After hearing the word "bodyguard" from Arima's mouth, Aodo immediately subconsciously moved his gaze and looked at Saito carefully.

This is a very young boy, who is about 16 or 7 years old.

He is very tall, even taller than Qingdeng, who is 1.75 meters tall, about 1.8 meters tall.

Her skin is very white, her facial features are angular, and her hair is not shaved into the ugly Yue Dai head, but she keeps her hair like Qingdeng. Her overall appearance is a bit handsome.

He was dressed in black. His upper body was a dark blue kimono, his lower body was black karaoke and cloth socks, and the red scarf wrapped around his neck was the only bright color on his body.

Since entering the hall, Aoden found that Saito had been sternly wearing a stern face, looking serious.

After Qingdeng entered the hall, he only glanced at Qingdeng, then quickly lowered his head and eyes, buried the part below his nose in his scarf, and looked at his nose and his heart.

When introducing himself, I just raised my head and said simply in a cold tone, "No outflow, Saito Ichi" and then closed my mouth, stopped talking, lowered my head again, buried my lower half of my face in his scarf again...

Well... it seems that he is a cold young man who doesn't like to speak. In his heart, Aoden silently made such an evaluation for Saito.

"Master Arima." After carefully examining Saito, Akito turned his gaze back to Arima, "What's going on with this bodyguard?"

Arima, who has never liked to talk nonsense, saw Qingdeng ask this, and began to explain to Qingdeng in concise language.

After simply taking him over, he decided to hire a bodyguard for Qingdeng to protect him from the "radical expelling barbarians" and joined forces with Naoshan and others to join forces to hire a bodyguard for Qingdeng. After Arima began to introduce Saito.

"Saito and I... are old acquaintances."

"He is 2 years younger than you. He was born in the fifteenth year of Tianbao (1844), and this year happens to be 16 years old."

"Saito is the most reliable and trustworthy one of all the bodyguards I can find."

"Although I am young, I am very strong. I am a rare left-handed swordsman, and I am the winner of Xu Jishu's passing."

Is it okay to spread Xu everyone...?

Aoden casts a surprised look at Saito, who is still watching his nose and his heart.

In the Edo era, when evaluating the level of each disciple, there was no specific model, and the methods and ratings adopted by each school vary.

But no matter what kind of genre, the highest-level strength rating is the same - they are all "free and easy to pass on".

Only by thoroughly mastering all the tricks of this genre and gaining the recognition of the master can you get the "No Xu Ji Zhuan" rating.

Being able to get the "Transfer to the Biography of Xu Ji" means that this person has completely become a master and can be regarded as a swordsman who can stand alone.

As for the lack of exodus... this genre can be regarded as one of the most famous genres in the swordsmanship world.

It is famous for its extremely practical nature.

Without any fancy and fancy airs, the pursuit of killing the enemy at the fastest speed - this is no exodus.

This mouthless boy who is 2 years younger than him is actually the winner of Xu Jichuan... This really surprised Qing Deng.

"In addition to being strong, Saito's character is also quite reliable."

A smile appeared on the corner of Aima's mouth.

"Just hire him, until the end of the commission period, there is no need to worry about whether he will betray you or just take money and not do anything. You can hand over his back to him with confidence."

"..." Aoden raised his eyes and looked at Saito, then looked at Arima again.

"Sir Aima, can you please come out with me?"

"Hmm?" Arima nodded.

Aoden and Aoma left the hall one after another. After coming to a place that Saito could not hear, Aoden immediately asked Aoma quickly:

"Sir Aima, why didn't you even say hello to me, and just found a bodyguard for me?"

"Because I think: If I tell you in advance that Zhugu and Niushan, I plan to hire a bodyguard for you in a joint venture, you may keep refusing and will not agree happily." Arima said lightly.

Ah, that won’t be... I will give in politely and then agree happily. Qingdeng said in his heart.

At the moment when a group of unreasonable "terrorists" were targeted by their lives, Qing Deng was very happy to be able to have more reliable strength and no need for his own bodyguard to protect him personally.

Qingdeng has always insisted that the so-called "interpersonal relationship" is a relationship of "constantly owe favors to each other and repay favors".

Therefore, Qingdeng never shy away from finding someone to help him, and can accept the kindness and favors of others openly.

Such a personality and style are one of the important reasons why Qingdeng had a smooth life on campus and outside the campus before traveling through time.

He can ask others for advice without any shame when his grades are not ideal, and he can ask others for help without shame.

After receiving help from others, he silently remembers this favor in his heart, and waits for the opportunity to repay the favor.

"Juji, you don't need to feel embarrassed, sorry." I didn't know that Qingdeng is no longer the Arima of Qingdeng before, and said earnestly, "Although similar words, I seem to have said them many times, I'll say them again now."

"We are your elders, and it is natural to help younger generations like you."

"Anyway, the price of hiring Saito for you is not very expensive."

"Add to the bodyguard we have found for you with peace of mind."

"Not very expensive?" Aoden raised his hand and grabbed his hair on his sideburns. "Sir Arima, let me ask, what is the commission for this Saito Ichi?"

"3 taels of gold per month." Arima did not hide it and told Aoto the price of Saito directly.

"Mr. Aima, do you call the commission of 3 taels per month 'not expensive'?"

"I just said that Saito was hired by me, Zhutani and Niushan together for you. If we share it, each of us only needs to pay 1 tael of gold per month. This price is more than enough for us."

After talking about the topic of "money", Arima paused as if she had remembered something.

"Ah, by the way, I almost forgot. Come, Jujun, I'll give this to you."

Arima took out a small cloth bag from his arms and handed it to Qingdeng.

Qing Deng stretched out his hands to pick them up in confusion.

Click...

The small cloth bag fell on Qingdeng's palms, and a subtle sound of metal collision sounded.

"Hmm..." Qing Deng, whose eyebrows shook hard, hurriedly untied the cloth bag.

Nothing else is contained in the cloth bag.

Only a big handful of money.

The golden, silver, and copper were mixed together, making Qingdeng dazzled.

"Sir Arima, is this?"

"There are 23 taels of gold here, 58 未分类, 4 guan and 412 copper coins." Arima said, "Saito is responsible for protecting you personally, so he will eat, live and walk with you until the end of the commission period."

"Saito's commission does not include the daily consumption he produces when protecting you."

"In other words, in addition to paying him a commission of 3 taels per month, he also has to take care of his food, drink, accommodation and transportation."

"I found a bodyguard for you, but I didn't prepare the money for you to raise such a bodyguard. That's too unreasonable."

"This money is raised by me, Pigya and Niushan to 'raise' you to 'raise' Saito."

"Please accept it with peace of mind."

"With such a sum of money, it should be enough to 'raise' Saito for a while."

As soon as Ama finished speaking, Qingdeng's face changed slightly.

He lowered his eyes and turned his eyes back to the big handful of money in his hand.

——Is it used to "raising" Saito? Haha, this reason is really crappy...

Qingdeng smiled helplessly in his heart.

Arima said that the money was used to support Saito - Aoden would believe this only if his head was pinched!

With such a large amount of money, let alone an adult male, as long as you save some money, it will be no problem to raise two adult males for half a year.

As elders with close relationships with Qingdeng, it is naturally impossible for the three of Azuma and the other two to know what the current economic situation is in the Ju family, which is carrying huge gambling debts.

Why did the three of Youma, Zhugu, Niushan raise such a large amount of money to him at this time... It is no longer difficult to guess the reason.

Qingdeng has no reason to point out the bad reason for having a horse.

After staring at the bag of money in his hand for a while, Qing Deng grabbed the bag of money with all his strength—

“…… Lord Aima. Thank you.”

Qingdeng raised his gratitude look at Arima.

"This bag of money, and that Saito Ichi... I'll accept it!"

Seeing Qingdeng happily accepting the kindness of their elders, a hint of relief smiled naturally raised the corners of the horse's mouth.

...

...

Because it was almost time for dinner, Qingdeng originally wanted to keep Youma for dinner at their house, but Youma said that he still had some official duties to go home quickly, so he politely declined Qingdeng's appointment.

Seeing that Arima was about to leave, Saito, who had been staying in the hall just now, came to the door and sent Arima away with Akito.

"Saito. Kirikiri will ask you."

The serious Saito did not respond to Aima's words.
To be continued...