You Know Nothing About Pain

Naruto nodded half-understood, Sarutobi Hiruzen patted Naruto's head, his mood was very different when he left, and he was much more relaxed.

What Naruto said was exactly Mr. Ji’s suggestion. It was not Mr. Ji’s purpose to increase living expenses, but to better elicit the request for some books.

If Hiruza Sarutobi agrees to increase his living expenses, that would be the best. Not only can Naruto's quality of life be improved, but he can also buy whatever books he wants to read.

Even if the third generation can't make the decision, that's okay. Naruto just took advantage of the situation and asked for some books to read. The third generation, who has experienced guilt and torture, wished to do something for Naruto within his ability.

If the third generation can't even do this, it means that he has no ability to deal with Naruto's situation at all, then Mr. Ji will have to consider how to help Naruto get out of this place, this village is too dangerous for Naruto.

The book list seems to be some very ordinary popular science books, but for Mr. Ji, a scholar, what he is best at is to peel the cocoons from the books to find the clues hidden in them.

History and geography can also help Mr. Ji understand the world better.

It is not entirely a joke that a scholar can know the affairs of the world without going out.

As for the ninja books that seem to be jokes in the books, it is another temptation of Mr. Ji. He wants to test how strict the high-level hidden in the dark is against Naruto.

However, the attitude of the third generation proves that the high-level attitude is somewhat intriguing. On the one hand, they do not compromise Naruto's living expenses, but on the other hand, they do not restrict Naruto's pursuit of force, and even hold an attitude of being happy to see it.

Mr. Ji looked at the back of the three generations left, and muttered to himself: "Do you control your mind without limiting your strength?"

After Sandai returned to Hokage Building, he crossed out some unreliable titles on the paper, such as "Ninja's Self-cultivation", and then handed the paper to the ninja beside him and said, "Go to the bookstore and buy all the books on it. The money was deducted from my salary."

The ninja next to him took the blank paper, nodded and left the office. When he came out, he looked at the title of the book on the paper and was a little confused.

How come there are two cookbooks in the end? "At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, nature is similar, habits are far away..."

Naruto followed Mr. Ji to read aloud.

After nearly a month of study, Naruto has finished studying "Thousand Characters" and is currently studying "Three Characters".

During the study period, Mr. Ji taught a sentence, and Naruto read it. After Naruto could read it, Mr. Ji explained the story and reasoning behind the sentence.

Every time after explaining, Mr. Ji will stop and ask carefully if he understands. If Naruto nods to show that he understands, he will continue to talk.

If Naruto shakes his head to express that he doesn't understand, Mr. Ji will ask Naruto to explain what he doesn't understand, and he will not start the next sentence until Naruto understands the explanation.

During the study period, Naruto's intelligence made Mr. Ji nod secretly from time to time.

Ordinary children have just joined elementary school, and it takes two or three months to learn "Thousand Characters" alone. Now Naruto has finished it in less than a month. As for the occasional playful thoughts, Mr. Ji doesn't care much. Well, it is right that children love to play. If they are like a wooden stake and only know how to bury their heads in reading, then it will make people unhappy.

Scholars also pay attention to reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. The truth is in the books, but being a man is outside the books.

If it is in Jixia Academy, it must be another seed of study that is held in the palm of the hands of the masters and masters.

Thinking of this, Mr. Ji couldn't help feeling a little thankful that he was able to meet Naruto, and he could teach Naruto to read and understand. If not, he really can't imagine growing up in such an environment, what kind of extreme temperament Naruto will grow up to be .

As one of the masters of Jixia Academy, although he is not the oldest one, Mr. Ji has seen countless such regrettable examples no matter in books or in reality.

Either you are angry with the world, everything you see is black, and you feel that everyone in the world deserves to die.

Or they are merciful, always feel that they owe others, don't want to see others suffer, and carry everything on their own shoulders.

Anyway, in the end, I never saw my true self, never lived for myself.

It's not that Mr. Ji disapproves of great compassion, but he thinks it's a great courage to sacrifice oneself for the sake of others.

However, the premise of all this is to take your own true will as the starting point.

If a person reads the book, understands the truth, knows right and wrong, and knows how to weigh gains and losses, then he can sacrifice himself for the morality in his heart, which is truly great kindness and bravery.

If you are just forced to be indoctrinated by others, and never think about why, and don't understand what is really beneficial to the people of the world, the sacrifice in this case is just a hypocritical whitewash.

Sitting on the small bench, Naruto didn't think too much about it. He didn't like studying before, but since he followed Mr. Ji, these obscure words and principles have become interesting stories.

For example, Meng's mother moved three times, Kong Rong let Li, these stories that don't know which corner of the world happened, all fascinated Naruto.

In a blink of an eye, the day's study was over. Without Mr. Ji's reminder, Naruto stepped on the small cloth bag, picked up the slightly plump frog wallet, and went to the market to buy.

Walking on the street, the surrounding villagers still pointed at Naruto, without hiding the disgust and fear in their eyes.

In the past, Naruto faced this situation, although his face was indifferent, but his heart was always very sad, and he didn't understand what he did wrong.

However, Naruto's mood is very different at this time, his face is still calm, and at the same time, he doesn't care much about the attitudes of the people around him.

According to what Mr. Ji said, since I have done nothing wrong, why should I feel that I am inferior? You people should be ashamed!

Passing by the dumpling shop during the period, two people, one big and one small, were eating dumplings at the door of the store, they looked like brothers.

Although Naruto is still greedy, he is not as eager as before. Mr. Ji said that one day he will earn money by himself, and eat as much as he wants.

Even though he thought so, Naruto couldn't help but focus his eyes on the alluring dumpling, and swallowed quietly, as a child, you can't hide your thoughts, and the thoughts in your heart will be directly expressed on your face.

Uchiha Itachi saw Naruto's inadvertent eyes, smiled slightly, and handed the plate in his hand to Naruto, meaning if you want to eat some too.

Naruto secretly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it, then stood still and thanked Uchiha Itachi, and finally turned around and ran to the vegetable shop.

Sasuke, who was sitting by the side, ate the dumpling on the plate, and said with puffy cheeks, "Brother, who is he?"

Uchiha Itachi retracted his gaze, patted Sasuke's head and said, "His name is Uzumaki Naruto, he is the son of a very powerful ninja."

"Naruto Uzumaki, I know." Sasuke suddenly realized: "It's the demon fox that people in the village say, and my friends who play with me say so."

"Sasuke!" Uchiha Itachi frowned slightly, and rarely spoke seriously to Sasuke: "You can't say that about others behind your back."

"Oh." Sasuke responded, not caring about Itachi Uchiha's harshness. In his eyes, the eldest brother is always the best person to him: "Since my brother said his father is a very powerful ninja, why do you still hate him so much? he."

"That's because...forget it, it's nothing." Uchiha Itachi didn't continue, just handed his dumpling to Sasuke, and looked at Sasuke gently.

Seeing Sasuke chomping on the dumpling, and thinking of Naruto who passed by just now, Uchiha Itachi couldn't help feeling guilty.

If that happened, then Sasuke's situation would be much better than that child's.

I hope the village will treat Sasuke kindly by then, if not...

Thinking of this, Uchiha Itachi's eyes flashed a cold light.

Then he, Itachi Uchiha, will come and ask in person at that time!

Mr. Ji, who was following Naruto, saw Itachi Uchiha's actions, and asked thoughtfully, "Naruto, do you know that person just now?"

"I don't know." Naruto shook his head, and whispered while picking vegetables: "I've never seen it before, does Mr. Ji know?"

"It's nothing, I'm just curious." Mr. Ji squatted down to help Naruto pick vegetables.

The young man I met just now was one of the very few people in the village Mr. Ji met who had a normal attitude towards Naruto, and under the seemingly plain and gentle face of the other party, he always felt that he was hiding a lot of thoughts, and there were many things in him at a young age. The strong stagnation makes people feel like an old man who has lived for dozens of years and is about to die.

Naruto returned home after buying vegetables, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Hiruzaru Sarutobi sitting at the table with a book in his hand.

"Little Naruto is back." Hiruzaru Sarutobi said with a smile: "Three generations of grandpa brought all the books Naruto wanted to read, and also brought some interesting books. Little Naruto will definitely like it."

Naruto thanked Hiru Sarutobi first in a polite manner, and then excitedly flipped through the books on the table.

But this time Sarutobi Hiruzen did not finish his work as before and left, but pulled Naruto to tell many stories, including Konoha's history of building the village, and the great achievements of Hokage in the past.

"Where the leaves are flying, the fire is always alive. The fire will continue to illuminate the village and make new leaves sprout." Hiruzaru Sarutobi sighed in a reverent tone: "This is the establishment of the first Hokage Senju Hashirama-sama. The words spoken in the village have inspired generations of people to work hard for the village, and it is also the will of fire that every Hokage must keep in mind!"

"Yeah." Naruto nodded, then raised his head suddenly and asked curiously: "Since the will of fire said that everyone in the village is a family and there is no barrier between people, why do they still call me the demon fox?"

"Cough...cough cough!" Hiruzaru Sarutobi stopped talking in embarrassment, looked at Naruto's expectant eyes, and could only bite the bullet and say: "That...the people in the village...they all misunderstood Xiao Naruto, I believe that with the efforts of the little Naruto in the future, everyone will be able to solve the misunderstanding."

Mr. Ji quietly stood aside without saying a word, with his hands folded in his big sleeves, he looked at Hiruzaru Sarutobi with a half-smile.

"Oh." Naruto lowered his head, neither refuting nor agreeing with Sarutobi Hiruzen's words.

After a period of teaching by Mr. Ji, he has initially learned to think for himself. He no longer blindly worships the words of the three generations of grandpas as before, but thinks for himself.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Naruto, opened his mouth, and finally left without saying anything.

Naruto is still young, so it’s understandable that he can’t understand such a profound truth. I’ll just spend more time explaining it to him in the future. Hiruza Sarutobi comforted himself like this before leaving.

After Sarutobi Hiruzen left, Naruto lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "Mr. Ji, are you right about what the third generation grandfather said? The will of fire?"

"Oh?" Mr. Ji didn't answer Naruto's question directly, but asked instead: "What does Naruto think? Is it right or wrong?"

"I don't know." Naruto thought hard, his small face wrinkled into a ball: "What the third generation grandpa said seems to make sense, but it doesn't seem to make that much sense."

"That's it." Mr. Ji smiled and rubbed Naruto's hair. This answer seemed to make him more happy than Naruto's right or wrong: "It doesn't matter, Naruto is still young, and he still has a lot of time to watch and learn. , one day you will figure it out."

"Mr. Ji, you can tell me directly." Naruto raised his head innocently: "Mr. Ji knows so much, you must know it?"

Unexpectedly, Mr. Ji shook his head: "Unfortunately, I don't know either."

"Ah?" Naruto looked at Mr. Ji in surprise: "Is there anything Mr. Ji doesn't know?"

"Of course." Mr. Ji said with a smile: "I am also a human being. I just came to Muye Village not long ago. The only person I know is Naruto. Is it normal to not know?"

Why Mr. Ji didn't answer Naruto's question is very simple, because he really doesn't know.

As a scholar of Confucianism, Mr. Ji knows that everything in the world is connected and undergoes endless changes. There is no eternal truth, and there is no universally applicable method.

He doesn't know enough about Muye Village, and he still doesn't know much about the culture, history, religion, geographical location, and other factors here.

Naturally, you can't use your own reasoning to rudely deny the reasoning here, even if the reasoning sounds like it has countless flaws, but before the investigation is clear, any absolute words are irresponsible to Naruto, and it is also him, Mr. dereliction of duty.

Taking a step back, even if he knows the right and wrong of this matter, he doesn't want to tell Naruto rudely. He prefers to let Naruto see and observe for himself, and then use the knowledge he has learned to get the answer. Just provide counseling on the sidelines, just give Naruto a hand when he is about to fall into a dead end.

Otherwise, what is the difference between him and those who only know how to force others to accept their own principles and train people into machines that cannot think.

Afterwards, the two did not discuss this issue too much, but checked the books on the table together.

"History of the Ninja World", "Three Great Wars of the Ninja World", "Legend of Konoha Ninja", "Geography of the Land of Fire", "Geography of the Five Great Nations", "Repair of Simple Household Appliances", "Detailed Explanation of Chakra Refinement", "Jieyin Encyclopedia", "Three Body Art", "Basic Exercise Method of Physical Art", "Ninja Throwing from Beginner to Master"....

Basically, there are all the books that Naruto wrote on paper, and Mr. Ji also noticed several other books that were not written on paper, which should be the interesting books mentioned by the third Hokage.

"The Will of Fire", "Konoha Heroes", "Naruto".

Mr. Ji looked helplessly at the three books on the table, the intention was too obvious.

Then Mr. Ji put the matter behind him and picked up the most important book among them.

"Family Practical Recipes Encyclopedia"

Recently, Naruto either eats fried rice with eggs or scrambled eggs with rice. At most, he adds a little vegetable to the fried rice with eggs. Mr. Ji is anxious when he sees it. '.

Naruto picked up "Detailed Explanation of Chakra Refinement" first. After all, he was looking forward to becoming a ninja, especially those magical ninjutsu. No child should be able to resist these temptations.

"Chakra is a powerful energy mixed with physical energy extracted from 130 trillion cells in the human body and spiritual energy. It is the basis of all ninjutsu. The refining method is..."

Naruto read the "Detailed Explanation of Chakra Refinement" in a low voice. The content is very straightforward. The first sentence of the opening sentence is to explain the essence of Chakra, and the specific method of cultivation is written eloquently below.

There are practical content such as the explanation of meridians, acupuncture points, and cells, how to improve the general direction of chakra, and finally describe some methods of specific refining and application of chakra.

"Oh?" Mr. Ji also listened to the words on Naruto's book, "It's interesting."

Although Mr. Ji is not interested in obtaining the power of chakra, he is very interested in some unique insights into the meridians and acupoints mentioned in the book, especially the concept of cells, which makes Mr. Ji feel bright.