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Chapter 42

No one knows what kind of prominent family background is behind Kiyoshiro Katayama. He drives an egg-like car and has no extravagant items on his body. He only says that his home is in Osaka, he is a small businessman, and has an older brother who is now helping his father. Everyone only regards him as an ordinary student, and he also happily plays such an unknown role.

In fact, when Kiyoshiro was in his teens, he was told that as one of the seven major chaebols in Kansai region, the second son of Sakurai Corporation, the president and major shareholder Shuntaro Tachiyama, the largest manufacturer of machinery and construction materials in Osaka, will take over this huge business empire one day in the future. So Tachiyama raised this child in an extremely strict and low-key manner. He even called him to his side on the day Kiyoshiro was sixteen and told him two things:

The first thing: Going to study in high school in another place, Osaka is no longer suitable for you to continue living. Those who look up at me will eventually affect you.

The second thing: When there are outsiders present, please call me Mr. Katayama.

So Kiyoshiro left Osaka silently with his father's trust, and first went to high school in Nara at the foot of Wakaku Mountain for three years. Then he got into the prestigious university. At that time, he actually wanted to go to the University of Tokyo most, but the competition was too fierce. When discussing with his family, his father, who had always been strict, showed a rare warmth at this time:

Qing Zhilang, do you think you are sure to take the entrance exam for Dongda University?

Kiyoshiro grabbed his head and said: If I study for twenty hours a day and persist for half a year, I believe I can. Most Japanese people are very tenacious, which is a continuation of the traditional Bushido spirit.

My father smiled: What if it was another university?

Qing Zhilang said: Then you don’t have to work harder. After class every day, you can basically pass the exam by reading two or three hours.

Lao Zanshan waved his hand: Then I suggest you not to take the entrance exam to Dongda University. Life is a marathon. Don’t consume all your energy at the beginning. That may not be a good thing for your future life.

Qing Zhilang couldn't believe that his serious father would say such things. He nodded foolishly. Lao Panshan came over and stroked his head pamperedly, saying: Qing Zhilang, for me, your academic future is very important, but your happiness and happiness are more important, so, do you understand what I mean?

Kiyoshiro continued to nod in gratitude.

The attitude expressed by Lao Tamayama's words is no longer a typical Japanese concept. Usually, typical Japanese fathers do not have such human nature. They will say: Even if they study for 24 hours a day, even if they don't eat or drink, they will have to be admitted to Tok University and other things, and they will be almost like saying that they will have a caesarean section if they fail to pass the exam, so they will thank the emperor.

But Shuntaro Katayama was not like this, because he was a Japanese orphan. In early August 1945, the Soviet Far East Red Army liberated Manchuria with a destruction and destruction. His father, Kiyoshiro's grandfather, was directly suppressed by Soviet tanks in that one-sided battle and died in a foreign land. His mother carried several big bags and led him under three years old to retreat to Lushun Port. When she got on the boat, she found that Shuntaro was still waving to her on the dock, but she was holding a little girl she didn't know at all.

My mother just threw him in China.

Compared with those Japanese overseas Chinese who never returned to their motherland in their entire lives, Shuntaro Katayama was very lucky. Not only was he taken back to adopt by the staff of the Lushun Guihua Institute, but later he was taken to Fushun by a family named Liu, who raised him like a son. It was also because his mother had been unremittingly inquiring about his whereabouts through various channels after returning to China. Grandpa was a member of Miyagi Prefecture and was always putting pressure on the government to find him. Most importantly, after he got separated, he was recognized by a former subordinate of his father. In the Lushun Guihua Institute, this guy recognized that this was Colonel Katayama's son. At that time, the staff officer was locked up as a war criminal and was still in handcuffs, but he remembered this. In March 1956, after the Chinese government's pardon, the man ended the transformation and returned to Japan in batches.

That is, the day after arriving in Japan, he went to find the widow of his old superior and told her that Shuntaro had appeared in the Naihua Institute in Lushun in September 1945. So the work was immediately started here. Shuntaro's mother first wrote a letter to the Naihua Institute, and her grandfather wrote a letter to Dalian and Liaoning Provincial People's Government through the Miyagi Prefecture Council and sent a telegram to beg them to help find their grandson.

In that era when the communication was not very developed, the family waited for three months and waited for a reply from China: The child did stay in the naturalized hospital, but in November 1945, he was adopted by the Fushun family. However, after we contacted each other, we had found this family and had done a long time of ideological work. Now they agreed to let Shuntaro return to Japan and ask you to come and pick it up.

So in early August 1956, the family happily arrived at the Port of Lushun, where the mother and son were separated eleven years ago, and brought back the fourteen-year-old Shuntaro from the family.

Although Shuntaro returned to Japan, his eleven years in China had a deep memory. The Chinese people's tolerance, restraint, and unswerving national character left a deep mark on him. Because the adopted person was not an ordinary Chinese, but a former private school teacher. After the liberation of Northeast China, he served as the principal of Fushun Middle School. The many Confucian thoughts and educations of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and wisdom that he instilled in Shuntaro deeply influenced this young man who later became one of the most influential business leaders in Osaka.

After returning to Japan, the young Shuntaro turned around and started learning Japanese. Later, he went to a business school in China and went to the United States for several years. At the age of 24, under the support of his grandfather, he founded Sakurai Trading Company. At this time, it was the 1960s and 1970s that Japan's economy took off, and his career continued to rise step by step. After several years of capital management and mergers and reorganizations, the Sakurai Consortium became one of the seven major chaebols in the Osaka region, almost monopolizing the production, sales and export of all construction materials, mining, construction and metallurgical machinery in Kansai region. He even held shares in many large Japanese consortiums and enterprises, including Nikkei JVC, Mitsui Bank, etc.

At this time, Shintaro Katayama, who was over 50 years old, had returned to Japan for more than 40 years and didn't remember how to speak Chinese, but he fully affirmed Kiyoshiro's professional choice. Kiyoshiro knew his father's Chinese complex, so when he told his father that he wanted to learn Chinese, Old Katayama nodded with praise:

Go, not only need to learn their language, but also need to learn their culture, a culture that is different from Japan!

So in a few years, Qing Zhilang became a Chinese communication.

This is his family and growth experience. As for his emotions, he has encountered some problems, which is why he did not respect Xiaoya very much at the beginning.

The biggest impact of this problem is not him, but his brother Mitsuo Katayama.

Mitsuno was 8 years older than Kiyoshiro. When he was born, it was the beginning of his career in Katayama, so he spent a lot of time on educating his children. With Sakurai's continuous development and growth, Mitsuno's identity as the eldest son of Sakurai's owner is also well-known to more and more people, including many beautiful and material girls. When Mitsuno was as old as Kiyoshiro, that is, 8 years ago, he could no longer distinguish the intentions and purposes of the beauties around him. Many of the girls who were around him even had to be more beautiful than Xiaoya, but every time he was moved, the result of more money was to be cheated out by those women.

Two days before Lao Panshan asked Kiyoshiro to go to high school in another place, Mitsuno had just divorced his beautiful and charming wife who had been married for less than three months. The woman successfully separated her property from his name of nearly 70 million yen, and Mitsuno's heart was also shattered at that moment. He drank seven or eight bottles of sake, his words were bubbled, his eyes were blood red, and he gritted his teeth and said to his sixteen-year-old brother:

Qing Zhilang, remember, no woman in this world will truly love you, they will only love your money! Especially those beautiful women, they are all for money, they only like money!

Kiyoshi Chi-lang witnessed the beauty and soul of those women who were circling around his brother. So when Lao Panshan asked him to go to another place, he not only understood that this was his father's painstaking efforts, but also had a wish, which was to see if any girl would fall in love with him if she didn't rely on her family.

The result of concealing his life experience is disappointing. Of course, the first thing to blame is that Kiyoshiro is picky. He is too mediocre and doesn't want to try it. Those who take the initiative are all school beauties. The ending is very sad. There is basically no follow-up in high school. Several goals in college not only did not give him any chance, but one of them also found the son of the president of a certain Kobe company and drove a Mitsubishi sports car to sway in front of him.

He heard the girl say to her boyfriend that Qing Zhilang actually wanted to date me, but I’m afraid that she would not be able to give me a good-looking watch even after dating for a year!

Qing Zhilang used almost all his strength to barely suppress his impulse. He wanted to rush up and smash the car. Then he only needed a phone call. The people in his father's company would send some of the best sports cars in Japan for the pair of dogs to pick them up, or buy a bunch of diamond watches and smash them into the girl's face. However, these thoughts of venting anger flashed in his mind, and he regained his calmness, got into the little egg, and drove away silently.

From then on, he had a prejudice against beautiful girls. He despised them and did not hesitate to make some very frivolous jokes. Anyway, he didn't need to win their favor, so everything didn't matter.

It was just that Xiaoya's appearance changed his view, although he also looked at Xiaoya in the beginning.
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