I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Oh?" Lin raised her eyebrows, then cast a curious look at A-Ting, "You are A-Ting... It's the first time we meet, I'm Kinoshita Rin." Lin, who was kneeling on the ground, made a standard move towards A-Ting Can't fault any of the Rites.

"Meeting you for the first time..." Ah Ding returned the gift in a hurry, and couldn't help but look up and down at Lin several times with weird eyes, "Well... I have a question for you."

"You ask." Lin said boldly.

"Excuse me... are you a woman?"

A-Machi still clearly remembers—just now, Ogata called this person "Miss Kinoshita".

"Yeah." Lin nodded without hesitation, "For convenience, I just disguised myself as a man."

Speaking of this, Lin suddenly paused.

While continuing to blow the hot tea in his hand vigorously, he raised his head, looked around the surroundings that had obviously been cleaned just now, and then asked softly to Ogata and A-cho:

"Are you two just helping Mr. Feng Mo clean the house?"

"That's right." Ogata didn't make too much pretense, and nodded graciously in admission.

"That's it..." After muttering this softly, Lin turned her head and whispered something to Mucun and Shimada who were sitting beside her.

After Lin finished whispering, Mucun and Shimada nodded seriously, then got up and walked out of the hall quickly.

"Huh?" Fuma cast a puzzled look at Mucun and Shimada who left the table, "Do you want to go to the toilet? The toilet is in the yard."

"No." Lin shook her head gently, "I just asked the two of them to go shopping. They will be back soon."

"That's it..." After nodding his head lightly, Fuma cast his gaze on A-Machi, "Speaking of which——Komachi, I haven't asked you yet, why did you come to Kyoto?"

"I'm here to carry out a mission." A-Ming replied without any hesitation, "But this mission of mine is not an important one, and I don't need to rush to do it. It's not too late to do it tomorrow morning. So I plan to play in Kyoto until the next morning."

"That's it..." Feng Mo nodded lightly.

After raising the teacup in his hand and taking a sip, Fuma looked at Ogata and Acho:

"Brother Ogata, Komachi, didn't you say you had questions to ask me before? Tell me your questions now. If I can answer them, I will tell you everything."

"Ah, if you are asking me for ninjutsu passed down from generation to generation by the Fuma Party, please forgive me for declining."

Fuma said in a half-joking tone.

"I have made up my mind. In this life, I will never show outsiders the ninjutsu that our Fuma party has passed down from generation to generation, nor will I pass this ninjutsu on to others."

After learning from Fumo that Ogata and the others had a question to ask Fumo, the expressions of Lin and his party immediately became a little weirder.

"We're not here to ask for ninjutsu." Ogata smiled wryly, "Master Fuma, do you know the locations of the prisons in Kyoto?"

"I know." Feng Mo said without thinking, "There are two prisons in Kyoto, and I know the locations of these two prisons."

"It's like this..." Ogata put down the teacup in his hand, and said seriously, "I'm looking for a doctor named Xuanren now."

"But he was imprisoned for committing some crimes a while ago."

"So I want to find out which prison he was put in."

"Xuan Ren?" Feng Mo raised his eyebrows,

"Huh?" Ogata asked suspiciously, "Master Fumo, do you know him?"

"I don't know him, but I've heard of him."

"Xuan Ren, his master Xuan Zheng, and senior brother Xuan Zhi are the most special doctors in Kyoto."

"The three of them are among all the doctors in Kyoto, the only ones who know Nanban medical skills."

"Only three of them are both Chinese medicine and Lanfang medicine."

"I know that among the three, Xuan Zheng and Xuan Zhi disappeared a long time ago. I didn't expect that even Xuan Ren has been arrested and imprisoned for committing a crime..."

Feng Mo smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's really good fortune to trick people..."

After listening to Feng Mo's words,

Lin and the rest of the group had expressions of surprise on their faces.

"Master Feng Mo." Lin stopped blowing the hot tea in the cup for a while, and asked Feng Mo urgently, "Are these three people in the whole capital who know Nanban medical skills?"

"En." Feng Mo nodded, "There are very few channels to learn Nanman medicine, so there are very few doctors who understand Nanman medicine. In fact, there are only three masters and apprentices in the whole capital who are both Chinese medicine and Lanfang medicine."

"...To tell you the truth." A faint smile appeared in Lin's eyes, "Master Feng Mo, I have a question to ask you when I come to see you this time."

"The question we want to ask you is——Which doctors in Kyoto know Nanban medical skills."

"Now it seems that there is no need to ask this question."

"...It seems." Ogata chuckled a few times at this time, and then said in a slightly joking tone, "The clues of our two groups have returned to the same place."

Ogata didn't know what kind of clues the gourd house had about the pair of master and apprentice.

But now he knew—the clues in his hands and those held by Calabash House all came down to the same place.

Ogata, like Lin and the others, already knew of the existence of Xuanren who had been arrested and imprisoned.

"...It looks like this is indeed the case." After replying to Ogata in a calm tone, Lin asked Fengmo, "Master Fengmo, can you find out which prison Xuanren was imprisoned in?"

"It's a trivial matter." Feng Mo smiled slightly, "I have lived in the capital for decades, and I have so many contacts in this land."

"I can help you find out where this Xuanren is being held."

"It's just going to take some time."

"Give me three days."

"Come here again in three days. Three days is enough for me to find out where Xuanren is being held."

Originally—both Ogata and Lin had prepared for the worst, for example: Fumo didn't know where the prison was, or couldn't find out which prison Xuan Renbi was imprisoned in.

But now it seems that they are worrying too much.

The development of the situation went smoothly beyond imagination, and Ogata and Lin felt relieved.

After drinking the hot tea in the cup that was almost drunk in one gulp, Ogata turned his head and said to A-Machi beside him:

"Machi, let's continue. With a little more effort, we will be able to clean Fuma-sama's house."

"Yeah!" A-Machi nodded vigorously, drank the tea in the cup, and then stood up with Ogata.

Just when Ogata and A-Machi got up, Lin, who was still blowing hard on the hot tea in the cup, suddenly said:

"You two wait a minute."

After Ogata and A-Machi cast suspicious glances at her, Lin tremblingly tapped the tea with her lips to test the water temperature.

Looking at Lin who was timidly testing the water temperature, Ogata couldn't help raising his eyebrows, thinking to himself:

——This guy... so it's a cat's tongue...

It wasn't until now that Ogata noticed that Lin had been cooling the tea after taking it from Fumo.

Everyone else finished their tea, but Lin was still blowing...

After testing the water temperature of the tea, Lin nodded slightly, and then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp.

After putting the tea cup in her hand back on the table, Lin pulled out her cuff belt and tied up the two sleeves of her kimono with skillful techniques.

"We clean up with you."

Be it Ogata and A-Machi, or Fuma and Asai who stayed by Lin's side, they all showed surprise at this moment.

"Lord Feng Mo, don't look at me like that. You are my elder anyway. Helping elders is what I should do. You should treat yourself as a junior honoring you." Lin said casually.

"I just noticed it."

Lin turned her gaze to a piece of dirt on the wall of the living room.

"Some of the dirt here can't be washed off with just water."

"So I just asked Makimura and Shimada to buy tools and chemicals for cleaning and cleaning."

Hearing Lin's words, the mood showed a clear color, and said:

"So you just whispered in Mucun and Shimada's ears, telling them to buy cleaning tools and potions..."

"Makimura used to work in Kyoto for many years, and he is the most familiar with Kyoto. It is most suitable for him to go shopping." Lin said softly, "The two of them should be coming back soon."

As soon as Lin finished speaking, there were noisy footsteps at the gate of the mansion.

Shimada, with a strong expression of anxiety, carried a large pile of brand-new cleaning tools and medicines, hurried along the corridor to the entrance of the living room, and appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"I'm back." Lin nodded with a faint smile.

Just when Lin just came up with the idea of ​​praising Mucun and Shimada for their quick action, Lin suddenly noticed that she didn't see Mucun...

Just when Lin was about to ask Shimada why he didn't see Makimura——

"My lord! It's bad! Senior Mucun was caught by the government!"

Lin: Σ(°Д°;) "Huh?!"

Lin, who had always had a pitiful expression, now had her eyes wide open, as if her two eyeballs might fall out of their sockets at any moment.

...

...

Not so long ago—

"...I feel a little disappointed."

Both Shimada and Mucun were holding the cleaning tools that Lin had ordered them to buy just now and the medicine specially used to wash away dirt in their arms.

"Why do you say that?"

When he accompanied Mucun to the nearby market to buy things, Shimada kept looking around.

No... It should be said that since entering Kyoto, I have been looking at the surrounding scenery.

After shopping with Makimura and returning to Fuma's mansion, Shimada suddenly said "I feel a little disappointed".

After hearing Mucun ask him why, Shimada responded:

"I originally thought that Kyoto, as one of the three major capitals of our country, must be a metropolis as prosperous as Edo. I didn't expect..."

Shimada didn't finish his sentence.

But even if he didn't finish the sentence, Mucun understood what he meant.

"...There is no other way to do this."

Makimura said softly.

"The Tianming fire two years ago caused too much damage to Kyoto. It hurt the vitality of Kyoto."

"In recent years, the shogunate's finances have also been quite difficult. There is no surplus money that can be allocated to rebuild Kyoto, so the reconstruction of Kyoto is quite slow."

"I don't know how many years it will take for Kyoto to return to the state before the Tianming fire..."

Before Mu Cun could finish his sigh, a sudden cry of a child not far away attracted Mu Cun's attention, causing Mu Cun to stop talking.

Mu Cun followed the prestige - and saw a little girl about 7 or 8 years old crying loudly there.

And beside this little girl, there are 6 youths who are dressed in sleek clothes.

The exposed skin of these six youths is pierced with various tattoos, and it is not difficult to see that these six are Yakuza.

One of the six youths held a piece of Jinpingtang in his hand, and raised the piece of Jinpingtang high.

The little girl surrounded by the six youths cried and jumped up, trying to reach the gold flat candy in the youth's hand.

But because of her height, no matter how hard she tried, the little girl was destined to be unable to get this golden flat candy.

And the appearance of this little girl crying while trying to get enough of this golden flat candy, in the eyes of these six young men who are full of enthusiasm, seems to be an extremely interesting picture, and she keeps laughing there.

There are many passers-by passing by.

Seeing this scene, many passers-by showed resentment.

But after seeing the number of these young people, there was a bit of fear in the resentment on his face.

After several struggles, he finally chose not to see, and hurried past the six youths and the little girl who was being bullied.

Even if no one explained to them what happened, Makimura and Shimada could deduce the cause of the incident from the pictures presented in front of them.

"...Shimada, did you see that?" Mucun sneered, "Yakuza is such a disgusting existence."

"The best thing to do is to bully ordinary people."

"For fun, I even do things like snatching candy from children."

As soon as Mucun's words fell, Shimada nodded vigorously as if he felt the same way.

Just when Shimada opened his mouth to say something to Mucun, he suddenly felt that the weight of the pile of things in his arms suddenly increased a lot—Makimura took all the cleaning tools and medicines that he was responsible for. Tucked into his arms.

Afterwards, Mucun strode towards the six youths without any hesitation.

"Hey, you six bastards, return the candy to that little girl!"

Mucun's loud shout instantly attracted the attention of the six youths.

When the six youths turned their heads and saw Mucun's tall and majestic figure, they swallowed uncontrollably out of shock and fear.

However, the confidence and courage brought to them by the 6 to 1 overwhelming number of people quickly helped them make up for this fear.

"Huh?" The young man with Jinpingtang in his hand said first, "It's none of your business..."

From the very beginning, Mucun didn't think that he could get the six people to obediently return the candy to the little girl with simple words.