Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 367 Connection, Departure

Yongtai 20 years, early winter.

Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai, and Wei Qian, who had sailed at sea for ten months, finally landed at Nagasaki Port.

At this time, the entire island of Kyushu was already under Shimadzu's sphere of influence, and Nagasaki Port, located in the west of Kyushu, as a port that included trade activities between China, Japan and Portugal, was undoubtedly a strategic center for Shimadzu.

Here, you can buy European smoke and guns, as well as ingenious inventions like telescopes, which were rare gadgets at the time, as well as fabrics, artworks, and seeds of some rare crops from Daqian. , all kinds of things in Japan are also available here.

The most important thing is that in this chaotic "Japanese Warring States Period", since the shogunate's control over daimyo in various places basically existed in name only, the Nagasaki Port did not even have to pay overseas trade taxes to the shogunate.

This unique port has allowed Shimadzu to achieve considerable economic, cultural, and military development, and it has also made Kyushu a place where other daimyos dare not rashly get involved.

On this day, the boat that Shuangxie and Wei Qian were on docked in the afternoon, and then they stayed in a hotel opened by locals under the leadership of Eunuch Wei.

During dinner, the hotel owner enthusiastically recommended some special services to them in fairly good Chinese, and what else... There are technicians from China, Japan, Europe and Africa, and the prices are fair, no one is bullied.

In the end, before Sun and Huang could speak, Wei Qian, the eunuch, rushed to agree.

So, at night, two girls who painted their faces and necks white, wore Momogiri (a hairstyle), and wore kimonos came to the door of the room of the three of them.

The three of them lived in a nine-fold Japanese-style room, which is a room equivalent to nine tatami mats stitched together. Because in this hotel, people sleep on the floor, so this is quite a luxurious room. Even if five or six people come, they can live there.

After the two girls entered the room, they closed the door behind them and sat down on their knees.

Wei Qian exchanged glances with one of the girls who was holding a shamisen, and started playing without saying a word.

Then the other girl spoke up.

"Excuse me... are you Eunuch Wei?" Although his voice was controlled to be very soft, sounding no different from a female voice, Sun Huang could tell right away that this "girl" was actually a man pretending to be a man of.

Therefore, almost instinctively, the two of them immediately looked at the throats of the speaker and the "girl" next to him playing the shamisen.

"Exactly." Eunuch Wei replied, and then pointed to Shuangxie with his eyes, "These two are Sun Sang and Huang Sang."

Eunuch Wei did not use the title "Young Hero", this is to prevent the other party from inferring more information from it.

Sun and Huang understood this point in an instant, so they certainly wouldn't mention it.

"Although I have received your password, just to be on the safe side, can I have a look at your badge?" The man dressed as a woman said again.

The "secret sign" in his mouth was undoubtedly prepared by Eunuch Wei before he entered the store.

The method is not complicated, just picked up a few roadside stones somewhere not far from this store, and placed them in a certain corner in a certain way.

The streets in those days were no different than they are now. At that time, stones, tree branches and other things could be seen everywhere on the roadside, and there were a lot of them. A few small stones placed in the corners, most people would not even look at them.

But for those who know the meaning of the code, after seeing these stones, they can know that the person they are waiting for has arrived and has already stayed in the nearby store.

Seeing this, someone may ask, what if the stone code on the ground is accidentally destroyed by an irrelevant passerby or animal before it is seen by the connector?
Harm, put it again tomorrow.

Let's talk about the situation in the store...

The owner of the hotel they stayed in naturally took money from these two connectors, but he didn't know what they were up to, and he didn't ask too much...Anyway, there are a lot of espionage activities in this port, Not bad for this one, it's safer to ask fewer questions.

"Yes." After hearing the other party's request, Eunuch Wei did not hesitate, but calmly responded, and handed the other party a waist card that he was wearing next to him.

The other party took the badge, looked at it carefully for a few seconds under the light, and then respectfully presented it back to Wei Qian.

"It's our first time meeting Kogoro..." After handing back the badge, Kogoro bowed his head in salute, and then turned his head slightly to indicate that the person behind him was using shamisen as a "voice cover" for their conversation Brother, "This is my younger brother Kenta, please take care of me."

Let me mention here, when the Japanese say "brother", they probably don't refer to their own younger brother, but "righteous younger brother". If you have watched the Japanese TV series with the theme of "god way", you should have the impression that their "big brother" (aniki)" is often called "syatei" when introducing one's younger brother in front of outsiders.

As for why Kogoro only mentioned his first name and not his last name when he introduced himself and his younger brother, it's actually very simple...they didn't have any at all.

At that time, most common people in Japan did not have surnames. The "surname" and "clan" were only owned by the ruling class or the declining aristocrats. Of course, I won't go into details about this, lest you say I'm water.

In short, if the civilian class wants to get a surname, it generally has to become a warrior class first, and then the ruling class will reward them.

Seeing this, you may understand that this is the case of "Terashima Kohei" and "Taro" that appeared in the previous article: Although Terashima is just a low-level warrior in a small and weak feudal kingdom, he is still a warrior class. So he has a surname; and Taro is just a child of a commoner family, so he only has a first name.

Also, the onmyoji "He Mao Hayato" who hit it off with Brother Sun belongs to the descendant of a famous family. Even though his branch is down and out, his surname is still not lost.

Back to the text...

Right now, Kogoro and Kenta are undoubtedly the so-called Japanese traitors, earning money by serving the Osaki court.

They usually have their own channels to get in touch with Zong, so this time they have learned in advance that Eunuch Wei, "Sun Sang" and "Huang Sang" are coming here, and they are ready to respond.

However, what are the specific missions of these three people, the imperial court will definitely not let these two traitors know, so Eunuch Wei needs to stay in Nagasaki, and he will establish another mission with Zhao Zongqi in Ningbo. An intelligence line to report the content of this mission.

"Well... Kogoro, our family will stay here for a while, and it may be inconvenient to stay in a hotel for a long time. Can you arrange a clean place for our family elsewhere?" After the other party finished the introduction, Eunuch Wei started directly. Made a request.

Some people may wonder why the other party checked Eunuch Wei's waist card, but Eunuch Wei didn't ask the other party to show some kind of token or prove his identity as a rape in some way?

In fact, you can understand after a little thought-it doesn't make sense.

Since the other party can connect with them by virtue of the secret code left by Eunuch Wei, and knows about the waist card, it means two possibilities: one, the other party is the real contact person; The connector, forced a confession of everything the latter knew, and then impersonated the connector.

If it is the former situation, then there is nothing to say, it is time to do things.

And if it is the latter case, then Wei Qian has no reliable way to verify the authenticity of the other party... because the other party has already asked everything the real connector knows, so if there is anything on the connector The tokens must have been taken by them. If you ask him to show them, he must have them too. It's just unnecessary.

The key point is that these Japanese traitors have never been fully trusted by the imperial court, and they don't know too much core information. They just use money to do things, so it doesn't matter if they are replaced.

There are only two things that a counterfeit can do, either to obtain information from Eunuch Wei, or to assassinate the three secret agents under the order of a certain master.

And these two things, in front of Eunuch Wei... are impossible to do.

If they're fakes, they'll show themselves when they try to do those two things.

"Okay, I'll arrange it for you." Kogoro thought for a few seconds, then agreed, and then asked, "Does Sun Sang and Huang Sang need a place to live?"

"No, the two of them don't live together." But Eunuch Wei replied, "They're going east tomorrow, so you'd better prepare what they need tonight."

"Understood." Hearing this, Kogoro didn't ask any further questions, but replied, "It must be done."

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Afterwards, they talked about other trivial matters and arrangements that were not too important. When the shamisen played two different songs, the discussion was over.

After Kogoro and Kenta left, Sun Yixie asked Wei Qian: "Elder-in-law, let us go tomorrow, are you in such a hurry?"

"Heh..." Eunuch Wei smiled, "You two are here for the emperor's life, do you think you came here to play?" He continued in a strange way, "Should we really go and ask some girls to come and drink with you?" Huajiu, and then rest in this shop for ten or eight days to clean up the wind and dust?"

In fact, Eunuch Wei would be anxious, and it is understandable. Due to the episode of encountering pirates before, the ship they were on lost more than a dozen crew members including the bow, although the rest of the crew In the end, the ship was successfully sailed to Nagasaki, but the schedule was much slower than normal.

Such overseas missions should not be delayed for a long time, as long-term changes will occur, and it is good for everyone to finish the mission early and return to China.

"Okay, tomorrow will be tomorrow." Sun Yixie said, "Eh? But... Eunuch Wei, it's really not inconvenient for you to stay here alone, and you can't speak Japanese?"

He's just playing tricks, it's better to pull back and forth, let Eunuch Wei say "how about I go with you two" by himself.

"Hehe... I don't need to bother you." Eunuch Wei saw through Sun Yixie's innocence at a glance, and smiled at the time, "According to my prior knowledge and the period of time before and after staying in the hotel, at least this In the area around Nagasaki Port, there are quite a few people who can speak our dialect, and Kogoro must have taken into consideration that our family can’t speak Japanese. The place he arranged for me probably has someone who can speak official dialects from other countries. Landlord." When he said this, he paused again, "I think you should worry about yourself."

"Hmm..." Sun Yixie looked at Huang Donglai when he saw that Huyou was out of action, "Brother Huang, what your father-in-law said makes sense... When we are on the road tomorrow, not only are we not familiar with the place, but we can't even hear the words here Understood, what should I do?"

"Ha!" Huang Donglai looked very relaxed, and joked, "Brother Sun... Oh no, Sun Sang, don't you usually use your hometown dialects like 'Which way or more' and 'Nani'? Are you talking about it? Why do you come here and ask me what to do?"

"Get lost! Your hometown is Osaka!" Sun Yixie said angrily.

"I didn't even tell you where your hometown is, so you just reported Osaka yourself?" Huang Donglai laughed.

"Damn chicken! I'll know if you don't tell me!" Sun Yixie's tone was raised again at that time.

"Oh...forget it, let's be serious." Huang Donglai saw that Eunuch Wei who was next to him had already cast a suspicious look at them, so he stopped the nonsense in good time, and continued, "Actually, I was talking about this matter when I left the capital. I thought about it, so I re-studied the 'Twelve Noble Truths' a few days ago, and successfully comprehended a new Taoism called 'Kelu Xunji' during the journey, which can solve the problem of language barrier."

"That is to say, you only need to use this slander to give me a BUFF and I can understand each other's speech with the Japanese, right?" Sun Yixie understood very quickly.

"That's right." Huang Donglai said, "When the other party listens to you, they will hear Japanese. When you listen to the other party, they will hear Chinese."

"Oh, isn't it so convenient?" Sun Yixie said, "Then is there a time limit for this Taoism?"

"It's definitely not for me. After all, I have the power of my own, and the consumption required to maintain this spell is extremely low, what about you..." Huang Donglai paused for a while, and at the same time looked at Sun Yixie After looking around for a while, he fixed his eyes on the wrench in the latter's hand, "Hey, yes, I will inject a small amount of force into your wrench and seal it, it will be enough for you. The BUFF has lasted for seven or eight days."

"What about after seven or eight days?" Sun Yixie asked.

"Isn't it good if I charge it again after seven or eight days?" Huang Donglai said.

"Hiss...that's right..." Sun Yixie frowned and said, "Then what if we separated for some reason and couldn't reunite for a while, and I happened to catch up with the buff at a critical moment and disappeared? "

"Then you can figure out your own way." Huang Donglai said confidently, "Where are there so many contingencies?"

The two of them talked to each other, and some words like "BUFF" were not understood by Eunuch Wei, but he still understood the general meaning.

Originally, when he heard that Huang Donglai could use Taoism to overcome the language barrier, Eunuch Wei wanted him to give him one too, but then he heard that there was a time limit, maintenance, etc., and he swallowed the words that came to his lips gone back.

In this way, the three chatted for a while, then turned off the lights and took a rest.

This night, in order for Shuangxie to have a long-lost "sleep on land", Eunuch Wei barely fell asleep, and has been working as a night watchman; he also greeted Sun Huang and let them The two slept soundly. Anyway, he didn't have much else to do besides stay. He had plenty of time to rest, so it didn't matter if he stayed up one more night today.

One night passed, and early the next morning, the hotel owner delivered a few packages to their door.

Kogoro and Kenta prepared the things in the baggage all night, mainly a few sets of local clothes, boots and other things needed for camouflage.

Also, there is a note.

There was only one place name and one person's name on the note. Obviously, this was the clue to trace the previous "Tribute Mission".

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who had had a good night's sleep and had a lot of energy, finally woke up. After changing their clothes, they went out for breakfast with Eunuch Wei.

During the period, the two tried to talk to some roadside shops in Japanese, which also proved that Huang Donglai's newly realized Taoism is indeed effective, but... I don't know why, maybe it is because Huang Donglai is not yet proficient in this technique after first learning it. Anyway, when Sun Yixie speaks, the other party will sound with a strong Kansai accent, but Huang Donglai does not have this problem when he speaks by himself...Of course, as long as people can understand, it doesn't matter.

At about ten o'clock, Sun and Huang, who were full of food and drink, went back to the hotel to get their luggage, said goodbye to Eunuch Wei, and then headed east, embarking on their trip to Dongying.

(End of this chapter)