Her handsome appearance, soft black hair tied to the back of her head with purple ribbons into a soft and slender high ponytail, and a soft smile was always hanging on her cheeks. Except for the clothes she was wearing were different from yesterday, the rest of the places were no different from yesterday - it was the beautiful boy I met at the Trial Hall yesterday: Okita Soji.

When Qingdeng cast a surprised look at Okina, Okina, who was holding a steamed bun in one hand, was also looking at Qingdeng in surprise.

"Jujun, why are you here?"

"I was patrolling here just now. When I saw a tea house here, I thought about coming here to rest and having lunch."

"Oh! That's a coincidence!" Kotoda smiled and waved to Qingdeng, "I still have an empty seat here. If I don't dislike it, I can play a table with me!"

The table Okina sits on is a small table that can only accommodate two people.

Sitting alone at Okita on this small table, there is an empty space opposite it.

It is lunch time now, and it is one of the time periods with the largest traffic in places such as tea houses, restaurants, etc.

There are basically no empty spaces left in the tea house where Qingdeng is currently in.

Seeing Okita taking the initiative to send him a table-sharing invitation, Qingdeng was more respectful than to obey his orders. He ran to Okita in three steps and sat opposite Okita.

"Okita, why are you here?" After ordering a cup of cheap tea with the tea house's hand, Aoden asked Okita.

The beautiful boy is now stuffing Japanese steamed buns with red bean stuffed into his mouth with one hand, and his cheeks are bulging like hamsters stuffed with winter food into his mouth.

【Note ·Japanese steamed buns are stuffed buns】

"There is no work to do in the test clinic today, so I came out to breathe with a rare opportunity."

"This tea house is a 'treasure land' that I often come to recently." After Otsuda swallowed the steamed buns in his mouth in one breath, Zhan Mei smiled, "The steamed buns sold in this tea house are sweet and soft, which is very suitable for my appetite."

"Just eat a few steamed buns here, you will lose all your depression!"

After saying that, Okita pushed the plate with three steamed buns left in front of him in the direction of Qingdeng.

"Jujun, do you want to give it a try?"

Qingdeng also likes to eat sweets.

Faced with the steamed buns pushed by Jontian, Qingdeng didn't act too much, and took a piece of steamed bun from Jontian's plate openly.

After putting the steamed buns into his mouth, Qingdeng's brow immediately raised slightly due to surprise.

The taste is indeed quite good.

Both softness and sweetness are just right.

Okita, who had been paying attention to Qingdeng's expression, asked Qingdeng excitedly:

"Jujun, do you like sweets too?"

"Hmm? Yes, I'm the kind of person who feels uncomfortable if I don't eat a little sweet food for a few days."

"I also like to eat sweets the most!" Okita, who showed a bright smile, had two crescents in his eyes. "I am a little worse than you. If I don't eat some sweets every day, I feel uncomfortable all over my body."

“So I always carry this with me.”

Okita reached into his arms and fumbled for a while, and took out half of the leftover Kimchi candy.

Jinping Candy is a small candy grain with a star-like appearance. It is sweet and can be said to be one of the favorite snacks for children of this era.

"After that being said - Juicyon. Since you were patrolling here just now, why didn't you see your Okazu?" Okita looked left and right with confusion.

"I don't have Gang Yin." Qingdeng said lightly, "Our family owes Yakuza an extremely exaggerated gambling debt, so Yucai doesn't go to ask Gang Yin for Gang Yin."

"Gambling debt?" Okita's eyes widened.

The Okayama system - the second most special system that allows the South and North Koreans to maintain Edo public security with just a little police force.

Gang Yin, also known as Mu Ming, has quite a few names, and its functions are similar to modern auxiliary police.

The shogunate also knew that relying so much police force alone to maintain such a large-scale urban public security is completely a dream.

Therefore, with the tacit consent of the shogunate, the "three chapters" of the Southern and Northern Fans were able to use their own private wealth to hire others to work for themselves.

These people who are hired by Tongxin with private money and are responsible for assisting Tongxin in maintaining public order are called "Gangyin".

In modern terms, they are just a bunch of non-staff personnel who have no formal staffing.

No...even non-staff members should be inferior. To be precise, they are just a group of workers who receive salaries from Tongxin.

Because he is not a member of the government, the Orchid can be either a samurai or a civilian.

After becoming a certain name, the same-minded Gang Yin can receive a ten-handed hand from the government as a proof of his Gang Yin's identity.

There is no restriction on the recruitment of Gangyin, it all depends on the personal preferences of the people.

If you want, it is not impossible to hire a beggar on the roadside as a guitar.

Although there are occasionally a few extremely powerful people who can help and work together to investigate cases and solve cases, there are only a very small number of such guilds.

Most of the Gangyin can only do some miscellaneous work and tiring work. The main case handling work depends on one's unity.

The "Okatsu System" that helps share the workload and the "Machi Civil Autonomy System" that helps reduce the workload - Edo's "Three Returns" is based on these two major systems that the police can successfully maintain the public order in Edo with just this little bit.

The night before yesterday, in the extermination of "benevolence and righteous people", the big guy who rushed into the house with Aima, Qingdeng, Zhugu and Niushan was the Gang Yin of Zhu and Niu.

If Qingdeng remembers correctly, Niushan raises 5 gangs, while Zhugu raises a little more tangles, and there are 9 gangs hired by Zhugu.

When Qingdeng took over his father's position and returned to Tingcho, their Hokkien family was already in debt, so Qingdeng naturally did not have the extra money to hire Okayama to do chores for him, and he had to do all the work he had to do by himself.

When Tadachohui's Tongxin patrols his jurisdiction, he often asks several Okatsuki's subordinates to accompany him, so Okatsuki just asked Aoten, "Why don't you see your Okatsuki?"

After briefly informing Okina about his family situation that was being dragged down by his deceased father's gambling debt, Okina apologized to Aoden with a embarrassed expression:

"Sorry... I seem to accidentally mention something that shouldn't be mentioned..."

"It's okay, no need to apologize." Qingdeng smiled at Kotoda freely, "I don't care."

The tea that Qingdeng just ordered had already been brought up at this time.

Accompanied by this slightly inferior tea, Aoden began to chew the three rice balls that Kyuubi gave him this morning.

"Jongtianjun, how could you have time to come here to eat steamed buns?" Qingdeng, who was groaning and chewing the rice ball, asked casually, "Don't you need to inspect the test hall?"

"No need." Okina smiled slightly, "Because Brother Kondo has come back. With Brother Kondo in charge, I don't need to help me with the inspection and testing of the hospital."

"Kondo is back?" Qingdeng was shocked.

"Tama is very close to Edo, and Brother Kondo returned to Tama smoothly yesterday afternoon."

"After visiting Mr. Tufang and confirming that Mr. Tufang was fine, he rushed to the road overnight and returned to the test hall this morning successfully."

"Kondo Jun rushed back overnight..." Aoden said in confusion, "Why are you so anxious? Just spend the night in Tama and wait until dawn this morning before coming back?"

The night roads in this era are very dangerous.

One is because there are no lighting facilities such as electric lights.

Second, because of the public security situation in this era, it is not suitable for traveling at night.

Not to mention those remote areas, even around Edo, there are often thieves and bandits.

"There is no way... Now it is a critical period for Brother Kondo. If you leave the Trial Hall for too long, you will easily be gossiped about it."

"A critical period?" Qingdeng asked back, "What does it mean?"

"The master is old..." A little lost Otsuda appeared between his eyebrows, and raised his hand to play with the slender ponytail on the back of his head. "Whether the professor who works in a natural mind or the daily operation and management of the clinic, the master is a little overwhelmed."

"So the master has been preparing to pass this test guard to Brother Kondo in recent years, and let Brother Kondo succeed as the head of the fourth generation of the Tianlixin Liuzong family."

"So, at this moment when you are about to become the new owner of the test hall, if you leave the test hall for too long for no reason, it will be easy for some people to gossip and gossip."

"It's not easy to be the young master of the Sword Hall..." Qing Deng sighed.

"Yes." Okina Fuka nodded slightly with a feeling of agreement, "So in order to make Brother Kondo easier, I have to work harder in learning arithmetic."

"Arithmetic?" Qingdeng was stunned, "Okita, what are you doing when you learn arithmetic?"

"If you want to run a sword hall, you can't do it." Okita put his hands on his hips and straightened his flat chest, with a full face of confidence. "Brother Kondo's arithmetic has never been very good."

"So, in order to help Brother Kondo in the future, I am working hard to learn arithmetic!"

"Oh...!" A light of admiration flashed in Aoden's pupils, "You have a really good relationship with Brother Kondo."

"After all, Brother Kondo is just like my brother to me." After Kotota smiled shyly, the smile on his face slowly turned into melancholy, "But... although I said it beautifully, I didn't do that beautifully..."

"The study of arithmetic has been very difficult..."

Okita shrank his neck and shoulders inward with a grievance, making his body look much smaller.

"Last time I asked Mr. Tufang to teach me arithmetic. After he taught me for a while, he directly scolded me: Idiot! Why can't you even calculate this? Did you eat Jinping Candy until your head turns Jinping Candy..."

Earthwork?

After thinking for a while, Aoden thought about who Tuya was - Tobayashi, one of the "Five Great Kings" in the Trial Hospital, had a very close relationship with Kondo and Okita. Kondo hurried back to Tama yesterday to go back to visit him who was injured.

"It's so too much." Qingdeng frowned slightly, "It's not normal for beginners to make mistakes in the process of learning. How can they scold people so fiercely?"

"That's it!" Okita thrust his chest, flattened his lips and echoed, "I just counted 9 plus 23 as 107, why should I scold me like this?"

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quiet……

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To be continued...