"Learn sword?"
Kyubei blinked his eyes a few times with a puzzled expression.
"Young Master, why do you want to learn swordsmanship so suddenly? Haven't you always had no interest in swordsmanship?"
"The people of the 'Expelling Barbarians' faction are really unreasonable and hateful, so I decided to start practicing my sword seriously from today. When they come to attack me next time, I will beat them to a pulp." Qingdeng was half-serious.
Falsely speaking.
Hearing Qingto's words, Jiubei was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed excitement.
"Young Master, you are right! You must have such ambition! This is what a warrior is! That's right! This is how it should be! Wait a moment, I will get the ledger and money."
Jiubei turned around and ran quickly to the back room.
After a while, he returned to Qingdeng.
When he returned to Qingdeng, he had an account book, an abacus and a bag of money in his arms.
Aoto looked at the bag of money in Kyuubei's hand with a somewhat sad look - this bag did not contain much money, it was all the savings of Aoto and his family...
"Original Tachibana Aoden" doesn't know how to settle accounts. He usually leaves all the money and account books in the family to Kubei.
Kubei moved the low table placed in the corner of the living room, laid the account books on the low table, placed the abacus next to the account books, and then quickly calculated the accounts.
After a moment, Jiubei stopped his abacus, then opened the money bag that contained all the savings of the Tachibana family, and took out some silver coins and a large bunch of copper coins from it.
"Young Master..." Jiubei smiled dryly with an embarrassed expression, "After deducting necessary expenses such as food, clothing, housing and transportation... the funds we can use now are only 11 pieces of silver and 6,000 pieces of copper coins."
In Japan during the Edo period, there were three currencies in circulation: gold, silver, and copper.
1 tael of gold ≈ 64 silver coins ≈ 6400 copper coins.
Qingdeng's jaw almost dropped to the ground after learning that the current amount of funds he could freely use at home was so little.
"Do you only have this little money?"
"Young Master..." Jiubei let out a long sigh, "The family's remaining wealth... has basically been used to pay off debts..."
Listening to Kubei's words, the corner of Qingto's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
——It’s really hard for a penny to defeat a hero...
After feeling this silently in his heart, Qingden let out a long sigh.
"Oh... well, if you have less money, just use less. Kyubey, what is the best sword hall that our current surplus of money can support me with?"
The original owner of this body was not interested in swordsmanship, so he did not have much information about the swordsmanship in Edo in his memory, so Ayoto could only turn to Kyuubei for help.
"Oh..." Jiubei looked embarrassed, "Young Master, you are asking me this question... How do I know about a sword hall? I can name a sword hall with just one hand.
You can count them…”
"I think so..." Qingdeng sighed softly, "There's nothing I can do... I'll ask some of my friends to see if..."
"Ah!" Jiubei suddenly slapped his forehead, "Young Master, I remembered, do you want to go to Qian Shiwu to ask?"
"Thousand Things House?" Qingden raised an eyebrow, "What is this?"
"It's an employment agency." Jiubingwei said, "Young Master, aren't our families short of money recently? So I thought about finding some jobs that I could do to supplement the family income, so I was introduced to him.
I know about this employment agency.”
Qingden: "Employment agency?"
As the ruling center, political center, and economic center of the Edo Shogunate, Edo was the largest city in the Edo period.
As the largest city of this era, Edo naturally attracted young people from all over the country with dreams of getting rich and so on.
A large number of young people came to Edo to work. In this era, there were no convenient tools such as newspapers and the Internet, so information exchange was very difficult. It would be very difficult to find a job in this city with a population of one million on your own.
As a result, an employment agency specializing in introducing people to jobs came into being.
During the Edo period, most employment agencies were privately run. In Edo, there were more than 20 large or small employment agencies.
"Kyubei, what I'm looking for is a swordsmanship hall, not a job."
"Young Master, please listen to what I have to say." Jiubei shook his head, "That thousand-story house can not only introduce the work, but also introduce the swordsmanship. It is one of the important signs of the family."
"Oh?" Qingto's eyes immediately flashed with interest, and his body subconsciously leaned towards Kyubei.
"I don't know the specifics. I only know that Senshiya can not only help people looking for jobs introduce jobs, but also help those who want to learn swordsmanship in Edo to introduce swordsmen that are suitable for them."
"Hey... Qianshiya..." Qingto stroked his chin, "Can you introduce me to the swordsmanship hall... It sounds good."
"Okay, it's decided!"
Qingdeng clenched his right hand into a fist and gently hammered his left palm.
"Tomorrow is just a day off! I will go to the Thousand Things House tomorrow morning to ask about it."
Don't procrastinate when doing things, just do them as soon as you think of it - this is one of Qingdeng's most proud strengths.
As a reward for successfully defeating the "Benevolent People", everyone involved in this operation will be given a day off tomorrow, which can be used effectively.
"Kyuubei, do you know where the Senshiya is?"
Jiubei nodded: "It's quite close to our place."
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The next day (January 13th), early morning——
After having a hasty breakfast cooked by Kyuubei, Aomori put on his clothes, put the katana and wakizashi on his left waist that symbolized his status as a samurai, and rushed out of the house in a hurry.
Qingdeng's house faces a dirt road that is neither narrow nor wide.
The time now was probably early 7 o'clock in the morning. After turning onto the dirt road directly in front of his house, Qingden saw people in twos and threes, either doing nothing like him, or looking anxious, probably in a hurry to go.
The samurai "on duty".
In Japan during the Edo period, in order to show their status and avoid causing disputes, samurai and civilians generally did not live together.
The samurai lived together in the "warrior ghetto", while the civilians lived together in the "civilian ghetto".
Hatchobori, where Aoto lives, is one of the samurai settlement areas. Therefore, samurai wearing swords can be seen everywhere in Hatchobori.
In terms of quantity, the number of samurai in Edo was far less than that of civilians, but the residences of the samurai occupied most of Edo, and the land occupied by the samurai was the best land in Edo, making the number of warriors overwhelming.
Most civilians can only crowd into those areas with the worst geographical location.
The distribution of resources is so unfair that people just want to lament the "evil ruling class" with sadness.
He had no time to appreciate the street scenes of ancient Japan. As soon as he left his house, Aoto followed the address mentioned by Kubei last night and rushed to the Thousand Things House.
What Kyubei said was true - the Thousand Things House was indeed not far from Aintō and his family's home.
Qingdeng jogged all the way, and in just over 10 minutes, he saw a rather simple-looking wooden house at the end of his field of vision.
On the top of the door of this wooden house hangs a door plaque with three Chinese characters for "千事屋".
In ancient Japan, just like ancient China, houses were basically made of wood.
Since Japan launched the Dahua Reform in 645 AD and comprehensively studied the advanced culture and systems of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Japan has directly transferred Chinese characters to use. Before that, Japan had not had its own writing.
After the Dahua Reform, the usage rate of Chinese characters in ancient Japan has been very high. The entire content of an official document from the government may be written in Chinese characters.
"Is this the Thousand Things House..." Qingteng stood in front of the shop door and looked at this rather simple-looking employment agency.
"Are you open now..."
Qingdeng muttered this while walking quickly towards the door of the shop.
When he put his hand on the door handle and prepared to open the door——
"Oh~ Mr. Kazuma Kiryu, you can even repair Wu clothes?"
"Well, because I have learned how to make and repair Wufu in the Muromachi area before."
"Mr. Kazuma Kiryu! You really know everything! You're so awesome!"
"You are ridiculous. These are just some small advantages that are not worth mentioning."
Two simple conversations reached Qingdeng's ears from behind the door.
Wow——
Qingdeng pushed open the wooden shop door.
The first thing that caught Qingdeng's eyes was an old lady with thick lips.
The old lady was sitting on her knees in front of a low counter.
Behind the counter, there was an old man sitting who looked to be 80 or 90 years old. He wore a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose and a warm smile on his face. He looked quite gentle.
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