I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

the next day, early morning

Hirose Domain, Ruya

There are two floors in the flowing house. The first floor is the izakaya where Asaki and the others live, and the second floor is where they live.

Ah Fu, who just got up from the bed, saw Ah Saki lying on the desk, scribbling and drawing something.

"Miss Azaki..." Ah Fu asked Azaki as he walked towards Azaki, "What are you writing?"

After pressing his chest against A Saki's back and pressing his chin on A Saki's right shoulder so that his eyes could look over A Saki's back and shoulders, Afu realized that A Saki was not writing anything.

Instead, you are painting a picture.

Although Azaki's painting skills are not very good, Afu can barely recognize that Azaki is drawing a young samurai with two swords in his waist and long hair.

"I'm drawing Ogata-sama." A Saki said, "With the portrait of Ogata-sama, it should be much easier to find him..."

A Saki's simple words immediately made the atmosphere of the whole room heavy.

Ah Fu lowered his eyes: "Master Ogata, where did he go..."

One month ago, not long after Ogata "disappeared", Saki and Afu learned a shocking news: something happened to the Sakakibara Sword Gym where Ogata usually practiced swords.

Although this incident was blocked by the news, Saki and the others still learned from various channels that the masters and apprentices of the Sakakibara Sword Gym were massacred for unknown reasons...

This news undoubtedly made Saki and the others even more uneasy...

But what makes Asaki and the others feel lucky is that Ogata should still be alive.But I just don't know where he went

Because after the accident at the Sakakibara Sword Gym, Ogata sent them a farewell letter to Liuwu.

"All right!"

Ah Saki dried all the ink on the paper, then raised the paper in her hand, and looked at it several times with satisfaction.

"Ah Fu! What do you think of my painting?"

"Hmm...it's okay..." Ah Fu almost squeezed all the words in this sentence from between his teeth.

After all, the picture drawn by Azaki is not similar to Ogata except for the three points of having a saber at the waist, long hair, and a more well-proportioned figure...

Looking at the portrait that Ah Saki has painstakingly drawn, Ah Fu pursed his lips.

"Miss Azaka...if we can't find Ogata-sama...what should we do?"

"Of course we have been looking for it all the time." Ah Saki said without thinking, "No matter how long it takes, we will keep looking for it."

"Lord Ogata is the only samurai willing to help us."

A hint of memory flashed across Asaki's face.

"Before Ogata-sama appeared, I found countless samurai... I hope these samurai can help us guard the Ruiya."

"But these warriors are extremely arrogant."

"They all despise that my izakaya is just a crappy and small izakaya. To guard such a dilapidated izakaya will damage their samurai status. They would rather work as thugs for some casinos than come to our izakaya."

"Only Ogata-sama is willing to come here."

"And only Ogata-sama has no samurai airs at all, and will not discriminate against us because of our status as civilians."

"Just his character alone is worth my effort to get him back."

"What's more, he is kind to us."

Asaki looked at Ah Fu with a smile.

"At that time, after the people from the Ishikawa Sword Gym came to trouble us, Ogata-sama went to the Ishikawa Sword Gym alone, beat up many disciples of the Ishikawa Sword Gym, and helped us vent our anger."

"Just because Ogata-sama helped us out, we have to repay Ogata-kun well. Fu, are you right?"

"Hmm!" After listening to Ah Saki's words just now, the cloud that originally covered Ah Fu's face gradually dissipated, and a bright smile gradually hung on Ah Fu's cheek.

at this time

"Excuse me, is anyone there?"

A strange male voice suddenly sounded outside the gate on the first floor.

Hearing this male voice, Saki and Afu both frowned.

"Who is it..." Ah Saki muttered as she got up and walked towards the first floor.

It's just dawn now.

Ah Saki has been running the flow house for so many years, and this is the first time that Ah Saki has had guests visit at dawn.

Slowly open the door of the flow room.

Standing outside the gate of Ruiya was a young samurai with a clean shaved head, dressed in decent clothes, and two knives stuck in his waist.

When the young samurai saw Azaki, he immediately asked Azaki:

"Excuse me, are you Miss Asaki?"

"Well, I'm..." Ah Saki can guarantee that she absolutely doesn't know this person, "May I ask who you are?"

"I've come to give you something."

After all, the young samurai took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and handed it to Saki.

After taking the small cloth bag from the young samurai with full of doubts, a familiar sound and touch passed from the cloth bag to Ah Saki's palm.

"This is...?!" Azaki widened her eyes.

Ah Saki quickly opened the small cloth bag.

Sure enough, there was a large amount of fines in it.

"This is what Ogata Yishi-kun asked me to give to you." The young samurai said, "He also asked me to bring you a sentence to use the money to buy a new Wu suit for Ah Fu, and hire someone better than him A more reliable samurai."

"Then let's say goodbye."

The samurai who successfully completed the two tasks of sending money and bringing words turned around and wanted to leave.

However, just as he turned around, Ah Saki and Ah Fu both rushed to him and opened their arms.

"Wait for me! You just said that Master Ogata gave us the money, right?" Saki asked anxiously, "I ask you, Master Ogata, where is he now?"

"One step..." The young warrior smiled wryly, "You are embarrassing me...I don't know where Ogata Itsuki-kun is now...I'm just a person who came to give money and talk... "

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The young warrior wasn't lying.

He really didn't know where Ogata was now.

Cang Yong gave Ogata and others a large sum of money.

The money is regarded as the settling allowance and... pension for Ogata and others.

Ogata has no relatives, and his master and brothers have all died. In this world, the only people who can be regarded as Ogata's relatives and friends are Saki and Afu.

Therefore, Ogata asked Cang Yong to arrange someone to help him send the money to the wandering house, and help him write a sentence for Azaki and the others.

When the young samurai entrusted by Ogata was being entangled by Azaki and Afu, Ogata was in the cemetery in the backyard of Xuanzhen Temple.

Together with Cang Yong and other patriots, they burn incense in front of a new tombstone in the cemetery of Xuanzhen Temple.

"Please rest in peace..." Cang Yong, who was the last one who finished incense, closed his eyes tightly and put his hands together.

And Ogata and others standing behind Cang Yong put their hands together and murmured "Please rest in peace".

Under this new tombstone, the poor women of Miaochang Temple who were poisoned by Matsudaira Gennai are buried.

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About half a month ago, another woman from Miaozhang Village who was adopted by Cang Yong committed suicide by choking on water while drinking water.

Another person's suicide made Cang Yong finally make up his mind to give the women of Miaozhang Village who were "adopted" by him a happy...

After asking his subordinates to give the women in Miaozhang Village a happy ending in as painless a way as possible, Cang Yong buried their bodies in the cemetery in the backyard of Xuanzhen Temple.

Because they don't know their names, they can only be buried under the same tombstone.

Those who were buried here were not just the poor women of Miaozhang Village.

Over the years, all the corpses of the victims who were poisoned by Matsudaira Gennai and who had no family members to come to pick up the corpses were collected by Kurangaga and buried in Xuanzhen Temple.

When the sun just rose above the horizon today, Cang Yong led all the people with lofty ideals to Xuanzhen Temple to offer incense to those injured who died because of Matsudaira Gennai.

After offering incense and prayers to the poor women in Miaozhang Village, Ogata turned his head and looked at... the large tombstone that had a special meaning to him.

This large tombstone is the tomb of his master and his brothers...

Ogata walked slowly, caressing the first monument that appeared in front of his eyes, that of Hanbei Sakakibara.

"Master...everyone...just watch carefully..." Ogata stared at the tombstones in front of him with firm eyes, "I...will definitely kill Matsudaira Gennai...!"

"Lord!"

The cries of flying apes suddenly sounded from outside the cemetery.

Flying Monkey hurriedly rushed into the cemetery, then knelt down in front of Cang Yong.

"Matsudaira Gennai...he started to leave the city!"

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A team of more than a hundred people marched out of the city aggressively.

This team was exactly Songping Gennei who was going to hunt in the wild boar forest, his surname and the hundred guards.

And almost at the same time when Matsudaira Gennai had just left the city, Cang Yong and his party also started to act.

They left the cemetery of Xuanzhen Temple and followed Gennai Matsudaira's team.

There are only a few hunting places that Matsudaira Gennai frequents.

Therefore, Cang Yong had long ago asked Fei Yuan to scout the hunting grounds that Matsudaira Gennai frequented.

It is also because Cang Yong sent flying apes to conduct reconnaissance long ago, and Cang Yong and the others know exactly where there are hidden trails in the wild boar forest and where there are places to stay.

Their first destination was a deserted temple outside the wild boar forest.

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"...We are here." Cang Yong wiped the sweat from his face while looking at a dilapidated and deserted ancient temple in front of him.

The speed of Matsudaira Gennai and others is not fast. After all, only he himself has a horse, and the rest can only walk, so that the speed of Matsudaira Gennai's team is no different from walking.

Therefore, there is no need for Cang Yong and his party to follow them on horseback, and if they ride a horse, the momentum will be too large, which is not conducive to their pursuit.

So Cang Yong and his party completely relied on their legs to track them.

This is also one of the reasons why Cang Yong set their first destination as the abandoned ancient temple outside the wild boar forest, so that Ogata and others can temporarily settle in the ancient temple and recover the physical strength lost due to tracking.

After leading the crowd into the ancient temple, Cang Yong immediately shouted to the crowd:

"Whoever is thirsty, drink water!"

"Those who feel sore feet, sit down and rest!"

"Flying Ape, take out all the chain mail!"

"Change your chain mail, everyone!"

Last night, Cang Yong asked Fei Yuan to store the chain mail in this deserted ancient temple overnight.

If Ogata and others were to wear chain mail to track Matsudaira Gennai, it would consume too much of their energy.

In order to avoid unnecessary consumption of physical strength, Kurangaga asked Fei Yuan to transport the chain mails of the seven Ogata people into the ancient temple overnight, and when they settled down in the ancient temple tomorrow to recover their physical strength, they would take back their chain mails and wear them. This is the second reason why Cang Yong chose this ancient temple as his first destination.

The flying monkey took out the chain mail hidden in the wooden floor of the temple one by one, and distributed them to Ogata and the others.

After everyone put on the chain mail and checked that there was no problem with their knives, Cang Yong's command sounded again.

"Flying Monkey, from now on... just proceed as planned."

"My lord." Fei Yuan smiled at Cang Yong, "Then I will go ahead."

After finishing speaking, Flying Monkey rushed out of the ancient temple without looking back.