I formed the strongest swordsman group

After hearing Chiba Shigetaro mention Qingtou's name, Chiba Tamonshiro, who had had some unpleasant troubles with Qingtou on the day of the "Plum Blossom Festival", became weird.

And the one whose expression also became weird was Chiba Sakakichi who knew that Chiba Shigetaro now intended to make Qingdeng the son-in-law of the Chiba family.

"Ju Qing Deng?" Chiba Eijiro frowned slightly, which showed that he didn't know this character well.

The corners of Chiba Shigetaro's mouth opened wider at this moment: "Brother Rong, you have been staying in the Mito Domain recently, so it's normal that you don't know anything about Tachibana-kun."

"This Juqingdeng is a 'three-time' concentric who suddenly rose to fame three months ago..."

Chiba Shigetaro carefully explained all Qingdeng's achievements so far.

Outstanding swordsmanship talent, only three months after practicing swords, he assisted the test guard to defeat the Xiaoqianye sword gym at the "Plum Blossom Festival", and led a few dozen people to repel more than 200 thugs from the Yiyi sect...

Chiba Eijiro listened quietly, while slowly revealing a hint of surprise.

After Chiba Shigetaro finished speaking, he nodded thoughtfully:

"Oh... I didn't expect that during the few months when I was not in Edo, Edo would produce such a powerful talent."

"Is it orange green..."

Chiba Eijiro chewed the name carefully.

As if to firmly remember the name.

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Edo, a certain banner settlement area, the residence of Xinzuhiro, who is known as one of the "Three Heroes of the Three Daoba"——

call…! call……! call……! call……!

At this moment, in the bedroom of the new wife Kuan, the sound of bamboo swords cutting through the air was heard one after another.

The new wife Kuan, whose upper body was exposed, stood in a corner of his bedroom, holding a bamboo knife in both hands, practicing Suzhen with very standard movements. Every time he slashed forward, a sharp sound of breaking wind erupted in all directions.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock... one bean-sized bead of sweat slid down the new wife's broad, firm body and fell to the ground.

"113... 114... 115... 116..." Wife Kuan swung his knife while remembering the number of swings in a low voice.

Although his body was sweating profusely, Xinjukuan's movements and breathing remained steady.

"147...148...149...150...!"

After counting to 150, the new wife wide did not continue to swing the knife.

He kept the posture of chopping the knife out without moving, and after a while, he finally saw him slowly lower the bamboo knife in his hand and stand up straight.

"Very good...!" The new wife wide stretched her waist vigorously, the corners of her mouth curled up in satisfaction, "The condition is very good...!"

After stretching her slightly numb waist a few more times, Xin Wife Kuan reached out and took off the sweat towel hanging around her waist, and put the bamboo knife in her hand casually on the side wall.

While wiping the sweat beads and stains off his body with a sweat towel, he raised his gaze to a portrait hanging on the wall directly in front of him.

This is a painting of a woman drawn with exquisite Ukiyo-e brushstrokes.

The painting depicts a beautiful woman in a kendo uniform with a high ponytail and folded her hands in front of her body in an elegant movement.

When looking at this painting of a woman, the new wife Kuan straightened her waist unconsciously, with a solemn expression... like an extremely devout believer.

After wiping off the sweat beads and stains on her body, and putting on her clothes, the new wife Kuan walked slowly to the portrait, stretched out her hand, as if touching something fragile Move, caressing this portrait gently.

After touching the portrait over and over again, the new wife Kuan whispered affectionately as if he couldn't help it:

"When will... I be able to become a member of the Chiba family..."

The woman depicted in this painting of a woman is none other than Chiba Sanako, the jewel in the palm of the Chiba family!

If an uninformed person sees a portrait of his new wife Kuan Yu hanging in his bedroom, he will definitely think that his new wife Kuan has a crush on Sanako.

But in essence... it's not like that.

His new wife Hiroshi hung Sanako's portrait in the most conspicuous place in his bedroom for his own future!

In the Edo period when the class order was extremely solidified, "martial arts" was one of the few ways for samurai to break down class barriers.

In order to improve the overall quality of the samurai under his command, or to give himself a reputation for being talented, the shogunate and the vassals of various vassal states often hired those warriors with high martial arts skills to serve as officials.

For example, the famous great swordsman in the early Edo period: Miyamoto Musashi. He is the most typical example of "winning an official position by martial arts".

Miyamoto Musashimoto is just a poor wanderer who has no fixed place to live and doesn't even know what to eat for his next meal.

However, he created the "Nirten first-class" and has excellent martial arts skills. He insisted on relying on his strong strength to build his reputation little by little. In the end, he succeeded in being appreciated by the lord of Kumamoto City, Tadori Hosokawa. He was hired by him and moved to Kumamoto Castle to teach the art of war. .

The sky rose straight up, from a humble ronin to a prominent warrior with an official position.

Don't talk about the distance, but the near one-Chiba Eijiro is also a typical example of "winning an official position by martial arts".

Seven years ago, the Mito Domain invited Chiba Eijiro, who was close to a demon, to serve as an official there. In order to keep this monster, the Mito clan specially offered Chiba Eijiro an official position with a frighteningly high status and salary.

Chiba Eijiro, who had never shown any interest in official career before, for some reason this time, faced the invitation of the Mito clan to become an official, but he readily agreed, moved to Mito clan, and started his official career since then.

From ancient times to the present, these inspirational stories have inspired generation after generation of ambitious warriors who want to rely on their own abilities to fight for the sky.

"I want fame! I want to gain great fame with my sword and my martial arts!"—Countless samurai rushed into the martial arts hall with such beliefs, practicing martial arts crazily, in order to become the next Miyamoto Musashi Or Eijiro Chiba!

However, relying on martial arts to win fame... This is bound to be a cruel road that will lead to death.

So many people want to achieve class transition by practicing martial arts, why are you the successful person?

If you want to walk on this cruel road more easily...the only shortcut is to rely on contacts.

If you can have a solid and reliable network, if someone can help you recommend yourself to the shogunate or a vassal state... then you don't have to worry about your talents and martial arts not being reused.

Therefore, a famous martial arts family like the Chiba family has become a dream land in the eyes of many warriors.

The Chiba family is currently recognized by everyone as the most prominent martial arts family—no one!

Hokushin Isdou-ryu, whose disciples spread all over Japan, has become the "No. 1 swordsmanship school in Japan"; there are many heroes in the clan, and there are few mediocre ones, especially Chiba Eijiro, whose name is destined to be engraved in the future history in the book...

Such a family... Not to mention anything else, just its network resources are enough to describe it as horror!

For a martial artist who aspires to gain fame through martial arts, if he can become the adopted son or son-in-law of this "No. 1 martial arts giant" and gain access to the huge network resources of this family... then it is basically tantamount to a successful career!

Therefore, countless people are eager to become a member of the Chiba family - the new wife Kanta is one of them.

His new wife, Kuan, is very confident in his own strength. He feels that with his talent and swordsmanship, it may be difficult for him to be reused in the shogunate, but it is not a problem at all to get a high official and rich salary in a feudal mansion of a feudal country... All he lacks is Related contacts!

Although he is a banner warrior, his family is only an ordinary middle-level banner, not a big family with a very prominent status, and the resources owned by his family are quite limited.

Relying only on the energy and resources of one's own family... An official position with a salary of five hundred shi is the limit.

His new wife Hiroshi did not want to limit his future achievements to this.

He wants to seek a higher official position! He wants to rely on his swordsmanship to achieve higher achievements!

So...he took aim at the Chiba family, and the only unmarried woman in the Chiba family: Miss Sanako.

If you can become the son-in-law of the Chiba family, why worry about having no contacts to enjoy? Why worry about having no senior officials to do?

After making up her mind to "become the son-in-law of the Chiba family", Hiroshi, the new wife, commissioned an artist to draw a portrait of Sanako for herself, and then hung the portrait of Sanako in the most conspicuous place in the bedroom. Use it to encourage yourself all the time - you have not yet become the son-in-law of Chiba's family! I still need to work hard!

For Sanako, the new wife Hiroshi has no special feelings.

He admits that Sanako is indeed a great beauty, but his new wife Kuan has no interest in the matter of men and women.

He only cares about his own future and his fame!

In order to realize his ambition, even if Sanako is an ugly girl with a sharp nose and teeth, his new wife Kanta can marry Sanako without blinking and without hesitation.

Of course—marrying Sanako-san... This is easier said than done.

The atrium of Sanako is an impenetrable fortress. For a long time, many outstanding talents have tried their best to break through this solid fortress, but in the end they only ended up in disgrace.

In view of these disastrous experiences of the "predecessors", the new wife Kuan set a plan for herself to "step by step, step by step".

At this stage, first try to improve your swordsmanship level and reputation! Let her strength and reputation be high enough to attract the attention of Sanako and the Chiba family behind her!

If his strength is strong enough to make everyone in the Chiba family look up to him, then the difficulty of winning Sanako's heart and becoming a member of the Chiba family will definitely be greatly reduced in the future.

Therefore, after learning that Marquis Aizu will hold a swordsmanship competition in Asakusa a while ago, Hiroshi Hiroshi did not hesitate to sign up for the competition.

For such a grand competition, big sword gyms like Xuanwu Gym and Little Chiba Sword Gym will definitely not be absent. Chiba Sakakichi, Chiba Michizaburo, and Chiba Shigetaro will definitely lead the disciples in their gymnasiums. Come to the competition.

That is to say—this is an excellent opportunity to prove his strength to the Chiba family!

For this competition that will start tomorrow... the new wife Kuan is bound to win!

In order to motivate herself, the new wife Kan specially went to Kanda Tamaike and Otsucho this afternoon to watch the Xuanwu Hall and the Little Chiba Sword Hall from afar.

This can be regarded as one of Xinwikuan's personal habits. Whenever he feels that his emotions need to be encouraged, he will come to take a peek at the Xuanwu Gym and the Little Chiba Sword Gym.

Every time I see these two majestic sword halls, my new wife Hiroshi will feel a surge of power in my heart-I must become the son-in-law of the Chiba family! Even if it is a marriage, it is not hesitating!

This is what he called "pre-match preparation" to Chiba Shigetaro after he happened to meet Chiba Shigetaro on the street this afternoon.

"Wait... Chiba family..." After touching the portrait several times, the new wife Hiroshi finally slowly put down his hand touching the portrait, "I will definitely let you accept me..."

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Edo, a certain place, a certain dilapidated longhouse——

"Umm~huh~~huh~"

Asi, who was humming a nursery rhyme, carefully held a cup full of hot tea with both hands, while slowly walking out of the kitchen, and walked straight to the hall of the house.

In the living room of this dilapidated house, a young man in his early 20s at most was sitting expressionlessly in front of a desk full of books and manuscript paper.

"Soujiro! Tea is here! Take a short break and drink some tea!"

Asi handed the tea she had just made to this young man...that is, her husband Yuzaki Sojiro.

"Ah...thank you." Shujiro thanked his wife Asi softly, picked up the hot tea that Asi had just brewed, and took small sips of the tea in the cup.

After serving tea to her husband, Asi didn't leave immediately. She turned her gaze sideways and glanced at the large stack of blank manuscript paper on the table in front of Sojiro.

"Soujiro..." Asi's brows flashed a few traces of worry, "Are you still not inspired today?"

"...Oh, yes." Sojiro let out a long sigh, and then placed the teacup in his hand on the corner of the desk with a look of melancholy, "My head is empty... I don't know what to write at all... "

After saying that, Sojiro stuck his hands and fingers into his messy hair with a distressed expression.

"What should I do... If this continues, our family will not even be able to uncover the pot next month..."

Sojiro is a novelist who makes a living by writing "scattered books" and "reading books", as well as "story books" for storytellers.

Saluoben is a witty novel specifically describing life in a brothel.

The reader mainly describes some historical stories and myths and legends.

Relying on his decent imagination and writing ability, he and his wife Asi lived a decent life although not rich.

However... just recently, Soujiro encountered a lot of trouble - he found himself in a bottleneck period.

My mind, which was never short of interesting ideas in the past, suddenly became empty, and I couldn't think of interesting story plots.

This situation has lasted for nearly 2 months, and the lack of inspiration has not been improved for a long time.

Poor state, lack of inspiration... For two full months, Sojiro has only been producing waste paper that even he himself is extremely dissatisfied with.

This state of being unable to work normally has seriously affected their family's livelihood...

Sojiro and his family are also the type of "stop talking".

There has been no income for two full months, which has left only salted radish as a side dish in their family's table for the past few days.

By next month, I might not even be able to eat salted radishes.

Looking at her husband with a sad face, Asi, who wanted to share his worries, raised his hand to play with his temple hair while meditating:

"Soujiro, if you really don't have any inspiration... why don't you just write the story of 'Eternal Swordsman' Ogata Itsuki and 'Hidden Swordsman' Kinoshita Genichi?"

"Isn't the story of these two the most popular?"

"No way." As soon as Asi finished speaking, Sojiro shook his head with a wry smile, "I'm really in a bad state now... Even if I'm writing the stories of 'Eternal Sword Saint' and 'Hidden Sword Saint', I don't know how to write... oh..."

"..." Looking at her husband who let out another long sigh, Asi felt very distressed, but he didn't know how to help.

Plop!

At this time, there was a dull sound of heavy objects falling from the entrance of the house.

Hearing this voice, Asi was startled for a moment, then quickly got up and ran towards the entrance.

"Hey! Bean paste buns!"

Bean paste buns - a black and white kitten adopted by Sojiro and his family 2 years ago.

After rushing to the entrance of the house, it was as expected by Asi: their bean paste buns knocked over their utensils to the ground again.

Meow~ Meow~ Meow~

Seeing his hostess coming, Dousha Bao hurriedly ran away from the crime scene while yelling "meow".

"Really... Fortunately, the thing that was knocked to the ground this time is not a fragile product..."

The utensil that was overturned by the red bean paste bag was a wooden Buddha statue that Sojiro and Asi asked for from a certain temple a while ago, and it was specially used to suppress evil—the statue of King Ni.

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The author was very busy in reality yesterday, my, my, and my Asi... Forget it, let’s not talk about it.

In short, I didn’t have much time to write because of some incidents yesterday. Today’s word count is a little less, and I will try to write more tomorrow (Leopard Head Crying.jpg)