345 Episode 344: An Unexpected Reunion

Side: a long time ago

On this day, Elle and I are coming to the outdoor stadium on the outskirts of Qingzhou as a courtesy of Shin-soo and Shin-chang.

This was just the main venue for last year's martial arts tournament. Even after the tournament, it has been used to train guards, but the facility has been further expanded during the winter season. That's your inspection today.

There are equestrian stables, indoor martial arts stadiums, indoor bow stadiums and shooting ranges for artillery. In everything, there is an audience space, and there is a wider area. Multi-purpose halls that can perform performing arts such as energy and performing arts are currently under construction.

"Better than I thought."

"Right. There's never been a place like this before."

Both Nobunaga and Shinsu have come to visit several times before, but they have a surprised and satisfied look as to whether it is fresh to visit the completed facility.

In addition to the facilities mentioned earlier, the premises have been widely taken and are planned to be maintained as a park. I plan to plant cherry blossoms here too, so it'll be a beautiful sight in a few years.

"We all gather from samurai to people and think of it as a place for forgiveness and noise."

"Temple measures? That's the scary part about them. I was wondering if you'd come in generously."

You don't have to tell me you're scared, either. People don't listen well.

In this day and age, it will be mainly temples where people gather. It has a huge property and a great facility. Facing the people directly is what the temple originally did.

Shinsu and the others are explained at the planning stage, but this is also a temple countermeasure. Competing for martial arts and providing a place for people to gather at ease is one of the aims.

The current situation, where the city and the temple house gather people, is a temple, must change. What we need for this will be more than anything else a place where people can get together.

It's a commonly existing facility in the original world, but in this era, places like that don't exist at all. I guess Temple Shrine is so familiar and obvious.

I might say the first step in secularism. It is normal for Japanese in the original world that religion is not a familiar being, but it is not uncommon to see in the world that religion is deeply involved in politics.

It's possible that a revolution like the Meiji Restoration of Historical Facts won't happen in this world. Modernization and religious measures need to be kept on track from this era.

"Because it's not good to have too much money collected at the temple. If you were just praying to God Buddha in the first place, you wouldn't need a fine temple or money, would you?

Even people in this day and age are not stupid. If there is so much upbringing, I have doubts about corrupt disciplined monks or something.

There are some good boys, no matter what. But I'm sad, it's the bloodlines and the patriarchal jerks who have the power. Because that's how society works as a real problem.

In the first place, the general public is honestly moral in this day and age. What's so good about it? It's not uncommon that it's a level, and I can't help but criticize religion in general.

It's also a temple that teaches ethics and morals around the corner.

"There's still a long way to go to make a world without war."

Shin-soo laughs bitterly at the possibility of this Chingzhou Sports Park and the place he should be in, even though he feels he has a long way to go.

Well, to be honest, there's a part of being alert to religion that even Shinsu and the others don't understand. Because it's what we do, and it feels like I'm going to let you do it for now.

Generally speaking, I don't have a bad relationship with a temple, and I have a good reputation for religious people because I'm pushing in.

"Well, it's just my free time, and should we go to Hachiya?

"Hmm. That would be nice."

As soon as the inspection was complete, my stomach was running out of time.

Nobunaga smiled and agreed with me when I called out to go to Hachiya. I guess I wanted to eat something sweet.

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Hachiya was just free time for the afternoon. Sometimes I can queue up at meals in the morning and evening or around lunch.

When I came to Hachiya with Shinsu and the others, I just ran into an unexpected person.

Those are the people I met in Mino until the other day. It's Yoshiryu dressed in a merchant-style outfit with Dozo and a prisoner-style outfit. There are only three escorts, and Dozo and Yoshiryu and the escort go hand in hand and the five of them eat ramen amicably.

Shinsu looked at me and Elle as if she suspected it was a setup, but we were surprised too. I'm confused when I shook my head to the side.

Besides, Yoshiryu looks like a bad bat just when we're shown next door in the sitting area, but Dozo eats ramen without worrying.

It's a development like a cont, but a bee. It's dangerous in warring times, and it can't possibly be Daimyo and his men coming to another country.

"Chi... not my husband. The..."

"Delicious. It tastes good in Minoxi."

Although the adjacent seating area, the partition is a collision sheet. Yoshiryu is tall, and when he meets me, he calls out to Dozo with a troubled look, but Dozo doesn't care and does the ramen.

Well, okay. Let's make some dough and tea without worrying about us.

Oh, one of the sneakers ran in. I looked inside the store and dropped my shoulder for a moment and still sat in a nearby seat with a casual gesture. Have you misplaced him? Yakuya's crew is tapping me on the shoulder. I wonder if Shiqing and Izumosho will be mad at me later.

What a subtle feeling, but they haven't noticed any other customers. However, the employees of Hachiya and the Lord Hachigoro seem to have noticed.

They're our associates. You must know about Dozo and Yoshiryu's sketches and other information. The sneakers know the least bit about people.

Speaking of confusion, I guess so. It's just the way we do it here, pretending not to notice whoever comes.

Or what did this parent and child come to do? Are you sure you're just here for dinner?

In the end, Michizo ate sweet manju after the meal and bought a ton of manju for his souvenir and went home.

There is no contact whatsoever except that Mizo met us lightly on his way home. I guess my liver is sitting still.

"You're careless."

"You say?

With just three escorts, I was slightly stunned by the road three that came to Qingzhou and spilled it as inadvertent, but Nobunaga stuck me in. I've been walking with a proper escort lately.

"Maybe the food will steal Minoo. Let me go with the cooking number."

Shin-soo, on the other hand, had an indescribable look on his face to Doo-san, who really seemed to have just come to dinner with a bee.

Normally, it's impossible, but does Yaya's cooking feel that much like magical cooking in this era?

Well, you're willing to obey. It wouldn't be a bad idea to send about a cook to deepen our friendship.

"The story of wanting me to teach you how to cook also comes from the petition certificate temple and Otsuma. We avoid responding because of our secrets."

"I think I might be able to use this. It might be interesting to think about who to teach."

Shinsu smiled funny when Elle, who was just relaxing and drinking tea, reported on the dishes that had recently grown and were contemplating responding.

Something tells me you want me to teach you how to cook from all over the place. Cakes, stews and Ming dishes individually rather than the dishes in general.

It would be the effect of Nobunaga's wedding.

"As a homeowner, teaching can sell ingredients, so it's not bad, but teaching without consideration is just..."

As for me, I feel like I can teach you about cooking, but Elle is surprised and reluctant to serve it. I don't know about this era because it's natural to steal it and remember it with your life to get the technology.

As it stands, I teach the Oda family and the Hojo family to Hachiya and the restaurant in the industrial village. It seems a policy to use it politically because cooking is a kind of status.

Yeah, even Hachiya keeps applying for an apprenticeship, but he says no. No one knows that this is our relevant store these days, so it seems that no one is forced to do anything but come here once in a while from another country who is not familiar with the circumstances.

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In the spring of the eighteenth year of astronomy, the story of Saito Dozo's visit to Eight Houses in Qingzhou with Yoshiryu the man is told to Eight Houses.

On that occasion, Kuruma and Ichima visited Hachiya with Shinsu Oda, Shinnaga's parents, son and wife Elle, and just met Dao San's parents and children, but the credibility of the matter had long been questioned.

It was too absurd a story, and there was some suspicion that it might be some kind of fabrication story, but there is something suggestive of this story in the letter from Shinshu to Dao San, which was discovered in recent years, and there is a strong possibility of truth in the content of considering dispatching a cooking number.

It is unthinkable in the circumstances and common sense of the time, but there is also anecdote that Dozo declined to try to recreate the dishes he ate at the Oda family after being invited to martial arts competitions this past year, suggesting that it could be a fact rather than a creation.

However, if this anecdote is true, it is even said that the relationship between the then Oda and Saito families needs to be re-examined.