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Chapter 383: The Assassins Strike! The death of Gua Shengxiu...? 【5600】

There is a big living person in the bamboo basket, which is really frightening to others.

All of a sudden, there were screams.

"What happened?"

"Did someone fight?"

"It does not seem."

"Ah! Look! There is a person in that bamboo basket!"

"What? Living or dead?!"

"It seems to be alive!"

...

Gua Shengxiu ignored the onlookers who gathered from all around.

"Baiju! Baiju! Wake up! Wake up!"

After dragging Bai Ju out of the bamboo basket, Gua Shengxiu supported Bai Ju's shoulder with one hand, and patted Bai Ju's pretty face repeatedly with the other hand.

She must have been drugged.

Gua Shengxiu slapped her until her cheeks turned red, and then she finally woke up slowly.

"Hmm...huh? Guasheng...mother-in-law...?"

Bai Ju blinked at Gua Shengxiu who was hugging her, with 6 points of bewilderment and 4 points of doubt in her eyes.

"Great, you're safe..."

Gua Shengxiu tightened his embrace of Bai Ju a little bit, and let out a sigh of relief.

At this time, a hysterical roar disturbed this warm and beautiful picture.

"Ahhh! Baiju! Baiju!"

The owner of this roar was the young man who was still under Qing Deng's body at this moment.

"Shut up."

Qingdeng was also polite, and directly rewarded him with a punch.

With Qingdeng's physical strength, if he attacked with all his strength, he could beat the young man half to death, or even kill him directly. But because there are still many questions to ask him right now, so Qingdeng withdrew most of his strength and only beat him. pain.

"Puff!"

However, even if Qingdeng withdrew his strength, the fists of his "superman" who had been transformed by various talents were not something ordinary people could withstand.

Bang——With the sound of a dull physical collision, the young man's face swelled up.

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, the young man's roar instantly turned into a cry of pain...

Frightened by the young man's roar just now, Bai Ju shrank her petite body, and then looked around anxiously.

"Grandma Guasheng, this is...? Why am I here?"

"Baiju, do you still remember what happened before you fell into a coma?"

Gua Sheng asked.

"Before coma...?"

Bai Ju stroked her forehead with her hands, her brows were tightly frowned.

"I remember... I suddenly heard a knock on the door outside the room... I got up and opened the door... but there was no one outside the door...then...then...just as I was about to close the door, someone hugged me from behind and covered my nose and mouth with a handkerchief... I smelled so strong... and then... what happened next, I have no memory of it..."

"So that's how it is... Bai Ju, listen to me—"

Gua Shengxiu mistook Qianhuawu for her elopement with her lover, looked for her everywhere, and finally Qingdeng managed to find her in the bamboo basket on the young man's back, and told Bai Ju concisely.

When Gua Shengxiu finished speaking, Bai Ju's beautiful eyes stared as big as copper bells in disbelief.

She looked at the young man in horror, looked at the young man's face carefully, and said anxiously:

"I've never seen you! Who are you? Why did you kidnap me?"

The young man struggled to raise his head, staring straight at Bai Ju.

"White Chrysanthemum... White Chrysanthemum... White Chrysanthemum..."

A fanatic's fiery light shone in the youth's eyes.

"The matter has come to this... I will not hide it anymore!"

"Baiju! Don't you remember me? I'm Jiba from Kawashimaya!"

"I met you before!"

"Just one month ago, when I came to Yoshiwara to deliver goods, I accidentally dropped my wallet!"

"Just when I didn't know what to do, you with my purse in your arms...you with a smile like a spring breeze appeared in front of me!"

"I still remember your actions at that time; your voice at that time; your tone at that time!"

"As you handed the purse back to me with both hands, you said to me in a gentle tone: 'Sir, your purse is missing'."

"From that day...no! From the moment I saw your bright smile, I fell in love with you deeply!"

"Baiju, Baiju! How I want to hold you in my arms! How I want to be with you forever!"

"Even though I'm just an ordinary grocer, and I don't have the money to redeem you...but it doesn't matter!"

"Although the human body is bound everywhere, the soul is free!"

"I'm already tired of living in the world like a prison!"

"There is never enough work to do every day!"

"No money!"

"No family!"

"I can't see the hope of rising to the top!"

"Baiju! You have to serve men other than me every night, you must be suffering too, right?"

"Since that's the case, let us go to Huangquan hand in hand!"

"When we die together, our souls will be like glue!"

"After we die together, we will definitely be a loving couple in the next life!"

"Baiju! Look! This place is the venue and time when Fenghua and her lover were in their hearts!"

"I especially admire the popular top card who obviously has no worries about food and drink, and it's only a matter of time before he regains his freedom, but he dares to be romantic in his lover's heart!"

"In order to pay tribute to the great predecessors, I decided to imitate Fenghua and die with you under the constant lights of Akiba Mountain on a windy night!"

"I waited for a long time, and finally I waited for Dafeng Ye to appear!"

"But...but...but...!"

"Hateful! Hateful!"

"It's only one step away! It's only one step away!"

"Obviously in two more incense sticks, it's time for Fenghua and her lover to go to the other side hand in hand!"

"Obviously as long as it lasts for another 2 sticks of incense, it will be fine!"

"Just because of the appearance of this beast! Everything is on the verge of failure!"

"Hateful!"

Speaking of this, the young man...that is, Ji Ba raised his head vigorously, stabbing his eyes full of deep-seated hatred at Qingdeng viciously.

Ji Hachi's mood is quite unstable.

To put it simply, he looks crazy right now... No, it should be said that he was a lunatic in the first place.

One second he was explaining his "love" to Bai Ju with a face of madness, and the next second he was wailing desperately.

Although Jiba spoke incoherently, and what he said was messy and difficult to understand, Qingdeng still understood the ins and outs of the whole incident.

"snort."

Qingdeng snorted coldly.

"After a long time, it turned out to be the 'unreasonable heart' of the paranoid."

Unreasonable heart, that is, forced to die for love.

Even in the 21st century, such absurdities are common, especially in the Edo period.

After all, the wisdom of the people under the shogunate was not developed.

People who are ignorant and backward in thinking are generally convinced of the theory of "afterlife", "reincarnation" and "world after death".

Under the influence of such feudal trends of thought, Wulixin appeared so frequently that it could be called endless.

In general, Baiju's disappearance was a terrible farce from beginning to end.

A delusional crazy idiot, for the so-called "love" and the so-called "freedom from the painful world", tried to forcibly drag innocent girls to die in love.

If there is no Gua Shengxiu, if there is no Qingdeng, there will be an extra mourning soul in Yoshihara tonight...

Thinking about it makes people feel scared.

Jiba seemed to want to say something.

But Qingdeng had already lost interest in listening to it.

"Shut up, I've heard enough of your stupid talk."

Qingdeng never relents when dealing with villains...especially such villains whose every word and deed make people feel extremely uncomfortable.

He stretched out his big iron-like hands, grabbed Jiba's chin—Kara—and took it off.

"Uh...! Uh...! Uh...!"

The world instantly quieted down.

Finally, he didn't have to listen to this man's crazy talk anymore, Qingdeng heaved a sigh of relief - he felt inexplicably a sense of comfort from returning to normal society from the mental hospital.

The noise made by Jiba attracted more and more spectators.

The human wall gathered around Qingdeng and the others was thickened by several layers.

The onlookers all cast contemptuous glances at Jiba who was standing under Qingdeng.

As long as they are human beings with a normal mind, it is impossible for them to give admiring eyes to a fool full of delusions.

"Oh...! Gua, Gua Sheng's mother-in-law...!"

Bai Ju, whose face was as white as snow, tried to get up and stay away from Ji Ba, but staggered for a while, and quickly reached out to grab Gua Shengxiu's shoulder to barely avoid falling.

At this moment, Bai Ju looked completely stunned - this is not difficult to understand.

To put it nicely: Jiba's so-called "love" is really too heavy.

To put it bluntly: who wouldn't be afraid of being entangled by an extreme lunatic?

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid...the mother-in-law is here. As long as the mother-in-law is here, no one can hurt you."

Gua Shengxiu gently patted Bai Ju's back with gentle movements like stroking a baby.

Under Gua Shengxiu's reassurance, Bai Ju's mood slowly returned to calm, and a little blood appeared on her pretty face.

"Master Samurai! Please use this!"

A young man dressed as a salesman stepped out of the crowd, staring at Jiba angrily, and handed Qingdeng a thick and long hemp rope.

"Tie up this bastard!"

"Thanks."

Qingdeng nodded his thanks to the young man, and then took the hemp rope from the young man's hand.

Just when Qingdeng tied up Jiba's five flowers with skilled techniques, Gua Shengxiu, who was still comforting Baiju not far away, suddenly said:

"Hanata-kun."

She turned her face and gave Qingdeng curious and puzzled eyes.

"How did you find out that this guy kidnapped Bai Ju?"

"I didn't find out that he kidnapped Bai Ju."

Qingdeng replied without thinking.

"To be honest, I was also shocked when I found the white chrysanthemum in the bamboo basket. I simply found that there was something wrong with this guy, so I became suspicious—that's all."

"Is there a problem? Then how did you find out that this guy has a problem?"

"Because of cats."

"cat?"

Gua Shengxiu tilted his head blankly.

Qing Deng pouted at the big orange cat that was still huddled not far away.

"This bastard is clearly dressed as a cat dancer, but in the end he is holding a cat that is afraid of people and can't understand shamisen."

As soon as Qingdeng said this, Gua Shengxiu suddenly showed an enlightened expression.

"So it's like this... a cat...!"

Cat dance artist: As the name suggests, it is an artist who performs cat dance.

The so-called "cat dance" is a very common performing art with a long history in the Edo period-artists play the shamisen, and cats and cats dance to the music.

Known for its aloofness and indifference to humans, cats and cats can understand music and dance. It seems unbelievable at first glance, but the way to do it is not complicated.

Behind the cute dance of cats and cats, there is a cruel inside story hidden...

First prepare a brazier for burning charcoal fire. After the charcoal fire is hot, put a copper plate on the brazier, just like a charcoal fire. After the copper plate is also heated up, the cat tied with hemp rope is lowered from the ceiling and placed on the copper plate. Because the feet are hot, the cat will quickly and alternately lift its front and rear feet, and take the opportunity to play the shamisen. At the beginning, the shamisen will be played in conjunction with the cat's movements. After the cat gets used to it, it will dance to the rhythm of the shamisen itself. After long-term training, once the shamisen sounds, the cat will naturally raise its feet and dance on the ordinary floor to the music-cat dance is generally trained in this way.

Due to playing in front of people for a long time, the cats and cats used to perform the cat dance are basically top-notch "social cows" who are not afraid of people at all.

For the sake of publicity, cat dancers often hold their well-trained and cutest looking cats in their arms.

Because there is often more than one cat used for performances, cat dancers always carry a large bamboo basket that can hold several cats.

Therefore, holding the piano in one hand, holding the cat for publicity in the other, and carrying a large bamboo basket that can hold several cats on the back, has become a typical image of a cat dance artist.

It has to be said that although the Jiba people are crazy, their brains are not stupid.

Because cats and cats dance are so cute, this art is especially popular with women.

Therefore, cat dancers can be seen everywhere in the streets of Yoshiwara.

If you pretend to be a cat dancer in Yoshihara, it's like water drops falling into the sea and leaves falling into the forest. Whether it's hiding yourself or sneaking into the house of a wanderer, it will be much more convenient.

At the same time, more importantly, the person who can openly carry a container that can be used to transport "large creatures" in Yoshiwara... only cat dancers!

The bamboo basket of a cat dance artist is big, but it is impossible to hold a big living talent according to common sense.

It's just that... Bai Ju happens to be a special case that goes against common sense.

Because Bai Ju's body is very short and petite!

Ji Ba could stuff her into the bamboo basket without any effort.

For those who don't know, it may be hard to imagine that there is no cat in the bamboo basket on the back of this "cat dancer", but a big living person!

In all fairness, Jiba's trick of pretending to be a cat dance artist is really quite cunning.

It almost made him succeed.

Fortunately, one hundred secrets and one sparse.

Although he dressed up with great pains, he made a mistake in the most critical prop - the cat in his arms.

It's not good to hold any cat, but I hold a "social fear cat" who is obviously afraid of people.

Whether in the previous life or in the present life, Qingdeng has never raised a cat.

However, he is very familiar with creatures like cats and cats.

The reason is that he has a girlfriend who loves cats and also has a big orange cat...that is, Mai Kinoshita.

Kinoshita Mai likes to ask Qingdeng to popularize the cuteness of cats and their various habits.

According to Kinoshita Mai, one of the major characteristics of the "social fear cat" is that when it first encounters an unfamiliar environment, it will shrink its body into a ball, its limbs will become stiff, and its eyes will wander - which is different from the behavior of the big orange cat in Jiba's arms. Coincidentally.

A cat dance artist is holding a "social fear cat"... What's the difference between this and a person who relies on his appearance for a living to smear mud on his face?

In order to prevent any misunderstanding, Qingdeng even borrowed shamisen from a passing geisha.

If it is the cat of a cat dancer, then it will definitely have some strange reactions after hearing the music of the shamisen.

However, after Qingdeng played the shamisen continuously for a while, the big orange cat in Jiba's arms remained indifferent.

So far, Qingdeng is convinced: this "cat dance artist" is a fake!

Why did this person pretend to be a cat dancer? Relying on the "police instinct" accumulated in his previous and present lives, Qingdeng instantly realized that compared with ordinary people, the biggest cat dancer was The only difference is that they often carry huge bamboo baskets that can hide a lot of things!

Qingdeng, who was extremely suspicious of Jiba, captured Jiba without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, there is a big harvest.

Finding Baiju or something... was a complete surprise.

As Qingdeng said just now, until Gua Shengxiu opened the bamboo basket, he did not expect that the contents inside were actually white chrysanthemums.

Qingdeng apologized for his previous complaints - his luck tonight was not too bad.

To be able to find Bai Ju back in such a way... Thinking of this, Qingdeng couldn't help but feel lucky.

After Gua Shengxiu quietly listened to Qingdeng's explanation, he looked up and down Qingdeng with a complicated expression.

"...Hanata-kun, you are not in the "Three Returns" of the Enforcement Office, Huofu Thief Kai, Yashu Director...or have you ever worked as an official in these places?"

That's right! You guessed it right—Qingdeng, who is still hiding his identity, can't say that openly.

So, he could only laugh without saying a word.

Although Qingdeng has seldom come into contact with cases that require brains since he moved from the right to Huofu Thief Gai, and basically did some work of beating and killing, but what he learned and accumulated in his previous life and this life The ability to handle cases is not so easy to regress.

At this moment, Qingdeng heard the sound of dense footsteps coming from a distance.

"Ah! The officials from the Shirobei Club are here!"

someone shouted.

Qingdeng followed the prestige - a group of youths wearing dark blue feathers and holding wooden sticks hurried towards them.

Judging from the attire on the bodies of this group of "visitors" and the weapons in their hands, they were undoubtedly officials from the Shirobei Club.

In name, the Shirobei Club is a government department responsible for the management of Yoshihara, but its core function is to maintain the law and order of Yoshihara.

Even though they shouldered such an important responsibility, the equipment of the Shirobei Clubhouse was notoriously poor.

The mainstream weapons are clubs, and they are not equipped with basic traps such as ten hands and stabbing forks.

In addition, almost all the officials working in the Shiro Bingwei Clubhouse are common people, and there are basically no samurai.

Therefore, there is not even a single person who can carry a sword in the whole hall...

- really...

Qing Deng twitched the corner of his mouth.

——Why no matter where the officials are, they always like to be late...

Just when Qingdeng picked up Jiba who was on the ground, and was about to hand over this idiot with a broken head when the officials from Shirobei Clubhouse arrived——

Slap——! Slap——! Slap——! Slap——! Slap——!

Qingdeng suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him!

He turned his head abruptly.

I saw two samurai holding their knives with their hands, rushing towards Gua Shengxiu who was still embracing the white chrysanthemum!

Of these two warriors, one is a strong man with big arms and a round waist, and the other is an ugly guy with a birthmark on his face.

bass!

bass!

2. After listening to it, the sound of drawing a knife suddenly made the roots of the teeth feel cold!

The two warriors set up different maneuvers in the process of rushing forward, and then swung their knives swiftly and slashed at the top of Gua Shengxiu's head!

No... no!

Their knives were not heading towards Gua Shengxiu.

Instead, he ran towards the white chrysanthemum in Gua Shengxiu's arms!

Gua Shengxiu was completely affected by the fish pond!

At this moment, Qingdeng's body unconsciously launched lightning-like actions.

"Grandma—!"

He hastily shook off the Jiba in his hand, and reached out to touch the new knife at his waist: "While Echizen lived in Chang Lu's defense, he stood up and rushed towards Gua Shengxiu!"

Qingdeng has rushed to the rescue as fast as he could.

But... Gua Shengxiu was too far away from him.

No matter how fast Qingdeng's footsteps were, they were not fast enough to teleport.

When Qingdeng had just pulled out his feet, the swords of the two samurai had already landed on top of Gua Shengxiu's head...

*****

*****

Ask for a monthly pass! Ask for a recommendation ticket! (Leopard Head Crying.jpg)

Sure enough, no one guessed how Qingdeng found out that there was something wrong with Jiba~~

The cat dancers in the Edo period - this cold knowledge was also accidentally discovered when I checked the information. At that time, I thought: this cold knowledge might be used in novels, so I jotted it down, but I didn’t expect it to come in handy~~ (Leopard laugh.jpg)

However, the brains of some book friends are also quite good. For example, shamisen is made of cat skin, so cats hate shamisen and so on.

Although the plot of solving the case through cats and cats is not ups and downs, the structure is quite ingenious! There are foreshadowing and foreshadowing everywhere.

In the previous article, Gua Shengxiu mentioned to Qingdeng that Bai Ju was as short as she was. When most book friends saw this, they only cared about Gua Shengxiu's height.

However, this plot is actually an important foreshadowing of "White Chrysanthemum being hidden in a cat cage", I didn't expect it~~

As for what is in Fenghua and her lover's heart, let alone. Basically, I tell you clearly: Pay attention! Here is the foreshadowing!