"Look quickly, it's that child."
"I heard he's causing trouble on the street again, making a huge fuss, it's really annoying."
"I really don't understand why Lord Hokage still keeps this menace. It would be better to deal with him quickly, after all, he is the fox..."
"Quiet! Have you forgotten what you can and cannot say?"
"Tch! Forget it, forget it. We'll just ignore him from now on. We also need to tell the children not to play with him, he's really too dangerous, who knows when he might suddenly..."
Mouths speaking words with a temperature of over thirty degrees, yet the words themselves carried a chilling coldness, and pairs of eyes revealed indifference and even resentment.
This made the little blond boy walking on the street lower his head in bewilderment, looking as if he wanted to explain but didn't know how to speak, and in the end, he could only leave with a lonely back.
Xia Mu stood behind the crowd, silently watching the young Naruto walk away.
Looking up at the Hokage Rock again, the carved heads of the Four Hokage seemed to be silently guarding the Village.
"As expected, I've come to the Ninja World, and this is Konoha. Looking at Naruto, who seems to be five or six years old, similar to me, it appears there are about six years until the main plot officially begins."
Thinking this, Xia Mu decisively turned and went home.
His home was in a relatively remote part of the Village, far from the market, and it took him quite a while to get there.
There were fewer residents here, and it wasn't as lively as the market area, but the residential area was relatively larger, and basically every household had a small courtyard.
Xia Mu pushed open the gate to his courtyard, his gaze sweeping over the vegetable patch on one side of the yard. The vegetables of this season were growing well, lush green and tender, making one's mouth water.
On the other side of the courtyard, there was a rack of cured meat drying, surrounded by a fishing net to prevent birds and cats from stealing food.
Looking under the house wall, some dried sweet potatoes were also drying, and above the window, two strings of orange peels were hanging.
It felt incredible!
"Planting vegetables in my own yard, making cured meat and dried sweet potatoes, and even collecting orange peels - these are skills ingrained in the DNA of a 'Zhonghua' person. Perhaps, I might actually be a transmigration from birth, just temporarily losing my memory, and these actions were subconscious. It wasn't until I extracted Chakra yesterday that I awakened my past life memories."
Xia Mu remembered clearly that he had recently successfully passed the Ninja Academy assessment and received his admission notice.
So, he had been diligently training these past few days until he successfully extracted Chakra for the first time last night, and then he suddenly fainted.
After that, it was like a dream, the dream was full of memories from his past life.
To confirm some things, he ran to the market area early the next morning.
Seeing the Hokage Rock goes without saying, he also found familiar shops from the Naruto anime, such as Ichiraku Ramen, BBQ Q, Yamanaka Flower Shop, and Mandoten Ninja Tool Shop.
He even saw the young Naruto Uzumaki just now, which confirmed that he had truly come to the Ninja World.
Furthermore, he had roughly determined the current time point.
Looking at everything familiar in the courtyard now, he speculated that he might not have taken over someone else's body, and all the memories here belonged to him, which finally allowed him to relax.
However, this was just Xia Mu's psychological factor, and perhaps not very important.
What was important was that he had come to this dangerous world!
As everyone knows, the Ninja World is extremely dangerous and distorted, constantly destroying the world and occasionally losing humanity. Watching the anime felt passionate and moving, but now that he had truly transmigrated, he couldn't help but tremble.
Fortunately, this world had a savior arranged, so there was no need to worry about the world being destroyed.
As long as he let go of the savior complex, respected the world's destiny, and also respected the savior's destiny, and strived to live a wonderful life for himself, there was no need to think too much about other things.
Xia Mu determined his survival guideline, then quickly closed the courtyard gate and hurried back to the house to dig out his parents' belongings: a record scroll, two Kunai, ten shuriken, a Ninja Tool bag, and ten thousand ryo of Fire Country currency.
The record scroll contained nothing more than the method for extracting Chakra, the Three Body Technique, and some experience regarding throwing Kunai and shuriken, which wasn't of much value.
There was nothing he could do. Xia Mu's father was just an ordinary Genin, with average strength, only capable of throwing Ninja Tools and the Three Body Technique. Fortunately, he didn't die in the Nine-Tails attack but sacrificed himself during a subsequent escort mission, leaving basically nothing behind.
It was said that the culprit had been apprehended and executed, so now there wasn't even an enemy left.
Xia Mu was only three years old at that time.
Xia Mu's mother was an ordinary person. After hearing the bad news, she was heartbroken and raised Xia Mu with all her strength until he was five years old before passing away.
Starting as an orphan, the transmigration setting truly didn't deceive me.
But that was fine too. In such a dangerous and twisted world, having fewer ties might allow him to live a better life. If he accidentally became a rogue Ninja one day, he could leave freely without worrying about his parents.
Of course, humans are social animals and cannot endure long-term loneliness, so making some friends or finding a partner in the future would also be good.
Xia Mu flipped through the record scroll and then quickly closed it and put it aside.
He had already read the contents of the scroll countless times, and even the hand seals for the Three Body Technique were memorized perfectly. All he needed to do now was practice more.
He put the scroll and all the Ninja Tools back into the Ninja Tool bag, but when he picked up the ten thousand ryo, he couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
1 ryo = 10 yen ≈ 0.5 yuan, 10,000 ryo ≈ 5000 yuan.
What can 5000 yuan do?
A bowl of ordinary Ichiraku Ramen seems to be 60 ryo. If he ate a bowl of Ichiraku Ramen for all three meals a day, 10,000 ryo wouldn't last even two months. How could anyone live like that?
Oh right, it seems orphans get a subsidy, less than two thousand ryo a month, which only ensures they don't starve to death.
"Not starving to death is one thing, but a child's growth cannot do without nutrition, otherwise, their body won't develop well. A poorly developed body means not much Chakra, and not much Chakra means limited future achievements. Although I don't expect myself to achieve great things, if I can't even reach Shadow Level, wasn't the transmigration in vain?"
Xia Mu frowned, put away the ten thousand ryo, and thought about how to make money.
He couldn't shortchange himself, and even more so, he couldn't let himself live as uncomfortably as Naruto Uzumaki, not even being able to eat properly.
Naruto at least had the Uzumaki physique and Nine-Tails' Chakra, but eating instant noodles and ramen and drinking expired milk all day also made him grow into a short person. If it were any other child, they would probably have died from malnutrition long ago.
Just thinking about the days of instant noodles and ramen for every meal made Xia Mu tremble with fear. For a 'Zhonghua' person, such days were simply a disaster.
"But I'm only six years old, damn it! How can a six-year-old make money? Fortunately, before awakening my past life memories, I already knew how to plant vegetables, make cured meat, and other such things, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to take care of myself at all. However, I'm about to start Ninja Academy, and the training intensity will definitely increase, requiring more nutrition. Continuing with the same diet as before will definitely not be enough. How can I earn money?"