Chapter 27: The Imperial Army Club
That night, Mizuki was forcibly kept by Inukawa Jirō as the first member of "Rai Kōshōdan", and had a discussion on "work" with him in his bedroom all night.
Although Rui was as still as a wooden board all night, Inukawa Jirou still felt a sense of satisfaction like that of a conqueror.
Facing Rui Hui's mature and beautiful body, Inukawa Jirō's long-hidden Oedipus complex suddenly revived. Moreover, the charming mature woman in front of him was the mother of the beautiful girl he had been thinking of, and he also felt a sense of loving the crows together with their nest.
From that night on, Ruihui was no longer the smiling and lively owner of Silky Villa. She became gloomy and silent. When she met familiar villagers, she would lower her head and not speak, and the villagers also avoided her.
Not even her daughter Mei Xia understood what she was doing, and she moved to live with her aunt Rui Xuan. She refused to call Rui Hui "mother" anymore; even when she returned home, they just gave each other the cold shoulder. Even when Rui Hui personally made some small pastries to try to win over her daughter, Mei Xia wasn't having it, making Rui Hui feel especially lonely and isolated.
No one can speak, and it's hard to open up to others. Occasionally, Rui Xuan comes to visit, and Rui Hui can, like when she was a child and suffered injustice, throw herself into her sister's arms and cry out those unbearable past events to her sister.
Although she joined the "Lei Jiang Xuan Fu Class", Rui Hui was a person who did things with integrity, had boundaries and principles, and would rather die than do harm to her fellow villagers.
After the "Imperial Army Officer's Club" was established, Inukawa Jirō repeatedly forced Mizuki to summon "servants", but Mizuki endured all the humiliation and trampling alone in silence, never responding to Inukawa's shameless demands; until one day, a "flower boat woman" learned about Mizuki's true experience from a guest and felt deep sympathy, and was deeply moved by her self-sacrificing spirit, and actively sought out Mizuki to ask to become a "servant".
Rui Hui initially disagreed, but the sincere words of "Hua Chuan Nu" finally moved her: "I am willing to use my '残花败柳' body to exchange for the innocence of the Lei Jiang sisters." For a period of time, these two "waitresses" worked in the Imperial Army Officer's Club, doing heavy and humiliating "service" work.
Although it was called the "Imperial Army Officer's Club", in reality, it was nothing but a notorious "comfort station". Inukawa Jirō had a lustful heart and would not be satisfied with only two elderly "waitresses" at the "Imperial Army Officer's Club".
The women of Jiangnan's water town, compared to Japanese and Korean women, have a unique charm and elegance. The kind of watery tenderness makes Inukawa Jiro's heart flutter with excitement and his passion burst forth.
Every time there was a "bandit sweep" or "mopping-up", he would take note of young and beautiful girls. As long as he took a liking to one of the young women, he would give her family some trumped-up charge like "plotting against the Imperial Army during the day and attacking at night", and it was only natural that she would be taken away by the Kempeitai for questioning. In reality, this meant being thrown into the "Imperial Army Officer's Club" to be used for the pleasure and torture of a group of Japanese military officers.
In the serene and sacred place of Cuīyún ān, under the watchful eyes of Guanyin Bodhisattva, in the meditation rooms where nuns have cultivated themselves for hundreds of years, under the sacred Bodhi tree, the Japanese devils dared to commit a heinous crime that will bring about a thousand years of calamity, defying heaven and outraging both humans and gods!
What Rui Hui could do was to take care of and comfort them, making them suffer as little as possible. Gradually, the "Lei Jiang Imperial Army Officer Club" also gained a reputation among the Japanese army, and Lei Jiang was jointly named by the Nanjing Puppet Government and the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force Command as a "Model County for Sino-Japanese Friendship". The Japanese General Headquarters even sent a small number of Kabuki performers recruited from Japan and Korea to enrich the "Lei Jiang Imperial Army Officer Club". For a time, going to the "Lei Jiang Imperial Army Officer Club" for "recreation" was the aspiration of every Japanese military officer on the Central China front, and even startled the commander of the 18th Division of the Japanese army that captured Lei Jiang at the time, Lieutenant General Yamada Kōsuke.
Yamada Jiro was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army and Chief of Staff of the Central China Expeditionary Force due to his outstanding military service in the Battle of Wuhan. In the Battle of Nanchang, the Japanese army was deeply trapped in General Xue Yue's "Sky Furnace Tactics", suffering heavy losses, and the arrogant Japanese army tasted the ferocity of the Chinese Tiger General for the first time.
Yamada Kō's attendance at the high-level military conference in Nanjing this time was to once again discuss the specific military attack plan of "Operation No. 5", a major battle that would soon be launched, directly targeting the central region of China, Changsha; To ensure the safety of the Wuhan headquarters, the Japanese army also decided to mobilize its main force divisions to carry out a large-scale "mopping up" operation against our retreating troops in the Dabie Mountains.
After the meeting, Yamada Kō personally called Inukawa Tetsutarō and said that on his way back to Wuhan from Leijiang, he would come to "revisit the battlefield" and rest for a night at the "Imperial Army Officer Club".
Inukawa Jirō was overjoyed to hear the news! He knew that his rapid rise, apart from his own efforts and royal background, was also due to the contribution of Yamada Kō, who had discovered him. Inukawa Jirō had always been grateful for Yamada's cultivation and promotion.
Yamada Kō's "war zone revisit" provided a rare opportunity for Inukawa Jirō to repay his debt. Moreover, before the big "sweep", if he could make Yamada Kō fully "relax" and showcase his achievements in governing Lei Jiang, then his days of rapid advancement were just around the corner.
Inukawa Jiro glanced at his watch, 9:40. According to the itinerary sent in advance by telegram, General Yamada's seaplane would land on this vast expanse of water in front of Lao Longtou in 20 minutes.
He took another look back, the reviewing stand had already been set up, and a welcoming crowd had also gathered. Of course, it was still difficult to make the Chinese people willingly welcome the Imperial Army, some "work" needed to be done. Inoue Shirō was very good at this kind of thing, and the family members who stayed in Leiyang were the best hostages.
To be on the safe side, among the welcoming crowd, there were also many Japanese plainclothes soldiers who would lead the chanting of slogans, waving flags, and monitoring, coercing, and inciting the surrounding Leijiang people to participate in the welcome. Such a scene not only showed his enthusiasm for Yamada's arrival but also demonstrated that under his rule, the Sino-Japanese friendship work in Leijiang was remarkably effective.
Of course, he knew the real purpose of Yamada's visit. On the one hand, as a top student in the history department of Kyoto Imperial University, Yamada had done extensive research on East Asian artifacts, especially Chinese ones. If he were to present his hard-won jade dragon as a gift, the commander would undoubtedly look upon him with great favor.
On the other hand, General Yamada's secret hobby was to inherit the tradition of the Yamada warrior family and torment young women. The Yamada warrior family believed that this could arouse the passion of dignity as a samurai. He had already prepared a "program" for him at the Qingyun An "Imperial Army Officer Club", a pair of young and beautiful sisters, whose parents had been executed as "anti-Japanese elements".
