Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 753 - 461: This Nation Is Born with Original Sin!

Chapter 753: Chapter 461: This Nation Is Born with Original Sin!

"The Tanaka family is a small family on Kyushu Island. They were originally farmers, but later married the youngest daughter of a landlord’s family, got a piece of land, and gradually became landlords themselves.

Later, during the war, Tanaka Kiji, a man of the Tanaka family, was conscripted and managed to curry favor with a noble, becoming a military merchant. He collected many valuable items from China and took them back to Japan.

At that time, Tanaka Kiji was working as a transporter for the noble, and he himself also reaped substantial benefits from the arrangement.

After Japan’s defeat in the war, Tanaka Kiji built a family temple, enshrining a god statue. He claimed that he was repenting for his actions during the war, and seeking redemption. In reality, he hid the cultural relics obtained during the war in the family temple.

As a result of profiting from the war, the Tanaka family became a relatively large company in Kyushu. However, following the economic bubble in Japan, the company went bankrupt at the end of the last century, and the Tanaka family returned to their original location, living on a small piece of land.

At that time, the people of the Tanaka family intended to start anew by taking out the items enshrined in the family temple and selling them to raise funds for new investments.

However, because of this matter, there was disagreement among the men of the family. Some vehemently opposed taking out the cultural relics, saying they were to be passed down to future generations and could not be taken out.

As a result, the two sides could not reach a consensus. The party wanting to start anew colluded with a gang of underworld figures, and a fight broke out between them and those who remained and guarded the family temple. In the end, both sides suffered losses.

Eventually, some of the items in the family temple were taken out. But no one expected that the people who took them and the underworld figures would turn on each other over an unequal division of the spoils, and in the end, the underworld figures killed them all to silence them.

No one knew that when the temple guards received the news, they had already secretly moved and replaced the precious cultural relics with less important items.

In the end, the part of the Tanaka family left behind also fell into decline due to the deaths and injuries suffered by the men in this fight.

By the time I entered the family temple, there was no one left in the Tanaka family."

The story told by Lucas Tan Surlang, also known as Beckett Drake, had a very calm tone.

But Sean Knight could hear that Beckett Drake’s inner feelings were not as calm as he had imagined.

Sean felt that Lucas Tan Surlang was definitely not as unrelated to the Tanaka family as he claimed.

"What is your relationship with the Tanaka family?"

Sean saw no need to guess as he asked. If he doesn’t tell, well, hmph!

"Actually..." Beckett Drake wanted to conceal the truth, but when he looked up at Sean’s eyes, he knew that if he lied, he might not live to see tomorrow’s sun.

"Actually... my family, the Tan’s, were tenants of the Tanaka family. In my youth, I had a brief love affair with the second daughter of the Tanaka family.

However, during the misfortune of the Tanaka family, Tanaka Haruko, my first love, did not want to leave with me. As a result, she was attacked by an underworld figure and ultimately... did not survive."

So there was an ill-fated love affair!

Sean then said:

"Write down a more detailed description of the location of the Tanaka family’s family temple. We will verify it, and if you lied, you know..."

"I know, I know. I won’t see tomorrow’s sun!" Beckett Drake replied promptly. "Don’t worry, I really want to live!"

Lincoln Harrington brought paper and pen to Beckett Drake and gestured at the handcuffs.

"You can write with the cuffs on. I think this won’t be too difficult for you."

Beckett Drake’s little trick was seen through, but he didn’t care. He laughed and began writing.

"I advise you not to play any tricks. The pencil is only so long, and if you want to keep something, I wouldn’t mind exchanging it for your fingers."

Sean was getting used to Beckett Drake’s constant attempts at mischief.

With the Sky Eye open, he could see everything in real-time.

Beckett Drake never thought Sean’s "gaze" would be so sharp, and all of his little movements were exposed. With no other choice, he wrote down the address honestly and completely.

"I will send someone to verify the address. Now, tell me about the locations where the cultural relics are stored." Sean took the paper, looked at it, placed it on the tea table, and continued speaking.

"The Tanaka family’s ancestral temple is not large. There’s a courtyard, a main hall, and side palaces. The main hall houses the god they worship, and the left and right side palaces hold the cultural relics.

The backyard of the temple is where the monks live. The monks’ quarters consist of a single-story house with a bedroom, a kitchen, and a storage room. There’s also a room that has never been locked for years, which is where I stayed back then.

The courtyard of the temple is planted with some vegetables, which the monk grew himself..."

Beckett Drake became lost in his memories, his expression peaceful and nostalgic:

"When I was living in the temple, the monk was not that old and could still grow vegetables. He then took the vegetables to exchange for rice to make rice balls for me...

At that time, although the Tanaka family had declined, they still regularly provided rice and grain for the ancestral temple.

After the Tanaka family was gone, the temple’s support was cut off. Many people originally thought that the old monk would leave, but he did not and insisted on guarding the temple.

People from the nearby village occasionally came to the temple to pray for blessings, but because they were not well-off, they couldn’t improve the old monk’s living conditions much."