Shinagawa-juku and Edo are just a stone's throw away. Aoto asked Hikka to deliver his letter to the Edo Kitaban Office last night. This morning, the reply from the Kitaban Office was handed over to Aoto.
After opening the letter, which had the seal of Hokubansho and the autograph of the town chief Susui, Aomori read it at a glance.
This eloquent reply has roughly two paragraphs in mind:
1: Express condolences to Qingdeng who unfortunately was attacked again by the "radical anti-foreigners".
2: Let Qingto continue to go to Fujisawa Juku to investigate the case, and they will take over the handling of the "radical anti-foreign faction".
The contents of the letter were all within Qingdeng's expectations.
The monastery is not Qingteng's home, and senior people like Bo Jing are not Qingteng's parents.
It is impossible for him to interrupt the handling of business matters and the investigation of the case due to some personal reasons.
You are being targeted by the "radical anti-barbarian faction"... So what? Do you want us to stop sending you any jobs from now on and protect you like a treasure?
It is impossible to recall Qingdeng like a giant panda just because of this matter, and then launch strict protection - to put it bluntly, Qingdeng is not as important as this in the eyes of Bojing and other senior officials. degree……
Aoto, who had long expected that the Hoban Institute would ask him to continue going to Fujisawa-juku to investigate the case, after reading the letter, silently put the letter away, and then led Saito to Fujisawa-juku.
Having learned from the experience of the attack, both Aoto and Saito became extremely vigilant after setting off again to Fujisawa-juku.
Be careful and pay attention to some places on the roadside where people are easy to hide.
The weather is cold now, and the palms of the hands are easily frozen. If the hands are frozen, it will inevitably affect the ability to draw and swing the sword.
Therefore, in order to ensure that their palms were always warm, Aoto and Saito kept crossing their hands into the wide haori sleeves in a "peasant style" when they were on the road.
Qing and Zhai are ready.
But the figure of the "radical anti-barbarian faction" did not appear in front of or behind the two men again.
Not only were they no longer attacked by the "radical anti-barbarian faction", but God was also kind and there was no bad weather that hindered the two's progress.
The two arrived at the destination of their trip without any danger: Fujisawa Juku.
The time it took to arrive at Fujisawa-juku was about the same as Aoto had expected - in the afternoon three days after leaving Edo, we arrived at this bustling hotel, one of the best on the entire Tokaido.
If there is any outstanding feature of Fujisawa-juku compared with other accommodations... it must be the "tourism resources" of Fujisawa-juku.
Fujisawa-juku is adjacent to a river. Walking downstream along the river, you will reach the famous shrine: Enoshima Shrine in Enoshima, dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten.
Many tourists and businessmen passing through Fujisawa-juku will basically visit this Eshima Shrine.
If time and conditions permit, Qingto would also like to visit the Eshima Shrine, but after all, he has official duties and is not here for fun.
As soon as he arrived at Fujisawa-juku, Aoto headed straight to the man house here without stopping.
When they learned that the support team sent by Edo Hokuban had arrived, the head of Fujisawa Sumonaya, also known as Monya, an old man with white beard and hair, immediately came out to greet him in person.
And after he received Qingdeng and exchanged brief greetings with Qingdeng for a while, he told Qingdeng a fact that stunned him...
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"The thieves who caused trouble in Fujisawa were caught?!" Qingto opened his eyes wide and cast a shocked look at the man in front of him.
Saito, who had accompanied Aoto to investigate the case, and had driven exhaustingly for three days with Aoto, could not help but feel slightly dazed now.
After Aoto arrived at Fujisawa-juku, he rushed to the Wenwuba here immediately in order to immediately start investigating and try to catch the group of thieves who had recently wreaked havoc in Fujisawa-juku.
As a result, just now, the roof leader said to him in embarrassment: Sir Tongxin...this group of thieves has been caught...
"Yes, yes." He asked with an embarrassed smile, and apologized to Qingdeng again, "What a coincidence...it happened to be yesterday that all the thieves who kept causing trouble were caught. "
The culprit of the theft has been caught? !
Qingdeng took a few breaths to adjust his slightly confused thoughts after hearing Wenwu's words just now.
"...Have you asked Wuchang to catch the criminal?" Qingdeng asked quickly.
"Uh... no..." The embarrassed smile on Wenwu's face became thicker, "Sir Tongxin, you might not believe it..."
"It was the cat monk who helped us catch those thieves..."
"Cat Monk?!" Qingdeng, who subconsciously thought he heard wrongly, leaned his upper body slightly forward towards the Wenwu to bring his ears closer to the Wenwu.
Wenwu nodded like a fool: "We have already interrogated the criminals, and they all said the same thing. They all said that the person who caught them is the cat monk who is very famous in Edo recently!"
"...What's going on?" Qingdeng straightened his body again and frowned slightly, "Please tell me clearly."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Facing the samurai and the official who was entrusted with his duties in Edo, he did not dare to ask any scornful questions and explained to Ayoto in not very organized but still clear words.
Early yesterday morning, when they asked the house to open the door, they were shocked to find that four young men who had been tied up and unconscious were thrown in front of their gate.
The heads of these four young men were covered with large paper bags, and there was a line of big words written on the paper bags: These four people are suspected to be thieves who have been stealing here recently.
When I asked everyone in the house, they thought it might be a prank played by someone at first.
It wasn't until someone with sharp eyes recognized that one of the four people was a gangster who had been wanted for several months and had not been caught yet, that everyone began to pay attention to the fact that unknown persons had sent them to them. These 4 people in front of the gate.
After all, the Wanwu Chang is just an organization responsible for managing the dormitory, and it does not have the power to torture these four people.
But there are still loopholes to exploit.
Although they cannot torture them severely, they still have the right to "say something" to them.
Everyone in the interrogation field locked the four young men in a room for questioning, and threatened them with all kinds of harsh words.
If you are unwilling to tell everything you know, we will send you to the Edo Administrative Office, and let the officials at the Administrative Office do whatever they want to you...
Three of them were unmoved by their harsh words.
But there was a young man who was only around 14 years old who was frightened.
The man was so frightened by the cruel words spoken by everyone in the interrogation room that he vomited out everything he knew with a sincere attitude that he wanted to take out his whole heart and show it to everyone.
He admitted that the four of them were the group of thieves who had been stealing money from Fujisawa Juku recently.
Last night, they planned to sneak into the hotel and steal the tourists' money as they had done several times before.
But just as they climbed onto the roof of a hotel where they were staying, and were about to sneak in and steal, a black shadow suddenly appeared from nowhere, and then jumped in front of them.
The four people were startled by the sudden appearance of the shadow and subconsciously asked the shadow: Who is it?
"Then, the black shadow said: 'That's right the cat monk!'"
After saying that, the old man asked the house to flatten his hands into the shape of palms, with the palms facing up, and then raise his arms high.
While raising his arms, Wenwu suddenly stood up and bent his right leg upward, standing in a golden rooster independent posture.
quiet……
Aoto and Saito, who were kneeling on the tatami in an orderly manner, raised their heads and looked at Wenya who suddenly put on a strange posture.
The atmosphere was extremely peaceful for a moment...
"...Um...can I ask: What's going on with your actions?" Qingdeng, who was full of questions, tried to ask in a calm tone.
"Uh..." Wenwu retracted his raised arms with an embarrassed look, knelt down and sat back on the tatami, "This is what the young man who confessed said: At that time, the cat monk was doing this action while reporting His own name..."
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