Chapter 435: The Lord of Wenshui County, Takeda Ryoko
If Takeda Ryoko was not in Xiaoshan, it was most likely that he was forcibly taken back to the Takeda family by his family.
Then the only place where she can be found is the Takeda family residence in Heian Kyo.
So Li Guanqi and Sophia spent several days returning to Heian Kyo, and went directly to the Takeda family residence, hoping to find out the whereabouts of Takeda Ryoko.
However, he has a special status. If he goes to the Takeda family rashly, his dual identity as a spellcaster and a different-blooded warrior is very likely to be exposed.
Therefore, you have to "ask" others to help and ask.
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"Brother, please ask me something."
Sakura Shogunate, Heian Kyo, in a remote alley in Nancheng District.
A young man in black robes with a smile stopped a middle-aged strong man in black and white kendo uniform.
"Um?"
The five-element-level alien-blood warrior frowned, looked around, looked at the empty alley, and then looked at the black hooded robe on the man in front of him, "Spellcaster? What do you want from me?"
"Please... do me a favor."
The young man in black robe lifted the hood on his head, revealing his ordinary and unfamiliar face, and smiled at the middle-aged warrior.
"Buzz——"
As soon as he finished speaking, a majestic soul power that was extremely powerful and reached the peak of the sixth level escaped, completely covering the middle-aged warrior in front of him, constantly affecting his own sanity.
Sixth level soul hypnosis!
Although this middle-aged man was a five-element-level alien-blood warrior, his soul was only at the fourth level. Under the powerful soul power of the sixth level, he could hardly hold on for a moment before he completely collapsed.
At this time, he was hypnotized and in a daze, completely reduced to a puppet on strings.
"Go to the Takeda family home."
The young man in black robe...or rather, Li Guanqi looked at the hypnotized middle-aged warrior, his voice was filled with unspeakable ghostly bewitchment, "Ask them if Takeda Ryoko is at home, and you are her friend. If
The guard asks you to show the token, and you ask them to help bring two words to Takeda Ryoko.
‘cut white’.
If Takeda Ryoko comes out to see you, tell her to go to the Makino Inn, thirty miles outside the city, to be Wang Xiu's personal disciple and ask for help.
No matter what the outcome is, whether you see Takeda Ryoko or not, you have to go home and sleep afterward.
Then when you wake up again, you will forget everything that happened today.
Go ahead."
"yes."
The middle-aged warrior nodded dully and passed by Li Guanqi. After taking a few steps, his mental state gradually returned to normal. He looked in high spirits and showed no signs of being hypnotized at all.
But in fact, a deep-rooted order has appeared in his heart.
He didn't know why he did this, but he just wanted to do it from the bottom of his heart - go to the Takeda family home and find Ryoko Takeda!
This is the horror of soul hypnosis.
"It is said to be the capital of a country with strict laws, but in fact..."
Li Guanqi looked at the leaving figure of the middle-aged warrior with complicated eyes, "In the world view of extraordinary power, there are too many ways to commit crimes, and it is impossible to prevent them. This is this world...a world that belongs to extraordinary humans.
."
"Owner?"
On the wall of the alley, a tulip woman with blond hair and golden eyes suddenly appeared, sitting on it, shaking her slender legs, looking at him curiously, "Then what are we doing now?"
"Find a place and check out the situation."
Li Guanqi turned and left.
He thought for a moment as he walked towards the end of the alley.
His current soul strength is lv.69, but the specific value on the system panel is [69.8], which is still 0.1 missing. This is because when he was in the Ice Temple, his divine power was finally used up, and there is still such a little difference.
Didn't mention it.
To a certain extent, it's just right.
As for the last 0.01, it should be fully replenished after you encounter that incomprehensible Five Elements or Liuhe level and kill it.
But that's all later.
Now, you still have to focus on the things in front of you.
Can the hypnotized warrior of different blood find out the whereabouts of Ryoko Takeda from the Takeda family house?
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"Sir, your plum soju."
Sakura Shogunate, Heian Kyo, Nancheng District.
On the street near Takeda's house, on the third floor of a tavern, there was a young magician in black robes, sitting by the window, drinking shochu, which had a very low alcohol content and tasted almost the same as a plum drink.
It was Li Guanqi who used the transformation technique to disguise himself.
Sitting opposite him was a tulip woman with blond hair and golden eyes - Sophia who drank the transformation potion.
"It seems to be going well."
Sophia looked out the window and said softly.
"Um."
Li Guanqi nodded, holding a wine glass in his hand and looking out the window.
From this position, he could clearly see the entrance to the Takeda family home.
At this time, the five-element-level alien-blood warrior who had been hypnotized by him was standing between the two stone lions that guarded the house, and he kept talking to the guard of the Takeda family house.
When faced with a five-element-level alien-blood warrior, even the doorman of the Takeda family would not bother to talk to him, but would communicate with him normally.
Of course, it was impossible for Li Guanqi to go to Takeda's house to question him.
The spirit-shielding pendant on his body can at most conceal the induction of a seven-star conjurer. In other words, it can only conceal a seventh-level spiritual instrument. Once it exceeds this level, it will be discovered that he is a curser.
The identity of the magician.
The Takeda family, one of the majestic Sakura Nine Martial Arts, must have a Bagua-level spellcaster and an eighth-level spiritual instrument.
Therefore, once Li Guanqi goes to the Takeda family home, his identity as a five-element level magician may be exposed.
But how can it be exposed?
His identity in front of Takeda Ryoko is Wang Xiu's apprentice, a five-element-level alien-blood warrior!
In the new era, a person who possesses both the Five Elements-level martial arts cultivation and the Five Elements-level magic cultivation is a special person who has created "history", and he does not want to get burned.
So I can only let others go.
"Speaking of which, Master, what do you mean by 'cut off the white' just now?"
At this time, Sofia, who was sitting opposite, held her cheek with her right hand and looked at Li Guanqi curiously, "Why did you say that if Takeda Ryoko wanted a token, he asked the doorman to bring these two words to Takeda Ryoko?"
Although this lioness sometimes behaves like a person who has lived for 178 years, her sometimes performance is indeed remarkable.
For example, when faced with the Minotaur Carl incident, the reasoning about the female Tauren Brianna.
Another example is now.
When she mentioned Takeda Ryoko, she deliberately used soul transmission, using soul thoughts to directly convey what she wanted to express, instead of speaking directly, fearing that there might be ears through the wall.
"It's the name of her sword."
Li Guanqi lowered his head to drink a glass of wine, chuckled, and also used his soul to communicate: "My master and the master of the female warrior were friends who had feelings for each other. But for some reasons, they were not together until they died.
Together.
However, they each left a sword and a sword, leaving us, the two second-generation heirs, with a sword engagement.
Not long before I met you, I went for an appointment in Xiaoshan, where we had been a few days ago.
The collapsed mountain next to it was knocked down by Takeda Ryoko and I.
Of course I won in the end.
Then, Takeda Ryoko named his sword "Zan Haku".
she said,
She has followed her master's teachings, and has never used external force to break through her cultivation since she was a child. She will definitely have the opportunity to realize her own 'power'.
Then, she has to wait until she understands her own "power" in the future, and then comes to fight with me again, using her "white chop" to defeat this... white-haired guy like me. Ha, she is a very interesting warrior.
"
Speaking of this, Li Guanqi couldn't help but smile.
"Sounds like a wonderful story."
Sophia held her chin in her hands and looked at the blue sky outside the window, with a bit of longing in her eyes, "The second generation of heirs to inherit the master's last wish are also a man and a woman.
If we can have mutual feelings like the master's generation, or even go one step further than the master's generation, if true lovers finally get married, then this story will really be like the chivalrous story told by the storytellers of the shogunate."
"Love is not the only social emotion in the world."
Li Guanqi smiled and shook his head, "Friendship, family affection, and even casual acquaintances are also very good things. And you are overthinking it. Takeda Ryoko and I cannot be like my master and her master.
She and I are not even friends.
Should it be a chance encounter, a casual acquaintance?
Also, I already have my own love. In contrast, I hope to gain more friendship and make more good friends."
"But Master, your story with her is not over yet."
Suddenly, Sophia looked out the window at the gate of Takeda's house in the distance, half-smiling, "Maybe there will be a follow-up."
Li Guanqi also frowned at this time.
Because they both heard it.
The Takeda family's residence is only a thousand meters away from this tavern, and for different blood humans of their level, if they want, the hearing range can completely cover there.
While Li Guanqi and Sophia were chatting, they were also listening to the conversation between the hypnotized middle-aged samurai and the guard at the gate of Takeda's house, thousands of meters away.
Just now, the middle-aged samurai's conversation made progress.
The guard said to him:
"Miss Liangzi? Miss Liangzi did come back two months ago, but she left not long after she came back. She should be in Wenshui County in Nanhu District now. She was ordered by the Takeda family to go there to serve as the county head and conduct
The family task of governing the county.”
Gone?
Family mission?
Served as the county head of Wenshui County in Nanhu, the shogunate?
Li Guanqi frowned slightly.
The situation of the Sakura Shogunate was different from that of the Daluo Dynasty.
Even if the eight surnames of Daluo are ready to move, the Ying family is still a superior royal family. At least until the death of the contemporary Daluo Emperor Shenwu, the situation will not change.
In the past three thousand years of the country, the Ying family has maintained a strong centralized position for a long time.
The Eight Kingdoms surnames are very powerful, but they are still ministers after all.
But the Sakura Shogunate was different.
The nine Sakura Kyubu families are the top nine powerful families of the Sakura shogunate. Their brothers have long completely eclipsed the emperor, the royal family of the shogunate.
The current Sakura Shogunate is not so much the shogunate of the royal family as it is the shogunate of the nine major families.
Their nine major families used Heian Jing as the chessboard to divide up the rights and land of the entire country, and over the course of a thousand years, a delicate balance was reached between forces.
Because of this, almost all officials of the shogunate, especially high-level officials, were from Sakura Kyubu's family.
It is precisely because of this phenomenon that the children of the Sakura Jiuwu family usually have a [governance] indicator in the family assessment.
Indicator judgment is very simple.
I'll give it to you as an official to see how well you can manage the territory under your hands. It doesn't matter what the means are, what matters is the result.
So, things are very clear now.
Takeda Ryoko likes to go out and enjoy the secluded life in the countryside, but her family won't let her. How can a little girl under thirty years old enjoy the secluded life in the countryside...
And Takeda Ryoko’s talent is not bad.
Therefore, the Takeda family no longer tolerated her willfulness, and brought her back to the family. They also assigned her a family mission and gave her the official position of "Shogunate Nanhu, Wenshui County, County Head".
In the Sakura Shogunate, counties were one level larger than cities. A county would govern multiple cities and manage multiple city lords.
In these places, the county lord is a higher-level official position than the city lord.
The county head is a local official in the bureaucracy of the Sakura Shogunate. He has huge powers, almost equivalent to the local emperor of a county. In the county system, no official can restrict him.
But rights and obligations are corresponding.
The county head has the greatest authority in a county. Because of this, if there is any problem in this county, the blame will fall entirely on the county head alone, and there is no way to push it aside.
The nature of this official position is perfect for measuring the [governance] ability of family members.
In fact, with Five Elements level cultivation, it is more reasonable to be a city lord, but it is less qualified to be a county lord.
What's more, Takeda Ryoko is an official by parachute, which is even more unreasonable.
But considering the national conditions of the Sakura Shogunate and the identity and family background of Takeda Ryoko, one of the nine Sakura warriors, the Takeda family, the matter is very reasonable...
"Let's go."
Li Guanqi drank the remaining plum shochu in the flask, stood up and left.
Sophia stood up immediately.
There is no need to say much about the rest of the journey.
Go to Nanhu Wenshui County and find the county leader Takeda Ryoko!
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The south of the Sakura Shogunate is a large area with a humid climate, lots of rain, water and lakes. Therefore, it has been nicknamed "Nanko", "South Lake Territory" and "Land of Water Swamp".
And at this time.
In the southern part of the Nanhu Territory, in a barren area where the overall economic level is the lowest among the shogunate, in a county called "Wenshui", a young female county head who has only been in office for two months has fallen into a deep trap.
confused.
"Why are more and more people dying of hunger...Is all this my fault?"
In the Wenshui County Governor's Mansion, Takeda Ryoko, who was wearing a black official robe, looked at the piles of county situation reports in front of him, gritting his teeth, holding the paper in his right hand, clenching it tightly, and his fingertips turned blue.
"how so!!"
She suddenly waved her right hand, throwing away countless papers, and then she lay on the table with her head down, her shoulders shaking slightly, and she burst into tears.
"My lord, there is someone outside asking to see you."
Suddenly, a guard's announcement came from outside the door.
"who?!"
Takeda Ryoko did not raise his head, but said in a low voice: "If it's nothing important, I won't see you!"
"The person coming is a tall man with white hair and blue eyes, and there is a tulip woman beside him. Even his subordinates can't tell their cultivation level."
The voice of the guard outside the door sounded again, "Also, that man asked me to bring a message to you, the Lord County Lord - the 'White' who 'Zhan Bai' wants to kill is here, don't you welcome him?"
"Um?"
Takeda Ryoko raised his head and was slightly startled.
Cut off white?
Senior Wang Xiu’s apprentice?
That white-haired man named Li Guanqi?
Why is he here...
"Well, let him come in."
Takeda Ryoko said towards the door, then stood up from his seat, looked at the messy papers scattered around, then walked to the corner of the room and looked in the mirror.
In the mirror, she was wearing a black county chief's robe embroidered with blue ripples. She had unkempt hair and a disheveled look. She hadn't washed herself in several days and her hair was messy. She couldn't be called beautiful at all, and she couldn't even be called decent.
On top, he was even a little embarrassed, looking like he had been beaten several times by life.
"never mind."
Takeda Ryoko thought for a while and put the idea of dressing up behind her.
I'm too lazy to dress up, so just dress however you like.
"Squeak——"
The redwood door was slowly pushed open.
A tall figure with white hair and blue eyes, wearing a luxurious white robe, appeared in the bright sunshine. The cheerful smile on his face was even brighter than the sunshine.
"Forehead……"
But the next moment, this smile became a little stiff.
The person who came was naturally Li Guanqi.
He did not use the transformation technique, but used his original appearance.
This is because when he went to Xiaoshan for the sword engagement, he used his original appearance - after all, during the competition, when the alien blood power was fully activated, and when the physical body's two forms were manifested, the transformation spell would automatically become ineffective.
So now that Li Guanqi comes to see Takeda Ryoko, there is no need to change his appearance.
At this moment, he was not only showing his original appearance, he even dressed up specially. He bought some nice clothes in Ping'an Jing, and then came to Wenshui County by teleportation array.
Because Takeda Ryoko is half an old friend no matter what.
Coming to see an old friend who became a high official... Li Guanqi had to admit that it was indeed his modern thinking that caused trouble. He always felt that when he came to see an old friend who became a high official, he should dress more decently, otherwise he might feel a little "ashamed"
"Something.
However.
He was decent, but what was unexpected was that the Takeda Ryoko in front of him did not have the dignity of a high official.
The official robes on his body were wrinkled, his hair was unkempt, and his hair was not combed. His long, thick and fluffy hair was hanging loose, like a female ghost, and his mental state was extremely poor. He looked miserable, as if he had been 996 for a month.
Like a working man.
"Takeda, how are you doing?"
Li Guanqi couldn't help but be a little stunned, "I've only heard of people who became officials and then exploited the people. How come you became the county chief and looked like you were being exploited?"
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