I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"That samurai named Huosaka who saved Qingliu's daughter is quite upright," Zhuo San said softly.

"What about the other samurai?" The "tall middle-aged man" who questioned the village chief just now about the correctness of inviting the samurai back said without hesitation, "Are the other samurai trustworthy? Are they all honest people?"

Zhu San lowered his head and became silent.

"Okay." The old village chief sighed softly, "Everyone has already been invited back, so it's pointless to debate whether we should invite the warriors here."

"It's just a gamble"

"I hope the remaining 5 warriors are all kind-hearted people"

"However, precautions should be taken."

"Everyone remember to hide all their money and food."

"If you have young girls at home, you should take good care of your girls, and don't let your girls stay alone at home."

Chapter 454 Reckless is right! (Draw the knife!) [9800 words]

Yesterday, a book friend asked me if Miao Dao was Japanese Dao.

Let me explain here that Miao Dao and Japanese Dao are two kinds of knives.

The Japanese sword can be understood as the blade of the Dao, plus the hilt of our Chinese sword.

You can watch the movie Xiuchundao 2, in which Master Ding uses Japanese swords.

Ogata became a little interested in the uncle who used Japanese swords as weapons and used Japanese swords in Hosakakou.

As a time traveler, I still have a little bit of intimacy with the Japanese sword and Japanese sword technique produced in Tang soil.

"What's the real name of that impure fast?" Ogata asked.

"Shendu Rouzo." As Hosaka said, he dipped his fingers in the water in the water glass next to him, and wrote the real name of the unclean vegetarian on the wooden board in front of him.

Although Hosaka has a rough appearance, his handwriting is beautiful.

After Hosaka wrote the four beautiful Chinese characters "Shindu Rouzo" on the floor, Ogata couldn't help muttering in his heart:

It's fine if this guy's title is so impressive, but why is his real name so impressive?

Ogata didn't know what other people thought, but he felt that the "unclean fasting" was more compelling than his "one knife fasting".

The word "unclean" in "unclean fast" also has a bit of Zen.

Ogata didn't expect that not only the title of Unclean Zhai was so compelling, but even his real name was so compelling.

Shendu Rouzaoguang has the surname "Shendu", which is very imposing.

"Kamiwata Rouzo is such a good name. Could it be that this Unclean House came from a rich family?" Looking at the very cultured name written by Hosaka on the floor, Ogata couldn't help but say this. asked.

"Hahaha!" Hosaka laughed a few times, "Bujingsai's background is very ordinary! He came from an ordinary samurai family in the Mutsu Aizu Domain."

"As for why his name looks so like Yueqing Yunke's name, I don't know."

In such small chats, Ogata and the others finished tonight's dinner without knowing it.

After dinner, Ogata and the others discussed and decided to let the villagers take advantage of this time to tell them about the current situation of the village.

Except for Huosaka and Mizuno who arrived first, Ogata and others knew almost nothing about this village.

So Ogata and the others planned to take advantage of this time to get to know the village well, and it would be convenient for them to draw up a battle plan against the bandits in the future.

"Oh," the "tall, middle-aged man" sighed, "I think we can try to get the young girls in the village to hide in the nearby mountains."

As soon as the "tall middle-aged man" finished speaking, the person sitting beside him immediately said:

"It's useless."

"If we send the young girls up the mountain, what will they eat? We don't have much dry food, so why don't we send them meals every day?"

"Every day we send people to carry a lot of food up the mountain, isn't that the same as telling the warriors that we have hidden people on the mountain?"

"Village, village chief!"

At this moment, an anxious young voice sounded from outside the room.

A younger villager rushed into the house.

"What's wrong?" The village head cast a questioning look at the young villager.

"The warriors said that they hoped that we could send someone to tell them about the current situation of the village, so that they can formulate a method to deal with bandits according to the situation of the village!"

As soon as the words of the young villagers fell, most of the people present showed a faint look of fear.

Some people even shrink back involuntarily.

Talking to the samurai about the current situation of the village means confronting a lot of samurai.

"Hey," a thinner man present said softly with a frightened look, "If you accidentally touch their knife, will you be hacked to death by them?"

This person's words made the fear on the faces of the people present become more intense.

"I'll go." The village chief said at this time, "I'll tell the warriors about the current situation of our village."

As soon as the village chief said this, everyone present cast surprised glances at the village chief.

Some people who were worried about the village head said bluntly, "You are too old to go, village head."

But for these people's suggestions, the village head only shook his head.

"I am the village head. I have an obligation to see these warriors invited by us."

"Don't talk too much."

Accompanied by some villagers, the village chief, who was very stooped, came in front of Ogata and the others.

The village head knew everything, and told Ogata and the others everything he knew.

But what the village chief knows is actually very limited.

The only information he can provide is how many entrances and exits the village has, where the river is, and helping Ogata and others to draw a map of the village.

Ogata and the others originally wanted to inspect the surroundings of the village, but considering that it was already dark now, they had to wait until dawn tomorrow before slowly inspecting the surroundings of the village.

In order to entertain the warriors of their village in the future, the villagers of this village specially cleaned up some empty houses in the village for the warriors to settle down.

There are enough empty houses, and Ogata and the others can take care of each one.

Ogata and Machi picked out a house big enough for the two of them.

A villager whose name Ogata didn't know took the two of them into the house where they stayed.

This house is also the type of apartment that has only one room, where eating, drinking, sleeping, and entertainment are all carried out in one room.

"Oh, it's pretty clean." After entering the room, Ah-Ming stretched out his fingers and wiped everything within reach, and there was almost no dust on his fingers.

You can tell at a glance that it has only been cleaned recently.

"Master Samurai, this house is where you and your wife live." The villager who was in charge of guiding Ogata bowed respectfully and said to Ogata.

Although he tried his best to conceal it, Ogata could clearly feel that the villager was quite nervous, even his voice was trembling.

"Yeah." Ogata smiled and nodded lightly, "Thank you for your hard work."

Hearing Ogata's thanks, the villagers' tension eased a little.

"Then I'll go first."

After bowing to Ogata and Atachi again, the villager quickly left from Ogata's field of vision.

After watching the villager leave, Machi showed a helpless smile, and Asaogata said:

"We really weren't very popular."

"It's not that we are unpopular." Ogata corrected, "It's the samurai who are unpopular."

When he agreed to help the villagers in this village, Ogata had expected that the villagers must respect and fear him.

It seems so now.

If the nobles and samurai are not included, the non-samurai class in the Edo period can be roughly divided into three types: peasants, townspeople, and samurai.

Farmers, as the name suggests, are people who live in the countryside and engage in agricultural work.

The townspeople are people who live in cities and towns and are mainly engaged in service industry, handicraft industry or commerce.

As for the untouchables, some of them lived in cities and towns, while others lived in the wilderness.

Not every city and town will have filthy existence.

However, in any city where there are filthy people, the filthy people must be some corners that ordinary civilians huddled in the city town will never approach casually, they are a group of forgotten and turned a blind eye.

The townspeople and the samurai live together in the castle town, so the relationship between the townspeople and the samurai is relatively close.

Therefore, the townspeople who know what kind of group the samurai are, will not be too afraid of the samurai because of the "unknown".

Not so with farmers.

Although living in the same country, the peasants living in the countryside and the samurai living in the cities are like groups living in two different worlds.

The "unknown sense" caused by this gap caused a considerable gap between the farmers and the samurai.

In fact, let alone samurai, there is actually a huge gap between farmers and townspeople living in cities and towns.

The farmers' understanding of the samurai was basically based on hearsay.

For example, samurai have the right to kill at will, and they can draw their swords to kill civilians who offend them. Samurai are moody and always draw their swords to hurt people for no reason

Some of the rumors that the peasants heard about the warriors were true, and some were downright false.

Fortunately, it is now the Edo period, which has been peaceful for a long time.

In the Warring States Period 200 years ago, the gap between farmers and warriors was even greater.

The fact that soldiers and bandits do not separate families is the same in any country that is still in a feudal society or still has a strong feudal atmosphere.

In the war-torn Warring States Period, it was common for the attacker to ravage the peasants of the attacked side.

And those defeated soldiers will often gather together and harass the peasants everywhere.

Now, at any rate, it is a peaceful society where few people have seen wars. The samurai in the Edo period were far less brutal than the samurai in the Warring States period, and there was no war. The probability of peasants being violated by the samurai was greatly reduced.

Therefore, in the Edo period, the gap between samurai and farmers was much smaller than that in the Warring States period.

After A-Ming casually threw the luggage on his back to a corner not far away, he lay on his back carelessly on the floor that had been cleaned by the villagers.

Machi, who was lying on the floor, stretched her waist and limbs, and casually said to Ogata who was sitting next to her:

"Just now, when I saw the tension between Huosaka and that Jincheng, I almost thought they were going to fight."

"Fortunately, Jincheng made a setback in the end."

What A-machi said was, of course, the fact that Kasaka just said "Samurai morality and everything is bullshit", which caused Jincheng's dissatisfaction.

"I also thought that Jincheng was going to fight with Huosaka." Ogata said, "I'm already ready to go up and stop the two of them, but fortunately, Jincheng doesn't seem to want to cause a bad end. , so no more entanglement with Hosaka."

"I'm a little interested in the unclean fast that Kusaka said." A-Machi put his hands on the ground and propped up his upper body, "I've heard of Japanese swords in Shiranui before."

"It is said that it is a kind of Tangtu's sword made by mixing our Japanese swords with their Tangtu's sword."

"The Japanese sword technique that matches it is also a very special sword technique that combines the advantages of the two countries' sword techniques."

"I also kind of want to see what kind of Japanese swordsmanship combines the advantages of both countries' swordsmanship."

"I'm also quite interested in Japanese swords and Japanese swordsmanship. But" Ogata shrugged, "Did you hear what Tsuchiya said just now? Bujingzhai has disappeared for nearly forty years."

"Maybe he's already dead."

"Even if he didn't die, he would be almost 70 years old this year."

"At such an advanced age, I may not even be able to hold a knife steadily."

"Who said that?" Ah-Ming retorted, "Look at Fuma-sama and Genichi-sama, they are both very old, but they are still very strong."

"The two of them are special cases." Ogata said angrily, "Not every old man is as old and strong as the two of them."

"Everyone's physique is different. Some people are still in good health after they get older, such as Master Yuan."

"There are some people who, as they get older, weaken at a fairly noticeable rate."

"Impure fasting may be the latter."

Ogata put on a half-joking tone.

"If Bujingzhai is still alive, he might already be a 70-year-old man who can barely wield a Japanese sword."

As soon as Ogata finished speaking, A-Machi yawned big.