Chapter 239 People Eat...

After a long time, it was an old man with high prestige in the village who decided on the person to go out, ending this not-so-small farce.

Time was running out, so Konishi Kakuei didn't dare to stay any longer and set off on his return journey with a group of more than 30 people. He didn't return to the convoy until late at night, and took out wooden boards for the ninjas to refer to. Soon, hundreds of identical wooden boards were made.

Coincidentally, before setting off, Konishi Kakuei specially prepared a lot of super glue, originally intending to prevent the tarpaulin from being blown away by the wind and the seeds from getting wet. Now it came in handy.

After everything was ready, Konishi Kakuei ordered everyone to light a fire and cook. Dinner was simple, with unlimited rice and a small piece of smoked fish for each person. The Konoha ninjas ate listlessly, as they had already had enough of the so-called supplementary meals. However, the thirty or so villagers from Yuxiong Village devoured the food, wishing they could stick their heads into the pot and eat it to their heart's content.

"Eat slowly, there's plenty of rice." Sakata reminded after hesitating for a moment.

A villager in his thirties nodded when he heard this, but he didn't have time to reply at all, his mouth was full of food. But while eating, the man suddenly choked up, which made Konishi Kakuei quite surprised, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Is the food not to your liking?"

The man wiped his eyes and said in a crying voice: "It's nothing, sir, I'm just sad."

"Why are you sad?"

"I think if my old mother at home had a bowl of white rice to eat, she would definitely not survive this winter!"

It would have been fine if he hadn't said this, but once he said it, more than thirty men stopped swallowing, stood there in a daze, their eyes instantly turned red.

Konishi Kakuei remained silent. He didn't know what to say to comfort the other person, so he could only pat his shoulder hard and picked up the empty bowl and filled it with another bowl of rice.

Unexpectedly, the man put down his chopsticks, shook his head and said, "You can't eat it. If you eat more, your stomach will not have the strength to pull the cart, and it will be a disaster."

"It's okay, just follow behind. There are many horses in the caravan, so it's not your turn to work hard."

"No, no, no, I dare not. These days horses are more valuable than human lives. If I tire the horse out, I really won't be able to go back and explain myself." The man repeatedly declined.

Sakata came over and said, "What kind of bullshit logic is this? Animals are meant to serve people, so how can they be more valuable than people?"

The man was timid and dared not speak, but Konishi Kakuei understood. The nobles of the Rain Country were famous for being too concerned about their reputation. They had to be equipped with all the equipment in the etiquette book when traveling, otherwise they would be laughed at. But in the Rain Country, where the resources were pitifully scarce, it was difficult to raise a pampered horse. The climate alone caused many horses to die halfway. Aren't the surviving horses more valuable than people?

Before leaving, Hokage Hayama mentioned this mission to him several times, and kept nagging about overturning the mountain that was pressing down on the people of the Rain Country. Originally, Konishi Kakuei treated it as a joke, but now he has different feelings.

Only those who have been caught in the rain understand the pain. Perhaps Yeshan’s idea is correct. Ninjas should not be content with the status quo, but should actively use their collective power to change the world.

Konishi Kakuei came to the place where the ninjas gathered to eat with a sullen face. Seeing someone dared to throw rice on the ground, he could not help but get furious: "You, don't look at it, it's you, who allowed you to waste food? Do you know that these food can save lives!?"

The young Konoha ninja's face turned red with embarrassment. He stood up hesitantly, wanting to refute but not having the courage.

"Pick them up and eat them all! If I catch anyone wasting food again, I will punish them severely!"

In the heavy rain, the young Konoha ninja picked up the rice covered in mud with great grievance. He tried several times to suppress his nausea and put it into his mouth, but he always lacked the courage.

"Hmph!" Konishi Kakuei snorted coldly, snatched the dirty rice from the other person's hand, and swallowed it in a few mouthfuls under the complicated gazes of dozens of people: "Remember this! What the New Rain Country needs is not some officials, but ninjas who can really do practical things! I don't care what kind of connections you have behind you, what your surnames are, and anyone who doesn't do anything will be severely punished!"

After saying that, he walked away, leaving everyone looking puzzled.

"Hinata Munezane, you have been following the master. What happened to make him so unhappy?" someone asked quietly in a low voice.

The young Hyuga ninja hesitated and said, "You will know when you see it for yourself. In a word, don't cry when the time comes."

Everyone became even more curious, but seeing that Hinata Munezane didn't want to say more, they stopped asking.

The rumbling thunder sounded incessantly at night, making people panic. Large flashes of lightning also appeared, lighting up the darkness from time to time and illuminating the convoy that was struggling to make its way.

Hundreds of carts of supplies were divided into more portions, and the horsemen pulled them one step deep and one step shallow. The heavy rain poured down, and even if there was a mobile house on top of their heads, they would be soaked. Many Konoha ninjas simply abandoned the raincoats that were in the way, and gritted their teeth to pull the wooden planks forward.

Konishi Kakuei wiped the rain off his face, straightened his back and took a breath. Just as he was about to drink some water, Hyuga Munezane rushed over and said, "Sir, there are many people blocking the way ahead."

"What are your advance troops doing? Can't you just disperse them?" Konishi Kakuei said dissatisfiedly.

"I can't do anything." Hinata Muneshi looked embarrassed, his glaring eyes looked a little scary under the lightning: "Go and have a look, they are blocking the way."

Konishi Kakuei took off the flashlight from his head and held it in his hand. He quickly walked past the crowd and came to the front, where he saw an extremely shocking scene.

In the heavy rain, hundreds of ragged beggars were kneeling on the road in a neat row, and the young men all had their heads on the ground, letting the rain wash over their backs. Several Konoha ninjas were squatting in front of them, and seemed to be saying something loudly, but unfortunately the thunder was too loud for Onishi Kakuei to hear clearly.

As they got closer, Sakata's helpless voice penetrated the rain and reached his ears: "Don't kneel down. The things on the cart are all seeds, not food. We can't give them to you to fill your stomachs no matter what."

"We don't ask for more food, just a little bit. If our children at home couldn't hold on any longer, how could we have the guts to block the way of the ninja masters?" A leader who could be vaguely identified as a middle-aged man kept repeating this sentence, making Sakata unable to open his mouth even if he had all the words to say.

Konishi Kakuei shone his flashlight on the kneeling crowd, walked up to the leader, squatted down and asked, "Where are you from?"

"We are residents of the western part of the Rain Country. Half a year ago, the ninja from the Wind Country took away our land. We were extremely helpless and heard that the Hokage of the Fire Country is a living Bodhisattva, so we moved here with our families." The leading man answered numbly.

Konishi Kakuei's eyes flashed, and the flashlight inadvertently swept across the other person's trousers. He was shocked to find that his buttocks were naked, and he was stunned for a moment.

He couldn't even imagine the scene of a flesh-and-blood man walking naked on the street. The dignity and pride that an adult man should have seemed to vanish into thin air.

"You..." Konishi Kakuei's throat moved, trying to suppress the sympathetic sobs, pretending to be calm and said: "There seems to be no old people in your team, where did they go?"

The leader's numb eyes sparkled with tears as he said, "Dead."

As if sensing the doubts of the ninja holding the flashlight, he continued, "We don't have much food. In order to ensure the survival of the children, they left the team early. They should all have become starving ghosts."

The plain voice revealed a chill that was colder than the winter rain. It made one's scalp tingle at first, but it made one's bones tremble when one thought about it carefully.

Even ants try to survive, let alone living people! If it weren't for the situation, who would choose to die? ?

Konishi Kakuei punched the ground, splashing mud all over his face, covering his tears. Since he became a ninja, what kind of tragedy has he not seen? Selfishness, greed, cruelty and other dirty words are synonymous with ninjas, but don't forget that ninjas are also human beings, they are still flesh and blood people in their bones!

"Ninja, you don't have to do this," the leading man said numbly, "These are our lives, the lives of the people of a small country!"

"I dare not ask for anything else. Just give the children something to eat. They haven't eaten for two days. If it goes on any longer, they will start to eat human flesh!"

A flash of purple lightning cut through the night sky, and countless dense tentacles lit up the earth, making Konishi Kakuei completely unable to hold back.

Sakata fell to the ground, too shocked to speak, his hands shaking uncontrollably.

Xiaoxi Kakuei swallowed his saliva, suppressed his nausea and asked, "Have you eaten it?"

"When you are forced into a corner, you can eat anything, tree bark, soil... There is always a way to fill your stomach, so that you can die with a full stomach."

"Please give us something to eat!" the leading man continued to beg.

"Those things pulled on the wooden board are seeds, the future seeds of the New Rain Country. No matter what, I can't give them to you to eat!"

The leading man was silent for a long time. Suddenly, he crawled a few steps on his knees in the night rain, crawled in front of Konishi Kakuei and said, "I don't know what the future is, but I do understand one thing. If everyone starves to death, this country will have no future at all!"

"I should have died long ago, but I cannot die for the sake of the children in my tribe. I beg the adults to save them! Open your eyes and look. These children are the future of the Rain Country!"

Konishi Kakuei slowly stood up and disappeared in an instant. The leading man was stunned and was about to speak, but he was horrified to find that the trees on both sides of the road had fallen down in large numbers. Violent blue lightning struck down trees as thick as waists.

A moment later, Konishi Kakuei reappeared with a ferocious face, panting, "Give the order to the convoy to stay where it is and distribute all the seeds to the victims!"

Sakata came to his senses, grabbed the ninja who was about to pass on the message, and shouted: "Absolutely not!"

"These dozens of tons of seeds were collected by Hokage-sama from all over the place. Once they are planted, they will mean thousands of acres of fertile land! Now that they are divided, you and I can't escape the blame!"

Konishi Kakuei grabbed the other man's collar and yelled like a madman, "Then tell me what to do? Should I watch them all starve to death right in front of me?"

"The food we brought is enough to feed them. We must not share the seeds!"

"You fart!"

Konishi Kakuei pointed at the muddy road and shouted, "Are you blind? Don't you see that there are disaster victims everywhere ahead?"

Sakata turned his head and saw, in the blinding light of lightning, that there were people kneeling in front of him, roughly counting no less than ten thousand people. He was stunned.

"You can't share the seeds! This amount of seeds is not enough for them to eat for a month. If they are planted, it will be enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people! In the face of major issues, Jiao Rong, you have to be hard-hearted!"

"Bullshit! What's the point of sowing seeds when there's no one left?! Just follow my instructions on how to distribute the seeds. I'll go explain this to the Hokage!"

"No!"

"point!"

“No difference!”

Two elite jonin of Konoha wrestled with each other like thugs, punching and kicking each other without any manners, and they did not stop until they were covered in mud.

Konishi Kakuei covered his eyes with his hands and lay on his back, saying in a hoarse voice: "Let's divide it. It's a good deed if we divide it early and save a few lives."

"Sakata, do you know why Lord Sakumo didn't choose you as his second-in-command? It's not because you're not strong enough, but because you're too rigid sometimes!"

"You're just jealous of my talent!"

"Lord Sakumo has said many times that a ninja must have great love in his heart. What is great love? It was not until today that I understood that great love is having a compassionate heart."

"Loving the village is a great love, loving family is a great love, and loving a group of disaster victims is an even greater love! The ninjas of Konohagakure must have love, this is what Lord Sakumo wants to see!"

Sakata sat up with his teeth bared, obviously exhausted from the beating. "I'll send people to Futian Town to buy food, even if we have to rob! In short, the seeds must not be shared, otherwise you and I will be in trouble!"

Konishi Kakuei also sat up and said, "I'll only give you half a day. If I don't see any food in half a day, I still have to distribute the seeds."

"Well, don't worry, if they don't sell it, I will snatch it away openly!" Sakata turned around and walked away with murderous intent.

"Come on, take out all the food we brought with us. Don't steam the rice. Cook it all into porridge. Don't let them die of bloating!"

So, the convoy stopped again after not going far, and the Konoha ninjas skillfully set up a fire, and soon the smoke was billowing. The victims were still kneeling on the ground, waiting without raising their heads.

"Sir, should we ask them to all stand up? It's not a good idea for them to kneel all the time."

Konishi Kakuei glared, but the wound on his face hurt so much that he frowned and said, "I got beaten for them, what's wrong with making them kneel?"

After a few breaths, he continued, "Go and get them up. The ground is too cold. It's not good if they get frozen."

Hyuga Munezane suppressed his laughter and left, leaving Konishi Kakuei sighing and groaning: "Damn Wind Country, you are so heartless! If you have the guts, why don't you go and exploit the nobles?! What's the point of bullying the defenseless common people!"

"Damn, it hurts so much! Next time I catch those bastards from the Sand Village, don't show them mercy! It hurts so much!"