Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 193, Engagement Negotiation

PS: My brother was beaten up by the European champion KC yesterday and I fainted on the spot. Sorry for the late update~
Setagaya Ward in Tokyo is one of the largest wards in the 23 wards of Tokyo, and also the area with the largest residential area, especially with public housing estates and single-family houses. A large number of working-class families in Tokyo live here.

Although the geographical location is a bit remote, in fact, Japanese who can afford to live in a single-family house here can be considered small middle class. Normal office workers, such as Hiroshi Nohara, the father of "Crayon Shin-chan", have an annual income of more than 500 million yen, but still have to live in Saitama Prefecture and pay a 32-year mortgage. They only have 3 yen in pocket money a month, which is often not enough for meals and socializing.

The most famous case here is the family murder case in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. This case is a rare one in Japanese history in that there is sufficient evidence, including the murderer's fingerprints and DNA, and a large number of the murderer's clothes and props were left at the scene, as well as the murder weapon. However, the Japanese police were unable to solve this unsolved case.

Because the murderer is most likely of Korean descent, the fingerprints and DNA database cannot be matched, a large number of clothes and props are all cheap goods and the shipment volume is so large that they cannot be traced, the house where the accident occurred is located in a remote area with no witnesses and no surveillance, and the family relationships of the deceased are simple.

Because of this case, Japanese police come to the place where the family was massacred every year to lay flowers and bow privately. It is also because of this case and some other major cases that Japan has amended the statute of limitations for criminal cases, stipulating that cases involving similar homicides will not be subject to expired litigation and will be permanently traced.

In late June, Uesugi Sosetsu arrived at Setagaya Gotokuji Temple.

Gotokuji Temple is a small temple and the birthplace of the Japanese lucky cat. It was once the bodhi temple of the Ii family of the Edo Shogunate, and the famous Tokugawa shogun Ii Naosuke is buried here.

After arriving, Uesugi Sosetsu paid his respects at the temple as usual, clapped his hands together, took out a ten-yuan coin and threw it into the coin box, silently waiting in his heart.

Ten dollars helped me perform a successful autopsy!

Ten dollars to help me get engaged!

Ten dollars helps keep my family safe!

Ten dollars to help me reunite with Sister Mikoto!

After completing the prayer, Uesugi Sosetsu paid a formal visit.

There are also a large number of wealthy areas in Setagaya Ward. The area near Gotokuji Temple has a quiet atmosphere, complete land, and convenient transportation, making it a place where many wealthy people settle down.

The Watanabe residence is located here.

The moon-white marble base supports the triple-eaved gray-blue roof. The curved ceramic tiles glow with a silky luster in the morning light. Six Corinthian columns support the seven-meter-high foyer. The vine patterns carved on the columns meander and stretch in the shadows. The Greek-style vortex patterns on the cast iron railings form a wonderful dialogue with the tortoise-shell stone lanterns in the courtyard. The entire floor-to-ceiling window cuts the landscape behind into a flowing three-dimensional painting.

He had just pressed the doorbell when the servant inside saw Uesugi Sosetsu and let him in without waiting for him to say anything. At this time, Watanabe Eiji and his family were already waiting at the door.

"Welcome, Uesugi-kun, welcome." Watanabe Eiji, wearing a light home shirt, stood at the door with a smile on his face. He was tall and had been in a high position in recent years, so he looked very dignified.

The wife of the Superintendent General, Michiko Watanabe, wore a simple black velvet dress with pants and a shawl with a peony pattern on the outside. She was quite tall, dignified and elegant, but time had taken its toll and obvious wrinkles could be seen at the corners of her eyes, forehead, and around her nose.

Then, Miss Minami, wearing a green beret, also poked her head out from behind her parents. She was wearing a tweed plaid strawberry jam classic hip skirt today, and her long, smooth black hair was tied into a bun. She walked in a graceful manner, with a petite, lively and graceful figure. When she saw Uesugi Souji appear, a faint smile immediately appeared on her sweet apple face. The black stockings she wore made her look mysterious. Her pair of milky white jade feet were wrapped in the thin and transparent black stockings, shining with a moving luster.

"Hello, Uncle Watanabe, Aunt Michiko." Uesugi Munesetsu was an old acquaintance of these three. There was no need to say much about Watanabe Eiji and Watanabe Minami. He had even met Watanabe Michiko a few times. When he was a child, Uesugi Munesetsu had seen her when the elders met guests to play mahjong.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Uesugi-kun." Watanabe Eiji said with a smile, "Come in and sit down first."

"Yes."

Turning around, Ying Er Lao Deng gave his wife a look: How is it? Are you satisfied?
Mrs. Michiko's eyes brightened. The more she looked at Uesugi Sosetsu, the more she liked him and the more satisfied she was with him. He had a good appearance, good temperament, good knowledge, and a good family background, but he had a rather straightforward temper. But she was not worried about that. She believed that her daughter could handle it well, and that simple people were easier to control.

Oh, by the way, from now on our daughter will be our daughter-in-law, and Uesugi-kun will be our son.

The decoration of Watanabe Residence is a mixture of old Showa style and new Western-style house style. It can be seen from many places that it has been renovated, just like Watanabe Eiji was born in the Showa era, but he started working in the golden age, so there are many traces of the intersection of the two eras. For example, there are many old Japanese electrical appliances in the house, but they are rarely used, and new appliances are the main force.

The Superintendent of Police has now switched to a smartphone and can use it, and can also play Fruit Ninja Temple Escape, but he still prefers to use his landline to make calls.

The entire Watanabe residence is divided into three floors, covering an area of more than 600 square meters. The house is also equipped with an elevator. At first glance, it looks richer than the Uesugi family. However, compared to the quaintness of the Uesugi family, where everything is a heavy sediment of antiques, the Watanabe family, which only started after the war, is much worse. The "Seven Lucky Gods" are enshrined in the house. Uesugi Sosetsu stopped for a while in front of Bishamonten.

The large living room of the Watanabe residence also retains the traditional Japanese sliding paper doors and has bright floor-to-ceiling windows. Wooden floors are laid in the main areas, but tatami are still retained in some areas.

The four of them sat down and exchanged a few meaningless greetings at first. Then, because Uesugi Sosetsu was a very direct person, he quickly got to the point.

The issue of adopting a son-in-law and inheriting the family name has been discussed many times in the previous article, so I will not repeat it here.

At this time, Uesugi Sosetsu learned a piece of news from Watanabe Eiji.

The Watanabe family agreed to Uesugi Sosetsu's request.

"No need to change your surname?" Uesugi Sosetsu raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Really?"

"Well, this is the conclusion we came to after careful consideration." Watanabe Eiji smiled and said, "It can be seen that you, Uesugi-kun, don't want to change your surname. Well, we understand. The Uesugi family is a famous family that has been passed down from the Muromachi period to the present day. Our Watanabe family just randomly chose it after the 'surname must be called order'. Watanabe Munesetsu, it really doesn't sound very nice."

"Yes, Uesugi-kun, after all, we only have one daughter, Minami. Her happiness is more important than anything else. We know that if we ask, you will eventually accept it, but it is meaningless, so we accept your suggestion. From now on, it will not be Watanabe Sosetsu, but Uesugi Minami." Mrs. Michiko also smiled and said, "I really can't do anything about you, child~ Remember to be nice to Minami."

"Thank you very much!" This time, Uesugi Sosetsu really felt the sincerity of the Watanabe couple. Miss Minami was smiling all the time.

Uesugi-kun had been a member of the nobility for too long, and instinctively felt that the surname was more important, but in fact his family didn't care about the Watanabe surname at all. On the contrary, stealing the "Uesugi" from Uesugi Sosetsu would be more in the interests of their family.

From then on, the Yonezawa Uesugi clan and the Watanabe Uesugi clan coexisted.

But is it necessary to let Uesugi-kun know these things?

of course not!
After this topic was agreed upon, the two families began discussing the engagement, and finally decided to officially get engaged in November this year, after Uesugi Sosetsu's brother Uesugi Sadanori got married.

Then comes the adoption procedure. According to Japan's adoption law, Uesugi Munesetsu will become Watanabe Eiji's adopted son, but after negotiation, the adopted son will not change his surname, that is to say, Watanabe Eiji is still called Watanabe Eiji, and Uesugi Munesetsu is still called Uesugi Munesetsu. After the marriage, Watanabe Minami will change her name to Uesugi Minami. At the same time, Uesugi Munesetsu will officially open a branch of the Yonezawa Uesugi family, namely the Watanabe Uesugi family.

Uesugi Sosetsu will become the first heir to the Watanabe family, but Eiji is still there. Lao Deng's plan is that in the future, Uesugi and Minami's children will be the heirs to all the property of three generations of Watanabe.

"Well, it's settled, then." Watanabe Eiji nodded with satisfaction and looked at his wife.

The plan goes through!
We stole this guy's last name! And he's so grateful to us!
It's a bit of a loss that he lost his beautiful daughter who is as delicate as a flower, his entire family and all the family wealth.

But my daughter likes it, so it seems she has no choice. Besides, this is not marrying her off but bringing her in, so the two children will stay with her in the future.

Ying Erlao Deng smiled.

Yuxian, are you good at giving birth? Your son is great, but now he is mine!

After everything was agreed upon, Watanabe Eiji signaled Uesugi Muneyuki to follow him: "Uesugi-kun, come with me. I have something to say to you."

The two left the official residence and followed the neatly trimmed bluestone path. Watanabe Eiji brought Uesugi Sosetsu to a corner of the courtyard.

Pushing open the heavy bulletproof sandalwood door, the blue-gray marble wall reflects the cold light of the ceiling lights. In the 30-square-meter warehouse, there are more than 20 cabinets like silent guards, and each layer is stuffed with unopened gift boxes. Louis Vuitton crocodile leather briefcases are stacked all the way to the ceiling, the fine Echizen lacquerware is piled in the corner and no one cares about it, and dark yellow sugar stains seep out from the bottom of the packaging boxes of Hokkaido Yubari melons.

Hermès scarves were piled haphazardly in one corner, and the finest Kyoto brocades were bundled together and huddled behind the glass windows.

"Mr. Uesugi, take a look and see if there is anything you like?" Watanabe Eiji smiled and motioned Uesugi Sosetsu to come over.

He opened an entire large horizontal freezer. Boxes of Hokkaido hairy crab refrigerated boxes were lined up one after another, entangled with straw ropes of Okinawa seafood, brocade boxes of Kutani ware were glowing in the shadows, some of the tea cans from Shizuoka were broken, and the finest Gyokuro tea leaves were scattered at the bottom of the freezer, mixing with the oily smell of the boxes of Kobe marbled Wagyu beef and Kagoshima black Wagyu beef gift boxes next to them to form a strange subtle fragrance.

"So many?" Uesugi Sosetsu was a connoisseur of goods. Looking at Watanabe Eiji's stockpile, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Do you have the habit of hoarding goods?"

"What hoarding habit? These were sent by colleagues from local police headquarters and the Metropolitan Police Department." Watanabe Eiji snapped his fingers, indicating to look here.

He took Uesugi Sosetsu into the locked inner room of the warehouse.

Deep in the moisture-proof cabinet, there is a row of Rolex mechanical watch dials, flickering faintly in the darkness. The names of important officials from local police headquarters are casually pressed under the scrolls of the Tokyo Ginza Gallery on the surface of Patek Philippe wooden boxes. A large number of gold foil-coated gift boxes have not been opened, and there is no way to verify what is inside. For some gift boxes, even the ink on which the names are written is blurred, and it is unknown who sent them.

"Every year this warehouse is filled to the brim." Watanabe Eiji proudly showed the warehouse to Uesugi Sosetsu, "There is no place to store the gifts from all over the country. Every year, we have to eat some of them until April or May."

"I have never hinted to my subordinates, never showed my hobbies to others, and never asked for bribes, but I have received this." Watanabe Eiji said here, his expression gradually becoming serious: "As long as I hint to others about what I like, all the police organizations in Japan's one city, one road, two prefectures and 43 counties will immediately send a large number of gifts here within a week. If I stand in front of a painting at an exhibition for a little longer, someone will deliver the painting to my home the next day."

"How is it, Uesugi-kun? I think you, the Yonezawa Uesugi clan, haven't experienced this feeling for a long time?"

Uesugi Sosetsu nodded silently.

The number of gifts the Uesugi family receives every year is less than one-tenth of what is received here, and my father has to give away a lot of them.

He now understood why his grandfather had always worried that once he died, the Uesugi family would be rapidly marginalized from upper society, and why Hirate Sarana didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Professors of the University of Tokyo are, after all, just noble, and the Uesugi family now just has a title.

"From now on, these will naturally belong to you and Minami." Seeing that Uesugi Sosetsu understood, Watanabe Eiji took the initiative to pat his shoulder and said, "I know you don't like and don't want to go into politics, so I never force you. If you don't want to change your last name, I agree to that."

"So, I would also like to make a small request to you, Uesugi-kun, is that okay?"

"Uncle Watanabe, please speak."

"Still calling me uncle?!"

"Um... Godfather, please speak."

(End of this chapter)