I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan(

"Sorry...you guys go to dinner...I won't go...just buy me some food when you come back..." Amachi lying on the bed said in a weak tone to Ogata. .

At this moment, Ogata and others are in a fairly grand hotel.

According to Ogata's estimation, it should be around 19 o'clock in the evening.

The group of them had not eaten dinner yet. The original plan was to find a hotel where they were staying, and then go to eat something casually.

It's just that, judging from the current situation, their plan has to make some small changes.

Even though it has been a long time since he left the sea and landed on land, Ah Ding's symptoms of seasickness still remain.

Still feeling a little uncomfortable, she doesn't have the strength and mood to go out to eat anymore, just want to lie down and rest.

Not only Ah Ding is like this, Lin is like this too. Lin, still feeling a little dizzy and nauseous, just wanted to lie down in the hotel.

Seeing that they didn't have the energy to go out again, Ogata and the others could only let them stay in the hotel to rest, and their group of men first went out to eat something casually, and then brought some food back to Amachi and Lin.

"Then I'll go back." Ogata said to Amachi who was lying in the futon. "You can go to bed first."

"Well...why...why have been on land for so long, and still feel so disgusting..."

"You should get a good night's sleep. After sleeping for one night, you should be able to get better tomorrow."

"I see... you go now..."

"Do you have anything you want to eat?"

"...Sweet stuff."

"Hmm. I will be back soon."

After all, Ogata picked up the Taishaten placed on the tatami mat on the side, and walked out of the room.

A similar scene was also staged in the next room.

The next room is Lin's room.

At this moment, there are only two people in Lin's room-Lin himself and Jian Gong.

Mamiya was sitting on her knees next to Lin's bedding at this time, and said to Lin, who was lying on the bedding with her eyes closed, and said seriously:

"Lord, we'll be back when we go, do you have anything you want to eat?"

"...Something cool."

"I see, we will get back soon."

After that, Mamiya picked up his saber, got up, and walked outside the room.

However-just when Mamiya was only 2 steps away from the door, he was suddenly stopped by Lin.

"...Kuro."

"What's the matter?" Seeing Lin calling him, Mamiya paused and turned to look at Lin behind him.

Lin, who was still not so pretty, raised her hand and stroked her face.

"...Is this disguise on your face...reliable? Can those in your family fail to recognize you?"

Mamiya pursed her lips when she heard Lin's question.

After raising his hand and touching his face, Mamiya whispered:

"...It has been 4 years since I left my family and joined the gourd house."

"After such a long time, my appearance has changed a lot from the past."

"Plus I have painted my face black now, those people in my family should not recognize me."

Speaking of this, Mamiya paused, seeming to be sorting out his own words.

After a long pause, Mamiya continued with a slightly joking tone:

"Furthermore—you know, the lord, our family has always been unpopular with the Edo people."

"Because they are not popular, the people in my family have always been simple and simple, so the probability of me meeting them on the road is quite low."

"Compared with the people in my family, I have a higher chance of being recognized by the officials as'Ryuguang Hachiman' Mamiya Kuro."

Lin slightly widened her half-open eyes.

After staring straight at Kuro for a while--

"...Kuro. Have you ever thought about going back to your family?"

"Never thought about it." Mamiya said in a firm tone without thinking, "I don't want to do anything for the Tokugawa Shogunate anymore."

Hearing this answer from Mamiya, a faint smile appeared on Lin's face.

After closing her half-open eyes again, Lin went on to say:

"Remember to come back early and don't buy that kind of hot food."

"Yes." Mamiya smiled, "We will go back as soon as we go."

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The only people going out to eat were men like Ogata.

After standing at the door of the hotel for a long time, I finally waited for the belated Mamiya.

"Sorry, everyone." Mamiya smiled, "Let you wait a long time."

"It didn't take long." Ogata smiled. "Let's go, let's go and find some restaurants with good fragrance."

A group of people walked towards the downtown not far from here.

As he headed toward the downtown at an unpleasant speed, Ogata raised his finger and pointed his eyes, and asked Mamiya next to him:

"Mamiya, can you really move normally without wearing glasses?"

Mamiya does not have a human skin mask that can be used as a facial disguise like Ogata.

So the disguise he made was quite simple and rough-he took off his glasses, and then smeared his face, hair, and clothes with mud.

From the outside, he is a dirty, down-and-coming ridicule who won't take a second look.

"My eyesight is indeed not as good as ordinary people's, but it is not so bad that I can't do anything after taking off my glasses. So whether I wear glasses or not, it won't affect my actions."

"Actually, just wipe your face dirty, right?" Shimada took the conversation, "Is it necessary to take off my glasses?"

"Shimada, don't you understand this?"

A weird smile appeared on Mamiya's face.

"The most important feature of the portrait on the wanted order drawn by the shogunate is wearing a pair of glasses."

"In fact, there are indeed many shogunate officials who recognize me as Mamiya Kuro through my glasses."

"So as long as you take off the glasses, it is equivalent to removing this biggest feature. The officials of the shogunate will not be so easy to recognize him as'River Hachiman' Mamiya Kuro."

"Hey! Asshole! What is your look?!"

As soon as Mamiya finished speaking, a violent drink from not far away suddenly attracted everyone's attention.

Ogata is taller than most people in this era, so you can see what happened when you turn your head.

"Master Ogata! What happened over there?" Shimada, who was only 1.57 meters tall, couldn't see what happened in the place where the sound originated because of his vision, so he could only ask Ogata.

"It's nothing," Ogata said softly, "It's just "sheathing"."

The samurai sword is known as the soul of the samurai. In the eyes of most samurai, the sword at the waist is more important than life.

So there will always be blood incidents related to the knife.

The samurai wears a sword around their left waist. When walking on a narrow street and passing by others, it is inevitable that they will encounter other people's swords, or others will touch their own swords.

Some people with hot tempers and some problems in their heads may use "you touched my knife, and you defiled my knife" as an excuse.

Over time, the term "sheath" was born in this Edo period.

With the passage of time, the meaning of "sheathing" has expanded.

Now, the sheath can be used to describe: arguing about a little thing and jealous of the quarrel between men.

The loud shout just now was a middle-aged samurai with a rather rough appearance and a rather sloppy appearance.

This "rough warrior" was glaring at a young warrior with a neatly shaved head of the moon in front of him.

The loud shout of "Rough Samurai" not only attracted the attention of Ogata and others, but also attracted the attention of everyone around him.

Those passers-by who happened to be standing around the "rough samurai" and "Tsukidaizu samurai" rushed to the sides to make a space where only these two samurai stood, and then looked at them with fear or excitement. Samurai.

After the "rough samurai" uttered that roar, the "Tsuki Daitou samurai" frowned slightly:

"It's all said-you're just being careless, I didn't even look at you just now."

"Don't quibble!" The rough samurai's voice was so loud that Ogata, who was not far away, felt some eardrum pain. "You obviously looked at me with disdain just now!"

As Ogata was watching the conflict between the two samurai intently, Asai on the side said nonchalantly:

"That rough-looking guy has an accent from Kyushu. It should be a ronin who wanders here from Kyushu."

Asaimoto was born in the Satsuma clan of Kyushu, so he could tell that the rough-looking guy was from Kyushu just like him.

"Humph."

"Tsuki Daitoro samurai" let out a sneer.

"I've said it all-it's you who are worried!"

No matter if anyone is present, it can definitely be seen-now the smell of gunpowder between the two samurai is extremely heavy, and it belongs to the state that no one will find it strange even if the two drew out their swords and slashed each other in the next second.

"Hey!"

At this moment, suddenly there was another loud shout.

"The two over there! What are you doing?!"

This loud shout came from a group of officials rushing towards the two samurai with ten hands pinned on their waists.

Looking at this group of observations, the "rough warrior" and "Tsukidai head warrior" changed their complexions, and then quickly fled away from the gang of officials.

That group of officials did not chase the two samurai. After chasing away the two samurai who had almost made trouble, the group of officials returned.

Shimada, who was from Edo, whispered softly, watching the officer who took over the team.

"What about Tsujiban's officials..."

Ancient Japan has always had the bad habit of using someone to try a knife.

Some warriors with mental or mental problems always like to lie in ambush at the intersection and try their swords in the middle of the night.

People call this evil act of lying in ambush at the intersection in the middle of the night and beheading a man and trying a knife "Tsuji Zan."

After Ieyasu Tokugawa ended the Sengoku period and founded the Edo Shogunate, he explicitly banned "Tsuji Slash".

Later, a public security organization set up by the samurai to prevent Tsuji's crimes-namely "Tsujiban" was born.

To put it simply, they are sentries specially set up at various intersections.

The officials of Tsujiban usually supervise whether the samurai, who has a brain problem, try a knife with a living person, but also take care of maintaining the law and order of the area in charge.

In the situation where the two samurai almost drew their swords in the street just now, Tsujiban’s officials had to intervene.

After Tsujiban's officials drove the two samurai away, the surrounding atmosphere returned to stability.

The flow of people on the street resumed its natural flow, and everything returned to the same scene as before the incense stick.

"Unexpectedly, there will be situations in Edo where'samurais are going to fight on the street somehow." Makimura smiled and summed up the scene that he had just encountered.

"Of course." Ogata said lightly. "There are as many samurai and idle ronin in Edo as the crucian carp in Edo, and the chances of conflicts breaking out must be much higher than in other places. Up."

The place where there are more ronins, the easier it is to break out of various disturbances-this should also be regarded as one of the laws of this era.

Ronin is a bit harder to say, it is a group of people who have nothing to do, don't have a serious job on hand, but attach great importance to honor, and have weapons on hand.

The wealthy ronins like Ogata are only a handful after all, and most ronins have no idea what to eat tomorrow.

"Emphasis on honor" is the core value of the samurai class in the Edo period.

When the material life is extremely poor, the gangsters often have extremely paranoid pursuits for their spiritual life.

Because only in this way can they bring some spiritual comfort.

So there is often such a situation: some Ronin pay more attention to honor than the kind of samurai with a formal job. To a morbid degree.

The conflict between the two warriors just now is a good example.

"Let's go." Yuan said, "Hurry up and settle the dinner. Xiaolin and Miss Ading are still waiting for us to send the dinner back."

Ogata nodded, and when he was about to continue to find a restaurant with the others, the conversation between the two women next to him attracted Ogata's attention.

"I hate it... Why do you always feel that the public security in Edo is getting worse and worse recently? It was the third time I saw the samurai on the street making trouble today."

"It's horrible... It must be because there are too many country warriors who have flooded into Edo recently! When there are more hillbillies, public security will definitely get worse!"

"Why are the number of hillbillies pouring into Edo Castle recently so many..."

"Oh... it's not because of that... forget it, don't talk about this on the street, let's wait and talk slowly when we get home."

Ogata quietly listened to the conversation between the two women.

"Brother Ogata, what are you doing?" After noticing that Ogata was still standing there and not following, Makimura stopped and turned back to cast a suspicious look at Ogata.

"Nothing..." Seeing that the two women had also stopped their conversation, Xu Jian also withdrew his attention, and quickly followed the crowd who had been a short distance away from him.

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Ogata and others didn’t have much quest for food, and Lin and Amachi were still at the hotel waiting for them to come back with dinner, so they directly found a buckwheat nearest to the hotel where they lived. Noodle shop.

From the decoration of the shop, that buckwheat shop is very close to the people, even ordinary people can eat it.

After entering the store, it was indeed the case. The guests inside were samurai like Ogata, but most of them were civilians in various clothes.

Ogata and the others are lucky. There is just one empty table left in the store, and this empty table is just enough for 6 of them to sit.

Everyone entered the store with their respective sabers in their right hands. After sitting down at this table, everyone turned their attention to the menu hanging on the side wall.

"Soba noodles, 16 cents. The large steamer for the imperial meal, 48 cents. Tempura buckwheat, 32 cents. Egg-wrap buckwheat, 32 cents..." Makimura quickly reported the names of the dishes on the menu one by one.

The menu is also very carefully written, with a small line at the back of each noodle indicating the characteristics of the noodle.

For example-there is a sentence "big bowl of soba noodles" behind the big steamer.

This shop not only sells noodles but also sells wine. At the end of the menu, it says "Premium wine 1 in 40 yuan".

One go in the Edo period is approximately equal to 180 milliliters of the modern earth.

I just don't know how good the "good wine" in this store's mouth is.

Seeing that this store sells alcohol, Yuanyi grinned: "Let's buy some wine for a drink."

No one refuted Genichi's proposal.

After quickly ordering the noodles they wanted, Makura sighed in a low voice:

"It's so cheap... Is Edo soba so cheap..."

"Soba is one of our Edo specialties." Shimada smiled. "Because soba is very suitable for our Edo people, and it is easy to make and ordinary people can afford it, soba noodle shop It can be said that the whole Edo is full. Do you know the origin of the nickname of soba noodles?"

Anyway, the process of coming up with such noodles was quite boring. Seeing Shimada talked about a topic, Ogata and others were also happy to talk to each other.

"I've heard of the nickname'Erhachi Soba'." Ogata said, "I remember because soba noodles are usually sold in 16 characters, right? Because ordinary soba noodles are usually sold in 16 characters, so people call it Soba noodles is'Erhachi Soba'."

"This is actually just one of the explanations." Mamiya smiled and interjected, "Actually, this statement is not very accurate. As far as I know-Edo soba is not always 16 cents per bowl."

"Mamiya-senpai is right." Shimada nodded, "That's just one statement."

"I don't really agree with this statement."

"Because the price of soba noodles is actually changing all the time."

"The most expensive bowl of soba noodles I have ever eaten in Edo has a price of up to 20 cents."

"The most mainstream argument is actually because 20% wheat flour and 80% buckwheat flour are placed in soba noodles, so it is called'Erhachi Soba'..."

Shimada was introducing soba seriously.

And Ogata and others are also listening carefully.

But at this moment--

"Bastard! How long do I have to wait?!"

An untimely anger resounded throughout the soba shop.

This angry shout made the originally noisy shop instantly become audible.

Everyone, including Ogata and others, moved their eyes around.

It was a samurai with a beard and fleshy face, and a tall and majestic figure.

This samurai should be around 25 years old and tall. Although he is sitting cross-legged, according to Ogata's visual observation, his height should be about 1.75 meters.

He is the only one at his table, so he should come here alone for dinner.

There was some redness on the cheeks, it should be because of drinking some wine.

Both his body and clothes were dirty, his feet without socks were covered with mud, and the moon head on his head was messy. I don't know how long he hasn't taken care of his hair.

This kind of dirty-looking warrior is basically a ronin.

The shout just now had a very strong accent in it, and it was basically certain that this guy was also a ronin who wandered to Edo from nowhere.

After uttering that angry shout, the samurai waved his hand and swept the chopstick holder with chopsticks on the table to the ground. The chopsticks rolled all over the floor.

This sudden action of the samurai scared many people present.

While many people were looking at the majestic samurai with horrified eyes, the girl in this soba shop, the waitress, walked towards the samurai with a trembling appearance.

This soba noodle shop only has this waiter. The owner is probably cooking the noodles in the kitchen at the back, so I didn’t hear the movement here, so at this moment, the female middle school can only go forward and deal with that one. The mighty samurai".

After the girl leaned over, the "majestic warrior" shouted at the girl with a louder voice:

"Why haven't my noodles served yet! It's just a bowl of soba noodles. Does it take so long to cook?!"

"Ten, I'm very sorry..." The girl seemed to lack experience in dealing with such a scene, and explained to the "majestic samurai" with a slightly trembling voice, "There are more guests now, please wait patiently. In a while, we will speed up."

Although the female middle school has done everything in his power to appease the "majestic samurai", this "majestic samurai" seems not to simply let this girl go. He still faces this with an aggressive appearance. All kinds of nasty things were said in the famous women.

Up to this moment, the owner who was concentrating on cooking noodles in the kitchen, a middle-aged man who was about 40 years old, finally noticed the strangeness in the shop and came out of the kitchen.

After realizing what was going on, the shop owner rushed to support the girls' middle school in their shop.

However, the support of the shopkeeper did not help.

It just changed the situation from the "majestic samurai" saying nasty things to the girls, to the "majestic samurai" saying nasty things to the shopkeeper and the girls.

Looking at the "majestic samurai", Ogata's eyes were slightly narrowed while drinking tea.

Pieces of past images hidden deep in my mind flashed past Ogata's eyes.

It was a passage... It was obviously not very long, but for Ogata, it felt like an image of the past a long time ago.

In the video, he will go to an izakaya to work as a side job of security after finishing his day-time job planning...

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"That person is really too much..." Shimada whispered in a low volume that only he could hear, "It's just a bowl of noodles... Can't you wait patiently..."

"It's really ugly, can't you just wait obediently?"

"That's right." Shimada nodded his head vigorously. "That's how you should scold this kind of person...Huh?"

Shimada looked at Ogata beside him with a surprised look.

Not only Shimada, but almost everyone present focused on Ogata-including the "majestic samurai".

"Majestic Samurai" didn't seem to expect that someone would preach to him, so he looked at Ogata with a bit of anger in his mistake.

"Are you talking to me?" he asked.

"Who else is there besides you?" Ogata raised the teacup in his hand, took a sip of tea, and replied in a calm tone.

call!

The "Majestic Samurai" stood up abruptly, took his sword, and walked quickly to Ogata's side.

Seeing this, Shimada just wanted to say something, when she was stopped by the pastoral village.

Makimura motioned to Shimada with his eyes-ignore the "majestic samurai".

Not only Makimura is like this, but Mamiya, Asai, and Genichi are all calm.

After walking quickly to Ogata's side, the "majestic samurai" opened his mouth, wanting to say something.

However, before he had time to say what he wanted to say, Xu convenient said first:

"Sit back for me and wait patiently for the noodles to be served."

Hearing Ogata's words, the face of the "majestic samurai" instantly turned blue and white.

In the end, the face of the "Majestic Warrior" turned black like charcoal.

The "majestic samurai" lowered the body's center of gravity, held the scabbard close to the sheath with his left hand, ejected the blade from the sheath with the thumb of his left hand, and held the handle with his right hand.

"Apologize to me!"

Ogata glanced at the posture that this "majestic samurai" put on: "Do you want to draw a sword..."

"Huh!" "The mighty warrior" let out a sneer, "You are really stupid, just let me put on a sword posture like this obediently!"

"Hurry up and apologize to me! Otherwise, I will kill you!"

Seeing that the "majestic samurai" seemed to be about to fight Ogata, the surrounding guests immediately stepped aside, for fear that the battle that might erupt later would affect him.

Only Mamiya and others at the same table as Ogata remained motionless.

"Brother." Sitting in Mamiya, the place farthest from the "majestic samurai", he smiled and said to him, "Take the knife back, and wait for it, or else..."

Before Mamiya's words were finished, the "majestic samurai" who kept his eyes fixed on Ogata's body, without even looking at Mamiya, shouted:

"Shut up! I warn you! You are also within my slashing range! Don't be so arrogant within my slashing range! Otherwise, I will slash your head too!"

The words of "Majestic Samurai" just fell...

Ogata, who had been holding a teacup while drinking tea in silence just now, let go of his hand~www.wuxiahere.com~ The teacup that fell from his palm fell towards the table under the influence of gravity.

With his left hand, he grasped the hilt of Da Shitian's sword placed on the right side of his body, and then raised Da Shitian, aligning the tip of the sword at the throat of the "majestic samurai" who was standing just on the right side of his body.

While grasping and erecting Dashaten with his left hand, Ogata grasped Dashaten's scabbard with his right hand and pulled the scabbard upward.

When Ogata turned the tip of Oshaten's sword under the throat of the "majestic samurai", Ogata just pulled out Oshaten's scabbard completely, revealing Oshaten's extremely sharp blade.

Because he erected the sword and then pulled the scabbard upward, Ogata was able to pull out the blade completely with very small movements.

After pulling out the scabbard upwards, Ogata kept holding the upper section of the scabbard in his right hand and the middle section of Oshatenchi in his left hand, with the tip of the sword against the throat of the "majestic samurai".

The "majestic warrior" lowered his eyes and stared blankly at the tip of the knife against his throat.

Bang.

The tea cup that Ogata put down just now steadily fell back to the tabletop, making a small "bang" sound, without a drop of tea spilled.

It wasn't until the sound of the teacup falling to the ground that the "Majestic Samurai" finally seemed to be awakened, and looked at Ogata, who was holding the tip of the knife against his throat with horrified eyes.

"You are also within my slash range."

"Don't be so arrogant within my slash range."

Ogata said in a calm tone as usual.