The food of the Oriental country, in terms of taste and culture, is far inferior to the dragon country, the food of the dragon country is very particular about the color, flavor and shape, and is recognized all over the world, but the oriental country pays more attention to the nutritional structure of food, all for health and longevity, although the taste of many foods is average, but the fact that the people of the orient are living longer and longer, which is actually at the forefront of the world.

Cui Ning's hotel is very close to the "Nakatani Hall" in Hashimoto Town, and it is only about a ten minute walk, and Cui Ning doesn't care about the surveillance eyes around him, and goes straight to his destination.

In fact, every store in the neighborhood has similar performances, but since Jiang Ying said that this one is the most authentic, Cui Ning also took a look with an attitude of appreciation and curiosity.

Sure enough, Nakatani Hall has a similar performance almost every afternoon, after the glutinous rice dough and the dough, first two people beat the dough with a huge mallet, and then one person with a mallet, and one person with his hand, repeatedly beating for dozens of seconds, the order of the mallet and the hands fell into the mortar in the order of a few tenths of a second, which looked thrilling, but the hands were never injured, and there was no contact with the mallet.

These short tens of seconds, accompanied by a certain strange rhythm, and the strange sound in the mouth of the person who beats the dough with his hand, gives this beating a different kind of musicality.

There are also three people who take turns to beat with wooden mallets, all of which are aimed at beating the glutinous rice out of the tendons, and the three wooden mallets beat the ordinary process of making mochi into the art with a very fast rhythm.

The elasticity and chewiness of mochi, as well as the all-natural taste, are also due to the use of wooden mortars and mallets, which are repeatedly beaten.

And Cui Ning is an expert after all, he saw the master who beat with his hands, with the beating of the mallet, the reason why he couldn't hurt his hand was that he and the mallet beat with the same rhythm, you are fast and I am fast, you are slow and I am slow, since it is the same rhythm, just like 1234, the mallet is raised, the hand falls, the mallet falls, the hand is raised, even if it is blindfolded, as long as the rhythm remains the same, the mallet will never hit the hand.

However, it seems simple, it takes time to accumulate exercise, especially the rhythm of beating the mallet, years or even decades of training, and the rhythm must always be the same, but also to use different rhythms according to the shouts of the master, in addition to the strength of the arms, bold and careful, and to maintain a state for many years, which is not simple.

The mochi is really delicious, the red beans in it are sweet and soft, and the glutinous rice skin that has been tempered is really abnormal, Cui Ning has to admire the craftsmanship of the Oriental country.

Cui Ning even realized a certain resonance from the rhythm of their beating, presumably after a few years, even if they are just ordinary people, there must be some kind of spiritual resonance between them and the wooden mortar and the mallet, this is the so-called everything has a spirit.

However, while Cui Ning was engrossed in studying mochi and the beating of artisan workers, he found an acquaintance.

"Shenlongjun, sure enough, you came here to buy mochi" Jiang Ying did not wear a kimono this time, but wore a very fashionable pair of stockings and a corset down jacket, after all, there is only less than ten degrees of Nailiang, and it is relatively cold these days.

And in this season, there are very few people who come to travel, and there is no one like Cui Ning who stands here for half an hour and looks at it.

"Hello Sakurako, thank you for recommending the mochi, it's really delicious" Cui Ning smiled:

"It has the taste of the Qingtuan that I ate when I was a child."

"Yes, mugwort leaves are added, and then the outside is bean flour, so it won't get tired," Jiang Ying said.

There are not many tourists in itself, and Cui Ning and Sakurako speak the Dragon Country dialect, and Sakurako who does not wear a kimono, so it is safe to tell whether it is a Dragon Country or an Oriental Country.

The master in charge of the performance, that is, the master who slapped the glutinous rice ball with his hand, asked Cui Ning:

"Are you from the Dragon Country?"

Cui Ning nodded and said:

"Master, your craftsmanship is really good."

The old master pointed to the white overalls with "cake" written on his body, and said with a smile:

"We have relied on the craft for generations, and I inherited it from my father, who came from my grandfather.

I am their master, these young people are my apprentices, the youngest apprentice, since I was a teenager, I have to beat the glutinous rice balls tens of thousands of times a day to make such a delicious mochi.

Guests from the Dragon Kingdom, you can try to beat the gavel and know that it is actually a very tiring job."

Cui Ning took the mallet and tried to beat it a few times, and sure enough, the mallet was not light, and tens of thousands of beats a day were a test for his arms and physical strength.

Cui Ning handed the mallet to the master and bought a few more hash browns, then left with Jiang Ying and walked on the street of Nailiang.

"Shenlong-kun, it seems that you are not nervous at all." Jiang Ying asked.

"Why should I be nervous?" Cui Ning asked rhetorically.

"Now the big families are losing a lot of money. Some families may go back to more than ten years ago overnight, so the second game will be bigger, and they must win the money back to be willing.

Gamblers all over the world are the same, their aim is to win, to turn the buck.

So even though they hate me to death, they can only win money if I participate in the competition, and if something happens to me, these big families will face attacks from all over the world, and their business abroad will plummet, and I am the safest at the moment."

"I'm not talking about safety, but about the next few games, are you not nervous at all, or are you afraid of losing?

I heard Brother Shenwu Amaterasu say, you haven't said the second game yet, should you buy you to win, or buy you to lose" Jiang Ying asked:

"And if you can guarantee to win, I still suggest that you win 3-0 directly, and hurry back to your home country."

"You mean, there really is a family that will do whatever it takes?" Cui Ning smiled slightly:

"The point is, will they really risk the world's condemnation and use the most direct means against me?"

Jiang Ying nodded:

"As long as there are enough interests, there will always be endless means in this world, and you are alone in Nailiang, you must always pay attention to it."

Cui Ning looked at Jiang Ying, who was even more nervous than herself, and asked:

"Then when you come to see me, aren't you afraid that they will deal with you too?"

"With grandpa here, no one dares to deal with me" Jiang Ying said, "Although the status of the imperial family is declining, but after all, there is an emperor in the Oriental Kingdom, and grandpa is the emperor's guest, not to mention, the current major families, there is no need to offend the Shenwu family and grandpa."

"Your grandfather said these things, right?" Cui Ning said.

"Since your grandfather and the Shenwu family believe in me, then there is nothing to be afraid of. Besides, when I wanted to leave, no one could stop me.

It's just that I didn't make enough money, and the competition wasn't enjoyable, introduction, you said that since the stone can be missing, why can't other artifacts be missing?"

Jiang Ying looked at the confident Cui Ning, and no longer knew what to say.

But before Jiang Ying could speak, from the direction of Tarui Town, three acquaintances that Jiang Ying didn't want to see came over.

It was Daiyoshi Yamamoto and his bodyguards, two black men about two meters tall.

Sanben Dayi saw Cui Ning and Jiang Ying walking together, and sneered:

"Sakurako, don't forget, you're an Oriental countryman, don't get too close to the Dragon country."

Jiang Ying looked at Yamamoto Daiyoshi and his bodyguards, there was neither fear nor too much emotion in her eyes, and she didn't even answer Yamamoto Daiyoshi's words.

Yamamoto Daiyoshi saw that Jiang Ying ignored him, and felt that he had lost face, so he said to Cui Ning:

"Your Excellency the Dragon Monarch of the Dragon Kingdom, you must know that this is not the Dragon Kingdom, this is our Oriental Kingdom, as long as I give an order, you, a Dragon Kingdom person who knows the Oriental Evil Arts, will become a corpse, do you believe it?"

Cui Ning looked at Yamamoto Daiyoshi and the two black bodyguards who were ready to attack at any time, including the right hand that the bodyguard had stretched into his bulging clothes, and smiled slightly:

"Yamamoto-kun, whether it is the Dragon Kingdom or the Oriental Kingdom, when you hurt the interests of too many people, go against the wishes of too many people, and even provoke the rules formulated by most people, you will be blamed or even punished by most people, you must understand these truths."

Yamamoto smiled:

"Dragon Country, I'm afraid you still don't know the strength and influence of the East Asia Zaku Group and my father in the Eastern Kingdom, right?"

Cui Ning nodded and said:

"I don't know much about it, but I do know one thing, the main reason why the major families of the Oriental Kingdom are at peace with each other and maintain a superficial peace is that no one can easily replace the other, and then there are some common interests.

Of course, the most important thing is that if a family wants to really deal with another family, it is estimated that the price to pay is beyond imagination, otherwise, some families should have been wiped out a long time ago.

Yamamoto-kun, how do you think your family's influence is higher than that of Oda Nobunaga?"

Yamamoto Daiyoshi's face turned red, Cui Ning's metaphor is really a bit ruthless, after all, according to the ancient saying of the Dragon Kingdom, Oda Nobunaga can be regarded as a saint of the Oriental Kingdom for five hundred years, if Yamamoto Daiyoshi dares to say that his family can be compared with Oda Nobunaga, it is estimated that the saliva of the people can drown him.

Seeing that Yamamoto Daiyoshi was speechless, Cui Ning didn't say much to him anymore, thinking about leaving here, just now Jiang Ying told Cui Ning that along the direction of Sanjo-do, in the Naira National Museum, there is a special bronze museum, where a large number of bronzes from the Dragon Kingdom are collected, which is very worth seeing.

This must be the result of the war decades ago and the looting of the Oriental Kingdom when the Qing government was incompetent, so Cui Ning also wanted to feel the ancient civilization and history.

However, Yamamoto still said two words to Cui Ning viciously:

"Shenlong-kun, if you want to leave the Toyo Kingdom safely, it's better to lose the second game, otherwise, hehe......"

Cui Ning looked at some ignorant of the so-called Yamamoto Daiyoshi, thinking that the stupid and ignorant rich second generation was really universal, so he approached Yamamoto Daiyoshi, regardless of the two bodyguards next to him who were already nervously about the action of pulling out the gun, and whispered to Yamamoto Daiyoshi:

"I'm going to win the second game prettierly, can you believe it?"