My new wife discovered my past

Chapter 213 211. Choose one of two options! Saotome, what is your price?

Saotome Hazuki didn't wake up naturally, but was woken up by the cold.

“…It hurts! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts…”

The thin quilt fell from her shoulders and slid across her silky soft skin. Saotome was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her fox eyes. She just squinted and looked around.

The woman felt extremely sore and had no strength at all. In the bright, clean, yet extremely cold apartment, she shivered all over and became a little more sober. She subconsciously pulled the quilt over herself.

What did Hazuki Saotome see?
She stood proudly, her right hand was as white and tender as a young lotus root, her arm was mouth-watering and appetite-inducing, and her belly, slender waist, and round thighs were all covered with bruises and purple marks, which were very scary, and were almost as severe as Saotome Hazuki's left arm, which was covered with layers of knife scars.

Ignoring the purple marks on her body, Saotome Hazuki stared down at her left arm and remained silent.

Such hideous, ugly and disgusting scars were so glaring on her perfect white body and skin. She was really fed up with it...

But if it is to be able to find Watanabe, meet him again and be with him forever, then even if it means enduring such hurt and pain, it is worth it!
"Watanabe, Watanabe Toru, Watanabe Toru..."

Silently chanting the man's name, Saotome thought about what happened last night and how she ended up in this situation.

Picking up the quilt, spreading her legs and clamping them tightly together, Saotome Hazuki fell on the tatami with a happy smile, recalling the sweetness of last night with Watanabe Tetsuya.

Although it was a bit rough and cruel, at least Saotome once again felt Watanabe's deep love for her.

She is already very satisfied!
If it could go on like this, even if her body was covered with bruises every day, Saotome Hazuki would be willing!
But... the woman thought of the existence of the three Jiugong Sakura girls and the other four girls in Kyoto, and that she would be transferred out of Tokyo again, and she felt extremely depressed...

When I picked up my phone, it was already past nine in the morning.

Looking at the dense new messages and caller ID, Saotome Hazuki felt a severe headache.

After checking carefully, there was no message or call from Tetsuya Watanabe, which made me feel even more upset.

"I really shouldn't have such unrealistic fantasies..."

"Strange? Why did this guy, Jizi, call me three times?"

"Could it be related to Watanabe?"

Driven by curiosity, Saotome was about to call Noriko back, but then she thought that if it really involved Watanabe, she would have to rush to Yokohama today. Wasn't this Junjun trying to tease her?

Brainwashing herself with the message "I still have work to do and I must not be tempted", Saotome Hazuki hardened her heart and called back her direct subordinate at the Tokyo headquarters of the Crescent Moon Group.

President Saotome couldn't be contacted the entire morning, which made all the people in charge of the Crescent Moon Group's Tokyo headquarters very anxious.

They were like ants on a hot pan, pacing around the basement of the apartment building. No one dared to break into the eldest lady's apartment without permission.

It was not until nearly half past nine that one of the female leaders finally received a call from President Saotome, which made all the colleagues downstairs breathe a sigh of relief and keep taking out handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces.

In the middle of summer, when the sun was getting hotter and hotter, not only did none of them dare to enter the apartment building, they even dared not sit in the car to enjoy the air conditioning. They just stood beside the car in the sun with umbrellas, standing in the sun waiting to be summoned by President Saotome.

"Yes! President! It's me! Ogawa Shima

"Okay! Got it! I'll follow Daxizhang up now..."

Ogawa Shima and the Minister Onishi as she called them were the only two female leaders present. Saotome did not allow male subordinates to enter her apartment. Everyone in the Crescent Moon Group expressed their understanding and urged the two female leaders to bring their maids up to serve, asking them to report the latest situation in Yokohama truthfully.

"Yokohama Councillor Hisamatsu and Superintendent Mononobe are becoming more and more reckless. Previously, they only targeted certain members, entertainment venues, and some small businesses directly controlled by the association. I didn't expect that they would escalate last night and this morning..."

"We have started arresting many members of the group who were carrying out normal activities, and have ordered and forced many gambling and entertainment venues to close. Even the rubber and tire factories affiliated with Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. have lost their orders. UTS Financial Securities, which is controlled by the group, was also investigated by the tax authorities at 8:30 this morning...

“I have contacted Councillor Hisamatsu, the police station and Yokohama Customs, and the responses I received were very consistent and exactly the same!
"It all shows that there is relevant evidence that the people and companies that have been arrested and investigated have committed crimes, evaded taxes, and so on!!

"Ironclad evidence!!!"

From the apartment restaurant to the luxury car driving through Tokyo, Saotome Hazuki heard words like these one after another.

The situation is urgent and imminent. None of them is easy to deal with. There are mountains of problems waiting to be solved. This is related to the transfer and development of the Crescent Moon Group in Tokyo and Kanto region. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. Saotome Hazuki feels the pressure from her parents for decades.

In fact, with the endorsement and guarantee of the Shogun, the Crescent Moon Group was able to settle down in the Kanto region particularly smoothly. After all, the young Shogun held great power and was both kind and powerful. The powerful families in Tokyo had no choice but to hold their noses and allow the Crescent Moon Group to do whatever they wanted in the Kanto region.

Those people from Kyoto are really a bunch of country bumpkins!
Watching the Crescent Moon Group, a group of Kyoto swamping Tokyo, is like seeing an ugly, smelly, dead fat pig having sex with their fair-skinned and beautiful daughter. The hearts of the powerful in Tokyo are bleeding!

However, the general's advice was still ringing in their ears, and the families could only be angry but not say anything, swallowing their anger in humiliation.

So when the Kumoniya family, one of the three great families, and Kumoniya Sakura of the Kumoniya Group brazenly attacked the Crescent Moon Group, everyone applauded.

We can't punish you, even the Kunomiya family, one of the three great families and the right-hand man of the Utsunomiya shogunate for generations! ?

Everyone tacitly understood why the Jiunomiya family suddenly launched an attack. It was simply because they received a signal from the shogunate. Sticks and dates were used to attack, and the dog would not be allowed to disobey.

Although the shogunate is a dog in front of the two great powers, as long as you are still an islander, as long as you are still in the island country and in Tokyo, you are still the shogunate's dog! Saotome Hazuki naturally understands the truth. How could the Jiugong family and Jiugong Sakura just fight with her for Watanabe Toru?

She wants both!
As for the shogunate, is His Excellency the Shogun so easy to talk to that he would risk offending the complex forces in Tokyo and overcome controversy to cut off a large piece of meat for the Crescent Moon Group?
The shogunate must have its own plans for doing this!
First, they were probably instigated by the East to stab a knife deep into Kyoto and deal a heavy blow to the royalists and the West. Second, they were retreating to advance, deliberately offering huge benefits to the Crescent Moon Group, which had a weak foundation in Tokyo, so that they would be forced to ask for help from the shogunate again when they were overwhelmed. The shogunate could then use this opportunity to carve out more benefits from the Crescent Moon Group and further completely seize control...

After analyzing the twists and turns, Saotome Hazuki was terrified!

This is why she just kept saying "Shogun" and "Shogun" verbally, instead of really asking for grace from the Shogun and the Shogun.

Is it so easy to ask for and repay the General's kindness?!

Because if you really do this, then Saotome Hazuki, who is neither from the Utsunomiya shogunate nor from the Kunomiya family or the Sakuraba family, what will be the price?

This is all the connection that the Crescent Moon Group and Hazuki Saotome, who have just arrived in Tokyo, have with the shogun and the general!
She couldn't afford not to treat it well and use it in the most important place...

Now the Yokohama front is in crisis, and Saotome is forced to lead the army in person. She only needs to deal with it on the spot and verbally hold high the banner of the Shogun.

Saotome believed that almost all the problems could be solved one by one slowly over time.

If you really encounter a problem that cannot be solved, then the only way left is to ask for grace from the shogunate.

Saotome Hazuki knew better than anyone that this day and this kind of thing would come sooner or later.

Even though she is extremely intelligent, capable and powerful, and can easily resolve all crises, as long as she is still an ordinary human being, without the so-called "supernatural power" and without direct ties to the two poles, she must go to the shogunate in person to ask for such grace and dignity!
If Saotome Hazuki is not so respectable, there will be other people, such as the heads of various departments at the Tokyo headquarters of the Crescent Moon Group, who will help her to be respectable!
Compromise and concession is an art. As long as you have roots, as long as your stems and leaves protrude outward, you must learn to compromise and concession.

Unless you cut off your roots, pull out all the protruding stems and leaves, start all over again, and completely overturn everything...

As long as she understood this, Saotome knew that she must do her best to solve all the problems encountered by the Crescent Moon Group.

If you surrender at the beginning of the game, or use cheats directly, then what is the point of playing the game? What is the process? Who will earn gold coins? Who will buy equipment? Who will kill wild monsters? How to dismantle, repair and patch up defense towers? How to promote small infantry and artillery?

So, if the Crescent Moon Group is so weak and useless, why is it still hanging around in Tokyo? The shogunate took over from top to bottom and wiped it out completely!

Are you crying out for injustice? It’s because you haven’t worked hard enough!
In the island country and in Tokyo, there are many people who want to make progress!

Therefore, Saotome must also show her ability and strength to demonstrate her value as the master of the Crescent Moon Group for the next few decades, and show her sword to the shogunate and the powerful masters in Tokyo.

Her knife is not bad either!

Only after such a back-and-forth contest could Saotome Hazuki go to the shogunate to ask for such a favor again.

Then, each of them was beaten with twenty boards. The Crescent Moon Group returned 70% of the benefits previously given by the shogunate to the shogunate and various powerful families in Tokyo, and kept 30% for themselves to gain a foothold in Tokyo.

This and that, it can be said that there is no acquaintance without fighting. The [New Moon Group] has legitimately transformed from being a bunch of country bumpkins from Kyoto to becoming the nobles of Tokyo!
Such a big and good drama has been performed in turn, with each player taking his turn. It is also the drama that best suits the interests of the [New Moon Group] and Saotome Hazuki of the [New Moon Group].

So what is the price for Saotome Hazuki personally?

The price is that Saotome Hazuki will be unable to cope with all the tasks, and her rear base will be attacked. Jiugong Sakura's home base attack may cause Saotome Hazuki to lose Watanabe Tetsuya forever!

Don't do this kind of thing!
Losing Tetsuya Watanabe, she had already experienced it once in Kyoto five years ago, and Hazuki Saotome never wanted to see such a thing happen to her again! !
Saotome Hazuki wants to be with Watanabe Tetsuya forever, not for ten years or ten thousand years, but forever and ever, for generations to come!!!
Can Saotome and Watanabe really be together forever? Is it really possible?
If possible.

Theoretically, as long as Saotome uses the grace and favor left by the shogunate, as she said to Watanabe last night, to ask the shogun to grant her marriage...

Then there should be a 50% chance of success.

But Saotome Hazuki would not do this easily unless it was absolutely necessary.

First of all, the reason why Saotome Hazuki has only a 50% probability instead of a 100% probability is because if she can do it, Jiugong Sakura can naturally follow suit.

Who is closer between the Jiugong Family and the New Moon Group? Do you still need to see?

Even though Jiugong Ying was scolded for wanting to marry a man who was already engaged and had been her... before, given her lawless nature, even the general would not be able to change her mind.

Secondly, if Saotome asks for grace to marry Watanabe... this will simply draw everyone's attention to Watanabe.

By then, with Jiu Gongying's fanning the flames, Watanabe Tetsuya's name will definitely be known throughout the Tokyo elite circle. Even the other four women far away in Kyoto may hear Watanabe Tetsuya's name and see his photos and videos...

By then, there will really be no way out!
Even if Saotome really married Watanabe, what would happen? Without the grace of the shogunate, the Crescent Moon Group would only be devoured greedily, leaving behind only a skeleton!
Without the [New Moon Group] to protect her from the wind and rain, how could Hazuki Saotome protect Tetsuya Watanabe who was surrounded by hungry wolves and greedy by tigers and leopards! ?
This is the real death without a burial place for her!
It seems that Saotome Hazuki was given two completely opposite paths and asked to choose between them.

But Saotome Hazuki clearly understood that she had only one choice, which was to stay away from Tokyo for the time being, get rid of the whirlpool, and wait until the [New Moon Group] had a firm foothold in Tokyo before talking about the "battle to retake Watanabe Tetsuya"!

But Hazuki Saotome is unwilling to accept this! She is unwilling to accept this! !

If I fail to keep Watanabe Tetsuya this time and let him be snatched away from me openly, what will be my future?!

The Crescent Moon Group was integrated into Tokyo and recognized by the powerful families, but how could she, Saotome Hazuki, be accepted by Sakura Kujo and Nao Yanagihara! ?
Unless she, Saotome Hazuki, completely humbles herself and is willing to be just a butt-pushing maid from now on, she won't even have the chance to lick Watanabe Toru! Not to mention drinking soup!! Eating meat!!!
Her brain was in so much pain that Saotome didn't want to think about it any more. She rubbed her forehead and asked:
"Where's Watanabe? Tell me what intelligence he has today."

(End of this chapter)