I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan(

The second year of Kuanzheng (1790), September 3.

Although it is September now, according to common sense, it should be autumn, but the sun that hangs high in the sky every day and emits hot sunlight lashing over the earth makes people completely unable to see the appearance of autumn.

There is no air conditioner in this era.

Sitting in the carriage really gave Ogata the illusion of being in the sauna.

Hurry up to rain or get cooler—this is what Ogata and others have been chanting in their hearts every day during this time.

Today, the weather finally responded to the wishes of Ogata and others, and it became a little cooler.

Today's weather is exceptionally good, with a clear sky and sunny days.

The loose white clouds like cotton conceal the not strong sunlight more softly, often accompanied by a breeze, and the treetops, which are not red at all, shook their waists obediently.

The branches full of green leaves were flooded with silky sunlight, a small bird stepped on the treetop, its tail was shaking constantly, and the shadow was clearly reflected on the country road on the side.

At this moment, the little bird seemed to have heard a strange noise, and turned back to look at the two carriages that were slowly driving on the country road.

The man driving these two carriages is a handsome young man and a strong man with a strong figure.

These two people are Asai and Makimura.

The only people who know how to drive horse-drawn carriages are Lin, Makimura, and Asai.

While riding Lin and their ride, Ogata also learned how to drive a carriage.

Ogata had some basic equestrian skills, so he quickly mastered the skills of driving a carriage.

Originally, the two carriages were driven by Rin, Makimura, and Asai in turns. After Ogata learned to drive the carriage, it became Ogata, Rin, Makimura, and Asai in turns to drive.

Now it happened to be Asai and Makimura's turn to drive. Ogata sat in the carriage of the carriage that Makimura was in charge of driving, chatting with Amachi next to him.

"A Yi, look, there is a little bird there."

"Well, I saw it. It's a big one. I don't know how it tastes."

"How far are we from the base of Miss Kinoshita?" Ah Ding asked casually.

"It's not far." Mucun, who was sitting in the driver's seat and driving the carriage, said without looking back, "Probably we will be there by this afternoon."

"Is it finally coming..." Ah Ding let out a long sigh.

At the beginning, when I got on the carriage and headed to Owari, both Ogata and Amachi felt some freshness.

But gradually, this freshness was wiped out by a series of tortures such as bumpy roads and hot carriages.

On the way to Owari, Ogata has been quietly recovering from his injuries.

After learning that he was finally arriving at the gourd house, even Ogata couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.

Because the weather is very good today, Ogata and the others opened the door of the carriage and let the cool wind blow.

Ogata comfortably felt the cool breeze blowing into the car, while casually asking Makimura who was driving:

"Mucun, how is your injury?"

"Hahahaha." Makimura let out a hearty laugh, "I'm almost healed already! Brother Ogata, how about you?"

"I'm completely healed." Ogata raised his hand and tapped his chest lightly.

"I thought my recovery ability was amazing enough." Makimura said, "I didn't expect that brother Ogata, your recovery ability is even more amazing than mine."

Before leaving Kyoto, Ogata had heard Asai say that Makimura’s greatest strength should be its amazing resilience.

It seems that Asai is not talking nonsense, the recovery ability of the pastoral village is indeed quite amazing.

The injuries on Makimura's body were not lighter than Ogata, and now they have almost recovered.

The pastoral village said that they would be able to arrive at their gourd house base around this afternoon.

When it was about the afternoon, Ogata really saw the long-lost small village surrounded by mountains.

Putting his head out of the car window, looking at the small village ahead, Adingdao:

"Is that the village A Yi you mentioned..."

On the way to the gourd house, Ogata and Amachi briefly introduced some basic information about the gourd house.

For example: Lin and the others use an abandoned mountain temple as their base for their gourd house.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a village that looks very ordinary from the outside. Because the villagers have been blessed by the gourd house, they have the function of the "outpost" of the gourd house, which is responsible for alerting outsiders to approach this place and providing them to Lin. Some support within our capacity.

After seeing two horse-drawn carriages approaching, several villagers who happened to be standing at the entrance of the village immediately appeared on their faces.

After noticing that the two people driving were Asai and Pastoral Village, the warning color on the faces of these villagers immediately disappeared and changed to a respectful color.

After driving the two carriages to the entrance of the village, Ogata and his party got out of the carriage and handed the two carriages to the villagers to take care of them.

In addition to the two carriages, Heitaro and Xuanren were entrusted to the villagers to take care of them.

After arriving in this village, Xuan Ren has been looking at everything around him with interest and where he will work in the future.

After learning that Xuan Ren was the doctor Lin had brought, and that he would work in this place later, the villagers were very happy. They just lacked excellent village doctors.

Xuan Ren was treated kindly by the villagers.

As for the captive Heitaro, he was directly imprisoned in a dungeon in the village.

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After taking care of a series of trivial matters such as "carriage resettlement" and "genren resettlement", Lin returned to the entrance of the village and found Ogata, Amachi, Makimura and others who had been waiting at the entrance of the village.

"Okay, let's go...huh? What are you talking about?"

After returning to the entrance of the village, Lin found that shepherd and the others were gathered together, and they were chatting with a serious face.

"We are discussing how to allocate these luggage." Asaiichi.

Lin glanced at the luggage piled at the feet of Mucun and the others, and then showed a clear look.

The baggage owned by this group of people is more than one.

The pile of luggage in their gourd house, large or small, totaled 16 bags.

This pile of luggage is piled up at your feet, and the amount is really shocking, and it feels full of visual impact just looking at it.

Lin Du has finished dealing with the trivial matters and returned, and Mucun and the others are still wrangling over the issue of "luggage distribution".

"I remember that before we set off, there weren't so many luggages. What the **** is this bag at my feet? Who bought it?" Mu Cun snarled at the big cloth bag at his feet.

"That...that is the Kyoto specialty I bought." Shimada raised his hand weakly, "I'm going to Kyoto for the first time, so I couldn't help but buy some Kyoto specialty..."

"What about this one?" Mu Cun stretched out his finger to point to another big cloth bag.

"I bought it." Huan Lin said out this time, "It contains the Kyoko fruit that I bought. I bought it specially for Kuro and Uncle Gong who failed to go to Kyoto."

"What about this one?" Mucun pointed at the other big cloth bag, "Who bought it again?"

"I bought it." Asai raised his hand.

"What is your thing?" Makimura asked, "Is it also a specialty of Kyoto?"

"It's barely true. I was commissioned to buy it by a member of Yuan Yuan." After that, Asai winked at Makimura.

Makimura and Asai seemed to have aura, after seeing Asai winking at him, they immediately showed a comprehensive appearance and hurriedly skipped the topic.

Ogata and Amachi have been standing aside, listening to the wrangling of the gourd house group.

At the end of hearing, Ogata couldn't help showing helplessness, vomiting:

"You guys went to Kyoto, in fact, under the guise of'finding clues to the undead,' you traveled wildly..."

"We do seem to have bought too much." Lin didn't refute Ogata's words just now, she only put her hands on her chest, and said with serious emotion on her face.

"Hey, Shimada. Among us, you buy the most messy things, so you take responsibility for me and carry the pile of things you bought on your back." Asaiichi said.

"Huh? How can I carry so many things? Senior Makura, please help me!"

"Don't look at me... I'm recovering from my injury now, but I don't have the ability to carry so many luggage. How about we transfer the luggage twice?"

"Don't be kidding." Asai said without hesitation, "you should also know that our gourd house is based on the mountain? Isn't it exhausting to move people in two parts?"

"How about letting the villagers come and help us carry the luggage?" Amachi, who had been watching Ogata, put forward his own ideas at this time.

It's a pity that Lin just shook her head as soon as Ah Ding's words fell.

"It's almost time to cook dinner now. Every household is very busy now. It takes a lot of time to move this pile of things up the mountain. I don't want this trivial matter to affect their meals."

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The wrangling of the people in Huluwu seemed to be endless.

Ogata, who was already unable to listen, slapped his palm hard, attracting everyone's attention.

"Just be simple and rude." Ogata said, "Use'rock, paper, scissors' to decide who carries how much luggage."

As soon as Ogata's voice fell, Lin and others cast doubtful glances at Ogata.

"What is'Rock Paper Scissors'?" Asai asked.

At this time in Japan, there is no “rock, paper, scissors” boxing game.

Og dialect briefly introduced Lin and others to how to play this fairly simple game.

After figuring out how to play, Lin and others showed interest.

"So... Rock, paper, scissors..." Lin nodded gently, "It feels like a very fun game."

"Ichitosai." Asai asked. "Is this the game from your hometown in Izumo?"

"No." Ogata said, "I created it."

Ogata decided to tell a little lie that didn't matter.

"This game is very suitable for playing while drinking." Maki Village looked thoughtful, "Whoever loses will have a drink or something."

Ogata wanted to praise Makimura's "genius", and realized one of the correct ways to play "Rock, Paper, Scissors" so quickly...

"Okay." Lin said sternly, "Then we will come to rock paper scissors to decide who will carry all our luggage."

Ogata and Amachi did not participate in this punching, because they both had their own luggage to carry.

That is the pile of gunpowder and iron objects that Ah Ding entrusted the wind demon to help her get her in Kyoto.

This pile of gadgets is not only large in number, but also heavy in weight, so Ogata and Acho have no spare time to help Lin and the others carry their luggage.

Lin and their luggage, a total of 16 packages, large or small.

After a brief discussion, they decided on how to play: play 16 rounds, and the person who loses in each round carries a bag of luggage.

Rin, Makimura, Asai, and Shimada formed a circle, raised their hands high, and then said loudly as Ogata had taught them just now.

"rock-paper-scissors!"

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After about half an hour--

"'Rock Paper Scissors'... not fun at all!"

After throwing all the luggage on her body to her feet, Lin supported the base of their gourd house - that is, the gatepost of the abandoned ancient temple, roaring like this with sweat...

Just now, Ogata saw a miracle.

Ogata originally thought that if “rock, paper, scissors” was used to determine who carried the amount of luggage, in the end there should be a situation where everyone carried the same amount of luggage, but it was possible that who would have more or who would. It's less.

Then a miracle happened...

In 16 rounds of punching, Lin lost 8 of them...

According to the rules they had drawn up, Lin had to carry 8 of their 16 bags...

After the punching was over, the scene was very embarrassing.

Mucun and the others didn't expect Lin to be so weak in punching, so after the punching, they all said that the punches just now didn't count.

But Lin said: Behave with words.

So one person carried 8 bags of luggage and started climbing...

Success relied on his own strength to carry half of their luggage in the gourd house.

"Master." Mucun said to Lin with a serious face, "You have worked hard."

When they were climbing just now, Mucun and the others also stepped forward and offered to help Lin share some of the luggage, but they were all rejected by Lin who insisted on asking for "belief".

"Okay." Lin said as she pushed open the temple gate in front of her, "A mere 8 bags of luggage will not exhaust me...huh?"

As soon as Lin pushed open the door of the temple, a strong color of astonishment appeared on Lin's face.

Not only Lin, but Makimura, Asai and others, and Ogata, who had been a guest at Gourd House once, were all shocked at this time.

When he had just escaped from Butterfly Island and came to visit the Gourd House, Ogata remembered clearly that Lin and the others used an abandoned temple as their stronghold.

Therefore, this base area of ​​Calabash House is old and dilapidated everywhere.

At this moment, the scene in front of Ogata's eyes is completely different from Ogata's impression of "there are old, dilapidated houses everywhere".

Looking inside through the wide open temple gate, all the houses in the temple look like they have been repaired.

Not only was it renovated, but each house still had traces of repainting all over it.

"...Master, is this our house?" Mucun poked Lin next to him with his elbow.

"..." Lin was also speechless at this time.

"Eh?" Ah Ding, who had never been to the gourd house before, looked astonished at this time, "Isn't this your home?"

The gate of the temple was pushed open just now, and after seeing the beautiful houses, Ah Ding exclaimed a little.

"It seems a little different from the home I remember..." Lin said in a low voice.

"Now, look." Shimada suddenly raised his hand and pointed forward, "Is there...is there smoking?"

The location Shimada pointed to was constantly emitting dense smoke.

"It seems to be the kitchen there. It's Mamiya and Gen, are they cooking?" Makimura asked.

"It should be." Asai answered without thinking.

"Huh? But...it seems too early to eat now..." Shimada raised his head and looked at the sky that was only slightly dark. "In my impression, Senior Mamiya and Gen. 1 are used to being in the sky. I only had dinner after it was completely dark..."

"That..." Ogata's voice suddenly came in at this moment, "The smoke there...is it getting thicker and darker...?"

Everyone: "..."

Hearing Ogata's reminder, everyone fell silent, watching the smoke that seemed to be thickening and blackening not far away.

After a period of silence, panic broke out from the crowd.

"Quick! Get water for me!" Lin was full of horror.

"Hey! Shimada! Is there anything in the pile of Kyoto specialties you bought that can hold water?!" Asai involuntarily opened Shimada's cloth bags full of Kyoto specialties he bought.

"Idiot! Go into the temple to find the bucket faster!" She shouted as she rushed into the temple.

"A Ding! Go! Let's follow Makimura to find buckets!"

"Great!"

"Huh?" Shimada tilted his head after his reaction was slow, and he didn't realize what was going on. "Aren't Mamiya-senpai and Gen one cooking?"

Lynn: "If you cook it again, you'll be ready for dinner! It's on fire!"

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"So..." Mamiya looked at the people holding various containers full of water in front of him, cast his eyes full of doubts, "What the **** are you doing?"

Just now everyone was holding various containers filled with water, aggressively killing them towards the smoking place.

After receiving Lin's "call", Shimada finally realized how terrible things had happened, and hurriedly joined the army looking for a container to hold water.

Among the pile of Kyoto specialties that Shimada bought, there are really a few things that are very suitable for holding water.

Shimada, Asai, and Lin randomly took the three largest containers, filled the creek outside the temple with water, and then went straight to the smoking place.

As they rushed straight to the smoking place, the three of them happened to meet the three of Ogata, Amachi, and Makimura who had found the bucket and filled it with water.

A group of people went straight to the place of smoking menacingly.

After approaching, everyone found that the smoking place was behind the kitchen.

After bypassing the kitchen and coming to the back of the kitchen, they saw Mamiya and Genichi sitting leisurely on the side.

In front of Mamiya and Genichi, there was a big fire.

Something was burning in this large fire, and it exuded a strange smell.

Ogata and others looked at Mamiya and Genichi...

Mamiya and Genichi also looked at Ogata and others...

"On the contrary, I want to ask you!" Lin, with a relieved expression on her face, exclaimed angrily, "What are you doing? I almost thought it was on fire!"

"We are burning garbage." Genichi was the person who answered the question.

Ogata and others looked at the big fire in front of Mamiya and Genichi.

The fire is burning with all kinds of mess.

Wood, paper, a large group of unknown objects...everything.

"It turned out to be burning garbage." Ogata also let out a sigh, "No wonder the smoke that comes out is black and thick..."

Ogata was also shocked when he saw the thick smoke just now.

Now is the time when the sky is dry and everything is dry, and the surrounding area is full of wooden buildings and forests.

Once the fire spreads, it's no joke.

Seeing that it was just a false alarm, everyone poured out the water in their respective containers to the ground aside.

"Master, everyone, welcome back." Mamiya smiled softly at everyone, "You also brought two old acquaintances back...Kun Ogata, Miss Amachi, it's been a long time."

Ogata knew that Genichi did not recognize Amachi, so he took the initiative to introduce him to Genichi.

As soon as Ogata introduced Amachi to Genichi, Lin put her hands on her chest and asked towards Mamiya:

"Mamiya, can you explain to me-what's going on in our house? Have you invited craftsmen to renovate it?"

"How could I do such a waste of money?" Mamiya waved his hand~www.wuxiahere.com~ Our house was renovated by myself. "

"Are you the one who renovated?" Ogata's eyes widened.

"Well, because the time waiting for you to come back from Kyoto is too boring. Anyway, I'm not busy, so I will renovate our house by myself, and by the way, I painted new colors on the faded areas."

"Do you still work as a carpenter?" Ah Ding was shocked.

"I used to study woodworking in Yamato area."

"None of our houses need to be overhauled. Even a carpenter layman like me can easily do the repair work."

"I only completed the repair of the house a few days ago. After the house was repaired, I had nothing to do, so I did a big cleaning by the way."

"Because you are not here for a while, so many places are covered with dust and leaves, insect corpses, and waste wood that I didn't use when I renovated the house, and all kinds of trash."

Mamiya snarled at the fire next to him.

"These are the **** I cleared out today."

Speaking of this, Mamiya paused as if thinking of something.

"Speaking of—it seems it’s almost time for dinner now."

Mamiya continued.

"Lord, and Ogata-kun, you guys should be tired all the way back."

"You go to rest now."

"Today's dinner, let me cook it alone."

After all, Mamiya didn't wait for everyone to respond, so he gave a polite and walked straight towards the kitchen.

Looking at the back of Mamiya's departure, Amachi suddenly said to Ogata next to him in a low voice with a volume that only she and Ogata could hear:

"Mamiya is so strong..."

"Yeah." Ogata nodded solemnly, "I feel the same as you..."