I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Before entering the village, there was a samurai rushing towards him with a sword held high-the welcome ceremony of this village is not unbelievably "grand".

The sight is dim now. Just now, the "beggar samurai" could not see clearly from a distance. After he got closer, Ogata found that there was some rust on the knife in the hands of the "beggar samurai".

Weapons like swords, if they are not treated with knife oil, they will definitely rust.

The knife in the hands of this "beggar warrior" was obviously not oiled for a long time, causing the blade to rust.

"Hey! That samurai! Stop him!"

The "Big Throat Samurai" immediately behind the "Beggar Samurai" shouted at Ogata at this time.

"This guy is a scumbag! I just thought about assaulting the girls in the village! Stop him!"

As soon as the words of the "big voice warrior" fell, some of the villagers behind him also shouted:

"Catch him! Catch him!"

"Don't let this guy run away!"

"Qingliu's daughter was almost ruined by that guy!"

Although these villagers were shouting outrageously, but-only a few young men were chasing after the "Beggar Warrior" with the "Big Throat Warrior".

Hearing these shouts of the "Big Throat Samurai" and the villagers, Ogata's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the "Beggar Samurai" in front of him.

Seeing being exposed by the "big voice warrior", the "beggar warrior" showed a desperate look.

At the same time as his expression of anger and corruption appeared on his face, a fierce light appeared in his eyes.

"Get out of my way!"

The "Beggar Samurai" with fierce eyes roared at Ogata like this.

Although his roar was quite powerful, he didn't change his appearance in the face of the roar of the "beggar warrior", but only moved his feet leisurely.

Tsuchiya, who was standing next to Ogata, silently drew the knife from his waist.

Although Tsuchiya's dress is very shabby, the knife on his waist is very beautiful.

The blade is sharp and sharp, the blade is shining with cold light, and the body is evenly coated with a layer of knife oil-at first glance, it is obvious that there are people who usually take good care of their swords.

As for Ah Ding-she also said nothing, and silently pulled out the harem that was inserted between her back waist.

Ogata, Amachi, and Tsuchiya formed a human wall and stopped in front of the "beggar samurai."

Looking at the three Ogata people who formed the human wall and stopped in front of him, the fierce light in the eyes of the "Beggar Samurai" became more intense, and he silently clenched the knife in his hand.

He intends to forcibly break through this wall of people.

And the direction he chose to break through was the direction where Ah Ting was located.

In fact, his choice is not difficult to understand.

Amachi is the only woman among the trio of Ogata, only her weapon looks the simplest on the surface-there is only one wakizashi.

Whoever it is will subconsciously regard Amachi as the weakest of the three Ogata.

However, anyone who knows the relationship between Ogata and Amachi, and who knows what strength Ogata is, knows-this "beggar samurai" draws a lot.

After the "Beggar Samurai" rushed to a distance of only 5 steps away from Ogata and the others, he slammed his feet and rushed towards Amachi.

Amachi's melee ability is weak-this is actually weak compared to Ogata and Mamiya's metamorphosis.

In terms of actual combat experience and melee combat ability alone, Ah Ding is no better than any ordinary samurai.

In the face of the "beggar warrior" who rushed towards her, Ah Ding did not change his face, only grasped the threats in his hand, and was ready to defend and counterattack.

The "Beggar Warrior" held the knife in his hand high, his posture was full of momentum, and his footwork was very flexible. At first glance, he knew that he was not the weak one.

Just when his knife was aimed at Ah Ding’s head and was about to slash straight down, the "Beggar Warrior" saw a dark figure cutting from the far right corner of his field of view at an astonishing speed, cutting horizontally to the far end of his field of view. central.

This dark shadow is Ogata.

At Ogata's current speed, before the "beggar samurai" swung down the sword in his hand, it was easy to cut between him and Amachi.

In the next moment between the "Beggar Samurai" and Amachi, Ogata quickly raised his hands.

The left hand held the hands of the "Beggar Samurai" holding the sword, and the right hand held the "Beggar Samurai"'s left shoulder, using Shiranui Jiujitsu to throw the man directly to the ground.

The "Beggar Warrior" didn't even see the appearance of the warrior who suddenly came into his field of vision. The vision of his eyes revolved, and the starry night sky appeared in front of his eyes-because he was embarrassed. It's because of the upward posture that fell to the ground.

The reaction of this "beggar warrior" was also very quick.

As soon as Ogata fell to the ground, he immediately took a sword from his arms with his left hand and stab it towards Ogata.

His moves are quite vicious, and his target is Ogata's heart.

But the speed of his sword... was so slow that Ogata didn't even have to tighten his nerves.

In Shiranui Jiu-Jitsu, there is a technique of seizing a sword and counterattacking with the seized sword.

Ogata directly used Shiranuiyu Jiujitsu's sword-grabbing skills to **** the sword from the "Beggar Samurai", then turned the sword around and pierced the heart of the "Beggar Samurai".

【Ding! Shiranui Ninjutsu·Shiranui Jiu-Jitsu, kill the enemy】

[Get 90 points for personal experience, 90 points for Ninjutsu "Shiranui Ninjutsu"]

[Current personal level: lv34 (5170/5200)]

[Shiranui Ninjutsu level: 7 stages (805/6000)]

Since the apprentices at the Hosei Sword Museum have agreed to teach swordsmanship and softness, Ogata’s various experience points have systematically increased experience points these days.

Probably the day before yesterday, Ogata's Shiranui Ninjutsu was finally upgraded due to full experience points. It reached the seventh stage and contributed 2 skill points to Ogata.

After Ogata killed the "Beggar Samurai" with one move, the "Big Throat Samurai" and the villagers who had been chasing him were finally late.

"Oh oh! Your skill is very good!" The "big voice samurai" praised Ogata with his big voice.

Just now how Ogata subdued this scum with his neat skill and how he took the knife to kill the scum, "Big Voice Samurai" just saw it clearly.

After complimenting Ogata, the "big voice samurai" turned his attention, and cast his contemptuous gaze on the "beggar samurai" who had been killed by Ogata.

"Cut...this kind of scum, it's really cheap for him to die." After that, the "big voice samurai" spat on the ground.

The villagers who came from all directions also scolded the dead "Beggar Warrior" at this time.

It's just that-there are only a few villagers who dare to spit the "beggar warrior".

Most of the villagers only dared to cast resentful glances at the "beggar warrior".

"Are you all the samurai who were invited back by other villagers?" The "big voice samurai" moved his gaze to Ogata again.

"Yeah." Ogata stood up slowly, "Are you also the samurai invited back?"

"That's right!" "Screaming Samurai" grinned, "My name is Masatomi Hosaka!"

"Majima Goro." Ogata reported to the door, and then also helped Amachi behind him to finish introducing, "This is Uchiko-Amachi."

"I'm Tsuchiya Shinsaburo." The Tsuchiya on the side also reported to the house.

"Oh, oh!" "Big Voice Samurai"-that is, Huosaka raised his eyebrows, glanced at Amachi behind Ogata, and smiled, "You have such a beautiful wife! I really envy you!"

After that, Kosaka glanced at Ogata and Tsuchiya.

"Counting you two, this village has already invited 6...ah, no, 5 samurai. It's more than I expected."

"Five?" Shuzo, who had just dodged aside, had already returned to the side of Ogata and the others.

Immediately after returning to Ogata and others, Sukezumi asked the nearby villagers:

"Have you successfully recruited 3 samurai?"

Ogata remembers that Suke Sanyu told him-their village sent several groups of people to various nearby towns and towns to hire samurai.

People like Huosaka should be the samurai that the other villagers who had invited the samurai from other towns and cities successfully brought in.

"To be precise-four samurai." Huosaka shrugged, and then snarled at the "beggar samurai" at his feet. "This guy is also one of the samurai invited back."

"But this guy has a bad mind and is a scumbag."

"This guy was brought back to this village this morning."

"As soon as he came to this village, he walked around sneakily."

"I think there is something wrong with this guy, so I have been paying attention to him. I will follow him secretly wherever he goes."

"Then just now, this guy finally showed his feet."

"He just sneaked into a certain family's home, intending to assault that family's daughter."

"Because I have been paying attention to him, I rushed in in time, planning to slash the scumbag."

"But this guy runs really fast. I don't know if he has practiced before and let him escape from my knife."

"What happened next, I shouldn't need to say more."

"This guy is also unlucky. He ran into you as soon as he escaped."

Huosaka raised his eyes and looked at Ogata and others.

"Is that girl okay?" Ah Ding asked.

"It's okay." Huosaka waved his hand. "As soon as this scum rushed into the room with his front feet, I rushed in with my hind feet. This scum could not even have time to tear his clothes apart. It was just that the girl seemed to suffer. A little frightened."

"This scumbag doesn't really want to help this village."

"He probably felt that this was an opportunity to enter other people's villages in a fair manner, so he pretended to be willing to help."

"Then after entering the village, it became clear."

"When he came to this village this morning, the reason he was sneaking around was probably because he was looking for a more beautiful woman."

"This kind of scum is really annoying..."

Huosaka raised his hand and grabbed his cheek.

"It is because of such scumbags that our samurai's reputation is corrupted."

"In short, this is the case-the villagers originally invited four warriors."

"Then one of them is a scum who plots wrongdoing, and has fallen here. So there are three left."

"Counting you 2 newcomers, there are now 5 samurai in this village."

Hosaka Chao Ogata and others raised five fingers.

At this moment, a man with a weathered face rubbed his hands and walked slowly towards Huosaka.

"Samurai-sama..."

This man looks like he is in his 40s, but his voice is very young. Just listening to his voice will make him feel that he is only in his early 30s.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Huosaka looked at the man.

"I'm Ah Jiao... Ah, that's the father of the girl who was almost defiled by the samurai. I have heard about the specific incident from Ah Jiao."

The man bowed deeply to Huosaka.

"Thank you very, very much for saving my daughter."

"Hahahaha!" Huosaka let out a hearty laugh, "It's just a little help! How is your daughter now? Is she still crying?"

"Still crying..." The man smiled bitterly, "Her mother is now with her. Alas... Her mother and I just left home for a while because of something, and something like this happened... "

"Are you still crying..." Huosaka raised his hand and scratched his cheeks, "That's really difficult... I don't know how to stop a woman from crying... Well, in any case, you and your couple will spend more time tonight. Stay with your daughter, comfort her or something."

Gu...

At this moment, Huosaka's stomach suddenly made a small noise.

"Oh..." Huosaka, who had no shame on his face, patted his stomach, "My stomach is really spiritual, and I will scream as soon as I get a meal."

After all, Huosaka turned to look at the villagers not far away.

"Hey! It's time to order now! Can I cook?"

"Yes, yes!" An older elder of the villagers nodded hurriedly, "We are going to prepare dinner for you now!"

"In order to come to this village, you must be very tired too!"

Huosaka turned his head and glanced at Ogata and others.

"Let's eat together! You can also meet the other two samurai while eating."

"The rice in this village is quite fragrant, and the uncle who is in charge of cooking for us is quite good at cooking."

...

...

Inside a fairly spacious wooden house made of wood and thatch in the village----

Huhu...

Hot air flowed out along the gap in the lid, turning into thin winds after another.

This house is a very common type of house in the countryside of this era-there is only one room.

There is only one room in the whole house, and this room is used as both a hall and a dormitory.

The owner of the house eats, drinks, sleeps, and entertains guests in the only room...

At this moment, there are 7 people in this house.

Ogata, Amachi, Tsuchiya, Hosaka, two samurai whose names Ogata does not yet know, and an old man sitting next to the pot watching the fire.

According to Huosaka just now, this old man is one of the villagers. The person responsible for cooking for their gang of samurai is called Yozo.

The warriors invited by the villagers gathered here at this time.

Ogata, Amachi, and Tsuchiya were just brought in and sat down on the floor.

Just sitting down on the floor, Ouji looked at the two samurai in front of him who didn't know their names.

Each of these two samurai has its own characteristics.

One of them is very young and should be only 17 years old.

He was a little cautious. After the strangers came in, Ogata didn't even know how to put his hands off.

The other person is a little older, and his age is probably in the range of 25 to 30 years old.

He was sitting from start to finish, his waist and neck were straight, and his eyes were not squinted. There is a bit of grace in every gesture.

At first glance, you can tell that it is the kind of well-educated person.

If it wasn't because the clothes on his body were worn and old, others would definitely think he was the son of a samurai family.

Huosaka stretched out his right arm at this time and embraced the very cautious young samurai.

"This is my apprentice-Mizuno Yogoro."

As soon as Huosaka's words fell, the young samurai who was wrapped around his shoulders quickly bowed his head to Ogata and the others.

"Yoshino Yogoro, please advise!"

After Huosaka and Mizuno had both introduced themselves, the samurai who was sitting not far away from the two of them with an elegant gesture of gestures also opened his lips and whispered:

"Jin Chengsheng. Please advise."

After Mizuno and Kinjo introduced themselves, Ogata and others also introduced themselves.

Huosaka, Mizuno, Kinjo, Tsuchiya, plus Ogata-not counting the scum samurai who has been killed by Ogata, these are the 5 samurai currently invited by this village.

"Huosaka, Mizuno, Jincheng, Tsuchiya..." Huosaka grinned, "We are really destined. If there is another name with the word ‘wood’ in the last name, it will just be the five elements.

Huosaka's complaint made the faces of everyone present involuntarily show a little smile.

"The rice is ready." The old man named Yozo who was in charge of preparing meals for Ogata and others said as he lifted the lid of the pot.

Tuan Tuan's milky white steam came out as the lid of the pot was lifted.

Inside the pot is full of white rice.

The only side dishes the villagers prepared for Ogata were pickles and radishes.

No fish, no tofu, and no soup.

But judging from the current situation of the village, pickles and radishes should be the best food the villagers can produce.

After Yuzo said that the rice was simmered and ready to be eaten, Ogata and the others feasted on it.

Since leaving the domain, Ogata has been living a life that is neither lavish nor formal, so he doesn't feel much about dinner tonight.

But Huosaka is different.

Just by looking at their clothes, you can see that what they usually live must be the days when they had their last meal and not the next.

So after Yuzao unveiled the pot, Huosaka and others immediately beamed their eyes.

After receiving his own bowl of rice from Yozo, it immediately looked like a pig hunching over the rice in his hands.

When leaving for this village today, Tsuchiya told Ogata that the reason why he agreed to come to this village to help was only to be able to eat white rice.

Therefore, among all the people, the Tuya eats the most urgently and hunkers hardest.

Huosaka's eating style is very contrasting with his rough appearance-eating quite boldly.

Is it worthy of being a master and apprentice? Compared with Huosaka, Mizuno's heroic taste is worse than Huosaka.

After eating, Mizuno was like a general on the battlefield, and compared with the restrained appearance just now, he was nothing like two people.

As for Jin Cheng-he also maintained an elegant posture when he was eating in time.

Keep your waist and neck straight, shoulders relaxed, hold the rice bowl in front of your chest, and when you use chopsticks to deliver the food to your mouth, only the tips of the chopsticks are wetted a little bit.

Huosaka is the kind of person who is quite familiar and lively, and he keeps talking about it when eating.

Thanks to the liveliness of Huosaka, the meal was not too dull, and at the same time, Ogata learned through the mouth of Huosaka that Huosaka and Mizuno were the first to come to this village.

The two of them went to the village in the evening the day before yesterday.

Then this morning, the "beggar warrior" arrived in the village.

Jincheng arrived in the village this afternoon.

And Ogata and the others are the last batch, just arrived.

Jincheng's appetite seems to be very small.

After only eating a bowl, he put down the bowl that he had eaten without a grain of rice in his hand, then folded his hands together, and whispered, "I'm full."

Even putting his hands together and bowing his head to the bowl in front of him is so graceful.

Huosaka sat beside Jincheng.

After squinting at Jin Cheng next to him, he grinned and asked aloud:

"Jincheng, since the first time I saw you this afternoon, I have noticed that you are very temperamental, standing and sitting and sitting."

"I didn't expect to have such a taste even when eating."

"You should be the child of a big family, right?"

Regarding Huosaka's question, Jincheng remained silent.

Facing the silent Jincheng, Huosaka immediately said:

"Well, if you don't want to say more about your past, I won't force you to say it."

"No." As soon as Huosaka's words fell, Jin Cheng said immediately, "There is nothing shady in my past. If you are curious, I would be happy to say that I can just pass the leisure time after dinner."

Jin Cheng took the water cup on the side, took a sip of the water in the cup, and slowly said his past.

It turned out that Jincheng really came from a big family.

He was born in a family in Edo with a Kimoto family of 3,500 shibei.

3,500 shi-it's not a big deal among the Kibmoto samurai in Edo, but it is an unattainable figure for the middle and lower-level samurai everywhere.

While living a life of worrying about food and clothing, he also undergoes rigorous education.

At first glance, Jincheng seems to be living a life that ordinary people admire.

But in fact, life in Jincheng is quite hard.

Because-he is the third son of the family.

"Oh?" Huosaka raised his eyebrows, "You turned out to be Esuke?"

"Yeah." Jincheng nodded, "Yes."

Esuke—those who do not inherit the family's salary.

In the Edo period, Japan also followed the eldest son inheritance system.

The family business is inherited by the eldest son.

Those who do not inherit the family business are called "Esuke".

Jin Cheng is the third son of the family, and there are two older brothers in front of him. If it comes to inheriting the family business, no matter how round it is, it will not be his turn.

From some perspectives, "Esuke" is also a miserable group of people.

Because they cannot inherit the family business, they can only find their own way out.

Some families are more kind, and they will raise the elves in the family.

However, some families are not so friendly to the Erjies, adopting a stocking policy to the Erjies, letting them find their own way, or directly throwing them some unremarkable jobs, so that they will not starve to death.

Where is the way out for the samurai so easy to find?

Due to various reasons such as class attributes, there are many jobs that are actually unwilling to recruit samurai, or samurai can't do it directly.

Jincheng's family belonged to the type that was not very friendly to the Erjies.

Jincheng's father randomly found a job for Jincheng as a guardian for another family, Kibmoto.

Jin Cheng, who didn't want to take care of the nursing home and was only interested in swordsmanship, simply left his hometown with his own sword to practice martial arts.

Before I knew it, I wandered here.

Huo Ban grinned after listening to Jin Cheng talking about his past quietly:

"In that case, you are doing martial arts training. Would you like to wander with us in the future? Let's form a team that specializes in catching wanted criminals to live by."

"Catch the wanted criminal?" Jin Cheng was puzzled.

Sitting across from Hoosaka, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyes and look at Hoosaka.

"My apprentice and I are wandering around now, and live by catching wanted criminals."

While talking, Huosaka took out a large wad of crumpled paper from his arms and showed it to Ogata and others.

"This is the wanted order I have collected so far. After I finish helping in this village, I will continue to look for these wanted criminals with my apprentice."

Looking at the bunch of wanted orders that Hoosaka showed them, the look in Ogata and Amachi's eyes became weird.

Because... the first picture of this wanted list, there is a face that Ogata is very familiar with.

Ogata: "Can you show me these wanted orders?"

"Take it! Just look at it!"

Huosaka directly squeezed all the wanted warrants in his hand to Ogata.

After receiving the wad of wanted orders, Ogata directly picked up the wanted order placed on the top.

——It's so ugly no matter how you look at it...I didn't draw my handsomeness at all...

The first one placed on the top of Hosaka’s wanted order is Ogata’s wanted order...

Ogata always felt that his wanted warrant made him ugly.

But the strange thing is-those bounty hunters can always accurately recognize him through the wanted warrant...

And what hurts Ogata most is that-Amachi once told Ogata once: Isn't this wanted order painted like you!

The "heartache" that this sentence left on Ogata still remains.

"You still want to catch Ogata Ichitosai?" Ogata raised his wanted order.

"How is that possible!" Huosaka laughed, "Isn't it clear how many catties I have? I'm going to catch Ogata Iichizai? I don't have enough heads to cut!"

"I just took Ogata Ichitosai's wanted order with me. If one day I really meet Ogata Ichitosai, I will definitely run away without saying a word!"

Ogata turned his gaze back to the wanted order in his hand~www.readwn.com~ Ogata Ichitosai is now offering a reward of 500 taels... I remember he used to offer a reward of 300 taels..."

As soon as he got this wanted warrant, Ogata noticed that his bounty had risen.

It has risen to 500 taels.

Since leaving Kyoto, Ogata has never paid attention to his wanted warrant.

This is the first time Ogata got his wanted warrant since he left Kyoto. Only now did Ogata learn that his bounty had risen so much.

"This is the latest wanted order!" Hosaka said, "I also just got it a month ago! After Ogata Itosai broke the Nijo Castle in Kyoto, the shogunate raised Ogata's bounty from 300 taels. To 500 taels."

"Ogata Itosai should be the most valuable wanted criminal right now." A bit of longing appeared on Hosaka's face, "500 taels...With 500 taels, I don't need to work anymore in the second half of my life."