For the increasingly declining Tokugawa family, being ridiculed by other families because of an unrecognized son-in-law's family was simply intolerable.
Therefore, Tokugawa Iehata called Lin Tongchun again without any hesitation.
"Hey! Lin-san, do you know what you are doing?
Could it be that this is your revenge against the Tokugawa family?
Do you want to make the Tokugawa family the laughing stock of all of Tokyo?
Or do you think that you can use the reputation of the Tokugawa family to force me to help you settle the three plots of land?"
Tokugawa Iehatsu was furious and lectured in a condescending tone.
Upon hearing this, Lin Tongchun laughed and said to him: "Tokugawa-kun, you think too highly of your Tokugawa family and underestimate our Lin family.
Huizi has her own way of dealing with things, and I have always firmly believed that everything she did was right.
Moreover, our Lin family is no longer the same as before. We have already told you very clearly that we will never take advantage of your Tokugawa family's benefits and reputation.
If you are worried that we will bring shame to the reputation of your Tokugawa family, you can just announce to the public that our family has nothing to do with the Tokugawa family.
My wife has changed her surname a long time ago. Before marrying me, she was Tokugawa Shizuko, but now her name is Kobayashi Shizuko.
So, Tokugawa-kun, I respect you as Shizuko's brother, which is why I speak to you so nicely. Otherwise, I would have just stopped answering your calls.
Apart from anything else, just based on what your inhuman father did to Shizuka, there is no way we can forgive him."
At this point, Lin Tongchun immediately became excited.
Realizing that the person speaking to him was still the head of the Tokugawa family, Lin Tongchun slowed down his tone and said to him:
"In short, if you want to communicate and exchange family ties with our family members in the capacity of Shizuka's elder brother, we welcome you.
There will never be any interest factors involved, and I will not stop the children from recognizing you as their uncle.
However, if you, as the head of the Tokugawa family, want to give orders to our Lin family and influence our lives and decisions.
Sorry, that's not possible.
We, the Lin family, cannot afford the glory of your Tokugawa family."
"Lin Sang! Listen to me, what my father did was indeed very wrong.
However, he did this purely for Shizuko's own good.
At that time, you were just a small businessman selling cloth on the street.
What kind of good life can Shizuka have following you?
Moreover, after so many years, are you still unwilling to forgive an old man who is about to be buried?"
Tokugawa Iehata also realized that Lin Tongchun was different from other members of the family and had no need or obligation to obey his orders.
Therefore, his tone became weaker.
Thinking of his father who was dying on the sickbed, and whose last wish was to be forgiven by his daughter, Tokugawa Iemasa could only lower his head and speak to Lin Tongchun in a kind manner.
"What old man? We will never forgive such a beast.
Can you knock your daughter unconscious and send her to a strange man's bed under the pretext of doing good for her?
Haha! You guys always talk about the glory and honor of the Tokugawa family.
You Japanese are truly hypocritical to the extreme. Shizuko and I will never forgive him until we die.
If you bring this up again, I won’t be answering any more calls from you.”
Snap!
Lin Tongchun then hung up the phone.
On the side, his wife Shizuko Kobayashi came forward and touched her husband's arm soothingly.
She whispered to him, "My dear husband, please don't worry about the past.
My eldest brother is such a stubborn and foolishly filial person.
Anyway, I have broken with my family and am no longer a member of the Tokugawa family.
You and the children, never let yourselves be wronged because of the Tokugawa family's affairs.
We just need to be our true selves.”
"Shizuko! I hate myself. Why couldn't I be braver and take you away from the Tokugawa family?
Otherwise, you wouldn’t…wouldn’t be ruined like that.”
Lin Tongchun held his wife's hand tightly, and it can be said that he was extremely heartbroken.
"Perhaps this is fate's arrangement! If we hadn't gone through that, perhaps... we wouldn't be able to stay together successfully like we are now!"
Thinking of that unpleasant experience, Shizuko Kobayashi's whole body tensed up.
Yes!
At that time, she and the young boy Lin Tongchun met by chance on the streets of Tokyo.
Lin Tongchun actively and diligently tried to sell her the floral fabrics from his own family, hoping that she could buy some.
And Tokugawa Shizuko felt very fresh when she heard the words of this young man who had a heavy Japanese accent but was extremely enthusiastic.
So she bought some of the cloth he brought and promised to come back to buy again tomorrow.
The two of them kept going back and forth, often talking and going to the park together, and getting to know each other better.
Tokugawa Shizuko also developed an inexplicable liking for Lin Tongchun, a man from China who was responsible for the expenses of an entire family.
However……
The women of the Tokugawa family were born with the mission of arranging family marriages.
Early on, the head of the Tokugawa family had betrothed Tokugawa Shizuko to the next generation heir of the Sato family.
When the head of the Tokugawa family learned that Tokugawa Shizuko had an affair with a Chinese immigrant on the street, he was furious and locked her up, placing her under house arrest and not allowing her to go out again.
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