Okita frowned, thinking deeply.

After a while, his frown relaxed.

"I remembered!"

"Sakamoto Ryoma."

"That person's name is Sakamoto Ryoma."

"Sakamoto Ryoma..." Qingto whispered the name softly, "named directly after 'Ryoma'... It's such a majestic name."

"This man used to be a celebrity at the Kochiba Sword Hall." Okita nodded, "If I remember correctly... Sakamoto Ryoma was born in the Tosa Domain. He was recommended to study at the Kochiba Sword Hall because of his outstanding talent in swordsmanship."

"Although I have never fought with this person directly, I have seen him compete with others several times. He is indeed a talented man with great talent and strength in swordsmanship."

"It's a pity that such an outstanding young man did not stay at the Little Chiba Sword Hall for a long time. Otherwise, I would have thought that relying on his strength, he would become the teacher of the Little Chiba Sword Hall in the future, or directly open a sword school in Edo.

It’s not impossible.”

"Three years ago, after he won the swordsmanship competition held by Tosa Hou, he became a member of the Beichen Itto-ryu."

"Not long after that, he left Edo and returned to his hometown, Tosa Domain, and never came back."

After listening quietly to Okita's story about Ryoma Sakamoto, Aoto nodded gently: "It turns out that the Chiba Sword Hall once produced such a powerful swordsman."

Aoto simply listened to Okita's story about Sakamoto Ryoma with the mentality of listening to a story.

So - after accompanying Kondo and others back to the trial defense hall, Aoto, who didn't care about Ryoma Sakamoto at all, had already thrown this name into the depths of the sea of ​​memory.

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…

Chiba Jutaro is in a very good mood now.

His current mood was so good that he immediately started humming an off-key ditty.

He turned his head, glanced in the direction of the trial defense hall, and let out a weird laugh:

"Hahaha, Tachibana-kun has agreed to participate in Lord Aizu's swordsmanship competition, hehehehe~~"

Ever since their little Chiba Kenkan lost to the Imperial Guard Hall led by Aoden in the "Red and White Battle" of the "Plum Blossom Festival", Chiba Jutaro has made up his mind - to defeat Tachibana Aoden.

Think about it as a "preparatory brother-in-law"!

The first thing Chiba Jutaro considered was Aomori's character.

During these nearly two months, Chiba Jutaro went around collecting "intelligence" about Aomori.

You may entrust a friend, or you may personally go and ask the apprentices at the imperial examination hall, ask the officials at the execution office...ask all the people related to Qingdeng, and ask them about Qingdeng's character.

Almost everyone praised Qingdeng's character.

It is said that Qingnobo is a very humble person, and he never treats others with an arrogant or complacent attitude because he is now a celebrity in Edo and has achieved great achievements.

At the same time, he was also an extremely diligent person. According to some apprentices at the Trial Guard Hall - Qingdeng would get up before dawn every day to practice swordplay. At night, he would focus on exercising his body's muscle strength, and he almost never slacked off.

Chiba Jutaro himself actually came into contact with Aoto, and he also felt that Aoto's character was indeed very good, and he felt like a spring breeze when getting along with him.

The more Chiba Jutaro investigated, the more satisfied he became with this "preparatory brother-in-law".

He has a good character, except for the ugly hair style of his uncut hair, his appearance is acceptable, his talent is outstanding, and his future is limitless.

He found out that the Ju family still owes more than 500 taels of gambling debt...but so what?

First of all, the more than 500 taels of gold were not owed by Qingdeng, but by his father Julongzhi.

Secondly, Chiba Jutaro didn’t think that the gambling debt of more than 500 taels was a big deal.

He felt that with Qingdeng's current ability, it was only a matter of time before he could pay off the gambling debt of more than 500 taels.

And if Qingnog does become the son-in-law of the Chiba family in the future, the Chiba family can help pay off this gambling debt in minutes!

The Chiba family is one of the most famous martial arts families in Japan. They can pay off the gambling debt of more than 500 taels of gold with just a lift of their fingers.

Chiba Jutaro became more and more satisfied and delighted with Aoto - Aoto's recent great achievements in protecting the Boshu Tiao Institute was regarded as "the last straw that broke the camel's back" in Chiba Jutaro's heart.

After learning that Qingden had made another great contribution and that his family income had been directly increased by 400 dan, and he was no longer a lower-level imperial family member, Chiba Jutaro finally made up his mind - it was just him!

From now on, Aoto is my brother-in-law! Whoever offends Aoto offends him, Chiba Jutaro!

Of course - all of the above are Chiba Jutaro's own decisions...

It's useless for him to think that Qingnobo is his brother-in-law. Only Chiba Sanako can think of Qingnobo as her husband-in-law.

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, Chiba Jutaro's current focus has been adjusted to "how to bring together Aomori and Sanako."

Chiba Jutaro clearly knows what kind of character his sister is.

Sanako is very strong and only respects the strong. She has always looked down upon the weak who are physically and mentally weak.

Ever since... Chiba Jutaro's mind changed.

If you want to bring Qingto and Sanako together and make Sanako fall in love with Aingto... then the best way is to let Sanako discover the shining points in Qingto that attract her.

Since Sanako admires strength... wouldn't it be nice to let her see how powerful Qingden is!

Just like that... Chiba Jutaro, who has a very "meticulous" logical thinking, learned that Aizuhou was going to hold a swordsmanship competition, and immediately rushed to the imperial examination hall and told Kondo and others the news... In fact,

The main reason is to tell Qingdeng.

Telling Aoto about this, and then encouraging Aoto to participate in this competition - this is the main purpose of Chiba Jutaro's "trip to the trial defense hall" today.

Chiba Jutaro believes: With Aomori's current strength, it is only an easy thing to shine in this competition that is only for swordsman novices.

The plan of this brother-in-law who has taken great pains for his sister's marriage is very simple: let Aoshito participate in the competition, and then let Sanako see the heroic appearance of Aoshinobo who has defeated his opponents consecutively, and then be attracted by Aoshinobu's talent.

Ah, what a perfect plan!

Chiba Jutaro was quite satisfied with his plan.

At the moment, Aoto has nodded in agreement and expressed that he will participate in this competition. Chiba Jutaro's plan can be considered half successful.

Feeling proud that his plan was successful, Chiba Jutaro returned to the Little Chiba Sword Hall.

The real name of Little Chiba Sword Hall is actually "Chiba Sword Hall", but for the convenience of distinguishing it from the family's Xuanbu Hall, it is often called "Little Chiba" by others.

As a large sword hall that is not inferior to the "three major sword halls" including the Honkyō Genbukan in scale and fame, the Little Chiba Kenkan has a set of luxurious facilities that match its fame and scale.

There are three dojos in Xiaochiba Sword Hall. In order to facilitate distinction and management, these three dojos are named "Achang", "Bchang" and "Cchang" respectively.

Field C is exclusively for apprentices who are still lacking in strength.

Field B is the "master's field", and only apprentices with recognized strength can enter and exit here.

The Koba located at the deepest part of the sword hall is the smallest dojo - this is the private dojo of Chiba Jutaro and the others, and can only be used by members of the Chiba family.

As soon as he returned to the sword hall, Chiba Jutaro bumped into an old man who had been practicing swordsmanship in their small Chiba sword hall for many years.

When this person saw Jutaro Chiba, he immediately said to Jutaro Chiba:

"Shihandai, you came back just in time. Miss Sanako is looking for you. She asked you to find her quickly."

"Sanako, is she looking for me?" Chiba Jutaro raised his eyebrows.

"Well, Miss Sanako is practicing sword practice at the battlefield."

"Okay, thank you."

Chiba Jutaro took off the sword from his waist and went straight to the armor field located at the deepest part of their sword hall.

As soon as the wooden door of the battlefield was opened, a beautiful silhouette appeared in front of Chiba Jutaro.

We saw Sanako standing alone in the center of the dojo wearing kendo uniform, dancing the wooden dachi in her hand like a fluttering butterfly.

A pair of white and tender feet without socks slid on the smooth floor.

The glossy waist-length black hair was tied into a neat high ponytail, and three thousand blue hairs swayed and flew away as Sanako danced.

She must have been practicing swordsmanship for a long time, her cheeks were a bright red from the strenuous exercise, her face was covered with sweat, and the skirt of her clothes at the bear's mouth was wet with sweat.

From time to time, a few drops of sweat would fall from her face and land on her fair insteps with only a few faint veins emerging, or on her cute and small toes, and then flow along the insteps or

Toes drip to the floor.

"Brother." After noticing Chiba Jutaro's arrival, she immediately stopped the wooden sword in her hand, then raised her left arm and elegantly tested the sweat on her face with the back of her left hand, "You are finally back, huh?

What's wrong? Why do you look so weird?"

"Uh... I have a weird expression? Is this the case?" Chiba Jutaro laughed dryly, laughed, then raised his hands and rubbed his face vigorously.

He has already recognized Qingtou as his brother-in-law, and encouraged Qingtou to participate in swordsmanship competitions so as to show his strength to Sanako... This kind of thing is naturally impossible for Chiba Jutaro, and he does not dare to say it to Sanako.

Chiba Jutaro knows his sister best. This careless girl always has a rebellious temperament.

The more you ask her to do something, the more she will disobey you and even deliberately go against you.

If he told her "I want to match you and Aoto" at this time, Chiba Jutaro felt that it would most likely offend Sanako, which would eventually make the plan of "making Aoto become the husband-in-law of their Chiba family" difficult.

Heavy.

Therefore, Chiba Jutaro decided to take his time and secretly help cultivate the relationship between Ayoto and Sanako little by little, and then find the right opportunity for a showdown.

This state of hiding something from Sanako and having a ghost in his heart made Chiba Jutaro's expression uncontrollably weird when facing Sanako.
To be continued...