[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

Izumi Yori Minoru's house.

The frightened deer in the courtyard knocked on the stone slabs, and the frightened birds spread their wings and flew away with their gray-white wings.

Izumi Yoshimi turned his back to the courtyard and looked at the screen placed in the palace, which depicts a coup that took place in the Kingdom of Water six years ago.

The country has not escaped the shadow of war because of the barrier of the sea. On the contrary, because foreign aggression is not a concern, the Kingdom of Water has been in fierce internal fighting and party strife all year round.

During the coup in the Kingdom of Water six years ago, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Water was killed by his vassal Jin Shimizu. Then others used the excuse of rebellion to attack Jin Shimizu. Jin Shimizu eventually died in the betrayal of his henchmen. To this day, the names of the Kingdom of Water are still changing frequently due to party issues, and the internal fighting among various families is becoming increasingly fierce.

"The Land of Fire cannot be like this." Izumi Yorimi said calmly without turning around.

"As a ninja, you can survive by killing her. But as an ordinary person, I can only ask you to die."

Behind Izumi Yorimi, Qingshui Satoshi lowered his eyes and moved his fingers slightly.

……

Unless there is a war, any marriage or cooperation between any country will be too far away for the people living in the town.

Compared with the fact that the lady who married the Wind Country is about to return to the country, the thieves that are happening around her and are wreaking havoc in the town are even more worrying.

When a murder occurs, no one is happy.

There was no one in Aunt Ah Hao’s house. After the people from the execution center left with the bodies of Ah Hao’s family, the landlord summoned the tenants to discuss what to do.

Mom asks you to take your two children back to the house first. You were listening to their discussion in the room, and the strong fishy smell from next door seemed to seep in from the other side of the wall. You tuck A Cai and Tai Lang under the quilt one by one, and then lie down too.

Probably because you have nothing to do, all your attention has been turned to your sense of smell. The smell of blood makes you want to vomit. It has been a long time since you recalled the hallucination you saw three years ago when you were alone in the store.

There was a lot of noise outside and next door, with people constantly coming in and out. Neighbors who live in the same longhouse have begun to take action spontaneously, fetching water, sorting out relics, and discussing the possibility of leaving someone to keep watch to prevent thieves from coming again... until at night, the door cracks. There was a little firelight coming through.

Ah Cai's voice was a little soft, almost drowned out by the sounds outside. She asked, "Did something happen to Aunt Ah Hao's house?"

You answered "Yeah."

"Are you dead?" Taro's voice came out from under the quilt, somewhat distorted.

"Well," you replied, and then added, "Taro, don't cover your head under the quilt."

There were several slight scraping sounds of fabric nearby, and Taro stretched his head out of the quilt.

After a while, he said: "Sister, I'm scared."

A Cai also asked: "Will we also be killed?"

You endured it, turned over, and looked at the outline protruding from the quilt next to you in the darkness: "Probably not, I'm scared too."

Two dark shadows trembled.

"There are so many people outside, so everything should be fine today. Go to sleep!" You said again.

It's strange that such words are useful.

"...Sister, I want to hear a story."

The two children tossed and turned for a while without falling asleep. After a while, Acai called you in a low voice.

You also wanted to divert your attention, so you sat up and leaned against the wall on the other side. After thinking for a while, you started telling them the story from a few years ago that had no follow-up.

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The ninja's attention shifted from the paper man to the dishes on the table.

He is a professionally trained ninja and has never been tempted by appetite, but at this moment, he felt as if he had been tricked by an unknown enemy's ninjutsu. He felt hungry and wanted to eat up all the rich food on the table.

"Don't you want to eat some?" the old man asked when he saw that the ninja had not moved his chopsticks.

As soon as the ninja said that he was not very hungry, a gurgling sound came from his stomach.

Now the ninja had to eat in front of the old man.

The ninja reluctantly took a bite of cabbage, and then he could no longer control the hunger that seemed to arise deep in his heart, and ate everything on the table without stopping.

But after eating all the food, the ninja's hunger did not subside, but became more serious. On the one hand, his stomach was swollen and painful due to the full food, but on the other hand, it was constantly twitching and painful due to uncontrollable hunger.

He wanted to ask the old man what happened to the food, but he found that the old man sitting at the head of the table had turned into a clay statue. The face of the statue was painted with bright oil paint into a kind and smiling face.

"What kind of ninjutsu is this?" The ninja thought about the situation in horror while jumping out of his seat to escape from the mansion.

Countless paper figures poured out of the mansion, chasing after the ninja. Their shrill voices overlapped and rushed towards the ninja like waves: "You can't go out at night, you can't go out at night..."

The ninja recalled the old man's advice, but then thought that the old man had turned into a clay sculpture for some reason, so he opened the door of the mansion.

The moment the ninja stepped out of the mansion, the moonlight hanging over the village shone brightly.

The moment he was illuminated by the moonlight, the ninja lost his consciousness.

On the deserted street, the ninja's body was controlled by an unknown consciousness, and he walked stiffly.

When the ninja regained consciousness, he found that he had become a paper man.

Many orders appeared out of thin air in his mind, ranging from helping the villagers move things to as big as slaughtering cattle and sheep. He and his fellow paper figures around him had to complete them day and night. If he was a little disobedient and lazy, he would feel the burning pain coming from his current paper body.

"What kind of evil magic is this?" The ninja was working in the village in agony. "Where did my body go?"

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……

"Where did the ninja's body go?" Taro asked curiously.

"Of course it's hidden." A Cai said first, "Right, right, sister."

You heard it vaguely, your eyelids started to twitch, and you made a perfunctory hum through your nose while giving a long hatch.

"Can the ninja change back?"

You couldn't tell whether it was Acai or Taro who asked, so you continued to say "hmm".

"...What? It turns out that my sister fell asleep the fastest."

You heard some rustling noises in your ears, and a few short hands moved you from the wall you were leaning against to the bed.

You also felt that your posture was uncomfortable, so you closed your eyes and followed the strength of those hands to sink into the quilt.

"...Fortunately, okay, I didn't wake up."

The thief disappeared.

I don’t know if enough money was confiscated from Aunt Ahao’s house. The thieves who committed several crimes in a row stopped committing crimes. The enforcement office could not find any clues and the case was dropped.

After what happened to Auntie Ahao's family, your family quickly moved to a shop facing the street. The shop only has one floor, and the annual rent is about 3 taels of gold.

In order not to lose money, your family not only sells these handmade jewelry, but also sells clothes. Including the purchase price of raw materials, the initial expenses of opening the store almost emptied the family's savings.

There are two shops next door to your house. One sells noodles and the other sells soy sauce. As neighbors, they seem to get along well with each other. However, the things your house sells seem a bit out of place between the two neighbors who sell food. .

The owners of both stores have children, and Asai Kotaro quickly integrated into them and had playmates.

So as you interact with your neighbors, you notice another important thing—

Acai and Taro are old enough to go to school.

You heard from your neighbor that a new temple house opened in the town not long ago. One of the master craftsmen is a bhikshuni who moved from other places. There is no restriction on recruiting girls.

However, the bigger problem is that because the store has just opened and the capital turnover is insufficient, the family cannot afford Acai and Tarang's tuition for the time being.

As for when the two children can go to school, it depends on when the store becomes profitable.

……

When I got home from work that day, Aqin's mother was reading a book.

You took a closer look and found that Aqin's mother was reading the Flower Street album published by Guzhuang Bookstore, and you couldn't help but be stunned.

"Mom, what are you looking at this for?"

Aqin's mother raised her head to glance at you and then immersed herself in studying the picture album: "The boss Songshi next door recommended it. These are the popular outfits now."

You were speechless for a moment.

I have to admit that after wealthy people set foot in the flower street, they will also flatter the geishas and courtesans, thus packaging the despicable things like prostitution that only satisfy their own desires into elegant affairs, and then the geishas wear clothes and perfume. , the food you eat have become the fashion indicators in the town to some extent.

This is also a selling point of publications that include this information.

When you open a clothing store, you didn't need to pay attention to these things before, but now you have to spend money on them.

The next day when you went back to work at the publishing house, you remembered that your mother was reading a book published by Guzhuang Bookstore. When you saw your colleagues, your mood became a little more subtle.

Someone just happened to send over the cover of the new magazine. When you saw the Yakuza painting on the cover, your heart couldn't help but move.

——Instead of chasing the trend, it is better to lead the trend.

As a type of figure painting, Yoshie-e is a very popular cover painting in recent years.

Covers drawn by some famous artists can even boost the sales of publications. This is why your boss told you about the impact of covers.

"If the clothes worn by the characters in the painting belong to my family..." For a moment, you are thinking about using this form to advertise your store, and at the same time, you are thinking that you can insert other advertisements into the magazine without any trace to increase the magazine's income.

Ideas are extremely divided because of different positions.

But you just think about it now. If you want to implement these into actions, you have to wait for a while. After all, Guzhuang Bookstore is still waiting to seize the market. It is too risky to rush to try the advertising model.

While reviewing the sample magazine in your hand, you listen to the chatter of your colleagues.

"It seems that Mr. Ji is back. Someone saw the city gate open this morning." Colleague A shared the gossip he had learned.

The speed at which you turn the pages slowly slows down.

"Are the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Fire going to fight again? Jun Ji is back."

"Isn't it a good sign that they can send Jun Ji back safely after the domestic coup? After all, her husband is dead, and there is no point in staying in the Kingdom of Wind."

"The current situation of the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Sichuan is unclear, and the Kingdom of Wind itself is still in chaos."

"Isn't the Daimyo Lady of the Kawa Country a member of our Fire Country?"

"We won't start a fight. The Kingdom of Sichuan is only a small country after all."

"The Kingdom of Wind won't fight, and the Kingdom of Sichuan won't fight, but that doesn't mean others can't fight."

"...It can't be us, right? Stop fighting. It's only been two years of stability."

"Is there a war in the Water Kingdom now?"

"Forget it about the Kingdom of Water. They fight all day long and accidentally become rebels."

"The Kingdom of Whirlpool..."

……

When you saw that the discussion had fast forwarded to "Which country is better to avoid if the Fire Nation wants to go to war?", you coughed heavily and the discussion stopped.