Chapter 295: Spending Ten Skill Points in a Row (Part 1)

Chapter 295 Spending 10 skill points in a row (Part 1)

Back in time not long ago——

"Is this the meeting place that Shenshan agreed with you?" Asai said, looking up and down the tea house in front of him.

"This is the tea house that Master Shenshan often comes to." Mucun said, "Master Shenshan sometimes changes his work in this tea house to change his mood. Let's go."

Mu Cun led Shimada and Asai towards the tea house.

Among them, only Lin was inconvenient to show up in public.

If Hasegawa finds out that there is a "Yan Mo" pinned to Lin's waist, then Lin's identity as "Buddha's enemy" will be self-defeating.

Therefore, Lin hid somewhere some distance away from here, and only three people from Mucun came to negotiate with Shenshan.

Opening the paper sliding door of the tea house, Mucun saw Shenshan and Hasegawa sitting at the low table facing the door.

A younger youth stood respectfully beside Shenshan, who seemed to be Shenshan's assistant.

"Makimura, you're back." Shenshan sized up Shimada and Asai, "Are these two your companions?"

"Master Shenshan, I can assist you." Mucun said bluntly, "But I have one condition - after the matter is completed, please release a prisoner who is currently detained in the Kyoto Prison and hand it over to us."

"Prisoner?" Shenshan frowned slightly, "Which prisoner do you want me to release?"

"A doctor named Xuan Ren. I heard that he is a doctor who understands Nanban medical skills. I need his medical skills to treat a friend of mine."

"I came back to the capital this time to invite him, but whoever looked like him was thrown into prison."

What Mucun said was undoubtedly a lie.

After Shenshan pondered for a while, he turned his head and whispered to the assistant beside him:

"Go and check to see if there is such a person in the prison."

"Yes."

The assistant left quickly.

Not long after, he quickly returned to Shenshan's side.

"Master Shenshan, there is indeed such a person. Because he was suspected of prescribing the wrong medicine and killing someone, he is currently being detained in prison."

"...He should be just an ordinary doctor, right?"

"It's really just an ordinary doctor." The assistant said, "Besides being well-known among the common people due to his superb medical skills, there is nothing special about him."

"...I understand." Shenshan nodded to Mucun, "After the matter is completed, I will release Doctor Xuanren and give him to you."

"Grateful."

"Besides this, Mucun, do you have any other requests?"

"Tell me the location of the latest victim."

"It seems that there are no other requirements... I have already asked people to mark the places of death of all the victims on this map, and indicate the time of death."

Shenshan pushed forward a folded map placed on a low table beside him.

"In order to facilitate the contact between the two of us, I will stay in this tea house until I go to the Nijo Imperial Palace to attend the banquet hosted by Tokugawa Munemu-sama tonight."

"If you need any help from me, you can come to this tea house and ask me."

"Thank you. I don't need your help, Lord Shenshan, for the time being."

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...

After leading Asai and Shimada back to Lin's hiding place, Mucun reported to Lin Hui:

"My lord, it's settled."

"Very good." Lin nodded lightly, "In this way, we can obtain Dr. Xuanren as gently as possible."

"Then——Mihachi, I'll have to work hard on you. Now that you've taken over the task of assisting Shenshan in investigating the murder case, do you have any plans now?"

"Let's go to the latest victim's murder scene to check for clues. But before that—I want to find Ogata-san first."

"What do you want him for?" Lin frowned slightly.

"I've heard about it from Master Shenshan just now—just now,

Some officials have already found a person who looks like Ogata Istosai in a ramen shop, I suspect that the person they found is not a person who looks like Ogata Istosai, but Ogata Istosai himself..."

"Brother Ogata is not a native of Kyoto, and he is not familiar with the place of life in Kyoto. If he is allowed to escape by himself, it will only be a matter of time before he is surrounded by officials."

"Brother Ogata is my friend. He is in trouble now. I can't just sit idly by."

"...If you want to help Ogata with a knife first, I have no objection, but where are you going to find him?"

As soon as Lin finished speaking, an unusually noisy noise suddenly sounded from a street not far away:

"Hey! Someone just saw the figure of Ogata Yidaosai! He fled in that direction!"

"Okay! You guys go search that alley!"

"Yes!"

"You guys, go there!"

"Yes!"

After listening to the noisy noise for a while, Mucun smiled slightly at Chaolin:

"It seems that I have found a clue to Brother Ogata."

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"...that's the way it is."

Mucun, who was leading the way, continued to speak to Ogata behind him.

"In terms of familiarity with the capital, looking around the world, there may be few people who can surpass me."

"I know exactly where the places suitable for Tibetans are in each neighborhood."

"After learning that you just fled into a nearby block, I immediately followed the alleys in this block that are suitable for Tibetans, and found you."

"Brother Ogata, you should be thankful that I am no longer Kyoto's Yori, and I am not responsible for hunting you down."

A faint smile appeared on Mucun's face at this moment.

"If I were in charge of hunting you down, you would be surrounded by many layers by now."

After quietly listening to Mucun's explanation of the ins and outs of all events, Ogata sighed softly:

"Mucun, you actually helped the government with things..."

"It's just mutual use." Mucun shrugged, "I'll help them, and they will give us what we want. It's just a deal. Ah, we're out of the alley."

Candlelight shines through the alley ahead.

After rushing out of the alley along the entrance of the alley, Ogata and his party came to a rather deserted path.

After listening carefully and confirming that there were no official voices around, Ogata slowly put down the hand that was originally on the handle of Da Shitian.

"Master, Asai, Shimada." At this moment, Mucun suddenly said to the three of Lin, "The three of you should go back and rest first."

"Do you want to act alone?" Lin frowned slightly.

"To be honest--it would be easier for me to act alone." Mu Cun smiled wryly, "And...to put it in a harsh way: In terms of investigation, if there are too many laymen around, it will be more difficult. more in the way."

"...I see." Lin didn't make any rebuttal to Mucun's harsh words just now, "But—let's leave someone by your side to assist you. Shimada, follow Mucun."

"Ah, yes!" Shimada said loudly.

Mucun opened his mouth, as if he wanted to reject this proposal from Hualin.

But after hesitating for a while, he still slowly closed his mouth. Nodding his head, he said softly:

"I see. It doesn't matter if Shimada is the only one following."

"Asai and I will wait for you to come back at the hotel. Remember to be safe, both of you."

"My lord..." Mu Cun suddenly hesitated, "I have a heartfelt request."

"Say it."

"Before returning to the hotel, could you please take a detour to a place, I want you to give a message to an acquaintance of mine in Kyoto."

"Acquaintance?" Lin wondered.

"Yeah." Mucun nodded vigorously, "He is the only acquaintance I have in Kyoto right now."

"...I see. I don't care about this little favor."

"Grateful."

After Mu Cun quickly reported a place name to Lin, the newly formed team parted ways immediately.

Lin took Asai to deliver word to Mucun's acquaintance.

Mu Cun took Shimada and Ogata to the best hiding place in Kyoto that he just mentioned - Shimabara.

"Cheer up." Mucun smiled meaningfully at Shimada and Ogata, "The place we are going to next is the dream place of almost all men in Kyoto."

"Senior Mucun." Shimada hesitated, "I've been wanting to ask since just now—where is Shimabara?"

"Shimada, you really are a wealthy young master who is not obsessed with the world." After Mucun smiled helplessly, he said, "Shimada, you are from Edo, so you should know Yoshihara, right?"

"Of course I know!" Shimada said without thinking.

Shimada's cheeks flushed slightly when he said those words.

"Shimabara is the Yoshihara of Kyoto—I mean, you should understand, right?"

Hearing Mucun's words, Shimada was slightly taken aback.

Afterwards, his cheeks quickly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye...

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Makimura led Ogata and Shimada carefully on the street.

Once a person dressed as an official is found approaching, Mucun, who is familiar with the terrain, will lead Ogata and Shimada into a nearby alley, wait for the official to leave before coming out, or walk through the alley directly, and send the official They bypass it directly.

Turning to a new street, I looked up and looked forward - there was no sign of any official.

Makimura, who was slightly relieved, said to Ogata and Shimada behind him:

"We're almost at Shimabara."

On the street ahead, there wasn't any official figure, but there were 7 samurai with swords on their waists, walking in the opposite direction to the three of Ogata, walking towards each other.

Samurai are everywhere in Kyoto, and you can see groups of samurai with swords on their waists wherever you go.

Especially tonight - the "Yamaboko Parade" will start soon, and this kind of group of people who are going to see Yamaboko together can be seen everywhere in Kyoto.

So neither Makimura nor Ogata paid any attention to the samurai who happened to be walking towards them, and walked carelessly along the middle of the street.

It wasn't until he got a little closer to the seven samurai that Ogata noticed something strange.

The seven warriors were constantly looking around, as if they were looking for something.

Not only Ogata found out, even Mu Cun also found out that the seven samurai in front of him were different.

"Ah! I found it!"

At this moment, one of the seven warriors suddenly screamed, and raised his hand towards the three of Ogata... To be precise, he pointed at Ogata.

Realizing something, Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly.

This distance is already difficult to escape.

Ogata turned his head and winked at Mucun and Shimada.

Mucun immediately understood the meaning of Ogata's eyes: back off, don't interfere.

Knowing that Ogata was doing this for the sake of the two of them, he raised his hand and grabbed Shimada's arm, pulling Shimada aside, pretending that he didn't know Ogata, and that Ogata was just walking behind them.

Bass, bass, bass...

These 7 warriors all pulled out the swords from their waists neatly, and then rushed towards Ogata.

Ogata glanced around - the not many passers-by around had been scared away by the seven samurai who suddenly drew their swords, and there were no innocent passers-by around.

After confirming that there were no innocent passers-by around, Ogata did not hide or dodge, and stood straight in place, waiting for the seven samurai to come.

These 7 warriors rushed to Ogata and surrounded Ogata in a semicircle.

"Let me ask you, are you Ogata Yidaosai?"

"If you're looking for the executioner Ittosai Ogata Itsue who is wanted by the whole city—yes, it's me. Are you bounty hunters?"

"We were just ordinary ronin about half an hour ago."

The head of the seven warriors was bald. The bald man spoke in a low voice.

"But we are now."

"Ogata Yidaosai, maybe you don't know? The Kyoto Prefecture is offering a huge reward for your head."

"As long as you get your head, you can get another 100 taels on top of your original bounty of 300 taels."

"Sure enough, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward... a total of 400 taels..." Ogata raised his hand and touched his neck, "I always feel that I am underestimated... 400 taels is not enough to win me head."

After putting down the hand that was touching his neck, Ogata slowly pressed his left hand on the mouth of Da Shitian's sheath.

"You should have heard of the name of my executioner, Yidao Zhai, right? Are you sure you want to face the enemy with a handful of seven people?"

"The executioner Yidao Zhai killed more than a hundred warriors by himself, we have heard of it." The bald head replied in a deep voice, "Even if the seven of us go together, we may not be your opponent."

"But... Ogata Yidao Zhai, the few of us have had enough of this kind of life with ups and downs."

"Compared to dying, we are more afraid of not having money now!"

When he said these words, the bald man's eyes flashed a bit... ferocious color.

"We have nothing but the sword in our hands, and we have no other way out except to fight with our lives!"

After quietly listening to the bald head's words, Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the knives of the seven men.

The blades of these 7 people's knives are all rusty - at a glance, it can be seen that they have not been oiled for a long time for maintenance.

These seven people looked ragged and covered in dirt, but they really didn't look like people who could have extra money to buy knife oil.

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