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After concentrating, Qingdeng followed Okita's instructions wholeheartedly and practiced Suzhen.

As for Chong Tian, ​​he carried his bamboo sword and walked beside the apprentices, supervising their practice.

Every time his monitoring eyes slid over Qingdeng's body, the astonishment in his pupils flickered once.

——This person... is amazing...!

Novices often make various small mistakes when practicing Suzhen, such as swinging the sword downward instead of forward; turning the wrist or pressing the wrist when swinging the sword...

Generally speaking, it is very normal to spend several days to practice Suzhen so that there will be no more mistakes.

If one can master Suzhen to the standard in one day, then it is already considered as an outstanding talent.

And this new junior brother... unexpectedly only watched him demonstrate once, and then practiced once by himself, and he was able to use Su Zhen, who was so standard that he couldn't find any mistakes...

——This person's talent...maybe even higher than Kondo-san and Hijikata-san...

Uncontrollably, Okita cast almost half of his eyes and attention on Qingdeng.

The beautiful boy gave Qingdeng a practice requirement, to practice until he could no longer swing the sword, to see what Qingdeng's current limit is.

With the standard Suzhen, you have to use your best strength to swing every knife, so it consumes a lot of energy.

When he reached the 32nd swing, Qingdeng felt the muscles in his arms were so sore that it was difficult to lift his arms again, so he had no choice but to give up the practice and announced loudly to Okita, "I can't swing anymore".

"Hmm... not bad." Okita dragged his bamboo sword and walked slowly to Qingdeng's side, "I've been watching you silently just now, to see if your movements are up to standard."

"You did far better than I expected."

"Except for the last few knives, where the posture was a little messed up due to lack of physical strength, every other knives are quite standard."

"It feels a bit embarrassing..." Qingdeng smiled wryly, "I only swung 32 knives, but I can't move anymore..."

——This body is really weak!

Qing Dengdi complained about his new body countless times.

"Beginners don't need to pay too much attention to the number of Suzhen." Okita smiled slightly, "Whether Suzhen's movements are standard is the most important thing."

"It is better not to practice than to perform a thousand substandard exercises."

"I originally wanted to spend all of today's time teaching you how to Suzhen."

A helpless expression slowly appeared on Okita's face at this moment.

"But your speed of improvement... is far beyond my imagination. There is nothing left to correct in your Su Zhen, so let's move on to the next step of practice."

"Next, I will teach you how to draw and retract the knife."

"Drawing and retracting the sword are the basics of swordsmanship. If you can't even draw or retract the sword well, then don't talk about swordsmanship."

"You take a break now, and call me after the rest. I'll get you the props to practice drawing and retracting the knife."

"yes."

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...

Qingdeng rested for half an hour before he finally felt that most of the soreness in his arms had dissipated.

After telling Okita that he had finished his rest, Okita hurriedly ran outside the dojo and came back with 2 wooden knives with sheaths.

"It's so heavy..." After receiving the wooden knife from Okita, Qingdeng couldn't help exclaiming in a low voice due to the unexpected weight of the wooden knife.

"This is a wooden knife specially used for practicing drawing and retracting the knife." Okita explained, "It has been specially aggravated so that it can perfectly simulate the weight of a real knife."

Qingdeng weighed the sheathed wooden knife in his hand - in terms of weight, it is really no different from a real knife.

"Okay, watch me demonstrate it now." Okita put the wooden sword on his left waist, "There is only one point of drawing the sword and retracting the sword - let your hand draw the shortest route to touch the sword, don't do anything redundant action."

"look carefully."

After saying that, Okita suddenly raised his right hand, held down the wooden knife on his left waist, and pulled it out of its sheath.

call--!

The knife came out of its sheath, making the piercing sound of the air being cut.

After pulling out the sword neatly, Okita retracted the wooden sword with the same swift movement.

The set of moves that Okita just showed is the same as Suzhen he demonstrated before, clean and concise, so that even people who don't know swords just want to shout out: "Awesome!"

"When drawing the knife, remember to hold the knife with your right wrist in this way..."

Okita succinctly introduced to Qing Deng the details of the movements that need to be paid attention to when drawing and retracting the sword.

After finishing his speech, he put his hands and the bamboo sword in his back behind his back.

"Okay. Now try it yourself."

"yes."

Qingdeng spread his feet, lowered his center of gravity, imitating Okita's action just now, and slowly stroked his right hand to the wooden knife on his left waist.

Looking at Qingdeng who was about to draw his sword, Okita said in his heart with a somewhat smug tone of anticipation:

——Drawing the sword and closing the sword... This can't be practiced in one or two strokes, right?

After seeing Qingdeng's amazing talent, a strange curiosity arose in Okita's heart—the curiosity to find out the depth of Qingdeng's talent.

Okita, with anticipation in his eyes, looked anxiously at Qingdeng who had already pressed 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 knife, Qingdeng imitated Okita's action just now, and put the knife back into its sheath.

——This person... Has he really never received formal sword training before? !

No matter whether it was Su Zhen before Qingdeng, or the drawing and closing of the sword just now, Okita looked at it, and it didn't feel like an action that a beginner could make.

Even experienced swordsmen may not be able to make such beautiful moves.

However, in the competition between Qingdeng and Suzuki that he watched just now, Qingdeng's extremely naive sword swinging movement told him clearly that this junior brother is indeed a newcomer who has never had much contact with swordsmanship before...

——If...he really didn't have any formal training in swordsmanship before...then his talent...

Okita's gaze gradually became serious...no, it should be said that it became weird and "scary".

Qingdeng, who was stared at by Okita's gaze so uncomfortable, couldn't help but say:

"That... Okita-kun?"

"Ah." Okita, as if waking up from a dream, let out a haha, "Sorry, I was a little distracted just now."

"Your movement was good just now. It's quite rare for a beginner to perform such a level of movement."

"But there are still some things you didn't do well just now."

Chong Tian stepped forward and carefully explained to Qing Deng what details he hadn't done just now.

After being corrected by Okita, and after Qingdeng practiced on his own a few times, Okita nodded.

"In the rest of the time, you can concentrate on practicing drawing and closing the sword." Okita ordered, "Let's practice 40 times first. Remember to standardize the movements during practice, and don't ignore the number of exercises in order to complete the practice as soon as possible." standard of action."

After giving Qingdeng a new practice task, Okita took his bamboo sword and went to supervise and check other people's practice.

After Okita left, Qingdeng also began to follow Okita's instructions just now, and concentrated on practicing drawing and retracting the sword.

And at this moment——Uehara, who had been practicing Suzhen just now under the order of Okita, finally completed a series of practice tasks ordered by Okita, and sat down beside Qingdeng to rest, sweating profusely .

While massaging the muscles of his arms, he spoke to Qingdeng abruptly:

"Brother, you are amazing. It's the first time I've seen Okita-kun so gentle and kind when instructing swordsmanship."

Uehara exuded a sense of boldness both in appearance and in voice.

"Dude, where are you from? Where do you serve the public?"

"I'm a native of Edo." Qingdeng replied, "I'm currently serving the public in the Edo Northern Division, and I'm the concentric of the Edo Northern Division's designated town."

After Shang Yuan briefly introduced himself, Qingdeng saw Ue Yuan's eyes suddenly brighten up.

"So you are a 'three-time' samurai!"

Uehara asked Qing Deng urgently in a tone of impatience:

"Dude, since you are a 'three-time' samurai, may I ask you something?"

"Huh? Please tell me."

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Uehara leaned his upper body forward in the direction where Qingdeng was, and his breathing became a little heavy.

"I heard that the cat monk who made a lot of noise in Edo recently is a female ninja who is proficient in ninjutsu. Is this true?"

Qingdeng's hands that were practicing drawing and retracting the saber involuntarily stopped.

"Huh?" Qingdeng tilted his head to Shang Yuan, "Little cat monk? Female ninja?"

Having inherited all the memories of "Original Ju Qingdeng", Qingdeng naturally knows who Mao Xiaoseng is.

About 3 months ago, there was a very powerful thief who only appeared at night in Edo.

Ordinary thieves are going to steal the wealth of those rich people.

But this thief was not like that.

This big thief, he only steals money from the Yakuzas of Edo, or those notorious villains in Edo.

He acted boldly and actively. In just three months, there are countless villains or evil forces who have been robbed of money by this big thief. The total amount stolen is conservatively estimated to be several thousand taels of gold.

This kind of thieves who only attack the wicked and do not harm the common people have always been easy to win the favor of the common people.

After all, ordinary people like this kind of people and stories in which someone deals with villains for them and vents their anger for them.

As far as Qingdeng knew——with the activeness of this thief, this thief has become extremely popular among the Edo folks, and some storytellers have even specially written storytelling books related to this thief.

Although the actions of this great thief can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, a thief is always a thief, and the government cannot sit idly by.

Therefore, after the thief became famous, the Nan and Beiban Offices in Edo quickly filed a case and launched an investigation.

Although the government's investigation was swift, the results of the investigation... can be said to be appalling...

Through careful investigation and the information provided by the intelligence network, the "three times" of Edo have successfully found him at the scene of the theft of the thief several times.

But every time without exception-let him escape.

The thief's agility is amazing!

Whether it is the top of a wall that is only one foot wide, or the roof of a house with a steep slope, this thief can walk on all of them as if walking on the ground.

The result of every arrest operation is so similar—the thief was finally found, and the thief rushed to the nearby roof or other places with a "swish", and then only blinked. , this person disappeared into the night...

Because this thief can move quickly like a cat in various complex terrains such as roofs and walls, the government gave him a nickname - Mao Xiaoseng.

It has to be said that this nickname is really well-determined.

The thief's movements were indeed as agile as a cat.

Mao Xiaoseng came and went without a trace, so until now, the government still knows little about Mao Xiaoseng.

Because Mao Xiaoseng is always dressed in black, his hair, nose and parts below are all covered with black cloth, and only a pair of eyes are exposed all over his body, and his gender and age cannot be discerned at all, so the government even made him an official. I don't know if it's a man or a woman or about how old it is.

At present, the government only knows 3 useful pieces of information about Mao Xiaoseng:

1. He only comes out at night.

2. He only attacked the villains and evil forces in Edo.

3. His body is relatively petite, and his height is only 1.5 meters at most by visual inspection.

A height of 1.5 meters - this was too common in Japan in the Edo period. Because of diet, genes, etc., let alone women in this era, there are many men who are 1.5 meters.

With a height of 1.75 meters, Qingdeng is considered a rare "giant" in this era.

"Monk Mao is a female ninja... Where did you hear that?" Qing Deng put down the wooden knife in his hand.

Uehara replied in a tone of excitement:

"When I was drinking with friends last night, I heard what my friends said."

"My friends said: Recently, many people in the market have been speculating about Mao Xiaoseng's identity."

"Mao Xiaoseng is very petite, most likely a woman."

"Then she can walk on roofs, walls, etc. She can walk on the roof and walk on the wall - this is always a good thing for ninjas."

"That's why a lot of people are passing it on: Mao Xiaoseng is a female ninja who is proficient in ninjutsu."

"And I've also heard that - that cat monk is very plump here."

Uehara, who had an uncontrollable lewd smile on his face, raised his hands and stroked his chest a few times.

"I've always been very interested in this little cat monk, so I wanted to come to you as a 'three times' to verify whether there is really such a thing."

——Have you always been interested in Mao Xiaoseng, or did you become interested in him after hearing that Mao Xiaoseng is a busty female ninja...

After complaining about Uehara silently in his heart, Qing Deng burst out laughing:

"It's completely nonsense. Just listen to this kind of market rumor."

"I don't know if there are any female ninjas in this era when overseas powers have already opened their doors."

"But I can tell you with absolute certainty: 'Mao Xiaoseng is a female ninja' and so on are completely unreasonable fantasies of ordinary people in the market."

"The cat monk is very petite, so he is a woman. Because he can fly and walk over walls, he is a ninja? How can we determine that the cat monk is a female ninja based on these two points..."

Qingdeng said helplessly.

"Small stature—lots of men are petite too."

Having said that, Qingdeng involuntarily glanced at a certain 1.55 meter handsome boy in the distance who was concentrating on teaching someone.

"As for flying over eaves and walls... Our government has also caught many people who are agile and can run fast on the roof before. They are not ninjas."

"And there's plump stuff there...that's all nonsense with no basis."

"Our government hasn't even determined the gender of Little Monk Mao. How do the folks know that Little Monk Mao has a big place? This is probably just a rumor made up by some boring guys to attract people's attention."

"All in all - just listen to this kind of market rumor."

After finishing speaking, Qingdeng raised the wooden knife in his hand and continued to concentrate on sword practice.

"But, but..." Uehara murmured, as if he wanted to say something else.

But at this moment——

"Uehara, what are you doing?" Okita's voice pierced Uehara's eardrum, causing the expression on Uehara's face to freeze instantly.

Okita crossed his arms and walked slowly towards Uehara with a displeasure on his face.

"Have you forgotten the rules of our test hall - when other people are practicing swords, don't chat with people casually and disturb others."

"Yes, I'm sorry..." Uehara quickly lowered his head and shrank like a child who did something wrong.

After being reminded by Okita, Uehara no longer dared to talk to Qingdeng, and concentrated on massaging and relaxing the muscles of his arms.

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