After greeting himself for food and tea, Ogata untied the hat above his head and sat down on the bench outside the teahouse.

At the same time, the two sabers on the left waist are pulled out and placed on the bench on the left side.

Renxu walked for such a long time, and Ogata couldn't help but feel a little sore.

To be able to meet such a place where you can rest your feet, have tea to drink, and food to eat, Ogata can't help but feel lucky in her heart.

Since Ogata is the only customer, the owner quickly prepares the five skewers of glutinous rice dumplings that Ogata wants, as well as the best tea in their shop.

After the shopkeeper placed the food and tea that Ogata had asked for on the bench on Ogata's right, Ogata thanked the shopkeeper and reached into his bosom, ready to take out his money bag and pay.

It is not for nothing that Ogata dares to say to the shopkeeper, "I want the best tea in the store", which at first glance sounds very arrogant.

Ogata really has arrogant capital.

The amount of entanglement that Kuranaga gave to Ogata was staggering.

A big bag of money.

It was the highest denomination of the Edo period.

According to Ogata's estimation, the pile of coils given to him by Kuranaga is enough for Ogata to live a chic life for many years without worrying about eating, drinking, sleeping, etc.

Oke is not the kind of person who will live a tight life in order to save money.

If you have money, enjoy it – this is Ogata's view of consumption.

So in the time since he left Hirose Domain, Ogata has always eaten the best food and drank the best tea and drink.

Ogata reached for the place in his bosom where the money bag should have been lying quietly......

It turned out to be empty.

After his palm touched the air instead of the money bag, Ogata's heart chuckled.

After saying "No", Ogata used both hands together and touched around his body.

touched the light green feather weave on his body, and then wiped the dark blue Wu dress under the feather weave, and even touched the hakama on the lower body in the end.

I didn't even touch the money bag......

Looking at Ogata, who was touching his body, the owner of the tea house standing next to him slowly frowned.

"Guest officer...... Is your purse bag missing? ”

"Hmm!" Ogata nodded his head as he stood up and looked in the direction he had just come to see if his purse had fallen on the road.

The shopkeeper pursed his lips, then asked in a deep voice towards Ogata again:

"Guest officer, did you just meet a person with a horse's face, and this person with a horse's face 'accidentally' bumped into you when he passed by you?"

"That's right." Ogata cast a stunned look at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, how do you know?" ”

The man who accidentally bumped into Ogata's shoulder just now made a deep impression on Ogata because his horse face was so ugly.

As soon as the shopkeeper mentioned it, Ogata immediately remembered this person.

After hearing Ogata say this, the shopkeeper sighed lightly.

"That seems to ...... Guest, your wallet was stolen by that guy......"

"'That guy'?" Ogata repeated a word from the shopkeeper's sentence, "Shopkeeper, do you know that guy?" ”

"Of course I know, that guy is also a celebrity in our place."

"That guy is a cadre of the Negishi family."

- The Negishi family?

Hearing the word, Ogata's eyebrows furrowed uncontrollably.

This was the second time he had heard the term today.

"That horse-faced man doesn't have any skills."

"The only skill is to steal."

"That guy is pretty good at pickpocketing."

"What's his best pickpocket? Just pretending to accidentally bump into someone else? Then take the opportunity to take someone else's money bag. ”

"He's pretty clever."

"It can be said that it has reached the point of being superb."

"Being able to steal this person's money bag when they collide with someone without knowing it."

"I've heard that guy never missed."

"So Samurai-sama, it's helpless for your money bag to be by that guy."

"Bastard!" Ogata yelling? "That guy even dared to steal something from a samurai!"

"What don't you dare." The shopkeeper shrugged with a wry smile? "The people of their Negishi family are used to running rampant in this land."

"Ordinary samurai, they don't pay attention."

"Samurai-sama? I advise you to obediently endure this and fight against the people of the Negishi family? Will die...... Feed! Samurai-sama! What are you going to do? Where are you going?! ”

……

……

Tatsuno Domain? Four Rivers Village.

"Hey! You bastards! Didn't we just pay the money a while ago?! ”

A young man looked at the five angry youths in front of him with a look of indignation.

Around these five angry youths, there were many villagers of Sihe Village who were looking at them with anger and hatred.

The five angry youths didn't care about the stares cast by the villagers.

The leader of the five, the horse-faced, said with a hippie smile:

"Don't get excited, everyone!"

"You should also know that the world is getting worse and worse now."

"It's getting worse and worse."

"So we can only slightly increase the amount of money you have to pay each month."

"This is our boss's order! Thank you for your cooperation! ”

For Ma Face's strong words, how many villagers in Sihe Village want to shout? But I can only hold back.

"We're out of money!" Ultimately? It was an old man with gray hair who took the lead in shouting at Ma Yan and the others.

After hearing the old man's words, the horse's face did not change, and he still had a strange smile on his face.

He only silently raised his right hand, stretched out his tail finger to dig into the earwax, and said casually:

"Since you don't have any money? Then sell people. ”

"Old fellow, I think you seem to have a granddaughter, right?"

"If you don't have any money? Hand over your granddaughter. ”

"It just so happens that our 'shops' are short of new young women."

Ma Yan's words made the indignation on the faces of the surrounding villagers even stronger.

However...... Or did no one dare to step forward and loudly scold these 5 people? Or do it to these 5 people......

Horse Face is in a very good mood right now.

For he had just managed to steal a large sum of money from a foolish ronin with long hair and a very vulgar light onion feather.

At first - Horseface thought that this fool ronin should not be carrying much money.

Because the ronin is generally poor.

But after stealing that guy's purse and waiting for that guy to go away? Horseface opens his money bag? The faint golden light that came out of the money bag? directly made the horse's eyes round.

The money bag is stuffed with coins of all levels, mainly large sentences.

It was the first time in his life that Ma Yan had seen so much money.

successfully caught a big fish, so that the horse's face has been hanging with a look of ecstasy that has not been restrained.