The Gushan family's New Year's Eve event is quite boring.

Saying farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, and spending the holidays together are secondary. The annual sacrifices to ancestors and the submission of tributes by core retainers are all routine activities.

What made Gushan Bushui feel most uncomfortable was that in the coldest season of the year, in a family temple without heating, a bunch of old men were having a family banquet according to ancient etiquette.

The establishment of Konoha Village has entered its fifty-fifth year. Naturally, it will not be like the ancient times, eating boiled beef and mutton, smearing it with salt, and drinking turbid sour wine.

Nowadays, the conditions are different. Even if the etiquette procedures are out of date on the surface, they still cannot be changed. There are still some workarounds in private.

"It's just a little cold."

Gu Shan Bu Shui sat under his mother, Princess Liuli, and secretly wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth, wanting to pick his teeth, but then he realized that it was very indecent, so he gave up.

On such an important occasion, what to eat is secondary, and how to allocate seats is the top priority. This represents the status of each family on the big ship of the Gushan family. The closer to the core, the heavier the weight.

Xianglin and Hongye were in a situation where they would definitely not be able to enter a place like this.

After eating and drinking, he pretended to glance down a few times, and basically knelt down in his seat, occasionally whispering.

On the small table in front of you, there wasn't much meat on the plate. The butchers used knives to symbolically cut the heads of cattle and sheep, and the henchmen did the rest.

In the past few years, my mother has basically been sitting quietly, and my father has been in charge of dividing the meat. It has a symbolic meaning of dividing gold and silver on a big scale, and eating wine and meat with a big pill.

Several guys with big shoulders and round waists, wearing bone armor from an unknown age and looking like vine turf skirts, were carrying a steaming cauldron. Their father Masaki Kosugi used a long-handled ladle to distribute the meat and bones to each family member, ushering in a burst of excitement.

Array excitedly flattered.

It is completely different from the high-end banquet occasions imagined by outsiders. The real inner circle of power is often dull and does not engage in homely activities. Except for sacrifices and etiquette, they generally do not talk about business, but once they get it

What is discussed together on this occasion must be a major event that affects everyone present, and even the entire Fire Nation.

Being able to come to such an occasion basically means that you have reached the top of the nobility of the Fire Country. The heights of the higher-level ancient cedars, daimyo and several major imperial families can no longer be achieved by hard work.

Mother covered her mouth with an iron-framed, flower-faced, down folding fan and whispered to Gushan Bushui:

"In a few years, it will be your turn to do it. Your father doesn't like to do this kind of thing either. It's too serious. The kind of event where he can speak freely and freely is what he is passionate about."

"I dont like it either."

The young governor grumbled softly, complaining,

"I don't know how these elderly men insist on kneeling and sitting for so long. I am so young and my legs are almost broken. How can they endure it..."

"Be ruthless to yourself and even more ruthless to others. Only in this way can you stand out in the world of fame and fortune. If you can't get over this little trouble, what qualifications do you have to share the spoils here?"

Indeed, everyone knows that the body is the capital of revolution, but if you don't fight for your life, how can you become a master?

If you are not tough enough, you will not be able to win over your colleagues.

Next, as the head of the family, Furusugi Liuli said some words of effort, which roughly meant that there would be slight adjustments to the path of the Furusugi family in the future.

In particular, Gushan Bushui, as the heir, spent a lot of money and made a lot of money. The entry and exit of large sums of money are not clear, and they all need to be explained roughly.

From this, everyone in the family probably knows that the "naughty" young master who wanted to be a ninja in the past has now begun to touch the core of household chores.

He is a very capable heir who knows how to spend money and make money.

Although he is a bit unprofessional, at least he will not dig up his own life. Unlike his deposed predecessor, he betrayed his own class without any concealment.

It's not a problem if you like to toss. If you have a big family and a big business, you can handle it. Don't talk about supporting a small country's ninja village, building a lot of armored gunboats as "toys", even if you just have a whim, you can find a small corner to found a country, and live your life as a famous person.

question.

The Gushan clan was originally an uncrowned king, far more powerful than the monarchs of small countries. Those rich and powerful people could be kings and hegemons behind closed doors, and Gushan Bu Shui could do the same, but everyone looked down on that kind of petty "game"

"That's all.

Before the family banquet ended, Gushan Liuli finally said something important.

Colonize overseas and rebuild the country of Whirlpool.

Such suddenness really surprised everyone present.

The original territory of the Country of Uzumaki was mainly the sea area directly north of Inaba, consisting of a large island and several small islands guarding it. There was also a small stretch of uninhabited hills on the mainland peninsula across the sea.

According to legend, hundreds of years ago, the two places were still one, with a land passage in between. After a major earthquake, a large area collapsed, and the seawater submerged the narrow land in between, so there was an enclave.

After the mysterious demise of the Kingdom of Whirlpool, the overseas islands were deserted. Except for the occasional fishermen and elusive pirates who came up in search of supplies, there were not many permanent residents.

The land enclave has always been under trusteeship because the Gushan family has not let go.

Everyone understands that if the Gushan family really set their sights on the land of the Whirlpool Kingdom, they would have taken action long ago, and no one else could compete. This sudden move must have been decided recently.

After a while, everyone came into contact with recent events. Kosugi Fusui intervened in the internal affairs of the Bear Country in a high-profile manner in the ninja world, and also traveled to the southeastern coast without any secret. In addition, Hongye was assigned a Shouna.

Because of Yan's idle position, Xiang Rin was sent to the Konoha Village Ninja School.

After thinking about it for a moment, some people think that the young and frivolous young governor may be leaving a way out for Hongye and his illegitimate daughter Xianglin.

If things really cannot be corrected in the future, there is still a country where the family business can be inherited.

However, this family fortune is really too rich.

There is nothing left in the abandoned Uzumaki Country. In the end, it is not up to the Kosugi family to rebuild it?

In the end, everyone took advantage of the illegitimate daughter.

Naturally, some people are not happy about it.

Although the controlling power belongs to the Kosugi family, it is everyone's property. If the chairman controls and takes the majority, he cannot let the directors and other shareholders suffer big losses, right?

Of course, you can guess some things, but you can't really say it so clearly.

Therefore, someone very tactfully raised the issue of the marriage of the heir, Gu Shan Bushui.

It always makes people feel uneasy if they don't have legitimate direct children.

Every time a branch is adopted and a new head of the family is selected, it is an internal reshuffling process. In recent years, Yasukawa, who had been quite decent, suddenly became popular and made a lot of money. Masaki Yasukawa, who is now Gu

Sugi Masaki was an outstanding heir, and he helped Furugi Ruri gain power after getting married.

There is also Togakushi Hinode, who is already the leader at a young age and has played with Kosugi Fusui since childhood. It can be foreseen that he will definitely become a big figure in the clan in the future.

In addition to the above-mentioned special cases of outstanding abilities and being appreciated, there is also the simplest and most direct method, which is marriage. If a family can produce an outstanding woman and marry Gushan Bushui, then there will be no need to worry about peace and wealth in the next few decades.

Already.

And this is also an important reason why many people do not accept Hongye and Xianglin. It involves major interests, and even the life and death of a family. Not to mention Hongye, an orphan girl who has perished, even if a princess from a small country enters the house without any skills, she has to

For little shoes.

Seeing some family elders who felt they had some say in the matter, eager to express their opinions and make the young governor change his mind, Gu Shan Bu Shui suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.

"Maybe it's a misunderstanding."

The head of the family, Princess Liuli, didn't want to mess around with this kind of thing, so she ended the party forcefully.

Sophisticated human relationships, mixed with selfishness and etiquette, make it impossible to negotiate a result in public.

…

In a mountain villa quite far away from the newly built Eutei in Inaba Port, Korin, Sasame, Kageno and Yuhuo were exercising in the training ground and practicing chakra manipulation.

Nowadays, let alone changes in form and properties, simple things like climbing trees and treading water are not easy.

This simple technique may be more difficult than the three-body technique, or even some C-level five-element escape techniques. The more basic it is, the easier it is to get started, but the upper limit is extremely high, and it is very difficult to master it. This seemingly inconspicuous little technique,

Almost all ninjas spend their entire lives striving for excellence in order to reach the next level.

A few children were very serious, but the two ninja dogs Sesshomaru and Shishinmaru were not so steady. They soon couldn't hold on anymore and sneaked away secretly, rolling around in the wide school grounds, almost burying them.

We had a great time playing in the snowdrift.

In the dense forest in the distance where no one is paying attention, several mysterious figures hold up binoculars and look at the territory belonging to the Gushan family.

Ten minutes later, he left quietly again.

Soon, part of the information fell into the hands of Orochimaru who was in a secret laboratory near Konoha Village.

"Those useless trash from the Wind Demon Clan actually found a backer?"

He took off his gloves, washed them briefly, and handed the finishing touches to Yakushi Kabuto. Orochimaru smiled with interest,

"They—their secret skills passed down from family are somewhat valuable, but it's nothing more than that. Even the most talented young man can't use it."

Kabuto Yakushi responded respectfully:

"Indeed, there are too few geniuses that can be used by Lord Orochimaru."

"I'm not talking about this. Kabuto, why do you want me to know about such a trivial matter?"

Orochimaru, who is busy studying the ultimate secrets of ninjutsu, has no time to care about a declining ninja clan?

Hearing this, the pharmacist Kabuto replied:

"The Fuuma clan is not worth mentioning, but the Furusugi family is a giant. If we can get those resources, Orochimaru-sama will be able to relax a lot."

Indeed, with such a large family fortune, the Fusagi family can easily support several ninjutsu laboratories. With so many residents under its rule dying every year due to various accidents, as well as the extremely vicious criminals who die in prison, it is not surprising.

Know how many there are.

In comparison, the number of people who died because of Orochimaru's forbidden experiments was only a small number.

This is also the reason why the core of secular power needs to abide by their duties. Even if the proportion is low, the absolute number is quite terrifying. Even if it is not evil, the harm caused by just wrong decision-making is worse than the harm caused by plague, natural disasters, wars, etc.
To be continued...