Chapter 287 Makimura has been arrested! (Part 2) [12,000 today]
"Oh?" Lin raised her eyebrows, and then cast a curious look at A-Machi, "You are A-Machi... This is the first time we meet, I am Kinoshita Rin." Lin, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at A-Machi.
I can't find any wrong gift.
"It's our first time meeting..." After Amachi returned the gesture in a hurry, he couldn't help but look up and down Lin several times with strange eyes, "Well... I have a question to ask you."
"Just ask." Lin said boldly.
"Excuse me...are you a woman?"
Amachi still clearly remembers that just now, Ogata called this person "Miss Kinoshita".
"Yes." 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 hands vigorously, he raised his head, looked at the surrounding area that had obviously just been cleaned, and then asked Ogata and Amachi softly:
"Were you two helping Mr. Fuma clean the house just now?"
"That's right." Ogata didn't show much pretense and nodded openly to admit it.
"That's it..." After muttering this softly, Lin turned her head and whispered a few words to Makimura and Shimada who were sitting beside her.
After Lin finished whispering, Makimura and Shimada nodded seriously, then stood up and walked quickly out of the hall.
"Huh?" Feng Mo cast doubtful glances at Makimura and Shimada who were leaving 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 out to buy some things. They will be back soon."
"That's right..." After lightly nodding, Fuuma cast his gaze on Omachi, "Speaking of which - Omachi, I haven't asked you yet, why did you come to Kyoto?"
"I'm here to perform a mission." A-Machi replied without any hesitation, "But this mission of mine is not a very important mission, and there is no need to rush to do it. It's not too late to wait until tomorrow morning to do it. So.
I plan to play in Kyoto until the next morning."
"That's right..." Feng Mo nodded gently.
After raising the teacup in his hand and taking a sip, Fuuma looked at Ogata and Omachi:
"Brother Ogata, Komachi, didn't you say you had questions to ask me before? Please tell me your questions now. If I can answer them, I will tell you everything."
"Ah, if you are asking me to teach you the ninjutsu that the Fuuma party has passed down from generation to generation, please forgive me for refusing."
Feng Mo said in a half-joking tone.
"I have made up my mind that I will never show outsiders the ninjutsu that our Fuuma party has passed down from generation to generation in this life, nor will I ever pass on this ninjutsu to others."
After learning from Fuma that Ogata and the others actually had questions to ask Fuma, the expressions of Lin and the others immediately became a little weird.
"We are not here to ask for advice on ninjutsu." Ogata smiled bitterly, "Master Fuuma, do you know the locations of the prisons in Kyoto?"
"I know." Feng Mo said without hesitation, "There are two prisons in Kyoto, and I know the locations of these two prisons."
"That's it..." Ogata put down the teacup in his hand and said seriously, "I'm currently looking for a doctor named Xuanren."
"But he committed some crimes a while ago and was imprisoned."
"So I want to find out which prison he is in."
"Xuanren?" Feng Mo raised an eyebrow,
"Huh?" Ogata asked doubtfully, "Master Fuuma, do you know him?"
"I don't know him, but I've heard of him."
"Xuanren, his master Xuanzheng, and senior brother Xuanzhi are the most special doctors in Kyoto."
"The three of them are the only three of all the doctors in Kyoto who know the Nanman medical skills."
"Only three of them are both Kampo and Orchid doctors."
"I know that Xuanzheng and Xuanzhi among these three people have disappeared a long time ago. I didn't expect that even Xuanren is now arrested and imprisoned for committing crimes..."
Feng Mo smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What a trick of fate..."
After hearing what Feng Mo said, Lin and the others had expressions of surprise on their faces.
"Lord Feng Mo." Lin temporarily stopped cooling the hot tea in the cup and asked Feng Mo urgently, "Are these three people the only ones in Kyoto who know the Nanman medical skills?"
"Yes." Feng Mo nodded, "There are very few channels to learn Nanman medical skills, so there are very few doctors who know Nanban medical skills. Indeed, there are only three masters and apprentices in Kyoto who are both Kampo and Orchid doctors."
"...To be honest." A faint smile appeared in Lin's eyes, "Master Feng Mo, I came to see you this time, and I also have questions to ask you."
"The question we want to ask you is - which doctors in Kyoto know Nanban medical skills."
"Now it seems - there is no need to ask this question."
"...It seems." Ogata chuckled a few times at this time, and then said in a somewhat joking tone, "The clues of our two groups have ended up in the same place."
Ogata didn't know what kind of clues Calabash House had about the master and apprentice pair.
But he knows now - he and the clues held by Calabash House come down to the same place.
Ogata, like Lin and others, already knew about 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 Feng Mo, "Master Feng Mo, can you find out which prison Xuanren is imprisoned in?"
"It's a trivial matter." Feng Mo smiled slightly, "My decades in Kyoto were not in vain. I have quite a few connections in this land."
"I can help you find out where this Xuanren is being held."
"It just takes some time."
"Give me 3 days."
"Come back to me in three days. Three days will be enough for me to find out where Xuanren is being held."
Originally - both Ogata and Lin had prepared for the worst, for example: Fuma didn't know where the prison was, or couldn't find out which prison Xuan Renbi was being held in.
But now it seems that they are worrying too much.
The development of the situation went beyond imagination, and Ogata and Lin both felt relieved.
After drinking all the hot tea in the cup in one gulp, Ogata turned his head and said to Omachi beside him:
"Atachi, let's continue. With a little more effort, we can clean Master Fuma's house."
"Yes!" Atachi nodded vigorously, drank all the tea in the cup, and then stood up with Ogata.
Just when Ogata and Omachi stood up, Lin, who was still blowing hard to cool down the hot tea in the cup, suddenly said:
"You two wait a minute."
After Ogata and Omachi cast doubtful glances at her, Lin cautiously tapped the tea with her lips to test the temperature of the water.
Looking at Lin who was cautiously testing the temperature of the water, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and thought to himself:
——This guy... turns out to be a cat tongue...
Only now did Ogata notice that Rin had been blowing the tea to cool it after taking it from Fuma's hand.
Everyone else had finished drinking the tea, but Lin was still blowing...
After testing the temperature of the tea, Lin nodded gently and drank all the tea in the cup.
After putting the tea cup in her hand back on the table, Lin took out her sleeve band and tied up the sleeves of her kimono with a skillful technique.
"We'll clean up with you."
Ogata and Omachi, as well as Fuuma and Asai who stayed with Lin, all looked shocked at this time.
"Lord Feng Mo, don't look at me like this. You are my elder after all. Helping your elders is what I should do. Just think of it as a junior honoring you." Lin said casually.
"I just noticed it."
Lin turned her attention to a piece of dirt on the wall of the living room.
"Some of the dirt here cannot be washed away with just water."
"So I just asked Makimura and Shimada to buy tools and chemicals for cleaning."
After hearing Lin's words, his emotions became clear and he said:
"It turns out that when you whispered into Makimura and Shimada's ears just now, you were asking them to buy cleaning tools and medicine..."
"Makimura worked as an errand in Kyoto for many years and is most familiar with Kyoto. It is most suitable for him to go shopping." Lin said softly, "The two of them should be back soon."
As soon as Lin finished speaking, noisy footsteps came from the gate of the mansion.
With a strong look of anxiety on his face, Shimada hurried down the corridor to the entrance of the living room, holding a lot of brand new cleaning tools and chemicals, and appeared in everyone's field of vision.
"I'm back." Lin nodded with a faint smile.
Just when Lin was about to praise Makimura and Shimada for their quick actions, Lin suddenly noticed that Makimura was not seen...
Just when Lin was about to ask Shimada why he didn't see Makimura——
"Lord! What's wrong! Senior Makimura was caught by the government!"
Lin:Σ(°Д°;) “Huh?!!”
Lin, who had always had a pitiful expression, now had her eyes widened, as if they might fall out of their sockets at any time.
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Not long ago——
"...I feel a little disappointed."
Shimada and Makimura were holding in their arms the cleaning tools and chemicals specially used to wash away dirt that Lin had just ordered them to buy.
"Why do you say that?"
While accompanying Makimura 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 buying everything with Makimura and returning to Fuma's mansion, Shimada suddenly said, "I feel a little disappointed."
After hearing Makimura ask him why, Shimada responded:
"I originally thought that Kyoto, as one of the three major capitals in our country, would be as prosperous as Edo. Unexpectedly..."
Shimada didn't finish his sentence.
But even if he didn't finish his words, Makimura understood what he meant.
"...There is nothing we can do about this."
Makimura said softly.
"The Tianming Fire two years ago caused too much damage to Kyoto. It severely damaged 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 has been very slow."
"I don't know how many years it will take for Kyoto to return to the state it was in before the Tianming Fire..."
Before Makimura could finish his sigh, a sudden burst of crying from a child not far away attracted Makimura's attention, causing Makimura to stop talking.
Makimura looked around and saw a little girl, about 7 or 8 years old, crying loudly.
Surrounding this little girl were six young men dressed in a fashionable manner.
The exposed skin of these six young people is tattooed with various tattoos. It is not difficult to tell that these six people are Yakuza.
One of the six young men held a piece of Jinping Candy in his hand and raised the piece of Jinping Candy high.
The little girl surrounded by these six young people was crying and jumping up, trying to reach the Jinpingtang in the young man's hand.
But because of her height, this little girl is destined to be unable to get the golden candy no matter how hard she tries.
The little girl was crying while trying to reach for the golden candy. In the eyes of the arrogant young people among the six celebrities, it seemed like an extremely interesting scene, and she kept laughing.
There were many passers-by passing by.
Seeing this scene, many passers-by looked angry.
But after seeing the number of young people in this group, the anger on their faces became a little more fearful.
After several struggles, he finally chose to pretend he hadn't seen them and hurried past the six young men and the little girl who was being bullied.
Even if no one explained to them what exactly happened, Makimura and Shimada could infer the cause of the incident from the pictures presented in front of them.
"...Shimada, did you see it?" Makimura sneered, "Yakuza is such a disgusting existence."
"What he is best at doing is bullying ordinary people."
"For fun, he would even do things like snatch candy from children."
As soon as Makimura finished speaking, Shimada nodded vigorously as if he felt the same.
Just when Shimada opened his mouth to say something to Makimura, he suddenly felt that the weight of the pile of things in his arms suddenly increased a lot - Makimura had all the cleaning tools and chemicals that he was responsible for carrying.
Stuffed into his arms.
Then, Makimura strode towards the six young men without any hesitation.
"Hey, you 6 bastards, give the candy back to that little girl!"
Makimura's loud shout instantly attracted the attention of the six young men.
The six young men turned around and when they saw Makimura's tall and majestic figure, they swallowed uncontrollably in shock and fear.
However, the confidence and courage brought to them by the 6 to 1 absolute advantage in numbers quickly helped them make up for this fear.
"Huh?" The young man holding Jinpingtang in his hand said first, "None of your business..."
From the beginning, Makimura did not think that he could make these six people return the candy to the little girl with simple words.