Lu Mingfei, who studied Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

"You're a professional...what?"

Yuan Zhisheng listened to the old man's incomprehensible words and looked at the old man's encouraging actions. He frowned deeply, with deep confusion gathering between his eyebrows.

From the meaning of the old man's words, it seems that he is regarded as a miserable young man who has lost his loved one and has nowhere to deal with, so he can only come to the ramen stall to borrow "noodles" to relieve his depression?

Yuan Zhisheng recalled how he hesitated to come in in front of the ramen stall, then touched his long hair and clothes that were soaked by the rain, and finally looked down at his tightly wrapped torso... Yuan Zhisheng Sheng subconsciously thought about it in his mind.

He looked like a man who couldn't bear the shock of being abandoned by his lover, so he could only vent his anger by hurting himself. In the end, after a simple bandage, he felt that he was so incompetent and braved the heavy rain to wet himself. He looked like a lost dog until he saw such a ramen stall with a warm glow in the rainy night. It was like a lonely moth seeing the light of fire, or like a lonely ghost seeing salvation.

Yuan Zhisheng couldn't help but feel a wry smile in his heart.

It turns out that I am not always the majestic man who stands in front of Yasha Crow and the other cadres of the Executive Bureau every day. Does it turn out that I also have such a downtrodden side? He was so depressed that he would even be regarded as a bereft dog by people he met for the first time who could not bear the blow of lovelorn... But who would have thought that a contemporary patriarch with a high status in the Japanese yakuza family would wander around the midnight streets of Tokyo in a rainstorm in such an embarrassed manner. Just looking for a ramen stand?

Speaking of which, everyone has many different sides, and when they play a certain role, they will wear a mask belonging to a certain role, at least that's what Yuan Zhisheng thinks.

He once thought that Tachibana Masamune was a leader who looked the same on the outside, but in fact it was just his mask. The real Tachibana Masamune was hiding an extreme and evil lunatic under his strict and strict appearance... And Minamoto Chisheng himself was not like this?

Sitting in the position of the patriarch of the eight Sheqi families, he must be calm and steady, and not be surprised by favors or humiliations. Only a very majestic posture can subdue a large and complicated family. But when no one is around, Yuan Zhisheng is actually just A lazy young man who yearns to go to the nudist beaches in France every day to sell sunscreen and watch bikini beauties.

So is this unattractive man in front of me the same as me? Yuan Zhisheng couldn't help but think about it.

More than 60 years ago, this man took off his mask as the supreme gangster. He played the role of a gossipy and philistine ramen chef. Moreover, the mask of ramen chef has been worn for more than 60 years and has been firmly stuck to his face. , has grown together with the skin, to the point where it is difficult to remove it, so in my opinion, this old man does not have the majesty of the underworld supreme and the strongest hybrid at all, but instead looks ordinary, mediocre, and even a little bit... Neurotic ordinary people.

"Don't worry about my profession. Whether I'm a professional ramen chef or a professional relationship counselor, it's you..." Uesugi stared at Minamoto Chisei, "I think you must have held back your words. , you are in need of someone to talk to, right?"

"Young man, you are very lucky today, because I am in a good mood today. If you have anything you want to say, you can stay in my ramen stall. You can complain about the heartless woman who abandoned you. I am in love for you. It’s okay to deeply regret your mistakes. Anyway, just say whatever comes to your mind.” Yue Uesugi gave a high-five, “I’m telling you young man, I’m someone who’s been through this. You’d better listen to my advice, otherwise you won’t get anything. If you say that, it’s easy to suppress your illness.”

Listening to Uesugoshi's eloquent persuasion, Minamoto Zhisheng was slightly absent-minded for a moment, and then shook his head with a wry smile: "You are mistaken, I am not broken up in love...it's just that something happened at home."

"Oh, let me tell you, there is absolutely no need for young people to seek life and death for the sake of love." Uesugi Yue nodded seriously, "It turns out that something happened at home. If something happens at home, it is indeed worse than falling out of love. Oops!"

"Can you tell me what's going on at home? Don't worry, I don't know you or your family. I'm just an ordinary ramen chef. It won't matter if you talk to me, a strange ramen chef. Anyone." Uesugi looked at the unconcealed sadness on Minamoto's calm face. He gently patted Minamoto's shoulder and said with a smile, "I see your face is full of desire to talk, 'I'm very The words "troubled" are almost written on his face."

Yuan Zhisheng looked at the old man's kind face. The old man's palms were particularly warm. Patting on his shoulders gave people an inexplicable reassuring force. It was as if the wet rain on his body had become warmer, making people feel involuntarily. I just wanted to tell him a series of recent bad things, and then get comfort from him... Although Yuan Zhisheng knew that most of these were caused by his psychological effects, it was undeniable that the old man in front of him did give him a A feeling of trust.

This is a very mysterious feeling, because Yuan Zhisheng has never had this kind of experience. In his concept, it is difficult to have a feeling of trust in a person. It takes a long time to get along with him. Yuan Zhisheng He never felt that anyone he met for the first time was trustworthy, and even he was subconsciously wary of Masamune Tachibana whom he met for the first time.

But for the old man in front of him... maybe this feeling can no longer be called "trust", but more like "dependence".

Is this the power of a ramen chef? To make someone you meet for the first time develop an unwarranted dependence on him... What a terrifying power.

After a moment of silence, Yuan Zhisheng slowly exhaled and began to whisper: "Some... very bad things happened in my home recently... Some people were injured, some died, the number of casualties a lot of."

"Although I tell myself every time that everyone will die, no one in this world cannot die, and it is human nature for someone to die... But it feels really bad to witness death, because once a person dies, nothing will happen to him. Gone." Yuan Zhisheng said quietly, "His story, his experience, his life, he worked hard for half his life but could not take anything away... Gradually, he will be forgotten by society and forgotten by those around him. Forgotten by many people, and finally forgotten by the whole world..."

"I didn't expect it! I really didn't expect it!" Uesugi applauded softly, "I didn't expect you to have such a deep understanding of life at such a young age!"

Uesugoshi glanced at Minamoto Chisei unexpectedly, his expression was as excited as if he had found a soulmate, and then he suddenly realized that it was not appropriate to show such a happy and surprised expression when others talked about the family's tragedy. So he coughed twice again and lowered his voice.

"Ahem...you said a lot of people died? From what you're saying, your family seems to be very large, and what happened to your family must be quite big. There were injuries and deaths. It sounds very serious." Uesugoshi Rubbing his chin, frowning, he asked Yuan Zhisheng, "So you are looking sad now because many people in your family have died, and you feel sad about it?"

"It's just part of the reason." Yuan Zhisheng shook his head gently, hesitated for a moment, and finally said frankly, "What makes it even more difficult for me to accept is actually my father... No, it was because I mistakenly thought that I could treat him like a father and a teacher. That man deceived me and made him someone other than me who could be trusted and entrusted to me. But the recent troubles in my family were all caused by him. Many clan members died because of him, and many people shed blood... "

"I challenged him and asked him for an explanation on behalf of those tribesmen, when there were only two of us." Yuan Zhisheng said in a low voice, "To be honest, I also have some unrealistic expectations in my heart. ... I hope that all this is false and an illusory dream, but that is impossible, so I can only hope that he can tell me the truth honestly and sincerely admit his mistakes to the dead tribesmen... He once did this Teach me.”

"He said that no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes throughout their life. To judge whether a man is worthy of forgiveness after making a mistake is not to judge whether the mistake he committed is minor or serious, but to judge whether the mistake he made is minor or serious. Let’s see if he has the courage to take responsibility after making a mistake, whether he will reflect and repent for the mistakes he made, and whether he has the determination and will to make up for his mistakes.” Yuan Zhisheng recalled the tone of Ju Zhengzong’s words when he taught him. , "And if a man doesn't even dare to look directly at his own problems after making a mistake and just avoids it blindly, then he is a coward... When a man becomes a coward, he does not deserve to be forgiven no matter what, even if His mistake was easily remedied, but the shame will stay with him for the rest of his life."

Yuan Zhisheng can still recall almost all of Tachibana Masamune's earnest teachings to him. He used to think that this man was like this. He treated you as his son, and he would be eager to instill in you all the principles of life that he had understood. Just like a father would want to give his best to his children, regardless of whether those things are what the children need.

Yuan Zhisheng once regarded every teaching of that man as a very important thing in life, more valuable than money and power. This was the most meaningful thing that man left to him, just like what the man told him His, this is a kind of inheritance. Only by integrating all these principles can he become like that man and become a man who can support such a huge organization as the Japanese Yakuza.

But Yuan Zhisheng now knew that all of this was a lie, and everything that man told him was a lie. He couldn't tell the difference anymore. He didn't know whether the truths that the man taught him were correct or fallacious. He wanted to forget, but these words had already been ingrained in his mind, and he unconsciously imitated the man's tone and said them out.

Even though Minamoto's words had made his identity obvious enough, Uesugoshi's attention was focused on Minamoto's words and he didn't think too much about this young man's identity.

"It's very old-fashioned. It's so old-fashioned. It really sounds like it was said by those antique old men who lived from the 1930s to this century." Uesugi crossed his arms on his chest and commented on Minamoto's retelling, "But These principles are correct in themselves, but they are too far-fetched. This is a consistent problem of the Japanese. They always like to talk about some illusory and empty principles, such as what men should be like...what the world is like...please! Think that you are Are you a samurai who lived in the Edo period? In today's era, only those children who have not grown up and suffered from chuunibyou can use such old-fashioned sentence patterns, right?"

Gen Zhisheng was moved by Uesugoshi's words. He suddenly remembered that this old man's reaction was exactly the same as his before!

When Tachibana Masamune first used these instructive words to him, Minamoto Chisheng's first reaction was that there are still such old-fashioned old guys in this society. However, under Tachibana Masamune's years of influence and subtle influences, Minamoto Chisheng gradually accepted these and once regarded these teachings as the creed of life.

But at this moment, Uesugi Koshi's critical and sarcastic words suddenly reminded Minamoto that he was not a person who liked to be bound by these rules, principles, and restrictions. He only remembered these because he admired Tachibana Masamune. This was a kind of stereotype. Memory... Just like many children don't actually like the texts in the textbooks, but because of the teacher's majesty, or want to behave better in front of the teacher and get enough attention and favor, they act like puppets. Recite the entire text.

Minamoto looked deeply at Uesugoshi. Perhaps the man in front of him was really his father, the man who decisively abandoned his supreme power and status more than sixty years ago, broke away from the family, and disappeared into the world. Men in history.

Maybe he really wanted to be a ramen chef, so he has been doing it for more than sixty years. Yes, that's why he lives so freely and freely, without any pretense at all. It doesn't look like he has a noble bloodline and A person born in a noble family, because he did what he wanted to do, he did not have to bear a mountain of burdens and cruel deceptions in his life.

Isn't this kind of life what I'm pursuing?

Yuan Zhisheng thought he had a little understanding of this man who was probably his father, and a tired smile appeared silently at the corner of his mouth.

"Yes, if you are so old-fashioned, you are just like a retired samurai... I expect that man to give me a decent answer, or at least give me an attitude of repentance." Yuan Zhisheng paused and said in a frustrated tone. , "But he didn't... That was the last trust I could give him without my conscience. But he betrayed my trust, which also meant that I, who trusted him, also betrayed those in my family who bleed to death." people."

"At that time, I wanted to take out my knife, slash his neck, and then escape from this family at all costs...to escape from these silent and solemn but cruel truths that are too hard to accept."