After gathering his energy, Qingto devoted himself to following Okita's instructions and practicing Suzhen.
As for Okita, he was holding his bamboo sword and walking around the apprentices, supervising their practice.
Every time his surveillance gaze passed over Qingdeng's body, the look of surprise in his eyes flickered.
——This man... is so powerful...!
Novices often make various small mistakes when practicing Su Zhen, such as swinging the sword downward instead of forward; turning their wrists or pressing their wrists when swinging the sword...
Generally speaking, it is very normal to spend several days training Su Zhen to make no more mistakes.
If you can train Su Zhen to a standard in just one day, that would be considered an outstanding talent.
And this new junior brother... actually only watched him demonstrate once, and then practiced it once, and he was able to use Su Zhen with such a standard that he couldn't make any mistakes...
——This person's talent...maybe even higher than that of Kondo-san and Hijikata-san...
Uncontrollably, Okita cast nearly half of his eyes and attention on Qingto.
The training requirement given to Qingdeng by this beautiful young man is to practice until he can no longer swing the sword. Let's see what Qingdeng's current limit is.
For standard Su Zhen, you have to use your utmost strength to swing each sword, so it consumes a lot of physical strength.
When he reached the 32nd swing, Aomori felt that the muscles in his arms were extremely sore and it was difficult to lift his arms, so he had no choice but to give up the practice and loudly announced to Okita, "I can't swing anymore."
"Hmm... Not bad." Okita dragged his bamboo sword and walked slowly to Qingto's side, "I have been silently observing you just now to see if your movements are up to standard."
"You did far better than I expected."
"Except for the last few cuts, where the posture was a little messed up due to lack of physical strength, every other cut was quite standard."
"I feel a little embarrassed..." Qingdeng said with a bitter smile, "I only swung the knife 32 times and I can't swing it anymore..."
——This body is really weak!
Qingdendi complained about his new body countless times.
"Beginners don't need to pay too much attention to the number of Su Zhen." Okita smiled slightly, "Whether Su Zhen's movements are standard or not is the most important."
“It’s better not to practice than to perform a thousand substandard exercises.”
"I originally wanted to use all my time today to teach you how to be gentle."
A helpless emotion slowly appeared on Okita's face.
"But your progress... is far beyond my imagination. There is nothing else to correct on your Su Zhen, so let's move on to the next step of practice."
"Next, I'll teach you how to draw and put away the knife."
"Drawing and sheathing the sword are the basic foundations of swordsmanship. If you can't draw and sheath the sword well, then there's no point in talking about swordsmanship."
"You should rest a little now, and then call me after you have rested. I will get you the tools to practice drawing and sheathing the sword."
"yes."
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Qingdeng rested for a full half hour before he finally felt that most of the pain in his arms had dissipated.
After telling Okita that he had finished resting, Okita ran out of the dojo and came back with two sheathed wooden swords.
"It's so heavy..." After taking the wooden sword handed by Okita, Qingto couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise at the unexpected weight of the wooden sword.
"This is a wooden sword specially used to practice drawing and sheathing the sword." Okita explained, "It is specially weighted in order to perfectly simulate the weight of a real sword."
Qingdeng weighed the sheathed wooden sword in his hand - in terms of weight, it was really the same as the real sword.
"Okay, now you watch me demonstrate it again." Okita put the wooden sword on his left waist, "There is only one key point in drawing and sheathing the sword - let your hand take the shortest path to touch the sword, don't do anything superfluous action."
"look carefully."
After saying that, Okita suddenly raised his right hand, held down the wooden sword on his left waist, and pulled it out of its sheath.
call--!
The knife came out of its sheath, making a harsh sound of the air being cut.
After pulling out the sword neatly, Okita retracted the wooden sword with the same neat movements.
The set of moves Okita just performed was the same as Su Zhen's previous demonstration. It was clean and concise. Even people who don't understand swords would just want to shout: "Awesome!"
"When drawing the sword, remember to hold the sword with your right wrist in this way..."
Okita Yan briefly and comprehensively introduced to Qingnog the details of the movements that need to be paid attention to when drawing and sheathing the sword.
After he finished speaking, he put his hands and the bamboo sword behind his back.
"Okay. Try it yourself now."
"yes."
Qingto spread his legs, lowered his center of gravity, imitated Okita's action just now, and slowly moved his right hand to the wooden sword on his left waist.
Looking at Qingto who was about to draw his sword, Okita said in his heart with anticipation and a bit of pride:
——Withdrawing and sheathing the sword...it can't be done in just one or two moves, right?
After seeing Aoto's astonishing talent, Okita had a strange curiosity in his heart - curiosity to find out the depth of Aoto's talent.
Okita, with a look of anticipation in his eyes, looked longingly at Ayoto, who was holding the handle of the knife with his right hand.
The "high-speed camera" in Qingdeng's mind was turned on again at this moment——
call!
The blade of the wooden sword was quickly pulled out of the sheath inch by inch, and Okita's eyes widened little by little.
After pulling out the wooden sword, Aoto imitated Okita's action just now and put the sword back into its sheath.
——This man...has he really never received formal swordsmanship training before? !
Whether Qingdeng was Su Zhen before or drew the sword and put it away just now, Okita looked at it and felt that it was not an action that a beginner could make.
Even veterans of swordsmanship may not be able to perform such beautiful moves.
However, in the competition between Aomori and Suzuki that he just watched, Aomori's extremely childish sword-swinging movements clearly told him that this junior brother was indeed a newcomer who had not had much exposure to swordsmanship before...
——If...he really hasn't received any formal swordsmanship training before...then his talent...
Okita's eyes gradually became serious...no, it should be said that he became weird and "scary".
Qingto, who felt uncomfortable being stared at by Okita like this, couldn't help but say:
"Um...Okita-kun?"
"Ah." Okita laughed as if he had just woken up from a dream, "Sorry, I just got a little distracted."
"What you did just now was good. It's quite rare for a beginner to be able to perform such a level of action."
"But there are still some things you didn't do well just now."
Okita stepped forward and carefully explained to Qingto what details he had not done just now.
After Okita corrected him and Qingto practiced on his own several times, Okita nodded.
"For the rest of the time, you should concentrate on practicing drawing and sheathing the sword." Okita ordered, "Let's practice it 40 times first. Remember to make the movements standard during practice, and don't neglect it in order to complete the number of exercises as soon as possible. The standard of movement.”
After giving Qingto a new training task, Okita took his bamboo sword and went to supervise and check the practice of others.
After Okita left, Qingto began to follow Okita's instructions and concentrated on practicing drawing and sheathing the sword.
And at this moment - Uehara, who had been practicing Sozhen under Okita's order, finally completed a series of training tasks assigned by Okita, and sat down next to Aoshito to rest, sweating profusely. .
While massaging the muscles of his arms, he spoke to Qingden coldly:
"Man, you are so awesome. This is the first time I have seen Okita-kun be so gentle and kind when teaching swordsmanship."
Uehara exudes a bold spirit both in his appearance and in his voice.
"Brother, where are you from? Where do you work?"
"I am a native of Edo." Qingnobo responded, "I am currently serving as a public official in Edo Hokuban, and I am a member of the town council of Edo Hokuban."
After briefly introducing himself to Uehara, Qingto saw Uehara's eyes suddenly light up.
"You turned out to be a 'three times' samurai!"
Uehara asked Qingden urgently in an impatient tone:
"Brother, since you are a 'three times' samurai, can I ask you something?"
"Huh? Please tell me."
Uehara, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, leaned his upper body forward in the direction of Aomori, and his breathing became slightly heavier.
"I heard that the cat monk who has caused a lot of commotion in Edo recently is a female ninja who is proficient in ninjutsu. Is this true?"
Qingden's hands, which were practicing drawing and sheathing the sword, stopped involuntarily.
"Huh?" Qingto tilted his head to Uehara, "Cat Monk? Female Ninja?"
Having inherited all the memories of "Original Orange Qingden", Qingden naturally knows who the Cat Monk is.
About three months ago, a very powerful thief who only appeared at night appeared in Edo.
Generally, thieves steal the property of rich people.
But this is not the case with this big thief.
This big thief only steals money from the Yakuza of Edo, or those notorious villains in Edo.
He acted boldly and actively. In just three months, there were countless evil people or evil forces who had stolen money from this big thief. The total amount stolen is conservatively estimated to be several thousand taels of gold.
This kind of thief who only attacks evil people and does not harm the common people has always been easy to win the favor of the common people.
After all, people like people and stories where someone deals with evildoers for them and vents their bad breath.
As far as Qingnobo knows - with the activeness of this thief, this thief has become extremely popular among Edo people, and some storytellers have even written stories related to this thief.
Although what this big thief did was to eliminate harm for the people, thieves are still thieves, and the government cannot sit idly by and ignore it.
Therefore, after the reputation of this thief rose, the Edo South and North Police Stations quickly opened a case and launched an investigation.
Although the government's investigation was very rapid, the results of the investigation... can be said to be horrific...
Through careful investigation and the information provided by the intelligence network, Edo's "Sanchai" had successfully found the thief at the scene of his robbery several times.
But every time without exception - he escaped.
This thief's movement is astonishingly agile!
Whether it is the top of a fence that is only as wide as a foot or the roof of a house with a very steep slope, this thief can walk on everything with ease.
Every time the arrest was made, the result was very similar - the thief was found with great difficulty, but the thief quickly jumped up to the roof or other places nearby, and then in the blink of an eye he , this person disappeared into the night...
Because this thief could move quickly like a cat on various complex terrains such as roofs and wall tops, the government gave him a nickname - Cat Little Monk.
I have to say, this nickname is indeed very well chosen.
The thief's movements were indeed as agile as a cat's.
The Cat Monk comes and goes without a trace, so until now, the government still knows very little about the Cat Monk.
Because Mao Xiaoseng always wears black clothes, and his hair, nose and lower parts are all wrapped in black cloth. Only a pair of eyes are exposed on his body, and his gender and age cannot be seen at all. Therefore, the government even does not know whether he is I don’t know if she’s male or female, or how old she is.
Currently, the government only knows three useful pieces of information about Mao Xiaoseng:
1. He only comes out at night.
2. He only attacks the evil people and evil forces in Edo.
3. He has a petite body, with a height of only 1.5 meters at most.
A height of 1.5 meters - this was too common in Japan during the Edo period. Due to diet, genes, etc., many men in this era, let alone women, were 1.5 meters tall.
With a height of 1.75 meters, Qingden is considered a rare "giant" in this era.
"Cat Monk is a female ninja...where did you hear this?" Qingden put down the wooden sword in his hand.
Uehara responded with a somewhat excited tone:
"I heard what my friends said last night when I was drinking with them."
"My friends said: Recently, many people in the market have been speculating on the identity of Mao Xiaoseng."
"The cat monk is very petite and is most likely female."
"Then she can walk on roofs, walls and other places as if she were on the ground. Flying over roofs and walls - this has always been a specialty of ninjas."
"So many people are currently spreading rumors: Cat Monk is a female ninja who is proficient in ninjutsu."
"And I also heard that the cat monk is very plump here."
Uehara, who had an uncontrollable lustful smile on his face, raised his hands and made several gestures on his chest.
"I have always been very interested in this little cat monk, so I thought I would check with you as a 'Three Chapters' to see if this is really the case."
——Have you always been interested in Cat Monk, or did you become interested in him only after hearing that Cat Monk was a plump female ninja...
After silently complaining about Uehara in his heart, Qingdeng laughed dumbly:
"It's completely nonsense. Just listen to these market rumors."
"I don't know if there are still any female ninjas in this era when overseas powers have opened their doors to the country."
"But I can tell you with complete certainty: 'The cat monk is a female ninja' and so on are completely unfounded fantasies of ordinary people in the market."
"The Cat Monk is very petite, so she is a female. Because she can fly over walls and fly over walls, she is a ninja? How can we conclude that the Cat Monk is a female ninja just based on these two points..."
Qingdeng said helplessly.
“Petite—a lot of men are petite.”
Having said this, Qingdeng couldn't help but glance at a certain 1.55 meter beautiful boy in the distance who was concentrating on teaching someone.
"As for flying over the roof and walking over the wall... our government has arrested many people who are agile and can run fast on the roof. They are not ninjas."
"And it's plump there and stuff... It's just nonsense without any basis."
"Our government hasn't even determined the gender of Cat Monk. How do the people know that Cat Monk is so big? This is probably just a rumor made by some boring guy to attract attention."
"In short - just listen to these market rumors."
After saying that, Qingden raised the wooden sword in his hand and continued to concentrate on sword practice.
"B-but..." Uehara murmured, as if he wanted to say something else.
But at this moment——
"Uehara, what are you doing?" Okita's words pierced Uehara's eardrums, causing the expression on Uehara's face to freeze instantly.
Okita crossed his arms and walked slowly towards Uehara with an unhappy expression.
"Have you forgotten the rules of our trial gym? When other people are practicing sword practice, don't just chat with others or disturb others."
"Yes, I'm sorry..." Uehara quickly lowered his head and shrunk like a child who had done something wrong.
After being reminded like this by Okita, Uehara no longer dared to talk to Qingto and concentrated on massaging and relaxing the muscles in his arms.
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