"You want to drag me into the water too? Old Song, your guts are getting bigger and bigger. You've even plotted against me? You want me to join you in doing all that shady crap—did a donkey kick you in the head?"
Li Ye gave Old Song a thorough tongue-lashing. The old bastard was crafty and sinister; not only did he not cherish his life at his age, he even wanted to drag Li Ye into the water for a group crime.
Seeing Li Ye get angry, Old Song hurriedly said, "Top Scholar, don't misunderstand. I'm not trying to drag you into the water. I just want to borrow something from you."
Li Ye shot him a sidelong glance and said irritably, "What do you want to borrow? Let me make this clear first—I don't have anything illegal."
"I've got illegal things myself."
Old Song gave a sly chuckle. "I want to borrow that set of Ming dynasty official-kiln Five-colored flower and bird teapots from you."
"Five-colored flower and bird teapots? You're going fishing?"
Li Ye froze for a moment before remembering that there really was a set of teapots gathering dust in a cabinet at home. If they had not been connected to Nakamura Naoto, Li Ye might not even have remembered them.
Back when Li Ye had gone to congratulate Wang Jianqiang on his housewarming, he had seen Nakamura Naoto go to Second Uncle Guan's home to buy that set of teapots. Li Ye had not wanted the teapots to fall into the hands of the Japanese, so he had had Old Song and Wei Jiaxian make a move and intercept them.
Li Ye did not know that during that interception, Wei Jiaxian and Old Song had used a set of counterfeits to probe out that Second Uncle