Konoha Sheriff

"Huh? How could I..."

Staring at the unfamiliar big house in front of him, Quan, who had just woken up, couldn't help but feel a little bored.

"Awake? I thought you would be unconscious until tomorrow morning."

Beichen, who heard the commotion, poked his head out of the kitchen and gave the little girl a sunny smile.

This smile fell in the girl's eyes, but her body froze, and she secretly took a look at her clothes. After making sure that no one had touched them, the girl let out a long, subtle sigh of relief.

Glancing at the clock hanging on the wall, she found that the time had reached around eleven o'clock in the evening. The girl's originally relaxed face turned pale.

It's actually so late... My mother must be worried to death at home.

"Minister Beichen, I'm sorry to cause you any trouble. It's getting late, so I'll take my leave."

Quan Yu quickly dropped this sentence and turned around to leave.

Beichen understood what the little girl was worried about. He first returned to the kitchen and took out the washed lunch box, and then a teleportation technique appeared in front of the girl in the courtyard:

"Here, return the lunch box to you."

Quan was startled by the sudden appearance of Beichen, but after hearing his words clearly, he still took the lunch box and opened it with some curiosity.

Looking at the clean lunch box, the girl couldn't help but asked curiously:

"Have...all eaten?"

She was a little unbelievable, thinking that as the police minister, Beichen should have been used to eating delicacies from all over the world, and even if he could eat his own lunch, he would only taste it briefly.

"Well, it tastes very good, but the tamagoyaki is a bit fishy after the second heating, but this is not a problem with your craftsmanship." After praising the little girl's cooking skills, Beichen thought for a while and said:

"Will your family complain if you go home at this time? Do you need me to take you back and explain something to you?"

"No..." Quan subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when he thought of the storm he might face after returning home, he finally nodded imperceptibly.

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On the way home, the two of them did not continue to talk.

The little girl was still worried that her mother would scold her when she got home, so she just walked ahead holding her lunch box and lowering her head.

As for Beichen, he just gave the girl away out of consideration for safety and to help the other party, so naturally he would not deliberately think about any topics.

If there was any exchange between the two during this period, it would be that when the two passed by a street near the main entrance of the clan, Beichen suddenly noticed that several eyes were on them.

Looking up, Beichen found that the source of those sights was coming from the two tall buildings on the outskirts of the clan that were still brightly lit at night.

After noticing his movements, Quan subconsciously explained:

"Those people are monitoring the streets around here almost 24 hours a day. Whenever you pass by here, you will feel these eyes, so everyone will subconsciously speed up their pace when passing by here."

"Then let's leave quickly."

Quickly leaving the unpleasant street, a group of buildings immediately appeared in front of Beichen's eyes.

This is considered a civilian area within the Uchiha clan. Most of the Uchiha civilians and low-level ninjas live here.

Quan led Beichen through the building complex, and finally stopped in front of a mansion whose architectural specifications were somewhat similar to the Big Bear family in Doraemon.

"I, I'm here, please send me back."

Quan turned his head and saluted Beichen, thanking him for sending him home.

Logically speaking, Beichen should have said goodbye and left at this time, but he still took a step forward, crossed over to the little girl, and knocked on the door.

After a while, the door was opened by a woman who looked very similar to Quan.

The woman must have been a beauty when she was young, but probably because of the relatively high pressure in life, time has not been kind to her, and many fine lines have appeared on her face.

Quan's mother was obviously already waiting impatiently at home. As soon as she opened the door, she started complaining:

"I also know which way the door opens. I thought my wings were stiff and I wanted to go out and fly..."

After saying these words, Beichen subconsciously twitched the corner of his mouth.

I can only say that mothers are the same all over the world, and the same is true in the Naruto world...

Quan's mother obviously didn't expect that it wasn't her daughter who knocked on the door. Her rambling words suddenly stopped when she saw Beichen's face, and then she was stunned for a long time.

"Cough cough!"

It wasn't until the little girl coughed hard twice that Quan's mother came back to her senses:

"Quan, who is this?"

Housewives like Quan's mother, who stayed in the clan all year round, rarely interacted with police force personnel because their basic necessities, food, clothing, housing, and transportation were all in the clan. Therefore, although she had heard of Beichen's name, she had never seen him. The true face of Lushan Mountain in Guo Beichen.

"Um, hello, aunt. My name is Uchiha Beichen. I am currently the director of the police force. I need help with some trivial matters in the police force, so I forced Izumi to do some work for me. I'm sorry for not being in advance. inform you."

Beichen actually kept his mission in mind, and naturally thought of a reason to help Quan explain the specific reason why he came so late.

Quan's mother was shocked by Beichen's self-destruction, and when she heard that Quan was working for the police force, her dissatisfaction immediately disappeared.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay. It's obviously a blessing for the police force to take a liking to this girl... Um, would you like to have Minister Beichen come over to the house to sit for a while?"

"That's no need. It's getting late. I won't bother you mother and daughter anymore."

Drinking tea at the house of an orphan and a widowed mother in the ninja world in the middle of the night felt a bit weird no matter how much I thought about it. Beichen, who wanted to capture the police force, didn't want this kind of thing to become a black material for others to attack him.

Therefore, he just left such a sentence and then politely said goodbye and left.

"Mom, stop looking, Minister Beichen has already gone away."

Seeing that Beichen had disappeared at the end of the street, his mother was still watching him dreamily. Quan, who had been a little transparent for a long time, couldn't help but remind him again.

"Do I have to tell you?" Quan's mother stretched out her hand unnaturally and poked Quan's little head, and then dragged her daughter into the house:

"Daughter, tell mom honestly, when did you and Minister Beichen meet..."

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On the way back, Beichen once again passed the street where the two tall buildings could clearly be seen. He stood on the street and stared at the two tall buildings for a long time.

I was subconsciously thinking and calculating in my heart, how long it would take to demolish these two dilapidated buildings or take them for myself.

But what he didn't know was that when he was staring at the two tall buildings, the guys in the tall buildings were also conveying content related to him:

"Notify Lord Danzo that someone who has interacted with Uchiha Beichen has been found!"