After serving the food and tea he wanted, Ogata took off the bamboo hat on his head and sat down on the bench outside the tea house.
At the same time, he took out the two sabers from his left waist and placed them on the bench beside his left body.
Lian Xu walked for such a long time, and Ogata couldn't help but feel a little sore in his feet.
Ogata couldn't help but feel lucky to encounter such a place where he could rest, drink tea, and eat food.
Since Ogata was the only customer now, the shopkeeper quickly prepared the five skewers of glutinous rice dumplings Ogata requested, as well as the best tea in their shop.
After the shopkeeper placed all the food and tea that Ogata asked for on the bench to the right of Ogata, Ogata thanked the shopkeeper and reached out to his arms, ready to take out his money.
Pay in bags.
It is not without reason that Ogata dared to say to the shopkeeper, "I want the best tea in the shop," which at first glance seemed very arrogant.
Ogata really has the capital to be arrogant.
The amount of money Kuronaga gave Ogata was astonishing.
A big bag of big money.
The Daiken gold was the highest denomination coin in the Edo period.
According to Ogata's estimation, the pile of money Kuronaga gave him would be enough for Ogata to live a free and unrestrained life for many years without having to worry about eating, drinking, sleeping, etc.
Ogata is not the kind of person who lives a tight life just to save money.
If you have money, then enjoy it - this is Ogata's view on consumption.
Therefore, from the time he left Hirose Domain to the present, Ogata has always eaten the most delicious food and drank the best tea and wine.
Ogata reached out his hand to the place where the money bag should have been lying quietly in his arms...
But it turned out to be empty.
After his palm touched the air instead of the money bag, Ogata's heart skipped a beat.
After secretly saying "No," Ogata used both hands to touch around his body.
I touched the light green haori all over my body, then the dark blue Wufu under the haori, and finally I even touched the hakama on my lower body.
I didn’t even touch the money bag…
Looking at Ogata touching his body, the teahouse owner standing aside slowly frowned.
"Sir...is your wallet missing?"
"Yeah!" Ogata nodded quickly, stood up and looked in the direction he came from just now to see if he had dropped his money bag on the road.
The shopkeeper pursed his lips, and then asked Ogata in a deep voice again:
"Sir, did you just meet a man with a horse face, and this man with a horse face 'accidentally' bumped into you when he passed by you?"
"That's right." Ogata cast a surprised look at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, how do you know?"
The man who accidentally bumped into Ogata's shoulder just now left a deep impression on Ogata because his horse face was so ugly.
As soon as the shop owner mentioned it, Ogata immediately thought of this person.
After hearing what Ogata said, the shop owner sighed softly.
"It seems... Sir, your wallet was stolen by that guy..."
"'That guy'?" Ogata repeated the word mentioned in the shopkeeper's sentence, "Shopkeeper, do you know that guy?"
"Of course I do. That guy is considered a celebrity in our place."
"That guy is a member of the Negishi family."
——The Negishi family?
After hearing this word, Ogata's eyebrows slightly raised uncontrollably.
This is the second time he heard this term today.
"That horse-faced guy has no skills."
"The only skill is to steal."
"That guy is pretty good at pickpocketing."
"His best pickpocketing method is to pretend to accidentally bump into someone else, and then take the opportunity to steal someone else's wallet."
"His methods are quite clever."
"It can be said that it has reached a state of perfection."
"Being able to steal someone's money bag when they bump into him without anyone noticing."
"I heard that guy never misses."
"So, samurai-sama, there is nothing you can do about your wallet being stolen by that guy."
"You bastard!" Ogata yelled, "That guy even dared to steal the samurai's [biquge www.biqugeso.vip] things!"
"What's there to be afraid of?" the shopkeeper smiled wryly and shrugged. "The Negishi family is used to being domineering in this land."
"They don't look down on ordinary samurai."
"Samurai-sama? I advise you to endure this cowardice and go against the Negishi family? You will die... Hey! Samurai-sama! What are you doing? Where are you going?!"
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Tatsuno Domain? Sihe Village.
"Hey! You bastards! Didn't we just pay the money a while ago?!"
A young man looked at the arrogant young man among the five celebrities in front of him with an angry face.
Surrounding these five arrogant young men were many villagers from Sihe Village who were looking at them with anger and hatred.
These five arrogant young men didn't care at all about the looks cast by the villagers.
The leader of these five people - the horse-faced man said with a playful smile:
"Don't get excited, everyone!"
"Everyone should also know that the world is getting worse and worse now."
"The days are getting worse and worse."
"So we can only slightly increase the amount of money you have to pay each month."
"This is an order from our boss! Please cooperate with us!"
Several villagers in Sihe Village wanted to shout loudly at Ma Lian's strong words, but they could only hold back.
"We have no money!" Finally, it was an old man with gray hair who took the lead in shouting to Ma Lian and others.
After hearing the old man's words, the horse's expression did not change, and he still had a strange smile on his face.
He just silently raised his right hand, stretched out his little finger to dig out the earwax, and said casually:
"Since you have no money? Then sell people."
"Old guy, I remember you seem to have a granddaughter, right?"
"If you have no money? Just hand over your granddaughter."
"It just so happens that our 'stores' are short of new young women."
Ma Lian's words made the faces of the surrounding villagers look even more indignant.
However... no one dared to step forward and scold these five people loudly? Or use violence against these five people...
Ma Lian is in a very good mood now.
Because he had just succeeded in stealing a large amount of money from an idiot ronin with long hair and a vulgar light green haori.
At first - Ma Lian thought that the money carried by this foolish ronin should not be much.
Because ronin is generally poor.
But after stealing the guy's money bag and waiting for the guy to go away, Ma Lian opened his money bag. The faint golden light coming out of the money bag directly made Ma Lian's eyes widen.
.
The money bag is filled with coins of all levels, mainly large-scale gold.
It was the first time in his life that Ma Lian saw so much money.
He successfully caught a big fish, leaving Ma Lian with a look of uncontrollable ecstasy on his face.