I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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For example - it took Gua Sheng a long time to reconcile Rong Ju and Chuyue from the Lantern House just now.

It was still daytime when we entered the Lantern House.

It was already late when we left the Lantern House.

Seeing that it was already dark, Gua Sheng simply started today's work, and cooperated with a few colleagues who happened to be patrolling near the Lantern House, and started an aimless carpet patrol in Yoshiwara with them.

Guasheng led her colleagues to patrol the roads in Yoshihara, and her thoughts drifted to the newcomer who hadn't started working yet—that is, Ogata.

——I wonder if Mashima-kun is working hard now...

Just when Guasheng was concerned about whether Ogata had started his first day of work, Guasheng suddenly caught a glimpse of a colleague wearing a club-specific haori, running towards her in a hurry.

"Miss Guasheng! It's not good! In front of Meiwu's store, there are warriors fighting!"

"A samurai making trouble again..." Gua Sheng, frowning, muttered in an extremely displeased tone

Gua Sheng happened to be leading a few colleagues to patrol near Jianmei House when he received the news that someone was causing trouble in front of Jianmei House.

Holding the wooden knife at her waist, and leading several colleagues behind her who had been patrolling with her just now, to the door of Jianmeiwu's shop, Guasheng happened to see a group of people vacating a circular open space.

In the center of this circular open space, two samurai were facing each other.

These two warriors are old and young.

The younger samurai was about 20 years old, with a childish face, holding a wooden sword.

The older samurai should be over 40 years old, wearing a white haori, and holding a spear with the holster in his hand.

There were already many spectators around the two warriors.And that number is still increasing.

As the only female servant in the Shirobei Club, Guasheng is one of the celebrities in Yoshiwara, and it is impossible for anyone in a women's house not to recognize Guasheng.

Seeing Guasheng coming, the Jianshi fans who were in charge of soliciting customers from Meiwu immediately greeted him.

"Miss Guasheng! Please..."

Before the few Jianshifans finished speaking, Guasheng raised his hand to signal them not to say more.

Gua Sheng thought about it with his ass, and he knew what these Jian Meiwu's Jianshi fans were going to say.

They must have said something like "Please drive these two samurai away".

The two samurai fought in front of the store where they met Meiwu, which would naturally have a great impact on their Jianmeiwu business.

"Don't worry. We will settle this dispute as soon as possible."

After giving reassurance to these Jian Meiwu's Jian Shifan, Gua Sheng turned his head and ordered to those colleagues who followed her to the scene of the trouble:

"You guys go to tidy up the road and drive away those spectators. Then divide the road in half and guide pedestrians to pass on the other half of the road!"

"Yes!" Guasheng's colleagues echoed in unison, took up the long wooden sticks in their hands, went to clear the road, and drove away the onlookers who blocked the road one by one.

When Gua Sheng ordered her colleagues to evacuate the road, the two warriors who had been confronting each other and looking for a suitable fighter finally moved.

It was the young samurai holding a wooden sword who launched the first attack.

The young warrior held up the wooden knife in his hand, exuding a fairly imposing aura, while quickly rushing towards the middle-aged warrior in front of him.

Facing the young warrior rushing towards him, the middle-aged warrior with a spear was not afraid at all.

Without even moving his footsteps, he just turned the spear in his hand and blocked the path of the young warrior.

Then he stabbed the spear forward again, and the tip of the spear accurately hit the young warrior's chest.

However, because the holster of the middle-aged samurai's gun was not pulled out, even if he was shot in the chest, the young samurai would not die.

But—that’s just not going to die.

Even if he survived such a heavy blow to his chest, he would never feel better.

The young warrior let out a low cry of pain, stepped back a few steps and fell heavily to the ground.

Although he planned to get up, after struggling a few times, the sanity of his head was no match for the pain from his chest—he passed out.

After the middle-aged samurai stabbed the young samurai beautifully, a young man who had been standing by just now ran to the middle-aged samurai while cheering.

The young man also carried a long spear on his back, and was wearing a white haori of the same style as the middle-aged samurai.

"Master! That's great, you won!" The young man shouted in a reverent tone after running to the side of the middle-aged warrior.

Based on the young man's name for the middle-aged warrior, as well as the clothes they wore and the weapons they used, it is not difficult to deduce that the two should be masters and apprentices.

"Hahaha!" The middle-aged warrior raised his hand and patted the young man's back, and then let out a hearty laugh, "Of course! How could a teacher lose to such a young man who hasn't even swung a knife a few times?" What! Hongzhi, let's go!"

Just when the middle-aged warrior was carrying his spear in one hand and his apprentice's shoulder in the other, and was about to walk away——

"Please wait!"

Gua Sheng, who was standing not far from the master and apprentice, called out to stop them.

"Huh?" The middle-aged warrior followed the sound and looked at Guasheng.

"Private fighting is strictly prohibited in Yoshihara!" Gua Sheng said in a deep voice.

"Hmm...that—may I ask who you are?" asked the middle-aged samurai.

"I am Gua Shengxiu of the Shirobei Club!"

"Shirobei Clubhouse? What is that?" The middle-aged samurai looked puzzled.

"Master..." The young man who was being held by the middle-aged samurai pulled the sleeve of the middle-aged samurai at this time, "Have you forgotten? Didn't I introduce it to you just now? The organization that manages Yoshiwara."

"Oh! I remembered it when I heard you say that!"

After the middle-aged warrior cleared his throat, he shouted loudly to Guasheng:

"Little girl, the private fight just now was not started by our master and apprentice."

"My apprentice and I just wanted to come to Yoshiwara for a casual stroll and see what the 'Edo's never-sleep city' looks like."

"In the end, I went shopping well, and suddenly bumped into this guy."

The middle-aged warrior pouted at the fainted young warrior lying not far away.

"That guy said he was doing 'warrior training'. So far, he has never fought against a master who is good at wielding a spear, so he said he wanted to fight with me."

"My apprentice and I happen to be doing 'Warrior Training'. Since there are similar sects coming to invite us to fight, there is naturally no reason to refuse."

"Then I had a fight with him, and then I shot him down."

"So in the final analysis, it's all that guy's fault. This private fight was started by that guy."

"So if you want to catch it, catch that guy."

As soon as the middle-aged warrior finished his explanation, Gua Sheng shook his head without any hesitation:

"Our Yoshihara rule is: no matter who initiated the private fight, all those who participated in the private fight must be taken away. The punishment is based on the severity of the private fight."

"You didn't kill anyone, so you just need to pay some fines and live in the prison of our clubhouse for a few days."

"So please cooperate obediently..."

Before Gua Sheng finished speaking, the middle-aged warrior said in an extremely displeased tone:

"Huh? Prison? I don't want it!"

"This is our Yoshihara rule." Gua Sheng said in a much stricter tone than before, "Please cooperate with us obediently!"

After all, in order to strengthen his deterrence, Gua Sheng raised his hand to put the knife on his left waist.

"It's so troublesome..." The middle-aged samurai raised his hand and rubbed his hair, "If I knew Yoshihara has so many troublesome rules, I would have fought with that guy outside Yoshihara."

"Anyway, hurry up and go to the clubhouse with us." Guasheng, who was already a little impatient, said, "The prison in our Shirobei clubhouse is much cleaner than prisons in other places. If you are locked up for a few days, you will be released. from."

"Let me make sure - I should be the only one who needs to go to prison, right?"

"That's right." Gua Sheng nodded expressionlessly, "Because you are the only one who participated in the private fight."

"That's easy to say." The middle-aged samurai stretched vigorously, "My apprentice will participate in the 'Imperial Trial' in the future, and if I am imprisoned, it will affect my participation in the 'Imperial Trial' in the future."

"If I'm the only one going to jail, I don't mind going to jail for a few days."

Seeing that the middle-aged samurai was more talkative than he had imagined, Gua Sheng's originally tense expression relaxed a little at this moment.

"Then, please obediently follow us to our clubhouse..."

Before Gua Sheng finished speaking, the middle-aged warrior immediately uttered something that made Gua Sheng's brows slightly frowned.

"I actually have a question." The middle-aged samurai scrutinized Guasheng several times, "Is Edo such an open place? Can even women be officials?"

"I'm not an official official of the club." Gua Sheng said seriously, "I was hired by the club with private money... You can call it a thug. My name is not listed in the official staff of the government."

"Oh! So that's it! Then you will be hired by the club as a thug, then you must be very good?"

"So-so. Don't dare call yourself 'great.'"

"Hey." The middle-aged samurai grinned, "Since I started 'Warrior Training', I have never fought against a woman with superb skills."

"Little girl, you can compete with me."

"Huh?" Gua Sheng frowned even deeper.

"Did I just say that too? I'm currently doing 'Warrior Training' with my apprentice."

"It's not my style to touch a type that I haven't fought against before, and not to compete one or two."

"Don't worry, no matter if I win or lose, I will obediently enter the prison in your clubhouse!"

The middle-aged samurai slowly lowered the spear on his shoulders, held it with both hands, and pointed the tip of the spear with the holster at Guasheng.

"feed me……"

When Gua Sheng was about to say something——

"Treasure Institute's Spear Technique! Ishida Hironoshi! Participate!"

As the shout fell, the tip of the gun with the holster zoomed in rapidly within Gua Sheng's field of vision.

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Edo, Yoshihara, Tachibana House (located diagonally across from Mime House).

"Master Nagano! Master Nagano!" A young samurai lying by the window shouted to a rather majestic middle-aged man sitting not far away.

"What's wrong?" The middle-aged man called Nagano asked the young samurai while handing the wine glass to the wandering girl next to him, "Did you find Genichi Kinoshita?"

"Genichi Kinoshita was not found! It just seems that someone is fighting outside!"

"Oh?" Yong Ye's face flashed a bit of curiosity, "I remember that fighting in the street is strictly prohibited here in Yoshihara?"

"It seems that the officials of the Shirobei Club are fighting with other people!"

Holding a glass full of wine, Yong Ye walked slowly to the window and looked down.

They are now on the second floor of Tachibanahara House, which is diagonally opposite Miume House.

Therefore, Nagano and the others only need to look down, and they can see a man and a woman fighting in front of Jianmei's shop.

The petite woman was wearing the haori of the Shirobei Club, wielding a wooden sword, struggling to resist the spear stabbed by the middle-aged samurai opposite.

After glancing at the middle-aged samurai holding a spear, Yong Ye's mouth twitched:

"Although Genichi Kinoshita couldn't find it, he did find an old acquaintance."

"Master Yongye." The young warrior who told Yongye just now that there was a fight outside asked, "Who is that person?"

"The man holding the long spear is named Hirotoshi Ishida, and he is the heir of Treasure Institute's spear technique."

"He is a very troublesome person. Whenever he meets a master, or someone who uses a weapon or martial arts style that he has never seen before, he will want to compete."

"The invitation to fight with others has always been open."

"It's pretty typical of people who are obsessed with 'craftsmanship'."

"In this regard, he is very similar to Kinoshita Genichi."

"When I was doing 'Warrior Training' before, I met him on a narrow road and competed with him."

"His long spear is quite tricky, and I only narrowly won that contest with him."

"It's been a long time since I saw him. His spear skills must have improved a lot."

"But it's really strange, how could someone like Ishida come to a place like Yoshihara."

"Huh?" The young samurai standing next to Yongye looked puzzled, "Is there anything wrong with that senior who used Hozoin's spear technique appearing in Yoshihara?"