Chapter 672 A-Cho's Classic Skin and Da Shitian, the New Owner of Da Zizai [Six Thousand Three Hundred]
The latest website: Osaka, somewhere——
A-Ming and A-Zhu carried their luggage on their backs and followed closely behind Genichi and the others.
Genichi, who ran at the forefront, led the crowd around the streets and alleys of Osaka, and finally stopped in front of the gate of a small Buddhist temple, and then rushed into the temple without any hesitation.
After rushing into the temple, Acho saw two familiar faces—Asai and Shimada.
Asai and Shimada carried their respective knives, walked out of the Buddhist hall in the temple, and greeted Chaoyuan and the others.
Asai: "Master Gen, you are finally back. Huh? Ms. Atachi, what's the matter with your appearance? Have you been attacked too?"
Shimada: "Ah! Where's Mr. Ogata? Why haven't you seen Mr. Ogata?"
"I'll explain to you slowly later." Genichi interrupted Asai and Shimada, "You two first come to help and move the man and woman on the backs of Mamiya and Mucun into the inner room of the temple. , and get some water to wake them up."
Jiangong and Mucun are carrying a woman and a man on their backs.
This woman and man are the commander Jiezheng and the Iga female ninja Aharu they captured just now.
Asai and Shimada didn't know where Yuan Yi and the others got Jiezheng and Ah Qing, but they didn't ask much, and obediently followed Yuan Yi's instructions, and worked together with Mamiya and Mucun to carry them into the inner room of the temple .
"Mr. Genichi." Azhu looked around blankly at this moment, "Is this the temple of your acquaintance?"
"No." Genichi said, "We don't know anyone in this temple at all."
"We just saw that the location of this temple is good, and the people in the temple happened to be scared away by the fire in Osaka at this time, so we just borrowed it temporarily."
A-Machi and A-Zhu looked at Genichi who made such a violent statement with astonished eyes.
"Mr. Yuan, Yuanyi." A Zhu shrank his neck, "We trespassed on the Buddhist temple without permission, and forcibly confiscated other people's Buddhist temple...wouldn't this be bad?"
"Forcibly expropriating or something, it's too ugly." Yuan Yi smiled and shrugged at A Zhu, "We are not evil spirits either. Don't worry, we will not treat people in this Buddhist temple badly."
After finishing speaking, Yuan Yi turned his head to look at the merit box not far away.
"The money is considered as the rental fee of this Buddhist temple."
While talking, Yuan Yi walked slowly towards the merit box, and then took out a large handful of money from his bosom.
Looking at the big sentence in Yuan Yi's hand, A Zhu's eyes straightened.
According to her visual estimation, the handful of money in Yuan Yi's hand was more than twenty taels at least.
More than twenty taels... Let alone renting the temple, it is more than enough to renovate the entire temple.
Such a huge sum of money, Yuan Yi didn't even look at it, just threw it into the merit box...
"A-Machi." After stuffing the huge sum of money into the merit box, Genichi turned his attention to A-Machi, "Would you like to take a rest now? I see that you have experienced a lot tonight." ..."
After finishing speaking, Genichi glanced at the patches of blood and mud on the Amachi kimono.
"Ha, you don't need to rest. Don't look at me like this, I have good physical strength, and I'm not too tired." A-Ming looked down at the stains on his clothes, and because he had been barefoot all the time. And the feet that became dirty, "I just need to change clothes."
Having said that, Machi put on a serious tone.
"Master Yuan."
"Before that, can you tell me what happened to you tonight? What does the phrase 'Did something happen to you too' that Mamiya said before?"
"Ha..." Yuan Yi smiled bitterly and annoyed, "Not only you have been attacked tonight, but we have also been attacked..."
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Ah-ding is standing in a side room of the Buddhist temple now.
She grabbed the two skirts of the kimono that had already been undone, and pulled hard on the left and right sides respectively, and then pulled down, the thin kimono fell off from her smooth skin, revealing the flesh that countless men would willingly indulge in. .
Outside the closed door, Genichi, Fuma, and Azuki were sitting.
While changing clothes, A-Machi, Fuma and Azuki outside the door listened to Genichi's story about what happened to them tonight.
"Machi, do you remember that Yukimura?"
"Of course I remember." Ah-cho said immediately, "It's just the person I met again during the daytime today."
Yukimura——A wealthy businessman in Osaka who has received a lot of favors from Huluya.
Previously, when Ogata and Atachi were acting as the guards of Hatsumitsu, the "No. 1 performer in Osaka", they met Yukimura for the first time in Shinmachi, and the meeting with Yukimura also indirectly helped Ogata, Makimura, and Mamiya reunite.
Lin entrusted him to help investigate the "Kansai missing incident". During the daytime today, he rushed to the residence of Lin and others, and sent the "'Kansai missing incident" to the Huluya party and Ogata and A-machi who happened to be present at the time. 'It may be related to Takano-san who is in charge of preaching around." Important information.
It was this information that made Lin and Ogata decide to set off for Koyasan tomorrow to investigate.
However, before tomorrow comes, one accident after another occurred tonight, which can basically declare that the plan of "departing for Koyasan tomorrow" has gone bankrupt.
"This afternoon, Yukimura invited Xiao Lin to his house for dinner."
"Yukimura is not only Lin's old acquaintance, but also half of Lin's subordinates. Without Lin's support and help back then, Yukimura could not have established such a large family business in Osaka in such a short period of time."
"My acquaintance and half of my subordinates invited me to dinner, and I don't have anything urgent to do tonight, so Xiaolin, who has no reason to refuse, naturally agreed."
"Xiao Lin will go to Yukimura's residence alone to have a banquet tonight."
"In the end, Xiaolin... just happened."
"Not long after Linqian went to the banquet, I, Mamiya, Mucun, Asai, and Shimada who were staying at the hotel heard the sound of gunfire coming from various places in Osaka."
"There were gunfire in Osaka City—this is not normal no matter how you think about it."
"We are worried about Xiaolin who is out alone now, so we rushed to Yukimura's mansion immediately."
"As a result, when we arrived at Yukimura's mansion, we only saw a mess."
"I only saw the servants of the Yukimura family in a mess, but I didn't see Lin and Yukimura."
"We only found out what happened after we asked the servants of Yukimura's family in detail."
"Not long after Xiaolin arrived at Yukimura's mansion, dozens of gunmen with flintlock guns suddenly appeared. They rushed into Yukimura's mansion aggressively, and came straight to Xiaolin."
"The servants who were startled fled in all directions and hid everywhere. Only 2 or 3 people saw the whole process of the battle between Xiaolin and the gunmen."
"Xiaolin fought bravely with these enemies and beheaded 8 of them in one breath, but she was subdued in the end because she was outnumbered and unable to fight with muskets."
"The one who was subdued was Yukimura."
"Xiaolin and Yukimura who were stunned were taken away by the gunmen. As for where they were taken, the servants don't know."
"Miss Lin...was taken away by those people?" Ah Ding, who had just changed into half of his clothes, stopped changing his hands in shock.
"Hmm..." Yuan Yi nodded lightly, "The enemy knows that Xiaolin will go to Yukimura's house for a banquet tonight, so it's obvious—this is a premeditated attack, and the robbers have a clear picture of Xiaolin's movements Chu."
"Xiao Lin was robbed by an unknown person. Naturally, it is impossible for us to take this kind of thing lightly."
"The inn we were staying in was too small, and it was inconvenient to do anything. So we borrowed this temple, let Asai and Shimada stay at the temple, and I, Mamiya, Mucun, we three came to you .”
"If you want to find Xiaolin back, the more helpers you have, the better. That's why we came here to ask you for help. Please help us find Xiaolin."
"And when we were rushing to your hotel, we ran into Gan Shi on the way."
"I was eating at my old subordinate's house when I suddenly heard the sound of gunfire." Fu Mo took over the conversation at this time, "There are so many gunfire in Osaka City, no matter how you think about it, it is unusual."
"So I asked my old subordinate to take his family to evacuate to the outskirts of Osaka as soon as possible, and I came to check on the situation of you, Komachi, to see if you also evacuated to the outskirts of Osaka."
"When I was rushing to the hotel where you were staying, I met Genichi who was also going to find you halfway, so I acted with them."
After Fengmo's voice fell, Yuanyi once again took the lead in speaking:
"What happened after that, I don't need to go into details."
"When I came to the hotel where you were staying, I found that your hotel was surrounded by a group of shooters with flintlock guns."
"...So that's how it is..." Ah-ding murmured, "Not only did something happen to Ayi, but Miss Lin also had an accident?"
"Who are these people with muskets?" A Zhu interjected, blinking his eyes, "Why did they both focus on Mr. Yidaosai and Miss Kinoshita? Do they have any common enemy? "
The common enemy of Ogata and Lin——A-Ming only thinks of her former employer: Shiranui.
But as far as A-cho knows, even Shiranui in its heyday did not have the ability to equip flintlock guns on a large scale...
"I don't know who is behind those musketeers." Yuan Yi said slowly, "However——if we are lucky enough, we will soon be able to figure out the answers to these questions."
"Are you going to torture the man and woman we captured?" A-Machi immediately understood the implication of what Genichi said just now.
"We originally planned to try to catch a few people from the enemy who seem to be very powerful to collect information after we meet up with you." Yuan Yi smiled, "I didn't expect it, but I was very lucky to get ' The two things of "meeting with you" and "arresting people for interrogating intelligence" were done at the same time."
"I hope I can get enough valuable information from those young men and women."
clap clap...
At this time, footsteps came from far and near.
It was Shimada who was running briskly towards them.
"Master Yuan, we have already woken up the couple with water."
"Oh, thank you for your hard work." Yuan Yi leaned on the knife and slowly got up from the ground.
And at this moment, the door of the side room where Ah-Ming used to change clothes was slowly opened——
"Ah, Komachi." Fumo was taken aback, "Why did you change your clothes?"
"Tonight is bound to be a very busy night." Ah-Machi smiled slightly, "So it's better to change into clothes that are more convenient for activities."
"And among all the clothes I bring, this one is the most convenient to move around."
"And this dress is also the dress I used to wear most often. Wearing this dress that is very familiar to me can also make my skills a little bit more vigorous."
The clothes Ah-Ming is wearing now are exactly her Shiranui-ri ninja uniform.
In terms of the convenience of movement, there is no fabric on the back and arms of the upper body, and the style of the lower body is similar to the Shiranui's ninja uniform in long johns, which is indeed many times better than ordinary kimonos.
This was the first time Azuki saw Acho wearing Shiranui's ninja costume.
"Miss A-Machi..." Azuki blushed slightly, looking at A-Machi's bare arms and back, and asked in a soft voice, "Would your back feel chilly in this dress?" , is it uncomfortable?"
"Although it does feel chilly when the weather is cold, but it will be very comfortable to wear this dress when the weather is hot." A-Machi smiled at Azuki.
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With a dazed face, Ah Qing vigorously shook her head to shake off the water droplets on her hair and face.
"Ah Ching! Ah Ching! How are you doing?"
The voice of his best friend Jiezheng came from beside him.
"Jiezheng?" Ah Qing turned her head following the sound, and saw Jiezheng who was being tied up and dripping wet.
After looking at Jiezheng, Ah Qing looked down at herself again—she was also tied up, dripping wet like a drowned chicken.
Ah Qing looked around and found that she was in a strange room, surrounded by 3 strange men in front of her.
These three men, who are quite unfamiliar to Ah Qing, naturally asked Shimada to inform Genichi that "the prisoner has awakened", and stayed to continue to guard Jiezheng and Ah Qing's Mamiya, Makimura, and Asai.
"There is really no more convenient way to wake people up than splashing water on them." Asai sighed softly, throwing the empty bucket in his hand aside.
——Why am I here...
Ah Qing frowned slightly, trying to "restore" her memory.
The memory fragments before coma came to Ah Qing's mind one by one like bubbles spit out by a fish.
Following Jiezheng to catch a woman suspected to be Shura's wife, she was attacked by unknown persons, knocked out by a blow...
Ah Qing, who had "restored" her memory, immediately changed her expression, and looked at the three strangers in front of her with vigilant eyes.
Wow...
At this time, the sliding door of the room was suddenly opened.
The people who entered the door were Genichi, Machi and others who had changed their clothes.
"Already awake." Yuan Yi only glanced at Jiezheng and Ah Qing, then looked away, "It's not too late, let's start."
"Yes."*4
After Mamiya, Makimura, Asai, and Shimada said "yes" in unison, they immediately divided into two teams.
Mamiya and Asai work together to drag Ah Qing out, while Mucun and Shimada stay in this room.
"What are you going to do!" Seeing that Ah Qing was being carried outside the house, Jie Zheng immediately growled and struggled to get up.
"Don't move around." Mucun rushed forward, pressed Jiezheng very roughly, and then worked together with Shimada to tie Jiezheng to a piece of tatami they had just removed.
His limbs were tied to the four corners of the tatami, and then a clean cloth was placed over his face.
After completing this series of arrangements, Mu Cun ordered Shimada:
"Pour water."
"Okay, okay." Shimada swallowed hard, then took a bucket full of water next to him with a slightly stiff movement, took a scoop of water, and poured it on Jiezheng's face.
While pouring water on Jiezheng's face covered with cloth, Mucun kept pressing Jiezheng's head firmly to prevent him from moving.
When the water just poured on Jiezheng's face, Jiezheng could still resist the discomfort.
But after only a moment, Jiezheng began to struggle and groan in pain.
This is exactly the torture method that Mucun realized through interrogating suspects together when he was Yuli in Kyoto, which would make the tortured extremely painful: waterboarding.
Last summer, Mucun used this method to torture the enemy and successfully obtained a lot of information.
This method of torture is more painful than simple punching and kicking.
After making Jiezheng feel the feeling of suffocation at any time for a while, Mucun signaled Shimada to stop watering.
"Painful?" Mucun lifted the cloth covering Jiezheng's face, "If you don't want to suffer this kind of pain again, just answer our question—who are you? Who is instigating you."
Jie was coughing forcefully, his nose and saliva dripping all over his face.
However, despite his embarrassed appearance, Jiezheng's eyes were still sharp, glaring at Mucun and Shimada viciously.
"Do you think...cough! I will just be...cough! Tell you...cough!"
"Well, I think so." Mucun put the cloth back on Jiezheng's face, "Shimada, continue to water."
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A similar scene was happening outside the room.
Ah Qing was taken to the other side of the temple where Jiezheng's torture could not be heard, and she was tortured at a place far away from Jiezheng.
Gamiya and Asai worked together to let her "drink enough" water, and Asai lifted the cloth covering Ah Qing's face.
"Why are you Iga ninjas here? Who is your mastermind? As long as you answer our questions obediently, you will stop suffering!"
Ah Qing is younger than Jie Zheng.
After she glanced at Mamiya and Asai with disdain, she closed her eyes silently and ignored Mamiya and Asai without saying a word.
"As expected of a ninja." Mamiya on the side said lightly, "The mouth is not usually strict."
"Then I'll see how long she can last. We're in a hurry." Asai put the facecloth back on Ah Qing's face, and then poured water on Ah Qing's face.
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While A-Machi, Genichi and the others were interrogating Susaka and Haru—
Osaka, Ryusuji Temple——
"Jijiu! Jiku!" A woman in full dress walked towards him quickly, holding the hem of her kimono.
"It's Mrs. Luo." Ji Jiu, who was standing by the window with his hands behind his back, turned around slowly, "What's the matter?"
This woman, whom Ji Jiu called "Lao Woman", was about 30 years old.
The pretty facial features are covered with bewitching heavy makeup, and she is wearing exaggerated and luxurious costumes like an oiran. Her head is full of black hair and is pulled into the hairstyle of a noble lady, and her hair is full of various decorations.
She was obviously a woman with such a coquettish appearance and dress, but her tone of voice was extremely rude.
"Jijiu! I'm fucking bored to death! When will I be able to give my mother some tasks?"
"Lao woman." Ji Jiu said indifferently, "Be safe and don't be impatient. When I need you to appear, I will naturally let you appear."
"Even for a moment, I want to serve Lord Toyotomi as soon as possible! I want to help Lord Toyotomi as soon as possible!" The burning woman seemed to be itchy all over, raising her hands to scratch the skin on all parts of her body vigorously, her face Show pain.
"If you obediently obey my command, you are showing your loyalty to Lord Toyotomi and helping Lord Toyotomi."
"Hey! Jijiu!" Mrs. Lao's expression suddenly became fierce, and several veins popped out on her neck, "The words you just said about Lord Toyotomi were not respectful enough! Not respectful enough!! How can you address Toyotomi-sama in such a weak tone!"
Ji Jiu ignored Mrs. Lao's hysterical roar, and turned her body with her hands behind her back, facing the window next to her, looking at the night view of Osaka full of flames outside the window.
"All in all—you wait for me obediently. I assure you, I will definitely give you the task as soon as possible."
"No way!" the branding woman shouted without thinking, "I'm getting bored!"
"Saiweimon and the others are now looking for that Ogata Issai, but they haven't found it until now? Why don't you let me join the search!"
"No." Yoshihisa said lightly, "Don't make me repeat it so many times, just wait for me obediently. Search for Ogata Ittosai, and Saemon and others are enough."
The baked woman opened her mouth, just about to say something more.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, Ji Jiu blocked her mouth with one sentence:
"Lord Toyotomi has given me full authority to command the frontline of this battle."
"You probably don't want me to report to Lord Toyotomi in the future: Mrs. Lao doesn't listen to my command at all, right?"
Jijiu's words made Mrs. Lao's expression suffocate, and all the words she wanted to say were swallowed back.
"...Huh!" The burning woman gritted her teeth, "You are more favored by Mr. Toyotomi than my old lady! You are so arrogant!"
After leaving a lot of obscenities, Mrs. Lao left cursingly.
After Mrs. Luo left, the room finally became quiet.
It didn't stay quiet for long, however.
"Master Jijiu."
Not long after Mrs. Luo left, a female voice came from behind Ji Jiu again.
But this time the female voice was much gentler and more pleasant than the woman's voice.
"It's Chuguang."
It is different from the indifference with Mrs. Luo just now.
With a faint smile on his face at this time, Ji Jiu slowly turned around and looked at the "Original No. 1 Artist in Osaka" who appeared behind Ji Jiu at some point and was kneeling on one knee just now.
"Master Yoshiemon and the others have searched all along that river." Chuguang said softly, "We still haven't found Ogata Issai."
"Have you found it yet..." Yoshihisa's expression was calm, as if he had expected this result a long time ago, "The 'surprises' that Ogata Ittosai brought us are really one after another...Is there anything else to report ?"
"It's gone." Chuguang said.
"...Chuguang, I have a new mission for you."
"new task?"
"Don't be a 'herald' anymore, and go find Ogata Yidaosai."
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"Damn... damn Jijiu..."
Mrs. Luo, who was still cursing, returned to her temporary residence.
Her temporary residence is a small room in Longshui Temple. The layout of the room is quite simple, with almost no furniture, only a few cushions, and a knife holder in the corner of the room. A sword and a wakizashi.
Mrs. Luo, who returned to the room, looked at the two knives on the knife holder, and her eyes softened immediately.
She walked slowly to the side of the knife holder, and raised her hand to caress the two knives on the knife holder.
"I really want... I really want to use my two new knives quickly to help Lord Toyotomi..."
The two knives being caressed by Mrs. Luo are very beautiful in appearance. The hilts and scabbards are made of blue and gold.