Chapter 143 Uzumaki Mito’s Funeral (Page 12)

Autumn is the harvest season. Whether in Konoha or other ninja villages, the most important thing in this season must be to seize the time to harvest food and store it in the granary.

Fundamentally speaking, even Konoha can only be said to be semi-agricultural and semi-industrialized.

And if we look at the entire Fire Country, the entire Fire Country still belongs to agricultural civilization.

Autumn harvest is a season that cannot be shaken and must be paid attention to.

Konoha's harvest this year was affected by heavy rains that lasted for more than half a month in the summer. Farmers farming in the north of Konoha almost lost their harvest.

Fortunately, Yuya, the granary of Konoha, has already made preparations for it. He even pulls the old grain to make wine every year when he is afraid that the stored old grain will expire and wait for the newly harvested grain to be harvested and counted.

Therefore, although the harvest this year is small, it will not have any impact on Konoha Village.

It's just that the farmers who work hard all year round are a bit pitiful. The lack of food harvest means that they have received little or no reward for their hard work throughout the year.

But there was nothing Yuya could do about it. All he could guarantee was that the people in Konoha under his rule would live a better life.

The area ten kilometers to the north beyond the Hokage Rock is indeed close to Konoha, but after all, it is not from Konoha Village.

Yuya sent someone to lobby before, saying that he would give you Konoha household registration and you could move to Konoha Village. But these people were reluctant to part with the land in their hands and refused. Now some people regret it, but the inner city of Konoha no longer accepts outsiders, and they can only go to the outer city if they want to come.

In this case, it is better to live on just a dozen acres of your own land. Being a small landowner can make you money, right?

You Ya respects their ideas. Even if Que Ren Que goes crazy, You Ya would never do something like forcefully relocate his household registration.

This is not only the face of the great name of the Land of Fire, but also a bad government that shows no mercy to the people.

You Ya wants to make money, not force people to die.

However, in the past few years, these small landowners with more than ten acres of land, even if they paid one-fifth of the tax to the Fire Country Daimyo every year, at least half of what was left could be sold to Konoha.

Therefore, everyone should have some spare money on hand.

You Ya asked people to take out the old grain from the granary and sell it to these farmers, so that they could not starve to death.

As for the price, give it a discount.

After all, it is indeed not easy for these farmers.

After the autumn harvest, winter comes when everything is bleak.

Although this is the prelude to the spring when all things revive, as the saying goes, there will be no revival without death.

But every winter, there are always some old people passing away in Konoha.

They were born in a war, and finally met the great benefactor Senju Hashirama, ended the war, and established a Ninja Village. Although they were poor, they survived at least.

After Youya came to power, he gradually lived a good life.

However, within a few years of his good days, he was unable to recover due to his age and various early injuries.

You Ya knows that every winter is extremely difficult for some elderly people.

There is no floor heating now, and air conditioning has not yet been completely popular. Winter is a disaster for some weak people.

Of course, some people are not actually frail, but it is simply time to leave when the time comes.

Such is the case with Uzumaki Mito.

Yuya still remembers when he lived in Senju Hashirama's mansion in Konoha 15 and Konoha 16. At that time, Uzumaki Mito still looked like a middle-aged woman. She had a bad temper and was not beating Senju every day. Tehashirama is on the way to beat up Senju Hashirama.

At that time, Youya was very afraid of this mistress.

But how long has it been...

It feels like it has only been a short time since he took power in Konoha, and Uzumaki Mito is already as old as an old man whose candle is dying.

To be honest, Uzumaki Mito is only about sixty-six or seventeen years old this year.

However, he looks similar to an old man in his eighties.

Of course, this is for Youya.

In this world, few people live to be sixty years old.

Not to mention that during the war, living to be in your thirties and watching your children grow up was considered a success.

Yuya knew that Mito Uzumaki had lived a long life compared to other people in this world.

But You Ya still can't accept the fact that a man in his sixties was drained of his body by participating in the war when he was young. He was able to hold on until middle age, but aged rapidly after old age.

But if you think about it carefully, it can actually be seen when Uzumaki Mito fought for the interests of the Uzumaki clan before.

The fact that the Nine Tails was taken out by Mito Uzumaki and sealed in Kushina's body was a sign.

Mito Uzumaki knew that his time was short.

Although tailed beasts have many concerns about jinchuriki, tailed beasts can also bring physical strength to jinchuriki.

Uzumaki Mito turned and sealed the Nine-Tails into Uzumaki Kushina's body, making her already weak body worse.

The relationship between jinchūriki and tailed beasts complements each other. If the tailed beast leaves the body, if it is a formal process, it will not lead to death.

Of course, it is inevitable that the body will become weak.

And if the tailed beast is forcibly pulled out of the body, the jinchuriki will die on the spot.

For example, Gaara, the unlucky child, if Granny Chiyo hadn't saved Gaara, there would be no talk of the Fifth Kazekage.

And if you follow the formal process and have the assistance of a powerful sealing ninja, transferring the tailed beast from the body will cause weakness but not death on the spot.

For example, Kushina, an unlucky girl, was targeted by a certain Ah Fei to give birth to a prince. On the night the Kyuubi was released from the seal using ninjutsu, it led to a tailed beast riot.

This was not about forcibly pulling the tailed beast out of its body, so Kushina didn't die.

There is a difference between these two points.

Mito Uzumaki was not dead for the time being because she had gone through the process of releasing the seal and transferring the tailed beast. However, when the time came to the winter of Konoha 32, she still had a premonition that she would not survive next spring.

Although her eyes were dim, she accepted the reality that she was about to die.

She called Yuya to her side. At the last moment of her life, the wife of the ninja god solemnly apologized to Yuya.

Because she knew that she had made it difficult for Yuya to benefit the Uzumaki clan all these years.

She also knew that if it weren't for her, Youya would have cleaned up the interior of the Whirlpool Kingdom and supported obedient people to come to power.

That would be the best outcome for Konoha.

But Youya didn't do that.

The fundamental reason is that there is no need to spend so much effort on the one hand, and on the other hand...

Uzumaki Mito is indeed one of the reasons.

Youya was silent for a long time, just saying that he didn't blame his wife.

After all, he knew how he got here. If Senju Hashirama hadn't picked him up and brought him back, he would have starved to death.

The feeling of being hungry is unpleasant. Even now, he still clearly remembers the taste of the meal Uzumaki Mito cooked for him after he was brought back by Senju Hashirama that day.

Uzumaki Mito looked at Yuya gratefully, but she was actually reluctant to let him go.