Chapter 111 A Short Period of Leisurely Life (Recommendations Required)

"Hehe." Ayane smiled when she heard Qianhe's praise. Her careful preparation was worth it.

"It's cold outside. Come in and have a cup of hot milk!" Qianhe quickly pulled Ayane in. He was such a hospitable person.

Since the September mission was completed and Qianhe visited Ayane's home again, there were basically no major missions in the past three months. They were all small missions of miscellaneous nature.

During this period, Qianhe basically focused on cultivation, which neglected Ayane.

However, since Qianhe went to her house last time, Ayane has been practicing harder than before.

So apart from the mission, the two of them only get together once every few days in private, eating, shopping, etc.

For some reason, after Qianhe shined in the soup country mission and became a little famous, he was not called in for the next few high-level missions.

On the contrary, several high-level missions were carried out by the guiding jonin of their seventh team and other chunin teams.

Left Qianhe, Caiyin, and Gekkou Jifeng in the village.

This puzzled Qianhe. Logically, after his strength was proven, the village should have assigned more difficult tasks, not to mention B, at least C-level.

During this period, the tasks they performed were all the most basic D and E-level tasks.

You must know that Konoha is short of manpower now, not the time ten years later when there were enough manpower and the Genin could only perform D and E-level tasks.

At this stage, Konoha's jonin resources are tight. At the same time, in order to increase the chunin ninjutsu, many teams that guide jonin can receive C-level escort tasks, just to let the Genin experience the battle earlier and grow earlier.

The local war between Konoha Village and Kumogakure Village has been going on.

When reading the original work, Qianhe never understood why Jiraiya was out collecting materials all year round and was unwilling to return to the village.

Until now, Qianhe finally understood that Jiraiya is now the biggest face of Konoha, and many important and difficult tasks in the village have been assigned to him.

On the one hand, he had to carry out the mission, and on the other hand, he had to investigate the whereabouts of Orochimaru. Only he was used to this kind of life of wandering outside all year round.

Anyway, if it was Qianhe, he would still like to stay in the village. Many backward villages outside did not even have electricity. The gap in infrastructure was as big as that of modern society and feudal society.

Of course, according to Jiraiya's personality, he actually lived quite freely outside, hanging out in major entertainment service places in the ninja world.

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After drinking a cup of hot milk at Qianhe's house, Ayane took Qianhe out to play in the snow.

How could a mature person like him do such a childish thing? Naturally, he refused righteously.

But he couldn't stop Ayane from hugging his arm and acting coquettishly, so Qianhe suggested that they go to eat meatballs together.

As soon as she heard that there were meatballs to eat, Ayane immediately forgot about playing in the snow.

The two went out together without calling Karin.

It's not that Qianhe didn't call her on purpose, but since winter came, Karin started to stay in bed, and even learned the classic lines that Qianhe used to say when she occasionally stayed in bed - I'm sealed by the quilt, I'll die if I don't sleep until eleven o'clock!

So now Qianhe usually doesn't call her to get up in the morning, but just boils a small pot of hot milk in a thermos every morning, and waits for her to get up and make her own bread and milk for breakfast.

But today, one of the two portions of milk was drunk by Ayane.

I didn't feel it when I lived alone before, but when I was relaxing after dinner and watching TV last night, Karin kept saying it was cold.

So Qianhe planned to go out today to buy a kotatsu and install it in the living room, and buy some snacks like dried persimmons by the way, so that there would be a bit of winter atmosphere.

Walking on the road, there was more than ten centimeters of snow under my feet.

It seems that Ayane likes snow very much, jumping all the way.

The two walked to the door of the meatball shop. As soon as they arrived at the door, Caiyin said with a smile: "Boss, I want ten skewers of meatballs!"

After walking into the shop and just sitting down, he looked at the two people sitting at the table in the opposite corner. He was stunned for a moment, and then a strange smile appeared on his face.

Itachi and Quan were sitting opposite each other. They were drinking hot tea and eating meatballs, talking and laughing, just like a young couple that others envied.

It's rare to see Itachi smile so cheerfully.

"Hey, Itachi, we meet again. This is the nth time this month. You two are progressing very fast. Every time I meet you here, you are together."

Qianhe walked up, put his arm around Itachi's shoulders, and sat on a stool beside him.

"Qianhe?" Itachi was stunned for a moment. Looking at Qianhe's arm on his shoulders, he was used to it.

He was used to being teased by Qianhe. After all, it seemed to be the fifth time this month... or even more.

Quanhe seemed a little embarrassed every time.

Qianhe also discovered a pattern. Itachi would basically come here to date Quan after every mission.

It's true that it's different when you start to be financially independent.

"Qianhe, the meatballs are here. Hey, Itachi and Izumi are here too. How are you guys?"

Ayane came over with a large plate of meatballs. She smiled and greeted the two of them, then sat next to Qianhe.

Due to Qianhe's presence, Ayane's relationship with Itachi and Izumi has improved a lot.

Izumi admired Qianhe's change.

Her previous impression of Ayane was that of a willful and capricious young lady.

I don’t know when Ayane was trained by Qianhe to be like this. For this reason, Izumi even asked Qianhe specifically what method was used to make such a big change in a person.

After all, the rapid development of Izumi and Itachi’s relationship was also because she believed Qianhe’s words and took the initiative to attack, and she also wanted to continue to learn.

In response, Qianhe only replied-she is greedy for my body!

In fact, the real situation is that as the two of them get better, and Qianhe’s strength has improved by leaps and bounds, now even if he gives in to Ayane, Ayane is not an opponent in sparring.

In the past few months, when the two were practicing alone in the grove, Qianhe finally avenged the initial "revenge".

He subdued Ayane in various postures.

Of course, because of the good relationship, Qianhe will not use heavy hands.

There is no such thing as slapping the face, just hitting some insensitive parts... (To prevent harmony, the specific content is omitted)

After eating the meatballs, the original shopping team expanded again.

When passing by a deserted alley, Ayane’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Qianhe, come and make a snowman!" Caiyin pinched a small snowball and then slowly rolled it on the ground.

Qianhe shook her head.

"Forget it, Quan, come and help me." Seeing that Qianhe didn't come, Caiyin didn't say much and turned to Quan for help.

Quan hesitated for a moment, glanced at Itachi, and saw that he was still smiling, so he joined the team playing in the snow.

"Quan, come, let's compete to see whose snowman is better and faster!" Caiyin was in high spirits.

How old are you?

Still playing such a childish game?

Qianhe shook his head and laughed.

"Itachi, do you want to play?" Qianhe glanced at Itachi and gave him a look that you know.

"I... forget it." Itachi shook his head.

At this time, Quan, who was pushing the snowball, turned back and Itachi shouted: "Itachi, come and help me!"

Itachi subconsciously glanced at Qianhe, and after the two looked at each other, he quickly shifted his gaze.

"Here we go." Then Itachi walked over with a normal look.

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Five minutes later——

"Qianhe, come on! If you roll a bigger snowball as your body, we'll win!" Ayane shouted excitedly.

"Okay, okay! Got it!" Qianhe began to exert his strength upon hearing this, and at the same time glanced at Itachi who was also rolling a snowball next to him.

At this time, Itachi seemed to sense it and shifted his gaze over.

Another five minutes later——

The snowmen on both sides were completed except for the face.

"It's still missing the eyes and nose. I forgot to prepare them when I came out..." Ayane wrinkled her nose slightly, feeling a little sorry.

At this time, Qianhe silently untied the storage scroll tied to his arm, and his action immediately attracted the attention of Ayane, Itachi and Quan.

When he calmly took out the eggs and carrots from the storage scroll and handed them to Ayane, he clearly felt the shock of the three.

Especially Itachi, who was usually the calmest, but had the biggest reaction.

He widened his eyes, as if to say: Don't you want to play? Are all the props ready?

"Yeah, we won! Hmm~"

When Qianhe's snowman was completed first, Ayane kissed Qianhe's face excitedly.

After the kiss, Ayane suddenly reacted and fiddled with the snowman with a blushing face.

Qianhe, on the other hand, looked normal, as if nothing had happened.

Quan's eyes were full of surprise, and his eyes subconsciously turned to Itachi.

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Just as Qianhe and the others were enjoying a pleasant leisure time, an important meeting was taking place in the Raikage's office in the Hidden Cloud Village.