PS: First of all, I would like to remind everyone that Ogata’s sales routine in this chapter is a real routine in Japanese history, and it is not made up by the author.

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"No. Sorry, I'm a little tired now." Isshikihua shook her head gently, "I want to go home and rest quickly."

Kitahara actually has no interest in performing at all.

The reason why he invited Isshiki to watch the performance was just because he knew that Isshiki was a person who loved watching acrobatic performances.

Even his efforts to invite Isshiki to watch the performance failed, and Kitahara had a bit of regret and loss on his face.

However, he quickly calmed down his expression and emotions and showed a very graceful smile again:

"It's okay. See you later, Miss Isshiki."

"Yes." Isshiki bowed to Kitahara, then turned around and left without any hesitation.

Kitahara was not in a hurry to leave immediately, but continued to stand where he was, staring blankly at Isshiki's retreating back.

Until Isshiki's back had completely disappeared from sight, he did not look back.

At this time, Beiyuan suddenly heard a familiar voice from behind:

"Kitahara-kun, stop looking, Miss Isshiki has disappeared."

"Miura-kun? Why are you here?" Kitahara raised his eyebrows and cast a surprised look at the owner of the voice just now, a young man who was followed by seven followers.

The young man whom Kitahara calls Miura is dressed in extremely luxurious clothes.

Brocade from Tang Dynasty has always been a status symbol in Japan in this era, and it is also synonymous with expensiveness.

Anyone who can afford brocade is without exception a person who is either rich or noble.

And this Miura's clothes from head to toe, except for socks, are all made of silk and satin.

Wearing two swords at the waist, the scabbards and handles are engraved with many decorative patterns, making it clear at a glance that they are valuable knives.

"I just happened to pass by here." Miura said with a smile, "When I passed by here, I happened to see you saying goodbye to Miss Isshiki."

Beiyuan looked embarrassed and laughed a few times: "I let you see it..."

"You are so infatuated." Miura sighed softly, "You have been pursuing Miss Isshiki for three years, right? It's a shame that you persisted. If it were me, I would have been hot and cold, let alone three years.

I couldn’t hold on for three months.”

After saying that, Miura turned to look in the direction Isshiki had just left.

"Miss Isshiki is also quite unscrupulous. Her attitude towards you is still so cold..."

"If you want to choose a husband, there is obviously no one in Osaka who is more suitable than you, Kitahara-kun."

"You have a handsome appearance, and you are already the teacher of the Military Academy at a young age. It is only a matter of time before you inherit the Military Academy."

Speaking of this, Miura changed into a half-joking tone.

"If I remember correctly, Miss Isshiki is already 21 years old this year, right? If we wait a few more years, she will completely become an old woman. She is already so old, isn't she worried about her marriage?"

"Hey, Miura." Kitahara cast a displeased look at Miura, "Even you are not allowed to speak ill of Miss Isshiki."

Miura, who was startled by Kitahara's suddenly serious tone, shrugged: "I understand, I just take back what I just said."

After that, Miura straightened his clothes and cleared his throat.

"Okay, let's not talk about Miss Isshiki anymore. It's a rare chance that we meet each other. Do you want to go to the old place and have a few drinks together?"

After Beiyuan pondered for a moment, he nodded: "Okay."

Miura and Kitahara walked side by side and walked quickly towards a certain izakaya they often went to in their old place.

After turning an intersection, the two of them suddenly saw a lot of people surrounding the street in front of them, with three floors inside and three floors outside.

"What are you doing in front?" Miura frowned slightly.

Because this group of people happened to be located on the place where Beiyuan and the others must pass, they strode towards the crowd in front of them.

As soon as they got close to the crowd, they heard a loud shout from inside the crowd:

"Please watch me. I will use my sword to cut this piece of wood into two pieces later."

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Ogata took advantage of his height to raise the wooden board in his hand high, so that the attracted spectators could clearly see the finger-wide wooden board he had just picked up at random.

"There are already a lot of spectators here, is it almost time for the performance?" A strong man dressed as a samurai with a pair of swords at his waist shouted to Ogata impatiently.

Only a person with two swords at his waist would dare to talk like this to someone with two swords at his waist.

Ogata ignored the strong man's urging and looked around at the onlookers. More than 50 people had already gathered around him.

Seeing that the number of people was almost there, Ou lowered the wooden board he was holding high: "Then I will officially start the performance. Next, please don't be distracted."

Hearing what Ogata said, the onlookers around him quickly held their breath and concentrated.

Most of the onlookers thought that Ogata was going to put the wooden plank on a platform half a person's height, and then use a knife to chop it.

As a result, Ogata made an action that almost everyone around him didn't expect.

He threw the board high in the air.

The wooden board rolled and flew to the highest point, and then fell slowly.

When the board began to fall, Ogata, who maintained an ordinary standing posture, continued to hang down naturally with his left hand, and held the handle of Daishuken's sword with his right hand.

The Two Swordsman Style of Wuwo·Raikiri.

The sword flashed.

A flash of sword light passed over the wooden board that was about to hit Ogata's head. The wooden board split into two halves in the middle, and the two fragments fell on Ogata's left and right sides respectively.

quiet……

The surrounding spectators were silent at first, then burst into thunderous applause and bursts of cheers.

"Oh..." Kitahara, who was standing at the back of the crowd and had a clear view of Ogata's actions just now, raised his eyebrows.

Ogata, who had sheathed his sword, bowed lightly to the onlookers in front of him, and then shouted loudly:

"Everyone, this was just a small test of my skills. Next, I will perform a more powerful performance."

“But, before that”

Speaking of this, Ogata winked at Atachi, Atzuki, and the little girl next to him.

After receiving the gaze from Ogata, Atachi, Atsuki and the little girl hurriedly held a bag of tooth powder to greet the audience.

"Can you please buy some tooth powder?" Ogata spread his left hand and made a "please" gesture, "You can buy a pack of these tooth powders for only 16 cents!"

“Not only are the prices affordable, but they are also of excellent quality.”

"You only need to buy a 15-pack, and you will have enough strength to continue performing."

Ogata almost said this directly: "Want me to perform? Pay for tooth powder!"

Although Ogata said so blatantly, "If you want to watch the show, buy tooth powder," before he finished speaking, a large number of people had already spent money to buy tooth powder from Atachi and Aszuki.

Because this routine of Ogata is essentially an old routine that everyone has seen too much. So when Ogata suddenly "changed his style" and asked everyone to buy tooth powder, no one was surprised.

Using performances to attract customers, and then stipulating what kind of performances will be performed according to how many goods are sold is actually not uncommon in this era.

Although this routine is very common, it is quite rare to use swordsmanship performances to attract customers.

After all, there are only a handful of people who can use swordsmanship and are willing to perform it.

Ogata had heard Makimura introduce him before: When Makimura was still a young man in Kyoto, he once saw a prosperous medicine seller on the street.

His secret to selling medicine is to perform the art of drawing swords.

If you use swordsmanship as a performance, there will never be a shortage of audiences.

Swordsmanship is a very mysterious skill for the common people of Li. There are too few people who have the money and time to learn swordsmanship. Therefore, the attitude of most Li people towards fencing is "curious".

Therefore, the medicine seller never had a day without customers, and his medicines were basically sold out every time.

His routine is basically like this: He first tries his skills on a small scale to let the audience see what he is capable of, and then tells the audience: As long as I can sell 10 or more copies of my medicine, I will continue to perform more powerful things.

He relied on this routine to make a lot of money.

Now, Ogata just "borrowed" this routine.

At this moment, relying on this routine, the little girl was unable to sell a few packets of tooth powder for most of the day. In the blink of an eye, she reached the set goal and sold 15 packets.

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Ogata picked up the second wooden board and prepared for the second performance.

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Ogata performed a total of 3 performances.

The three performances were all sword-drawing skills. The second performance was to swing 2 swords in a row and chop the fallen wooden board into 3 pieces. The third performance was to swing 3 swords in a row but chop the fallen wooden board into three pieces.
To be continued...