Reiko Aoki leaned back to the chair, closed her eyes, and recalled what her mother once said to her.

The Ono family is one of the most prominent families in Japan, so such a large family naturally has many rules passed down from generation to generation.

One of the rules is that when the descendants of the Ono family reach their twenties, they will receive a dagger as a coming-of-age gift given to them by the family.

An adult man received a dagger as a symbol of his tribe and enjoyed the right to inherit property of Ono family.

After receiving the dagger, the adult woman will hand it over to the man she entrusted for life as her token of love.

Reiko Aoki's mother Chiyo Ono has such a dagger.

Before her mother got married, she handed the dagger to her father Saburo Aoki.

As the rule passed down by the Ono family, the first man to pull out a dagger is the chosen son.

Of course, this rule is not absolute.

If the man who pulled out the dagger was not in the world, the rules would naturally not be followed.

Just a year ago, when Reiko Aoki was twenty years old, she was in China and could not receive the coming-of-age gift from the Ono family in the local area like other tribesmen.

A year later, Xu Xianchen happened to come to Jiangcheng from Japan, and Saburo Aoki asked Xu Xianchen to carry the dagger with him and hand it over to his daughter Reiko Aoki.

Unexpectedly, Xu Fengchen was curious to kill the cat, but he actually pulled out the dagger like a ghost. This was something Aoki Reiko, including her father Aoki Saburo, never expected.

"It is absolutely impossible to marry Xu Xianchen. How can the female officer of the empire get involved in the Chinese?

If you don’t want to break the rules of the Ono family, it seems that you can only get rid of Xu Shengchen.” Reiko Aoki thought to herself.

...

After walking out of Jiangcheng Zhushi, Xu Shengchen's head hurt even more severely.

"Grandma's bear, why does the head hurt more and more severely?" Xu Shengchen shook his head and grabbed his hair, and said intimately.

Yesterday, in order to read Zhao Xiaoxue’s thoughts, Xu Xu Chen had a headache for a day.

Today, in order to save my life, I used the ability of micro-expression to read the mind.

Before traveling through time, Xu Shengchen rarely used the ability to read the mind because of a headache. Unexpectedly, when he came here, he used it twice in a row, and the headache was naturally much worse than before.

Thinking about it now, the side effects of this headache seem to be superimposed. If you keep reading your mind for a while, it will hurt more than the next.

It seems that it is better to use it less in the future unless you find a way to avoid headaches.

In addition to the headache, there is another thing that makes Xu Shengchen a little curious.

When he took the dagger from Reiko Aoki's hand, Reiko Aoki calmed down and couldn't see any expressions that could be understood from Reiko Aoki's face. What's going on?

Could it be that Reiko Aoki is also gifted and has the ability to not show her emotions? It is not a big deal to be able to see that. If she deliberately misleads herself, then her judgment will be in the opposite direction.

It seems that this Japanese girl is really not easy to deal with, so she is really careful.

The island girl is still staying in the scenery. Just think about it, don’t be serious.

Besides, Reiko Aoki is too arrogant and not the type she likes. She should stay away from her in the future and stay away from her.

...

Thinking of this, Xu Fengchen got on the jeep parked outside the bamboo mechanism.

Seeing that Xu Xianchen had been knocking on his head, the eldest elder asked, "Young Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just a big headache. I guess it was the sequelae left by being hit by a carriage last time. It's not a big deal, just sleep for a night."

"That's good, Master, let's go back to the mansion?"

"Okay, I think it's past three o'clock, so I'll go back to the mansion." Xu Xu Chen said.

...

The river city is built along the riverside, and the entire urban area is strip-shaped.

The Imperial Army's Urban Defense Command is located at the east gate of Jiangcheng, echoing the brigade headquarters of Aoki Brigade.

In order to facilitate work, Huang Dingming's mansion was also located near the headquarters, two miles away from the headquarters.

The Zhu Agency is located in the center of Jiangcheng City, and is not far from the city's military police and the Jiangcheng pseudo-government.

The vehicle started, and the jeep headed east along Binjiang Street. Binjiang Street was built on Binjiang River and was the main road connecting the east and west gates of Jiangcheng.

At this time, a carriage galloped past the jeep and ran westward.

Although Xu Xu Chen had a severe headache, it did not have much impact on his normal thinking.

Although the carriage passed by for a moment, Xu Shengchen could see clearly that the carriage was the carriage he stopped in the railway station square on the first day he came to Jiangcheng.

Thinking of this, Xu Xianchen said to the big old Wang: "Stop, Uncle Wang."

When the eldest elder heard Xu Fengchen's words, he quickly heard the car on the side of the road and asked, "Young Master, what are you asking for?"

"Uncle Wang, you have been in Jiangcheng for a while. Let me ask you, whose carriage I stopped at the train station that day?" Xu Xu Chen asked.

"Young master, it's that carriage.

Jiangcheng knows that the carriage is the carriage of Jiangcheng Tongyicheng Store.

The car was sitting in the car with the eldest lady from Tongyicheng Business Company, Zhao Xiaoxue, the pearl in his palm of his hand."

"Oh, then what does this Syniichen Business Company do?" Xu Shengchen continued to ask.

"The Tongyicheng Business is a big deal, and half of the cargo ships entering and leaving Jiangcheng Wharf are from the Tongyicheng Business.

When the commander and I first came to Jiangcheng, we heard that there are four major commercial banks in Jiangcheng:

Yongtong and Xu family who work as the dock, Tongyicheng Zhao family who works as the shipping company, Yonghui Xingsun family who works as the mine, and Yixingsheng Liu family who works as the textile factory.

Can the transactions among the four major commercial banks in Jiangcheng be small?"

After hearing what the big elder Wang said, Xu Xianchen thought to himself:

"Yesterday at the Medical Office of the City Defense Command, the Miss Zhao said that her family was doing a small business, and she thought it was wrong at the time.

So no matter how you look at a girl with temperament, she is a lady from a family. How could she be a small business?”

Thinking of this, Xu Xu Chen continued to ask:

"Uncle Wang, after hearing what you said, the transaction of this Syniic Cheng Business is indeed quite good.

Then I was wondering, how did his eldest lady make a carriage and not take a car? Logically speaking, in this season, the carriage not only tastes great, but also feels very stuffy when sitting inside. How could a girl's house be willing to sit in a carriage?"

"Young master, I don't know this.

Anyway, since the day I followed the master to Jiangcheng, this carriage has been running on the street, and I have never seen Miss Zhao take a car."

"So that's it. Uncle Wang, can you catch up with the carriage you passed by just now?" Xu Xu Chen asked Big Old Wang.

"Young Master, that carriage has passed for a long time and probably has run far. However, there are only a few roads in Jiangcheng that can run a carriage, so it should be possible to chase it now."

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and chase after me." Xu Shengchen ordered.

"Okay, young master." As he said that, the old man started the car, turned the front of the car, and drove towards the carriage.

As Da Lao Wang said, after driving the jeep for more than ten minutes, it really caught up with the carriage driving in front.

The old man saw the carriage in front and asked Xu Shengchen beside him: "Young Master, what you are talking about is the carriage in front. Do we need to rush to the front of the carriage and stop the car?"

"No, just follow it. I want to see where the carriage is going. Slow down now and don't follow it too close, so that people can find it."

"I understand, young master, I'll listen to you." As he said that, the old man slowed down the speed of the car.

The carriage ran west for more than ten minutes, turned a corner, and stopped in front of an old-fashioned house.

Seeing this, Xu Xianchen signaled to Da Lao Wang and parked the car on the side of the road.

From a distance, someone seemed to have walked into the car. Because the distance was too far and the dazzling sunshine in the afternoon, Xu Xianchen couldn't see who the person was.

The eldest son seemed to understand Xu Fengchen's thoughts and said to him:

"Young Master, the commander always has a military telescope in the jeep, right inside the buckle, you can use the telescope to see clearly."

"Uncle Wang, why didn't you say it earlier?" As he said that, Xu Shengchen quickly took out the telescope from his hand and looked into the distance.

This time, as Xu Shengchen wished, it was Zhao Xiaoxue who got off the carriage.

She got off the carriage, looked around and entered the house.

Although it is very far away and you can't see clearly, if you have a graceful figure, Xu Shengchen concluded that it could not be someone else.

Thinking of Zhao Xiaoxue, seeing Aoki Reiko's displeasure before, Xu Xu Chen swept away, his heart was filled with sunshine, and his headache seemed to have been relieved a lot.

This is the girl he wants, satisfying his full vision of a better life.

Reiko Aoki from that island country, she still wants to live a few more years.

But where is Zhao Xiaoxue's place? What is she going to do when she comes here?

Thinking of this, Xu Xianchen raised his telescope and looked towards the house. He saw three words engraved on the plaque above the gate of the house - Yongtonghe.

"Yongtonghe? Isn't this the Xu family's home? What did Zhao Xiaoxue do here?" Xu Xianchen said in confusion.

Thinking of this, Xu Xu Chen asked the eldest son beside him:

"Uncle Wang, I see that the house says Yongtonghe. I heard from the commander that Yongtonghe is not a communist, and all the property was confiscated by the Japanese?"

"Oh, Master, that's it.

After the third young master of Yongtong and Xu family was identified as communist by the gendarmerie, Yongtong and Wharf and other commercial industries were also confiscated by the Japanese.

However, the second young master of the Xu family is a well-known scholar in Jiangcheng and has a high reputation in Jiangcheng.

The Japanese did not want to leave a reputation for killing them all, so they kept the house for the Xu family.

Thinking about it now, the Xu family is miserable. Such a big family business will be gone at once." The old man sighed.

"Who else is the Xu family now?" Xu Xianchen continued to ask.

"I heard that the second young master of the Xu family has no son and two daughters, both of whom are around 20 years old. By the way, the second young master of the Xu family is Zhao Xiaoxue's aunt, and the Xu family and the Zhao family have been together for generations."

"Uncle Wang, how do you know these things?" Xu Shengchen asked curiously.
Chapter completed!