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

Chapter 50 The Kujo Family
After Ryukawa Toru got into the car, Mrs. Takeda saw him staring blankly at the scarf he had received.

The cashmere fabric seemed to warm his frozen skin, and he revealed a trace of tranquility that was not usually seen on his face.

His black hair flashed with silver light, he buried half of his face in the scarf, and there was a gentle look in the corners of his eyes that was not usually seen.

The boy had become mean and difficult to deal with some time ago, and his gentle expression at this moment was rare.

"That's great. I almost forgot you're an 18-year-old high school student."

Taro Ono turned down the volume of the radio that was making a rustling sound, and looked at Ryukawa Toru with a smile.

"Now it seems that he always likes to have a sullen face."

The editor laughed somewhat exaggeratedly, and Longchuan Che listened to him talking about himself from the perspective of Matsueda Muko.

What? It was his wife who pursued him back then.

As soon as such words came out, it was obvious that he was bragging. Long Chuan Che tucked his scarf in with a headache and looked at the increasingly unfamiliar environment.

"where are we going?"

Editor Ono said he had something to talk to him about ever since he got in the car. Now he's taking him further and further off the track, which is really scary to think about.

It is now the year of Heisei 2019, and many places near Mount Fuji are still nature reserves.

There were wolves howling in the snow. Without this iron Toyota Mark, Longchuan Che would not have dared to run around nearby at night.

After Takako Takeda got back into the car with Toru Ryukawa, she looked a little dazed. Her body was shaking as the car was moving, as if she was thinking about something she couldn't understand.

After hearing Ryukawa Toru's question, Ono Taro thought for a moment and then said.

"How much do you know about the old noble families?"

"The Imperial Family's Screen was founded in 1869. Why are you mentioning something so outdated?"

When Longchuan Che said "old-fashioned", he deliberately emphasized the words.

"Asshole, what did you say!"

Mrs. Takeda was so anxious when she heard this. The so-called old noble families can generally refer to the privileged upper class in the Meiji Restoration era.

On June 1869, 6, the first year after Japan moved its capital to Tokyo, Emperor Meiji abolished the titles of court nobles and feudal lords and changed them to the nobility.

The kourō no kōke refers to people of high rank such as the Daijo minister and the left and right ministers, while the vassal lords refer to people such as the feudal lords (daimyo).

Takeda Shingen of the Takeda family was formerly the lord of a domain near Yamanashi Prefecture.

If Mrs. Takeda had a bit of backbone, she would have rushed up with her samurai sword and fought to the death against anyone who dared to insult the nobles. However, when Mrs. Takeda looked at the profile of Ryukawa Toru, she just snorted coldly and turned to look out the window.

The relationship between these two people was a bit strange, so Taro Ono didn't ask any more questions and continued talking.

"On June 6, 17 families were granted the status of nobility, including 427 noble families and 142 feudal families. Although they are nominally treated equally, the nobility from noble families are called "noble nobility" and those from feudal families are called "military nobility". Of these 285 families, do you know which ones are the top nobility?"

Longchuan Che didn't know that he would have to take the history exam after he came out. After thinking for a while, he said casually:
"Konoe, Takaji, one, two, nine."

Ryukawa Toru was talking about the five top families of Japanese nobles before the Meiji Restoration.

These five families have played an important role in Japanese history. They have interfered in government affairs and served as regents when the emperor was young.

"The five great regents were all granted the title of Duke after the Meiji Restoration. They should be the most powerful people in Japan besides the Emperor."

Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Japan imitated the ancient Chinese system of ennoblement and ennobled 427 families as nobility, among which the five regent families who served as regents were all ennobled as dukes.

"The nobility, if it weren't for the Meiji Restoration, we commoners wouldn't even be able to use our surnames publicly."

Taro Ono said this with deep emotion.

Before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, common people did not have the right to have their own surnames. If we go back one or two hundred years, when Ryukawa Toru met Takeda Takako, who was from a samurai family, he had to kneel down and kowtow to her.

Ryukawa Tetsu looked at Mrs. Takeda through the rearview mirror, wondering if he should ask her to kowtow to him someday. After all, she had been eating her own rice for more than a decade, so she should be grateful to her benefactor.

While Ryukawa Tetsu was daydreaming, Ono Taro continued:

“The Chinese system lasted only 78 years.”

When Taro Ono said this, Mrs. Takeda behind him sighed helplessly.

The royal family's vassal screen is the official and military road.

The original purpose of setting up the Hua clan was to bring the samurai lords, who were originally hostile forces, under their control. However, with the development of society and the changing times, the Hua clan gradually withdrew from the stage of history in 1947.

“But the Chinese have not disappeared!”

Taro Ono, not knowing whether he was dissatisfied or helpless, drove the car into a bamboo forest.

The environment here is quiet and the snow on the roadside has been swept clean.

The stone lantern at the door was covered with a white snow hat, and the vine pattern on the gate made Long Chuan Che stunned.

"This is the Kujo family?"

The drooping vines are one of the Five Regents in history. Ryuukawa Tetsu looked at the legendary family crest with some surprise.

The regent is the first two of the five regents.

The Kujo family, which was supposed to have withdrawn from the stage of history, appeared before his eyes, and Ryukawa Toru's heart tightened.

Perhaps just saying this is not enough to understand the status of the five major photographers, but let me say one thing.

During the 78 years of the reign of the nobility, the Konoe family, one of the five regents, produced a Japanese prime minister.

The Chinese did not disappear, they just moved from the front stage to the backstage.

When Longchuan Toru sat in the tea room of the Kujo family, he still looked a little dazed.

Half an hour ago, he was a poor high school student who couldn't even afford 8000 yen, but now he suddenly has to face one of the most powerful families in Japan.

Longchuan Che picked up the Gyokuro tea in front of him, took a sip, and sighed with emotion.

"what happened to you?"

After drinking the green tea which should be very expensive, Ryukawa Toru looked at Takeda Takako who followed him with a strange look.

"You seem a little nervous."

Ryukawa Toru drank tea with the attitude that drinking more means earning more, while Mrs. Takeda sat tensely in the quaint tea room.

He sat upright, clenched his fists and placed his hands on his thighs in a panic.

Longchuan Che still had the mood to look at the beautiful displays in the room, but the other party was so nervous that he couldn't speak.

"I think we should go."

Takako Takeda glanced at the sliding paper door nervously, as if some terrible beast would burst out once the door was opened.

It was quiet outside the house, and the bitter bamboo planted in the yard supported half of the sky.

Longchuan Che looked at the other person with a strange look on his face.

Is it possible that there is some kind of bloodline suppression among the Chinese people?
Although Mrs. Takeda was badly beaten up by Ryukawa Toru recently, she still refused to admit defeat by calling him a little bastard.

It feels like I'm going to encounter a ghost now.

"Why are you leaving? Are you scared?"

Longchuan Che put down the cup and looked at the other person strangely. The other person's hands were trembling slightly at this time.

(End of this chapter)