Chapter 98 98. Osaka Castle

Author: Primular

When the chaotic quarrel between the two childhood sweethearts finally came to an end, Rina and Noki both felt that the luggage on their backs had become three-thirds heavier because it had fallen there for too long.

Fortunately, the messy things were over. Yuan Shan and Ye were also girls with good personalities. Now that the misunderstanding was resolved, they quickly became acquainted with Xiao Lan, who also had a very good temper.

The warm-hearted Kazuye didn't even care about his own girlish feelings, and had already started to help Xiaolan scold her sweetheart Kudo who had disappeared inexplicably.

No wonder I felt annoyed when Heiji mentioned Kudo every day. It turned out that this person named Kudo was very annoying to begin with.

I dropped off my luggage at the hotel and went out to try the famous Osaka specialty takoyaki.

Making takoyaki is not complicated. It is a popular street food in Asia. The takoyaki in this store is larger in size and contains a sufficient amount of octopus. It has soft and glutinous batter and chewy octopus, plus the store’s secret recipe.

I can’t tell what the difference is in the fresh and fragrant sauce, but it is indeed much more delicious than the ordinary shops on the streets of Tokyo.

Seeing the three Kanto people eating enthusiastically, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuya, as the hosts, reacted to Yurong and actually spoke out at the same time.

“Osaka is really nice!”

…

After the two people finished talking, they realized what the guy next to them had said, and they turned to look at each other and started arguing again.

"Hey, why do you want to imitate me?"

"It's obviously you who imitates me in speaking, okay? This is what I told my senior last time he returned to Osaka. It's you who imitates me in speaking. Don't you know how to put it another way?"

"What? This kind of statement is very common, okay? I don't even remember what you said that time."

"If it's very common, why do you want me to imitate you?"

…

Unlike when they were at the station, the three of them with Noki Rina had gotten used to the tough-talking style of their childhood sweethearts in just an hour. They could quarrel about anything and it was absolutely impossible to bow their heads.

Conan stuck a takoyaki into Hattori Heiji's mouth, which couldn't take any time to rest, while Xiaoran made love so warmly that she pulled Toyama Kazuha over and praised Osaka as really great.

After a short rest, the afternoon trip was not in a hurry. I walked slowly through the outer moat, which is more than 70 meters wide, crossed the ancient city wall built in the Tokugawa period, passed Toyotomi Hideyoshi's shrine, and finally came to Osaka, which was rebuilt with donations from citizens after 1931.

Castle castle tower.

Osaka Castle is a small town that is not very easy to walk, but after all, it is only about 1 square kilometer.

The city wall built in the Tokugawa period was about 30 meters high, using a slightly curved fan slope and staggered wall construction method. Nowadays, the city is full of landscape trees. In the era without war, it looked quite like a garden.

The style is gone.

The wide moat does not look like any city defense facility, but more like a long and narrow lake next to a garden.

However, whether it is a curved wall that becomes trembling as it goes up and is difficult to climb, or a staggered wall layout that facilitates the defenders to attack the enemy from the side, it is obvious that all designs are inseparable from the needs of war.

The shrine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi is also quite lively. Toyotomi Hideyoshi went from a humble commoner with no surname to the Taizheng minister who unified Japan. He is a counterattack hero that has not been seen in a century in Japan where class is solidified.

Therefore, many people superstitiously believe that visiting his shrine will bless their career success, and they can rise from being a nobody to being promoted and making a fortune, to being respected by people all over the world.

Yonoki Rina has no pursuit of career development at all. She only watches the excitement and does not go to the shrine. Naturally, her children do not seek any career luck.

After passing through the last gate and entering the inner city, you will arrive at the castle tower.

Before seeing the castle tower, the most impressive thing is the several huge stones near the city gate. They are as high as the city gate, about ten meters, and their width is nearly twice the height.

It is said that the stones used to build the city walls came from all over Japan. It is hard to imagine how such huge stones were transported before the industrial revolution, and how craftsmen shaped them and built them into city walls.

The current castle tower also functions as a museum. From the eighth floor of the castle tower, you can overlook the entire city of Osaka. The seventh floor tells the story of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life, and the fifth floor restores character models based on the Osaka Summer Formation scrolls.

It's just that whether it's a painting or a model, the size of this horse is too beautifying.

Although the Japanese during the Warring States Period were all small, less than 1.6 meters tall, and could not even receive military pay in the Song Dynasty when money was paid based on height, Japanese horses were even shorter, with an average height of only over 130 centimeters.

In modern times, when Japan was learning from European cavalry, it worked very hard to introduce and crossbreed horses. After decades of hard work in horse administration, the Japanese horse reached a height of 1.56 meters.

Since then, the Japanese seem to have no longer recognized the little pony who worked hard and participated in countless village fights.

The horses in this battle formation are at least as tall as a 1.6-meter dwarf.

But what’s even more outrageous is that when the Japanese make historical dramas, they directly import 1.8-meter-long Arabian horses as stand-ins.

"Why is this ban written like this?" She was silently complaining about the disproportionately tall horse, and Yonoki Rina discovered something she didn't understand again.

"Because that's how Osaka was written in ancient times. During the Meiji Restoration, Osaka was renamed to its current name because of the rebellion of the same warriors and the connotation of samurai rebellion!"

When Xiaolan, who is very good at Japanese history, was stunned by Noki Rina's idiotic question, Edogawa Conan had already smoothly said the correct answer.

"Conan, you will learn this in the first grade!" Although this question is very simple for Osaka people, Toyama Kazuha still didn't expect that such a young child could understand it so clearly.

"Because I was coming to Osaka, I looked up Osaka's historical stories. I saw the Battle of Osaka as an important battle in which the Edo shogunate defeated the Toyotomi family!" Conan was not nervous when facing this question. After all, Osaka

It's not surprising that a child knows about such an important event as the battle formation, but it's unusual for Aunt Juriina to ask such an idiot question.

"Oh, as expected of an Edo person, he knows the Tokugawa Shogunate quite well!" Hattori Heiji had long been sorry for letting slip the news before, and now he also helped Conan cover it up.

"Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu are the three heroes of the Warring States Period. I have often heard their stories since I was a child!"

"Haha, you are still a child now, how can you say that you were a child?" Listening to Conan's childlike words, Yuanshan and Ye smiled and rubbed his head. It was obvious that they didn't think there was anything wrong with this child.

Naturally, we still have to continue to taste Osaka food in the evening. Okonomiyaki obviously cannot be missed because of the name, but it may be a bit greasy at night, so everyone decided to eat noodles instead.

The two Osaka people argued for a few more times before settling on the final hotel. Because they were so understanding in their argument, the three of them, together with Rina Noki, decided not to make any comments and just go anywhere.

However, when Kazuha introduced the characteristics of this restaurant, Yonoki Rina was still a little confused.

"You must try this specialty. Their noodles include fried dumplings. Both the fried dumplings and the soup are very good. Is this a specialty that can only be tasted here?"

"Fried dumplings? Are they put in the noodle soup?" Yonoki Rina couldn't help but asked, regardless of whether the question was an idiot or not.

Japanese people love staple food with staple food. It is not strange to order fried dumplings while eating noodles.

But the specialty of pan-fried dumplings is not only that they are fried to a crispy bottom, but that they are completely lost when put into the noodle soup.

I carefully studied how to travel to Osaka, but after all, I have never been there. Just look at it and have fun, don’t take it seriously. It stands to reason that it is Kudo’s birthday, but let’s just pretend that this day has been skipped in the plot. This kind of day
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