I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Last night, Ogata grew a lot-on the experience bar.

After annihilating the bandit remnant party headed by Hokichi, Ogata's personal level and the Second Swordsmanship of the Selflessness directly accrued nearly 700 experience points.

It's a pity - after Ogata and Genichi annihilated the bandit remnants and returned to the gate of Yoshihara, they never encountered other "rats".

As a result, Ogata failed to gain more experience points last night.

But Ogata doesn't feel sorry.

He was able to get nearly 700 experience points last night-Ogata was already content with this, after all, when he entered the "big pit" set by Genichi last night, he was mentally prepared to return without success.

In addition to the nearly 700 points of experience, Ogata's gains last night also received Genichi's technical guidance.

When trying to Raokata's entry into the pit, Genichi promised Ogata that he would teach him some sword skills to compensate.

And Yuanyi fulfilled his promise last night.

After annihilating Hokichi and his party and returning to the gate of Yoshihara, in order to fulfill his promise to Ogata, and pass the time by the way, Genichi taught Ogata some experience on the sword.

And what Genichi School taught Ogata was exactly the trick he used to kill Pokichi in a flash-flashing.

When he saw Genichi use this "dodge", Ogata was caught by this trick of dodge and counterattack.

After packing Hoyoshi and the others, before returning to Yoshihara's gate and preparing to continue staying, Genichiyu further introduced his triumphant skills to Ogata.

According to Yuanyi-this "flashing body" is a masterpiece created by him about one and a half years ago.

After learning that this trick "Shanshen" was a new trick that Yuanyi had only honed a year and a half ago, Xu Jian couldn't help but immediately asked Yuan:

"Then I use "Shanshen" in the public. It shouldn't let people find out that I'm related to Genichi Kinoshita, right?"

Regarding Ogata’s question, Genichi replied very happily: He has been peaceful for the past two years, and basically hasn't been out and wandering much, so he has not forged a new enemy.

There are only two kinds of people who have seen Yuanyi's trick to "flicker": everyone in the gourd house, and the dead.

So even if you use "Shanshen", it won't make people see that this is Kinoshita Genichi's trick.

After learning that "Shanshen" is a trick that will not let people discover that you are related to Genichi Kinoshita even if you use it, Ogata is more interested in this trick.

In Edo where I don’t know how many Genichi’s enemies are lurking, Ogata lacks this kind of trick that can be used boldly and is not afraid of trouble coming to the door at the moment when the martial arts test of "Gozen Test Combination" is about to begin. .

After seeing the source generously said, "If you want to learn, I want to teach", Ogata is not polite, and readily expresses that he wants to learn this trick to "shake away".

Strictly speaking, "Dodge" is just a dodge and counterattack skill that does not belong to any genre.

Ogata's system can only extract this genre after reading all the martial arts of a certain genre, and then use skill points to unlock and own this genre.

If you don’t belong to any genre, you can’t use the system to learn this trick directly.

Therefore, Ogata can only learn to "shake away" as honestly as an ordinary person.

Just as Yuanyi said after using the "Shanshen" to hit the Baoji in seconds-this trick seems to be quite simple at first glance, but there are quite a few doorways in it.

The steps, the way the waist rotates, the way the arms swing... all these have a lot of skills hidden in them.

It's just that - according to Yuanyi, if there is the "stepping" of "No-Self Two Swords" as a basic primer, this trick will be much faster to get started.

In fact, it is true.

Ogata's current "advance step" level has reached "advanced".

With the "advanced" "stepping" as a foundation, when Ogata learns this "flashing", it is indeed much faster to get started.

In addition, Ogata's weight is not heavy. If you have a light body, it will be easier to learn to "flash".

By the time he returned to the hotel and rested, Ogata had been able to put on a "dodge" posture in a decent way. If he practiced hard for a while, he should be able to try to use this trick in actual combat.

Last night, it wasn't until almost 2 o'clock in the morning that Ogata and Genichi slipped back to the hotel to rest.

Ogata also suffers from lack of sleep.

Because the biological clock had been set, Ogata wanted to sleep longer, and soon after dawn, his eyes opened.

Ogata, Genichi, and Mamiya are the only ones who are used to getting up at dawn.

As soon as Ogata got up, he saw Genichi who had woken up and started drinking, and Mamiya who had woken up with his bedding.

After Xiang Genichi and Mamiya said hello, Ogata, with a look of surprise in his eyes, looked at Genichi who was drinking a small sake:

"Yuan Da, are you... just getting up?"

"Yeah." Yuan took a sip of the drink in his glass, and he smiled, "I'm probably up for a stick of incense earlier than you."

"Yuan Da Ren... Your body is so good that you don't look like an old man at all..."

Ogata, who was forced to wake up due to his biological clock, still had the tiredness of lack of sleep remaining on his eyes.

On the other hand, Yuanyi is full of energy as usual.

It was very uncomfortable to hold the sake I bought a few days ago, shrink in the corner, and sip.

When I slept together, I saw Genichi drinking there—Ogata had become accustomed to this situation.

Yuanyi is a good wine, but also a big drinker. In the moment when there is no entertainment, the most common way for Yuan to pass the time is to drink, which is often a day, even if it is a whole day, it will not be drunk, in the true sense of a thousand cups.

Genichi's over-spirited appearance made Ogata couldn't help but think of Fengmao—behaving nothing like an old man.

While thinking of Fengmao, Ogata couldn't help feeling a little upset—why everyone went to bed at about the same time and got up at the same time, and why people at this age could be his grandfather, but more energetic than him...

"My body is indeed quite tough." Yuan Yi shrugged and smiled, "but probably it will only be tough for a few more years."

"People always get old."

"The body will always weaken with age."

"In a few years, I may not be able to drink early in the morning like I am now."

As soon as Genichi's sigh with a bit of joke fell, Mamiya next to him interjected nonchalantly:

"Yuan Da, if you can quit drinking, you might be able to slow down the aging of your body."

"That won't work." Yuanyi said with a smile without hesitation. "It's impossible to give up drinking. Drinking is one of my greatest hobbies."

"I have never been afraid of aging or death."

"If you just quit drinking just to live a few more years, then I would rather not live for a few years."

After all, Yuan Yi filled the wine glass in his palm with a large glass of wine as if in response to what he had just said, and then drank it happily.

Mamiya had anticipated that Genichi would say that in general, and smiled without saying anything, and didn't say anything more.

Makimura, Asai, and Shimada are still asleep.

The conversation between Ogata and Genichi was very low, so they didn't wake Makimura and others. Makimura and others still slept soundly.

Mamiya only got up a little earlier than Ogata, and had been concentrating on his bedding just now.

After stacking his own futon neatly, Mamiya suddenly said to Ogata with a serious face:

"Ogata-kun, Gen is one big person, you two come out with me, I have important questions for you two."

"Huh?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, his face slightly changed.

The thoughts in his mind drifted unconsciously to the "mouse hunting" between him and Genichi last night...

Yuan Yi also had one eyebrow and his face changed slightly.

"Can't you tell me here?" Ogata asked.

"What I say here, I'm afraid it will wake them up in Mucun."

"……I know."

After Ogata nodded, he picked up his own saber and stood up.

After Ogata got up, Genichi also let out a sigh of helplessness, then changed the wine glass in his hand to his own saber, and followed Mamiya one after another out of the room with Ogata.

Now that the genius is just bright, there is no one else in the corridor except Ogata.

Mamiya, who was in charge of leading the way, did not go far after leaving the room. After walking to an unmanned corridor some distance from their room, he put on a weird face while facing Ogata and Ogata in front of him. Yuanyi asked:

"I won't say unnecessary nonsense."

"Gen one person, Ogata-kun, can you two explain to me what you did last night?"

As Mamiya's voice fell, Ogata and Genichi's faces both showed a strong smile of helplessness.

——Sure enough, it was discovered by Mamiya...

When Mamiya asked him to come out with Genichi just now, Ogata vaguely guessed-it should be Mamiya who found him and Genichi sneaking outside last night.

"Mamiya." Ogata asked. "How did you find out?"

"I was awakened by Yuan Dao at about the same time as you last night."

Mamiya whispered.

"After opening his eyes a gap, I saw Yuan Yuan standing by the window holding his sword, looking like he wanted to sneak out."

"I also wanted to get up and ask Yuan Dao what he planned to do. You just got up first, and then followed Yuan Dao out of the room."

"I thought you could persuade Yuan Yiyi to suppress those strange thoughts. So I continued to pretend to sleep."

"Unexpectedly, when I pretended to sleep, I heard the sound of you and Yuan Dao jumping through the window together."

The more Mamiya said, the lower Ogata's head was buried, and the guilty conscience on his face became more obvious.

"That..." Gen with an awkward look on his face scratched his hair. "Mamiya, you probably didn't tell Xiaolin about the outing with Ogata-kun and others, right?"

"They don't know yet." Mamiya replied, "but they will know later...it depends on what you and Ogata-kun did last night."

After understanding Mamiya's subtext, Ogata and Genichi uttered a helpless sigh at the same time with great tacit understanding, and informed Mamiya about what they had done last night and the results they had achieved last night.

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...

After listening carefully to Ogata and Gen's explanation of what they did last night, Mamiya said seriously:

"That is to say-did the two of you ran to hunt down your enemies last night..."

Speaking of this, Mamiya twitched his mouth, then sighed heavily.

"Yuan Da person... Why are you still like this... You are doing things so messy... Normal people will not take the initiative to provoke them, but will only avoid them when they learn that there are many enemies nearby. Sharp..."

Mamiya did not show too much surprise for Genichi's initiative to provoke his enemies, but only let out a sigh.

Mamiya’s overly calm appearance made Ogata very suspicious whether Genichi had done more messy things before, so Mamiya was honed to be calm about Genichi’s various actions. The strong adaptability...

Genichi only gave a faint smile to what Mamiya said just now.

After smiling, he said:

"In short, Mamiya, this is the specific situation."

"I did not go out for fun with Ogata-kun. From another perspective, Ogata-kun and I are reducing potential allies in Shiranui."

"So--Mamiya, you don't know that Ogata-kun and I sneaked out."

"...I know." The color of hesitation and the color of determination saw Mamiya's face back and forth for a few rounds before the color of determination finally defeated the color of hesitation, "I will keep it secret... I hope you guys In the future, don’t cause any trouble when hunting down the enemies of Yuan Yi Da Ren..."

Seeing that Mamiya had agreed to keep it secret so soon, Ogata's eyes were surprised uncontrollably.

"Mamiya, I didn't expect you to agree to keep it secret so readily..." Ogata couldn't help but murmur.

"Because past experience tells me-Yuan Da is impossible to persuade him." As Mamiya said, he cast a bit of resentment at Yuan, "Even if I look at them. Whistleblowing, Yuan Yiyi will definitely continue to go out stubbornly."

Genichi let out a few awkward dry laughs when he heard Mamiya's complaining words.

Then he didn't comment on what Mamiya had just said.

After Mamiya let out a long, silent sigh, he continued:

"In short--I know it's impossible to persuade Yuan Da Ren, so I won't stop you, and I will keep it secret for you."

"But you guys don't want to make troubles and troublesome things..."

Speaking of this, Mamiya let out a long sigh again.

"To be honest, I was quite disturbed when I saw Gendaiichi, you troublemaker, and Ogata-kun, who had breached Nijo Castle in the company..."

This time it was Ogata's turn to let out an awkward dry smile.

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Night fell.

After the sun sank to the horizon and the sky began to turn from white to black, Okinawa appeared in Yoshihara on time.

Ogata, who "goes to work" in Yoshiwara, now has the heavy responsibility of "acting as an informant between them and Hasegawa", so now he arrives at Yoshihara on time every night to start "working".

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Yoshihara, some of the club officials who stood guard at Yoshihara greeted Ogata respectfully.

Before and after arriving at the entrance of the clubhouse, several officials standing guard at the entrance of the clubhouse bowed their greetings to Ogata again.

Regarding the respectful greetings from these people, Ogata could only smile helplessly while responding one by one.

A while ago, the feat of "using one's own power to punish the thieves and change the official position" made Ogata famous, and many officials in the clubs took the initiative to get to know Ogata and changed their previous attitude towards Ogata.

Before the incident of "Huofu thief changing official posts to grab merit", many officials in clubs used the tone of "predecessor to younger generation" to speak to Ogata.

After Ogata's feat of changing the official position of the thief who hit the anneafu, many officials instantly changed the tone and tone of voice they used to speak to Ogata.

Change to the way of speaking of the average or even junior, and use a lot of honorifics.

I don’t know if it is Ogata’s illusion. He always feels that these officials who greeted him just now, their attitude seems to be more respectful than before...

When Ogata entered the clubhouse and was about to report, he was suddenly stopped by a tall club officer.

"Majima-kun." The official who blocked Ogata's way forward said Gongshou, "Finally found you. Please go to the soil immediately, Mr. Keiemon seems to be going to announce something to you."

"Between the soil? Okay, I get it."

Following the memory, Ogata walked quickly to the ground where the door was open.

Passing through the open door, Ogata suddenly found that-on the tatami between the soil, the number of people was crowded in black at this time.

There is also an acquaintance of Ogata, Guasheng.

Seeing Ogata coming, many people in the room including Guasheng greeted Ogata enthusiastically.

Except for melons in the room, Ogata didn't know anyone else.

Seeing that there was an empty seat next to Gua Sheng, Xu Jian sat down beside the only person he knew.

After sitting down beside Gua Sheng, Xu Jian made a few simple greetings with Gua Sheng.

After the greeting, Guasheng smiled and said to Ogata:

"Mashima-kun, after you entered Yoshihara, did you find that many people in the club were more respectful of you?"

Hearing the words of Guasheng, Ogata was taken aback for a moment, and then nodded:

"Yes. I clearly feel that many people's attitudes are a little different from before."

"Want to know the reason?"

Ogata nodded again.

"It's all about starting from when you got the first name of the literary test of the'Imperial Examination'."

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...

Guasheng briefly explained the cause and effect to Ogata.

After listening to Guasheng's explanation, Ogata's face was full of black lines.

It turned out-not long after the literary test was released last night, almost everyone in the Shiro Bingbei club knew that Goro Mashima in their club had won the first place in the literary test.

Before, there was "single-handed annealing to pay thieves to change official posts", and later, "winning the first name of the "Gozen test" essay"-Ogata made two great feats in succession, which naturally made his own reputation in Yoshihara rise.

Then came various speculations about Ogata's identity.

It is impossible for an ordinary Ronin to be both civil and military-this is the consensus of everyone.

So various discussions about Ogata's identity came out.

Some people think that Ogata should be a descendant of some powerful samurai family before, but because of some changes, he was forced to become a ronin.

Some people think that Ogata is a "fake ronin" who came to experience the life of the people at the bottom.

Some people think Ogata might just come to sharpen himself...

In short, there are all rumors.

Everyone is most energetic and energetic only when discussing these fictitious and gossip-related rumors.

No matter what kind of rumors, they all have one thing in common-they all think that Ogata is the offspring of a very powerful samurai family, who has received a good education since childhood, otherwise it is impossible to be both civil and military like this.

After listening to Guasheng's explanation quietly, Ogata's face was full of black lines.

"What kind of mess is this... no wonder so many people have become more respectful towards me..."

Ogata now finally knows why so many people’s attitudes have undergone a new change. They all think that Ogata is a descendant of a high-ranking samurai family. They came to Yoshihara for some reason, so they are more respectful to Ogata. .

"...Actually...I'm also very curious." Just now, I was smiling and looking serious, "Ogata-kun, are you a descendant of a samurai family?"

Seeing that Guasheng also doubted that he was a senior samurai, Ogata couldn't help but smile wryly.

Just when Ogata wanted to explain to Guasheng, a familiar figure crawled into this room.

"Everyone is quiet!"

The person who got into the room and shouted so loudly was Keiemon.

Seeing that Keiemon was here, and seemed to tell them something important immediately, Xuanyi could only shut his mouth first and looked at Keiemon in front of him.

"I don't talk too much nonsense, just get to the point."

After Keiemon cleared his throat, he continued to speak loudly:

"There is an urgent task."

"The reason why everyone present is to complete this task."

"The content of the task is also very simple: everyone present needs to support the'Yangmei House'."

"Support'Yangmei House'?" Gua Sheng took the lead in raising doubts, "What happened to'Yangmei House'?"

"Just now, the steward of the'Yangmei House' asked us for help." Keiemon said with a bitter face, "Tonight, many fierce warriors came to the'Yangmei House' to drink."

"It seems that many of those samurai have failed the literary examination and came to relieve their boredom. All of them have a stink."

"It is said that a lot of Kimoto samurai have come. It's really scary."

"Because I saw that there were too many samurai, and they didn't seem to be good, the steward of the'Yangmei House' worried that these people would make trouble if they drink too much, so they asked our Shiro Soldiers Club for help, hoping that we Send some officials to serve as their temporary guards."

"...That's the way it is." Guasheng smiled bitterly, "No wonder the people gathered here are all those who have good skills in the Shiro Bingbei Club..."

"Even I want to go to the Yangmei House." The bitterness on Keiemon's face turned into helplessness, "Anyway-now follow me to the Yangmei House."

"Ah, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you."

Keiemon patted his head.

"I just said that now, there seems to be a group of Kimoto samurai in the Yangmei House."

"So you will remember to pay attention later. Unless they make trouble, stay away from the powerful banners."

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While Ogata was still listening to Keiemon's explanation of this sudden mission tonight--

As the night darkened, the number of people coming and going under the gate of Yoshihara continued to increase.

Amidst the busy traffic, two warriors wearing hats walked slowly one after the other on the way to Yoshihara.

Because the hats worn by these two people have a wide rim, as long as they lower their heads a little, the broad hats can cover the faces of these two people.

In this dense crowd, the two samurai wearing hats looked very inconspicuous.

In the past, in order to take care of their face, the samurai would often wear a broad hat to cover their faces when entering and exiting places like Yoshihara.

The purpose is to prevent people you know from seeing that you actually go to this kind of romantic place to have fun.

The merchants who saw this business opportunity set up a shop that specializes in selling hats outside the gate of Yoshihara, called "Bianka Chaya", dedicated to those who want to play in Yoshihara but forget to bring hats.

But as time passed, the samurai who would have worn hats to cover their shame gradually released themselves.

I no longer felt ashamed of going to Yoshihara, and started to walk in and out of Yoshihara openly and swaggeringly, and stopped wearing anything that could cover his face.

Because of the samurai's self-releasing, until the current Kansei years, the "Kanka Chaya" that was originally built outside the gate of Yoshiwara and specializes in selling hats has also disappeared because of the loss of customers.

When outsiders saw these two samurai walking slowly towards Yoshihara wearing a hat, they would only think that these two people were the kind of people who didn't dare to fly completely and would take care of their faces.

But who knows-these two warriors wearing hats did not go to any of the girls' houses.

After passing through the gate of Yoshihara, he turned right without hesitation and went straight to the Shirobei Club on the right.

The guard in front of the clubhouse just crossed the long wooden stick in his hand and stopped the two. The head of the two men showed something to the guards in front of him while whispering:

"We need Shiro Bingbei for something."

The voice is very young.

The words are very brief.

But the tone was full of unquestionable and rebuttable toughness.

What the young mysterious man showed to the guards was a fan.

The handle of the fan is painted with a family pattern-a three-leaf sunflower pattern.

Looking at the three-leaf sunflower pattern on the fan handle, the pupils of these guards shrank slightly.

Anyone with a little brain knows that the three-leaf aoi-mon is the family crest of the Tokugawa family of the shogun.

The person who holds this family pattern means that he belongs to the Tokugawa family.

How could these guards say they were also people who worked in Shiro Bingbei in Yoshiwara, and they had seen some markets, so they could all tell that the clothes these two were wearing weren't cheap.

After keenly aware of the fact that these two people may have a small background, the guards hurriedly put away the long wooden sticks.

Two people were separated-one of them took the two mysterious guests to the hospitality room, the other went to inform Shiro Biebe, and the others continued to stick to their posts.

The two mysterious people who were brought to the hospitality room were waiting for Shiro Biebe's arrival while drinking the tea they had just brought to the guests.

Shiro Hebei didn't let these two mysterious people wait for too long.

After listening to the important message of "there are two mysterious guests holding the three-leaf sunflower pattern", Shiro Biebe temporarily left all the affairs at hand and hurried to the hospitality room where the two mysterious people were. .

After sitting down in front of these two mysterious people, Shiro Biebe frowned slightly and asked:

"Excuse me—the two of you?"

These two mysterious people still wear the broad-brimmed hats and bow their heads, so Shiro Heibei couldn't see the appearance of these two people at all.

"It's me, Shiro Hebei. It's been a long time."

The mysterious man sitting on the left side of Shiro Biebe said as he raised his hand, slowly removing the hat on his head.

Before the mysterious man had time to remove the hat from his head, Shiro Biebe's eyes widened in shock.

He recognized the voice.

Shiro Biebe, who almost collapsed to the ground in fright, screamed out:

"old……"

However, Shiro Biebe's scream was not yet able to be spoken, and was interrupted by the mysterious man who was taking off his hat.

"Calm down~www.wuxiahere.com~Shiro Biebe. I'm traveling in a microservice this time."

After being interrupted by the mysterious person and receiving his reminder, Shiro Biebe swallowed heavily, and then slowly sat back upright.

"Old Master, why are you here?"

This time, Shiro Biebe's voice was much quieter.

At the same time, the tone should be more humble and respectful.

As soon as Shiro Biebe's words fell, the mysterious man who had been unraveling the hats and interrupting Shiro Biebe's words finally took off the hats on his head.

Then he showed a face that all senior officials of the shogunate knew.

Lao Zhong-Songping Dingxin's face.

Looking at Matsudaira in front of him, Shiro Biebe's forehead broke out with more cold sweat.

"Don't be nervous, Shiro Hebei." Matsudaira Sadashin smiled slightly, "I came to Yoshihara for something... easier."