I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Therefore, even though the shogunate issued a ban on "female kabuki" and "wakasaka kabuki", the current situation that kabuki relies on selling their appearance to attract attention, and a large number of kabuki actors do some immoral things has not changed in any way.

The Edo shogunate was furious, thinking that the kabuki actors could not be saved.

Therefore, in the second year of the Ming Dynasty, the shogunate ordered the demolition of all theaters in Kyoto, the center of kabuki, on the grounds of the kabuki beating incident.

When kabuki was about to be swept into the dustbin of history, with the efforts of many kabuki defenders, the shogunate agreed to let kabuki go on the condition of "removing the prostitution of lust and performing orthodox dramas".

Since then, Kabuki has officially embarked on the right path of "serious" drama.

Thanks to the efforts of many kabuki playwrights and kabuki actors, kabuki has gradually changed from a "grey industry" that is rarely seen on the stage to the current performing art that is very popular and loved by all classes.

However, the shogunate has still not lifted the ban on "female kabuki" and "waka kabuki".

Therefore, all members of Takarashimaya who are currently rehearsing in front of Ogata are all adult men without exception.

On the Kabuki stage, all roles are played by adult men, regardless of whether they are male or female.

So you don't need to have any doubts that every female character you see on the Kabuki stage, no matter how beautiful "she" looks, is a female costume master.

Ogata and Nishino co-wrote this Ichidousai, and there are two female characters based on the prototypes of Azaki and Afu in the izakaya where Ogata used to work.

Ogata felt very complicated when he learned that the two characters based on Azaki and Afu had to be played by men.

Fortunately, the two very handsome men from Takarajima House are responsible for playing these two female roles based on A Saki and A Fu.

According to Nishino Jiro, these two are the actors who are in charge of playing women in Treasure Island House.

After women and minors were not allowed to perform kabuki, the female roles in the play were all played by young people with good looks, preferably boys and girls.

After watching Treasure Island House's rehearsal with Nishino Jiro for a while, Oo conveniently resigned and left.

Although Ogata would come to watch the rehearsal almost every morning, it was impossible to spend the whole morning here watching other people's rehearsal, it would be boring to death.

So Ogata would simply take a look, then leave, and then rush to Baosheng Sword Hall to gain experience, no.It is to guide the apprentices of Baosheng Sword Gym, and at the same time to gain some experience.

Anyway, the rehearsal venue of Treasure Island House is quite close to Baosheng Sword Gym, so it doesn't get in the way.

near evening

"It's right to hold the place close to the knife with your right hand, but don't use too much force with your left hand. Let go of the little finger of your left hand and only hold it gently with your ring finger, middle finger and index finger."

Holding a wooden knife, Ogata, who was posing in the middle, pointed to a young man standing opposite him with a sword in front of him.

The young man's name is Xiaolin, and he is also one of the "Ten Swords of Baosheng".

To be named "Baosheng Ten Swords", Kobayashi still has a bit of talent in swordsmanship.

After receiving Ogata's instructions, Kobayashi released the left hand holding the lower end of the knife handle according to Ogata's instructions.

After glancing at Kobayashi's left hand, Ogata nodded:

"That's right, that's it. You maintain this posture and attack me."

"Yes!"

Xiao Lin shouted loudly, raised his knife and slashed at Ofang.

Snapped!

When Kobayashi's wooden knife was about to hit Ogata's head, Ogata swung the wooden knife in his hand horizontally, hitting the blade of Kobayashi's wooden knife directly, and knocked Kobayashi's wooden knife flying with one blow.

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"How?" Ogata asked Kobayashi in front of him, "Do you feel that the speed of the sword has become much faster?"

"Although it is indeed faster," Xiao Lin said with a wry smile, "but it still can't be realistic, Master Island, you made the second cut."

Ever since Ogata came up with the nickname "One-Sword Samurai", many people in the Baosheng Sword Gym silently set a goal for themselves to force Ogata to make a second sword.

But so far no one has achieved this goal.

"How? Do you want to continue practicing?"

"No." Xiao Lin shook his head, "It's going to be dark, and I'm about to go home."

Ogata turned his head to look at the sky outside the window. The sky is already dark now, and after a while, the sky should be completely black.

"If you don't pay attention, the sky is so dark?" Ogata whispered, "Then it's time for me to go."

The Baosheng Sword Gym will close when it gets dark, so all the disciples in the Gym are already gone.

Seeing that it was getting dark now, Ogata also put the wooden knife in his hand back on the knife holder, and was about to leave the sword hall and go back to the hotel to start the night's activities: learning Einu language, and having negative distance contact with A-Machi.

However, as soon as Ogata put the wooden knife in his hand back on the knife holder, he saw an apprentice rushing into the dojo with the hakama on his lower body.

Because Ogata happened to be the closest to the entrance of the dojo, the apprentice took advantage of the situation and asked Ogata:

"Mashima-sama, have you seen the master?"

"Is it the owner of Baosheng Pavilion? He seems to have gone to the bathroom just now."

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives.As soon as Ogata's words fell, Baosheng, who had just finished using the toilet, returned to the dojo through another small door of the dojo.

Seeing that Baosheng had returned, the apprentice hurried towards Baosheng, and said to Baosheng:

"Master! Two peasants came outside the hall, and they asked you to save them!"

"Farmers? Help them?" Baosheng frowned slightly.

The apprentice did not restrain his voice, so Ogata who was not far away also heard his words.

When he heard the word "save them", Ogata frowned slightly like Baosheng.

It is rare for farmers to come to the door and ask for help.

Out of curiosity, Baosheng allowed the two farmers to come in.

There is a reception room in the sword hall that is not very commonly used, so Baosheng brought the two farmers to this reception room.

"Then you two should register first." Baosheng tucked his hands into his sleeves and looked at the two farmers in front of him.

There are only 4 people in this small reception room.

Baosheng, these two farmers, and Ogata.

Ogata was a little curious about the "save them" that the two farmers said, so he expressed to Baosheng that he wanted to sit and listen.

Ogata is now a distinguished guest of Baosheng Sword Gym, so Baosheng naturally has no reason to refuse such a small request.

After the two farmers sat down in the reception room, Xu Convenience began to look at the two of them.

The appearance of these two people is very characteristic.

There are many spots and wrinkles on a face, which looks quite vicissitudes.

The other is bald, with no hair at all on the top of his head.

The two of them were very stiff and nervous. Since entering the sword gym, their faces had been pale, and their whole bodies seemed to be shrunk together.

His eyes flicked around unconsciously, and he seemed extremely uncomfortable with everything around him.

After hearing Baosheng ask their names, the two farmers responded quickly.

"My name is Zhusan." Said the Vicissitudes farmer.

Bald farmer: "My name is Yushiro."

"Aid Sanhe Yushiro, right?" Baosheng nodded, "Tell me what you are doing, what do you mean by saving you?"

"It's like this." The vicissitudes of life farmer Zhusan swallowed his saliva, moistened his throat, and continued, "Our village has been favored by ronin."

"At the end of last month, when one of our villagers went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, he came across a dozen wanderers lurking on the hillside and secretly observing our village."

"Our companion was secretly hiding not far behind those ronin, so he overheard their conversation."

"The gang of ronin are planning to rob our village, saying they want to grab some good things to have a good year"

Speaking of this, whether it was the bald farmer named Suzo or the vicissitudes of the farmer named Yushiro, the already pale face became even paler.

"Our village finally survived the famine at dawn, and it was not until this year that life finally got better."

"If those ronin rob us of our food and property, then we won't know how to live," Yushiro said, with a tear in his voice.

"Just waiting for those rogues to come and rob is dead, it's better to resist, maybe there is still life." The speaker changed back to Zhu San.

"So we want to ask the samurai to help! Help us repel those ronin!"

As soon as Zhusan finished speaking, he turned his pleading eyes to Baosheng in front of him.

Yushiro, who also turned his pleading eyes on Baosheng, was on the side.

When Zhusan was about to say something more, Baosheng raised his hand to signal them not to say any more.

"I understand what you mean."

Baosheng said with a blank face.

"So that's what you mean by saving you."

"You want to hire us to help you fight off bandits?"

"Instead of spending so much effort to ask the samurai for help, why don't you ask the government for help?"

As soon as Baosheng finished speaking, Zhu San gritted his teeth and said.

"It's useless to ask the government for help!"

"Our village was plundered by another wave of vagrants three years ago! We asked the government for help at that time!"

"The results of it?"

"It wasn't until those rogues finished looting our village and left in a swaggering manner that the officials from the government came late!"

"What's more, it's still the end of the year, and it's almost the Chinese New Year."

"Now this time is the laziest time in the year for the government!"

"When we report to the government, and then the officials of the government report it layer by layer, and then approve it layer by layer, and dispatch the officials to assist us, I'm afraid it will be years later!"

Baosheng was silent. Although he didn't deal with the government very much, he still heard a little about the bloated organization and slow speed of the government.

"Since you want to invite warriors to help, how much are you going to pay us?"

Baosheng's question directly made Suzo and Yushiro look embarrassed.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Zhu San gritted his teeth, bowed his head and saluted and said:

"Our whole village almost starved to death in the morning famine"

"It's finally getting better now so we don't have much money"

"The only reward we can give is to ask every samurai who is willing to assist us to eat white rice before repelling the bandits."

"White rice?" Baosheng frowned, "Do you want to hire samurai just by eating white rice?"

"This is us" Yushiro buried his head low, "It's all that can be taken out"

"With such a low salary, you want to hire samurai to work for you. Surely you haven't hired many samurai now? Tell me how many samurai have you hired now?"

Susan and Yushiro looked at each other at the same time, and the embarrassment on their faces became more intense.

"Quickly answer." Baosheng's tone became harsher.

"We are divided into 3 groups to invite samurai from different villages," Suzaku said in a low voice, "Yushiro and I have only invited one samurai so far."

"A samurai?" Baosheng shook his head helplessly, "As expected, the reward you give is too low, you don't even give money, just white rice."

"With such a low salary, the only ones who will agree to help you are probably the samurai who are so desperate that they can't even eat, or are extremely warm-hearted."

"I'm sorry. I can't help you. At the same time, I won't let my disciples assist you."

As soon as Baosheng said this, Zusan and Yushiro showed anxious expressions.

Just when the two of them were about to say something more, Baosheng took the lead and said:

"Even if you go to all the surrounding cities and towns, you probably won't be able to invite more than 10 samurai."

"As for the gang of ronin who intend to rob you, there are more than ten people who just came to scout."

"The total number of them is probably no less than dozens."

"Even if you invite a few warriors to help you, it's impossible to fight against dozens of ronin."