I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 128 Is the Jidao boss also a fan of Mr. Beichuan's books? !
Hu Touben drove all the way back to Kokubunji City from the downtown area of ​​Shinjuku. Before leaving Shinjuku, the car was stopped by a group of men in suits and uniforms with fierce looks at almost every few traffic lights.

These people were all Wakashu of the Sumiyoshi-kai (lower-level followers of the Yakuza organization). They blocked several major traffic arteries to express the respect of their chairman Shigeo Nishiguchi for Sensei Kitagawa.

Shigeo Nishiguchi inherited the sixth generation Sumiyoshi family in February 1991. He had little education and showed no interest in the literary world.

Before that, when Hide Kitagawa wrote "Youth Trilogy" and "No Longer Human", he was not interested at all. Until one day, Shigeo Nishiguchi accidentally got a copy of "Akira" from his younger brother. After reading it, he immediately admired Hide Kitagawa.

Soon after that, he watched "I Am a Cat" and the movie version of "Akabana", and then completely turned into a fan of Kitagawa Hide. I heard that the Sumiyoshi-kai's club building was changed to a group going to watch the movie version of "Akabana"!

The reason why Shigeo Nishiguchi admires these two works so much is that the Sumiyoshi-kai itself has long been suppressed by capitalists and chaebols, and the Japanese literary world also despises yakuza organizations, often pulling them out as negative examples and villains.

Only Kitagawa Hide's "Akira" vaguely mentions the Yakuza organization, but the characters in it are all positive roles, at least much better than those disgusting capitalists and literary award judges!

The protagonist Ichiko Baka also bought his shotgun from a yakuza friend. The final justice punishment made Shigeo Nishiguchi so excited that he wished he could make Kitagawa teacher his close friend.

Recently, Shigeo Nishiguchi watched Hideo Kitagawa's masterpiece "No Longer Human" again. To be honest, he didn't understand it, but this did not prevent him from promoting Mr. Kitagawa in Shinjuku.

Because he heard that this book created a new genre, something like "rogue literature"?

Anyway, the name sounds like it suits me!
The Japanese Yakuza are slightly different from gangs in other countries.

They set up companies, paid taxes, had physical businesses, and were even legally recognized!
These people consider themselves to be descendants of the ancient Japanese samurai class. Just like the gangsters in neighboring South Korea, in a society where the police are incompetent, they feel that they are "acting on behalf of heaven" and that "thieves also have their own code of conduct."

However, Shigeo Nishiguchi's cultural level is very limited, and he can't connect with people in any cultural circle at all. If it were the entertainment circle, it would be easy to say, because he has several brokerage companies under him that do this.

He knew very well that if he made his identity and name known to others, Mr. Kitagawa would never see him, so he took it upon himself to learn the set of things in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - the Japanese love for the Three Kingdoms culture is really deep in their bones.

Shigeo Nishiguchi vaguely remembered that in the book, Cao Cao saw Guan Yu off. In order to express his respect, he placed good wine and delicious food every few miles. In the end, he also gave Guan Yu a cloak, weapons, gold, silver and horses. In short, he learned a lot!
Kitagawa Hide didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In his previous life, he had heard that the bosses of Japanese yakuza societies all liked to act pretentiously arty, but after all, such people and such a life were too far away from him. He could only see them occasionally in novels and comics.

Now that he has experienced it himself, Kitagawa Hideichi really doesn't know whether to say Nishiguchi Shigeo is "cute" or "funny."

The car window was rolled down, and Shigeo Nishiguchi and a group of his younger brothers stood respectfully, and warmly invited Kitagawa Hide and the other person to go to Kabukicho in Shinjuku to eat, drink and have fun, but Kitagawa Hide decisively refused!
Shigeo Nishiguchi seemed to have anticipated this situation and was not angry. He smiled and handed over his business card with both hands, saying that they could make an appointment on another day. Anyway, he was always available as long as Teacher Kitagawa called!

Kitagawa Hide didn't want to hit anyone who smiled at him, and asked Mayumi Aso to help him return the business card, and then immediately drove away from this place of trouble.

In the end, he still left Nishiguchi Shigeo's business card, just like Muramatsu Tomoshi's invitation. As a person, you must always leave a way out for yourself and others, just in case it may be useful in the future.
But Kitagawa Hide doesn't want to see the day when he really calls him.

Mayumi Aso, who was standing by, was shocked and admired. He was indeed a master! Even this legendary gangster was a fan of his books!
The longer she interacted with her master, the more she felt that his success was no accident.

After visiting Kawaide Shobo's various preparatory work for the new works of top writers, Mayumi Aso felt a little sleepy and bored, but when she turned around, she saw Kitagawa Hide writing and drawing in a shorthand notebook, obviously recording everything he had learned.

He was studying hard all the time, totally unlike the kind of reckless great writer that Mayumi Aso knew him to be.

The same was true of the brief chat he had with Shigeo Nishiguchi just now. Although he just rolled down the window to chat for a few words, Kitagawa Hide asked a lot of information related to the Yakuza organization. After Shigeo Nishiguchi left, he drove to a secluded place and took out his shorthand notebook to record it!

Looking back at the outline in her hand, Mayumi Aso couldn't help but sit up straight. She secretly made up her mind that she wanted to be like her master, not only a great writer, but also have a certain sense of social responsibility.

The extramarital affairs, hollow-heartedness, and only-child phenomenon mentioned in South of the Border, West of the Sun are social problems that the general public is deeply aware of, but are deliberately ignored by the literary community and the government.

Previously, there were almost no novels that used this as an entry point. As a rising new writer, the master can continue to write in his familiar style. Whether it is youth romance, rogue literature, critical literature, or mono no aware literature, there will definitely be a lot of fans willing to pay for it.

But he still chose a new track. Is this the social responsibility of a top writer?
That’s amazing!

Kitagawa Hide didn't know that this stupid apprentice had already started to imagine and come up with self-strategies. The chat with Nishiguchi Shigeo just now had given him some small inspiration.

In a sense, the existence of Japan's Yakuza societies is really for the purpose of "enforcing justice" and helping the Japanese government do things that they cannot do.

There are good and bad things here, but it has a bit of a "City Lights" feel to it.

A judge who is beyond the law. I feel this could be a good subject. Kitagawa Hidemoto wanted to take out his shorthand notebook to record his inspiration and many ideas that flashed through his mind. As the saying goes, "a good memory is not as good as a bad pen", but now his hands are on the steering wheel, driving.

Traffic laws in Japan are very strict, and he is a celebrity, so he had to give up the idea of ​​recording his inspiration and wait until he gets home.

"Ms. Aso, can you drive?" Kitagawa Hide asked suddenly.

Mayumi Aso was startled. She thought she had done something wrong after hearing her master's tone. She quickly lowered her head and whispered, "I have a driving license, but Jun's ex-husband won't let me drive, so I don't have any practical experience."

"Oh, then you can use my car to practice later." Beichuan Xiu glanced at the disciple beside him who was as plump as a peach and thought it would be a waste not to use it. It would save the money of hiring a driver.

He heard from Shizuko Kawaide that in Kinoshita's bodyguard team, the least experienced driver made 25 yen a month!
Isn't it nice to have a free apprentice?

"Yes, I will try my best, Master!" Mayumi Aso nodded immediately, "By the way, please just call me Aso or Mayumi."

"Okay, then I'll just call you Aso." Kitagawa Hideya was annoyed by the Japanese's respectful way of addressing people, and he was even too lazy to add the "Sang" at the end.

Logically, Kitagawa Hide is the elder, so it would be better to call her "Mayumi", but the other person is seven years older than herself and is of the opposite sex. If they are not very familiar with each other, it would feel weird to call her that.

He still chose to call Saito the same way.

"Yes! Please feel free to do as you please, Master!" Mayumi Aso did not dare to be impolite. She waited until Kitagawa Hide started driving seriously again before she continued to read the outline of the novel.

It is about 28 kilometers from Shinjuku to Kokubunji City, but Kitagawa Hide was delayed by Shigeo Nishiguchi, so he drove for more than an hour before he arrived at Hanamaru Kindergarten, where Saito Lili and Aso Aiko were studying.

They were almost half an hour late. As soon as they arrived at the kindergarten, Kitagawa Hide and Aso Mayumi got out of the car quickly and ran to pick up the two little girls.

Because it was too long before school was over and the two little ones had not yet received their parents' visit, the kindergarten teacher took them back to the classroom.

"Kitagawa-kun~Mom!" The first one to rush out was Aso Aiko, followed by Saito Lily, who was relatively introverted and had a black bowl-cut hairstyle.

Saito Lili is Saito Rena's younger sister. She also has an older sister, Saito Ningning, who attends elementary school next door. Kitagawa Hideya will have to help pick her up and take her home to settle her down later.

"You are Lily-chan and Aiko-chan's parents. Are you Teacher Kitagawa?!" the kindergarten teacher covered her mouth and asked happily.

She felt that she was definitely not mistaken. She had bought all of Teacher Beichuan's books, and had read newspaper and television interviews. That face was almost imprinted in her mind.

But she never thought that one day she would meet Mr. Kitagawa in the kindergarten where she worked!

"It's me. Sorry, teacher, for taking up your time." Kitagawa Hide picked up the two little girls, one in each hand.

Hearing his son calling him "Prince" and then calling Mayumi Aso "Mom", he always felt it was weird, but it didn't matter, as they could just let each other have their own opinions.

Including elementary school student Saito Ningning, these little girls are very attached to Kitagawa Hide, probably because there is no older man like a father in their lives.

Rena Saito's parents also passed away after the bubble economy burst, and she raised her two younger sisters single-handedly.

"No, no, no, it's so nice to meet you! I'm a big fan of yours."

The kindergarten teacher was a little incoherent, with stars in her eyes, which shocked the two little girls.

It turns out that the usually fierce teacher is also a fan of Beichuan Gege?

The three of them took the two children out of the door. The kindergarten teacher who got the autograph said goodbye to them contentedly. Kitagawa Hide was about to send them to the car when he inadvertently caught a glimpse of Chizuru Sadako who was standing alone outside the kindergarten wall kicking pebbles.

But this time, a boy who looked like a junior high school student was talking to her.

(End of this chapter)