Chapter 452 Ogata's Head Is Worth Five Hundred and Two? [Seven Thousand One Hundred Characters]

Before entering the village, a samurai rushed towards him with a sword held high - the welcome ceremony in this village can be described as "grand".

His vision is very dim now, and the "beggar warrior" couldn't see clearly from a distance just now. After he got closer, Ogata found that the knife in the "beggar warrior"'s hand had a little rust.

A weapon like a sword will definitely rust if it is not treated with knife oil.

The knife in the hand of this "beggar warrior" obviously hadn't been oiled for a long time, which caused the blade to rust.

"Hey! That samurai! Stop him!"

The "loud samurai" who was following the "beggar samurai" yelled at Ogata at this time.

"This guy is a scum! Just now he was thinking of assaulting the girls in the village! Stop him!"

As soon as the "loud warrior" finished speaking, some villagers behind him also shouted:

"Get him! Get him!"

"Don't let this guy get away!"

"Qingliu's daughter was almost ruined by that guy!"

Although these villagers shouted with righteous indignation, only a few young and strong followed the "loud warrior" to chase the "beggar warrior".

Hearing the shouts from the "loud warrior" and the villagers, Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the "beggar warrior" in front of him.

Seeing being exposed by the "loud warrior", the "beggar warrior" showed a look of despair.

At the same time that his face was full of desperation, there was also a fierce light in his eyes.

"Get out of the way!"

The "beggar samurai" with fierce eyes yelled at Ogata.

Although his roar was quite powerful, facing the roar of the "beggar warrior", he did not change his mood, but spread his feet leisurely.

Tsuchiya standing next to Ogata silently drew the sword from his waist.

Although Tsuchiya's attire is very shabby, but the knife on his waist is very beautiful.

The blade is sharp and the blade is shining coldly,

The knife is evenly coated with a layer of knife oil - one can tell that it is a person who usually takes good care of his knife.

As for A-Machi—she also didn't say anything, and silently pulled out the Wakizawa stuck in her lower back.

Ogata, Atachi, and Tsuchiya formed a human wall and blocked the "beggar warrior".

Looking at the three Ogata people who formed the human wall and blocked him, the fierce light in the eyes of the "beggar warrior" became more fierce, and he silently clenched the sword in his hand.

He intends to forcibly break through this human wall.

And the direction he chose to break through was——the direction where Ah Ding was.

In fact, his choice is not difficult to understand.

Acho is the only female of the Ogata three, and only her weapon looks the simplest on the surface-only one wakizasa.

Whoever it was, would subconsciously regard A-Machi as the weakest of the three Ogata.

However, let anyone who knows the relationship between Ogata and A-Machi, and who knows the strength of Ogata know-this "beggar warrior" drew a lottery.

After the "beggar samurai" rushed to the position that was only 5 steps away from Ogata and the others, he kicked his feet suddenly and rushed towards A-cho.

A-cho's melee combat ability is weak-this is actually weaker compared with perverts like Ogata and Mamiya.

In terms of actual combat experience and melee ability, A-Machi is no better than any ordinary samurai.

Facing the "beggar samurai" rushing towards her, A-Ming didn't change his expression, he only held the wakizashi tightly in his hands, ready to defend and counterattack.

The "beggar warrior" held up the sword in his hand, his posture was full of momentum, and his steps were also very flexible, one could tell that he was not that kind of weak person.

Just as his knife was aiming at A-Ting's head, and was about to slash straight down, the "beggar warrior" saw a black figure cut horizontally from the far right corner of his field of vision to the end of his field of vision at an astonishingly fast speed. central.

This dark shadow is exactly Ogata.

With Ogata's current speed, before the "beggar samurai" swung down the knife in his hand, it was easy to cut between him and A-Ming.

The moment he cut between the "beggar samurai" and A-Machi, Ogata quickly raised his hands.

The left hand restrained the hands of the "beggar warrior" holding the knife, and the right hand pressed the "beggar warrior"'s left shoulder, using Shiranui-ryu jutsu to throw this person directly to the ground.

The "beggar warrior" didn't even see clearly the appearance of this warrior who suddenly flashed into his field of vision. The upward posture fell to the ground.

The response of this "beggar warrior" was also very fast.

As soon as Ogata fell to the ground, he immediately took out a sword from his arms with his left hand and stabbed at Ogata.

His move is quite vicious, and its target is Ogata's heart.

But the speed of his knife...was so slow that Ogata didn't even need to tense his nerves.

Shiranui-ryu jutsu just happens to have the technique of grabbing a sword and using the snatched sword to fight back.

Ogata directly used the sword-grabbing technique in Shiranui-ryu Ju-Jitsu to snatch the sword from the "beggar warrior", then turned the sword around, and pierced the "beggar warrior" through the heart.

【Ding! Shiranui Ninjutsu Shiranui Jutsu, kill the enemy]

[Gain 90 personal experience points, 90 experience points for ninjutsu "Shiranui Ninjutsu"]

[Current personal level: lv34 (5170/5200)]

[Shiranui Ninjutsu Level: 7th Stage (805/6000)]

Since agreeing to teach the apprentices of Baosheng Sword Gym in swordsmanship and jujube, Ogata's various experience bars have been increasing experience points in an orderly manner these days.

Probably the day before yesterday, Ogata's Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu was finally upgraded due to full experience points, and rose to the seventh stage, contributing 2 skill points to Ogata.

After Ogata killed the "samurai beggar" with one move, the "samurai with a loud voice" and the villagers who had been chasing him just now finally came late.

"Oh! Your skill is very good!" "Loud voice samurai" praised Ogata with his loud voice.

How Ogata subdued this scum just now with his nimble skills, and how he grabbed the sword to kill this scum, the "samurai with a loud voice" saw clearly just now.

After complimenting Ogata, the "loud samurai" turned his gaze, and turned his disdainful gaze to the "beggar samurai" who had been killed by Ogata.

"Cut... This kind of scum, it's really cheap for him to die." After finishing speaking, "Samurai with a loud voice" spit on the ground.

The villagers who came from all directions also followed and cursed the dead "beggar warrior".

It's just that there are only a few villagers who dare to curse "beggar warriors".

Most of the villagers only dared to cast resentful glances at the "beggar warrior".

"Are all of you samurai invited back by other villagers?" "Samurai with loud voice" turned his gaze back to Ogata.

"Yeah." Ogata stood up slowly, "Are you also the samurai who were invited back?"

"That's right!" "Samurai with Loud Voice" grinned, "My name is Masaomi Hosaka!"

"Mashima Goro." Ogata reported to the house, and then helped A-Machi behind him to complete the introduction, "This is my wife-A-Machi."

"I'm Shinsaburo Tsuchiya." The Tsuchiya on the side also reported to the house.

"Oh!" "Loud Samurai"—that is, Hosaka raised his eyebrows, glanced at A-Machi behind Ogata, and said with a smile, "You have such a beautiful wife! I'm so envious!"

Having said that, Kasaka glanced at Ogata and Tsuchiya.

"Counting the two of you, this village has already invited six...ah, no, five warriors. It's a little more than I expected."

"5?" Zhuzou, who had just dodged to the side, had already returned to the side of Ogata and the others.

As soon as he returned to Ogata and the others, Zhuzo asked the nearby villagers:

"Have you successfully recruited 3 warriors?"

Ogata remembered that Zhu Sanyou told him that his village had sent several groups of people to hire samurai in different nearby cities and towns.

People like Hosaka should be the samurai that other groups of villagers who went to invite samurai successfully recruited from other cities and towns.

"To be precise—there are four samurai." Hosaka shrugged, then pouted at the "beggar samurai" at his feet, "This guy is also one of the samurai invited back."

"But this guy has a wicked mind and is a scum."

"This guy was brought back to this village this morning."

"When he first came to the village, he walked around furtively."

"I think there is something wrong with this guy, so I keep an eye on him, and I follow him secretly wherever he goes."

"Then just now, this guy finally showed his feet."

"He just sneaked into a certain family's house and planned to rape the family's daughter."

"Because I have been paying attention to him, I rushed in in time, planning to kill this scum with one knife."

"But this guy's running speed is really fast. I don't know if he has been trained to escape from my knife."

"I don't need to say more about what happened next."

"This guy is also unlucky. He just ran into you when he escaped."

Hosaka raised his eyes and looked at Ogata and the others.

"Is that girl okay?" Machi asked.

"It's okay, it's okay." Hosaka waved his hand, "This scumbag just rushed into the house with his front feet, and I rushed in with his back feet. This scumbag didn't even have time to tear off his clothes. It's just that the girl seemed to be affected. A little scared."

"This scumbag probably didn't really want to help the village."

"He probably felt that this was an opportunity to enter other people's villages in a fair manner, so he pretended to be willing to help."

"Then after entering the village, the murderous appearance is completely revealed."

"After he came to this village this morning, the reason why he walked around in a sneaky manner was probably to find out which family's women are more beautiful."

"This kind of scum is really annoying..."

Kasaka raised his hand and scratched his cheek.

"It is because of such scum that the reputation of our warriors has been tarnished."

"All in all, that's how it is—the villagers originally invited four samurai."

"Then one of them is a scumbag who plotted against evil, and he has fallen here. So there are 3 left."

"Counting you two newcomers, there are now five warriors in this village."

Hosaka Asaogata and the others raised five fingers.

At this moment, a weather-stained man rubbed his hands and walked slowly towards Kazaka.

"Master Samurai..."

This man looks like he is in his 40s, but his voice is very young. Just listening to his voice, one would think that he should only be in his early 30s.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Hosaka looked at the man.

"I'm Ajiao...ah, I'm the father of the girl who was almost defiled by that warrior. I've heard about the specifics from Ajiao."

The man bowed deeply to Kasaka.

"Thank you very, very much for saving my daughter."

"Hahahaha!" Hizaka laughed heartily, "It's just a trivial favor! How is your daughter now? Is she still crying?"

"Still crying..." The man smiled wryly, "Her mother is accompanying her now. Alas... Her mother and I just left home for a while, and this happened... "

"Are you still crying..." Hosaka raised his hand and scratched his chin, "That's really difficult... I don't know how to make a woman stop crying... Well, anyway, you two stay with me tonight Accompany your daughter, comfort her or something."

Goo...

At this moment, Hosaka's stomach suddenly made a moderate sound.

"Oh..." Hosaka patted his stomach with no shame on his face, "My stomach is really spiritual, and it will bark when it's meal time."

After finishing speaking, Hosaka turned his head to look at the villagers surrounding him not far away.

"Hey! It's time for dinner now! Can I cook?"

"Yes, yes!" One of the older villagers among the villagers nodded hurriedly, "We're going to prepare dinner for you now!"

"In order to come to this village, you must be very tired!"

Hosaka turned his head and glanced at Ogata and the others.

"Let's have dinner together! You guys can also get to know the other two samurai while eating."

"The rice in this village is quite fragrant, and the uncle in charge of cooking for us is quite good at cooking."

...

...

In a fairly spacious wooden house made of wood and thatch in the village——

Hoo hoo...

Strains of hot air bubbled out along the gap of the pot lid, turning into thin wind sounds one after another.

This house is a very common type of house in the countryside of this era-only one room.

There is only one room in the whole house, and this room is used not only as a hall, but also as a bedroom.

The owner of the house eats, drinks, sleeps, and entertains guests in this only room...

At this moment, there are 7 people in this house.

Ogata, A-machi, Tsuchiya, Hosaka, two samurai whose names Ogata did not know, and an old man who was sitting next to the pot and observing the heat.

According to Hosaka just now, this old man is one of the villagers in the village. It is specially responsible for cooking for their group of warriors, named Yu Zao.

The warriors invited by the villagers are all gathered here at this time.

Ogata, A-Machi, and Tsuchiya were ushered in just now and sat down on the floor.

Just as he sat down on the floor, Oo conveniently looked at the two samurai whose names he didn't know.

These two warriors each have their own characteristics.

One of them was very young, probably only about 17 years old.

He was a little cautious, and he didn't even know how to put his hands down after Ogata and the strangers came in.

The other person is slightly older, and his age is probably in the range of 25 to 30 years old.

He was sitting upright from the beginning to the end, his waist and neck were straight, and his eyes were not squinted. There is a bit of elegance in every gesture.

You can tell at a glance that he is the kind of well-educated person.

If it wasn't for the ragged and old clothes on his body, other people would definitely think that he was a son of some samurai family.

At this moment, Hosaka stretched out his right arm and embraced the very cautious young samurai.

"This is my apprentice - Mizuno Yogoro."

As soon as Hosaka finished speaking, the young samurai who was held by his shoulders hurriedly bowed their heads to Ogata and the others.

"Under Mizuno Yogoro, please give me more advice!"

After both Hosaka and Mizuno finished their self-introductions, the elegant samurai sitting not far from them also opened his lips and said softly:

"Jin Chengsheng. Please give me more advice."

After Mizuno and Jincheng finished introducing themselves, Ogata and others also began to introduce themselves.

Huosaka, Mizuno, Jincheng, Tsuchiya, and Ogata—not counting the scum samurai who was killed by Ogata, these are the five samurai currently invited by this village.

"Huozaka, Mizuno, Jincheng, Tsuchiya..." Huozaka grinned, "We are really destined. If there is another person with the word 'wood' in their surname, we will just make up the five elements."

Hosaka's rant made everyone present smile involuntarily.

"The rice is ready." The old man named Yozo who was in charge of preparing the meals for Ogata and others lifted the lid of the pot while speaking.

Clouds of milky white steam burst out as the lid was lifted.

Inside the pot is a full bowl of white rice.

The side dishes prepared by the villagers for Ogata and the others were only pickles and radishes.

No fish, no tofu and no soup.

But judging from the current situation of this village, pickles and radishes should be the best food that the villagers can come up with.

After telling Zao that the rice was cooked and ready to eat, Ogata and the others began to feast on it.

Since leaving the domain, Ogata has been living a life that is neither luxurious nor restrained, so he doesn't feel much about tonight's dinner.

But Kasaka and the others are different.

Just by looking at their clothes, it can be seen that they must have lived a life without a second meal.

So after breaking the pot with Zao, Hosaka and the others immediately had their eyes lit up.

After taking his own bowl of rice from Yu Zao's hand, he immediately hugged the rice in his hand like a pig.

When he set off for this village today, Tsuchiya told Ogata that the reason why he agreed to come to this village to help was only so that he could eat white rice.

So among all the people, Tsuchiya was the one who ate the most and worked the hardest.

The way Kasaka eats matches his rugged appearance very well - he eats quite boldly.

Should it be said that they are worthy of being masters and apprentices? Compared with Mizuno's heroic eating style, it is even worse than that of Kasaka.

Mizuno, who started eating, looked like a powerful general on the battlefield. Compared with the stiff look just now, he was a completely different person.

As for Jin Cheng—even when he was eating, he maintained an elegant posture.

Keep your waist and neck straight, shoulders relaxed, hold the rice bowl in front of your chest, and when you use the chopsticks to deliver the food to your mouth, you only wet the tip of the chopsticks a little.

Hosaka is the kind of person who is quite familiar and lively, and he keeps talking about it during meals.

Thanks to Hosaka's liveliness, the meal was not too dull, and at the same time, Ogata learned through Hosaka's mouth that Hosaka and Mizuno were the first to come to this village.

The two of them arrived at the village in the evening of the day before yesterday.

Then this morning, it was the "beggar warrior" who arrived at the village.

Jincheng arrived in the village this afternoon.

And Ogata and the others were the last batch, arriving just now.

Jincheng's appetite seems to be small.

After eating only one bowl, he put down the bowl in his hand that didn't even have a single grain of rice left, then folded his hands together and said softly: "I'm full."

Even clasping his hands together and bowing his head to the bowl in front of him in salute is so elegant.

Hosaka was sitting next to Jincheng.

After squinting at Jincheng beside him, he grinned and asked aloud:

"Jincheng, from the first time I saw you this afternoon, I noticed that you have a very temperament, you have a good posture, and a good sitting posture."

"I didn't expect to be so appetizing when I was eating."

"You should be a child of a big family, right?"

Regarding this question from Kazaka, Jincheng remained silent.

Facing the silent Jincheng, Hosaka said immediately:

"Well, if you don't want to tell more about your past, I won't force you to."

"No." As soon as Huosaka's voice fell, Jincheng said immediately, "There is nothing shady in my past. If you are curious, I would be happy to say it, just to pass the leisure time after dinner."

Jin Cheng took the water glass on the side, took a sip of the water in the glass, and then slowly told his past.

It turned out that Jincheng really came from a wealthy family.

He was born in a banner family in Edo with a salary of 3,500 shi.

3,500 shi—it’s not a big deal among the banner warriors in Edo, but it’s an unattainable number for mid- and low-level warriors everywhere.

While living a life without worrying about food and clothing, he is also undergoing strict education.

At first glance, Jincheng seems to be living a life that ordinary people envy.

But in essence, life in Jincheng is quite hard.

Because - he is the third son in the family.

"Oh?" Hosaka raised his eyebrows, "So you're Usuke?"

"Yeah." Jin Cheng nodded, "That's right."

Ejie—those who do not inherit the family fortune.

Japan in the Edo period also practiced the eldest son inheritance system.

The family business is inherited by the eldest son.

Those who do not inherit the family business are called "Ejie".

Jin Cheng is the third son in the family, and he has two elder brothers in front of him. If it comes to inheriting the family business, no matter what the turn, it is his turn to inherit it.

From some perspectives, "Ejie" is also a miserable group of people.

Because they cannot inherit the family business, they can only fend for themselves.

Some families are more kind and will support the erjies in the family.

However, some families are not so friendly to the erjies. They adopt a stocking policy for the erjies, let them find their own way out, or directly throw them some inconspicuous jobs so that they will not starve to death.

How can the way out for the warriors be so easy to find?

Due to various reasons such as class attributes, there are many jobs that are actually unwilling to recruit samurai, or the samurai simply cannot do it.

Jincheng's family belongs to the type that is not very friendly to the erjies.

Jincheng's father randomly found a job for Jincheng to work as a housekeeper for another Banner household.

Jin Cheng, who didn't want to be guarded by others and was only interested in swordsmanship, simply took his own sword and left his hometown to practice martial arts.

Before I knew it, I wandered here.

After Hosaka quietly listened to Jincheng's story about his past, he grinned:

"In this case, you are doing martial arts training. Do you want to wander with us in the future? Let's form a team dedicated to catching wanted criminals."

"Catch the wanted criminal?" Jin Cheng looked puzzled.

Ogata, who was sitting across from Hosaka, couldn't help but look up at Hosaka.

"My apprentice and I are now wandering around, living by catching wanted criminals."

While talking, Hosaka took out a large stack of crumpled papers from his bosom, and showed them to Ogata and the others.

"This is the wanted warrants I have collected so far. After I finish helping in this village, my apprentice and I will continue to look for these wanted criminals."

Looking at the wanted warrants that Hosaka showed them, the eyes of Ogata and Atachi became strange.

Because... on the first sheet of this stack of arrest warrants, there is a face that Ogata is very familiar with.

Ogata: "Can you show me your wanted warrants?"

"Take it! Just look at it!"

Hosaka directly gave Ogata all the wanted warrants in his hand.

After receiving the stack of wanted warrants, Ogata directly picked up the wanted warrant placed on top.

——No matter how you look at it, it's ugly... It doesn't show my handsomeness at all...

The first one on the top of Hosaka's stack of wanted warrants is Ogata's wanted warrant...

Ogata always felt that his arrest warrant made him look ugly.

But the strange thing is - those bounty hunters can always accurately identify him through the wanted poster...

And what made Ogata feel hurt the most was—A-Machi once said to Ogata: Isn't this arrest warrant drawn quite like you?

The "heartache" left by this sentence to Ogata still remains to this day.

"You still want to catch Ogata Yidaosai?" Ogata raised his arrest warrant.

"How is that possible!" Hosaka laughed loudly, "Don't you know how many catties I have? I'm going to catch Ogata Yidaosai? How many heads I have are not enough to chop off!"

"I just brought Ogata Isai's arrest warrant along with me. If one day I really run into Ogata Isai, I will definitely run away without saying a word!"

Ogata turned his gaze back to the wanted warrant in his hand.

"Ogata Yidaosai is now offering a reward of 500 taels... I remember he used to offer a reward of 300 taels..."

When he first got the arrest warrant, Ogata noticed that his bounty had increased.

It has risen to 500 taels.

Since leaving Kyoto, Ogata has never paid attention to his arrest warrant.

This is the first time Ogata has received his arrest warrant since he left Kyoto, and it is only now that Ogata knows that his bounty has increased so much.

"This is the latest arrest warrant!" Hosaka said, "I just got it a month ago too! After Ogata Isaito broke through the Nijo Castle in Kyoto, the shogunate increased Ogata's bounty from 300 tael Up to 500 taels."

"Ogata Yidaosai should be the most valuable wanted criminal right now." A look of longing appeared on Hosaka's face, "500 taels... With 500 taels, I won't need to work for the rest of my life."