I sell sweets in Konoha

"Um?!"

Junko was about to yell at the person who bumped into her but stopped abruptly.

The person who bumped into him was a man in his 40s, not tall and strong, and he bumped into someone.Others just almost fell but I actually fell to the ground.

It was very embarrassing to be like this, especially being hit by a girl who was not as tall as me, not as old as me, and not as strong as me.

But he wasn't unhappy or embarrassed at all. He had a sad look on his face, as if he didn't take what just happened to his heart at all.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The uncle stood up and said a few words without sincerity before planning to leave.

"No...it's nothing..." Junko swallowed back her anger.

There is no other reason, just because this person is very similar to someone I know!very alike.Although the ages are different, there are still many similarities in basic outline and appearance.

The only difference is that the man in Junko's memory is older than him, and has the word profiteer written all over his face.

Yes, the kind that doesn't shy away from it.

As the owner of a pawn shop, his value and stinginess are almost written on his face.Everyone who comes here to pawn something will be given a price that is not very acceptable, but they have to accept it.

Write about oppression to the extreme.

When Junko was in poverty, she often patronized this old guy's pawn shop.

She was deeply impressed by this stingy little old man. Of course, the little old man took good care of her.The first initial capital I actually used to start a small business was sponsored by this little old man.

This time, Junko recognized the uncle in front of him at a glance as the little old man.

The difference is that this uncle is much younger, and he doesn't have the stingy and dry voice of the little old man that makes people uncomfortable.

He looks more like an ordinary person, or like an ordinary businessman who seems to be worried about certain things.Although the voice is not loud, it already has a somewhat dry feeling.

But the worry and urgency in his voice were obvious.

Not sure what the uncle was worried about, but Junko suddenly felt that this matter was an opportunity.

not sure...

I can't tell you this old... No!Can this uncle give her some useful information?

"What's the matter with this uncle?" Junko stopped the uncle and said with concern: "Or is there something unspeakable?"

"Are you...Tsunade...um..." When the uncle heard someone ask him this, he paid attention to the person in front of him. Don't say that he really had something on his mind and didn't notice the person in front of him.

Only when he heard the question from the person in front of him did he look at it seriously.

It seems to be Tsunade, one of the three ninjas?

but...

But not quite like it.

"Do you know Tsunade-sama?" Junko said with a smile: "This is really surprising, but I am not Tsunade-sama, I just look a lot like her unexpectedly."

"Hahaha~" The uncle scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "I am really familiar with Tsunade."

"She often comes to my place to be used as a gift. The Senju family..."

"Ahem, cough, nothing."

The uncle suddenly felt that he was talking too much. After all, Tsunade was also a famous celebrity among the three ninjas.To put it this way, it's a bit... suspected of ruining other people's reputations.

only...

"I see." Junko said with a understanding look: "She must have pawned a lot of things to gamble, right?"

"I was just wondering why the first generation and the second generation didn't leave anything valuable to me..."

"What?" The uncle seemed a little confused and said, "What are you talking about?"

"No...it's nothing." Junko shook her head and said, "Let's talk about serious things. I saw the anxious look on my uncle's face. Is there anything urgent?"

"If you tell me, I might be able to help you."

"Huh?" The uncle looked at the girl in front of him. Except that she looked very similar to Tsunade, her temperament was not very similar. She was much younger than Tsunade.Could it be said that he is a good player?

There is a pendant with a wooden leaf symbol hanging on his waist, which is very rare.

There is a badge with a fire pattern that I have never seen before on the left chest. Judging from the workmanship, it is not an ordinary thing.The clothes he wore didn't look like a ninja, but he didn't look like a samurai either.

But there was a samurai sword stuck on his waist.

There are ninja-style tactical bags on the waist and legs.

This says that ninjas are not ninjas, that samurai are not samurai, a weird mix and match style...

Feel...

Not such a reliable little girl.

"You can't solve my problem." The uncle said, "Thank you for your kindness."

"If I can't solve your problem," Junko said confidently, "then other ninjas can't solve it, if it's a business matter."

"I definitely can't help you. If it's something else and it's not convenient to entrust it to a ninja."

"Then I can help you solve it."

"How do you know I can't entrust ninjas?" the uncle asked.

"If you can entrust the ninja." Junko looked at the uncle tilting his head and squinting his eyes, and said as if he understood very well: "Then he wouldn't be so sad here."

"Your request must contain some key information, so it won't be easy to accept, right?"

"..." The uncle's face suddenly became serious, and he carefully looked at the strange girl in front of him for a while.

"You are joking, I..."

"I'm not kidding." Junko spread her hands and said, "There are few people in this world who understand people's hearts better than me, and there are also few people who understand ninjas better than me."

"If you really had the guts to go to a ninja and ask for a mission, you wouldn't be looking so sad here."

This old man is very rich, Junko knows it.This old man is not very short of money. Although I don’t know much about his history and past, I have heard.

I heard from his employees that this old man has relatively smooth capital turnover.

From a business perspective, I haven't encountered any very difficult times.

I haven't encountered any very difficult problems to solve.

If this is not the problem, then what makes him sad must be a problem that is not easy to solve with money.This is a ninja village. You can hire ninjas with money to help solve some non-economic problems.

But the premise for this is that some details of the characters must be clarified and nothing can be concealed.

Once a ninja discovers that the mission information provided by his employer is deliberately concealed, he can abandon the mission without punishment.

So this old... this uncle must have some problem that he can't talk about but he has to find someone to help.

"Remuneration?!" The uncle seemed to have figured something out. He became a little more serious and finally regained his appearance as a profiteer.He held his chin and looked carefully at the person in front of him.

There will really be a group of people in this world competing for business with ninjas, such as wandering samurai.

Of course, it is not very formal and the price is much lower than hiring ninjas. Of course, the problem is that these people may not be reliable.

However, everything depends on the person. There is no way to hold them accountable if you hire them. It is common for the other party to take the money and run away.Of course there are people who can do the job well.

Hiring them like this is almost like gambling.

But the uncle is still happy, because his mission is really difficult to express.

"I don't want money." Junko said happily: "I want something else."

"I want a little information!"

Chapter 91 What a coincidence

A pawnbroker is more than just a boss. In other words, being able to grow this business from a young age to a big one requires more than simply understanding some ways of the world and being able to speculate.

Every businessman has his own intelligence network.

How to identify the value of each item, which includes its constant inherent value and the market price subject to market fluctuations.What kind of items should be stocked at what time, and what kind of items are worth at what time.

This all requires a network of intelligence and knowledge to support it.

He doesn't need to be powerful enough to make people sigh or tremble with fear, he just needs to be powerful enough to be useful.

The owner of the pawn shop naturally has this information network. At the same time, he is good at some people's ways and attentive enough. He can also find some information he wants from the conversations of the people who come to him to pawn every day.

This wasn't enough for Junko, but it was better than nothing.

And she doesn't need to know everything about Loulan Country in detail. She only needs to understand the current situation of Loulan Country and learn some other things incidentally.

In a small room of the pawn shop, the owner lit a small candle.

The lights here are dim, and it is obviously a secret room dedicated to discussing some shady things.

"Tch~" Junko pouted as she looked at the secret room.

"What?" the pawn boss said a little arrogantly: "Master Samurai, what do you think of my secret room?"

This year can be regarded as an era when etiquette and music have collapsed, and class does not seem to be that important.The once unattainable samurai has long since declined, and the rise of the ninja has made the time when even the wandering samurai were superior to others gone forever.

Samurai who still have some assets and serve the lord of the country have some privileges.

The wandering samurai in front of me, who relied on various tasks to snatch food from the mouths of ninjas, was no longer so respected.

"Of course not." Junko didn't care about the pawnbroker's arrogance.

As a warrior, she was mentally prepared to be looked down upon.Besides, it’s not that I haven’t experienced it before, so what does it mean as long as I can complete the task?

"This kind of behavior is useless here." Junko said mockingly, "It's better to find a place to eat and talk."

"Your behavior is purely asking for trouble."

"Konoha Anbu likes people like you the most."

What Konoha Anbu likes most is this kind of thinking that they are fortified, but in fact they are not.He was as tidy as a sieve inside and out, and he pretended to think that he was in a secret room and that no one else could hear him talking about secrets.

This kind of secret room...

In the eyes of ANBU, there is no defense at all!

Even if Konoha does not have the electronic instruments of the previous life, they still have various eavesdropping equipment and abilities, and some people even have some kind of special ability that is suspected of being a 'smooth ear'.

In the world of magic, only magic can cure magic.

Physics doesn't work!

Except Gandalf.

"Do you think that matter can be brought to the table for discussion?" The pawn shop owner was a little surprised. In his opinion, this kind of stealing business in other people's stores in broad daylight.

Very bad, right?

"They..." Junko originally wanted to show off.

But think about it.

Let’s get down to business!

"Let's get down to business." Junzi said, "I want information about the Loulan Kingdom. The more the better, the more detailed the better. It would be best if you could get me a map of the Loulan Kingdom."

"Of course you have to understand that I'm not talking about an ordinary map, but a detailed map of the above-ground and underground buildings."

"I don't need a handful of city maps."

"The price you are asking for..." The owner of the pawn shop was a little unsure. He calculated it carefully for a while and said, "I can't say, but I can give you whatever you want."

"And fortunately, the thing I want you to do for me is also related to Loulan Kingdom."

"Eh?!" Junko suddenly became interested and said, "Tell me about it?!"

Originally, I just wanted to get some information from the store owner, and if I came by, I would help him solve the problem completely.If it doesn't go your way... then force it to go your way.

After all, although the shop owner seemed stingy, at least he was very kind to her.

Junko is not a heartless person.

But isn’t it a coincidence that this happens to be related to Loulan Kingdom?

"Do you know about dragon veins?" The owner of the pawn shop said mysteriously: "Have you heard of, or know a little bit about, the dragon veins of Loulan Kingdom?"

"I know." Junko nodded and said, "That's what I came for."

"Then let me give you some advice first." The pawn shop owner's eyes changed but he still said firmly: "I just hope you can complete the task I assigned you."