Chapter 102: A Difficult Situation

Facing this group of women who had different opinions about their own future.

Yuzhibo Yan, for a moment, fell into a somewhat irritable state.

This mission truly has been plagued by frequent unexpected incidents!

It seems as though she's opposing them, as unexpected situations keep occurring.

First, on the way here, she accidentally missed her step and fell from a tree; if it weren't for Dong Shilang catching her in time, she would have suffered serious injury.

You should know that falling from a tree while moving at high speed is no trivial matter; a slight mishap could cause serious injury.

Even though Dong Shilang caught her in time, she sprained her ankle, resting on his back for a whole day and a night before recovering.

This is still the result with the aid of Dong Shilang's medical ninjutsu!

But when it came time to carry out the mission, she carelessly was captured by a bandit she hadn't taken seriously, taken hostage, and used to threaten her companions.

This incident frightened her quite a bit, and only with difficulty did she manage to deal with the opponent.

Then two more fish that slipped through the net appeared, causing her and Zhe to expend great effort before subduing them.

Only she, the party involved, can truly appreciate the hardships involved!

She had thought everything was over, but a new problem arose; the solution she and others came up with was not accepted by these few people.

This really dampened her enthusiasm!

It made her feel as if nothing would go right, that this wouldn't work and that wouldn't work.

Some loss of emotional control is also inevitable!

"What's going on? If you don't give me a satisfactory answer, I won't let you have your way!"

After calming her emotions, since the incident has occurred, it must be resolved; if she merely keeps losing her temper, no problem will be solved in the end.

Helpless, she had no choice but to patiently inquire into the details of the matter.

"All of this surrounding area belongs to the territory of the Kamakura Family!"

"The current head of the Kamakura Family is an extremely greedy and cruel person!"

"Once we fall into his hands, none of us will have a good outcome!"

"The best outcome is being sold by him to a brothel; if luck is bad and he takes a liking to us, we will surely be tortured to death!"

"If that's the case, it's no different from now; we might as well be left to our own fate!"

Having said all that in one breath, after mustering courage, this woman took the lead in voicing opposition to Yan.

Having exhausted all her energy, she collapsed helplessly to the ground, unable to muster even a bit of strength.

For herself and her sisters who suffered together, to avoid jumping from the tiger's mouth into the wolf's den, she had no choice but to step forward and make a request to these rumored ninjas that she ought not to have made.

However, in order not to fall into the hands of the demon said to be even more terrifying than these ninjas, she could only resort to this measure.

But as she spoke the words she had been holding back for a long time, she felt as if all her strength had been drained by an invisible hand.

She couldn't even maintain a kneeling posture, and could only collapse on the ground, leaving things to fate.

The women behind her were even worse; each merely knelt there, sending silent pleas to Yuzhibo Yan.

This ninja world is extremely cruel. This cruelty is not directed only at ninjas.

Compared to those ninjas who, from a young age, must accompany slaughter and death, these ordinary people more often can only passively accept fate's arrangements.

And the ruling class of this world, much of the time, appears so wanton and unscrupulous.

Regarding the oppression and exploitation of the lower classes, it can be said to be utterly without scruple; in this, ninjas also played a rather inglorious role.

What effect could commoners have, even if they rose in rebellion?

Once things develop and some slip beyond one's control, all it takes is to pay a handsome fee to hire these ninjas, and all problems would be solved, right?

This not only solves the problems, but also eliminates the people who caused them; incidentally, it can also reclaim the lands scattered due to commoners' rebellions.

This thus solves the problem of overpopulation; perhaps even the ninjas' fees can be taken care of incidentally.

After hearing the other side's reasoning, Yuzhibo Yan momentarily felt somewhat at a loss.

Given her shallow life experience, this sort of thing clearly exceeded her imagination.

In her brief life experience, the darkness she has endured today has already far surpassed her imagination.

Back when she was in the village, at most she would hear her father and elder brother complain about the village's unfairness and such.

Compared to what she is experiencing now, those complaints seem rather trivial.

After all, no matter how much the village suppresses the Uchiha clan, everyone is still fellow villagers.

Some excessive measures would not appear in the open and covert struggles between the two sides!

But now, she and her companions can be said to be directly facing the dark side of this world.

Without any sugarcoating or concealment, this darkness is starkly exposed before them.

She turned her head, looking helplessly at her teacher. As expected, she received the gaze saying 'You handle it.'

The little girl could only helplessly look at her two companions, hoping they might have some good suggestions.

Mainly she looked toward Yuzhibo Dongshilang; Zhe said, if even she couldn't handle it, then he probably had no good solution either.

She could only place her hope on Dongshilang.

Seeing the little girl look over with a pleading gaze, Dongshilang also felt somewhat helpless.

All he could do was rack his brains, thinking hard.

Although he really wanted to push it aside and wash his hands of it completely.

However, upon seeing Teacher Chongzheng standing aside, silent throughout, he knew there was no way to gloss over this matter.

All he could do was see if there was any two-pronged solution!

"Chongzheng Teacher, I don't know if the lord of Huo Zhi Guo has issued any policies encouraging land reclamation, etc."

Dongshilang, having no good recourse, ultimately still turned to his teacher for help!

He wanted to see if there was any other way to help these poor women.

You must know, the territory of Huo Zhi Guo is vast, and wastelands and such are abundant—you can grab a handful.

He simply refuses to believe that these nobles have not even a hint of an idea!