Chapter 392: 392. Chapter 384: Who exactly screwed whom?

392. Chapter 384: Who exactly screwed whom?

"So, you're very rich now?"

Uchiha Gin tilted his head, the look in his eyes when he looked at Kakuzu carried a different kind of brilliance. He just liked making friends with rich people.

Although it was impossible for them to be richer than him~

"Uh..."

Kakuzu was seriously counting the storage scrolls he carried with him when he suddenly felt a chill behind his back. A sense of being coveted arose spontaneously.

Subconsciously gripping the scroll in his hand, Kakuzu looked at Uchiha Gin with a very vigilant expression.

"My money is all deposited in the bank, and it's a fixed-term deposit."

Don't even think about getting a single copper coin out of me!

"Don't misunderstand. A gentleman loves money, but he takes it in the right way."

Seeing Kakuzu's intense reaction, Uchiha Gin immediately waved his hand. Although he liked to cheat people out of money a little, when was it not justified and in accordance with the heavens? He was by no means the type to rob others by force.

Just as Uchiha Gin was thinking about how to get Lao Du's gold coins through regular channels, Shenhuo, whose face was changing between cloudy and sunny, brought his wife over.

However, compared to Shenhuo's worried look, Zhenzi was more interested in the Mixue Bingcheng in her hand, puffing out her small cheeks as she savored the mellow and delicious milk tea, her half-closed eyes filled with happiness.

"Senior Sword! This is delicious, I brought you a cup too~"

Zhenzi smilingly handed a cup of hot milk tea to Kakuzu, earning a slightly reproachful look from him.

"Why waste money on this? This cup must cost 1000 ryo, which is enough for my living expenses for a week."

"I won this cup in a lucky draw. If you don't drink it, it will be a waste."

"Waste is shameful."

After Zhenzi's explanation, Kakuzu, who upheld the philosophy of diligence and thrift, finally took the milk tea, though his eyes carried a hint of relief.

The warm scene with full familial affection made Uchiha Gin unable to open his eyes. When did Lao Du recognize a daughter?

"Are you two performing a strict father and filial daughter act for me here?"

"I'm not close to her, it's just..."

Kakuzu, who was drinking milk tea happily, subconsciously retorted when he heard Uchiha Gin's slightly teasing voice.

However, upon seeing Zhenzi's somewhat disappointed expression, his open mouth paused, and he did not say the words that followed.

Shenhuo, on the other hand, took a step forward and stood in front of Uchiha Gin, who was eating melons. In the other party's puzzled gaze, he performed a prostration with his butt stuck high in the air.

"Please, I beg you, help Zhenzi!"

"Oh?"

Uchiha Gin raised his eyebrows, propping his chin with both hands, revealing an expression that said "continue, I'm listening."

"Zhenzi, she is pregnant."

"I know."

"Huh?"

"I'm not blind. Her belly is so big, it can't be that she's bloated from eating too much... right?"

"Crunch~ crunch~ crunch~"

Seeing Shenhuo's shocked look, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but roll his eyes. Just as he finished half of his sentence, an untimely chewing sound rang out from the side.

"Senior Sword, the corn I brought from home tastes good, right? I planted this myself~"

Zhenzi, who had pulled a large package from nowhere, was chewing on the corn she had taken out with great relish; not only did she stuff her own mouth, but she also generously shared an ear with Kakuzu beside her.

"Thank you, I'm not hungry yet."

Looking at the plump corn, Kakuzu waved his hand in refusal with black lines all over his face.

"Zhenzi, your appetite is as good as ever."

"Because I need to replenish nutrition recently."

While speaking, a mountain-like pile of corn cobs appeared on the ground. If the Koreans saw this, they would definitely call it a waste.

"Of course, it doesn't exclude that she ate too much."

Seeing this scene, Uchiha Gin changed the subject and revealed the same expression as Kakuzu.

"Zhenzi is a bit gluttonous, but she really is pregnant."

Shenhuo looked at his wife, who was eating like a machine, and scratched his head in embarrassment. The pity in his eyes flashed by, then turned into deep worry.

"However, our child has some problems."

"Tell me about it."

Uchiha Gin glanced at Zhenzi, who was eating like a horse, and then spoke up.

"Satoru told Zhenzi that the child she is carrying is a monster."

"What exactly is going on?"

Kakuzu, who had been eavesdropping on the side for a long time, couldn't help but interrupt and ask, the worry in his eyes not appearing fake.

"Lord Shen, that's just Wu's one-sided statement."

Zhenzi, who was chewing corn, also leaned over, pouting unhappily.

"But your physical condition has been getting worse day by day since you got pregnant. Isn't this the same as what Wu said?"

Shenhuo straightened his face, pointed at Zhenzi, who was covered in food residue, and said with a pained expression.

"Uh... it's just that my body has become a bit weak. Isn't this similar to the early pregnancy symptoms the doctor in town mentioned?"

Zhenzi, not wanting to make her husband too worried, still stubbornly retorted.

"Zhenzi, if you are really uncomfortable, go to a regular hospital and find a good physician to check it out."

Kakuzu finally understood Zhenzi's current situation; when they met earlier, he thought she was simply pregnant.

He had even thought about preparing a red envelope after the competition, but he didn't expect that the child Zhenzi was carrying had actually developed problems.

"Come here and let me see."

This situation was quite interesting. As a person with strong curiosity, Uchiha Gin naturally wouldn't let such an unheard-of thing pass, and he beckoned to the indignant Zhenzi.

"It's not that I doubt your strength, Brother Decade, but regarding obstetrics and gynecology, do you really know it?"

Zhenzi, who had come over very reluctantly, looked at Uchiha Gin with a face full of suspicion.

"I know a little, I know a little~"

Sure enough, handsome people will always be inexplicably questioned.

"I still think the gynecological expert in Konoha is more reliable."

"Uh... my technique is fifty-fifty with him. If you don't believe me, wait until I finish checking for you, and then you can go find him to see if what we both said is exactly the same."

He didn't expect Zhenzi to doubt his medical skills, but wearing this disguise, he indeed lacked credibility. Uchiha Gin wasn't angry and signaled for her to extend her hand.

Placing his hand on Zhenzi's wrist, Uchiha Gin sent a wisp of perception chakra into her body, which passed through a long and tedious meridian path before finally reaching the cradle where the infant was being nurtured.

"Eh?"

Uchiha Gin frowned; the child Zhenzi was carrying indeed had some problems.

In his perception, the baby that had just formed was actually emitting an aura exactly the same as that monster Wu.

Uchiha Gin, afraid that he had misdiagnosed, turned on his Byakugan, looked through layers of obstacles, finally reached the baby, and saw it thoroughly.

"It really is..."

After confirming it again and again, he closed his Byakugan, Uchiha Gin withdrew his hand, and began to ponder while touching his chin.

Something was wrong, very, very wrong. Although the Zhenzi before him had once been possessed by Satoru, after he sealed Satoru into a card, she should have returned to being a normal human; how could she be pregnant with a child carrying Satoru's chakra?

"What did that monster say to you?"

Because he had no clue, Uchiha Gin turned to ask what Wu had said before.

"Uh... it said this child is its."

When asked this question, Zhenzi's face didn't look too good, but she still answered truthfully.

"Huh? Kid, you've been cuckolded!"

Uchiha Gin turned his head, looked at Shenhuo, who was anxious on the side, with a face full of comfort.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Shenhuo was anxious; his bond with Zhenzi was stronger than gold, and he would absolutely never commit infidelity.

"Exactly, exactly. Wu's voice is female, how could I have anything with it... uh?"

Zhenzi also defended herself, and very seriously revealed a piece of information that no one else knew. As soon as she said it, she froze in place, her face changing colors, flashing red and green.

"Oho~ Kid, you are truly the successor of the Great Emperor Beifeng!"

With a strange cry, Uchiha Gin's eyes became gossipy. He scanned Shenhuo, who was confused, a few times, and revealed an expression of great admiration.

"I'm not, I didn't!"

Seeing everyone's eyes looking at him, Shenhuo was suddenly panicked, waving his hands repeatedly to show his innocence.

"Zhenzi, believe me, I only love you in my life!"

Seeing his wife's face getting uglier, Shenhuo hurriedly raised his hand to swear.

"Shenhuo, I believe you, but I want to ask you a question."

Zhenzi's expression turned cold; she said she believed him, but even the way she addressed him had become somewhat distant.

"Don't say one, even if it's a hundred or a thousand, I will answer truthfully, without half a lie."

"Alright, I ask you, how many times do we do that a week?"

"Ah? Do I really have to answer this question?"

Shenhuo was stunned when he heard this, and his expression became coy.

"Must answer!"

"Five times."

"Snap!"

The corn cob in her hand instantly turned to powder, and Zhenzi raised her head, her face terrifyingly dark.

"Is it not right? Actually, sometimes it's six times, and basically it's in the middle of the night when I come back from the night watch..."

Shenhuo, thinking he had answered incorrectly, hurriedly tried to remedy the situation, but as he spoke, Zhenzi's expression became increasingly terrifying.

"Brother Decade, do you know how to perform physical sterilization? I think Shenhuo needs a minor surgery."

Zhenzi felt she had been backstabbed. Clearly, the two of them only did that once or twice a week, and it was always when Shenhuo was resting during the day. Now that he told her they were "singing songs every night," who could bear that?

"Sigh, he just made a mistake that every man would make."

Uchiha Gin also figured out the reason, so he spoke up to fan the flames. Anyway, it had nothing to do with him~

Satoru was indeed right; the child in Zhenzi's belly was indeed its own, but it was a crystallization of it and Shenhuo. It was likely that Satoru had taken over Zhenzi's body while she was off guard to create a "smurf" account.

"Go to hell! Shenhuo!"

Jealousy burned; Zhenzi never dreamed that one day she would be NTR'd by a monster, and it was using her own body, no less.

She didn't get to enjoy it, and she had to help this pair of adulterers give birth to a child. Who could she reason with?

The only way now was to cut it!

So she waved her fist, picked up Shenhuo, and gave him a fat beating. The punches hitting the flesh made the people around feel cold.

"Don't! Zhenzi, I was passive."

Bearing his wife's anger, Shenhuo, who felt extremely aggrieved in his heart, couldn't help but appeal for himself.

No wonder Zhenzi was so proactive at night and her movements were so rough; it turned out it wasn't her at all!

"Alright, alright, if you keep hitting him like this, when will he die?"

Looking at Shenhuo, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, Uchiha Gin called a stop to the domestic violence scene.

"Hmph!"

Zhenzi snorted coldly, threw the pig-headed Shenhuo aside like a rag, and took out the corn from her package to chew on.

After exercising just now, she was hungry again.

Ever since she became pregnant, Zhenzi's hunger had become increasingly intense. Fortunately, the vitality in her body was much deeper than that of an ordinary person, otherwise, she would have been sucked into a dried-up husk by the child in her womb long ago.

"Brother Decade, can you help us?"

Shenhuo, like a dead dog, crawled to Uchiha Gin's feet and raised his head tremblingly.

"There is, it's just this..."

Uchiha Gin had many solutions for Zhenzi's current situation, but if he told her easily, it would make his own status seem cheap. He immediately extended his finger and made a "money" gesture.

"We have it. This is the money the two of us have saved over the years. Please point us in the right direction!"

Shenhuo, who understood in seconds, pulled out the scroll at his waist and respectfully handed it to Uchiha Gin.

Zhenzi was only three months pregnant, yet she was already this weak. If it dragged on any longer, she would likely die before the child was even born.

"Tsk... just this little bit? Do you think I'm doing charity?"

Taking the scroll, Uchiha Gin explored it with full expectation, and his face instantly became ugly. There was no mountain of gold and silver he believed in, only a few stacks of banknotes, totaling less than one gold brick.

No, you two have hands and feet, it shouldn't be that you only saved such a little money after so many years, right?

"Zhenzi's appetite is usually quite large, so..."

Shenhuo scratched his head in embarrassment. He had been working two jobs in the town for these years, earning bounties outside during the day and working the night watch in the town at night. Life could be considered rich.

But unfortunately, his wife was too big an eater. During her teenage years, Zhenzi was already a competent big eater, and after pregnancy, it was even more incredible.

Her small body could hold several times more food than herself, and the requirements were not low. It had to be that kind of high-protein and high-calorie food.

"You mean I can eat? You weren't like this before!"

Upon hearing this, Zhenzi felt a chill of anger. Sure enough, whatever a man who made a mistake said was wrong.

"If there is only this little, I can't help you. I don't necessarily want how much money, I just want an attitude~"

Throwing the scroll back, Uchiha Gin opened his mouth with the famous quotes of XXN, which made people's blood pressure soar.

"This..."

The couple looked at each other, and for a while, they had no idea.

"How much is missing."

Just then, Kakuzu, who had been listening on the side, suddenly spoke.

"Uh... Senior Sword, you?"

"I have some here, I can lend it to you, but I need to sign a contract."

Kakuzu glanced at the stunned Zhenzi, turned his head away, and skillfully took out paper and pen from his bosom.

"Ouch~ Lao Du, how much do you have?"

Uchiha Gin smiled and scanned Kakuzu up and down, his eyes very teasing.

"That depends on how much you want."

Shaking his head, Kakuzu asked back.

"Then for the sake of our acquaintance, just give me this scroll."

His gaze fell on the scroll Kakuzu was holding. Uchiha Gin wasn't greedy either, he just wanted that one.

"Are you sure? There's nothing valuable in here."

Kakuzu frowned. The scrolls he was organizing now contained things he had snatched from the treasure house of the Takigakure Village back then. Anything that could be cashed out had already been cashed out by him, leaving only some bottles and jars.

"That's right, you also know, I actually don't love money, I'm not interested in money."

Taking the scroll from Kakuzu's hand, Uchiha Gin put on a grand show, then turned to look at the anxious Zhenzi.

"I have already received the reward from your old father."

"What are you calling me!"

Kakuzu heard this, stood up with a thud, his angry eyes carrying a trace of evasion and expectation.

"Why, did I call you wrong?"

"Senior Sword, please accept my bow. From now on, you are my father."

Zhenzi bit her lip and walked up to the angry Kakuzu, bowed respectfully, and after raising her head, her expression was very serious.

"Why are you joining him in making trouble? We are not on the same path."

Kakuzu frowned and stepped back to pull away the distance.

"No, actually I have long regarded Senior Sword as my father."

Back then, after successfully resolving the Satoru crisis, Zhenzi, having regained consciousness, still had the mindset of a teenager.

She was an orphan, lacking familial affection since childhood. It just so happened that the older Kakuzu appeared, and under someone's coercion, he taught her to master the power of a knight very seriously.

After a period of getting along, the simple Zhenzi had come to regard this grumpy, stingy old man as her elder.

Even after Kakuzu left, Zhenzi still often wrote to him to ask about cultivation problems and chat about daily life; the connection between the two had never truly been broken over these years.

Kakuzu's experience was similar to Zhenzi's; he also lost his parents at a young age, and after finally growing up, he was betrayed by his closest partner.

So, thinking he had seen through everything, he was only interested in money, and he deliberately avoided the familial affection Zhenzi conveyed.

On one hand, he was a wanderer with no fixed abode, his hands stained with blood, and he didn't want to disturb the ordinary life of Zhenzi and her husband. On the other hand, he was afraid of being betrayed again; Kakuzu didn't want to taste that feeling a second time.

"Lao Du, this is your fault. You can hold your grandson soon, but you insist on being a loner. Is it because you are afraid of giving red envelopes during the holidays?"

Looking at Kakuzu, who was full of struggle, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but come out and push him.

Lao Du in this timeline was still a good person, and hadn't turned black into the miser who was good at backstabbing teammates in the original work.

It was hard to encounter a good bond, so why wait if you don't take it?

Could it be that he was waiting to team up with that lunatic Hidan?

"Nonsense, I, someone, can still afford the red envelope for my little grandson!"

He didn't expect the other party to dare to look down on him. Kakuzu subconsciously turned back to retort, but after turning around, he saw Zhenzi's excited, teary eyes, and the momentum he had just been holding instantly softened.

"Father..."

"Hey~"

"Father!"

Seeing the warm scene of father and daughter recognizing each other, Shenhuo couldn't help but lean over and followed up with a thick face.

"Get lost! You bastard who bullied my daughter, see if I don't dig out your heart!"

"Alright, alright, wait until I finish the treatment, it won't be too late for you to clean up the cheating son-in-law~"

Seeing Kakuzu take out the driver with an unkind look, Uchiha Gin immediately raised his hand to stop him.

"Hmph! Consider yourself lucky, kid. Once Zhenzi is cured, I'll deal with you slowly."

Putting the driver away, Kakuzu glared fiercely at the shivering Shenhuo with his emerald eyes, then turned his head to look at the smiling Zhenzi, his tone rarely carrying a gentle hue.

"Don't worry, Father will support you from now on!"

"Thank you, Father~"

Experiencing the feeling of having her family backing her up, the gloom in Zhenzi's heart was swept away. She walked gracefully to Uchiha Gin, raised her head, and waited for his solution.

"There are two plans to choose from now. First, abort this child."

If this "smurf" account created by Satoru continued to grow, Zhenzi, acting as the seedbed, would be sucked into a skeleton like Nagato, even with the vitality of the Senju clan.

Aborting the child now could stop the loss to the greatest extent. The lost vitality could be replenished after some recuperation.

Uchiha Gin's first option silenced all three of them directly. Zhenzi's eyes were filled with deep reluctance as she lowered her head to touch her slightly protruding lower abdomen, her expression extremely complex.

After all, this was the first life she conceived. Even if the main participant wasn't herself, it was ultimately going to come out of her belly. Suddenly being told to abort it, how could she accept it?

"Abort! Now, immediately, must abort!"

On the contrary, Shenhuo, after some ideological struggle, gritted his teeth and spoke.

This kind of question of protecting the big or the small, if placed on any man, should choose to protect the big.

"Zhenzi, what do you think?"

Kakuzu didn't express his position, but asked for the thoughts of the person involved.

"I want to hear the second plan."

This answer basically denied the first plan. Uchiha Gin nodded and continued.

"The second plan is to strengthen your own physique. As long as your health bar is thick enough, you can support the child until it is born."

Zhenzi's current predicament was that her expenditure exceeded her income; she relied on consuming large amounts of food to barely maintain the needs of the child in her belly, and when that wasn't enough, she had to supplement it with her own vitality.

In total, her physique was too weak. If it were Hashirama, giving birth to ten or eight in one go would be a piece of cake~

"Strengthen physique?"

A trace of thought flashed in Kakuzu's eyes. After hesitating for a while, he asked.

"My Earth Grudge Fear technique, can it..."

"It's not impossible, it's just that the demand will be a bit larger."

He didn't expect Kakuzu's imagination to be so wild, actually thinking of using the Earth Grudge Fear technique to enhance Zhenzi's physique. However, doing so would come at a very heavy price for this family.

Not only would they have to constantly scout for new hearts, but Zhenzi would also be reduced to a monster covered in black tentacles.

"Is the vitality of one more person enough?"

Suddenly, Shenhuo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised his head and asked an inexplicable question.

This guy, could it be...

"It's estimated to be not enough. Looking at this child's appetite, the vitality of ordinary people is just a drop in the bucket."

Uchiha Gin then seriously looked at Shenhuo, who didn't have much presence. Since the other party could ask such a question, combined with his birthplace, he should have hidden some small bloodline.

"What should we do?"

The three people who were rejected one after another were at a loss.

However, just at this moment, Uchiha Gin, who had been waiting for the best opportunity, smiled and raised the scroll he had just traded.

"Actually, I have a special medicine here, it just depends on how much you are willing to pay~" (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 393 =====