Chapter 608 Renewable Humanoid Medicine Device [5800]
Edo, Yamada Asemon Residence——
The Yamada Asaemon family is a very typical samurai family with "a low salary, but a side job and a comfortable life."
The official official title of the Yamada Asaemon family is "Waishoboshi", and the annual salary is more than 1,000 koku. Although the salary is not low, it is by no means high.
But because they have two major side businesses: "testing knives for others" and "selling human gallbladder pills", they make a lot of money.
When it comes to whether it has reached the level of wealth that rivals other countries, it is definitely not the case.
But when it comes to whether it is possible to achieve a fortune, it definitely is.
The wealthy Yamada Asaemon family naturally doesn't have a shabby residence in their mansion.
The courtyard of their mansion alone can accommodate at least 20 people for a banquet inside.
At this moment, in the courtyard of Yamada Asemon's residence, a tall and sturdy middle-aged man stood under a big tree.
He only wore a sword on his waist and looked at the trunk of the big tree in front of him expressionlessly.
His motionless posture seemed as if his whole body was integrated with the earth and his feet were nailed.
After a long while, he slowly spread his legs, lowered his body weight, raised his right hand, and placed it on the handle of the knife on his left waist.
Keng!
The sound of the blade being unsheathed was heard, the sword's light appeared, and an arc moon composed of the sword's light rose from the sheath.
The middle-aged man used the sword-drawing technique to slash horizontally at the big tree in front of him.
Big tree - intact.
"master."
At this time, a young voice sounded from behind the middle-aged man.
"What's the matter?" the middle-aged man asked without looking back.
"Yoshi, Yoshitsune-sama...is back." Because of his excitement, the young man who came to report could not stop his voice from shaking when he spoke.
"...That's it. He...is still alive..." The middle-aged man slowly sheathed his sword, then flicked his sleeves, turned around and left the big tree.
There was a fly at the foot of where the middle-aged man was standing just now.
To be precise, it's a fly that has lost its wings.
The fly was lying on its back on the ground with its head down, its tiny feet constantly flapping, trying to turn its body over.
After the middle-aged man slowly left, two transparent wings with neat fractures finally landed beside the fly...
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Yamada Asemon's mansion, in a certain room——
Mamiya closed her eyes tightly facing the Buddhist altar in front of her and clasped her hands together.
Standing next to Mamiya, Yoshitomo, who was more than a head shorter than him, also closed his eyes tightly and clasped his hands towards the Buddhist shrine he was heading towards, just like Mamiya did.
This Buddhist niche is the Buddhist niche of the two brothers’ biological mother.
After slowly opening his eyes, Mamiya looked at the Buddhist niche in front of him and said in his heart:
——I'm sorry, mother... I haven't seen you for so long...
Looking at his mother's Buddhist shrine in front of him, past memories are rushing through Mamiya's mind like a torrent...
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"Mother!"
"Kuroro, what's wrong?"
"Mother! Why did you name my childhood name Kuro and my real name Yoshitsune?"
"Hmm? Kuro, why are you asking? Don't you like your name?"
"It's not that I don't like it...it's just that...having the same name as the famous hero from hundreds of years ago: Genkuro Yoshitsune makes me feel...a lot of pressure...just like naming a child in Tangtu
The name is Guan Yunchang..."
"Your name was actually given to you by your father. Your father hoped that you would become a hero like Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune in the future. So he named your childhood name 'Kuro' and his real name 'Yoshikune'
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"So that's what it means... Then I feel even more pressure..."
"Hahaha, silly boy, there is no need to feel any pressure. Even if you fail to become a hero like Yoshitsune in the end, it doesn't matter. Mother, I won't care about this kind of thing."
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"Brother."
Yoshitomo's sudden voice brought Mamiya's consciousness back to reality.
"If mother sees that you are still living and healthy, she will be very happy."
Yoshitomo, who was smiling, suddenly became weird.
"Not only do I live a healthy life, I also grow taller..."
Yichao touched the top of his head.
"It would be great if I could be as tall as you, brother..."
Mamiya's height was above the average for men of this era - 165cm.
And Yoshitomo's height... is the most common height for men in this era - 157cm.
"Obviously we are brothers from the same father and mother, so why are there such a big difference in height..." Yoshitaka sighed softly, "Is it because you were always responsible for taking on the task of 'testing knives on business trips' for my father?
Your body has been fully exercised, so you are much taller than me..."
"Maybe." Mamiya smiled at his brother, who was 2 years younger than him.
"We brothers worked really well together in the past..." Yoshitaka's eyes flashed with the light of reminiscence, "You were specially responsible for taking on the task of 'traveling to test swords' for my father, and you went to various places in Japan to entrust us Yamada Asao
The people from the Men family go to test the sword."
"And I am responsible for helping my father complete the sword test task in Edo Castle full-time."
"Then every time you come back after completing the mission of 'testing swordsmanship on a business trip', you can always bring back one, or even several, newly learned skills abroad."
"Well, when it comes to this, I get angry."
"We are both brothers. Not only are they different in height, but they also have different understandings... Brother, no matter what you study, you can master it at a glance... But apart from having a little understanding of swordsmanship, I can't do anything else...
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"Why are they both brothers, so different..."
Although Yoshitomo said this, there was no trace of anger on his face, and there was only a hint of admiration and admiration in his eyes when he looked at Mamiya.
"At first, my brother was responsible for traveling abroad full-time, so it caused a lot of interesting things."
Yoshitomo then continued.
"For example: Because he rarely showed up in Edo, and tried swordsmanship in other places, he would leave immediately after trying the sword and would never stay for a long time. Therefore, from the government to the common people, many people only knew Yamada Senemon.
There is a 'Yamada Asemon Yoshitsune' in my family, but I don't know what it looks like."
"Yes." Mamiya suddenly showed an intriguing smile at this time, "Very few people recognize the appearance of Yamada Asemon Yoshitsune - now that I think about it carefully, he really helped me a lot."
"To this day, very few people can recognize that Yamada Sen'emon Yoshitsune and Mamiya Kuro are the same person. This has saved me a lot of trouble."
"Of course - this is also due to my pair of glasses."
Mamiya raised his hand and touched the frame of his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
"This pair of glasses makes my eyes look a lot longer, which makes my wanted poster look far different from my original appearance."
After hearing what Mamiya said, Yoshitomo was stunned.
"Haha..." After laughing a few times, Yoshitaka said slowly, "Brother, it turns out... you are wearing these glasses just to hide your face?"
"That's not the case. It's just a secondary reason to cover my face." Mamiya said calmly, "The main reason is that my eyesight has become bad and I can't see things in the distance clearly, so I need a pair of glasses.
Correct eyesight.”
"...But despite this..." Yoshitomo's expression slowly became complicated, "When I saw your wanted notice, brother, my father and I recognized this Kuro Mamiya immediately.
It’s you, brother…”
"When I saw your wanted poster, brother, I was really shocked..."
"At that time, some people who had a close relationship with our Yamada Senemon and recognized your appearance came to our door and asked my father and I whether this Mamiya Kuro was your family's Yoshitsune."
"Father spent a lot of effort to get rid of them."
Yoshitomo paused for a moment and raised his eyes to observe Shimomiya's face.
After seeing that there was nothing strange about Mamiya's expression, Yoshitomo gritted his teeth and continued:
"Brother... why did you... become a wanted criminal?"
"There is no special reason." Mamiya turned his head and smiled at Yoshitomo, "I just followed someone and did some random things. When I came back to my senses, he had become a wanted criminal."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with living a wanted life."
"Compared with the previous life of working for the shogunate, I prefer the current life of working for a businessman."
"To help a certain businessman...?" Yoshitomo asked in confusion.
"Okay, Yoshitomo." Before Yoshitomo could ask a question, Mamiya said first, "Let's stop talking about this topic."
Snap, snap, snap...
At this time - Mamiya and Yoshitomia simultaneously heard the sound of feet stepping on the tatami from behind.
Before the two of them could turn around and look back, a rich middle-aged male voice suddenly sounded:
"...Kuro, you are really still alive..."
As soon as the male voice fell, Mamiya paused for a moment, then slowly turned his head and looked back.
He stared blankly at the middle-aged man behind him—this man named Yamada Asaemon Fumaki.
Unconsciously, Mamiya's lips and tongue started to move on their own: "Father..."
"Kiuro. If I remember correctly - you should have been kicked out of the house by me." Wen Xian had a sorrowless tone from the beginning, "What are you doing back here?"
"So?" Mamiya responded without any hint of weakness, "Are you going to kick me out now?"
The brief conversation between father and son made the atmosphere in this room instantly feel like falling into an ice cave.
Yoshitomo looked at Mamiya, then at Wenxian, and then quickly walked between the two of them with an anxious expression.
"Father! Although my brother has been expelled from the family by you and is no longer a member of the Yamada Asaemon family, he still has the blood of the Yamada Asaemon family flowing through him!"
"He still has the power to come back and see us!"
"And... mother is still here..."
Yichao looked back and looked at the Buddhist niche not far away.
"At the very least - please don't quarrel in front of mother."
Wenxian looked at Wenxian who was standing between him and Mamiya, and then at the Buddhist niche behind Mamiya - although his expression remained unchanged, he no longer spoke.
"... Don't worry." Mamiya said in a cold tone at this time, "Father... ah, no, Mr. Yamada Asaemon. I just came back to see my mother and Yoshinori, I won't be at your house.
You stayed too long.”
"...It's up to you. As long as you don't cause any trouble to our Yamada Asaemon family."
After saying that, Wen Xian walked straight towards Mamiya at an unhurried pace.
Seeing Wen Xian walking towards him, Mamiya subconsciously took half a step back, then raised his right hand, ready to touch the saber on his left waist.
But as soon as he raised his right hand, it stopped in mid-air - because he didn't feel any murderous aura or any malicious aura from Wen Xian.
The same goes for Yoshitomo.
When he saw Wen Xian walking towards Mamiya, he was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat. Just when he was about to shout "Brother, please leave quickly", he suddenly realized that Wen Xian didn't have any murderous intention in his body.
Wen Xian just walked up to Mamiya.
Then he raised his right hand and touched Mamiya's left face.
Wen Xian's right palm is a typical swordsman's palm - it is covered with calluses that have been worn smooth and round.
Although there are many calluses on his palms, because each callus is smooth and round, he does not feel any pain or other discomfort when he is touched by it.
Mamiya looked at Wen Xian who was very close in front of him with a slightly surprised look.
When returning to Yamada Senemon's mansion, Mamiya imagined thousands of scenarios of meeting Fumaki again.
However, the scene that actually appeared in front of Mamiya at this time did not match any of the scenes he had imagined before.
"...You look more and more like your mother."
After finishing speaking, Wenxian put down the hand that was caressing the side of Mamiya's face, then crossed his hands and put them into the sleeves on both sides of the kimono, and slowly walked away from the sight of Mamiya and Yoshitaka.
After Wen Xian left completely, Yi Chao patted his chest and let out a long breath: "I was scared to death... I almost thought my father was going to come over and chop you..."
"Well..." Mamiya looked at the direction Wenxian was leaving, complex emotions flashing in his eyes, "I just thought he was going to come over and draw a knife to chop me..."
Mamiya closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths.
After opening his eyes again, he looked at Yoshitomo.
"Yoshitomo, is my room still there?"
"Huh? Yes, yes." Yoshitomo nodded vigorously, "Of course your room is here."
"Can you go to my room with me?" Mamiya said, "I want to see my long-lost room."
"Of course it's no problem!" As soon as he finished speaking, Yoshitomo seemed to have remembered something, paused, and then asked with regret, "Brother... you just said that you won't stay at home for a long time...
...Is this true? Can you stay here a little longer? I have a lot to say to you..."
"...I have been removed from the family by my father." Mamiya said calmly, "I am no longer Yamada Asaemon Yoshitsune, I am now Mamiya Kuro. I am no longer a member of the Yamada Asaemon family.
I am no longer qualified to stay here any longer.”
"Coupled with my current status as a wanted criminal, it's even more unsuitable for me to stay here for too long."
"But - don't worry."
Yichao saw a smile as warm as the sun.
"Now that you're here, I will stay here as long as possible to spend more time with you."
"...Hmm!" The few "dark clouds" on Yichao's face dissipated slightly under the "sunshine" in front of him.
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Following the memories of the past, Mamiya walked through a maze-like complex corridor, and then stopped in front of a paper sliding door.
Opening the door, a familiar scene greeted Mamiya's eyes.
In front of him was his room that Mamiya was very familiar with.
After walking into the room and walking to the center of the room, Mamiya looked around - the layout in the room was exactly the same as before he left, without any changes.
Be it the tatami or the table, there is no dust at all and they are clean.
Yoshitomo, who was following Mamiya, explained in a timely manner: "After you left home, in the past five years, I have asked the waiters to clean your room, and asked them to be careful not to touch anything in the room.
thing."
"That's it...thank you, Yoshitomo, you really mean it."
Just as Yoshitomo wanted to say "You're welcome," he heard Mamiya suddenly say to him: "Yoshitomo, could you please close the door to the room?"
"Huh? Okay..." Although Yoshitomo was confused, he had never been in the habit of saying "no" to his most respected brother.
Following Mamiya's instructions, he closed the door to the room: "Brother, why do you close the door? This will not make it boring..."
"Yoshitomo." Before Yoshitomo could finish his words, he was interrupted by Mamiya Tsumugi, who was looking directly at him, "I heard that our family... no, the Yamada Asaemon family recently gave birth to a child.
The quality of the Rendan pills has become much higher – what’s going on?”
"Huh?" Yoshitomo was startled.
Mamiya stared at Yoshitomo with eyes that seemed to be scrutinizing.
Yoshitomo looked at Mamiya blankly.
No one said anything.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly fell into an eerie, somewhat suffocating silence.
After an unknown amount of time passed, a wry smile containing complex emotions slowly appeared on Yoshitomo's face.
"Brother...where did you hear about this?"
"Don't worry about where I heard it from." Mamiya said coldly, "Tell me what's going on."
"I used to be part of this family."
"I also know exactly how Rendan Pills are made."
"The quality of human gallbladder pills depends on the quality of the human gallbladder used as raw materials."
"So the sudden improvement in quality is due to two reasons - you invented a new method of refining medicine, and..."
Mamiya's eyes slowly narrowed, and his eyes became sharp.
"You use a lot of high-quality human gallbladder to make medicine."
"Yoshitomo, answer me - the quality of Rendan Pills has improved recently. Is this true?"
"If this is true, why did the quality suddenly improve?"
Mamiya was already taller than Yoshitomo. At this moment, he looked at Yoshitomo with a condescending attitude.
And Yoshitomo - he remained silent and buried his head low.
Seeing that Yoshitomo remained silent, Mamiya pursed her lips, and then——
"...Yoshitomo, actually I have no intention of returning to this home."
He changed into a much softer tone than before.
After hearing what Mamiya said just now, Yoshitomo finally raised his head and cast a surprised look at Mamiya.
"As I just told you: I am no longer a member of the Yamada Asaemon family, and I am no longer qualified to step into this family."
"And I'm still a wanted criminal. I'm here to find you, and I might even cause you trouble."
"However, I didn't want to come back and cause trouble to you, but I still came back."
"Just because I heard that the quality of Rendan Pills has improved recently."
"This news... to be honest, it makes me sleepless and sleepless."
"If it's fake news, then that's it."
"But if the news is true... I'm very afraid that you may be using some dirty methods to improve the quality of gallbladder pills."
"I may not be able to change my father's thinking. He has gone astray, and there is probably no way I can bring him back."
"But the least I can do is: I have a chance to stop you from going astray."
"At least I want to prevent you from going astray - it is for this purpose that I came back here and returned to your eyes."
"So——Yoshitomo. Please tell me the truth."
Mamiya's tone became serious again.
"You...really aren't using any dirty tricks to refine the medicine, are you?"
Facing Mamiya's scrutinizing gaze, Yoshitomo and Mamiya looked at each other.
Time passes bit by bit.
Although the atmosphere in the room became silent again, there was no longer the suffocating feeling in this silence.
Yoshitomo just kept looking at Mamiya.
It wasn't until I don't know how long it took that he finally made some noise:
"...I was really carried away by the joy of reuniting with my brother just now."
Yi Chao looked strange.
"I unconsciously ignored: Brother, you are the best person to take that child out of here now..."
"That child?" Mamiya asked with a frown.
"Brother, what I am going to say may be a bit shocking. So I hope you can stay calm and listen to what I have to say."
Speaking of this, Yoshitomo took several deep breaths.
"We have indeed used a special method to improve the quality of gallbladder pills."
"We... found a girl whose organs can repair themselves." Yoshitomo suddenly stopped, as if he couldn't bear to say any more, but after a moment of pause, he still gritted his teeth, suppressed his emotions, and continued.
He said, "We kept removing the bile from the girl and using her bile to make medicine. After the girl's bile grew back, we took her bile again, and the cycle started over and over again..."
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