(p.s Jiaoban: The name of the Japanese yamen.) ）

Long Shaocong lives in the open air, surrounded by red tile high walls, in front of a white marble stone steps, step by step leads to a splendid and gold-inlaid majestic hall.

Looking up, the blue sky, the wind and clouds rolling, he really didn't know where this was? Where do you live?

Suddenly, a sharp voice shouted, "Xuan...... Little Engong - Long Shaocong, meet ......"

Little Engong? When did I become a little benefactor? Where is this? Long Shaocong felt very puzzled, but his steps involuntarily stepped away, climbing straight up step by step.

Long Shaocong saw that on both sides of the stone steps were people wearing red robes, wearing black hair, and straddling the dust on their arms, all with grim faces, not squinting, like wood carvings. His mind was at a loss, and he stepped over the vermilion lacquer threshold and entered the main hall, but saw everyone standing on both sides, one sitting on the yellow dragon chair opposite, wearing a dragon robe and a dragon crown on his head, and was looking at himself without anger and self-authority.

Seeing Long Shaocong entering the hall, he was still standing stunned, and an elder led by the right immediately turned around and said in a low voice: "Long Shaocong, when you see the emperor, you still don't kneel." ”

Long Shaocong saw this person, about sixty years old, wearing a red python robe, wearing an official hat, a solemn face, long hair and hanging chest, revealing an elegant wind, but his words gave people an irresistible deterrent. Although from this person's voice, Long Shaocong heard worry and concern, but he still stood there, motionless.

At this time, the people standing on both sides roared at Long Shaocong: "Long Shaocong, you are so bold, when you see the emperor, you don't kneel ......."

"Long Shaocong, you are guilty of deceiving the king......"

"Your Majesty, Long Shaocong ignored the laws of the imperial court, treated the Holy Lord slowly, and asked the Emperor to treat him for the crime of great disrespect......"

"Long Shaocong, you damn ......"

"Long Shaocong, you should kill ......"

"Long Shaocong, Long Shaocong ......"

One by one, there were deafening shouts, and Long Shaocong, who was suddenly frightened, slashed his hands and feet, and his heart sank, and he woke up from his dream.

But when he opened his eyes, he made another "ah" sound, and he was so frightened that he almost fainted. I saw a Taoist man wearing a gray Taoist robe, with a thin face and an obscene expression, sitting on the side, looking at himself with a pair of small eyes.

It's not that Long Shaocong overreacted, but the appearance of this Taoist is really annoying, a dirty and tattered Taoist robe, draped crookedly on his body, short figure, gray hair on his head at random with a whip, obliquely inserted a willow branch, skin like withered bark, dry and dark yellow, slightly shriveled chin, with a few strands of curly beard growing horizontally and vertically, obviously never pay attention to combing......

Long Shaocong raised his eyes and looked around, and found that he was still in the house last night, the exquisite tea set was still placed on the bamboo mat, the incense in the furnace had burned out, and the tea leaves were thin and cold, except for Miss Luthos. He rubbed his eyes desperately, thinking that he was still in a dream, otherwise, how could he be a fragrant jade beauty, but he became a sloppy Taoist overnight.

"Stinky boy, what are you looking at, why don't you kneel down and kowtow to Master."

What, Master? Long Shaocong was suddenly surprised, thinking that this Taoist was not only obscene, but also mentally ill, so he ran to the girl's room to recognize his apprentice for no reason. Therefore, instead of answering his words, he asked, "Why are you here, Arlo...... Where did Miss Pothos go? ”

"Stinky boy, you're dying, and you're still thinking about women, it's really useless, and I don't know why my senior brother chose you."

Long Shaocong didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and he didn't want to explore the purpose of the other party's coming, seeing that it was already dawning, he stood up and wanted to leave, but just when he was about to cross the door, the sleeves of his robe were suddenly grabbed by the Taoist priest.

Before Long Shaocong could get angry, he heard the Taoist say: "Long Shaocong, do you know that as long as you step out of this gate, it will be a crisis step by step. ”

When Long Shaocong heard this, he turned around and sat down again, not because he was frightened by the other party, but because this Taoist priest who had never met him actually knew his name and surname, which made him feel that something was wrong, so he wanted to stay and find out.

"How do you know my name?" Long Shaocong asked.

When the Taoist priest saw that the other party was no longer leaving, he sat there recliningly, shook the cow's nose, and was not in a hurry to answer, but picked up the teapot, mouth-to-mouth, and drank all the herbal tea inside......

Seeing that the delicate teapot that had been touched by the hands of the pothos was so spoiled by this stinky Taoist priest, Long Shaocong suddenly became angry and said angrily: "Do you say yes or not, the master has no spare time to accompany you, don't say anything, the master is gone." ”

The Taoist priest was still lazy, and replied, "Why do you, an apprentice, keep yelling at the master, what kind of system have you become?" ”

When Long Shaocong heard this, he stood up and was about to leave. Seeing this scene, the Taoist priest said unhurriedly: "Poor Dao not only knows that your name is Long Shaocong, but also knows that you are from Panxi Village and have a relationship with the Great Demon Wine Heaven. ”

As soon as these words came out, Long Shaocong's heart suddenly perked, and he hurriedly sat down and said, "How do you know this?" ”

"You are a descendant, so rude, you have no respect to talk to an old man like me." The Taoist priest did not answer Long Shaocong directly, but relied on the old to sell the old.

Long Shaocong was helpless, so he had to hold back his anger, bowed down and saluted: "Shaocong was offended a lot just now, and I ask the Taoist chief for forgiveness." ”

The Taoist priest raised his head, revealing a look of peace of mind, and said, "Do you still remember Yiqingzi?" ”

Long Shaocong replied: "Of course I remember, could it be that the Taoist of Yiqingzi has returned from Middle-earth?" Thinking of Yiqingzi of the fairy wind bone, the old and young people suddenly felt better, but when they saw the other party shaking their heads, they knew that they had guessed wrong, and they didn't feel that their mood was low again.

The Taoist priest said: "The Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles away from Japan, and it is separated by a vast sea territory, how can it be so easy to go and return?" ”

"Then why did you mention the head of the Qingzi Dao?"

"When you parted, did he mention it to you, and I will come to you in the future."

When Long Shaocong heard this, he shook his head and said, "No." ”

"How could it not be, he personally mentioned it to me in the letter."

"I just don't."

"It can't be not!" The Taoist priest wanted to continue to raise the bar, but suddenly patted his head, as if he remembered something, and said: "Fang Cai Poor Dao forgot to introduce, I am the junior disciple of Yiqingzi, Xiaoyaozi, senior brother respect, come to accept you as an apprentice." ”

Long Shaocong shook his head like a rattle and said, "I'm sorry, I still haven't remembered it, and I haven't heard that Daoist Yiqingzi has a junior disciple, called Xiaolianzi. He deliberately mispronounced the pronunciation in order to just anger the other party.

But instead of being angry, Xiaoyaozi laughed and said: "You kid, don't play tricks with the poor road, I'm here to save you, if you are still obsessed, it's too late to regret it." ”

Long Shaocong noticed that although this Taoist priest was giggling on the surface, what he said didn't seem to be a mouthful, so he put away his ridicule and replied: "Shaocong really doesn't remember that Daoist Yiqingzi has mentioned you, I think there must be some misunderstanding in this." ”

When Xiaoyaozi heard this, a smile tightened on his face, and he secretly thought: Could it be that I recognized the wrong person, or did there be other changes in the middle......

Just when the two were silent for a while, they suddenly heard someone outside exclaiming: "Come on, kill someone......

When Long Shaocong heard this, he was shocked, opened the door and ran out, and no longer cared about the free children in the house.

He entered the courtyard and found that outside a wooden house next to it, it was crowded, everyone was pointing and talking there, some men and women were still disheveled, their faces were panicked, obviously they got up early and took advantage of the beautiful scenery, and experienced a **.

Long Shaocong separated the crowd and entered the room, and saw that Oda Katsunaga and Aoki Saemon were also inside, and his face was worried. After exchanging glances with the two, he found two corpses, a man and a woman, lying on the tatami mats, both naked and uncovered. Long Shaocong thought to himself, could it be that Japan had a strong sense of protecting the scene of the crime in ancient times, otherwise how could the two naked corpses be presented in front of everyone openly.

But when he looked closely, he didn't care about his thoughts, it turned out that the deceased was Iida Sheng, and he saw that his eyes were wide open, his face was distorted, and he showed a frightened expression, obviously extremely frightened before he died.

Look at the female corpse again, lying there on her back, her limbs apart, her lower body is chaotic in the jungle, the peach source is damp, and the red tide on her face has not receded, and her face is still a little beautiful in horror, obviously she was killed in **, but when Long Shaocong moved his eyes to the top of the female corpse's head, he suddenly felt nauseous......

It turned out that a large hole had been broken in the top of the female corpse's head, and red blood and white brain pulp were still overflowing. Long Shaocong had never seen this kind of death, and he felt extremely frightened in his heart, almost vomiting, and couldn't bear to look at it again.

At this time, there was a commotion outside, and there was a rush of footsteps, and everyone made way of a passage, and two soap li, dressed in errand clothes, walked in, followed by a panicked mother Sang, obviously she had just gone to report to the official.

One of them, who was thin and short, and looked a little older, examined the two corpses before and after, pointed to Iida Sheng's corpse and said, "This person has obvious bruises on his neck, and he was obviously killed by someone who locked his throat." ”

He looked at the Taidao placed on the side again, carefully observed Iida Sheng's expression, and said: "This knife has not been moved, which means that this person did not draw the knife to resist before he died, or he was killed before he drew the knife, but from his expression, there was a trace of doubt in the horror, his right hand pointed, his mouth was round, and it was obvious that something unexpected happened to him before he died." Therefore, the official concluded that he was attacked by someone, and it is very likely that he still knows the person who attacked him, otherwise he would not have let go of the knife around him and give up resisting. ”

Listening to this little soap li's analysis of the case, Long Shaocong secretly admired it in his heart, but who killed Iida Sheng, he was really confused, of course, this is not within the scope of worrying.

At this time, I heard the soap Li say: "Mother, does this guest have a companion when he comes?" ”

Mama Sang's frightened eyes rolled a few times, and said, "Yes, it's the three of them." After speaking, he pointed at Long Shaocong and the three of them with his hand.

Before the three of them could react, Mama-san pointed at Oda Katsucho and said, "Yesterday, it was him, and he almost fought with the deceased." ”

"In that case, then ask the three of you to go down to Jiaoban for a trip." After speaking, he glanced at the young soap next to him, and the two of them pulled out the chains and were about to step forward to take the person.

This annoyed Long Shaocong, thinking that there is such a reason to judge the case in such a confused way, just rely on your guess to come forward and take someone, even if your reasoning is correct, but after the murderer kills someone, who will stay at the scene stupidly?

Before he could speak, Oda Katsucho put his hand on the sword, took the first step, and shouted: "You are so bold, do you know who the young master is?" How dare you come and get me? ”

When Long Shaocong saw it, he immediately walked to Oda Katsuna's side and whispered: "Young master, don't be impatient, don't expose your identity, this is a place of right and wrong, it's better to go with him for the time being, and talk about it when you get to the official mansion." ”

Oda Katsucho pushed Long Shaocong away and said: "You two little soaps, you don't have real evidence, you dare to detain me, slow to say that this person is not killed by me, or I killed him, and it is not your turn to interfere." ”

"Yes, we ...... We are samurai! Aoki Saemon also stood beside Oda Katsunaga with a waist sword, but he seemed a little lacking in confidence.

It turns out that in Japan during the Warring States Period, samurai enjoyed a very high status, in addition to carrying sharp weapons when they usually traveled, they could avoid punishment if they killed someone, and at most they could lose some money, and if the person killed was a peasant or a pariah, then they could only consider themselves unlucky.

But Oda Katsucho forgot that the deceased was also a samurai, and he was also an official from Kyoto. Therefore, seeing this posture, the two soap officers felt that the problem was quite tricky, but they did not flinch immediately.

Just when there was a stalemate inside, there was another commotion from the audience, and someone shouted: "Meet the showman." ”

When Oda Katsucho heard this, his face immediately showed joy, and he squeezed away everyone and ran out, and when the people who came saw that it was Oda Katsucho, they were also stunned, and quickly pulled him aside, and whispered: "Young master, why are you here?" ”

Oda Katsucho said, "Uncle Hase, the little nephew is in trouble, and then he briefly recounts the cause and effect of the incident......

The name of the person who came was Hasegawa Shuichi, and like Hidemasa Hori, he was also a close general of Oda Nobunaga. Although this person is not outstanding in martial arts and ability, he is steady and loyal, and he has been serving Nobunaga's family for even longer than Hori Hidemasa.

Today he was patrolling the city according to his usual practice, but he didn't want to encounter a murder, and when he saw that the deceased was from Kyoto, he also felt that the problem was serious, and immediately beckoned the two soap officers to his side.

The two of them could see from the clothes and pomp that this person must be a big official, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they immediately ran over, bowed down and saluted: "My lord, what do you command?" ”

Hasegawa Shuichi said: "I will take these three people and the male deceased, as for here, I will leave it to the two of you to deal with." After speaking, he stopped looking at the two of them, ordered Ashigaru to carry away Iida Sheng's body, and walked out of the courtyard with Oda Katsucho and the others.

Stunned there, he bowed down and sent Hasegawa Shuichi away, and the elder immediately turned around and said, "Collect this female corpse, you can go with us to Jiaoban." After speaking, he pointed at his mother with his hand.

When her mother Sang heard this, she immediately cried and shouted: "My lord, I am wronged, I am the one who reported to the official, you can't be indiscriminate......"

But the young soap didn't allow her to argue, shook the chain, and put it on her white "pink" neck......