Chapter 32 Xiaomei

The book continues from the previous chapter, and now we look back at the Gray Memory Village.

Sun Yixie obviously did not waste the flaw created by the two jonins, Masugi Juzo and Xiaomei Feiyuan. After he successfully broke away from the corpse puppet, he immediately touched Li. Behind Watanabe, he decisively launched a sneak attack with his trident.

Reigen, who had already been slashed by Juzo and was completely focused on the second ninja, was unable to defend himself and was easily killed by Brother Sun.

As soon as Li Gen died, the corpse puppets that were fighting with Chongzang and Xiaomei naturally stopped moving.

However, the three people did not relax after the victory

After all, this is the entrance to the enemy's base camp. The noise of their fight just now was not small, and it would not be surprising if they were discovered. , so they have to be prepared for new enemies to come at any time.

Secondly, the relationship between these three people is not the kind of partnership that trusts each other. Although they are basically certain that the evil monks of the Tuxing Sect are their common enemies, they have no relationship with each other. Also defensive.

"Sun Sang, we meet again." At this time, the experienced Chongzang spoke first, "I have to thank you. My subordinates are grateful for your care."

Even though it’s just two sentences, there are so many twists and turns in the words.

These words fell into Sun Yixie's ears. They were both an obvious show of goodwill and a proposal for a "temporary alliance." I saved you, but before you could thank me, I first I came to thank you, and while thanking you, I pointed out to you the information that "Azhi is my subordinate" that you probably don't know yet, and also revealed the information "I already know that Azhi has received your help." thing.

Looking at it from Xiaomei’s perspective, Zhongzang immediately called out Sun Yixie’s last name as soon as he opened his mouth, and greeted him in a tone that seemed to be familiar to him, and mentioned that he was under the supervision of his subordinates. Na Xiaomei, who took care of him, would definitely guess that these two people were acquaintances, or even good friends.

In this way, under the premise that it is still unclear whether Xiaomei’s position is an enemy or a friend, Chongzang is tantamount to pulling Sun Yixie together to form a deterrent to Xiaomei. If you are a friend, then the three of us Everyone is a friend. If you are an enemy, then you have to think clearly that you may have to fight one against two.

What’s more important is that after saying this, Zhongzang didn’t reveal any information about himself; he mentioned his name, the number of his subordinates, and A-Zhi’s name without saying anything. A "Sun Sang".

In other words, if Xiaomei knows Sun Yixie, then Xiaomei will be even more convinced that Chongzang, who can be called "Sun Sang" with the right surname, and Sun Yixie know each other; if Xiaomei does not know Sun Yixie , then Chongzang's words only exposed some information about Sun Yixie, but not his own. < /p>

Just by saying this sentence, Sun Yixie already understood where they were a few days ago.Meeting Ma Shan Juzo in Tianshangshan Shrine was definitely not a coincidence. Juzo must have come personally to find out the details of him and Huang Donglai after listening to the reports from three of his subordinates. However, he did not expect that there would be goblins in that shrine. In the end, everyone had to cooperate to escape.

Combined with the information that Azhi said before about "going to Kyoto to perform a mission with two companions", Sun Yixie basically guessed that Chongzang should have been following the traces of his subordinates all the way before finding him. here.

"What about this?" Two seconds later, Sun Yixie moved his eyes to Xiaomei again and asked.

Actually, Brother Sun knew at a glance that Xiaomei and Juzo were not together. Although the two ninjas cooperated quite well when they fought just now, the distance between them was now over. Their postures, including their eyes, revealed that they were wary of each other.

This is just a question that Brother Sun still has to ask symbolically.

"You are Sun Yixie and Sun Sang, right?" As a result, Xiaomei said directly to Sun Yixie before Chongzang said she didn't know him, "I am the Xiaomei you are looking for."< /p>

"Huh, there are so many hos." After listening to the other party's self-introduction, Sun Yixi said a Japanese sentence that was Japanese even without translation.

Although Brother Sun's expression was quite calm at this time, he was actually scolding the street in disappointment, "What a bastard, I was really hurt by someone saying that "Xiaomei" is really a name for a man who picks his feet."

"Oh" Chongzang looked at Xiaomei sideways at this time and asked tentatively, "Do you, the Fengmo clan, also have contacts with people from the Central Plains?"

Everyone, please pay attention. At this moment, Chongzang no longer needs to pretend to be familiar with Sun Yixie, because he has already understood from the conversation between Sun Yixie and Xiaomei that the two parties are here to connect, so he is an outsider, and this can be done at any time Sun Yixie will tell Xiaomei.

In this case, Juzo quickly returned to the position of a third party, and immediately began to spy on what the "Fuma-ryu" ninja and Sun Huang, two people from the Central Plains, were up to.

When Xiaomei, the "Fuuma Clan" heard this, she frowned slightly at first, then quickly smiled and continued, "Hey, this friend of Koga-ryu, you may have misunderstood, I am not a Fuuma. It’s just that some of the techniques I use are very similar to theirs.”

What Xiaomei said was not false.

He is indeed not a member of the Fuma Clan, and has never officially become a disciple of the Fuma Clan.

He learned all his ninjutsu from his mother.

Xiaomei’s mother was once a member of the Fuma Ninjas, but her qualifications for learning ninjutsu were extremely low, and even third-rate ninjas looked up to her.

When she was seventeen years old, she was injured during a mission. When retreating, she failed to follow her companions and had to jump into a river to escape alone in the face of pursuing soldiers.

In those days, low-level ninjas were all cannon fodder, and no organization would spend resources to confirm the life and death of a third-rate ninja, so the Fengma clan assumed that Xiaomei's mother was dead.

But she apparently survived and after some wanderings, she came to Kyoto and became a geisha.

She had no talent in ninjutsu, but she was quite talented in singing and dancing. Therefore, even though she was several years older than the average age for learning this industry, she still succeeded in the industry. The inner part survives.

Soon after, she got the stage name Xiaomei.

When she was twenty years old, Xiaomei fell in love with a young samurai. I won’t go into details about the love affair between a man and a woman, except that it didn’t last long.

The samurai was recruited and went to the battlefield. Before leaving, he gave Xiaomei a kite and said to her, "When autumn turns to winter, I will fly back to you like this kite."

Everyone should know the consequences of establishing such a FG.

That winter, the samurai did not come back.

But Xiaomei’s belly was swelling day by day.

As winter turned to spring, Xiaomei gave birth to a boy. She named the boy "Xiaomei Feiyuan".

Xiaomei Feiyuan is different from his mother. He has ninja talents, and can even be said to be a genius.

My mother taught him Ninjutsu, originally just to help him defend himself in this troubled world, and her mother's own abilities were also limited, so what she taught may not be correct and complete, but those incomplete skills came to him, and soon he It was perfected and evolved by him.

Therefore, Xiaomei Feiyuan's ninjutsu is not so much Fuma-ryu as it is a "go-ryu" ninjutsu that takes Fuma-ryu as its source and relies on his own understanding.

After growing up, Xiaomei Feiyuan buried her mother who passed away due to illness and began to wander alone in troubled times.

Because he did not join any ninja organization and did not want to join, he became his own boss and started a business called "Ninja House".

Most of the ninja organizations during the Warring States Period in Japan, such as the Koga ninja, Iga sect, Echigo sect, Fuuma clan, etc., all had their own bases and maintained cooperation with some local daimyo. of affiliation.

There are not many pure mercenaries like Xiaomei who do things for anyone who pays them, and don’t ask any other questions, so his business does have a certain market.

No, this time he received the task of "receiving Shuangxi and assisting them in going to Kyoto to investigate the whereabouts of the Xuanlong Bi" from some people related to the Great Sun Dynasty.

Back to the subject, and talking about the present

After hearing Xiaomei’s response, Chongzang thought to himself, “The Feng Mo clan has always behaved erratically, even if they really cooperate with the Central Plains people Since Xiaomei, who 80% would not deny it, said this, it means that he may not be a Fuuma after all; moreover, it is not necessarily accurate to infer the opponent's camp just through ninja tools or ninjutsu schools. After all, I am a Koga-ryu. Aren't those people working for the Tiger of Kai now?" Thinking of this, Juzo smiled bitterly and said, "Ah, I'm sorry, I was careless." He paused. selfHe introduced, "By the way, this is the first time we meet, I am Ma Shanjuzo."

"This is Xiaomei Feiyuan." Xiaomei also quickly reported her full name.

"Hmm" But at this time, Sun Yixie tilted his face, curled his lips, looked at Chongzang and said, "Last time I asked you, didn't you say your name was Youzang? How many days ago? Change it if you don’t see it."

After he said this, Chongzang realized that it turned out that Azhi had not revealed the information about his boss even with the help of Shuangxie and the others. , had he known this, he would have continued to give the false name "Yuzang".

But now that the words were out of his mouth, Chongzang could only smile and clarify his words: "Sun Sang is just joking. With your intelligence and wisdom, when I said it in that tone, you... When you called me Youzangba, you already knew it was a fake name."

"That's true." Sun Yixie looked at the other person's reaction and thought about it again. I guessed that the other party reported his real name this time and why he reported his real name, so he stopped waffling and took advantage of the donkey path down the slope, "Haha, I just see that the atmosphere is a bit tense now. Just kidding, let's relax."

Then Sun Yixie also made a long story short, concisely telling what happened after they met A Zhi. The final summary was that today they were mainly here to help Xiaozhu. If this situation There were other children in the sect who were also rescued. Before leaving, I brought the Zanxing sect to wipe out the family, which was considered as doing justice to heaven.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaomei immediately said that she could help and would not charge extra money.

The main reason is that Xiaomei sees some reflections of her own childhood in A Zhi and Xiaosuke, mother and son, and she has a lot of empathy.

Secondly, as a normal person with undistorted views, Xiaomei must not be able to understand Tuanxingzong; if you ask him to come here alone to fight for his life with Tuanxingzong, then he He has not reached the stage where he hates evil as much as he hates it, but there are so many masters with him today, and he is willing to contribute if he is asked.

As for Zhongzang, his thoughts are more complicated and he needs to settle accounts

Assuming that he will not get involved in this matter and leave on his own.

Then he refused to help Azhi save Xiaosuke, and also refused to avenge Gengoro. Then whether Azhi and Xiaosuke live or die, it has nothing to do with him, because these two people It was impossible to come back and serve someone who abandoned his subordinates. Even if they did come back, Juzo would no longer be able to trust them.

So what if Chongzang, Shuanghe, and Xiaomei join forces to destroy the Xingxing Sect?

The risk of this choice is not small. If it fails, Chongzang may not be able to escape unscathed, or even He risked his own life, but if he succeeded, he would be able to bring back his two subordinates, and he would no longer have to worry about whether the cadre of the Tao Xing Sect he had just helped kill would cause trouble in the future.bother.

After thinking for a while, Juzo finally chose to help.

Although turning away and going to Kyoto to perform the mission alone is a safer choice. Anyway, he still has many subordinates, so it doesn’t matter if he abandons one or two. But he knows that the only way to eliminate the Zan Xingzong and rescue the people inside is Children are what he wants to do more in his heart.

In this way, after receiving the support of the second ninja, Sun Yixie became more confident, and the three of them entered the main altar entrance of the Zhenxing Sect together.

At the same moment, on the penultimate floor of the Zengxingzong main altar

I saw four minions in the stone corridor, carrying some good wine. Cai, quickly walked to Ji Gen'er's room.

At this time every night, Ji Gen'er would have dinner in his room, and the people who brought him meals would rotate, and today it was the turn of these four unlucky guys.

When they came to the corridor outside the sect master's room, the leader saw that the door was ajar and thought that the sect master must have left the door open for them, so he left. When he reached the door, he nodded slightly and said to the door, "Sir, Master, tonight's food and drinks have arrived."

As soon as he finished speaking, this person felt something was wrong.

There is a smell in the door

And the smell is not the same as the smell of decay unique to this layer.

There is another point that makes me suspicious later. When the sect master usually stays in the room, he usually leaves a few corpses standing guard at the door, but today there is a corpse in the corridor outside the door. There are no corpse puppets, which is very strange.

"Sir, are you okay?" The man raised his voice a little higher and asked several times outside the door.

But the room was still deathly silent.

The minions became more and more uneasy. He turned around and exchanged glances with the other three minions behind him who were carrying dishes. Then he mustered up the courage and opened the door. "Excuse me, Lord Sect Leader." , we’re in”

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