A look of ecstasy appeared on Heitaro's face at this time.
After being captured by the wind demon and knocked unconscious by Ogata with a scabbard, the wind demon took Heitaro home and imprisoned him in his woodshed because he had no idea how to deal with this prisoner.
During the three days he was imprisoned in the woodshed, Heitaro thought about how to escape from the woodshed all the time.
Heitaro looked like a silkworm baby, tied tightly to a wooden post.
It could be considered a blessing among misfortunes - Heitaro woke up briefly before being taken to this woodshed and tied to this wooden pillar.
Although after waking up, he was knocked unconscious again by the wind demon, but before he was knocked unconscious by the wind demon, he grabbed a relatively sharp small stone and hid it in his sleeve.
For the past three days, Heitaro had been using the small stone he had secretly hidden to tirelessly cut the thick hemp rope that tied him to the wooden post.
After three days of unremitting efforts, Heitaro finally saw the dawn of victory.
The hemp rope is only a little away from breaking.
After realizing that the hemp rope was about to break, Heitaro felt more energetic and began to work harder with the small stone to cut the hemp rope.
After another half an hour passed, the hemp rope tied to Heitaro's body finally broke.
After successfully cutting off the hemp rope on his body, Heitaro hurriedly tore away the thick hemp rope tied to his body and threw it aside roughly.
"Hiss...it hurts..."
In order to vent his frustration after being trapped for three days, Heitaro threw the hemp rope a little more roughly, so he accidentally pulled injuries on his body and face, which was so painful that Heitaro couldn't help but cry out in pain.
The injuries on his body were caused by the wind demon, and the injuries on his face were caused by Ogata.
At that time, when Ogata knocked him unconscious with a scabbard, several teeth in his mouth were knocked out.
At this moment, half of Heitaro's cheeks were still swollen, and he looked funny.
"Damn...!" Heitaro's eyes flashed with hatred.
He is one of the Jonin in Shiranui.
In the strict hierarchy of Shiranui, as a Jonin, he is not only one of the high-end combat powers in Shiranui, but he also enjoys a transcendent status in Shiranui.
Have you ever experienced such a humiliating defeat?
After he successfully broke free from the hemp rope around his body and regained his freedom, the first thought that came to Heitaro's mind was - revenge.
However, as soon as the idea of revenge popped into Heitaro's mind, Heitaro quickly put it out.
Three days ago, the scene of how the old man effortlessly knocked down him and his three other companions was still deeply engraved in Heitaro's mind.
Just thinking about this scene three days ago, Heitaro couldn't help but shudder.
——Escape for your life first!
After saying this to himself in his mind, Heitaro no longer hesitated, quietly reached to the door of the woodshed, opened the door of the woodshed and looked out.
Outside - no one.
Feng Mo's mansion is a single-family house. There is a low wooden fence outside the two-story wooden house, which just encloses a small yard.
The woodshed and water well of Feng Mo's family were just located in this small courtyard.
In the whole of Kyoto, there are only two places with such single-family houses.
One kind of place is where rich people live.
The other kind of place is a remote place where no one will stay even if you invite people to live there.
Only in such remote places where few people live can there be enough space to build a "detached" private house.
Except for these two types of places, the private houses in other places are all "long house" style houses because of the small land and large number of people.
After confirming that no one was outside, Heitaro slowly opened the door of the woodshed to a crack just big enough for him to pass through, and then deftly slid out of the woodshed along the crack.
Because Fuuma didn't cook for him seriously, he had been half-starved for the past three days, and his injuries had not been well treated. But even in a very bad physical condition, Heitaro's
His steps are still nimble and powerful.
Although there was only one door between them, the air outside the woodshed made Heitaro feel particularly comfortable.
After taking a greedy deep breath, Heitaro started running towards the low wall not far away.
Looking at the low wall that was getting closer and closer to him, a fiery color gradually emerged in Heitaro's eyes.
He vaguely saw that freedom was behind that wall.
However... just when he was about half way away from the wall, a voice that he least wanted to hear suddenly sounded from behind him.
"Hey, Shiranui ninja, where are you going?"
Hearing this voice, Heitaro's body suddenly froze in place.
Cold sweat began to break out from Heitaro's forehead.
He turned his stiff neck and looked back - Feng Mo, holding a bowl and a rag in his hands, was standing behind him.
He is washing dishes.
"Ninja in Shiranui, I'm washing the dishes right now and can't spare my time, so - I'll give you a chance, go back to my woodshed."
While warning Heitaro like this, Fuma never stopped washing his hands.
Heitaro, with cold sweat on his face, stared at Fuma.
His face turned green and white for a while.
It can be seen that he was quite hesitant at this time.
After hesitating for an unknown amount of time, Heitaro gritted his teeth and a ruthless look flashed in his eyes.
Then——
Turn around and run away without any hesitation!
Heitaro sprinted towards the wall at the highest speed he could achieve.
Looking at Heitaro who ignored his advice, Fuma sighed softly:
"Why are you young people always like this... always looking down on the elderly..."
After saying that, Feng Mo handed the rag from his left hand to his right hand, and then shook his left hand!
A slender black shadow shot out from the wide sleeve of his left hand and swept toward Heitaro's left leg like a black whip.
It is an iron chain that is slightly thicker than an adult's index finger.
This slender iron chain hit Heitaro's left leg accurately, and the crisp bone cracking sound was heard.
Heitaro collapsed on the ground and screamed like a slaughtered pig.
Feng Mo shook his left hand again and put the iron chain back into his wide sleeves.
"As we get older, we really can't control our strength very well..." Feng Mo sighed softly.
Squeak.
At this moment, there was the sound of a window opening on the second floor.
It was Ogata who just heard the screams and opened the window.
After hearing the screams, Ouri immediately ran to the window and opened it to check what was going on outside.
After taking a look at Heitaro, who was covering his legs, rolling on the ground and screaming, Oconi roughly guessed what had happened.
Fuma had informed Ogata during dinner just now that Fuma had captured Heitaro.
As for how Fuma broke Heitaro's legs... To be honest, Ogata was used to seeing things in Fuma that should not be possible for an old man.
"Master Fuuma, do you need my help?" Ogata asked.
"No, no, no," Fuma waved his hand, and while walking towards Heitaro, he said to Ogata, "It's just a small matter. You can continue to rest."
When he finished saying this, Feng Mo had just grabbed Heitaro by the collar and dragged Heitaro towards the woodshed like a dead dog.
Seeing that Fuuma did not seem to need his help, Ogata closed the window again and turned back to look at Omachi who was packing up the old linen cloth that he had removed from Ogata's body.
"Then - I will go and help Mr. Feng Mo clean the house first. You can go to bed early."
Having said this, A-Machi paused.
Then, in a tone as if telling a huge secret, he lowered his voice and said to Ogata:
"Ayi, do you know? During the three days I stayed at Lord Feng Mo's house, I discovered that Lord Feng Mo's body is not so weak that he can't even clean it."
"He just became lazy and didn't want to clean, which is why the house was so dirty before."
Ogata smiled: "This is inevitable. After all, as people get older, they tend to develop inertia...hiss...!"
Before Ogata finished speaking, a gasping sound replaced the rest of his words.
While gasping, Ogata suddenly raised his hand to cover the left side of his neck.
"Ayi, what's wrong?" A Ding asked hurriedly.
"It's nothing..." Ogata, who was covering the left side of his neck, said softly, "It's probably just an injury that was accidentally pulled on the left side of his neck."
There was a not-so-deep cut on the left side of Ogata's neck. It was cut by the sickle thrown by Kotaro during the duel with Kotaro who had entered the "Yaksha Realm".
"Really, please be careful. It will be very troublesome if the wound opens."
"I know." Ogata said to Amachi after touching the back of his left neck where the pain was gone.
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At this moment, Feng Mo’s home is the woodshed.
After tying Heitaro to the wooden post again with hemp rope, Feng Mo leaned over and inspected the injury on Heitaro's leg.
"Well... my bones were broken... I'll get some medicine for you later."
"That iron chain..." Heitaro couldn't even utter a complete sentence due to the severe pain, and could only burst out his mouth word by word, "What's going on..."
The same thing happened that night 3 days ago.
He and his three other companions besieged the old man.
And the old man used the iron chain on his left hand to defeat him and his three companions effortlessly.
His three companions were either hit hard on the head or throat. They died suddenly on the spot.
And he didn't die in the hands of the old man because he wanted to stay alive and asked "Why are you looking for Atachi".
"Chain technique." Fuma stood up after checking the injury on Heitaro's leg and said slowly, "A fighting technique that I created that is both offensive and defensive."
Speaking of this, Feng Mo changed into a slightly mocking tone.
"As a ninja in Shiranui, haven't you heard what your elders said - 10 years ago, there was a lunatic who used iron chains and turned your Shiranui base upside down?"
"From another perspective, you are also lucky. You may be the last person in the world who can see this chain technique."
"After all, I no longer have any occasions where I can use this iron chain, and I don't plan to pass this technology on to anyone else."
After leaving this faint taunt, Fuma ignored Heitaro, picked up the half-washed bowl in his hand, and walked out of the woodshed.
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Because he needed to recuperate, and there was no urgent matter to deal with right now, Ogata experienced the feeling of "sleeping until he wakes up naturally" for the first time in a long time.
After a very sweet sleep, Ogata woke up quietly after the sun was high in the sky.
After getting out of the futon spread on the tatami, Ogata opened the window and took a look at the sky outside and the position of the sun.
——Is it past 9 o'clock in the morning...
Based on the position of the sun, Ogata roughly judged the current time.
Just as Ogata was relaxing his bones and muscles with gentle movements that would not hurt the wounds on his body, Omachi's hurried voice suddenly sounded outside the room:
"Ayi! Are you awake?"
"I just woke up, what happened?"
"Hurry up and wash up and get dressed. Guests are coming!"
"Guest? Oh, Kondo, is he here?"
"It's not Kondo? It's Miss Kinoshita and the others!"
"Kinoshita?" Ogata raised an eyebrow.
"Miss Kinoshita didn't come alone, she brought all her subordinates!"
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After changing clothes and washing up as quickly as possible, Ogata hurried to the living room on the first floor.
Entering the living room, Oconi saw Lin and his friends kneeling on one side of the low table in the center of the living room.
Makimura, Asai, and Shimada all knelt down behind Lin in an orderly manner.
However, there was a young man Ogata didn't know sitting behind Makimura and others.
Feng Mo was sitting on the other side of the low table, opposite Lin and the others.
Seeing Ogata and Omachi arriving, Fuuma called them to sit down next to him.
After inviting the two of them to sit down, Feng Mo stood up and left to prepare tea and snacks for everyone.
After Ogata sat down on the tatami, Lin, who happened to be sitting directly opposite Ogata, raised the corners of her mouth slightly and said:
"It seems we are very lucky to have found you so quickly."
Ogata raised his eyebrows:
"Are you looking for me?"
"That's right." Lin nodded, "I don't know where you are hiding in Kyoto now, so I can only search the places where you may be one by one."
"Because I once cleaned Master Feng Mo's house with you, I thought you might hide in Master Feng Mo's place, so the first place we went was Master Feng Mo's home."
"I came here to see you this time mainly to express my gratitude to you."
After saying that, Lin lowered her head slightly, then bowed her head to Ogata and thanked:
"I have heard Makimura and Shimada explain in detail what happened four nights ago."
"Thank you for helping my companions."
"Listen to Makimura and the others - if it weren't for your help, they would have been in danger that night four days ago."
"Ah, there's no need to say thank you." Ogata waved his hand, "Four nights ago, I also received a lot of help from Makimura and the others. And Makimura and the others were a bit exaggerated. How could there be anything without me?
With help, they are so dangerous that they exaggerate..."
Lin slowly straightened her drooped head.
"You helped my companion. No matter how you say it, this favor must be returned."
"To show my gratitude, I brought this man here who you will definitely be interested in as well."
After saying that, Lin made a "please" gesture toward the young man kneeling behind them.
"Um... Excuse me - who is he?" Ogata asked.
"He is Xuanren. That is, Xuanzheng's disciple, Xuanzhi's junior brother."
Hearing Lin's words, Ogata's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he quickly focused his attention on the young man, Xuanren.
Looking at Xuanren, a complicated look gradually emerged.
He came to Kyoto this time to find the pair of masters and disciples named Xuanzheng and Xuanzhi who might be the culprit of the "Ogre Rebellion" on Butterfly Island and who might be able to cure the immortal poison in his body.
It is for this simple purpose that I came to Kyoto.
Then I got involved in a lot of trouble...
Regarding the cooperation agreement between Lin and Kamiyama, Ogata also heard about it from Makimura that night four days ago.
So after meeting Xuanren, Oubang knew that Xuanren should be Kamiyama, and in order to fulfill his promise to Lin and his party, he was released and handed over to Lin and others.
"Ogata Ittosai." Lin said softly, "I know that you came to Kyoto this time to find the pair of masters and disciples who might be able to cure the immortal poison in your body."
"So you must really need Xuanren who might know something."
"So I plan to share with you all the information Xuanren knows - this is regarded as a thank you gift from me for helping my companions."
After saying that, Lin turned her head and looked at Xuanren.
"Okay, Your Excellency Xuanren, I hope you can answer me well for every question I ask next."
"Yes..." Xuanren seemed a little reserved and nervous. While nodding, he swallowed hard.
"First question: Do you have a master and apprentice named Xuan Zheng and a senior brother named Xuan Zhen?"
"Yes." Xuanren replied without hesitation.
"Second question: Where are your master and senior brother now?"
"In Ezo land." Xuanren replied without thinking again.
"Ezochi?!"*5
Rin, Makimura, Asai, Shimada, and Atachi shouted in unison.
Although Ogata did not shout, the slightly shrunken pupils also meant that his heart was not at peace at this time.