Golden Scale [EN]: Chapter 124

The mystery of identity: How could a golden dragon be confined to a pond?

Okubo Toshimichi, the iron-blooded prime minister of the early Meiji era in Japan, had some connections with China. After the Japanese-Korean War in 1875, he personally served as the negotiator for the Taiwan issue, going to Beijing to force the Qing government to pay 500,000 taels of silver as compensation.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty representative responsible for the negotiations, in order to please Okubo Toshimichi, gave him two gifts: one was the tiger-head armchair that he later regarded as his throne (the one Hou Longtao had sat on), and the other was several loads of imperial tonic medicine.

The problem arose with the imperial medicine. The negotiations took place during the Guangxu era. Zou Kangnian’s ancestor, Zou Zhengye, had long passed away, but the Qing Palace still had a lot of kidney medicine made from Jinlin grass, though no one knew their true purpose.

Although the Qing Dynasty’s politics were corrupt at the time, its culture, medicine, and other aspects were still envied by the small country of Japan. Okubo Toshimichi was no exception. He also regarded those medicines that emperors had only occasionally taken as treasures, and indeed, he had picked up a treasure.

After taking the secret medicine for a long time, Okubo Toshimichi noticed changes in his body and repeatedly wanted to go to China again to “hunt for treasure,” but he was too busy with official duties and didn’t trust sending anyone else.

As early as 1868, although Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last ruler of the Tokugawa shogunate, surrendered to the Japanese Emperor in Edo, marking the end of the shogunate era, the Tokugawa family was not exterminated.

By 1878, the remnants of the Tokugawa family had realized that it was impossible to regain power, but some people were still very unwilling, and their hatred for the “Three Heroes of the Restoration” grew even stronger, especially some young ninjas represented by Tokugawa Miei. She volunteered to assassinate Okubo Toshimichi in Tokyo, not to revive the shogunate, but to vent the anger in her chest.

After capturing Miei, Okubo Toshimichi discovered her special abilities. Later, he also obtained Mei Hui. He coveted their beauty and wanted to use them to deal with enemies he might not be able to handle in the future. However, he was afraid that they would eventually escape his control or interfere in politics with their own “advantages.” Therefore, he used the ninja’s tradition of valuing sects to establish the “Sakura Enchantress Ninja,” stipulating in the sect rules that they could not participate in politics. He also wanted to make the “Enchantress Ninja” a weapon that the Okubo family could control for generations, so he added rules such as “only leaving women and not schemes” and “Enchantress Ninja nemesis.”

Okubo Toshimichi was a follower of the German iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck and advocated an aggressive and expansionist foreign policy. He knew that it was only a matter of time before he would use force against China again. Once he won again, he could force the Qing government to hand over the secret recipe for making medicine for his descendants to use and forever rule the “Enchantress Ninja.”

This was Okubo Toshimichi’s cleverness. He didn’t directly want the “Enchantress Ninja” to be slaves, nor did he tell them that he had taken medicine to achieve his abilities, as if he were truly following the will of heaven.

Unfortunately, man’s plans are not as good as heaven’s. Less than two months after the “Enchantress Ninja” was established, on May 14, 1878, Okubo Toshimichi was assassinated by samurai dissatisfied with the constitutional system in the Qingshui Valley of Kojimachi, Tokyo, at the young age of forty-eight. He didn’t even have the chance to explain the secret medicine to his family, and the “Enchantress Ninja” embarked on the path of an assassination group…

Hou Longtao himself naturally didn’t know these old stories, so he thought the “Enchantress Ninja’s” sect rules were very idiotic, but this was obviously beneficial to him, so there was no need to delve into it. “Who told you to kill me?”

“You…didn’t you already guess?” Tamako was already feeling very good from being touched.

“Really, Toyota [Japanese automotive manufacturer]? Hmph, aren’t you an underground organization? How did they find you?” Hou Longtao stuck his fingers, covered in seminal fluid, into the woman’s chrysanthemum gate.

“I have some connections with Toyota President Zhang Fujio’s wife, but it’s a long story.”

“Then don’t bother,” Hou Longtao wasn’t interested in some unnecessary details. “Do you usually take on a lot of jobs?”

“Not really. You are our first target in ten years. Times are different now, and we don’t want to be known to the world.”

“How many ‘Enchantress Ninjas’ are there now?”

“Less than seventy.”

“Have I slept with all of them?” Hou Longtao pulled the woman’s underwear down to her thighs. “Get on top.”

“Yes,” Tamako straddled the man’s lap, took his penis out of his kimono, and inserted it into her hole. “Um…everyone was in the hall just now, only a dozen or so younger ones didn’t receive your favor.”

“Hahaha,” Hou Longtao tore off the woman’s kimono in a few strokes, not bothering to be gentle, just wanting the feeling of tightly embracing the beautiful mature woman’s plump body. “Why didn’t I see anyone over forty?”

“There are some in their forties, we just take better care of ourselves. But there really aren’t any over forty-five.”

“Didn’t you kill them all off?”

“No, when the ‘Enchantress Ninjas’ reach forty-five, they gradually lose the charm they have cultivated. At that time, they will leave our group and can live their own lives, find jobs, get married, and are not restricted.”

“Zhang Fujio’s wife…”

“She’s not one of us. Even if they leave the ‘Enchantress Ninja,’ they still can’t reveal our existence. That’s a capital crime.”

“Then how do you make a living?” Hou Longtao began to squeeze the woman’s fat buttocks hard.

“We have three private girls’ schools. Former members who don’t want to get married or go out to find work teach there. We also periodically send some young members into the entertainment industry, letting them use the lowest level of charm to become famous. Yamaguchi Momoe, Kawasaki Ayumi, and Goto Maki are all examples. There are a total of a dozen or so.”

“Hehehe, those women are all ‘Enchantress Ninjas’? They all have their own families and don’t have the surname Sakura.”

“Those…those are all fake identities…” The man didn’t move, and Tamako couldn’t help but want to move, but without her master’s order, she only dared to twist her plump hips slightly. “I’ll call them to see you in a couple of days.”

“We’ll see. Yamaguchi Momoe was not even forty-five when she got married.”

“To conceal their true identities, they need to live some ordinary people’s lives.”

“I see. What if an ‘Enchantress Ninja’ has a change of heart?” Hou Longtao was about to get to the last main topic.

“They have to control themselves. If they can’t control themselves, they die.”

“Really?” Hou Longtao flipped over and pressed the woman onto the sofa, starting to roughly fuck her.

“Ah…ah…yes…”

“You have a daughter, right?”

“Two…ah…Master…ah…

Two, you’ve…you’ve met them both…ah…Feixue and Qingying…ah…ah…”

“Really?”

“Why…why are you asking this? Ah…” Tamako could already sense the man’s hidden meaning, but she couldn’t control her body. She was about to reach the point of orgasm.

Hou Longtao grabbed the woman’s left ankle and pulled off her snow-white stocking, revealing a slightly deformed cherry blossom tattooed on her delicate sole. “You have three daughters, right?”

“Two…”

“Situ Qingying.”

Tamako’s eyes widened. Her body, which had been trembling with pleasure, suddenly stiffened, and her face was filled with extreme horror. Although her mouth was open, she couldn’t utter a word.

Hou Longtao pulled out his just-ejaculated penis and put it into the woman’s mouth. “Don’t just stand there with your mouth open.”

“Yes…” Tamako trembled as she cleaned the man’s penis. The other party didn’t seem to be planning to interrogate her, but she was still extremely nervous, after all, she had committed a major taboo of the “Enchantress Ninja.”

Hou Longtao sat back on the sofa. “Situ Qingying is your daughter, right?”

“Yes,” Tamako immediately flipped over and knelt there in panic. “Please forgive me, Master.”

“Look at you, what do you need me to forgive?”

“Twenty-one years ago, I was only fifteen years old and lived with several other girls in the dormitory of my school. Although the school had strict rules, we often sneaked out to play.” Tamako’s eyes were a little dazed, probably recalling the good times of her childhood.

“Playing with men?”

“No, no, not that. But one day, we saw some hooligans surrounding a young man on the street. That man wasn’t afraid at all. Although he had been injured in many places, he was still resisting. My sisters and I couldn’t stand it, so we helped him drive the hooligans away.”

“You’re quite righteous.”

“I…that man invited us to dinner as a thank you. We learned that he was Chinese, named Situ Zhiyuan, twenty-one years old, and a student at Tokyo University. The people who attacked him were members of a right-wing organization because he had published an article in a Chinese newspaper condemning militarism.”

“Is that so?” Hou Longtao thought that person had some character. “He seduced you?”

“I…I was just a girl who didn’t understand anything. He had a heroic spirit that was very attractive to me, and he knew a lot.” Tamako’s face turned red.

“He wanted you, a little girl?”

“I told him I was eighteen. I looked older.”

“You’re something else. You got pregnant?”

“Yes.”

“Just get rid of it, wouldn’t that be the end of it?”

“I loved him. At that time, I only wanted to have a child for him. I didn’t care about anything else. I wasn’t even afraid of death.”

“Okay, you’re a love fanatic.” Although Hou Longtao thought this kind of woman was very stupid, if it were him, wouldn’t he want his woman to be like this? “I don’t think he would have agreed to you giving birth, right?”

“He…he didn’t know I was pregnant.”

“How could that be?”

“I was only with him for less than three months before he returned to China. He was a government-sponsored student and had no choice. I only found out I was pregnant after he left. Although he left me his contact information, I already understood that we wouldn’t have a future. My identity was what it was, and I didn’t want to burden him.” Tamako started to cry.

“Sigh,” Hou Longtao suddenly realized that the woman kneeling in front of him was a very good woman, very stupid, very naive, but very good. “Come and sit down.”

“Yes.” Tamako sat next to the man.

“Here,” Hou Longtao reached out and wiped away the tears on the woman’s face. “How did Qingying get to China?”

“Master, please tell me first, Qingying, she…” Tamako couldn’t help but ask.

“She is one of my beloved wives. She is very well now, and I love her very much.”

“Ah…” Tamako put her hand on her chest and let out a long breath. “Does she really look like me? Can you tell she’s my daughter just from her appearance?”

“She looks very much like you, but it’s not just her appearance. When I have sex with her, she unconsciously uses charm techniques. Her mental control isn’t as strong as yours, and it doesn’t make me go crazy, but it does cause my primal instincts to explode to a certain extent.”

“Really? She…she’s a genius. If she cultivates properly, she will definitely be able to bring her charm techniques to the extreme.”

“Would I let her practice that?” Hou Longtao’s face darkened. “You still haven’t answered my question.”

“I’m…I’m sorry. In the beginning, I could still hide it, but my waist was getting thicker day by day, and I couldn’t delay it any longer. I knew that if I ran away, I would only die. Even if the other ‘Enchantress Ninjas’ chased me to the ends of the earth, they would kill me. I could only tell my mother everything.”

“Aren’t you courting death? According to you, don’t the ‘Enchantress Ninjas’ only recognize the sect rules and not people?”

“Yes, but my mother had no choice but to help me. Since giving birth to me, she hadn’t been pregnant again. I was her only daughter. If I died, she would have to pass the position of sect leader to someone else’s child. Even if we were all related by blood, there would still be differences in closeness and distance. Moreover, in history, no sect leader had ever passed the position to an ‘outsider.’ She didn’t want to be the first to do that. At that time, she was also at odds with my third aunt and her group. If my matter was exposed, my third aunt and her group would definitely use this to force my mother to step down, and they wouldn’t let her go afterward.”

“Then you chose a good time.”

“It was a blessing in disguise. My mother locked me in the house for six months until I gave birth to a girl. At first, my mother wanted to send Qingying to an orphanage or simply kill her, but how could I bear it? After thinking about it, the only way was to send her to her father, so that she could possibly live a normal life. I threatened my mother that if she didn’t do as I said, I would expose everything myself. At worst, I would just die. I would never see the man I loved again, and I would never see the crystallization of our love. Whether I lived or not, it was all the same.” Tamako’s expression became very firm.

“Ruthless enough.” Hou Longtao nodded. He suddenly felt that this woman was a bit like him. What is love in this world that makes people willing to die for it? “Later, you became the sect leader. Couldn’t you go look for them?”

“What if I’m the sect leader? The ‘Enchantress Ninjas’ only recognize the sect rules and not people. If the sect leader violates the sect rules, she will still be attacked by the group. How could I order someone to look for a man and a girl?”

“Can’t anyone change the sect rules?”

“Yes, you can. You are not an ‘Enchantress Ninja.’ You are the master of the ‘Enchantress Ninjas.’ Your orders are the new sect rules.” When Tamako said this, she didn’t expect her life to change in any way. What man would give up the opportunity to possess dozens of beauties?

“The cherry blossom on the sole of Qingying’s foot, did you tattoo it?”

“Yes, she is my daughter and has the right to receive the family’s mark.”

“Because you missed her, you named your second daughter Qingying too?”

“There isn’t a day that I don’t miss her.”

“How did she get to China?”

“My mother, under my pressure, had to find a way, but in that era, it was not easy to get an infant without an identity into China and hand her over to a Chinese person, and she couldn’t explain the reason to the authorities. At that time, the newspaper just happened to report a piece of news that a Toyota delegation was going to China, and the head of the delegation was Zhang Fujio. My mother went to his wife, and the other party agreed to our request, but not without conditions. We would contact her regularly. For twenty years, we have done several favors for her for free. This time, you are also free.”

“Hehehe,” Hou Longtao patted the woman’s shoulder. “You’re being played and still feel grateful.”

“What do you mean?”

“That woman promised to take Qingying to Beijing and then hand her over to that Situ Zhiyuan?”

“Yes.”

“She came back and told you she did it?”

“Yes, and she brought back a handwritten letter from him, written in Chinese. I spent a long time looking up dictionaries to understand it.”

“You were smart all your life but confused for a moment. Wouldn’t he know that you don’t understand Chinese? Would he write you a letter without using Japanese?”

“This…I…I didn’t think of that…”

Hou Longtao originally suspected that Zhang Fujio’s wife had really kept her promise and that Situ Zhiyuan had abandoned her because he couldn’t explain Qingying’s existence, but now he could be sure that she had never been sent to her biological father’s hands. “Qingying was simply thrown into an orphanage.”

“What!?” Tamako always thought that her daughter was with her father, but now she realized that she had become an abandoned baby. “How…how could this be!?”

“That’s simple. Whether she didn’t look for him at all, or she looked for him but couldn’t find him, anyway, Zhang Fujio’s wife didn’t see Situ Zhiyuan, and in the end, she sent Qingying to an orphanage.”

“Then…then why didn’t she tell us?”

“A killer, I can use her a little bit.”

“Ah…” Tamako suddenly covered her face with her hands and cried bitterly, not knowing whether it was because she was ashamed and indignant at being played, or whether she was sad for her daughter’s miserable life.

“Don’t get too excited. Qingying was adopted soon and didn’t suffer much.”

“Really? Who…who was it? Were they good to her?”

“Hehe,” Hou Longtao thought of “Tyrannosaurus Rex.” “Let’s just say they were okay.”

“How did you meet her?”

The woman’s question made Hou Longtao think of the process of falling in love with “White Tiger” from being enemies. The smile on his face grew stronger. “We became friends after a fight…”

While listening to the man’s story, Tamako cried and laughed, her emotions completely following her daughter’s experiences. It could be seen that she really had deep feelings for Situ Qingying and was completely a true mother.

“That’s how it is,” Hou Longtao finished the story. “She is now my beloved ‘White Tiger.'”

“Can…can you let me see her?”

“Is there a need for that?” Hou Longtao couldn’t be sure what Situ Qingying’s reaction would be when she saw this biological mother who had abandoned her for twenty years. “Do you really want to disrupt her current life?”

“It would be good to just see her from afar.”

At this time, someone knocked on the door outside. Hou Longtao got up and opened the door. “Dong Ren” stood respectfully outside. “Master, we have invited the two Star Moon sisters. They are downstairs. Do you want to see them?”

“Okay, you’re very thoughtful. We’ll talk about Qingying’s matter later. Let me think about it first.” Hou Longtao turned around and comforted the naked Tamako, then followed “Dong Ren” downstairs.

Ji Ji and Hui Ji, still wearing hospital gowns, paced back and forth in the hall. They couldn’t relax for a minute without seeing Hou Longtao…

On Monday afternoon, at the time when school was dismissed, a black extended car appeared in front of a middle school in the suburbs of Tokyo.

A few minutes later, Sakura Rena got out of the car and walked towards a boy who had just walked out of the school gate. “Izumi-kun.”

That male student did look very energetic. If he were in China, he would probably become the main target of girls who were “pro-Japan.” When he saw Rena, a teasing smile appeared on his face. He raised his head to his classmates. Having such a beautiful girl come to find him was something to be proud of.

“Izumi-kun,” Rena took out a photo. “Here, I’ll give it back to you. I don’t want this anymore.”

“Wh…why?” The boy didn’t reach out, and his face immediately turned bad.

“Because I don’t like you anymore. What would I do with your photo?”

“How…how could that be? Last time we met, you said you liked me.”

“So what? I don’t like you now.”

“Rena, I really like you. Did I do something wrong? Tell me.”

“It has nothing to do with you.” Rena saw that the other party didn’t intend to take the photo, so she didn’t say anything more. She carelessly threw the photo into the air and turned to walk back to the car.

The boy didn’t react for a moment to what had happened. He stood there stupidly, not moving, but his body was trembling a little. This must have been the first time he had been dumped by a girl.

The rearmost window of the extended car lowered a little, and an arm stretched out from the exposed gap, beckoning to the still-stunned boy.

Izumi slowly walked over. He also wanted to figure out what had happened.

“You were dumped by my niece?” Sitting by the window was Tamako. She just happened to block the boy’s view.

“Ah?” Izumi didn’t expect such a beautiful young woman to appear. He didn’t even hear what the other party was asking.

“You were dumped by my niece?”

“Y…yes.”

“Want to know why?”

“I want to.”

“Hmph.” Tamako smiled slightly and moved her body away.

“Ah!” Izumi let out an extremely painful cry, the sound that a man can only make when his heart is most broken.

Sitting in the innermost part of the car was a young man with black-rimmed glasses, with a lewd smile on his face. A girl in a school uniform was straddling his legs. His hands were in the girl’s short skirt. Although it was covered by the skirt, it was obvious that he was kneading her buttocks.

While the girl was moaning “Ah, ah,” her body was constantly rising and falling. Each time her buttocks lifted, a thick penis would be exposed. Each time she fell, that penis would completely disappear.

Although Izumi couldn’t see the girl’s face, he could tell from her back that she was Rena, the beauty and bombshell who was famous in several nearby schools, the girlfriend that he was proud of and that his classmates were jealous of.

What was even more unimaginable was that there was a semi-naked woman sitting next to the man, who looked like Kawasaki Ayumi, the idol of the Japanese entertainment industry.

“Do you understand now?” Tamako glanced contemptuously at the dumbfounded boy and closed the car window completely again.

The extended car slowly started and merged into the traffic. Izumi staggered and took two steps, then knelt on the ground. There was only a lost expression on his handsome face.

Hou Longtao didn’t plan to keep Rena by his side. He didn’t come today to show off to his love rival. He just couldn’t miss this opportunity to humiliate the Japanese, even if the other party was just a teenager… (The golden dragon is not a thing in the pool)