Sauichiro: rebuilding Ashina from the obliteration of the pillar

Chapter 69 Butterfly Ninja's Flower Street Journey

Kotaro and his party of three walked slowly in the middle of Yoshihara Avenue, like a fire truck dragging two firefighters, which can be said to be quite conspicuous.

But it is precisely because Kotaro's appearance is so special that the whole Yoshihara knows that he is the security guard of the dim sum shop, so there is no shopkeeper to disturb Butterfly Ninja, and she looks around out of curiosity.

Occasionally, a girl ran out from the surrounding girls' houses, brought some snacks and toys to Kotaro, greeted him with a smile, and left.

"I didn't expect Kotaro to be so popular with girls in Yoshiwara."

Genichiro said with a smile.

He thought most people would be afraid of Kotaro.

In the current situation, it is estimated that Anayama often took this child to support the scene when he was throwing money around in Yoshiwara, and made these girls look very familiar with Kotaro.

Butterfly noticed that, perhaps because of being close to "home", Genichiro's smile was not as stiff as usual.

"These sisters are all good people. Every time we meet, they will send me a lot of food."

Kotaro couldn't wait to open the freshly harvested food box, bent down, and happily showed the contents inside to Xianichiro and the others: "Ah, this snack looks really good!"

Genichiro looked intently, it was a mooncake-like dessert in the shape of seven human faces.

The faces on each dim sum are different, and they look strange, a bit like the human face statue carved by Hawkeye Goff in "Dark Soul", which is only one step away from being difficult to swallow.

"Why do you make dim sum like this?"

"This is Ningyoyaki, a snack unique to Sensoji Temple. It is usually difficult to buy."

Seeing the confused look of the two people, the butterfly man said popular science: "The seven Ningyoyaki represent the seven gods of fortune, so they also represent different blessings. It is very thoughtful to give such a gift to Xiaotaro. "

As she spoke, she explained the connotations and meanings of the seven gods to the two of them one by one, which made Xiaotaro nod frequently.

Kotaro is just naive, not completely incapable of learning. This kind of little knowledge with ghost stories, he can almost remember it after listening to it, and he plans to share it with others when he gets home.

"Hey, what a great snack."

While sighing, he handed Butterfly Shinobu the Benzaiten Ningyoyaki, which was less than one-tenth the size of his palm.

"This is the only girl god in Ningyoyaki, I'll give it to you to eat."

Benzaiten is known as the god of good fortune and freedom, and his expression is more festive. Kotaro's blessing is quite obvious, and he hopes that Die Nin can smile more.

Butterfly couldn't help showing a smile, and gratefully accepted it.

Then, Kotaro handed over the Daikokuten Ningyoyaki, which can keep you safe, to Koichiro, and said "sincerely and earnestly", "Don't break your hand again, it hurts so much."

After saying this, he threw Genichiro on the spot and was moved, while he picked up the cloth bag monk Ningyoyaki that was [-]% similar to him and threw it into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it, his originally dull eyes also brightened Get up, "It's red bean stuffing! It's delicious."

But after he finished eating, he seemed to have a big appetite and wanted to continue, but in the end he hesitated for a while, then closed the food box and held it in his hand.

"There's still so much, why don't you eat it? No one will grab it from you."

Xianichiro ate the dessert with blessings, his heart felt a little warm, and he felt the taste was good.

"Yeah... Kuro is learning... what English is he learning recently? Bishamonten, who makes people smarter, is reserved for him."

Kotaro counted them one by one with his fingers.

"Old man Shou left it for the old woman, Ebisu left it for the elder brother, Fu Lushou...well, Fu Lushou is for Sister Yu Ji, she is also very kind to me, and sometimes she looks at me drooling..."

[Kuro is learning English? 】

This was something Genichiro hadn't expected.

However, there are more and more people in the store, and Kuro doesn't have to do everything himself, so he has more free time, and it's normal to want to learn something new.

"Why, does Ms. Fern Ji often go to the store?"

Genichiro asked.

This time he was able to rescue Koi Murata, thanks to the belt that Fern Ji gave him, and it is not too much to say that it brought him luck.

If he jumped directly from the mountain without that belt, let alone him, even Butterfly Kanae and Immortal Chuan would not be sure.

However, the strange thing is that Mingming Fern Ji sent them a lot of things back and forth, and often gave advice to the snack shop, but this woman's name never appeared in the old hunter's notebook.

But if Warahime is a pseudonym, then there are no other female names that Genichiro doesn't know appear in the notes.

[What a mysterious guy. 】

"Sister Fern Ji goes to chat with Kuro every few days."

Kotaro bit his finger and recalled.

"However, she only comes here when the door closes every time. She must have worked very hard."

Genichiro nodded upon hearing this, not surprised.

He is clear that Fern Ji's position in Kyogokuya is a geisha, not a wandering girl, and she is studying art. She is probably training poetry, piano and dance during the day, so she has time at night.

[That guy doesn't have the slightest affection for me, does he? 】

[Could it be that she heard her being stupid several times? 】

Give him a farewell gift, probably because the other party is looking at Jiulang's face.

[Tch, I almost misunderstood, I thought...]

【Jiulang, you're lucky. 】

Genichiro thought about it, and then revealed half-moon eyes.

He didn't say anything about some things, and he didn't really care about them, but he was still a little unconvinced.

In this way, the three continued on the road, and Genichiro also acted as a half-baked tour guide, introducing the buildings on both sides of the avenue to Butterfly Shinobu.

Yoshihara said it was not too big.

There are less than 1 people living in a place of [-] ping, and the composition is quite complicated.

There are more than 200 women's houses here, but not every one can have oirans and geisha.

Therefore, according to the scale and grade, it can be divided into big view, medium view and small view.

Close to the periphery of Youguo, there are a bunch of longhouses, which are called corner shops, which are not even counted as inflows.

Genichiro pointed to the huge cage-like room on both sides of the road and said: "Ordinary playgirls sit there from twelve o'clock in the noon, waiting for the selection of customers until four in the afternoon. Drinking wine and tea in the tea house, after the consumption reaches a certain amount, the waiter in the tea house will guide the guests to meet the girls in the evening. This way, about fifteen yen will be spent, if the time is delayed overnight , the cost will naturally be higher.”

Fifteen yen is almost a year's salary for army recruits.

In other words, the income of a soldier who trains for a whole year is nothing more than a few hours of turnover for a wandering girl.

With such a high profit, it is no wonder that Yoshihara can maintain such a prosperous appearance.

But it is unknown how much the bosses of Younv's House will give them.

When the three of them passed by a family to see the world, Kotaro warmly greeted the acquaintances in the cage.

But Butterfly Ninja had a stiff expression, not daring to look directly at the women who were sitting in the cage-like window and displayed like merchandise on the shelves.

Isn't it the same as monkeys in a zoo to keep people in cages for appreciation.

Although those girls were all wearing heavy makeup, Butterfly glanced around from the corner of her eye, and she could see that there were many people inside, but they were of a similar age to her, but they looked like they were used to this kind of life.

Some of them have eyes full of snobbery, ambition, and can't wait to get ahead.

But some people have dull eyes and are insensitive, just want to not be beaten and scolded today, meet a gentler guest, and spend this day safely.

But whether they like it or not, most of them won't make it past 25, according to Waraji.

Most of those who waited for them were infected with serious diseases at a young age, violated the rules, were killed or committed suicide, and finally became one of the thousands of bones in the Jingxian Temple behind, disappearing into this world insignificantly, causing no waves. Can't get up.

Even the oiran, when he is old and fading, if there is no benefactor to redeem him, his fate will not be much better, and more will be left to teach the younger generation the skills of pleasing guests.

The more you know about their lives, the more absurdly Butterfly Shino realizes

——It turns out that there are more unfortunate jobs in the world than ghost hunters.

Although ghost killing team members are also a profession that is prone to premature death, most of the family members of the team members died at the hands of ghosts, so they have experienced fear, hatred and painful torture since childhood.

But at least, the way they exist has not been distorted like this.

They are convinced that their work can protect humans from harm, so despite the dangers of killing ghosts, few members of the team feel hopeless.

But most of the girls in these cages are dying slowly.

At this moment, Butterfly understood for the first time what her sister said to her.

"Xiao Ren. The most fundamental misfortune in the world is not encountering disasters like ghosts. It is seeing no hope at all."

"So people like us who still have goals to work hard for should be happier."

At that time, she didn't believe that there could be more unfortunate things in the world, such as being deprived of family members by ghosts?
But after seeing Kanahu and the girls who were sold here by their parents for various reasons, she realized that the pain of being abandoned and sacrificed by relatives is more than that of being taken away by relatives.

As a woman, Butterfly couldn't bear the distracted and confused gazes of the girls in the cage any longer, and said to Genichiro in a pleading tone, "Hey, let's go quickly."

Genichiro froze for a moment, then nodded.

The three walked quickly along the main road for a while, and then they saw a dim sum shop standing out from the crowd near the main gate of Yoshihara.

Butterfly Shinobu felt a little more relaxed after the three of them entered the door.

I don't want to come here again in the future!she thought so.

Seeing three people enter the door, two figures walked out from behind the counter.

"Master Genichiro."

The two Snake Eyes from the Fallen Valley bowed to Genichiro.

However, Butterfly Shinobu felt a little nervous when he saw their appearance, and unconsciously clenched the cloth bag that wrapped the Sun Wheel Knife tightly.

No one else, because these two women look so strange.

Because the Fallen Valley people don't need to touch gunpowder here, so naturally they don't need to use rags to cover their faces.

They are tall, about 1.7 meters by 1.8 meters, much taller than ordinary men.

Furthermore, they are descendants of the Yukami tribe, and their skin color is closer to the shrine maiden who guards the Iwato of the Sky, and looks pale.

But because they lived in Weiming and became the family members of the Lord White Snake, their cheeks had faint white scales, and their eyes had also dissimilated into gray-white irises that were close to those of the White Snake. They had vertical pupils, and could easily see far away objects. thing.

No wonder Butterfly Shinobu felt nervous.

But she immediately realized that these two people were not ghosts, otherwise they would not be exposed to the sunlight at the door.

Seeing that both of them were here, Genichiro also understood that the ghost Buddha in Tokyo should have been found, and he felt a little better.

So Genichiro asked, "Is everyone there?"

"Master Kuro is studying English with the teacher in the living room. Mr. Sase is teaching some common sense to the two adults, Yamauchi Norizan and Mizusei Shicheng. Master Doshin is preparing desserts in the back."

The members of the Fallen Valley replied, "Only Mr. Anshan is not here. He said that he went to a party organized by some congressmen, and he should be back in a while."

Xianichiro's eyes brightened, Anayama's actions coincided with his idea of ​​wanting Wei Mingren to participate in politics.

"I see." He replied, "I'll take the guests to see Jiulang first, you guys have to work hard and do two things."

"One is to prepare a room for Miss Butterfly Ninja, she will live here tonight, and then ask the chef of Kyogoku House to prepare a table of meals and send them to the living room; second, after Anayama comes back, close the store directly , and then everyone came to see me."

"Yes." The two of them bowed their heads to listen without asking further questions.

After arranging the tasks, Xianichiro said to Butterfly Shinobi: "Let's go, go and meet my younger brother, he is Wei Ming's real heir."

"That's disturbing."

After seeing Kotaro's height, Butterfly Shinobu already had some guesses about Kuro's body shape.

The moment she followed Kotaro into the backyard, Genichiro suddenly turned around, glanced at the Kyogoku house across the street with a very dark look, and frowned slightly.

[What happened to the three fresh paper figurines that suddenly floated over there? 】

[Could it be that someone died in the Jinggoku house?But if three people died, why is there no movement at all? 】

……

On the other side, Kyogokuya.

Last night when I went out for a stroll, Luo Ji met a very unreasonable man who kept saying that he had a lot of money, so he wanted to be the guest of Luo Ji, but after being rejected, he kept entangled.

So after Kyogoku closed, Fallen Princess followed that guy home, and ate his beautiful wife and daughter in front of that guy.

As for that man, he gave it to his elder brother, the prostitute Taro. After all, my elder brother hates rich people who are putting on airs the most.

Not to mention, in order not to waste a large amount of this guy's inheritance, she even sent the little ghost to inform Ghost King Wu Mi.

At that time, as long as Wu Mi can operate in that man's appearance, all the money and assets can be transferred to his other vest.

After finishing all this, Luo Ji quietly returned to Yoshihara, intending to sleep and digest food, and wait for the reward from the ghost king by the way.

It wasn't until just now, when Genichiro entered Yoshihara wearing the belt she sent, that Rakuhime suddenly opened his eyes.She sensed her avatar, who obviously couldn't wait to return to the main body and tell her everything she saw.

So Luo Ji excitedly shouted to her back: "Brother, wake up! That kid who secretly said I was stupid is finally back!"

(End of this chapter)