Chapter 356 Female Sword Master Melon Show [7200 Words]
——Yoshihara Doshin?
After hearing this unfamiliar term from the customer at the next table, Ogata turned his head and looked towards the door of the sushi restaurant.
The person who just opened the door curtain and entered the sushi restaurant was an extremely petite girl.
According to Ogata's visual inspection, when converted into modern earth units, this woman's height is only about 1.43 meters - slightly shorter than Lin.
She has a pretty face and a heroic spirit.
Very young, probably less than 20 years old.
She is obviously a girl, but she is wearing men's clothes.
Kimonos, hakama, haori, footbags, and straw sandals were all neatly dressed.
For some reason, the dark blue haori on this girl's upper body is worn backwards.
It is worth mentioning that this girl has a wooden knife stuck in her waist.
The wooden sword on her waist is shorter than ordinary wooden swords - this length is suitable for a person of her height.
As soon as this girl, dressed in men's clothing and with a wooden knife stuck in her waist, entered the sushi restaurant, she immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the sushi restaurant.
The girl turned a blind eye to the curious glances cast around her.
Due to her short stature, the girl stood up on her tiptoes with difficulty, stretched her neck, and moved her eyes around the sushi shop, seemingly looking for something.
Finally - the girl's eyes were fixed on the four people sitting not far from Ogata with extremely loud and noisy voices.
After her eyes were fixed on the four people, the girl flattened her tiptoed feet and walked slowly towards the four people holding the wooden knife on her waist.
The four people looked at the girl walking towards them with confusion on their faces.
"Finally found you."
After arriving in front of the four people, the girl spoke in a cold tone without any emotion.
"I am Hide Kusen from the Yoshiwara Shirobei Club."
The girl took the initiative to report out of the house.
After hearing the word "Yoshihara" from this girl's mouth, the expressions on the faces of the four people changed one after another.
After announcing her home address, the girl, Gua Shengxiu, then said in a calm tone:
"The four of you went to Yoshiwara's Plum Garden House to have fun the night before yesterday."
"After having fun, he claimed that he wanted to go home and get money."
"Meiyuanwu sent someone to follow the four of you home to get the money."
"And the four of you were so bold that on the way home, you knocked out the people sent by Meiyuanwu to follow you to get the money, and then escaped."
"You four are really easy for me to find."
"Pay back the money."
"The expenses the four of you spent at Meiyuanwu the night before yesterday, plus the medical expenses of the man who injured Meiyuanwu, totaled 15 taels."
"If you pay obediently, I will let you go."
Gua Sheng's words did not seem to shock these four people.
After Gua Sheng finished speaking, the four people either sneered or showed disdain.
"We have no money! Go away, go away!" One of the four people waved his hand towards Guasheng, as if he was driving away some pest.
"...You four, please show some shame to me."
Guasheng's face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Do you know what your behavior of not paying back debts means?"
"The money you owe will be credited to the accounts of the girls named by you."
"That is to say, the 15 taels you owe will be credited to the accounts of the four girls named by you that night."
"In order to repay the money, their working hours in Yoshiwara will have to be extended again."
"Are you really embarrassed to do such a despicable act?"
"If you don't have the money to pay back, you can only ask me to come to our Shirobei Club in Yoshiwara."
"We have enough work so that you can slowly repay your debts..."
Before Gua Sheng finished speaking, the young man closest to Gua Sheng among the four people shouted loudly:
"It's so noisy! We have no money! We won't go to any Shirobei Club with you!"
"What about those wandering girls is none of our business!"
"Wouldn't it be a good thing to extend the working hours of those wandering girls in Yoshiwara?"
"Anyway, there's nothing else you can do except serve men, right?"
"Wouldn't it be great to continue working in Yoshiwara? You can still make a living relying on your only skill!"
"Get out of here!"
"Just looking at the way you dress makes me angry!"
"She's just a woman. She's wearing men's clothes! There's a wooden sword on her waist, what? Are you trying to imitate a samurai?"
As soon as the young man finished speaking, he immediately attracted the echoes of his other three companions.
After hearing what they said, Guasheng's face turned even darker, as black as a piece of coal.
Cold light also began to burst out from his eyes.
The person whose face also turned ugly instantly was Ogata.
Ogata's face darkened when he heard what the young man had just said, "Anyway, yandere girls have nothing else to do but serve men."
"...What a bunch of powerless and shameless people." Ogata said softly in a voice that only he could hear clearly.
"...In that case." Gua Sheng put his right hand on the wooden knife on his left waist, "Then I can only use some strong methods to 'invite' you to come with me."
"Ha?" The young man who just mocked Gua Sheng and Yoshihara Yume sneered, "What? Do you want to fight four of us at the same time? Did you see the knives on our waists? Do you think you are four?
The opponent of a famous samurai...ah!"
call--!
Before the young man finished speaking, the wooden knife made a sound in the wind!
With lightning speed, Guasheng reached for the wooden sword on his left waist, pulled the wooden sword out of Hakama's belt, and made an upward thrust from bottom to top.
The tip of the wooden knife accurately hit the young man's nose, making a crisp bone cracking sound, and broke the young man's nose with one knife.
Looking at Gua Sheng's smooth, sharp and effortless draw of the sword, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.
"Follow me outside." Gua Sheng said while pouting toward the outside of the sushi restaurant, "Don't break the things in this store."
After saying that, Gua Sheng took the lead and walked out of the sushi restaurant with her wooden knife.
Gua Sheng's act of breaking the noses of their companions with a knife had successfully angered the four people.
Going outside the spacious sushi restaurant was exactly what the four people wanted.
After Gua Sheng walked out of the sushi restaurant, the four people immediately picked up their knives and rushed out of the sushi restaurant following Gua Sheng.
No matter which country you are in, no matter what era you are in, there will always be people who watch the excitement.
After Guasheng and the four people left the sushi restaurant, many customers who were eating sushi dropped their sushi and chopsticks and ran outside the sushi restaurant to watch the excitement.
Among these people watching the fun, Ogata and Atachi were also included.
When the two of them walked outside the sushi restaurant, they saw that the pedestrians on the street outside the sushi restaurant had actively stepped aside to create a spacious enough space.
Gua Sheng and the four scumbags who didn't pay their debts were standing in the center of this spacious space.
The four people had already put out their sabers and stood in four different directions, surrounding Guasheng.
"Hey." Amachi tugged on Ogata's sleeve, "Do you want to help?"
"Not urgent."
Ogata leaned over and picked up a stone about the size of a baby's fist from his feet, and continued.
"You should also have seen the knife that the girl broke her nose with just now, right? Maybe the girl doesn't need our help."
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the young man standing behind Guasheng let out a breath of air and slashed at Guasheng with his sword.
These four people still maintained some sense, knowing that if they used real swords to kill people on the streets of Edo, there would be no good results. Therefore, the four of them turned the knives in their hands and used the back of the sword to deal with Gua Sheng.
Guasheng's back looked like it had eyes, and she didn't turn around to look at the enemy attacking her behind her.
He just took a step to the side without looking back, accurately dodging the enemy's knife behind him.
Then, using the left foot as the axis, the foot drives the waist, and the belt moves the hand, turning like a top. While turning the body behind himself, he stabs the enemy behind him in the abdomen with the knife.
"Cough cough cough!"
After receiving a solid stab from the melon in his abdomen, the man coughed hard and slowly fell to the ground.
After neatly disposing of one of the four people, Guasheng's feet slid and the ground made a sound as he attacked the next enemy with nimble steps.
Atachi, who was standing not far away and watching this one-on-four battle, let out a small exclamation:
"Bravo……"
"This girl is very smart." Ogata said in a calm tone, "She uses swordsmanship that is very suitable for women."
"Compared with men, the biggest disadvantage of women is physical fitness and lack of strength."
"And the swordsmanship used by this girl can make up for this shortcoming to a certain extent."
"The moves she uses are basically stabbing."
"The skill of stabbing, even if it doesn't have enough power, can still cause great damage to people."
"And compared with chopping, stabbing techniques can use the strength of the waist and feet more easily."
"After using the strength of the waist and feet, the power of the stabbing technique used by even a woman is extremely impressive."
After listening to Ogata's words, Amachi turned his attention back to the 1v4 battlefield ahead.
I found that it was indeed as Ogata said just now, that the girl named Gua Sheng did prefer to use stabbing skills.
In the blink of an eye, Guasheng had knocked down 3 of the 4 people. Without exception, these 3 people were stabbed to the ground by Guasheng and lay on the ground groaning and rolling in pain.
Guasheng clenched the wooden knife in his hand, assumed a standard mid-section stance, and slowly approached the last enemy.
His three companions were all knocked down one by one - the remaining person should never have imagined that such a scene would happen.
He tightened and loosened the knife in his hand, loosened and tightened it again, looking very anxious.
"Give you one last chance." Gua Sheng said at this time, "Take the knife back to me, and then follow me obediently to our Shirobei Club in Yoshiwara."
"Who... is going..." This sentence does not come from the last person who is still intact, but from behind Gua Sheng.
Guasheng raised his beautiful eyebrows in surprise, then turned around and looked behind him.
The person who said that just now was the person who was knocked down by Gua Sheng with a sword just now.
This guy was holding his stomach where he had just been stabbed with one hand and supporting the ground with the other, struggling to stand up from the ground.
Looking at the man who stood up again, Guasheng frowned slightly: "You are really resistant to beating."
"Because your sword doesn't hurt or itch at all." Although this guy said this, his pale face made what he just said unconvincing at all.
After standing up from the ground despite the severe pain in his abdomen, the guy shouted and raised his knife to chop Guasheng again.
He was neither surprised nor afraid of the guy who got up and slashed at him with the knife again.
He turned around and pointed the tip of the knife at the guy who was about to rush to him.
After watching the man's knife path and dodging the man's knife, Gua Sheng aimed his sword at the man's belly again and stabbed him.
Another blow was struck in the abdomen, and painful groans came from the man's mouth again.
But he did not fall to the ground.
Instead, he gritted his teeth, endured the severe pain, and managed to stand.
This guy, with a bit of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes, hugged Gua Sheng's wooden knife before Gua Sheng could take the knife back.
"Quick!" The next moment he hugged Guasheng's wooden sword, the guy shouted loudly to his only companion who was still standing, "Kill this guy!"
This man's words startled his companion.
Realizing that this was an excellent opportunity to counterattack, his companion quickly ran towards Guasheng.
Unexpectedly, the guy in front of him actually used this move, and a look of surprise flashed across Gua Sheng's face.
But this look of shock only lasted for a moment on Gua Sheng's face.
After snorting coldly, he slipped his feet, let go of his left hand that was originally holding the sword hilt, pinched the shoulder of the guy in front of him, and then used his skillful jujitsu skills to throw the guy to the ground heavily.
After taking two straight stabs from the melon in his stomach, this person could only manage to stay awake.
After being thrown to the ground by Gua Sheng using jujitsu, the guy couldn't hold on anymore. Although he didn't faint, he didn't have the strength to hold Gua Sheng's knife anymore.
Although he finally regained the freedom of the wooden sword in his hand, it was already a little late.
The one among the four who is still intact has rushed to Guasheng and raised the knife in his hand high.
But Gua Sheng, who had just taken back the wooden sword, failed to adjust his posture and stance.
Shocked exclamations could be heard from the surrounding onlookers.
Even Gua Sheng himself had a dignified light shining in his eyes.
But at this moment——
Whoosh!
A stone suddenly flew out from somewhere in the crowd.
The stone suddenly flew out of the crowd and accurately hit the chest of the last enemy in front of Gua Sheng.
Although the stone didn't knock this guy down, it still caused him pain and he couldn't help but stutter.
And when he suddenly stopped, the chance of victory that had finally appeared in his hands instantly dissipated.
Gua Sheng saw this opportunity, quickly adjusted her posture, and once again used her best direct thrust to stab down the last enemy in front of her.
After knocking down all four of them, Gua Sheng showed an expression of relief and let out a sigh of relief.
"Miss Guasheng! Miss Guasheng!"
As soon as Guasheng knocked down these four people, the crowd of onlookers gathered outside the battlefield immediately started shouting.
Five strong men of different ages squeezed their way out of the crowd of onlookers and ran to Gua Sheng's side.
The upper bodies of these five people are all wearing the same dark blue feather fabric as Guasheng.
Moreover, the dark blue feather fabrics worn by these five people are also worn backwards like the feather fabrics worn by Gua Sheng.
"Keiemon, have you made a mistake?" Gua Sheng said to the leader of the five people in an angry tone, "Why do you always arrive on time after I knock down these bastards?
?Did you do it on purpose?"
"Miss Gua Sheng, you are so fast on your feet." The person Gua Sheng calls Qingwei is a middle-aged man who is no longer young. "It can only be said to be a coincidence. I finally catch up with you every time."
By the time, you have already defeated the enemy."
"Forget it, let's bring these four bastards back to the club." Gua Sheng licked his lips at the four people lying on the ground around him, "We have to let these four bastards work hard and repay their debt to Meiyuan House."
"Okay!" Keemon shouted "Okay" with his loud voice, and then he called the companion he brought to tie up the four bastards who were knocked down by Gua Sheng.
While Keemon and others were tying up the four bastards, Guaou inserted the wooden knife in his hand back into his waist and walked towards a corner of the crowd of onlookers.
To be more precise, he walked towards Ogata and Atachi who were standing in a corner of the crowd of onlookers.
"Thank you for your help just now."
After arriving in front of Ogata, Guasheng bowed deeply to Ogata in front of him.
"I just saw it clearly - you threw the stone just now. Thank you very much for your support just now."
"It's nothing." Ogata smiled and shrugged, "It's just a trivial matter."
Just like Gua Sheng said just now - the stone that flew out of the crowd just now was thrown by Ogata.
Before Guasheng and the four bastards started fighting, Oufang secretly pinched a stone in his hand, ready to support Guasheng at any time.
After seeing that Gua Sheng was in a little trouble, Xuefang immediately threw the stone he had been hiding in his hand and hit the man in the chest, giving Gua Sheng time to adjust his posture.
Although Ogata felt that even without his help just now, Guasheng should still be able to successfully handle this one-on-four battle - at most he would only be a little more injured afterwards.
"Miss Gua Sheng!" the middle-aged man named Keiemon shouted at Gua Sheng, "these four bastards are all tied up!"
"Yeah." Guasheng nodded, "Then let's go. Take these four bastards back to Yoshihara."
Before leaving, Guasheng bowed deeply to Ogata once again.
After bowing to Ogata again, Gua Shengcai led the five companions wearing the same style of dark blue haori as hers, and slowly escorted the four bastards who were still moaning in pain.
Get away from Ogata's field of vision.
After the girl named Guasheng left, the onlookers who gathered around to watch the excitement also dispersed.
Ogata also returned to the sushi restaurant with Amachi.
After the two of them sat down again at the table where they were originally sitting, Atachi turned his head and asked Ogata:
"Just now that girl said she was from the Shirobei Club. What is the Shirobei Club?"
"I don't know." Ogata shook his head, "But from what the girl said, the Shirobei Club seems to be related to Yoshiwara."
The knowledge related to Edo - especially the knowledge related to Yoshihara, directly hits Ogata's knowledge blind spot.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the next table remembered the chuckle of "haha".
"Both of you are not natives of Edo, right?"
Ogata and Atachi both turned their heads following the sound.
The speaker was a middle-aged woman sitting at the table next to Ogata and the others.
Ogata remembered this middle-aged woman - after Naguasheng entered the sushi restaurant just now, it was this middle-aged woman sitting next to Ogata who was the first to shout out the words "Yoshiwara Doshin", and then attracted Ogata's attention.
I was led to the entrance of the sushi restaurant.
The clothes on this middle-aged woman are not cheap at first glance, and her behavior and conversation have an air of elegance. It is obvious at a glance that her family must be well-off.
"Yes." Ogata nodded, "It is true that the two of us are not natives of Edo."
"Shirobei Club... you two can understand it as Yoshiwara's training center." The middle-aged woman said to Ogata and Amachi, "Yoshiwara is surrounded by tall wooden walls, just like a city outline.
, there is only one entrance and exit.”
"After entering Yoshiwara through the only entrance and exit, you will see the 'Shirobei Club' on your right."
"As I said just now, you can think of the Shirobei Club as Yoshihara's place of worship. The people in the club are responsible for managing various chores of Yoshihara."
"Maintaining the security of Yoshiwara—is the most important job of the Shirobei Club."
"There are three thousand wandering girls in Yoshiwara, and countless people come in and out of Yoshiwara every day."
"When there is a large flow of people, it is inevitable that some scum will appear."
"Those who steal the money from traveling girls, those who have a lot of fun without paying, those who are violent towards the traveling girls... Such scumbags appear every day in Yoshiwara."
"After these scumbags who disturb the security of Yoshihara appear, the Shirobei Club, which is responsible for maintaining the security of Yoshihara, will take action to bring these scumbags to justice."
"Just now, it was Miss Gua Shenxiu from the Shirobei Club who arrested a scumbag who refused to pay after having fun."
"I seem to have heard you calling the woman named Guaou 'Yoshihara Doshin' before." Ogata asked, "What is Yoshiwara Doshin? Is it the official name of the Shirobei Club?"
"Hehehe." The middle-aged woman covered her mouth and chuckled a few times, "No. 'Yoshiwara Toxin' is not an official title."
"'Yoshiwara Doshin' is just the title we Edo people gave Miss Gua Shenxiu."
"Miss Gua Shengxiu can be regarded as one of our celebrities in Edo."
"She is from the Shirobei Club."
"Although she is born as a girl, she possesses extremely strong swordsmanship and ability to do things."
"Those who dare to disturb the security of Yoshiwara will basically not be able to escape from the hands of Miss Kuazohide unless they escape from Edo."
"In order to catch those who disturbed the security of Yoshiwara and escaped from Yoshiwara, Miss Kuazohide always shuttled through the streets and alleys of Edo, so people in Edo knew about the existence of Miss Kuazohide."
"In this way, Miss Gua Shengxiu became a celebrity in Edo without even realizing it."
"Due to the existence of Miss Gua Shenxiu, the security of Yoshiwara has improved a lot. Therefore, Miss Gua Shenxiu is very popular in Yoshiwara and is very popular among the Yoshiwara travel girls."
"The wandering girls in Yoshiwara gave Miss Gua Shenxiu a nickname: Yoshiwara Satoshi."
"It means 'Yoshiwara's unity'."
"And this title also spread unknowingly, and people other than Yoshihara Yume also began to call Miss Kuao Hide as 'Yoshiwara Toshin'."
"In addition to 'Yoshiwara Doshin', Miss Kua Shenxiu also has a nickname, that is, 'Female Swordsman'."
"This title was given to Miss Gua Shenxiu by people outside Yoshiwara."
"Miss Gua Shengxiu's sharp swordsmanship impressed many people deeply, so everyone nicknamed Miss Gua Shengxiu the 'Female Swordsman'."
"However, compared to 'Female Swordsman', the title 'Yoshiwara Doshin' is more catchy and has a higher popularity."
"Edo is so open..." As soon as the middle-aged woman finished speaking, A-Machi nodded seriously, "Even women can be officials..."
"Hohoho~" the middle-aged woman covered her mouth and smiled, "Miss, you have misunderstood."
"How can a woman be an official in the shogunate?"
"Miss Gua Shengxiu is not an official official of the Shirobei Club."
"He's someone hired by the Shirobei Club."
"So Miss Gua Shengxiu is actually a white woman, not an official working for the shogunate."
"The salary that Miss Gua Shengxiu received was paid by the Shirobei Club itself, not by the shogunate."
"The reason why the wandering girls in Yoshihara gave Miss Kuao Hide the nickname 'Yoshiwara Toshin' was partly because it was convenient to address Miss Kuao Hide who did not hold any official position."
"Although strictly speaking, Miss Gua Shengxiu is not an official of the Shirobei Club, but everyone actually treats her as an official of the Shirobei Club."
After Ogata and Atachi listened quietly to the middle-aged woman's introduction, they both thanked the middle-aged woman for being so patient in telling them about the Shirobei club.
After the introduction by the middle-aged woman, the sushi ordered by Ogata and Atachi was just served.
As Machi stuffed sushi into her mouth, she lowered her voice and sighed to Ogata in a low voice that only she and Ogata could hear:
"That girl named Gua Sheng is so amazing. She is actually called the 'Female Swordsman' by everyone."
"Yes." Ogata nodded slightly, and then imitated the tone of Atachi's tone just now, and whispered, "It's very powerful. But... although Miss Guazo's swordsmanship is indeed very strong, the 'female swordsman'
The title is a bit excessive."
A helpless smile appeared on Ogata's face.
"According to my visual inspection, Miss Guasheng's swordsmanship level should be only between that of Shimada Shimada, and her strength is not enough to be crowned as a 'swordsman'."
"People in this country like to give people random nicknames."
Speaking of this, Ogata couldn't help but complain.
"Since ancient times, people in this country like to give people random nicknames."
"What about Tiger Kato, Thunder God, Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, Dragon of Echigo..."
"Even I have been given a lot of random nicknames."
"I don't know if I will have any new nicknames in the future..."