"Jiafei's grapes are still as sour as ever..."

Qin Ming left the room and had a long time to eat.

Fortunately, whether it is a small paper person or other, the taste and digestive system are quite normal.

"It seems nothing is wrong."

Seeing Qin Ming's face was rosy and eating normally, Sanako was not worried much.

Monks can enter into meditation, divine officials can fast, and it doesn’t matter if Onmyoji doesn’t eat for a few days.

Qin Ming finished his last sip of soup without any haste: "Have you noticed anything these days?"

"Discover?" Sanako was stunned and tentatively said: "Some, the prices in Kofu Castle are very cheap, not only food and accommodation, but also rare books. I bought so many, and I couldn't even spend ten taels of gold. This is in Edo..."

If you want to be in Edo, you will be able to meet a courtesan.

Qin Ming thinks something is wrong. You are a new era woman, a vital girl who is constantly improving. Even if I am not here, you should find clues by yourself. When I work, you go to be lazy, eat, drink and shop?

But Sanako said seriously: "Generally speaking, if a large number of people enter Kafari, the expenses on weekdays will definitely increase sharply. Even if you bring your own dry food along the way, you will eventually need to replenish supplies. In this way, Kafari's rice, lamp oil and other consumables will inevitably soar."

"Especially, the materials of Khafi rely on imports from other places and maintain trade activities. Merchants cannot get up early without profit, so they must take the opportunity to raise prices. The changes must be extremely obvious. However, Shannan and I stayed in Kofu City for a few days. Kondo and Turtle have been investigating nearby villages and towns. Although the prices of these essential daily necessities have fluctuations, the difference is not large."

Sanako's investigation made Qin Ming's eyes lit up, and he got important information as soon as he came out of seclusion!

Just as Sanako said, if all directions are surging, various forces send people to Kafari to find Kafari treasures, and with the intention of stealing chickens, the price of consumables will definitely grow rapidly.

However, so many days have passed and there has not been much change.

Either there are actually not so many people entering Ka Fei. The so-called forces involved are simply frightening, at most they are the Kuroda family, the Hidden Chizhidan, the Mito Tengou Party, and some scattered ronin.

Or... they were killed.

Dead people naturally don’t need to consume any supplies.

"It seems that I have to go to Kuroda Nagato no matter what. Local snakes have more information."

Qin Ming ordered Sanako to be more vigilant, and said at the same time: "When Kondo and Turtle come back, let them go with me to visit Kuroda Nagato. I will go to Takeshi first to talk."

Banpingtai in Wushi is a bit awkward. Although he is also a Swordsman of the Seven Duan Ao Chuan and a famous disciple, he is not worthy of his reputation, but it is not enough to be seen among Qin Ming's group.

But he also understood that if he didn't follow Qin Ming, he would probably not be able to find the treasure of Kezhou, and he might be killed halfway through. So for a while, he had been following Qin Ming and his group, staying behind and staying behind, and cleaning up the small fish and shrimps, just like Kondo.

"Mr. Abe?"

Wu Shi Banpingtai in the room was reading books. When Qin Ming bought the books, his disciples also helped him. By the way, he bought some of the things he loved to read. He would learn more things anyway.

"I'm here to ask you for the military fan."

"That's it..."

Banpingta Takeshi put down the book, and the generous general took it out with a group fan: "It was passed on to me by Master Qianye, and it should be something obtained from the Yanagi family back then."

Qin Ming picked up the military fan and looked at it. It was different from his empty fan. The fan of this fan was carved with a tiger.

"Is there anything strange?" Seeing Qin Mingwang's trance, Banpingta couldn't help but ask: "Is it a very ordinary tiger ornament?"

"It's a very ordinary tiger ornament."

Qin Ming paused: "But to be precise, it's Yinhu."

"Tik?"

Qin Minghuang held the round fan in his hand: "The military-equipped round fan was previously engraved with heavenly stems and earthly branches by the Onmyoji, and the stars, sun and moon, to be used to divine good and bad luck before the war begins."

"Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches?" Wushi Banpingta could no longer calm down: "Is it that the patterns on the fan point out the location of the treasure of Koshu?"

"That's right." Qin Ming said slowly: "Yinhu refers to the northeast, and there are other military-equipped regiment fans left. Only by finding all military-equipped regiment fans can you know the specific location."

After a while, Kondo and Tuoba came back.

"What is this?" Qin Ming originally planned to take the two of them to find Kuroda Nagato directly, but was attracted by the small bag in their hands.

"The Bingliang Pill seems to be a clue left by Hanzo. I remember that only ninjas can do this."

The earthenware opened the bag and poured out small meatballs.

Qin Ming picked up a pill and looked at it: "Bianliang Pill? It is true that only ninjas can make it."

Once a ninja receives a mission command, whether it is sleeping in the wild or lurking on the ceiling of an enemy mansion, he must have "carrying food" on his body to maintain his strength.

There are basically several types of food to carry. One is dry taro, which can be skewed into a necklace and hung on the neck, and the other is steamed rice. After drying, it can be anti-corrosive. Both can be brewed with boiling water to make a fast food to satisfy hunger.

In addition, mixing ergot, plums, and rock sugar into pills will become "thirst quenching pills".

The most typical one is "Bianliang Pills". Mix carrots, wheat flour, glutinous rice flour, honey and wine together, simmer over low heat, then knead into small balls and dry them. Take thirty pills a day to obtain the necessary vitamins.

Tu Fang said: "But the soldier's food pills are very important, right? They will not be discarded at will."

Qin Ming nodded: "Yes, it can be said that when ninjas go out to perform, they must have military ration pills. If they are not forced, they will not be discarded. After all, this thing does not occupy much weight, but can cope with the needs of time."

Kondo couldn't bear it: "But we discovered a lot of military glutinous rice pills. Could it be that Hanzo had something unexpected?"

"I think it's good news. Hanzo threw away the military food pills, which means that he is safe now and no longer needs such emergency food."

Qin Ming poured out all the military food pills and observed them for a while. He found that there were obviously several military food pills that were about to be expanded.

Although there are no standard specifications for Bingliang Pills, after making a ninja Bingliang Pills for a long time, they will naturally form muscle memory and will not be too large to differ.

He took a few large circles of soldiers and grain balls in his hands, clasped them together and crushed them hard.

One layer of skin peeled off, and the remaining soldier food pills were about the same size as other soldier food pills, except that there was an extra piece of outsourced paper with a few small words written on it.

Kondo opened his mouth wide and could stuff a fist into his mouth: "This... Is this the code Hanzo wants to pass on to us?"

"That's right."

Qin Ming looked carefully at the words on the Bingliang Pills. The words on each special Bingliang Pill are the same, with a few strange words and the arrangement is the same.

"This is just the first layer of code. Hanzo recorded the code on paper, pasted it on the surface of the Bingliang Pill, and covered it with a layer of flour, and then threw it everywhere."

"We can not only ensure that we can see it, but we are not afraid of being discovered by others. Even if we discover the mystery inside, we have to uncover the second secret code."

Tu Fang said: "Then are these words the second layer of codes?"

Qin Ming spread out the note: "Yes."

Tu Fang felt puzzled: "This is not a word at all, right? It's like a symbol or something, or is it a Chinese word?"

“Not it.”

Qin Ming could say very responsibly that this is not Chinese characters or oracle bone inscriptions. It is a bit like the incompleteness of radicals, but it is completely invisible.

"The ninja has a secret code, which is to wrap the slender strips on a cylinder, record the content of the document on it, and then untie the strips, and the content will become text with unknown context. After receiving the document, the recipient wraps the strips on the same thick cylinder to restore the original shape."

Kondo studied the notes for a while, and was completely confused: "I think Hanzo used this code. The notes wrapped around the soldier's ration balls, and there was no trace at all."

"It makes sense." Tufang agreed: "Then what we have to do now is to find the roll for wrapping paper..."

Then he pulled his face down, who knew what roll Hanzo used to wrap it?

Not knowing the size at all is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"We don't know much about Hanzo, and the communication is limited to those days on the boat."

Qin Ming thought, "Similarly, Hanzo doesn't know much about us, but since he used this code, it means that we can crack it. We will definitely find the roll used to wrap the paper strips."

Kondo said: "What kind of roll can we find?"

Tuoka also said: "We can find it too, but Kuroda Nagato may not be able to find it. Moreover, this thing needs to be fixed in size. If there is a slight difference in size, you will not be able to read the real information."

Qin Ming's eyes fell on the hilt of Toru Tsuke's knife between Kondo's waist.

Kondo and Tuo immediately realized that the handle of the knife was the answer.

The shank of the samurai sword is very complicated. The details are divided into head, handle roll, knife ornament, thigh, handle shark, etc.

But in fact, the basic specifications of all tool holders are the same.

The so-called famous craftsman forging knife is forged with the blade body, and the handle is all mass-produced. It is later inserted into the blade body, connected by cutting feathers and cutting the knife.

The handles of some samurai swords are unique, and most of them are specially asked to fit the palms into tailor-made, or later the handle rolls wrapped around the handle and the handle shark is modified.

Kondo was not pretentious and took out his Torotori openly. He kept his samurai sword on weekdays and needed to remove the handle of the knife, so there was nothing he could not bear to leave.

The most difficult parts to remove on the shank are the shank roll and the shank roll. The shank roll is a wire rope wrapped around the shank. It acts on the "center" of the fixed surface and makes the shank pull the shank pull the shank pull the shank pull the shank pull the shank wrapper, commonly known as shark skin. The leather surface is covered with protruding fine stone particles, making the shank roll easy to wrap around the shank and is anti-slip.

The original Toritotsu obviously did not have these fancy things, they were carefully selected by Kondo later for the sake of love for the sword.

"This shark is probably more expensive than a knife."

Qin Ming complained in his heart that shark skin has been expensive since ancient times, but after all, it is a "famous thing," and worthy of it.

After removing the handle roll, the bare handle was left, and Qin Ming wrapped the note around.

Tu Fang read it word by word, but after reading it, he was confused: "Is this a set of numbers?"

Qin Ming copied the numbers on another piece of paper: "The numbers are the third layer of code."

Turtle is a little depressed. Although he can understand Hanzo's caution and multiple encryptions, it is too troublesome to crack it?!

Kondo was thinking seriously: "What do numbers mean? Where can there be a large number of numbers?"

"Can it be a book? I have bought so many books recently, and I can see a lot of numbers in each book."
To be continued...