I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Look, Ayi, I saw the pharmacy."

Ogata and Ah-Ming were holding a red and white steamed bun in their hands and gnawed there.

Red and white steamed buns - one of the famous Kyoto sweets.

Although it is called steamed buns, it is filled with red bean paste, which is a bit like the bean paste buns in Ogata's previous life.

Red and white steamed buns are divided into red and white. Although there are two different colors, the taste is actually the same.

Oujian gnawed on the red mantou, while Ah-machi gnawed on the white mantou.

Finally found the second pharmacy, after Ogata stuffed the few steamed buns left in his hand into his mouth, he said to A-machi:

"A-Ming, wait for me outside, I'll go back as soon as I go."

"Yeah." A-Machi nodded obediently.

Ogata took out the two prescriptions in his arms and strode towards the pharmacy in front of him.

On the other hand, A-Ming obediently obeyed Ogata's instructions, stood on the spot, holding half of the remaining steamed buns with both hands, slowly nibbled on them, and waited silently for Ogata's return.

Not long after, Xu came back.

"How?" Ash asked.

Ogata shook his head.

Even though he was in vain again, there was still no trace of regret on Ogata's face.

"Let's go." Ogata smiled, "Let's go to the next place."

"Ok!"

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"Ah, Ayi! Look! It's a water seller. Let's go there and buy something to drink."

Not far in front of Ogata and Atachi, an old man who is not too young is carrying two large wooden barrels on a shoulder pole.

While walking forward slowly, he drank loudly, "Sell cold water, sell cold water".

"Water seller..." Ogata muttered, "It just so happens that I'm a little thirsty too."

Water sellers carried buckets of clear water or sugar water through the streets and alleys of the city-this is also a common sight in cities in this era.

The so-called water sellers, as the name suggests, are vendors who specialize in selling drinking water on the street.

In the hot summer, being able to drink cold water is a different kind of enjoyment.

Therefore, in such a big summer, the water seller can be said to be one of the most popular vendors.

Ogata and A-Ming leaned over, and the water seller immediately warmly introduced to Ogata and them:

"Good morning! Two guest officers! I have clear water here!"

The water seller patted the bucket hanging in front of the pole.

"There's also sugar water!"

Then he patted the bucket hanging behind the pole.

"What kind of water do you two guest officers need?"

"You still have sugar water here? Then I want sugar water!"

"Then just give me a bowl of water." Ogata said.

"okay!"

The water seller put down the two large buckets hanging on the shoulder pole, and then took out two clean bowls, containing a bowl of clear water and a bowl of sugar water respectively.

After Ogata and A-Machi drank the water from their respective bowls, A-Machi wiped his mouth and praised: "It tastes good."

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"Ayi! Take a look! It's the ear picker!"

"Can these two small sticks really help customers remove earwax...Let's go, people's ears are picked out, it's nothing to look at."

"It's the first time I've seen Caier people, let me watch for a while."

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"It's 'Lao Wan Selling Sugar'..." Looking at the scene in front of him, Ah Ding couldn't help but smile, "It's a pretty good dance."

In a metropolis like Kyoto, the most indispensable thing is these sugar vendors who sell sugar.

Because there are many colleagues, in order to attract customers as much as possible, these sugar sellers chose to wear strange clothes and do various weird moves, which can be said to show their special skills.

There are "Tang people selling sugar" dressed as foreigners;

The so-called "Lao Wan sells sugar" refers to men disguised as women, selling sugar while dancing on the other side.

Ogata and A-Ming have now met a sugar seller called "Old Man Selling Sugar".

The facial features of this young sugar seller are fairly handsome,

Therefore, even wearing women's clothing, it will not give people a feeling of "spicy eyes".

At the same time, the dance is also good.

Not bad appearance + not bad dance, successfully attracted a lot of guests.

Many passers-by, including Ogata and Acho, were attracted by this sugar seller.

After watching the dance of the sugar seller for a while, Ogata and the two bought a candy from the sugar seller.

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Ogata and A-Machi played together on the way to find the pharmacy.

When you come across something interesting, stop and watch.

When you see something delicious, you buy it and eat it.

"Journey to find people" slowly turned into "Journey to Kyoto"...

Although playing crazy, Ogata still did not forget the important task of finding the pharmacy.

Ogata and the two have gone to 4 pharmacies so far.

It's a pity that they got nothing.

But Ogata is not in a hurry, after all, Kyoto is very big, and there are still many pharmacies that have not been visited yet.

Therefore, I continued to maintain a leisurely pace with A-Ming, eating, drinking and playing while looking for the pharmacy...

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Kyoto, the official office of Kyoto Town.

Hasegawa Heizo and his subordinates are currently in a certain room in the government office, recovering their strength, while waiting for the arrival of the Kyoto town magistrate, Kamiyama Eshinosuke.

After waiting like this for an unknown amount of time, footsteps from far to near finally came from outside the room.

With a bang, the paper sliding door was pulled open.

Shenshan's tired face finally appeared in front of Hasegawa and the others.

"Long time no see." Hasegawa smiled at Shenshan, "It's been several months since Ji Yiyi left at the beginning of the year."

"Yes." A faint smile appeared on Shenshan's somewhat tired face, "Hasegawa, I hope I can be like you, always so energetic, really, obviously The two of us are about the same age, why is your state always like a young man who can't run out of energy..."

"I guess you miss the days when you were in charge of the luggage in Kii." Hasegawa said in a half-joking tone.

"You're right." Shenshan shrugged, "It's much easier to manage the army's supplies than to manage the entire capital."

After the ogre rebellion broke out on Butterfly Island in Kii, the shogunate, who had no time to deploy manpower, urgently transferred Kamiyama, who was in charge of the Kyoto town, to Kii to manage the deployment of the army responsible for monitoring Butterfly Island.

Now the shogunate has changed its strategy against Butterfly Island—or in other words, the strategy against the cannibals on Butterfly Island under the leadership of the old Nakamatsu Taira.

No more rushing prisoners to Butterfly Island - and there aren't as many prisoners available anymore.

Instead, resources were used in the research on ogres and the tracking of He Shi and He Zhi, the master and apprentice.

About two months ago, the work of managing the army's supplies in Shenshan was suspended and replaced by another person.

After all, Kamiyama's job is carried out by the town of Kyoto, and Kamiyama has been kept in Kii, after all, there is a sense of violence in it.

Not only has the logistics officer of the army changed, but the general of the army has also changed.

After the old Naka Matsudaira Sadanobu returned to Edo, the "former general" Inamori also returned to Edo with Matsudaira Sadanobu.

After changing to another person to take over the work of managing the army's supplies, Shenshan returned to his old place-Kyoto.

The first task of Shenshan after returning to Kyoto is to find He Shi and He Zhi, the master and apprentice.

This task was sent by Matsudaira to Shenshan.

The only piece of information the shogunate has about the pair of master and apprentice is that they have a Kyoto accent, and they are most likely natives of Kyoto.

Since it is very likely that he is a native of Kyoto, it is natural to entrust the matter to Kamiyama, who is the head of the Kyoto town, to handle the matter.

And Shenshan is also very conscientious. After returning to Kyoto, he conscientiously launched a comprehensive search in Kyoto, looking for the master and apprentice named He Shi and He Zhi.

After half a month of searching, the result was - nothing.

There is no doctor named He Shi and He Zhi in Kyoto at all.

Since there are no these two doctors, the only two possibilities are:

The master and apprentice did not live in Kyoto at all, or they used false names, and He Shi and He Zhi were not their real names at all.

These two people might not even be masters and apprentices.

Apart from the names of Heshi and Hezhi, and having a Kyoto accent, the shogunate had no other clues about the pair of master and apprentice.

The name—the only clue was cut off, and Shenshan had no choice but to report the result to Matsudaira Sadanobu who was far away in Edo.

And Matsudaira Sadanobu seemed to have expected such a thing to happen a long time ago. He did not criticize Shenshan in any way. He only replied "Thanks for your hard work" in a letter, and told Shenshan that there is no need to search for these two people in Kyoto. Yes, for these two people, he will find another way in the future.

After the search for the pair of master and apprentice is over, Shenshan's life has finally returned to the normal track of the past, and he has experienced the life of managing all kinds of things in Kyoto.

After having a brief conversation with Hasegawa for a while, the two of them seemed to have made an agreement in advance, and slowly ended their greetings and got down to business.

"Hasegawa."

Kamiyama casually sat cross-legged in front of Hasegawa, while Hasegawa's subordinates headed by Imai knelt respectfully beside them.

"You should have visited the scene of the crime, right? How did it turn out?"

"The results are pretty good." Hasegawa said in a deep voice, "Although it has been a while since the case happened, I still found a lot of interesting things at the scene."

After finishing speaking, Hasegawa took out a neatly folded handkerchief from his arms, and handed it to Shenshan.

"this is?"

"It's something I found at the scene of the crime." Hasegawa said in a deep voice, "Open it and see for yourself."

According to Hasegawa's instructions, Shenshan slowly opened the handkerchief.

After fully unfolding the handkerchief, some black powder came into view of Shenshan.

He moved the black powder under his nose and smelled it lightly, and an unpleasant smell immediately entered Shenshan's nostrils.

"This is... gunpowder...!" Shenshan said in a deep voice.

"That's right." Hasegawa nodded, "At the scene of the crime, we found a lot of gunpowder powder. The fire in Luowai should have been caused by the explosion of gunpowder."

The reason why Hasegawa led his subordinates all the way from Edo to Kyoto was because a strange thing happened in Kyoto in mid-May.

Suddenly there was a loud noise in an empty room outside Luo.

Following the loud noise, flames erupted from the empty room and instantly swept towards the surroundings.

Fortunately, it was a calm day, coupled with the fact that it had just rained and the weather was humid. Thanks to the concerted efforts of the town firefighters in Kyoto, the fire was successfully contained before the disaster expanded.

Because the buildings of this era are basically made of wood and paper, once the fire gets out of control, it is basically a natural disaster.

The Tianming fire that burned down more than 80% of the buildings in Kyoto two years ago is the best example.

Because the occurrence of this small fire in Kyoto is really full of strangeness.

The loud noise before the fire broke out made Shenshan very concerned, making Shenshan suspect that the fire might be man-made.

Therefore, Kamiyama asked the Edo shogunate for help, and asked the shogunate to mediate the experts in the arson case-the officials of Huofu Thief Kai came to Kyoto to investigate the case.

Hasegawa, who happened to be free at that time, readily took the order and led his subordinates headed by Imai to Kyoto to investigate the case.

This is why Hasegawa and his subordinates appeared in Kyoto.

Early this morning, after leaving Granny Cake's hotel and parting with Ogata, Hasegawa rushed directly to the crime scene in Luowai to collect clues.

With a sullen face, he handed back the gunpowder powder Hasegawa found from the scene of the crime to Hasegawa, and suddenly anxious footsteps and anxious shouts came from outside the room:

"Master Shenshan! Another murder case happened! Just now, another person was killed in the Gion Park! The victim was a disciple of the Xuanxue Academy——Inano Saburo! He was stabbed in the neck and killed with one blow!"

"Another victim?" Shenshan's face darkened suddenly, "...I see, you should step back first."

After the reporter left, Hasegawa frowned and asked Shenshan:

"Shenshan, why did you say 'another victim'?"

"...Since last night, a murderer has appeared in Kyoto." Shenshan sighed, "From last night to now, he has killed 34 people in a row."

After hearing the number "34", Hasegawa felt a "thump" in his heart.

34 people were killed - this is no small case.

At this time, Shenshan went on to say:

"Fortunately—when this murderer was killing people, his face was seen by many people present."

"Kyoto Soshidai-sama is very nervous right now." Kamiyama put on a light mocking tone, "When the Gion Festival is being held, there appears such a vicious criminal who may destroy the Gion Festival, but it is very likely that he will be punished by the general. Adults scolded."

"My lord, Kyoto City Chief, is now asking people to compare each arrest warrant based on the appearance reported by these witnesses, to find out if there is any wanted criminal who matches the appearance reported by the witnesses."

"I don't know when the results will come out..."

Before Shenshan finished speaking, there was another anxious announcement from outside the room:

"Master Shenshan! The comparison results of the arrest warrant...are out!"

The messenger was out of breath because of running so fast, and his speech was intermittent.

"Oh?" Shenshan narrowed his eyes, "Have you found any wanted criminal whose face matches the murderer's face seen by the witnesses?"

"Yes!" The reporter said anxiously, "It's the executioner Yidaosai——Ogata Yishi!"

"After showing Ogata Issai's arrest warrant to the witnesses, the witnesses also said, 'This is the person'!"

As soon as the messenger finished speaking, the pupils of Shenshan and Hasegawa—especially Hasegawa shrank suddenly.