Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 199 198. Abnormal Muscles
A samurai's reputation could be damaged if he mishandled affairs in full view.

In the Warring States Period, the management power that originally belonged to the ministers had already been scattered among the samurai families. A samurai should not only be able to fight, but also need to be wise.

The chief guard of the main family, Nogami Gensai's order can be regarded as a rescue for Nogami Inosuke.

"Your situation, just take advantage of this time to report to Lord Nogami Xuanzhai face to face. Alright everyone! Get ready to meet the Lord!"

The first half of the sentence was addressed to Lan En, and the second half of the sentence the young warrior turned around and shouted at the wanderers gathered in the longhouse to watch the excitement.

As soon as the wanderers heard about food and wages, they naturally put aside the excitement in front of them.

Shouting loudly, he took his weapon and ran out the door.

At this time, the soldiers leading the way also returned Arondette to Lan En under the gaze of Nogami Inosuke.

When the ordinary ronin flew by, Inosuke couldn't hide his helplessness and disgust.

The class division in Japan is obvious and strict. The samurai look down on ronin, but they want to use ronin.There will always be this tangled psychology.

It has nothing to do with whether a specific person is snobbish or not, it has something to do with the social atmosphere.

But when facing Lan En, Nogami Inosuke's expression was obviously much more serious.

Whether it's a 'Ming man', a 'Southern man', or a simple figure, Lan En has the conditions for him to maintain respect.

"You haven't been formally hired yet. Returning the equipment is an expedient measure to deal with the assessment, so I will follow around."

The words are not exhausted, but a wise man can understand what is meant next.

If there is any sign of conspiracy, the two people who are talking to each other politely now will face each other with swords in the next moment.

Fortunately, Lan En didn't have this idea.

"Please."

Reaching out his hand in a polite and thoughtful manner, two figures whose painting style is obviously different from ordinary ronin, followed behind the messy group of people, and walked towards the courtyard in the center of Pingtianzhuang.

When I was in the castle town, the atmosphere of war was not so strong. After all, the civilians were still wandering in the market, doing their own work and earning their own rations.

But after entering Hirata's real manor from the castle town, the tense and chilling atmosphere suddenly became intense.

Soldiers dressed like the soldiers at the gate ran around and transferred supplies. They were equipped with samurai swords on their waists, or carried cold and sharp spears on their shoulders.

Lan En followed Nogami Inosuke on the road without looking sideways, but he already caught the smell of gunpowder in his nose.

There must be a lot of things like muskets and bullets in the boxes carried by these soldiers.

Because there are many earthquakes in Dongying, most of the houses are made of wood, so the houses in Pingtianzhuang are not high in storeys, but they only cover a large area.

The ups and downs of the road are mostly due to the height difference of the terrain itself.

The wanderers didn't go further inside the manor, but chose a place to gather in separate courtyards like small grids.

Even if the Hirata House is the surface structure of the manor, they don't want to be easily seen by the ronin.

Lan En and the Ronin have no objection to this, this is the most basic preparation for a semi-military organization.

And they themselves have long been prepared not to be fully trusted, and those who take money to do things can only do things with money.

When Lan En and the others walked to the independent courtyard, an old but still vigorous voice was lecturing.

"It's useless to talk too much, today is just to see if your skills are worthy of Hirata's enshrinement! The weak get less, the strong get more, the difference between the upper and lower, and the same example!"

The ronin didn't have much culture, and the temper of the lecturer didn't sound like he would explain too much.

But when the wanderers whispered to each other, the meaning of these words was almost clear.

If you want to mobilize manpower efficiently, you still need to have an organizational framework to handle things.

The rogues are not trusted, so let the rogues decide for themselves and form a queue.Then someone from the family will be responsible for the leadership, which is simple and clear.

In this way, even if the ronin rebelled collectively, it would only be a team, and it would not affect other military forces of the Hirata family.

He didn't see the person who just shouted until Lan En and Yi Zhisuke entered the door.

That is indeed an old man, fifty years old can be called a long life in troubled times.

Lan En narrowed his eyes slightly, observing the muscle structure of the lecturer.

Judging from the exposed neck of his feathered inner sleeve, his skin has wrinkled and accumulated, but his skinny body still maintains a muscle layer with obvious fibers.

As a result, on the corner of his exposed collarbone, the loose skin of the body was pulled by the skinny muscles, like scars.

——This is obviously not a normal human muscle structure!
How can normal human beings not have loose muscles and loose skin when they are old?

In terms of strength alone, this old gentleman can probably stab a wild boar horizontally with a single stab!

Beside Lan En, Nogami Inosuke smiled and introduced to him in a low voice: "That is Lord Nogami Xuanzhai, the chief guard of the Hirata Clan. Thirty years ago, he was a well-known Weiming member!"

Lan En didn't care too much about the information in Inosuke's Huali, what he cared about was Inosuke's attitude when talking about this person.

The young samurai obviously didn't feel anything special about Gensai Nogami's body, that is to say.
Is this abnormal body structure universal?

Or, at least in Weiming?
The demon hunter responded politely: "I have heard of your name for a long time."

Yi Zhisuke smiled at this, and both of them knew that there was no such thing as a "long-awaited name" for Lan En when he first arrived.But the fact that this kind of unspoken flattery can be picked up proves once again that Lan En is not just an ordinary brat.

The credibility of the demon hunter's rhetoric has thus been greatly improved.

The serious Nogami Gensai glanced at many ronin.When he passed Lan En and Nogami Inosuke, his brows suddenly tightened.Then the angle of view did not move any more, and he stared at the tall figure with guard in his eyes.

He stared at Lan En, but shouted: "Yinosuke! You come to be the examiner, with a limit of ten strokes. If you can't pass ten strokes, you don't have to stay. After ten strokes, we will discuss the level of salary."

The young warrior beside Lan En immediately bowed slightly, "Yes!"

Then he whispered to the demon hunter beside him: "Please forgive me, Lord Nogami Genzai has always been cautious and serious, your appearance is a bit too outstanding."

Lan En shrugged, "Totally understand."

After the young samurai explained, in the process of walking from the back of the crowd to the front, he had already pulled out a rope from his arms, tied the slightly wide sleeves of his swordsman uniform, and stretched the rope to his elbows, with the corners of the sleeves under his armpits. Tie it up and become a capable swordsman.

Amidst the sound of steel rubbing against each other, the katana was slowly unsheathed.The sunlight reflected off the blade, looking cold and sharp.

Inosuke bowed slightly towards the rogue crowd, his face became sharp.

"Everyone, please enlighten me one by one."

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