Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 57 Bright and Majestic

"Did someone send you?" Yuya asked Uchiha Yu, forking the pork chop in her bowl.

Uchiha Yu shook her head: "No, I came here on my own. I know you're here... here... working."

Actually, the definition of "work" was proposed by You Ya; before that, everyone just said "holding a position"...

Yuya gets a headache just thinking about job positions. Konoha Village didn't have so many facilities before, and there were few positions in the village. Most of them were management positions. These so-called job positions are all management positions, and they are all for ninjas.

What kind of job is it for an ordinary person to do manual labor like a beast of burden?

Yuya looked at Uchiha Rou. Her tone was sincere, and her expression was normal.

You Ya breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, it wasn't what he had imagined.

Otherwise, if Yua were to force a girl to come and face him as he thought, then Yua truly felt that everyone in the Uchiha clan should commit seppuku.

But thinking about it carefully, the Uchiha clan are all arrogant and brainless people. Since they are arrogant, how could they possibly do something like forcing a 13-year-old girl?

Of course, Yua could easily guess that Uchiha Yuu was also influenced by the Uchiha clan to come here. That's how the Uchiha clan is. It's a large ninja clan, but you just feel that everyone in the clan has some kind of serious illness. Almost everyone in the clan is like that.

In the future, there will be another extreme case of someone bringing their four-year-old son to the battlefield (a daily dose of self-deprecation for Fugaku).

In short, having figured this out, Youya felt much more at ease, though she was still somewhat uneasy.

"Why do you say that?" Yuya suppressed her feelings and asked Uchiha Yu in a soft voice.

With red eyes, Uchiha Yu looked at Yuya and said, "Everyone in the clan is saying that you and the Hokage are both targeting our Uchiha clan."

Youya fell silent, looking at the little girl in front of him, and sighed softly in his heart.

He's just a child after all; what harsh words could he possibly say?

Yuya considered her words carefully, then looked up at Uchiha Rou: "Rou, how long has it been since you last saw your clan's ordinary elders?"

Uchiha Rou was a little confused: "I see her every day, every time I go to accept or do a mission..."

Uchiha Yu was already a genin, and her daily tasks included finding cats and dogs, weeding, and fertilizing.

Yuya was speechless: "Then let me put it another way... Why don't you... go and talk to the Uchiha clan members who have moved out? While you're at it, ask them what they think about their current lives, and whether they would like to move back to the clan's territory. Then, when you're doing missions in the future, if you go to the area north of the village, you can also ask the farmers there how the Uchiha clan is doing with the waterwheels they built for them. You can also go and take a look at the waterworks near the Naka River in the Uchiha clan's territory when you have time."

After reading this and speaking with the people I mentioned, if you still harbor the belief that I'm targeting your Uchiha clan... you can come find me anytime.

After Yuya finished speaking, he bid farewell to Uchiha Rou.

The little girl is still very kind-hearted.

It's just that he lacks experience and can't see through things. What truly angers Yuya is the Uchiha clan.

Uchiha Rou looked at Yua's retreating figure with some doubt. After thinking for a moment, she decided to do as Yua said and go ask him first.

On her way back to her clan, she met an aunt who was running a shop on the side of the street outside the clan and asked her how she was doing and whether she would like to go back to live in the Uchiha clan area.

The aunt looked at Uchiha Yu's headband with some fear. Although she was only a genin, she was a powerful figure who could decide life and death for ordinary people.

The aunt expressed her fear and unwillingness to go back.

Uchiha Rou was a little confused. After thinking about it, she didn't ask the reason directly. Instead, she left and used the Transformation Jutsu to become Yua. She came to this stall, bought a box of mung bean cakes, and then asked if it was moved from the Uchiha clan's territory and if she wanted to move it back.

Some ordinary people were wondering who this boy was, so Yua, who had transformed into Uchiha Yu, revealed his identity: "I am the Golden Yua who appeared in the newspaper a while ago."

The auntie immediately became much more enthusiastic and relieved, and started chatting with "Youya".

My aunt broke her leg more than ten years ago. At that time, she was a teenager and a ninja. During a routine conflict, she was hit by an explosive tag from the Senju clan, which left her disabled.

Fortunately, it was only a minor incident, otherwise they would definitely have died.

After that, she retired from being a ninja and became an ordinary Uchiha woman, weaving cloth and making clothes to exchange for food.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

It's been like this since she was born, at least she's still alive, isn't she?

Until two years ago, people in the clan gradually moved out. She didn't want to move out, after all, she felt that the clan was the safest place.

However, her husband (an ordinary member of the Uchiha clan who used to be a farmer) insisted on moving out, so she had no choice but to comply, since the family's food was all grown by her husband and handed over to the clan.

After they came out, the two discovered that although they still had to give Konoha a portion of the food, in a similar proportion to what they gave to their clans, they had more job opportunities.

Her husband had sold the land to "Liaomu" and returned to the official Ye family to farm, while he himself went to work in a factory as a technician.

Basically, you can easily earn more than 10,000 taels a month now, after all, it's a skilled job and it's very lucrative.

She set up a small stall in a specially cleared spot in front of her house to sell her mung bean cakes. They tasted very good, and a box cost 20 taels. She could sell several boxes a day and earn several thousand taels a month.

Fish in Kirigakure are sold by weight, at 50 taels per jin. She can't stand the fishy smell, so she usually eats canned pork sold by Konoha for 200 taels per jin. Occasionally, when she's craving something sweet, she'll buy a can of beef weighing one jin to try.

It's only 500 taels anyway, not expensive.

(As for the canned lizard meat from Sunagakure... well... let's just skip that.)

Moreover, after you finish eating the meat inside the jar, you can wash it and use it as a cup or flower pot, so it has many uses.

Besides, things became much more convenient after I got out.

In the past, grain was distributed among the people of the clan.

Sometimes I don't even get enough to eat.

Once they're out there, as long as they have money, they can buy as much grain as they want. If they get tired of eating rice, they can buy some steamed buns or mantou to try. The key point is that they are indeed rich.

Therefore, life outside is much more comfortable than in the clan territory.

The people outside are not as lifeless as those in the Uchiha clan's territory. Everyone is very friendly and speaks kindly. The old lady loves being here.

Of course, she didn't know that her good life came from Yuya. She only felt that the people in the Hokage's office in Konoha were quite amazing, as they could actually make such a big difference in Konoha.

"Youya" listened very attentively.

The aunt didn't know, but she did.

Konoha is currently in a difficult situation because Tobirama Senju is on the front lines, and although Yua is nominally just a secretary acting on his behalf, she makes many of the decisions.

Otherwise, so many people in the Uchiha clan wouldn't be cursing him. They may be mentally unstable, but if it weren't true, why would they curse a teenager every day?

But if that's the case, isn't Auntie's grateful expression a thank you to that guy, Yuya?

After confirming that the aunt's reluctance to return to the clan was not because anyone there was bullying her, but simply because she didn't want to go back, Uchiha Rou was somewhat confused.

She couldn't understand what Youya had done.

People in the clan's territory were cursing him, but people outside the clan's territory thought he was very capable and excellent. His performance on the battlefield not long ago made people in the villages outside the clan have a better impression of him.

Uchiha Rou felt that she couldn't just listen to one side of the story; she needed to see more.

Thus, without his knowledge, Yuya inexplicably gained the label of "understanding the people's sentiments in Konoha".

After that, when Uchiha Yu stopped messing around with Yua's face, people in later generations still firmly believed that the Third Hokage, Lord Yua, must have disguised himself as someone else and was traveling incognito.

Otherwise, how do you explain why every time Konoha has a problem, it is easily solved in front of the Third Hokage, as if he already knew it?

They must have discovered these problems long ago and conducted on-site investigations!

He truly deserves to be called the Third Hokage, a man worthy of respect and admiration!

Light! Magnificent!

……

"Achoo!" Youya sneezed suddenly, touched his nose, and muttered, "Who's talking about me behind my back?"

Then I looked at a case in front of me: someone had illegally expanded their house, which led to complaints from neighbors. The investigation revealed that the neighbor's house had also illegally occupied the adjacent road for their own use...

One is an illegal expansion, the other is encroaching on the road for private use...

Well, I can only say that ordinary people in any world are like this: simple yet cunning. They are willing to donate everything in their homes to support the front lines for the greater good of their country, but they will also test the limits of the law for petty gains.

"Haa..."

Yuya yawned and made a note: Designate these two points as garbage disposal points for Konoha Village, but be careful to put them outside the alley, not inside.

……

Nothing changed in a day.

Two days have passed, and people have started throwing away their trash.

Three days have passed, and the garbage piles up.

A week later, the first household that had been blocking the road could no longer stand it and offered to remove the clutter and pay a sufficient fine as an apology, hoping to have the garbage disposal point removed.

The next day, the person who had illegally expanded the building also came to pay the fine.

Hey, you all saw it. It was their own choice; I didn't force them.

Pshaw, you little punks, you think you can stump me with your skills?

I've seen this kind of thing far too many times.

……

A week later, Uchiha Yuu didn't come to see Yua again, but instead sent him a box of pastries.

Nara Shika also came in carrying a box of mung bean cakes and handed it to Yuya, saying it was a gift from a girl from the Uchiha clan.

You Ya opened it, took a bite, and his eyes lit up immediately.

It's delicious!

(End of this chapter)