Chapter 142 Ramen Immortal
“Beep, beep, beep—!!!”

The alarm clock rang.

Uesugi Yue reached out from under the quilt to turn off the alarm clock, sat up in the quilt, and stared blankly at the calendar on the wall with lifeless eyes.

He seemed to have had a dream last night, a very strange dream.

wrong!

It’s not a dream!!

Uesugi Yue grabbed the alarm clock and looked at the time. It was 11 o'clock in the morning. The calendar showed September , which was the time when a typhoon hit Tokyo.

Uesugi Yue patted his face to gently wake up his consciousness, and then went online in the chat group. The avatars of the others were gray, and he was the only one in the group.

"it is true."

The chat group that appeared in his field of vision was once again confirmed by Uesugi Yue. After reviewing the content of the chat late last night, Uesugi Yue confirmed that he was not dreaming, but that an incredible event really happened to him.

He pulled the coffee table in front of him, found paper and pen from the cabinet, and wrote down the important content on the paper.

——【Eri Uesugi】

Date of Birth: December 1991, 12
Eye color: deep rose red, Hair color: dark red,
Hobbies: video games, animation, comics, bathing,
Residential address: Genji Heavy Industries Building, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

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This is an important message for my daughter and she must never forget it.

Uesugi Yue crossed his legs, folded his arms, and looked at the information written on the paper and thought about it.

"Well……"

"Well……"

"So be it!"

Uesugi Yue rummaged around the house again and found his passbook. This was the savings he had accumulated since he started selling ramen at a stall in Bunkyo Ward in the 1950s. After counting the savings, he found that there were over 100 million in it.

"That should be enough, right? Open a ramen shop in Shinjuku with that much money?"

There is a sixty-year information gap, and Uesugi Yue has no idea about the current situation of the Snake Eight Clan in Tokyo. Shinjuku District is the place where the Snake Eight Clan are located. Finding a store selling ramen in Shinjuku District is the safest solution Uesugi Yue can think of.

For his daughter, he is willing to give up everything.

Thinking about opening a ramen shop, Uesugi Yue began to sketch on paper. Switching from a street-side ramen stall to a ramen shop was a significant change in management, especially in the bustling Shinjuku district. His previous one-man operation wasn't feasible; he needed to hire someone.

When it comes to hiring people, Uesugi Yue thought of college students. He could recruit a few of them to work part-time.

"I'll go look for a shop this afternoon."

He rarely left Bunkyo Ward, and a trip to Shinjuku Ward was almost fatal to Uesugi Yue. The subway station in Shinjuku Ward was simply a reading comprehension hell, and he almost couldn't find the exit of the subway station.

Although he is a native of Tokyo, when he came to Shinjuku, Uesugi Kotsu behaved no differently from other people who had just arrived in the city. He walked around the streets of the huge Shinjuku district on foot, and when he saw a closed store, he stopped and looked carefully to see if there was any contact information for subletting or selling.

He was using a very primitive method to find shops.

Not every shop can be used to open a ramen restaurant. Tokyo's management in this regard is very complicated. Usually, restaurants are concentrated in one area, rather than in the middle of a row of fashion clothing stores.

"Oh? This place?" Uesugi Yue found a good spot, next to a large restaurant called Daien, where a Southeast Asian restaurant had closed down. It was quite secluded, tucked away in a small alley, not very noticeable. Many of the people coming and going were foreigners, looking like Southeast Asian gang members.

Shinjuku was a place rife with gangs, at least that was what Uesugi Yue had seen. Not only were there the Tachimoto gang, but also the Yano gang and the Southeast Asian gang. Past news reports had shown Yano gang members killing the official leaders of the Tachimoto gang more than once, even beating them to the point of calling the Tokyo police for help.

After confirming the location of the ramen restaurant, Uesugi Yue began to contact people and handle various procedures and licenses. After waiting for a full two months, he finally opened the ramen restaurant.

The store is not big, and the dining space provided to customers can only accommodate five or six more customers than when he set up a stall. However, he can hang a larger TV on the wall in the store, and when there are no customers, he can enjoy the TV programs in the semi-open kitchen.

The business hours are from 12 noon to 1 am. It is much harder than when he was selling ramen at a street stall, but he can also make more money. In the past, he could only sell a bowl of soy sauce ramen for 600 yen, but in the store he can sell it to others for 1000 yen.

While other ramen shops are increasingly using automated ticket machines to issue tickets, Uesugi Yue still insists on customers taking their orders verbally, as he doesn't use them. He's completely transferred some of the habits he inherited from his ramen stalls to his shop.

In the first week after opening, Uesugi Yue's ramen shop was doing pretty well. Many customers passing by wanted to try it and were impressed by his ramen making skills that had been accumulated for more than 60 years.

There are only two things about his ramen that attract customers: the noodles and the broth. He kneads and cuts the noodles by hand, not using any machine; the broth is made from fresh animal bones and meat that are simmered all day long. The aroma spreads across several blocks when you open the lid.

It is thanks to these two skills that Uesugi Yue has been able to sell ramen for more than 60 years without changing his career.

"Hey!!"

"Boss, give us some deluxe soy sauce ramen."

Tonight, just before we were about to start proofing, a few uninvited guests came into the store. They were four bad-looking guys with iron nails in their noses and ears and had unfriendly expressions.

"Okay, sir, the rule of our restaurant is that you pay before eating noodles." Uesugi Yue spoke in a business tone.

"Um?!"

The four bad guys who had just sat down stood up at once.

"What did you say? Say it again?"

"I'm charging you for eating your ramen?"

"You're such an arrogant fellow! You own a shop on this street, but you don't even bother paying your protection money."

"Who do you think we are?!"

Uesugi Yue wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen.

"One, two, three, four, four little bastards."

"Do you know who I am?!" Uesugi Yue asked.

The other party took a look at Uesugi Yue's hands. There were no missing fingers and no traces of tattoos on his skin. He should not be a former gang member.

"The owner of the ramen shop." Buliang replied.

"Do you really think you are a gangster?" Uesugi Yue beat up the four bad guys and threw them onto the street one by one.

A little bit of conflict.

Opening a shop here does require paying protection fees to the local gangs, but he had already paid it when he opened. Now these four guys want him to pay again, probably because they saw that he had just opened a shop and heard some information that made them dare to come and blackmail him.

"Don't let me see you guys again. I have already told my friends in the Noda group about this. They will have a good talk with you." Uesugi Yue said to the bad guys.

(End of this chapter)

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