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"Ahem..." Wenwu coughed softly a few times, and then continued as if nothing had happened, "After reporting his name, that little monk called the four of them."

"According to the young thief, that cat monk is quite good at Jiu-Jitsu."

"With one strike, all four of them were knocked out in just a moment."

"When they woke up, they found that they had been tied up and thrown outside the gate of our house."

Qingdeng's eyelids sank subconsciously.

Mao Xiaoseng is good at Jiu-Jitsu...

This piece of information, Qingdeng... or the Edo Magistrate had never known it before.

While Qing Deng was thinking secretly here, Wen Wu's narration continued:

"The young thief also revealed where they hid the stolen money."

"They buried all the money they had stolen before under the roots of a big tree in a forest not far from Fujisawa."

"The villain sent people to dig overnight yesterday, and they really found the stolen goods."

"For this batch of stolen goods, the villain has already personally counted it, and it is completely consistent with the total amount stolen. There is no more or less."

"Have you recovered even the stolen money... Where are the stolen goods?" Qing Deng asked.

"I'll have someone fetch it now!"

Wen Wu called a subordinate and told him to bring back the stolen goods recovered yesterday.

After a while, Wenwu's subordinate came back to Qingdeng and Wenwu holding a large lacquer box.

When I opened the lacquer box, I saw that the box was full of yellow and white things.

After briefly counting the money in the box, and confirming that the money in the box was exactly the same as the amount involved in the case that he knew, Qingdeng asked Wenwu to take him to see the very knowledgeable about current affairs, and told him everything he knew. The young thief who sold out the rest of his companions neatly.

The person is being held in a makeshift cell within the Wenwu Yard.

After seeing this person, Qingdeng asked him a few questions without any greetings.

Tell me in detail the whole process of you being caught by the cat monk.

Have you seen the appearance of the cat monk?

Describe the body shape of the cat monk.

Why did the cat monk come to catch you? Have you ever had any festivals with Mao Xiaoseng?

...

The reason why I asked this person to repeat the whole process of being caught by Mao Xiaoseng is purely to test whether the old man in Wenwu has missed or concealed anything.

After Qingdeng gave the young thief his name "Edo Kita Bansho Dingchohui Tongxin Juqingdeng", he immediately sat down, smiled flatteringly, and answered Qingdeng's questions respectfully. every question.

While answering Qingdeng's question, this person did not forget to repeat again and again: "My lord, I have told you everything I know, please be sure to mitigate my crime!" .

The whole process of how they were captured by the cat thief was almost the same as what Wenwu reported.

According to the young thief, the cat monk was about 1.5 meters tall, dressed in black, with a black face scarf on his face, and a black turban on his head. Only one pair of eyes was exposed from the whole body.

The voice is fairly neutral, neither male nor female.

He is extremely agile, walking on the roof of a hotel with a steep slope like walking on the ground.

It is completely consistent with the relevant information of the cat monk currently held by the Edo Magistrate...

And when asked if they ever had any trouble with the cat monk, the young thief shook his head like a rattle.

He said: They had only heard of the name Mao Xiaoseng before, but they had never met Mao Xiaoseng, and he couldn't figure out why this Mao Xiaoseng would "murder" against them even though they were all colleagues.

After asking the young thief some more questions, Qing Deng came out of the temporary cell with a face full of black lines.

Just after leaving the cell, Saito, who had been silently following behind Qingdeng like Qingdeng's conjoined twins, asked softly:

"So... Is our business trip a waste of time?"

"...That's right." Qing Deng sighed heavily with the corner of his mouth twitching.

Qingdeng now only feels that this business trip...is really lonely!

After trekking for 3 days, when they arrived at Fujisawa, they found that all the suspects had been arrested... Not only did one of the suspects confess, but all the stolen goods were recovered...

Well, to put it bluntly...Qingdeng can now go home, back to Edo.

Qingdeng didn't need to personally escort the four suspects back to Edo.

He just needs to say hello to the people in the house, and ask the people in the house to help send these suspects back to Edo.

In terms of transporting people and goods, Wenwuchang, which specializes in providing "people and horses to stand up" services for officials, is a professional.

"However..." Qingdeng raised his hand and scratched the hair on the back of his head, and said softly, "It would be wrong to say that there is no gain at all... At least we have obtained the latest information about the cat monk, and we will bring this information back to you. For Edo, it can be regarded as a small achievement."

Mao Xiaoseng, as the thief who caused the Edo execution office a headache recently, in order to catch him, the execution office has changed several top leaders in charge of arresting him.

About the day before yesterday, Qingdeng received the latest information: the "Mao Xiaoseng case" has been handed over to their top case-solving expert in the Northern Division: Nishino of the "Dongcheng Group" to take charge.

They have already dispatched the "trump card" of the Beifan Office to take full charge of the case - it can be seen how much the Edo Executive Office has attached great importance to the "Mao Xiaoseng Case".

Mao Xiaoseng's jiu-jitsu level is very good. Four big men were knocked down and knocked unconscious by him one by one.

The whereabouts of Mao Xiaoseng are very suspicious. He used to be only active in Edo, but this time he went to Fujisawa to do a good job and help the government catch a group of thieves...

Any one of the above two pieces of information is very important for the enforcement office to help them catch Mao Xiaoseng in the future.

If Qingdeng could bring these two pieces of information back to Edo, it would indeed be considered a small feat.

"It's so strange..." Qingdeng folded his hands into Haori's sleeves, "That cat monk... how could he suddenly appear in Fujisawa, and suddenly help catch the thief..."

The information he knew was too little, and after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't come up with anything. Then, Qingdeng simply didn't bother to think about it.

Anyway, he was not responsible for the "Mao Xiaoseng case", so these issues should be left to Nishino, who is now in charge of the case, to worry about them slowly.

Qingdeng returned to Wenwu, had a brief discussion and instructions on the transportation of the suspects in this case, and then led Saito towards the outside of Wenwu.

"...Are we going back to Edo now?" Saito asked.

Qingdeng shook his head: "It's too late now, and it will be dark in more than an hour."

"It will be dark with one hour left—with such a short time, no matter how hard you try to catch up, you won't be able to make it back to the last dormitory."

"I don't want to walk at night, or spend the night in a place with no village in front of me and no shop behind."

"We can only wait until dawn tomorrow before heading back to Edo."

After finishing speaking, Qingdeng turned his head and smiled slightly at Saito who was behind him.

"Now... let's spend time slowly here at Fujisawa, until tomorrow."

"Just take a half-day vacation and reward yourself after working so hard for three days."

"Saito, is there anywhere you want to go?"

Saito shook his head: "There is nothing I want to go."

After hearing an answer that did not meet his expectations from Saito, Qingdeng turned his gaze back to him.

"Sure enough, I still have to decide where to spend my time..."

Qingdeng crossed his hands into Haori's sleeves, tilted his head slightly, thinking that during the time until dark, he and Saito should go to Fujisawa Juku's place to play.

All of a sudden, Qingdeng remembered the most famous tourist attraction in Fujisawa...

Qingdeng's eyes slowly turned to the direction where Jiangdao Shrine was located.

"...Saito, are you interested in visiting the shrine?"

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