I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Because this is an era of peace, Ogata has rarely seen bows and arrows before.

Ordinary samurai houses and civilian houses do not have bows and arrows at all, and no one will carry bows and arrows with them.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he boarded Ezo, he was attacked with a bow and arrow for a long time.

While Ogata and A-Machi were still discussing the three gangsters they encountered just now in low voices, they suddenly saw six people dressed as officials walking towards them in front of them.

These 6 official servants are very standard "official servants dressed up" with ten hands, stabs and other traps.

This group of officials walked in the middle of the street with their heads held high and their chests held high.

Passers-by on the street gave way to both sides for the gang of officials to pass through.

Ogata and A-Ming did not walk on the only path of this group of officials, so there was no need to think about it.

When passing by the group of officials, Ogata turned his head and looked at the group of officials.

When looking at this group of officials, Ogata frowned.

"A-Machi." Ogata whispered to A-Machi next to him, "Don't you think there seem to be too many official posts here?"

Ogata had just discovered it too.

From the moment he left the port and entered the urban area, Ogata has seen many waves of officials standing guard or patrolling.

Such a number of official errands seems to be too much.

Ogata had never seen such a high-density deployment of official missions in Edo before.

Hearing Ogata's words, Ah-machi recalled the scenes since he landed: "It seems that there are too many official missions here, did something happen?"

"Forget it. Don't worry about so much." Ogata said softly, "Let's go."

Not long after Ogata beheaded the three men who were going to kill them with bows and arrows, and then quickly left the alley, a townsman who had lived here for a long time passed this alley in order to take a shortcut to go home.

Then, the three bodies on the ground were naturally discovered.

He was so frightened that he fled out of the alley in a hurry, then looked for the official, and reported the discovery of the body.

Soon, four officials rushed to this alley with their arresting gear.

The four officials with serious faces first entered the alley and saw the faces of the three corpses, their expressions froze at first, and then the seriousness dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What?" One of the four officials curled his lips, "It turns out that the person who died was Ezo. I lost the motivation to investigate the case in an instant. What is there to investigate about Ezo's case?"

"They are wearing kimonos." Another person said, "And I seem to have seen their faces before. They seem to be naturalized Ezo."

"That's right." Another person said, "It doesn't matter whether he is naturalized or not, Ezo is Ezo. You see, they all have bows and arrows, and they seem to be a bunch of animals who intend to kill and steal money."

"Don't even talk about it." The leaders of the four officials said, "In short, let's call someone to come over with straw mats to collect the corpses of these guys. Although the dead are only Ezo, it's still the right thing to do." gotta do it."

This time, there were no surprises.

Ogata and A-machi arrived at the inn they had heard about from a passer-by without incident.

After asking about the price and confirming that it was a reasonable price, Oo conveniently opened a room big enough for two people to live in.

It was past 4 o'clock in the afternoon when they landed.

The two are currently in Matsumae Castle, which is further north than the Ou region.In such a big winter, it gets dark faster.

After finding the hotel, opening the room, placing the luggage, and taking care of everything, the sky began to turn dark.

Looking at the darkening sky, Ogata quickly made a plan for the future and went to a restaurant for dinner. After dinner, he went back to the hotel directly and went to bed early tonight.

They are still drifting at sea for most of the day today.

Ogata is fine.But A-Machi, who is prone to seasickness, is not so good.

From landing to now, Ah-cho's face is still pale, which shows that Ah-cho still suffers from the sequelae of seasickness.

The two of them randomly found a decent-looking restaurant quite close to the hotel where they were staying.

After entering, I saw a young clerk of the store greeted Ogata with a warm smile on his face.

A large menu is hung on one wall of the restaurant, with all the food sold in this store written on it.

Led by the staff in the store, after sitting down at a table that was still vacant, Omoto asked A-cho:

"Do you have anything to eat?"

Ogata left the decision to Machi.

In order to take care of those who cannot read Chinese characters, the menu hanging on the wall of this store uses only pseudonyms.

So even Ah-machi can understand all the dishes on the menu.

After looking at the menu list hanging on the wall, A-Machi pointed to one of the dishes written on it and asked:

"What is this crab pot?"

"Crab pot is a special delicacy we have to eat here!"

The clerk introduced Ogata and A-Machi with a strong accent.

"Our crabs from Matsumae are bigger and more delicious than crabs from other places!"

"Crabs, mushrooms, green vegetables and other vegetables are boiled together to make a crab pot, which is most suitable for eating in such a big winter."

"Just one sip will warm you up and make you feel comfortable!"

The guy seemed to recognize that Ogata and Atachi were foreigners, so he kept emphasizing that this crab pot is a special delicacy of their Matsumae clan.

And Ah-Ming's interest was successfully aroused by him.

After learning that the crab pot is a local specialty of the Matsumae clan, he turned his head and cast a questioning look at Ogata.

Ogata didn't care what to eat, and nodded immediately after A-Machi cast a questioning look.

"Then let's have a crab pot!" Ah Ding said.

"Okay! How many crabs do you want?"

"How big is one of your crabs?" Ah-Ming asked.

The guy raised his hands and made a gesture: "Basically, they are all this big."

"Are the crabs here so big?" Ah-Ming's tone was a bit surprised, "Well, let's get 4 first. And then 2 bowls of white rice."

"Okay! Do you want drinks?"

"Would you like a drink?" Amachi asked Asaogata.

"Okay." Ogata said cheerfully, "Let's drink a little."

"Then come here to boil two bottles of wine." A-Machi turned his gaze back to the buddy.

"No problem! Please wait a moment! Drinks and food will be served soon!"

The man quickly left the field of view of Ogata and A-Machi, and rushed to the back kitchen.

In order to pass the boring time of waiting for the dishes to be served, Ogata turned his head and looked at the restaurant.

The interior layout of this restaurant is the layout of ordinary Japanese buildings, and there is no exotic style in it.

While looking around, Ogata suddenly found something hard to ignore on a certain wall.

"A-Machi, look at that." Ogata stretched out his finger, pointing at the wall.

After looking in the direction pointed by Ogata's finger, Ah-cho raised his pretty willow eyebrows: "A wanted warrant."

On a certain wall of this restaurant, there are more than a dozen wanted warrants.

The most conspicuous one pasted in the middle of the dozens of wanted warrants is the wanted warrant of Ogata.

It is not uncommon for wanted posters to be posted on the walls of restaurants.

The government often forces restaurant owners to post wanted notices in their stores, so that enough people can pay attention to these fugitive wanted criminals.

After taking a few glances at the dozens of arrest warrants pasted on the wall, A-Machi asked Ogata, "Isn't it just a arrest warrant? What's so interesting about it?"

"Look at the arrest warrant for the executioner Yidaozhai in the middle. Look at his bounty."

"Executioner Yidao Zhai?" Ah-Ming showed a puzzled expression, and turned his gaze to the wall again.

A-cho had only glanced briefly just now, so he didn't read the number written on the wanted notice carefully.

After focusing on the number written on the arrest warrant this time, a look of strong surprise emerged on Machi's face.

"Huh? Why has the bounty increased?" A-Ming murmured.

Ogata did not have dementia yet, so he remembered very clearly that when he saw his arrest warrant from Husaka more than a month ago, the reward written on the arrest warrant was 500 taels of gold.

But now, the bounty written on the wanted notice posted on the wall of this restaurant has increased.

It became 800 taels of gold.

Ogata felt very confused now.

He didn't understand why his bounty had suddenly increased again.

At this time, a waiter from this restaurant happened to pass by Ogata, so Ogata stopped him quickly.

"Excuse me, I would like to ask."

Ogata raised his finger and pointed to his wanted notice posted on the wall.

"What happened to the arrest warrant for the executioner Yidaozhai? I remember that the reward for the executioner Yidaozhai wasn't 500 taels? Why is it now 800 taels?"

"Ah, this. I'm sorry, samurai, I'm not very clear." The man smiled wryly, "The executioner Yidao Zhai's previous bounty was indeed 500 taels of gold."

"But just four days ago, someone from the government suddenly came to our door and asked us to post a new arrest warrant."

"Among those new arrest warrants, there happens to be Yidao Zhai's new arrest warrant whose bounty has been changed to 800 taels of gold."

"That's it, thank you." Ogata thanked the guy, and then let the guy leave.

After the guy left, Ogata looked again at the wanted notice posted on the wall.

The wanted notice on the wall is indeed very brand new, the paper is white and clean, and it can be seen that it is newly made.

"Master Samurai, don't be confused!"

At this moment, a strange voice sounded beside him and Ah Ding:

Ogata turned his head and looked at the owner of the voice.

The owner of this voice is a middle-aged and elderly person who is probably over 40 years old.

The most conspicuous appearance feature of this middle-aged and elderly person should be his shiny bald head.

The bald head sat at the table next to Ogata and Atachi, and there were 6 middle-aged people who were similar to him at the same table.

None of them carried sabers, so they were just a group of ordinary townspeople.

The bald head's face is as red as a monkey's buttocks now. They must have drank a lot of wine. Even if they are separated by a certain distance, they can still smell the wine on their bodies.

"I heard that the bounty for Executioner Yidaozhai has increased because there is a certain important person who dislikes Executioner Yidaozhai very much."

"Big man?" Xu Fanglu asked suspiciously.

"Hmm. As for which big shot it is, I don't know. After all, I heard it from hearsay. That big shot didn't like to see the executioner Yi Dao Zhai very much. After learning that the reward for the executioner Yi Dao Zhai was only 500 taels of gold, he demanded that the executioner Yi Dao Zhai be killed." The bounty has been increased to the current 800 taels."

Hearing this, Ogata couldn't help turning his somewhat complicated eyes to the wanted notice on the wall.

I obviously didn't do anything, so I inexplicably increased the bounty of 300 taels

either way

Ogata thought to himself.

Anyway, it doesn't matter to me whether the bounty is 500 taels or 800 taels.

If you have too many debts, you don't worry, if you have too many lice, you don't itch. This is Ogata's current state.

Now Ogata is more concerned about which important person doesn't want to see him, so that his bounty has increased by another 300 taels.

"Look carefully, I haven't seen your faces before." The bald man from just now looked at Ogata and Atachi with curious eyes, "Are you from other places?"

"Hmm." Ogata just nodded to show his answer to the bald head's question just now.

He and Ah-Ming's accents make it clear that they are not locals.

The accent of the Matsumae clan is somewhat similar to the accent of the Northeast region.

Ogata and the others have neither the need nor the ability to conceal the identity of outsiders.

"Hahahaha! Welcome to Matsumae!" After laughing, the bald head said enthusiastically to Ogata and Atachi, "Although we have a lot of delicious food and fun here!"