At the entrance of the hall on the first floor, the students who were coming and going suddenly separated, bypassing the man standing in the middle of the door, or standing far away, watching curiously.
There was not the slightest wrinkle on the grayish-blue robe, with black feather weave on the outside, and wooden clogs on his feet.
He held a slender sword pouch in his hand.
He was waiting solemnly.
The middle-aged man's hair was slightly white, which made his face look particularly weathered. His originally dignified appearance, after being covered with a layer of coldness, had an indescribable majesty.
It was frightening.
At this moment, in the face of this sudden question, Huai Shi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at him carefully. "To be honest, I don't know what you mean, but I more or less guessed it. I don't know if you're willing to listen to my explanation.
But before that, you should at least tell me your name. Teacher? "
The man suddenly sneered. "A mere nobody is naturally not worthy of the attention of a dignified inspector of the Astronomical Association. Since you've done such a thing, don't you think it's hypocritical to ask for my name now?"
"It doesn't matter if you want to be sarcastic, if that's your intention."
Huai Shi calmly raised his hand, handed the pouch with the lesson plan to Lin Shijiu, and walked towards him. "Although I'm a little angry to be ridiculed for not doing anything, I still hope that this matter can be resolved in a more dignified way.
So, let me reiterate again — I don't know who you are, and I don't know why you have such a big grudge against me.
But if you're here to ask for an explanation, then before I explain, you should at least tell me your name first, right? "
"Do you want to humiliate me again?!"
The middle-aged man flew into a rage. "It's useless to say more. Let me experience the power of the Astronomical Association's judges!"
He reached out and opened the pouch, revealing a long sword from Yingzhou.
Here, he issued a challenge.
"From just now until now, haven't you been humiliating me unilaterally?"
In the midst of many onlookers, Huai Shi asked expressionlessly, "No matter what, bringing a sword to the door aggressively is not the attitude to talk, is it?
Or do you just want to find a place to vent your anger? "
In that instant, as Huai Shi stepped forward, everyone's vision blurred.
After a moment of absent-mindedness, it was as if a gap had suddenly appeared in the middle of time, causing the entire process to disappear, leaving only the final result.
Huai Shi, on the other hand, was like a ghost. He instantly traversed a distance of several meters and arrived in front of the middle-aged man without the slightest sound of wind.
It was close at hand.
"Now, let me ask you one last time —"
He stared at the pair of dilated pupils and asked softly, "What's the matter?
"— Name?"
Subconsciously, the middle-aged man stepped back.
A sharp sound burst out, and the wooden clogs left two tragic marks on the smooth ground. In the face of the sudden change, his response could be said to be perfect.
Moving as fast as lightning, he retreated two meters in an instant, almost breaking the glass on the back door.
Finally, a safe distance was created between them.
But when he raised his eyes, he found that Huai Shi's face was still close at hand, and the genial smile had not changed at all. He could not help but feel his hair stand on end.
His right hand on the hilt suddenly clenched with force. With the push of his left thumb, the steel in the scabbard whistled out — Draw the sword!
Then, it came to an abrupt stop.
"You can't."
Huai Shi raised his palm, and at some point, it was already in front of the hilt. It was as if he had caught the weakness of the giant python in the hole, not allowing it to leave the scabbard.
In this way, the blade was stuffed back into the scabbard inch by inch.
No matter how the middle-aged man resisted, his face was ashen, and the palm that was pushing forward did not waver at all. It was not until the scabbard and the blade were joined together that a clear sound was heard.
Huai Shi took a step back, and his smile was still harmless.
As if provoking him, he signaled him.
Come again.
A wisp of angry red appeared on the man's ashen face. He took a step forward in front of Huai Shi, slowly bent down, and got into a fighting posture.
Like the bowstring of a longbow gradually being tightened, a terrifying tension gathered on his five fingers holding the hilt of the sword.
He was ready to strike.
Only a piercing chill spread out from the steel in the scabbard with a thirsty sound. The killing intent was piercing to the bone — there was no room left. This was a real duel between real swords.
But Huai Shi was still smiling, standing in the same place, and did not move.
He just looked at him.
In the gradually solidifying dead silence, only bean-sized beads of sweat slowly dripped from the warrior's forehead, soaking his collar and the broken floor under his feet.
He did not move.
Only the sound of the long sword in the scabbard became more and more shrill, so sharp that it hurt everyone's eardrums and rose crazily. In the end, in Huai Shi's waiting, a cry of despair burst out.
There was a shattering sound from the scabbard.
The blade that was not out of the scabbard was broken in the scabbard.
With the shattering of the long sword, the middle-aged man suddenly seemed to lose all his vitality. His face was pale, and he could no longer support his body. He staggered and fell to the ground.
How could he not understand the gap between them?
He was defeated without even drawing his sword.
No, it should be said that until he completely failed, he did not have the courage to draw his sword in front of that pair of silent eyes.
Fear for no reason arose from his intuition, absorbed his consciousness, and made him frozen in place, unable to move.
"Yes, I have lost …"
The weary middle-aged man struggled to support his body with the scabbard and gasped for breath, "Today, I, Sasaki Kiyomasa, came to humiliate myself.
From now on, when I meet Mr. Huai Shi, I will naturally retreat and not dare to have any entanglement. "
When he said this, his voice trembled slightly. His eyes were filled with extreme sorrow and he was unable to control his emotions. He was on the verge of tears. He had to lower his head, stagger from the ground, and try to escape in embarrassment.
But he heard a soft voice behind him,
"Did I let you go?"
Amidst the faint clamor, a deathly silence abruptly descended.
The low words with unimaginable weight and chill made the hall freeze again.
Sasaki Kiyomasa froze in place.
In the reflection of the glass door in front of him, he vaguely glimpsed the young man's reflection. It was fleeting like a bubble, and it was difficult to see the substance. But in a moment of trance, it seemed that there was endless darkness rising to the sky and swallowing everything.
It formed a terrible vortex that made people's hearts palpitate.
Under the cover of darkness, he finally realized the source of the fear in his heart.
Beside him, two dark and ferocious shadows had appeared out of nowhere. One held a heavy red axe in both hands, as solemn and dignified as a priest.
The dagger in the other shadow's hand was already pressed against his neck.
He felt a piercing coldness.
At this point, how could Sasaki Seimasa not understand that from the moment he stood in front of Huai Shi, his life was no longer in his hands.
In the silence, Huai Shi walked to his side and asked, "Sasaki Sensei, right?"
"Yes."
Under the erosion of coldness, Sasaki Kiyomasa raised his head with difficulty and responded proudly, waiting for Huai Shi's judgment.
But after a short period of silence, Huai Shi raised his head from meditation, but suddenly grinned and showed a warm smile.
Darkness, ghostly shadows, frost, and death vanished in an instant.
Only a face full of enthusiasm was left.
"Sasaki Sensei …"
As if they were old friends at first sight, Huai Shi grabbed Sasaki Kiyomasa's hand and asked enthusiastically,
"Have you eaten?"
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Two hours later, in a Yingzhou characteristic izakaya in the ivory tower.
"Excuse me, another bowl!"
Sasaki Kiyomasa raised the empty bowl in his hand.
Next to him, Lin Shijiu's eyes twitched. Looking at the dense piles of empty bowls and plates on the table, he didn't know where the rice bucket came from.
"Give me a bowl, too."
Huai Shi also raised his hand and said, "By the way, give me a bottle of sake and fried chicken. What else do you want, Shijiu? It's my treat. Don't be shy. "
"I'm full."
Lin Shijiu looked helpless, looking at the spectacular scene on the table.
No matter how much he ate, he couldn't compare with these two foodies.
Therefore, while waiting for the rice, the two of them began to chew on edamame and drink wine, as if they weren't the ones who had just fought.
And Huai Shi finally figured out the cause and effect.
Sasaki Kiyomasa was a ronin who lost his title.
If there was a relationship between the two, there was a little connection between them. Before he lost his title, he was an official of the Rima family, and he was a retainer of the Rima family.
Unfortunately, because of the struggle between Tianjin and Guojin, the Rima family completely turned to the general's side. The previous generation of the Rima family, who stood on the wrong side, was ordered to commit seppuku in the follow-up liquidation.
And Sasaki Kiyomasa changed from an 800-stone Chinese coach to a ronin, and he had no foothold in Yingzhou. If he was smart enough, he might be able to start a new business outside. But with Sasaki, who was a simple-minded fool, there was no way he could find a better place to stay.
After wandering around for a few times, he finally sought the protection of the ivory tower and became an external teacher that could be seen everywhere.
Simply put, he was a temporary worker.
There were many people like him in the Ivory Tower. He couldn't get a formal contract, and he had no hope of getting his own permanent classroom. The reason why he could stay was that he was valued by the professor of the Flower Way classroom and was recruited as his assistant.
The professor was very old, and it was rare to meet a junior that he liked. He could take care of him as much as he could. He only hoped that his fellow countryman would not become a thief in desperation.
But the good times didn't last long. In less than half a year, the professor was sick before school started.
The huge Flower Way classroom was leaderless. Sasaki was indebted to the professor, but it was difficult to stop the decline of the classroom day by day.
Seeing the old professor's life's work vanish like smoke, and he couldn't even keep this classroom, Sasaki wanted to commit seppuku.
But it was useless even if he did that.
At this time, he saw his own students leave one by one, and the original students planned to transfer to the classical music appreciation classroom for various reasons, and the people from the two clubs fanned the flames …
"If it weren't for Huaikun's magnanimity today, I would have caused a big trouble."
After eating, Sasaki sat up straight again. According to the strictest understanding of Yingzhou, he bowed to Huai Shi, almost crawling on the ground, "Great Master Shen Shi!"
"Sasaki-sensei, what are you talking about? Didn't we get to know each other after fighting? "
Huai Shi helped him up with a warm face and comforted him, "You may not know, but Little Amber and I are sworn brothers in the social security bureau. We fought side by side in the paradise and almost became siblings. In my heart, she will always be a sister. How can I lower myself to the level of a sister's family? "
Taking advantage of Sasaki's ignorance of the profound Dongxia language, Huai Shi kept taking advantage of him, "It's just a misunderstanding, please don't take it to heart. In the future, our two classrooms should get along harmoniously."
For some reason, wicked thoughts kept emerging in his heart one after another.
Why should he be angry?
— — This kind of person who lacks a string in his brain but is very useful, he must be in his own hands!
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