Chapter 6: Aunt Kouji

Guided by the light in front of her, ahead, a torii finally appeared. Torii in Japan image is very similar to the ancient Chinese pagoda, usually the entrance to the shrine. At the same time, this also means that ahead, is the realm belonging to the gods. Only, Kitayama Jinghuang knew very well that there was no god in this world. However, "something" that is opposite to God exists. In front of them was the Kitayama Shrine, a place where the Kitayama family used to receive clients who were known to come from all over Japan. There was no doubt that most of the clients who came here were rich. It is said that after the defeat of the war, the Kitayama Shrine was largely untouched by the American air raids as it was far away from the city, and did not suffer too much after the war. Before the arrival of the lost two decades, an era when Tokyo's land prices were enough to buy up all of the American territories, the family had a large number of properties in almost all parts of Japan, from Okinawa in the far south, all the way to Hokkaido in the far north, there were Kitayama family's properties. After driving the Nissan sedan and entering the interior of the torii, Kitayama Jinghuang relived the horrific memories of his early childhood. At this time, the shrine everywhere has been pre-decorated for the wedding, it is clear that the wedding will be held here very traditional Japanese folk customs. The car door opened. Kitayama Jinghuang just stepped out of the car, Himura Hanabi walked up. "Ms. Jinghuang." She bowed to Kitayama Jinghuang, "Please follow me and meet Lord Zenith." Kitayama Zhenxin, also known as Jing Huang's maternal grandfather, was the highest talker of this family. Although he usually stayed secluded here, it was said that the people of the Congress were also quite involved with him. And he, in this place, was the person who most frightened Kitayama Jinghuang. "Is this an order?" When Jing Huang spoke, his tone was extremely cold, without a trace of emotion. Himura Hanabi continued to bow again and said, "That's right, it's an order from Lord Zenith." "I don't want to go." Jing Huang uttered these words, and her mother also got out of the car and said to her, "Jing Huang, since Grandpa told you to go, you should go. In the future, you'll be the heir of this shrine, so ……" "I …… don't …… want …… to go!" Jing Huang didn't want to see her maternal grandfather at all. She had lived until today, and the time she had spent with her parents and her brother was extremely limited, all because of her maternal grandfather's restrictions. Because he was there, no one dared to disobey his orders, even if they wanted to go out of the country and visit their parents and brother, they all needed approval. Jing Huang didn't want to inherit this shrine and become some kind of witch at all. She didn't even have any attachment to Japan as a country, she preferred to live in China, and she was half Japanese anyway. Not long ago, China released a public draft of the regulations on permanent residence for foreigners, and when she saw this information online, it made Jing Huang very happy. She planned to go live in China when she graduated from college later. She would make her own money to pay her family back and didn't want to owe them another penny. She wanted to leave this country forever, and when she got to China, all that influence her grandfather had in Japanese politics wouldn't mean anything. "Lord Zenith has asked you to come over ……" Himura Hanabi still spoke to herself as if she were a repeater. This moment couldn't help but make Kitayama Jinghuang even more fed up to the core. "I'm not going!" Then she walked straight towards the front of the shrine. As she walked, she suddenly stopped again. There really wasn't any change here at all. After all, she had lived here for eight years, and it could be said that she had spent most of her childhood in this place. A gust of wind blew over, making her feel a little bit bitter for a moment. She looked at a path in front of her, every time her brother and her parents came here from China to visit her, she liked to take her brother on that path, there was a very lush green belt near the path, and even now, that green belt was still there. "It actually hasn't changed at all ……" Kitayama Jinghuang slowly walked towards that green belt. Because this place is close to the entrance of the shrine's torii, and hiding here is generally not seen by people, she likes to bring her brother to run here from time to time. The time when her brother usually came over was during New Year's Day, and a lot of people would come here on New Year's Day to pay homage to the shrine. At that time, through my grandfather's network of connections in politics and consortiums, rich people who were in "trouble" would come here. There were even foreigners. Only those who had money and power would know about the Kitayama family and believe in its "power". She and her brother would always be here, watching the people who came to the shrine from the family, and the person who acted as the witch was her deceased aunt, Yukie Kitayama. And before Aunt Yukie's death, she was a true mother to Jing Huang. Even now, the weight of Aunt Yukie in Jing Huang's heart was above her real mother. Even, it took her a long time to realize that Aunt Yukie was not her mother in the true sense of the word. And every time …… Auntie would always find the green belt here, and subsequently, say to herself and her brother that they should not stay here …… Even now, she could clearly recall all the details of that time. Jing Huang walked step by step towards that lush green belt, slowly going around and walking to the back. It's really nostalgic …… Ever since that incident, when she finally left this place, even on New Year's Day, she would never come back here, but instead go to another shrine for New Year's worship. She slowly squatted down …… because her body, which was barely just over six feet tall, could still be completely hidden by the green belt at this point. At that time …… Aunt Yukie, would always at this time, walk without making a sound, walk behind her, and then pat her shoulder …… To her, her aunt treated her as if she were her own, without any exaggeration. After the discovery of her infertility, her aunt decided not to get married. Nowadays and in the past, the status of women in Japanese society is extremely low, and I'm afraid that it would be really difficult for women who have lost the ability to bear children to enter into a marriage. As she was thinking …… about it, she suddenly felt a hand gently tapping on her right shoulder! "I told you, I'm not going to meet outside ……" She stood up, just turned back, but saw …… Behind her, there was no one at all! …… Tokyo Narita Airport. It seems that because the Olympics is approaching the reason, the machine in the airport on the big screen, then it is more playing the Japanese Olympic Games advertising, and even recalled the old 1964 Olympic Games picture. Dong Xie and Dong Ning from the check-in place to take the luggage, originally intended to go out directly, but at this time also interested in standing in front of the big screen, looking at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games picture. Dong Xie couldn't help but think of the 08 Olympics, when he was chasing after Xie Ruoni and made a date with her to go to the capital to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics. At that time, Qiu Feng said he had a doorway, so Dong Xie asked him to sell 2 tickets for the opening ceremony to him, Qiu Feng at that time, he thought he could definitely get tickets, bragged in front of Xie Ruoni that he would definitely take her to watch the opening ceremony at the Bird's Nest, but did not expect to end up pressuring to buy …… At this time, he really didn't want Xie Ruoni to come over as well. It would really be a little too awkward to meet up with her. This guy, Beishan Jinglong, was also really self-involved, who had allowed him to set up such a messy match. Next, Dong Xie took out his cell phone and dialed a number. Soon, the phone connected. "Hello, this is Kitayama Shrine, this is Kitayama Family Steward Himura Hanabi, go ahead." "Well ……," Dong Evil then handed the cell phone to Dong Ning, he couldn't speak Japanese, and his English was dry, so he could only hand it over to Ning at a time like this. Dong Ning took the cell phone and began to talk to the other party in fluent English. "Hello, we are Dong Evil and Dong Ning, who made an appointment earlier. We are trying to ……" "I remember, Mr. Dong and Miss Dong, right. The two of you are friends of young master Kitayama, so you can come directly to the shrine, and I will come to pick you up in advance." "Well, there's no need to be so troublesome ……" "The two of you are outsiders, in order to come to the shrine, you must cross the Sea of Lost Trees, if you don't have someone to guide you, once you are lost, you will never be able to walk out again." Dong Ning was just about to say something when he heard a voice coming from his cell phone. Although Dong Ning didn't speak much Japanese, he had watched so many Japanese animated Japanese dramas that he could still understand a little bit of simple conversation. The other party was saying, "Who, who touched me behind my back just now?"