I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Soichi Fujino - one of the oldest masters of the Tatsuno clan.

Although Yuli is the oldest one, he has never handled a few major cases in his life.

Those troublesome cases were basically pushed by Fujino to his subordinates.

Only those cases where there is a lot of money to be made, Fujino will do it himself.

The potbellied Fujino, with his big belly sticking out, led several of his subordinates into the casino holding their knives.

As soon as he entered the casino, the smell of blood made Fujino frowned.

"Quick! Lantern! Quick!"

Fujino waved his fat fingers roughly.

Under Fujino's order, the Tongxin behind him hurriedly raised the lanterns in their hands, stepped into the casino, and illuminated the casino.

Thanks to the light from these lanterns, Fujino finally had a clear view of the casino.

It's okay if you don't see clearly, once you see the scene inside the casino clearly, a strong sense of nausea immediately surges from Fujino's stomach.

A total of 6 bodies were found in the casino.

Each corpse stared into their eyes.

Looking at the wide-eyed eyes of these corpses, Fujino felt a strong discomfort, and almost vomited out the dinner he had just eaten.

Covering his mouth with his right hand, taking a few deep breaths, and resisting the desire to vomit, Fujino dared to turn his gaze back to each corpse.

"hiss……"

Fujino gasped.

"So many people were killed... It seems that there are many murderers..."

As soon as Fujino's murmurs fell, a strange male voice suddenly sounded behind him:

"No, these people were all killed by the same person."

As soon as this male voice, which was extremely unfamiliar to Fujino, fell, Fujino widened his eyes full of doubts, and looked behind him.

Behind him stood a middle-aged man who had never seen him before in a black uniform.

And behind this middle-aged man, stood a dozen or so people also wearing this uniform with black as the main tone. On the lanterns they held in their hands, the word "Fire Robber" was written.

Fujino didn't know who these people in black were.

But he knew who the man standing next to these "men in black" was.

The person standing next to the group of "men in black" was one of the three elders of the Tatsuno Clan—Sano Muneken.

Seeing the old man here, Fujino hurriedly saluted him and said hello.

The leader of the group of "men in black"—that is, the middle-aged man who said "these people were all killed by the same person" just now turned his head and said to Sano Zongxian:

"My lord, can you please let the officials of your clan leave here for the time being?"

"Of course Hasegawa-sama is fine." Sano said briskly.

The lord of the Tatsuno clan has only one task for Sano these days - on behalf of the Tatsuno clan, do their best to cooperate with the officials of Huofu Bandit Kai headed by Hasegawa Heizo.

So Sano not only wanted to go out of the city to greet Hasegawa and the others when they arrived at the Tatsuno Domain.

When Hasegawa and others settled down in Tatsuno Fan and launched their search, Sano had to follow up and give them all the help that Tatsuno Fan could give them.

Sano waved his hand, signaling Fujino to lead his subordinates away quickly.

And Fujino was also very knowledgeable about current affairs, and quickly led his subordinates out of the gambling house without asking any more questions or doing anything more.

After Fujino and others exited the gambling hall, the leader of the group of "men in black"—that is, Hasegawa Heizo waved his hand, and the officials behind him immediately carried their "fire" The lantern with the word "stolen" stepped into the gambling hall.

The positions of these officials who are responsible for carrying lanterns and lighting are quite particular.

The positions they stood in were just enough for the light from the lanterns in their hands to illuminate every corner of the gambling hall.

"Master Sano, please wait outside for a while."

"Of course, I understand the rules. I will never interfere with Hasegawa-sama's inspection of the murder scene."

After instructing Sano not to come in with him, Hasegawa walked slowly into the casino holding a knife.

And Hasegawa's right-hand man, Imai Cheng, followed closely behind.

Hasegawa stood in the center of the casino, looking around every corner of the casino.

He put his left hand on the hilt of the knife and his right hand on the wrist of his left hand.

Seeing Hasegawa making this action, Imai habitually held his breath and took it easy.

Because Imai understands - this is Hasegawa's habitual action.

Once Hasegawa enters the state of thinking, he will make this action.

So in order not to disturb Hasegawa's thinking, Imai would subconsciously breathe lightly after seeing Hasegawa make this action, and try his best to reduce the disturbance to Hasegawa.

Hasegawa glanced at the barnacle cut in half and the 6 dice scattered on the ground.

Then he looked at the young man who was beheaded with a knife, and he knew it was Hu Zhen at a glance.

Looking at Hu Zhen's beheaded little finger of his right hand, Hasegawa narrowed his eyes slightly.

Finally, he took another look at the four people who were holding knives in their hands, and they must be the guards of this casino.

Hasegawa's gaze was fixed on one of the guards for an exceptionally long time...

Because the wound on the guard's body was too familiar to Hasegawa...

Chapter 135 The Corrupt Tatsuno Fan

I Became a Swordsman in Ancient Japan Volume 1 Life of a Samurai from Scratch Chapter 135 The Corrupted Tatsuno Domain "...so that's how it is."

After Hasegawa murmured softly, he walked slowly towards one of the futons in the casino.

"The murderer began by kneeling on this futon."

Hasegawa knelt and sat on a futon that still had an indentation from someone sitting on it not long ago.

"During gambling, I found out that the pot vibrated out the tricks, and the way the pot vibrated out the tricks should be to secretly replace the 3 dice in the pot with other 3 dice, so as to manipulate the game."

"After the murderer discovered that Hu Zhen was cheating, he cut the barnacle in half with a single knife, exposing Hu Zhen's trick."

Hasegawa, who was kneeling on the futon, while talking, drew his sword and slashed at the air in front of him from the bottom, and then retracted the sheath in an extremely smooth manner.

"In my opinion, the murderer chopped the barnacle in half in mid-air and injured Hu Zhen's right little finger before Hu Zhen could pin it to the ground."

"The murderer exposed Hu Zhen's tricks, which is tantamount to ruining the job of this casino. Naturally, the guards here are extremely dissatisfied."

"So the four guards here surrounded the murderer sitting on the futon from four directions. They planned to teach the murderer a lesson."

"But all of them were killed by the murderer."

"The murderer first drew his sword and slashed to kill the enemy on his left."

With a neat technique, Hasegawa slashed at the air on his left.

"Then it's a horizontal cut."

Hasegawa slashed the sword drawn from its sheath by using the drawn sword slash in front of him.

"Then it's a diagonal chop."

Hasegawa adjusted the blade and slashed towards the air on his right.

"Finally teasing."

Hasegawa turned his body and swung his knife towards the air behind him from bottom to bottom.

"With 4 sharp knives, all 4 guards were beheaded."

"The reason why Hu Zhen and Zhong Pen were also killed was because it was to avoid keeping alive and reveal the murderer's appearance."

While talking, Hasegawa retracted the scabbard.

"It's just that there is always one thing in every secret... The murderer must have not expected it—someone here recognizes the appearance of the wound after being hit by his signature stunt."

Hasegawa turned his eyes and looked at the body of the only guard who was killed by the sword drawing technique.

"Imai, we are lucky. We found the guy's clue so quickly."

……

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Hasegawa led Imai and other subordinates out of the casino.

As soon as he came out of the casino, Sano greeted him immediately.

However - before Sano had time to spit out his flattery, Hasegawa took the first step and said:

"Master Sano, in Guifan's village, there is such a big and conspicuous gambling hall."

Hasegawa pouted at the gambling house he had just walked out of.

"If I remember correctly - the shogunate should strictly prohibit gambling."

"If I'm right - this casino should be owned by 'Yakuza'. Right?"

"Why didn't your clan ban it and bring to justice all the 'Yakuza' who opened this gambling hall?"

Hasegawa's words made the smile on Sano's face froze immediately.

At the same time, cold sweat broke out from Sano's forehead.

"Uh... this... This casino is indeed opened by a local 'Yakuza' force..."

"As for...why not ban it...the main reason is...because...my Fan usually has to deal with a lot of affairs...that...so..."

Just as Sano faltered and squeezed the words out of his belly little by little, Hasegawa suddenly laughed a few times, and then patted Sano on the shoulder.

"Master Sano, I was just joking and scaring you just now."

"Things are tough these days, and it's just a very common thing for the feudal government to cooperate with the local 'yakuza'."

"Don't worry, I will turn a blind eye to this matter."

After hearing what Sano said, Sano felt the big stone in his heart fall to the ground with a "boom".

Quickly wiping the cold sweat off his forehead, he bowed to Hasegawa with a smile, and thanked him repeatedly.

At the same time, I was secretly annoyed in my heart.

I was annoyed that I was patronizing Hasegawa these days, and forgot to ask the Negishi family to temporarily close the shops they opened that would cause trouble if the shogunate noticed them.

While feeling annoyed, I also feel secretly grateful.

Fortunately, Hasegawa is also the kind of "smart" and "knowledgeable" official.

"Master Sano, I'm going to have a meeting with my subordinates under that tree."

Hasegawa pointed at a big tree in the distance beside him.

"Because it is a secret meeting that cannot be known to outsiders, can you please avoid it?"

"Of course." Sano said hastily, "Master Hasegawa, please rest assured that I will never disturb your meeting!"

"Grateful."

After exchanging courtesies with Sano for a few times, Hasegawa led his subordinates and turned around to walk under the big tree.

After turning around and turning his back to Sano, the gentle smile that had spread all over Hasegawa's face quickly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The whole face changed to the expression he usually put on the most - a deadpan expression with a hint of indifference.

After walking under the big tree with his subordinates, Imai, who was beside Hasegawa, curled his lips with disdain, and said:

"Unexpectedly, the Tatsuno clan is also like this... It has been reduced to oppressing the people hand in hand with 'Yakuza'."

When he said this, Imai still didn't forget to sneak a glance at Sano's location, to confirm that what his group of people said so far would not reach Sano's ears.

"This kind of cooperation with the 'Yakuza'...does the lord of the Tatsuno clan know about it?" Another official who followed Hasegawa muttered.

"Maybe you know it, maybe you don't know it." Imai replied, "Some feudal lords are very poor, and they are deceived by their retainers. Under the whitewashing of their retainers, they think that their feudal domain is peaceful. With the local 'Yakuza' cooperation—this may be the idea of ​​the retainers of the Tatsuno clan to collect benefits from the 'Yakuza', and then deceive their lord to prevent the lord from knowing that they are cooperating with the 'Yakuza' in the domain."

"Those samurai who deceived their lord really violated Bushido..." the official just now muttered again.

"Nowadays in this world, there are not many people who will abide by the so-called Bushido." Imai's tone this time has a slightly mocking color, "For many people, the so-called Bushido is just a convenient way to do bad things. It's just a fig leaf..."

"Okay." Hasegawa glanced at Imai and the official, "Whether the lord of the Tatsuno clan knows about this matter - these have nothing to do with us."