I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Mr. Mashima, thank you for your instruction just now. I haven't met someone with such powerful swordsmanship like you for a long time."

"With your skill, you will definitely become a sought-after item in every country in the continent of Europa!"

"The more I think about it, the more I find it unimaginable. In this desolate area where nothing but snow is snow, I can meet a master like you by chance."

"It's like finding an egg in a pile of chicken shit and it's one of those eggs with two yolks."

Hearing Scruucci's somewhat weird metaphor, Ogata couldn't help but laugh.

"If it wasn't for looking for someone, I wouldn't want to come to this wilderness."

What Ogata said was true.

This kind of underdeveloped area in the wilderness is not as comfortable as a metropolis like Edo and Kyoto.

If it wasn't for looking for Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen, Ogata felt that he would never set foot on Ezo in his life.

"Speaking of finding someone," a smile appeared on Skulucci's face, "I'm just like you, and I'm also recruiting people."

"I was about to tell you the name of the Kazuto I was looking for last night, but I was forced to interrupt when the nearby village was raided."

"I haven't told you the name of the man I'm looking for yet."

"Mr. Mashima, are you free next?"

"I'd like to ask nicely if you've ever heard the name of the man I'm looking for."

"We don't have anything urgent to do next." Ogata said, "but I don't think you should place too much hope on us. My wife and I are very ill-informed people, even if you want to find What kind of celebrity is that person, my wife and I may not have heard of his name."

"It doesn't matter." Scruucci waved his hand. "Clues are very magical. They often appear in some strange places and among some unexpected people."

After Skulucci led Ogata and A-Ming back to his tent, he quickly walked to the big bag placed in a corner of the tent, and opened it.

"Ah, I'm so thirsty. Damn, where did I put my wine. Ooh! I found it."

After yelling, Scruucci took out a large black bottle and a cup from the sack.

Scruucci poured the reddish black liquid contained in the large black bottle into the cup, and drank happily.

"What is this?" A-Ming cast a puzzled look at the big black bottle in Scruucci's hand.

"This is wine." Scruzzi put down the glass in his hand and wiped his mouth. "Wine made from grapes. My bottle of wine is a good thing. It comes from Burgundy in France."

Ah Ding doesn't know where France is, nor does she know what the wine from Burgundy in France represents, but she is very interested in "wine".

"Wine made from grapes?" A-Machi's eyes lit up.

In the Edo period when materials were scarce and commodity circulation was inconvenient, grapes were a veritable luxury. Only those high-ranking officials had the financial resources and channels to buy grapes for consumption.

Machi is so old, he only ate grapes once by chance.

The sweet and sour taste directly conquered Ah Ding's taste buds.

It's a pity that since then, Ah-cho has never had the chance to eat grapes.

The wine made from sweet and sour grapes must be delicious, Ah-Ming imagined.

"Want to taste it?" Scruucci shook the bottle in his hand again, "If you want to taste it, you have to get out the cup yourself. I don't have any extra cups here."

"Yes! I have a cup!"

Ah-Ming untied a bamboo tube hanging from his waist.

This bamboo tube is the kettle that Ah-Ming carries with him, and there are still 2 or 3 sips of water left in it.

After drinking all the water in the bamboo tube in one breath, A-Machi handed the bamboo tube to Scruucci.

Skulucci filled the bamboo tube of Ah-Ming in one go, and then cast a questioning look at Ogata.

"Mr. Mashima, would you like a drink?"

"No." Ogata shook his head, "I won't drink."

Having said that, Ogata turned his head slightly, and secretly observed Ah-Machi's reaction with a little expectation.

Ogata is no stranger to wine.

In his previous life, Ogata had tasted wine.

He is extremely impressed with wine.

When he was young, he thought that the wine made from grapes must taste as sweet and sour as grapes, and it was very delicious.

Ogata didn't know that he had been deceived by this extremely deceitful name until after drinking the drink.

At that time, Ogata also posted on the Internet in a serious manner, searching for "why does wine have no grape flavor".

Ogata just noticed the gleam in Atachi's eyes.

So he was sure that Ah Ding, who had never seen or drank wine, was definitely deceived by the name of wine just like him before.

But Ogata did not remind A-Ming aloud.

Instead, with the mentality of watching a good show and playing tricks on A-Machi, he quietly looked at A-Machi who brought back the bamboo tube full of wine with anticipation.

As soon as Ah Ding handed the bamboo tube to his mouth, his brows frowned slightly.

Because she found that the smell of the wine did not smell like grapes.

Her movements became hesitant.

But in the end, she still handed the bamboo tube to her mouth, and poured the wine in the tube into her mouth.

The moment the drink entered his throat, Ah-Ming's eyes widened instantly, and then he raised his hand to tightly cover his mouth, as if he had blocked his mouth to prevent the drink from spitting out.

Looking at this situation, Ogata almost laughed out loud, but fortunately he pinched his thigh with his hands in time and bit the lip inside his mouth, and managed to suppress the laughter in his throat.

After forcibly swallowing the drink in his mouth, A-Machi looked at the bamboo tube in his hand with a look of disbelief.

"Why doesn't this wine taste like grapes?"

Ogata really wanted to praise A-Ming: You are indeed my wife.

The first reaction after drinking wine for the first time was exactly the same as his.

"I don't know why." Scruucci shrugged. "Although I like to drink, I have never understood what wine is made of."

"If you're not used to drinking it, just pour it out. Anyway, I have plenty of wine."

"That can't be done," Ah-Ming muttered, "In that case, it would be too rude."

After that, Ah-Machi resisted the bitter taste of the wine, and poured the wine in the bamboo tube into his mouth again.

While A-Machi and Wine were fighting hard, Ogata finally calmed down his smile, and turned his attention to Skulucci.

"Tell us, Scruucci, what is the name of the person you are looking for."

"I will try my best to help you imagine if I have ever heard this name in my previous life."

"Who is the person you are looking for?" A Ding, who has become bitter now, put down the bamboo tube with half of the wine in his hand, and asked Skulucci, "Listen to what Aiyaka said earlier. Say, you seem to have been looking for that person."

"That person can be regarded as the person who has influenced my life." Scruzzy's face slowly revealed the color of memory, "Without him, maybe I would not be where I am today."

"I was born in a place called Scotland."

Scruucci put the wine glass in his hand aside casually, and then sat down on the hammock next to him.

"My hometown is a very poor place."

"My father died early, and my mother raised me up alone."

"Mother, he listened to other people's nonsense and mistakenly thought that the country of Lucia in Eastern Europe was a peaceful land where everyone could live and work in peace."

"So my mother tried her best, and finally raised enough money to lead me out of Scotland and to the country of Lucia in Eastern Europe."

"Ah, the so-called Eastern Europe, you can understand it as the eastern part of the Europa Continent. You should all know where the Europa Continent is?"

Ogata and Machi nodded.

Although Ah-ding can't recognize the difference between England, Scotland, and France, these countries and regions.But she still has a clear idea of ​​what the continent of Europa is and where it is probably located.

"After coming to the country of Lucia, I realized that this place is not as good as Scotland."

Scruucci shrugged.

"The level of law and order and peace alone is far inferior to Scotland."

"Not long after we first came to Eastern Europe, my mother and I encountered a wave of horse thieves."

"In order to save me, my mother hid me, and then went alone to lure the gang of horse thieves away."

"Since then. I've lived alone."

"There is a strange class in the country of Lucia, called serfs."

"The so-called serfs are literally slaves."

"The serfs were given a piece of land from the serf owner. As a price, they had to cultivate the lord's land for free, perform various labor services, and turn in most of the labor products."

"He was tied to the land and lived a life similar to a slave, so everyone called him a serf."

"The serfs revolted every day."

"The place where I was at that time was the hardest-hit area of ​​the uprising. Every three days, serfs rose up to make troubles, and wars raged every day."

"The situation of constant wars and chaos has taken advantage of me."

"At that time, my only means of earning money was to go to various battlefields that hadn't been cleaned by anyone, to steal those weapons, and then resell these weapons."

"It wasn't long after I started this petty theft that I ran into that guy"

The color of memory on Scruucci's face became more and more intense.

"He adopted me for a period of time, but only for 3 months."

"After three months, because I wanted to lose my face, I broke away from him, defected to the Cossacks, and became a member of the Cossacks."

"Having said that, I am 32 years old this year. I was 12 years old when I met and left that person."

"It was 20 years ago."

"Twenty years have passed, even if that person is not dead, he is probably already gray-haired."

"After only being with him for 3 months, you can never forget him." Ah Ding said, "It seems that your feelings for that person are really deep."

"After all, he is the person who has influenced my life." Scruzzi said with a smile, "He is a swordsman from Far East Japan."

"He told me that he would definitely return to China in the future."

"The reason why I came to the Far East this time is actually because I volunteered."

"The purpose of coming here is to find him. To see if he is alive or dead now."

"In order to find him more conveniently, I studied Japanese hard."

"20 years ago, when he was parting, he gave me a small gift. And I have kept this small gift. This can be regarded as a token between me and him."

After saying that, Scruucci reached into his arms, and took out a neatly folded piece of paper from his arms.

After Scruucci unfolded the paper, he handed it to Ogata.

"That person likes to draw. So when he was parting, he gave me this painting."

Ogata took the painting that Scruucci handed over, took a closer look, and then his expression froze.

A-Machi on the side also leaned his head over at this time, looked at the painting, and then showed a shocked expression like Ogata.

The reason why the two of them showed such expressions was not because of how beautiful the painting was.

But this painting is really hard to see the extreme.

The paper is severely yellowed, perhaps due to countless times of folding, and some small holes have appeared on the edge of the drawing paper.

In the center of the picture, there are two "alien".

These two "alien" who barely have a human shape stand side by side.

"Although that man likes to draw, his drawing skills are really bad." Scruzzi smiled wryly, "The two things in the picture are actually me and him."

"This is his picture of me standing side by side with him."

"It's very meaningful for him to use this painting as a parting gift."

"It's a pity that he and I in the painting are so ugly that we can't recognize them as two people."

The reason why A-Ming was shocked was purely because he was so ugly by this painting.

The reason for the emotional shock is more complicated.