"Mr. Ashikaga, what do you mean by that?" Wu Chuan Changjian's calm face finally flashed with surprise.

"Mr. Takekawa's pottery would not be as valuable as a household utensil for everyday use, but if it were to be used in the tea ceremony, it would surely become a tea ware loved by the world!"

"Tea ware?"

"Yes. I have learned a little about the tea ceremony in the following, and I know a little about the preferences of tea people. Your pottery has a soft texture, a steady feel, and simple and natural color shapes, which are in line with the essence of the tea ceremony, and if you take them to the Gyeonggi area, where the tea ceremony is popular, they will definitely become a hot item! ”

Wu Chuan Changjian hesitated: "However, its flaws ......"

Long Tao said confidently: "The special soil quality is its advantage as a tea vessel, under a careful inspection, this kind of pottery because of the soil evacuation and can not be burned hard, heat transfer is very slow, heat preservation time is long, which makes it pour into the tea soup will not burst, the end in the hand will not be hot, but also can retain the tea fragrance for a long time......"

Looking at Wuchuan Changjian, whose eyes began to glow, Long Tao smiled and continued: "Mr. Wuchuan, your pottery is simply a natural material for making tea ware!" As for the small problem of water seepage, it can be solved by soaking it in tea soup, and you don't have to worry about it at all. ”

Takekawa Nagaken propped his hands on the floor, leaned down, touched his forehead to the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Ashikaga has a unique vision, so that this pottery has a place to use, it is really a contemptible benefactor!" ”

Ah Chun clapped his hands and said, "Mr. Ashikaga's vision is really amazing!" This kind of pottery is guaranteed to be warm, and it won't burn in your hand, so you can't imagine that you just look at it and find out! ”

Long Tao smiled secretly in his heart, he didn't have a vision, he was just repeating the characteristics of Hagiyaki.

Ah Hau asked again, "Mr. Ashikaga, can you really sell your father's pottery for a large price?" ”

"You can rest assured that a merchant will not trade at a loss." Long Tao looked around and asked, "Can you make up a hundred pieces of pottery like this kind of tea bowls, teacups, and teapots?" ”

Kenichiro looked at his father and replied, "It should be possible." ”

"Good!" Long Tao stretched out his hand to the side, and Sun Bingwei behind him took out a money bag from his arms and respectfully put it in his hand.

"This is five hundred pieces, please prepare a hundred pieces of this kind of pottery below." Long Tao handed the money bag to Ah Chun.

"It's really five hundred! Big brother, father, five hundred times! ”

Ah Chun opened the money bag and held it in front of his father and eldest brother.

Kenichiro's face couldn't hide the surprise and excitement, they had never seen so much money in the whole village.

Wuchuan Changjian took the money bag and glanced at it, handed it to Long Tao, and said loudly: "Mr. Ashikaga is the contemptible Bole, and the great favor cannot be repaid, so please ask Mr. to pick a hundred pieces of pottery and take it away, and wait until you earn money to pay the contemptible people!" ”

Long Tao grabbed the money bag, smiled, and returned it to Ah Chun, "This is what you deserve, Miss Ah Chun, please take it!" ”

Ah Chun took the money bag with both hands, held it in front of his chest, and sighed: "I knew that my father's work would definitely be appreciated, I really want Kenzaburo to take a look at this money bag!" ”

Long Tao smiled and asked, "Brother Ling ran away alone, no problem, right?" ”

Ah Chun shook his head and said, "It's okay, he must have gone to grandpa's Gu Zu in a daze again, and Ah Chang will follow him." ”

Seeing that Long Tao insisted on giving them the money first, Wuchuan Changjian was moved in his heart, and said sincerely: "It's not too early, please move to the humble house, let us entertain you." ”

"It's fine." Long Tao nodded in agreement.

When the group returned to the village, the Wuchuan family lived in a few thatched huts, simple but clean.

At one end of the guest hall was a set of gray feet, and Kenzaburo was kneeling in front of them, with his back to everyone, and the little girl Ah Chang was standing on the side.

"Ah Chun, you go to cook with Ah Chang." Kenichiro commanded, took the money bag in Ah Chun's hand, and came to Kenzaburo's side.

"San Lang, do you know what this is?"

"What?"

"It's five hundred dollars! This is 500 yuan in exchange for my father's pottery! San Lang, my father has finally succeeded, and his pottery can change our lives, and it is possible to feed even a village! ”

"So what?" Kenzaburo glanced at the money bag and said coldly, "What if it's 10,000 guan?" Can it be exchanged for the status of the martial arts family? After all, it's not a mud pinch! Does this dare to be called a success? Big brother, please take the bag away and don't show this kind of thing in front of grandpa's feet. ”

"Saburo! You're getting more and more presumptuous! Kenichiro punched him in the neck and shoulder.

Kenzaburo braced his arms on the ground, stiffened his shoulders, and stared stubbornly at the gray Guzu in front of him.

"Forget it, Ichiro." Wuchuan Changjian let out a long sigh and bowed to Long Tao and the others, "Let everyone laugh." ”

Long Tao smiled slightly, "Has Mr. Wu Chuan ever been a samurai before, otherwise how could he have a famous brand?" ”

Kenzaburo's body shook when he heard this, but he still didn't turn around, just tilted his head slightly and listened intently.

"What a shame!"

Takekawa Changjian sighed again, as if sorting out his thoughts, and after a long time, he spoke: "My father was originally a samurai of the Ouchi family, and he also fought on the battlefield, but later the Ouchi family declined, and my father was also seriously injured in a civil strife, and he could no longer wield a big sword, so he had to go home to farm. ”

The Ouchi family was originally a famous family that was qualified to serve as the ruler, but then gradually declined, and with the rise of the nearby daimyos, the territory became less and less, and at this moment only the area of Nagato Province remained, and it would soon be annexed by the Mori family.

"My father's last wish was to revive the name of the warriors of the Takekawa family, so he also practiced martial arts since he was a child, hoping to become a samurai, and later heard that someone in Zhou Fang recruited samurai to fight at sea, so he followed them on the ship."

"Alas......" Takekawa Nagaken sighed again, "I don't know that there are no samurai on the ship at all, but a boatload of pirates, and they only go to sea to plunder in the Korean area." The samurai didn't make it, but he went to a foreign land to become a Japanese coward! ”

Speaking of this, he slowly closed his eyes, opened them abruptly after a long time, and continued: "I used to be confused, but then I also figured it out, that group of pirates has the support of the Ryuzoji family behind them, and if they perform outstandingly, maybe they can also be promoted to the samurai of the Ryuzoji family." ”

"Later, I was seriously injured and thrown overboard by pirates to die, only to be rescued by a potter in North Korea. Scold...... The people I have been looting and killing have become my saviors! ”

Wu Chuan Changjian's gaze pierced through the door and looked into the distance, as if he wanted to look through the layers of twilight to the other side of the sea.

"I started to wonder what the hell my knife was swinging, and I kept thinking, I kept thinking...... Later, I buried the knife and learned pottery from the Koreans. ”

His face became calm again, and his voice returned to a low one, "This is a technique of earth and fire, which requires you to blend the fiery heat of fire into the thickness of the earth, and I am deeply fascinated...... I finally found the answer in my heart. ”

"I left my knife in the clay of North Korea, returned to Japan, and came to this small mountain village...... I have not forgotten my father's last wish, although there is no sword, but I want to recast the dignity of the Takekawa family in another way. Mr. Ashikaga, thank you for giving hope to the contemptible people! ”

In the end, Wuchuan Changjian bowed to the ground in front of Long Tao.

"Boring!" Kenzaburo snorted coldly, "It's just the work of a coward who doesn't dare to face failure!" ”

"San Lang!" Kenichiro shouted.

"Little ghost, you've always been yelling at being a samurai?" Long Tao suddenly sneered, "Why did you become a warrior?" ”

"With my sword!" Kenzaburo turned around abruptly and drew his long knife.

"Khooth!"

Long Tao took out Murayu and waved his hand obliquely, breaking Kenzaburo's knife in two like cutting tofu.

"Bastard!" Kenzaburo was shocked and angry, holding the half-truncated blade and rushing towards Long Tao.

Long Tao flicked his fingers, bounced the broken blade in his hand away, followed by his left hand stretched out and knocked him to the ground, and with a horizontal right hand, Mura Yu was already on his chest.

A strand of Kenzaburo's hair was stimulated by the strong wind and floated onto the blade of the village rain's knife, breaking into two pieces in an instant.

Ruyoshi shouted: "Boy, you'd better not move, this is the rain of the famous sword village!" ”

"Mingjian Village Rain?" Wuchuan Changjian was taken aback, after all, he had been out and about, and he had heard of the name of Murayu, "That's ...... So who is this Ashikaga gentleman? ”

Sun Bingwei said proudly: "My family is a descendant of the Furukawa Gongfang of Odawara in the Kanto region!" ”

"Ahh And so it was! Takekawa Nagaken bowed to Long Tao again, "It turned out to be Ashikaga-sama!" When it came to Long Tao's famous surname, he was doubting his identity.

Long Tao still stared at Kenzaburo, and asked with a smile: "You don't even have a sword, how can you be a samurai?" ”

"Humph! It's just a sharp sword. ”

Long Tao put away the village rain and handed him the handle of the knife, "Take it and kill me." ”

"W-What?"

"Pick up the knife and slash me! You don't even have the courage to kill people, and you still shout about being a samurai all day long? Long Tao roared.

"Ah......" Kenzaburo shouted, holding Murayu with a distorted face, and slashed at the top of Long Tao's head.

Everyone was shocked, and even Ruyoshi and Sun Bingwei couldn't help but stand up.

Silently, Cun Yu's incomparably sharp blade was firmly clamped by Long Tao's two fingers in the middle of the food, and stopped in mid-air, making it difficult to advance an inch.

Long Tao's left hand shook slightly, Kenzaburo's arms shook violently, and he couldn't hold it, and Murayu returned to Long Tao's hands.

"You can't even hold a knife."

Long Tao laughed, and Kenzaburo lowered his head in shame.

"Do you know how to hold a knife? Do you know how to draw a knife? Do you know why you cut someone? ”

Long Tao asked three times in a row, held the village rain and suddenly turned around, and waved a knife at a small tree with the thickness of a bowl outside the house.

With a soft snort, the upper half of the small tree suddenly fell, and the severed trunk was as smooth as a mirror.

"Sword Qi!" The father and son's eyes widened at the same time.

Liuji and Sun Bingwei had seen Long Tao's swordsmanship, but they were not so surprised.

"Ashikaga-sama, you, your brand...... Just now...... "Wuchuan Changjian was the most surprised, because in the moment of Long Tao's luck, he accidentally saw an unbelievable scene.

Long Tao waved his hand at him, and then looked at Kenzaburo, "Do you understand what a real sword technique is?" ”

Kenzaburo's face turned red and white for a while, and he suddenly came to Long Tao and knelt down, and didn't speak, just kept kowtowing.

"Want to learn from me? Go and apologize to your father first! ”

The boy looked up, stubborn and confused.

"Kenzaburo, you have to understand that any man who can take a thing seriously and is willing to gamble his life for it is a good man worthy of respect!" Long Tao said lightly: "No matter what skill, those who have reached the peak can be called entering the Tao, Ling Zun's pottery has entered the Tao, and the realm is much stronger than the achievements in the sword technique, isn't such a man worthy of your respect?" ”

Kenzaburo knelt down in front of Takekawa Changjian and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Father, Saburo knows that he is wrong!" ”

Kenichiro also came over, and the father and son hugged each other, and the knot in their hearts for many years was finally resolved.

Long Tao continued: "What Mr. Wu Chuan said is very right, if you want to restore the dignity of the martial family, why do you have to use a knife? Even if it was a samurai under the daimyo, wasn't there a distinction between warriors and priests? ”

He was a samurai who was primarily responsible for internal affairs.

Hearing this, Takekawa Nagaken's eyes lit up, he moved very quickly, looked at Long Tao, and asked, "Dare to ask Ashikaga-sama, do you have the ambition to revive the Furukawa Gongfang?" ”

Sun Bingwei said proudly: "Sooner or later, my master will let the Ashikaga family prosper again!" Hum! He is now out to be a businessman, just to train himself and accumulate strength for future events! ”

Wuchuan Changjian came to Long Tao and solemnly bowed to the ground: "If it is a useful place for Ashikaga adults, the contemptible people are willing to follow the work of dogs and horses!" ”

"Good! Now that I've said that, I'll tell you from the bottom of my heart. Long Tao looked at Wuchuan Changjian with a sincere face, "I would like to ask Mr. to give full play to his talents and build this Hagi village into a pottery workshop, so as to accumulate money for the future events of my Ashikaga family!" ”

Wu Chuan Changjian said loudly: "My lord, please let me call you lord from today onwards!" I will definitely do my best to turn Hagimura into a pottery workshop of the Ashikaga family! ”

Long Tao was overjoyed and said, "Okay! Although I don't have any territory at the moment, when my Ashikaga family prospers again in the future, I will definitely let the Takekawa family return to the ranks of the samurai family! You, Takekawa Changjian, are the first commissioner of my Ashikaga Yoshiclan, and I will definitely make you the lord of a city in the future! ”

"The Wuchuan family will definitely serve the lord for generations from now on!" Wuchuan Changjian took his two sons and bowed at the feet of Long Tao again.