Chapter 167: offspring
Chapter 167 Children
Early morning.
In the small courtyard of the villa, Liuli was wearing a moon-white light dress, with a pair of finely crafted slippers on her feet, holding a watering can in her hand, carefully watering the green plants in the flowerpots.
The long black hair of the shawl is naturally straight, and the black eyes are full of a kind of tranquil and peaceful emotion, which is not affected by the outside world at all.
The moon-white loose casual clothes she was wearing couldn't hide the fact that her belly was bulging.
Compared to the first few months of pregnancy, her belly is not very obvious. As time goes by, her belly is getting bigger and bigger. Recently, she really feels that her body is always inexplicably tired, and she spends more and more time resting in the room.
Cultivation has been completely given up, and the daily exercise is just ordinary walking.
She could feel that the unborn life in her stomach was getting stronger and stronger.
Thinking of this, a beautiful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Footsteps came from behind, and that person was Shiraishi.
He came to Liuli, looked at the scorching white sun that had just come out of the sky, and said, "It's so hot, you'd better go back to the house to rest, it's not good for your health if it's too hot."
It is now September, and Liuli's delivery date will be two or three months away. Baishi is afraid that something unexpected will happen to her at this moment, which will cause him to regret his whole life.
"Understood, I'll go back to the house right away. Don't you have anything to do today?"
Liuli turned her head and asked.
"I'm on vacation today, because the people below can handle many things by themselves now. I just need to check the progress regularly. The engineering matters are also arranged, and there are special personnel in charge of supervision."
"I think they have a high enthusiasm for labor, even if they don't need human supervision, they should be fine."
"Passion is only temporary, and manpower cannot be saved in this regard. And now that you are pregnant, it is also an important thing to me."
From being overwhelmed and inexplicably excited at the beginning, Baishi has recovered his calm and rational thinking, and is ready to do his duty as a father.
"I don't have to worry about it here."
Being underestimated by Baishi, Liuli's tone was a little dissatisfied.
Even if she can't fight fiercely because of the fetus in her stomach, with the pupil power of her Sharingan, not everyone can get close.
Junin can be easily knocked down with only illusion, which is not difficult for Liuli.
What's more, in order to ensure her safety, the water dragon **** did not act with the general, but stayed in her cuffs. Once encountering an enemy that cannot be dealt with by illusion, he can also use his own characteristics to intercept the enemy and wait for the arrival of support.
"I can't say that. There are a lot of people who have come to the ghost country recently, and the flow of people is mixed. If possible, I want to transfer you to the shrine where Maitreya is to rest the fetus."
Shiraishi said so.
"Is it because of a commercial activity?"
Liuli asked.
Since the roads of the ghost country were completed, it has attracted the attention of many wealthy businessmen, investing in industries here has really enriched the treasury of the ghost country.
"It's not a commercial activity. Those businessmen who do ordinary business are quite peaceful. But those businessmen who do medicine, as well as the ninjas in Ninja Village, their hands and feet are not very clean. Especially ninjas, they always think of various ways to steal drug information from the company."
Speaking of this, Bai Shitou ached.
Since Ziyuanhua Pharmaceutical Company became famous, not only fellow spies, but also many ninja villages have been secretly operating, stealing or robbing Ziyuanhua Pharmaceutical Company’s drug information.
Among them, Yunyin is the most.
Yunyin often uses the name of diplomatic missions to do some shady sneaking activities in private. Because it is a neutral country, and it is a country dominated by witches, Yun Yin will not act randomly, and can only act in secret.
Of course, in addition to Yunyin, there are villages such as Shayin, and even Konoha. Not surprisingly, it should be Anbune.
For these foreign envoys who come to the Kingdom of Ghosts for friendly visits through legal and formal channels, the officials of the Kingdom of Ghosts are not good at rejecting them openly.
Based on this, Shiraishi can only turn a blind eye to the actions of these people. It is not good for anyone if they break up. After all, he has no ability to turn the tables.
Although the military’s secrecy measures are very good, these ninja villages should not be underestimated, especially in this era of war, and they must be careful to prevent themselves from being involved in unnecessary battles.
But being able to be remembered by these people also proves that Ziyuanhua Pharmaceutical Company's drug research and development capabilities can be said to be the first-class level in the ninja world. If it was just an ordinary pharmaceutical company, it would not have such a great ability to attract so many commercial spies.
"That's really hard work."
Liu Li doesn't like intrigue. For her, if she can solve the matter with strength, she can just crush it with majestic strength.
Therefore, as for planning, even though he has a flexible mind, he doesn't want to make any arrangements. It's Shiraishi who handles these trivial matters.
When Konoha was a ninja, they also assigned work in this way.
"Yes, but you can't comfort me now."
Baishi gently hugged Liuli's body from behind, and pressed her hands lightly on her lower abdomen, showing a smirk.
"Irregular."
Liuli scolded him in a low voice.
"Okay, let's not talk about this, you can just concentrate on taking care of your body now. Go to the shrine to raise your baby in the afternoon, I feel more at ease there."
Hearing what Baishi said, Liuli sighed and nodded.
I didn't expect that one day she would be willing to be protected by others. This was the first time this kind of thing happened.
Therefore, this feeling is neither good nor bad.
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In the afternoon, Shiraishi took Liuli to the shrine where Maitreya was.
Except for an extremely luxurious palace, there are very few guards and maids, probably because Maitreya Priestess doesn't like crowded places. Or because of the power passed down from generation to generation by the witch, she didn't want to see the fate of more people when they died, so she deliberately 'imprisoned' herself in such a sparsely populated place.
Both respected and feared by people.
After all, Shiraishi has no idea how the Kingdom of Ghosts developed. The origin of this country may be traced back to the era of the Sages of the Six Paths.
But for such a distant event, there are not many related records in the official books of the ghost country, and only scattered fragments of information can be obtained.
Put Liuli here, firstly, it is quiet enough here, and secondly, it is guarded by the witch herself. Although it is a bit unbelievable, because of the high-speed commercial development of the ghost country, many commercial spies have been mixed into it, but the places where these commercial spies have infiltrated have isolated this shrine.
Although the specific reason is not known, Shiraishi knows that the authentic shrine maidens in the kingdom of ghosts have incomparably mysterious powers, which are completely different from the ninja system.
Every time he looks at Maitreya Priestess, Shiraishi feels that what he is looking at is not a flesh and blood human being, but some other special 'creature'.
There is no 'human' smell on the body.
"Then I'll go first, I'll visit you every few days."
In the side hall, Baishi placed Liuli here, and witches usually come to serve.
There are also some guards arranged by Shiraishi, including two Uchiha ninjas, and one ninja each from the Uzumaki clan and the Hyuga clan.
Uchiha's two ninjas opened the Sangouyu Sharingan, and at the same time cultivated natural energy. His strength surpasses that of many Jnin at the same level, not to mention he also has the Blood Successor Limit Sharingan.
The other Uzumaki clan and Hyuga clan ninjas are also in the same situation. They have developed their own clan's special abilities, such as sealing technique, perception ninjutsu and white eyes, and at the same time practice natural energy.
These four are undoubtedly Jnin strength.
Because their identities need to be kept secret, it is impossible for them to be open to others at this time. Therefore, they cannot get any decent tasks here at Baishi, and their usual work is just cultivation.
Therefore, placing them beside Liuli as guards was a good use of everything.
With these four Jonin protecting Liuli, Shiraishi felt more at ease. This was an arrangement he had thought about for a long time.
Being able to avoid the perception ninjutsu of the Uzumaki clan may not necessarily be able to avoid Hinata's supercilious eyes, and being able to avoid Hyuga's supercilious eyes may not necessarily avoid Uzumaki's perception ninjutsu. Therefore, the Uzumaki clan and the Hyuga clan each have one member.
Uchiha's two jonin serve as combat units, and use Sangouyu to write sharing eye battles. Even if you encounter a special enemy, the Uzumaki clan's ninja can use the sealing technique to target it.
No matter how bad it is, the water dragon **** is always on call. Even if a ninja of the 'Five Kages' level comes to sneak attack, they can delay it for a while with special secret techniques, so as not to be defeated immediately.
Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, no matter what type of enemy you encounter, there are ways to deal with it.
Only when the guard was raised to this level, Shiraishi felt at ease.
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Konoha's Will of Fire—Where the leaves dance, the fire is also alive.
It also means that the fire will always shine on the village, and then let the new leaves sprout.
It contains the earnest expectations of the older generation for the healthy growth of young people.
It also inspires generations of Konoha ninjas to pass on this will forever.
Although he doesn't quite agree with the empty part, Shiraishi can't admit that the meaning of this sentence is very good.
No matter what, people who are groping at the forefront of the times will grow old and die sooner or later, and the hope of the future lies in those children who have not grown up.
Shiraishi, who has lived in Konoha for many years, is very aware of the strength and fragility of this village, which can even be called weak.
For Shiraishi, the growth of underage children is also an urgent matter.
There are too many suffering children in this world, too many to be accurately calculated by numbers.
Because once it is counted, it must be a shocking number.
Therefore, at the previous high-level meeting, Shiraishi proposed the construction plan of the 'Children's Treatment Hospital'.
This hospital structure is specially set up for children.
Now is the time of war, the sins caused by the adults, but let the weaker bear all the pain.
And the weaker are those young children who have not yet liberated their minds. They bear the pain of their ancestors, and when they grow up, they continue to pass this pain on to the next generation, and then continue on and on.
Hate, grief, blood, and violence are directly engraved on the hearts of these young children.
It is conceivable what these young children will look like when they grow up after being rendered by such pictures for a long time.
Compared with physical trauma, their young minds are under greater pressure.
The tragedy of the collapse of the world, the death of human beings killing each other, the hearts of these young children with poor resistance have already suffered an extremely heavy blow without knowing it.
To put it bluntly, if this kind of thing is not resolved, the future world will still be dominated by such meaningless things.
Because the young people of the next era have been bathed in the paintings of **** since they were young, most of what they can think of is destruction, killing, and robbery.
Building is often harder than destroying.
It is not only businessmen who come to the kingdom of ghosts to make money, but also refugees who smuggle in.
Their original country was eroded by war, and they had to travel across the ocean to live in this secluded but peaceful country.
Not only the country of ghosts, but also other countries enjoying peace, there are also many refugees pouring in.
In this, children are undoubtedly the most vulnerable group. It is also the most neglected group.
Under the torrent of the times, their existence is fragile.
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 5,000 children who followed their parents to the Kingdom of Ghosts because of the war, and more than half of them are seriously ill with mental trauma.
If you don’t spend time to solve this problem now, the problem will pile up in the future, and the price you will pay will be ten times or a hundred times.
Thus, a special hospital for children was born for the first time in the land of ghosts.
This is the first hospital dedicated to children in the Ninja world.
Even Konoha Ninja Village, which has a relatively complete medical system, has not paid attention to this problem, and has not established a special hospital for children to treat physical and spiritual wounds.
It's just that it is more troublesome to implement this kind of hospital. It is not because of insufficient funds and medical facilities, but because of insufficient number of doctors.
Although a lot of money has been invested in the medical industry, it takes a long time to train a qualified medical staff, and it is not something that can be done in two or three years.
Therefore, currently only Ziyuan City, the capital of the ghost country, and some metropolises have children’s hospitals set up. The remaining villages and towns and some cities with sparse populations cannot be directly covered due to the shortage of manpower.
However, Shiraishi is satisfied for the time being if he can do this.
It took several years or even longer for Tsunade to implement medical reform in Konoha before he was barely successful. What he wants to reform is the medical market of the entire ghost country, and the impact is on Konoha. It is thanks to the great help of Liuli's parents that he can achieve such results in the early stage.
"Qianye, how is the situation now?"
Shiraishi asked the medical ninja beside him.
Qianye is an excellent medical ninja in the army of the ghost country, and a high-level cadre of the medical department.
In matters of the medical department, he is one of Shiraishi's more trusted lieutenants.
Aged about forty years old, with a gentle appearance, wearing old glasses, looked at the statistical table in his hand and said: "To be honest, the situation is not optimistic. Even if we work around the clock here, the number of child patients has not decreased, but has become more and more."
"Can there be more people in the medical department?"
"No one can be squeezed out for the time being. If the focus is shifted to the Children's Hospital, the remaining hospitals will be short of manpower, causing people's hearts to fluctuate."
Qianye thought about it for a while, and did not suggest that Shiraishi transfer the staff from the rest of the hospital to the Children's Hospital.
Although the problem of children's heart disease needs to be solved urgently, other patients cannot be ignored.
Baishi understood this truth, so he avoided mentioning it.
"The pharmaceutical company has recently developed a new type of sedative drug, which has been clinically tested and works well. It should relieve the pressure here a little."
"Yes, I will apply for a new drug in person."
Migano nodded.
After communicating with Qianye, Shiraishi left immediately.
The staffing problem of Children's Hospital cannot be solved in a short period of time, it can only be done step by step.
He also considered whether to continue to cooperate with Konoha in an official capacity.
But after thinking about it carefully, I found it unrealistic.
Konoha is now being watched by many ninja villages. Most of the medical ninjas go to the front line, and it is impossible for too many medical ninjas to stay behind.
And before sending a group of students to Konoha to learn Konoha's medical technology, it has reached saturation, and Konoha cannot add unnecessary burdens to herself.
"Do you still want to work part-time as a medical teacher?"
Shiraishi scratched his hair depressedly.
If he continues scratching like this, his hair will fall out sooner or later.
"Forget it, let the live slug split more clones. As long as we survive these few years, the situation will improve a lot."
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As for the war, Shiraishi has not paid much attention recently.
This part has been submitted to Ayane for his own judgment, and there is nothing he cares about from the intelligence department, so he just needs to stand aside and watch.
In this era, many people have released their inner animal nature, and few people can maintain rationality, and they appear weak.
The cumbersome problems of the Children's Hospital, although bothering Shiraishi, is not without good news.
For example, after more than half a year of hard work this year, the road problem in the ghost country has basically been properly resolved. Even in some remote areas, there are flat roads to walk on, instead of stepping on extremely muddy potholes when it rains.
Even when it rains, it can maintain the convenience of transportation.
There is also the problem of schools, which have been basically implemented. Only some remote villages have no school institutions. In other places where there are population gatherings, no matter how big or small, school institutions are built in line with local development according to local conditions.
The rest is to recruit intellectuals with a certain amount of knowledge, let them start teaching in schools according to the textbooks edited by Baishi, and carry out educational reforms for the entire ghost country.
Shiraishi only goes to the shrine to visit Liuli once a week, and spends the rest of the time on work.
Occasionally, Ayane would come back to rectify her equipment, and spend some time with Shiraishi.
Before you know it, the summer and autumn seasons have passed, and the cold and windy winter has come.
Liuli's delivery date is approaching.
—In the side hall of the shrine.
The four jonin guarding Liuli are playing cards outside.
Hyuga Clan Jōnin covered his eyes with cards in his hand, and stared sharply.
Roll your eyes!
Although the movements are very concealed, the chakra changes instantly. How could it be possible to hide the perception ninjutsu of the Uzumaki clan who perceive the characteristics of chakra?
"Hey, you are too despicable, you even use your white eyes to peek at other people's cards!"
Junin of the Uzumaki Clan said dissatisfiedly.
"Haha, um, I can't help it. And don't you always turn on sensory ninjutsu?"
"I can't see cards through objects, I can only sense Chakra. The reason why it is always on is to prevent strangers from approaching here."
The Uzumaki Clan's Shinobi sighed.
"Then I am here to prevent the enemy from approaching."
Hyuga Clan Jōnin blushed and argued.
His words immediately earned the contemptuous looks of the other three people.
At this moment, the device hanging on the wall began to beep.
"It seems that Master Liuli is about to give birth, so stop playing and do a good job of protection."
The four put down the cards in their hands, and stood in their respective positions as usual, guarding the delivery room.
In the delivery room, there are already two female medical ninjas on call. As guards, they only need to do their jobs well.
Outside the delivery room, there is a layer of rebound barrier, even time-space ninjutsu cannot break in easily when the barrier is open, instead it will be rebounded by the barrier.
And it has the double insurance of white eyes and perception ninjutsu, as long as a stranger approaches here, he will be perceived immediately.
Baishi came here ten minutes later.
Following Shiraishi, there are Liuli's parents Uchiha Sosuke and Uchiha Miyoko.
Standing outside the delivery room, she could hear Liuli's indistinct pain humming in the delivery room. Although she tried her best to endure the pain during childbirth, she still couldn't help crying out in pain.
Baishi was in a panic and didn't know what was going on inside. Liuli was crying so painfully, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?
After sitting on the chair beside him for a few seconds, Shiraishi stood up again with a thud, feeling as if he had been waiting for centuries.
Why hasn't it ended for so long?
"Xiao Shiraishi, it's useless to be anxious, let's calm down and wait. Liuli is a tenacious child, and the mother and child will be safe. Uchiha's blood is not so fragile."
Said Uchiha Miyoko as a person who has experienced it.
Uchiha Sosuke also walked up to Shiraishi, patted him on the shoulder, and said nothing, but this was already the best encouragement.
As a man, he naturally understands Shiraishi's mixed feelings of nervousness and excitement.
Baishi finally calmed down a little.
I don’t know how long it took, and as the cries of pain ended, there was a loud cry of ‘Wah-Wah-Wah’ from the delivery room.
That's the cry of a baby.
The barrier outside the delivery room opened, and Baishi was the first to come to the door of the delivery room. The female medical ninja inside opened the door first, and Baishi asked urgently, "How is it?"
The female medical ninja smiled at Shiraishi and said, "Master Shiraishi, please rest assured that no accident happened."
Shiraishi's tense heartstrings relaxed, and he walked in quickly, followed by Uchiha Sosuke and Uchiha Miyoko.
In the room, Liuli had just calmed down from the pain of childbirth, lying weakly on the delivery bed, panting weakly, looking very tired.
Sweat dripped down his face, sticking his hair to his cheeks.
There is also a female medical ninja standing beside the delivery bed, holding two babies in her arms.
"Congratulations, Master Shiraishi, they are twins, a boy and a girl, and the children are all healthy."
Putting the two babies into Shiraishi's arms, Shiraishi thanked the female medical ninja, then looked down at the male and female babies in his arms.
Before this, Baishi had used medical equipment to detect the condition of the fetus in Liuli's stomach, so Baishi was not surprised to give birth to twins.
It's just that after seeing the real child, I still feel excited.
"...Let me take a look..."
Liuli said weakly on the delivery bed, and slowly sat up from the bed with Miyoko's support.
Baishi carried the two children in front of Liuli, and asked her to look carefully at the child he gave birth to.
Liuli looked at the twins she had given birth to, a boy and a girl, with a weak smile on her pale face.
"Liuli, you are very weak now, it is better to rest more."
Shiraishi put the two children in Miyoko's hands, then supported Ruri's back, and let her lie down to recuperate her body.
"Um."
He responded weakly, without forcing himself.
After giving birth to two children, Liuli also felt that her body was depleted a lot.
Although she is not a perception ninja, through the observation just now, Liuli can also feel that the vitality of these two children is extraordinary. In their bodies, they are born with the characteristics of affinity with natural energy.
Is it because of Senju Chakra and Sharingan?
As for Baishi's bloodline bonus, it was automatically ignored by Liuli.
"By the way, what are you going to name your two children?"
When Miyoko asked this question, she felt a little nervous.
Although these two young people may not care about the child's surname, but Liuli, as the patriarch of the Uchiha clan in the kingdom of ghosts, can't be so hasty to give the child the Shiraishi surname.
Shiraishi is naturally very clear about Miyoko’s worries, and also understands Ruri’s status in the Uchiha clan of the ghost country. The important issue of heirs cannot be decided according to his own mood. After pondering for a while, he said to Miyoko: “I discussed this matter with Ruri before.
Hearing what Shiraishi said, Miyoko felt a big stone drop in her heart.
"That's fine, one person, one surname."
Miyoko smiled.
"I don't care, maybe at that time there will be a genius from another family in the family to succeed me."
Liuli said bluntly. Even her own flesh and blood can't change her determination.
The patriarch is not her personal property.
This sentence naturally aroused Miyoko's dissatisfaction.
"As businessmen, you are too utilitarian, and you always want to take public things as your own. Because of this, you can't even control Sharingan. Uchiha is synonymous with 'power', and the position of patriarch is not our family's private property."
Ruri's words made parents Uchiha Sosuke and Uchiha Miyoko cough.
They are indeed planning to let Liuli's child inherit the position of the next leader of the Uchiha clan in the kingdom of ghosts.
Still waiting to say something, Liuli said coldly again: "The capable go up, the mediocre go down, this is Uchiha's rule."
As for Liuli's housework, Baishi didn't want to intervene, but just walked aside to tease the two babies in his arms.
The baby boy is still crying, but the baby girl is very quiet, so quiet that she doesn't look like a newborn baby.
Baishi was a little surprised, and took a serious look at the baby girl.
How does this arrogant and arrogant look look so similar to Liuli's when she was a child?
Baishi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
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