Konoha 45 years.

Faint clouds obscured the sky, thousands of lights lit up in the village, and plumes of smoke rose from several newly opened factories in the suburbs, which could be seen even from a distance.

It's snowing again.

Holding the vegetable basket in her left hand, Qingxi stepped over the threshold of her yard and glanced up, and sporadic snowflakes fell and landed on the thick coat on her right shoulder.

As she gets older, the girl becomes more and more beautiful, and she is gone, and the long sea of girlhood is gone, her long hair is like ink, revealing her cold eyes, and her porcelain-like beauty is beautiful, just standing, there is a beauty that makes people can't help but hold their breath.

The windows were dark, and the courtyard was silent.

This person won't be there again, will he? She muttered to herself, her right hand still in her thick sleeve, and gently pushed open the door of the house.

"I'm back."

While speaking, Qingxi slowly raised her right hand, pressed the switch next to the door through her sleeve, the light in the entrance turned on, and she faintly saw that on the sofa in the living room, a young man in a red windbreaker was sitting silently, and the position and posture were the same as when she left in the afternoon.

She breathed a sigh of relief, she finally didn't have to go out to find him, took off her shoes, turned on the lights in the living room and kitchen, Qingxi put the vegetables she bought, and just turned on the stainless steel faucet, she heard a voice coming from the living room, she hurriedly put down the vegetables in her left hand and listened intently:

“…… Test 4516, configuration No. 150 ......"

The voice of the young man, Qingxi shook his head with a smile, in the past two years, Cheng has been like this, he has been busy cultivating all day long, and sometimes, he is even so concentrated that he unconsciously says the thinking process in his heart.

She returned her attention to cooking, and because of this, she missed the flash of cyan light on the young man's outstretched palm.

Quickly made a simple dinner, holding a plate of vegetables in his left hand, Qingxi walked to the table and shouted to Makoto on the sofa:

"It's time to eat."

The young man, who usually rubbed for a long time, reacted immediately today, he stood up and walked towards the dining table, but accidentally bumped into a chair on the road, but fortunately he reacted quickly, and immediately reached out to hold on, and did not knock over the chair.

"Don't move."

The chair shouldn't have been there, but today my parents came to visit, and when I went to work in the afternoon, I was in a hurry, so I didn't have time to tidy it up, Qingxi sighed in her heart, and put down the food in her hand, in the past, she would put away the furniture on his accustomed route before Cheng came over, and today she thought about bringing the food up before doing this, but she didn't expect the young man to respond immediately, and she didn't know how much faster than usual.

Walking over, holding Cheng's hand with his left hand, Cheng was still silent, Ren Qingxi led him to the table, pressed him to the seat, and then put the dishes and chopsticks in front of him.

After the two finished eating quietly, Qingxi got up and cleaned up the dining table, and regardless of the sincerity that fell into cultivation in silence on the dining chair, Qingxi washed the dishes and chopsticks and went up to the second floor alone.

Today's parents came over, in addition to visiting, but also with a little bit of matchmaking, this time is an elder's grandson, although she refused, but look at the meaning of the parents, the other party's conditions are too good, the parents are very excited, this time I'm afraid it will not be easy to give up.

Thinking about it, Qingxi showed a smile, she understood what her parents meant, as she grew older, it was not a matter to rely on her late sister's house so much, her parents loved their daughters, although they didn't necessarily want Qingxi to get married as soon as possible, and they were anxious to hug their grandson.

Let's go up and clean up my things, Qingxi thought while going upstairs, this time maybe it will take 3 or 5 days to get out of the house, how to deal with the difficult nagging of his parents, even for Qingxi, who is already a ninja, it is an extremely headache.

At most, I will work hard, ask the captain for a leave, come back early and cook for Cheng before leaving, 3 or 5 days, presumably the captain will not refuse. Thinking of the captain's eyes, which usually pretend to be serious, but can't help but float over from time to time, Qingxi thought a little slyly.

Upstairs, Qingxi stopped and unconsciously looked at the last house.

Before you know it, it's been two years.

She walked over and pushed open the door, and the room smelled of dust that had been uninhabited for a long time, and the girl's eyes were gloomy, and she looked at the furnishings one by one.

It's been a long time since I've cleaned it, so let's clean it up completely today.

After making up her mind, Qingxi started to move, the long sleeves did not hinder her movements, the doors, windows and furniture were all wiped over, the girl took out the quilt in the cabinet with her left hand, and planned to open it to wash it, but she didn't notice that something fell out of the cabinet.

Syllable.

It's a book.

The girl slowly squatted down, tucked the quilt in her arms, and reached out with her left hand to pick it up.

Slowly, Qingxi's hand stopped.

The dead are gone, and the living have to continue to live, and life has to move on.

Qingxi understands the truth, but at this moment, the surging emotions occupied her mind in an instant, and she looked at the cover of the book in a daze, and tears fell involuntarily.

"A New Mother's Guide to Parenting", that's the name of the book.

Tears shattered on the hardcover cover of the book, and the energy-saving light faintly illuminated the cowering girl in the room.

Konoha is 45 years old, and this year, Kiyoki is 17 years old.

This year, Uchiha Fugaku was in high spirits, and the family officially entrusted all foreign affairs, including the business of the cat ninja village, to him, who was more and more relied on, and he and Mikoto's first son was already one year old.

This year, the Ninjutsu Innovation Association became famous, with an endless stream of combat missions, commercial tasks, and technical tasks.

This year, the third generation of Konoha Hokage Ape Tobi was 52 years old, and under his leadership, Konoha is thriving, and has achieved more and more lucrative benefits in the changes that have gradually set off new things such as railways, factories, and commodities in the ninja world in recent years.

In this year, countless railways spread across the continent, and the whistle of locomotives resounded throughout the five major countries, and countless factories sprung up on the lands they passed, weaving, steelmaking, and coal mines...... Countless emerging industries are accumulating the power of capital.

In this year, the people of the past who had status in the past made a lot of money, while the peasants, small craftsmen, hired laborers, and merchants, in the new wave of changes in the productive forces, had to abandon the mode of production that had lasted for many years, and rushed from the land, the streets, and the countryside to the city, which was changing its face.

And there, there is the human purgatory, known as the "sweatshop", which is greedily opening its mouth wide, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net.

And this year, it has been two full years since rumors of Makoto Uchiha's madness spread within the clan.