I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Offices in Osaka, Shinmachi, Nanakiya, and Jotaemon—

"...I understand the specific reasons."

Right and left Tianemon glanced at the four people sitting in front of him, Ogata, Amachi, Hatsumi, and Shibata, and sighed lightly.

When the incident of "Yukimura Attack" occurred, Miura and the others were naturally not in the mood to have another banquet. The banquet ended hastily. Ogata and the others guarded Hatsumi and returned to Nanakusa. At the same time, they reported to Utsuda Eemon about the extreme of tonight. A series of dramatic changes.

"Unexpectedly, so many things happened tonight..."

"It's really hard for you tonight."

Speaking of this, Yoshidaemon turned his attention to Ogata and Amachi who were sitting behind Hatsumi.

Emotions are complicated.

"...Hatsuko, Shibata, you two should withdraw first."

Chuguang and Shibata: "Yes."

The two didn't say much, and after saying "yes" in unison, they hurriedly left the room.

Chuguang left without any hesitation.

As for Shibata before leaving, he did not forget to look at Ogata and the others in awe before leaving.

When there were only three people including Taemon, Ogata, and Amachi in the room, Taemon let out a long sigh.

"Sure enough, those who can be that guy's friend are not ordinary people." The "that guy" mentioned by Zuo Tian Weimen, of course, refers to Feng Mo.

"I didn't expect... that Yukimura would actually salute you two humbly..."

"If you want to ask who the two of us are, please forgive me for no comment." Ogata said half-jokingly at this time.

"I didn't intend to ask either.'Sometimes, the more ignorant the happier'-this is one of my principles."

"Not to mention that you are still that Fengjun's friend...Since you are that person's friend...I don't even want to ask who you are. After all, I have suffered from this kind of thing before."

After all, Tian Weimen from the left and right took out a piece of letter paper from the cabinet next to it.

"For me-it doesn't matter who you are, I just need to know that you have helped me a lot. Thank you both for helping me a lot tonight."

"If you don't show up in time, I really don't know where to find someone who can fill the vacancies of Chuguang's guards and assistants."

"Yes, this is the agreed reward."

Yotaemon handed the letter paper in his hand to Ogata.

"The address written above is the residence of Yuji Swordsman."

"Thank you." Ogata took the letter.

"You're looking for Yuer to repair the knife, you are looking for the right person." Left and right Tian Weimen smiled. "Although Yuer is not well-known, his skills in either forging or repairing knives can be described as culmination."

"As far as I know—everyone around me who finds Yuer to cast and repair swords, all praises Yuer's skills."

"It is said that Yuji used to be the son of the famous Hon Ami clan before. The knife repairing technique he used is the grinding technique passed down from generation to generation."

"Honami?" Ogata raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Is he still from Honami?"

Honami-a famous family in the Edo period.

Their families have used sword grinding and sword appraisal for generations.

People who want to find Ami's knives for repairing and appraising knives are coming in droves.

Regarding sword grinding, Ben Ami called them the second. I am afraid that no other family would dare to be the first.

"This is just a rumor. I don't know if it's true or not." Zuo Tian Weimen shrugged. "But whether he is a descendant of the Ami family or not, his sword repairing skills are at its peak—this is beyond doubt."

"It's a pity that although his skills are good, his temperament is really weird."

"He is a weird guy who doesn't like dealing with people, he only likes dealing with knives."

"In short, it's a ‘knife idiot’."

"I don't pursue fame and wealth, and I have never made knives or repaired knives for the sake of fame and money, so I am still not famous, and I live in such a remote place and live a life like a seclusion."

"It was easy to live a prosperous life with his ability."

"Sword crazy..." Ogata murmured, and cast his gaze again on the letter paper in his hand that said Yuji's residence.

A faint smile appeared on his face.

Hearing the words of Zuo Tian Weimen just now, he couldn't help becoming more interested in this unmasked swordsmith.

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Ogata and Amachi walked to the first floor of the seven thatched cottage side by side, preparing to leave the seven thatched cottage.

"When are you going to find Yuji?" Amachi Asakata asked.

"For things like knife repair, the sooner the better. So I plan to go to Yuer tomorrow."

After speaking, Ogata shrugged and added:

"I hope that Yuer is a swordsman who lives up to my expectations. I don't want to come to Osaka all the way to a happy one."

"Mr. Mashima, Miss Mashima."

While Ogata and Amachi were talking and laughing, a nice young female voice suddenly sounded behind them.

"Miss Hatsumi...?" Ogata looked behind him with a surprised look, towards Hatsumi, the master of the young female voice just now.

Hatsuko, who folded his hands in white gloves in front of him, smiled, walked slowly towards them from behind Ogata and the other two.

"Tonight, it's really hard work for you." Chu Guang Chao Ogata and the two of them bowed deeply, "Thank you very much."

"You're overwhelmed." Ogata is quite fond of Hakata who is polite and gentle, so he immediately replied politely, "We didn't do anything big tonight."

Chuguang smiled and shook his head: "Let's not mention that you have solved my urgent need of losing my assistants and guards. Just because you helped me deal with Mr. Yukimura tonight, it is enough for me to solemnly say thank you."

"I'm not very good at dealing with the more domineering and strong-tempered people like Mr. Yukimura."

At this moment, Chu Guang smiled and changed to a mischievous tone.

"Just now, I was actually very scared when I faced Master Yukimura's invitation."

"I am afraid that if Master Yumura insists on asking me to perform there, what should I do. Master Yumura is terrible, and the rules and punishments of our Seven Thatched Cottage are equally terrible."

"Fortunately, with you, this matter ended in a dignified and safe manner."

"Please allow me to say thank you again."

Hatsumi bowed again to Ogata and Amachi.

"You really exaggerated. My wife and I did not actually do anything..." Ogata smiled bitterly and returned the gift again.

Hatsumi was so polite that Ogata couldn't help feeling flattered.

"I heard Mr. Tian Weimen say: You will only replace the vacancies of my assistants and guards tonight, and you will not come again later. Is this true?" asked Chuguang.

"Yeah. It's true." Ogata nodded. "Tonight, for some reason, I'll just give him a helping hand."

"So..." Chuguang's face showed a conspicuous loss of color, but soon the loss of color changed back to a smile again, "If the two of you have any needs later, you can come to me. ."

"I am happy to meet with friends and help them solve problems."

"Haha, although I don't have any other specialties besides playing the piano."

Maybe it's because it's in private now. At this time, Chu Guangzhan showed a completely different state from the state when he played the piano at the banquet just now.

If you say that Chuguang, who just played the piano at the banquet, is like a fairy who can't eat fireworks.

So now Chuguang is like an ordinary cheerful girl.

Seeing Hatsumi with a gentle smile on his face, the corners of Ogata's mouth turned upwards unconsciously.

"Yeah. Whenever there is time and opportunity in the future, my wife and I will visit again."

"Hmm! I'm welcome anytime!"

Hatsumitsu is now planning to go back to his room, while Ogata and the others are planning to leave the Seven Thatched Cottage. The two sides happened to be on the same route, so the two sides naturally began to walk together.

"By the way, Miss Hatsumi, I have a question that I've always wanted to ask you, and I don't know if it's not convenient for you to answer it." While walking with Hatsumi, Ogata asked him abruptly toward Hatsumi who was on his side.

"Huh? Ask. Anything I can answer, I will know that there is no end to words!"

"It's not a big problem. I just want to ask-why do you keep wearing these gloves?"

Ogata turned his gaze to Hatsumi's gloved hands that overlapped in front of him.

"I just watched you play the piano at the banquet, but you still wore these gloves and didn't take them off."

Playing the piano with gloves-this is really rare.

Anyone who has studied string music knows that for instruments like shamisen that need to press and pluck the strings, wearing gloves and not wearing gloves are two experiences. Generally speaking, it should be easier for the former to exert strength than the latter.

Ogata rarely sees people wearing gloves and playing the piano, no matter in the previous life or in the present life. I ran into such a stranger tonight.

"Oh, this, there is no special reason for this. It's just that I had been accidentally burned to the back of my left hand by fire before, which resulted in an extremely ugly scar on the back of my left hand. To cover this scar, I was wearing gloves."

"It feels weird if I only wear one left glove, so I just wear two gloves."

After all, Hatsumi, who was smiling all the time, took off his left glove with the back of his left hand facing Ogata and Amachi.

The skin on the back of Chuguang's left hand... In a word, it is difficult to look directly at it.

The skin on the back of her left hand was like a ball of wet toilet paper that had been rudely tossed. Valley

The dark red ugly skin is in sharp contrast with the delicate and fair skin in other parts of Chuguang.

Hatsumi's burned left hand back flashed with surprise in the eyes of Ogata and Amachi.

"Uh... I'm sorry." Ogata apologized to Hatsumitsu almost without thinking. "I seem to have asked some extra questions, so I'm very embarrassed."

"It's okay." The smile on his face did not dissipate, and he put his gloves on his left hand again. "I actually don't care about the injury, but I am an artist who makes a living by playing the piano. You have to pay attention to your image no matter what, so you can only wear these gloves all the time."

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Ogata and the others were on the same road as Hatsumi, so in a blink of an eye, it was time to break up.

Ogata and Amachi watched Hatsuko, who was walking towards the top of the stairs not far away, until Hakukou was no longer visible, they both retracted their sights and continued to walk outside the Seven Grass House.

As he was about to pass through the gate of the Seven Thatched House, Ah Ding said with a bit of admiration abruptly:

"Really an excellent girl... It's really not without reason to be the number one artist in Osaka right now."

Chu Guang's polite and gentle appearance was also impressed

"If I have a chance in the future, I would like to ask Miss Chuguang-how her parents nurtured her."

Ah Ding changed into a half-joking tone at this time.

"I want to learn how other people raise children, and when we both have our own children, we will also nurture our children to be so good."

"You think so far." Ogata laughed blankly. "We don't even have a child now, so you are thinking about how to nurture offspring."

"It's called precautions." Amachi gave a blank look, then patted her flat abdomen and slender waist.

"Don't you want our children to be as polite and gentle as Miss Chuguang?" After inexplicably talking about the children, Ah Ting seemed to not want to skip this topic so quickly.

"Children..." Ogata touched the back of his neck. "For me, as long as children can grow up safely and healthily."

"It is naturally best to have some achievements of your own."

"I don't care if there is no achievement, just an ordinary person."

"Will you ask your child to become what kind of person in the future? For example, he also wants to be a samurai with great swordsmanship." Ah Ding still did not skip the topic of "children".

"I haven't thought about this problem... But compared to being a samurai with great swordsmanship, I would rather my child be able to read more, become a teacher or a doctor in the future, and open a private school in Kyoto or elsewhere. , Medical hall or something, this one is more promising."

"Hey..." Ah Ding's beautiful eyes looked surprised, "I thought you would pass on your swordsmanship to your descendants..."

Listening to these words of Amachi, Ogata smiled wryly.

—Sword learning...no future...

Ogata is not familiar with Japanese history and does not know what will happen to Japanese history in the future.

But he knew that it would not be long before swordsmanship would be eliminated by the times.

Compared with learning swords, it is better to read books and delve into knowledge...especially the study of Lanxue (the general term for Western scientific and cultural knowledge in the Edo period) is more promising.

As they were talking, the two had already left the gate of the Seven Thatched Cottage.

As soon as they left the door, the two heard a loud shout—

"Oh! You two are finally out!"

Makimura, who had been carrying his large sword just now, squatted and waited by the gate of the Seven Thatched House, quickly stood up and greeted Ogata and the others.

"Sorry." Ogata smiled apologetically at Makimura, "I made you wait a long time."

When the banquet ended hastily, Ogata and the others left the Xu Tianya and returned to the seven thatched cottage. Makimura also followed. He had just been quietly waiting outside the seven thatched cottage for Ogata and Amachi.

"It's okay, it's okay." Mucun let out his signature hearty laugh.

"Let's find a place to have a good chat." Ogata said, "I have as many questions as a mountain for you."

"It's the same with me. I have a lot of questions to hear about you." Mucun said, "Then go to where we live now. It's not very far from here, let's talk slowly."

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It’s not long before Ogata and the others left the Seven Thatched House—

Osaka, Shinmachi, Seven Thatched Cottage—

"Miss Chuguang, good evening!"

"Good evening, Miss Chuguang!"

The two maids in the Seven Thatched Cottage greeted the Chuguang who was walking towards them in a loud voice, and bowed in salute.

"Yeah." Chuguang's cheeks burst out with a gentle smile. While answering the question marks of the two maids aloud, Chuguang also bowed in return, "Good evening you guys too. Are you going to wipe the floor?"

Chu Guang looked at the buckets and rags in the hands of the two maids.

"Yes." A certain maid nodded, "Lampo took a leave of absence today, so our task tonight has become a lot heavier."

"That's it... That's hard work for you." At this point, Chuguang suddenly changed into a sly face, and then lowered his voice, "I still have a little bit of Jinping candy from the previous guest in my room. I can't finish it all by myself, no If you don't like it, do you want to come to my room later and'mopping up' these Jinpingtang together?"

"Jin, Jinpingtang?" A certain maid exclaimed in a low voice.

Afterwards, the two maids nodded vigorously, as if they were afraid of changing their mouths.

Jinping Sugar—The sweets introduced to Japan by Portuguese missionaries at the end of the 15th century have a fatal appeal to those who like sweets.

"That's fine." Chuguang covered his mouth and smiled, "I'll wait for you in the room later."

After all, Chuguang walked away from the side of the two maids and continued to stride towards his room.

After rubbing shoulders with Chuguang, the two maids did not rush to move forward, but stood still, looking at Chuguang with admiration and admiration. Chuguang turned a corner and completely disappeared from the field of vision. Later, the two maids twittered with excitement:

"Miss Chuguang is really amazing, she is already the number one artist in Osaka, and she is so humble, polite, and easy-going."

"Yeah, yeah. There is no shelf at all."

"I really hope that some people are just a little bit popular, and the nostrils can't wait for those who point to the sky to learn more from Miss Chuguang..."

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As a popular artist and one of the cash cows of the seven thatched cottage, the generous Huo Tianweimen not only gave Hatsuko a piano practice room, but also allocated an impeccable housing in the seven thatched cottage regardless of size or orientation. Gave first light.

Although the room is an impeccably good room, the decoration and arrangement in the room are unusually simple.

There are only a few pieces of furniture such as bookcases and dressing tables.

Wow...

Chu Guang slowly opened the door and returned to his room.

After entering the room and closing the door with his backhand, the expression on Chuguang's face... a dramatic change took place like magic.

The first light with a soft smile on his face just now disappeared instantly after entering the room and closing the door.

Chu Guang was expressionless and lit the candle in the room, and then sat down at the front of the bookcase.

After pulling out a piece of letter paper from under the book case and spreading the letter paper neatly on the table, Chu Guang took off the white glove on his right hand.

There are thick and round calluses on the right palm under the glove...

Chu Guang picked up the brush resting in Bishan with his right hand taking off his gloves. UU Reading www. After dipping enough ink, uukanshu.com began to write quickly on the paved letter paper.

After dancing with dragons and phoenixes on this paved letter paper, Chu Guang put down the brush and blew the ink on the paper lightly.

When the ink was dry, Chuguang rolled the letter paper, took a bamboo tube next to it, and stuffed the letter paper into the bamboo tube.

"Shibata."

Chu Guang raised his head and yelled to the ceiling.

Rumble...

The sound of the ceiling above Chuguang's head.

Kerala.

The ceiling in the corner of the room was pulled apart.

Then, a person dressed as a samurai jumped into the room along the opened ceiling-it was the guard of Hatsumi who had just partnered with Ogata: Shibata.

Before, he smiled and said to Ogata: He was the "lonely family" Shibata who was left after his original partner eloped with Hatsuko's original assistant. At this time, he knelt on one knee in front of Hatsuko with a cold face.

"Send this to the old place." Chuguang handed the bamboo tube with letter paper to Shibata.

"Yes." Shibata took the bamboo tube with both hands, then jumped and jumped back to the ceiling.

The room returned to silence, leaving only Chuguang alone.

"call…"

Chuguang let out a sigh of relief, and then lay on his back slowly, as if his whole strength was extinguished.

"Majima Goro and Majimacho..." Hatsumi looked at the ceiling above his head and spit out these two names in a low voice, "Today...what a surprise..."

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I think no readers have noticed the description of Chuguang wearing gloves when she first appeared on the stage.

The Hon Ami, who has used sword grinding and sword appraisal for generations, has inherited it until now. See "Writer's Words" below for details.