Konoha's Dark Harvest

Next, Xiaoquan trembled and told the whole story.

It turns out that Junichiro Koizumi has been idle in the village. Two weeks ago, he stole something and was paraded by the village chief. He felt humiliated, and he secretly wanted to take revenge and go back.

He suddenly remembered that there was a widespread legend in the village. It was said that there was a devil sealed in the cave behind their village. Anyone who entered the cave would be cursed and would die soon. The village had always avoided it. .

After drinking some wine that night, a man secretly came to the back mountain, went outside the cave and peeked inside. The cave was dark and windy. In fact, he was quite scared, but he thought of the humiliation those people in the village had done to him during the day. , Jiu Jin got excited and entered the cave without thinking about anything.

As soon as he came in, he was agitated. He felt regretful and kept retreating. Just when he turned around, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from inside. He listened carefully and suddenly realized that it was not the voice of the village chief's son and the village chief. ?

What are they doing here so late?Xiaoquan had some doubts in his heart, but he was also afraid that the devil in the cave had deliberately lured him into being deceived, so he retreated out of fear.

However, he did not go far and hid behind a huge rock to secretly observe the entrance of the cave.

Cold and sleepy, he waited until late at night when he was suddenly awakened by the sound of footsteps. When Xiaoquan took a closer look, he discovered that it was really the village chief and his son coming out of the cave with torches.

The village chief and his son were carrying a small backpack, and one of them sneaked out with a hoe. When they put out the torch and slowly walked away, Xiaoquan was very puzzled at the time. The father and son stayed up all night and came with a hoe. what?There are no fields in the cave at night.

He decided to find out the whole story, and it would be better if he found out the village chief's clues.

"Let's get to the point! Those wandering ninjas are from there!" Zuo Yun frowned when he saw that he hadn't said the point for a long time.

"Sir...sir, please wait until I finish speaking!" Xiaoquan covered the wound on his hand and said with a scared look on his face.

The next night, Xiaoquan made preparations. After everyone in the village went to bed, he prepared torches and secretly lurked outside the village chief's house to see if the village chief would go to the back mountain today.

As expected, the village chief and his son sneaked out of the house again at night, carrying the same equipment as yesterday. This time he waited until they left the cave in the middle of the night, lit a torch and sneaked into the cave.

I don't know if he entered this time because of a hint in his heart or something else. He didn't feel the darkness and terror at all, so he walked all the way deeper into the place holding a torch.

The further he walked inside, the narrower it became. After walking about 200 meters, Koizumi suddenly noticed a subtle glow on both sides of the cave wall, which was like a long snake. It startled him. There were also traces of hoe digging in some places. When he raised the torch, he took a closer look. Look, my dear, what kind of devil is this? This is heaven!

It turned out that there was an exposed gold mine inside, and then he suddenly realized that the legend of the devil in the village for so many years was spread by the village chief.

After he understood the situation, he waited for the village chief and his son to leave every night, took the hoe and worked hard without regretting it.

During the day, he smelted the gold with impurities, then took it to the nearest town pawnshop and sold it, and immediately started living in the town.

But his sudden wealth still attracted the attention of interested people. The person who noticed him was none other than Masao Okada, the richest and most powerful boss in the town. He even opened the pawn shop where Koizumi went to pawn gold, and he immediately sent his men Follow Koizumi.

Xiaoquan is also a human spirit. He actually found out that someone was following him, so he used a trick to take the people around in a detour, hoping to get rid of the follower.

Masao Okada's men were not good at it either. When he found out that he was exposed, he was ready to take down Koizumi directly. He was so frightened that Koizumi ran away and lost all the gold he had mined in the past few days along the way.

I don’t know if the gold he lost attracted the attention of those people and allowed him to escape with great difficulty. After this time, he never dared to go to a town too close to spend money. Who knew that he was captured before he could set out again? Those wandering ninjas blocked the entrance to the village.

"This...this is the gold I mined and smelted..." After telling the whole story, Koizumi took out a dim gold nugget from his arms with his right hand that could still move.

"That's it! I know!" Zuo Yun roughly figured out the whole story.

The village chief and his son discovered the gold mine in the back mountain many years ago. They killed everyone who had been to the cave and blamed the devil for their death. They monopolized the gold mining. However, they were also very smart and never sold the stolen goods nearby, so there was no one around. noticed.

Until he was discovered by Junichiro Koizumi, but this idiot was too arrogant and was targeted by the boss of the town. A large amount of smelted gold was also discovered. Sakumo estimated that those wandering ninjas were recruited by the boss of the town, Masao Okada, with the purpose of intimidating the village. , not wanting to make the matter a big deal, let them move away by themselves, and then capture Xiaoquan and torture him to ask who are the insiders, so that he can monopolize the gold mine and slowly mine it.

After all, if those wandering ninjas were allowed to go on a killing spree, Konoha would be alarmed, and in the end the gains would outweigh the losses.

"Hmph! If you reveal anything when you get out later, those wandering ninjas won't catch you. I'll kill you first!" Zuo Yun sneered, put away the kunai, turned around and walked out.

"How's it going? Did you ask me anything?" Nonoyu asked quickly when he saw him coming out.

Zuo Yun glanced at the confused village chief and shook his head at Nonoyu.

It seems that this guy still doesn’t know what happened, no!It is estimated that he had some guesses in his mind, but more importantly he thought that he or his son had leaked the news.

"Sister Nonoyu, please help treat the guy inside!" Behind him, Koizumi covered his bleeding left hand and walked out tremblingly.

"I understand!" Nonoyu simply used a healing technique to help him stop the bleeding.

"Chief Kusao! I would like to ask, is there really nothing in the village that those wandering ninjas can peep at?" Zuo Yun wanted to give him one last chance to tell what he was hiding.

"Really... really not! I... our village has always lived in poverty." Village Chief Caosheng hesitated for a moment but still answered Zuo Yun firmly.

"Really? I understand!" Zuo Yun saw that he still didn't give up and didn't want to say anything more to him.

"Sister Nonoyu! Brother Dai, let's stay in the village first! Wait until those wandering ninjas come tomorrow!" Zuo Yun turned to Nonoyu and the others and said.

"Listen to you! Xiao Zuoyun!" The two of them had no objection.

It was getting dark, and several people asked the village chief to arrange a room for the night.

After dark.

Zuo Yun took Xiaoquan out of his home while he was recovering from his injuries.

"Zuo Yun-kun! Why are you still arresting him?" No Naiyu, who was following him, was a little confused.

Zuo Yun had already told them both the whole story.

"We still need him to take us to the gold mine to take a look! After all, it's just his one-sided story." Zuo Yun was not convinced yet.

"Let's go! Take us to the Houshan gold mine!" Zuo Yun asked Xiaoquan to lead them to the Houshan.

"Yes! Sir, can you let me go after this?" Koizumi looked at Zuo Yun timidly.

"Look at your performance!"

Several people came to the back mountain and found a cave. After entering, Zuo Yun used Kagura's inner eye to investigate.

"There's someone inside!" Zuo Yun opened his eyes and said with certainty.

And he also knew that it was none other than the village chief and a 30-year-old young man.

Nonoyu and Dai didn't ask him why he knew it, and followed him without saying a word.

Several people entered quietly and slowly heard the conversation in front.

"Father, are we really going to run away overnight after this?" the young man's voice sounded.

"Not bad! I guess this place has been exposed! The gold we have saved over the years is enough for us to squander. There is no need to risk our lives. Let's just let the Konoha ninjas fight those guys outside!" Another voice sounded. It belongs to the village chief of Caosheng.

"Really? Chief Caosheng, you are really dishonest~" Zuo Yun led everyone out.

"Who!!!" Cao Sheng was shocked and turned to Zuo Yun and the others with his hoe.

"It's...it's you!" Village Chief Caosheng's legs were trembling.

"What? Don't you know each other? I gave you a chance this afternoon! You failed!" Zuo Yun sneered.

"Please, sir! Let... let us, father and son go! We don't want any of this gold!!" Village Chief Caosheng pulled his son to his knees and begged.

"I don't need to deal with you, captain, come out!" Zuo Yun shouted behind him.

"Captain?" No Naiyu was a little shocked.

"That's right! The captain and senior Gu Jie have been following us." Zuo Yun nodded and confirmed.

"How did you know we were there?" Beihu Liu walked out with Gu Jie in the darkness.

"I just learned the secret of family investigation." Zuo Yun said modestly.

"Hmph! Family ninja!" Beihu Liu snorted with disdain.

"That's awesome! Zuoyun-kun!" Nonoyu looked at Zuoyun with admiration.

Zuo Yun smiled helplessly, this captain was really jealous of his family's blood-stained ninja.

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