Early the next morning, after breakfast, and after greeting his family, Yanagi Motowa took out his katana-wash snow, looked at the house, and did not find a suitable sword bag to hold this sword for a while, after all, he originally used a wooden knife, even if he did not need to wrap it, he could carry it to the street with swagger, so he did not prepare a special sword bag. I searched and searched and couldn't find a suitable bag, so Liu Shengyuan and I picked up two old newspapers that my father had read, wrapped this suspected preservation-level famous sword, held it in his hand, and went out.

There are a lot of people who study kendo at RB, so there is no policeman who wants to stop and check when he sees him carrying a long paper scroll, and along the way, Yanagi Motokazu came to the Aoki Kendo Hall very smoothly, and it took less than thirty minutes to walk from home.

At this time, the Aoki Hall has been opened, the kendo hall is not like a gym, there are not so many fitness equipment in it that need to be maintained, and the rules of the Aoki Kendo Hall are: after the students complete the kendo study, they need to be responsible for cleaning the classroom and maintaining related equipment, such as sword targets, sword frames and protective gear, etc., and the bamboo swords used by the students are purchased by themselves. The staff of the kendo gym itself only need to clean the room, check and replace the special protective gear used for the competition.

Because it was a sunrise (Sunday), when Yanagi Motokazu entered the Aoki Pavilion, there were already many students exercising inside. Seeing Yanagi Yuanhe coming in, a female student who greeted him hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "May I ask if you are a teacher of Yanagi?"

"Yes, is Curator Aoki here?"

"The curator and the two teachers came early in the morning, specially to wait for you. The female student looked at Liu Shengyuanhe curiously, although Yanagi Yuanhe deliberately chose a black sportswear today to make him look more mature, but judging from the expression of this female student, it is obvious that the effect is very limited.

"It's rude, can you ask how old you are?" the female student couldn't help but ask.

The female students who can take on the responsibility of welcoming guests in the Aoki Pavilion are all first-class internal students, and in the Xianxia novel, they are equivalent to inner disciples, so she has heard that the Aoki Pavilion is going to have a new teacher, but now that she sees the appearance of Yanagi Yuanhe, this is also a little too young. After all, there are only four teachers in the current first-class heart, and the youngest one is also thirty years old.

"It's okay, I'm fourteen years old, and I'm Aoki's apprentice. Yanagi said with a smile.

"Wow, Yanagi taught you to be so small, uh, young. The female student hurriedly covered her mouth, no matter what age Yanagi Yuanhe was, but as a first-class teacher, she would treat her with the courtesy of a teacher in the future, and it would be too rude to say that the other party was small in person.

"It's okay, can we go in?" Yanagi Motokazu laughed as he covered his mouth.

Led by this female student, Yanagi Motokazu walked through the wooden door separating the inner and outer dojos and came to the practice room of the curator Aoki Yukimi in the inner dojo.

"Yanagi-kun, this is our first-class Nishimura Jiucheng teacher, and this is my cousin, and we are also our first-class teacher, Aoki Harata. "In the inner dojo of the heart first-class, Yanagi Yuanhe met the director of the Aoki Pavilion and the two teachers, as well as seven first-class disciples, and Aoki Ema was among them.

"Ah, is this Yanagi-kun's sword? It looks like a good sword!" When Yanagi Motowa unwrapped the old newspaper wrapped outside, revealing the unadorned white wood scabbard inside, Director Aoki first exclaimed politely, after all, the white wood scabbard is everywhere, what can you tell from the good?

On this occasion, only Director Aoki and the two teachers can speak, of course, you have to add Yanagi Motowa, and like Aoki Eima, even if it is the daughter of the curator, she is also Yanagi Motowa's senior sister, but who made her have a low rank in Aoki Pavilion, not only is she not qualified to speak on this occasion, but she is not even qualified to sit down, so she can only stand behind Aoki's seat as a decoration like other people.

Yanagi Yuan and the sword sheath together handed it to the curator of Aoki Xingmi, and by the way, he glanced at the senior sister standing behind the curator of Aoki, in the kendo club of the school on weekdays, Aoki Ema can be said to be majestic, saying one or the other, even if he is himself, he can only bow his head and obey orders, who makes himself both a member of the kendo club and a junior?

However, on this occasion today, he sat on the chair as a teacher, and Aoki Senpai was standing behind the curator, obviously the status of the two sides had changed, Yanagi Yuanhe couldn't help but smile silently at Aoki Ema, in exchange for a fierce glare from Aoki Senpai.

Aoki Yukimi took the snow with both hands, and as soon as he took the sword, his brows furrowed slightly, and the weight of the sword was a little beyond his expectations.

So Aoki Yukimi adjusted his sitting posture, sat up straight, and then put his sword on the coffee table in front of him, put his hands together, and bowed slightly. Then he holds the hilt of the sword in one hand and the scabbard in the other, and pushes the blade away with his thumb.

The blade of the sword with a touch of pale cyan in the snow was pushed out of the scabbard with two fingers, and the wave patterns created by the ancient forging method extended from the hilt to the blade. The light reflected in the room, giving off a chill.

"Shhhh

"Good sword! This sword must be a master's work. Nishimura Kushiro, who was on the edge of Aoki Yuki, exclaimed.

Aoki Yukichi pulled out the sword completely, stood it upright in the light, flipped it slightly, and the sword body reflected the light, and a cold light flashed from the hilt to the tip of the sword.

"Huh?" Aoki Harata, who was sitting on the other side, cried out in surprise.

"What's wrong? ”

"This sword is 'washing the snow'! How can it be in Yanagiyu-kun's hands?" Aoki Harata looked at Yanagi Motowa in surprise.

"This is 'Washing the Snow'?a famous sword secretly made by Master Yokoyama, a swordsmith?" asked Aoki Yuki, turning his head to look at Aoki Harata.

"That's right, this kind of pale cyan blade like ice is because part of the material of this sword comes from a piece of meteorite iron that fell on Mt. Fuji, and last year this sword also participated in the autumn auction of Tokyo Central Auction, and at that time, as one of the guests, I also went on stage to see this sword, you see, if you look closely at the hilt, you can also see the logo of Master Yokoyama. ”

Aoki Yukimi hurriedly raised the sword high and looked at the hilt, and sure enough, there was an inconspicuous mountain pattern on the hilt.

"What a good sword!" Aoki Yukimi and the two first-class teachers took turns to appreciate it carefully, and it took half an hour before the sword returned to Yanagi Motowa's hands. Of course, juniors like Aoki Eima who are standing behind can only look at it with their eyes, and there is no chance to get started.

"This is not only a preservation-level famous sword, but at least a treasure-level. Aoki Yukimi sighed.

"Liu Shengjun, rudely asked, are you willing to sell this sword? Aoki Hara hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

"This is a gift from an elder, I'm afraid I can't sell it. "Yanagi and declined.

"What a faux pas, Harata, how can you say such a thing!" said Aoki Yuki, who was very unhappy and reprimanded his cousin.

"Owner, it's me who is rude, I just thought that Mr. Zhengxin is about to celebrate his seventieth birthday, and I want to prepare a birthday gift for him. I'm sorry, Yanagi-kun. Aoki Harata bowed his head and apologized.

"Ah, it doesn't matter, but this sword was given by an elder, so I can't transfer it to you. Yanagi Motokazu had no choice but to bow his head and perform the same etiquette.

The recipient also has the same etiquette as the other party, and in RB etiquette it means, 'You don't owe me, you don't need to do this'.

"Ah, by the way, Yanagi-kun is not yet eighteen years old, if we want to officially hire Yanagi-kun, we still need Yanagi-kun to take a kendo exam and obtain at least one kendo rank of three or more dans, I have already told your father and Shima-kun about this last time.

Before we officially go to the RB Kendo Federation to apply for the exam, Yanagi-kun can first do a mock test of the rank assessment, and by the way, you can also familiarize Yanagi-kun with the process of the kendo rank-level exam. Yanagi-kun, do you think it's okay?"

Aoki Yukimi himself has no doubts about Yanagi Motokazu's swordsmanship, but since he is a strong advocate of hiring this second-year junior high school student as a first-class guest teacher, he is naturally subject to some pressure from within, not to mention that for a newly hired teacher who is the master of the school, today should have been brought forward by four teachers at the same time, as colleagues, to meet as a sign of respect (in the RB kendo school, the teaching is not a coach, the teaching is the meaning of the elders of a school, and those who usually teach the basic kendo type in front of them are coaches) 。 However, two of the teachers did not attend today as soon as they heard that their new colleague was only a second-year junior high school student.

Therefore, Aoki Yukimi hopes that Yanagi Yuanhe can show considerable strength in the simulation of the rank test, so that some people will have nothing to say.

"No problem, Curator Aoki, I also want to see how the rank exam goes. Yanagi Yuanhe agreed to come down.

A few disciples led the way in front, and everyone came to the open teaching area in front of the Aoki Pavilion and walked to a large practice room, which was unused and happened to be empty now.

"Forget about the basic type and basic routines, written exams and whatever, Liu Shengjun can start directly from the cutting table. "Originally, there are many links in the RB kendo assessment, such as the need for written tests (various basic knowledge, such as how to wear protective gear, etc.), the basic examination of kendo, qi (that is, the shouting of the middle qi must be sufficient), the remnant heart (after the attack is still not relaxed, the posture must be in place) and other items, these are the content of the first and second stages of the assessment of kendo, basically some routines.

However, since it is an internal test, it is not as formal as a public examination for the public, and after explaining the process of the exam to Liu Shengyuanhe, he skipped those basic knowledge assessments, and the first item was directly moved by a few first-class disciples, four straw mat pillars of different thicknesses were directly brought and placed on a special shelf.

Slashing is a test item that represents the wrist strength and slashing speed of the swordsman in RB kendo. This is an examination item that has been handed down from the RB Sengoku period, when samurai used the savage and bloody practice of using living people to test their swords.

Looking at the four straw mat pillars in front of him, he smiled at Curator Aoki, and Yanagi Motowa raised the 'washing snow' in his hand to signal.

"This, Yanagi-kun should use the sword we provide here, otherwise with the sharpness of this 'snow washing', this test will be meaningless. Seeing this, Aoki Yukimi smiled bitterly, waved his hand and asked someone to go and get a sword, and handed it to Yanagi Yuanhe.

Taking the sword handed over by Aoki Yuki, Yanagi Yuanhe first pulled out the sword and looked at it, and then put the two fingers of his left hand together and gently slashed on the blade.

Aoki Yuki, who was beside him, was startled at first, and then saw that there were no scars on his fingers, so he glanced at Yanagi Yuanhe suspiciously, the sword provided by the kendo hall itself is not a good sword, it is just a mass-produced version of the samurai sword, but the modern smelting technology and grinding technology are not comparable to before, the fingers slashed from the blade of the sword, and there was no cut of skin, Aoki Yukimi can only be attributed to Yanagi Shengyuan and strong control, and the fingers must not have substantially touched the blade. And the gap between his fingers and the blade of the sword is so small that he can't even see it when he is standing next to him, Yanagi Sangjun's swordsmanship must be stronger than he thinks.