Chapter 618 The warrior who provoked both Yidaozhai and Fengmo [6400]
On the surface, Wisteria House looks like an ordinary, unpopular two-story izakaya.
After entering the first floor of the Wisteria House, Oubono saw that there were very few people drinking in the Wisteria House. It could be said that there were only a handful of people.
There were only 4 tables with customers in total, and the total number of guests was less than 10 people.
There were few guests, so the atmosphere naturally seemed a bit deserted.
A middle-aged man was leaning behind the counter, fiddling with the abacus, probably calculating accounts.
Ogata and Fuma followed the method that Inshin told them this morning on how to enter the casino, walked quickly to the counter, and whispered to the middle-aged man who was lying behind the counter to settle accounts:
"Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong."
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the middle-aged man's hand fidgeting with the abacus immediately stopped.
Then he raised his head, glanced at Ogata and Fuma, and shouted toward the backstage of the izakaya:
"Kaichiro!"
Boom, boom, boom...
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, there was a loud sound of footsteps approaching Ogata and the others with great momentum.
In the blink of an eye, a very strong young man came to Ogata and the others.
"Mei Yilang." The middle-aged man said to the sturdy young man in a calm tone, "These two guests want to buy our wine. Let's take them to the wine cellar."
"Yes!" Meiichiro responded loudly, then bowed to Ogata and Ogata politely, and then made a gesture of "please", "You two, please come with me."
Soichiro led Ogata and Fuma towards the stairs leading to the second floor.
As for the guests who were drinking on the first floor, they didn't even look at Ogata and the others during the whole process, as if they were used to it.
The second floor of the Wisteria House is filled with airtight rooms.
With the stairwell as the center of the circle, the airtight rooms are arranged in a tight "kou" shape.
After reaching the second floor, Mei Yilang casually opened the door of one of the rooms.
The moment the door was opened, suffocating heat, the smell of sweat, and other weird smells and smells poured out along the opened door, rushing towards Ogata and Fuma.
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Behind the door are faces that are immersed in the world of gambling, excited, excited and sad because of gambling.
"You two, please come in." Mei Yilang said.
After Ogao nodded to Keiichiro, he and Fuma entered the room in front of him one after another.
After Ogata and the others entered, Soichiro helped them close the door very considerately.
The world inside the room and the world behind the room...are simply like two worlds.
After entering the room, Ogata discovered that the walls of all the rooms on the second floor seemed to have been torn down, and the rooms were all connected together, so that they could be combined into a huge casino.
There are various gambling games in the casino.
Ogata knew nothing about gambling, so he couldn't understand most gambling games. The only gambling game he recognized was "roll the dice and bet on odd or even numbers."
The atmosphere of the casino is quite quiet.
The most frequent sound is the sound of "staff" asking gamblers to place bets.
From time to time, there would be roars of excitement from those who had won money while gambling, or painful whines from those who had lost money from gambling.
The reason why the casino is so quiet and everyone tries not to make any noise is mainly to keep a low profile.
As early as the Heian period hundreds of years ago, the Japanese government severely cracked down on gambling.
In the current Edo period, the Edo shogunate also adopted a strict and defensive attitude towards gambling.
According to the regulations of the Edo Shogunate - all samurai who gamble in casinos will be stripped of their samurai status and demoted to civilian status.
Even if he is so strict with the samurai, it is natural not to mention how harsh he is with the civilians.
However, things like casinos have been banned many times in modern times when the government has strong control, let alone in ancient times.
Although the Edo shogunate has been severely cracking down on gambling, casinos are still blooming all over Japan. Today the government closes an old casino, and tomorrow ten new casinos will pop up.
In recent years, it has been the best time to develop casinos.
It has only been three years since the "Tenmei Great Famine". In the past three years, both the shogunate and various vassals have focused on recovering from the series of trauma caused by the "Tenmei Great Famine" and have had no time to take into account the attack on casinos.
, so in recent years, casinos across Japan can be said to have ushered in a rare period of development.
But even though the government has no time to worry about cracking down on casinos, you can't be too arrogant.
So there is an unwritten rule: try to be as quiet as possible when gambling in the casino.
Of course, if you open a casino in an area where it is absolutely difficult for the government to control it - for example, in a rural area where birds don't poop, then you don't need to follow this unspoken rule, and you can make as much noise as you want.
Both Ogata and Fuma saw the portrait of Kaoru Daibutsu from Inshin today - Kaoru Daibutsu's appearance is quite recognizable.
He is a rather fat man, with a fat head and big ears. When he does not lower his head, he has a full three-tiered chin.
Pretending to be choosing their favorite gambling game, the two walked around the casino while searching for the Big Buddha Kaoru.
However, after walking around, I didn't find anyone with matching facial features.
Ogata and the others had already expected that this would happen.
They didn't expect to find the big Buddha Xun who happened to be gambling there as soon as they entered the casino.
For this situation, Ogata and the others had already prepared corresponding countermeasures before entering the casino - that is, wait.
Wait for a while and see if you can wait until the Buddha comes out.
If Big Buddha Xun doesn't appear for a long time, it means that Big Buddha Xun should go to another casino to gamble tonight. By then, he will have to admit that he is unlucky and has bad luck.
While waiting, naturally you can't just stand there stupidly. Doing so is no different from sticking a piece of paper on yourself that says "I'm suspicious."
If you want to make yourself look suspicious, the best way is to blend in with the surrounding gamblers and do what a gambler should do.
"Brother." Feng Mo lowered his voice and said to Ogata, "What do you know how to play?"
Ogata shook his head: "The only thing I know how to play is guessing odd and even numbers."
"What a coincidence, so am I. I only know how to play "Guess Odds and Evens". There happens to be someone over there who can play 'Guess Odds and Evens'. Let's go there and kill some time."
Only a few steps away from Ogata and the others, there was a booth where you could play "guess the odd or even", and there happened to be a few empty seats.
There are booths throughout the casino where you can exchange chips.
The chips in this casino are wooden bars. There are three types of wooden bars in total - brown wooden bars representing 100 coins, black wooden bars representing the usual and yellow wooden bars representing one tael of gold.
Neither of them had any interest in gambling. They both decided to participate in gambling just to prevent others from suspecting them, so they only exchanged some brown chips with the lowest value.
When the two of them took the chips they had just exchanged and sat side by side at the empty seat of the "Guess Odds and Evens" booth nearest to them, a new gambling game happened to begin.
Hu Zhen, who had just finished rolling the dice, spread his hands and asked the gamblers to place their bets.
Between Hu Zhen and the gamblers were large pieces of paper with "odd" or "even" written on them. The gamblers put their chips on the big pieces of paper with "odd" or "even" written on them.
"Brother," Feng Mo asked, "do you think it's single or double?"
"Just put it in." Ogata shrugged.
Ogata has always been indifferent to gambling.
In his eyes, "ten gambling and ten cheating" are eternal truths.
These casino operators are best at using various illusions to give you the illusion that the bet is fair.
Trying to make a fortune through gambling is sheer fantasy.
Because he has no good feelings about gambling, Ogata doesn't want to spend any energy on it.
Feng Mo happened to be a person who had little interest in gambling, and he had no intention of seriously playing "guessing odd or even numbers".
Hearing Ogata say "just put one", Fuma casually placed a chip on the big piece of paper with "order" written on it that was closest to the two of them.
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At this moment——
In a hotel diagonally opposite the Wisteria House——
"Here, drink some water."
Yamauchi, who was hiding by the window and carefully monitoring the Wisteria House, looked at Hasegawa who was handing him a glass of water with a moved expression.
"Thank you, thank you!" Yamauchi was flattered and took the water from Hasegawa.
"How is it?" Hasegawa handed the water cup to Yamauchi and asked, "Have you seen anyone who looks like Kaoru Daibutsu or Shuichiro Shirakawa?"
"Not yet." Yamauchi shook his head.
"Then continue to monitor." Hasegawa said, "If there is any news, report it immediately."
"yes!"
After learning that the "Big Buddha Clan" and the "Blood Mist Clan" were likely to cooperate, Hasegawa started the investigation at an alarming speed.
He identified the "Big Buddha Clan" as his breakthrough point, and along the vine of the "Big Buddha Clan", he found the melon of the "Blood Mist Clan".
As early as last night, Hasegawa had obtained all the information related to the "Big Buddha Clan" from the Holy Mountain.
Shenshan has long been eyeing the "Big Buddha Clan".
Since the Tenmei Fire broke out three years ago, many places in Kyoto that have been burned to rubble have not yet been rebuilt.
In order to rebuild Kyoto, Kamiyama was already busy enough. However, half a year ago, the group of lunatics headed by Junroku Kunieda who planned to destroy Kyoto made a lot of troubles. In order to wipe out these troubles, Kamiyama
Now I am getting busier than ever.
Originally, the sacred mountain was so busy that it wanted to split itself in half. It no longer had the extra energy to take care of the Yakuza in Kyoto. As long as they didn't do anything too extreme, the sacred mountain would adopt a "pretend they didn't see it" attitude.
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However, the "Big Buddha Clan" has become more and more arrogant since three months ago, making the mountain intolerable.
Therefore, he had secretly allocated some of his manpower long ago to prepare for dealing with the "Big Buddha Clan" in the future.
The results are quite gratifying.
Not only did they collect a large amount of information about the "Dabutsu Clan", but they also bribed a senior member of the "Dabutsu Clan" who held a lot of real power and was very close to Daibutsu Xun.
This afternoon, Hasegawa, with the help of Shenshan, secretly met with the bribed senior executive of the "Big Buddha Clan".
Although this person knew very little about the "Blood Mist Clan", he also revealed a piece of very useful information to Hasegawa - he was addicted to gambling and would go to major casinos managed by their "Big Buddha Clan" to gamble almost every night.
The Great Buddha Xun will go to their largest casino tonight: Wisteria House.
The reason why he knew this information was because this morning, he received an invitation from their boss: Let's go to the Wisteria House tonight to play a few games.
Based on this information, Hasegawa quickly formulated an action plan—to urgently monitor the Wisteria House where Kaoru, the Great Buddha, will appear tonight.
If members of the "Blood Mist" led by Shirakawa are discovered, they will be captured immediately.
If no members of the "Blood Mist Crowd" are found, take down Big Buddha Xun, "invite" him back to the monastery, and ask for some information from him.
Because the Wisteria House may be very "busy" tonight, Hasegawa kindly reminded the insider of the "Dabutsu Clan" who provided the whereabouts of Daibutsu Kaoru - don't go to the Wisteria House tonight and stay at home.
Just wait.
It can be said that Hasegawa has deployed heavy troops around the Wisteria House.
The subordinates responsible for surveillance were in plain clothes and scattered around, closely monitoring the Wisteria House.
The subordinates responsible for rushing into the Wisteria House to arrest people are all concentrated in the hotel that Hasegawa is currently located diagonally opposite to the Wisteria House, and are ready to rush into the Wisteria House to arrest people at any time.
After delivering water to Yamauchi who was in charge of surveillance, Hasegawa did not leave immediately.
Instead, he stood by the window and looked at the Wisteria House not far away with strange eyes.
Then he showed a faint smile and whispered at a volume that only he could hear clearly:
"My hands are so itchy... I really want to play a few games..."
After saying that, Hasegawa scratched his right palm vigorously - as if he was scratching his right palm hard, as if his right palm had unfortunately been bitten by a dozen mosquitoes.
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Ogata and Fuma, who have been gambling on Buddhist gambling, have played more than ten rounds in one go.
I don’t know if it’s because they were gambling randomly, but their winning rate remained at around 50%.
Every time you lose a chip, you can often win back what you lost quickly.
Because the number of chips lost is roughly equal to the number of chips won back, after more than ten rounds of gambling, the number of chips in Ogata's hands has basically remained unchanged.
Blah blah blah...
Sitting diagonally across from Ogata, Tsubaki shook the barnacle with two dice in it in an extremely skilled manner, and then slammed the barnacle to the ground.
"Please." Hu Zhen spread his hands.
As soon as Hu Zheng spread his hands, Feng Mo casually threw a chip in his hand onto the "slip" in front of him.
The rest of the gamblers followed suit, betting their money.
However, at this moment——
"Oh! There happen to be two empty seats here, give way! Give way!"
A slightly hoarse young male voice sounded behind Ogata and the others.
Looking back -
A young man held a very beautiful and charming woman in his arms and walked quickly towards Ogata and the others.
Behind this young man were six warriors with serious faces.
These six warriors were constantly scanning the surroundings, alerting all directions - these six people were probably the young man's bodyguards.
Ogata noticed that after the young man appeared, many people present looked fearful: for example, the bald middle-aged man with a high hairline who was sitting on Ogata's right.
"Who is this person?" Ogata asked the bald middle-aged man next to him.
"He is the leader of the 'Big Buddha Clan' that manages this casino: Big Buddha Xun's adopted son: Big Buddha Longzhi." The bald middle-aged man said solemnly, "He is a submissive person in other places, but arrogant and domineering in his own venue.
Second generation ancestor. It’s really unlucky... to meet him in such a place..."
——The adopted son of Dafo Xun?
Ogata and Fuma were in sync with each other at this moment - they simultaneously turned to look at the great Buddha Takayuki who was hugging the charming woman.
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Dafo Longzhi, like his adoptive father Dafo Xun, is a gambling addict and would go to the major casinos under their "Dafo clan" almost every night to play a few games.
Tonight, his adoptive father Daifo Xun invited many people with similar interests to come to the Wisteria House to play a few games - Takayuki was one of the people who received the invitation.
He didn't know when his adoptive father would arrive, so Takahiro, who could no longer contain his "gamble spirit", decided to take his new woman to the venue in advance and wait.
His favorite gambling game is "guessing the odd or even number."
As soon as I entered the Wisteria House Casino, I saw a "guess the odd or even" booth, and there happened to be 2 empty seats.
As he walked toward the stall with his new woman in his arms, he noticed that many people around him were looking at him in various ways.
The emotions contained in most of the gazes are fear and envy.
These gazes made Longzhi secretly happy and gave him a sense of "superior" feeling.
Longzhi, who felt extremely comfortable in his heart, subconsciously increased the intensity of squeezing the new woman in his arms, arousing bursts of moans coming from his arms.
At this time, Takazhi discovered that - he was about to go to a booth where he was betting on odds and evens. There was a guy wearing a bamboo hat, a face scarf, and a light green feather fabric, and a bald old man looking straight at him.
he.
From the eyes of these two people, Longzhi noticed a trace of passion.
——Hmph! Feel free to envy me!
Takahiro, who thought that the two of them must be envious of him and cast fiery glances at him, laughed proudly in his heart.
——In their hearts, they must be very envious of me now! They must be very eager to be able to hold such a wonderful woman like me!
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Ogata:——You can tie up this big Buddha dragon later.
Feng Mo: - You can tie up this big Buddha later.
The two of them were in sync again, and at the same time, they said the same words in their hearts.
Ogata now only feels that the wait so far has been worthwhile.
Although we are not waiting for the great Buddha Xun now, we are waiting for the adopted son of the great Buddha Xun.
Ogata has now made up his mind: if the Great Buddha Kaoru does not show up in the wisteria house tonight, he will kidnap the Great Buddha Kaoru and ask him for the location of the Great Buddha Kaoru.
This man is Kaoru Daibutsu's adopted son. If he said that he didn't know where his adopted father usually lived, Ogata would definitely not believe it.
The hard work tonight was not in vain, which made Ogata feel a little better.
After playing more than ten rounds of guessing odd and even numbers, Ogata had already become impatient.
One of the most painful things in the world is to do something that you are not interested in at all - Ogata and Fuma have been enduring this kind of torture just now, playing "Guess Odds and Evens" to have a numb scalp.
Although the great Buddha Longzhi is accompanied by 6 bodyguards to protect him - but so what?
Takayuki had already hugged the woman in his arms and sat down cross-legged on the empty seat three places away from Ogata and Fuma.
As soon as his butt landed on the ground, he grinned: "Oh! Haven't you started the pot yet? That's just right! Just enough to take a gamble!"
After that, he lowered his head and asked the woman in his arms:
"A Chang, do you think the number in this pot is odd or even?"
The woman lying in Takashi's arms... Although Ogata didn't want to use this word to describe a woman, after thinking about it, he still felt that there was no other word that could perfectly describe this woman except "sexy"
appearance.
Her face was covered with heavy makeup that gave off a strange aura, but it was still vaguely possible to see that her facial features were delicate and beautiful.
Her hair is combed into the most popular Shimada bun, with various decorations on her hair.
She was wearing a bright red kimono that seemed to be deliberately worn so loosely.
The hem parted widely, revealing her white calves and feet.
The skirt of her upper body was also parted widely, revealing a conspicuous "big scar".
To put it mildly...Ogata felt that a strong wind might blow the woman's loose kimono off.
I don't know if it's because of her makeup, but this woman has always exuded a coquettish aura.
After hearing Longzhi's question, the charming woman whom Longzhi called "A Chang" tilted her head as if thinking, and then said in a sweet voice:
“I think it’s a pair~~”
"Okay! Then throw double!"
Takazhi waved his hand very proudly and threw the two most valuable chips, the yellow chips representing 1 tael of gold, onto the big paper with "double" written on it.
After Takashi threw the two yellow chips, there was a continuous gasping sound all around.
Listening to the gasping sounds around him, the corners of Long Zhi's mouth that had just been flattened were raised with pride again.
"Long Zhijun, would you like to invest 2 taels of gold?" Ah Chang raised his hand to cover his mouth, showing a somewhat artificial look of surprise.
"Hahaha!" Longzhi squeezed the beauty in his arms a few times, "It's just a small amount of money! Shake the pot! Open the pot!"
Chu Zhen obviously knew Takazhi. When Takazhi asked to open the kettle, he took away the barnacles at once - 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock, both.
"Longzhijun, we won~~"
The man and woman who suddenly appeared naturally became the focus of the audience without a doubt.
Almost everyone, even those who hate Long Zhi, have a bit of envy hidden in the depths of their eyes when they look at Long Zhi.
Who doesn’t want to be like Takahiro, holding a beautiful woman in his arms, and then casually taking out 2 taels for gambling?
Just as Takahiro was about to start his second gambling game, he suddenly heard a familiar voice:
"Oops? Takahiro, you're already here."
Takayuki: "Oh! Kijiro! You're here!"
The man who greeted Takayuki warmly was named Kijiro, and he was one of the top leaders of their "Big Buddha Clan".
Behind Kijiro was a large group of people from Wuyangyang, many of whom were cadres of the "Big Buddha Clan".
They were all invited by Dafo Xun to come to the Wisteria House to play a few games together tonight.
"Kijiro! Come on, come on! Let's play some bets together!"
After saying that, Takazhi turned to look at the other gamblers sitting next to him, waved his hands as if to ward off flies, and then said in a very rude tone:
"Hey! Get out of here, all of you! Make room!"
After Takahiro sat down at their stall, most of the gamblers in the stall were on pins and needles - after all, he was gambling with the adopted son of the leader of the famous "Big Buddha Clan", who knew what kind of accidents might happen?
But they don't dare to just slap their butts and leave - because doing so may cause trouble.
Why are you leaving? Do you not want to gamble with me? If Takahi asks this question, I really don’t know how to answer.
Now that they heard Takazhi telling them to get out, they all hurriedly left holding their own chips as if they had been granted amnesty.
But not everyone has left.
For example - there were two people who did not leave and were still sitting where they were.
"Hey!" Takashi frowned and shouted to the two of them with a displeased look on his face, "That guy in the disgusting light onion-colored feathers, and that old man with a bald head, are you deaf? No.
Do you hear me asking you to step aside?"
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Let me give you a warning: The author should take a day off tomorrow.
After entering the autumn and winter this year, the author, for some reason, has been itching his throat easily and making him want to cough. There is no way to cure this problem, so I plan to go to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic that is said to be very good to have it treated tomorrow, so I should have it tomorrow.