The old devil Konoha wants to be a good person

two hours later.

Sasuke covered his bruised and bruised arm, and No.80 climbed up from the grass three times. He said nothing. If you want to gain strength, you have to pay a price.

"Here, take it."

Subconsciously taking the note from Linru, Sasuke looked at the names of the medicinal materials written on it and was slightly stunned. At this time, Linru had already turned around and walked out of the training ground.

"Medicated bath, once a day."

"If you dare to leak the formula, I will kill you."

With Uchiha's financial resources and some money for medicinal materials, Linru was too lazy to help Sasuke. What was really precious was the prescription, because it was an unheralded secret of the Iron Kingdom warriors.

Sasuke held the formula and stared blankly at Linru's disappearing back. For a long time, he grinned and muttered to himself:

"What a cold-hearted guy."

Obtain strong recognition from Sasuke, honor value 100

Sin Score: 18346

Tsk, tsk, tsk, the protagonist of the plot is indeed extraordinary. If you strongly agree with it, you can give it 100. There is really no way to compare it with those who just play side roles.

If this kind of character could have appeared around me at the beginning of time travel, maybe I wouldn't have embarked on a sinful path and let a demon like Blood Owl be born.

On the way back to the village, Linru was thinking about it when he suddenly noticed someone watching him. He glanced calmly out of the corner of his eye and saw someone in the grass.

A middle-aged man with white hair revealed his head and cast his gaze unobstructed. There was a huge word "oil" written on his forehead protector, and his expression looked serious and focused.

"What are you doing, Jiraiya-senpai?"

Stopping his pace, Linru simply turned around and faced Jiraiya, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Seeing the other person's appearance, he helplessly held his forehead and sighed.

"I want to see what kind of charm the Uchiha Sage has, so that the only child of the Uchiha clan can become your disciple." Jiraiya jumped out of the grass and said in a serious tone.

"Are you jealous of me?"

Linru crossed his arms and glanced sideways at the "Legendary Sannin". For some reason, he had a good relationship with him, and he could still afford some jokes.

"Haha, just say so."

The expression on Jiraiya's face could no longer be tense. He laughed and patted Linru on the shoulder, making the latter stagger. He didn't know whether it was intentional or not.

This force

Rubbing his seemingly sore shoulders, Linru's dissatisfaction was palpable, and he immediately said with a cold face: "Jiraiya-senpai, it seems that this month's Root of Ninjaden cannot be printed."

"It's your loss if you don't print it. Anyway, I'm not very short of money recently." Jiraiya said indifferently, but before he pretended for a second, he changed the topic and pretended not to bear it:

"I just feel sorry for my readers. Every time I think about them scratching their heads and jumping up and down in anxiety because they can't buy the latest issue of my novel in time, I feel so sad."

"It's really torture all the time."

Linru had a sneer on his face and refused to answer Jiraiya's words. As expected, after another three or five seconds, Jiraiya couldn't help it anymore. He bent down and said with a smile:

"Linru, does it still hurt here? I'll rub it for you."

"no need."

Patting away Jiraiya's extended palm, Linru said impatiently: "Senior Jiraiya, I hope you will pay attention to your image and don't always show off your taijutsu prowess in front of me."

Jiraiya scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

Linru couldn't help laughing when he looked at the submissive opponent. Speaking of the friendship with Jiraiya, it could be regarded as a coincidence.

That was four years ago, when he was ordered to follow the other party on a mission. On the way, he chatted a lot when he had nothing to do, and the topic mainly focused on creation.

Linru's hobbies include painting and writing, and Jiraiya is a well-known novelist. The two naturally became more and more speculative as they chatted.

After the task was over, the two parties combined their efforts and jointly funded a company to take over many publishing businesses, hoping to produce and sell the book themselves.

Jiraiya took out 300 million taels, which was one of his few savings, accounting for about 30% of the shares, while Linru took out 500 million taels, accounting for 50% of the shares.

The remaining 20 shares were divided among several Jonin friends and several reputable businessmen that Linru found. On the surface, it was a favor, but in reality it was a cover-up.

Originally, Jiraiya didn't expect to make money from this, but unexpectedly, the publishing house somehow grew bigger and bigger, with net income approaching hundreds of millions of taels every year.

With such a huge source of wealth coming out of thin air, Jiraiya's attitude will naturally change and he will become serious. After all, this amount of property is already worth several S-level missions.

But he may never realize that most of the time the reason why publishers can make so much money is not because of how popular his novels are, but just because

This organization assumes some hidden functions.

For example, money laundering.

Uchiha Itachi has now joined Akatsuki. I remember his first partner in the original work was Loquat Juzo. So, the publishing house may have to close down for a while.

After all, it's the only company I have a direct connection with.

Akatsuki talks about rules, but a stupid young man like Uchiha Itachi doesn't necessarily follow rules. Double agents must be guarded against. Linru then said to Jiraiya who was walking with him:

"Jiraiya-senpai, your books are selling so well, have you ever considered developing peripheral products such as paintings, sculptures, figures, or a ninja bag with the same style as Naruto?"

Naruto is the protagonist in the book Nessing Ninden. Namikaze Minato referred to the content of this book when he named his son.

This was the first time "Periphery" heard this novel concept, and Jiraiya couldn't help but wonder: "Can this thing make money? Will anyone buy this kind of thing?"

"You underestimate the charm of your works." Linru praised sincerely: "With my years of market awareness, as long as the peripheral products are made, they will definitely sell well."

"At that time, you will be lenient in collecting copyright fees."

Jiraiya didn't know anything about products in the cultural field. Out of trust in Linru, he scratched his head and said, "Okay, that means you don't plan to do publishing business in the near future."

"Yes, the novel market is only that big. No matter how hard you squeeze it, you won't be able to squeeze out much profit. It's better to use the existing money to invest in some emerging industries. Maybe it will be more profitable."

After Linru's persuasion, Jiraiya hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed to the business idea of ​​"pausing the publishing industry and expanding into new markets." As for his dividends in the past six months, he naturally had to slow down.

Although he was somewhat reluctant, Linru still trusted Jiraiya's business acumen. It was not difficult to understand why he sacrificed some short-term gains to obtain more long-term gains.

"Let's talk about business, Linru."

After talking about the investment issue, Jiraiya's expression gradually became serious. Linru naturally knew what he wanted to say, so he lowered his voice and said:

"Is this Blood Owl? The third generation told me today."