Chapter 26 fourth quarter

The next day, when Maoqi arrived at Miyoshi House, the doctor happened to come too, and Ridao was awake. When Guian came out after seeing the patient, Maoqi grabbed him and asked about Ridao's situation.Keian looks young, but his long unknotted hair is mixed with white hair, and he looks about forty years old.He assured Moshichi in a calm voice that although it would take some time, Ridou should be fully recovered. "That's because the doctor is good at medicine. Really, I am also grateful to the doctor." As soon as Mao Qi approached, he could smell the ointment on Gui An's body.Mao Qi's expression made the doctor smile cheerfully.

"It stinks, right? But it's the ointment that made me famous." "Is this ointment prescribed by a doctor?" "yes." "Isn't it available elsewhere?" "No, that's not the case. As long as someone asks, I will also send the prepared ointment. Because the quantity is quite large, my wife is busy making this ointment every day." After watching the doctor leave, Moshichi went to Himichi's room.The doctor told me not to talk for too long.Mao Qi thought to himself, just give gifts. Ridao sat on the mattress, and a woman who tied up his sleeves with a drawstring was helping him into his pajamas.Probably his mother.Although the whole body was wrapped in circles of white cloth, bruises and redness could still be seen everywhere.One eye was so swollen that it could hardly be opened, it was horrible.The room is filled with the smell of Guian's special ointment.

"Boss," the woman with the belt immediately stood in front of Ridao. "I'm Michi, the wife of Miyoshi House, please ask me if you have anything to do." "No, no. I'm not talking about complicated stuff." Shigeru took out the sakura mochi bag from her bosom. "There's a delicious bean curd sushi stand by the Tomioka Bridge. They've also started making some desserts recently. This is Sakura Mochi. You know the owner of the stall, right? He also came here a few days ago." "That's cherry blossoms." Ridou—no, it's Miyoshiya Nagasuke at the moment—looking at the cherry blossom branch in Moshichi's other hand, he said softly. "It turns out that there are already so many."

"Well, it's all in bloom. It's a pity that I didn't get any flowers." Moshichi put the cherry blossom branches on the tatami.Meizhi looked at Moshichi and Hidao in turn with a wary face. "Grandma, I want to eat sakura mochi, and I'm thirsty, go get some water." Changsuke said. Michi turned her head frequently as she walked out of the room.She'll probably rush back soon, so there's not much time to talk. "Fortunately, a life was saved." Mao Qi moved to the side of the mattress and said.Nagasuke nodded quietly. "I was going to find out the gang that attacked you and give them a good lesson. But, frankly, there is no clue at all. Do you have any clue?"

Changsuke blinked his swollen eyelids and remained silent.Mao Qi felt pitiful, and couldn't help blurting out: "You, don't continue to do this kind of thing?" Changsuke looked at Maoqi with a tired expression on his face. "Your spiritual vision ability, is it just telling what your father found out? Before your father got the understanding of his family and came back here to inherit the family business, he was under the arrester, right?" Changsuke wanted to pick up the cherry blossom branch Moshichi brought, but he couldn't pick it up.His hands were also wrapped in white cloth.Mao Qi grabbed the cherry blossom branch and placed it on top of Ye Zhuo.

"It's so beautiful." Changsuke said. The two fell silent.Seeing that Michi is coming back.Just when Moshichi was about to give up the interrogation, Nagasuke, who had lowered his head just now, complained in a low voice: "Sometimes it can really be seen." The injured child's expression was terrifyingly serious, but also very sad. "Really..." Mao Qi nodded and said. "However, even if you see it, you don't have to say it? You don't want to suffer this kind of pain again, do you?" "Abba, he..." Mao Qi shook her head and said, "Just say you can't see it anymore. Anyway, Sanhaowu's business is very good. Without the reward of Lingshi, life will not be bitter at all."

Nagasuke looked into Moshichi's eyes.Ridao's eyes were exposed from the white cloth and mottled and bruised, Mao Qi felt that only at this moment could he regain his old eyes. "But, I can't let the people who come to ask me down." Mao Qi was at a loss for words for a while, but still reluctantly said: "Do you remember that girl named Axia came to you? She asked you to help her find a fiance." Perhaps Hidichi still remembered it because he personally accepted the request out of sympathy. "What about the vision? What did you see? Did you really see that man named Qingyi buried under the weeping cherry blossoms?"

Rido shook his head.Perhaps because of being hurt and weakened, he regained his child's nature.Hikichi said honestly without boasting, "I only saw weeping cherry blossoms and a seriously injured man." "Then, your father found out the rest?" "Yes. After investigation, Dad said that there were traces of digging under the cherry tree, and I said that the body was buried there. Anyway, I can't confirm it." After the incident until now, Maoqi was furious again. "Your father really committed crimes." "……Sorry." "Not only to A-Xia, I mean he is more cruel to you than anyone else."

Himichi reached out his hand wrapped in a white cloth to touch the cherry blossoms. "Leader, please help me to thank Uncle Street Vendor." "……Ok." "The thing that uncle is hiding, can I tell the boss?" As if peeping into Moshichi's heart, Rimichi tilted his head slightly and said: "Uncle, he is looking for someone. He set up a stall there just to find someone. He really wants to meet that person." Mao Qi said slowly: "Is this what you saw with your spirit vision?" "Ok." "Then you take this to heart." At this time, Michi came back, and Hanjiro also came with him.

"I was just about to say goodbye." Mao Qi stood up and said. "How much you cherish your son!" As soon as Mao Qi walked out of the room, the white paper door shut tightly with a snap. A few days later, the investigation was finally not in vain, and Quan San brought back news.It is said that a tenant farmer who lived next to Kakuda's house saw a strange man enter the landlord's house on the night Qingyi disappeared. "He said that he went to bed late because he was taking care of a sick horse. He heard from him that the man's height and appearance were very similar to Seiichi's. The man didn't enter the house right away, and it was said that he wandered around the bushes for a while. It was a full moon that night, and the tenant farmer could clearly see the man's face. After seeing Qingyi's portrait, he said it was that man."

Then Seiichi did visit Kakuda's house.Ridao said that he was seriously injured, did he die because of the serious injury?Buried after death? Mao Qi frowned in thought, and Quan San went on to say: "Also, boss, doctors often come and go in and out of Jiao Tian's house." "doctor?" "Yes. I heard that Shichiemon has a long-standing problem of gout. The doctor and the entourage carrying the medicine box come about once every three days." Mao Qi opened his mouth wide and remained motionless, then just sat there and shouted at Xi Ji.Coming back with Quan San, Xi Ji, who was the kitchen gang leader, rushed in in shock. "What's up?" "The last time you wanted to borrow the toilet at Kakuda's house, you said there was a strange smell in his house, right?" "Huh?" Xiji said confusedly. "Smell? What?" "Didn't you say it stinks? You said it smelled like manure." "Yes, yes, yes." "Is it really the smell of manure? Are you mistaken?" "This..." Xiji tilted his neck. "Not sure. But it is indeed a suffocating smell." Shigechi and Shikichi rushed to the house of Guian in Asakusa.When approaching Gui'an's house, Xiji jumped up and said: "Boss, that's exactly what it smells like!" Moshichi accompanied Asha with Quansan and Shikichi, and invited Guian to go with him, and visited Kakuda Nanachiemon again.A Xia ran all the way and followed. Seiichi was indeed at Kakuda's house, but he was not killed.He was probably injured and unable to walk.The Kakuda family locked him in the room, and privately invited a doctor to come to see him and treat him with ointment.Qingyi didn't disappear, nor did he die, he just went in and didn't come out again. Shichiemon, who came out to greet him, was furious, and repeatedly said that he didn't know, didn't know, but Moshichi told what the tenant had seen Seiichi, pointed out the smell of Katsura's ointment, and asked who used the ointment. Finally recruited. "Qingyi was locked in a room in the yard." He said through gritted teeth. "He came uninvited that night, noisy and noisy. When I asked my family to stop him, I shot him too badly. When his injury heals, I plan to give him money and let him leave Edo." A Xia yelled: "In this case, why didn't you tell me?" Qiemon said coldly: "I said it, everyone will know, it may affect my daughter's marriage. Anyway, people like Seiichi are not a good thing. You'd better forget about him early." "Too much! How do you know he's not a good guy?" "Of course I know." Shichiemon said firmly. "Qingyi is the child I let my daughter give birth to twenty years ago." As Shichiemon said, Seiichi was indeed in the tatami room in the courtyard.Although the condition is better than that of Ridao, he can hardly walk around, and he cannot move his right hand.Even so, he still put his arms around A Xia who was running past, and apologized to her frequently. "I always want to come back to you." Qingyi said repeatedly. "Why are you here?" Asha cried.Although weeping with joy, there may be some unwillingness in my heart. "I've heard about you. Your mother is the daughter-in-law here. She passed away shortly after giving birth to you. You were kicked out and suffered a lot. Why do you still come to them? That kind of beast You don't deserve to be a father at all." Qingyi left this family when Xu Sui was seven years old.He said that instead of being kicked out, he escaped by himself. "Because my life here is worse than that of a cow and a horse." Nanaiemon's main room seems to be a very jealous woman.Nanacheemon's daughter-in-law had died a long time ago, but when she thought about it, she abused Seiichi to relieve the resentment in her heart.Qingyi couldn't take it anymore, so he had no choice but to flee the house barefoot, holding his mother's tablet. However, he secretly made up his mind that one day, when he grows up, he must come back again and express his unhappiness.Since he was still a child at the time, he didn't know exactly where the Kakuda family was in Edo, but he kept in mind the fact that Fukagawa was surrounded by vast fields and there was a weeping cherry tree in the yard. return. "I can't forget." Qingyi said. "That weeping cherry tree seems to grow in my heart. I was beaten in that yard, I was not allowed to eat, I was tied to a pillar, and no one paid any attention to me. This is how the Kakuda family treated me, but they spent a lot of money to take care of it. A cherry tree." However, once he really came to Kakuda's house, he would still hesitate after all, so he didn't go in right away.He originally planned to turn around and go back, but when he saw that the weeping cherry tree was taller than he remembered and covered with buds, he made up his mind to go in. "At first, my father didn't recognize me." Qing said to Mao Qi. "When I told Qingyi's name, his expression changed drastically. I said, I'm about to start a family and become a dignified man, so I'm here to tell you. In the end, he said he came to ask for money, right? A small gold coin was thrown, and at this moment, I lost my head." Because Seiichi was furious, and the Kakuda family was also in a hurry and didn't know what to do, they ended up messing things up.The people who came after hearing the sound not only punched and kicked Qing, but also beat him with sticks, and Qing was knocked unconscious on the ground.Since then, Qingyi has been staying here.Because Qiemon was worried that letting him go back would cause commotion, which would not only embarrass the Kakuda family, but also affect his daughter's marriage. "Having said that, the Kakuda family is not bad just for asking a doctor to treat you." The next daughter and the last one are different, the previous cautious and polite attitude disappeared without a trace, and when she borrowed the door panel to carry Qingyi back, she completely ignored her.Maoqi and his party had to borrow a cart from a tenant farmer. The weeping cherry blossoms have not yet bloomed, but the branches are swaying.Qingyi let Axia support his body on the cart, but his eyes kept staring at the cherry tree until he went away. Two days later, Kajiya came to report that the men who attacked Hidori had been found.They were probably overly frightened, so they answered Moshichi's questions honestly.They were indeed employed by Kakuda Nanachiemon. Although Maoqi was filled with anger, Miyoshiya didn't want this matter to be publicized, so it was difficult to report the matter of Ridao to the higher authorities, and Seiichi also expressed that he did not want to have anything to do with the Kakuda family. So Mao Qi made a plan.He gave Kajiya the sole discretion to teach those men a lesson, and after they couldn't straighten their bones, he asked Kajiya to ask them to go to Kadota's house to ask for medical expenses.I heard that these men broke into Kakuda's house, and they must have blackmailed a large sum of money. Soon, the daughter of the Kakuda family also successfully recruited her husband. Kajiya took the money extorted by the men and sent some of it to Seiichi—but Moshichi didn't know about it; it was because she said she didn't know beforehand. When the cherry blossoms withered and the young leaves were pulled out, the Maoqi family could finally go out to admire the cherry trees that had no flowers to enjoy.Everyone drank around the double-layer bento box made by Mrs. Touzi, drinking and laughing to their heart's content. On the way home, Quan San avoided being heard by Xi Ji and Tou Zi Niang, and whispered to Mao Qi: "About that vendor owner." "Ok." "Even though he was a samurai before, it seems strange that he knows so much about the town. Although he said that he learned about Miyoshi House by chance, things should not be that simple." On this point, Maoqi also holds the same view. "A samurai can't be wrong, but could it be a public servant of the magistrate's office?" Quan San said. "If he wasn't in charge of Fukagawa's public service, the boss wouldn't know him, would he?" "Well, I can't say for sure." Mao Qi said vaguely. If the boss had been a public servant of the magistrate's office before, Moshichi should have guessed it even if the site was different.However, Quan San should be right - the boss is a samurai, and he is investigating something in the town.Maoqi thought that must be the case. Does the town then hold all such important offices? There is only one, that is, the enlistment position-that is, the public servant who is responsible for the murderous cases of arson robbers ①This position is very important, it is an independent position, the office is located in one's own mansion, and it is concurrently held by the head of the shogunate's artillery group or the bow and arrow group. The position, the number of subordinates will increase to sixty, and the power is great.And once a suspicious person is found, you don't need to ask the other person's identity, even the priests, banners, and royal family members can take them back to the mansion on the spot. However, this idea was too abrupt after all, so Mao Qi didn't intend to say it, so she had to pretend to be drunk.Generally speaking, it is not advisable to think about things during the darkening spring night. "Ye Ying is not bad either," said the head lady.Mao Qi thought to himself, the weeping cherry blossoms in Kakuda's house are probably blooming at this moment.