Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei returns from Sekiro

"According to what he said, he is half Russian and the other half Japanese." Inuyamaga looked forward, his eyes dazed, "He came to Japan probably twenty years ago."

"Is it when your economy is most prosperous, or after the bubble burst?" Angers asked.

"It was after the economic crisis. I can still remember the prosperity and the mess after the collapse." Inuyama Ga whispered: "After the defeat, Japan almost fully became Westernized and carried out large-scale reform movements. We are Asia The first country to industrialize.

Since the 'Heisei Boom' in 1986, Japan's share of the world's GNP (gross national product) has risen to 13.7%, and its foreign assets held have reached 383 billion US dollars. The stock market is doing well, and our citizens have lost their minds. Even we, the people, have lost our minds. The government has raised official interest rates five times in one year, stock prices have fluctuated greatly at high levels, and everyone thinks they will become rich. "

"I know that when your real estate was at its most prosperous, the price of Ginza's fourth floor reached 120 million yen per square meter (3.3 square meters). That was in 1989." Angers put his hand on the table, "It's in your newspaper According to reports, if all the land in Tokyo is sold, the United States can be purchased, and then the American land can be leased to Americans to live in. What is ridiculous is that most Japanese people believe this argument."

"But after the Gulf War in 1990, our stock market began to collapse." Inuyama Ga said.

"That's because your oil is completely dependent on imports. This war has made your citizens panic, and the stock market has begun to plummet. Even if the war is over, it will still plummet."

"A bubble economy is still a bubble economy after all." Inuyama Ga sighed: "In 1992, we had a financial crisis. Banks and financial institutions faced difficulties in survival, and even went bankrupt. Every month, there were reports on TV that people jumped off buildings. Suicide, the economic depression has made life difficult for everyone, and the family is no exception. We had already invested more in real estate and banking industries, but the collapse of the bubble economy caused the family to bleed heavily. We were saddled with huge debts and had no food to eat. Food is a problem.”

"Even if you are a mixed race, you will still be embarrassed by money." Angers said with emotion.

"Mixeds also need to eat." Uesugi touched his beard. After leaving the Sheqi Hachi family, he experienced firsthand what it meant to be "a penny that stumps a heroic man."

Over the years, his financial resources have all come from the hard work of his hands. Only those who really rely on their hands to make money know how hard-won money is.

He had never worried about money before leaving the family, which almost turned him into a giant baby with only enough clothes to reach out for food and enough to open his mouth.

In the first few years, I really suffered a lot, because I was afraid of being discovered by the family, and I couldn't exchange the family's antiques and land deeds for money.

He went to the kendo gym to apply for a kendo master, thinking that he would be able to make the gym owner and disciples worship him with his master-level kendo. However, due to the post-war economic depression, the kendo gym could not recruit disciples at all. The gym owners had to work in the fields, so there was no money left. Pay him a salary.

In those years, he dabbled in all kinds of industries, including fishing, construction sites, and being an apprentice in a ramen restaurant. It wasn't until he saved enough money to buy a cart that he started to start his own business, and he became truly independent in society.

"It was our most difficult period in the decades after the war, and that man came to Japan at that stage." Inuyama Ga recalled the past, "It was raining the day he came, and Mr. Uesugi, you know, since After you left the family, we lost the blood of the three previous families. We all believed that there was no possibility of an emperor being born in the family, and all the old people died. I am almost the most senior person in the family."

"So he just took advantage of it?" Uesugi asked.

"He didn't show anything special at first." Inuyama He shook his head: "When he came, he was alone. He carried the emblem of the Tachibana family, the sixteen-petal chrysanthemum. He looked about the same age as me, and he was also half a year old. He has gray hair and is not proficient in Japanese, so we can only have simple conversations."

"How did he gain your trust?" Uesugi asked.

"He took out a photo of his father and mother. His father is Japanese and his mother is Russian. He said that his father's name is Tachibanamoto Makoto. He was a diplomat sent by the Tachibana family to the Soviet Union, but the war suddenly broke out. , his father was afraid of being caught as a hostage, so he settled in Russia anonymously, fell in love with his mother, married and gave birth to him.

Because his parents' married life was very happy, his father did not return to Japan after the war. It was not until his father died that he was called to the bedside and told the secrets of the Sheqi family. At the same time, he obtained the secrets of the Tachibana family. Family emblem, he said that his parents were dead and he had no family, so he returned to Japan and wanted to know what the place where his father once lived was like.

After inspection, we confirmed that the family coat of arms was indeed made by the family's craftsmen and was cast in 1673. It was a missing one from the storage room. "

"He said that and you believed him?"

"There is no way. Because the matter is too long ago, this matter cannot be verified at all, but we did find a man named Tachibanamoto Makoto in the genealogy, but you set a fire before leaving, recording Tachibanamoto Makoto's life The files were also burned.”

Inuyama Ga said: "The family was heavily in debt at that time, and even if a man from the Shangsan family came back, he would not get any benefits, so we thought he was not a liar. The liar deceived people to make a profit, but he would not get any benefit from us. , and work very hard.”

"Then what?"

"He has worked conscientiously in the family for more than ten years." Inuyama He said with a complex expression, "He has a very keen sense of economics. During the economic crisis, he has made suggestions to the family heads many times. Facts have proved that what he said is right. We grew accustomed to following his advice.

Our assets have gradually recovered, and his status has become higher and higher. If you only know a person for one or two years, you may still be suspicious of him, but after ten years, each of us has become accustomed to it. His presence and the many things he has done for the family have earned our respect. "

"Alas" Uesugi Yue didn't know what to say.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself that if someone took him in when he had no money to eat, helped him through the most difficult period, and took him to make money and get rich together in the next ten years, I'm afraid he would be helpless. Give trust with a grain of salt.

Even if it's just pretending, if you keep pretending, no one can say that he's not your friend.

"What's going on with Yuan Zhisheng and Eri Yi?" Lu Mingfei then asked. In the end, the man showed his weakness. This was his fox tail.

"He brought both Master Minamoto and Miss Eri back." Inuyama Ga said: "Ms. Eri returned to the family earlier than Master Minamoto, and there are no clan members left in the upper three families. The only thing we can confirm is that the emperor's blood is flowing in their bodies. This is something that surprises us, but the emperor is indeed back. Although their origin is unclear, we are not interested in this matter. I feel this is God’s blessing.”

"Peace makes you lose your vigilance." Angers said.

"During that time, we were busy making money and developing industries. After all, the world has changed so much. The whole world seems to have turned into a village. The emergence of airplanes and cruise ships has made it easy for us to exchange supplies with other countries. Everyone They all became businessmen, working hard for money," Inuyama Ga said.

"So what is his true identity? Tachibana Masamune, it's just his pseudonym, right?" Lu Mingfei said.

"I don't know much about his past. He is now in the family's dark prison. You can ask him face to face." Inuyama congratulated.

"Let me tell you what I know first. Regarding his past, he once secretly chatted with me." Yuan Zhisheng suddenly spoke, "I actually knew who my genes came from before I took the paternity test. But Eriyi. I once thought Eriyi was his daughter, but it turned out that he lied to me."

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath and clenched his fists on his knees.

"He said he came from an unnamed port in the former Soviet Union, which was a port for studying dragons. Dr. Herzog was doing research there and was responsible for extracting the 'perfect gene' from the 'hybrids' and then using the perfect genes to create brand new humans. .”

"You mean the port?" Angers frowned.

"Yes, do you have any questions, Principal?"

“Is that port in the Arctic?”

"Yes, how do you know?"

"That should be Black Swan Port." Angers whispered: "It is a port in the former Soviet Union. Satellites once monitored a big explosion in the Arctic. This is an extremely abnormal phenomenon. We sent a reconnaissance team, but there was a bomb. It was in ruins and we only found the remains of buildings.”

Lu Mingfei was stunned. Black Swan Port, he had heard the name of this port from Zero. At that time, Zero seemed to be called "Renata".

Things suddenly became weird, as if there were invisible threads that connected these unrelated things.

"So he ran away from Black Swan Port?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"According to what he said, he told me that Dr. Herzog was crazy about the power of dragons. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Lelin came to Black Swan Port and asked him to evacuate and destroy everything, but he chose to escape from the port. The corpse of a dragon king was buried underground. He dug up the dragon king's eggs, occupied the Lelin, activated the bombs at the port, and sailed toward Japan with his henchmen."

"Why come to Japan?"

"In order to find the emperor's secret, he told me that both my daughter and I were test-tube babies under doctoral research. The paternal gene came from Uesugi Koshi, and Eri was his daughter. The ancient dragon's eggs eroded the entire ship. The only people who survived on the ship were him, the doctor, me, and Eri Shizuki, but I don’t know how much truth there is in this," Minamoto Shisheng said.

"A destroyed port, and a crazy doctor escaped from it? This sounds like a very old-fashioned science fiction story." Angers exhaled slowly.

"I believed him very much at the time." Yuan Zhisheng licked his lips and looked at Lu Mingfei, "I noticed something, Lu Mingfei, do you remember Tokyo Peninsula? It seems that someone is designing a trap specifically for you."

"I can feel it too." Lu Mingfei nodded, "Actually, on the first night I came to Japan, I was assassinated in front of Tamamo."

"You mean that Deadpool attack?" Inuyama asked.

"It wasn't just Deadpool. Someone secretly used sword control and attacked me with a poisonous blade." Lu Mingfei said.

Angers crossed his hands and lowered his head in thought, as if he had thought of something.

Uesugoshi bumped his shoulder, "It's your turn to speak."

Ange raised his head, stretched out his hand, and gestured to pause, "Everyone, I want to talk to Lu Mingfei alone for a few minutes. I hope you can avoid it."

"Is there something you can't say now?" Uesugi Yue was furious. "Now, you still want to hide it. Don't we deserve your trust?"

"Everyone has privacy, and the topic I want to talk about next involves privacy." Ange raised his index finger in front of his lips.

"I understand." Inuyama He nodded, stood up, and was the first to walk out the door.

Yuan Zhisheng also stood up.

Lu Mingfei whispered in Eryi's ear: "Can you go and stay with your brother for a while? I'll be out right away."

Eryi looked at Lu Mingfei's face, gave him a hug, and walked next to Yuan Zhisheng.

"You guys!" Uesugoshi said with an expression of hatred for steel.

In the end, he stood up, said "I'm so weak" to Angers, and left the room with the other four people.

Only Lu Mingfei and Ange are left here.

"Remember the last time I invited you to the office for afternoon tea?" Angers said with a smile.

"It was the finals of last year. On the third day after the transcript came out, there was a letter written by my parents on the table." Lu Mingfei nodded.

"Don't be so formal." Ange poured a glass of wine for Lu Mingfei, "I know you have always wanted to ask where your parents are, and now I can tell you."

"where are they?"

"Northern Siberia, but if you just go there to look for them, I'm afraid you won't be able to find them." Angers said: "Don't worry, you are indeed Giovanni's child born in the ninth month of her pregnancy. I am at the scene, but your There are indeed some stories about birth, and I am going to tell you this story now.”

"Please tell me." Lu Mingfei pursed his lips, picked up the wine glass and took a sip. The red wine tasted bitter in his mouth.

"Let's start with Black Swan Port. After the explosion, we sent out a reconnaissance team. Your father, Lu Lincheng, is a member of the reconnaissance team." Angers said: "We found a very unique target there. , it was a boy who was walking along the Trans-Siberian Railway, as if he wanted to go to China."

"Boy." Lu Mingfei's eyes flashed with uncertainty, "Isn't he cute?"

"It's very cute. He also has a companion, a girl. He carries the girl on his back all the way." Angers said.

(ps: After the original Long Yi 3E exam, Ange said to Lu Mingfei that they had not seen each other for a long time and burned the painting. Ange and Lu Mingze must have known each other and had transactions. , the next filling in the holes will be based on the above guesses. Regarding Lu Mingfei’s identity, I had already thought about it when I wrote the book. The inspiration came from an analysis post by a Zhihu boss. It is not the World Tree. Wait until the puzzle When the announcement is made, the original post will be analyzed for everyone. By the way, the Dragon Clan’s trap is really difficult to fill, it’s a big head.jpg)

Thanks to "Tuntun丶" for the 500-point reward, "Emperor, Lord of the Ancient Heaven" for the 100-point reward, and "Qingyou Loneliness" for the 100-point reward.