I am a literary giant in Japan

The news that Jabami Rei and Kitagawa Hide were going to the welfare home in Nerima District to bring warmth quickly spread among their small circle.

At their level, many things cannot be hidden even if they want to.

Going to welfare homes to provide warmth to deaf and mute children is a charity that deserves praise and promotion, and there is no need to hide it.

After discovering that the "Christmas event" had been leaked, Kitagawa Hide simply called Senhara Masato and asked him to use the Kitagawa Group's charity fund and then work with the group's public relations department to come up with a plan that would actually benefit the children in the welfare home.

Shizuko Kawaide, Rena Saito and others who learned about this incident at the last minute also called to ask if there was anything they could do to help.

When Kitagawa Hide declined their kindness on the grounds that "there is no need to make it so grand and troublesome for the time being", Kawaide Shizuko and others did not insist any more, but only instructed their subordinates to help with miscellaneous tasks and not to cause trouble.

In this kind of matter, Kitagawa Hide really likes the moral kidnapping logic of "don't cause trouble for others" in Japanese society.

As we all know, in order to show off their civilization, etiquette and national harmony, the Japanese highly advocate the logic of "don't cause trouble to others" in social interactions.

Simply put, no matter when, one should maintain a humble and polite appearance and not let anything of one's own affect others.

This kind of nationwide civilized atmosphere seems very advanced at first glance, and it is easy for people to feel comfortable and safe living in this society.

In fact, no one who has truly experienced this Japanese atmosphere likes it.

For example, if you are seriously injured and go to the hospital for treatment, you have to drag your dying body to apologize and thank the doctor, feeling guilty for bothering him with your problem;
Even though you are exhausted after a whole day, you still have to smile and be friendly to everyone;

The inhumane garbage sorting measures almost make you explode. You clearly want to throw all the garbage into the garbage station, but you still have to do the damn sorting work with a smile on your face.

The reason why this twisted and sick society looks harmonious and beautiful is that it exploits the humanity of all its citizens.

Therefore, in life, Kitagawa Hide has always gone his own way and rarely lives a tired life like traditional Japanese.

But in these matters, this attitude towards life has been a great help.

After Kitagawa Hide clearly expressed his refusal, Kawaide Shizuko and others would no longer interfere.

And even if they knew that riding on this popularity would be beneficial to the company, they would not do such a thing.

Along with those nosy reporters and other relevant personnel, they all left on their own accord so as not to cause trouble for Kitagawa Hide.

Of course, there are also shameless guys.

They used the headline "Jabami Rei is Kitagawa Hide's mistress" to publish a sensational article in the gossip tabloids within a few hours, and then sold it in large quantities at newsstands.

Then Kitagawa Hide used his power as a "reserve member of parliament" for the first time.

While Kitagawa Hidezo was buying gifts and greeting cards in Ginza, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's special operations team and staff from the Parliamentarians' Rights Protection Committee came to check the water meters of those magazine and newspaper offices.

This is not a simple "water meter check" like the one by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

After these "violent elements" arrived, they directly used violence to smash the magazine and newspaper offices, and then turned around and charged them with several crimes such as assaulting police officers, ensuring that these scumbags would have to stay in prison for at least a year before they could be released on bail.

On the other side, a business car escorted by driver Kinoshita also drove all the way from Ginza, Tokyo to the relatively remote Nerima Ward in the 23 wards of Tokyo.

"Nerima Ward is so different from Minato Ward and Chuo Ward."

Mengzi looked out of the car window and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice when she saw the small bungalows that looked like adobes.
“It feels like I’m back home in Osaka”

“Yeah, I was also very emotional when I first came to Nerima.

I used to think that only places like my hometown were so poor, and when I was a child, I often didn’t dare to tell others that I was an Adachi person. "

Jabami Rei has come to Nerima many times for filming.

But every time she comes, the feeling of suddenly being demoted from an international metropolis to the urban-rural fringe of a second- or third-tier city makes her feel like she has returned to the 1970s.

Kitagawa Hideya was deeply moved by the poverty in Nerima Ward.

Jabami Rei is a native of Adachi Ward, which is the poorest district in Tokyo, bar none.

Due to the extreme poverty in Adachi Ward, people once mistakenly believed that only that corner of Tokyo was poor, while other areas had already escaped poverty and become rich.

In fact, Nerima Ward is also a gathering place for poor people, but not as excessive as Adachi Ward.

According to survey data provided by the Ministry of Finance in 1997, the average annual income per capita in Nerima Ward is approximately 359 million yen, and the median annual income is approximately 283 million yen, ranking 23th and 19st respectively among the 21 wards of Tokyo, making it a truly impoverished area.

Kitagawa Hide's sigh did not come from these things, but compared with the prosperity of later generations, the current Nerima District is indeed a bit desolate.

After the millennium, as Japanese anime became increasingly popular and out of the circle, many cartoonists and comic publishers became the darlings of the new era.

Nerima District, which was still very poor at that time, was famous all over the world for having many cartoonists settled there and was known as the "birthplace of Japanese anime."

The story scenes of the famous cartoons "Doraemon" and "Your Lie in April" are located in Hikarigaoka-cho, Nerima Ward.

This is also the main stage of the story of the famous "food animation" "Tokyo Ghoul", and later it became a pilgrimage site for countless anime fans.

If Kitagawa Hide remembered correctly, in another three to five years, more than 70 animation companies such as Toei and Mushi Production would move here one after another, or simply originate here, making Nerima Ward a gathering place for animation companies.

Of course, these companies haven’t moved in yet, so the whole street is still empty, like a ghost town.

The welfare home for deaf-mute children in Nerima District that Kitagawa Hide and his friends were going to was also very dilapidated. It looked like an old-style building from the 1950s and 1960s, and was filled with a decayed "old man smell".

Even though the rigid conditions were not very good, after learning that Mr. Kitagawa would come with Sister Jabami Rei, the director, teachers and children of the welfare home insisted on decorating the welfare home into a building with a strong "Kitagawa style".

When Kitagawa Hide and his group walked into the welfare home and saw the "Kitagawa Hide elements" everywhere, they were quite moved and surprised.

On the door frame of the welfare home's auditorium, the director asked the teachers to hang a large banner with the words "Welcome Member of Parliament and the "World's No. 1" in Japanese literary world, Mr. Kitagawa Hide, to visit our home for inspection and guidance" written in beautiful fonts.

"Teacher Beichuan, this banner and the decorations in the courtyard were all made by the children themselves.
And these, although they are small and insignificant things, they are all the children’s heartfelt gifts. Please give them to Mr. Beichuan.”

The dean followed Kitagawa Hide and the other two all the way, keeping a very humble attitude. It seemed as if he wanted to get down from his seat to show his sincerity and respect for the three of them.

In the past two years, Jabari Rei has been donating money and effort to the welfare home.

However, she could not disclose her identity, and most of the money she gave was used to improve the children's meals and fill the vacancies in the Nerima District School for Deaf and Mute Children, which did not substantially change the current situation of the welfare home. The director has been looking for sponsors and charity foundations, but now the government has cut the financial subsidy project related to the treatment of the deaf and mute due to financial problems.

At this time, no company was willing to go against the trend and policy to sponsor them.

Businessmen are all profit-driven and their consciences have long been eaten by dogs.

Although I don’t know what means Jabami Rei used to “trick” the famous Japanese literary teacher Kitagawa here.

But thinking that maybe Mr. Kitagawa was the turning point of these things, the dean, adhering to his usual low-key communication style, took the initiative to do these things to please Kitagawa Xiu.

After inexplicably smelling something familiar, Kitagawa Hide quickly waved his hand to stop the situation and asked the staff of the welfare home to quickly take down the shameful banner. He also asked Jabami Rei to explain his true intentions to the director many times, and only then did he make it clear.

Upon hearing that the Beichuan Group owned by Mr. Beichuan was willing to sponsor all expenses of its welfare home free of charge, the director was surprised and delighted, and then asked several times in doubt.

After getting Kitagawa Hide's accurate answer, his knees went weak and he really knelt down.

"Teacher Kitagawa! I... I really don't know how to thank you."

The director is a simple middle-aged man. It is precisely because of his simplicity that he insists on staying in the Nerima District Welfare Home for Deaf and Mute Children even though he knows that nothing can be done.

He has been waiting all these years, but lately, even he himself is not sure what he is waiting for.

Maybe it's a special policy, maybe it's a public official who has a change of heart, maybe it's a tycoon who came out of nowhere.
Of course, what may happen next is the closure of the welfare home, the termination of relevant policies, or the emergence of evildoers who covet these children.
He didn't know what he would be waiting for in the end.

But he knew that he had to wait until someone who could solve all this appeared.

And now, he finally waited for that person.

Kitagawa Hide, who didn't know much about these special groups in both of his lives, actually couldn't empathize with the director and the staff who stayed at the welfare home.

He admired them and praised them, but he could not understand them.

The main reason for coming here is actually because of Jabami Rei.

But now, seeing a man older than his father-in-law using the most humble position of dogeza in front of him, Kitagawa Hide suddenly understood Jabami Rei.

The light that you light up casually may be the sun in someone else's life.

It's actually not pleasant at all to be under this kind of sun.

But it can make people understand and comprehend some things.

The Christmas activities that were originally designed to be interesting and entertaining have become a bit boring under this circumstance.

“Maybe I can do more.
And some of the things I do casually may be the dreams that he and they can never reach in their lifetime. "

Some inexplicable emotion suddenly arose in Kitagawa Hide's heart.

This emotion became even stronger when he saw one deaf-mute child after another, who were timid and unable to be as happy as normal children, holding his books tremblingly and asking for his autograph.

"Children love to read the books you write. This is the truth. I am definitely not lying to please you!

The teaching materials used in the welfare home's self-study courses in Chinese are your "Snow Country", "The Little Prince" and "The Dancing Girl of Izu".
Sorry, this may involve copyright issues."

After some communication, the dean had a general understanding of Kitagawa Hide's character.

After confirming that the "number one in the world" of Japanese literature was indeed as kind as Jabami Rei said, he visibly relaxed a lot and was no longer so reserved.

But as he spoke, he realized that his own welfare home seemed to have violated the other party's rights, and he immediately became uneasy like a taut string.

"It doesn't matter. I can just talk to a few publishers about this matter later."

Kitagawa Hide waved his hand. He had already confirmed what the dean said when he was communicating with some deaf and mute children just now.

The children really like him and his novels, and they are not being deliberately brought up to be that way.

This is the thing that makes Kitagawa Xiu feel most gratified and happy.

I am even happier than when my novel was included in the Japanese language textbooks.

As for the trivial matters that the dean mentioned, he didn't care at all.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! Sorry to trouble you!" The dean didn't dare to say anything more.

Although he didn't understand the publishing industry, he was very clear about the huge commercial value of the novels written by Hide Kitagawa from the words of other staff members.

Even for such a small-scale use, he had to pay an astronomical copyright fee that was far beyond his imagination!

Even though it cost so much money, the young man just waved his hand and waived it.

This is the courage of the top writers in the literary world!
One can't help but admire it from the bottom of their hearts.

"If you don't mind, could I give the kids a literature lesson about my novel tonight?"

Hearing that the teachers and staff of the welfare home were using his novels as teaching materials, Kitagawa Hide suddenly felt that teaching this literature class himself might be more inspiring and motivating for them.

"Oh, if you are willing to teach the children, that would be great.

If it's just tuition fees." The dean was really short of money, but he was embarrassed to ask Kitagawa Hide for free.

Moreover, the Ministry of Education has made clear regulations on educational and training activities. No matter who or what organization conducts the educational and training activities, they must receive a certain amount of teaching fees.

This is Japan's respect for teachers as a national profession, and no one is an exception.

Kitagawa Hide is aware of the laws and regulations and does not want the welfare home to get into trouble because of this matter.

He was just about to find an excuse to symbolically collect 1 yen or 100 yen as tuition fees when suddenly there was a loud shouting at the door of the auditorium, followed by a black figure stumbling towards him.

"Don't stop me! I must tell Mr. Kitagawa about this! Only Mr. Kitagawa can save the children of Yamanashi Prefecture!!!" (End of this chapter)