Chapter thirty-eight: take the initiative to defect
Shintaro Harada doesn't know how to describe his good luck.
After being 'unemployed' from Cardo, he found a new job again, that is, working for that young ninja from Konoha.
Initially, he didn't know why he was favored by that Konoha ninja. It wasn't until the adult who rescued him appeared again that he knew the reason why he was reused.
The country of waves, the Harada family.
When Shintaro Harada returned home, the first thing he saw was Uzumaki Menma wearing a fox mask with his back to him, standing outside the window admiring the scenery.
"Sir!" Harada immediately knelt down on one knee and said respectfully.
He felt a little uneasy in his heart. The Lord ordered him to lurk next to Cardo, but Cardo had been killed by the Konoha ninja. He was a little worried that the Lord would blame him for this.
Menma's first words made Harada give up this uneasy thought.
"You've done a great job. In just such a short time with Cardo, you've made friends with and gotten to know so many people."
When Harada was lurking around Cardo, he often made friends with other people. After Cardo's death, he took the opportunity to 'inherit' his shipping company.
"This is all due to your strategizing, my lord." Harada did not dare to take any credit. "My lord, what are your orders when you come here today?"
Menma turned around and looked condescendingly at Harada, who was half-kneeling: "I brought you a sum of money, part of which is a reward for you. The rest, I want you to go along Kado's road
Make connections and hire some wandering ninjas to do work for me."
He stepped aside, and behind him was a row of open suitcases, all filled with banknotes.
"I'm just an ordinary person. Even if I hire those wandering ninjas, I'm afraid they won't listen to me." Harada expressed his concerns.
The most important thing for a ninja is strength.
Therefore, no matter how much money Harada spends, he cannot gain the recognition of ninjas. For example, the rich man Kado who died not long ago, although he has money to hire "Zabuza", Zabuza has never really seen it.
Pass Cardo.
After hearing what Harada said, Menma stretched out his right hand, and without seeing how he moved, a scroll appeared in his hand.
"This scroll records the method of extracting chakra, as well as the training methods of clone, transformation and substitute techniques." He said casually and threw the scroll over.
"As for those ninjas, just recruit them. It's my business to make them obey." Menma ordered.
Harada lowered his head and said, "Yes!" When he raised his head again, Menma, who was wearing a white fox mask, had disappeared.
Five days later, in an underground bank somewhere in Tang Country.
"I heard that there is a guy in the Land of Waves who is spending a lot of money to recruit wandering ninjas!"
Although it is an underground bank in name, it is actually a guild organization similar to a mercenary union.
The "Qianzhuang" will release some tasks regularly every month and issue varying amounts of rewards. The wandering ninjas will accept the tasks and then return to the "Qianzhuang" to settle.
The person who just spoke was a ninja from a country called "Bear Country".
At the moment, he was 'exchanging information' with a few familiar faces.
"The Kingdom of Waves is the territory of the wealthy Kado?" the famous rebellious ninja from Hidden Cloud Village spoke up. "I heard that he has hired ninjas from the Kingdom of Water."
A middle-aged ninja with a burly body and a weathered face shook the wine glass in his hand and said: "Your intelligence is too backward. That rich man Cardo is dead!"
"It is said that he died in a ninja firefight. The new employment mission is issued by the winner."
These ninjas all get together for money, and when they chat, the topic cannot be separated from the word money.
"Kado is very rich! According to you, all of Kado's money went into the pocket of the guy who issued the mission?" A ninja discovered this problem keenly.
Generally speaking, ninjas will not kill their employers randomly for the sake of reputation. Otherwise, no one will hire them again in the future.
But now, because of the huge wealth Cardo left behind and the actions of the ninja who killed Cardo, they suddenly had other thoughts in their minds.
If the ninja who killed Cardo was killed, wouldn't all the money Cardo left behind go to himself?
When Harada's recruitment order was sent out, not only did he not recruit many ninjas, but he actually made many wandering ninjas feel like they were a piece of fat.
The ninja from the Bear Country was the first to realize this.
After careful consideration, he found those familiar faces and discussed his plan.
"Let's all join forces and kill that guy in the name of revenge for Kado. After that, how about we all share Kado's money equally?" said the ninja from the Bear Country.
Kumo Hidden's rebellious ninja, a dark-skinned man, suddenly smiled and said: "Xiong Ji, I don't know, your head can sometimes come up with reliable ideas."
"There's no need to share it equally." The burly middle-aged ninja said: "The ratio of sharing the money is determined by how much everyone contributes in the task. I think this is better."
The three of them discussed for a long time before finally deciding how to divide the money.
Throughout the whole process, they didn't talk about how to deal with the ninja (Naruto) who killed Cardo.
From the information they received, Naruto was just a young genin. The three of them joined forces, confident that they could easily deal with him no matter what.
After deciding how to divide the money, the team of three took a boat from the Yuno Country Pier and rushed to the Country of Waves under the stars and night.
Late at night one day later, at the border of the Country of Waves.
Three figures swished across the sea and ran all the way to Cardo's mansion on the island.
"No one seems to be living in this mansion. Are you sure you've found the right place?" Kumogakure's traitorous ninja asked.
The ninja named Xiong Ji took out a map from his pocket, confirmed it carefully and nodded: "This is it."
"That's really weird." The middle-aged ninja took out a kunai and said, "This mansion seems a bit weird, let's proceed with caution."
"The news has been out for so many days, and finally you guys are here." A voice suddenly sounded from behind them: "Forget it, no matter how small the crab legs are, they are still meat."
When the three of them heard this sudden sound, they were immediately shocked: "Who?!"
With a few "swish, swish, swish" sounds, the Kumogakure ninja had already launched several shurikens towards the position behind him.
Of course, his actions were useless. Menma just used a teleportation technique to avoid the attack range of the shuriken.