As we all know, winding zero is a human being

Subconsciously closed the door, and not long after Ling closed the door, there was a strong knock on the door.

If it wasn't for his strong hands, the wandering girl, who obviously wasn't human, would have rushed in long ago.

"P-let me in—uh..."

I vaguely heard the special effects of the sound of the water, and the ghost who was still knocking on the door seemed to have stopped. The prostitute Taro also tasted something different, and pressed his head against the Listening by the door.

He whispered, "That's Lanzi's voice...I still remember it."

Lanzi is the name of the wandering girl who took her foot away and disappeared inexplicably in the building without anyone noticing her footsteps. Even if the owner of Matsui House strictly prohibits discussion of her deeds, it still cannot stop other wandering girls Whispering.

Before Ling could figure out how to tell him the truth of the matter, he heard the knock on the door again.

This time it was the voice of the water column: "Excuse me, can I open the door?"

If you ask me that way, Zero really doesn't want to open the door for him.

Even if his current attire is different from that at the beginning, the slightly changed Floating Man's clothes make him look not outstanding here in Yoshiwara, and he still wears a mask after changing his hairstyle, he is sure that the water column will not recognize him.

Just to get involved with the Ghost Killing Squad, whether it is possible or not is really different.

Zero said in a persuasive way: "I'm sorry we don't accept outsiders anymore, I want to come in... Cough, tomorrow night as early as possible."

However, the water column outside the door was beyond his expectation: "...is that you?"

"...Who is who?" In the eyes of the prostitute Taro looking over, Zero really wanted to pretend to be stupid, "I don't know you, please don't use this method to get close."

"I remember you called..."

"Hey, welcome, welcome, which girl does this gentleman want to date? I'll call you!"

"I don't want to date girls." Shui Zhu watched the door open in front of him speechlessly, and after explaining something, he held the sun wheel knife and didn't approach, just looked in so calmly, "Investigate something, please inform me Let’s go to the owner of this playgirl’s house.”

The prostitute Taro looked at his tall and straight figure and an aura that seemed out of place here, and turned his face away uninterestedly: "Tsk, I'll call you for you."

"Eh, okay...?"

Seeing the figure of the prostitute Taro disappear upstairs, Lingcai turned his head and looked at Shuizhu, and asked curiously in a low voice: "Why are you coming to Edo, recently... busy with business?"

"Business?" Shui Zhu nodded after thinking for a while, "Well, ghosts have been active everywhere recently. After integrating information, it seems that the source appears to be in Edo."

Seeing that he didn't seem to be in a hurry to leave, and he didn't seem to have any companions by his side, he probably took a breath and asked, "You're the only one here to investigate?!"

Shui Zhu looked over inquiringly: "...what's wrong?"

Ah, as long as he stays away from himself, it seems to be all right.

If the young Shuizhu from the Ghost Killing Squad had brought his brothers on a mission together, he might have thought about it, but seeing the young swordsman looking alone under the moonlight, Ling just wanted to dismiss him casually and let him go quickly people.

Without him, after roughly seeing the strength of Twelve Ghost Moons, pulling out a single column, even Tong Mo, who played Shang Xianlu, would have struggled to figure it out.

Thinking of this, Zero said to him bluntly: "There should be no ghosts in this house of wandering girls... The one you killed just now must have been hiding in this Matsui house before."

He thought for a while and said, "It seems that ghosts are quite territorial. You probably won't find them in this store."

After hearing this, Shui Zhu didn't think too much, he flipped the blade and pointed back, turned his head and took a step back and asked, "Is that so?"

Seeing his movements, Zero suddenly felt something bad, and sure enough, with the help of the corner lamps hanging on both sides of the road, the ghost with half of its body paralyzed behind the water column was gradually turning into ashes.

It's just that her eyeballs were still moving, and her bloodshot vertical pupils unconsciously listened to Shui Zhu's words and looked over, only to see half of the flower earrings painted with awning moon dodging into the room with long black hair.

"...You didn't behead her directly?!" He leaned against the door and suppressed his voice angrily. He couldn't guarantee how much the other party heard. After all, even if his appearance could be changed, he wasn't sophisticated enough to even disguise his voice.

"You seem to know a lot about ghosts?" Shui Zhu asked unhurriedly. He looked at the girl who didn't reveal a word of information until she disappeared, and then walked in.

"..." No one in this world knows ghosts better than him, okay?

Well, no one.

Although he really wanted to say this, Ling was really tired. After hesitating for a while between the two choices of leaving overnight or taking a closer look at the situation, he heard Shui Zhu say: "It seems that the attack is a bit heavy... That’s right, even if a low-level ghost can last a little longer before disappearing, it’s only dying, and it’s already unconscious.”

"...So since you've already started, why don't you just be quick?!"

Shui Zhu looked at him terribly frightened in puzzlement, and his eyes wandered to the saber on his body: "Sorry, you seem to be afraid of ghosts?"

Zero didn't know how to respond to Shui Zhu's temperament of always chatting to death, he couldn't explain it, he could only nod indiscriminately: "Yes, yes, I announced that I got PTSD after I saw a ghost last time, so please Let's go as soon as we're done, okay?"

It just so happened that the prostitute Taro also led the landlord down with a stinky face, and zero pushed the water jet to the serious-looking landlord whose work was interrupted and seemed not so easy to talk, and walked into the house with the child .

The prostitute Taro looked back: "Who is that?"

Zero Zamo doesn't want children to get involved with these things: "A good guy who works day and night all year round."

The prostitute Taro looked up at him. Although he thought it was not that simple, he didn't pursue it, and responded casually: "That sounds really miserable."

Ling: "Yes, yes, and the job is quite dangerous, but there is no five social insurance and one housing fund..."

The young man shook his head, and quickly answered, "Obviously the point is... In this world, being a good person is the worst thing."

Holding the prostitute Taro's rough hand, which is not as rough as a boy's, after hearing this sentence, he gave up and respected him.

"You're right."

The weather is not particularly good, the gloomy house is covered with snow, and the evergreen leaves are covered with snow-white branches.

During the day, Yoshihara didn't move at all. Most of the wandering girls in the building were catching up on sleep, and most of the staff like them slept until the afternoon before waking up to do work.

But younger children don’t have such standards. Now Xiaomei is the only young girl in Matsui’s house. In the charcoal stove room, Xiaomei had long been sitting by the window, flipping through books bored.

"Come on, come on! Help me see—how to pronounce this word!"

The little girl in new clothes doesn't like to put on her socks properly, but because of the dark red charcoal fire in the room to keep warm, she always likes to kick off her white foot bags, and she is not afraid of catching cold when she steps on the tatami mat with bare feet.

She pushed the book confidently, and Zero took it over.

When he saw it, he was delighted: "The word Nianmei...is your name."

Even if others are illiterate, they must at least know their own name.

That's good for Xiaomei, it's really a remedial homework from the beginning.

"Tsk." Xiaomei tilted her head unhappily, then raised her neck and said hastily, "Of course I know how to write my name, it's the one at the back, the one at the back!"

"Let me take a look at the back..." Of course, she was right to say anything to such a beautiful little girl, Ling withdrew his doting gaze, and his gaze became subtle after moving back, "It's the chief of the oiran." Character."

Xiaomei: "..."

"The whole sentence means that the plum blossom blooms alone before the flowers bloom." Zero simply read it to her, "It is the chief among the flowers, so the name of the earliest oiran represents the plum blossom."

"Eh? That's how Hua Kui came here!" Hearing this, the little girl laughed triumphantly, and the self-confidence in those star-like eyes bloomed, "No wonder my brother suddenly told me, my Plum is the plum of plum blossoms!"

Zero was a little surprised: "That's what the prostitute Taro said?"

"Yeah!" Xiaomei was still looking happy, "I will definitely become the oiran in the future, I can wear the most beautiful clothes, and I can't fit the gifts I receive every day in the house!"

"Uh..." Hearing the little girl's bold words, Ling felt that this was unnecessary.

The two were still young, and he hadn't saved enough money to take them out of here, so he didn't mention the future with the two children.

And he didn't think about where he was going after leaving Yoshihara.

In short, there is only one word, annoying.

Inadvertently caught a glimpse of his troubled expression, Xiaomei raised her eyebrows and thought for a while, then patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, I won't miss you when I become the oiran!"

"When the time comes, you will be as good as your brother...you can't embarrass me by going out!"

"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Looking at the little girl's way of thinking about the future, Ling still didn't pour cold water on her, he just looked out the window without saying anything, "You should read slowly first. "

A bird that has not yet migrated falls under the eaves facing the wind and snow, and spreads its wings to shake the snowflakes that fall on it. It seems to have lost its way in the wind and snow, so it looks extremely embarrassed.

Only those black bean-like eyes kept staring at the sky.

Xiaomei was not very satisfied with his attitude: "Hey! Don't you have confidence in me! I will definitely become the oiran!"

Before Ling could think of anything to deal with the little girl's intransigence, someone knocked on the door and said with a joke, "Yo, Xiaomei is inside? Are you talking to Shitou?"

Just happened to get him out of the siege, and Ling went to open the barrier door with kindness, and said hello to Jian Shifan: "What do you want from me?"

It's not Eiji who is familiar with him, but everyone who has come and gone is quite familiar with him. He looked at the figure behind him and said to Mishiban, "Come and recognize the face for you, this child is the receptionist." Come down and prepare to be bald."

Bald is the little girl in the building who intends to train her to be an oiran since she was a child. Zero looked at the child slowly approaching in a bit of bewilderment: "Isn't Eiji here to do this? I remember he left yesterday, right? came back?"

"It's also a coincidence that the girl's family sold her to the store, and the landlord took her right away after seeing it?"

Hearing these words, Ling could probably guess that the landlord had bumped into some beautiful and beautiful reserve. He watched the little girl with her head bowed and her face slowly walking over.

A dark suit with small sleeves that dragged the floor was a fashionable style, and fashion also meant that many girls would wear such a suit more or less, so her origin could not be identified from this place.

He would think this way because Ling felt that no matter how he looked at it, the little girl in front of him didn't look like a child who came out of someone who was so poor that he wanted to sell his own child.

...Don't be a child abducted by human traffickers, right?Then he doesn't get involved.

When the time comes, Feng Xing will come to the door, but it has nothing to do with him.