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Qingdeng's brows had never soothed since Scarface handed over the IOU for his gambling debt.

This scar-faced man is eloquent, eloquent, speaks in an orderly manner, and has all kinds of honorifics at his fingertips. Coupled with this vague and elegant aura emanating from him, if it weren't for the fact that it can be on his collarbone,

You can see the ferocious tattoos on his forearms and other places that cannot be covered by clothes. Otherwise, people might mistake him for a teacher at a private school.

He returned the gambling debts and the hundreds of taels of repayments paid by Qingnou and his family to Qingneng with both hands, and then said to Qingneng with the most honorific words: "Our leader Shimizu Eiichi

After saying words of praise such as "I really admire you", Scarface bowed slightly to Qingdeng.

"I have sent you the IOU and the money."

"I apologize for disturbing you and your embassy."

Scarface turned around and bowed to Zhou Zhu and others who were standing at the gate of the Trial Guard Hall.

"The matter is over. Please forgive me for taking my leave first."

"Ah, that's right. I almost forgot to mention it."

"For a young hero like you, Lord Qingshui will never hesitate to help you."

"Mr. Tachibana, if you encounter anything that needs help in the future, you can feel free to come to us."

"For example, when you are dealing with a case and you need someone to help collect clues, we are happy to help."

"We, the Qingshui Clan, don't dare to say other big words."

"But on the borders of Edo, Yokohama, and Kanagawa... for certain people and certain things, the words of our 'Shimizu Clan' may be more useful than the emperor and the general who conquered the barbarians."

When Scarface said this, his tone was quite calm.

But under this plain tone, there is a touch of pride and confidence hidden!

After saying "Resign" to Qingdeng and others, Scarface led the group of subordinates behind him and walked away, disappearing under the high slope where the trial defense hall was located.

After Scarface and others left, Zhou Zhu and others walked out of the gate of the Trial Guard Hall and gathered around Qing Deng who was still standing outside the gate of the Trial Guard Hall.

"What are those people doing?" Harada scratched his hair in confusion, "I thought they were here to cause trouble... I even brought my long gun."

Harada shook the spear he was carrying on his shoulder and continued.

"It turned out that he was just here to repay Mr. Tachibana's father's gambling debt and the previous repayments... When did Yakuza from the 'Shimizu Clan' become so kind? He even took the initiative to forgive people's debts."

As soon as Harada finished speaking, the native said angrily: "If you expect Yakuza to be kind and reason with you, you might as well expect the apprentices in the great sword hall to stop being so arrogant. At least

The possibility of the latter may be even higher.”

Zhousuke, who was over sixty years old and had eaten more salt than Qingden and the others had eaten, opened his narrow eyes slightly and stared at the direction where Scarface and the others left: "They should have seen Tachibana.

You are now in the limelight, so you want to have a good relationship with Mr. Ju."

"Yeah." As soon as Zhouzhu finished speaking, Qingden nodded his head gently, "I guess so..."

Yakuza is close to people in the government - this is basically not a secret.

It would be better to say: Yakuza was able to live such a prosperous life by getting close to people in the government and winning over officials.

Trying to win over those rising political stars... This is also a common operation of those Yakuza.

Aotobu has recently achieved great achievements one after another at an astonishing speed, and he is also from the "Sankai" who was responsible for the security of Edo. It is not difficult to speculate that in the eyes of the "Shimizu Clan", Aotobu is now

It certainly has extremely high win-win value.

In addition to establishing a good relationship with him and preparing to win over him in the future, Qingdeng really couldn't think of any other reason for these guys who eat people without spitting out their bones to suddenly "discover their conscience" and kill their Ju family members.

All arrears will be forgiven and all the money they have previously paid will be repaid.

"...If they want to build a good relationship with me by canceling our family's debt, then they have really thought too much." Qingdeng turned his eyes back to the IOU in his hand, his tone neither sad nor happy.

Very bland.

For these Yakuza who did all kinds of dirty and cruel things that normal people would not even dare to think about, Qingden only had a bad feeling, not a favorable impression.

No matter what the "Qingshui Clan" did to him or what kind of benefits they gave him, Qingden would never have the slightest favorable impression of the "Qingshui Clan".

Therefore, out of resentment towards Yakuza, even if the "Qingmizu Clan" has now written off the debts of their Tachibana family, Qingto does not feel at all like "inheriting their favor".

What's more, talking about so-called favors and debts of favor with Yakuza, who has no sense of law or morality at all, and whose bottom line is no bottom line, is a very funny thing.

When someone is determined to do something to you, whether you owe the other person a favor or not, or whether the other party owes you a favor, the result is the same - whether the person admits it or not depends on their mood.

The "Qingshui Clan" directly wrote off the debt of more than 500 taels of gold from their Ju family, and they had already made enough gestures to establish a good relationship with him.

In this way, whether Qingdeng accepts their overture of "clearing the debt" or not, the result will not be different.

It is obviously impossible for the "Qingshui Clan" to stop wooing Qingteng just because Qingteng does not accept their overtures.

In this case, it is better to simply accept the IOUs and repayments returned by them first.

Harada pursed his lips and looked up at the sky.

He seemed to be thinking about what Qingdeng, Zhou Zhu and others were saying just now.

But obviously - as he has no habit of using his brain, his brain automatically triggered the resistance mechanism.

After only about 5 seconds, Harada shook his head vigorously with a tired look on his face: "Although I don't understand what you were talking about just now, this should be considered a good thing, right? You don't have to return those things anymore.

The guy has money.”

After saying that, Harada smiled naively and put his arms around Aoto's shoulders.

"Mr. Orange, congratulations! Your family's gambling debt has been cleared!"

"Well..." The corners of Qingdeng's mouth curled up with emotion.

Since he had never met his father Tachibana Takayuki, who had long since died of illness, Aonto's deepest impression of Tachibana Takayuki was that he "left him a rather troublesome debt."

And now, this big trouble has finally been solved in an unexpected way.

Qingdeng folded the IOU in his hand and put it back into his arms with peace of mind.

This great gift suddenly sent by the "Qingshui Clan" can be regarded as one less of the two "big mountains" that originally weighed on Qingdeng's shoulders.

Without the threat of "gamble debt owed to the Qingshui Clan", the only threat that now rests on Qingdeng's shoulders is those who want to take his life. It has been extremely quiet recently, and there is no active anti-barbarian group.

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Nagakura and Harada stayed at the Shoeikan as diners, adding to the popularity of the "diner room" which is spacious enough to sleep 10 people.

Although Nagakura and Harada are tall and thick-set, they sleep surprisingly quietly. They don't snore when they sleep, so their stay does not disturb the original peace "among the diners" too much.

In fact, even if the two of them slept very differently and snored like thunder while sleeping, it would not have any impact on Qingden's daily routine.

After all, with the "god of sleep" around, no matter how noisy the external environment is, Qingden can close his eyes and sleep peacefully.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, Qingdeng, who had developed a stable biological clock, opened his eyes on time with full energy.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Qingdeng heard the steady breathing of the other people in the room.

Qingdeng climbed out of the bed quietly, picked up the orange juice placed on the bedside knife holder without worrying about being "identified by the knife", and then took out the hidden "Fox Little Monk" from the locker

Suit ": Behind the black clothes and black fox mask, pretending to go to the dojo to practice swordsmanship" "Between the Diners".

After going down the stairs to the first floor of the Trial Guard Hall, Qingto walked out of the Trial Guard Hall without stopping and went straight to the back alley of the ramen restaurant not far from the Trial Guard Hall.

Entering the alley, Qingdeng saw nothing except the dim moonlight and dust on the ground.

Just when Qingto thought he was early, he heard footsteps coming from the roof of the house on the left side of the alley, and then he heard Kinoshita Mai's voice: "Ah, it seems like I'm late."

Qingden followed the sound and looked up - Kinoshita Mai, who had put on a "cat monk suit" and carried an unknown black cloth bag on her back, was squatting on the roof of the house like a cat.

Qingdeng shook his head: "You are not late, I just arrived."

"That's it, that's good." Kinoshita Mai turned over, like a diver in her previous life, she quickly jumped from the roof to the ground, adjusted her posture, and landed silently on the ground.

A series of actions.

"Tangerine-kun, good evening."

"Well, good evening."

The reason why I met Kinoshita Mai late at night was not just to chat with her.

So after a few brief greetings with Mai Kinoshita, Qingto went straight to the point: "Miss Kinoshita, have you found another target that needs my help?"

Kinoshita Mai was also unambiguous. Seeing that Qingden got straight to the point, she nodded gently:

"Yeah. But the target I am targeting this time is not a criminal gang like last time."

"I want you to help me investigate a place this time."

"Tachibana-kun, do you remember what I said last time? In order to get rid of the scourge of the 'Radical Anti-Barbarians' as soon as possible, I will patrol various places in Edo almost every night during this period, looking for the 'Radical Anti-Barbarians'

clues and whereabouts.”

"Just last night, I found a very suspicious place that was suspected to be the hideout of the 'radical expulsion faction'."

Den, "radical anti-barbarian faction" - these two words were superimposed together, making Qingdeng's eyes freeze for a moment.
To be continued...