"Good!"

The applause from the audience continued, and the lecture was listening to the lecture and throwing copper coins on the stage.

Looking at the copper coins scattered like a torrential rain, Tan Le smiled.

"But-even if Tokujiro didn't come to Kanto, it wouldn't be useful!"

"Lord Hasegawa Heizou has always been jealous and hateful!"

"Once the trace of the thief is discovered, even if the thief is at the end of the world, he will lead the officials who paid the thief to chase him!"

"If the thieves are not brought to justice, they will not give up!"

The Yamen, which specializes in catching arsonists and vicious thieves, has become the favorite of the townspeople and samurai of Edo Castle in the past two years.

Everyone loves to listen, so storytellers like Tan Le naturally love to talk too.

It is not only storytellers who love to speak, but it is said that even some well-known rakugo masters have begun to compile various jokes based on Hasegawa Heizou.

Today, he successfully made a fortune again with the story of "Hasegawa Heizou Chasing the True Sword Tokujiro", which made Tan Le smile so much that his eyes narrowed into a slit.

At this moment, an inquiry suddenly sounded from the audience:

"Talk about fun! You just said that among all the thieves today, the only person who can crush the real sword Tokujiro with swordsmanship is the 'executioner Ichizai', is this true? ”

The person who asked this question was an ordinary young man dressed as a craftsman.

Hearing his question, Tan Le was slightly stunned.

Recall every word he had just said.

I found out that I really said this.

"When, of course!"

Talk about Lego Channel.

"Although Tokujiro's swordsmanship is strong, he is far from the 'Executioner Ichitosai'!"

"Just comparing the number of beheadings between the two is enough to see the gap between the two!"

As soon as the voice of the conversation fell, the audience immediately remembered the low sound of talking.

"'Executioner's Knife'...... Who's that? ”

"I've never inquired carefully about what powerful thieves are in the world."

"It's called 'The Executioner'...... Is it another murderer? ”

"Don't you even know that man...... How closed are your daily lives......"

"If you are in the middle of nowhere, you don't know who the executioner is, but you townspeople who live in Edo don't even know...... Don't you usually leave the house? ”

……

Looking at the audience discussing the "executioner's knife", Tan Le licked his lips.

If he could, he would like to tell everyone the story of "The Executioner's Knife".

After all - the story of "The Executioner's Knife" is full of drama.

This kind of dramatic story is a favorite of storytellers like Tan Le.

But - Tan Le did not dare to tell the story of "the executioner's knife"......

Some listeners don't know what the "executioner has done", but he is very clear about talking about music.

The story of the "executioner's swords" to kill the lord and the lord of the Hirose domain, Matsudaira Gennai, and more than 100 of his guards - such a story is full of drama, but as a young scholar, he does not dare to tell it in a grand manner.

The person killed by this "Ichitosai" was the daimyo of the pro-domain and the lord of the Hirose domain.

If people with a heart find out that he, as a storyteller, is preaching the heinous "One Knife Fast" in front of the public, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of trouble.

Therefore, Tan Le could only make a haha, said a few words, and perfunctory the topic of "executioner stabbing fast".

In fact, when he was telling the story of "Hasegawa Heizou chasing down Tokujiro Matokujiro", he said the sentence "Of all the thieves today, only 'Executioner Ichitosai' can crush Tokujiro Matokujiro" - this sentence was said casually when he was talking about it.

He didn't carefully study what kind of thieves are there today.

Whether the skill of "Executioner Ichitosai" is above that of Tokujiro Matojiro, and whether there are any more powerful thieves - Tan Le is not clear about the answers to these questions, and he is not interested in clarifying.

……

……

That night—

region, Tatsuno Domain——

In a certain barren area of the Tatsuno Domain, there is an ancient temple that has been abandoned for a long time.

In this small and not very small ancient temple, five travelers who plan to spend the night here gather at this time.

These 5 travelers are all without exception - all of them are deserted ronins with knives stuck in their waists, but they have no place to return and no objects to serve.

Four of the five ronins sat around and chatted.

The other ronin did not join in their small talk.

Instead, he sat in a corner of the ancient temple with his sword and wakicha, covering his face with a hat, and wrapping his dirty light onion feather weave around his body, and his chest rose and fell rhythmically.

Judging by the appearance of this ronin, he should have fallen asleep.

The other four ronin, who were sitting not far away, looked at the ronin who seemed to have fallen asleep with a knife.

These 4 ronins are all very distinctive.

A tall man.

A short man.

A fat man.

A skinny man.

"Hey." "Do you want to wake him up and let him come and talk with us?" ”

"Don't do it." The tall ronin shook his head, "It's rude to wake them up when they're already asleep." ”

"That's right." The short ronin also answered at this time, "And before you understand the temperament of others, don't provoke others, who may be the kind of person who hates others disturbing their sleep." Let him sleep well, he sleeps his, and we talk about ours. ”

Phew——!

A cold wind blew through the tattered paper windows into the temple.

"Hmm......"

"It's so cold......"

"What a broken weather......

"Shhh...... My teeth are starting to chatter......"

The four ronins clutched their clothes, rubbed their hands, or gasped into their palms.

It is now January of the second year of leniency.

It's the middle of winter.

The Tatsuno Domain, located in the region, was already covered in silver at this time.

It was a snowy day tonight, and there were patches of snow outside the temple.

Looking down at the broken window, looking out at the snow, the tall ronin muttered:

"Fortunately, I found this abandoned ancient temple tonight...... If it weren't for this ancient temple, we'd all freeze to death here tonight. ”

"Needless to say, this emotion is needless to say." The fat ronin said angrily, "Hurry up and find a way to block these windows." ”

"We don't have the tools or materials to glue paper, and there's nothing like a plank here." The thin ronin smiled helplessly, "If you can't block it, let's bear with it a little tonight, a few of us can get together tighter, so that it can be warmer." ”