I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Shiranui Ninjutsu:

Shiranui Stealth: Intermediate

Shiranui Jutsu: Advanced

Shiranui flow breath holding technique:

Ogata's current personal state can only be described by the word "terror".

Needless to say, the attainments in swordsmanship, unarmed combat has "advanced" Shiranui Jutsu.

Stealth skills include "intermediate" Shiranui stealth.

For long-distance attack and sneak attack, the revolver is a big killer.

What's more, Ogata still has his strongest hole card: the realm of selflessness.

Ogata feels that there should not be many people in the world who can beat him steadily. Of course, the premise is that the weapons used by the opponent are bare hands or cold weapons, rather than using muskets or artillery.

Just when Ogata was about to pull out Da Zizai to test the newly unlocked "Starfall", the door was suddenly pulled open.

Ah-Ming who opened the door raised his eyebrows when he saw Ogata who was holding Da Shitian:

"what are you doing?"

Ogata sneered: "It's nothing, it's just an ordinary exercise."

"Before your body is fully recovered, don't move casually." After A-Machi reprimanded Ogata angrily, he continued, "Breakfast is ready, let's have breakfast."

"it is good."

Ogata put Da Shitian back on the knife holder, and followed A-cho out of the room one after the other.

As soon as he left the room, Ah-machi suddenly asked Ogata:

"Any plans for today?"

Ogata pondered for a moment:

"We're leaving Edo in a few days."

"So I plan to take advantage of the good weather today to meet some people in Edo and say goodbye to them."

"Someone? Who?" A-cho asked.

"There are people from the government and people with complicated identities."

Speaking of this, Ogata couldn't help showing a helpless smile.

"Now that I think about it carefully, I have become a person who eats both black and white without knowing it."

Chapter 439 Butterfly Island, River, Female Corpse [8400 words]

Today's weather is colder than yesterday's.

From time to time, there will be a cold wind that can make people's skin stand up.

Looking at the weather, Edo should have completely entered autumn, and there will no longer be two seasons of summer and autumn.

After breakfast, Ooyo went out alone, preparing to meet those people who needed to meet with them before leaving Edo.

Although today's weather is colder than the previous days, Ogata's clothes are still thin.

Black tabi socks, white hakama, white kimono, dark blue haori, and a black scarf around the neck. This is what Ogata is wearing now.

"Life force" is directly proportional to the health of the body.

After absorbing the "Immortal Poison" for the second time, Ogata's physical health has improved a lot along with his "vitality".

Others have to wear many layers of clothes to barely keep out the cold weather. Ogata only needs to put on a haori and a scarf on top of his summer clothes.

Leaving the residence alone, Ogata walked straight towards a certain place.

To get to that place, you have to go through a fairly lively street market.

When Ogata entered the market, it was almost 9 o'clock in the morning, and many pedestrians were already shuttling through the market.

When he first stepped into this market, Xu Fang couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

Because he felt the atmosphere around him was weird.

Within the range of vision, many people were discussing something with the people around them solemnly.

What happened?

Just as Ogata continued to walk forward with this question in mind, he suddenly heard the conversation of two samurai not far from him.

These two samurai, one tall and one short, seem to be a pair of friends who met here by chance.

The shorter samurai greeted the taller samurai, and then asked the taller samurai:

"Mr. Yijuin, what's wrong with you? Why is your face so serious, what happened?"

"Itano-kun, don't you know?" The tall samurai sighed softly, "Last night, thieves attacked the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office."

"The Beiding Enforcement Office?" The short samurai exclaimed, "The Beiding Enforcement Office was attacked by thieves?"

"Yeah." The tall samurai nodded with a sullen face, "All the officials who stayed at the Beiding Enforcement Office last night were all killed."

"Why do thieves attack the Beiding Enforcement Office?" The short samurai was puzzled, "There is nothing valuable in the Enforcement Office. Could it be that the gang of thieves who attacked the Enforcement Office were the kind of people who had problems with their heads and were full of thoughts about wanting to buy money?" Revenge on the madman of the shogunate?"

"Who knows?" The tall warrior sighed.

"How is the investigation going now? Have the government officials found out who the murderer is?"

Hearing this question from the short samurai, the tall samurai's expression became complicated.

After a moment of silence, he slowly said:

"Now the Beiding Temple has been blocked, and the government is still investigating."

"but"

Speaking of this, the tall samurai fell silent again.

After hesitating for a while, he seemed to have finally made up his mind, and said word by word:

"I heard that the murderer is the remnant of Toyotomi"

"Who?" The short samurai opened his eyes wide.

"The remnants of Toyotomi." The tall samurai repeated what he just said, "It is said that the thieves who attacked the Kitamachi Enforcement Office painted a Toyotomi family crest on a certain wall of the Kitamachi Enforcement Office."

"I heard that there is a sentence written next to the family crest of the Toyotomi family."

"As for what it is, I don't know."

"Aren't you joking?" The short warrior's eyes were still wide open, and his eyes and face were full of shock.

The tall samurai shook his head slightly.

"I actually don't know if it's true or not. I just heard what I just heard from another friend of mine."

"It seems that some people have gone to ask the officials of the shogunate to verify whether there is really a painting of Toyotomi's Taiko pauli tree on the wall of the Kitamachi Prefectural Office."

"But the officials of the shogunate kept silent and did not disclose any information. They only kept saying that they were still investigating and still investigating."

"Let's not care about whether the Toyotomi clan's family crest is actually painted on the wall of the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office." The short samurai said in a deep voice, "Even if the Toyotomi clan's family crest is really painted on the wall of the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office Doesn't it mean that the thieves who attacked the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office are the remnants of the Toyotomi Clan?"

"Didn't the Toyotomi clan's bloodline be severed in the Battle of Osaka 200 years ago?"

"The thieves who attacked the execution office must have painted Toyotomi's Taiko tree just for fun, right?"

"Who knows?" The tall samurai let out a sigh of relief, "In short, let's wait for the investigation results of the shogunate to come out."

Ogata stopped not far away, silently eavesdropping on the conversation of the two warriors.

Hearing this, Ogata also had a general idea of ​​what happened.

"The Kitamachi Magistrate's Office was actually attacked." Ogata was a little surprised on his face.

The prefectural office of Edo is the city hall of Edo.

It is impossible for a thief who is only for money to attack this kind of place that not only has no money to take, but also arouses the hatred of the shogunate.

So there are two possibilities regarding the identity of the thief.

The first possibility: The culprit who attacked the execution office was a murderer who did not hesitate to die for the pleasure of killing, but it happened that last night the place of killing was the Kitamachi execution office in Edo.

Another possibility is that the thieves are people who hate the shogunate and want to take revenge on the shogunate.

Now that the world is in a bad place, not to mention the civilians, many middle and lower-level warriors are living in extremely difficult times.

There are not a few people who feel resentment towards the shogunate because of their hard life.

Toyotomi's Taiko Tong

Ogata whispered in his heart.

Four months ago, a group of lunatics who planned to take revenge on the shogunate and destroy Kyoto just appeared in Kyoto.

Now there is another group of villains who attacked the Kitamachi Prefectural Office in Edo and painted Toyotomi's family crest on the wall

It's an uneasy world

Edo, the residence of Ogata and the others

Although Lin's injuries were not as light as Mamiya and Genichi's, they were not as severe as Mucun, Asai, and Shimada.

After so many days of recuperation, apart from not being able to do too much strenuous exercise, I can basically move about freely.

After breakfast, Lin silently stayed in her room and calculated the accounts, calculating and checking how much they spent on the gourd house during this trip to Edo.

Lynn sat cross-legged in front of a low desk with an account book spread out.There is a small abacus on the left side of the ledger, and an inkstone on the right side.

Lin's left hand was placed on the small abacus, and her five fingers danced nimbly on the abacus, moving the beads on the abacus. Her right hand held a brush dipped in ink, and from time to time wrote on the account book spread on the table. What.

Just when Lin was concentrating on keeping accounts, Yuan Yi's voice suddenly sounded from outside the room:

"Xiao Lin, it's me. Is it convenient for me to come in?"

"It's Uncle." Lin stopped the brush in her right hand, "Come in."

The door was pulled open.

Yuan Yi walked slowly into the room with a small cloth bag in his arms.

"Huh? Xiao Lin, are you keeping accounts?"

"Yeah." Xiaolin nodded lightly, "I'm checking the expenses from entering Edo to now."

"How? Have you figured it out?"

"Not yet. But according to my estimate, 4000 taels are available." Lin said in a calm tone, "It cost at least 3000 taels just to buy the big tube."

"4000 taels" Yuan Yi was speechless, "It's almost half of our savings in Hulu House."

"Compared with being able to eliminate the hidden danger in Shiranui, this little money is nothing." Lin smiled, "If the money is gone, I can earn more. It can be as short as 2 years or as long as 3 years. Get your money back."

"This decisive battle with Shiranui is really a blessing in misfortune."

Speaking of this, Lin sighed lightly, and then said with emotion:

"Although the money spent was more than I expected. But Kuro and the others are still alive, no one is missing, and no one is disabled."

"For me, this result is enough."

"It doesn't matter if you spend more money or less, as long as Jiulang and the others are safe and sound."

After that, Lin turned her head and glanced at Yuan Yi behind her.

"Uncle, what did you ask me for? What's the matter?"

"It's nothing." Yuan Yi said with a smile, "I just came here to tell you that I plan to go out for a while."

Yuanyi patted the cloth bag in his arms.

"I haven't drawn much recently."

"So I plan to take advantage of the good weather today to draw some beautiful scenery outside."

"Huahua!" Lin's expression became slightly weird.

Lin knows best about Yuan Yi's painting skills.

In Lin's eyes, no matter what Yuan Yi is painting, it is actually the same, and he can't bear to look directly at it.

"Uncle, although the imperial trial is over now, there is no guarantee that all your enemies will leave Edo now." Lin raised her concerns.