I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"I've never been afraid of growing old or dying."

"If I quit drinking just to live a few more years, then I'd rather not have those few years of life."

After all, Yuan Yi poured a large glass of wine into the wine glass in his hand as if in response to what he said just now, and then drank it happily in one gulp.

First, Jian Gong had expected that Yuan Yi would say that in a while, so he smiled without saying a word, and didn't say anything more.

Makimura, Asai, and Shimada are still asleep.

Ogata and Genichi's conversation just now was played very softly, so they didn't wake up Mucun and others, and Mucun and others still slept soundly.

Mamiya only got up a little earlier than Ogata, and just now he has been concentrating on making his bedding.

After stacking his quilt neatly, Mamiya suddenly said to Ogata with a serious face:

"Ogata-kun, Gen-sama, you two come out with me, I have important questions for you two."

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, his face changed slightly.

The thoughts in my mind drifted unconsciously to last night's "rat hunting" with Yuan Yi

Yuan Yi also had one eyebrow and his face changed slightly.

"Can't you say it here?" Ogata asked.

"What I say here, I'm afraid it will wake up Mucun and the others."

"I see."

After Ogata nodded, he picked up his saber and stood up.

After Ogata got up, Genichi sighed helplessly, then replaced the wine glass in his hand with his own saber, and followed Mamiya out of the room with Ogata one after the other.

It was just dawn, and there was no one else in the corridor except Ogata and the three of them.

Mamiya, who was in charge of leading the way, didn't go far after leaving the room. After reaching an unoccupied corridor some distance away from their room, he turned towards Ogata and Yuanyi asked:

"I won't say unnecessary nonsense anymore."

"Master Yuan, Ogata-kun, can you two explain to me what you did last night?"

After Mamiya's words fell, both Ogata and Genichi had helpless smiles on their faces.

Sure enough, it was discovered by the palace.

Just when he saw Gamiya let him and Genichi come out together, Ogata vaguely guessed that Gamiya should have discovered that he and Genichi had sneaked outside last night.

"Mamiya." Ogata asked, "How did you find out?"

"I was woken up by Mr. Yuan at about the same time as you last night."

Mamiya spoke eloquently.

"After opening my eyes a little, I saw Master Yuan standing by the window with his sword in hand, looking like he wanted to slip out."

"I also wanted to get up and ask Mr. Yuan what he planned to do, so you get up before me, and then follow Mr. Yuan out of the room."

"I thought you could persuade Mr. Yuan to suppress those strange thoughts in your heart. So I continued to pretend to be asleep."

"I didn't expect that when I pretended to be asleep, I heard the sound of you and Mr. Yuanyi jumping out of the window together."

The more Mamiya said, the lower Ogata buried his head, and the guilty look on his face became more obvious.

"That..." Genichi scratched his hair with an embarrassing expression on his face, "Mamiya, you probably didn't tell Xiao Lin or anyone else about my going out with Ogata-kun, did you?"

"They don't know yet." Mamiya replied, "But whether they know later depends on what you and Ogata-kun did last night."

After understanding Mamiya's subtext, Ogata and Genichi let out a helpless sigh at the same time, and told Mamiya exactly what they did last night and the results of last night.

Mamiya carefully listened to Ogata and Yuan's explanation of what they did last night, and said seriously:

"That is to say, did the two of you go to hunt and kill your enemies last night?"

Speaking of this, Mamiya twitched the corners of his mouth, and then sighed heavily.

"Master Yuan, why are you still like this? You are so messy when you do things. When a normal person knows that there are many enemies nearby, they probably won't take the initiative to provoke them, but will only avoid their edge."

For Yuan Yi's behavior of provoking his own enemy, Mamiya did not show much surprise, but just let out a light sigh.

Mamiya's overly calm appearance made Ogata very suspicious of whether Genichi had done more messy things before, that's why Mamiya was honed to be calm about Genichi's various actions now strong adaptability

Regarding what Mamiya said just now, whether it was a compliment or a derogation, Genichi only showed a faint smile.

After smiling, he said:

"Anyway, Mamiya, the specific situation is like this."

"I didn't go out with Ogata-kun to have fun. From another perspective, Ogata-kun and I are reducing potential allies in Shiranui."

"So Mamiya, just pretend you didn't know that Ogata-kun and I sneaked out."

"I see." The hesitant look and the resolute look went back and forth on Gamiya's face for several rounds before the resolute look finally defeated the hesitant look, "I will keep it a secret and hope that you two will have a thousand years in the future." Don't cause any trouble when you hunt and kill those enemies of Mr. Genichi."

Seeing that Mamiya agreed to keep it secret so quickly, Ogata's eyes were uncontrollably surprised.

"Gamiya, I didn't expect you to agree to keep it a secret so readily." Ogata couldn't help but murmured.

"Because past experience tells me that it is impossible for Mr. Yuan to be persuaded." While talking, Jian Gong cast a somewhat resentful look at Yuan Yi, "Even if I inform the lord and the others, Minamoto-sama will definitely continue to go out stubbornly."

Hearing Mamiya's complaint-like words, Genichi laughed a few times in embarrassment.

Then he was noncommittal about what Mamiya had just said.

Mamiya let out a long, silent sigh, and continued:

"Anyway, I know it's impossible to persuade Mr. Yuan, so I won't stop you, and keep it secret for you."

"But you don't want to make extra troubles and make troubles"

Speaking of this, Mamiya let out another long sigh.

"To be honest, I was quite uneasy when I saw Gen-sama, a troublemaker, and Ogata-kun, a man who once conquered Nijo Castle, together."

This time it was Ogata's turn to make an awkward dry laugh.

Night falls.

After the sun sank to the horizon and the sky began to turn from white to black, Ooyoshi appeared in Yoshihara on time.

Ogata, who "works" in Yoshihara, still has the heavy responsibility of "acting as their and Hasegawa's informant", so now he arrives in Yoshihara on time every night and starts "working".

As soon as he arrived in front of the gate of Yoshihara, several officials of the clubhouse who were standing guard in Yoshihara greeted Ogata in a respectful tone.

Before and after arriving at the entrance of the clubhouse, several of the officials standing guard at the gate of the clubhouse bowed and said hello to Ogata again.

For these people's respectful greetings, Ogata could only show a helpless smile while responding to them one by one.

A while ago, the feat of "repelling Huofu thieves and changing official posts with one's own strength" made Ogata famous. Many official posts in the club took the initiative to get to know Ogata and changed their previous attitude towards Ogata.

Before the incident of "Huo Fu Thief Changed to Official Post to Grab Merit", many official posts in the clubhouse used the tone of "senior to junior" to talk to Ogata.

After Ogata made the feat of repelling the Huofu thieves and changing to official posts, many official posts instantly changed the tone and tone they used when talking to Ogata.

Change to the way of speaking of the peers, or even the juniors, and use a lot of honorifics.

I don't know if it was Ogata's illusion, he always felt that the attitude of the officials who greeted him just now seemed to be more respectful than before

When Ogata entered the clubhouse and was about to report for duty, he was suddenly stopped by a tall club official.

"Mashima-kun." The official who blocked Ogata's way said respectfully, "I finally found you. Please go to the soil immediately. Mr. Keemon seems to have something to announce to you."

"Between the soil? Okay, I see."

Following his memory, Ogata walked quickly to the soil where the gate was open.

Passing through the open gate, Ogata suddenly found a dozen people crowded in the dark on the tatami between the dirt.

And among the dozen or so people was an acquaintance of Ogata, Guasheng.

Seeing Ogata coming, many people in the room including Gua Sheng greeted Ogata warmly.

Except for Guasheng, Ogata didn't know anyone else in the room.

Seeing that there was still an empty seat next to Guasheng, Xu conveniently sat next to the only person he knew.

After sitting down next to Guasheng, Xu conveniently exchanged simple greetings with Guasheng.

After exchanging pleasantries, Guasheng smiled and said to Ogata:

"Mashima-kun, after you entered Yoshiwara, did you find that many people in the clubhouse treat you more respectfully?"

Hearing Guasheng's words, Ogata was taken aback for a moment, then nodded:

"Yes. I can clearly feel that many people's attitudes are somewhat different from before."

"Want to know why?"

Ogata nodded again.

"It all starts with you getting the first place in the imperial examination."

Guasheng simply explained the cause and effect to Ogata.

After listening to Guasheng's explanation, Ogata's face was covered with black lines.

It turned out that not long after the essay test was released last night, almost everyone in the Shirobei Club knew that Goro Mashima of their club had won the first place in the essay test.

In the past, there was "single-handedly repelling Huofu thieves and changing to an official post", and later there was "won the first place in the imperial examination and essay test". Ogata made two major feats one after another, which naturally made his own reputation in Yoshiwara rise.

Then followed by various speculations about Ogata's identity.

It is impossible for an ordinary ronin to be so versatile in both civil and military skills. This is the consensus of everyone.

So various discussions about Ogata's identity came out.

Some people think that Ogata should be a descendant of a powerful samurai family before, but he was forced to become a ronin due to some accidents.

Some people think that Ogata is a "fake ronin" who came to experience the life of the people at the bottom.

Some people think that Ogata may just come to sharpen himself

Anyway, there are rumors.

Everyone is most energetic and energetic only when discussing these non-existent and gossip-related rumors.

No matter what kind of rumor it is, they all have one thing in common. They all think that Ogata is a descendant of a very powerful samurai family.

After quietly listening to Guasheng's explanation, Ogata's face was full of dark lines.

"What is this mess? No wonder so many people treat me with more respect"

Now Ogata finally understands why so many people's attitudes have changed. It turns out that they all think that Ogata is a descendant of a high-level samurai family. They came to Yoshihara for some reason, so they respect Ogata even more.

"Actually, I'm also very curious." Gua Sheng, who had been smiling just now, now looked serious, "Mr. Ogata, are you a descendant of a warrior family?"

Seeing that Guasheng also suspected that he was a high-level warrior, Ogata couldn't help showing a wry smile.

Just when Ogata was about to explain to Guasheng, a familiar figure entered the room.

"Everyone be quiet!"

The person who entered the room and yelled so loudly was Keemon.

Seeing that Keimon came, and seemed to be about to tell them something important, Ouyang could only shut his mouth first and looked at Keimon in front of him.

"I don't want to talk nonsense, just get straight to the point."

After Qingemon cleared his throat, he continued to speak loudly:

"There is an urgent mission."

"The reason why everyone present is called is to complete this task."

"The task content is also very simple: everyone present is required to support Yangmei House."

"Support Yangmei House?" Gua Sheng was the first to raise doubts, "What happened to Yangmei House?"

"Just now, the person in charge of the bayberry house asked us for help." Qingweimen said with a bitter face, "many fierce warriors came to the bayberry house to drink tonight."

"Many of those samurai seem to be people who failed the civil examination and came to relieve boredom. All of them have a stinky face."

"It is said that there are quite a few banner warriors here. It's really scary."

"Because there are too many of these warriors, and none of them seem to be good, the manager of Yangmeiwu worried that these people would cause trouble if they drank too much, so they asked for help from our Shirobei Club, hoping that we would send some Officials sent to serve as their temporary guards."

"So that's how it is." Guasheng smiled wryly, "No wonder the people gathered here are all those skilled people from our Shirobei clubhouse."

"Even I want to go to the bayberry house." The bitterness on Keemon's face turned into helplessness, "Anyway, follow me to the bayberry house now."