After all, Yoshiwara is not a city in the true sense. Although there are residential areas for ordinary people to live and there are also small markets, the area they occupy is not large.

Occupying most of the land in Yoshiwara are the densely packed houses of wandering girls.

"The avenue in the center of Yoshiwara is called 'Nakanomachi'. It is the broadest street in Yoshiwara. Almost all important activities are held in Nakanomachi."

After taking Ogata to briefly visit Yoshiwara's residential areas and markets, Kuwao led Ogata back to the avenue that neatly cut Yoshihara into two halves - Nakano-machi.

I plan to take Ogata on a brief tour of the large number of tourist houses with Nakano-machi as the center.

"The closer to Nakano-machi, the higher the yūnyōya will be. On the other hand, the further away from Nakano-machi, the higher the yūnyōya."

"The 'Rashomon Riverbank' where sick and elderly wandering girls gathered that I told you about last night is located at the far west of Yoshiwara."

"The 'Rashomon River Bank' is also the key supervision area of ​​our Shirobei Club."

"That place is the messiest place in Yoshiwara."

"Because the wandering girls who live on the banks of the Rashomon River are basically sick or elderly."

"So there are always some beasts who take advantage of the physical weakness of the wandering girls there, and go to the 'Rashomon River Bank' to rob them of their wealth and sex."

Gua Sheng was very eloquent and good at preaching. Ogata felt that she might be qualified to be a teacher.

After coming out of Gua Sheng's house, Gua Sheng never stopped talking, and kept introducing all the details of Yoshihara to Ogata.

But Gua Sheng can always use the shortest and funniest words to summarize these supposedly complex knowledge.

Thanks to Guasheng's continuous popularization of various knowledge about Yoshiwara, Ogata did not feel bored when touring various places in Yoshiwara.

Unknowingly, the two of them returned to Nakano-machi, the thoroughfare in the center of Yoshiwara.

The current time is probably around 9 o'clock in the morning.

Because it was past the early morning hours when the sun had just risen, more and more people were walking around the streets of Yoshiwara.

The lifestyle of wandering girls is the opposite of that of ordinary people.

Ordinary people work during the day and sleep and rest at night.

The wandering girls sleep and rest during the day and start working at night.

At this time, many wandering girls are still sleeping and resting in bed.

Of course, there are also some very energetic wandering girls who sneak out of their wandering girls' houses and play around.

After returning to Nakano Town, Oubono found that compared to when he arrived in Yoshiwara just now, there were many more wandering girls sneaking out to play in Nakano Town.

However, because there were not many entertainment activities in this era, they could not leave Yoshiwara freely, so the only way for these wandering girls to choose entertainment and relaxation was to get together and talk.

Some of these wandering girls who sneaked out to play were still combing their hair and putting on makeup in a proper manner.

Some are very casual, not only without makeup, but also without combing their hair, dragging their long hair.

Ogata and Kua Sheng had just appeared in Nakano Town. Ogata saw three wandering girls not far away who were chatting together and suddenly waved to them.

After seeing the three wandering girls waving to them, Guasheng immediately walked towards the three wandering girls while holding on to the wooden knife at his waist.

Although he had no idea why these three wandering girls suddenly waved to them, Ogata hurriedly followed them.

Among the three wandering girls, two wore regular Shimada buns, and only one had her hair loose, with her long, straight black hair hanging down her back.

After Gua Sheng saw the three of them waving and walked over quickly, the only wandering girl without a bun smiled and said to Gua Sheng:

"Yoshiwara Toshin! Did you start patrolling so early?"

"Well... it can be considered a patrol." Gua Sheng said with a smile, "I am now taking this newcomer who just joined our club today to familiarize himself with Yoshihara. I will also patrol Yoshiwara by the way."

After saying that, Guasheng turned sideways and introduced to Ogata who was standing behind him:

"This is the new person who joined our club today - Majima Goro."

"Gui'an." Ogata bowed to the three wandering girls in front of him, "I'm Majima Goro."

"Ho~~" This long-haired wandering girl looked at Ogata several times with curious eyes, "He looks like a very reliable samurai! I leave the security of Yoshiwara to you!"

"I'm going to be in a state of death."

"The number of foreigners who have flocked to Edo has increased a lot recently." Another petite wandering girl standing next to the wandering girl with loose hair suddenly sighed softly, "As a result, we in Yoshiwara are now

It’s a lot messier than before, it’s really unbearable6”

"Don't worry!" Gua Sheng raised his hand and patted his small chest hard, "Anyone who dares to cause trouble in Yoshiwara, our Shirobei Club will bring these people to justice!"

"It's really reliable." The girl with long hair said with a smile, "You are indeed our Yoshihara Doshin."

"Please don't call me Yoshihara Toxin." There was a strong sense of helplessness in Gua Sheng's tone. "The word 'Yoshihara Toxin' has so many syllables. Don't you find it troublesome to pronounce it?"

"I don't think so." As she said this, the wandering girl with long hair put her hand into her collar, and then took out a small paper bag from inside her collar, "Here, here's this for you."

"Huh? What is this?" Gua Sheng looked puzzled as he reached out and took the small paper package handed over by the girl with hair.

"This is the yokan given to me by one of my guests last night."

"According to him, this yokan comes from a very popular shop in Edo."

"Although I heard the customer tell me what the name of the store is, I forgot it. I tried the yokan and it was quite delicious."

"He sent too much yokan, and my friends and I couldn't eat it together, so I'll give the rest to you!"

"Ah! Thank you!" Gua Sheng was not polite and said thank you loudly. Then he looked at the small paper bag in his hand expectantly, and his throat moved as he swallowed his saliva.

After bidding farewell to the three travel girls, Gua Sheng couldn't wait to open the paper bag containing food that the travel girl had just given them.

There are 6 yokan lying quietly inside the paper bag.

Although it has the word "sheep" in it, Japanese yokan does not contain mutton and is a dessert.

The original yokan did contain sheep. It was a soup made with mutton added during the Tang Dynasty.

After this delicacy was introduced to Japan, it was transformed.

There are many sects of Buddhism in Japan. Some sects adhere to strict precepts and do not eat alcohol or meat and do not take wives or concubines.

Some factions are no different from ordinary people, they can eat wine and meat and have three wives and four concubines.

Because those monks who held strict precepts did not eat meat, they modified the delicacy "yokan".

Use red beans, arrowroot powder and flour to make the shape of sheep liver. The Japanese words "liver" and "gen" are similar in pronunciation, so "sheep liver" is said to be "yokan".

Later, it gradually became popular in tea ceremonies and became a famous tea snack.

By the Edo period, yokan, which originally had only a single flavor of red bean, evolved into different flavors such as sweet potato and chestnut.

Ogata glanced at the yokan inside the paper bag—it was chestnut flavored.

Since there were 6 yokan in total, which could be divided in half between two people, Kuasheng handed 3 of them to Ogata's hands.

Ogata went straight to Yoshiwara as soon as he got up today, without even eating breakfast.

At the moment when he was feeling a little hungry, Ogata was not polite and generously accepted the three yokans from Guasheng, and then ate them with Guasheng.

The two of them had just said goodbye to the three wandering girls. Before they had walked a few steps further, they saw several wandering girls waving to them on the street not far away.

"Xiao Guasheng! Good morning!"

"Good morning! Don't call me Xiao Guasheng! Why don't you two call me by my name properly..."

"Isn't it too serious to just call you Guasheng? Xiao Guasheng, who is this behind you?"

These wandering girls are the same as the three wandering girls just now. They just came to say hello to Gua Sheng and ask Ogata who this stranger is.

"Come on, Xiao Guasheng, these are steamed buns given to me by one of my customers. I know you like steamed buns the most, so I specially left a few for you."

"Ah! Thank you!"

After bidding farewell to Guasheng, these wandering girls gave them some food just like the three wandering girls just did.

What Ogata and his wife received this time were a few steamed buns.

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"Gua Sheng! Good morning!"

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"Little Tongxin, come here, I'll give this to you. Thank you for helping me recover the guy who stole my money when I wasn't paying attention a few days ago!"

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"I can't eat any of these, so I'll give them to you."

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Following Gua Sheng in the "Young Women's House Area" is a true "stop and go"...

Every time they walked a certain distance, Ogata and Gua Sheng would be stopped by a wandering girl who had sneaked out to play outside the wandering girl's house.

These wandering girls have different names for melons.

Some politely called Gua Sheng's surname.

Some people call Guasheng’s nickname “Yoshihara Tongxin”.
To be continued...