Chapter 584 Ogata: See this god-level skill! 【6600】
Ezochi, the hiding place of the pirate ant Touchou Goro——
"Any more wine?"
"Bring more wine!"
"I'm used to eating venison from Ezo, and it's quite delicious, better than fish!"
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The valley where Yitong Chou Wulang is hiding is now filled with laughter and laughter.
Everyone was eating, drinking and making noise happily.
A rare distinguished guest came to visit, so Yitong was generous after a long time and brought out all the delicacies, wine and tea in stock, vowing to have fun with the distinguished guest.
Gongbu and Yitong sit side by side.
The two of them sit side by side, and the impact of the picture is really great. One is so ugly that it is difficult to look directly, and the other is so handsome that it is difficult to look away. The visual contrast effect is top-notch.
The difference in their behavior is also worlds apart.
Yitong was holding a big wine bowl and sipping wine in big sips, while Miyabe was sipping the wine in small sips very elegantly.
"Master Yitong, we went through a lot of hardships in order to find you at the beginning." Miyabe said in a joking tone, "We initially went to your stronghold farther west, but instead we attacked
Empty."
"Fortunately, we know the locations of all your strongholds. We followed the locations within your residence zone little by little and finally found you."
"Hey! Don't mention it!" Yitong waved his hand, "A while ago, four of my subordinates were captured."
"Being captured?" Miyabe asked back.
"My four subordinates are responsible for abducting that entrustee...what village is the entrustee from?"
"Tuohe Village." A subordinate next to Yitong reminded.
"That's right, that's right, that woman from Tuohe Village."
"In the end, I was accidentally caught by the barbarian from Tuohe Village."
"Although in a head-to-head confrontation, we will certainly not lose to a bunch of barbarians. But fighting head-on with the barbarians will do us no good at all."
"It's not worth showing off if you win, and you won't gain much benefit. What's more, even if you win, there will definitely be a lot of casualties."
"Fortunately, my four subordinates are all new here and they only know the location of my old stronghold in the west."
"So after learning that four of my subordinates were captured by barbarians, I immediately abandoned my old stronghold in the west and moved here."
"I see." Miyabe nodded, "So, Mr. Yitong, how is your 'harvest' in Ezo this year?"
"This year's harvest is so-so." Yi Tong shook his head with a look of regret on his face, "We caught a total of 18 good women."
"I have sent people to transport this year's 'harvest' back to Iki Island in advance."
"Miyabe-sama, you guys arrived just in time. If it had been a few more days later, you might have really missed the boat."
"I originally planned to leave Ezo in five days and return to Iki Island."
Miyabe raised his eyebrows: "Master Yitong, are you planning to go back so early this year? I remember that you always wait for spring to arrive in Ezo before leaving Ezo?"
"It's not going well in Ezo this year." Yantong lamented, "The barbarians are a bunch of barbarians, and it's getting harder and harder for them to abduct us."
"I've been busy this year, but I've only managed to abduct 18 women."
"Such a low efficiency makes me have no new feelings to stay in Ezo."
"What's more, I heard that the shogunate sent troops to Ezo. There were thousands of troops."
"Although I don't know where the shogunate plans to attack Ezo, but since the shogunate's troops are coming to Ezo, it's better for me to leave quickly to avoid being affected."
Miyabe nodded: "Did the shogunate send troops to Ezo... It is true."
"Before I landed in Ezo, I received news that the shogunate was going to send troops to the famous Red Moon Fortress."
"The number of troops dispatched by the shogunate is more than thousands. The shogunate and the Northeastern vassals dispatched a total of 10,000 troops."
"An army of ten thousand..." Yitong was stunned, "A veritable army... Is the target the Red Moon Fortress... Has the Red Moon Fortress been captured? Is the shogunate's army still in Ezo Land?"
"I don't know about that." Miyabe shook his head, "But I think the fall of the Red Moon Fortress should be a matter of time. No matter how strong their fort is, it cannot withstand the 10,000-strong army of the shogunate."
"That's right." Yitong grinned.
"Master Yitong, since you originally planned to leave Ezo by boat in five days, our sudden visit will not cause you any trouble or trouble and affect your plan to leave, right?"
"Hahahaha! No!" Yitong waved his hand generously, "Anyway, it doesn't make much difference whether you leave a few days earlier or a few days later."
Speaking of this, Yi Tong seemed to have remembered something. After a pause, he continued:
"Miyabe-sama, where are you going after finishing this trip to Ezo?"
"We need to go to Satsuma Domain first, and then take a boat back to Ryukyu."
"Hahaha!" Miyabe slapped his thigh, "Satsuma Clan? That's just the way for us to go back to Iki Island!"
"Miyabe-sama, if you want to go back later, why not let us give you a ride?"
Miyabe looked surprised: "You want to give us a ride? Is that okay?"
"Of course!" Yitong said loudly, "As you know, Satsuma Domain and Iki Island can be considered neighbors."
"Since we are on the road, we can naturally give you a ride."
"This way, it will be much more convenient for you. You don't need to walk back to Matsumae Fan to take a boat. Our boat is parked in the bay not far from here, and it can be reached in five days."
"...Okay then." Miyabe smiled and nodded without thinking too much, "Then we will have Mr. Lao Yitong to give us a lift."
After saying that, Miyabu raised his wine glass to Yitong.
Yitong also quickly raised his big wine bowl: "Hahaha! It's just a little effort!"
After speaking, they both drank the wine in their respective glasses.
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In order to entertain Gong Bu and his party, Yitong cleared out the cleanest and most livable place in the valley for Gong Bu and his party to live.
In the cave, as soon as Miyabe sat down on the floor covered with straw mats, a young voice with a slightly displeased tone suddenly sounded from his side:
"Miyabe-sama, do we really want to take that Yitong's boat back in the future?"
"What?" Miyabe turned to look at the young man who spoke with a smile, "Ozashiba, don't you like riding a pirate ship? This is a very rare experience. You don't always have the opportunity to ride a pirate ship.
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"It's not that I don't like riding pirate ships." The young man known as 'Ozu Shiba' shook his head.
"Why is that?" Miyabu asked back, "As that antong said, taking their 'smooth boat' can save a lot of time, and it will benefit us without any harm."
"If you are worried that the pirate ship will be attacked by the government, then there is no need to worry about it."
"Be it Japan, China, or North Korea, they all implement a policy of seclusion. There is no need to worry about government ships coming to hunt down pirates."
"I'm not worried about this kind of thing." Ozu Chai whispered, "I just simply don't like Yitong..."
"Miyabe-sama, I don't quite understand - why did my lord go to such great lengths to send us to send money to that Yitong?"
"And I also gave away a full 3,000 taels of gold."
"Although 3,000 taels of gold is not worth mentioning to us now, when I think of giving this money to that Yitong, I feel very angry..."
"We are no longer cooperating with Yitong. I really don't understand why the Lord would send us to such a bitter and cold place to say hello and give gifts to Lord Yitong."
"...I see." Miyabe nodded gently, "It's not surprising that you have such questions."
"But this is what the lord will do, isn't it?"
Miyabe showed a gentle smile.
"My lord, he has this kind of character - he shows no mercy to his enemies and kills them all. He is generous and extremely generous to his subordinates and friends."
"Although my lord is terrible when he gets angry sometimes, most of the time he faces his subordinates and his friends greet him with a smile."
"My lord, he had a very friendly cooperation with Yitong before. Faced with the various requests made by my lord, Yitong can always complete them on time and in quantity. My lord, he likes subordinates like this the most, my friend."
"For the Lord, Yitong is his good friend."
"This is how my lord treats his friends - even if he no longer cooperates with you, he still remembers you and is willing to spend a lot of money for you."
"Furthermore, there are also some profit considerations in treating Yitong so favorably."
"Our main base is now in Ryukyu. We make money through smuggling trade."
"The main base of Yitong is located on Iki Island."
“Yitong’s main areas of activity overlap a lot with ours.”
"So in the future, we may encounter situations where we need help from Antong, so maintaining a good relationship with Antong will do more good than harm to us."
"...Miyabe-sama, I understand what you said." Ozushiba sighed lightly, "But I still can't like that Yitong."
"It doesn't matter if you don't like him." Miyabe covered his mouth elegantly and smiled, "To be honest, I don't like this ugly man named Yitong."
"But that's what diplomacy is - even if you don't like the other person, you still have to put on a smile."
"Okay, let's stop talking. Let's get ready for bed."
"Miyabe-sama." At this time, a hoarse, old voice sounded, "Do you need to organize a vigil tonight?"
The speaker is a bald, "Mediterranean" middle-aged man.
The appearance of this "Mediterranean Sea" is extremely terrifying - his eyes are empty where there should be eyeballs.
He is a blind man without eyes.
But such a blind man is holding a knife in his hand.
"Well... let's organize a vigil." Miyabe said slowly, "After all, it's important to be on guard against others."
"Mr. Morimaru, I will leave it to you to select the vigil personnel tonight."
"I understand." The blind man...that is, Morimaru bowed to Miyabe, then used the knife in his palm as a guide stick to explore the way, and left quickly.
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Ezochi, Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——
Ogata and Omachi stared blankly at the scene in front of them.
What appeared in front of their eyes was a spacious avenue in Matsumae Castle. There were rows of shops on both sides of the avenue, and the avenue was bustling with people.
Pedestrians who came to kill time were wandering aimlessly on the street; large trucks carrying goods were rushing across the street; an unknown wealthy family was traveling slowly in a sedan chair...
What reached their ears was the noise coming from the bustling avenue.
The sound of the earth being trampled by human feet; the cries of vendors; the shouts of curses caused by some minor friction between pedestrians...
Looking at the scene in front of him and listening to the sounds that came to his ears, Ogata felt as if he was in another world.
They went back along the way they came, and after an unknown amount of time, they finally returned to Matsumae Castle of the Matsumae Domain.
They finally returned to the cities of agricultural society.
How long have you and Atachi stayed in Ezo? Ogata can't remember clearly.
I just remember that it was still winter when they first entered Matsumae Domain, but now it is almost spring in Matsumae Domain.
After returning to Matsumae Clan, Ogata clearly felt that the temperature in Matsumae Clan had warmed up a lot. A person like Omachi, who has a normal physique, only needs to wear 3 thin clothes to keep out the cold.
After spending several months of tribal life in the territory of the Ainu people, looking at the lively and modern streets in front of him not only made Ogata feel nostalgic, but also made him feel as if he was separated from another world.
"It's been a long time since I've seen so many people, and I feel a little bit unaccustomed to it." Amachi, who has been living in a house that is not used to Ainu people, has an expression on his face that seems to be relieved, and he presses hard
Stretched.
"It's almost noon." Ogata raised his head and glanced at the sun above his head, "Let's go have lunch. What do you want to eat?"
Atachi nodded obediently: "I can finally eat Japanese food that I haven't seen for a long time... Soba noodles, onigiri, and other Japanese food are more suitable for me."
Ogata didn't know much about Matsumae Castle. After all, he had only stayed in Matsumae Castle for one day before. He randomly found a passerby who looked very idle:
"Excuse me, I want to ask - where is the nearest restaurant from here?"
pedestrian:"……"
When this leisurely looking pedestrian turned his head to look at Ogata, there was a look of disgust in his eyes.
But after seeing the two swords at Ogata's waist, the pedestrian immediately suppressed the disgust in his eyes.
Although he moved quickly to suppress the emotions in his eyes, Ogata still clearly captured his subtle expressions and emotional changes.
I saw this group of people quickly covering up the emotions in their eyes and holding their breath:
"Go straight along this road, then turn right and you will find a street with many restaurants."
After saying that, the pedestrian quickly walked away from Ogata.
Ogata, who was stunned on the spot, watched the group of people leave quickly.
"...Did I see it wrong?" Amachi, who had been standing next to Ogata just now, also watched the pedestrian leave quickly, "Was that person holding his breath when he was talking to us just now?
?”
"You seem to have read that correctly..." As soon as Ogata finished speaking, he suddenly heard a "buzzing" sound above his head.
Ogata looked up - it was a fly hovering above his and Omachi's heads.
Ogata suddenly realized something, put his nose close to Omachi's neck, and inhaled hard - the smell like salted fish went straight into Ogata's nostrils.
It was only then that Ogata was shocked to realize what had happened:
On the way back to Matsumae Castle from Kanto Village, Ogata and the others naturally did not have the conditions to take a bath or something. In such a bitter cold place, it was impossible to take those things that would make their hands and feet numb with cold with just a light touch.
They used river water to bathe in. Therefore, the smell of the two of them had long been no different from that of dried salted fish on the beach.
But because both of them are used to smelling each other's body odor, their noses automatically filtered their own body odor...
"I said..." Amachi's face turned pale as if he had discovered something terrible, "Are the two of us really so smelly that even flies are attracted to us now?"
Ogata raised his head from A-Machi's neck and looked around - the pedestrians around him were walking around Ogata and the others intentionally or unintentionally, making it seem like there was an invisible circle around Ogata and A-Machi.
A protective shield was built to separate Ogata and the other two people from pedestrians.
"...A-Machi, before having lunch, let's go find a bathhouse and take a bath..."
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After taking a good bath and having lunch, it was already 2 p.m.
It was far from late enough to "leave everything to tomorrow", so after lunch, Ogata and the others went non-stop to find the "smuggling" hotel that Lin Ziping had told them about before.
The business of Dingjiangya.
Matsumae Domain is just a small domain, so Matsumae Castle, which is the feudal hall of Matsumae Domain, is naturally not that big.
Ogata and the others only asked a few passers-by and found the location of Sadaeya.
Dingjiangwu is an ordinary-looking grocery store located at the corner of a street with a general flow of people.
After entering, you can see a counter facing the entrance of the store. Behind the counter are two young people sitting side by side.
Without further ado, Ogata rushed to the counter and revealed the secret code that Lin Ziping had told him before: "A piece of reed crosses the sea."
After hearing the secret signal from Ogata, the two young men sitting behind the counter raised their eyes. After giving Ogata a meaningful look, one of them stood up:
"You two, please come with me."
Ogata and Atachi followed the man to the second floor of the store and entered a certain room on the second floor.
In the room, there was a middle-aged man holding a cigarette, leaning against the window and puffing away smoke.
"Mr. Shirataro." The young man who led Ogata and the two into the room said to the middle-aged man with standard honorifics, "These two want to take a boat."
The middle-aged man turned his head and glanced at Ogata and Atachi: "I understand, you can go down first."
"yes."
The young man responded and quickly walked out of the room.
"You two, please take a seat wherever you want." The middle-aged man asked Ogata and Atachi to sit down.
"The two of us want to take a boat back to Japan." As soon as his buttocks touched the tatami, Ogami said bluntly, "Where will we land? How much will it cost? When will we leave?"
"Well." The middle-aged man waved his hand towards Ogata, "Don't be so anxious."
"Let me introduce myself first."
"My name is Shirataro. You can think of me as an intermediary who helps people get on the boat."
"Although I don't know who introduced you to us, the information you received seems to be lagging behind - we no longer carry samurai."
After saying that, Shirataro glanced at the two swords at Ogata's waist.
"Huh?" Ogata frowned, "No samurai? Why?"
"This happened a month ago." Shirataro took a deep breath on his cigarette, and then said slowly, "A month ago, we brought a few samurai to Ezo Land."
"But those warriors got into a fight on the ship halfway."
"And the reason why they fought was just because the scabbard was used."
Sheathang - one of the very classic reasons for samurai to break into street quarrels or even fights.
The katana is known as the soul of the samurai, so there will always be some crazy people who get angry when their swords are touched by others.
So we often see this scene on the street - a certain samurai is eager to hack the other person to death just because his scabbard was touched by someone else.
This kind of conflict caused by the sword being touched by outsiders is collectively called "sheathing".
"This is not an accidental case. Compared to civilians, samurai are more likely to cause all kinds of trouble."
"And because samurai all carry swords, it is quite difficult to deal with them when they cause trouble."
"We have suffered a lot because of the samurai's troubles."
"A month ago, our boss finally had enough patience."
"Anyway, the number of samurai who would come to board the ship is far less than that of civilians, so the boss decided a month ago that he would no longer allow samurai to board the ship from now on."
"So you came quite untimely."
Speaking of this, Shirataro shrugged.
"If you had come a month earlier, you could have boarded the ship."
"But the woman next to you can get on the ship. After all, she is not a samurai."
"Why is it that just when I need to take a boat, samurai are not allowed to board the boat..." Ogata twitched the corner of his mouth, "Can't you be accommodating? I am different from the kind of samurai who has a problem with his head. I will never make trouble.
What trouble happened?"
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Shirataro straightened his back suddenly and said in a righteous tone:
"Of course not."
"How could we let you on the ship just because of your one-sided words?"
"In the past, many people promised us that they would never cause trouble. What was the result?"
"This is a rule set by the boss, and I can't change it."
"In short - if you insist on asking to get on the ship, no matter what you say, the only answer I can give you is 'Please come back'..."
Shirataro kept talking, constantly emphasizing how important the rules were and how strong his determination to defend them was.
When Shirataro was halfway through what he said, Ogata stopped listening. Past memories emerged in Ogata's mind at this time. At this moment, Ogata thought of Kinoshita Rin, who was also his friend.
Kinoshita Rin had demonstrated to Ogata several times a skill that was extremely useful no matter how the times changed. It could be said that it was a skill that was tried and tested.
As long as you use this skill, you can easily solve many difficult problems and force many difficult enemies to surrender.
Ogata had also been envious of Kinoshita Rin's god-level skills.
But after going through many obstacles, Ogata finally slowly mastered this god-level skill, and gradually tasted the benefits of this god-level skill.
While Shirataro was still chattering away, Ogata silently put his hand into his arms.
Then he took out a small gold medal.
"Oh, Mr. Shirataro, I almost forgot about this - I just picked up this small gold medal at the door of this room. Is this small gold medal yours?"
"——If you insist on boarding the ship, there are actually loopholes in the rules that you can exploit." Shirataro still looked righteous, "As long as you pretend to be a civilian. Take off your saber.
Then wrap it in cloth and disguise it as a civilian so you can board the ship easily."
The god-level skill that Kinoshita Rin possesses that has proven to be successful is the "money ability".
Although this kind of words may be difficult for many "demon samurai" who are overly obsessed with katana and swordsmanship, Ogata still wants to shout out: the money ability is really easy to use!
"Disguised as a civilian..." Ogata threw the small gold medal in his palm to Shirataro, whose eyes had been glowing green since just now, "This method is acceptable..."
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This is the final volume of this book, so the author plans to reveal to you from time to time some of the basic settings of this book that are easily overlooked.
I wonder if you have noticed that except for volumes one and two, the leading male characters in each volume of this book change.
The second male lead in volumes 3 and 4 is Mamiya, the second male lead in volume 5 is Makimura, the second male lead in volume 6 is Genichi, and the second male lead in volume 7 is Matsudaira Sadanobu. You can guess the male lead in this final volume.