The sun is setting in the sky like a shadow, and the Konoha shopping street is bustling with activity.
"Thump thump thump... thump thump thump..."
A three-year-old boy, wearing a blue star-and-moon kimono and wooden clogs on his little feet, was running and jumping on the asphalt road. He turned around to urge his mother from time to time.
"Mother, hurry up! Hurry up!"
Seeing her son's feet weakening and almost falling, Uchiha Rinko quickly ran towards her son, her hair suddenly flying freely in the air.
"Tu, slow down! Be careful not to fall!"
"oh!"
She gently held her son's little hand and pulled her son towards Shueisha.
'If it's so late, it should be fine!'
Looking at the setting sun on the horizon, Uchiha Rinko breathed a sigh of relief.
But not long after walking, Uchiha Rinko felt that the atmosphere today was a bit strange. Not only were there black shadows flashing past in the residential area with numerous houses from time to time, but the alert of the entire village had been raised several levels.
Uchiha Rinko instinctively felt uneasy.
'This smell is very similar to the smell when I was a child, before the first ninja war broke out. No, I will go back later and I have to ask Na Mei.'
At this moment, his son's voice suddenly sounded.
"Wow! Mother! There are so many people in front of you!"
Uchiha Rinko looked up in response. At this moment, there was a long queue of people buying books in front of Jiyingtang.
'It should be fine!'
Seeing the crowd, she instinctively took a step back, wanting to go home to escape, but her son's expectant face made her unable to bear it. She led her son slowly toward the end of the line.
Next to the door of the bookstore, there is a huge poster, which clearly shows Uchiha Mitsuki looking down at a book.
"Hehe! This time I will buy a few more books that Nissan likes and go back!"
Next to his mother's legs, Uchiha puffed out his cheeks and looked at his brother on the poster with bright eyes.
Along the way, every three steps he took, he could hear his brother's name. Although he didn't understand what those people called Taizheng ministers and advisor elders, but from their adoring expressions, Uchiha Tu could easily tell him.
I feel how powerful my brother is!
“As expected of Nissan!”
While thinking, a few more people stood at the end of the queue, lengthening the queue to buy books. Seeing this, Uchiha Tu hurriedly pulled his mother into the queue, and soon there were people standing behind them.
The reason may be the huge banner on the lintel of the bookstore!
The banner reads boldly in large black letters:
【Mizuki-sama, my favorite reading book!】
In the bookstore, the fat boss looked at the endless customers outside the door and the busy employees inside the store, grinning non-stop.
Since Jiyingtang was taken care of by Master Miyue, the business here has not been bad. No, as soon as the Jonin meeting ended today, the business was better than before.
'Maybe we can consider opening bookstores nationwide!'
Thinking of squinting his crescent eyes, the fat boss felt inexplicably confident.
Outside the bookstore, in the long queue, Uchiha Tu pricked his ears, listening to the conversation between a mother and son in front of him.
"Mom! Why do you have to bring me here to buy books? It's really troublesome!"
The woman looked at her lazy son beside her and suddenly became angry. However, thinking of her husband's disciple, Uchiha Mitsuki, who once said, "Education is not about getting angry, but about watering", she suppressed her anger.
He has a hot temper and tries to reason with his son.
"Mizuki said that books are the ladder of progress for ninjas!"
"Mom! Don't always see the moon as long as the moon is short, okay? You and your father talk about that brat every day. It's really troublesome!"
The pineapple-headed boy rolled his eyes, curled his lips, and muttered softly.
The woman clenched her fists and her tone gradually became lower.
"Jianyue said that there is poetry and calligraphy in her belly! For the rise of Konoha, and, read, books!"
"so troublesome!"
The pineapple-headed boy put his hands in his trouser pockets, took a bite, and turned his head in protest.
The next second, the woman's anger exceeded the threshold. She punched her son hard on the head.
"Do you want to be beaten?"
"It hurts, it hurts! I'll read it, can't I read it?"
The pineapple-headed boy hugged his head and quickly admitted his mistake.
"snort!"
The woman snorted coldly, let out a breath, and silently rejected the educational idea of watering.
What my mother-in-law said is absolutely right, the men of the Nara family should get along with each other with a stick and an iron fist.
Behind the mother and son, little Uchiha Tu covered his mouth and snickered.
Although I don’t know why the little brother in front doesn’t like reading, but he does.
'As long as Nissan likes it, I like it.'
The little guy blushed and stared at the poster next to the bookstore in a daze.
At this moment, a few rude words suddenly exploded in front of the bookstore like thunder.
"Isn't that woman Miyue-sama's stepmother?"
"Hey, it's true! I heard that she almost killed Lord Miyue three years ago!"
"What a woman with a heart of snakes and scorpions!"
"Who says it isn't!"
Stepmother! Killed? Master Miyue!
The crowd in front of and behind Uchiha Rinko and his son suddenly erupted in exclamations, and everyone's words became more and more vicious.
"unlucky!"
Among the crowd, Nara Shikadai's wife frowned and looked at the woman behind her with disgust.
As the mistress of Uchiha Mitsuki, she naturally knew that the boy had a vicious stepmother, but today was the first time she had met this annoying woman.
Being looked at with malicious intent, Uchiha Rinko hid her face in panic with her white hair, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
"You guys are talking nonsense!!!"
"Mother is not like that!"
Uchiha Tu did not allow anyone to slander his mother. He stared with big eyes, pouted his small mouth, waved his immature fists, and rushed towards the two talking men beside him with his short legs.
He must teach these two hateful people a lesson!
On the other side, a three-year-old child's charge was nothing to two adult Uchiha males.
The short-haired man among the two looked at the little boy with disdain and waited quietly for the little guy to approach. Just as he stretched out his hand to push towards the boy who was already at his feet, his hand was suddenly grabbed. The commercial street
The atmosphere inside suddenly solidified.
"Nissan!"
Seeing the person coming, Uchiha Tu shouted excitedly!
"What are you going to do to my brother?"
Uchiha Mitsuki, dressed in red, suddenly appeared in front of his younger brother, strangled the short-haired man's wrist with force, and stared indifferently at the man in front of him with sweat on his forehead.
In front of Jiying Hall, the warm-toned decorations in the long street could not hide the cold air emanating from the young man!
The next second, the young man pulled hard with his right hand, and the short-haired man's body suddenly leaned forward involuntarily, and he fell heavily to the ground face down.
"Boom!"
Immediately afterwards, the boy hit the short-haired man hard on the waist with his whip leg, and a muffled sound suddenly sounded in the air.