[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

"Thieves have been causing trouble recently. Pay attention to unfamiliar faces in the town. If you find suspicious persons, report them to the enforcement office as soon as possible."

The night wind made the shoji door rattle, and the candle flame danced as if sensing the sound of wind outside the door. After you read the last part of the tile version, you blew out the candlelight and huddled under the quilt to get ready for sleep.

After turning off the light, you thought about the recent burglars and became more and more worried. You got up again, moved the quilt to the side of the locker, and lay down, blocking the door of the locker. Anyone who wanted to take something from the locker had to get past you.

It's time to move, and you don't want to lose all your savings over the past three years to others.

Nothing happened overnight. When you went to work the next day, you went to the bookstore first. The apprentices older than you and younger than you were all in the store, cleaning the store and getting ready to open the store.

After confirming that the business was normal yesterday, you notified the several clerks you selected and asked them to go to the publishing house to meet with you, Boss A Cong, in the afternoon, and plan to officially hand over the work.

Everyone in the store knew that you were going to hand over the bookstore work. Several capable clerks remembered your position as the bookstore manager, and they all looked puzzled when they heard you calling several names in succession.

When you arrive at the publishing house in the afternoon, your eyelids twitch when you get today's tile version.

It was such an eventful time, everything collided.

"The corpse of the heir of the Kingdom of Sichuan suddenly appeared in the Kingdom of Wind. It is suspected to be related to the coup in the Kingdom of Wind."

You remember the heir of the Kingdom of Sichuan. He used to be a hostage in the Kingdom of Fire, but later he ran back to the Kingdom of Sichuan. No one asked him to return to the Kingdom of Fire.

Considering that the newly appointed daimyo of the Fire Country married his engagement partner to the Wind Country three years ago, you think the Fire Country probably did not pursue the hostage escape because of this.

——But in the final analysis, this hostage seems to be useless. He didn't play any role when the Fire Country and the Wind Country fought.

While you were thinking about these things, you asked Boss A Cong to hand over the bookstore affairs.

The news that Boss A Cong did not plan to set up the position of shopkeeper in the bookstore, and that he would subdivide the work of the bookstore into departmental management, and that the heads of each department would directly contact him, caught several employees off guard.

In the end, none of the employees got the position of shopkeeper, and they seemed a little disappointed. They cheered up and listened to boss A Cong's promotion training.

"Xiaoxue, please wait a moment." After the work handover was completed, you said goodbye to your work in the bookstore completely, and were about to leave with the others. Before you could breathe a sigh of relief, Boss A Cong asked you to stay.

"What's the matter, boss?"

After the others left, Nyanosuke emerged from under the vase stand in the corner of the room and rubbed against you.

Under the boss's acquiescent gaze, you bent down and picked up the cat. When you first started, you were a little shocked. It had been so long since you had held Nyonosuke, and the big white cat was a lot heavier.

Boss A Cong didn't have the slightest hint of sadness on his face, and even looked a little pleasant: "I remember you said before that you wanted to open your own store?"

You suddenly feel a sense of crisis: "Boss, my family plans to open a jewelry store. Does it have anything to do with the store?"

Boss Acong was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It has nothing to do with this, your store is about to open? Congratulations."

He paused, tapping his fingers on the table again and again, and continued: "When you first came to the store, didn't you ask around when the store could be opened?"

"?" You recalled the situation of Boss A Cong's "asking around", and in the end you only remembered that you had asked Miss Keiko if the hospital belonged to her.

"...It doesn't matter. My family was short of money at that time. Rather than wanting to open a store, we thought about getting rich suddenly." You looked confused, but you didn't expect Boss A Cong to mention what happened three years ago.

"What if I can be a store manager now?" Boss A Cong suddenly asked.

You didn’t react: “Huh?”

"Not in the capital, there is a demolished castle near the Minagawa River going south. There is a cluster of Tanshu Town there. Because it is near the north-south transportation hub in recent years, it has gradually become more prosperous. If nothing happens, this place will become more prosperous in the future. A more prosperous settlement will develop. Are you interested in opening a bookstore there?" Boss A Cong asked.

You were speechless for a long time because of the shock. You stared at Boss Acong, even suspecting that he had watched "O Shadow Ninja".

You have never heard of Tanshu Town, but you have heard of Tanshu Street where the Senju, Uchiha, and Tsunade who live near the Minagawa River gamble. The boss said "if there is no accident", he did not expect that the future site of Konoha Village would be nearby, but Konoha did become a prosperous settlement there.

He suddenly mentioned this place, and you didn't even have time to think about the boss asking you if you wanted to be the store manager.

"Why do you suddenly ask that?" After a long time, you found your thoughts and asked.

"We have lost the opportunity in the capital. How much trouble the ancient village has brought us..." Boss Acong sighed, "After suffering the losses later, of course the Tanshu Town side must make arrangements in advance. If you agree, Qingshui Bookstore's You can use the name as much as you like."

You didn't investigate why you had only worked in the bookstore for three years, which was far less than the working years of other shops from apprentice to shopkeeper to being able to open a shop independently, so the boss asked you if you wanted to open a shop.

After all, among the boss’ current employees, you are among the first ones to follow him. Based on your working years, he doesn’t have many people he can choose to open a new store.

Your boss’s reasons convince you.

You were also very moved, but in the end you shook your head and refused: "Boss, I'm still too young. I can't keep the store alone."

It was only with the help of Uchiha that he escaped from the gang that wanted to attack the bookstore, not to mention the safety of opening a store alone in an unfamiliar place.

"And my store at home is about to open, so I'm not too worried."

This is why you don't want to leave. The store that has not yet opened is not on track, and it is difficult to say whether it will make a profit or loss. At this time, your stable income here becomes even more important.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade you, Boss A Cong stopped trying. He sighed and asked you to leave.

You also sighed, if you were older now and if your family didn't plan to open a store, you might just go.

That was the predecessor of Tanzhu Street!

It was as if Konoha was right in front of me.

……

The political situation in the Kingdom of Wind is changing rapidly.

When the news of the death of the heir to the Kingdom of Kawa completely ignited the political situation of the Kingdom of Wind, which was about to change, thieves running around in the town committed crimes again.

On the day when the news came that the princess of the Kingdom of Fire and the former heir of the Kingdom of Wind had divorced and were about to return to the country, people from the execution center surrounded the long house of your house.

When you returned home, Aqin's mother was leading Acai and Taro outside the blockade, surrounded by talking neighbors.

Your expression suddenly changed, and you calmed down a little after meeting Aqin's mother.

"What happened?" you ask.

"Something happened at Ahao's family." Aqin's mother answered you softly, pulling Acai closer to her, her lips pursed tightly, and her arms trembled slightly.

"Acai and Taro were sleeping at home when the accident happened." You held Aqin's mother's cold hand, and she trembled even more, explaining to herself.

You look around at the neighbors, but you don’t see Auntie Ahao’s family.

"Stop looking, they are inside." Aqin's mother held down you who was looking around.

You froze, suddenly understanding something.

Thieves at this time were different from later thieves. They not only stole things, but also killed people. What's more, they would kill all irrelevant witnesses.

Mother's abnormality, the sealed longhouse, and the missing Ah Hao family.

The evening breeze smelled of blood.

You heard some incomplete discussions.

"Not like..."

"Revengeful...cruel..."

People who were alive yesterday are gone in the blink of an eye.