Shinagawa-juku and Edo are just a stone's throw away. Aoto asked Hikka to deliver his letter to the Edo Kitaban Office last night. This morning, the reply from the Kitaban Office was handed over to Aoto.
After opening the letter, which had the seal of Hokubansho and the autograph of the town chief Susui, Aomori read it at a glance.
This eloquent reply has roughly two paragraphs in mind:
1: Express condolences to Qingdeng who unfortunately was attacked again by the "radical anti-foreigners".
2: Let Qingto continue to go to Fujisawa Juku to investigate the case. Regarding the "radical anti-foreigners", they will take over the case.
The contents of the letter were all within Qingdeng's expectations.
The monastery is not Qingteng's home, nor are senior people like Hakui's parents.
It is impossible that due to some personal reasons on his part, the handling of business matters and the investigation of the case could be interrupted.
You have been targeted by the "radical anti-foreign faction"... So what? Do you want us to stop sending you any jobs from now on and protect you like a treasure?
It is impossible to recall Qingdeng like a giant panda just because of this matter, and then launch strict protection - to put it bluntly, Qingdeng is not as important as this in the eyes of Bo Jing and other senior officials.
degree……
Aoto, who had long expected that the Hoban Institute would ask him to continue going to Fujisawa-juku to investigate the case, after reading the letter, silently put the letter away, and then led Saito to Fujisawa-juku.
Having learned from the experience of the attack, both Aoto and Saito became extremely vigilant after setting off again to Fujisawa-juku.
Be careful and pay attention to some places on the roadside where people can easily hide.
The weather is cold now, and the palms of the hands are easily frozen. If the hands are frozen, it will inevitably affect the ability to draw and swing the sword.
Therefore, in order to ensure that their palms were always warm, Ayoto and Saito kept crossing their hands into the wide feather sleeves in a "peasant-like" manner while on the road.
Green, fast and ready.
However, the figure of the "radical anti-barbarian faction" did not appear in front of or behind the two men again.
Not only were they no longer attacked by "radical anti-barbarian factions", but God was also kind and there was no bad weather that hindered the two's progress.
The two arrived at the destination of their trip: Fujisawa Juku without any danger.
The time it took to arrive at Fujisawa-juku was about the same as Aonto expected - in the afternoon three days after leaving Edo, we arrived at this hotel, which is considered one of the best in terms of prosperity in the entire Tokaido.
If there is any outstanding feature of Fujisawa-juku compared with other accommodations... it is definitely the "tourism resources" of Fujisawa-juku.
Fujisawa-juku is adjacent to a river. If you walk downstream along the river, you will reach the famous shrine: Enoshima Shrine in Enoshima, which is dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten.
Many tourists and businessmen passing through Fujisawa-juku will basically visit this Eshima Shrine.
If time and conditions permit, Qingnobu would also like to visit the Eshima Shrine, but after all, he has official duties and is not here for fun.
As soon as he arrived at Fujisawa-juku, Ayoto headed straight to the hotel's main house without stopping.
When they learned that the support team sent by the Edo Hokuban had arrived, the head of Fujisawa Sumonya, also known as Monya, an old man with white beard and hair, immediately came out to greet him in person.
And after he received Qingdeng and exchanged brief greetings with Qingdeng for a while, he told Qingdeng a fact that stunned him...
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"The thieves who caused trouble in Fujisawa-juku were caught?!" Qingto opened his eyes wide and cast a shocked look at the man in front of him.
Saito, who had accompanied Aoto to investigate the case and had traveled three days of exhausting journey with Aoto, could not help but feel slightly dazed now.
After Aoto arrived at Fujisawa-juku, he rushed to the Wenyaba here as soon as possible in order to start the investigation immediately and try to catch the group of thieves who had recently wreaked havoc in Fujisawa-juku.
As a result, just now, the roof leader said to him in embarrassment: Sir Tongxin...this group of thieves has been caught...
"Yes, yes." He asked with an embarrassed smile, and apologized to Qingdeng again, "What a coincidence...it happened to be yesterday that all the thieves who kept causing trouble were caught.
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The culprit of the theft has been caught?!
Qingdeng took a few breaths to adjust his slightly confused thoughts after hearing Wenwu's words just now.
"...Have you asked Wuchang to catch the criminal?" Qingdeng asked quickly.
"Uh... no..." The embarrassed smile on Wenwu's face became thicker, "Sir Tongxin, you might not believe it..."
"It was the cat monk who helped us catch those thieves..."
"Cat Monk?!" Qingden, who subconsciously thought he heard wrongly, leaned his upper body slightly forward toward the asking room to bring his ears closer to the asking room.
Wenwu nodded like a fool: "We have already interrogated the criminals, and they all said the same thing. They all said that the person who caught them was the cat monk who is very famous in Edo recently!"
"...What's going on?" Qingdeng straightened his body again, frowning slightly, "Please tell me clearly."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Facing the samurai, and at the same time still serving as an official in Edo, he did not dare to ask any scornful questions, so he explained to Ayoto in not very organized, but still clear words.
Yesterday morning, when they asked the house to open the door, they were shocked to find that four young men were tied up and unconscious and thrown in front of their gate.
The heads of these four young men were covered with large paper bags, and there was a line of big words written on the paper bags: These four people are suspected to be thieves who have been stealing here recently.
I asked everyone in the house, and at first they thought it was a prank played by someone.
It wasn't until someone with sharp eyes recognized that one of the four people was a gangster who had been wanted for several months and had not been caught yet, that everyone began to pay attention to the fact that unknown persons had sent him to them.
These 4 people in front of the gate.
After all, the Wenwu Chang is just an organization responsible for managing the dormitory, and it does not have the power to torture these four people.
But there are still loopholes that can be exploited.
Although they cannot torture them severely, they still have the right to "speak something" to them.
Everyone in the interrogation field locked the four young men in a room for questioning, and threatened them with all kinds of harsh words.
If you are unwilling to tell everything you know, we will send you to the Edo Administrative Office and let the officials at the Administrative Office do whatever they want to you...
Three of them were unmoved by their harsh words.
But there was a young man who was only around 14 years old who was frightened.
The man was so frightened by the cruel words spoken by everyone in the interrogation room that he vomited out everything he knew with a sincere attitude that he wished he could tear out his whole heart and show it to everyone.
He admitted that the four of them were the group of thieves who had been stealing money from Fujisawa Juku recently.
Last night, they planned to sneak into the hotel and steal the tourists' money as they had done several times before.
But just as they climbed onto the roof of a hotel where they were staying and were about to sneak in and steal, a black shadow suddenly appeared from nowhere and rushed in front of them.
The four people were startled by the sudden appearance of the black shadow and subconsciously asked the shadow: Who is it?
"Then, the black shadow said: 'That's right the cat monk!'"
After saying that, the old man asked Wenwu to spread his hands flat into the shape of palms, with the palms facing up, and then raised his arms high.
While raising his arms, Wenwu suddenly stood up and bent his right leg upward, standing in a golden rooster independent posture.
quiet……
Aoto and Saito, who were kneeling on the tatami in an orderly manner, raised their heads and looked at Wenya, who suddenly put on a strange posture.
The atmosphere was extremely peaceful for a moment...
"...Um...can I ask: What's going on with your actions?" Qingdeng, who was full of questions, tried to ask in a calm tone.
"Uh..." Wenwu retracted his raised arms with an embarrassed look, knelt down and sat back on the tatami, "This is what the young man who confessed said: At that time, the cat monk was doing this action while reporting
His own name..."
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