Time has entered late September, the autumn wind has brought a bit of coolness, and the chirping of cicadas has gradually become less frequent.
Hidden Leaf Village The railway project is in full swing. Namikaze Minato looks at the financial statements every day and sighs.
Money burns up too fast. Even though most of the iron materials are imported from Land of Wind, which is much cheaper than the local ones, the daily consumption still makes Namikaze Minato terrified.
Just when Namikaze Minato was thinking hard about how to save money, Kushina walked in carrying a food box.
"Kushina, you are pregnant, so you don't have to bring me food every day." Namikaze Minato carefully helped Kushina sit on the chair.
Kushina rolled his eyes at Namikaze Minato and complained, "I'm afraid you forgot to eat."
Namikaze Minato smiled coquettishly, took out the lunch box from the food box and wolfed it down.
In addition to some food, the bento mainly consists of meatballs that exude a strange meaty aroma.
After chewing carefully for a few times, Namikaze Minato felt a little strange. "Today's meatballs seem to taste different?"
"Aburame Clan has launched several new bugs. In addition to the original hundred-flavor, there are now also fruit, beef and seafood flavors." Kushina looked at Namikaze Minato distressedly and complained, "Tenten is still so happy eating bugs?"
"Lead by example!" Namikaze Minato scratched his head and laughed a few times.
The raw materials of these meatballs come from bugs specially bred by the Aburame Clan. The meat is delicious and nutritious. Moreover, due to the short reproduction and development cycle, the feeding cost is low and the price is not expensive.
After trying it for free for a period of time, most Hidden Leaf Village residents can accept it even if they know it is made by insects.
After all, even in Konoha, although most residents can barely fill their stomachs, they only have meat to eat during the holidays.
But when Namikaze Minato, in order to reduce some expenses, ordered meatballs to be used as meat meals for the ninjas involved in railway construction, Konoha Ninja were unwilling.
Unlike ordinary residents, although the profession of ninja is extremely risky, the pay is also quite high.
Taking the D-level mission with the lowest difficulty as an example, the mission salary is 5,000 taels to 50,000 taels, while a bowl of ordinary Hidden Leaf Village ramen only costs 60 taels.
Therefore, although ninjas usually don't save much money to purchase Explosive Tag, ninja tools, medicinal materials, etc., they really don't care about the money for food and are very resistant to eating meatballs made of bugs.
In this regard, Namikaze Minato also has a hard time saying that in order to build the railway, Konoha's finances are very tight now, and it is only a sum that can be saved, not to mention that the money is not a lot.
At the railway construction site, Konoha Ninja has to perform a lot of physical labor and perform ninjutsu every day. His appetite is more than ten times that of ordinary people. Each ninja must eat at least ten kilograms of meat every day.
Take pork as an example. Nowadays, pork costs 50 taels per kilogram. Five thousand ninjas consume 50,000 kilograms of pork every day, which means they need 2.5 million taels just to buy meat in one day.
Meatballs weigh 10 taels per kilogram. If you replace pork with meatballs, you can save 1.6 million taels per day.
The construction period of the railway is at least one year, which means that nearly 600 million can be saved.
Of course Kushina knew that, but seeing Namikaze Minato eating these meatballs every day felt distressed. He stood up and wiped the corners of Namikaze Minato's mouth with a handkerchief. "I don't know where Obito came up with so many clever ideas to let Aburame Clan cultivate these bugs!"
Namikaze Minato put down the finished lunch box and said seriously, "This is a good thing. Maybe ninjas don't like the meatballs made from these insects, but Konoha most ordinary residents will benefit from this."
Kushina snorted, "I didn't say Obito didn't do well, I just thought you were stupid and had to set an example."
"I'm fine. This kind of meatballs is very delicious. I couldn't even eat it when I was a kid." Namikaze Minato gently stroked Kushina's fiery red hair and said warmly, "Now I see Konoha getting better and better, I feel very happy."
Kushina leaned sideways in Namikaze Minato's arms, lazily rubbed his head on Namikaze Minato's palm, and said softly, "Hidden Leaf Village has changed a lot now. Big, I went to Hidden Leaf Hospital to check the baby in my belly a few days ago, and I found many Hyuga Clan ninjas working in the hospital. I really don't know how Obito did it!"
Namikaze Minato laughed loudly and explained, "Obito is a very bad boy. He put a lot of tempting secrets in Library, but no one can afford them. Those families can only accept the bounty mission and slowly accumulate points."
"For example, Hyuga Clan was born with Byakugan, which allows him to see into distances, see through objects, and observe the flow of chakra and the meridians and acupuncture points in the human body. According to Obito, he was born to be a sniper and a medic."
"In order to collect points to purchase <Taiji Quan Sutra>, Hizashi Hyuga, the patriarch of the Hyuga Clan, accepted many bounty projects for human body research. I heard that he also cooperated with the Akimichi Clan."
Kushina looked surprised and exclaimed, "Akimichi Clan? They can do research?"
Namikaze Minato shook his head and smiled strangely, "They are being studied. Akimichi Clan performs ninjutsu such as Multi-Size Technique, and Hyuga Clan uses Byakugan to observe, explore the relationship between chakra and human body enhancement, and find some chakra paths that can be widely used."
"That's what I said!" Kushina was overjoyed and gloated. "Choza That bastard stole my snacks when I was a kid, he deserves it!"
Namikaze Minato touched Kushina's fiery red hair lovingly, and said helplessly, "You are so small-minded, you still remember it after so long!"
Kushina raised his head high and said proudly, "Of course, I still remember that when I first met you, you looked stupid and stinky."
Namikaze Minato rubbed Kushina's hair in annoyance and said loudly, "When did I become stupid and stinky?"
Kushina hummed proudly, threw himself into Namikaze Minato's arms, and said in a low voice, "I won't tell you."
Just as the two of them were chatting with each other, a Anbu Ninja wearing a cat-face mask knocked on the door and walked in. Without sideways eyes, he respectfully said, "Lord Hokage, Land of Wind has sent important information."
Namikaze Minato coughed in embarrassment and took the information and browsed it roughly.
Looking at Namikaze Minato's solemn expression, Kushina said worriedly, "Minato, what's wrong?"
Namikaze Minato sighed heavily and said solemnly, "Land of Wind has a large number of puppets in the territory. Sunagakure has sent a large number of ninjas to build a defense line. The situation is very critical."
Kushina opened his eyes wide in surprise and asked in confusion, "Where did the puppet come from?"
Namikaze Minato shook his head and said solemnly, "That's not important. What's important is the person behind it."
Thinking of what Obito once said about Reincarnator, Namikaze Minato turned to Anbu who had been standing quietly and ordered, "Inform Obito to come over."
"Yes" Anbu Ninja's body bowed slightly and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Kushina held Namikaze Minato's hand and said worriedly, "Minato, what happened?"
Namikaze Minato showed a bright smile and said warmly, "It's okay, don't worry, I will protect you and the village."