After coming out of Orochimaru's Laboratory, the sky had completely darkened. The surrounding forest is also full of various mosquitoes and traces of wild beast activity.
Uchiha Chen didn't stop at all. He immediately walked towards the village, and after about ten minutes, he finally arrived at the place where the dinner would be held tonight.
This is the little Tavern where he and Orochimaru had dinner a year ago. It's just that at this time, the little Tavern has been renovated and has a completely new look, and the whole thing is much cleaner.
"Hey, isn't this Shikaku?" Uchiha Chen walked to the door and found Shikaku standing at the door, watching.
"What a coincidence."
"Oh, it's Chen. What a coincidence." Shikaku held his head and looked helpless.
"Then let me ask you, why are you here?" Uchiha Chen showed a puzzled expression.
"Um... I heard there's a treat here tonight. The barbecue is free and the drinks are free-flowing." Shikaku scratched his braid in embarrassment.
After all, eating and drinking is not a good habit. But he couldn't bear the fact that his enemy wanted to treat him, so he had no choice but to come over reluctantly. Otherwise, it would be too disrespectful to the other party.
"Why, have you heard about it too?" Shikaku came closer and lowered his voice slightly.
Uchiha Chen felt a little tight in his chest, and at the same time he had an unpleasant feeling.
"Barbecue is free and drinks are free. Who told you?!" He grabbed Shikaku's hand and asked hastily.
"Nawaki, he told me. It is said that he also informed the students in other classes..."
Uchiha Chen After listening to Shikaku's words in a daze, his eyes felt dark...
"Hey, Chen, what's wrong with you? Please wake up and get someone here! Someone was so excited that he passed out..."
"Chen, how are you?" Kushina looked at the boy with a worried look.
"It's okay, I won't die for the time being." Uchiha Chen sat listlessly on the chair.
At this time, the entire hall was full of people and seemed noisy. These are all classmates of Uchiha Chen.
It is said that there are students from other classes who are coming here with only one purpose, which is to catch a glimpse of the man who once dominated many Ninja Academy lists.
However, from Uchiha Chen's point of view, they all just want to eat and drink!
There were eight people sitting at his table, four people Kushina, Nawaki plus three people Shikaku.
"Chen, I really didn't mean it. I didn't know so many people would come." Nawaki looked innocent.
"Then who said 'If you don't come, you won't give me Senju Nawaki face'!"
"No big deal, I just have to pay a little." Nawaki took out his shriveled wallet, which contained fifty taels sparsely placed.
The problem is, even the cheapest Ichiraku Ramen costs sixty taels!
Feeling Uchiha Chen's gaze, Nawaki turned around and smiled ingratiatingly at him.
——You can do things poorly but still act cute.
Uchiha Chen sighed and stood up. "Students, there's free barbecue tonight and free flow of drinks, so you're welcome!"
gnashing teeth,
Force a smile!
"Okay, great." Choza cheered.
"Boss, bring me the most expensive barbecue."
A burst of cheers sounded in Tavern. You know, originally Uchiha Chen just wanted to invite a few friends. After all, this is the only place that sells alcohol to minors, but he didn't expect to be tricked by Nawaki.
In fact, to be honest, Uchiha Chen is indeed not a poor person. After all, Jing left him a lot of inheritance. In addition, he has made a lot of meritorious service on the battlefield, and each point of meritorious service can be exchanged for five thousand taels. If you want to simply exchange it for money, Uchiha Chen can be exchanged from Konoha to more than three million taels.
This is another benefit of going to the battlefield.
You must know that on the battlefield, for every B-Rank Mission completed, the merit points obtained are about ten to thirty points. If converted into silver taels, it is about one hundred thousand taels to three hundred thousand taels.
As for the B-Rank Mission received in the village, the maximum reward for a team is only fifty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand taels, and the captain Jonin still has to take the lion's share.
Therefore, the ninjas who survived the battlefield, without exception, became rich and very powerful in the end. After all, in addition to being able to exchange for silver taels, the merit points can also be exchanged for the relatively popular ninja gensanjutsu.
This is why Tsunade, as a Big Fat Sheep, always has people willing to lend her money. The casino is not worried that she can't afford to pay back. You know, completing an S-level mission can cost up to a million taels per minute.
So the question is, who touched the inheritance of Naruto?
You know, Minato has completed S-Rank Mission 39 times in total. Kushina has ready-made Sealing Jutsu for him to study, Jiraiya has a large number of Ninjutsu for free use, and Minato has no shortage of Ninjutsu at all. Since the meritorious deeds will not be exchanged for Ninjutsu, then after all, you have saved tens of millions of inheritance, right? But Naruto's monthly pension is only one thousand taels, where did the other money go? Could it be said that Konoha also has inheritance tax?
Thinking of this, Uchiha Chen looked at Minato with pity in his eyes, leaving Minato confused.
At this moment, Mikoto turned sideways and said, "Chen, where did you go in the evening?"
Uchiha Chen picked up a piece of meat skewers and replied, "Go visit Teacher Orochimaru. What's wrong?"
"Police Force sent someone to look for me in the evening."
"What? Why did they come to you?" Uchiha Chen asked with a frown.
Since Uchiha Yama came to Uchiha Chen four years ago, the attitude of the clan toward him has indeed improved a lot.
Of course Uchiha Chen is well aware of this kind of show of goodwill. The old fox wanted him to serve as a bridge between the clan and the village, just like Shisui and Weasel in the future.
If we follow the normal routine, Uchiha Yama will use his influence to send Uchiha Chen into Anbu within a few years.
You know, other big families have their own spies in Anbu. But only Uchiha Clan does not. Because Uchiha Clan's ninjas directly join Police Department after graduation.
This results in the Uchiha Clan having zero influence on Anbu, like a blind man. Therefore, Uchiha Yama has been trying every means to insert people into Anbu, but all of them were rejected by Third Hokage.
Now, relying on the identity of Orochimaru's son and Orochimaru's apprentice, it is enough to send Uchiha Chen into Anbu. Third Hokage has no reason to refuse.
But before this idea was implemented and the work on the bridge had not started, Second Great Ninja War broke out without any warning, and Uchiha Chen was immediately taken to the battlefield by Orochimaru.
Therefore, Uchiha Chen doesn't know what the old fox will do when he comes to Mikoto. Could it be that he is eyeing Mikoto? Uchiha Chen thought so.
But Mikoto's answer quickly exceeded his expectations.
"Police Force informed us that we will go to Clan Grounds Naka Shrine on the evening of the 15th of this month to participate in Clan Gathering."
"Where? Naka Shrine?!"