[Comprehensive master Naruto] The daimyo of the country of fire is in a panic

When I saw the rickety old woman sitting peacefully in the room from a distance, I was really panicked. I had never been so panicked even when I was attacked eight times before, designed to open Madara's eyes, and persuaded the Uchiha and Senju clans.

This great god, great Buddha, and great bodhisattva is my grandmother Chongmingyuan.

Unlike my mother who lived in the palace for a long time, my grandmother lived in the fields for most of her life.When she was young, my great-grandfather was still very poor. As the eldest daughter of a lower-level samurai family, she had to work in the fields to support the family.Later, when the war started, my great-grandfather gained more and more land due to his military exploits, and gradually became the Muto family's most trusted retainer. It was his great-grandfather who made the decision to marry her to my grandfather.

My great-grandfather’s family is the Aso family that is sealed in Ashida today.

Although my grandmother's status has increased, she has maintained the living habits of her childhood throughout her life. She is a strange person who likes to hide in sparsely populated places and farm. This has not changed for decades.When she opened her practiced voice while leaning on the field and yelling, it was so resounding that it could stop the flow of the clouds and carry its energy through the ages.

"Ashunna——" Poluo dropped a big bomb on me as soon as he opened his mouth.

I sat down in front of her, trying my best to ignore the surprised looks of the ninjas and ninjas, and used my acting skills to pretend everything was normal: "Grandma, don't you recognize me? I am Aoi Chiyo."

The old lady's cloudy eyes widened, and she stroked me from top to bottom with her dry, twig-like hands. The calluses on her hands almost peeled off my face.

"Aoi Chiyo? Why do you get more and more delicate as you grow older? When you were a child, you were as strong as a calf, but when you grow up, you are as thin as a reed stick. All three of your brothers are strong, but Shun is so thin and small that he almost can't survive. Come down..."

I quickly changed the subject and looked at the girl serving tea to my grandmother with some surprise: "Grandma, how come you are with Waka?"

Waka was the Ainu maid who sang for me before. She smiled at me cautiously and boldly, and I nodded politely to her.Well, it seems that I don’t need to worry about her future work.

Grandma continued to speak at the top of her voice: "I met her in the castle town. She said she could shoot arrows, so I asked her to go hunting mountain whales with me in the future - Ah Shun, do you remember that you were gored by a mountain whale when you were a child?"

"Ahem." The eyes of the teenagers were already piercing my back. I turned my head and said to them with half an order and half a request: "You all go down first."

"Yes, yes, yes, don't poke there, play by yourself. Waka, you go to the gate and wait for me." Grandma used the technique of driving away sparrows to drive people away.

Waka had been a maid for several years, and she was most obedient and hurried away without a trace.The rest of the people were not so easy to deal with. Except for Kanan who seemed to have set the expression of "paralysis" and Ranmaru who had the expression of "smiling man", the other people all looked curious, especially Hashirama, who had written all over his body. "If you have any little secrets, let me know."

"Tom—"

The shoji door closed and the Japanese room became quiet.

"You-" I wanted to help my grandmother back to her seat, but her wrist was suddenly clasped by her.

A familiar, razor-sharp look burst out from under my grandmother’s drooped eyelids. She stared directly into my eyes, then smiled and pointed at my ear.

People who live in mountains, forests and wilderness all year round have very good hearing. The wind is our friend, bringing us the whispers of swaying plants, the roars of wild beasts fighting, and the noises made by humans.

The old lady rushed to the door in one stride, and opened the door with a swipe, so fast that I couldn't believe it.

The six of them were tiptoeing back under the eaves. They suddenly froze as if they were playing "one, two, three, wooden figures." They looked at her with big eyes and small eyes.

"It's none of your business what our grandfather and grandson are talking about!" The old lady pointed at them one by one and scolded them.

Seriously, this is the first time I know that ninjas can be detected while sneaking.Madara, Izuna and Hashirama all used the transformation technique subconsciously, but the light smoke from the technique marked the location, so they had no choice but to change back.Grandma's status was so aloof that few people in Canaan did not dare to make trouble in front of her.

So everyone sat down in a row to listen to the training.

Hey, after all, the old lady is a ruthless person who can hunt wild boars in the mountains and spear fish in the rivers. She has great strength, quick reactions, explosive temper, and excellent verbal skills. After a while, the young people's faces turned red.Uchiha Madara, the honest boy, blushed the most, Hashirama concealed his embarrassment with a silly smile, and Izuna diverted his attention by observing the pattern of the floor.

I suddenly had an idea: "The ninjas should stay and guard the door, and everyone else should disperse."

Kanan knew he was in the wrong, so he bowed to his grandmother and left; while Ranmaru was saluting, his eyes fell on me, staring at me until I started to study the floor; Toramaru delayed for a long time, and saw that I had no intention of changing my mind, so he could only curl his lips. Left disappointed.

Grandma looked at the little ninjas, then at me, and pulled me back to sit down.

This time we didn't close the door.

"You've been feeling well lately—" I'm going to start with a regular greeting.

"It's good that you're still alive." The old lady interrupted me. She was still the same old lady in my memory, and she never took the ordinary path. "I didn't teach you anything. I let you grow up like an ordinary farmer's child for ten years. I originally hoped that you would grow into an innocent and happy little fool. But they insisted on dragging you into the game. There has been no news from you in the past two years. , I thought your second death anniversary was coming soon."

Outside the door, Hashirama choked on his saliva and coughed. Madara also gasped. I wiped my sweat and said, "Uh, this..."

"You've adapted well. So now you're called Aoi Chiyo, and I should also call you Aoi Chiyo. Aoi Chiyo, do you know how your two fucked-up brothers ended up?"

"...I wasn't with my eldest brother when his accident happened. I was with my mother -" I raised my eyes carefully to look at her. There was no expression on her tanned face, "-there."

Grandma opened her eyes slightly and looked at me: "What do you think I'm doing? What did Uesugi Masako say bad things about me?"

"No no."

"How could it not be possible? I took you away from her right after you were born, and your third brother completely shaved his head and became a monk at my suggestion. She is probably the person who wants me to die the most in the world." The old woman grinned. A crude smile, showing incomplete teeth. "It's a pity, it seems that I will die later than her."

There is no room for me to interfere in this terrible relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.My grandmother was the one who raised me in a country house, and my mother was the one who taught me about the dangerous world. There is no reason for emotion, and I couldn't make a choice between them.

Let's just pretend that nothing happened: "Before the second brother passed away, we hired Senju ninjas. They were also present at the time and thought that the second brother might have died from some kind of blood inheritance limit attack."

I turned to look at the backs of Hashirama and Madara, who were sitting upright.At my suggestion, the second brother thought of restarting cooperation with the ninja clan, but the timing of his decision was too late, and he could not find the most suitable person like me, a cheater.The two Zhubans who have not experienced countless battlefields are not very famous. Who would have thought of their unscientific combat effectiveness in the future?

Not to mention that with the tough personalities of the other members of the Muto family, even if they were lucky enough to recruit them, they would definitely have a bad rapport with these two people.Despite Hashirama's gentle appearance on the surface, he is actually quite arrogant deep down. He will never convince anyone he doesn't like, let alone Madara, who has the words "contempt authority" written all over his face. Only those who are strong enough can gain his approval.

Grandma cleared her throat: "Have you also experienced an assassination?"

"There will be eight times after the Yuan server."

She frowned and looked at me: "Yuanfu? Can you Yuanfu?"

"I am Aoi Chiyo, and I am Muto Akinari, grandma." I pressed my temple helplessly.

She sneered: "It must be your stupid bitch's decision to be an imposter."

I automatically filtered out certain words: "It is the result of discussions between mother and family elders."

"Then they haven't considered the issue of heirs? Oh, I understand. They want you to die alone - it's best if you die halfway, and then the strongest retainer can inherit the Muto family's foundation. In those days, the Earth Kingdom often Isn’t that how the Lu family took over the Inagaki family?”

It occurred to me that there was a question that my grandmother might know the answer to. "Grandma, does the Muto family really have no other heir?"

She gave me an unexpected reply: "Like you, your father is also the youngest child."

So after the succession passed through the whole family, I, the youngest, was the only one left to hold the position.Why didn’t I know that my dad had a brother and sister?No, there is currently a system of primogeniture, so they should all be sisters?

"You actually have two uncles," she seemed to see through what I was thinking, and shook her head, "but your uncle was ill for a long time and spent many years recuperating in the monastery before his death, and eventually died of the disease; your second uncle...had already died in his early years. Accidental fall."

I was shocked, "accidental fall"?My eldest brother also died accidentally after falling...

"Let's not talk about this matter. No one can bring back death when it's time. Let's just focus on the affairs of the living." Her face seemed to be carved from rotten wood, neither sad nor happy. "This year there is a severe drought in the Kingdom of Wind, and the Kingdom of Sichuan The water shortage in the upper reaches of several rivers has affected ocher and cypress trees, and a large number of refugees have poured into our border, did you know?"

"I know."

"What to do?" she asked casually.

"Food is priced uniformly to ensure the minimum living needs as much as possible; border guards are strengthened, refugees are received in batches in a planned manner, unified management is registered in a timely manner, and skilled craftsmen, doctors, etc. are given priority, and we strive to use the new labor force during spring farming next year ; Areas with favorable conditions should build more water conservancy projects next year and store water in reservoirs to prevent disasters from happening again..." Answers that have been thought about many times come to mind.

The wrinkles slowly unfolded, the cast-iron lips gradually curved, the grandmother's sunken eyes were as bright as stars, and the sincere smile she had not seen for a long time finally appeared on her face.

"Good boy." She touched my head gently, just like a long time ago, I handed her a rice ball while she was sitting on the edge of the field, and she used this to thank me.

The sun is fleeting, and under the setting sun, her face sank again, and the wrinkles between her eyebrows became deeper and deeper: "These are all good policies, unprecedented good policies. But can you do it now? And your retainers are How...you can ask your ninjas what their hometown is like."

I cast my eyes on Hashirama, Madara and Izuna one by one. They knelt down heavily beside me and lowered their heads.No one spoke, but I understood everything.

"Wuyu has an 'auspicious sign' this year. A huge white horse like a mountain passes by on the outskirts of the city. Wuyu's guardian Oshima Ryūzai said that it is a symbol of the Land of Fire's 'long-lasting military fortune' and is worthy of a banquet to celebrate."

“But people will only grieve for the farmland it destroyed.”

"The pirates invaded Iori. In order to annihilate the bandits, the Taira Palace family decided to use the fishermen who had not returned from the East Sea as bait to force them to die together with the bandits. This battle was a great victory."

"But people will only grieve for their relatives and friends who have sunk to the bottom of the sea."

The grandmother did not cite any examples from the ninja clan. She just covered the scar on the back of Izuna's hand with her hand, and then gently touched his head.Madara didn't stop him, he and Hashirama both clenched their teeth and breathed heavily, beating their chests.

"I took you out of this chess game for ten years, but I didn't expect you to come back in the end."

"Will you be the pawn or the player? Which side will you sit on?"

My grandmother looked at me, and I seemed to see rice fields with flowers and ears sprouting in her eyes. It was the most familiar scene to me when I was a child.

I took a long breath.

"I will not be a chess piece, nor will I be the holder. I will be the one who overturns this chess game that has been played for thousands of years."

"I want no one in this world to play chess for others. I want everyone in this world to be their own chess player."

I was alone at one end of the Japanese room, and my grandmother and the ninjas were at the other end. We sat in silence facing each other for a long time.But there is a storm gathering between us, a handful of flames are passing between our eyes, and the young and old hearts are beating excitedly, like some kind of earth-shattering war drum.

"Years ago, I helped Sakahara and Yamagata, and also saved their wives and children. I am considered a favor to them," my grandmother said calmly, "I will go talk to them."

"Ashun, remember what you said today, and then go ahead and do it."