Chapter 41: The Salt House

Leaving the mountain temple, Yun Qi and his party followed the signs on the map and came to the nearest village (it should be the woodcutter's village), although it was late at night, the village was still brightly lit, as if it was a festival, but the atmosphere was a little wrong.

When Yun Qi and the three entered the village, they were mistaken for the gangsters who abducted and sold children, and under the persuasion of force, especially after Yun Qi defeated the strongest Li Zheng in a bushido way, the small village with a population of more than 300 finally recognized that the three were not bad people.

Then at a high price, three horses were bought.

The horse's foot strength is very poor, but it is better than walking.

After a casual meal of roasted sweet potatoes in the village, the three of them hurried on the road.

As for poor Satoma-sama, who was still waiting for the samurai's memories, it wasn't something Yun Qi had to worry about.

Time is very tight for the three of them, and every minute and every second means that the reincarnators of the opposing camp are about to enter the world, and they must rush ahead of everyone to Ako on the map.

Even if there were horses to do the leg strength on their behalf, the three of them were still very hard, but fortunately, Tie Feng distributed the military rations exchanged for military supplies to everyone, and even the three horses were also served.

Sure enough, the spirit of the three people and three horses was greatly shocked, and the distance was greatly shortened.

Even so, the fate of the three colts ended five hours later when they fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

After traveling for more than ten miles, the three of them finally came to the Ako marked on the map.

Ako is a famous salt producing area in Japan, and a large amount of salt is obtained by drying salt on the seawater beach from Middle-earth.

The so-called salt-making method is actually taken from the famous "Heavenly Creation", which directly introduces seawater into the salt pond dug in advance, and relies on the sun and the characteristics of salt to make it condense into crystals.

This method of drying salt is now seeming. It has no characteristics, but in ancient times with limited manpower, it was replaced by boiling in a large iron pot to obtain, which greatly saved the cost of manpower and wood.

Like China, Japan's control over salt is on par with other strategic goods. Find a salt farm in Ako that is exclusively for the Iga pie. It's not that hard.

However, to prevent his own efforts to explore the Iga Salt Farm from being warned, Yun Qi simply disguised himself as a beggar, a trader, a tourist, etc., to obtain information from passers-by, and finally locked on a relatively simple salt farm.

However, Yun Qi didn't do too much disguise this time, in ancient Japan, the people at the bottom were real pariahs in the eyes of the Japanese aristocracy. One of the great manifestations of untouchability is that it is always associated with "stench, filth, lice".

Before Yun Qi disguised himself as a pawn vendor, in order not to make people suspicious, he specially bought unwashed opposite clothes, and then cooperated with the disguise technique to investigate, and when the investigation was completed, he caused a lot of noise.

After cleaning the smell on his body, Yun Qi said that he didn't want to wear untouchable clothes.

Anyway, when they enter the mission world, the system automatically gives them a set of middle-class clothes, which is not comparable to fancy clothes. But it's clean and tidy, and most importantly - there are no nasty lice crawling on it.

However, Yun Qi's decision was also crooked. You know, it's not easy for a pariah to enter the salt house, you don't need the shopkeeper to speak, and the low-level shopkeeper will knock you out of the door.

Soon, Yun Qi took advantage of a lonely guy and pulled him down in a corner where no one was. and shut him up, so that he could not scream much.

Then he put the iron knife on the man's neck and forced him to ask some questions.

The guy also wanted to refuse to answer on the grounds that his mouth was sealed by his hand, but under the influence of his heart. The choice between allegiance and survival can only be made.

The people of this salt village are not all members of the Iga faction, and many migrant workers do not have the consciousness of the Iga ninja to die.

Under the pressure of death, the man obediently conveyed the location of the shopkeeper's account to Yun Qi's mind through his heart, and even explained his name and identity one by one.

In the end, Yun Qi saw that he was still honest, and slapped him on the back of the head and fainted directly, the weight of the technique made people doubt whether he would become an idiot after waking up.

Yun Qi was naturally not in the mood to care about the sequelae of a passer-by, he followed the route explained by the guy, and the appearance of the guy who disguised himself, and quickly touched the study where the shopkeeper stored the account books.

It is worth mentioning that Yun Qi did not change into that guy's clothes. This is Japan hundreds of years ago, not a modern little Japan, and the employees don't have uniform clothing, not to mention that the guy is a temporary short-term worker hired by Yanzhuang, and he naturally wears clothes brought from home.

Yun Qi was already not interested in the moldy and smelly clothes on the guy's body, and no one paid attention to what a little guy was wearing on weekdays anyway.

However, when entering the core area of the salt village, there was still a small accident.

When he was about to touch the shopkeeper's account, he passed by an Iga ninja without danger.

Although the ninja stopped and looked at Yun Qi's disguise, Yun Qi's appearance really overlapped with the short-term job in a salt farm he remembered.

The Iga ninja couldn't remember Yun Qi's name for a while, so he waved his hand and asked him to leave.

Yun Qi breathed a sigh of relief, the only thing he was worried about was that because of his cleanliness, the small flaws in the clothes on his body were exposed.

Fortunately, in this era, there is no popular "there is only one truth" bloody reasoning drama, ordinary people have a few excellent observations, and that ninja is not the first person in charge of Yanzhuang - the only upper ninja here, so he will be fooled by without danger.

There are a lot of things in the account room, but there are not many things that Yun Qi really needs to rummage through.

Soon, Yun Qi found a ledger of salt transportation in an obvious place, on which tons of salt were about to be transported.

Let Yun Qi be ninety percent sure that the destination of those salt that represents the strategic level should be the Iga Hidden Township.

But another problem puzzled Yunqi: the ledger did not record the location of Iga Yinxiang.

As a result, the tactic of finding out the hidden township by searching for the ledger records declared bankruptcy without exception.

Yun Qi checked the account room again, this is not a big place, it is only a dozen square meters, and the number of furniture is not much, if there is any hidden mechanism, it should not be difficult to find.

Ten minutes later, Yun Qi could only wipe the sweat from his forehead and completely give up finding the confidential file of the Hidden Township in the secret room.

Obviously, the Iga faction didn't need to leave any information about the Hidden Villages, for the simple reason that they would send someone to escort the salt to the base camp.

Moreover, for the Iga faction, in the troubled times that had just been pacified, there were still many bandits and bandits, and it was quite dangerous for the goods to be escorted without special bodyguards, and it was also a hard currency with a huge demand for salt.

"It seems that the only way to kidnap an Iga ninja and interrogate them about the location of their base camp is to find out."

Yun Qi was thinking about how to avoid the upper shinobi stationed in the salt village and kidnap a lower or middle shinobi when there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

It's all right, it's urgent and fast, it's very wrong!

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