I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

After all, Ogata poured the hot porridge from the bamboo tube into his mouth.

After entering the hot porridge, Ogata's eyes lit up.

"Mamiya..." Ogata took a breath and emptied the bamboo tube. "Your craftsmanship is really good..."

"...Because I used to learn cooking from someone in the Sanhe area."

"I knew you would say that." Ogata said angrily. "Since you are so good at craftsmanship, why do you always have to eat some miscellaneous pot with other people?"

"...For some reasons, although I am good at cooking, I don't like cooking. Do you still want to eat, Ogata-kun? There is still a little left in the pot."

"No."

"Give me the porridge left in the pot." Shepherd on the side said at this time, "I happen to be hungry now."

Mucun quickly left and brought his own bowls and chopsticks, and then quickly returned here.

When Makimura, who was still naked, was filling the porridge from the pot, his back happened to be facing Ogata.

Looking at the red dragon tattoo on the back of Makimura, Ogata couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"Makimura... The red dragon tattoo on your back is really amazing no matter how many times you look at it... It looks like there is really a dragon lying on your back..."

"Thank you for the compliment." To Ogata's compliment, Makimura responded indifferently in a non-salty or indifferent tone, "Although Ogata, you praise my tattoos so much that makes me very happy, but in fact...I am not very. Love this tattoo on my back."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because I don't think I am worthy of the dragon behind me."

As soon as Makimura's words fell off, Genichi sitting next to Ogata said immediately:

"Mr. Mucun, you are too ignorant of yourself."

"Give yourself a little confidence."

"You are worthy of the dragon behind you, and worthy of the title of'Stegosaurus'."

"Sword Dragon?" Ogata asked in confusion.

"Hmm? Don't you know Ogata-kun? When Makimura-kun was working in Kyoto before, he was highly admired and was dubbed "Sword Dragon" by Kyoto people..."

"Yuan is a big person!" Before Yuan Yi finished speaking, Makura suddenly yelled, "Enough...this topic will stop here...!"

After interrupting Genichi's words with a loud roar, Mucun grabbed his own bowl and drank the porridge in it.

After saying "I'm full", Makimura put on the clothes on his upper body again, and quickly moved away from Ogata and the others with his own bowls and chopsticks.

Mamiya and Genichi showed helpless wry smiles on their faces.

Only Ogata was stunned.

"What happened to Makimura...?" Ogata couldn't help but ask Mamiya Kazumoto.

"This is a long story..." Mamiya shrugged, "This is related to Makimura's private affairs, so it is not convenient for me to say more. If Ogata-kun, if you are really curious, wait until you have the opportunity to go slowly. Ask the pastoral village slowly."

"That's it... Since this is about the personal affairs of the pastoral village, then I won't ask more..."

When he moved his gaze back from the place where Makimura's back disappeared, Ogata caught a glimpse of the Chisari Gourd Horse Seal standing in the corner of the courtyard.

Looking at this Qiancheng gourd horse seal, Ogata whispered with a thoughtful expression on his face:

"Speaking of which-what a coincidence."

"Two hundred years ago, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, formerly known as Kinoshita Tokichiro, held high the gourd horse seal and completed the hegemony of unifying Japan."

"And now, there is another person with the surname Kinoshita holding high the gourd horse seal, although she hasn't accomplished any hegemony..."

The characters "Sencheng Gourd Horse Seal" and "Tootomi Hideyoshi" are almost tied together.

It was because Toyotomi Hideyoshi named Senseong Gourd for the first time and used Senseong Gourd as a horse seal.

Since then, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will hold high the mark of Qiancheng Gourd every time he marches on the battlefield.

And Chisari Gourd also became a nightmare of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's enemies.

In ancient Japan, it was not unusual for the name to be replaced with the surname and the name for various reasons.

Many big figures in Japanese history have changed many names.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name was Kinoshita Tokichiro.

Then it was replaced by Hashiba Hideyoshi, and was finally given the surname "Toyotomi" by the emperor, and finally changed to "Toyotomi Hideyoshi".

After listening to Ogata's feelings, Mamiya smiled and said:

"This can be regarded as one of the important reasons why our lord regards Qiancheng Gourd as the symbol of our gourd house."

"The lord and his family happen to have the same surname as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original name."

"And our lord also happens to admire Toyotomi Hideyoshi a lot."

"Hideyoshi Toyotomi was born in such a humble background, yet completed such an incredible hegemony, which moved and inspired the lord."

"In order to show his admiration for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, to show his ambition to learn from Kinoshita more than two hundred years ago, and to like the gourd originally, the lord chose Sensei gourd as our gourd. Sign of the house."

"In order to learn from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the lord had made a farce to change her surname into'Hashiba'..."

"When Xiaolin said that she was going to change her surname, it took me nearly half an hour to let her dispel this ridiculous idea..." Yuanyi took the conversation and shook his head with a wry smile...

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After returning to the kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks, he took a scoop of water to wash the bowls and chopsticks at random, and put the bowls and chopsticks back into the bamboo basket for everyone's bowls and chopsticks, and then Mucun rushed back to his room.

After returning to his room, Mucun seemed to have exhausted all his strength, lying on his back on the tatami in a "big" shape.

"Dragon..."

Looking at the ceiling above, Mucun's right hand seemed to have his own consciousness, and he probed his back...

"Master Jinle..." There was a bit of bitterness on Mucun's face, "You gave me the'Red Dragon' pattern back then... It's definitely a mistake... It's almost the same for me to tattoo a tortoise with a shrunken head..."

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Before noon of the day--

Gourd House base area, at the gate.

"Ogata-kun." Mamiya whispered to Ogata, who was already neatly dressed and wearing a hat in front of him. "Are you really going to leave now and stop staying with us for a while?"

"I have done everything I want to do." Ogata smiled slightly, "I have no reason or motivation to stay here anymore."

The reason why Ogata came to visit the gourd house all the way to be a guest was only for two purposes.

One: Ask Genichi Kinoshita whether there is a way to freely enter the state of selflessness.

Two: Ask Kinoshita Genichi for advice, and see how far he is from "Tian Xia Wushuang".

And now that these two goals have been achieved, naturally there is no need to stay in this gourd house anymore.

What's more-Ogata's relationship with Kinoshita now... is very delicate.

According to Mamiya, Kinoshita Lin is responsible for three meals a day in the gourd house.

At the same time, I heard about it from Yuanyi about half an hour ago-once Mucun irritated Lin, in order to punish Mucun, Mucun found all kinds of weird things, mainly booger, in his meals for three consecutive days. thing……

It was not until Makimura apologized to Lin that he was finally able to stop eating booger...

Makimura learned afterwards that these booger were dug by Genichi, Mamiya, Asai, and Shimada in turn for Lin to use...

This makes Ogata even more afraid to stay in the gourd house...

If you continue to stay in the gourd house, you might get booger...

In order not to get booger, Ogata specifically chose to leave the gourd house before eating today’s lunch...

Because Ogata's departure was sudden, without notifying anyone in advance, only Genichi and Mamiya came to see Ogata off.

"Practice hard, Ogata-kun."

Genichi didn't say anything like "Be careful on the road" to Ogata.

"As a parting gift, let me tell you a little trick to enter the state of non-self when the breath of the source hasn't reached its peak."

"Ogata-kun, remember the moment you entered the state of no-self."

"Are you thinking about winning or something else?"

Ogata recalled the moment when he first entered the state of no-self-it was really as Genichi said, when he entered the realm of no-self, he wanted to win and win over hundreds of people. Samurai, take off the dog's head in the source of Matsudaira.

"The trick to enter the state of non-self before Genzhi's breathing has reached its peak is to keep one thing in mind."

"Thinking about winning."

"I want to live."

"I want to protect someone."

"Anyway, I just let myself have one thing in my mind."

"Just thinking about one thing in your heart, coupled with the assistance of active breathing, can make it easier to enter the state of non-self."

Speaking of this, Yuan looked back in memory.

"When I entered the state of selflessness for the first time that year, I also wanted to win."

"In the frenzied desire for victory, I entered the state of no-self for the first time, and finally turned defeat into victory."

Ogata silently wrote down the guidance that Genichi gave him just now. Then solemnly thank Yuan and his party.

After thanking Gen, Mamiya, who was standing next to Ogata, said to Ogata at this time:

"Ogata-kun, do you need me to send you down the mountain?"

"No, I remember the way down the mountain."

"After going down the mountain, you go to the village down the mountain, that is, the village that serves as our outpost of the gourd house, and tell the villagers there,'Come to lead the horse at the order of the palace,' and they will take your place yesterday. The horse you rode is returned to you."

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows. "Are you going to send that horse to me?"

"As a parting gift." Mamiya shrugged, "Anyway, horses are not extremely precious things to our gourd house."

"...Thanks a lot." Ogata nodded and thanked him without being hypocritical.

After thanking him, Ogata sighed half-jokingly:

"I really owe you a lot of favor from the Calabash House..."

Without the help of Mamiya and Makimura, Ogata wouldn't be so easy to leave the ruined place of Butterfly Island.

After leaving Butterfly Island, I have been receiving help from all kinds of gourd houses.

First I learned how to ride horses from Mamiya and the others, and then I got Genichi's personal guidance today.

Not to mention these big help, there are also a lot of small help, for example-from last night to now, Ogata has eaten two meals in Gourd House for nothing.

Ogata felt a little embarrassed after receiving so much help from the gourd house.

Although the relationship between Lin and Kinoshita is very fragile at present, there is no deep hatred between Lin and Kinoshita.

So Ogata doesn't want to hate the whole gourd house just because of this little thing.

What's more, compared with the help that Gourd House is currently providing him, this little feast with Lin Kinoshita is really nothing.

"It's just mutual help." Mamiya chuckled lightly.

Ogata lowered the hat on top of his head a little, and lifted Dashaten and Da Zizai on his waist.

"Then—I'll go ahead. Goodbye."

"Maybe I'll see you again soon." Mamiya said in a half-joking tone, "After eating breakfast today and reporting to the lord what he saw on the butterfly island, the lord has set the next action: Go to Kyoto to find the master and disciples of He Shi and He Zhi."

After hearing this sentence from Mamiya, Ogata was not surprised-after all, he had expected that the people in the gourd house would definitely come to this mysterious pair of masters and disciples.

Gourd House has been investigating "immortality" over the years, and it is impossible to let go of this pair of masters and disciples who might know a lot of things.

"Then you guys should work hard, too." Ogata said in a joking tone, "It is much more difficult for you to find this pair of masters and disciples than I am. You are not like me-you have the prescription for this pair of masters and disciples."

"About this, you don't have to worry about it." An intriguing smile appeared on Mamiya's face. "We also have clues for us."

"clue?"

"As for what kind of clues I will keep secret."

"I don't care what your clues are, as long as you don't follow me."

"We won't use such low-level methods."

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After a few last jokes with Mamiya, Ogata walked down the mountain without any hesitation or hesitation.

After walking until the two figures of Genichi and Mamiya completely disappeared from his field of vision and the base of the gourd house could not be seen, Ogata slowly stopped.

Ogata raised his head and looked at the top of the mountain where he is currently.

The foundation of the gourd house is located halfway up the mountain, so Ogata is also right on the mountainside now.

Standing on the side of the mountain and looking up, you can see the top of the mountain that pierced into the sky.

The mountain that Ogata is currently standing on is high-but it is not the highest in this area.

Looking around, Ogata could see the mountain not far away-its height was far above the mountain at the foot of Ogata.

But this mountain is still not the highest,

The mountain next to it is the highest mountain within Ogata’s current vision~www.wuxiahere.com~ in a more distant place...There must be other mountains higher than this mountain...

What Genichi said to him this morning echoed in Ogata's mind.

Although nearly an hour has passed, the words Ogata and Yuanyi said are still lingering in the ears.

(Although the sky is tens of thousands of miles wide; the sword is only three feet long, and even if you spend your entire life, you can’t cut the sky, but you can still feel the joy of becoming stronger in this small three-foot-square-inch place. Don’t pursue any world unparalleled, Just think about working hard and enjoying the process of working hard)

After the words that Genichi said to him reverberated in his mind, Ogata let out a sigh of relief.

Then, a faint smile appeared on Ogata's face.

"take it easy……"

After muttering such a soft voice at a volume that only he could hear, Ogata opened his feet again and walked down the mountain in large strides...