The 13th year of the Republic of China, the 13th year of Taisho in Japan, April 5, 1924.

On the Qingming Festival, the cherry blossoms have begun to wither.

Tokyo in ruins is littered with scaffolding and newly built houses. The Marquis Saga's mansion, near the Imperial Palace, has been completed and rebuilt in the same way as it was destroyed by Princess Hikari before the earthquake.

Sagako is seventeen years old, and he is standing by the window and watching the colorful flowers in the yard, and he still has not given up looking for Qin Beiyang all over Japan.

The porter informed, and Mr. Haneda asked to see him. Hikari quickly ran down the living room, thinking that Mr. Haneda had gone around the United States, did he bring back news related to Qin Beiyang?

However, there are three more people and a beast behind Haneda Taiki.

Ah You, Lao Jin, Zhongshan, and Nine Colors.

Light screamed, and first pounced on the body of the town's tomb beast, the last time I was with it was in the crisp autumn Karuizawa. The Nine Colors had been cleansed by the Assassins, temporarily removing the stench of toxic chemicals. But the light also saw the difference between the nine colors and the past, and the body size seemed to have become larger? The eyes also became a little scary, as if the uninvited guest in her early twenties this time was staring at a pair of black hole-like eyes.

"Who are you?"

Hikari put on the momentum of a princess and asked the guests coldly, and Haneda Taiki translated in a low voice.

"I'm Mrs. Qin."

Ah Yu replied almost without blinking, also full of the domineering spirit of the hostess.

A few days ago, she heard that Taiki Haneda had finally returned from the United States and immediately sent Kim to kidnap him from Osaka to Tokyo. Faced with this "Lady Qin", Haneda naturally had no reservations, and was forced to lead the way for her to be a translator and come to the mansion of the Marquis of Saga.

After translating, Hikari frowned: "Whose lady?" ”

"Princess Guang, Qin Beiyang is my husband. The little woman's surname is Hong, her name is Tianyou, I heard that my husband was in Japan, and he received a lot of your care, and the little woman was polite. ”

Ah Yu bowed to Guangshen according to the Japanese understanding, but his tone was very hard, and the aura of anti-objectivity covered the princess of the dignified Marquis of Saga.

Jiu Se did not coquettish in the arms of the little girl like in the past, but silently walked back to Ah You's side, and the cold aura of one person and one beast was quite compatible.

Guang looked at Ah You's eyes in a daze, bit his lip, and bowed deeply as well: "Guang has always been under Mr. Qin's care, and it is an honor to meet Mrs. Qin today." ”

After all, she is a young lady from a Japanese aristocratic family, she must behave extremely decently, and not be compared to Mrs. Qin in front of her.

"Beiyang must have talked about me, right?"

"Hmm...... Yes, my brother talks about you a lot! ”

"Brother?"

Hikari said to Taiki Haneda, who was acting as an interpreter, "Mr. Qin saved my life in Kyoto five years ago, and since then we have been called brother and sister. ”

Seeing the little girl's proud expression, Ah You understood why Qin Beiyang desperately rescued her in Paris back then.

Ah You sneered and said, "My husband likes little girls the most, and he has recognized many godsisters all over the world." ”

Seeing Haneda Taiki's embarrassed expression, she urged again: "Please translate truthfully!" ”

Haneda had to clear his throat, finished translating this passage, and added in Japanese: "Your Royal Highness Princess, offended!" ”

"It's okay!" After going through the ups and downs of the past six months, Guang has also become more mature than his peers, "Mrs. Qin, you came to Japan to find my brother, right?" I've been looking for him as well. I have something for you, please later. ”

Sagaguang returned to the study and took out the ring-headed Tang knife and the Russian cross bow left by Qin Beiyang: "This is the weapon left by my brother, I have kept it for half a year, and now I can return it to you." ”

"Thank you!" Ah You took An Lushan's Tang knife, still heavy, as if there was still the power of that evil spirit, and handed it over to Lao Jin for safekeeping, "Princess Light, Mr. Haneda has told me something. But I want to know more, like, the night before the Great Kanto Earthquake, your birthday party, what special things happened? ”

"Birthday party? I burned my house down...... I'm sorry, I was so overjoyed to reunite with my brother that I left Crown Prince Hirohito behind and danced with my brother. ”

"He can dance?"

Ah You's face is not very good-looking, Qin Beiyang actually danced with this little girl, and he has never danced with his wife!

"You don't have to get me wrong, my brother can't dance at all, I took him to dance ......" Light closed his eyes and recalled the carnival of that night, the original banquet hall had long been burned to ashes, and the current mansion was rebuilt in situ, it should still be in this position, "I remember, my brother danced with another girl first, and then he met me." ”

"And the girls?"

Ah You was so angry that he forcibly suppressed his anger.

Hikari nodded: "Let me think about it...... Her name is Yoshiko. ”

After Haneda finished translating, Nakayama immediately remembered the female classmate of the "Heavenly Kingdom School": "Yoshiko? ”

"What does she look like?"

Hikaru Saga described Yoshiko's appearance in detail, from age to eyebrow and eye characteristics, which is completely consistent with Yoshiko, who studied the "Underground Palace Road" and the "Assassin Road" on Taibai Mountain, and is obviously the same person.

"Let me think, what's her last name? How could there be an invitation to my birthday party? Hikari paced back and forth in the living room, "Her name is Nakajima House!" Her father was a Japanese kendo master, and he was very powerful in the Kanto region, with many disciples and many nobles. ”

"Yoshiko Nakajima?" Zhongshan nodded slightly, "In the past, in the 'Heavenly Kingdom Academy', we only knew that her name was Fangzi, and we never asked each other's surnames. Where did it come from? It doesn't matter. More than three years ago, Yoshiko graduated from the 'Heavenly Kingdom Academy' and followed Ah Hai down the mountain to carry out a mission, and has not been heard from since. ”

Lao Jin frowned, leaned over to Jiuse and said, "Do you remember Fangzi?" Did the owner see her before the accident? ”

The town's grave beast's eyes lit up, and it leapt to its feet, striking its head against the pillars of the living room.

There is no doubt that Yoshiko is the key player.

Yoshiko Nakajima's father is called Naniwa Nakajima.

After Haneda's investigation, the kendo master Nakajima Naniwa, who was nearly sixty years old, was a member of the "Koya Association" and studied Chinese at the Tokyo Foreign Language School, with a very high level of Chinese and Chinese. During the First Sino-Japanese War, he worked as a translator for the Japanese army and later served in the Governor-General's Office in Taiwan. Gengzi Incident, the Eight-Nation Coalition occupied Beijing, and Nakajima Naniwa became the governor of the Japanese occupation area. Later, he stayed in Beijing for a long time and was hired by the Qing court as a guest secretary and served as the director of the Senior Patrol Police Academy. He did not return to Japan until after the Xinhai New Year, but he also traveled frequently to and from China. Before the Great Kanto Earthquake, he lived in Yokohama all the year round and opened a kendo dojo by borrowing the entrance of the Black Dragon Kai altar behind Chinatown.

It is self-evident that this Nakajima Naniwa is what Meng Po called "Sichuan Taoist". He pretended to be a descendant of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and sent his talented children to Taibai Mountain to train the world's top assassins. Although I don't know the true origin of Fangzi, it must be related to Qin Beiyang's disappearance.

On the eve of the operation, in a cemetery in Tokyo, the nine colors had changed into a young Kirin Town tomb beast, and the antlers were like bifurcated dry bones in the moonlight.

Ah You was questioning Zhongshan: "You and Fangzi went up the mountain at the same time, and they are both children sent by the 'Sichuan Daoren'." No matter who Fangzi is, she has betrayed Taibai Mountain. Ah Hai, the first to be sent up the mountain by the 'Sichuan Daoren', also defected. What about you? ”

"I'm sorry, master, according to the rules of heaven. I can't talk about what happened before I went up the mountain. Because we went to Taibai Mountain, that was our last life, and we must forget! Forget! ””

"Even if you've ever drunk 'Meng Po Soup', you have to tell me!"

Ah You had already taken out his dagger, and Lao Jin was holding the miner's pickaxe and aiming at the young man's vest.

Eighteen-year-old Nakayama closed his eyes and listened to the screams of startled crows in the cemetery, and whispered, "When I was seven years old, my father was assassinated. Soon after, my mother also fell ill and died. My brother and I were alone and wandering the streets. One day, I was taken away by a man who claimed to be from Sichuan. ”

"Who is your father?"

"My father......" Zhongshan was silent for a long time, looking up to the sky and sighing, "My father is the infantry of the sixth town of Beiyang and the heavy soldiers. ”

Lao Jin frowned, and interjected: "I've heard this name!" In the year of Xinhai, Qi Chongbing was desperately loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but Yuan Shikai was forcing the palace to the Qing court, so he sent someone to assassinate Qi Chongbing. ”

"You are Qi Yuanshan's younger brother?"

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