I sell sweets in Konoha

What does a calamus look like when it is young?Junko didn't know, but judging from the face shape and feeling, they were somewhat similar.

so?Is this really the calamus?Junko couldn't believe it.

"Well...where is your home? Take me to see it." Junko sat down and crossed her arms with her chest and said, "You must know that I hate liars very much."

"And I want to warn you first, I am not a ninja but my ability is not bad. Even if I don't catch you personally..."

"I can also ask ANBU to come and arrest you!"

Junko was really not bragging. After the last commission was successful, Junko had estimated that if she made up a little excuse now, she might really be able to get Danzo to command his 'root' ANBU to arrest people.And Junko wouldn't think that Danzo would think so much and have so many worries.Catching a few ordinary brats who couldn't even become ninjas was something that he, the spy chief, didn't need to worry about.

But this kind of thing is so boring that it's not worth running out to find Danzo.

And if she is really Iris, it just solves a problem for Junko.

That is...

Why does Konohagakure get Ichiraku Ramen? !Konoha Muraki has the soul of Ichiraku Ramen!Naruto who can't eat Ichiraku Ramen doesn't want to become Hokage!Why is there no soul of Ichiraku Ramen in the world she lives in? !

After she, Junko, was reborn in this world, with the ability to move freely and money at her own disposal, of course she found Ichiraku Ramen.

As a time traveler, it would be a shame not to have a meal at Ichiraku Ramen!

But...but when Junko actually went to look for it, she discovered it!

This Konoha Village is completely useless!

Now is the time to find out why!

Calamus didn't dare to resist a little. In fact, she didn't want to come at all.Any fool knows that the person who can let ANBU serve as a guard is not an ordinary person at all, but... But I can't stand that candy is so delicious!It is precisely because it is so delicious that a piece of candy, even one-eighth of the piece of candy given to ordinary people by the sugar-making girl, is so precious.

And this really expensive thing is enough for some people to take the risk and try to invade Junko's room and steal it.

Although the people who came this time were just a group of children, it also gave Junko a wake-up call.She needs to be a little more careful!And we should put more effort into the decoration of new stores to implement safety measures.

Iris didn't dare to resist, and she led Junko through the alleys of Konoha.

Soon she took Junko to a place where Junko had been before, but would never want to come again.

The slums of Konoha...

Konoha is also a human society. There are families at the top who can live high up, have enough food and clothing, and even have abundant material enjoyment during special periods. Naturally, there are also those at the bottom who are hungry, penniless, and living in darkness. civilians in shabby huts.

This is where the people at the lowest level live.

Chapter 61 Provoking the suffering of the people

The peaks and mountains are like gatherings, the waves are like fury, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road.

Looking west, hesitated.

Sad Qin and Han Scriptures, all the palaces have made earth.

When it prospers, the people suffer; when it dies, the people suffer!

Why is it prosperous and the people are suffering?What's the point of death and the suffering of the people?

As powerful as Konoha, it is impossible to take care of every villager. There are always some people in this world who have become the lowest level of society due to various reasons.

The same goes for Konoha. They huddle in the filthiest corners of Konoha, picking up leftover supplies, or living in dilapidated shacks with such meager social security.It was unbearable to see the hardship, but they were lucky.Outside Konoha, the ruined villages, towns and even countries.

Their people may not even be able to guarantee the most basic life.

Years of war have brought too many disasters. How hard it is for the people who have lost their country and their families!

Junko knew that he was undoubtedly the lucky one.She was brought here by Konoha. Although she did not show her prominence in the ninja school, she encountered these accidents and gradually rose to prominence.

So she is undoubtedly lucky.

The world of Naruto has never been a utopian fantasy land, where everyone is happy, the family is happy, materials are abundant, and the world is unified.

It is full of disasters and wars.

It has the most cruel elimination mechanism. If you want to survive in this world, you have to have a little bit of luck and ability.What about those children who were not favored by Konoha back then?Who knows, no one cares about their life or death. Maybe they are doing well in the place where they were re-fostered, or maybe they have left this world.

The cruelty of the world has never changed.

The ordinary people at the lowest level of Konoha Village at least have a place to stay.

But that's all...

Perhaps this is the truest portrayal of the rise and fall of the world, and the suffering of all people.

Calamus's home is here, in a dilapidated shack with a putrid smell.The uncle and his wife, who have never appeared in anime or manga, are here.

"Dong dong dong~" With the knock on the door, the ajar door of the shack was pushed open, and Uncle Yile's thin, withered face with almost no bones appeared, shining along the crack of the door. In the dim light.

"Calamus?" He seemed a little surprised and said without guessing the reason: "When did you run out?"

"Who are these two???"

"My name is Muto Junko, and his name is Uzumaki Naruto and he is my younger brother." Junko walked around Iris and said, "Iris is my friend. Because she said that her mother wanted sweets very much, I brought some here. visit."

"Sorry for disturbing you so late."

Naruto looked at Junko in surprise and didn't know what to say. He must have caught a thief or something, so why did he suddenly become friends?Naruto didn't understand but he seemed to understand a little bit. It seemed that this was his sister's kindness. It was like when he met him, he didn't blame himself for taking away her rattle and was willing to accept him. But now he sees the situation of Sister Acorus's home. I also hope it can help.

"Excuse me." Naruto followed Junko and greeted him in a very polite tone.

Calamus was even more surprised, and it seemed that in addition to fear and fear, there was more guilt in her heart.She didn't know what to say, how to defend herself, she seemed so self-conscious.

He didn't understand the situation. He looked at his daughter's nervous look, then at the girl with a kind smile and the blond boy with a bag on his waist.He always felt that this matter was not that simple, and there seemed to be many unreasonable aspects.He then looked at the girl's face in the moonlight.

"Candy?" Shou Da also knew that a new thing seemed to have appeared in the village recently.

A new sweet made from white sugar mixed with other ingredients.He took a bite of the measly two or three pieces of candy that his daughter had brought back.He didn’t dare to eat more himself, he couldn’t bear to part with it!That candy is really a treasure.He would never forget that sweet taste in his life.

But how could an ordinary person like him eat that kind of treasure?

I heard that only the Hokage and those big families can afford it now.Although others have their faults, poor people like him can't get a little bit of candy.

So according to her tone, feel free to bring some over...

She...who is she?

"My family has no money anymore..." Shou Da said with a sad face, "My family..."

Could it be that he was threatened?Is this really the case in the middle of the night?Being threatened?His daughter was threatened?what is going on?He couldn't think of it at all. The only thing he could think of was that it would be nice if he could keep his daughter...

"I never said I wanted money." Junko felt a little more unbearable when she saw her uncle acting like this.

She shook her head and said, "These are not worth much, they are just some candies."

"Uncle, are you going to let me stand outside all the time?"

Yes, what else?Do you think...how dare I do that? !Although I still don’t know who this girl is, she actually said that such a precious candy is not worth much?He must be a very high-status ninja, right?Or someone from an upper-class family?Although I don’t know how my daughter got involved with others...

But ah.

"Please come in! Please come in..." The uncle immediately nodded politely and invited Junko and Naruto in.

His place was really shabby and he finally cleaned up a slightly cleaner place.Lighting the last candle, he could see the two people clearly through the pearly light.

A girl who looked to be about the same age as her daughter, a little boy with blond hair who was three or four years old.

'Wait...blonde hair? 'The uncle suddenly felt that the child in front of him seemed a bit familiar,' Uzumaki Naruto?Vortex?I seem to have heard this surname somewhere. '

Junko was able to see this place clearly through the candlelight.

It was a small shack with a very simple earthen stove that was probably similar to what Asan had in his previous life.Well, it's not so much a stove as it is a small round pot supported by a triangular iron, with the remaining ashes of burned plants underneath.

poverty!Very poor!He was so poor that he didn't even have a decent bed, and there was a woman lying in the back.

It was covered with a straw mat, but it was summer.In winter, everyone freezes to death!There seems to be something a little abnormal about that woman. ,

"Can I take a look at your mother's condition?" Junko frowned slightly, feeling that there seemed to be something wrong with this woman's condition.A little bit not normal.

"My mother is sick, will..." Calamus stopped anxiously.

"It's tuberculosis..." The uncle said desperately: "Miss, please stop reading. It will be transmitted to you...your precious body..."

"There is no such thing as a million-dollar body." Junko smiled and said, "I'm just an ordinary person, just a little lucky. If I'm not lucky, I might be almost like you."

'Consumption...' Junzi went up to see the aunt's condition regardless of what they said.

Junko is not a medical student, so she can't see why.The person seems to be in a drowsy state, with body heat and abnormal sweating.and a face that was obviously malnourished.

It seems that he has been suffering from illness for some time.

Consumption?

Chapter 62 What’s the explanation? What’s the explanation!

If it's just tuberculosis, there's still hope.Of course, this salvation is based on the technological level of the previous life.

Due to the interference of the special power of chakra, the technology tree of Konoha Village is very crooked and is not as complete as it was in the previous life.This is probably such a strange situation.From a macro perspective, Konoha's medical level still has a very clear understanding of the structure of the human body.They are very good at orthopedics, surgery and so on.

From a spectator perspective, we also have a corresponding understanding of cells, microorganisms and viruses.For example, they know the importance of disinfection and the causes of wound infection.

However, there are no such good medical methods for treating some diseases caused by bacteria.

This may be related to their focus. The medical class's medical methods for treating wounds and performing surgeries are mainly done through chakra.

But....

No matter how powerful chakra is, no matter how versatile it is, there will always be things it can't deal with.

Such as bacteria.Konoha's medical class encountered such a situation, and they also knew that some diseases were caused by bacteria.However, the treatment method relies too much on chakra, and always thinks of the special application of chakra to solve it.This has resulted in their level of development in biopharmaceuticals not being as high as in previous generations.

Of course, the existence of Chakra cannot be entirely blamed for this strange situation and the crooked and incomplete technology tree.

The talent training system of Naruto World is also one of the reasons.

Anyway, this weird reality has created Naruto's strange technology tree and shaped the current strange situation. There is a complete medical system and doctors with good medical skills are almost helpless against diseases caused by bacterial infections.

"Can Junko-sama be treated?" Naruto looked at the dilapidated shack and the aunt lying on the straw mat suffering from the disease.There was a lot of intolerance and sympathy in his heart.Although he still didn't understand what it meant to empathize with one's own feelings or to apply oneself to others, this desolation and this almost desperate aura gave Naruto some familiar feelings.

He also had moments of embarrassment and almost despair.He suddenly wanted to do something, but he also knew that he couldn't do anything.

I can only look at Junko and hope that my sister, who seems to be somewhat magical, can do something.

However, he didn't say anything. He simply asked about some situations and asked Naruto to hand over the candy to Uncle Handai before taking Naruto away.About why the hand-beating uncle became like this.Of course it’s because my store closed down!It can be said that the hand-beating uncles in this world have been quite unfortunate in recent years.

Because of the Kyuubi Incident, his shop was affected and destroyed.

The original plan to rebuild on the original site from scratch happened to coincide with the tense relationship between Kumo Ninja and Konoha, and the army was preparing for war. Prices soared and consumption levels dropped severely. When the situation seemed to be getting a little better, it happened again. My wife has tuberculosis.He spent his last savings but could not take good care of his wife's illness.

It finally ended up like this.

Uncle Hand Beater's experience is not just his unlucky one. His experience is also the most realistic portrayal of the bankrupt farmers and small businessmen in the slums of Konoha.

Continuous disasters and wars have squeezed the people's ability to bear.

From the eyes of these people, Junko saw no hope at all!They were like walking zombies helplessly accepting their fate, living humbly in this corner where no one wanted to come and no one wanted to look.

hope?What is hope?

No, there is just a little bit of luck in being alive and a little fear of death.

"Sister Junko, is there really nothing you can do?" Naruto looked at Junko and asked with some pleading and doubts: "Can't we help them?"

"Naruto?" Junko looked at Naruto and said, "Why do you want to help them?"

"Hmm...I don't know." Naruto shook his head, not knowing.He himself couldn't tell the specific reason.Is it because it's miserable?Maybe there are these aspects, or maybe...

"If Junko-sama insists on asking me to find a reason..." Naruto thought carefully for a while and said, "Because I have experienced it, so I understand."

"Because I was once in despair, not accepted or noticed, as if I was abandoned by the world, and couldn't feel any warmth. No matter how hard I was, whether I was laughing, noisy, or playing pranks, I was never taken seriously by anyone. Look at that loneliness and despair. That feeling of being in a desperate situation..."

That feeling of being so lonely and desperate, of completely losing hope, that even if there is just a life-saving straw, I will try my best to grasp it.

Naruto didn't understand why Junko didn't like eating sweets so much that she felt like she would vomit after eating them.That sweet taste of happiness is something you will never get tired of in this life.

He knew that he was lucky, because he met Junko-sister, so he got out of the darkness and despair.

But he also knew that the reason why Calamus chose to come and steal the candy was not entirely because of greed.Even more unable to resist the desire for happiness and hope in this hopelessly depressing environment.

The candies made by Sister Junko seem to attract others with some kind of magic power.

What she pursues is not sweetness or satiation, but the infinite fantasy of happiness and hope, even if this fantasy is just a bubble or inner comfort.

Because I have had such an experience, I also hope.

I hope that Sister Junko, who created this sweet and happy taste, can really bring some hope.