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The confessions of these two people are the same... After the cat monk finished the above-mentioned extremely weird action, he leaned forward and used quite superb fist and kick skills to knock them to the ground.

After learning the whole story of the arrest of these two people by Mao Xiaoseng, Qingdeng just felt that it sounded so familiar. After a brief recall, he remembered that three months ago, he and Saito went to Fujisawa on a business trip to search for them. A group of snitches who have done many crimes have just arrived in Fujisawa, only to find that the gang of snitches he wanted to catch had already been caught and captured by the cat monk.

The experience of the snitches at that time was exactly the same as that of the two wanted criminals.

All of them appeared suddenly, and then put on a strange posture. After shouting "Yes, the cat monk", they all fell to the ground with superb unarmed skills.

Mao Xiaoseng helped them catch the prisoner... All the officials of the detention center headed by Susui felt mixed feelings about this.

The wanted criminal who has been absconding has been caught, which is naturally a good thing.

But the person who helped them catch the wanted criminal was the big strange thief Mao Xiaoseng... It is impossible for Susui and the others not to feel awkward.

While feeling awkward, the officials of the prefectural office headed by Susui were also quite puzzled—what exactly does this cat monk want to do?

Why help them pursue the thieves they caught?

Simply doing it casually? Or is there some kind of intention?

Reminiscent of Mao Xiaoseng's earlier tip-off to Qingdeng to help Qingdeng successfully rescue the Fanshu Institute, in the minds of all the officials, the image of Mao Xiaoseng was covered with a thicker layer of fog.

The wanted criminal they had never caught in their pursuit was caught by the thief Mao Xiaoseng...

If this matter gets out, it will not sound good, and it will damage the reputation of the execution office.

Therefore, in order to save its reputation, the Enforcement Office tried its best to prevent the news that "Miao Xiaoseng caught a thief for the Enforcement Office" from spreading.

Not long ago, the enforcement institute had just done something similar—if people knew that Qingdeng was able to rescue the Fan Shu Tiao Institute in a timely manner, it was all thanks to Mao Xiaoseng's tip-off, that would damage the reputation of the enforcement institute , ability has been questioned, so when publicizing this matter to the outside world, the Enforcement Institute has always tried its best to reduce the presence of Mao Xiaoseng, and only emphasized the contributions of other people headed by Qingdeng.

But this kind of thing can't be hidden at all.

When Mao Xiaoseng reported to Qingdeng, there were many witnesses including officials from the town fire department.

When Mao Xiaoseng caught the two rapists who had fled for a long time, Nightingale and others who were almost attacked by the two wanted criminals witnessed the whole process of Mao Xiaoseng catching the thief.

Just relying on the ancient society... and the extremely weak municipal management and control ability of the Edo Magistrate's office, which had to rely on the assistance of "town self-government organizations" to barely control Edo, could not control public opinion at all.

No matter how hard the enforcement office tried to control the spread of the news, the deeds that Mao Xiaoseng did during this period spread rapidly in the market.

Unsurprisingly, Mao Xiaoseng's reputation has risen again.

More and more people praised this big monster thief: Mao Xiaoseng is really a chivalrous and courageous righteous thief and a good man! Compared with the famous mouse monk back then, it was even worse!

Mouse Monk——A great phantom thief who was active in Edo 40 years ago.

According to legend, the mouse monk, whose real name is "Jilangji", was originally a construction worker who specialized in high-altitude operations.

When he was young, he was kicked out of the house by his father because of his addiction to gambling and drinking.

When wandering outside, he was awakened by seeing the suffering in the world.

Seeing through the depravity of the meat-eaters, and determined to do his best for the bullied poor people, Jiro Kichi quit his gambling addiction and started his "Phantom Thief Career".

During the day, he is an ordinary construction worker, and at night, he is a great thief who plays with the Edo administration.

Relying on the ability to fly over the roof and walls that he had practiced in his previous work, Jirokichi sneaked into the mansions of notorious samurai and merchants to steal money, and then distributed the stolen money to the poor.

Jiro Kichi, who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and robbed in a righteous way, quickly became a chivalrous and righteous man among the common people, and was very popular among the common people.

Because Jiro Kichi came and went without a trace, and moved as quietly as a mouse, the nickname "mouse monk" gradually increased.

It is said that the mouse monk had stolen hundreds of times until his death, and the amount involved was as high as 12,000 taels.

It's a pity that there is always one thing in a hundred secrets. When the mouse monk accidentally missed a certain theft, the officials of the enforcement office were caught.

The mouse monk who stole a hundred times and offended some fat meat eaters in Edo to death was undoubtedly sentenced to death.

After the mouse monk was beheaded for public display, a large number of poor people who had received the favor of the mouse monk all cried bitterly.

Even though more than 40 years have passed, many people still remember the little monk Shu.

After the death of the mouse monk, a large number of people in the literary and art circles adapted the story of the mouse monk into storytelling or kabuki to commemorate the righteous man.

Thanks to the efforts of these people in the literary and artistic circles, the name of the mouse monk has not gradually become dusty with the passage of time, but has become more and more brilliant.

The reason why the Edo Monastery gave the cat monk the code name "Mao monk" is because the cat monk's ability to fly over the wall, and his style of only attacking those notorious villains are quite similar to the mouse monk back then. That's why he took such a code name that is quite similar to Mouse Monk.

With the further increase of Mao Xiaoseng's reputation, more messy rumors about Mao Xiaoseng have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

According to incomplete statistics, the latest rumors related to Mao Xiaoseng include:

Mao Xiaoseng is actually not one person, Mao Xiaoseng is actually an organization.

Mao Xiaoseng is actually a child of a ninja family.

Mao Xiaoseng is actually a son of a very prestigious warrior family.

The little monk Mao is carrying out all the eyeliners, and a certain official in the prison is a companion of the little monk Mao.

...

All in all—these rumors are all delusional and far-fetched fantasies of ordinary people in the market, and basically have no credibility and use value.

Out of his feelings for the profession of "Phantom Thief" in his previous life, and because Mao Xiaoseng had helped him, Qingdeng has always been interested in facing the Great Phantom Thief, and has been paying attention to various news about Mao Xiaoseng recently.

But recently, Qingdeng has gradually turned his attention away from the news about Mao Xiaoseng.

As Marquis Aizu's swordsmanship competition is approaching, Qingdeng is now focusing on preparing for the competition.

...

...

In the first year of Wanyan (1860), on April 13, in the evening——

Edo, Wufu Bridge, Beifansuo——

"Mr. Orange, let's go first!" Harada raised his hand and touched his belly, "I've been busy all day, and my stomach is so hungry, hahahaha."

"You didn't do any hard work at all today, did you? You just patrolled the area." Yongcang on the side complained silently.

"I mediated a couple's quarrel on the street today. This kind of work is quite tiring for a person like me who doesn't like to use his brain..." Harada stretched out his right thumb and rubbed the center of his eyebrows vigorously , showing a tired look, "I can't do any paperwork like Fujido did today."

Fujido smiled helplessly: "Those paperwork actually don't require much brains..."

"If you're hungry, go have dinner quickly." Qingdeng said with a smile, "Go back and have a good rest, see you tomorrow."

Through this period of getting along, Qingdeng has gradually figured out the personalities and specialties of his subordinates.

Yongcang and Harada... To put it simply, these two are reckless men, especially Harada.

The words that Harada often talked about in his daily life were "I don't like to use my brain" - after working with him for so many days, Qingdeng found that he was really not humbled...

About Harada's lack of brains... I don't want to mention anything else, just a simple "literacy" question: Harada basically doesn't understand Chinese characters... he can only read and write pseudonyms, and the only Chinese characters he can write are his name.

Qing Deng once asked him: As a samurai, how could he not even know how to write Chinese characters? No matter how poor the family is, you can't afford to study at the Temple House, right?

Harada Yoshisei replied eloquently: When I was a child in a private school, for some reason, I would feel sleepy as soon as the teacher opened his mouth. Because I refused to change after repeated teaching, I was kicked out of the private school by the unbearable teacher. Since then, I have not gone to school again. I'm too lazy to study anymore, anyway, didn't Liu Bang and Liu Xuande in Tang Tu who once committed suicide by the Pearl River also said that? As long as you can write your name in reading, it is enough.

Yongcang and Harada, who acted recklessly and simply, could only assign them physical tasks such as patrolling and detaining suspects that required only physical effort.

Fujido is not.

Although Fujido's swordsmanship is far inferior to Yongcang and Harada due to his age and experience, he is a man with both civil and military skills.

His knowledge is very good, he has a lot of knowledge in Sinology, Mito studies and other knowledge, and he is also good at writing, so Qingdeng will occasionally hand over some simple paperwork to Fujido for help.

Fujido, who has an honest and quiet personality, is also very suitable for handling these boring paperwork.

After saying goodbye to his subordinates briefly, Qingdeng led Saito on the way back to the examination hall in the afterglow of the setting sun.

After turning into a certain downtown street that must be passed when returning to the testing hall, the flow of people suddenly increased.

Now it is the "rush hour", and the roads are full of townspeople who are eager to go home.

Although the lives of the common people have become extremely unstable due to the riots of the "Big Barbarians" and the turbulent political circles, they still have to live their lives, and their stomachs will not be because the current society is unstable and money is not easy to earn And stop making hungry noises.

With his left hand on the saber scabbard around his left waist, Qingdeng and Saito walked straight along this busy street without saying a word, towards the West Street entrance of the street.

He doesn't know yet—right at West Street, someone is waiting for him...

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...

Kinoshita Mai, who was wearing a bright red kimono as always, held a vegetable basket full of fresh vegetables in both hands, and stood against the wall with a tense face.

At this time, she discovered that there was a pool of clear water not far from her.

After hesitating for a while, she poked her head over, using the water as a mirror, and looked at herself on the water.

He carefully checked several times that there were no stains on his face, and that the hair tied into a Shimada bun was neat and not messy.

After carefully checking that there was nothing wrong with her appearance, Mai Kinoshita raised her left hand, pressed her plump breasts, let out a sigh of relief, and then poked her small head out of the wall where she was standing next to her body, toward the outside The streets keep looking around.

Finally——she found her target: Qingdeng, who was walking home with Saito one after the other.

After accurately finding Qingdeng in the chaotic crowd, Mai Kinoshita was startled, then quickly retracted her head behind the wall.

"ha……"

Kinoshita Mai raised her hand to press her chest, let out another long sigh, held her breath, and then showed a resolute expression, her white and tender feet without socks kicked on the red-buttoned flat clogs, striding forward After walking out of the wall where he was hiding, he went to meet Qingdeng.

"Huh? Ju-kun, Saito-kun? What a coincidence that I bumped into you here. Are you going home now?"

"Miss Kinoshita?" Seeing Wu Kinoshita walking towards them quickly from the front, Qingdeng raised his eyebrows, then smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here by chance."

"Yeah, we're getting ready to go home. Are you here to buy dinner for today?"

Qingdeng glanced at the vegetable basket full of fresh vegetables in Kinoshita Mai's hand.

"Yeah." Kinoshita Wu raised the vegetable basket in her hand to her face, "I want to eat roasted vegetables tonight, so I specially bought some fresh choy sum!"

Qing Deng, who was going back to the examination hall, and Kinoshita Mai, who was going back to Qianshiwu, happened to be on the same road for a part of the way.

So——after exchanging a few simple greetings with Qingdeng, Kinoshita Mai, whose cheeks blushed imperceptibly due to nervousness and other emotions, pretended to be casually talking to Qingdeng in a slightly stammering tone. Deng made a proposal: "Then, let's go back together."

Qing Deng, who only regarded this as a common invitation among friends, nodded and agreed without thinking too much.

Men and women walking side by side chatted and chatted with each other along the way.

"Tachibana-kun, I heard that you are planning to participate in the swordsmanship competition held by the Marquis of Aizu in three days. Is this true?" Kinoshita Mai suddenly asked Qingdeng.

"Huh? Yes." Qingdeng nodded, and then joked in a half-joking tone, "Ha, although there are still 3 days before the start of the competition, I can't help but feel a little nervous."

"Haha." Kinoshita Wu chuckled a few times before asking, "Then have you received any special training in swordsmanship for this upcoming competition?"

"No. Kondo-kun and the others have taught me more severely recently, but these are not special training. Now I mainly practice step by step and steadily. How to practice swords in the past is how to practice swords now. "

Hearing Qingdeng's answer, Kinoshita Wu's eyeballs rolled "tickly".

"So...does that mean you still get up on time every day at eight o'clock in the evening (2 o'clock in the morning) to go to the dojo to practice swords like before?" Kinoshita Wu raised her head and winked at Qingdeng.

When Qingdeng was chatting with Kinoshita Wu before, he mentioned to Kinoshita Wu that he only sleeps for 2 hours a day, and gets up at 2 o'clock in the morning every day to exercise.

"Yes." Qingdeng replied quickly without thinking.

"Aren't you really going to be exhausted like this?" Kinoshita Wu asked, "Aren't you busy all the time in order to arrest the 'anti-barbarians' thugs who are rampant now? Is this little sleep time really enough?"

"Don't worry." Qingdeng smiled and raised his hand and tapped his forehead lightly, "I'm the kind of person who can recover energy with a little sleep, and I have enough sleep time, so don't worry."

"Is that so..." Kinoshita Mai muttered, and then smiled sweetly, "Just enough sleep time!"

"Since that's the case, I'm relieved!"

...

...

On the way home, I ran into Kinoshita Mai - in Qingdeng's eyes, this was just a small episode of today.

After chatting with Kinoshita Mai for a while, he waved goodbye to her.

After returning to the testing hall, everything was the same—after dinner, I started to exercise my muscles.

When the muscles of the whole body are sore and numb after training, go to the Chihiro House to take a comfortable hot bath that is good for soothing the muscles.

When the time came to 22 o'clock, he climbed into bed and slept, and then under the influence of the "sleeping god" talent, he woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning on time, quickly changed his pajamas, picked up his saber, and prepared Go down to the dojo to practice swords.

Saito and Kubei, who lived with Qingdeng in the "room of diners", are now completely accustomed to Qingdeng's routine of getting up at 2 o'clock in the morning.

When he first moved into the guardhouse, Saito would follow Qingdeng when Qingdeng got up and went to the dojo to practice swords, on the grounds that "it would be convenient for him to wake up in time and show up to protect Qingdeng in case of any emergency". Go to the dojo together and sleep on the edge of the dojo.

Qingdeng felt that this was not conducive to Saito's daily rest, and he felt that there was no need to be so vigilant in the test hall, so he strongly urged Saito not to be so troublesome, and he did not need to follow him when he was doing "morning exercises". Stay by your side and sleep well in the "among the diners".

Being asked by Qingdeng, Saito, who has the obligation to "obey the employer's orders", can only obey obediently, so now he will no longer accompany Qingdeng who does morning exercises to the dojo in the early morning as before.

After changing his clothes, Qingdeng strode down to the first floor and came to the quiet dojo because he had "cat's eyes" that could see things at night and didn't need to move in the dark.

Qingdeng was not in a hurry to pick up the bamboo sword immediately.

When exercising, you must pay attention to warming up-this is the habit that Qingdeng has always adhered to.

Standing in a corner of the dojo, he put Ding Guishen and Wakizashi, who had been repaired a while ago, at his feet, lowered his center of gravity, stretched the muscles of his legs, and warmed up meticulously.

In the dead of night around, Qingdeng's mind subconsciously came alive while doing this monotonous and boring warm-up exercise:

——The Marquis Aizu's swordsmanship competition...will start the day after tomorrow.

——I don’t know if there will be any powerful opponents...

This is the first time that Qingdeng has encountered this kind of traditional one-on-one swordsmanship competition since he traveled to this era.

When I felt a little anticipation in my heart, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Qingdeng also didn't know what level his current strength was compared to the newcomers in other sword gyms.

If there is a very bad performance in the game, such as being defeated in the first round... Even if others don't look at him strangely, Qingdeng himself will feel quite ashamed.

Moreover, if the extremely embarrassing situation of being eliminated in the first round occurs, it will not be conducive to him to gain talent from the contestants.

Therefore, in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening, Qingdeng practiced a lot during this period, and also squeezed out as much time as possible for practice, striving to further improve his swordsmanship level before the start of the competition.

After finishing the whole set of warm-up movements in a proper and complete manner, Qing Deng, whose skin was covered with a thin layer of sweat, let out a long breath, and then prepared to fetch a bamboo sword from the sword bucket next to him, officially Start today's morning exercise.

But at this time——

click, click...

Qingdeng suddenly heard a slight and strange noise coming from the ceiling above his head suddenly.

"Huh?" Qing Deng paused, frowned, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the ceiling above his head.

—Is it a mouse?

Qing Deng subconsciously thought it was a mouse running on the ceiling.

But as soon as this idea came out of his mind, he was rejected by himself.

Kondo and the others have always paid great attention to the hygiene of the testing hall.

The dojo and the mansion where they live have been cleaned up all the time.

Living in the testing hall for so long, Qingdeng has never seen a mouse in the hall...

Click!

Suddenly! A grid on the ceiling behind Qing Deng was removed to create a gap for an adult to enter and exit.

Afterwards, a petite black shadow leaped down the gap and landed firmly behind Qingdeng.

The moment his feet hit the floor, the black shadow flattened his two palms, with the palms facing up... He seemed to want to pose in some strange pose.

But Qingdeng didn't give this person any chance to put on his pose.

Qingdeng's nerves during this time...in fact, he was in a state of tension and vigilance all the time.

After further offending the Yi group, relying on the reckless nature of the group... It is not impossible for them to use some radical methods to retaliate against Qingdeng.

So, after hearing a strange noise behind him, turning his head and seeing a black figure jumping from the ceiling to behind him...Qingdeng hardly hesitated——

"who?!"

Qingdeng roared loudly, and then, like a sharp arrow, he rushed towards the black shadow!

"Orange..." Heiying opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to Qingdeng.

But before he could utter a word with specific meaning, he was thrown to the ground by Qing Deng who didn't notice that Soi Ying was about to speak...

Qingdeng originally planned to draw the sword directly, but because Dingguishen and Wakizasa were resting at his feet, it would be too busy to bend down to pick up the sword, so he simply rushed over and used the unarmed combat technique that he was also very good at It will save time and effort to bring down this uninvited guest.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, wriggling body like a loach, trying to break free from Qingdeng's "hug".

Qingdeng discovered that this black shadow still had two brushes, and he actually knew how to break free from the control of others, and he couldn't completely restrain him for a while.

There was no other way, Qingdeng could only increase his strength, and at the same time struggled to grab the arms of the black shadow, preparing to use the grasping skills from his previous life to completely subdue this person.

While wrestling with this black shadow, Qingdeng suddenly discovered—this man... smells so good...

Being "embraced" with this person, Qingdeng could smell a faint fragrance from this person's body... This fragrance is very faint, and if you don't get very close, you can't smell it at all.

And while smelling the delicious fragrance...Qingdeng felt his right arm touched something...strange thing.

Qingdeng's right arm was wrapping around Soi Ying's waist.

While wrestling with the black shadow, his right arm raised slightly unconsciously.

When I lifted it up... my forearm touched two balls with a wonderful tactile sensation.

heavy, soft...

"Woo...!" After Qingdeng's right arm touched these two things, the black shadow let out a low scream.

Immediately afterwards, Soi Ying freed up a hand and pulled off the veil on his face.

"Mr. Orange, it's me! It's me!"

"……Eh?"

familiar voice.

Qingdeng paused with his hands trying to control the shadow, and looked blankly at the person in his arms.

"Ms. Kinoshita...?"

"You are... why are you wearing the clothes of the cat monk?"

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