Chapter 35 Section 12

Although it was only a one-day trip, Heishiro hadn't left Edo for a long time. When was the last time you went abroad?Can't even think of it.Public servants in the administrative office are not allowed to travel or pay homage to gods and Buddhas as they like. However, there are loopholes in everything.Among the colleagues Heishiro knew, there were some who were good at finding excuses to travel far.As long as the superficial reason makes sense, you can go sightseeing.Heishiro couldn't go out, he could only blame himself for being lazy. Adeyi agreed to prepare a lunch box and deliver it to Hatchobori at any time, and Yan Yi also accompanied him.The two of them have been together for a while, and they look like siblings.It was still dark, and it was dark all around. Yanyi held a lantern to illuminate the way for Ade.

Deku greeted Heishiro's Xikun very thoughtfully, and Xikun returned the same courtesy.Heishiro took advantage of this time to put on leggings and straw sandals. "Master, the leggings on your left and right feet are not the same height." After Ade blurted out without thinking, he remembered that Xijun was by his side, and was terrified.Xijun said softly: "I think so too." The two adjusted for him together.Yan Yi held back a smile from the side. Neither Xikun, Deku, nor Yanichi knew the purpose of Heishiro's return to Kawasaki, and Heishiro only said it was "official business".Because of this, Ade blinked his small eyes worriedly and asked:

"Where the uncle is going, is it close to the master?" Let Ade treat him with such a respectful tone, it seems that his life will be shortened. "No, it's still farther away. What's the matter?" "When passing by, you can't think of 'by the way, worship the master', it will anger the gods." Ade explained that Master Kawasaki is famous for warding off evil, but he can only go there for this purpose. If he goes there for travel or work, it will be disrespectful to the gods, so it must not be done. "Oh, so that's the case, I didn't even know."

Xijun was honestly surprised. "Well, when I pass the master today, I won't be able to enter." "Sir, please be sure to do this, and then bring me with you next year." "Why next year?" "Next year will be my bad year." Xijun's calamity has long passed.Heishiro laughed and said, "Stop lying." Hearing this, Xi-kun became upset: "It's true, sir, there are many kinds of bad years. Look at the calendar, it's written in black and white." "That's right! Sir, what Madam said is absolutely correct." good good good.Heishiro waved to the women and set off.To Xijun's warning of "Be careful on the road", Xiao Pingci answered "Hey, madam, let's go", carefully carrying the three-layer bento box carefully made by Ade.

It gets dark early in autumn, which is called "autumn is like a bucket".But the short days are not only caused by the early darkness, but also the late dawn, but there is no special explanation. Why is this?The two of them chatted about these unimportant things and walked at a leisurely pace.Xiaoping carried the lantern for the first time. On the way to Shimbashi, we passed the Minamachi Magistrate's Office.This month, Kitamachi is on duty, and the gate of Nanding is closed.Perhaps it was because he saw the town prefecture that he remembered it. Xiaoping asked, "Master, how did you report this matter to your superiors today?"

"It doesn't matter, just say it straight." The well-behaved middle eye is wide open. "You said you want to go to Minato's villa?" "It's not that careful. I said that I have to ask someone who left Edo and moved to Kawasaki no matter what." "Is that approved?" "Well, you also asked me to buy something by the way. Imoto-sama likes seaweed sauce from Tsukudani, a shop in Shinagawa station called Miwaya." This Imoto-sama is Heishiro's boss, the head of Fukagawa Fang's office. "Can seaweed Tsukudani sauce be bought everywhere in the city?"

"It seems that the taste is different. If you have eaten Miwaya, you feel that the food in Edo Castle is unpalatable. I will buy some and try it when I go home. You also like Tsukudani, don't you?" After thinking for a while, Xiaoping replied: "Yes, I especially like seaweed Tsukudani. But it's better for me not to eat it. I will be sad if I can't eat Tsukudani from other places." In the flickering lights, Heishiro laughed a few times. "So it makes sense. Then buy it for Ade and ask her to learn the taste of Meilun House." "Oh, what a great idea."

He only left the door after submitting an application respectfully, but the journey was extremely idle.The two thought that there were rice balls to eat on the way, and there were delicacies in the lunch box when they arrived at the house. They only ate a bowl of rice when they got up early, and their stomachs were a little empty after walking a few steps, so they talked about food.Koheiji, who was usually in a daze, became more careful now, and prepared an introduction of famous products and shops along the way from Edo to Kawasaki, so in addition to Miwaya, Heishiro also had a lot of shops in his mind that he wanted to visit along the way.

It was dawn when we reached the town gate of Takanawa.The morning sun was dazzling, so Xiaoping put out the lanterns for the first time, folded them up and put away his luggage.Just yesterday Masagoro said that the lights will be turned off in the Takanawa area this season.Sure enough. Heishiro suddenly thought, is Masagoro also running around the city seriously for official business?I don't know how he spends the rest of the time except being busy with the things he entrusted to him. He only knows that he seems to have a rather dark past before he became Oka Hibiki. Masagoro is going to accompany Dazuo and Yumi nosuke to Yuxipo today to investigate the case of the robbing of the tenant farmer's daughter Achu that Taro said.It was the autumn of harvest, and the morning of the farmers was much earlier than that of the merchants. Masagoro and others who wanted to visit the farms should have gone out.

However, Masagoro and his party set off later than originally scheduled. It's just that the distance from Honso to Roppongi is not far, so it doesn't matter if it's late.Masagoro comforts Yumi nosuke at the clothes drying yard in the backyard of Kawaiya. Because, Gongzhisuke wet the bed again.The pee-drenched bedding hung down from the bamboo pole with its tongue sticking out as if grimacing at Yumminosuke.On the edge porch, Gong Zhisuke faced the bedding, sat in front of his desk and wrote: "I never wet the bed again" His mother strictly ordered him to finish writing a hundred times, otherwise he was not allowed to go out.

Gong Zhisuke was crying. The big forehead sitting next to him also had a mournful face. Masagoro gritted his teeth to hold back a laugh. "Master, anyone can wet the bed, so there's no need to be so upset." I don't know how many times this sentence has been repeated.However, seeing Yumonosuke's frustration, Masagoro had no choice but to keep talking. The hand that wrote silently did not stop for a while, and Yumonosuke sighed heavily. "But, a big forehead won't wet the bed, right?" "no, I can not." Hearing Masagoro's answer, he looked at him with a "wronged" expression on his forehead.Masagoro quickly winked, telling him to take it this way. But Gong Zhisuke knew it well. "You don't have to make up such words to comfort me." It was rare to hear him speak in such an angry tone.Thinking about it, I not only feel ashamed, but also angry with myself. "Going out to run errands today, I couldn't sleep last night. That's the worst part." The last time when I was cleaning the rented mansion in Imoshipo, "I heard such a thing from Makitaro just now..." Mr. Izutsu mentioned Ahatsu in this way, and Yumisuke frowned and fell into deep thought.Masagoro, of course, also thinks something is wrong.The two consecutive strangulation accidents in the same place may have something to do with Aoi's murder, but it's hard to see what is involved. Mr. Izutsu will go to Minaya Villa in Kawasaki today.When the departure date was set, Gong Zhisuke asked the uncle: Can I ask Masagoro to find the girl named Ah Chu while my uncle is away.Uncle Izutsu naturally had no objection. However, Masagoro was a little worried.Although Gong Zhisuke proposed to go out on his own initiative, he seemed a little sullen.Those words just now are by no means verbal comfort, but from the heart. Kuminosuke is very smart, ten ordinary adults can't match it together.But his soul is still a child, and there are still many innocence that match his age.Could it be that his extraordinary head saw what was going on, but his heart couldn't keep up, and he was tortured? According to Mr. Izutsu, Gongnosuke often has nightmares, and he wets the bed when he has nightmares.Masagoro believes that this must be a concrete manifestation of Gong Zhisuke's inner grief. Mr. Izutsu also said the same thing. "But, Masagoro, you can't tell that child not to use his brain because of this. Not only can he not do it, but it is also a hard thing for him. Well, I think that even though it is hard now, the only way is to wait for his heart to grow up. , there is no other way." Waiting for Gongzhisuke who kept writing "I will never wet the bed again", this time he sighed with a big forehead. "Why, even you sigh?" Looking up at Masagoro with a wry smile on his forehead, he said: "It's really well written." It turned out to be a word of admiration for Gong Zhizhi.It is indeed a good handwriting. "How can I write so well?" Gongzhi's assistant kept going up, and at the same time, he turned his head and smiled at the big forehead.Finally seeing him smile, Masagoro was relieved. "The handwriting with the big forehead is not bad at all, it can write better than me." "Nothing." The big forehead shook his head vigorously, which really means "don't say such words to comfort me". "No, no, it's true." Konosuke frowned. "I just copied Mr. Xizi's handwriting. No matter how beautiful the writing is, it is not my handwriting, but an imitation. But the writing on the big forehead is my own handwriting, that's amazing." Gongzhisuke was a little angry, but the strokes were still not messy, and the smooth characters continued to appear. Although he was no longer surprised by the strangeness, Masagoro was still amazed by the intelligence of this beautiful child.Is it a good handwriting, but also an imitation? "When my mother gets angry, she asks me to practice calligraphy like this. I don't want to write about bedwetting anymore. If I write it, I won't wet the bed again. I will write it a million times. But it can't be cured, and writing is useless. Even so, My mother still asked me to write. I deliberately wrote beautifully." Yukinosuke moved his pen out of breath. "Eight more times." Big Forehead said.He seemed to be counting silently. "Okay, wait for me for a while." As soon as he finished writing, Gong Zhisuke showed it to his mother.When I came back soon, the shopkeeper also followed. Gong Zhisuke is the nephew of Uncle Izutsu, and he has also mentioned that he will be welcomed as the adopted son of the Izutsu family.Kawaiya agreed to let Masagoro, dressed in Okabiki, take away the important young master because of the good words of the uncle, but the shopkeeper's eyes were still full of vigilance. "Master, please take care of me." Ok, no problem.Masagoro responded respectfully. Wakamasa Goro took the lead, and the two children followed behind, always seeming to be pulling them away.Therefore, Masagoro let Gong Zhisuke and the big forehead go in front, and he followed behind.The two children walked quite fast, and Masagoro didn't find it difficult to walk. "Can I talk?" Yukinosuke asked. "Of course, sir." "Boss, that 'young master' will be excused." "Then the 'boss' will also be removed." Gong Zhisuke smiled and said: "Then it's Uncle Masagoro. In fact, it seems inappropriate not to invite uncle to accompany you, but the more I think about it, the more disturbed I feel that this matter should not be postponed and waste today. Besides, Uncle Masagoro In place of Uncle." "I don't dare to do it. So what does Yumi nosuke want to do today? Not just ask Taro from Taroshipo about the little girl Atsushi, right?" Yumonosuke clenched his hands tightly as he walked, and looked at him with a big forehead. "杢太郎 likes children. If you tell him the details, he will readily agree to help hide that little girl named Ah Chu! That's what I want to ask him." Edo Castle is full of vitality.Stores on the side of the road opened their doors, and all kinds of pedestrians passed by on the road.The sky in late autumn is extremely clear, and the breeze brings the breath of the city. In it, walking with the two children, the abrupt word "hiding" came to Kamigoro. "Sister Ah Chu," Gongnosuke called affectionately, "I'll be strangled, I think it's probably a threat." "threaten?" Big Forehead seemed equally astonished, and his steps were a little chaotic. "Yes." Yukinosuke nodded. "The one who threatened her was the murderer who killed Mrs. Kui." Hearing this, even Masagoro stopped a step. "That's right." He started again and replied. "Is this how the two strangulations are connected?" "That is what I thought." "In other words, on the day Mrs. Kui was killed, Ah Chu saw someone near Yuxipo Mansion, right? He saw someone's face." "Yes, Uncle Zhengorang is right at all." "But she is still young, so if she asks afterward, she might not remember that person's appearance, right?" A Chu is not a big forehead, he is the child of a tenant farmer in the countryside. "That's right. So the 'seeing' just now should mean 'seeing' or 'encountering'. What sister Ah Chu saw was someone she was quite familiar with." The big forehead walking in front groaned loudly.Masagoro patted his head lightly. "Sister Ah Chu must not understand the meaning of meeting that person there, but that person is very worried. What if the incident of being near the mansion on the day of the murder happened leaked from Sister Ah Chu by some kind of coincidence It would be bad enough to be threatened." The big forehead asked in a low voice: "The Thief Devil?" "Yes, I deliberately made it look like a thief." This is the most ingenious cover, for example, Takutaro is convinced that it is the thief and the devil. Ever since this incident happened, Ah Chu refused to step out of the house, and no matter what 杢太郎 asked, he would not answer, only blindly afraid. The threat worked. "Having said that, the person who threatened him shouldn't be completely relieved. In fact, he wanted to kill sister Ahatsu on the spot, but he didn't do it. Maybe Taro and others were looking for sister Ahatsu everywhere, causing hindrance, so... " Do not let your guard down in the future. "Kuminosuke, how did you think of this?" Masagoro asked. "I heard from Mr. Izutsu that Yumisuke always believed that Mrs. Aoi's murder was not caused by Mrs. Aoi, but happened by accident." "Yes, yes." Yukinosuke replied emphatically. "Actually, I think so too. I suspect that all this may have nothing to do with love and hatred. It may be a robbery murder." "Uncle Masagoro said that, I am so courageous." Gong Zhisuke turned to look at Masagoro and said. "So, young master——no, Gong Zhisuke, when I heard about Ah Chu, I thought it was impossible for these two cases to be unrelated, but they couldn't be connected together. , I won’t come back to silence just to be seen by a child. Don’t talk about silence, you probably don’t even know which family Ah Chu is from.” Masagoro's thinking has reached a dead end here. "Uncle Zheng Wulang, I don't think this time, except for being caught by the 'passing demon', don't think about it." "A passerby...is it?" Masagoro has a different opinion. People who have always behaved as usual suddenly go crazy and commit murder or suicide. It is rare but it does happen.This is the passer-by, as its name suggests, it will be fine if you pass it.At least Masagoro had never heard of an example of the same accident happening twice in the same place.What's more, if the murderer who killed Aoi was mad because of the possession of a passer-by, it should be even more noisy.It is also puzzling to suddenly enter the room and kill people. And when he came to look for Kui and killed her, he went crazy, and then he returned to normal, remembering that his face was bumped into by the familiar Ah Chu, and wanted to kill her—this is even more impossible. In the end, I often can't even remember what I did at that time. Masagoro asked a question, and Yumonosuke slowed down before answering, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. "So, Uncle Zhengorang, I want to kill Mrs. Kui's 'passing demon', which is somewhat different from the commonly known 'passing demon'." Gong Zhisuke carefully chooses his words, and seems to be anxious about not being able to express his thoughts well. "It's just that it happened when the murderer and Mrs. Kui were in the same room, so Mrs. Kui was brutally murdered. When the murderer came back to his senses and fled in a hurry, it happened that sister Ah Chu ran into him..." For a long while, the three walked silently.After passing the Eita Bridge, turn left from here and you will find the dormitory in Hatchobori. "In any case, the murderer is right next to Yuxipo's mansion. It can't be wrong, and he should still be there now. I can be sure of this." Kuminosuke recovered his sonorous voice and said firmly. Miwaya at the Shinagawa post station was guarded by a beautiful woman who was very good at business. Heishiro was so happy that he bought all kinds of Tsukudani, so much that he could barely fit into the two bags of luggage hung on his shoulders one behind the other. The Shinagawa station is naturally adjacent to the inn, but there are also many sea villages that provide freshly caught, grilled and cooked seafood.Heishiro chose a family to sit down and ate rice balls with Xiao Heiji. Perhaps because of the hard work of the journey, Ade’s rice balls are filled with large prunes and yellow pickled radish, luxuriously wrapped in black seaweed. It was a rare visit, so I ate some grilled squid, but refrained from drinking.Heishiro didn't bother to do anything after eating yellow soup. If he drank it here, he wouldn't be able to reach Kawasaki. Shinagawa Station is the first station after exiting Nihombashi.In addition to being a street station, it also has the style and appearance of a place for entertainment.For the Edo people, it is more meaningful in this respect.Even so, because it was still early, the hotel hadn't come out to attract business, and there were no drunk guests.Although there are many pedestrians coming and going, it still makes people feel refreshed and comfortable amidst the noise. While eating rice balls, Xiaoping rarely talked about his memories.His father followed Heishiro's father, and brought Xiaoping here when he was a child, buying grilled salamander conch for him to eat, and also came to the Omori coast to catch the tide. "Oh, so Yaheiji loves children so much." Heishiro also remembered Koheiji's father, Yaheiji. He was a drinker, but he would never have sex after drinking.And Heishiro's father, although not very good at drinking, is very good at women.Going to a woman and getting drunk, and Yaheiji carrying it home in the end are far more than just a few times. When his father passed away, Heishiro, who wanted to avoid inheritance, searched everywhere, hoping that his father would give birth to a boy outside.It's not surprising that there are one or two such womanizers, Heishiro believes so. At that time, Heishiro also pestered Yaheiji, asking him to tell whether there was such a woman.Yaheiji had a stroke shortly before Heishiro's father passed away, and half of his body was useless, so he stammered and replied that no matter how hard he tried, it would be useless to make Heishiro give up.Heishiro thought he was covering up for his father, so he asked: "Now that things are up to now, he won't be angry when he hears anything his father does, just tell me." As a result, Yaheiji twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled. "Although the uncle loves women, he will not do anything to ruin the family. The Izutsu family has no children outside." Heishiro sighed secretly, it's an exaggeration to say that the Izutsu family has such a bad family. Isn't Minatoya Soemon worried about ruining the family?He gave birth to children mercilessly everywhere, and even confessed to them all, and paid for them.Doesn't he worry that when he dies or falls down with a wound and can't move, some children may rebel and come claiming his property? Even if Soichiro is the successor according to common sense, I don't know whether he is my child or not.Blood or not, half of it is a stake.Could it be that, since he thinks this is the case, even if the illegitimate child comes to fight for property, it's okay to turn the world upside down, and he didn't take the matter seriously?But the second son Soujiro next to him is undoubtedly Soemon's son, so of course it's best to keep things calm, right? The man's mind was really unpredictable.Is it important to join the house?Do you love women and children or not? ——Anyway, even if you ask him, he will just avoid answering! "Oh, there is a sedan chair." Xiaoping said while licking off the rice grains on his fingers for the first time. Two sedan chairs, one in front and one behind, passed through the post station.Shaking in response to the yelling of "Hey, hey", the front sedan chair lowered its curtain, and the rear one lifted up, and inside sat a very graceful woman with a translucent complexion and a water-blue collar. woman.I don't know if I want to see the scenery or enjoy the wind, or I just want to show off my beauty to the crowd on the road.There was a shallow, satisfied smile on the corner of the woman's mouth. "That's not a serious woman." Heishiro said. "Eighty percent of the people sitting in the sedan chair in front are men, but they must not be husbands." Therefore, when traveling far away occasionally, women will proudly raise the curtain of the sedan chair, while men hide in the sedan chair. "sunflower……" Heishiro looked at the sedan chair and murmured: "It's the same when you go out with Soemon." As Liu mentioned, the two often go out hand in hand. I don't know, Xiaoping said, tilting his round head slightly. "No matter what happens in the capital, you should be more careful when you return to Edo?" What the two of them were most afraid of was letting Ateng find out.Such a situation must be unpleasant. Ah Liu wrote with great care, but it was intermittent and disorganized.Such and such things happened, but I don't know when and not in order.Regardless of the size of the matter, write down what comes to mind, quite sincere, but unfortunately not enough for reference. But there was a narrative that caught Heishiro's attention.After defeating Sun Ba with the illusion troupe, Aoi once said something like this: "The troupe promised me a favor a long time ago." "I wish I could fool someone with that illusion." Who is it?Who is it that Aoi wants to deceive even at all costs?Jiubei should know, he must ask. Heishiro slapped his hands on his knees. "Okay, let's go!" Masagoro and his two children first visited Yu Xipo's own fan.杢太郎 is not there, but the boss is there. Having greeted him through Saeki Jonosuke before, Hachimaki Hachisuke did not deal with Masagoro sloppily, and only joked to Okabiki who was leading the child: "It seems that the uncles and catchers in the Shenchuan side of our office like to take care of children." 杢太郎 lives in Hosunin.Hearing this, Masagoro immediately raised his thick eyebrows. "I heard that a child named Ah Chu was kidnapped when he went to school there. When he came back, he had strangle marks on his neck. Later, he was too scared to go out. Is this true?" "You really know." "Uncle Izutsu heard what Brother Taro said. Brother Taro seems to be very worried. Could it be that he is accompanying Ah Chu to school?" Hachisuke said no. "He used to go to Fachunyuan often, because he was illiterate. Only then did he finally learn to write his own name, and he was able to make calculations a little bit." Ah Chu still refuses to leave home, and still has a look of fear on his face. "Boss Boju, what's your opinion on Ah Chu's case?" It's useless to ask me.As Bojuan said, he sat down in his small room and picked up the pipe. "Ah Chu was found in that rented mansion. Within half a month, two strangulation cases occurred at the same place." "Just 'coincidentally'!" Hachisuke puffed out a big mouthful of smoke, and even floated to Yumonosuke and Daban who were on the dirt. "I don't know what your territory is like, boss. We have a lot of bushes and forests here. Some bad guys will pull women and children in to bully them. It must be that kind of person who hurt Ah Chu! It has nothing to do with the lady in the mansion. " From another angle, things would look different, but Masagoro couldn't agree with this statement even if the reason for the remoteness of the place was taken into account. "Master Saeki has already explained that I will not hinder you. Please do whatever you like!" Hit a soft nail.After leaving Banya, Masagoro and others walked towards Hoshuin. Kuminosuke, who had just started to walk and was staring at the sky, suddenly said in a low voice: "tobacco." "Kuminosuke, what did you say?" Masagoro asked.Gong Zhisuke was still in a daze. "Master, what's the matter?" Kuminosuke blinked sharply, and his eyes lit up. "No, I think it might be tobacco." "What tobacco?" "The scent in Mrs. Kui's room! Isn't there a tobacco basin?" Aoi smoked, but she had a cold and didn't smoke for a while, but there was a tobacco tray in the room. "Maybe it's for entertaining guests, leaving behind that scent..." "The smell of tobacco," Big Forehead said, "is it the same as a sachet?" Maybe he was puzzled, his face wrinkled into a ball.Yukinosuke shook his shoulders. "Yes! Well, didn't we hear something similar last time? The smoking lender was killed, and his clothes were covered with the smell of his favorite tobacco, but it didn't smell like the ashes shaken in the long brazier. .” The eyes with the big forehead are close to the nose, searching the memory in the head. "The murder case of the lender under Myoshin," the big forehead said as if reading an article, "The murderer is the nephew of the lender who is a carpenter, and the murder weapon is a drill." "That's right, that's the one." It seems to know the scene, but the conversation is terrifying.Masagoro crossed his arms across his chest. "But, is there any tobacco that is as fragrant as a sachet? I'll check it out." "Excuse me!" Gongnosuke regained his energy, said "Hoshunin is over there, right!" and started jogging. It is neither an ancient temple nor a famous temple, but an old temple that can be seen everywhere.Only the bell pavilion is newly built, which is extraordinarily majestic and conspicuous, and it must also be used as the clock in this area. Fachun Temple is such a temple.I asked the young monk who came out of the main hall where the school was, and he said it was in the annex behind the kitchen.The three of them walked past the main hall on the gravel road. Compared with the other buildings, the school is actually more like a hut, maybe it was originally used for the servants of the temple.Stones are pressed everywhere on the wooden roof, and the windows are wooden lattices that open up and down, propped open by a piece of firewood. The children recited in unison with great vigor: Yukinosuke smiled slightly. "Good teaching." "Is Yumonosuke also learning this in Sasaki-san's class?" "There are a little more Chinese." Of course, Masagoro thought. After a while, only hearing the children answer "yes" in unison, they all came out.There are men and women, at least twenty people.In that hut, they were definitely packed shoulder to shoulder and elbow to elbow.They are all dressed up as merchants or farmers, and there is not a single child from the Wu family. Masagoro stood among the children who appeared with the uproar.The children dismissed him, but when they saw Gong Zhisuke and the big forehead with their sharp eyes, they either slowed down or turned back.There was a girl whose eyes were about to fall out of surprise, staring straight at Yumisuke.The other girl who came back to urge her companions was also stunned when she caught a glimpse of Kinnosuke.Both of them opened their mouths.Oops, what a sin. Makitaro walked out slowly through the door of the hut, one step behind the children.Before he had time to call out, he found Yukinosuke. "Isn't this Yuutarou?" "Yumutaro?" Masagoro and Dazuo repeated at the same time. "I'm here by that name." After finishing speaking, Gongzhisuke ran towards Makitaro like a puppy, and threw himself on his neck. "Wow—Boss Taro!" "Hey, I'm not the boss, you have to tell me a few times before you understand!" Makitaro was so happy that he almost melted.Masagoro looked back a little, and saw that the two girls were still standing there just now, as if staring blankly.Masagoro bent down, put his hands on his knees, and said softly: "Girls, come home!" The two of them seemed to have been drenched in a basin of cold water, and they were sober. "Uncle, uncle!" One of the girls pointed to Yumonosuke who was entangled with Taro and asked: "Is he a puppet?" Masagoro smiled. "No, you are a child just like a little girl." "What a pretty face!" the two sang.Then, the eyes turned to the large forehead nearby. "What a big forehead!" After the two finished talking on their own, they laughed and ran away in a hurry.Masagoro looked down at his big forehead and said: "You are also implicated." The big forehead didn't care, and replied: "Yes, I'm used to it." "Oh, are there any guests?" a pleasant female voice asked.Masagoro looked towards the door of the school. Are you in your early twenties?Wearing an oriole-colored narrow-sleeved kimono and a speckled belt, she stands in a pretty posture. On her slender neck is a small face with a pointed chin and a thin nose.Although it is not to apply the words of the girl just now, but this is also a beautiful woman who is as graceful as a paper doll. She is Mr. Haruka from the school.The eyes of the two met, and Masagoro bowed respectfully. Masagoro was wearing a fishing rod around his waist, and he came to find Taro on business. Mr. Haruka seemed very worried after knowing this. He first greeted Masagoro for his hard work, and then bowed again. "If you have confidential matters to discuss, please use this cabin." Masagoro looked at Yumisuke.He nodded slightly, and replied cheerfully, "Boss, then let's bother you sir." A group of people entered the hut.There are a few long tables lined up inside, and on the wooden wall are pasted words for children to learn, and there is also a large abacus that can be embraced by one person, presumably for teaching.The series of words recited by the children in unison just now are hung on the high place of the front in smooth handwriting. "After class, the children would read aloud in unison." Mr. Haruka served tea while explaining. "What's that over there?" A much smaller piece of paper was taped to the wall with the same handwriting, so it could be seen that it was also written by Haruka-san.Big forehead said: "Beautiful and ugly, good or bad clothes, good or bad family, capricious selfishness, quarrels, irritability, slander, complaints, gossip, secrets." "Good reading." Mr. Haruka smiled and praised the big forehead. "It's used to teach what not to do." Masagoro laughed secretly.The two girls just now have violated the teacher's instruction and compared their appearance with beauty and ugliness. "Do boys and girls teach together here?" "Yes. It would have been better to separate, but this is not a school where you have to read Analects at the age of seven, and the children, both male and female, have to help out at home." "Anyway, no child from the Samurai family will come." Makitaro also helped. "There are other schools. Before Mr. Jingxiang came here, the children of merchants and farmers went there. But the children of the Wu family are very proud, and the two sides quarreled endlessly, and they couldn't be stopped. So Mr. is willing to come here to run a school. Everyone is very grateful." "How old is it?" "Well, it's been almost five years?" Haruka-san looked at Kakutaro with confirmation, and Kataro nodded.Masagoro thought, then, this gentleman is probably older than expected. "Does sir live here?" "No, the monastery was originally reserved for women. I just came here to teach." Masagoro knew this too, so he deliberately asked the question. Haruka-san knows everything. "I borrowed from a family near my own place. It's just that the place is too small to run a school. The head of the Tan family of Fachunyuan is a relative of my family. Because of this relationship, I was able to rent this other house." "So, it's remarkable that Mr. has left his parents' knees." Mr. Haruka smiled, but didn't answer this time.Masagoro speculates that most of them have unspeakable secrets. "Excuse me, has Mr. Haruka ever entered the mansion of the Thief Devil?" This was an abrupt question, but Yumisuke's innocent demeanor didn't bother him at all.His voice was sweet as if he was coquettishly begging for an answer. "Is it the mansion of Thief Demon? The noble lady who lived alone before..." Haruka-san hesitated, and Masagoro nodded. "A child named Ah Chu, who went to school with my husband, disappeared suddenly before, and was finally found in that mansion." "Did you come here from our firm just to handle this case?" Haruka-san had some doubts in her eyes.This is of course, because the jurisdictions are too far apart. At this time, Gongzhisuke made a sweet voice again: "Hey, boss, is that so? No way! You're here for my brother, right?" It turns beautifully. Who does "my brother" refer to?Is it Saki? "Yeah, I'm here to investigate a completely unrelated case. It's just that I happened to hear about the girl Ah Chu, so I just mentioned it. That room is really dangerous." Mr. Haruka nodded greatly, shaking her body accordingly. "The children are very scared! I also told them not to get close." "How about exorcising evil spirits?" said Gongnosuke.He stretched out his legs straight, and his eyes were full of mischief. "Invite a very powerful monk to come, or the priestess and priestess can do it?" "makes sense." "Or is it that Boss Taro is willing to help fight ghosts and slay demons?" Taro shrugged his big shoulders. "I can't, I can't compare to demons and ghosts." "That's not the case, Mr. Taro is very strong. Big forehead, Mr. Taro, he has defeated a robber with such a big knife with his bare hands!" Yutaro, also known as Yumonosuke, seems to have heard of the various meritorious deeds of Makitaro.I saw him gesticulating, frothing, and talking endlessly about the heroic deeds of Taro Taro.When the big forehead and the two eyeballs were put together (even this kind of thing must be remembered), when he listened carefully, Taro tried to stop him several times, his face was bluish and sweaty, and he was extremely busy.Masagoro secretly smiled wryly, presumably these stories have added a lot of fuel and jealousy. Yukinosuke was very eloquent, and Mr. Haruka laughed and was surprised, and was very happy.Masagoro saw the timing and stepped in. "Oh, I've been sitting for so long without realizing it. We're just here to pick up Taro-san, but I'm so sorry to bother you. Sir, we'll take our leave now." Kotaro, who was dizzy with Gongnosuke's three-inch tongue, finally came back to his senses. "Yes, yes, I haven't talked about important things yet, I'm really sorry." Mr. Haruka asked to stay, saying that if you have something to say, you might as well talk about it here.But Masagoro declined, and the group left Hoshuin.Takutaro followed with a look of confusion on his face, but Yumi nosuke ignored him, first came to Masagoro and whispered: "Although I don't doubt Mr. Haruka, but as the saying goes, 'a long embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest', if you want to hide Ah Chu, you have to be more careful." Then, Yumonosuke lowered his voice and added: "Mr. Haruka doesn't smell like a sachet." "Have you been smelling it?" "Uncle Zheng Goro is not yet." Masagoro nodded and turned to face Takutaro.Although Takutaro was a big man, Masagoro was also very tall, and their eyes were exactly the same height. Masagoro said, "Actually, Makitarou-san".