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Kinoshita Mai said something to the boss again.

Qingdeng still didn't hear clearly, but the boss seemed to understand.

The boss gave Kinoshita Mai a meaningful look, nodded, and turned around to take down 3 sticks of glutinous rice balls, all red in color and wrapped in tissue paper.

"Come on, 6 Wen."

Kinoshita Mai quickly took out a small cloth bag from her bosom, took out 6 copper coins from it and spread them out on the stall, then took the bunch of red glutinous rice dumplings from the boss and handed them to the girl beside her.

After handing the glutinous rice dumpling to the girl beside her, a cheerful smile appeared on Kinoshita Mai's face again.

The girl held the glutinous rice dumpling with one hand, and continued to hold Mai Kinoshita with the other hand.

Although Qingdeng couldn't see the girl's expression because of the mask, but according to her behavior, Qingdeng could feel it—the girl's face under the mask must be smiling happily now.

Kinoshita Mai took the girl by the hand, happily preparing to leave.

But at this moment...

"Hey! Girl, you haven't given enough money, you're still short of 4 cents."

The owner of the snack stand suddenly stopped Mai Kinoshita.

"Eh?" Kinoshita Mai turned around with a look of astonishment, "I've given you enough money, six copper coins, no more and no less."

Perhaps it was because of her impatience, when talking to the stranger, the boss, Mai Kinoshita's voice was much louder.

"You didn't give me 6 Wen." The boss pouted, "You only gave me 2 Wen just now."

"You're lying!" the masked girl shouted, "Miss Wu gave you 6 cents just now! I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Little girl." The boss frowned, showing a sad expression, "You guys can't be so unkind! I'm just a small business, and it's not easy to earn every penny. You can't bully me. Honest man."

The debate between the boss and Kinoshita Mai and others naturally attracted a lot of onlookers.

"What's going on? What happened?"

"have no idea……"

"It seems that the three women wanted to leave without giving enough money to buy things."

"The girl in the red kimono looks really good there."

...

"Hmm..." Looking at the boss with an innocent expression, Mai Kinoshita's face slowly flushed red with anxiety.

She wants to have a good debate with her boss.

But she is a shy character.

Usually, it is impossible to talk to strangers like the boss properly.

But now, more and more onlookers were attracted, which made Kinoshita Mai even more nervous, and it was even more difficult to say a complete sentence.

The masked girl didn't have stage fright, she argued with the boss vigorously.

But her eloquence is not good, and she is not the opponent of the cunning boss at all.

The woman who had been standing silently behind Kinoshita Mai and the masked girl just now was constantly looking around at the growing crowd.

But for some reason, she didn't say a word.

——Ahhhhhhhhhhh no matter what era it is, such profiteers who like to extort money will always be "abundant" in tourist attractions...

Qingdeng speculates: The owner of this snack stand probably chose to extort money from Kinoshita Mai because she saw that she was shy and easy to bully.

This kind of profiteer in tourist attractions...Qingdeng hates it the most.

Because in his previous life, he suffered many and many times at the hands of these beasts...

As a direct result he had for a long time, rather hated to travel.

So—Qingdeng strode towards this snack stall without much hesitation.

"Boss, the guy who is not kind, is it you?"

"Everyone! Don't be fooled by this profiteer's rhetoric! I can clearly see that this girl is paid enough for 6 Wen! This profiteer is just trying to extort money!"

Qingdeng's shout naturally drew everyone's attention.

"Tachibana... Jun...?" Kinoshita Mai looked at Qingdeng who suddenly appeared with a look of astonishment.

"Huh? You said I blackmailed people, hey, you can't spit blood... Goo!"

When he first heard Qingdeng's yell, the boss was very aggressive.

But after seeing the ten hands with red tassels on Qingdeng's right waist, and the seal cage of the Edo Executive Office, he immediately uttered a strange cry like a duck being strangled by the neck.

"It's Edo 'Three Times'..." After whispering in a volume that only he could hear clearly, the boss gasped wildly.

"Oh? I said you blackmailed people, did I say something wrong?"

Qingdeng leaned against the snack stand.

"Then I'll be all ears."

"Tell me—what did I say wrong just now?"

"Remember to think carefully about what to say next."

"Lying to Edo's 'Three Times'...is a felony."

After all, Qingdeng purposely hung his right hand on his ten-handed handle, deliberately making a loud noise.

at the same time--

click.

Saito, who was standing behind Qingdeng, also put his right hand on the hilt of his saber suddenly, making a loud noise.

Qingdeng raised his eyebrows, and cast a smiling look at Saito behind him.

Saito, who was still expressionless, stared straight at the boss.

After noticing Qingdeng's smiling eyes, he lowered his head, gave Qingdeng a slight nod, and then continued to stare straight at the snack stall owner.

——Help me build momentum...

Although he didn't communicate with Saito in a single word, Qingdeng could instantly understand that Saito wanted to help him "build momentum" and put greater psychological pressure on the boss.

It was only at this time that Qing Deng suddenly noticed that his cold bodyguard did not seem to be a "wooden man" through and through.

Under the joint psychological offensive of Qingdeng and Saito, large beads of cold sweat emerged from the boss's forehead.

After he hesitated for a moment, he put a flattering smile on his face.

"Master Tongxin! I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! The villain lost his head for a while! The villain lost his head! I was blinded by money!"

Facing the "three times" in Edo, the boss, who couldn't have the courage to argue and bargain at all, kept apologizing to Qingdeng.

"These are for you! These are all for you to eat! Please have a lot of adults, please forgive me this time!"

The boss grabbed 4 glutinous rice dumplings and 4 well-wrapped steamed buns and handed them to Qing Deng.

Qingdeng glanced indifferently at the snacks that the boss handed over.

After noticing Qingdeng's gaze, the boss gritted his teeth, and grabbed out 2 sticks of glutinous rice dumplings and 2 steamed buns with a pained expression on his face.

"Master Concentric..."

"I'm not the one you should apologize to, right?" Qing Deng interrupted the boss in a neutral tone.

The boss was stunned for a while, and then quickly stuffed the pile of snacks in his hand into Kinoshita Mai's arms.

"Girl! I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! I lost my head just now! You didn't miss any money! I was obsessed!"

"Please forgive me this time!"

Kinoshita Mai, the masked girl, and the woman standing behind them, the three of them looked at the pile of snacks handed by the boss, and then looked at each other.

At this moment, Kinoshita Mai opened her mouth slightly, looking dazed and still not yet recovered.

"How?" Qingdeng asked Kinoshita Wu and the others, "Are you willing to forgive this person?"

Kinoshita Mai and the others looked at each other for a while.

In the end—they all nodded after staring at the pile of snacks that the boss gave them as an apology for a while.

"...Since the victims chose to forgive you, then I will forgive you this time." Qingdeng said to the boss in a deep voice, "There will be no next time."

"If I see you stealing people's money again next time, I'll send you to Edo to be imprisoned."

"Yes, yes, yes." The boss nodded, "Master Tongxin! I assure you, I will never do it again!"

Seeing that there was nothing exciting to join in, the crowd of onlookers began to disperse.

And Qingdeng also led Kinoshita Wu and others to leave from this place of right and wrong.

As soon as he left the snack stand, Qingdeng heard Kinoshita Wu walking behind him, saying to him in a weak but barely manageable voice:

"That... Ju-kun, thank you..."

Probably because she hadn't fully recovered from the "money extortion incident" just now, Kinoshita Mai lowered her head slightly and pursed her lips slightly.

But at this time, Kinoshita Wu was pursing the corners of her mouth, and raised a little grateful arc to Qing Deng who was walking in front of her.

"You're welcome." Qingdeng turned his head and smiled slightly at Kinoshita Wu, "It's just a little effort."

Qingdeng didn't stop until he walked far away from the snack stand.

"Miss Kinoshita, we are really destined." Qingdeng turned around with a smile, "Unexpectedly, I could meet you on the street again by such a coincidence..."

After finishing speaking, Qingdeng turned his gaze to the masked girl who was being led by Kinoshita Mai, and the "light yellow girl" in light yellow kimono who was following closely behind the two girls.

"Miss Kinoshita, who are these two?"

At this time, Qingdeng suddenly discovered a strange thing.

The masked girl and the pale yellow woman kept their heads lowered.

A look that doesn't dare to look directly at Qingdeng...

"Uh...the two of them...the two of them are..."

Faced with the question Qingdeng raised, Kinoshita Mai looked at the masked girl she was leading, and then at the pale yellow woman behind her, hesitating.

Seeing Kinoshita Wu's reaction at this time, Qingdeng couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and thought to himself:

——Hmm... is it convenient to tell me the information of these two people?

Just when...Qingdeng was thinking about whether to help Kinoshita Mai who didn't seem to want to tell him the information about the second daughter——

"Heavenly punishment!"

"Heavenly Punisher! Come on!"

"Kill! Kill! Heavenly Execution! Heavenly Execution!"

...

A samurai holding a sword aloft, while shouting Heavenly Punishment, came out from the right of Qingdeng, heading towards Qingdeng and the others...

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