Miura's family's Miuraya is a well-known figure in the business circle of Osaka and is one of the famous silk merchants in Osaka.
Silk in the Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly a luxury item. As long as it was managed properly, getting rich quickly was easy.
The Miura family has a history of more than a hundred years. Miura's great-grandfather started from scratch and established Miura-ya. After more than a hundred years of development, their Miura family finally became one of the wealthy merchants, and successfully obtained the status of samurai by recruiting samurai as son-in-law 20 years ago.
Taro Miura is the eldest son of the Miura family.
In order to avoid family strife, the Edo Shogunate has stipulated since its establishment that the family business will be inherited by the eldest son, regardless of whether it is a samurai or a commoner.
At the same time, the family business cannot be divided into several parts for different sons to inherit. The remaining descendants can only find other ways out.
As the eldest son of the family, Taro Miura will, if nothing unexpected happens, inherit the huge family business.
In order to allow his son to successfully manage this huge family business in the future, Miura's father had asked Miura to help take care of some of the family business in the past few years.
I have to say - Miura does have some business sense.
After helping to look after the family business, he successfully achieved a lot of results.
Half a month ago, Miura successfully negotiated a business deal with a daimyo in the western country on his own. This business deal directly brought 1,000 taels of income to their Miura family.
1,000 taels - this is not a small sum for Miuraya.
Accomplished a great deed - this naturally made Miura want to laugh out loud for half an hour.
In order to celebrate his new achievement for the family, Miura held a banquet tonight to entertain all his friends.
All his friends were at the party—except Kitahara from Quanbingguan.
Different from Miura and his ilk who are "samurai in appearance but businessmen in reality", Kitahara is a true samurai, and a star figure at Zenhyo-kan, a prestigious sword school in Osaka.
The two were not from the same circle, but they met unexpectedly a few years ago. They had similar personalities and soon became good friends.
Kitahara is now extremely obsessed with Isshikika. When Miura invited him to the banquet yesterday, even though the Sudaya where the banquet was held was a very formal teahouse, he flatly refused Miura's invitation in order to maintain his image of "never going to Shinmachi".
Since Kitahara wasn't coming, Miura didn't force him.
Almost all of his friends will come to tonight's banquet. In order to prevent this banquet celebrating his great contributions to the family from being too embarrassing, and also to show off in front of his friends, Miura paid a large sum of money to book a performance by today's star Hatsukimi a few days ago.
Hatsumitsu was not a stranger to Miura.
Two months ago, Miura met Hatsumitsu for the first time at a friend's banquet, where the performer came to the banquet.
Miura likes girls with plump breasts. Hatsukiri, who has a slightly thin figure, is not Miura's type, but he likes Hatsukiri's piano playing very much.
Music is one of Miura's few hobbies. After hearing Hatsukuni's piano for the first time, he was immediately impressed by her talent.
A small part of the reason why Miura invited Miura was to listen to Hatsumitsu's beautiful piano music again.
At this moment, when Miura saw the long-awaited first light finally coming, he immediately smiled.
Then after smiling happily, the expression on his face froze.
Because he saw two familiar faces behind Chu Guang.
Miura recognized them immediately - weren't these the woman he had fallen in love with yesterday, and that woman's husband?
Chuguang has 1 assistant and 2 guards - Miura is well aware of this, after all, "assistant + guard" is like a business card to Chuguang.
In an instant, countless questions flashed through Miura's mind.
Why are these two people here? Aren't they selling tooth powder on the street? Why did they suddenly become Miss Chuguang's assistant and bodyguard? When I first met Miss Chuguang 2 months ago, Miss Chuguang's bodyguard and assistant were obviously not these two people...
Although there were many questions, Miura quickly gave explanations for them one by one:
Chu Guang's original assistants and bodyguards had probably resigned, so the couple applied to fill the vacancies of assistants and bodyguards. When they had nothing to do, they went to the streets to sell tooth powder to supplement their family income.
There was nothing wrong or unreasonable about the reason he had come up with in his mind, which made Miura smile with self-satisfaction.
"Sorry." When Miura's expression just returned to normal from being stunned, Chu Guang folded his hands in front of him, then bowed to Miura and others and said softly, "I've kept you waiting for a long time."
“Ahahahaha.” Miura withdrew his gaze from Ogata and Atachi and waved his hand at Hatsumitsu, “Ms. Hatsumitsu, you came just in time! You didn’t keep us waiting for long! Come in! Come in !”
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Ogata was surprised when he saw Miura.
I was surprised that Osaka is so small...
The guy who chatted up Ah-Machi yesterday unexpectedly appeared in front of him again today - the probability was so low, but Ogata actually ran into him.
However, although he was surprised, Ogata quickly put away the surprise in his heart.
Tonight he just wanted to complete the task assigned to him by Sotadaemon quietly.
So he just hoped that Miura wouldn't do anything to dash his expectations.
After following Chu Guang into the room, Chu Guang knelt in a corner of the room, with a smile on his face that reminded people of the spring breeze, and said some opening remarks and polite words to everyone at the banquet, such as "Thank you all for inviting me to the banquet."
After saying all this nonsense, Chu Guang's performance officially began.
Atachi was kneeling obediently behind Hatsumitsu, and after Hatsumitsu announced loudly that she was going to start the performance, she very conspicuously handed the shamisen she had been holding in her arms to her.
Although all of them are holding the shamisen, some of them move like gorillas playing with toys, while others look like fairies in the sky.
Chuguang belongs to the latter.
After picking up the shamisen handed to him by A-machi in a very elegant posture, Hatsumitsu pressed the strings with his left hand, held the pick with his right hand, and began to slowly pluck the strings.
The sound of Chu Guang's piano is like crystal clear and round beads swimming and bumping around.
It is also like clear streams, gusts of warm wind, and fallen leaves dancing in the wind...
Ogata didn't understand music, but he could tell instinctively that Hatsumitsu's performance was very skilled.
Even Ogata, who knew nothing about music and had no interest in it, could not help but be fascinated by the sound of Hatsumitsu's piano.
The banquet, which had been a bit noisy, had now become quiet, and everyone was listening attentively to Chu Guang's performance.
The first piece of music played by Chu Guang was not long, so it was finished in the blink of an eye.
"Good!" Miura was the first to applaud and cheer, "As expected of Miss Hatsumitsu! This skill is truly amazing!"
After Miura took the lead in applauding, the rest of the people at the banquet followed suit, clapping and cheering.
Ogata, who was sitting behind Hatsumitsu together with Shibata, almost clapped subconsciously, but just as he raised his hands, he suddenly remembered that his current identity was Hatsumitsu's bodyguard, so he quickly put his hands back on his legs.
"Oh! It's all thanks to Miura-kun that I can enjoy such a feast for my ears today!" At this time, a fat man who was closer to Miura clapped his hands and laughed, "Miura-kun is indeed a role model for our generation! Miss Hatsumitsu can't be invited casually to perform now, but Miura-kun was able to invite Miss Hatsumitsu easily!"
"Yeah, yeah!" Someone followed closely behind, flattering Miura, "And they can even hold a banquet in a place like Sudaya! That's really amazing!"
Listening to the flattery from his friends, Miura felt secretly delighted.
Actually, the flattery that the fat man just gave was a bit exaggerated.
Although Miuraya is a well-known company in Osaka's business circle, it is only a little famous.
Osaka's business circle is a real place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers are everywhere. Compared with the real bigwigs in Osaka, Miuraya is still far behind.
No matter how capable Miura was, it was impossible for him to invite Chuguang so easily. He spent a lot of effort and even asked his father for help before he successfully invited Chuguang to the banquet.
However, Miura, who was feeling very happy at the moment, would not go and point out the fat man's exaggeration and bring trouble upon himself.
Not only did he not point it out, he even smiled pretentiously: "They are just some trivial matters that are not worth mentioning."
"Miura-kun." At this time, someone suddenly asked Miura, "Speaking of this Sudaya... I heard that your Miura-ya has recently started cooperation with that Yukimura-sama. Is this true?"
"Oh, about this." Miura took a sip of wine, "It's not really a collaboration, it's just a mutual benefit with Yukimura-sama."
"As you know, we at Miura-ya have been trying to engage in the alcoholic beverage business since last year."
"After a year of development, the wine business is booming, but I don't have enough energy to take care of the two major businesses of silk and wine."
"So after serious discussions with my father, we decided to slightly reduce the scale of our silk business."
"After hearing that Lord Yukimura was planning to get involved in the silk business, we took the initiative to contact Lord Yukimura and expressed our willingness to sell our stores in Nara to Lord Yukimura and provide the corresponding supply channels."
"Master Yukimura is also a straightforward person and agreed immediately."
At this time, Miura smiled smugly and raised three fingers.
"He gave us 3,000 daipanjin directly, and gave us a pub in a good location for free."
When Miura said this, everyone at the banquet gasped.
"Miura-kun! You're amazing!" someone shouted excitedly.
"That's great..." Someone sighed, "I also want to be friends with a great man like Yukimura-sama..."
Seeing the reactions of his friends, the smug look on Miura's face became even more intense.
Yukimura - a bona fide big shot in the Osaka business circle, and also a legendary man.
Yukimura's real name is Sakata Yogoro, and Yukimura is just the common name people call him. He came from the lower class and was just an ordinary gangster in Osaka.
Later, with hard work and opportunity, in just a few decades, he transformed from an ordinary gangster into one of the most wealthy businessmen in Osaka.
His strengths are not limited to his business talents. He has deep connections with many powerful Yakuza in Osaka. He is a man who is well connected with both the black and white worlds, and he is very skilled in gunmanship. It is rumored that as long as he has a gun in his hand, no ordinary person can get close to him.
It was precisely because of his excellent spearmanship that people used the name of Yukimura Sanada, a famous general who used a spear as a weapon two hundred years ago , as a common name for him.
In short - this is an extremely awesome person, so awesome that just having a little business benefit with him is worth bragging about in front of your friends.
While Miura was silently enjoying the admiration of his friends, he secretly glanced at Ogata not far away.
Miura really dislikes Ogata.
Because he took away the precious good cabbage.
Miura is not interested in married women, so now Atachi is no longer attractive to him at all.
Ever since he read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a child, the character that Miura could not understand the most was Cao Cao - what was the attraction of a married woman?
As soon as he saw Ogata, Miura felt a heartache.
Such a good woman was ruined by a guy who couldn't even see her face.
Such a good woman should belong to a strong man like them. Such a guy who needs to sell tooth powder on the street and work as a bodyguard for others to make a living should be with such a low-quality woman.
When he was bragging about the cooperation between Miuraya and Yukimura just now, he spoke at a very loud volume and emphasized in a strong tone the 3,000 taels of gold and the izakaya he got from Yukimura.
The purpose is to show off in front of this annoying man, satisfy her sense of superiority, and achieve a feeling of "revenge in disguise".
So at this moment he was eager to see emotions such as envy, jealousy, and inferiority on Ogata's face.
However - after turning his attention to Ogata, Miura was disappointed.
Because Ogata was wearing a hat and a veil, his appearance could not be seen clearly...
——Why does this guy always wear a bamboo hat and a face scarf...
Ever since seeing this guy follow Hatsumi into the room without taking off his hat and face towel, Miura has always wanted to ask him why he keeps wearing these two things...
But since I couldn't find the right time to ask the question, I could only keep it to myself.
Since he couldn't see Ogata's current expression, Miura turned his gaze to Atachi, wanting to see if Atachi showed any expression that would make him secretly happy after hearing his previous boasting.
The expression that Miura most wanted to see on Atachi's face was naturally admiration and envy.
After all, 3,000 taels of gold is a huge amount of money that a normal person cannot save in 10 lifetimes. Miura thought that this woman who was forced to live a hard life with Ogata might not even have seen 30 taels, let alone 3,000 taels.
However, Miura was disappointed again...
Ating now has no expression on her face.
At this time, Ating was sitting obediently behind Chuguang, with no other expression on his face.
After asking for trouble, Miura curled his lips, retracted his gaze, and then comforted himself by finding a reason why Atachi had a blank expression:
——This woman... Was she just in a daze? Didn't she hear what I said just now...
After finding a seemingly very reasonable reason for himself, the smile on Miura's face became more beautiful again.