I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"Thank you, Samurai-sama! Thank you so much!"

A middle-aged woman kept thanking Ogata.

This middle-aged woman is Jiro's wife.

Jilang and his family are an ordinary family of three, with an ordinary wife and an ordinary daughter.

From the outside, his daughter looks about 14 or 15 years old. She is supporting Jiro with her mother, and casts a grateful look at Ogata.

"Thank you very much, Samurai-sama." With the support of his wife and daughter, Yoshiro bowed deeply to Ogata.

It is not without reason that Jiro and the others are so grateful to Ogata.

Jilang's foot was injured, and he couldn't go back to the village by himself.

If there is no one to help, then he can only stay in the cold snow.

Staying too long in such icy snow—especially at night—could easily kill someone.

After Jiro thanked Ogata, his eyes flashed a little apologetic.

"I'm sorry, Samurai-sama." Jilang said in a cautious tone, "Our family is very poor, and we really can't offer you anything to reward you. If you don't mind, we still have a few sweet potatoes at home..."

Before Jilang finished speaking, Oo conveniently waved his hand and interrupted:

"There's no need for thank you gifts. I didn't send you back to the village just to get thank you gifts."

However—as soon as Ogata's words fell, Yoshiro hurriedly said to him:

"Master Samurai! If you don't want to thank us, we will be very sorry!"

Hearing Jiro's words, Ogata pondered for a while.

"How about that?"

Ogata smiled at Jirou.

"It's almost noon now, and I happen to be hungry too."

"Just tell me if there is a store selling food nearby."

"Tell me where the shop is—that's a thank-you gift from you guys.

"

"Ah, this, of course there is no problem!" Jilang raised his hand and pointed to the north, "Master Samurai, as long as you keep walking in this direction, after you leave the village, you can touch the sword and a tea house."

"That tea house not only sells tea, but also snacks like glutinous rice dumplings!"

"Thank you so much." Ogata smiled at Jiro and bowed lightly to Jiro, "Your thank you - I have received it."

"Then—goodbye, Jiro. We shall see you someday."

After saying that, Ogata turned around and wanted to leave.

"Master Samurai, at least tell me your name! I don't know your benefactor's name yet?"

"Benefactor or something...it's too exaggerated...I just did some trivial things, as for the name..."

A helpless wry smile appeared on Ogata's face.

"I think you'd better not know my name..."

After all, Ogata stopped staying any longer, and left directly in front of Jiro and others.

Seeing that Ogata refused to tell them his name? Jilang, his wife, and daughter looked at each other in blank dismay. The faces of the three were puzzled.

Seeing that Ogata was unwilling to say his name, the three of them did not dare to force it.

The three made a deep bow to Ogata's back.

It wasn't until Ogata completely disappeared from their field of vision that the three of them straightened up.

When walking out of Sihe Village, Xu Fang has been quietly looking at every house in Sihe Village, as well as all the people who passed by him.

The first impression that Sihe Village left on Ogata? At the same time, the only impression was-broken.

Every corner of Sihe Village exudes a dilapidated atmosphere.

Every house is dilapidated and old.

The villagers who passed by Ogata? All of them were disheveled? The mental state is not generally bad.

In a word—the air of Sihe Village smells of poverty.

"It seems..."

Ogata muttered in a volume that only he could hear clearly.

"The Negishi family is really oppressing the common people here..."

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...

Ogata found the direction Yoshiro pointed just now and walked straight forward.

The road is still quite difficult to walk.

The road is quite narrow, barely enough for 2 people to walk side by side.

Walking along this narrow road, Ogata suddenly found that five people were walking in front of him.

The dress of these 5 people is quite strange.

No saber, no samurai.

Temperament? It doesn't look like a farmer or a townsman living in a city.

The appearance of them? And the posture when they walk, it gives Ogata the feeling that it's - flowing...

However, Ogata didn't pay much attention to the five people walking towards him.

Due to the narrowness of the road, Ogata tried his best to walk on the edge of the road, intending to pass these five people.

Just when Ogata was about to pass by these five people, Ogata didn't notice that the leader of the five people-an ugly young man with a horse face, had a meaningful snicker on his face.

Boom.

When Ogata was about to pass by these five people? Ogata's left half of his body collided firmly with the right half of the horse's face.

After the dull sound of body collision fell, the horse's face immediately turned away? He said to Ogata with an apologetic face:

"Master Samurai, I'm sorry!"

"It's okay." Ogata said while gently rubbing his left shoulder.

Is this road very narrow? It's normal to accidentally bump into it, so Ogata didn't care about such ordinary things.

After saying "It's okay", I didn't pay attention to the five people when I was in a good mood, and continued to walk forward, looking for the teahouse that Jilang pointed to.

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After walking out of this narrow path, Ogata felt a sense of enlightenment.

Beyond this path is an empty snow field.

Not far ahead, Ogata saw a wooden house that was emitting a thin layer of cooking smoke.

On the top of the wooden house is a big banner with a big word "tea" written on it.

"arrive……"

Ogata muttered excitedly while quickening his pace.

Before coming to this tea house, Xu Bian smelled the tempting aroma of tea and food.

This tea house was built in the outskirts, and it seems that it is specially designed to provide services for ronin like Ogata, as well as those merchants who travel around.

Ogata looked inside, only to see a middle-aged man busy inside.

It seems that this middle-aged man is the owner of this tea house.

"Shopkeeper!" Ogata said loudly.

The shopkeeper who heard Ogata's voice looked at Ogata following the sound.

"Do you have glutinous rice dumplings here?"

"Yes!" the shopkeeper said cheerfully, "As many glutinous rice dumplings as you want, I have as many glutinous rice dumplings here!"

"Okay, bring me 5 strings of glutinous rice dumplings first!"

"Want some tea?"

"Of course. Bring me the best tea in your store!"

"okay!"