Chapter 26 third quarter

Shengzhisuke hurriedly sent a letter to Kawasaki's Lizhi, asking her to report to Shigehide Sakazaki what he heard from the proprietress of Wadaya.He really wanted to talk to Donggu face to face, but the lord delayed by two months, and now he happened to come to Edo, and the stay-at-home residence in Edo should be busier than usual, so it might not be easy to find time to come.The agent they were looking for was related to Kanoya.The acting secretary from Kanoya to Hatanochi, and then from Hatano Chita to the mastermind behind the Dagen Fan, colluded with each other. Having said that, Shengzhisuke has to think twice if he wants to approach Kanoya rashly in the future.Now it is different from the previous flower-viewing party where you can sneak in among the crowd. Maybe there are people from Nana Sen coming in and out of Kanoya, not to mention the feudal vassal stationed in Edo, and people who are traveling with the lord may also visit Kanoya.The vassals all knew each other, and they didn't know where they would be bumped into, and they often went in and out and made people suspicious.The task of investigating Kanoya will be handed over to Master Donggu.Just like when he was in the vassal state, Donggu set up eyeliner in Bo Yeqianli, and now he should arrange eyeliner in Kanoya.

Sheng Zhisuke visited the bookstore everywhere.Since there were too many things to ask, he visited the surrogate he had met before again.Have you ever been commissioned by the pottery shop Kanoya in Isecho, Kanda?Have you ever been entrusted to write a descriptive essay on the origin of antiquities or ceramics?If yes, what kind of work?What rumors did you hear at the time?Do you know anyone who is good at falsifying these types of documents?Or have you heard of someone who is a master at this? "Why is it you again? You keep asking strange things." The scribe who visited for the second time said with a smile; while the scribe who visited for the first time was even more surprised, but he still looked for clues everywhere.

The close relationship between Bo Yeqian, Kanoya, and the mysterious agent brought a ray of light to his previous explorations that he had no clue about.For him, this is a big step, far beyond imagination.He had been acting under Donggu's order before, and he firmly believed in Donggu's words, but whether the mysterious agent who said "you killed your father and enemy" in Donggu's mouth was really someone - he was dubious at first.This incident was unbelievable from the very beginning, and Shengzhisuke had seen many acting scribes, and often heard them say-could it be the person who insisted that his handwriting was not lying?

After the other party asked this question, he became even more suspicious.Sheng Zhisuke thought that such a rhetorical question was like saying "your father is lying", which made him shaken.Rather than acknowledging that there is such a surrogate with dangerous stunts as Donggu said, it is more reasonable to think that the father was forced to lie for some unavoidable reason, or was dazzled for a while because of the confusion in his mind. . But right now there really is such a substitute.This stunt has been used to deceive people long before the incident with his father Munezaemon.Although the true identity is not yet known, there is indeed such a person in the world.

He wrote down what he knew so far, his own thoughts, and speculations, and then rearranged them in his mind.He was eager to find someone to talk to.who?It's not Donggu, he wants to find Hexiang.He wanted to confess everything and listen to He Xiang's opinion. He knew that it would be rash to tell the merchant's daughter important matters and secrets in the feudal domain.Although I understand it in my heart, I really want to hear her opinion, and it has its effect.Although their identities and status are different, Higashitani and Shengzhisuke both view this matter from the same point of view, but Hexiang is different.

Shengzhisuke persuaded himself to go to Wadaya.The weather was sweltering today, and he was sweating profusely. Jindo, who came to answer the door, said in surprise, "What's going on with you, it's like pouring water on you."It's not all because of the hot weather. He went to Hexiang's room as usual, and when Jinta was about to sit in front of the paper door, Shengzhisuke said slowly: "Miss Hexiang, I'm sorry, please screen someone else today." Jin Duo understood the meaning of his words one step earlier than Kazuka.At such a time, Oo's maid might reach out and take out the sword. Jindo's big face without the sword was full of anger, and he clenched his fists with both hands.

He Xiang couldn't help laughing out loud. "Zindo, you step back first." "But Miss..." "If something happens, I'll yell." If anything. Jin Duo got up reluctantly, and Sheng Zhisuke lowered his head, deliberately not looking at her fierce face, and whispered "Please Haihan".After the paper door was closed, he and He Xiang were left.Sheng Zhisuke took a deep breath. "Please tell me." He Xiang said. "I promise not to tell. My mother won't know. To tell you the truth, I am looking forward to this day." Just like Shengzhisuke's indiscretion, this girl also has a curious side.The two are exactly the same.

After telling the whole story, Shengzhisuke's throat was extremely thirsty.And the incense calls for a lot of water.Jin Duo was sent away immediately after finishing her work, she clenched her fists in front of Shengzhisuke again, and glared at him viciously. "You must be in pain." He Xiang said. "But if your father knows it, he must rest in peace. Because you miss him so much." Shengzhisuke drank the water quietly. "Let's look at it step by step in order." Come to the desk with Xiang La and open the letter box.As she rubbed the ink, she fixed her eyes on something invisible.

"I want to reconfirm the origin of the whole incident." "What you want to confirm is..." "This conspiracy has been with your former feudal lord from the very beginning..." "Please call him Wang Yunhou." "Is it related to the suicide note left by Wang Yunhou from the beginning? Or, the capture of Bo Yeqian happened earlier?" This matter is complicated to say, but Hexiang is very clear about the whole relationship. "It was relatively early to capture Nanaqian." Shengzhisuke replied. Donggu once said it when he secretly talked about his father's unjust crime for the first time.

——I think this matter has to be looked at first from the power struggle triggered by the Namonosen store. Generally, people think the other way around, and the black hand behind the scenes in the city proposes to Bo Yeqian "For some reason, we need to forge a suicide note, and if you are willing to help, we will not make it difficult for you"-this kind of thinking is more natural; The "behind the scenes" reported that their client in Edo, Kanoya, knew someone well-suited for the job.Great, then you arrange for them to do it right away-this matter is led by the mastermind behind the scenes, and Bo Yeqian is running errands.

However, in this way, why there was a bribery scandal, and why Nami Chien changed the owner, it is really impossible to explain what actually happened.The former owner of the shop was punished with a scorpion, and the shop was temporarily closed and the signboard was removed. However, it was not long before the high-level permission was obtained to reopen, and the status of the imperial merchant was not removed.At first glance, the punishment seems severe, but it is unreasonable to hold it up high and put it down gently. Having said that, no matter who is behind the scenes in the city, forging the suicide note of the former lord is a huge conspiracy. Will they bring in people from outside the domain?This conspiracy should be carried out in secret, and the fewer people who know the secret, the better. The mastermind behind the scenes should not drag the merchants under the city into the conspiracy, they will try to handle it by themselves.Even if it is necessary to reach out to Edo in order to find a proxy for a forged document, or a master who is good at counterfeiting, they are capable of handling it themselves. The key premise of this matter is that there is such a proxy.Sheng Zhisuke is very clear. Bo Yeqian, the leader of trying to seize the real power in the store, got to know a proxy who has a way to forge documents through Kanoya.Knowing that this person will show off his skills, Bo Yeqian wants to do the same to seize the real power in the store.In other words, in the beginning, it was someone from Bono Chisato who proposed to the high-level officials in the city to fabricate bribery evidence and did a lot of pre-work in order to "steal Bono Chi".This person told the high-level people in the city—I will tell the government that some officials asked me for bribes, and I will trouble you to deal with it at that time.Of course, I will offer a relative reward. The high-level executives who heard the proposal found that the opponent's strategy had other uses, and found more benefits than money from it.The high-level executive thought, if Bo Yeqian's agent can really forge the document so that even the imitated person can't tell the authenticity, can't he be asked to make the fake suicide note of Wang Yunhou?As long as you accept Minami Chi's proposal, and let Furuhashi Sect's Left and Right Gates be wronged, you can confirm the forgery skills of the acting scribe.If all goes well, it's not a bad bet at all. "The first time I heard Mr. Donggu talk about the inside story behind my father's injustice, I was really surprised. There is such a powerful secretary in the world. I half believed it. But now I am sure that the ins and outs must be like this .” Hexiang narrowed his eyes. "That is to say, the man behind the scenes in your domain knew that it was purely accidental. He thought to himself that there is such a good treasure, and he can make good use of it, so he accepted Nachi's proposal." "That's right." "Long before Bo Yeqian seized the real power in the store and made that proposal, the man behind the scenes was there." certainly. "Who is the black hand behind the scenes, should we be able to identify the target?" It's not that simple. When fabricating the bribery incident, who was the one in the crowd who handled the preparations in advance?If this person is not dealt with in advance, this conspiracy will not succeed at all.There may be a black hand behind the scenes, or there is a close relationship between the two. However, it is not enough to win over just one person. Perhaps Namiji used sweet words to deceive two or three people, and each of them has their own powers, such as Imasaka, the elder of the Joshiro family, Kuroda, the head of the civil service, Nagai Fuji, the military officer, and famous experts in the feudal clan. Miyoshi and Satomi and others.Because it is Danwan Xiaofan, there are complicated relationship entanglements with each other. "Isn't there an Ometsu in charge of Mufu in the Takune clan?" "No. Cases that cannot be decided by the crowd will be handed over to the elders for consideration. If they still cannot be decided, they will be left to the lord to decide. But this is rare." He Xiang whispered and said, "It's really hard to analyze." Exactly. "Then let me ask another question. Mr. Guqiao, are you looking for the acting secretary now?" "Look hard." "Don't you think that person is dead? From the standpoint of the mastermind behind the scenes, it will be more at ease for the other party to make a fake suicide note and then silence it?" Sheng Zhisuke is now quite accustomed to saying such shocking things casually with Mr. Xiang. "I won't kill him now. For the mastermind behind the scenes, let the surrogate save his life, and it will come in handy in case something happens in the future. After all, he has a rare stunt. Just send him to the west like this, It's a pity." Sheng Zhisuke is equally shocking. "It can be speculated that the mastermind behind the scenes captured the acting secretary and imprisoned him somewhere, waiting for his next appearance, no matter where the house arrest is. He may have been taken to the Taogen Fan." "Impossible." Sheng Zhisuke said firmly. "Miss Kazuka may not understand, but the world of Togen Fan is very small. Outsiders are particularly noticeable. Even if you are imprisoned in a certain mansion, news will still come from people who often go in and out there." "What if you take it into the mountains?" Shengzhisuke smiled bitterly. "That will attract more attention. Outsiders will be recognized at a glance in the local area, which is far from comparable to this kind of street." Hexiang pouted. "So, I'm imprisoned somewhere in Edo." "Actually, there's no need to go to great lengths to imprison him. Maybe it's to monitor him." "What if the secretary escapes?" "He won't escape. Instead, I think that the acting secretary has become a subordinate of the mastermind behind the scenes. What the mastermind behind the scenes is really worried about is not that the acting secretary will be afraid, but that he will go to the enemy's side." Hexiang showed stern eyes. "You're so mean. That scribe is very poor. He may have been coerced by Minami Chi." Shengzhisuke relayed to Hexiang what the secretary who had been an imperial physician said.Some people in this industry have eccentric tempers;They crave something interesting, and despite the risks they face, they don't hesitate to get out of the day they're eating, sleeping, and eating. "This acting secretary imitates someone else's handwriting and completely becomes the other person. He can change his eyes and heart. If his eyes and heart are as warm as yours, Miss Hexiang, how could he do such a thing." The person's eyes and heart are dead, bloodless and tearless, so they can be easily removed and replaced. "I'm also a person with a weird temper." He Xiang giggled coquettishly. "But it's fun to help others frame others..." "You wouldn't do that. I trust you." "That's because Mr. Guqiao is so kind." He Xiang said solemnly, and after a while, both of them laughed. "I don't think that the acting secretary is a bad person like you do. Of course, he did bad things, and what happened to your father is sympathetic. But I would rather think that the acting secretary was also coerced by the black hand behind the scenes of Bo Yeqian and Guifan. He is A person who is worried and frightened and suffers a lot." If not——Hexiang lowered her head in such a low voice. "This person is at the mercy of bad guys, so what happened to your father is even more sympathetic." Sheng Zhisuke was also silent about it. "Will you kill him when you find him?" "what?" Kazuka looked at Shengnosuke. "After you find the acting secretary, will you kill him yourself? He is your father's enemy." "I won't kill him. If he doesn't confess everything himself, he won't be able to wash away my father's stigma." "When it's all over, will you kill him?" "It's not my job to punish sinners." "If the lord allows you to kill him, what will you do?" Sheng Zhisuke said slowly: "That depends on the situation." Hexiang was originally copying the main points of the dialogue between each other, when she put down her pen. "It's fun to frame others, to make people suffer..." She looked down at her hands and whispered. "This kind of person is unforgivable. But if there is such a person, I don't think his heart and eyes are dead." What is she trying to say? "If the heart is dead, you won't feel anything. Seeing other people's misfortune and being happy means that the person's heart is still alive, but his heart is twisted." It was purely his heart that was severely distorted and deformed, and could not be restored to its original state - He Xiang said. "Miss Hexiang, please don't think so deeply." Sheng Zhisuke shouldn't have said that. "Feel sorry." Hearing Shengzhisuke's apology, Kazuka remained silent, she shook her head slightly, and put her hand to her lips in thought. Then she looked up at Shengzhisuke and said, "Mr. Furuhashi, may I say something that will make people uncomfortable?" "If it's something that makes people uncomfortable, I just said a lot." "What I want to talk about is something else." Wrinkles formed between Hexiang's smooth brows. "I think it's something else, but maybe you don't." "What do you mean?" "Mr. Guqiao, have you had any suspicious looks from around you recently?" Hexiang suddenly said something like a storybook.Sheng Zhisuke couldn't help laughing. "What do you mean by suspicious eyes?" After he asked back, He Xiang seemed coy. "I didn't discover this, but Jindo. She... I didn't ask her, because Jindo is my guardian, and she takes everything very seriously..." This time, Shengzhisuke squeezed out a wrinkle between his eyebrows. "What does this mean?" He Xiang shrank his neck. "Zindo seems to... pay attention to your daily life..." "Pay attention to my daily life?" He Xiang curled up.Sheng Zhisuke noticed that she was blushing. "Yes, I'm sorry. It's embarrassing to say. But I swear, I really didn't ask her." Jin Duo is loyal to Wadaya's favorite jewel, Sheng Zhisuke understands. "Miss Zindo is a good spy." He had thought so before. "I didn't realize I was being watched at all." "Jin Duo is like this. He is a big horse, but he moves quietly and penetrates everywhere." That's right, in the kidnapping of Mikawaya Aji, Jindo showed her skills. "And she has good eyesight..." So she found out——Hexiang hurried on. "About a month ago. Jindo said that someone was watching Mr. Furuhashi. It was too exaggerated to say that someone wanted to get close to you, that's for sure. But the other party didn't visit in a fair manner, but secretly." "Is this suspicious person a samurai or a local?" "Zindo said he was a samurai." Sheng Zhisuke pursed his lips tightly. Hexiang tremblingly said: "Could it be that Mr. Guqiao's movements were noticed by the black hands behind the scenes?" Because Sheng Zhisuke was looking for the acting secretary without any concealment, this result is not surprising.He has been mentally prepared since he decided not to wait and instead to take the initiative. "This is as early as I expected. Don't worry." Be more careful in the future. He Xiang sighed. "That sounds really hard to reassure." In fact, Sheng Zhisuke thinks so too.