I never underestimate women, but you underestimate Yan Ji too much. Do you think Su Chunjun is the one who matters?”
The maid was surprised, “Isn’t it? Su Chunjun used the Japanese Chamber of Commerce to make many Japanese merchants betray Japan.”
Yamamoto: “Su Chunjun is well-traveled in officialdom, but he doesn’t take advantage of the people; if we didn’t have his wife, we could easily take out Su Chunjun, no matter how much he is capable of, and we could make him a corrupt official in the eyes of the Chinese.”
“But the couple now owns the hearts of the people. All of this was brought to him by Yan Ji.” Yamamoto narrowed his eyes and said, “Su Chunjun is the son of an official and comes from a prominent family, he doesn’t understand the people, he doesn’t understand the people’s heart.”
Yamamoto: “And Yan Ji, who came from an ordinary family and grew up in the city, she understood too well what the people of this place wanted. It was she who gathered the hearts and minds of the local people, and now everyone out there calls her the Living Bodhisattva.”
Yamamoto: “Everyone in this city knows the Zhu family, they’ve all read the story of Yang Xuhe abandoning his wife and daughter in the newspaper, the people of this city have watched her grow up. They are familiar with everything about her, from her father’s family, to her mother’s clan, to the man she is now married to.”
The maid came to a realization.
Yamamoto: “Get rid of her. Take her husband’s hand and get rid of her yourself. If the people of this city were to learn that the living Bodhisattva who has been helping them is married to someone else like her mother, who was arrested by her husband’s own hand, she would eventually die. The hearts of the people of this city would …… be completely broken.”
The maid marveled, “Your plan is truly brilliant.”