Chapter 35: The Knife

Red A's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the thick metal door, and when he saw the cherry blossoms waiting to turn into butterflies in a large cocoon, he chuckled self-deprecatingly: "I didn't know ...... before"

"Don't know what?" Emperor Penguin walked into the warehouse, just in time to hear Red A's words.

Red A had a cold face: "It's nothing, when you left, I went to the Jian Tong family to detect an enemy situation - the blonde young man you mentioned before appeared there, I'm afraid the Jian Tong family got another servant." ”

"I know." Emperor Penguin put his hands behind his back and said, "He is not an easy opponent to deal with, so I can only put him aside for the first time, or try to avoid a confrontation with him head-on."

Summoning the Holy Grail requires at least five Servants, Rider and Caster are already two, and the Assassins will be dealt with tonight. ”

Red A said, "Why are you in such a hurry? ”

Emperor Penguin gritted his teeth and smiled and said: "I was pitted, I was cheated by myself,—— in fact, you don't understand, in short, I don't have much time in this world." ”

Emperor Penguin's watch on his left wrist displayed a line that read "Mission Deadline", and the number that was counting down after that gave him less than 72 hours to go.

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Although it is winter, the woods in front of the gate of Liudongsa Temple are still full of greenery, and the foliage is as lush as if it were in the middle of summer.

A man walked up along the bluestone-paved hiking trail: "I really don't know how those people did it, the trees are green all year round, so they are not afraid of freezing the trees to death in the snow?" It's not evergreen. ”

A young man with dark blue hair in a long ponytail sat in front of the mountain gate, and when he saw the visitor, he said, "Your Excellency, have you come to the temple to pay respects?" Then you came a little early, or a little late. ”

The one-meter-and-a-half-meter-long monogan pole* rested on the young samurai's left shoulder, and when he saw someone coming, he placed his right hand on the steps beside him.

The man also carried a knife on his shoulder that was much longer than an ordinary two-handed knife, and said with a smile: "Without Caster's magic supply, you shouldn't be able to survive the dawn!" ”

"Admittedly, that she-fox must have been planted in your hands." The samurai, who was given the name "Kojiro Sasaki", was dressed in a lilac kimono, and his long sideburns and long hair hung down to his collarbone: "Your Excellency came with two swords, is it effective to imitate the meaning of the sword saint Miyamoto Musashi?" ”

The visitor laughed loudly: "Hey! You Matt killer, I don't like to hear what you say. Lao Tzu learned authentic Chinese swordsmanship, saying that I imitated Miyamoto Musashi's swordsmanship - you are insulting me. ”

The person who came did not match the preface and the afterword, and the sentence fell and turned bluntly, and it was obvious that it was no one else, only the emperor penguin.

Emperor Penguin threw the long scabbard in his hand to the young warrior's feet: "Look at it, scabbard, this is the scabbard." Then he straightened up and looked up at the unhurried swordsman (the reason for the height difference, not that he was a head shorter psychologically)

The emperor penguin was calculating in his heart at this time - according to the historical chronology, coupled with the general low stature of the Japanese, this "Sasaki Kojiro" who lived in the late Warring States period of Japan should not be much taller than the dry rod in his hand.

Can anime be seen as reality? In reality, how can there be so many "Kill Matt" with colorful hair, after all, there is no Saiki Kusuo to modify the world's cognition - this is the world of "Fate", how can I think of Qi Shen again.

The emperor penguin gave himself a slap in the face, warning himself not to run away at such a critical time, so as not to fall into his "superior style".

Sasaki Kojiro raised his eyebrows slightly, hesitated for a moment and said, "Does Your Excellency have any quirks, why did you suddenly give yourself a slap." ”

The emperor penguin never embarrassed himself, and casually made up a reason to explain his slap: "There was a mosquito lying on my face just now, and I just killed this blood-sucking bug." ”

A sub-zero wind blew snowflakes through it, causing the emperor penguin's slightly hot cheeks to cool down: "Scientists from the United States announced a few weeks ago that they had developed cold-resistant mosquitoes, and they chose Fuyuki City as the experimental base - the rice countrymen are so anti-human." ”

"Your Excellency shouldn't have come here to have tea with me!" Kojiro Sasaki took a sip of his teacup to hide his embarrassed expression.

Emperor Penguin said: "Of course not, I can't get used to drinking the tea of the footbasin chicken: the tea ceremony of the footbasin, the things brewed with the matcha of the ground powder, it feels like drinking medicine, and it feels like it is gone after drinking, just like something that can only exist for an instant, and there is no aftertaste at all."

I still like to take a large enamel tea jar, add a pinch of fried tea, pour boiling water and soak for a few minutes, you can drink a big gulp, and the fried tea leaves are more and more flavorful

- The difference between the two is like a haiku in a footbasin and a Chinese poem, one looks gorgeous, but in fact it is empty; The other one has a taste, and the second product is a completely different taste from the first product, and the more you taste, the more flavorful it is. ”

Kojiro Sasaki put down the cup: "Your Excellency also knows about tea ceremony and poetry?" ”

The emperor penguin waved his hand: "I understand a little, I understand a little." Here I need to thank the Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang), who was born as a cowherd and a monk, who not only drove the Mengyuan people, known as the "whip of God", back to the grassland, but also the first and only emperor in China to use political orders to change the habits of producing and drinking agricultural products.

The prohibition of the world to process tea in a steaming way indirectly abolished the complicated way of drinking tea in the gentry class, and made the popularization of the habit of drinking tea immeasurable! The merit is immeasurable! By the way, the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu once sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty at that time, named Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the "King of Japan". ”

After the emperor penguin said this, Sasaki Kojiro held the teacup, feeling that he was not drinking, and he was not drinking, and the mood of "Tarzan collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged" was broken by the call of the emperor penguin

- If Rin Tosaka were here, he would have warned Kojiro Sasaki in a serious tone, "Don't let the emperor penguin open the topic, otherwise he will disrupt your thoughts with a lot of theories that you don't know whether they are true or false, and put you in an embarrassing situation." ”

The emperor penguin didn't like to get cold on the ground, sat on the spot, learned from Sasaki Kojiro to lean the long knife on his shoulder, and took out a bottle of dark brown carbonated drink from the space under the cover of taking something out of his arms (Coca-Cola didn't give advertising money, so he didn't mention the name), opened it and signaled to Sasaki Kojiro: "Carbonated drinks are a man's romance." ”

It's embarrassing, what should I say! Kojiro Sasaki felt a headache for a guy like the Emperor Penguin who played cards unreasonably, and he wanted to start the topic first and occupy the main position in the war of words: "Aside from the name of the Sword Master, what do you think of Miyamoto Musashi?" 'Kojiro Sasaki' was defeated at Iwarujima. ”

When he said the last sentence, Kojiro Sasaki's tone was self-deprecating.

Emperor Penguin "tasted" half a bottle of carbonated drink, and after thinking for a long time, he spoke: "Again, Miyamoto Musashi is an excellent strategist, but he is not necessarily a master of swordsmanship - he doesn't even know swordsmanship (the theory is from Xu Haofeng's novel "The Great Sun Mandala").

With direct skill, coupled with natural strength, he can find flaws in the enemy's techniques, and then break them with one blow - he can fight the enemy, but he can only be a street fighting gangster, and it is useless to improve his swordsmanship and personal cultivation; At this point, Dugu is stronger than Miyamoto Musashi, and the Dugu Nine Swords he left behind have no tricks to win, taking advantage of the void to enter, expecting the enemy to come first, and then the first to come. ”

Sasaki Kojiro sighed: "It is worthy of being a kendo master, from these twenty-one words, you can hear that person's swordsmanship cultivation, but unfortunately I can't fight with it." ”

"In all walks of life, you have fought more than once with the heirs of Dugu who sought defeat." Emperor Penguin said.

Kojiro Sasaki took a sip of tea, and he couldn't understand the words of the emperor penguin: "What? ”

"It doesn't matter." Emperor Penguin shrugged his shoulders and said, "Go back to Miyamoto Musashi."

I admit that Miyamoto Musashi is a tactician, and I know that some of his victories are not inferior to him in swordsmanship, but that Miyamoto Musashi is good at using the environment, time, and even the psychology of the opponent - the time, the place, the people, all in his favor - how can he not win. ”

The two chatted a few words, and the emperor penguin let out a long hiccup, threw away the empty carbonated drink bottle, took out a pair of leather-inlaid iron arm guards from the space and put them on, tied up the slightly loose cuffs, and then stood up with a long knife, faced Sasaki Kojiro and said, "Nonsense is long enough, I guess I won't have to fight if I delay any longer." Anyway, when you see that it wasn't Saber but me who came to fight you, were you disappointed? ”

Sasaki Kojiro also stood up, picked aside the tea set with a sheath*, pulled out his long knife and threw the purple scabbard aside: "I'm already satisfied to be able to fight the swordsman before I disappear - my sword name is Bichu Aoe." ”

Emperor Penguin looked at the long knife in his hand and said: "My knife is mass-produced, so I don't have that elegant name, the knife is the Royal Forest Broadsword, studied under Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Yicheng Anonymous Painter painted seven ways of various knife techniques." ”

(Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty, a military strategist, a martial artist, a poet, and a national hero.) It is rumored that once he passed by Henan Shaolin Temple, heard that the martial arts of the Shaolin Temple are very high, so he asked them to compete with them in the way of asking for advice, and the Shaolin Temple sent dozens of monks, and Yu Dayou fought all lost, and later Shaolin Temple also sent two monks to follow Yu Dayou to learn stick skills.

Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, an outstanding military strategist, calligrapher, poet, and national hero. In history, martial arts are inferior to Yu Dayou, and the emperor penguin went to the world of the movie "The Trace of the Wako", where Qi Jiguang improved the Wa knife and created the knife technique.

Unknown painter, from the thirty-fifth chapter of "Wulin Gaiden": The little witch insists on being a matchmaker Tong Xiangyu is dedicated to cultivating the sword spectrum. Created Hengshan swordsmanship, sunflower point acumen and other profound martial arts, Emperor Penguin used a bag of meat sandwich buns to exchange for various martial arts cheats from him. )