Goro Fujita: "......"

Ah, since that night, the Nakatsu Police Department, who seems to have discovered something terrible, has been chasing him and asking for this word.

At first, it seemed that he could find something shocking in this word - but Fujita Goro really didn't understand that it was just a word, and that the Nakatsu Police Department could make up something from the brain - and now it seems that it was just because it was funny.

For example, on this day, when Goro Fujita was walking to his desk with a large pile of papers, the Nakatsu Police Department came out of nowhere.

"Hey Fujita, don't you want to get married today?" he asked with a smile.

Goro Fujita: "......"

...... How long do you want to play with this meme, I'm so tired.

Of course, he couldn't really say that, so he could only choose to seriously respond to the question of the Zhongjin Police Department. "Yes. ”

The Nakatsu Police Department touched his red rosacea and grinned like a toothache.

"Hey, Fujita...... You're the most boring guy at all......" He said, half-jokingly, half-complaining, and finally couldn't help but reveal the reason for his relentless pursuit to Fujita Goro.

"When you say 'temporarily,' you don't think about it in the long run. He lowered his voice, leaned over and asked mysteriously, "A dead-eyed guy like you wouldn't think like this for no reason if you didn't have a partner...... So, let's say, where is the girl, the daughter of a craftsman on the street, the daughter of an ordinary townman, or ......."

The Nakatsu Police Department squeezed his eyebrows at Fujita Goro for a while, and Fujita Goro barely guessed what the type that the Nakatsu Police Department didn't say was.

It must be "the waitress of a teahouse" or "the waitress of a tavern" or something like that.

Speaking of which, he remembered that in the Shinsengumi era, there were also team members who really married such a woman. They rented a small house on the street and set up a home, and some later had children with the woman they married......

Moreover, he still remembers that when he received the secret instructions of the deputy commander and went undercover in the Imperial Tomb Guard, in order to meet and pass on information outside, Kiyohara Yukiha thought of those married soldiers in a flash of inspiration, so he also pretended to be such a woman who was committed to the samurai, and rented a house on the street as a place for the two of them to meet and her convenient change of clothes for the mission - he remembered that once when he sent her back, he was seen by the old woman next door, and said with a smile, "Oh, the relationship is really good".

...... But then, what about the soldiers who married local women in Kyoto?

Some people died in the mission, leaving helpless orphans and widows with no one to take care of them, some people wanted to leave the team because they had wives and children and didn't want to do that kind of dangerous thing anymore, but after being discovered, they had to cut their stomachs according to the rules of the game, and some people hurriedly said goodbye to their families when they evacuated Kyoto with the Shinsengumi and never returned......

In today's popular parlance, those are ...... "sad love stories", right?

Fujita Goro sighed silently, but still answered the question of the Nakatsu Police Department.

"No, it's not like that......"

He hesitated, not knowing what to say.

...... Do you want to say that "in fact, it is actually the biggest suspicious person in the continuous murder at night so far"?

He hesitated for a moment, and finally could only say simply, "...... If there is such a person, I will report it to you. ”

The Nakatsu police department shouted dissatisfiedly: "Hey, hey, you haven't said anything, Fujita!"

Fujita Goro coughed, sat down at the table, and pretended to be busy opening the document in his hand.

Of course, the Zhongjin Police Department didn't want to bother him again, and he grunted and half-truthfully while complaining, and paced away.

Fujita Goro originally just wanted to send away the Nakatsu Police Department to make up for it, so he started to look at the information he had collected so quickly. But when he started to look, he soon found that the family that Qingyuan Yukiha deliberately placed in front of him had a very ...... background Give food for thought.

The family that needed to be sent out to be on special alert that night was surnamed "Kujo".

Of course, it is not the Kujo family, which was one of the five families of the Fujiwara Kita family back then, nor is it the mother family of the current queen mother. However, this family is a branch of the Kujo family, although the family has fallen in the middle of the road, but now that the old Chinese clan is in decline, the head of this family, Kujo Tadashishun's ability to see the wind and steer the rudder still earns a lot of points for this family.

Even in the face of the Satsuma Domain, which was despised by the people before the Boshin War, and now has become the pillar of the new government, Kujou Tadashun is willing to put aside the face of the old Chinese and try his best to stammer.

For example, when the new government wanted to be completely Westernized, Kujou Tadashun was the first to cut his hair, put on Western clothes, and try to renovate his own mansion – and he did so quickly, at a time when the old Chinese were still generally watching and resisting.

At the same time, it is said that Kujo Tadashun had an adopted son, who was also very active in Edo for a time, and in times of instability, he was not only ambitious, but also had a careful mind worthy of this ambition, and when the court was defeated, he was optimistic about the Choshu domain, which had been ordered by the imperial court to fight because of the rebellion of the forbidden gate, and had been working on the development of a good cooperative relationship between Choshu and later Satsuma, and this forward-looking investment was almost profitable after Sacho came to power. If he hadn't suddenly died suddenly and unexplained at such a critical moment.

In just a few days, to be able to investigate to this extent has already exhausted Goro Fujita's full strength.

In fact, in private, Kujou's reputation for being loyal and obedient to the wind and flattering is still very loud, and it is not difficult to inquire about this. The fact that the protagonist of that night's engagement, Kujo Michiji, the only son of Kujo Tadashi, is a young man of literature and art who is weak and likes to study plants, and often has a hint of gloomy self-destruction, and has no interest in his father's enthusiasm for improving status and power, and this fact is easy to investigate.

The laborious thing is actually about Kujo Tadashi's adopted son.

Kujou Tadashun never openly admitted that he had an adopted son, and he had remained in Edo since then, secretly manipulating some dark things that were unknown and plotting to gain more important titles and status for the Kujou family. After the sudden death of his adopted son a few years ago, he was even more secretive about it.

Fujita Goro actually didn't know about Kujou Tadashi's adopted son at first, and there were no clues to guide him to investigate in this area. In fact, he only felt an intuitive disgust for the relationship between the Kujo family and the powerful people from the Satsuma clan - as one of the former members of the Shinsengumi, it was impossible for him to have any good feelings for Satsuma—— but in the process of investigation, the image of this person unexpectedly gradually rose from under the turbulent waters of the dark tide, and finally became clear in front of his eyes.

First of all, when he was investigating the mansion, he found the land voucher record of the previous mansion, and the name of the "owner" written on it was not the Kujou Tadashun he expected, but a somewhat unfamiliar "Kujo Michiyo" who was in the same vein as the descendants of the Kujo family.

It was this name, which was only one word short of Kujo Tadashi's only son, Michiji, that caught the attention of Goro Fujita. He continued to investigate, only to find that in the early years of the Meiji era, the name of the "holder" listed on the land certificate had been changed back to Kujo Tadashi. This proves that there must be some kind of connection between Kujo Michiqing and Kujou Tadashun - of course, it is not easy to prove the relationship between Kujo Michiqing and Kujo Tadashun in the early days of the family registration law, but he was lucky enough to meet a grocery store owner while visiting the residents of the residence or shop near the mansion where he had registered.

The proprietor was a long-winded, broken-mouthed old man, who was not very bright in his mind because of his age, and when Goro Fujita visited his house, where he had let his son inherit the shop because of his old age, and he himself had retired to his hometown, he sat at his house for three quarters of an hour before he heard what he was looking for.

"I heard that the young master of Daoqing claimed to be the adopted son of a Chinese family, thinking that everyone didn't know his true details, but that kid didn't know, old man, because I had been running a grocery store around there for decades, so I knew those old servants of his family...... Supposedly—"

The old man suddenly leaned in the direction of Goro Fujita, and his cloudy old eyes seemed to shine with excitement because of the secret he was about to tell.

"What kind of illegitimate son of a Chinese family is he...... Tsk, I don't know how much he learned the methods of those noble big people, but he learned well how those people lived in a mess-"

The old man laughed. For some reason, Fujita Goro always felt that he was talking about the black history of these old Chinese with a hint of smugness and mockery.

"Those noble young masters and young ladies think that a lowly person like me knows nothing...... We're not that stupid, we're just pretending we don't know anything in front of them, so they don't have ill will towards us—"

The old man approached him and smiled smugly and sly.

"I know all the tricks they play, the old man - like adopting people as adopted sons and daughters when they see that they are useful, and letting people die for a surname...... In order to earn an official status, he is willing to do things that mourn his conscience for the main family...... Not to mention that the young masters went out to go shopping in the flower street, and when they returned home and closed the door, they could deceive those young maids so that they were willingly driven by him...... In order to make those girls listen to themselves, they can use any method......"

Goro Fujita: ?!

In short, he took this kind of investigation that cleansed his three views and refreshed his understanding of the rotten inner cognition hidden under the glossy surface of those big people, carefully recorded the gossip of the old man, and then returned to the Metropolitan Police Department.

But now he was even more confused.

According to the change records of the land bills, Kujo Michikiyo should have died in the early years of the Meiji era, as the previous owner of the grocery store said.

"One day he was out of the house...... He hasn't been back since. ”

The old man smacked his lips and shook his head as if he were sorry, as if he really cared about the mysterious young master. However, Fujita Goro can also see that it is just a kind of cunning sophistication that pretends to be enthusiastic.

"Still so young...... It's a shame. I don't know where I died...... However, at that time, the situation was so chaotic that anything could happen...... Maybe it was because he went out and met with a rebel soldier, or did he happen to run into a war? Do you know, at that time, the army loyal to His Majesty was still fighting to the death with the general's army......

Fujita nodded silently.

"Alas, it's hard to understand what's right and what's wrong in this world. The old man sighed at the end and sent him out of the door.

"We listened to the words of the general for hundreds of years, and then suddenly said that what the general said was wrong, and we shouldn't listen to him......?! It's incomprehensible. The old man shook his head and watched as Goro Fujita's young, silent back walked away on the dirt road in front of his house.

Finally, the old man let out a deep sigh.

"The way of this world...... It's better to be alive than anything else! But we little people are just pawns in the hands of those big people...... You can fiddle with it as much as you want, and I don't know when it will disappear when you say it's gone......"

"That's fate. ”

"It's all fate. ”

But this last sigh, of course, Fujita Goro didn't know.

He followed the clues, and finally got the name of the person "Kujo Daoqing", and also learned a little about the shadow behind this person's short life.

However, why did Kiyohara Yukiha enter such a family and then become "Miss Noriko" in those people's mouths?!

Goro Fujita sat at his desk for a long time. He was pondering the confusion.

Eventually, he discovered what his instincts were dissonant.

The old man who owned a grocery store said, "When you see that people are easy to use, you will adopt them as adopted sons and daughters, and let people die for a surname......

He also said, "The young masters have used all kinds of methods in order to make those girls listen to themselves......

Be...... Is that so?

Fujita Gorou felt his mind suddenly feel as if a galloping horse had been suddenly grabbed by the reins, and suddenly the ground went from moving freely a moment ago to a sharp stop in place, hesitating back and forth.

No, can't it......?!

People like Kiyohara Yukiba...... How could someone so brilliant and courageous be ...... Just for a surname, a first name?!

His head felt like it was going to explode for a moment at the thought of this.

He sat at his desk for a moment.

At that moment, what came to his mind was the scene of him and her trying out in the dojo a long time ago.

He couldn't help but say to himself, "That kind of swordsmanship...... It is impossible to ...... without a shadow of it."

Then, he slammed the table and stood up!

Almost without wasting a quarter of an hour, he immediately turned around, strode through the chaotic office, and walked towards the door, whispering to himself as if he were talking to himself, "No, you have to ask." I've got to go to her—"

When he passed by the Nakatsu Police Department, the latter overheard Goro Fujita talking to himself, and immediately his eyes lit up and he straightened up suddenly.

However, Fujita Goro seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts, completely ignoring the Nakatsu Police Department next to him, who was going to talk to him. He just swept past each other and hurried out the door.

Zhongjin Police Department added: "...... Ah, damn it. Is he ignoring it again...... Who is he going to, do you really mind?"

The author has something to say: March 4:

The computer is completely out of play.。。。 So I had to really use that laptop with WIN10 pre-installed...

WIN10 is really too difficult to use.

Anyway, it took a day of tossing yesterday.,It's finally almost done.,I'm still not used to the new notebook.,Reluctantly code these first.。

There have been so many things going on in the last few days, thank you for your understanding.

I'll try to update it tomorrow.,But if the new notebook gives me trouble, I'm going to have to fight with it first.。。。

It's annoying.,Can you downgrade to WIN7 [Collapse.]

PS.

1. Thank you CS bacteria for the mine!╭(╯3╰)╮

2. "Land bonds" are land deeds, which neon called land bonds in the Meiji era. The owner is the owner of the land.