In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 264: Wuxin Pavilion (2)

The Japanese-style courtyard surrounding the Wuxin Pavilion is mostly piled up with elements such as moss, gravel, stones, and evergreen trees.

The surface of the stacked rocks outside the wooden corridor is covered with moss, and the dwarf pine stretches zigzagging beside it, with lush needles and shimmering in the sun.

thump~
The ethereal bamboo sounds are like knocking wooden fish.

Uesugi Kai followed behind Sakakibara Anise and Uesugi Shio, and saw a small bamboo tube next to a stone lantern from the side.

With the fine water flowing down from above, the bamboo tube protruding from the head is filled with water, the balance at both ends of the bamboo tube shifts, and the tail falls backwards, making a crisp "boom" sound when hitting a stone.

This thing is called Tianshui, which is a small bamboo tube that often appears in Japanese gardens and can make sounds.

The original function is to use sound to drive away birds and insects, after subsequent evolution.

Gradually, it was endowed with a sense of Zen and became a standard form of landscape design in Japanese gardens.

The fine water and the sound of bamboo are really fun to decompress in the secluded courtyard.

Uesugi Kai felt that it would be very good to live in such an environment in the future.

E.g,

A space is separated in the house, covered with fine sand, some rocks and green grass are ingeniously piled up, and then a few stone lanterns are decorated with small bamboo spoons and bamboo refills that provide water sources on the top.

In your spare time, you can watch the soft water and the green moss and leaves.

The sound of water and the sound of bamboo complement each other, and you will feel elegant when you wash your hands here.

Well, what an elegant fart.

Kai Uesugi just thought it was fun to look at. He likes the small and natural feeling in the large space. He only feels decompression and never thinks it is so-called elegant.

The word elegance can only be said to oneself by others, and cannot be judged by oneself.

In any case, the big house is bright and spacious, and you can raise flowers and pets if you have nothing to do.

The two arrived at Isshin Sakakibara's room. After Sakakibara Nananxiang saluted, she closed the door from the outside and walked along the stone path to find Hanamaru Hanabi who was waiting in the side room.

Uesugi Kai found that the uncle had been staring at him, without speaking for a long time.

"This year, you should go to the competition, right?"

Shio Uesugi looked back and forth between the two of them, and finally heard the uncle's words.

"You can participate, but it is not necessary." Uesugi Kai said.

Sakakibara glanced at him intently, "Bonus trophies and honor and fame, isn't it good?"

"It's not very useful."

"Self-cultivation, the way of life, training will and thinking, when you want something but can't get it, you can still continue to stick to it."

"Sounds great, but I think I have it all."

Uncle Sakakibara smiled knowingly, "I'm quite confident in myself."

He knew that Uesugi Kai was using these words to evade, but he was actually afraid of being tired and didn't want to wear a heavy kendo uniform and a kendo name bag to swing the bamboo sword.

To be honest, it had been a long time since he had seen this "apprentice" pick up a bamboo knife.

I don't know what level it is now.

"This time in the Kyoto Prefecture Open, Xio lost the match, you know that, right?"

Kai Uesugi glanced at his cousin, still not thinking that she would lose to someone who was one year younger than her peers.

She has been exposed to kendo since she was a child, and she practices it every day.

In the past, losing to someone much older than her was a rare occurrence.

When the third year of high school came into contact with Weixin Yidao style through the uncle, he never lost.

"know."

"People born in the Heisei era live too comfortably. At least in the field of kendo, I have few people who work as hard as Xi. She wants to participate in this year's national kendo competition, and she has put in a lot of sweat for it."

"Skills are not as good as people, it's nothing." Uesugi Shio said softly.

"Skills are not as good as people? Under those conditions, you still have hope!" Sakakibara Yixin said, "It's just a pity that the two referees deliberately took sides, and a good kendo competition turned into a swordsmanship competition."

Kaoru Uesugi lowered his head slightly, thought for a while, and then asked, "Who is the other party?"

"Akizuki's paternal daughter, a four-level swordsman with two swords." Sakakibara replied Yixin for Shio Uesugi.

The kendo rank indicates the lower limit and does not represent the real level.

Most young people are just stuck with qualifications and cannot be promoted in advance.

Of course, there are also special channels that can be promoted in advance, but whether you can pass it depends on the relationship behind you.

"Dual sword style is rare." Uesugi said.

Seeing him coming, Sakakibara asked interestedly, and said with a smile, "Why, are you interested in participating in the competition?"

"Just curious. Besides, sister Xi is participating in the women's competition. Even if I want to save face for our dojo, it's not my turn."

"As long as you think about it, what is impossible? It's not that you can't kick the gym in kendo. If you want to save face for your senior sister, I'll just take you there."

If Uesugi Kai agrees to go, it will only give the senior sister a weak reputation of relying on the junior to earn back face.

She has to go by herself.

咚咚
knocking.

"Mr. Teacher Fan."

"Come in." Sakakibara was determined to recognize who it was, and shouted to the door.

It is the afternoon of the weekend, and there are many apprentices from the dojo practicing kendo here.

Kaoru Uesugi didn't know who he was, but he recognized him as one of the apprentices.

"Mr. Teacher Fan!"

As soon as the person in the kendo uniform came in, he immediately got down on the ground and said in a sincere and sincere tone, "I beg you to take the time to guide us in cultivation today."

"Get up, I don't like people begging me like this, and you are the same, don't you understand after studying here for a few years?"

Bin Yuehui was sitting in front of the uncle after hearing what he said.

Sakakibara Yixin smiled and said, "Isn't Mr. Shifan Dai's teaching not good?"

The man raised his head and said falteringly, "That's not true."

"Since you have learned something, why do you want me to teach you?" Sakakibara waved his hands repeatedly, "Let's go, you know where I want to go, and the teaching is not complete."

"But Mr. Shi Fan Dai has a broken right hand and has been lying in the hospital for two weeks."

"What else?" Sakakibara said with a shocked expression.

"Miss Qifenxiang didn't tell you?" The man also had a shocked expression.

When Uesugi saw this, he guessed that the cheap master definitely didn't care about it. Sakakibara Anise must have reminded him several times, but the uncle forgot it in a blink of an eye.

"Ahem. No!" Sakakibara pressed her fists to her mouth, as if trying to cover it up, "It's all the fault of that girl Anise, and she didn't say a word to me about such a big matter... Uh... so you have been doing it for the past two weeks What?"

The man glanced sideways at Uesugi Shio.

"Senior sister and Mr. Shi Fan are not here, so we can only practice Suzhen by ourselves first."

"Where are Fujimaki, Tatemaru, and Kagami?"

"The brothers are all participating in their respective competitions, saying that there is no time to guide."

No matter how long you let go, you can't find anyone in this ashram?
Sakakibara contemplated for a second, then looked at Uesugi Kai: "Go, love."

Bin Yuehui followed Sakakibara Isshin's gaze and looked at Uesugi Kai.

He thought carefully and recalled the faces he had seen in the dojo. Who is he?What, I don't know you.

"No." Uesugi Kai said calmly.

Sakakibara listened to his answer, and her heart skipped a beat. It was too embarrassing for herself, "I'll pay you."

Bin Yuehui was shocked when he heard that Mr. Shi Fan actually wanted to pay him.

Is this still a student learning kendo in the dojo?
They paid a lot of money to learn kendo here.

When Uesugi Kai heard that there was a salary, he frowned, "How much?"

Hmph, do you want the lion to open its mouth?
Sakakibara knew his thoughts wholeheartedly. One of the reasons why this kid agreed to be his disciple was probably because he thought he was rich.

"Well, I'm usually not in the dojo, and I don't even know the teaching price of the teacher's class. You can follow Bin Yuehui to find Qifenxiang and ask."

The uncle with the second-degree disease did not fall into the second degree, but became an old fox instead.

Kaoru Uesugi understood what the uncle meant.

Here he is.

Sakakibara Anise's face is better than Uncle's.

One is because she is a senior sister and treats people politely, and the other is that she has a good relationship with Huahuo and often treats her to eat.

Want Uesugi Kai to ask his senior sister for a large sum of money?

Anyway, he couldn't do it.

So... it's better to directly point it out now.

Kai Uesugi stretched out five fingers:
"500."

Outrageous! ! !

Uncle Sakakibara's heart skipped a beat with the 500 million yen, his eyebrows twitched, what class is worth 500 million yen! ?
how much is this?

A person's annual salary.

Besides, do you guys have that level of lectures?

Sakakibara Yixin reluctantly stretched out five fingers: "5."

Bin Yuehui heard that Uesugi shouted 500 million, and felt that he was whimsical. Even Wuxinkan, the monthly tuition fee was only 47000 yen, and he also brought a set of utensils.

Uesugi Shio also looked at him speechlessly, his master was still blackmailing like this.

"500 million." Uesugi Kai remained the same sentence, without any change.

"Ahem. Dear student, I am very embarrassed when you look like this. The salary of the teacher's generation is not as high as yours."

Uncle Sakakibara is very rich.

I don't know why a kendo field is so rich and can have such a large courtyard in Chiyoda District.

In a general sword dojo, it is fine if you don’t spend money to maintain it, and you still hope to make money.

Kaoru Uesugi put down his hand: "Of course I have my value in saying that."

Sakakibara didn't believe it wholeheartedly. Although 500 million was not much to him, it was still a lot.

"Tell me what is your worth?"

"It can improve your single-minded style."

"Go, go, go! Can I not know what's going on?" Sakakibara said angrily.

"Really?" Uesugi asked back.

"No! You won a national championship for me and then tell me this, don't say 500 million, I will give you 5000 million!"

Hearing 5000 million, Bin Yuehui only thought Mr. Teacher Fan was speaking out of anger.

By the way, who is he?

Bin Yuehui looked at Uesugi Oki again.

Mr. Shi Fan seems to be very concerned about his appearance.

5000.
Uesugi Kai did not expect Uncle Sakakibara to be able to say so much money at will, and that casual attitude does not seem like bragging.

If combined with the first place in kendo events, the state will give bonuses.

Wouldn't he and Huahuo have the money to buy the big house?
It's not easy to earn that much money nowadays.

One is to debut as an artist and accept advertisements, and the top popular stars can earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

For example, Yui Aragaki, with an annual income of 2 million yen, ranks sixth.

The first Ayase Haruka, 5 million yen.

The second is writers and cartoonists, who are well-known for being adapted into film and television animations, with more than one billion.

But this is the top, and most cartoonists have had a bad time in the early stage.

It is normal to have to work part-time to support yourself, eat Nissin Cup Noodles every day and keep practicing.

The room for improvement in Japanese society is basically blocked.

Physicians, aviation pilots, university professors, bank clerks and other top ten occupations, which ones do you need to be from a prestigious university?

Pursue happy education, reduce the difficulty of exercises, do not publish test results, do not increase pressure on students, and reduce lecture content for students
Want to go to university?

If you don't have money, you can't afford to go to university, and most schools don't teach it?Where do you learn from?
Most of them graduated from high school to work hard.

Only professions like baseball, writers, and cartoonists have the slightest chance of breaking out of class.

That's why people often say: what you get in Jiashien is your future life.

He is well-known in the archery world, but even in Japan, archery is still a minority.

He also can't take this championship to make some big gains.

Uesugi Kai turned his head and said to Bin Yuehui, "Let's go first."

Sakakibara looked at him wholeheartedly: "You agreed?"

"5 is 5." Uesugi Kai stood up, "It is your loss that you failed to give me 500 million."

Sakakibara Isshin shook his head and laughed, and picked up the teacup on the table:
"I just like your arrogant self-confidence, Aishu."

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Uesugi Kai led Bin Yuehui out of Uncle Sakakibara's room, it was afternoon and the sun was shining brightly.

After stepping on a few stepping stones in the courtyard, I walked to the corridor to hide from the sun.

"Senior brother's name?" Bin Yuehui looked much older than him, but he still called senior brother.

"Uesugi Kai." Uesugi Kai walked ahead, feeling that it was a bit strange to be called Senior Brother, "Do you usually use Senior Brother as your address?"

"Wuxin Hall learns ancient swordsmanship, and everyone here calls it that."

Uesugi?It seems that I should know my senior sister, maybe my younger brother, Bin Yuehui thought to himself.

"Hmm," Kai Uesugi responded, and continued walking along the corridor, "How is your strength?"

"Most of them are three-stage."

Three sections?

It seems that the apprentices in the Wuxin hall are also very good.

Yuya Takenouchi, a third-year student at the University of Tsukuba next door, is a fourth-dan winner of the national championship.

Before him, they were all police officers from Section [-], [-], and [-] of the Metropolitan Police Department.

In the past, Kai Uesugi has seen five-dan peers. For example, Hanabi’s cousin Hanamaru Nobuki is five-dan, and the head of Waseda High School is also five-dan.

The strength is really good, but not yet at the level of winning the championship.

In this way, the kendo rank is really the lower limit, as for the upper limit
You only know when you hit it.

"Excuse me for being abrupt, may I ask how old is your senior brother?" Bin Yuehui was observing Uesugi Kai, how strong is this senior who seems to be under 20 years old?

Mr. Shi Fan had that kind of attitude towards him just now.

He was very curious about his origin.

"Me? I didn't pass the exam." Uesugi Kai said.

There are also many masters who have not passed the Duan exam, Bin Yuehui thought in his heart, raised his head and continued to ask:
"Then what competitions has the senior brother participated in?"

The competition is the most revealing of the gold content. Mr. Shi Fan is willing to let him be the guide of everyone, at least he is also a person with achievements.

The game should also have won several firsts.

"No."

Kai Uesugi could see that this person didn't seem to believe him, but it didn't matter, he didn't care whether he listened to what he taught himself later, "If I have to say it, I participated in a sports festival in high school once."

(End of this chapter)