On a spring afternoon, Zong Xian walked under the cherry blossom trees with flowers and listened to the tiny sound of the wind passing through the branches and leaves, and came to a grand mansion. The two doors were open, and the courtyard was filled with extremely beautiful pruned plants and trees. Looking along the road paved with blue-gray stone bricks, there was a sliding door at the end.

He walked in, and without hesitation, he opened the sliding door and asked, "Is anyone here?"

No one responded.

Zongxian took off his shoes at the entrance door and stepped onto the corridor with wooden floors. This was not the first time he had visited the patriarch. There was a grandfather who was an elder who had been to this house several times before, otherwise Sasuke would not have called him "Brother Zongxian" when he met.

He dared not say that he knew the structure of this house very well, but he was generally familiar with the areas used to entertain guests. On the right side of the corridor are the kitchen and dining room. There were no busy figures inside. The patriarch's wife probably was not at home.

On the left is a room of six stacks, with short tables and futons neatly placed inside. At this moment, sitting in the center is the current patriarch of the Uchiha family—

Uchiha Tokugaki.

This is a very majestic man, with short black hair, a rectangular face, and expressionless facial features that give people an indescribable sense of oppression. He is wearing a dark blue gown and the center of the back is marked with the flame fan.

"Zongxian, come in!"

Uchiha Fuga said.

"Class leader, I've been disturbed."

Zongxian walked into the room and consciously sat down on the futon opposite the patriarch.

There is a teapot and two tea cups on the short-legged table. The tea in the cup is still emitting a lingering heat, and the green tea stems are floating in it.

"I recently heard you want to replace me as the patriarch?"

There is no implicitness at all, Uchiha Fugao is straight to the point.

"Ah! Clan leader, do you already know? I still want to give you a surprise when the last picture is revealed!"

"Surprise? Is it a scare?"

"It feels like the same, right? Surprise, shock... The most important thing is to be shocked."

"Stop talking nonsense, Sonxian, you have loved talking nonsense since before." Uchiha Fugao stared at Sonxian with that scary and cold expression.

"Since you already know, you're not angry?" Zong Xian asked curiously.

Uchiha Fugao would know that his actions were not surprising. Uchiha clan said it was big or not, but only a thousand people. Some things could not be hidden just by wanting to hide them. The more the plan came, the more the noise, and being discovered was destined. Fortunately, Soonian did not intend to play any conspiracy, so he wanted to snatch the position of patriarch from Uchiha Fugao.

"If it were five years ago, I would probably hang you up and beat you up, and then throw it to the border guards to make you have no time to mess with me in your life."

Five years ago?

The Nine-Tail Rebellion?

Zong Xian was thinking, but the wrinkles on the clan leader’s brows over the past few years have passed, and the heavy and gloomy aura on his body has become stronger and stronger.

"And now... If you really have the ability to replace me, it may not be a bad thing for me and the family." Uchiha Fugao rubbed his eyebrows, and the deep dark circles proved that he was afraid he had not slept all night last night.

It may not be just last night. It is very likely that the clan leader has not had a good sleep for a long time.

The conflict between the village and the family is becoming increasingly acute. How can he, the patriarch, fall asleep peacefully?

If it weren't for this, it wouldn't be the only two children Itachi and Sasuke. Maybe the third child has been born...

"Of course the premise of all this is that you really have that ability." Uchiha Fugao stared at Soni and said word by word: "If you want the position of the patriarch, you can, just come here to grab it! Let me see what kind of ability you have."

"I won't let you wait too long."

"Then I'll wait and see."

After saying that, the two fell silent at the same time. Zong Xian picked up the teacup and slowly drank the tea. His eyes turned to the lush courtyard outside the corridor. Under Chunhui's gaze, the plants and trees in the courtyard were growing very well. It was obvious that the owner was pruning diligently, and every branch and leaf was regular. The whole courtyard was in harmony with no disagreement.

It's like-

Like a patriarch who abides by the rules.

"Is it to come to me to reveal my ambitions? Clan leader?"

Zong Xian took the lead in breaking this tranquility and lifted the teapot to add tea to the cup.

Uchiha Fugao pushed the empty teacup over.

The tea cup was filled with green tea again, and as the hands swayed, it rippled layer by layer.

"Come to you..." Uchiha Fugao looked at the tea in the cup and said slowly: "I went to see Lord Naruto last night. He expressed very tactfully that So Sen was not too close to Jiutailu Jiri... To be more precise, I hope that the Uchiha clan will be able to distance himself from Jiutailu Jiri."

"Intimidate?"

"That's right, it's just intimidation. Not only Lord Naruto, Hinaga, Yukino, Nara, Yamaaka, Akido, Kumama, Inuzuka... The patriarchs of these families are also there. No one wants to see Uchiha getting too close to Kyukijiriki. The night five years ago is still fresh in memory for many people."

"Hyuga... I thought that a death of a Hinata Hinata would make them feel resentful to Naruto!"

"Himiga's separation exists to protect the sect family. In the eyes of those of the Hyuga's sect family, the sect family should probably die like this." When talking about the sect family and the sect family, Uchiha Tokugaki rarely showed some contempt.

"What do you decide to do, the leader? Do you want to punish me for this? The third generation praised me for my contribution to protecting the Nine-Tail Tsukiri last night."

Zongxian asked.

"It doesn't mean you can't punish you."

"Surely shameless!"

"I need to give the village an explanation." Uchiha Fugaku paused and continued: "Uchiha is a member of the village. When it comes to the Nine-Tailed Tsukiri is no longer an internal affairs of the family. Other families in the village are staring at us. If there is no explanation... The families that were originally neutral may stand opposite to our clan."

"Neutral family?"

Zong Xian laughed sarcastically, "I really don't know that there are neutral factions in the village. Don't those families have a wide range of members serving in Anbu and Ne? Can this also be called neutrality? Perhaps it means that the declined saddle horse was not attracted by Anbu and Ne."

"Don't confuse those members who have joined the Anbu and the Nen with the family. Those people cannot represent the same family. Didn't Shimizu also join the Anbu? Could he still represent Uchiha?"
Chapter completed!