Chapter 49 Letter

The summer night was extremely cool. Since there were no other Konoha ninjas living nearby, Yeshan simply lifted the curtain of the tent and let the cool breeze flow into the tent, making him feel cozy and comfortable.

There was no light in the tent. Under the moonlight, Ye Shan could clearly see a hideous knife wound on Yamashiro Tatsuya's back. He couldn't help but ask, "Was the battle with Kirigakure fierce?"

As if he noticed Ye Shan's gaze, Yamashiro Tatsu slightly turned his body and replied: "The Mist Ninja is cunning and loves to fight in thick fog. They are also extremely fierce. They are cruel to the enemy and even more cruel to themselves. The battle is very tragic."

Thinking of the Mist Ninja who wanted to drag him to death not long ago when he saw the situation was not good, Ye Shan nodded with deep understanding. Perhaps, the people of the island country are like this. The small land makes them ruthless and unscrupulous in doing things. They are morally corrupt, just like a country in the previous life.

However, for the Mist Ninja who is good at killing people silently, encountering the Sharingan and the Byakugan is like lighting a light in the toilet - seeking death.

"The little tricks of Kirigakure are nothing but clowns in the face of the bloodline limit." Ye Shan said sarcastically.

Yamashiro Tatsuya said 'hmm' and then said: "The Hyuga clan threw a white eye."

Ye Shan was shocked. The Byakugan is different from the Sharingan. It only enhances personal strength. It is no exaggeration to say that the Byakugan is the radar in the Naruto world. If used well, it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army. Konoha was able to win the Second Ninja World War with great difficulty, largely relying on the continuous logistics and the reconnaissance methods that crushed other ninja villages. The loss of the Byakugan is definitely a major event that shook the village.

"The village didn't send out ninjas to retrieve them?"

"Haha, the reply from the Third Hokage is very interesting. He said that the recovery of the Three-Tails will be postponed for the sake of peace between the two countries. Not only that, I also heard that he wants to sell the Three-Tails back to Kirigakure to strengthen the relationship."

Yamashiro Tatsuya's words made Ye Shan silent. According to his way of thinking, there was no peace between Konoha and the Hidden Mist Village. The operation of the top leaders was truly a cerebral hemorrhage. The war between the two sides had lasted for several years. How could the hatred be wiped out with just a roll of the eyes?

"What's the Hyuga clan's reaction?" Ye Shan asked.

"The Hyuga clan today is not at the same level as the Hyuga clan before the war. They are not even as prosperous as the Sarutobi clan. They can only bite their teeth and swallow their anger. How can they dare to put pressure on the top leaders?"

Strictly speaking, the Hyuga clan is a hardcore Hokage family. Since the Warring States Period, the Hyuga clan and the Senju clan have been allies and have a close relationship. After the establishment of Konoha Village, the Hyuga clan was also the first ninja clan to take the lead in joining the village. Even if a Hokage with the surname Hyuga appeared, Yeshan would not be surprised.

But now, the Senju clan has retired, and the Uchiha clan has withdrawn from the decision-making level, marking the complete farewell of the old era in Konoha Village and the ushers in a new era of governance headed by Sarutobi Hiruzen. A new emperor appoints new ministers, and the Senju label on the Hyuga clan cannot be shaken off in a short period of time, so it is normal for them to be suppressed.

But no matter how much they fight for power, they are all fighting behind closed doors. The Byakugan must not be lost. At the very least, Konoha will gain by using the Three-Tails to exchange for the Byakugan. At the very least, the Hyuga clan will be grateful to the top leaders from now on and firmly support the ruling position of the Hokage.

The bloodline family attaches great importance to their own bloodline to the point of madness. In order to protect the Byakugan from leaking out, the Hyuga clan even developed a sealing technique called the bird in the cage, cruelly dividing the flesh and blood of the closest relatives into the main family and the branch family, and strictly managing every member of the clan who has opened his eyes. This is no secret in the entire ninja world. But the village's top leaders refused to recover the lost Byakugan for the sake of ridiculous peace. Ye Shan could only sigh that his vision was too small. I just don't know if Sarutobi Hiruzen would cut his own neck cleanly if Kirigakure proposed that the Third Hokage would not participate in the war after committing suicide...

Ye Shan's originally pleasant mood turned unhappy. Today, the top leaders could sacrifice the core interests of the Hyuga clan to please the Hidden Mist Village. Who knows if they will order Ye Shan to commit suicide tomorrow to please other ninja villages. After all, compared with the Hyuga clan, the death of a civilian jonin can win the favor of the enemy. The top leaders of Konoha simply made a fortune.

The two of them stopped talking about sex, feeling uncomfortable, and fell into a deep sleep.

.......

The days passed as Ye Shan and Shan Chengchen were on boring patrols. When light white snowflakes floated down from the sky, Ye Shan suddenly realized that he had been at the border for a very long time, so long that the people in the village had forgotten he existed.

The garrison ninjas in the camp had already been replaced twice, and Yeshan became the one with the longest seniority. Sometimes, seniority means being forgotten, suppressed, and excluded, rather than being loved and valued.

Although Ye Shan had no intention of fighting for power, he was disgusted by the actions of the higher-ups. Ye Shan asked himself that he had done his best to fight for the village during the war. Although he did not make great contributions, he had worked hard. Being excluded for no reason would make anyone uncomfortable.

Ye Shan's mood became worse day by day. During this period, he proposed to Shancheng Chen many times to let him return to the village, but was firmly rejected by the other party. This made Ye Shan's cold heart feel a little comforted.

Winter passed and spring came, and all things revived. Yeshan stayed in the border station for eight months. Just when he could no longer bear it and wanted to write a letter to Minato Namikaze, hoping that he would help him return to the village to rest, a letter from Konoha Village was delivered to him first.

At night, in the chilly late spring weather, Ye Shan opened the letter, read it silently, and a murderous look appeared on his face, which scared Shan Chengchen who was standing beside him.

Ye Shan handed the letter in his hand to Shancheng Chen with an expressionless face, and he walked out of the tent, feeling the cold wind blowing on his face, and was furious in his heart.

The letter was from Uchiha Fugaku. It didn't contain much content, just telling Yeshan that his mother was in good health recently and there was no need to worry. It also attached an obviously copied investigation report.

In the investigation report, the investigation team leader Sarutobi Hiruzen wrote a vicious comment on Yeshan that he had no will of fire, and Sarutobi Hiruzen's reply of "I know" made Yeshan extremely disappointed.

What is the will of fire? On the battlefield, charging even though you know you are going to die is the will of fire? Ye Shan certainly knew how he had offended Sarutobi Hikata. During that patrol mission, the Ye Shan team led by Ye Shan did not choose to support the so-called Konoha elites immediately after realizing the large-scale infiltration and killing intentions of the Iwagakure ninjas. Instead, they annihilated a Iwagakure team and returned to the camp. Since then, Sarutobi Hikata has been targeting Ye Shan, using his position to humiliate him from time to time, and his mind is extremely narrow.

But the reality is that Sarutobi Hikata sent a large number of civilian ninja teams such as the Hayama team to guard the front line as fishing nets, while those family ninjas stayed behind, waiting for the fish to break through the fishing nets and exhaust their strength to enjoy the harvest. But what came was not a small fish, but a shark, which directly devoured the Konoha ninjas who were like fishermen. In this situation, Hayama, a small Chunin, rushed forward to die?

Being able to retreat after sending out the signal, Hayama has done his best. He failed to catch fish but was caught by grass (a kind of plant). Could he also be considered the successor of the will of fire? Or is it that Sarutobi is only allowed to light the lamp but Hayama is not allowed to set the fire?

Sarutobi Hiruzen, as the supreme leader of Konoha, was biased and nepotistic. Without any in-depth investigation, he placed Hayama on border patrol for eight months. Could it be the so-called will of fire?

What Ye Shan couldn't understand was why the top brass would use such an illusory and standardless criterion as the Will of Fire to select ninjas. It was obvious that the ninja world relied on strength, bloodline, and ninjutsu. Could it be possible to just talk the enemy to death on the battlefield?

At this moment, Ye Shan felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and the scene of Uchiha Kagami's sudden death once again came to his mind. Even someone as powerful as Uchiha Kagami became a victim in the power struggle. He, Baiyun Ye Shan, was just a civilian ninja. If the top leaders wanted to discipline him, they only needed to write a few simple comments, which was enough to suppress Ye Shan and make him eat dirt on the border.

Ye Shan was like an insect trapped in a spider web, with all the energy but nowhere to vent. He felt extremely depressed and could only watch himself being injected with venom by the spider and becoming a meal.