I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

The very familiar voice that Ogata heard outside the door just now was the Chinese spoken by Takikawa.

After coming to the Edo period for nearly a year and a half, Ogata couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy when he heard Chinese that he hadn't heard for a long time.

Takikawa speaks Chinese fairly fluently.

But the accent is not flattering.

There is no r sound in Chinese in Japanese.

Therefore, when the Japanese speak Chinese, they always make no distinction between r and l.

The most typical example is that when Japanese speak Chinese, they always pronounce "Japan" as "Liben".

Takikawa's accent when speaking Chinese is a fairly typical "Japanese accent".

Therefore, the only evaluation that Ogata can give on the Chinese spoken by Takikawa is "quite fluent".

As for the accent, Ogata is not flattering.

However, Takikawa's fluent Chinese is quite enough to fool some people who don't understand Chinese at all.

After Ogata and Guasheng opened the door, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

Takikawa's reading sound also stopped abruptly.

After raising his eyes to see who the person pulling the door was, Takikawa immediately put down the one in his hand, and with a faint smile on his face, he said to Guasheng:

"Miss Guasheng, good morning."

"Yeah." Gua Sheng nodded expressionlessly, "Good morning."

It seemed that Takikawa didn't intend to greet Guasheng so cordially. After a simple exchange of greetings, Takikawa ignored Guasheng, and Guasheng ignored Takikawa.

"Miss Guasheng." At this time, a traveling girl sitting closest to Guasheng and Ogata asked, "Who is this samurai?"

"This is Mashima Goro-kun who just joined our Shirobei clubhouse today."

Guasheng turned slightly sideways, revealing Ogata standing behind her.

When Gua Sheng helped Ogata make an introduction, Ogata bowed and greeted everyone in the room.

"I'm taking Mashima-kun to familiarize myself with the layout of Yoshiwara, and I'm feeling a little thirsty when I walk near the garret house, so I just came here to drink some tea."

For Guasheng's behavior of coming here to drink tea, everyone in the room seemed to be familiar with it.

Hearing Guasheng's words, a certain girl who seemed to have a good relationship with Guasheng covered her mouth and smiled, and said to Guasheng in an intimate tone:

"Xiaoxiu, since you like the tea we keep in the house so much, why don't you buy some and drink it yourself?"

"Because it costs money to buy tea, but there is no money to drink tea here." After replying in a half-joking tone, Guasheng led Ogata to a corner of the room.

In the corner of the room was a small table with a big teapot and a lot of teacups on it.

Gua Sheng unceremoniously picked up the big teapot, then took out two clean cups, and poured a full cup into these two cups.

When pouring tea, Guasheng Asaogata introduced:

"The tea in this room is specially for the wandering girls who attend classes here to drink when they are thirsty. You can drink whatever you want."

The temperature of the tea is just right, not too cold and not too hot.

Holding the tea cup, after taking a sip, Ogata tasted that the tea was scented tea.

Compared with scented tea, Ogata prefers some bitter strong tea.

However, Ogata liked the floral fragrance of this tea.

After Guasheng and Ogata slipped to a corner to drink tea, everyone in the room resumed their business.

Takikawa continued to demonstrate the "Chinese version of Analects" to the dozen or so wandering girls in front of him.

The girls also continued to read and practice calligraphy.

Those who want to listen to Takikawa's "The Analects of Confucius in Chinese" continue to listen.

Ogata sipped the tea in his hand while looking at the girls in the room.

After turning his gaze around the room a few times, Ogata lowered the volume, and whispered to Guasheng at a volume that only he and Guasheng could hear clearly:

"Miss Guasheng, there are far fewer wandering girls who come to study in Liuwu than I imagined. Are there any wandering girls studying in other rooms?"

Yoshihara claims to have 1000 wandering girls. The [-] wandering girls should be an exaggeration, but there should still be [-] wandering girls.

The number of wandering girls studying in the staying room is much smaller than Ogata imagined, which made Ogata feel a little surprised.

"Some wandering girls don't come to stay in the house until the afternoon to study."

Guasheng answered in a low voice that only she and Ogata could hear clearly.

"However, there are not many wandering girls who come to Liuwu to study."

"After all, not all wandering girls have the willingness and spare energy to come here to learn to read and write."

"Many wandering women don't have the energy to do other things during the day after they finish working at night."

"There are still many wandering girls who have no interest in reading and writing, and don't want to waste too much time here."

Just when Gua Sheng had just finished explaining to Ogata the reason why so few people stayed in the house to study, a pleasant female voice suddenly came from beside the two:

"Master Samurai, we meet again. Xiao Guasheng, can you pour me a cup of tea too?"

Ogata and Guasheng both followed the sound and turned their heads away.

The speaker is a very beautiful woman.

She did not comb her hair into a bun, and let her black hair hang freely.

Although she didn't comb her hair well, she wore light makeup.

Clear and handsome eyebrows, soft eyelashes, round and lovely nose bridge, full lips.

The black hair and black and white eyes fluttering with the breeze that accidentally blows into the room make people feel dazzling.

Ogata and Guasheng have different expressions now.

Gua Sheng looked relieved to see his old friend.

Ogata looked puzzled.

The second half of what the woman said just now was to Gua Sheng, but the first half was obviously to Ogata.

Ogata carefully looked at the woman's face several times, and he felt that it looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this woman.

"That" Ogata asked doubtfully, "May I ask who you are?"

"Did you forget me so soon?" The woman showed a faint wry smile, "You came to see me last night, did you forget?"

last night?

Memories and thoughts are connected at once.

Just as Ogata remembered who the woman in front of him was, Guasheng at the side said to Ogata in a helpless tone:

"This is Taifu Fengchi you just met in Huakui Road last night. Taifu Fengchi changed her makeup and hairstyle, so you don't recognize her?"

Although he was very reluctant to admit it, Ogata had to admit that he really couldn't recognize Taifu Fengling after he changed his hairstyle and makeup.

The Taifu Fengling I saw last night was wearing white makeup, a neat bun, and armor-like clothes.

But now Taifu Fengling has long hair casually loose, and only light makeup.

In Ogata's eyes, the difference between the two was so great that he couldn't tell them apart for a while.

"I saw you when I was walking to Yangwu yesterday." Mrs. Fengling smiled, "I didn't expect you to work in Shirobei Clubhouse."

In Ogata's impression, when Mrs. Fengling passed by him last night, because there were "fanatic fans" yelling beside Ogata at that time, Taifu Fengling's attention was attracted.

Because of this, Ogata was caught by Mrs. Fengling and just glanced at it.

Ogata remembered that he was only glanced at by Mrs. Fengling.

"Teacher, your memory is really good." Ogata sighed in a surprised tone.

Ogata did not expect Taifu Fengling to be able to remember him who only glanced at him.

"My memory is pretty good."

After Guasheng filled the teacup handed by Taifu Fengling with a full cup of tea, Guasheng pouted at Takikawa, who was still sitting behind the podium, showing the "Chinese version of the Analects" to the girls.

"Teacher, what is Takigawa doing? Why are you speaking Chinese there for no reason?"

"There is no special reason." Taifu Fengling smiled while drinking tea with elegant movements, "When Takikawa was chatting with a few wandering girls after the first class, for some reason, Takikawa didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he suddenly mentioned that he could speak Chinese."

"Those wandering girls were very curious, and then asked Takikawa to read Chinese to them."

"That Takikawa can actually speak Chinese." Guasheng muttered.

"After all, he studied under the great Sinologist Xiangsheng Chunshui."

"Teacher." Guasheng smiled slyly, "Aren't you going to listen to Takikawa speak Chinese together?"

"Xiao Guasheng." Mrs. Fengling showed a helpless smile, "I seem to have told you before? I don't appreciate the overly arrogant Takikawa, huh? Mashima-sama, what's wrong? Is there something on my lips? Something weird?"

Taifu Fengling raised his hand and gently covered his mouth while talking. .

Because she suddenly discovered just now that Ogata had been staring at her lips since just now.

"Your lips are not stained with anything." Ogata said seriously, "I'm just curious about the lip gloss you used."

Lipstick is also ancient lipstick.

The lip balm that Mrs. Fengling put on her lips was not an ordinary red.

There was a touch of shimmer on the rosy lower lip, which was painted with lip balm, and it looked very beautiful.

"Oh, this one." Taifu Fengling smiled, "The lip gloss I use is called Sasa Sehong."

"Sasa color red" Ogata murmured softly the name of the lipstick Taifu Fengling just said.

"Mashima-sama, are you interested in lip gloss?"

"No, no interest, no research."

Whether it was the previous modern Earth or the current Edo period, Ogata did not pay any attention to women's cosmetics.

"I just saw your lip balm, Tai Fu, and suddenly felt that if a girl who is of great significance to me also wears the same lip balm as you, maybe it will look good."

"Oh?" Taifu Fengling looked at Ogata with intense interest, "So that's the way it is, the Sasa-colored red I used is quite expensive, so a small box costs 1 tael .”

After finishing speaking, Taifu Fengling put his right thumb and index finger together to form a small circle.

"One tael?" Ogata couldn't help raising his eyebrows suddenly in astonishment.

"Of course, that's because the sasa-color red I'm using is of the top grade, so it's so expensive. Although the ordinary sasa-color red is also expensive, it's not as exaggerated as the price of the one I'm using."

"Mashima-sama, if you want to buy Sasairo Red as a gift, I can recommend a store. The lip gloss sold in that store can be said to be the best in Edo."

"However, although the price of ordinary Sasa-colored red is cheaper, the quality is naturally not as good as the one I use."

Sure enough, no matter what kind of era it is in, cosmetics are luxury goods. One or two gold can only buy such a small box of lip gloss. In Yoshiwara, only Mrs. Fuling can afford this kind of lip gloss.

Just when Ogata was still secretly feeling the law of "no matter in which era, cosmetics are luxury goods", the wooden door of the room was suddenly opened again.

As soon as the wooden door was opened, an old voice sounded from the door:

"Huh? Guasheng, have you come to Liuwu to drink tea again?"

The person who suddenly opened the door and spoke to Guasheng in a very familiar tone was a very dignified old man.

As soon as the old man appeared in front of everyone, Gua Sheng immediately let out a small exclamation, and then quickly bowed to the old man:

"Master Shirobei, why are you here?"

"It's just going out for a walk and relaxing. When I passed by the Liu's house just now, I stopped by to take a look at the Liu's house. Huh? Guasheng, who is that warrior next to you?"

"Master Shirobei, don't you know him? He is Mashima Goro who just passed the assessment of Kawajiro-sama and Keeimon early this morning, and joined our Shirobei clubhouse."

"Oh! So that's the case, no wonder I haven't seen him. I went to work outside Yoshiwara early this morning, and I wasn't in the clubhouse. Haha, yes, it seems that Qingweimen and the others have recruited a man who looks quite reliable. Samurai."

"So you two haven't seen each other before." After muttering, Guasheng turned sideways and introduced to Ogata, "Mashima-kun, this is the sixth generation Shirobei, the current head of our Shirobei Club."

As soon as Gua Sheng's words fell, Ooyoung immediately bowed to Shirobei and said loudly:

"Master Shirobei, I am the Izumo Rangren, Mashima Goro."

While saying hello to Shirobei, Ogata silently looked at Shirobei's appearance.

Shirobei looked like an official.