I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

When Ogata and A-Machi were secretly excited, Yugami went on to say:

"The two of them went to bed after eating."

"They left at dawn."

"I haven't seen them since that night."

Tang Shen succinctly explained the whole story of his encounter with the master and apprentice.

"Have those two talked about anything? Or have they told you anything?" Ogata asked.

"No." Tang Shen shook his head, "The two of them are very silent."

"The two of them only talked about the three sentences I just said during the meal from the beginning to the end."

"And then I never spoke again."

"That lad never spoke to me at all."

"As for the old guy, he only said hello to me when he entered the cave, and said goodbye to me when he left the next morning. He never said anything else to me."

"Then do you remember which direction the two of them left?" Ogata continued to ask.

"Yes. They went north."

"North?" Ogata raised his eyebrows.

"Well. I only know that they went to the north. As for where they went, I don't know."

"I remember seeing the two of them in the area near Xiongshi in the Matsumae Domain."

"If you go further north from that place, you will leave the Matsumae domain and enter the territory of Ezo."

"Ezo's territory?" Ogata frowned, "Does that mean the two of them are very likely to go to Ezo's territory?"

"Maybe." Tang Shen shrugged, "Anyway, I haven't seen the two of them since that brief meeting."

"Thank you very much." After Ogata pondered for a moment, he stood up, bowed solemnly to God Tang and thanked him.

And A-Machi quickly stood up with Ogata, and bowed to Yushen.

Ogata: "A small thank you is not a respect."

Ogata has two purses.

A purse is designed to hold relatively large sums of money.

Another purse is dedicated to smaller amounts of money.

Ogata took out 3 pieces of douban silver from his pocket for small change, and handed them to Tangshen.

"Oh!" God Tang raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to thank me? Thank you very much, then I will accept it unceremoniously."

After all, Tang Shen accepted the three douban silver from Ogata without any pretense.

"Hehe, I have money for the drinks in the next few days."

After accepting the broken silver handed over by Ogata, Tang Shen raised his head and asked Ogata:

"Are you planning to go to the territory of Ezo to find those two people?"

"If you plan to find those two people in the territory of Ezo later, then for the sake of the gift just now, let me tell you a piece of information that may be useful to you."

"Go to Rong Street to the east and find a fur shop called Dahewu."

Tang Shen raised his hand and pointed to the east.

"The owner of the fur shop has a part-time dog sled rental business."

"You can rent dog sleds from them."

"Although I can't take you to the territory of Ezo, it is still possible to take you to the northern border of the Matsumae Domain."

"If you want to, you can rent dog sleds."

"Dog sledding? Thank you, your information is really useful to us." Ogata bowed to Tang Shen again.

Tang Shen smiled and waved his hands: "You don't need to be so polite."

Ogata and A-Machi bid farewell to Yushin and left from Yushin's pet stall.

After throwing Tangshen's pet stall far behind him, Ogata could finally take a deep breath.

Although the various small animals in the cages in Tangshen's pet booth are very cute.

but they really stink

Especially red foxes.

Tang Shen also seemed to know that the red fox had a strong smell, so he put the wooden cage where the red fox was kept in the back.

But even so, Ogata can still smell the "body odor" that is continuously emanating from the red fox, which is far better than that of animals in other cages.

After leaving Tangshen's pet stall, A-Machi immediately muttered:

"It's good luck to find the clue so quickly."

"Yes." Ogata sighed involuntarily, "I'm so lucky that I feel incredible."

Ogata felt more and more that his luck was very miraculous.

He always felt that his luck was constantly jumping back and forth between the extremes of "extremely bad" and "excellent".

Sometimes the luck is too bad. On the first day I entered Kyoto last summer, I was inexplicably involved in a series of troubles.

But sometimes it’s too good to be good. Let’s take Kyoto as an example. Although he was inexplicably involved in a series of troubles on the first day in Kyoto, he also reunited with A-Machi on that day.

This time, Ogata's luck once again jumped to the extreme of "excellent".

Originally, both Ogata and A-Machi were ready to fight a "protracted war" and spend an unknown amount of time to find relevant clues.

But who would have found a clue from the first person who asked the question on the first day.

And it's a very useful clue.

According to the information provided by Tang Shen just now, it is basically certain that the two people are Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen.After all, there should be no one who can say "Junior Brother Xuanren" except Xuanzhen.

But the information Tang Shen just said has something that Ogata is very concerned about.

That is Xuanzhen's state is quite weird.

One second he was expressionless, the next second he suddenly smiled strangely, and Xuan Zheng shook his shoulders while saying "Don't do this" No matter how you think about it, it feels very abnormal.

Not only is Ogata very concerned about this place, but A-Machi is also very concerned about Xuanzhen's state.

"Ayi." Ah Ding hesitated, "Is there something wrong with Xuanzhen's sanity?"

As Machi spoke, she stretched out her finger and nodded her head.

In Ah-Ming's cognition, the only people who are expressionless one second and laugh out loud the next are probably the only ones with brain problems.

"I don't know." Ogata shook his head, "Except for seeing that Xuanzhen with his own eyes, no one knows what happened to that person."

"That's right, what are we going to do now?" A-cho asked, "Should we go north to find new clues?"

"That's the only way to do it." Ogata sighed softly, and then smiled wryly, "Since it's rare to find the clues for those two people going north, we can only follow the north to find new clues."

"How do I find it?" Ah-Ming continued to ask.

"Since the two of them are very likely to enter the territory of Ezo, we can only ask those Ezo settlements in the north."

"Ask from settlement to settlement."

"There's nothing else to do but this."

"Ask from settlement to settlement?" A-Machi also smiled wryly, "I really hope that the Ezo settlements we meet can be kinder."

Now that useful clues have been found, there is no need to stay in Matsumae Castle.

After a brief discussion with A-Machi, Ogata came to a unanimous decision, and left for the north today.

Now that they have decided to leave today, the two plan to go to the fur house recommended by Tangshen just now that has a part-time "dog sledding" service.

The two went back to the hotel first and took all their luggage.

None of them expected that the hotel, which they thought they would live in for a long time, would withdraw the lease so quickly.

The two of them took their luggage and went to the east of Matsumae Castle. After finding the street named "Sakae Street", they went from shop to shop.

Soon, he found the big house of the fur shop mentioned by Tang Shen just now.

Ogiya is a very grand store with 3 floors alone.

After entering the first floor of the large house, Xu Fang saw all kinds of fur products on the shelves.

Ogata didn't come here to buy furs, so he didn't take a second look at the furs, and went straight to the counter on the first floor.

A middle-aged man was sitting behind the counter on the first floor.

Ogata directly explained the purpose of coming, saying that he would rent a dog sled.

And the middle-aged man was unambiguous, saying that the farthest he could only send them was to a place close to the northern border of the Matsumae Domain, and then directly quoted a price.

Even if he could only send them to a place close to the northern border of the Matsumae Clan, Ogata would be satisfied.Although the price was expensive, it was not unacceptable, so Ogata readily gave the money.

After giving the money, the middle-aged man called a clerk in the store, and after talking to him, he led Ogata and A-Machi to the backyard of their big house.

Before approaching the backyard, Xu conveniently heard the dog barking "Wow, woof, woof".

After entering the backyard, the strong smell unique to dogs came to Ogata.

There are dozens of dogs of different colors in the backyard.

The dogs were big dogs, big enough for a child to use as a mount.

Each dog is well-haired, strong enough to make you want to rub it.

"Oh, so cute." A-cho's eyes lit up, "Can I pet them?"

"Please." The middle-aged man said with a somewhat proud tone, "Our dogs here have been specially trained, they are not afraid of people and will not bite, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke them That's it."

"You guys wait here for a while. The guy in charge of pulling you will be here soon."

The middle-aged man stayed where he was, and waited with Ogata and the others for the arrival of the guy who he just said was in charge of Rasuka and A-cho.

Compared with dogs, Ogata actually prefers cats, he is a pure "cat school".

And A-Machi's preference seems to be the opposite of Ogata's. Compared with cats, A-Machi seems to like dogs more.

Because of his different preferences, Ogata didn't rub the dog's nipples so hard.

After only a moment, a young male voice finally sounded behind Ogata and Acho:

"Sorry for making you wait so long!"

Ogata turned his head and looked back.

After seeing clearly the face of the owner of the young male voice, Ogata was taken aback.

The owner of the voice is a very young male, who appears to be in his early 20s.

The reason why Ogata was stunned was because this person's facial features were a bit special.

Not a pure and human face.

His facial features are deeper than those of ordinary people, but they are not too deep.

To give an image metaphor, the facial features of this person are between Wazuto and Ezo.

"Two guest officers, my name is Ichiro Nakahara." The young man bowed to Ogata and Atachi, and said in a very standard "Matsumae-style Japanese" mixed with a local accent, " I will be in charge of driving the sledge for you two."

Ogata and the others had to drag the sled and dogs to the outskirts of the city first, because dogsleds could not be driven in the city.

In just over half an hour, they arrived at the outskirts of the city with their sleds and dogs.

Subsequently

"Can dogs pull so fast?" A-Ming looked at the four big dogs pulling the sled in surprise.

Just now, Ogata and A-Machi got on a huge sled that could accommodate four people.

The sled is long, and passengers cannot sit side by side, but can only sit vertically in a row like riding a motorcycle.

Ichiro Nakahara, who was in charge of driving the sled, sat in the driver's seat in the front row, then Ogata sat behind Nakahara, and Machi sat in the back.

Four of the big dogs we saw in the backyard were responsible for pulling the huge sled.

The young man named Zhong Yuan sat in the driver's seat and only yelled at the four big dogs pulling the sled in front, and the four big dogs rushed forward pulling the sled like a conditioned reflex.