Chapter 43 8. The thousand-year-old knife lost in China has returned to the Tengyuan family

It turned out that just seven or eight meters away, a drunk man in his twenties with long hair, a white cloth belt tied on his forehead, and a gray samurai robe was holding a slender steel sword in one hand. Jian, stumbling straight towards Qian Huizi, shouting loudly: "You stinky bitch, you spent all my money and ran away with someone else. I stabbed you today!" Qian Huizi was so frightened that her face turned pale and her soul flew into the sky, her legs trembled and she couldn't even take a step.The old couple in Tanaka were also frightened and at a loss. They only wanted to drag their granddaughter, but they couldn't.Yang Du was also in a hurry.Seeing that the drunk was only a few steps away from Qian Huizi, he suddenly remembered that the ancient Japanese waist knife given by Ma Fuyi was hanging on his waist, and he immediately calmed down.When changing clothes early this morning, he saw the waist knife in the box. It would be useful to bring a waist knife on him when he went to the wild to see the cherry blossoms, so he hung it on his waist.At this time, he lifted his coat, pulled out the knife, held it in his hand, and strode towards the drunk.Seeing someone holding a knife to stop him, the drunk man became furious and cursed: "Donkey, you are looking for death!" Then he swung his long sword and slashed at Yang Du.Yang Du dodged and passed his sword, the drunk man thought Yang Du was afraid of him, so he became more vicious, opened his bloodshot red eyes, and yelled viciously: "I will slash you first! "

The drunk man raised his long sword horizontally, and with all his strength, he slashed at Yang Du's waist.Yang Du did not panic, held his breath, stood firmly on both feet, bent slightly, posing a posture of King Kong moving mountains, with his right hand holding the waist knife tightly.Seeing a flash of sword light, the long sword has come to the side.Yang Du swung the waist knife and slashed sharply, only to hear a "click", the drunk man's long sword had been cut into two by the waist knife, and the drunk man fell down slumped.Yang Du took a step forward and lifted the drunk man up.At this time, an old lady far away shouted loudly: "Please don't kill him, he is drunk!"

At this moment, Tian Zhong's shock had just stabilized, and he hurried over to dissuade Yang Du.Yang Du smiled and said, "I didn't kill him, I helped him up." A large crowd had gathered around.People praised Yang Du's courage in the face of danger, and marveled at the sharpness of the waist knife in his hand.The old lady who yelled just now separated the crowd angrily, walked up to Yang Du, put her hands on her knees, bowed deeply to Yang Du, and said with tears all over her face, "He is my son, sir, please forgive me." Him. Six months ago, Miss Muzi, who had been in love with him for three years, ran away with someone else. Since then, he has been drinking frequently, crying and making noises when drunk, and going crazy. Whenever he sees a young woman, he calls it Muzi. He wants to use a knife and a stick. Today, under the flowers, he drank a whole bottle of wine and treated this lady as a fool. I only have this son. Although he is not up to date, he is indeed not a bad person. Please forgive me, Mr. and Mrs. he."

After speaking, he bowed again and again. Chieko felt uncomfortable being called "Madam" by the old lady, and her face turned from white to red.Knowing that the old lady misunderstood, Yang Du hurriedly said: "She is not my wife, she is Miss Qian Huizi. Don't worry, I will not hurt your son. Help him go home!" After being frightened by this, the drunk man was mostly sober, got up by himself, said "I'm sorry", and walked out of the crowd with a face full of shame. This sudden and unexpected impact destroyed everyone's good interest in viewing flowers, especially the old lady Hezi, who chanted Buddha again and again, and said: "Don't watch it, let's find a hotel to rest!"

Seeing that it was getting late, Tanaka agreed to his wife's request, went to the nearby Luhu Hotel, and rented two rooms.He lives in a room with Yang Du, and Qian Huizi lives in a room with grandma. After eating dinner and taking a bath, the last trace of fear that the drunk had left on Chieko had disappeared.Grandma was cleaning up the sundries she brought with her, lazily and comfortably leaning against the quilt alone, her thoughts flying around like a kite with a broken string.From yesterday to today, the nineteen-year-old female student felt that these were the most extraordinary two days in her life.

From her grandfather's letter, Chieko knew for a long time that there was a young and talented Chinese student living in her grandfather's home.Out of her interest in Chinese culture, she wanted to meet this man, but she was busy with homework and did not come to Tokyo for the past six months.As soon as I entered the room yesterday, I saw the "Song of Hunan Youth" hanging on the wall. I was immediately attracted by the strong patriotism and masculine spirit in the poem. From Qian Huizi's point of view, it seemed to be the epitome of five thousand years of Chinese culture, and she was amazed and envious.When I saw this foreign student in person, I was surprised by his extraordinary demeanor.At that moment, Qian Huizi suddenly felt a passion that he had never felt before.This passion accompanied her almost all night last night.

Qian Huizi is a lively, cheerful, pure and self-respected lady.The wealthy family and beautiful appearance have brought an endless stream of suitors, but her heart has never been moved by anyone.She longed for the noble and flawless romance in ancient Chinese poetry, and secretly portrayed the image of the future Prince Charming.However, due to the lack of realistic objects, the image of this prince charming is always vague, but it seems to have changed a little in the past two days. Qian Huizi goes out to enjoy the cherry blossoms every year, and feels that only this year's spring is particularly bright, and the cherry blossoms are also particularly beautiful.In her heart, she often felt the spring breeze blowing and the heating reverberating.All day today, she wanted to get in touch with this foreign student more and listen to him more.You can see that when he talks about his outline of governing the country, his emotions are high, his conviction is firm, and his expression is chic, as if he is the extraordinary Itten Bowen in "The Legend of Heroes".An inexplicable emotion drove her to leap from the bed.She's going to the next room!

As soon as she took a step, she hesitated again: It's so late, what should I say?Besides, grandpa was there too.Suddenly, she thought of the waist knife that cut off the drunkard's long sword in the daytime, it was so sharp, it was really rare.right!As an excuse to look at his waist knife, let's start with the waist knife.Qian Huizi was overjoyed, and said to grandma, "I'm going to grandpa's place", and walked out of the room briskly. Yang Du and Tian Zhong were chatting, when they saw Qian Huizi come in, they asked her to sit down.Qian Huizi smiled and said, "Mr. Yang, I never thought that you, a mere scholar, have such good martial arts. How did you learn it?"

"How did you learn it?" Yang Du smiled happily, "Don't you remember the verse in my "Song of Hunan Youth": My family has been martial arts for generations, only knowing tyranny but not Confucianism; Yiju. My martial arts are inherited from my ancestors." Tanaka smiled and said: "Mr. Yang is both civil and military, he is really a remarkable talent." "In this way, the waist knife that Mr. Yang used during the day is also an ancestral one?" Qian Huizi looked at Yang Du, her eyes shot out a charming brilliance, "Can you show us Mr. Yang's ancestral treasured knife and open our eyes?"

"Although martial arts is said to be inherited from the ancestors, this waist knife is not." Yang Du stood up as he spoke, took out the waist knife from under the pillow, and handed it to Qian Huizi. "It is impossible for you to think that this knife is precisely polished by your country." "Japanese?" Tanaka's grandfather and grandson exclaimed in unison. Qian Huizi took the waist knife and touched the blade lightly with her fingers.Tanaka also turned his face to appreciate it carefully, and said: "Look at this style, it looks like our Japanese sword. The shape is simple, like an antique."

Qian Huizi picked up the knife and looked here and there.Slowly, her eyes stopped on the seven shining black beads on the handle, and suddenly she said to Yang Du: "My grandfather has a waist knife exactly like yours, and there are seven beads on the handle, but Not black, but red." "Really?" Yang Du said pleasantly, "Your grandfather also had such a waist knife?" "Really, I'm not lying to you!" Qian Huizi said seriously, "Four years ago, on my fifteenth birthday, my parents congratulated me on my birthday together. After eating, my grandfather was slightly drunk , took something out of the bedroom with both hands. I looked, and it turned out to be a piece of wood. The wood is chestnut black, unpainted, and it looks like it has been there for many, many years. The wood is about two feet long and half a foot wide. Three or four inches thick. I thought it was strange, so I asked my grandfather what it was. My grandfather said I would open it for you to see. My grandfather pulled out the latches on both sides of the wood and pulled it hard, and the wood split into two pieces. Both pieces of wood were dug out. It is empty. There is an antique waist knife lying in a hollow. My grandfather took out the waist knife and told me that this is a treasure handed down from generation to generation by our Tengyuan family. There were originally two, known as male and female swords. Two The jujube wood handles are exactly the same, and the seven orbs are laid out according to the pattern of the Big Dipper. The difference is that the beads of the female knife are red, and the beads of the male knife are black. The knife in my grandfather’s hand has red beads on the handle. Yes. I asked, this knife is a female knife, what about the male knife? My grandfather said that the male knife was taken to China by the ancestors. Later, the ancestor died in China, and the whereabouts of the knife was unknown. I asked my grandfather What was the ancestor's name, which dynasty did he come from, and why did he go to China? My grandfather said that I was still young, so I didn't say much. He also said that in four or five years, if my mother hadn't given birth to a boy, I would inherit the waist knife. At that time, he told me the story of the family heirloom of the Tengyuan family in detail. After speaking, my grandfather looked at the knife carefully again, then put it into the hollowed out place in the wood, and finally closed the two pieces again, inserted the bolt, and opened the knife with both hands. Hold it and walk into the bedroom." "I didn't expect your grandfather to have such a treasure. We have known each other for decades, and we haven't heard him say anything!" Tanaka said while taking the waist knife from his granddaughter, and re-examined it. "It's such a coincidence!" Yang Du was extremely excited, "Maybe this knife of mine is your family's great knife. Qian Huizi, take it back and show it to your grandfather!" "Let's do this!" Qian Huizi made a decision, "Tomorrow we will take a detour and return to Tokyo from Yokohama. Please invite Mr. Yang to my house as a guest and see the ruby-encrusted knife in person." "Excellent!" Yang Du agreed with a smile on his face. Tanaka was also very happy, saying: "If it is true that these two swords are reunited, it will indeed be a miracle." That night, Yang Du and Qian Huizi in the next room were so excited that they didn't fall asleep most of the night. Hakone is only forty or fifty miles away from Yokohama. At noon the next day, Chieko returned home with Yang Du and her grandparents.Father Tanaka Jundai went to Hokkaido on business. Grandfather Nobuyu Tenghara, grandmother Yonago and mother Mitsuko welcomed everyone happily.Qian Huizi introduced Yang Du to her grandfather, grandmother and mother.The whole family bowed to Yang Du, and Yang Du returned the salute one by one. Qian Huizi said to them: "Mr. Yang has a waist knife inlaid with black gemstones, which is also inlaid on the handle according to the position of the Big Dipper constellation. It is probably the precious knife left by our ancestors in China." Qian Huizi thought that her grandfather would be very pleasantly surprised, but there was no strange expression on his face, only a faint smile without making a sound.Yang Du also turned to Teng Yuan Xinyu following Qian Huizi's gaze.Teng Yuan looked much younger than Tanaka, with a short and slightly fat body, and although most of the hair on the top of his head was bald, his face was bright red and his eyes were energetic.He held the tea bowl in one hand, and stroked his bare, plump chin with the other, with a long-term pampered demeanor. Mitsuko asked her daughter: "How do you know that Mr. Yang has a waist knife inlaid with black gemstones?" "Mom, if it weren't for Mr. Yang's waist knife, I almost had a big accident yesterday!" As soon as Qian Huizi spoke, her mother and grandfather and grandmother asked almost at the same time: "What happened yesterday?" The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.From this momentary change, Yang Du saw Qian Huizi's status in the family, which was absolutely unattainable by the knife on his waist. Qian Huizi roughly talked about the drunk man who ran wild during the flower viewing process yesterday. When it came to the waist knife cutting the drunk man's long sword into two pieces, Yang Du saw Teng Yuan's eyebrows tremble. "Mr. Yang, may I ask if this waist knife is a family heirloom, or did you buy it yourself?" Teng Yuan asked politely. Yang Du leaned forward and replied: "It is neither inherited from the ancestors nor bought by myself. This waist knife is a gift from a friend." "Oh!" Teng Yuan nodded lightly, "Please forgive me for asking one more question, is the person who gave the knife a son of an official or a scholarly family?" "Neither the son of an official, nor a scholarly family, this friend of mine is a hero of the rivers and lakes." "Ah!" Teng Yuan showed a slight surprise on his face. After a short pause, he asked again: "Where did this hero get this knife?" Yang Du wanted to tell him the truth that he got it from the ancient tomb, but from the expression on Teng Yuan's face just now, he could see that he had a secular prejudice against the "heroes of the rivers and lakes". He would stay away from himself, so he told a lie: "This friend found it in an ancient cave by chance." "Oh." Teng Yuan's face calmed down. "So, Mr. Yang, you don't know the origin of this waist knife, do you?" Yang Du smiled and said, "I don't know." "Grandfather, what are you always asking, look at the knife!" Qian Huizi was quite dissatisfied seeing that her grandfather did not pay due attention to this important discovery of hers. "Okay, okay, I'm going to pay my respects to Mr. Yang's sword." Teng Yuan said and stood up.Yang Du also hurriedly stood up, untied the knife from his waist, and handed it over with both hands. Teng Yuan took out the waist knife from the black leather scabbard, only to see the cold light flashing and the blade was sharp.He exclaimed in his heart: "It really is a good knife!" He looked at the handle carefully again, and there were really seven shiny black gemstones on the dark jujube wood handle, and they were really arranged according to the position of the Big Dipper , and the size and spacing are similar to the one in the family.Yonago's mother and daughter also watched intently, but no one made a sound.After a while, Teng Yuan put the knife back into the scabbard, returned it respectfully to Yang Du with both hands, and said with a smile: "Mr. That male knife. That knife has been lost for more than a thousand years, and I am afraid that it has long since disappeared." Qian Huizi was very disappointed, and pouted and said, "Grandfather, how can you be sure that there is no human existence. This knife is exactly the same as ours. It is the Big Dipper inlaid with black gemstones. You might as well take out the one at home and compare it with us." Compare it!" Tanaka Kametaro also wanted to see the knife hidden by Teng Yuan's family, so he helped his granddaughter to speak: "Brother, we have been in-laws for decades, and you have kept it a secret from me. I have a problem with you. You take it today." Come out and show me and your mother-in-law! This Mr. Yang is a sincere gentleman, it doesn’t matter if this knife is your family’s male knife or not, you just look at it for the sake of saving your precious granddaughter yesterday. Let him see it!" "Father, just take it out and show it to grandparents and Mr. Yang!" Mitsuko also urged. Teng Yuan couldn't hold back the crowd, and felt that if he didn't show it, he would really be disrespectful to the Chinese student. "Okay, wait a moment, I'll get it!" After a while, Teng Yuan came out of the bedroom, holding an old piece of wood in both hands.There was indeed a waist knife without a scabbard inside.Teng Yuan took out the waist saber, handed it to Yang Du with both hands and said, "This is the female saber she put in her collection, please take a look at it, Mr. Yang." Yang Du took the knife respectfully.This knife is exactly the same as my own in terms of shape and size, and the seven gemstones on the handle are also a beautifully shaped Big Dipper constellation. , adding a kind of charm to the mighty.Calling it a female knife is really appropriate.Because Teng Yuan did not recognize Xiongdao's identity, Yang Du didn't say anything, and politely returned it to the master after reading it.Teng Yuan showed it to Tanaka again.After Tanaka took it, he squinted his eyes, frowned, and carefully looked at the knife from the tip to the tail, from the front to the back, and then asked for Yang Du's knife again.He put the two knives side by side on the palm of his left hand, and took out reading glasses from his coat pocket with his right hand to put them on. Like an archaeologist, he carefully inspected, identified, and repeatedly moved the tip of the knife, the blade, the blade, and the handle. , especially those seven jewels.With his decades of extensive knowledge, he can basically be sure that these two knives were made by a craftsman, and Yang Du's knives should be the male knives lost in China.But he didn't want to speak out his judgment, because he knew that his in-laws valued this ancestral knife very much, and he didn't want to easily admit that other people's knives were his ancestral property, not to mention that there were many coincidences in the world.The Big Dipper has been admired by ancient and modern times, and it is by no means a fantasy to use its shape as an icon.Mr. Tanaka, who has always been calm in his work and speech, remained silent for a long time.He stared at the two knives in his hand, sometimes putting them next to the glasses, sometimes pulling them away from the glasses.Suddenly, an idea popped up in his mind: If it is really male and female swords, they should be able to fit together.He immediately put the two knives together tip to tip, tail to tail, moving left and right, always feeling a little separated.He parted the knife and examined it carefully.It turns out that the handle ends of the two knives are slightly different: Teng Yuan's handle has a small concave triangle at the end, and Yang Du's handle has a protruding small triangle at the end.Tanaka aligned the two concave-convex small triangles with great care, and then joined them again. Sure enough, there was no gap at all, and the two knives became a natural one.He secretly praised the superb craftsmanship of that craftsman back then.The ingenuity of the design and the refinement of the forging technique are rare in the world - this great knife has gone through thousands of years of calamity, and it is still intact from the original appearance when it was forged! When Tanaka was about to take off his glasses, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a few words on the side of the knife handle.He drew the combined knives to the glass again.Sure enough, four characters appeared on the side of the handle.This surprise is no small matter!He raised his head and asked, "In-laws, do you know the name of the ancestor who made this knife?" "I know." Teng Yuan replied indifferently. "please tell me." "The old man's name is Kazuo Tengyuan." "Dear family, come over and have a look, what is this?" Tanaka pointed to the closed handle of the knife and called loudly. Teng Yuan got up and walked over, bent down to take a look, he was shocked, what's going on?Isn't the word "Teng Yuan Kazuo" on the handle of this knife?He couldn't believe his eyes, and said to the lady beside him, "Bring me my glasses!" Yonago quickly brought a pair of glasses from the study.Teng Yuan took it, took out a small handkerchief from his jacket pocket, wiped the lens, put it on, bent down to look, and there were four words clearly displayed in the lens: Kazuo Teng Yuan. At this time, Chieko, Mitsuko, Kazuko, and Yoniko gathered around, and everyone saw the words "Kazuo Tengyuan". "My in-laws!" Tanaka held Teng Yuan's hand tightly, and said excitedly, "No more mistakes, this is really the male sword!" Teng Yuan stared at the waist knife inlaid with black gemstones with wide eyes, and said emotionally after a long time: "It's really our family's great sword that has returned!" As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes became moist.He took off his glasses and wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.Qian Huizi came over, hugged her grandfather's shoulders, and said happily: "Grandfather, I'm not wrong, we must thank Mr. Yang very much!" "Yes, our whole family should thank him!" Yonago wiped his eyes and murmured. "Don't thank me." Yang Du stood up, took back the waist knife from Tanaka's hand, and said boldly: "It is a very gratifying thing that this waist knife can return to the owner's home. Mr. Teng Yuan, please take it go!" "No, no!" Teng Yuan stretched out his hands to block it, "Although this knife belongs to our Teng Yuan family, it has been lost for thousands of years, and the current owner is you. I can't just ask you for it." "Mr. Teng Yuan!" Yang Du said sincerely, "There is an old saying in our country that it is natural to return things to their original owners, and it doesn't matter whether it is out of thin air or not out of thin air." Tanaka said movedly: "Mr. Yang, you are a gentleman with deep loyalty, and my in-laws will not treat you badly." "Mr. Yang, let's do this!" Teng Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Put the knife away for now, let us discuss it again. Tonight, I will tell you the history of this pair of male and female swords." "Okay." Yang Du inserted the knife into the cowhide sheath and hung it on his waist again.