I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Main Text Chapter 311 Kyoto Prefecture with Many Partisans

All kinds of women.

Women in various poses.

However, no matter what kind of woman, they are all very well drawn.

Even a person like Lin who doesn't have much research into painting can tell at a glance that the painters who drew these women have excellent skills. With just a few simple strokes, they can outline the charm of women and the plumpness of their bodies.

A middle-aged man was lying in the center of the room right now.

巘戅 ding ding novel 巘戅. Grab it, grab it. With a thin figure and messy hair, he seemed unkempt at first glance, but both his clothes and his body were surprisingly clean—this was the first impression of this middle-aged man on Lin.

This middle-aged man lying on the tatami is painting.

And what he drew was a girl in a yukata.

The girl's figure has been outlined, and the middle-aged man is coloring the girl in the painting.

A total of 8 incense sticks were lit beside the middle-aged man.

The special sweet smell in the air comes from these 8 incense sticks.

Because the floor of the room was covered with ukiyo-e prints, it was extremely difficult for Lin and Asai to find a place to stay.

After a lot of effort, the two finally arrived in front of the middle-aged man and knelt down.

After Lin and Asai sat down in front of the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man put down the brush in his hand and looked at Lin and Asai.

"Let's talk." The middle-aged man didn't ask who Lin and Asai were, "What are you two doing here?"

Lin didn't rush to say what Mucun wanted her to hand over to the middle-aged man.

Instead, he turned his head away first, scanned the surrounding area again with interested eyes, and said softly to the middle-aged man in front of him:

"I really didn't expect that I could meet the famous Jinle in this kind of place."

"Oh?" The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows, "You can actually recognize me as Jinle... Have you ever bought my paintings?"

After hearing the conversation between Lin and the middle-aged man, Asai raised his eyebrows.

Asai has no interest in ukiyo-e, nor has he bought any ukiyo-e.

But even Asai, who has no interest in or understanding of Ukiyo-e, has heard of the name "Jinle"-a painter who specializes in painting beauties, whose works are always bestsellers, and whose works are always priceless. , extremely difficult to obtain.

Asai also heard that Jinle is a very mysterious person, even those vendors who specialize in selling ukiyo-e, no one has seen Jinle's appearance, and they don't even know what age Jinle is.

"I haven't bought your paintings." Lin shook her head lightly, "but I have seen your paintings. Your superb painting skills have left a deep impression on me, so I saw the paintings in this room. After these paintings, I immediately recognized you as the famous painter Jin Le."

"Thank you for the compliment." The middle-aged man—or Jin Le chuckled a few times, "I'm not really famous. I'm just famous among those customers who like beauty paintings. .”

"Did the two of you come here specially to buy paintings?"

"If you came here to buy paintings, you can take the paintings in this room as you like. They will be given to you for free."

Jinle raised his finger and pointed to the tatami beside him.

"Oh?" Asai said at this time, "We can take the paintings in this room as we please? Is that okay? You put a lot of effort into these paintings, right? In your name, Jinle, If you sell these paintings, you should be able to sell them for a lot of money, right?"

"Hehehe..." Jinle chuckled a few times, "I paint purely out of interest. Ukiyo-e artist is just a side job I use to pass the time."

"I'm not short of money now, so you can take any of the paintings in this room if you like."

"Master Jinle." Lin said softly, "We took the liberty to come here this time just to bring you a message for Yahachi Mucun."

"Oh?" Jin Le's eyes flickered slightly,

"Makimura Yahachi? Is it the 'Sword Dragon' Makimura Yahachi who used to be powerful in Kyoto?"

Lin nodded.

"What did he ask you to bring?"

"A very short sentence - 'Now a group of people are killing people everywhere in the city of Kyoto. Since last night, 45 people have been killed. Please pay attention to safety'."

"...a special client brought me a message, but it turned out that the message was just to remind me to be safe... Hehehe, I really have Mucun's demeanor..." Jin Le muttered for a while, then whispered smile.

"We have successfully brought Yahachi's words to us, so --- let's take our leave first."

"Huh? Are you two leaving?"

"Yeah." After Lin nodded lightly, she picked up the sword placed on the tatami on the right side, and slowly stood up, "As I said just now - we took the liberty to come here this time just to help Miba Just a word for you."

"Now that the mission has been completed, we naturally have no reason to stay here."

"That's it...then you two go slowly, I won't see you off."

After all, Jinle picked up his brush again and continued to concentrate on painting.

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After Lin and Asai left Jinle's mansion one after the other, Asai turned around and took a look at Jinle's mansion, and muttered softly:

"I didn't expect Mucun to know the painter Jinle... and judging from the tone of Jinle's talking about Mucun just now, the two of them seem to be very familiar."

"Mihachi is a native of Kyoto, and he worked as a teacher in Kyoto for 5 years, and met some strange friends in Kyoto, which is extremely normal." Lin said casually.

"...Let's talk." After Asai was silent for a while, Chao Lin asked aloud, "My lord, do you know why Mu Cun gave up being Kyoto's Yori and left Kyoto?"

"I'm not sure." Lin said without thinking, "I'm not interested in other people's past."

"Makimura often told us what happened before and when he became Yori." Asai said, "However, he has always kept secrets about why he gave up the glorious position of Kyoto Yori. "

"Miba doesn't want to take the initiative to tell me, which means that his history is not something he can take the initiative to talk to others." Lin's tone became more serious, "So I respect Miba Hachi's choice. As long as Miba doesn't take the initiative to speak up, I won't take the initiative to ask."

"Compared to Yahachi's past, I am more concerned about Yahachi's present and future."

"Hey! Have you ever seen the person on this arrest warrant?"

At this moment, a loud shout suddenly sounded from behind Lin and Qianjing, and stopped Lin and Qianjing.

The two of Lin followed the sound and looked back, only to see that it was five young people who were not too old to stop them. Grab Grab Grab Grab

None of these five youths carried the necessary weapon for official missions: ten hands, so it was obvious at a glance that these five people were not official missions.

The leader of the five youths held Ogata's wanted warrant in his hand. After calling Lin and Asai, he immediately handed the wanted warrant in his hand to Lin and Asai for their reading.

Lin simply glanced at the wanted notice, then shook her head, and said in a low voice:

"never seen it."

In order to deceive others, Lin has always dressed in men's clothing, and she deliberately lowered her voice when speaking, using a very neutral voice that is neither masculine nor feminine to talk to people.

Not only that, in order to prevent anyone from recognizing her as the "Buddha's Enemy" based on the knife at her waist, Linte wrapped the handle and scabbard of her sword "Yan Mo" and Wakizawa "Zhen Guishen" with cloth. .

After Lin's voice fell, Asai on the side immediately shook his head and said:

"I haven't seen it either."

"That's it...that's bothering you."

Seeing that they could not get any clues from Lin and Asai, the five youths did not show any signs of frustration. People go in the exact opposite direction.

After walking a few steps, the five youths stopped another person and asked him if he had seen the face on the arrest warrant.

Lin and Asai were not in a hurry to continue on their way, but turned their heads to glance at the five youths.

"...It seems that it is true that the disciples of the Six Great Sword Gyms ran out to assist the officials in capturing Yidao Zhai." Asai said softly to Lin beside him, "The five people He should be a disciple of the Six Great Sword Halls."

Just now, Lin and Asai heard the rumors from passers-by that "the Six Great Sword Gyms were also involved in the capture of Ogata".

Until now, after seeing the disciples of the Six Great Swords Hall holding Ogata's arrest warrant and asking people if they had seen the face on the arrest warrant, Lin and Asai were convinced that it should be true.

After Lin nodded slightly, she said:

"Let's go."

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Rin and Asai walked straight to the inn where they were staying.

Lin and Mucun and Shimada made an agreement when they separated to act separately—Lin and Asai would return to the hotel where they lived after helping Mucun finish the conversation.

As soon as they walked back to the door of the hotel, Lin and Asai saw a familiar figure standing in front of the hotel, panting.

It's Shimada.

Before Lin and Asai had time to ask what happened to Shimada, Shimada noticed that Lin and Asai had returned, and immediately rushed towards them:

"My lord! Senior Asai!"

"Sorry, Katsurokuro, I kept you waiting." Lin took the lead to apologize to Shimada, "I kept you waiting, do you have something to ask us? Where did Yahachi go?"

Shimada shook his head: "Ding Ding Novel"

"No, I just ran back just now."

"My lord! Something big happened!"

Lin, who noticed that Shimada was flustered now, frowned slightly, and said to Shimada in a calm tone, "Don't panic."

Lin untied the bamboo tube hanging from his waist, and threw it towards Shimada in front of him.

"You ran all the way, your throat is dry, right? I heard your voice is hoarse. Drink some water to moisten your throat first."

"Yes Yes!"

Shimada unscrewed the mouth of the tube repeatedly, and poured the water in the bamboo tube into his mouth.

"Don't worry." Lin said to Shimada in a calm tone, "Drink slowly."

After drinking almost all the water in the bamboo tube, Shimada put down the bamboo tube in his hand.

Hearing Lin's calm tone, Shimada couldn't help being affected by it, and his flustered heart gradually calmed down.

After his flustered heart returned to calm, Shimada told Lin concisely what happened to him and Mucun just now.

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"Sorry...my lord..."

After explaining to Lin and Asai what happened, Shimada lowered his head, not daring to look at their faces.

His face was actually full of annoyance and remorse.

"I'm really...too bad... Not only did I fail to snatch Senior Mucun back from the hands of those officials, but I also failed to catch that bald head..."

After all, Shimada closed his eyes tightly, ready to be scolded by Lin and Asai.

However—the imaginary reprimand did not come.

Shimada only felt a warm little hand on his shoulder.

Shimada slowly opened his eyes and raised his head—it was Rin's hand.

"The officials from Kyoto attacked you and Mucun, are you not injured?" Lin asked.

"No..." Shimada shook his head, "The officials seem to be targeting Mucun alone."

"It's good that you are not injured. Thank you for coming to report."

After that, Lin put down the hand on Shimada's shoulder, turned sideways, and glanced at Asai beside her.

"Shichiemon, Katsurokuro, let's go."

Lin lifted Yan Mo and Zhen Guishen on her waist, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.

"We... go and snatch Mihachi back!"

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In the tea house where Kamiyama and Hasegawa were staying in Kyoto—

At this moment, besides Shenshan and Hasegawa, there was one more person in the tea house.

This person is the assistant of Shenshan who specially ran over to report to Shenshan.

The news that Shenshan's assistant came to report to Shenshan was very brief—Makimura Yahachi was arrested by Abbe Riri, and Mucun Yahachi is currently being held in prison.

"...I see." Shenshan waved his hand, signaling the assistant to step back first.

After the assistant stepped back, Hasegawa, who was sitting opposite the mountain, said in a deep voice:

"...Did that Abbe Riri ever have any trouble with you or Yahachi Makimura?"

Hasegawa didn't know much about the factional struggle in Kyoto Prefecture, but based on his years of experience in Edo, Hasegawa could vaguely guess why Abe Riri wanted to arrest Mucun for no reason.

"That's right..." Shen Shanchang sighed, "That bastard Abeliri..."

At this moment, there was a loud noise outside the teahouse.

Wow!

The door of the tea house was pulled to the end in one breath.

An extremely handsome young man led a young man with a bit of nobility and excellent temperament into the tea house.

For these two young people, Shenshan and Hasegawa are very familiar.

Just now, Mucun led these two young people to the tea house to reach a cooperation with Shenshan.

Looking at the two youths striding towards them, Shenshan did not show any signs of panic.

Because he had expected that when Mucun was arrested by officials, his companions would not be able to do nothing.

The handsome young man in the lead strode up to Shenshan and Hasegawa, and asked Shenshan unceremoniously:

"Lord Shenshan, can you explain to us—why Mucun was taken away by the officials?"

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