I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"so"

Ogata changed the subject.

"Taifu, tell me Shuntaro no, tell me where Wuliu is."

After Ogata's voice fell, the Taifu was stunned for a while.

Then a faint wry smile appeared on his face.

"At the beginning, when you told me that Wuliu ran away by himself, I knew you were lying." Ogata said softly, "I was the one who cut Wuliu back then."

"So I am very aware of the situation at the time of Wuliu. I couldn't even stand up. How could I have the ability to escape."

"You must know where Wuliu is now, right?"

"Teacher, don't worry. I won't do anything to Wuliu."

"I don't have any personal grudges with Wuliuben."

"The previous duel with Wuliu was just forced by the situation."

"I have some friendship with him for the time being."

"So before leaving Edo, I also want to say goodbye to him."

Tai Fu looked straight at Ogata.

Then let out a soft sigh with a bit of helplessness.

"You go to the bank of the Rashomon River." Taifu said softly, "Find a wandering girl named Hefeng. He is at Hefeng's house on May [-]."

A bit of astonishment appeared in Ogata's eyes because of the surprise.

Noticing the astonishment in Ogata's eyes, the Taifu asked back:

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like this?"

"It's nothing, I'm just a little surprised. I thought it would take a lot of effort for me to get you to tell Wu Liu where he is now."

"Wu Liu asked me to do this." Taifu sighed again with helplessness, "Wu Liu told me before: If you come later and say you want to see him, don't worry Boldly tell you where he is."

After finishing speaking, the Taifu turned sideways and took a headdress from a table next to him.

"When you see the breeze, you can give her this headdress."

"When you see Wu Liu, don't fight."

"Don't worry." Ogata took the tiara and smiled, "I just said that I don't have any personal grudges with him."

After handing over the tiara to the buyer, the Taifu raised his gaze and looked directly into Ogata's eyes.

"Since you're leaving Edo in a few days, I'll take this opportunity to thank you."

After the words were finished, the Tai Fu faced Ogata, and then bowed solemnly, propped his hands on the tatami, and rested his forehead on the tatami.

"I've heard Guasheng say it before."

"On the night I was kidnapped, you noticed the mark I left on the neck of the person who kidnapped me, and then tried to rescue me."

"Thank you so much for helping me out at that time."

"I will never forget your kindness."

"Teacher, please raise your head." Ogata said hastily, "I failed to rescue you back then, so you don't need to thank me."

The husband smiled and shook his head slightly.

"I don't pay attention to the result, I only pay attention to the process."

"Whether you succeeded in rescuing me or not, your attempt to rescue me is enough for me to express my gratitude to you."

"When you come back to Edo in the future, if you encounter any trouble, you can come to me as much as you want."

The husband raised his head, and a charming smile slowly appeared on his face.

"Anything I can help, I will definitely help."

"I'm also an oiran after all, and I know some high-ranking officials in the shogunate."

"So there's still a lot I can do to help."

"Yeah." Ogata smiled, and nodded vigorously, "If I go back to Edo in the future and encounter any difficult troubles, I will definitely come to you for help and catch up with you by the way."

Edo, Yoshiwara, Rashomon Riverbank

After leaving Jianmei House, Oobi followed his memory and came to the bank of the Rashomon River on the westernmost edge of Yoshiwara.

Because it is morning, there are not many tourist girls standing on both sides of the road soliciting customers.

Ogata only asked casually, and found out that the home of the wandering girl named "Hefeng" was located in a relatively remote place on the bank of the Rashomon River.

Ogata came to Hefeng's house and knocked on the door.

Not long after, a woman in her 30s opened the door.

Over 30 years old, in this era, is already the age of middle-aged women.

"Hello. Are you Miss Hefeng?"

The woman nodded her head, and turned her vigilant eyes to Ogata: "I am. May I ask who are you?"

While saying hello, Ogata handed the headgear given to him by the Taifu just now to Hefeng.

After receiving the headdress from Ogata's hand, the woman raised her eyebrows.

After glancing at Ogata again with surprised eyes, Hefeng turned his body to one side, giving a way to enter and exit her room.

"come in."

Hefeng's house is also considered to be the big one on the banks of the Rashomon River.

There are several rooms.

Zefeng led Ogata to the door of the deepest room in the house, and the door opened.

The room behind the door is not big, about the size of 3 stacks of tatami mats.

A person familiar to Ogata was sitting on a futon in this room.

His body was wrapped in sackcloth like a mummy, and he was stretching his left arm, as if he was doing rehabilitation for his left arm.

After Ogata appeared in his field of vision, he first showed surprise, and then the surprise on his face quickly turned into a faint smile.

After Hefeng brought Ogata here, he left silently.

Ogata entered the room, closed the door, and took the lead in saying hello:

"Long time no see. Five or six."

Rewind time to 5 days after Shiranui was extinguished

Edo, Yoshiwara, Rashomon Riverbank

nice smell

quite nice smell

A rather pleasant smell drilled into Shuntaro's nostrils.

The hunger in his stomach was aroused.

Under the ravages of hunger, Shuntaro's consciousness gradually recovered.

And Shuntaro's eyes slowly opened as consciousness recovered.

After opening his eyes, the first thing that shone into Shuntaro's eyes was dim light.

Shuntaro followed the dim light and looked, and it was an oil lamp that emitted this dim light.

The faint light emitted by the burning wick brought the only light to this narrow space.

After turning his eyes away from the oil lamp, Shuntaro began to seriously look at his current environment.

A narrow room about the size of 4 tatami mats, with no furniture.

He was lying on a fairly clean quilt, with a thin quilt covering his body.

Shuntaro subconsciously sat up.

However, as soon as he stretched the muscles in his waist and chest, Shuntaro instantly felt as if countless needles were piercing his body.

This sharp pain almost made Shuntaro scream.

Shuntaro moved his limbs lightly, and found that only his right hand was left to move relatively freely.

Turning his right hand, he gently lifted the thin quilt covering his body, and Shuntaro looked at his current body.

He was wearing a thin white bathrobe, and under the bathrobe was layer after layer of thick linen covering his entire body, nearly 8% of his skin was wrapped in linen.

One question after another popped out of Shintaro's mind.

Where is this place?

Where's Ah Chang?

Why am I here?

What about Yidao Zhai?

What's going on in Shiranui?

Who healed me?

Just as Shuntaro wanted to shout out to see if there was anyone else here, he suddenly heard footsteps from far to near outside the paper sliding door of the room.

After the footsteps stopped outside the paper sliding door, the paper sliding door was slowly opened.

The person who opened the paper sliding door was a middle-aged woman about 35 years old.

She didn't wear her hair in a bun, her hair was loosely loose, there were fine wrinkles around the corners of her eyes and mouth, her skin was a little sallow, and she was wearing a somewhat worn-out light red kimono.

Although there are signs of age on her face, it can still be seen that this woman must have been a beauty when she was young.

The woman opened the door and raised her eyebrows when she saw Shuntaro wake up, a little surprise flashed in her eyes.

"You're awake." The woman said softly, "How is it? Are you hungry? If you feel hungry, I can cook some porridge for you now."

Hearing the woman's reminder, Shuntaro remembered that he was very hungry now.

"Then I'll trouble you." Because his body was still very weak, Shuntaro was also a little weak when speaking.

"You're welcome." The woman smiled.

After saying that, the woman slowly left from Shuntaro's field of vision.

Don't forget to help close the door before leaving.

However, not long after the woman's footsteps left, Shuntaro heard footsteps approaching him again.

But this string of footsteps is not the same as the footsteps of the woman just now.

This time the footsteps sounded deeper and heavier.

More like a man's footsteps.

wow.

The paper sliding door was pulled open.

This time it was no longer the woman who opened the sliding door.

It was a man that Shuntaro looked familiar to.

"You really woke up." The man's tone was full of surprise, "It's unbelievable that you can still wake up after suffering such a serious injury."

"You are?" Shuntaro's eyes widened slightly in surprise, "Lin Ziping?"

This man is exactly the weird Lin Ziping who was forced by Shintaro to go to the prison in the east of the city to rescue him before.

"Oh? Do you remember me?"

"Of course I do. Have you forgotten that I was one of the two people who rescued you from prison?"

"Of course I haven't. How could I forget something so impressive."

Lin Ziping walked quickly to Shuntaro's bedside while talking, and then sat down cross-legged.

"Hello." Shuntaro said seriously, "Where is this place? Why am I here? Why are you here?"