[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

Yumi is still crying.

After you told Taro and Ah Cai not to run around, you knocked on the door of Aunt Ah Hao's house next door.

"It's Xiaoxue, what's the matter?" Auntie Ah Hao opened the door and saw you, her face turned away from her unhappiness, and a slightly impatient smile appeared on her face.

"Ah, auntie, I'm here to play with Yumi. Is she there?"

You put your feet up and made a head-expanding motion, shouting loudly: "Yumi - Yumi -"

Ah Hao saw that you were almost sneaking into her house like a naughty child, and she couldn't hold back her smile. She patted the door panel hard twice to stop you. The small broken door was crumbling and the earthquake shook, as if the whole house was about to collapse: " Stop shouting. Yumi, come out quickly, Xiaoxue is looking for you!"

When Yumi came out, her eye circles were still red and her face was full of tears. Ah Hao wanted to say something, but you just grabbed Yumi's wrist and pulled her to run back to your home.

"Thank you, Auntie Hao!" As you ran, your brisk voice echoed throughout the longhouse.

"Stinky brat!"

There was a heavy slamming of the door behind him, and Ah Hao cursed in a low voice and returned to the room.

"Yumi Yumi," you and Yumi sit in rows on the edge. The tattered eaves stretch out small shadows from the blue sky, covering your heads. Surrounded by Acai and Taro who are full and giggling. Laughing, "I just heard you crying at home, what happened?"

You held your face and stared at her without blinking, shining like black jade in the sunlight.

Yumi burst into tears when you poked her heartache, crying about what happened and complaining to you.

"You really hate Xiaoxue. You must have heard everything just now, and you even called me over to ask."

"Hey, do you miss me so much?"

Yumi glared at you: "For the sake of mom not having to complain in her ears anymore, let me tell you the truth. I went to participate in the castle's maid selection and failed."

"I heard." You nodded and admitted.

Hearing this, Yumi showed an expression of "Sure enough," and looked at you accusingly: "Then you still ask! Do you want to go too?"

She tilted her head and snorted before you could answer: "No chance, as long as those adults can read - that's weird, aren't they the ones we know?"

Yumi stared at Acai who was playing ball in the yard, feeling a little depressed.

You leaned over and grabbed a wooden stick by the door, drew a few strokes on the ground, and then poked Yumi.

"Yumi, Yumi——"

"What?" Yumi snorted and burped, not knowing who she was sulking with.

You poked her again: "Don't be angry. What do you think this is?"

"Who cares about you...ah!" Yumi turned her head impatiently and stopped suddenly when she saw the words you wrote on the ground in the middle of her words.

The girl grabbed your sleeve, her eyes shining: "Xiaoxue, you can write these words! You know them, right?"

You lowered your eyes and shook your head: "I just looked at it a few times when I went out and wrote down how to write it."

"Huh -" There was a hint of disbelief in Yumi's amber eyes, but she didn't go into details. She turned to look at the yard, a little frustrated, "That's right, how could Xiaoxue do this?"

"Does Yumi really want to go to the castle?" you asked calmly.

Instead, Yumi turned to look at you with a very surprised look: "How could you not want to? Although it is a job of serving people, at least you can have enough to eat, right?"

"Besides, the castle is very safe, and you can send your salary back home. There are no disadvantages except not being able to go home, right?" Yumi held her face in her hands, "You don't have to worry about whether you will be sold to a businessman from anywhere and married off. , you know, my mother—forget it.”

"It would be nice if my mother was half as good as Xiaoyue's mother." Yumi said.

You didn't speak anymore. When you first traveled through time three months ago, Yumi's sister was married to a businessman who was passing through this place. The businessman also left several gold coins for Yumi's family and left the Country of Fire.

Because countries are at war, the risks of banknotes issued by different countries are very high. The use of metal currency is still popular, which is also different from the comics you are familiar with.

You remember Naruto's frog wallet, the money back then was paper money.

Sixty years? Seventy years? Although the eras we live in are only a few decades apart, why is the gap between them like two worlds?

That night, when your family was having dinner together, you said to your parents, "I want to learn how to read."

"I want to learn the words used by the big people who live in the city."

A silence.

The young A Cai imitated your words vaguely: "Lite, literacy..."

It’s not that common people don’t know a single Chinese character. They know at least some commonly used words that are inevitable in life, so mom and dad know what you mean by literacy.

Although no one in this world knows how today’s writing developed, and no one has ever doubted this missing piece of history, but as someone outside of comics, you know that whether it is kanji or kana, they are all words to another person in another world. A country learns or evolves based on it.

The history outside comics affects the history in comics. The traces of these two languages ​​are deeply embedded in life. Even if you want to completely separate the two languages, it is impossible. For example, many words in English are derived from It evolved from French, and there are also words in French that are influenced by English.

"Xiaoxue, we don't have money to hire a teacher." Dad glanced at you, and instead of scolding you for your whims, he pointed out the family's current embarrassing financial situation.

"The library."

You pursed your lips: "I want to try the bookstore and see if I can stay and work there."

There are a large number of books there, although most of them are written under pseudonyms, but it is undeniable that the chances of becoming literate by working there are much greater.

This is your fundamental purpose.

If you don't take the initiative, maybe they won't even think about finding a job in a bookstore.

You can read, you know more than your peers, even more Chinese characters than others, so why not try to compete for this job opportunity?

You want to get the job because you are literate, but you can only tell others that you want the job because you want to be literate.

As for the job of the castle maid, as Yumi said, no matter how bad the job is, where can it be found? If you can't find a job in the town, then just go to the castle and work hard.

The most important thing is to survive.

When you're so hungry that you can't hold on anymore, how dare you go to Senju Hashirama, let alone just be a maid?

Dad was stunned for a moment: "The work in the bookstore... is not that easy."

"I want to try. Take me there tomorrow!"

You looked at him pleadingly, and he turned his face to look at his mother uncomfortably, muttering: "You can do whatever you want, Aqin. I can't understand what this kid is thinking at all."

So you also looked at your mother. She compromised under your gaze and sighed softly: "Okay, I'll take you there tomorrow. Let's eat first."

"Say it first, only this time." She looked at you warningly.

You nodded obediently.