Yoshiwara, Flower Street.

As its name suggests, Hanado is one of the busiest areas in Tokyo, with a lot of traffic except for a few days off in the morning.

In fact, this is not a street in the ordinary sense of the word, but a special area that has been fenced, like a theme park with people as toys.

Here, everyone is either pleasing others or being pleased.

The sound of laughter and the sound of the piano, when there is almost no interruption, can temporarily bury all misfortunes.

Among them, a few shops near the avenue are the most lively.

Neither wealthy people with deep pockets, but ministers from various countries, and sometimes even cabinet ministers hold banquets here.

The geisha here are different from other places, and almost all of them are skilled in their skills.

Wuqin Flower Tea, there is a mastery that can make high rollers flock to it; If you are proficient in two subjects, you will be in an endless stream; If you are good at all four of them, and if you are a little more elegant and stand out from the crowd, you will be called "Oiran" and become the uncrowned king of geisha.

Even when the Oiran went out to greet the guests, they would be followed by a long procession, just like the Daimyo in the Edo period.

However, there are leaders in every industry.

The three Oiran stores were located next to the main road, which naturally made a lot of money, but it also made the other stores in their vicinity miserable.

No, the day before yesterday, news suddenly came out -

During the Edo period, Kangetsuya, an old shop that used to produce many oirans, was sold out due to poor management.

Generally speaking, such a big deal must be negotiated for a long time.

But the owner of the moon house dismissed the geisha almost overnight, and kindly compensated them and introduced them to work elsewhere to earn a living.

Then, even the original furniture was emptied and transported away, which can be said to be vigorous.

Just when everyone wanted to know which pick-up man was going to make his debut, the renovation workers had already hung up the new sign. It's also strange that the signboard is usually hung last.

And this sign is also very special.

Because this shop is not a new place of taste.

It's a glowing confectionery shop in Ashina.

In Yoshiwara, where even ordinary wandering girls write a good haiku to please guests, the name has no cultural connotation at all, just like a name casually spoken by a countryman.

Besides, opening a dim sum shop next to Yoshiwara Avenue is something that is not expected in the first place-

An Oiran can earn thousands of yen in a few hours, so how can a restaurant like this not be able to hire a good chef? They even have many specialty dishes that have been passed down from generation to generation.

You know, the food and wine here are also sky-high compared to ordinary places.

A small dim sum shop, can you make any tricks here?

Besides, if you want to buy such a big old store, how can you do it for more than 10,000 yen, but by selling dim sum, when will you be able to return to your capital?

It's almost impossible.

So, with the help of well-intentioned people, this dim sum shop that has not yet opened immediately became the laughing stock of Yoshihara.

The shopkeeper who has not yet met has become a fool in their mouths.

But they didn't know that every time they mentioned the word "reed", they were sending prestige points to Ichiro.

And just like that, a week passed, and the renovation was finally completed.

The Moon Viewing Building, which has a three-storied pagoda, has been simply tidyed up, and looks completely different from the surrounding Fugetsu places, and is generally quite simple and elegant, with a lack of fireworks, as if a torii gate has isolated it from the shops outside, and has become a pure land next to this avenue.

After a few more days, the decorators and furniture dealers all withdrew, and finally two men came and opened the door, but did not put up a sign for business, but only bowed down and waited at the door.

This also attracted the attention of the wandering girls and geisha standing in the surrounding attic.

Anyway, it's still morning, and they have time to watch the excitement.

"What kind of person is the boss here?"

"Opening a dim sum shop in such a place should be a loser for a rich family."

"Although people are a little stupid, but if you have money, let's move around more, don't you say that the building near the water gets the moon first?"

"I want to taste the taste of the dim sum."

"Why is it called a glowing dim sum shop, does it really shine?"

"How is that possible! I think it is to describe the dim sum as delicious and looks like it is glowing! ”

"It's because you always want to eat that you can't become an oiran!

“……”

The girls chattered.

After a while, Yoshiwara's huge arch that prevented the girls from escaping slowly opened, and a black car drove in slowly.

Cars were a real rarity in Japan in this era, and the price of a car was enough to buy an ordinary geisha house.

Many girls with hearts are instantly red-eyed, such rich people can easily change their fate.

Just when the girls thought that a distinguished customer was coming and planned to put on a show to attract the attention of the other party, they saw that the car was parked in front of the dim sum shop.

Then, a one-eyed dragon dressed in an opulent kimono walked out of the store, its ornaments tinkling.

Everyone thought he was the boss here, but the one-eyed dragon smiled and hurriedly walked to the car, hunched over and opened the door in the back seat.

"Ichiro-sama."

He was greeted by the cold eyes of Ichiro Kyo.

If it weren't for the steady prestige he had gained every day in the past few days, he would have been eager to poke at the cave mountain.

Anayama didn't notice that something was wrong, thinking that this was the usual expression of Genichiro.

After Genichiro got out of the car, he shook his own haori and looked around with a suppressed brow, and the girls who looked at him retreated or even avoided their gaze, and all fell silent.

[Why did I say that I have so much reputation every day......]

[It turned out that I got it here!] 】

After roughly understanding the environment, Ichiro frowned helplessly, and then leaned down and said to the car, "Jiulang, come out first." ”

"Okay."

Immediately afterwards, a fair-skinned teenager, as if surrounded by a faint hazy light, walked out of the car, looking at his face and posture, he had an innate sense of dignity, and the fierce temperament of the string Ichiro was yin and yang, but it complemented each other.

Thanks to their hairstyles and age, the two really look like brothers.

Seeing this, the One-Eyed Dragon's Cave Mountain hurriedly saluted Jiulang, "Divine Son." ”

"There is no divine dragon here, please stop calling me divine son."

Although Jiulang's tone was gentle, a burst of firmness flashed in his eyes, "Jiulang is fine." ”

"Okay, Lady Kuro."

Anayama is just a businessman, and he doesn't know much about Reed's past, and the dragon is too far away from him. Adults say what to do, he does it, and he can't be wrong.

Then, Kuro also looked up at his surroundings before turning back to look at Ichiro.

"Ichiro Hiroshi...... Brother, are we going to live here in the future? ”

By implication, how did you find such a place?

Anayama hurriedly answered: "Lord Kuro, I am looking for Tokyo in the next time, and I just want to find a place similar to Reed's name, hoping to alleviate the homesickness of the two of you. Until I heard that there was a three-story moon-viewing building here, and it was actually where you and Lady Jiuro used to live......"

"Shut up!"

Xianichiro directly scolded him coldly, what is the place of the Moon Viewing Tower in Reeda?

That's where he imprisoned Kuro!

In order to prevent Kuro from escaping, he was locked in a wooden cage in the house at night.

There, Kuro couldn't do anything but read, and it can be said that life was very difficult.

It was not easy for him to appease Jiulang (the ending of breaking and never dying) summoned from Huangquan, why don't you open which pot to mention?

Cave Mountain looked embarrassed, and quickly lowered his head, not knowing what taboo he had committed.

He's exactly looking for it according to Ichiro's request.

People come and go, big people come and go, and they can live here, and all the conditions that Genichiro said are here.

And don't women prefer to eat snacks?

Since you have opened a store, you always have to make money!

Moreover, living in such a place is every man's dream, who doesn't want to open and close their eyes every day and have a beautiful woman as their company?

He didn't know what was wrong with him.

Regardless of it, in the end, it was Jiurou who rescued him.

"It's okay, Brother Genichiro, as he said, I always have a feeling of nostalgia when I come here."

Looking at the tower behind it, which was obviously a cut away, Kuro seemed to think of the tower dedicated to the mountain god (fog crow) in the depths of the Hirata family's bamboo forest, probably the only building that was not affected by the fire.

Ichiro's face also warmed up slightly, and he commanded Anayama, "Let the car ...... Let's go back, and when everyone is there, I have something to say. ”

Anayama hurriedly responded "yes", while Genichiro and Kuro entered the gate one after the other, and the two men outside the door followed up and quickly closed the door.

The attic exploded in an instant, as if a thousand flies were buzzing.

"Wow, that older kid's eyes are too scary, it feels like he wants to burn this place down!"

"Fierce, I hate it to death."

"Where do you hate it, just like the ancient samurai in the novel, your bearing is extraordinary!"

"The samurai should shave the hair on the top of his head......"

"That little one is not ordinary, at first glance, it is the child of the big man's family."

"So, who the hell is that one-eyed dragon, seeing that he is dressed so luxuriously, and he has to salute those two little children."

"I don't know, I don't know! When they open, let's go and try it. ”

While they were chattering, not far away, on the third floor of a shop called Kyogokuya, two figures were looking out through the narrow slit in the window.

Among them, the younger girl actually had a pair of beautiful pomegranate red eyes, which was the girl Yuan Zi who had met on the way to send the eagles before, and she was looking thoughtful at this time.

The other woman, who looked a little older, looked out with contempt in her eyes, as if nothing in the world could get into her eyes.

"These women are really ugly to death, they still chatter all day long, and they don't let people sleep well in the daytime."

When the garden heard this, he suddenly looked at the older woman, who suddenly felt a thrill and knelt down directly, "Big, adult......

In the dimly lit room, the two red eyes had become the largest source of light, looking emotionless and very cold.

"Fallen Hime, are you still used to coming from Kyoto to Tokyo?"

The red-eyed girl put her right hand on the head of the fallen hime and gently rubbed it like a puppy, "I heard that you killed another water column in Kyoto, and you did a good job." ”

"It's just one pillar, and I'll kill more pillars for adults!"

Fallen Ji hid the smugness in her heart, and she didn't even dare to think about it, because she knew that this adult could read her heart.

"In any case, from Nara to Osaka to Kyoto, the Oni Slayer should suspect that there are ghosts among the geisha."

Although Yuanzi's tone was gentle, there was no intention of negotiating, "You pay attention, don't make too much trouble." ”

Hearing that the adult did not mean to blame, Fallen Hime raised her head, but by this time her appearance had changed drastically.

In addition to the strange patterns that appeared out of thin air on her face, strange Chinese characters appeared in her eyes.

Among them, the left eye is written "Shangfeng", and the right eye is written "Lu".

Winding Six!

She is the last ghost in the first quarter of the twelve ghost moons, Fallen Hime.

For many years, Akihime has been lurking among humans as a geisha.

After each place, Fallen Hime will take refuge in the local Fengyue Place, and will not move on to the next place until she eats all the good-looking people in the vicinity.

Now, this is the third time she has moved to Tokyo.

After forty years, Fallen Ji found that the Kyogoku House, which she was popular with one hand, had actually declined.

So Fallen Hime decided to join Kyogokuya again, and then rely on her beauty to become an Oiran again! In this way, it is enough to prove her strength.

Because of her outstanding image, of course, the boss will not let her be the lowest-level wandering girl, but intends to spend a lot of money and effort to train her, so that Kyogokuya will also become a famous store with an oiran.

In this way, Fallen Ji stayed in Tokyo for almost a month.

But I didn't expect this adult to take the initiative to visit her.

"Don't be nervous, I have some extra tasks for you."

Yuan walked to the gap in the window and looked at the glowing dim sum shop of Ashina diagonally opposite, "Usually you go and buy more dim sum there, and find out who lives there." “

"Huh?"

Fallen Hime showed a curious expression, "Could it be that those people are important just now?" ”

Yuanzi's tone suddenly turned cold, "Are you asking me to explain to you?" “

Fallen Ji panicked in her heart, and was suddenly pushed by a strange force from behind, and directly slammed her head on the ground with a click, "I'm sorry! I'll do my best to complete the adult's task! ”

Hum.

The garden likes to watch others kneel and beg for her.

"The boy on the other side, it's not the first time I've seen him."

The tips of the garden's fingers tapped lightly on the twins, but the wood knocked out deep nail marks one after another, "The last time I saw him, he had a Nikcha knife in his hand, but his eyes were blood-red like mine. I sent the other ghosts to follow him for a few days, and found out that he wasn't part of the Ghost Slayer team. ”

"And his blood tastes strange, not like a human, not like a ghost......"

Sonoko briefly recounted the reason why she assigned the task to Fallen Hime, but the real thought in her heart was that she was afraid that there would be another ghost king similar to herself in the world.

"I haven't finished my business yet, so I need you to find out the situation."

"Remember that if you find something strange, you must report it to me, and don't act on your own, you know?"

"Yes!"