The main Hokage man will only hinder my speed in making hand seals

The New Year is approaching, and after temporarily forgetting the war and blood, there is finally a little joy in this land.

The fluttering snowflakes fell, covering the mountains and fields, and dyeing the roofs and streets white.

This is the first snow of this winter. It came quietly and silently while people were still sleeping.

The next day, when people who got up early opened the door, they saw a vast expanse of snow.

Haruka was staying in the room thinking about what New Year's gift to give to the little bee when Izumi suddenly came in from the window.

He excitedly pinched a snowball, then held it close to Qinghe's face to freeze her: "Come on, let's go have a snowball fight."

He saw that Qinghe had been staying in the house for more than a month and had not stepped out of the door. He really didn't know how she could stay there.

Did something happen?

Izuna was really worried about her, so she came over today to try to get her out to play.

But Qinghe still didn't seem to want to go out, she looked uninterested.

"Today is New Year's Day after all, you seem to be quite energetic." Izuna held up a snowball, waiting for her consent before launching the attack.

Qinghe pulled up his collar to cover the lower half of his face, and pointed to the report on the table: "I'm looking at this year's fiscal revenue and expenditure table, so I don't have time to play childish games."

There were two stacks of paper documents on the table in front of her, which should be the reports she was talking about.

After being called childish, Izunai put down her restless hands and threw the snowball in her hand out of the window with a blush.

Qinghe was doing serious work, and it seemed a bit childish for him to pester her to play.

"From the Qing Kingdom?" Izuna pretended to be serious and changed the subject.

His impression of Qing Kingdom was still at the stage of building the capital, but he didn't expect it to get on track so quickly.

Qinghe stretched lazily, then slowly stood up, walked to the window and looked at the snow scene outside.

She introduced the current development of Qing Kingdom to Izuna:

"In the second half of the year, some people settled near the capital. In order to protect them, Yinalian expanded the scope of the barrier."

That kind of large barrier consumes the materials of the array base, so Inalin applied to spend some magic stones.

"Although the first three years will be tax-free for the people, after all, they are fugitives and have almost no assets."

If I had any savings, I wouldn't have been driven to a deserted place like Qing Country.

“So in order to ensure that they survive this winter, Inalien lent them some funds to help them settle down.”

"Perhaps because of this reason, more and more people choose to settle in Qing Kingdom."

If there are more, that small space will become very crowded.

As Qinghe spoke, he gathered the snow on the windowsill into a pile and started to roll it into a ball.

"Although it cost a lot of money, Inalien and her friends had a great time. Overall, everything went well."

Quannai pinched his chin and thought for a moment. He suggested: "Should we arrange guards? If things develop too fast, it will easily attract covetousness."

"That's not necessary. Inalen is great. Instead of worrying about this, Izuna should think about it..." Haruka dragged out his voice and only said half of the sentence.

"What are you thinking about?"

As soon as Izunai finished speaking, a snowball hit him in the face, and the white snow scattered and fell all over his head and face.

"I get one point first." Qinghe ran after hitting the snowball and jumped out of the window to make a new snowball.

Izuna: “???” Didn’t she just say it was childish?

"You're cheating!"

Well, she said it so seriously, but it turned out that she just wanted to trick him into dropping the snowball in his hand first.

Izunai chased after him, not wanting to be outdone, and bent down to make a snowball from the ground while dodging.

He remembered the revenge for this sneak attack, and he also wanted to beat Qinghe until his head was covered in snow.

"Watch out, Shuriken Snowball Technique!" Izuna threw the snowball she had just made at Haruka.

Of course there was no way Qinghe would be hit by him, so she hid behind a tree and avoided the snowball perfectly.

The two chased each other in the woods behind the courtyard, throwing snowballs back and forth.

While running, Haruka suddenly stopped and stretched out her hand to signal Izuna to pause.

"Something is peeking."

There was a dark guy wearing a bamboo hat who just emerged from the snow. After he noticed Qinghe saw him, he quickly ran away.

Qinghe had some impression of that guy, the famous Venus flytrap in the Akatsuki organization.

It's probably still about eighty or ninety years before the Akatsuki organization was founded. Wow, that guy is really alive.

Izuna looked in the direction of Haruka's gaze, but he didn't sense anything.

But he still chose to trust Qinghe's judgment: "Tsk, he's already escaped. It seems that the tribe needs to be more vigilant recently."

No matter what that person's purpose was in sneaking in, he was so sneaky, it was definitely because he had bad intentions.

Seeing that Izuna was thinking again, Haruka leaped up and kicked the tree next to him: "Ha, it's my victory after all."

The tree shook violently, and the thick snow pressing on the branches poured down like an avalanche.

Izuna was almost buried in the snow. He crawled out of the snow, rolled up a snowball and threw it at Haruka: "You took advantage of someone's misfortune. You're playing dirty!"

She used all her cunning on him, didn't she?! Izuna's rage value increased by one.

Qinghe easily dodged the flying snowball. She shook her head with some sympathy in her eyes.

"This is the adult world, Izuna, tsk tsk."

What does it mean to take advantage of someone's misfortune? She is obviously good at seizing opportunities.

Izuna was about to catch up, but suddenly frowned and took a breath.

He held onto the tree and reached out to Qinghe with a painful look on his face: "My leg is cramping, come and help me."

"Izuna's acting is really bad." Haruka turned around and ran towards the front yard.

He wanted to trick her into going under a tree to get wet in the snow, but that was impossible.

"Then if you have the guts, don't run." Seeing that Qinghe was not fooled, Izuna immediately made a snowball and continued to chase him.

"Ah, Izuna is incapable of catching up with her?"

Qinghe turned around and ran backwards, smiling and giving Izuna a thumbs-up: "Little Izuna, take it~"

"...You are too arrogant!"

After being ridiculed, Izuna's rage value increased by another five. He was definitely going to hit her today!

Izuna gave up on skills and only competed on speed and quantity.

The random snowball actually hit Haruka, and Izuna worked even harder when she saw this.

Suddenly, snowballs fell in the yard like raindrops.

A snowball went off track and flew towards the gate of the yard, almost accidentally injuring Ban who was carrying vegetables.

Madara dodged to the side and looked at the fierce snowball fight in the yard. He could only smile helplessly: "Don't use ninjutsu when playing snowball fights, right?"

"Brother Madara, you don't understand. This is my last dignity." Izuna only hit Qinghe once, and he didn't even know how many times she hit him.

Uchiha men will never admit defeat!

"Then come on, Izuna." Madara hoped that Izuna wouldn't be hit too badly.

"Qinghe, let's celebrate the New Year together today. I'll borrow your kitchen for you."

Madara picked up the dish in his hand: "Let's eat Sukiyaki."

While dodging snowballs, Haruka found the time to reply, "Madara wants to cook? Great, Kiri Kuni is in there too."

Since he couldn't get through the front yard, Ban walked around to the back door and reminded him, "Don't go too far."

"I know." Izumi and Haruka answered in unison.

Then, the snowball attack in the front yard became more intense.

The kitchen is very spacious and Yamaubakiri is preparing dinner in it.

Madara and Izuna had met him once and knew that he was Haruka's subordinate.

"Lord Madara." Yamaubakiri turned around with a spatula and greeted Madara first.

Madara nodded at him and put the dishes on the counter: "Let's add some dishes and celebrate the New Year together."

"Okay, leave it to me."

Yamaubakiri was very happy that someone came to accompany Haruha to celebrate the New Year, so he treated Madara better.

Madara waved his hand to refuse: "No, I can do it."

Although his tribesmen called him Young Master Ban before, he was not a real young master who had never done housework.

As night fell, the victorious Haruka and the completely convinced Izumi took a truce.

They returned to the house, cleaned themselves up, and sat at the table to prepare to celebrate the New Year together.

"Here, New Year's gifts." Haruka began to distribute the gifts.

She prepared amulets for Madara and Izuna, and a new cloak for Yamaubakiri.

Madara was also prepared. He handed Izuna a new and more handy samurai sword, and then took out a small box for Haruka.

In the box was a pair of small and exquisite golden bells, which Ban bought at a jewelry store when he was on a mission.

"I saw Qinghe always had only one headband in her hair, and I thought it would be nice for girls to accessorize their hair once in a while."

In fact, it was because Madara saw that other women in the town were wearing ornaments, and then he thought of Haruwa who didn't even have a hair ornament.

Although Qinghe may not like conspicuous decorations, he can't really have nothing, right? That's why he chose a low-key hair accessory.

"I like it very much." Qinghe immediately tied the bell to her hairline.

Hey, there are little bells in her hair again, and this one can ring.

Seeing that Haruka was very satisfied, Madara breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention to the fourth person present.

"Sorry, I didn't expect you to come." Madara said to Yamaubakiri. He didn't prepare any more gifts.

Yamaubakiri lowered his hood, somewhat unaccustomed to being specifically explained things to. He didn't think much about it because he had only prepared a gift for Haruhe.

"No, you don't need to. I'm the oldest, so I should prepare gifts for all of you."

Yamaubakiri gave the gift to Haruka first, then took out two red envelopes and handed them to Madara and Izuna: "Happy New Year."

Izunai slowly opened his eyes in a daze. They all prepared New Year gifts, but he was the only one who didn't prepare anything?

"Okay, okay, Izuna is the youngest, so you don't need to prepare any gifts." Haruka comforted him.

Izunai blushed and promised, "Humph, I'll prepare double portions for you next year."

The four of them sat together. In addition to the sukiyaki and tempura prepared by Madara, there were also glutinous rice lotus root, garlic spare ribs and squirrel mandarin fish prepared by Yamaubakiri.

Paired with some side dishes and snacks, it can be said to be a rich meal.

Yamaubakiri poured wine for Madara and they both drank a little.

"It's great, another year has passed." Ban's brows softened, and his tone was a mixture of emotion and confusion.

I am lucky enough to have lived another year with all my limbs intact.

After the New Year, the war will begin again. Let’s try to sit together like this next year.