Lost and Spy

Chapter 541
Meng Shaoyuan looked at the two dishes with trepidation.

Needless to say, Manager Ge really made "herring bald lungs" and "paper-wrapped fried chicken".

Chen Yinge took a bite of "herring bald lung", frowned, looked at "paper-wrapped fried chicken", his chopsticks did not move at all, but stretched out to the side of the plate of vegetables and lard residue, and took a bite:
"The green vegetables beaten by frost are very sweet."

Needless to say, you must be dissatisfied?
"Professor Chen." Meng Shaoyuan said with a smile on his face: "The two dishes you mentioned have been lost now. The chefs in this restaurant really don't know how to cook them. Please bear with me. I said simple is a real bragging .”

Chen Yinge smiled indifferently: "Yes, many things of our ancestors have been lost. If they are lost, they are lost. Some of us always want to restore these lost things, but if they are restored, is it still the same? "

Hey, there seems to be something in the words?

"There are too many things that have been lost." Chen Yinge put down his chopsticks and took a sip of tea: "Many of our lost things have been carried forward in Japan. For example, sitting on your knees used to be our orthodox sitting posture, otherwise it would be disrespectful. But later We invented high-legged seats such as chairs, and kneeling gradually disappeared. But when it was introduced to Japan, it became a symbol of their traditional culture.

Another example is raw fish, sashimi.During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Yusheng was the most popular in China. The original meaning of the popular idiom is that everyone loves to eat Yusheng and barbecue.Li Bai has a poem, "Hu'er brushes a few frost blades, and the red muscle flowers fall to the white snow".Since the Ming Dynasty, the custom of eating raw fish began to decline in China. Why?Most of our freshwater fish in China have parasites in them. Chen Deng in the Three Kingdoms period died of parasites because he loved to eat sashimi.

What about Japan?I also learned it as it was, and it became popular all over the country.And I learned it very thoroughly, not only learned how to slice it thinly and dip it in mustard, but also completely retained the ancient Chinese style in many details.

In Japanese cuisine, sashimi is always placed on perilla leaves and served with shredded white radish. The radish has the function of digesting and dissolving accumulation..."

Meng Shaoyuan listened with gusto.

He knows many of these, but he really doesn't know about things like "Hu'er brushes the frost blade a few times, and the red muscles bloom and Bai Xuefei falls".

Take a look at Professor Chen, who speaks casually and eloquently, which is better than strolling in the garden, but it makes you listen to it unconsciously. This is the real level.

It's been a long time since Chen Yinge had such a refreshing chat with someone. When it comes to Xingtou, especially when it comes to Japanese culture, from time to time there will be a few Japanese local sayings.

Later, he sighed deeply again:
"Why? Because we feel that those cultures are backward and no longer suitable for the development of the times, so we categorically abandoned them. That is progress. Wuling King Hufu rides and shoots, abandons the attitude of being a country, and tells his enemies, those The uncivilized barbarian learns, and Zhao Guo becomes a powerful country, which is also progress. Looking at the development and strength of China, there are many people who have the courage to abandon the law of the ancestors.

But there are some things that cannot be lost, and that is the word integrity.The Japanese learn from my Chinese kneeling, yusheng, and matcha, which are trivial and not worth mentioning, but they also learned the essence of our Chinese culture.In order to make Japan a powerful country, ordinary people are willing to endure hunger and starvation, and sell everything they want..."

Meng Shaoyuan nodded frequently.

Regardless of the grievances between China and Japan, national unity is very important on Japan's road to becoming a powerful country, but during this period, China lagged far behind.

Especially in the "integrity festival", there are a lot of traitors in China...

When Chen Yinge said this, he suddenly felt strange: "Hey, can you understand all the Japanese I just said?"

"I can understand." Meng Shaoyuan quickly replied: "I hired a Japanese teacher who taught me Japanese, and I still learned Kyoto dialect."

"Oh?" Chen Yinge quickly switched to pure Japanese: "You still learn Kyoto dialect?"

"Yes, my teacher also talked to me about the tone of people in Kyoto when they speak, such as arrogance, etc..." Meng Shaoyuan replied fluently in Japanese.

Chen Yinge suddenly laughed: "That teacher of yours probably learned the dialect of the capital?"

this……

Yuri Yamashita is a serious Japanese. When teaching these Kyoto dialects, she explained all the key points in detail.

Meng Shaoyuan also relied on his Japanese with a Kyoto accent to save himself from danger many times.

"After all, it's nothing more than the arrogance of the people in Kyoto. They regard people in other places as countrymen. Naturally, there is a little pride in their tone, but that's just the superficial, not the essence of the Kyoto dialect." Chen Yinge The tone was dismissive: "The real Kyoto aristocratic accent is far from superficial, and the knowledge in it has grown."

That's right.

When you are in Hong Kong, you speak authentic Kyoto dialect with an aristocratic accent, which makes the Japanese military officers think that you have offended some important figure in Japan, so they flee in despair.

Although Yurika Yamashita is Japanese, she is not a so-called Japanese aristocrat after all, and her knowledge of aristocratic culture is limited.

"You are a spy." Chen Yinge said unceremoniously: "Learning the Kyoto dialect may be of great use to you in the future. Come on, I am poor and entertained by you. I am always embarrassed to think about it, so I will only spend a few days." Time, let me tell you about Japanese aristocratic culture, talk about the privileges of Japanese aristocrats that you don’t know about, and then correct your so-called Kyoto accent.”

Meng Shaoyuan was overjoyed.

Chen Yinge was born in a Chinese official family. His grandfather was a feudal official in Xinjiang. His father, Chen Sanli, had a good relationship with Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Liangjiang. It was a real family. It was the most popular group of overseas students in Japan at that time.

The Japanese even take pride in marrying their daughters to these people, and there have been incidents where women would go on a hunger strike to marry Chinese people in order to achieve their goals.

The people Chen Yinge associates with in Japan are all upper-class people, so he knows them all too well.

With his guidance, in the future, when dealing with the Japanese, he will be more comfortable, pretending to be those Japanese aristocrats, and will be more handy, completely avoiding the danger of being exposed once he meets a real Japanese aristocrat.

Meng Shaoyuan got up quickly and bowed respectfully:
"teacher!"

……

For three consecutive days, Meng Shaoyuan seemed to have disappeared.

The matter of evacuating the cultural scholars all fell on Wu Jingyi.

This Young Master Meng didn't know what to do.

Wu Jingyi was also helpless.

When she came to work early in the morning, Wu Jingyi was taken aback.

Just after entering the office, I saw a Japanese standing there openly.

Why can you recognize this is a Japanese at a glance?
Too simple, he is wearing Japanese clothes?
Unlike a kimono, wearing a black curved hat, weird.

"Assistant Wu, you're late."

As soon as the "Japanese" opened his mouth, Wu Jingyi realized that this was Meng Shaoyuan, Master Meng!

"You...what the hell are you doing?" Wu Jingyi was dumbfounded: "What are you wearing?"

"It's called Dongzhiyi." Meng Shaoyuan said triumphantly, "The hat is called a peace-style black hat, and the clothes are called clothes. The fan in my hand must be taken... Hey, do I look like one? A high official in Japan?"

"How about the high officials in Japan, I don't know." Wu Jingyi said slowly: "I think you look like a funeral."

I rely on!

He studied hard at Chen Yinge for three days, and lived in the room. Chen Yinge told himself all the culture he knew without reservation.

Even the Japanese in the Kyoto accent has been greatly corrected, and it is no longer just arrogant and rude.

How about you, just say that I look like a funeral?

However, Meng Shaoyuan also believed that with these three days of intensive training, he would be more carefree in dealing with the Japanese in the future.

There is no need to pretend to be Japanese nobles, but they don't have any style.

It was too troublesome to smoke a cigarette while wearing clothes, Meng Shaoyuan finally lit a cigarette: "How much have you evacuated?"

Finally thought of asking this?Wu Jingyi gave him a blank look: "Two batches have been evacuated. The Japanese are very strict on the ships leaving Shanghai for Wuhan, and it took some trouble."

"Don't let anything happen to you." Meng Shaoyuan repeatedly urged: "Those in the literary and art circles, don't think they can't lift a gun or throw a grenade, but sometimes the pen in their hand is better than thousands of troops. .”

"I know." Wu Jingyi nodded and said, "So, although our manpower is tight, I still dispatched special agents as much as possible and escorted them all the way to Wuhan. After arriving in Wuhan, our comrades there will personally take care of them. .but……"

Wu Jingyi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I was responsible for the first batch. It can be seen that some of them are somewhat unwilling to deal with us when they hear that we are spies."

"The title of spy is basically stink in China." Meng Shaoyuan smiled wryly: "We people are only responsible for the work against the enemy. What do they think and do have anything to do with us?"

"Director Meng, your idea is very dangerous." Wu Jingyi reminded her: "For those who enter our military command, political and ideological courses are the first to be taken. Don't forget that it was specifically explained..."

"Forget it." Meng Shaoyuan interrupted her: "We are all on our own, so don't talk about the officialdom. I have no time to deal with the Japanese killing traitors. How can I care about other things? Don't talk about this, no Say this."

He cheered up: "Assistant Wu, help me see if there is a ship to Hong Kong. I want to send a big man there. Mr. Dai specially told me to take care of this."

"Ok."

"That's right." Meng Shaoyuan seemed to have thought of something: "If you want to bring something to your husband in Hong Kong, you can also ask him to send it to you, but you can only let your husband pick it up, and you can't let others give it to you. Send it over, sir."

What kind of big man is this worthy of Director Meng?

Wu Jingyi was a little confused.

(End of this chapter)