Chapter 16 Thirteen

At 8 o'clock in the evening, we arrived at Umeda on Zhongshan North Road.Our master, Teacher Yang, only brought the primitive man A Xiongzai and me. The mice were not allowed to come out because of the crows, and Wu Min was dizzy, so he rested at Teacher Yang's house.Instructor Yang was dressed primly, a seersucker suit jacket with grassy green stripes, like a rice dumpling, with a few round knots protruding from it, and a wide tie, and the green silk bottom was covered with vermilion ladybugs.Sweating all over his head and face, his white shirt was already drenched.He also dressed up Axiong boy, put on an ill-fitting plaid suit, the sleeves were too short, revealing a large part of the shirt inside, and the shoulders were hunched like a big black bear wearing a coat in a circus .At the gate of Umeda, Coach Yang turned around and told us:

Tonight, behave yourself, don't embarrass the master in front of other overseas Chinese! Sure enough, Umeda is a bit sentimental, with oriental-style decoration, a small arched bridge across the door, a pool under the bridge, gurgling water, and a rockery at the end of the bridge, with a small green light shining on the top of the mountain.Inside, the windows are clear and clean, and the air-conditioning is cool.There are fan-shaped wall lamps on the surrounding walls, the crystal red lights are dim, and the smiles of the waitresses seem to be covered with a layer of red.At the end of the restaurant, someone was playing an electronic organ, and the sound of the piano was melodious.A waitress came up to welcome us and took us to the second floor. Upstairs was a private room. The waitress opened the beaded curtain in the second room, and Xiaoyu and the overseas Chinese guest Lin Maoxiong were already sitting inside and waiting.We went in, Lin Maoxiong hurriedly got up and came to greet us, Xiaoyu followed closely behind him.Lin Maoxiong is a middle-aged man in his fifties, with gray temples, wearing a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, and a straight rectangular face. When he smiles, the corners of his eyes are covered with crow's feet.He wore a steel gray suit and a dark tie with a green jade on the silver tie clip.Instructor Yang rushed forward, shook hands with Lin Maoxiong first, and then introduced Ah Xiongzai and me.Lin Maoxiong gave up Coach Yang to the upper seat, and placed me and A Xiongzai next to Coach Yang.After everyone sat down, Coach Yang pointed a fan at Xiaoyu and said:

How is it, Lin Yang?Is my apprentice still obedient? Yuzi is very good, Lin Maoxiong turned his head sideways, looked at Xiaoyu and smiled, he spoke Mandarin with a Northeast accent, Xiaoyu sat next to Lin Maoxiong, smiling.He was wearing a water green and white collared shirt.He has long hair, combed neatly, as if the wind has just blown, and he looks clean. Yuzai, he has been my tour guide for the past few days, and we have seen many places.I don't know Taipei at all. Lin Maoxiong put one hand on Xiaoyu's shoulder and smiled. this afternoon!I just brought Lin Yang to Huaxi Street to eat seafood. Lin Yang said that it was much cheaper than Tokyo and delicious!Xiaoyu said with a smug smile.

Tell me, Lin Xiang, how can you thank me as a master? Instructor Yang swiped open the folding fan and fanned it.The restaurant was air-conditioned, and beads of sweat were still rolling down Coach Yang's fat face. That is to say, so I specially invited Master Yang to have a glass of wine tonight!Lin Maoxiong replied with a smile. Just drinking is not enough, Coach Yang shook his head and said, if we have the opportunity to go to Tokyo in the future, Lin Yang will also have to guide us to open our eyes.I heard that the children in Tokyo are also very beautiful! When Master Yang comes to Tokyo, I will definitely be your guide and take you to Shinjuku for sightseeing.

When those Japanese children saw our master, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe out!Xiaoyu interjected from the side. Hey!I call you an unfilial bastard!Teacher Yang raised his hand and shouted sharply, but immediately put down his hand and sighed: Lin Yang, you don't know, the apprentice is getting old, and the master is hard to do, so I'm so disgusted!These few things, stupid, stupid, can't get on the table, but this little guy, a ghost, a mouth, like a knife, like honey, almost can't get on the table he.Lin Yang, I think he and you hit it off a little bit.

Yuzai and I get along very well.Lin Maoxiong smiled and patted Xiaoyu on the back of the head. A sixteen or seventeen-year-old waitress opened the curtain and walked in. She brought a basin of clean white cold towels for us to wipe our faces, and handed each of us a menu card.Lin Maoxiong first asked Coach Yang: Master Yang, you are an expert, please order first.Today is Yuzai's idea to eat Taiwanese side dishes. I am very easy-going and will eat anything, even human flesh! We all laughed, and the waitress put her hands over her mouth. Then, come to Dish Xishi Tongue and taste the taste of a beautiful woman's tongue!

Hi.The waitress hurriedly wrote it down. Yuzai, what do you want to eat?Lin Maoxiong turned to Xiaoyu and asked. Roasted flower branches, I want to eat roasted flower branches!Xiaoyu shouted. Lin Maoxiong asked Ah Xiong again, Ah Xiong grinned and said: chicken, chicken What treasure are you looking for?Coach Yang scolded with a low laugh, give him roasted chicken legs! Hi.The waitress hurriedly responded again. I ordered a plate of salted and crispy shrimp, and Lin Maoxiong added a few dishes himself, a dish of roasted eel, a dish of homemade tofu, and a dish of stir-fried tripe with sauerkraut.

Japanese people don't eat offal, and I haven't had fried tripe in many years.Lin Maoxiong sighed with a smile. What would you like to drink, sir?asked the waitress timidly. Heat up your old Shaoxing, Coach Yang ordered, add sour plums! The waitress went to warm up a jug of Shaoxing wine. There was a tall glass with sour plums. She wanted to pour the wine for us, but Xiaoyu hurriedly took it and said: No need, let me do it. The waitress went out in response, Xiaoyu sifted the wine into the cup of sour plums, soaked it for a while, poured a glass for Lin Maoxiong first, and then filled the others' glasses before standing up, holding the wine glass with both hands, Zhao Lin Maoxiong respectfully said:

Lin Yang, it's you who gave me face tonight.I drank this glass of wine first, to show my respect. Saying that, Xiaoyu raised his glass, gulped down the glass of wine in one breath, his face became bright red immediately, and the eyelids of his flying eyes were also peach blossomed. Slow down, slow down, don't choke.Lin Maoxiong quickly reached out his hand to stop it. I never drink fast alcohol.Xiaoyu smiled and said, I am really happy tonight, so I am presumptuous! Tut, tut, Teacher Yang smacked his lips and said, Lin Yang, you are capable.This little guy has probably taken out the rebellious bone in the back of his head, and he has become so polite!

Yuzai has always been very polite.Lin Maoxiong smiled and took a sip of the wine himself. Nothing!Coach Yang waved his hands and said, he barks his teeth and claws in front of others, like a little fighting cock, you really subdued him! Wait for the food to come, eat something before drinking, drink on an empty stomach, and get drunk.Lin Maoxiong whispered to Xiaoyu. OKXiaoyu nodded in response. The waitress brought up the dishes. The first two dishes were roasted flower branches and roasted chicken legs.Lin Maoxiong carried a roasted flower branch and put it on a small jade plate.A Xiongzai saw the plate of burnt and shiny fat chicken legs, and stretched out his big claws to grab it.I only ate two sesame seed cakes all day long, and I was so hungry that my stomach kept groaning. When I smelled the meaty aroma of roasted chicken legs, my mouth watered immediately. At about the same time, the claws reached the largest chicken leg on the plate.

Hey, be polite!Coach Yang shouted, turned to Lin Maoxiong and apologized: Lin Yang, please forgive me!I have a hard life, taking in such a fool, plus a group of apprentices who have never seen the world, making fools of myself everywhere! Let them go, Lin Maoxiong said with a smile, it's rare for the children to eat so happily! Lin Maoxiong took off his coat as he spoke, Xiaoyu quickly took it and hung it on the hanger.Instructor Yang also took off his suit and loosened his tie.Lin Maoxiong raised his wine glass with both hands, and toasted Coach Yang: Master Yang, please accept my glass of wine first. Coach Yang also toasted hurriedly and said: Lin Yang is a visitor from afar, so I should respect him first. After the two exchanged cups, Lin Maoxiong pondered for a moment, but solemnly said to Coach Yang: Master Yang, I invite you to come tonight. I have one more thing to discuss with you: Yuzai is a smart boy, and I think he still knows what to do. If he continues to wander like this, I’m afraid it will be ruined. Lin Yang!Instructor Yang slapped his fan on the table, what you said hit my heart!I am his master, don't you wish him well?Some of his godfathers in the past opened shops and some opened foreign firms.He is willing to make progress and find a decent job, isn't it easy?However, this little guy was born with a cheap bone!Irregularity, two days and two days, a disagreement, swaggering and deserting.He doesn't like it himself, and I'm a master, so there's nothing I can do about it. Of course, of course, Lin Maoxiong said with a smile, how can a master not love his apprentice?That's right, our Chengcheng Pharmaceutical Factory has set up a distribution office on Songjiang Road in Taipei, and we need to hire a group of people. I want to put Yuzai in the company. He will have a job and learn a skill, which will be good for him in the future.So first ask the master for preparation and prepare a case. That's great!Instructor Yang replied that it was his blessing that Lin Xiang was willing to be promoted.Just one thing: it depends on him.Little guy, there are probably a dozen ghosts in my belly! I've asked him, and he himself said yes.Lin Maoxiong turned his head to look at Xiaoyu and smiled. I will do my best to do things for Lin Xiang.Xiaoyu said with a serious face. This time, you said it yourself. Coach Yang pointed at Xiaoyu. Let’s wait and see. That’s good. If you have a cold or headache in the future, just wait until Xiaoyu gets the medicine! Most of what we sell are tonics, fat beauty, etc. Lin Maoxiong said with a smile, the Taiwan market is small, and the competition for West German products is fierce, so the business may not be easy. Personnel!Everything is about people here!To expand the hospital, and expand the doctors, medicines can be sold. We have already started to advertise, and we have recruited distributors. I mean, we want Yuzai to run foreign affairs distribution. That's fine, he still needs that mouth!Coach Yang said approvingly. While talking and laughing, Ah Xiongzai and I had already gnawed the chicken legs down to a few bones.All the dishes were served at once, and Lin Maoxiong kept telling us not to be restrained. Axiong and I used chopsticks and spoons together, and each of us filled a plate with shrimp, eel, tofu and tripe.Umeda's Taiwanese side dishes are indeed better than green leaves and plums, and the taste is much more delicate.I thought in my heart that I don't know when I will have the opportunity to go to a restaurant next time, and I will talk about it after eating enough. Over the years, I have always wanted to come back to see Lin Maoxiong. After taking a sip of wine, he said slowly, I didn't expect Taipei to become so prosperous, just like Tokyo ten years ago.Yuzai took me through Batiaotong today. Our hometown used to be there, and now it is full of hotels and hotels. It is blurry! That area has changed a lot, Coach Yang said, we used to open a Taoyuanchun in Liutiaotong, and it has been booming for a while, and now that tavern has changed two owners, and it has been changed to Alishan!The doorway is painted bright red and green, it hurts my heart just to look at it when I walk through it!When Lin Xiang came back this time, his relatives saw it? The older generation is gone, Lin Maoxiong sighed, this time when I come back, I want to find a friend from my boyhood Lin Maoxiong paused thoughtfully, his cheeks were slightly blush after drinking, the fan-shaped wall lamp on the wall, the crystal red light shone on his gray hair, and painted a layer of halo. .There was a sad smile on the corner of his mouth, and the wrinkles around his eyes appeared. His name is Wu Chunhui, we live in the same alley, and we are very close, like brothers.At that time we went to Taipei Industrial School together, studying chemical engineering.The two also agreed to go to Japan to study medicine together in the future and open a clinic together when they come back.Who knew that once the war broke out, I would be conscripted to the northeast of the mainland, and I would go there for so many years I have also been to the Northeast, where the ice and snow almost froze my ears!Coach Yang interjected. Yes, when I first arrived in Changchun, my feet were covered with chilblains and I couldn't walk an inch.Lin Maoxiong shook his head and smiled. It was only later that the boots of the Northeast people were stuffed with Ulagrass to keep warm. What about Wu Chunhui?Xiaoyu asked curiously. Hey, Lin Maoxiong sighed, he is pitiful, he was taken by the Japanese army to fight in Southeast Asia, his whereabouts are unknown, and he is still alive? what does he look likeXiaoyu asked. I only remember his youthful appearance. Lin Maoxiong pondered for a moment, he looked at Xiaoyu, smiled and said, speaking of it, you and him have somewhat similar eyebrows and eyes. Is it?Xiaoyu smiled and said, that's easy, Lin Yang, I'll accompany you to find it! Silly boy, Lin Maoxiong scratched his gray hair on the sideburns. After thirty years, we met and didn't know each other anymore! It doesn't matter, as long as you make up your mind, search street by street, city by city, and you will find it one day.Xiaoyu said quite confidently. It is really children who speak.Lin Maoxiong shook his head and smiled. Xiaoyu got up and picked a piece of grilled eel, and put it on Lin Maoxiong's plate.Lin Maoxiong took a bite and praised: This BBQ is really good. I heard that there are many Chinese restaurants in Tokyo.Xiaoyu asked inquiringly. The Japanese love to eat Chinese food, they often entertain guests in Chinese restaurants, and opening restaurants in Japan makes a lot of money.There is a Lingering Garden in Tokyo, which was opened by the Manchurian royal family.It is so magnificent that ordinary people can't afford it. A crystal chicken costs 3,000 yen! Lin Yang, I'm going to Tokyo to work in a Chinese restaurant, okay?Xiaoyu asked. Can you cook? Can't learn it. There are often no cooks in the restaurants there. Then I'll go to the culinary school to sign up and get a cook's license.Xiaoyu laughed. You don't have to play these crazy ideas!Coach Yang said, Lin Xiang went back to Japan, so he simply put you in a box and left!Lin Yang, I heard that Tokyo has become very prosperous in recent years! Tokyo has become more powerful, Lin Maoxiong sighed, we went there after the war, and it was almost flattened, and we watched tall buildings being built.Our boss has a good eye, and he bought a piece of land in Shinjuku Banzhongcho as soon as he went there, and just said that he is my wife's uncle, and he is the one who took us to Japan to help There is a bar in Fanzhong Town called Ibankan, and the children in it are wearing kimonos.Xiaoyu interrupted. how do you know?Lin Maoxiong said in surprise. Ichibankan is located at Seventy-five Fandi, Fanzhong Town.Xiaoyu said with a grin. You child, Lin Maoxiong touched Xiaoyu's head, as if he had been to Tokyo many times, so familiar! I have a map of Tokyo, Xiaoyu said with a smile, I know all those streets by heart, and I will definitely not get lost when I go there.One day, I must go to the Shinjuku Ibankan to see those Japanese children wearing kimonos. If I wear kimonos, will they look good? You look like a Japanese doll in a kimono. Have you watched "The Lustful Generation" Lin Yang?Xiaoyu asked, it is a colorful costume film. "The Lustful Generation"?Lin Maoxiong frowned and thought for a moment, is it an old movie? Played by Yoshi Ikebe, Xiao Yu said, he wore a kimono with white silk and black ribbons in the movie, and he was so chic for a while!Does Lin Yang also have kimonos? There is one, and I wear it at home. what colour? gray. Oh, I like the white silk ones.I will buy one in the future; but I heard that the good ones are very expensive.If I wear a kimono in Tokyo, what if they really treat me like a Japanese boy?I don't speak Japanese, and I only know one sentence: I ha cashew nut Zaichi Masi, and I was taught by my master.Will you teach me to speak Japanese, Lin Yang? That depends, Lin Maoxiong said with a smile, whether you work hard in the company or not! Then I must work hard!Xiaoyu laughed. The two of us, A Xiongzai and I, silently swept away more than half of the dishes. Axiongzai ate the chicken legs with his hands, his hands were greasy, and after eating the chicken legs, he sucked his fingers.He only ate two pinches of the roasted flower branches ordered by Xiaoyu, and I secretly calculated the rest while he was talking.Among several dishes, roasted flower branches are the most refreshing, fragrant and crispy.At the end of the meal, there was one crispy salted shrimp left on the plate. I picked it up and put it in my mouth, swallowing it head and tail.After eating the food, we finished the two bottles of Shaoxing wine before leaving the banquet.