Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 413: There are no good people in the Kujo family! 4
All the water flowing through the Kujo family's house converges under the eaves of Tatsukawa Tetsu's house, where the summer heat is eliminated and dissipated.

Long Chuanche held the biography behind his back, clearly doubting whether he had heard it clearly.

"reason?"

In the past, if I got a little close to Natsuko Imamura, this guy would look like he wanted to kill me. Today, he proposed to marry his daughter to me.

"What, you also want to trace back to the source and play that Fujiwara family marriage regency game?"

Ryukawa Tetsu looked at Imamura Yuukawa with a curious expression, as if to say, "You're such a potato?"

The Fujiwara family, as one of the five regent families, had a very interesting political history in its early years.

He rose to power during the reign of Emperor Tenji and began to control the national government through marriage alliances during the reign of Emperor Monmu.

They would marry women from their families to the young emperor, and then seize power in the name of the emperor's youth.

The young emperors came and went, and the women of the Fujiwara family married one after another, thus the Fujiwara family controlled Japan for three hundred years.

Ryukawa Tetsu's voice was slightly teasing, but Imamura Yuukawa had no intention of joking with him.

He took a silver cigarette case out of his pocket and gestured to Long Chuanche to make sure he didn't mind.

“I used to hold you when you were little.”

Imamura Yukawa lit a thin white cigarette, took a deep breath, and let the wisps of smoke dissipate before his eyes.

It smelled pungent and choking; Long Chuanche saw him hold up a distance of about one and a half feet.

"Playing the emotional card is out of the question."

Long Chuanche rolled his eyes, finding it hard to believe that he had been imitating Shakyamuni's walking posture when he was so young.

There is an interesting anecdote or story in Zen koans.

It is said that when the World-Honored One was first born, he pointed one finger to the sky and one finger to the earth, took seven steps, and looked around in all directions. He said, "Above and below heaven, I alone am the honored one."

This is the origin of Buddhism, and also the first group of people who were born with precocious intelligence.

Born with thoughts and wisdom, Prince Shotoku is a similar figure in Japan.

They were both Buddhist figures, and both were precocious.

Longchuan Che finally understood where the arrogance in Xiaochuan's biography came from.

"Just tell me what's wrong. If it's related to your daughter, I'll help if I can."

Ryukawa Toru took two steps to the side and sat down. After confirming that Imamura Yukawa's perspective couldn't see what was in his hands, he opened the short biography he had just read.

The handwriting and tone were very familiar, and Long Chuanche felt as if he was slowly regaining his memories.
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On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the first year of the Heisei era, a baby girl of my age was sent over by a branch family from central Honshu.

They were born in the same year and month, clearly indicating she was the eldest daughter.

While Tatsukawa Toru was reading through the biography, Imamura Yukawa was still reading as well.

“Xia Zi left her mother when she was very young. My marriage to her mother was just a casual arrangement by my father.”

Kujo family, Imamura Yukawa.

After his mother married an ordinary man, he was arranged to marry the eldest daughter of the Nijo family, as if he were being used up.
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The Nijo family has a considerable economic fortune. Everyone knows what Grandpa is thinking, but no one, including the eldest daughter of the Nijo family who was abruptly placed in this position, has any objections.

The diary contains fairly detailed accounts of the Nijo family's situation.

She left the Kujo family in her early years, but after Japan entered industrialization and she prospered, she was brought back by the old man through a marriage alliance.
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Sending the baby girl back might be a form of resistance from the woman, or it could be a manifestation of a woman's small ambition.

Because the young lady was sent to the main family when she was very young, there is a lot about her in the book, and Tatsukawa Tetsu picked and chose what to read.
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The square-faced man didn't see his wife very often, except for family gatherings and their wedding.

The square-faced man here must be Imamura Yukawa. Ryukawa Toru almost burst out laughing when he saw the other man's square face.

"You married Xiazi's mother, and then she sent the child back. What exactly happened?"

Longchuan Che closed the biography; he was too talkative in the diary.

It seems like I've been holding it in for eight or ten years, writing everything down in my diary.

Today, they'll have the water drained from the garden; tomorrow, they'll have the bamboo cut down to make small rafts.

Much of what he said was just casual banter, but Tatsukawa Toru picked out a few things that interested him and asked Imamura Yukawa about them.

"My father viewed my marriage to the Nijo family as a sign of the return of power, and my wife..."

When he mentioned the word "wife," Imamura Yukawa frowned slightly, and Ryukawa Toru could tell that he had no feelings for that woman.

"She sent Xiazi back because she felt there was a chance to take over the main family." "A chance?"

Longchuan Che was somewhat curious.

Imamura Yukawa's gaze was somewhat subtle. Ryukawa Tetsu knew that the one who really wanted to imitate the Fujiwara family's methods was probably that young lady's birth mother.

The eldest daughter of the Kujo main family, who is about the same age as Tatsukawa Toru, is from the only branch of the family.

Long Chuanche flipped through the diary and saw the word "young wife" in many places.

"Wouldn't it be a good thing if I didn't come back? Why make me marry Xia Zi?"

Long Chuanche pinched his chin.

A woman wanted to try to control her family by marrying off her daughter.

But unexpectedly, fate gave her a wonderful gift.

After Kujo Nishiko left the Kujo main family, Imamura Natsuko, who was supposed to marry, became Kujo Fujitaka's de facto granddaughter.

"It's not that easy."

Imamura Yukawa shook his head.

"In aristocratic families, blood ties are far more important than you imagine."

Imamura Yukawa is an adopted son-in-law.

Even though the young lady calls Kujo Fujitaka "grandfather," their blood relation is terribly thin.

"It would have been better if you hadn't shown up. Now that you've appeared, many people are starting to waver."

The relationship between the main family and the branch family is the result of a long-standing tug-of-war.

Kujo Seiko ran away, and Ryukawa Toru disappeared without a trace.

The originally chosen heir has been changed to the eldest daughter.

The fact that Nijo Maki's daughter was to become the head of the family after the old man's death caused a great uproar, which was already a source of discontent, to the point that Tatsukawa Tetsu's appearance completely ignited the conflict.

"So, you're begging me because you want me to help your daughter consolidate her position as head of the family?"

Ryukawa Tetsu didn't want to go back to the Kujo family.

Or perhaps he's no longer interested in the power of the Kujo family.

Even someone as insightful as the young lady was used as a bargaining chip.

He actually came back but didn't know what was going on.

"No."

After taking the last drag of his cigarette, Imamura Yukawa looked at Ryukawa Toru with a complicated expression.

"I just hope that Xiazi lives a good life, and I just hope that she has a complete life."

The man's actions surprised Tatsukawa Toru, because this former Minister of Education was now a member of the Hokkaido Diet.

"Father is not dead. This family dinner is also a conspiracy."

Place both palms flat and bend your back.

The middle-aged man, who was considerably older than Longchuan Che, performed a standard kowtow.

"If Father doesn't die, many people will die tonight."

The spine, like a broken mountain ridge.

Tatsukawa Tetsu never expected that his trip back to the Kujo family would lead to so many problems.

He disrupted the previously stable situation.

Nijo Maki will die, and the Nijo family will die.

Even all those who favor the Nijo family
tonight.

Will die too.

(End of this chapter)