I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Latest website: After Natori withdrew from the house griefly and went to prepare for Yoshihara with Hasegawa later, Hasegawa turned his head and looked towards the pastoral village.

"Makimura, can't you really let me meet your friend? I really want to see what kind of young talents with such super skills are."

"Master Hasegawa." Makimura waved his hand, "I just said that, my friend is very scary."

"So many things happened tonight. According to my estimation, he may be eating and drinking somewhere in Edo, relaxing."

"You can't find him even if you go to Yoshihara now."

"Master Hasegawa, if you really want to see him, I will fight for you later and persuade him to meet you."

"Is he neither with you nor Yoshihara now... It's a shame."

After Hasegawa sighed, he said seriously:

"...If possible, I would like to include your friend in my Huofu Thief reform."

"Are you going to include him in your Huofu Thief reform?" Although he had tried his best to control it, after hearing Hasegawa's words, Mucun's expression became weird.

"We pay thief reforms. For such young talents with high strength, we have always refused to come." As soon as Hasegawa finished speaking, he paused as if he had suddenly remembered something.

Then added a sentence:

"Let me ask a little bit more-our Huofu Thieves Reform can't include the kind of people who have bad deeds, so your friend should have no bad deeds, right?"

"Well..." Mucun grinned bitterly and grabbed his hair. "What should I say..."

"I don't know much about his past, so I don't know if he has done anything wrong before."

"But regardless of whether he had any misdeeds before, he will definitely not work under your command-I can guarantee that."

"His guy doesn't like restraint very much, so he certainly has no interest in joining an organization like the Huofu Rogue Reform, which is no different from the army."

"That's it..." Hasegawa's face showed a stronger expression of regret, "Forget it... Then can you tell me his name?"

"Mashima Goro."

Makimura dipped his finger with the remaining tea in the teacup, and wrote the four large Chinese characters "Mashima Goro" on the tatami mat in front of him.

"Majima Goro... a very imposing name."

"All in all-if you really want to meet my friend, after I go back, I will help you actively try to convince my friend to meet you."

As Makimura spoke, he picked up his big sword that was placed next to him.

"Then I will leave first."

"Huh? Makimura, won't you go to Yoshihara with me?"

"What am I going to do in Yoshihara?" Makimura smiled and shrugged. "I'm not familiar with Yoshihara."

"I came to negotiate with you only because of my friend's trust. Therefore, there is no need for me to go to Yoshihara with you."

"Now my task is complete, so I should also go and find my friend to return to life."

"Master Hasegawa, you can take your guilty subordinates and Yoshihara's people to apologize. I will retire first."

After that, Makimura carried his Odachi and walked straight toward the door.

"Wait a minute, Mucun." However, Mucun had just walked 2 steps, and Hasegawa immediately called to Mucun, "Mucun, can you stay with me for a while?"

"What's the matter?" Mucun asked in confusion.

"I... have something very important to tell you." Hasegawa said with an expression that was too serious to attach. "Can you wait here for me and the people at the Shiro Bingbei Club to come back?"

Because Hasegawa's expression was very serious and it didn't mean a joke at all, Makimura also frowned slightly under the influence of Hasegawa's serious expression.

"Important thing? What is it? Can't you say it now?"

Hasegawa shook his head: "What I'm going to say is too complicated, and I won't be able to finish it for a while, so I plan to pay the people at the Shiro Bingbei club first, and then I will talk to you slowly."

"...I don't mind listening to you talk about that important thing about you."

With a faint distressed expression on his face, Mucun raised his hand and grabbed his hair.

"But if I keep here waiting for you to come back, it's a bit too tough..."

"My friend is still waiting for me to return to life with him and report the results of negotiations with you..."

"Then you go and return to your friend first." Hasegawa said, "After returning to your friend, you can come back to me, okay?"

"...That's fine."

After being silent for a while, Hasegawa nodded gently.

"Then I will trouble you." Hasegawa said, and bowed deeply to Makimura.

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Edo, Yoshihara——

If the current time is converted into the time unit of the modern earth, it is already past 22:00 in the evening.

Once after 22 o'clock in the evening, the gate of Yoshihara will be closed. Whether it is the official staff of Shirobei Club or the tourists, they can only enter and exit through the sleeve gates on both sides of Yoshihara gate.

The sleeve doors on both sides of the gate can barely allow two people to travel together, but because the flow of people at this time is not much, so even if there are only two narrow sleeve doors, it can cope with the current flow of people. More than enough.

After receiving the officers who entered Yoshihara to capture the chrysanthemum monk, the urgent matter waiting for Shiro Biebe to do the Yoshihara foreign operations immediately fell on Shiro Biebe’s head, and Shiro Biebe had to. Leaving Yoshihara.

Going out to Yoshihara to do something-this is just a common routine for Shiro Hebei to do almost every day.

However, Shiro Biebe never expected that he was just going out tonight as usual, and as a result, so many things happened in the short time that he was not in Yoshiwara for more than an hour.

As soon as Shiro Biebe returned to Yoshihara, he learned from the people such as Guasheng what happened to Yoshihara during the time he was not in Yoshihara.

In the clubhouse, Shiro Bingbei and most of the cadres of the clubhouse gathered together.

After hearing the whole story, the first sentence that Shiro Biebe said was:

"How about those people who were injured in the arrest of Xiao Monk Ju?"

"The more severe injuries were sent to the doctor early." Gua Sheng replied, "The less severely injured were treated just now and the wounds were bandaged."

"That's good." Shiro Bingbei nodded gently, "Where is the little monk Chrysanthemum now?"

"He is currently being locked up in our prison." This time, Keiemon replied, "He just woke up and was making a lot of noise there. In order to keep him quiet, we tied him with a cloth tape. Q."

"...I know the specific things." Shiro Biebe raised his right hand and rubbed his temple. "Majima-kun is really going to negotiate with Hasegawa Heizo, who is reformed by the fire and thieves... "

"He did tell us so..." Gua Sheng smiled bitterly.

On Majima...that is, after Ogata had all the members of the Hosuke Rogue into the sixth division, he left Yoshihara with his two friends who suddenly appeared (Makimura and Asai).

Before leaving Yoshihara, Ogata told Guasheng and others:

"My friend and I went to talk to Hasegawa Heizo, who was modified by the firefighter, about tonight's affairs. Go and go back. You stay in Yoshiwara for tea and wait for me to come back slowly. I will deal with the dispute tonight. So don’t worry about me, and don’t worry about this incident tonight."

After leaving this sentence, Okinawa took his two friends and left Yoshihara quickly.

After a while after Ogata and his friends left, a group of officials from Huosuke Thief Kai came.

The new group of Huosuke thieves who arrived in Yoshiwara changed their official posts to take away the members of the sixth division group.

After the members of the sixth division group headed by Nadori were taken away by the newly-arrived group of firemen who had arrived in Yoshiwara, they changed their official posts. After a while, Shiro Biebe returned.

"Mashima-kun hasn't come back yet?" Shiro Biebe asked.

"Yeah." Gusheng nodded, with a look of sadness on his face, "I haven't come back yet."

As soon as Guasheng's words fell, Kawajiro on the side murmured:

"Mashima-kun really has a way to meet Hasegawa and negotiate with Hasegawa..."

"Since Mashima said so vowedly before he left that he was going to negotiate with Hasegawa, then he should really have a way to meet and negotiate with Hasegawa... right." Although he said so, Keiemon said that. There was still a sense of uncertainty and unconfidence in his tone.

"Didn’t Majima-kun say that he is a Ronin from Izumo?" Kawajiro continued, "A young Ronin from far away Izumo who only recently worked at our Shirobei Club...I can hardly imagine He has a way to meet and negotiate with the highest officer of Huofu Thief Reform..."

"...I think Majima-kun might really have a way to do it." Gusheng, who had not spoken since just now, suddenly said, "I think... Majima-kun is quite mysterious."

"Obviously, he looks ordinary and ordinary, but he has such a strong skill."

"I think he might really have a way to meet with Hasegawa and negotiate with Hasegawa..."

As soon as Gua Sheng's words fell, everyone present nodded in agreement.

The figure that Ogata had just defeated all of the more than twenty officials who had been converted into firefighting thieves on his own, Guasheng and others are still vividly visible until now.

"...Majima-kun and Hasegawa might be old acquaintances." Shiro Biebe raised a possibility at this time. "Maybe Majima-kun was on the way from Izumo to Edo. I met Hasegawa in the game."

"After all, Hasegawa, in order to catch those ferocious criminals, often leads people to run around Japan."

"That's why Mashima-kun and Hasegawa have met before-it's not impossible that this is possible."

As soon as Shiro Biebe's words fell, the sound of "dongdongdong" footsteps approaching here suddenly sounded outside the room.

The paper sliding door of the room was pulled open, and the person who opened the paper sliding door-an ordinary servant in their clubhouse shouted to everyone in the room in a somewhat anxious tone:

"Shiro Biebe-sama! Hasegawa Heizo, who has been changed by the fire to the thieves, is visiting!"

"...Hasegawa Heizo?" After hearing this subordinate's report that was so surprising that it made people feel unrealistic, Shiro's face was full of astonishment.

"Master Hasegawa Heizo, who has been reformed by the thief, is visiting!" The officer repeated what he had just notified.

At this moment, it is not just Shiro Biebe.

Everyone in the room looked incredible.

Keiemon swallowed, "Hasegawa Heizo...should be the Hasegawa Heizo, right?"

"Under the whole world, there is only one Hasegawa Heizo." After saying this grudgingly towards Keiemon, Shirohei quickly stood up and walked quickly outside the room.

After Shiro Biebe stood up, the rest of the people in the room also got up with hindsight, and then followed Shiro Biebe.

After walking quickly to the gate of the clubhouse, Shiro Bingbei and others saw two figures waiting outside the gate.

Because the work functions of Shiro Biebe Club and Hosuke Thieves Kai are completely different, and the status of the two is completely different, Shiro Biebe and Hasegawa Heizo have little friendship.

Although there is not much friendship, because each other's base is in Edo, Shiro Biebe met Hasegawa several times by accident.

Therefore, at a glance, Shiro Biebe recognized one of the two people waiting outside the gate of the clubhouse, and it was Hasegawa Heizo, the chief of the fires of thieves.

And after Shiro Biebe recognized that one of these two people was Hasegawa at a glance, Guasheng, Keiemon and others also recognized who the other of these two people was—it was the one who just wanted to rob them Shiro. The Huofu thieves who contributed to the Bingbei Club changed the name of the leader of the sixth division team.

Shirobee recognizes Hasegawa, and Hasegawa also recognizes Shirobee.

After seeing Shiro Biebe leading a large group of people out of the clubhouse, Hasegawa immediately bowed deeply to the Shiro Biebe and others in front of him, and then said loudly:

"The series of disputes with you tonight have been known to me just now."

"It was all my subordinates who were too ignorant that caused these incidents tonight."

"I am here now to apologize to everyone at the Shiro Bingbei Club."

When Hasegawa bowed and apologized to the people at the Shirobei Club in front of him, Natori, who was standing next to Hasegawa, immediately followed him and bowed to the people in front of him along with Hasegawa.

Shirobei, whose astonishment on his face had not disappeared, stared blankly at Hasegawa and Natori in front of him.

Shiro Biebe, who was the first to recover, said quickly:

"Master Hasegawa, please follow me into the house first. Let's wait and talk in detail after we enter the house."

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When Hasegawa had just left the Hosuke Rogue Headquarters, but had not yet arrived at the Shirobei Club----

Edo, somewhere--

"Yo, brother Ogata."

After leaving the headquarters of Hosuke Thief Kai, Makimura hurried to the meeting place agreed upon with Ogata.

After arriving at the agreed meeting place, Makimura saw Ogata who was leaning against the wall and gnawing a big blessing.

Because it is in private and there are no passersby around, Makimura can call "Ogata" openly, instead of calling Ogata's pseudonym "Majima".

In fact, even if someone hears Makimura calling Ogata "Ogata", it's not a big deal.

After all, Ogata is not a rare surname in Japan.

So just calling "Ogata" will not make people suspicious, don't call Ogata's full name "Ogata Ishi".

Seeing that Makimura was here, Ogata, who was gnawing on Daifuku, waved his hand toward Makimura in response.

When Makimura was carrying his big sword and rushed to him, Ogata just swallowed the big fuku from his mouth.

"Makimura, you came just right." Ogata threw the only one Daifuku in his hand toward Makimura, "I just bought a few Daifuku, and there is one left. I can't eat it anymore. Let's eat this for you."

"Oh! I'm not welcome then."

Makimura, who happened to be a little hungry, took the big fuku from Ogata's hand, and gnawed unceremoniously as he had just said.

"How?" Ogata asked, "How are the negotiations with Hasegawa?"

Ogata’s question was actually asked knowingly.

Because he just looked at Mucun’s current expression and knew how the negotiations turned out.

And Makimura's answer did not surprise Ogata.

"It's a perfect ending." Because his mouth was full of Daifuku, Makimura's words were a little vague, "Now Hasegawa is taking his subordinate who committed the crime to Yoshihara to apologize."

"Hasegawa personally go to apologize?" Ogata raised his eyebrows in surprise, "The personality is really serious..."

"I think too." After Makimura smiled bitterly, he said sternly, "Ogata, go back later. I have something to do later."

"what's happenin?"

"It's nothing, just Hasegawa told me just now that he has something very important to tell me."

"I have already made an appointment with him to wait at the headquarters of the Huofu Thief Reformation to wait for him to come back with the people from the Shiro Bingbei Club."

"Important things... what important things can he and you have to say?"

"I am also very puzzled. Are you going to talk to me about the follow-up of those things in Kyoto 3 months ago... Anyway, after you go back, Ogata, tell the lord and them that I might go back later tonight."

"I got it. But-I won't go back too soon. I have to go back to Yoshihara later."

"Brother Ogata, are you going back to Yoshihara later?"

"After all, I have to say goodbye to people." Ogata smiled, "And I haven't got my wages today."

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Edo, Yoshihara, Shirobei clubs, meeting rooms.

After Hasegawa's visit, Shiro Bingbei and others took Hasegawa and Natori to the most advanced guest room of their Shiro Bingbei club that was specially used to receive some dignitaries.

After sitting down in the reception room, Hasegawa apologized to Shiro Biebe and others in an extremely sincere tone.

And the name Tori even placed a seat to Shiro Biebe and others, and apologized to everyone in a seated posture.

After seeing Shiro Biebe and others, Hasegawa recognized at a glance that Gusheng should be the girl in Makimura's mouth who was pushed to the ground by his subordinates, hurt her cheek, and got up from the ground with tears.

Looking at the melon wrapped in linen on his left cheek, Hasegawa's face and the apology in his face involuntarily became more intense.

So Hasegawa also made a very solemn apology to Gua Sheng.

"That's Miss Guasheng right next to me. My subordinates used such brutal methods to cause such a great harm to your body and mind. As a Huofu thief, I can hardly escape the blame."

Hasegawa, who was kneeling respectfully sitting on the tatami, leaned forward and apologized to Guasheng in a tone that solemnly made the listener feel heavy.

"Please forgive my subordinates, we will also bear your medical expenses."

Gua Sheng: "?????:???"

Gua Sheng felt a little dazed.

She did hurt her left cheek because Natori and others took the lead in making a rough move, but it was just a small injury that didn't hurt.

After she was pushed to the ground at the time, she was immediately helped by her colleagues.

The injury on her face was neither painful nor itchy to her. After Ogata settled Natori and others, she wouldn't even bother to treat such a minor injury if it weren't for her colleagues' insistence.

There is no such great physical and psychological harm as Hasegawa said just now...

——Hasegawa-sama misunderstood something...

Guasheng wanted to ask Hasegawa if she had any misunderstandings. She didn't suffer any physical or mental injuries, except for a small abrasion on her cheek.

However, the surrounding atmosphere told Guasheng that it was not suitable to ask questions at this time, so Guasheng could only hold back the question back into his belly.

Hasegawa's sincere attitude of apology made Shiro Biebe and others embarrassed.

"Master Hasegawa, and Master Natori, please raise your head."

After Hasegawa said a large passage of apologetic words and was exchanging his breath, Shiro Biebe hurriedly saluted Hasegawa while interjecting.

"Your apologies, we received it."

"In this dispute tonight, people on both sides of us actually have certain responsibilities."

"So what happened tonight, let's just go over it. Take it as if these things tonight haven't happened."

"I am grateful." Hasegawa once again leaned over to the Shiro soldier in front of him and saluted. "I was in a hurry tonight. I didn't have time to prepare enough apologies."

"I assure you: I will be punished severely in the future, and I will visit again with an apologetic in the future."

"You don't need to apologize." Shiro Biebe smiled helplessly, "As long as there is an apology from Hasegawa-sama, it is enough."

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No matter what Shiro Heibei said, Hasegawa insisted on paying a formal apology in the future to visit again.

Hasegawa led Mingtori to apologize for nearly 20 minutes before finally leaving Yoshihara.

Shiro Biebe led a group of cadres in the clubhouse standing outside Yoshihara's gate, watching the departure of the two Hasegawa.

It wasn't until Hasegawa's figure disappeared completely that Gusheng, whose expression was still stunned, said softly:

"I didn't expect that Hasegawa Heizo would come to apologize personally..."

Even now, including Shiro Biebe, are still immersed in the astonishment and astonishment of the chief of the firefighting thieves reform Nagagawa Heizo who personally visited the door to apologize.

Guasheng and the others envisioned a lot of possibilities that would happen after the occurrence of "a conflict with the officials of the Huofu Rogue Reform".

But they only did not expect the possibility of "Hasegawa Heizo came to apologize overnight"...

In other words, I thought of this possibility, but naturally felt that this possibility was impossible...

"Is it possible that Majima-kun really succeeded in meeting and negotiating with Hasegawa Heizo..." Kawajiro said slowly.

"...I suddenly wanted to have a good relationship with Mashima-kun." Keiemon said seriously.

"Speaking of which-how about Mashima-kun?" Gusheng asked in confusion, "Why didn't he be with Hasegawa?"

"Yeah. Where is Mashima-kun now." Kawajiro raised his hand and grabbed his hair. "I haven't given him today's wages yet..."

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After bidding farewell to Shiro Biebe and the others, Hasegawa led the famous leader and drove back to their headquarters of the fire thief.

As soon as he returned to the headquarters, Hasegawa cast his icy gaze on Natori.

"From now on, you are banned."

"Before my next punishment is issued, you must not leave the detention room for one step."

"Yes..." After following Hasegawa to Yoshihara to apologize, Natori, who had been pale and nodded weakly.

After instructing the two subordinates to take Natori to the detention room, Hasegawa hurried to the quiet room he usually used to take a nap when he was tired at work.

When he rushed to Yoshihara to apologize with Natori, Hasegawa told Yamazaki: If the pastoral village where his friend had gone back to life comes back, he will take the pastoral village to the quiet room he often uses.

As soon as he came to the door of the quiet room and opened the door of the quiet room, Hasegawa once again saw the pastoral village where he hadn't been separated for long.

"Sorry, Mucun, I kept you waiting for a long time."

"It's okay. I actually didn't wait for too long." Makimura was sitting cross-legged carelessly at this time, with his Odachi on the tatami beside him.

"Tonight I really made you laugh." Hasegawa sighed with a wry smile, "Let you see the unbearable side of Huofu Thief..."

"Nothing, I can understand." Makimura smiled slightly, "I used to be an official before, so I know very well-once there are more subordinates under his command, it is inevitable that there will be a few people who have bad conduct or become silly. ."

After sitting upright with his somewhat crooked body, Makimura asked Hasegawa seriously:

"Hasegawa, it's not too early now, so let's make a long story short."

"What's the important thing you want to tell me?"

Makimura’s straightforward request was exactly what Hasegawa wanted.

Hasegawa knelt and sat in front of Makimura, and his seriousness climbed onto Hasegawa's face.

"Makimura. I know that you and Ogata Ichitosai are friends, so I'll just say it bluntly—Is Ogata Itosai alive now?"

Hearing this question from Hasegawa, Mucun frowned immediately.

Mucun has not had time to respond. Hasegawa is like a cascade of guns, throwing new problems one after another.

"If Ogata Ichitosai is still alive, does he come to Edo with you now?"

"If you are in Edo, can you contact Ogata Ichitosai for me?"

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Today, I would like to share some popular science with you in the bathhouse of the Edo period~www.wuxiahere.com~ The bathing culture can be regarded as one of Japan's long-standing cultures.

The picture on the right is the most common bathhouse in the Edo period →

In Volume 3, there is a detailed mention of Ogata and Mamiya going to the bathhouse to take a bath. You can go back and review it.

Bathhouses are generally two floors. The first floor is for guests to take a bath, and the second floor is for guests who have taken a bath to rest, play cards, play chess, and brag.

One of the political reforms (Leniency Reform) hosted by Dingxin Matsuba (that is, the old man who popped up from time to time in this book) was to ban men and women from bathing together, because Dingxin Matsuba felt that it was corrupt for men and women to bathe in the same way. Social atmosphere.

Therefore, since the Kuanzheng period, there have been bathhouses where men and women separate baths.

It is said that after Songping Dingxin ordered the prohibition of male and female bathing, many men hated Songping Dingxin (it is said that)