The originally peaceful Lin family was thrown into a state of unrest by this late-night phone call.
Keiko Kobayashi was also awakened. Wearing her cute pink pajamas, she opened the door and walked into the living room.
At this time, she also saw her father, mother and several brothers all walked out with serious expressions.
Father Lin Tongchun picked up the phone in the living room and said in Japanese with a serious expression:
"Mr. Tokugawa, I am Lin Tongchun. May I ask what you may have to say to me?"
"Advice? Haha! I don't deserve it. Mr. Lin, I've said it before, you Chinese are extremely hypocritical.
What did you tell me when you were going to marry Shizuka?
You married Shizuko because you loved her, not because she was the daughter of the Tokugawa family.
But what happened later? Didn't they still use the name of our Tokugawa family to cheat people?
Now, I didn’t expect that your hypocrisy has reached a higher level.
You actually used your daughter Keiko Kobayashi's name and borrowed the power of my Tokugawa family to get a few pieces of rotten land in Tokyo, and you have brought shame upon yourself to the knowledge of all Japanese people."
There was anger and sarcasm in Tokugawa Iehatsu's voice.
After hearing this, Lin Tongchun remained calm and said:
"Mr. Tokugawa, your accusation is completely groundless. Including the previous incident, I did not deliberately seek to profit from the name of your Tokugawa family.
Rather, when the other party was making things difficult for me, they recognized Shizuko and asked about her relationship with the Tokugawa family. That’s when they gave up on making things difficult for my company and gave me a fair chance to compete.”
"Does it make any difference? If you are a Chinese man who keeps saying that you want to build a career in Japan on your own, without the protection of our Tokugawa family, you would have been gnawed away to the bone."
Tokugawa Iehatsu still spoke in a disdainful tone, and the voice coming from the receiver was very harsh in the quiet late night.
The atmosphere in the entire hall was very depressing, especially among Lin Tongchun's children, who all looked very unhappy.
Even though the person scolding their father on the other end of the phone was their uncle, they still clenched their fists, indignant on behalf of their father.
At this time, Lin Tongchun's wife, Tokugawa Shizuko, snatched the phone and angrily scolded the other party:
"Brother, you are not allowed to speak of my husband like that.
He is a real man, a powerful man who relied on himself, started from scratch, and built up a huge business.
In my eyes, he is the best man in the world.
Among the men in our Tokugawa family, if we did not rely on the reputation and foundation of the Tokugawa family, who could be more successful than my Lin Tongchun?
Also, this time, Keiko's acquisition of "Tomorrow Comics Weekly" was all handled by her alone.
Whether before or after, we will not borrow any resources or reputation from the Tokugawa family."
"Jingzi, why are you so impulsive?
I mean, it's okay if you want to borrow the Tokugawa family's reputation.
But, could you at least say hello to me first?
The reputation of the Tokugawa family is a true aristocratic reputation, which cannot be used by you to gain a tiny bit of profit.
In this way, I will be laughed at by the aristocratic circle.
Aren’t they just three plots of land in a remote development zone in Tokyo?
Shizuko, as long as you ask me and are willing to come back to see our elderly father, I can guarantee that tomorrow the Tokyo Ministry of Culture and the Land Management Office will revise the policies and regulations, and Keiko's "Tomorrow's Weekly Manga" comics company will be able to obtain full and unconditional ownership of the three plots of land.
You have the extremely noble blood of our Tokugawa family. Marrying Lin Tongchun, a beggar from China, is simply too good a bargain for him.
Your father did it all for your own good, why can't you forgive him? Now he has suffered a stroke and is in bed, he just wants to see you again..."
After finally hearing his sister's voice, Tokugawa Iehatsu immediately softened his tone.
Moreover, he also offered very generous conditions, hoping that the youngest daughter of the Tokugawa family who had betrayed her family could return to the family and let her old father who missed her see her.
When Tokugawa Shizuko's children heard the conditions proposed by their uncle, they became a little anxious.
Kobayashi Keiko was the first to take the lead. She stepped forward and grabbed the microphone. She was as brave as a man and started to criticize her uncle:
"Mr. Tokugawa, please be careful with your words.
The so-called aristocratic bloodline of the Tokugawa family is nothing compared to the Chinese Jiumu Lin family of our Lin family.
Do you know what the Nine Governors Lin family means? This means that in our Lin family's ancestors, there were nine people in the family who were governors at the same time, in charge of a state.
Does a tiny country like Japan know how big a Chinese state is?
Our Lin family was in charge of nine states as big as Japan at the same time. We were so prestigious and prosperous at that time.
So, judging by bloodline, my mother's marriage to my father was not marrying down, but marrying up."
Keiko Kobayashi said with pride that she went to China to study Chinese history this time, so she made a special trip to investigate historical materials and studied the genealogy and heritage of her Jiumu Lin family.
When she learned about the history of the entire Lin family after its ancestor came to Fujian, the glory of the nine dynasties, etc., Kobayashi Keiko was also greatly shocked.
Now, she was able to tell her uncle, who had always looked down on her father, about the glorious history of her bloodline, and she felt very happy.
"Ah! Our Lin family's ancestors were so glorious?"
"I really don't know. Why didn't my father tell me this? How did my younger sister know this?"
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