I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"So as long as you take off the glasses, it is tantamount to taking away the biggest feature, and it will not be so easy for the officials of the shogunate to recognize him as 'Liuguang Hachiman' Mamiya Kurō."

"Hey! You bastard! What kind of eyes do you have?!"

As soon as Jiangong finished speaking, a loud shout from not far away suddenly attracted everyone's attention.

Ogata is taller than most people in this era, so he can see what happened just by turning his head.

"Master Ogata! What happened over there?" Shimada, who is only 1 meters tall, couldn't see what happened to the source of the sound due to his vision, so he could only ask Ogata.

"It's nothing." Ogata said softly, "It's just 'sheathing'."

The samurai sword is known as the soul of the samurai. In the eyes of most samurai, the sword at the waist is more important than life.

So there will always be murders related to knives.

All the samurai wear their swords on their left waists. When walking in a narrow street, when they pass by others, it is inevitable that they will touch other people's swords, or others will touch their own swords.

Some people with a hot temper and some problems in their heads may go to war on the grounds of "you touched my knife, you stained my knife".

Over time, the term "sheath" was born in the Edo period.

Over time, the meaning of "sheath" has been expanded.

Now, sheath can be used to describe: quarreling over little things and jealousy among men.

The one who yelled just now was a middle-aged samurai with a rough appearance and a rather scruffy appearance.

This "rough warrior" was glaring at a young warrior with a neatly shaved Tsukidai head in front of him.

The shout of "Rough Warrior" not only attracted the attention of Ogata and the others, but also the attention of the people around them.

Those passers-by who happened to be standing around the "rough warrior" and the "Tsukidai warrior" hurried to the two sides to make room for only the two warriors, and then looked at the two warriors with fear or excitement. Samurai.

After the "rough warrior" roared, the "Tsukidai head warrior" frowned slightly:

"I've said it all—you're just being paranoid. I didn't look at you just now."

"Stop sophistry!" The rough samurai's voice was so loud that Ogata, who was not far away, felt a little eardrum ache, "You just looked at me with disdainful eyes!"

Just when Ogata was watching the conflict between the two samurai intently, Asai on the side said abruptly:

"That rough-looking guy speaks with an accent from Kyushu. He must be a wanderer who wandered here from Kyushu."

Asai was originally from the Satsuma domain of Kyushu, so he could tell that the rough-looking guy was from Kyushu just like him.

"Humph."

"Samurai Moon Generation" let out a sneer.

"I've said it all—it's your overthinking!"

No matter who was present, one could definitely see that the smell of gunpowder between the two samurai was extremely heavy, and it belonged to a state where no one would find it strange even if the two of them pulled out their knives and slashed at each other in the next second.

"Hey!"

At this moment, there was another loud shout.

"2 people over there! What are you doing?!"

The loud shout came from a group of officials who were running towards the two warriors with their hands pinned to their waists.

Watching this group of observers, the faces of the "rough warrior" and "Yuedai head warrior" changed, and then quickly spread their feet and fled to a place far away from the gang of officials.

That gang of officials didn't go after the two warriors either, and after driving away the two warriors who had almost caused trouble, the gang of officials withdrew and returned.

Shimada, who was born in Edo, said softly as he watched off the group of officials who were leaving the team:

"Where's Tsujiban's official post..."

In ancient Japan, there has always been the bad habit of taking people to test knives.

Some samurai with psychological or mental problems always like to ambush people at the intersection in the middle of the night to try their swords.

People call this evil act of ambushing people at intersections in the middle of the night to try their swords "Tsuji-Zan".

After Tokugawa Ieyasu ended the Warring States Period and established the Edo Shogunate, he explicitly banned "Tsuji Zan".

Afterwards, a public security agency established by samurai to prevent Tsuji-Zhan crimes—that is, "Tsuji Ban" was born.

To put it simply, it is a sentry post specially set up at each intersection.

The officials of Tsujiban are usually not only responsible for monitoring whether the samurai with brain problems take live people to test the knife, but also responsible for maintaining the law and order in the area they are in charge of.

In the situation where two samurai almost drew swords in the street just now, the officials of Tsujiban had to intervene.

After Tsujiban's officials drove the two samurai away, the surrounding atmosphere returned to tranquility.

The flow of people on the street resumed its natural flow, and everything returned to the scene before the incense stick.

"Unexpectedly, there will be a situation in Edo where 'the samurai are going to fight in the street for no reason'." Mu Cun smiled and summed up the scene just now.

"Of course." Ogata said lightly, "There are as many samurai with regular jobs and idle ronin in Edo as there are crucian carp crossing the river, and the probability of conflict breaking out must be much higher than in other places. gone."

Where there are more wanderers, all kinds of chaos are more likely to break out-this should be regarded as one of the laws of this era.

Ronin, to put it harshly, is a group of people who have nothing to do and don't have a serious job at hand, but they value honor very much, and they have weapons at hand.

There are only a handful of ronin like Ogata who are extremely rich, and the vast majority of ronin don't even have what to eat tomorrow.

"Value honor" was the core value of the samurai class in the Edo period.

In the case of extremely poor material life, those ronin often have extremely paranoid pursuit of their spiritual life.

Because only in this way can they bring some spiritual comfort.

So it often happens that some ronin pay more attention to honor than samurai with regular jobs.to a morbid degree.

The conflict that broke out between the two warriors just now is a good example.

"Let's go." Yuan said, "Hurry up and finish the dinner. Xiaolin and Miss Atachi are still waiting for us to send the dinner back."

Ogata nodded, and when he was about to follow the rest of the people to find a restaurant, the conversation between the two women next to him drew Ogata's attention.

"I hate it...why do you always feel that the security in Edo is getting worse and worse recently? Just now is the third time I've seen the samurai on the street making trouble."

"It's really scary... It must be because there are too many country warriors flocking to Edo recently! If there are more country bumpkins, the law and order will definitely deteriorate!"

"Why have there been so many country bumpkins flooding into Edo Castle recently..."

"Oh...it's not because of that... Forget it, don't talk about it on the street, let's talk slowly after we get home."

Ogata quietly eavesdropped on the conversation between the two women.

"Brother Ogata, what are you doing?" After noticing that Ogata was still standing there without following, Mucun stopped, turned around and cast a puzzled look at Ogata.

"It's nothing..." Seeing that the two women had also interrupted their conversation, Xu Fangfang also withdrew his attention, and quickly followed the people who had already pulled a short distance away from him.

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Ogata and the others didn't have much pursuit of food, and Jialin and Atachi were still waiting for them to bring their dinner back at the hotel, so they directly found a soba noodle that was closest to the hotel where they lived shop.

Judging from the decoration of the storefront, the buckwheat shop is very close to the people, even ordinary people can eat it.

After entering the store, it was indeed the case. There were warriors like Ogata and the others, but most of them were civilians wearing various clothes.

Ogata and the others were very lucky, there was just one empty table left in the store, and this empty table was just enough for the six of them to sit.

Everyone carried their sabers in their right hands and entered the store. After sitting down at this table, everyone turned their attention to the menu hanging on the wall next to it.

"Buckwheat noodles, 16 coins. Imperial food steamer, 48 coins. Tempura buckwheat, 32 coins. Egg-wrapped buckwheat, 32 coins..." Mucun quickly announced the names of the dishes written on the menu.

The menu is also very carefully written, and there is a line of small characters at the back of each noodle to mark the characteristics of this noodle.

For example—there is a sentence "big bowl of soba noodles" behind the big steamer.

This store not only sells noodles but also sells wine. At the end of the menu, it is marked "Waiting for good wine 1 for 40 Wen".

1 go in the Edo period is approximately equal to 180 ml of the modern earth.

I just don't know how good the "good wine" in the mouth of this store is.

Seeing that this store sells wine, Yuan Yi grinned: "Let's buy some wine and drink."

No one objected to Yuan Yi's proposal.

After quickly ordering the noodles they wanted, Mucun sighed with emotion in a low voice:

"It's really cheap... so soba noodles in Edo are so cheap..."

"Buckwheat noodles are one of our specialties in Edo." Shimada said with a smile, "Because soba noodles are very suitable for our Edo people's appetite, and because they are easy to make, common people can afford them, so soba noodle shops can be called It’s all over Edo. By the way, do you know the origin of the soba noodle’s nickname ‘Nihachi Soba’?”

Anyway, the process of serving the noodles was rather boring. Seeing that Shimada brought up a topic, Ogata and the others were also willing to chat.

"I've heard of the nickname 'Erba Buckwheat'." Ogata said, "I remember it because buckwheat noodles usually sell for 16 vin? Because ordinary soba noodles usually sell for 16 vin, so people call it Soba noodles are 'Erba Buckwheat'."

"This is actually just one of the sayings." Mamiya interjected with a smile. "Actually, this statement is not very accurate. As far as I know-the soba noodles in Edo have not always been sold for 16 coins a bowl."

"Senior Mamiya is right." Shimada nodded, "That's just one of the sayings."

"I don't really agree with that statement either."

"Because the price of soba noodles is actually changing all the time."

"The most expensive bowl of soba noodles I've ever eaten in Edo costs as much as 20 ken."

"The most mainstream theory is that buckwheat noodles contain [-]% wheat flour and [-]% buckwheat flour, so they are called '[-] buckwheat'..."

Shimadamoto introduced soba noodles seriously.

And Ogata and the others were also listening carefully.

But at this time-

"Bastard! How long do I have to wait?!"

An untimely shout resounded throughout the soba shop.

This yell made the noisy shop instantly become audible.

Everyone—including Ogata and the others followed the sound and turned their eyes away.

He is a tall and majestic samurai with a bearded face, a fleshy face, and a rather tall and majestic figure.

This samurai should be under 25 years old and tall. Although he is sitting cross-legged, according to Ogata's visual inspection, his height should be around 1 meters.

He was alone at the table, so he should have come here for dinner alone.

His cheeks were a little red, probably from drinking some wine.

Both his body and his clothes were dirty, his feet without socks were covered with mud, and the hair on his head was even more messy. I don't know how long he hasn't taken care of his hair.

This kind of samurai with a dirty appearance is basically a ronin.

The yelling just now had a very strong accent in it, and it is basically certain that this guy is also a ronin who wandered to Edo from nowhere.

After uttering that angry shout, the warrior waved his hand, and swept the chopstick holder with the chopsticks on the table to the ground, and the chopsticks rolled all over the floor.

The sudden action of the warrior scared many people present.

While many people were looking at this majestic samurai with terrified eyes, the soba noodle shop's female middle school—that is, the waitress walked towards the samurai with a trembling look.

There is only one waiter in this soba noodle shop. The owner of the shop is probably cooking noodles seriously in the kitchen at the back, so he didn't hear any movement here. Therefore, at this moment, this female high school girl can only deal with the "majestic" warrior".

After the female middle school leaned over, the "Majestic Warrior" shouted at the female middle school with a louder voice:

"Why haven't my noodles been served yet! It's just a bowl of soba noodles. Does it take so long?!"

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"Ten, I'm very sorry..." The female middle school seemed to lack experience in dealing with such situations, and explained to the "Majestic Warrior" with a slightly trembling voice, "There are more guests now, please wait patiently In a moment, we will speed up."

Although the female middle school has tried its best to appease the "majestic warrior", it seems that the "majestic warrior" still does not intend to let the female middle school go so simply, and still faces the "majestic warrior" with an aggressive look. Famous women said all kinds of ugly things.

Until now, the shop owner who was concentrating on cooking noodles in the kitchen - a middle-aged man under the age of 40 finally noticed the strangeness in the shop and stepped out of the kitchen.

After realizing what was going on, the shop owner rushed to support the girls in their shop.

However, the shopkeeper's support did not play any role.

It just changed the situation from the "majestic samurai" saying nasty things to the girls' high school, to "the majestic samurai" saying nasty things to the shopkeeper and the girls' high school.

Looking at the "majestic samurai", Ogata, who was drinking tea, narrowed his eyes slightly.

Sections of images of the past hidden deep in his mind flashed quickly in front of Ogata's eyes.

It was a period... obviously not very long, but to Ogata, it felt like an image of the past a long time ago.