Spy Wars: I signed in at the Military Police at the beginning

"Report, Sergeant Jinpei Matsuda!" A young officer in military uniform who looked very heroic came to the official residence of the commander of the gendarmerie headquarters.

Zhou Ke had been to this place before. Unlike the office where Tokugawa Yuichi stayed, this was a small Western-style building with an independent courtyard within the headquarters.

The commander's residence now seemed to have been renovated. It seemed much more luxurious than Zhou Ke remembered, and the interior decorations were also more exquisite.

"Please come with me!"

Led by a middle-aged man in a suit who looked very respectful and seemed to have received etiquette training, Zhou Ke came to a spacious study.

Most notably, he once again saw the three-leaf sunflower family crest that was the same as his own, but different from that of the Tokugawa old devil.

"Zhen Ping, my good nephew, you are finally here." A middle-aged man wearing traditional clothes and looking intimidating put down the brush in his hand and looked at Zhou Ke who came in with mixed emotions.

"Uncle, is that you?" The moment Zhou Ke looked at General Matsudaira, mist filled his eyes.

"Hey, Zhenping, please sit down. You have suffered with your father for so many years!" General Matsudaira quickly came to Zhou Ke's side and pulled his nephew, who was about to cry, to sit on the wooden chair next to the desk.

"Thank you for your concern. Actually, I have lived quite well with my father these years. It's a pity that my father became ill from overwork and eventually died in a foreign land." Zhou Ke's voice became a little choked because he was too immersed in the role.

"Oh, your father is really something. He is the grandson of the lord of Aizu Domain, but he fell in love with the granddaughter of the lord of Satsuma Domain. Otherwise, he would not have let you wander overseas for all these years." General Matsudaira sighed.

"Zhenping, has your father never told you about his true background?" General Matsudaira asked with a frown as he looked at Zhou Ke's confused eyes.

"My father indeed never mentioned it. Some things about the family were told to me later by Uncle Tokugawa." Zhou Ke was not lying. Since Matsuda Jinpei could remember, Matsuda Kogoro had never said anything about the family.

Even the fact that Kogoro had a wife was only mentioned later by the housekeeper, otherwise Zhou Ke would have thought that the woman in his childhood memory was just Kogoro Matsuda's lover.

"This is ridiculous! Zhen Ping, today I will talk to you about this..."

After hearing Zhou Ke's answer, General Matsudaira became surprisingly angry at first, but then he calmed down and told Zhou Ke some old stories about Kogoro that he had experienced.

It turns out that Zhou Ke's father is the grandson of Matsudaira Eiyasu, the last lord of Aizu Domain in Japan and the former boss of the Shinsengumi.

As a descendant of a loyal supporter of the Tokugawa shogunate, he fell in love with the granddaughter of Shimazu Chuichi, the last lord of Satsuma Domain who ended the Edo period and returned power to the Tokugawa shogunate.

As expected, an unexpected thing happened. After learning the news, both families were very angry and expressed their desire to separate the two.

In order to put a perfect end to their love, Kogoro and his wife, with the help of some relatives and friends, avoided family pursuit, fled to China, changed their names and started a new life.

"You said my mother fled the country with my father after she became pregnant?"

Zhou Ke keenly caught something unusual. In his memory, he once heard a deceased family doctor mention that his adoptive father was infertile.

So whose child was the woman he remembered being pregnant with? Why had he never seen any other children in all these years?

"Well, it's all thanks to your parents' persistence. Otherwise, if they were in the country, it would have been difficult for them to give birth to you!" General Matsudaira sighed.

"It's a pity that my mother passed away before I was fully grown up, otherwise my father wouldn't have lived so lonely for so many years." Zhou Ke said with a gloomy expression.

"Zhenping, don't think too much. The future of our family still depends on you!" General Matsudaira patted Zhou Ke on the shoulder and said.

"Uncle, don't worry, I will definitely revive the family!" Zhou Ke said in a firm tone.

"Very good, keep up this spirit. I believe your future achievements will definitely surpass those of your grandfathers!"

...........

After bidding farewell to General Matsudaira, Zhou Ke immediately returned home and called the butler, a very kind old man who had followed Zhou Ke's father for many years and was the person who knew Zhou Ke's family background best.

"Do I have a brother?" Zhou Ke asked directly to the point as soon as he saw the butler.

"Young Master, it's hard to say. We did not witness your birth." The butler answered truthfully.

"Then why did I hear from my uncle that my mother was pregnant when she left Japan?" Zhou Ke asked.

"That's true, but later the mistress had a miscarriage. It was that year that, with the blessing of God, the master of the family was very lucky to find you, young master, from the crowd!" The butler answered respectfully again.

"My father is not..." Zhou Ke didn't finish his words, but his meaning was already very clear.

"I don't know the secret behind this matter, but when the master brought his mistress to China, she was indeed pregnant." The housekeeper told the truth.

"Don't others know the identity of my adopted son?" Zhou Ke asked again.

"Young Master, apart from our own family, no one knows about this matter." The butler said after thinking for a moment.

"Yeah." Zhou Ke didn't say anything else and sat on the sofa in silence.

"Young Master, is it your uncle who wants to look for you to go back and recognize your ancestral home?" The housekeeper saw that Zhou Ke didn't know what he was worried about, so he asked.

"He does have this intention, but I don't know if it is appropriate for me to go back as an adopted son." Zhou Ke said with some melancholy.

"Young Master, you don't need to worry about this matter, and this old servant also recommends that you go back. After all, this will be of great benefit to your future development!" suggested the butler.

"What do you mean?" Zhou Ke asked curiously.

"Young Master, you grew up in China, and you may not be familiar with some of the customs in your country. Even if everyone knows that you are an adopted son, it will not affect your recognition of your ancestors."

"For example, your grandfather, his status is the same as yours, but this does not affect his inheritance of the title at all."

Seeing that Zhou Ke was still a little confused, the butler continued to explain: "Young Master, our country is different from China. Since the Warring States Period, there has been a tradition of adopting sons to inherit the family business. What's more, you grew up under the care of the master of the family, so no one can question your legitimacy!"

After listening to the housekeeper's explanation, Zhou Ke was completely relieved. But now he was still a little curious about whose child the original adoptive mother was carrying!