"I'm really sorry, these three kids are causing you trouble, aren't they?"

"Nothing." When they arrived in the village, it was already dark, and at first the villagers were amazed when they saw the carcass of a wild boar as big as a mountain, and they watched for a long time, and soon understood the cause and effect under Jean's explanation, and began to set up a fire frame to carry a whole wild boar up and roast it, and glanced at it, and did not seem to see an adult male in the village, and asked the young woman in the village who looked less than thirty years old when he talked to him, "Why does it seem that there are no men in the village?" ”

"You're visiting the Land of Tea for the first time, right?" Li nodded, and the young woman also sat down beside Li to look at a group of imps drooling around the fire frame, "Although the country of tea is famous for tea, but in fact, tea picking is hard and tiring, and most of the profits are also earned by tea merchants, and there is no way to support a family with a little hard-earned money, so most of the villages in the country of tea are the same as us, men go out to work, leaving women to pick tea and take care of children." ”

"That's right." Li, who couldn't find a topic, echoed, "If that's the case, life should be pretty good, after all, the country of tea is quite stable behind Konoha, and the war shouldn't be implicated, right?" ”

Compared with the left-behind children in the countryside in the previous life, the situation in this village seems to be much better, after all, there are still mothers left.

"It's just barely surviving, although it is true that it will not be affected by the war, but there will still be some robbers who will pick on a village like ours that has no men, but fortunately, they don't hurt anyone, and they just grab the tea and leave every time." The young woman sighed and cursed viciously, "Those bastards come every time during the tea harvest season, and treat us like old hens that lay eggs!"

"Don't you care about the daimyo of the tea country?"

"Daimyo? Thank goodness if we don't add our taxes! The smile on the young woman's face was very helpless, and she waved her hand with a disgusted look, "I also entrusted the ninjas of Konoha to help us fight away the robbers once, but after the ninjas of Konoha left, the robbers who didn't go far came again immediately." ”

It should be the age of a charming mature woman, but the young woman's face was squeezed out of some wrinkles due to the oppression of life, "Since then, we haven't dared to entrust ninjas to help, all our property was robbed by the robbers that time, and we could have left some for us, but the harvest season is coming again, and they should have come......"

"It's so rampant." To be honest, I have never felt the pain of living in a new society, so although I am sympathetic, I don't feel too much.

It's like I often see some out-of-school children in poor mountainous areas on the Internet, most of them just verbally sympathize with the government and condemn the government by the way, how many people have really helped those children, right?

"It's okay, haven't you been here for so many years!" The young woman forced a smile and said to Li, "Those robbers still have some humanity, so they won't make us unable to live, or do they really treat us like chickens that can lay eggs?" ”

"Haven't you thought about moving out?"

"Nope." The young woman shook her head and looked into the distance, and looked up along her line of sight, at the end of her vision was a grove of trees, which should be tea trees, "The roots we rely on for our livelihood are all here, and there is no way to leave." ”

The topic of "oh ......" reached an impasse, and the young woman could only sit awkwardly without opening her mouth.

"Away from Big Brother! Can you teach us ninjutsu? The little ghost named Jean seemed to hear the conversation between Li and the young woman, and ran to Li from the fire frame to ask, and his voice also attracted the attention of everyone around him. You're a ninja, right? If you teach us ninjutsu, we'll be able to protect Mom and the village! ”

"That's right, it seems like a way to do it......" The surrounding villagers whispered to each other, and a group of a dozen or so imps around the fire frame also cast longing glances at Li, which was very familiar - the eyes that stood outside the door of the piano shop and looked at a grand piano against the glass were like this.

"Let's, don't embarrass the guests."

"But Mom ......"

"Enough!" The young woman who has been talking to Li seems to be Jean's mother, and she was also full of expectations waiting for Li's reply, but seeing that Li was silent and disappointed, she stopped Jean.

"I'm sorry." To be honest, I have never been stared at by so many people with expectant eyes, and I was really a little overwhelmed, avoiding these panicked eyes and giving the answer, "I can't teach you ninjutsu." ”

"It's okay." Although she guessed the answer, Jean's mother was still a little disappointed, "Don't take the children's nonsense seriously, the meat is almost baked, I'll go and cut a piece for you, it's really a blessing to you, everyone hasn't eaten meat for a long time......"

With a frustrated face and being dragged away by his mother, Jean looked back at Li from time to time, and that look made Li a little unbearable.

"There's no way, I'm still confused, how can I teach you......" My family knows my own affairs, and I can only respond with a wry smile.

"It's okay, we can protect the village when we grow up." The other children don't seem to have that much attachment to ninjutsu.,After being rejected bluntly, they quickly put down their thoughts and comforted Jean, who couldn't keep up their spirits.。

has been silent and has not spoken, and the wild boar meat does not seem to taste in his mouth, so he secretly became ruthless in his heart, "I must learn ninjutsu!" ”

Li was very happy to hold the hind legs of the wild boar, and the three or four days on the way out of the country of fire were not only tired, but also because of the fear of the smoke of the fire, the pursuers ate some cold dry food, although the freshly roasted pork was a little hot, but Li still swallowed it in a big gulp.

"Speaking of which, you never asked where you were going?" A wild boar didn't last long under the mouths of a dozen or so families in the village before it was almost eaten, and the villagers next to the fire were scattered, and Jean's mother came to the side to talk.

"I'm going to the Land of Rainbows." I burped comfortably from the round belly that I was eating. There is nothing to hide from the destination.

"Rainbow Country, that's a coincidence." Jean's mother thought for a moment and proposed, "If you don't dislike it, you can stay at my house first, the fleet of the Rainbow Country should be almost up, so let's go to the city tomorrow and ask." ”

"Thank you so much." I got useful information unexpectedly, and I was very happy to express my gratitude. "Then I'll be interrupted tonight."

"Where, thank you for giving us a big meal." After a polite gesture to each other, Jean's mother called out to Jean, who was still sitting on the edge of the fire, "Let, let's take the guests home and prepare the room first, and I'll go back when I'm done." ”

"Oh, here we are!" Hearing his mother's words, he suddenly cheered up from his depression, got up, turned his head and ran in the direction of leaving, and didn't forget to turn back and say hello to his friends. "Xiaoyue, Xia Yan, I'll go back first!"

"Goodbye!"

"Satsuki, is he okay?" Xia Yan looked at the back of Yue Yue and asked worriedly, "He was so depressed just now, will that person really teach him ninjutsu?" ”

"It's useless to worry, here you go." As a girl, Xiao Yue looked very open, and carefully cut off a piece of shredded meat from the wild boar that only had the skeleton left and put it in Xia Yan's bowl.

“…… Thank you. ”

On the other side, he happily stopped outside a very ordinary house, "This is my house, please come in!" ”

"Excuse me." Inside the house, there are no additional furnishings except for daily necessities, and it looks like a very ordinary family.

Jean, who returned to the house, didn't linger anymore, took out a stack of quilts from the bedroom and laid them on the corner of the living room, "There is no extra room at home, you can make do here, the quilts have just been washed and have not been used." ”

"Don't bother." I guessed that Jean was still thinking about learning ninjutsu so diligently, so he sighed and put his arm around Jean's shoulders and sat down on the bunk together. "Jean, I really can't teach you ninjutsu."

"Why!" Jean raised his little head and stared at Li's eyes full of confusion, "Is it for tuition?" I've saved some money and I'll give it all to you! ”

"It's not about the money." Holding down Jean's body that wanted to stand up, he looked at Jean's little head sincerely, "First, I'm not proficient in ninjutsu myself to the point where I can teach students, and second, have you thought about what the consequences would be if you really learned ninjutsu and became a ninja?" ”

"The consequences?" Jean obviously didn't quite understand the meaning of Li, "If you become a ninja, you can protect the village from robbers and robbers, is there any problem?" ”

"Herein lies the problem." Away from letting go of the hand that pressed the shoulders to lean against the wall, his thoughts were a little trance, "Learning ninjutsu means that you have embarked on another path that is different from ordinary people, although you may have a difficult life, and you are also facing problems such as robbers, but your life is quite stable, but it is different when you become a ninja, the robbers who can be quelled by just taking out a little tea will become a ninja who kills people without blinking, and the world that ordinary people come into contact with is completely different, and it is very likely to implicate the village where you originally lived a relatively stable life." Trust me, ninja is not a good career. ”

"But I didn't plan to become a ninja, I just wanted to learn ninjutsu to protect the village."

"Things don't often go your way, and a lot of the time people are pushed to make decisions." Thinking of Yahiko and Konan, if Jiraiya hadn't taught them ninjutsu in the first place, maybe their lives would have been difficult, but they might not have died. "My eloquence is not good, you may not understand the meaning of the expression, but you should die about ninjutsu, I won't teach you."

"Me!" Jean wanted to say something, but before he could be given a chance, he fell asleep and turned his back to him, "...... Good night. ”

Hearing the movement of getting up and going back to the room and closing the door, he turned over and stared at the ceiling with a blank look. "If I had to choose again, maybe I'd choose to die at the hands of the Itachi that night, which doesn't seem bad......"

Thinking of Uncle Kawaya and Yin Xian, thinking of the desperate fight with the three shadows that night, the corpse of the last dark part like rotten meat appeared in his mind, and there seemed to be a sticky and warm touch on his hand, and he forced himself to close his eyes and start sleeping.

Ninja, what's so good about this profession that goes hand in hand with life and death......