I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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Chuguang left without any hesitation.

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

After there were only Sawaidaemon, Ogata, and Atachi left in the room, Sawaidaemon let out a long sigh.

"People who can be friends with that guy are indeed not ordinary people." The "that guy" mentioned by Satodaemon naturally refers to Fuma.

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

"If you want to ask who the two of us are, please forgive me for not being able to comment." Ogata said in a half-joking tone at this time.

"I didn't even intend to ask. Sometimes, the more ignorant the merrier. This is one of my principles."

"What's more, you are still a friend of Lord Feng. Since I am a friend of that person, I don't want to ask who you are. After all, I have suffered from this kind of thing before."

After finishing speaking, Satodaemon took out a piece of letter paper from the cabinet next to him.

"It doesn't matter who you are to me, as long as I know that you have helped me a lot. Thank you both for helping me tonight."

"If you two didn't show up in time, I really don't know where to find someone who can fill the vacancy of Chuguang's guard and assistant."

"Here, this is the agreed reward."

Sodaemon handed the letter paper in his hand to Ogata.

"The address written above is the residence of Yu Er, the sword maker."

"Thank you." Ogata took the letter.

"You've found the right person for Yu Erxiu Dao." Zuo Tianweimen said with a smile. "Although Yu Er is not well-known, his skills in casting and repairing knives can be described as being at the pinnacle."

"As far as I know, everyone around me who has found Yu Er to cast and repair knives, all of them are full of praise for Yu Er's skills."

"It is said that Yoji was a descendant of the well-known Hon-Ami family before, and the knife repairing technique he used is the grinding technique passed down from generation to generation by the Hon-Ami family."

"Honami?" Ogata raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Is he still from the Honami family?"

The Honami family was famous in the Edo period.

Their family has been grinding swords and appraising swords for generations.

It can be said that there are many people who want to find Ben Ami's sword repair and appreciation.

When it comes to sword grinding, the Benami family calls them second, and I am afraid that no other family dares to call them first.

"It's just a rumor. I don't know if it's true or not." Saitaemon shrugged, "But whether he is the descendant of the Honami family or not, there is no doubt that his sword repairing skills are at the pinnacle."

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

"He is a weirdo who doesn't like to deal with people, but only with knives."

"To put it simply, he is a knife idiot."

"I don't pursue fame and wealth, and I never forged or repaired knives specifically for fame and money, so I still don't have much fame until now, and I live in such a remote place, living a life like a hermit."

"With his ability, living a wealthy life is an easy thing."

"Sword crazy?" Ogata murmured, and turned his gaze to the letter paper in his hand with Yuji's residence written on it.

A faint smile appeared on his face.

Hearing what Sodaemon said just now, he couldn't help but become more interested in this unmasked swordsmith.

Ogata and A-Machi walked side by side to the first floor of Nanakusa House, preparing to leave Nanakusa House.

"When are you going to find that Yoji?" A-machi Asaogata asked.

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

After finishing speaking, Ogata shrugged and added:

"I hope that Yu Er is a swordsmith who lives up to my expectations. I don't want to come all the way to Osaka to be happy."

"Mr. Mashima, Miss Mashima."

When Ogata and Atachi were talking and laughing, a beautiful young female voice suddenly sounded behind them.

"Miss Chuguang?" Ogata looked behind him in surprise, at Chuguang, the owner of the young female voice just now.

Chu Guang, who folded his white-gloved hands in front of him, smiled, and walked slowly towards them from behind the two of them.

"Tonight, I have really worked hard for you." Chu Guang bowed deeply to Ogata and the others, "Thank you very much."

"You're too much." Ogata had a good impression of the polite and gentle Chu Guang, so he immediately returned the courtesy politely, "We didn't do anything serious tonight."

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

"I'm not very good at dealing with people like Yukimura-sama who are more domineering and powerful."

At this time, Chuguang smiled sweetly and changed into a mischievous tone.

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

"I'm afraid that if Mr. Yukimura insists on me going to perform at their place, what should I do? Mr. Yukimura is terrible, and the rules and punishments of our seven-grass house are equally terrible."

"Fortunately, with you here, this matter was able to end decently and safely."

"Please allow me to say thank you again."

Hatsune bowed to Ogata and Atachi again.

"You really flattered me. My wife and I did nothing in essence." Ogata smiled wryly and returned the salute again.

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

"I heard from Mr. Satodaemon: You are only filling in the vacancies of my assistants and guards tonight, and you will not come again after that. Is this true?" Chuguang asked.

"Yeah. It's true." Ogata nodded, "For some reason tonight, I'm just helping Satodaemon."

"Is that so?" A conspicuous look of disappointment appeared on Chuguang's face, but soon the look of disappointment turned into a smile again, "If you two need anything in the future, you can come to me. "

"I'm happy to meet friends and help them out."

"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 Chuguang showed a completely different state from when he was playing the piano at the banquet just now.

If we say that Chuguang, who just played the piano at the banquet, is like a fairy who does not eat fireworks.

So now Chuguang is like an ordinary cheerful girl.

Looking at Chu Guang with a gentle smile on his face, the corners of Ogata's mouth unconsciously turned up slightly.

"Well. When you are free and have a chance in the future, my wife and I will visit again."

"Yeah! I welcome you anytime!"

Chuguang is now planning to go back to his room, while Ogata and the others are planning to leave the Seven Grass House. The two sides happen to be on the same road for a while, so the two of them naturally started walking together.

"By the way, Miss Chuguang, I have a question that I've always wanted to ask you. I wonder if you are inconvenient to answer." When walking with Chuguang, Ogata asked Chuguang abruptly.

"Huh? Just ask. Anything I can answer, I'll tell you everything!"

"Not a big deal. I just wanted to ask why you keep wearing those gloves?"

Ogata turned his gaze to Hatsumitsu's pair of gloved hands folded in front of him.

"When I saw you playing the piano at the banquet just now, you kept wearing these gloves and didn't take them off."

It's kind of rare to play the piano with gloves on.

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

No matter in the previous life or in the present life, Ogata seldom saw people playing the piano with gloves on.I met such a strange person tonight.

"Oh, well, there's no particular reason for this. It's just because I was accidentally burned to the back of my left hand before, which resulted in an ugly scar on the back of my left hand. To cover this scar, I wore gloves."

"It felt weird to wear only one left glove, so I just wore two."

After all, Hatsumitsu, who had been smiling all the time, took off his left glove with his left hand turned away from Ogata and Machi.

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

The skin on the back of her left hand was like a mass of wet toilet paper that had been roughly rubbed.

The dark red ugly skin was in stark contrast to the delicate and fair skin elsewhere in Chuguang.

The burnt back of Hatsumi's left hand made Ogata and A-Machi's eyes sparkle with surprise.

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

"It's okay." Chu Guang, with a smile on his face that never faded, put the glove on his left hand again, "I don't really care about the injury, but I'm an artist who makes a living by playing the piano after all. No matter what, I have to pay attention to my image, so I can only wear these gloves all the time.”

Ogata and Chu Guang only had a short corridor on the same road, so in a blink of an eye, it was time for the two to part ways.

Ogata and A-machi watched Chuguang walking towards the stairs not far away, and they didn't look away until they could no longer see Chuguang, and continued to walk outside Nanakusa House.

When he was about to pass through the gate of Nanakusa House, A-Machi suddenly said in a tone of admiration:

"What an excellent girl! It's not without reason that she can become the No. [-] entertainer in Osaka."

Chuguang's polite and gentle appearance was also impressed

"If I have a chance in the future, I'd like to ask Miss Chuguang how her parents raised her."

At this time, Machi changed into a half-joking tone.

"I want to learn how other people raise their children. When we both have our own children, we will raise our children so well."

"You think so far." Ogata laughed dumbly, "We don't even have a child now, so you just think about how to raise offspring."

"It's called planning for a rainy day." A-machi gave Ogata a blank look, and then patted her flat stomach and slender waist.

"Don't you want our children to be as polite and gentle as Miss Chuguang?" After inexplicably bringing up the topic of children, A-Ming seemed not to want to skip this topic so quickly.

"A child?" Ogata touched the back of his neck, "For me, as long as the child can grow up safely and healthily, that's fine."

"It's best to have your own achievements."

"I don't care if I'm just an ordinary person without any achievements."

"Would you ask your child to become a certain kind of person in the future? For example, he also wants to be a samurai with excellent swordsmanship." A-Machi still did not skip the topic of "child".

"I haven't thought about this problem, but rather than being a samurai with great sword skills, I hope my children can study more, and then become a teacher, a doctor, open a private school in Kyoto or somewhere else. A medical center or something, this one is more promising."

"Hey." A-cho's beautiful eyes were full of surprise, "I thought you would pass on your swordsmanship to your descendants."

Hearing Ah-Machi's words, Ogata smiled wryly.

There is no future for learning swords

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 sword skills would be eliminated by the times.

Compared with learning swords, it is more promising to read books and delve into knowledge, especially the study of Lanxue, which is the collective name for Western scientific and cultural knowledge in the Edo period.

While they were talking, the two had already left the gate of Seven Grass House.

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

"Oh! You two finally came out!"

Just now, Mucun, who had been squatting and waiting by the gate of the Seven Grass House with his big sword on his shoulder, stood up quickly and faced Ogata and the others.

"Sorry." Ogata smiled apologetically at Mucun, "I kept you waiting."

After the banquet ended hastily, Ogata and the others left Xutian House and returned to Nanicao House, Mucun also followed. He had been waiting quietly for Ogata and A-Ming outside Nanicao House just now.

"It's all right." Mu Cun let out his signature hearty laugh.

"Let's find a place to have a good chat." Ogata said, "I have a mountain of questions to ask you."

"Me too, I also have a lot of questions to ask about you." Mu Cun said, "Then let's go to the place where we live now. It's not too far from here, let's talk slowly."

Not long after Ogata and the others left the Seven Grass House

Osaka, Shinmachi, Seven Grass House

"Miss Chuguang, good evening!"

"Good evening, Miss Chuguang!"

The two maids in the seven-grass house greeted Chuguang who was walking towards them, and bowed in salute.

"Yeah." A gentle smile bloomed on Chuguang's cheeks. While responding to the question marks of the two maids, Chuguang also bowed back, "Good evening, too. Are you going to wipe the floor?"

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