I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

The voice of Sun Qilang's shop boy: Changjiro sounded outside the door.

"It's not good! Something big happened outside!"

"Big event?" Sun Qilang frowned, "Come in, tell us in detail!"

"Yes!"

Chojiro opened the sliding door, rushed to the desk of Lin and the others, knelt down on one knee, and said urgently:

"The masters of the six sword halls and a large number of disciples were killed!"

Just one sentence from Chojiro changed the expressions of Lin and the others.

And Chojiro went on to say:

"The disciples who are still alive in the six sword halls claim that they suspect that it was Ogata Yidaosai who slaughtered their master and brothers."

"They asked Ogata Ittosai to confront them in Futokocho!"

"Currently, quite a few disciples from the Six Great Sword Gyms have gathered in Erxiang Town!"

After Chojiro's voice fell, Sun Qilang was shocked.

Only Lin and Asai slowly regained their composure.

But judging from the changes in the expressions in their pupils, they were not too calm.

"...How many people are currently gathered in Erxiang Town?" Lin asked.

"It is said that there are already more than fifty people, and the number is still increasing!"

"...My lord." Asai said in a deep voice, "What do you think?"

"I don't think Ogata will do such a thing." Lin said bluntly, "No matter how powerful Ogata is, it is impossible to kill so many people in such a short period of time."

"But... since these people in the Six Great Sword Gyms are now blatantly asking Ogata to come and confront them, then Ogata is in a difficult situation at this time..."

"The disciples of the Six Great Sword Halls have been assisting the officials to hunt down Ogata tonight."

"Under the circumstances where the owner of the Six Great Sword Gyms and a large number of disciples were killed inexplicably, Ogata is indeed the biggest suspect..."

"If Ogata doesn't confront them, people will think that he is cowardly and scared... and will be suspected by others as having a ghost..."

"If you go... I don't believe that if Ogata goes to confront them, the confrontation will end fairly peacefully..."

"No matter which option it is, it is not a good option..."

After Lin paused, she asked:

"Are all the masters of the six sword halls dead?"

"It doesn't seem to be... the owner of the metaphysics hall who is recuperating in a medical hall seems to be fine. However, many disciples of the metaphysics hall were killed."

"Because the owner of the Xuanxue Hall, Inaba, is recovering from his injuries, the Xuanxue Hall is now without a leader."

"In order to find out the truth about the murder of the master and his brothers, the surviving disciples of the Xuanxue Academy also responded to this call and gathered in Erxiang Town with people from other sword halls. Waiting for Ogata to come and confront them."

"...Tonight is really an eventful night." After being silent for a while, Lin let out a long sigh.

Chapter 322 Mucun's Waterboarding

I Became a Swordsman in Ancient Japan Volume 1 Life of a Samurai from Scratch Chapter 322 Water torture in Makimura Kyoto, Nijo Castle.

Nijo Castle consists of two major architectural complexes - the Honmaru Palace and the Ninomaru Palace.

Kara Gate - the main entrance of the Ninomaru Palace.

First pass through the Higashi Otemon Gate, enter the Nijo Castle, and then enter the Kara Gate to enter the Ninomaru Palace.

After passing through the Kara Gate and entering the Ninomaru Palace, turn left to enter the Ninomaru Garden.

The Ninomaru Garden adopts a cloister-style style. The most conspicuous feature of the Ninomaru Garden is its huge pond.

There are three islands on the pool, one big, two small.

The larger island is named "Penglai Island", and the other two smaller islands are named "Turtle Island" and "Crane Island".

Tonight's banquet will be held on a certain piece of grass on Penglai Island.

The reason why it should be held on the grass is also proposed by the daimyo of the Owari domain, that is, Tokugawa Munemu, who decided to hold this banquet.

In order to experience the feeling of this picnic.

Having a banquet in a luxurious palace - Tokugawa Munemu has long been tired of this routine.

Just now, this grand banquet began.

The absolute host of this banquet - Tokugawa Munemu is the undisputed host.

According to their status and rank, the attendees sat on the left and right sides of Tokugawa Munemu in turn.

The representative of the capital, Tadahiro Toda, sat at the first place on the right hand side of Tokugawa Munemu.

Then down in order is the Osaka Castle Dai Horita Masahiro, the temple priest Ota Suzuki...

After taking a sip of the wine, the blushing Tokugawa Munemu whispered to Toda who was sitting at the bottom:

"Toda Qing, today I sent people to look at some burnt areas in Kyoto."

"You did a good job. Although the burnt areas have not had time to rebuild due to insufficient funds, no one is homeless anymore."

Seeing Tokugawa Munemu complimenting himself, Toda quickly sat upright and put a bright smile on his face with extreme proficiency.

"Lord feudal lord, you are too well-respected, I just did what I was supposed to do."

Tadahiro Toda is nearly 50 years old.

Short and fat-these two words should be the first impression of most people after seeing Toda Tadahiro.The plump stomach that seemed to be stuffed with a large quilt was extremely conspicuous.

When he bent down and spit out all kinds of modest words at Tokugawa Munemu, Toda had a smug sneer on his fat face.

But because Toda Tadahiro was pressing his forehead to the ground at this time, no one could notice the smug smile on Toda's face at this time.

The officials sent by Munemu Tokugawa to inspect the status quo of the burnt area had long been bought by Toda.

The burnt areas that Toda took the bribed officials to see were the burnt areas specially "cleaned up" by Toda.

Toda had received rumors before that - while Munemu Tokugawa came to Kyoto to watch this year's Gion Festival, he wanted to send someone to see how the reconstruction of Kyoto was going.

Toda, who received the news in advance, dispatched people to drive away all the residents of the burnt areas near Nijo Castle before Tokugawa Munemutsu arrived in Kyoto.

This is the truth of "the victims of the Tianming fire have been arranged".

Tokugawa Munemu is still praising Toda Tadahiro's ability.

Hearing these compliments from Munemu Tokugawa, Toda's face became more and more complacent...

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Standing not far away, Kotaro watched the banquet with cold eyes.

There are 28 ninjas in charge of guarding Nijo Castle.

Kotaro is one of these 28 people and is also the overall person in charge of this mission.

At this moment, Kotaro was standing in a dark place not far from the banquet site, silently looking at the banquet.

"As expected of the strongest daimyo—the banquet held by the lord of the Owari Domain..."

Kotaro sighed in a low voice that only he could hear clearly.

Kotaro couldn't recognize the quality of clothing worn by these people at this banquet.

But he recognized the quality of food they ate.

The food eaten by these people in the banquet hall is all genuine delicacies from mountains and seas.

Not to mention his Kotaro, even the leader of their Shiranui, the Balrog, might not be able to eat it all his life...

After sighing softly about the extravagant life of the upper class, Kotaro stretched vigorously.

"What a boring task..."

"Kotaro, you're right, the task of 'defending Nijo Castle until the banquet of these people is over' is really boring."

"Heitaro, you're here."

A figure slowly emerged from the dark place behind Kotaro, and gradually outlined a specific shape.

Heitaro——One of the ninjas who followed Kotaro to guard Nijo Castle.

After standing beside Kotaro, Heitaro continued:

"What's so good about the Nijo Imperial Palace... It's impossible for someone to attack the Nijo Imperial Palace without knowing what to do..."

"Although it is impossible for someone to attack the Nijo Imperial Palace." Kotaro smiled, "but the shogunate's superficial work still needs to be done."

"Kotaro." Heitaro suddenly changed his tone to be more serious, "The four Rutarou who were in charge of looking for Machi have not returned to their orders until now."

Hearing Heitaro's words, Kotaro frowned slowly.

A total of 32 ninjas came to Kyoto this time.

Twenty-eight of them were responsible for guarding Kyoto, and the other four were responsible for tracking down the defected Atachi while the rest were guarding Nijo Castle.

Kotaro entrusts Rutaro and the others with the task of tracking down Machi.

Kotaro has made an agreement with the four Rutaro who are responsible for tracking Acho: he must report to them regularly.

And now the agreed time has passed, but up to now there is no sign of Rutaro and the others returning to report...

This made Kotaro couldn't help but make the worst plan in his heart...

"...Heitaro, you secretly brought 3 Chunin to Rutaro and the others."

Hearing Kotaro's words, Heitaro was shocked.

"Kotaro, we need at least 28 people to guard Nijo Castle." Heitaro said in a deep voice.

The agreement they made with Shiranui and the shogunate was to send at least 28 powerful ninjas to guard Nijo Castle until Tokugawa Munemu and their banquet ended.

Tokugawa Munemu's banquet is still going on. If they find that the number of ninjas guarding Nijo Castle has decreased and has not reached the number agreed in advance, it will be troublesome.

"Don't worry." Kotaro shrugged, "These people are busy eating, drinking and having fun, so they don't care if our number is small or not."

"They won't find out if there are four people missing."

"Anyway, Ertiao City is very safe, there is no possibility that anyone would dare to attack Ertiao City, so it doesn't matter if there are 4 more guards or 4 less guards."

"Go quickly. Regardless of whether you find Rutarou and the others, come back in one hour and report back."

"...Yes!" After hesitating for a while, Heitaro answered "Yes" loudly.

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Kyoto, Three Princes Street, inside a certain uninhabited private house.

After capturing the bald man and inspecting the three-story building to confirm that no other enemies were still hiding in the building, Ogata and his party left the building and took the bald man to In an uninhabited private house some distance from this three-story building.

When moving to this uninhabited private house, Ogata and Makimura exchanged information with each other.

Mucun, Hasegawa and the others were also able to know that the wife and daughter of the owner of the Xuanxue Museum were kidnapped and rescued by Ogata and the others, as well as the existence of Ryunosuke and Tsuruga.

This uninhabited private house appears to have been a tea house before, and has 2 floors.

At this moment, Ogata and his party are all located on the second floor of this tea house.

"Yes, just tie him up like this." Mu Cun said to Hasegawa.

"Makimura." Hasegawa followed Mucun's command and tied his bald hands tighter, while asking Mucun, "Why did you tie him up like this?"

At this time, the bald head was tied to a paper sliding door that had been removed.

The bald head whose hands and feet were all tied to the paper sliding door was not placed flat on the ground.

The bald head's feet were tied to the south side of the paper sliding door, and his hands and head were tied to the north side of the paper sliding door.

There are a lot of things on the bottom pad of the south side of the paper sliding door, making the bald head present a weird posture with his feet padded high, the height of his feet above his head, and his nostrils slightly facing the sky.

Makimura, Ogata, and Hasegawa worked together to tie their bald heads into this strange posture.

"Why did you tie him up like this?" An intriguing smile appeared on Mucun's face, "You'll know later."

"Senior Mucun." Shimada quickly walked towards Mucun with a large jar of water in his arms, "I brought the water you asked for!"