The first snow after the Chinese New Year came quietly, and it was extremely cold, and the cold snowflakes falling on the body would soon turn into a bone-chilling air.

This snow was very heavy, enveloping most of the Uchiha family's territory, and even most of the area of Senju, at least at this moment, the mood of the two clans was the same, and they just wanted the cold to pass quickly.

The climate in the north is colder than in the tribe land, and there is no one to be seen on the originally bustling streets of Shinjo, except for a few patrolling shinobi in thick clothes.

The various shops lining the streets, where vendors roast around the stoves, have relocated after the stabilization of the north, and are required to pay regular taxes to the Uchiha in the north to settle here.

In this era of war, the clans of the various great ninja clans are not open to the public, and it has become a luxury to find a peaceful city, and there is no complaint about paying taxes.

Compared with the clan land, the New Year in the north is not inferior, they have already exterminated the three forces in the north before, and reaped a lot of benefits, which can be described as rich, in the New Year, Uchiha Shinji waved his hand and distributed a large number of materials to the clansmen, ushering in a large number of applause.

Of course, the distribution was limited to the Uchiha people in the north, and those who came to the north to seek stability could not have received this kind of benefit.

Where there is light, there will inevitably be darkness, and happiness also means relative suffering, and even in this thriving northern city, there are many problems.

With the influx of a large number of people into the north, it is natural that they cannot all be rich merchants or nobles, in fact, ordinary people who cannot pay taxes account for the vast majority, and they are not accepted by the city, so they become beggars, hooligans, ruffians, etc., and turn into the shadow of the city.

This is actually an inevitability in development, in the early rise of every big city, there will inevitably be this kind of stage, at the beginning Uchiha Shinji also thought about rectification, sent Uchiha's ninjas to uproot several of the gangsters, ruffian gangs.

But he soon found that it was of no avail, that there was still a steady stream of poor people coming here, and that there was no way to stop it, and that he could not kill them all.

In this chaotic Warring States, most of them are gathered in extremely primitive villages, or ninja tribes, and even small towns are few, and only the largest daimyo forces own the castles.

Shinjo was originally only a small town larger, but later Uchiha Shinji mobilized ninjas to expand the castle in order to develop, and there was a vague prototype of the future big city, this kind of place, in this chaotic Warring States is like a beacon, the poor who have suffered from the war, even if they are just instinctive, will naturally gather here.

Faced with these large numbers of poor people, Zhiha really cured his headaches, and later he adopted a helpless method that had been used by countless sages in the other world.

Gather these poor people who cannot afford to survive in one place, set aside an area for them to survive, and leave them to fend for themselves, maintaining only nominal leadership and surveillance.

Slums, thus appeared. Here, there are no rules, only the naked/naked strong are honored, chaos, hunger, filth, depravity, can be intuitively reflected here, often for the sake of a meal, the man here is able to give up everything he has. Of course, in reality, most of them have nothing but their lives.

But at the very least, there is one advantage here that other places do not have, that is, this is still the city of faith, there is no war here, and this alone makes countless people want to live this life like hell rather than leave.

After all, it's just like hell here, and the rest of Sengoku is a real hell. Those who have not seen the horrors of war will never understand what kind of cruelty it is.

This New Year, Uchiha Shinji did not forget this group of poor people in the dark, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, he distributed a large amount of food to the slums, which was somewhat of a contribution.

Now seven days have passed since Chinese New Year's Eve, and the food that Uchiha Shinji gave out that day has long been exhausted, in fact, even on that day, the food distributed is not enough.

At ten o'clock in the evening, in a dilapidated wooden house with wind leaking everywhere, the north wind howled, raising a large snowflake pouring in, and the little girl who was curled up trembled in the only broken blanket in the house, her bare calves were numb from the cold, her little face was dirty, and she could only see the passive redness, and she could not see what she looked like, and her hair was also yellowish due to long-term malnutrition, and now it was stained with a layer of snow.

In fact, this wooden house does not play the slightest role in keeping out the cold, and the only thing that can provide it is probably a trace of comfort in the heart.

The little girl, who was only about nine years old, was waiting for her sister, who had not eaten for two days, and if there was no food, she would probably not be able to hold out for another two days in this bitter cold weather.

Then she will become a dead body in the slums, a corpse that she has often seen and is no stranger to, and where everyone does not have the attitude to look at such corpses more than once.

I don't know how long I waited, the little girl opened her eyes in a daze, and what caught her eyes was a girl dressed in frost and snow, about two years older than her, the two looked very similar, she was the little girl's sister.

"I'm hungry, eat it. The girl spoke, gently helping her sister to remove the snowflakes from her head, and took out a piece of hard plaster food from her bosom.

My sister's eyes lit up, and she whispered in surprise: "Rice cake, sister, you really have the ability, where did you come from?"

The girl smiled softly, but did not speak, and the two of them carefully made a fire in the hut, and roasted rice cakes with branches on the fire, and when they were a little softer, the younger sister couldn't wait to take a bite, she was really hungry.

The girl looked at her sister with a smile on the corner of her mouth, at this moment, it was the greatest happiness to be able to surround a fire and watch her sister swallow food in a big gulp.

"Sister, you eat too. My sister ate half of it and handed the rest over. The girl shook her head lightly and smiled: "You eat, I have eaten." "

How could my sister not see that this was a pretext, so she stuffed the remaining half of the rice cake into her hand regardless of it, and whispered: "You told me that you lied but swallowed a thousand needles, sister." "

Looking at her sister's serious gaze, a layer of mist appeared in the girl's eyes, and she nodded invisibly.

"Haha, I found it, the cake thief turned out to be here. "

At this moment, a discordant voice was heard, and a figure appeared in front of the broken wooden door. _

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