Chapter 036
What's the first step in sword care?
In the room on the second floor, the short sword was placed in front of Qingxi, with Rengoku Kyojuro sitting on her right and Rengoku Chijuro on her left. She and Chijuro watched like two rookies as Kyojuro explained and took a bunch of tools she brought up from downstairs and quickly removed the handle, hilt and decorations of the sword.
When he finished dismantling his things and looked at her with encouragement, Qingxi understood immediately.
The first step in maintaining a sword is to disassemble it, right? She understood.
And, she can do this.
As a poor student, ahem, as a food hunter who often uses kitchen knives, she also regularly maintains her kitchen knives.
After deftly dismantling the sword with his hands, Qingxi turned his head to look back at Rengoku Kyojuro, and received a verbal reward from the other party: "You are very capable."
"The next step is maintenance," Rengoku Kyojuro said. "Don't touch the blade directly with your hands, it will be scratched easily."
"Hold it by the handle." Rengoku Kyojuro picked up the katana where the handle should be and showed it to the girl. After the girl followed his example and picked up the short sword in front of her, he gently wiped the blade with the cotton cloth in his hand.
"This step is to first wipe off the residual oil and dust on the blade. After this step is completed, use cotton yarn to dip a little maintenance oil evenly apply to the blade, then wrap a small piece of wood in the cotton cloth, and use the flat side to rub back and forth on the blade. Hmm, you have to concentrate at this time, otherwise you will get cut or stabbed." After Rengoku Kyojuro finished speaking, he watched Qingxi's movements for a while to make sure that she would not hurt herself, and then he concentrated on maintaining the katana in his hand.
After the sword is maintained, it needs to be reassembled in the same way it was originally disassembled. Qingxi can do this on her own without Rengoku Kyojuro teaching her.
"Aki, you're missing two knife holders." After maintaining the sword and cleaning the dirt and dust off the scabbard, Rengoku Kyojuro, who was visiting a girl's room for the first time, looked around and said, "I'll go out with you to buy some later."
"This is clearly the 'food allowance' Jiro gave me. Shouldn't I find a good buyer to sell them and get the money? Why do I feel like I'm going to collect them now?" Looking at Jiro walking around the house like an old man, Qingxi reacted belatedly.
Looking down at the short sword in his arms, Rengoku Chijuro was surprised, "Sister Axi, are you short of money?"
A big question mark appeared on Qingxi's forehead, "No, I don't need it."
Not only did she not lack anything, but Ubuyashiki Yoya bought medicine from her and asked her to raise crows, which made her make a lot of money. Her salary for raising crows was not paid in one lump sum, but on a monthly basis. It can be said that in this era, she was also a rich woman.
Moreover, because money was not something that could be guaranteed, she lived and ate at the clinic, and since her monthly expenses were small, she spent most of her money on buying gold.
"If that's the case, Sister Axi, why don't you collect them?" Rengoku Chijuro asked in confusion.
No, what’s the connection between me having enough money and whether I sell them or not?
Could it be that, since I'm not short of money, it's okay to keep them and "adopt" them? Or perhaps you're thinking of keeping them for now, and then selling them later when you need more money?
There were too many things to complain about, but Qingxi couldn't complain about the cute and innocent Chijuro, so she held it in.
She took some money and waved to the two of them, "Eat your snacks first, then we'll go out and buy a knife stand."
As the main group eating snacks, after Rengoku Kyojuro finished eating all the croquettes and sweet potato cakes, the three of them and the crow went downstairs together.
The door of the lounge was gently closed. Not long after the three people and the crow left, the surface of the short sword placed together with the katana on the small round table emitted a faint, almost imperceptible pink light. However, soon, the faint pink light retreated back into the body of the short sword as if it lacked energy.
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Qingxi didn't have any special requirements for the knife holder, so she quickly chose two at the suggestion of Rengoku Kyojuro.
Just as the two were leaving the shop, the boss saw the three children attacking without hesitation and called out to them.
"Hey! Young man and young lady, I saw you guys were buying knife racks, so I guess you have a collection of knives at home. We recently acquired a nice katana. Are you interested in taking a look?"
Qingxi looked the boss up and down, then when he smiled at her, he raised his hand and pointed at himself and asked, "Do you think I'm old enough to collect swords?"
The boss, who just wanted to cheat some money from these three boys and girls who looked very gullible, was silent for a moment and couldn't say the word "quite similar".
Seeing the boss's expression as if he was ready to lie for money even though he couldn't say it, Qingxi wrinkled his nose and pulled Kyojuro and Chijuro out of the shop at a trot.
"Kyojuro, Chijuro, you saw that. Remember that boss's face just now, as if he wanted to rip you off. Next time you meet someone like him, ignore him and just walk away." Qingxi muttered to the two brothers a little further away from the shop. "Although what I said may not be accurate, believe me, anyone who gives you that kind of look is definitely trouble. As long as you respond to them, they will cling to you like vines."
The two brothers looked at each other as they saw the girl who suddenly became very imposing. Not surprisingly, they both saw confusion in each other's eyes and were bewildered as to why the other party knew so much about such things.
But after being confused, the two of them thought of the same thing again: Ah Xi/Sister Ah Xi had been cheated before.
After buying the necessary things, Qingxi prepared to say goodbye to the two of them when passing by Rengoku's house.
"Oh, right." Without waiting for the girl to speak, Rengoku Kyojuro pulled her into the Rengoku residence with his backhand, "Yesterday, our neighbors went to the mountains to pick wild chestnuts and gave us some. My mother had them all steamed today. Ah Xi, come and eat some too."
Sitting in the corridor outside Mrs. Ruhu's house, with a bowl of steamed wild chestnuts stuffed in his arms, a medium-sized and a small-sized owl beside him, and the gentle and beautiful Mrs. Ruhu next to him, Qingxi was speechless after coming to his senses. How did he get dragged in here without knowing why?
If I continue to be idle like this, I will miss today's class.
"It seems that Kyojuro has meant well but ended up with bad results again this time." Rengoku Ruka looked at Kiyoki, who was peeling a wild chestnut with a conflicted look on his face, as if he wanted to complain but didn't want to hurt his friend. She just thought about it for a moment and guessed what was going on.
Facing the boy who was full of questions and had no idea, Qingxi started to make excuses for him. "Actually, apart from changing the dressings for the wounded every day, the hidden personnel carry the wounded to the clinic, and when the wounded are almost healed and ready to start rehabilitation, the clinic will be relatively busy. However, everyone in the clinic still has time to rest during normal times.
I skipped work for a while today due to personal matters, so I wanted to get back as soon as possible... It has nothing to do with Kyojuro."
"Ah, let's not talk about this." She changed the subject. Now, in her opinion, there was no difference between going back early and going back late, so she would... sit for a while.
"Mrs. Ruhuo, how is your health lately?" she asked.
More than half a year had passed since the last time before the New Year that Rengoku Kyojuro had brought Mrs. Ruka to the clinic for a physical examination, and Rengoku Kyojuro had also been buying honey from her for more than half a year. Generally speaking, even the most malnourished person should have recovered after drinking honey rich in nutrients for more than half a year, not to mention that the honey she had prepared for Mrs. Ruka in the past six months was more nutritious each time.
"That's great," Rengoku Ruka said. "And thank you, Aki, for selling Kyojuro the honey."
Anyone who has ever had a sip of honey water brewed with such honey will know that the quality of that honey is absolutely top-notch, and it is difficult to buy even for rich people.
Thinking of this, Rengoku Ruka reached out and rubbed her silly child's hair.
Kyojuro is good in every way, except for one thing, which is a common problem among men in the Rengoku family: he doesn't care much about money.
Ah, that's not the case. It should be said that because of practicing the Breathing of Fire, the men of the Purgatory Family have a particularly good appetite, and the consequence of a good appetite is that their monthly food expenses will be nine or ten times that of an ordinary family.
Because of this, they have no idea how much money they spend on food.
Not to mention that because they had the premise that nutritious honey was for themselves to drink, they had never drunk the honey water made with the honey that Kyojuro bought from Aki, so they didn't know its taste and value. They just thought it was ordinary wild honey and bought it at the price of wild honey.
After rubbing her silly child's head, Rengoku Ruka rubbed Qingxi's head again. Then, under the gaze of the three people, she stood up and walked into the house. When she came out again, she was holding two cardboard boxes filled with clothes in her hands.
Rengoku Ruka opened the two paper boxes and said, "I was planning to have Kyojuro bring this to you, Aki, during the New Year last year.
I saw it one time when Makijuro was shopping with me, and I thought it would suit Aki so I bought it right away."
She took out a neatly folded kimono from one of the boxes and held it in front of Qingxi, "Take a look, do you like it?"
Qingxi followed the meaning of her words and set his eyes on the kimono in front of him. It was a small-patterned kimono with intricate hollow patterns. It looked pretty, but -
"I basically stay in the clinic all the time and rarely go out. Isn't it a bit of a waste to give me a kimono like this?" she said.
To put it bluntly, you eat and live in the clinic, and you face patients every day. The small-patterned kimono looks good, but in such an environment, a piece of clothing that allows your hands and feet to be free is more comfortable to wear.
"Let's leave it to someone more suitable to wear it."
As for her, she put on the white long skirt uniform of the Demon Slayer Corps medical staff, and no one could see what the clothes she was wearing underneath looked like.
"In my opinion, Aki is the child who is suitable to wear it." Rengoku Ruka measured the Komon kimono in front of her. Before she finished, she asked her two sons beside her, "Kyojuro, Chijuro, what do you think?"
Rengoku Kyojuro, who was eating wild chestnuts, didn't quite understand these things, but that didn't stop him from distinguishing between beauty and ugliness and agreeing with his mother, "Hmm, it will look really good on Aki."
Hearing his brother's words, Rengoku Chijuro, who was more attentive to other people's emotions, echoed, "Aki-sister is pretty, so she looks good in anything she wears."
Qingxi's cheeks blushed when two boys praised her beauty in front of her. She couldn't help but put her hands up to hold her face, "No, not really. I just have an ordinary appearance. How can I be pretty?"
Looking at the black-haired girl whose face turned red when she was praised, Rengoku Ruka couldn't help but chuckle. Suddenly, she seemed to understand something about the little girl.
For example, he always likes to act like a grown-up in front of others, but once someone praises him, he will become arrogant.
She folded the small-patterned kimono in her hand and put it back into the paper box. She picked up the clothes in another box and said, "There is also this dress. It was the only one I had at the time. It was a little big, but I thought that Axi would grow up again in the New Year and it would fit her, so I bought it.
Do you want to try it now?"
Looking at the red dress, Qingxi was very tempted but refused.
"No, I can't." She said weakly, facing the hobby that seemed to be exposed under the gentleness of Rengoku Ruka.
"Let's give it a try. Kyojuro and Chijuro also want to see it." Rengoku Ruka looked at her two sons with a smile.
"Well, Ah Xi, just try it on. It will definitely look good on you." Rengoku Kyojuro, who is naturally alert to danger, said with the two hairs on his head, one on the left and one on the right, suddenly becoming very energetic.
Rengoku Chijuro, whose hair is shorter than his brother's and therefore can't be tied up, turned on the small animal's hair-fighting mode to avoid danger: "Sister Aki, just go and try it."
Qingxi's blue eyes widened. "Kyojuro, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person. And you, Chijuro, where's your consideration for girls? You two actually "sold" me out for safety!!! I see through you."
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