】

The next day——

Edo, Chishiya——

The current time is probably around 7 o'clock in the morning.

Kiryu, who had just opened a shop, was sitting behind the counter, flipping through the account books and verifying the recent income of the shop.

While he was concentrating on reading the account books, he suddenly heard the sound of the shop door being opened.

"Welcome Hikaru... huh? Okita-kun?"

"Mr. Kiryu, good morning!" At the store door, Okita was holding a pack of newly bought Jinpei candy in his hand. He closed the store door just opened with his backhand and showed Kiryu his signature cheerful smile.

Kiryu closed the account book in his hand and said with a smile: "Okita-kun, good morning."

Okita looked around: "Well? Where is Miss Kinoshita?"

"Young master, she is still sleeping now. She usually doesn't wake up until five o'clock in the morning (8 a.m.)."

After briefly chatting with Okita for a while, Kiryu directly asked Okita about his purpose: "Okita-kun, why did you come to my place alone so early in the morning?"

"It's not a big deal." Okita chuckled, "I just came to discuss business with you, Mr. Kiryu."

"Oh? Talking about business?" The smile on Kiryu's lips grew a little wider, "I'd like to hear the details."

"It's like this - Tachibana-kun's workload has increased dramatically, so he wants to hire 2 or 3 Okahiki to work for him." Okita said, "Because Mr. Kiryu happens to work in an employment agency, so I

I would like to entrust you to recommend some suitable people to him."

"Ji Jun is still very busy right now. It will probably take a few days before he has time to visit you in person."

"So he asked me to come say hello to you first and ask you to help him find a suitable person in the past few days."

"This way when he comes to see you later, he can come directly to pick you up."

"Oh, that's it." Kiryu nodded lightly, "Tachibana-kun wants to hire Okabiki... no problem."

After saying that, Kiryu took the pen and paper placed beside the counter.

"Has Mr. Tachibana told you what kind of subordinates he wants and how much salary he can offer?"

Okita nodded: "Tachibana-kun's request is very simple. Because Okabiki's main job content is all kinds of hard work, so as long as he has a reliable character and can endure hardships and stand hard work, it would be better if he is someone who knows some martial arts.

Other than that, there are no other requirements.”

"Mr. Ju is willing to pay each person 2 taels of gold per month."

"Two taels of gold per month..." Kiryu smiled, "The remuneration is quite high."

After carefully writing down Qingnobo's requirements and the salary he could offer, Kiryu put down his pen.

"Okita-kun, thank you for making a special trip to our store."

"When you get back, help tell Mr. Ju that I will help him find a suitable person as soon as possible in the next few days."

"Ah, right."

Kiryu stood up, walked to the cabinet next to him, and took out a box of steamed buns from the cabinet.

"Okita-kun, since you're already here... Then why not take this box of wagashi back with you."

"This box of wagashi was sent to me by an old friend of mine who has been with me for about 70 years and now runs a wagashi shop."

"He sent too much. Young Master and I can't finish it. Please help me get rid of some."

"Wagashi?" Okita's eyes suddenly lit up, staring straight at the box of wagashi in Kiryu's hand, "This box of wagashi looks expensive, do you really want to give it to us?

"

Kiryu laughed loudly: "If you keep putting it down like this, these wagashi will rot."

"Rather than letting them rot like this, it's better to give them to others to eat."

"You can take it back with peace of mind and eat it with the other people in the Trial Guard Hall."

Kiryu directly stuffed the box of wagashi in his hand into Okita's arms.

Okita, who loves sweets, has never been able to resist wagashi, which is basically sweet.

Seeing Kiryu directly stuffing the box of wagashi into his arms, Okita said in his heart, "Since Mr. Kiryu is so enthusiastic, I can't be disrespectful to him," and then "reluctantly" put the box of wagashi into his arms.

Hold her tightly in your arms.

After a brief chat with Kiryu, Okita swallowed his saliva crazily, hugged the box of wagashi tightly, and quickly left Chishiya happily.

"Okabiki..."

After watching Okita leave, Kiryu muttered.

"I really happen to have a good candidate here recently..."

Kiryu took out a large book with a dark green cover from under the counter.

It is very common for job seekers to go to an employment agency, only to find no job of their choice.

Therefore, many job seekers often leave their names and contact information in employment agencies, entrusting people from the employment agency to help contact them as soon as possible after finding a job that meets their requirements.

The information of these "unemployed people" in Senshiya was registered by Kiryu in this large book with a dark green cover.

Kiryu turned directly to the last written page of the big book, and saw only three names written on it——

Nagakura Shinpachi.

Sanosuke Harada.

Toudo Heisuke.

While Kiryu was studying these three names carefully, suddenly - the sound of Mai Kinoshita's footsteps came from behind.

"Mr. Kiryu, good morning..." Mai Kinoshita, whose clothes and hair were quite messy from sleep, with her cute little bare feet, rubbed her sleepy eyes that were still very sleepy, and walked slowly towards Kiryu.

"Good morning, young master." Kiryu turned to Kinoshita Mai and smiled, "You got up quite early today."

"I've already made breakfast. Take a shower and then have breakfast."

"Yeah..." Kinoshita Mai nodded.

Just when Kinoshita Mai turned around and was about to wash up, her body froze.

"Ah, by the way. Mr. Kiryu, we must find a way to get rid of the pile of wagashi that Uncle Goro gave us today." Kinoshita Mai said to Kiryu with a serious face, "If we don't find a way to deal with it, those wagashi will be gone.

It’s all going to rot.”

"Ah, about this...You don't have to worry, young master." Kiryu chuckled a few times, "Okita-kun came to visit just now, and I have already given him all the Japanese confectionery we can't finish."

"Okita-kun, did he come just now?" Kinoshita Mai blinked, and then asked in an eager tone, "Did Tachibana-kun come?"

"Tachibana-kun didn't come." Kiryu glanced at Kinoshita Mai with a somewhat puzzled look, "What's wrong? Why did you specifically ask Tachibana-kun if he came? Do you have something to see Tachibana-kun?"

"Ah? Uh... No, no..." Kinoshita Mai's words stuttered slightly, "It was just a casual question..."

"Hey... I asked you casually... I see..." Kiryu narrowed his eyes slightly and stared straight at Kinoshita Mai, who now had an unnatural expression.

The corner of his mouth slowly raised into an intriguing smile.

"Ok, why did Okita-kun come all of a sudden?" Kinoshita Mai cleared her throat and abruptly changed the subject.

"He's here to discuss business with us." Kiryu put away the weird smile on his face.

Kiryu explained Okita's intention to come to Kinoshita in a concise and concise manner.

"Tachibana-kun wants to hire Okahibiki..." Mai Kinoshita said softly, "There should be quite a lot of people who are willing to be Okahibiki for the 'three times'."

"Yes." Kiryu agreed, "So it's not hard to find people."

"Now that Mr. Kiryu has handed over the wagashi that we can't finish to Okita-kun, I'm relieved." Mai Kinoshita breathed a sigh of relief, "Uncle Goro and Aunt Mach have done such a good job.

It would be a shame if Japanese confectionery were left to rot like this."

…

…

While Okita was helping him discuss business with Kiryu, Aoto was having a meeting at the Kitaban Office.

As soon as I reported to the Kitaban Station today, I received an order from Susui to "convene an emergency meeting, and all the efforts of the Dingmachi Hui and the temporary Hui must not be absent."

As the mayor of Hokubansuo, Susui would only be able to work together with Ayoto and the others in terms of how busy they have been in the past half month.

Looking carefully - Bo Jing's originally fair and plump body has lost a lot of weight, and there are some dark circles in both eye sockets.

There was a mountain of work waiting for him to handle one by one, so after everyone arrived, Bo Jing didn't even say a word of greetings and went straight to the point——

"Based on the reports of our spies and informants, we have obtained a piece of relevant information about the 'masked party'."

Hearing Bo Jing's words, everyone including Qingto immediately became energetic.

Masked Party - a criminal gang that has emerged in Edo recently.

There were 5 people in total, all wearing wide-brimmed bamboo hats and black face scarves to hide their faces. Under the banner of "I, the patriot against the foreigners, give me the money quickly. If you don't give the money, you are a traitor, and you will be punished by heaven!" They robbed businesses everywhere.

.
To be continued...