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Published at 21st of October 2021 11:00:51 AM


Chapter 44: 44

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Shigang Yiyu still kept at the moment, took a step forward on the right, bent up like a big bow, held the handle of the knife with both hands and waved the knife upward. Shigang Yiyu's eyes followed the tip of the knife and looked at the flying snow powder sky. Suddenly, there was a drop of silence in his eyes, and then he took a long breath.

Shigang Yiyu stood rigidly in place, and then after a long time, he slowly took back his eyes and saw that the residual gun head was inserted into his shoulder on his right shoulder, and the blood seeped out of the wound bit by bit.

Shigang Yiyu shook his wrist, took the knife back to the scabbard, straightened himself again, inserted the samurai sword in his hand into the snow, and then sat directly in the snow.

"I lost." Shigang Yiyu lowered his head and put his hands on his knees.

After hearing Shigang Yiyu finish this sentence, Li Xiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief, released his right hand and gave up his plan to pull out the rib difference from his waist and fight again. The samurai sword needs to be held with both hands. Shigang Yiyu can't exert force on his right shoulder. It's estimated that he can't use such a fast sword technique in the next war, so he opened his mouth to admit defeat.

"Thanks for your advice," said Li Xiao, holding his fists and shaking his hands slightly with the unique Chinese etiquette.

Shigang Yiyu took a look at Li Xiao, then pulled out his rib from his waist and said, "since you are defeated, you will accept the fate of failure. Please be my wrong person."

Shigang Yiyu finished, took out a piece of white silk from the inside of his clothes to wrap the blade part of the rib difference, then opened his clothes and exposed his abdomen. This posture is clearly to commit suicide.

"Wait a minute." Li Xiao began to stop.

Shigang Yiyu glanced at Li Xiao and said, "it's an honor for a martial artist to commit suicide, so you don't have to persuade me. Forget it, anyway, you people in the Ming Dynasty won't understand." Li Xiao glanced at Dao shengmeng, but Dao shengmeng shook his head, indicating that he was powerless in this matter.

Shigang Yiyu looked straight ahead and said with a solemn attitude, "the reason why I committed suicide is not that I can't afford to lose, nor regret and humiliation. I have tried my best in the martial arts competition just now, so I have fulfilled my wish without any regret. Death is an awareness of my own life, do you understand?"

Is this what Japan calls samurai spirit?

Although the so-called samurai spirit at that time had not been influenced by the Edo shogunate and the massive brainwashing of * * * * after Meiji, the universal values of samurai in Japan at that time had begun to take shape. In addition to the idea of loyalty to the king, the samurai spirit at that time was that as a warrior, he must see through life and death, be not afraid of death, do not remember death, do not hesitate to die, and ignore death.

This is due to the reactionary reaction to Confucianism. For example, if Confucianism has words, the monarch has mistakes, and the ministers don't listen to three admonitions, they will escape. The samurai spirit is different. Escaping from the eyes of the samurai is a cowardly act. For the same example, in the words of the samurai spirit, it is that the king has had a fault, the minister has three remonstrances but does not listen, and the minister dies.

For example, Mr. HIDA's teacher tied the political show. After persuading Mr. HIDA that he should not be allowed, he remonstrated to death.

Pingshou Zhengxiu's death remonstrance said that he had made great efforts. Even if he continued to persuade, it was impossible to make Yoshida change. Therefore, his responsibility had been fulfilled and there was no regret for his death.

This is in conflict with Li Xiao's concept. I remember that in the American Series Pacific battlefield, when a large number of Japanese soldiers were desperate, they launched wave after wave of suicidal group charges, and then they were suddenly attacked by American soldiers with machine guns like shooting turkeys.

When Shigang Yiyu was ready to cut his belly, Li Xiao raised his rib difference and stopped his act of self cutting.

Li Xiao slowly asked, "excuse me, Mr. Shigang Yiyu, what is the purpose of learning sword and competing with others all your life? Is it to learn how to kill with sword and study the skills of how to kill?"

Listening to Li Xiao's words, Shigang Yiyu was immediately angry and said loudly, "of course not. The sword is a murder weapon and the sword is a killing method. I never deny this, but the process of learning the sword lies in the washing of the heart, and the ultimate goal is to use the sword to connect heaven and man. This is the real pursuit of every martial artist to learn the sword."

After hearing this, Li Xiao shook his head and said, "in that case, I'm very disappointed in you. Before you cut your belly, please ask yourself whether your heart has been strong enough, or has reached the realm of connecting heaven and man with sword?"

Shigang Yiyu was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, "no, just because I have lost on the road of kendo, I leave my unfinished Kendo to you."

Shit, Li Xiao scolded from the bottom of his heart. It seems that in a novel he had read before, in the Yanliu Island duel 40 years later, after Miyamoto Musashi defeated Sasaki Kojiro, Sasaki Kojiro told Miyamoto Musashi before he died.

What? Please come on, please go. They are not enemies in a duel of life and death. Instead, they seem to be a pair of friends.

"Wrong," Li Xiao shouted, "You can only complete your unfinished business by yourself. There is no reason to give it to others. I am from Ming Dynasty. I don't know the truth of you Japanese, but we know what is hundred percent discount and failure is success. Oh, no, yes... Success is always bred in failure. If you give up your pursuit of Kendo and look for it because of a failure Death to escape, on the contrary, it is a cowardice and irresponsible for what you pursue. "

"Failure is success, damn?" Shigang Yiyu chewed this sentence repeatedly.

"It's not failure, it's success. Success is always bred in failure." Li Xiao loudly corrected Shigang Yiyu. He took his own experience of picking up girls to teach his mentor Gang Yiyu. He thought how hard it was to chase girls before. What's a small setback.

Doesn't it say that Kendo is connected with humanity? Li Xiao can also connect Kendo with humanity.

After hearing what Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu thought for a long time. Finally, he seemed to make a decision. His eyes gave out strange light, stood up firmly, reorganized his clothes, pulled out the gun head on his shoulder, and tied up the wound with the white silk cloth wrapped around the rib blade. "Lord Li Xiao, you're right. As a warrior, you shouldn't be short-sighted, and you shouldn't give up before the goal is achieved." Shigang Yiyu said faintly. The lost confidence just now seemed to return to him.

"Well, good, master Shigang, how do you pursue Kendo next? It's lonely and there is no support on the way to pursue Kendo alone. It's better for everyone to go together. Anyway, everyone has the same pursuit, isn't it?" well, Li Xiaofang said such a big and aboveboard words. At this moment, he finally showed his fox tail.

Shigang Yiyu was stunned and turned to Li Xiao. Li Xiao nodded to him with a positive expression.

Promise me, Li Xiao's eyes showed these four words.

Shigang Yiyu smiled, nodded and said, "well, I'll ask Lord Li Xiao to take care of me."





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