Before Ogata and others received the order to support Arbutus House——
Takigawa walked along a certain avenue in Edo with a gloomy face.
Ever since he learned the results of the literary test last night, Takikawa's face has not felt better.
How confident Takigawa was in himself before the results of the literary test were released, how resentful Takigawa was after the results were released.
Both Takigawa himself and Takigawa's friends and mentors were full of praise after reading the article written by Takigawa on his understanding of "knowing that you can't do it but doing it", and they all thought that Takigawa would definitely win it.
The first place in the literary test can still be among the top ten no matter how bad it is.
But the fact surprised everyone, including Takigawa.
Not only did he fail to win the first place in the literary test, his name was not among the top 10. He passed the literary test regardless, but his name was on the list of those who passed the literary test.
Last night, when he learned that he was not even in the top 10, Takigawa's first reaction was: How is that possible?
In order to verify the facts, Takigawa personally went to the place where the results of the literary test were released.
After seeing the list written on the list with his own eyes, Takigawa had to accept this cruel fact.
When he saw with his own eyes that his name was not even among the top ten names, Takigawa really felt like he had fallen from a hundred-foot-tall building to the ground.
It’s okay if it’s not even in the top 10.
In addition to not being among the top 10, there is another thing that makes Takigawa even more unacceptable.
That is, the first place in the literary test was actually the ronin Goro Majima, whom he had always looked down upon.
When he thought that his majestic Hatamoto, who was studying under a famous teacher, would lose to a ronin, and that it was the same Hatamoto who had caused him to lose face in public before, Takigawa felt a ball of anger accumulating in his chest, and he could only beat him hard.
Only by touching your own chest can you feel a little more comfortable.
Last night, Takigawa, who was full of confidence, and his friends originally held a banquet before the results of the literary test were released, as a celebration banquet.
After learning that he was not even in the top 10, Takigawa was not in the mood to go to the banquet again.
Takigawa's friends also knew that the current atmosphere was really not suitable for holding a banquet, so the banquet last night ended hastily after the results of the literary test were released.
"Takichuan." Takichuan was walking forward with a gloomy face when he suddenly felt a big hand pat his shoulder, "Tonight we won't get drunk and we won't go home. Let's make trouble together until dawn!"
"Yes." Takigawa nodded gently, and the gloomy look on his face dissipated a little, "Tonight's banquet is your treat, Uesaka. Since it is your treat, I will not be polite. I will treat you well tonight.
Take a deep drink."
"Hahahaha, yes, I just need this kind of momentum."
The person who tapped Takigawa on the shoulder was Uesaka, one of Takigawa's close friends.
This morning, Uesaka suddenly visited Takigawa's home and invited Takigawa to join him for a banquet and drink all night after a long absence.
Takigawa and Uesaka are also old friends. After so many years of friendship, Takigawa can tell at a glance what his good friend's intention is to suddenly invite him to drink all night long - in order to cheer up Takigawa who is in a bad mood.
Some.
After the results of the literary test were released last night, Uesaka was the first to come forward to comfort Takigawa.
The place where Uesaka held the banquet was unusual—Yoshiwara’s Arbutus House.
Yoshiwara's Bayberry House is a famous teahouse throughout Edo, and many dignitaries would go to the Bayberry House to hold banquets.
Takikawa was deeply moved by Uesaka's behavior of holding a banquet at a famous teahouse like Arbutus House in order to lighten his mood.
Anyway, he happened to have time tonight, and he didn't want to ruin Uesaka's kindness, so he readily agreed to Uesaka's invitation.
In order to make tonight's banquet more lively, Uesaka also invited several friends who have a particularly good relationship with Takigawa.
After all, this banquet was set up to help Takigawa cheer up, so the people invited were naturally Takigawa's good friends.
Including Takigawa himself, there were a total of 8 people attending the banquet tonight.
"Takigawa, let's go a little faster." Uesaka, who was walking side by side with Takigawa, said, "Everyone else should have arrived at Yangmei House."
The two quickened their pace slightly, and after a while they climbed up the Nippon Embankment, stepped onto the fifty-seven-door road leading to Yoshiwara, and saw Yoshiwara's magnificent gate.
Looking at Yoshiwara's gate, Takigawa frowned involuntarily.
He will never forget that Majima Goro works in Yoshiwara.
As soon as I see the gate of Yoshiwara, I think of Goro Majima.
When I think of Majima Goro, I will recall that I lost to him in the literary test.
The feeling of suffocation that has been lingering in his heart until now, tormenting Takigawa, will become more intense.
Uesaka actually doesn't know much about the grudge between Takigawa and Majima Goro.
Because Takigawa thought it was very embarrassing that he had been humiliated by Majima Goro in the dormitory that specialized in teaching reading and writing to wandering girls, so he never told anyone in detail about his relationship with Majima Goro.
This grudge.
Including Uesaka, his close friend, Takigawa did not tell him in detail what kind of grudges he had with the top student in the literary test.
Seeing that Takigawa's face suddenly turned ugly, Uesaka said doubtfully:
"Takigawa, what's wrong?"
"...Nothing. Let's go and get into Yoshiwara quickly."
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Yangmei House is not a tourist house, but a tea house.
At the same time, it is not an ordinary tea house.
It is a very special kind of tea house - Yinshou Tea House.
The yūnaya in Edo are roughly divided into three levels: large, medium and small.
There is actually another level below Xiaojianshi, which is "Qijianshi".
For example: the wandering girls' houses located on the banks of the Rashomon River are actually "cut into the world".
It's just that many people don't count Kirimiise as one of the Yumeya. When mentioning Yumeya, they only mention the three levels of "big, medium and small", and do not include Kirimiise.
The reason for this is mainly because many people think that "Kirikense" cannot be regarded as a wandering girl's house.
Even if it is the smallest xiaomisei, there will more or less some support staff to help take care of the daily life of the wandering girls.
However, this is not the case in the world.
Most of the businesses are run by individual wanderers.
The wandering girls on the banks of the Rashomon River are a very typical example.
There is no one to help them solicit customers, so they can only stand on the street soliciting customers by themselves.
There is no one to help them prepare their meals, so they have to find ways to provide three meals a day on their own.
The so-called Kirimi Seyōna House run by the wandering girls on the banks of the Rashomon River is just a house where she lives alone, and there is no other wandering girl except her.
To give an example in modern terms, it is: large, medium and small companies are all companies with a full range of employees in various positions, while Qie Jianshi is just a self-employed person without any employees.
Therefore, when many people talk about visiting women's houses, they exclude the real world.
Omise is the highest-level tourist house, and its total number has only been in single digits in Yoshiwara for a long time.
Precisely because Omise is the most high-end tourist house in Yoshiwara, tourists are not able to meet and have fun with Omise's wandering girls casually.
You have to go through a rather complicated process before you can meet a wandering girl.
If you plan to find Omise's wandering girl, you must first go to Hingshou Tea House.
After having fun in the Hingshou Tea House, the people at the Hingshou Tea House will help introduce you to the world-class yuyouya.
Therefore, to put it simply, Hinshou Chaya is an intermediary shop for traveling girls and customers.
Of course - helping to introduce Omise's wandering girls is just one of the tasks of introducing teahouses.
In order to make money, it is naturally impossible for Yinshou Chaya to only accept customers who want to hang out with the wandering girls of Omise.
Hingshou Teahouse usually receives guests who are not looking for pleasure from wandering girls.
Therefore, on weekdays, there are also many people who are not looking for prostitutes but just want to have a banquet with their friends. They also come to visit teahouses like Yangmeiwu.
The closer you are to Nakano-machi, the avenue that divides Yoshihara flatly into two halves, the more upscale the teahouses and Yumeya are.
Any teahouse that can be called a famous teahouse will not be an ordinary small teahouse.
The Bayberry House is located on the roadside of Nakano-machi, quite close to the Shirobei Club.
While following closely behind Guasheng and others, heading to the Yangmei House, Ogata asked Guasheng:
"It turns out that these shops in Yoshiwara can still borrow people from the club?"
Guasheng nodded:
"Our Shirobei Club, the residents of Yoshiwara, and the various shops have a relationship of honor and disgrace."
"So when some stores are short of manpower, as long as our club's manpower is not tight, we will transfer some people to support them."
"Of course - we won't help you with everything."
"We won't help with things like assisting tourist girls to solicit customers."
"The only thing we can do to help them is to help them maintain law and order."
As soon as Gua Sheng finished speaking, Qingweimon shrugged and interjected:
"In fact, I have always felt that as soon as certain stores ask for help, we will provide support. It is good to do it occasionally."
"If you do it too often, you might spoil some people."
"Maybe some people will become too dependent on us and no longer spend money to recruit more staff. Once there is a shortage of staff, they will borrow people from us."
"You are worrying too much." Gua Sheng said in an angry tone, "No one would be so shameless and dare to frequently borrow people from our club."
"In my mind, the last time a store asked our club for help was half a month ago."
Because they were quite close to the Shirobei Club, Ogata and the others did not take much time to arrive at the gate of the Bayberry House.
The area of Yangmeiya is definitely worthy of the evaluation just mentioned by Guasheng and others as "one of the largest teahouses in Yoshiwara".
Just standing in front of the door, Ogata felt bursts of noise and hot air rushing towards him along the open door.
As soon as Ogata and his party arrived at the gate of Yangmei House, a middle-aged man who had been standing in front of the door just now, probably over 40 years old, hurried towards them.
This middle-aged man is probably one of the staff of Arbutus House, responsible for waiting in front of the store and welcoming the support staff of Shirobei Club.
The middle-aged man first said a bunch of official words and clichés such as "Welcome to you". Then he led the way and led Ogata and others into the Yangmei House.
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"What an incredible tea house." Looking at the spacious corridor at his feet, Ogata couldn't help but secretly smacked his lips.
The corridor under Ogata's feet is so spacious that even if two people walk side by side, they won't feel crowded.
On the left and right sides of this corridor are rooms, all of which are full.
There were constant sounds of laughter, eating, and drinking coming from the rooms on both sides.
This was Ogata's first time entering such a high-end tea house, so he couldn't help but look at everything around him with curious eyes.
Teahouses in the Edo period were divided into two types.
One is a "small restaurant type" that provides simple tea and refreshments.
The other type is the "big hotel type". The tea and refreshments provided by this type of tea house are often much higher than those of the "small hotel type" tea house. There are also a large number of independent partitions for guests to open.
Banquet.
Yangmeiwu is obviously the latter.
All "Yinshou Teahouses" are all "big hotel type" teahouses.
"It seems that there are really many people coming to this bayberry house tonight." Gua Sheng, standing next to Ogata, sighed softly, "No wonder they asked for help from our Shirobei Club."
As soon as Ogata and others entered the bayberry house, they were separated and scattered to various parts of the bayberry house, each responsible for an area in the bayberry house.
At this time, they had taken off the haori worn by the Shirobei Club and replaced it with the ordinary haori provided by the staff at Arbutus House.
And this is also an unspoken rule when the club’s officers go to support other Yoshiwara stores:
In order to avoid arousing unreasonable suspicion and fear among the guests in the store, the official servants of the club will take off their special feather fabrics that represent their status.
After all, the officers at the Shirobei Club are considered the Yoshiwara police.
Seeing a group of people in police uniforms walking around in the store, customers will definitely wonder if something has happened.
The areas Ogata and Kuao were responsible for were relatively close to each other, so the two naturally stood side by side, chatting and passing the peaceful and boring time since they couldn't see the troublemakers.
"Okay, Majima-kun, let's continue the topic that we were forced to interrupt just now."
Gua Sheng, who was a full 25 centimeters shorter than Ogata, raised his head and looked at Ogata beside him curiously.
"Are you a descendant of some prominent samurai family?"
"Of course not." Ogata said in an annoyed tone without thinking, "I am not a descendant of any prominent samurai family, I am just a low-level samurai from Izumo."
"I didn't study under any particularly powerful scholar."
"I was surprised to get the first place in the literary test. Maybe it was because I was in particularly good condition on the day I started the literary test, so I got the first place."
After seeing Ogata denying that he was a descendant of a prominent samurai family, a happy smile appeared on Gua Sheng's face.
"So Mashima-kun, you don't have a distinguished family background... Then Mashima-kun, you are really awesome." Gua Sheng said sincerely, "You don't have a distinguished family background, but you can still have such superb swordsmanship and knowledge."
"Excellent knowledge or something... I don't have such a thing." Ogata waved his hand and looked helplessly at Gua Sheng beside him, "I just said that I can win the first place in the literary test.
, it should just be that I have better luck... huh?"
I don’t know if it was Ogata’s misunderstanding, but when he was looking at Gua Sheng, he always felt that Gua Sheng seemed very happy after learning that his background was not prominent...
"Miss Guasheng." Ogata, who couldn't restrain his curiosity, asked aloud, "Why are you smiling all over your face?"
"Huh?" Guasheng raised his hand and touched his face, "Am I smiling?"
"Yeah. He looks very happy."
"I am indeed very happy now." Gua Sheng put down the hand that was touching his face.
"Did you remember anything happy?"
"No, I just feel very happy after learning that your background is very ordinary, Majima-kun."
"Huh?" Ogata raised an eyebrow when he heard Gua Sheng's senseless and strange words, "What do you mean? Why do you feel so happy after learning that my background is not prominent?"
"For some reasons, I don't like samurai who have a distinguished family background." Gua Sheng said in a tone that was half serious and half joking, "So if I learn that you have a distinguished family background, Majima-kun, I don't know what to do."
What kind of face do I use to face you?"
"You don't have a good impression of samurai with distinguished family backgrounds?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "Why is that?"
"Miss Guasheng? Why are you here?"
A female voice with a hint of surprise suddenly sounded from beside the two of them, interjecting into the conversation between Ogata and Gua Sheng.
Ogata followed the sound and looked at the person who interrupted his chat with Gua Sheng.
The speaker was a woman with many wrinkles on her face.
There were many wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, mouth, cheeks, etc., making her face look old.
Although there were many wrinkles on her face, Ogata could still tell that this woman's facial features were very regular, and she must have been a beauty when she was young.
"Miss Hua Feng!" Looking at the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him, Gua Sheng's face showed surprise and joy.
This woman, whom Gua Sheng called "Hua Feng", walked quickly towards Gua Sheng.
After Hua Feng came to Ogata and Guasheng, Hua Feng looked at Ogata with curious eyes for a while.
"Miss Guasheng, who is this?"
As soon as Hua Feng finished speaking, Gua Sheng immediately introduced to Hua Feng:
"Miss Huafeng, this is Majima Goro-kun who just came to work at our Shirobei Club some time ago. You should have heard of this name, right?"
After introducing Ogata to Hua Feng, Gua Sheng turned his head and began to introduce Hua Feng to Ogata.
"Mashima-kun, this is Miss Hua Feng. She is my friend."
"Ah!" Hua Feng raised his little hand and covered his red lips that were slightly opened in surprise, "Of course I have heard of it. I can always hear this name everywhere in Yoshihara recently."
After saying that, Hua Feng bowed towards Ogata deeply enough for Ogata to clearly see the flesh of the back of her neck.
"Mashima-sama, I have admired your name for a long time."
Ogata had always felt helpless that he had unknowingly become a celebrity in Yoshiwara.
Facing the respectful attitude of Hua Feng in front of him, Ogata smiled bitterly and said hello in return.
After introducing Ogata to Hua Feng, Gua Sheng started chatting with Hua Feng enthusiastically.
"Miss Hua Feng, why are you here?"
"I'm here to do something. Where are you, Miss Guasheng? Aren't you going to patrol Yoshiwara?"
"Something happened tonight,"
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Ogata didn't know Hua Feng, so he couldn't get involved in the conversation between Gua Sheng and Hua Feng.
What Guasheng and Hua Feng talked about were trivial daily matters.
For example - what have you done recently, how are you doing recently, how is so and so so and so...
While the conversation was getting heated, Gua Sheng seemed to have remembered something and asked Hua Feng:
"By the way, Miss Hua Feng, have you heard how Miss Suzuyin is doing lately? I haven't heard from Miss Suzuyin for a long time."
As soon as Gua Sheng finished speaking, the smile on Hua Feng's face froze.
After a while, the frozen smile on Hua Feng's face slowly turned into a helpless smile.
"...I haven't heard much about Miss Suzune recently."
"But I heard a while ago that Ms. Suzune is not doing well..."
"After successfully redeeming herself, Suzune-san opened a private school in Kamakura specializing in teaching people how to read and write."
"But I don't know who leaked the news that Miss Suzune was once a wandering girl, which caused Miss Suzune to be ostracized by the people around her..."
This time it was Gua Sheng's turn to freeze the smile on his face.
An indescribable weird atmosphere slowly emerged between Guasheng and Hua Feng.
Looking at the two people whose expressions became quite strange, Ogata slowly frowned.
After Guasheng and Hua Feng chatted about some random things, Hua Feng waved to Guasheng and Ogata on the grounds that "there are still things to do" and then left.
Looking at Hua Feng's retreating back, Ogata asked Guasheng in a low voice:
"Miss Guasheng, was that person just now a wandering girl? The name Hua Feng...sounds a bit like the flower name of a wandering girl."
The name Hua Feng, both in glyph and pronunciation, is very similar to the flower name of a wandering girl.
But Hua Feng's face with many wrinkles didn't look like the face of a wandering girl, so Ogata couldn't help but ask Gua Sheng like this.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Gua Sheng nodded gently.
"Yeah. Yes, Hua Feng is indeed the name of a flower."
"But Hua Feng is not a wandering girl."
"But the 'original wandering girl'. She is now the assistant of a certain wandering girl house."
"Because the word 'Hua Feng' has been called for many years, and she is used to it."
"So after she stopped being a wandering girl, Miss Hua Feng didn't change her real name. We continued to call her by her fancy name. So we still called her by her old fancy name."
Ogata has been working in Yoshiwara for a while, so he already has a basic understanding of various aspects of Yoshiwara.
Dispatcher - a person who is responsible for supervising wandering girls. This job is basically held by older wandering girls.
Daily tasks include: waking up the wandering girls early, making meals for the wandering girls, and helping the traveling girls take care of various chores.
Since most of the roles of hand-hands are older wandering girls, hand-hands are occasionally responsible for giving some guidance to new wandering girls.
"Miss Hua Feng is a good friend of mine, although there is a big age difference between me and her. When I first came to Shirobei Club, Miss Hua Feng gave me a lot of help."
"I feel like he is a very gentle person," Ogata said.
When Hua Feng was chatting with Gua Sheng just now, he spoke softly and had a warm smile on his face and eyes, which gave Ogata the feeling that "this person seems to have a very gentle personality"
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"Yes. Miss Hua Feng is very kind and gentle. When she was a wandering girl, she was loved and respected by the people around her."
"After successfully saving enough money and redeeming herself from being a wandering girl and becoming a helper, Hua Feng became even more loved by everyone."
"After all, there are very few people like her who are not only senior but also willing to kindly guide the younger generations."
Ever since Hua Feng left...no, ever since Hua Feng told the current situation of Miss Suzuyin, Guasheng's face had a strong look of disappointment.
Looking at Gua Sheng with a disappointed expression, Ogata pursed his lips.
Even a fool could see that it was the incident involving Miss Suzune that made Guasheng look disappointed.
But Ogata doesn't know this Suzune-san, so he doesn't know much about the relationship between Suzune-san and Guao.
So Ogata wanted to make the disappointed-looking Gua Sheng happy, but he didn't know how to do it.
While Ogata was still thinking about how to wipe away the disappointed look on Gua Sheng's face, Gua Sheng said abruptly:
"...Mashima-kun, are you very confused about who Miss Suzune is?" Gua Sheng raised his head and showed a faint smile.
"Of course I will be confused. After all, I don't know her."
"Miss Suzune is the wandering girl of the wandering girl's house that Miss Hua Feng belongs to."
Guasheng said slowly.
"My relationship with Hua Feng and her has always been very good."
"About six months ago, she finally saved enough money to redeem herself."
"After redeeming herself, she did not choose to stay in Yoshihara like Miss Hua Feng, but chose to leave the place that had trapped her for more than ten years."
"Ms. Suzune is one of my friends after all. After she left Yoshiwara, I kept asking about her current situation, but unfortunately I was never able to find out."
"Until... just now..."
After saying that, Guasheng fell silent.
Ogata also fell silent, not knowing what to say now.
As early as three months ago in Kyoto, Ogami had witnessed the desolation of wandering girls in Shimabara.
After coming to the Shirobei Club and becoming a member of the group responsible for protecting Edo Yoshiwara, Ogata had a deeper understanding of the situation of wandering girls who "have no place to talk about the desolation after the scenery".
There are three major enemies for wandering girls: disease, money, and age.
Due to their work, traveling girls are extremely susceptible to various diseases.
These diseases cannot be cured by the medicine of this era.
If the wandering girls of Yoshihara want to be free, they must save enough money to redeem themselves before they get sick and age, or meet a rich man who is willing to redeem themselves - no matter what
Whether to save enough money to redeem oneself, or to meet a rich man willing to redeem oneself, is as difficult as heaven.
After all, not everyone has the ability to have guests roll call every night.
For a long time, no customers were called, and they could not earn a penny - this is the norm for most wandering girls.
If you fail to redeem yourself before you get sick and old, you will face two endings: being treated like garbage and being driven to fend for yourself in a chaotic place like the banks of the Rashomon River, or your employer is more kind-hearted.
I will leave you in the traveling girl's house and let you do all kinds of chores and tiring work.
Therefore, a wandering girl like Hua Feng who can successfully save enough money to redeem herself and at the same time find a fairly stable job after quitting being a wandering girl is considered to be one of the best in a hundred.
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After Guasheng was silent for a while, he suddenly said in a slightly serious tone:
"Mashima-kun, you just asked me why I have such a dislike for samurai from prominent families, right?"
"Actually, the reason is very simple."
"Because I think these warriors from prominent families are useless."
"They have no worries about food and clothing since childhood, and they can receive the best education."
"Due to their prominent family backgrounds, they were destined to hold various important positions in the shogunate and feudal government since they were born."
"They have the best food, clothing, and education, and occupy all the important positions in the shogunate and the feudal government, but they always have nothing to do with their bodies. Over time, I have become obsessed with these high-ranking samurai who have prominent family backgrounds and are destined to be high-ranking officials since they were born.
We are very disappointed.”
"I'm not going to talk about things that are far away, I'm just talking about things that are close to me."
"Obviously there are a lot of chaos in Yoshihara that urgently need to be corrected, but they just don't try to manage and correct them."
"But I don't blame Shirobei-sama."
The look of helplessness on Guasheng's face became more intense.
"Although Master Shirobei also holds some management rights of Yoshiwara, he does not have the qualifications and authority to carry out drastic reforms in Yoshiwara, a government-run tourist attraction."
"The people who can carry out drastic reforms to Yoshiwara are the senior officials of the shogunate."
"But these senior officials have never looked directly at and managed the chaos in Yoshiwara."
Guasheng's little head drooped lower and lower.
"If the reason why they ignore Yoshihara is for other more important matters, then that's fine."
"But I haven't seen this country become stronger and stronger... There was a Tianming famine three years ago, and so many people starved to death..."
"After coming to Shirobei Club, I have always felt that the yandere girls are very pitiful. I have also become friends with many yandere girls."
"In order to reduce the pain of the homeless women as much as possible, I have always tried my best to do everything I can for the homeless women."
"That's why I work so hard at Shirobei Club."
"At first, I really thought that by doing this, I could alleviate the suffering of wandering girls."
"Later, I realized that what I did was like sharpening a dull knife with my fingernails.
——How is it possible to sharpen a knife with fingernails?”
"My efforts...seem to have no effect at all..."
"This feeling is really annoying... I have been doing something in vain..."
By this time, Guasheng's head had dropped to the point where his chin was almost touching her collarbone.
His eyes were full of confusion.
Ogata had been listening quietly to Gua Sheng's long sigh just now.
After Gua Sheng finished speaking, Ogata remained silent and did not speak immediately.
Ogata and Guaou, who didn't speak a word, just let the atmosphere called "silence" linger around them.
After a while, someone finally broke the atmosphere.
"I'm sorry, I seemed to have said a lot of strange things just now. Mashima-kun, just pretend you didn't hear what I just said."
The person who broke this atmosphere was Gua Sheng.
As Guasheng spoke, he raised his head and showed his usual cheerful smile.
Ogata turned his head and glanced at the melon beside him.
Then——
"There's nothing wrong with using your fingernail to sharpen a dull knife."
Under Gua Sheng's surprised gaze, he spoke eloquently.
"It is better to sharpen a dull knife with your fingernails than to do nothing at all."
Speaking of this, a look of contemplation appeared on Ogata's face.
After thinking for a moment, Ogata whispered again:
"Send some light if you can. Even if the light is like a firefly, it can bring some light to the darkness. There is no need to wait for a torch to illuminate the darkness."
This is a famous quote from a famous person in Ogata's previous life.
For some reason, after hearing Gua Sheng's emotion just now, this familiar saying automatically jumped out of Ogata's mind.
So Ogata slightly modified this famous saying into a mode that was more suitable for Japanese speaking habits, and then said it to Gua Sheng.
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the look of astonishment and surprise appeared on Guasheng's face at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"...She really deserves to be the first in the literary test." After an unknown amount of time, the astonishment and surprise on Guasheng's face turned into a faint smile, "To be able to say such powerful words..."
Listening to Gua Sheng's words, Ogata couldn't help but feel a little guilty...
Because he knew that the sentence he just said was not something he came up with, but was directly borrowed from that famous person in his previous life...
"This sentence is not what I thought, but what I heard from a very powerful writer..."
Ogata hasn't finished speaking the truth yet——
"You bastard!!"
A sudden shout interrupted Ogata's words.
This shout came from quite far away, but because of the loudness, Ogata and Gua Sheng could still hear it clearly even though they were separated by a long distance.
As soon as this shout, which was obviously made by a man, came down, the expressions of both Ogata and Gua Sheng changed.
No one needed to tell the two of them, they took charge of the swords at their waists and rushed to the place where the shout came from.
I don't know if it was Ogata's misunderstanding, but he always felt that the shouting sounded familiar. It seemed that he had heard this voice somewhere before...
After running all the way to the place where the shout came from, Ogata and Gua Sheng saw that many club members who had also come to support the Yangmei House, as well as the guards hired by the Yangmei House themselves, had arrived at the scene.
The shout came from a large room on the third floor of Yangmei House.
After Ogata arrived at the scene, the door of the large room was open.
After entering the room through the open door, Omoto saw a messy scene.
And a very familiar person.
"Takigawa?" Ogata frowned.
"Mashima Goro...?!" Takigawa, who was standing in the corner of the room, also frowned when he saw Ogata.
After meeting Takigawa, Ogata finally understood why he felt that the sound of the shout sounded so familiar.