Life after that was relatively peaceful.

When the man who built a reliable boat went out to sea, the tragedy of "the boat was scattered without people" never happened again. The little girl who stayed behind in the village gradually became familiar with the other people in the village.

Every morning after bidding farewell to Madara Uchiha who "goes to work", other women will come to ask her to repair fishing nets, pick up seafood, dry fish and so on. To be honest, these women who don't seem to need to work at sea

, In fact, the things they shoulder are not easy at all, because in addition to these tasks, they usually have to take care of the children of their elders and handle various housework.

After all, everyone, be it a man or a woman, is living a very difficult, hard and serious life.

During this period, the news that "the first Mizukage passed away and the second Mizukage took over" gradually spread - and for this reason, Madara Uchiha and Ochiha Uchiha judged this second Mizukage.

They are quite skillful and should stabilize the situation very quickly, so the news will spread. And because there is a precedent of the death of the first Raikage, they are also very careful in handling related matters.

You have experience - you can come for funerals and congratulations, but people? Forget it, we don't welcome you.

However, compared to the shock of the "big men" in the ninja world, the common people are not too concerned about this.

"No matter whether it is the first generation or the second generation, it is impossible for us to catch more fish every day." One of the fishermen said, "So, no one has anything to do with us."

The other villagers also agreed with this.

No doubt?, This is the consensus of civilians.

No matter how the village's political power changes, their lives will obviously not get better, at least for now, nor will they get worse.

This day? Afternoon.

When the fishermen came back, they were in high spirits.

It turned out that one of the fishermen named "Xia Sheng" caught a good tuna. Although it was definitely not as big as the one the first two people sent out, it was still four to five hundred kilograms. The quality of the meat was obvious at a glance.

Delicious and energetic.

This was a rare catch in recent years, so the villagers came together to watch the fun.

"It's really good." A few older fishermen said with emotion while smoking cheap cigarettes and circling the tuna in the basin. "I'll call the fish harvester later. Let me see this fish."

Can it be sold for 100,000 taels? to 200,000 taels? Around."

The "two?" he mentioned is a common unit of currency in the ninja world.

Uchiha was stunned for a moment after hearing this, not because it was a lot of money, but because it was too little. She asked doubtfully: "I have seen fish of similar sizes for sale before, it seems like

Want two? More than one million taels? Ah..."

As soon as these words came out, the others suddenly became silent.

After a while, someone couldn't help but muttered: "If we transport it from here to the town and sell it, we can buy more than one million taels."

"Yeah, come and go, the difference is only a few hundred thousand to a million taels, but you can really make money."

"Obviously we worked hard to catch it."

"...Okay! Don't complain about this all the time. You send it to the town to sell it. Regardless of whether you can sell it or not, even if you sell it, you have the life to get the money back? Just?"

Even if you get it back, can you keep it?!"

"..."

The little girl who accidentally triggered this unpleasant conversation fell silent, because she already understood: on top of the seemingly simple life of the fishermen, there seemed to be layers of exploitation. It was not only the difficult life that made them poor.

way, and there are... more man-made disasters.

Soon after.

Sure enough, someone came specifically to collect the fish. They were a few young people who were fairly neatly dressed, but they had a strong sense of philistineness about them. At first glance, it seemed that they were not easy to get along with. Their words and actions were almost incompatible with them.

It's no different from being a gangster.

Before they arrived, the Uchiha tape was pushed into the house by the women in the fishing village. The reason was that "the people who come to collect fish are not very well-behaved. Have you seen that the women you have seen like to do it?"

"Teasing", it can be seen that this kind of thing happened not once or twice.

Of course, this group of people obviously had no interest in men, so Uchiha Madara, who transformed into a "taciturn young man", stayed outside with great interest, preparing to watch.

When those young gangsters saw the huge tuna, they were immediately overjoyed——

"I haven't seen such a big fish in a year or two."

"Oh, what a good fish."

"Not bad, not bad, it seems I can make a lot of money this time."

…

The owner of the fish on the side, a young man named "Xia Sheng" couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this. No doubt, he felt that since this group of people were so satisfied with the fish, maybe they could give more money.

However, when these people quoted prices, he was a little dumbfounded.

"...Seventy thousand taels??" Even though he was clumsy and tongue-tied, he couldn't help but defend himself.

, "In the past, when you harvested such a big fish, you would give at least a hundred thousand taels. Ah, and, and, and you said it yourself, it has been a long time since you saw this kind of fish, why did you still pay me so much?

It’s missing.”

One of the young men raised his hand and patted Xia Sheng's face, and said with a sneer: "Do you know what 'this moment? that moment' is?" After he finished speaking, he looked at the latter with a confused look on his face.

With an expression on his face, he said with a bored "tsk", "What a bumpkin! The second generation Mizukage has come to power, you know? The ninja who protects me is his bodyguard. Do you understand? The missing part is

You use it to honor me and that gentleman."

Xia Sheng: "..."

The rest: "..."

Yes, the reason why this group of people is so arrogant is because the young man at the head seems to be sheltered by a ninja master from Kirigakure Village, and according to his own words, that master

He has a high status and seems to have become the bodyguard of the second generation Mizukage-sama.

Because of this, once the nearby fishing villages have caught fish, they are not allowed to go to the town to sell it themselves - even if it only takes about twenty minutes to walk, they must sell it all to them, and then pass it on to them.

Sell ​​it yourself at the seafood shop in town.

There is no doubt that this is a typical "monopoly of local snakes".

Based on force and so-called background, they forced all the civilians in nearby fishing villages to submit, then stepped on them and sucked their blood.

Because of Xia Sheng's retort, the young man was quite dissatisfied and only threw away ten thousand taels. The remaining ten thousand taels said he "kept it with him to apologize to me."

Xia Sheng was obviously dissatisfied. He even took two steps forward, but was stopped by other villagers. One of them directly picked up the money that was thrown on the ground, fearing that some or all of it would be snatched away by those people again.

In fact, the group of young people seemed to have such a plan. After seeing the man's actions, they "tsk" a few times and hesitated for a moment. They stepped forward to rob him, probably because they didn't want to take him away.

People have been forced too much.

After the group left, Xia Sheng grabbed the ten thousand taels that the villagers gave him and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands.

The door of the wooden house was opened, and his wife hurried over and was hugged by Xia Sheng. After a while, the two of them cried together.

Originally, they had a good discussion. If they had more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels, they could pay off the foreign debt they owed when they got married and have yet to pay off, and repair their home.

He took a small boat and replaced the tattered net he was currently using, and then went to the pharmacy to buy some tonics that he had been interested in for a long time to replenish his son who had been in poor health since he was a child. But now, obviously...

No more.

Uchiha Madara thought: This group of people is really majestic. He doesn't know what kind of "ninja master" they are protecting. He really wants to see it. It sounds like they are more majestic than him and Hashirama.

At least when they went on missions, they had food and accommodation, but they never asked others to make offerings to them without charging them money.

Coincidentally, the little girl in the room silently clenched her fists: hard, hard, hard fist!

Kyuubi, who was huddled in the corner with the three tails on his head and peeked at the audience:...Are you looking for death? These people.

Even if it is just a tailed beast, it still knows what kind of disgusting things the group of people did just now. And based on its understanding of those two people, it will never sit idly by and ignore it.

So...

after a while.

Uchiha said he was going to the town to buy some things. He held a vegetable basket in his hand and followed his "Anada" out with a smile.

The vegetable basket is a little heavy because it contains a small orange fox and a turtle.

The two of them were walking and chatting——

"Brother Madara."

"Um?"

"What if that person's backer is really the bodyguard of the Nidaime Mizukage?"

"Is there a difference?"

"..."

Really not? Yes.

That's okay.

If Uchiha Madara has made up his mind to trouble someone, don't say that person is the bodyguard of the Nidaime Mizukage. Even if he is the Nidaime Mizukage himself, who can stop him?

Well, Senju Hashirama may be able to do it, but the problem is that the Hokage is in Konoha at the moment and is out of reach.

And once Uchiha Madara really does it, Senju Hashirama will certainly be extremely surprised when he hears about it, but will he still go all the way to hunt down the "murderer" because of this?
To be continued...