"Grandpa Potrou, when will the war going on outside now end?"
Several urchin children were surrounding an old man with a white beard, sitting on crutches at the door of a small village in a mountain col, answering the children's questions with a smile on his face."
When the Lord of the Day grows taller than a hoe, then the war will end, and peace will return to our country of grass."
A little boy asked worriedly, "Grandpa Potru, will our father and brother come back?"
”"Of course!"
The old man replied decently, although the old man replied very cheerfully, but he was not very satisfied with the current situation on the battlefield, the country of grass and the country of fire are alliances, and now the Konoha ninja has collapsed, and there has been no trace of the Konoha ninja here for a long time.As for the strong laborers who were taken captive by the bandits, Portru had no illusions.The ninjas of the country of grass can only fight bandits and thieves, but now even the ninjas of the country of grass have been defeated with the rout of Konoha, and the village can only endure the raids of those bandits.The bandits also scraped the ground, and the village had long been deprived of valuable objects.This is the means used by the bandits to loot the villagers, and it is difficult to maintain production without strong labor, and the old and weak women and children can only hand over their last money or valuable items to the bandits and thieves in order to release the hostages.On the one hand, there is the threat of bandits, and on the other hand, there is the threat of food.It is difficult for the villagers to choose, and it would be nice if the village still had finances, but after more than half a year of war, the village has long run out of surplus financial and material resources.As the sun rolled into dusk, the children's stomachs rumbled, and Portru sighed worriedly.Without the protection of the men, the women of the village had to take on the work, and the old people took care of the children."
Grandpa Portru, I'm hungry" "I'm hungry too. ”Portru sighed with a frown full of vicissitudes, and then comforted the children."
Wait a minute, children, grandpa will catch fish and make fish soup for you."
When they heard that they were eating fish soup again, the children's faces suddenly collapsed.Portru saw that the child's bitter face was a little haggard again, and the food in the village had to wait until the winter to eat, and that was the real moment of crisis.As night fell, and the women of the village returned, Potero looked up at the looming moon, handed the children to the women, and went out with a large fishing net.Portru wanted to catch some fish while he still had some strength, and the women needed nutrients for their daily hard work.Potero carried his fishing net to the river, and stepped on the boat in the dark of the bleak moonlight, but fortunately the village was not far from the Kusanogawa River and could be fished.Portru is especially grateful for the flooding of the Kusanokawa from time to time in previous years, which used to cause distress to the people of the village, but now it is not needed, because the land near the Kusanokawa is not cultivated by so many people, and this flooding has not affected the villagers in the slightest.Standing in the moonlight, Portru quietly looked at the river, he had been doing fishing for many years, and he was very experienced.When the boat floated to the middle of the river, some bubbles rose on the water, and Portru was quick and scattered, and a large net was quickly scattered.The timing of the net was good, and Portru pulled the net hard, with a smile on his face that he hadn't seen in a long time.The fish caught this time can be eaten for several days, and he is proud and helpless about his contribution, and he can only catch some fish.The nets were dragged onto the boat, and the belly of the fish glistened in the moonlight, and Portru happily picked the fish, put them in the barrels, and put the lids on them.As an old fisherman, he knew he had to release the fish back into the river, but the situation in the village did not allow him to make such a choice.After thinking about it, Portru decided to bring the fish back to the village.People are almost gone, who cares about those little fish, he released those little fish, then who released them?
Potru was sitting in a small boat and paddling, when suddenly something floated on the river not far in front of him, and when the boat got closer, Portru finally saw what it was.It turned out to be a corpse, Potru shook his head, the war had been going on for so long, and he was no longer surprised by the corpses that had drifted upstream.Retrieving the body, Portru saw the shiny Konoha Ninja forehead guard through the moonlight.It's been a long time since I've seen a Konoha ninja, and I've heard that Konoha ninjas are rich, and Poteru is ready to reach out and make a dead man's fortune.From a small bottle, Portru got a few pills and sniffed the pills that were already a little drenched, and Portru was extremely excited."
Bing Food Pill!"
It's a good thing, with it, the people of the village can have a few more days of food.Legend has it that it can provide ninja adults with medicine for strength and not go hungry, and he is very happy, and is about to reach out to explore other items, when Portru puts his hand into the arms of the "corpse", the slight heartbeat makes him terrified.Pulling out the knife used to cut the aquatic weeds, Portru gasped and looked at the "corpse" lying in front of him.Gently probing with his toes, the corpse still did not react, and then Portru boldly reached out and tested his nose, although it was very weak, but Portru still felt the breath of breath.Looking at the silent riverbank, Portru's eyes flashed with ferocity.Now that Iwakuin is about to occupy the country of grass, the Konoha ninja will bring disaster to the already dying village, if there is no war or when Konoha has the upper hand in the early stage of the war, Poteru will definitely save it, but not now.The Konoha ninja who was salvaged by Portru was none other than Ehara, who was knocked unconscious by the Detonation Charm after being shot off the cliff by Iwakure with a shuriken.Fortunately, he sank to the bottom of the river for a while, and the explosion of the detonator did not hurt him, and then he was brought here by the river.Under the moonlight, Portru vaguely saw Gangwon's face clearly.It turned out to be a young ninja, and it was a pity to go to war at such a young age, but when he thought of the children in the village, Portru still felt that his own children were a little more pleasing to the eye."
I'm sorry kid, we want to live too."
Suddenly, the unconscious Gangwon spat out a mouthful of river water.Portru was so frightened that he even fell into the river with a knife, and he lay on the side of the boat for a long time, and Portru had to accept the result.Maybe it's providence, maybe Poteru doesn't want to kill Gangwon at all, maybe it's to accumulate merit.Instead of killing Gangwon, Potru took him back to the village and fished him to Gangwon, where Potru didn't even bother with his fish, and rushed to the sparse lights not far away with the dying Gangwon on his back.And when he brought Ehara back to the village, he was relieved by the villagers' behavior, and the women and others did not blame Poteru for bringing back a Konoha ninja.Everyone was rushing to save Gangwon, and they didn't care about the shiny Konoha forehead guard on Gangwon's forehead.Portru quietly unfastened his forehead guard when everyone wasn't looking, and then put it away.Without forehead protection, who can prove that this boy is a Konoha ninja, this is obviously an ordinary teenager who was chased and killed by thieves!