vncnus Chapter 5: The Money-Making Plan Will Take Shape
Chapter 5: The Money-Making Plan Will Take Shape
"Naruto"
"Oh, it's Hikari. What brings you here now? Is there some problem with the ninja academy?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama!" Yamada Mitsuki stood at attention, extremely excited. He hadn't expected the Hokage to remember his name. As he spoke, he handed the Hokage the file he had already prepared.
"I discovered a genius-level commoner ninja in this cohort, so I came to report as soon as I had the information."
"His name is Matsushita Taichi. His parents died in World War II and he had been living in an orphanage. Today was his first time practicing chakra, and he refined chakra in less than 20 minutes."
"Oh!" Hiruzen Sarutobi took the documents and listened to Mitsuki Yamada's report while looking at the documents.
When he saw Taiichi's ideal, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "To protect!"
Clearly, the Hokage values Taiichi's philosophy more than the rapid extraction of chakra. This is due to the difference in their positions. For the Hokage, there are many geniuses in Konoha, but those who can uphold the Will of Fire are more worthy of his attention.
"Very good, Mitsuki. Keep an eye on Matsushita Taichi; he has a good chance of becoming the village's future pillar," Hiruzen Sarutobi said to Yamada. "There are other children too. Might Guy and Nohara Rin are also very good; keep an eye on them and nurture them."
"yes!"
While Yamada was reporting to the Hokage about the current year's students, Taichi, who had just returned home after a day of classes, was thinking about something else—how to make money in the shortest amount of time.
This not only concerns the subsequent purchase of various medicinal herbs and ninja tools for his own training, but also the future of the orphanage and whether Nono could safely leave Root. It's important to know that Nono could have left Root later on, but Danzo, that cunning old fox, controlled the orphanage's funding, using this to blackmail Nono into continuing to perform Root missions.
If the orphanage had a steady stream of funding, would Nono still be coerced by Danzo? Even if there were other factors involved, it's always good to have one less weakness.
However, Taiichi considered that he was only a little kid of six years old, so he couldn't do most jobs. And ninja-related industries, such as ninja tool manufacturing and explosive tag making, were beyond his current knowledge.
After much thought, Taiyi decided to combine his knowledge from his previous life to see if he could make some inventions and creations to earn a little money.
With this in mind, Taiyi continued to rack his brains, trying to figure out what would be more suitable. The clothing, food, housing, and transportation industries were either too high-end or required too much labor cost. He and the orphanage were too small, and they didn't have the time to get involved.
After thinking for a long time, Taiichi still couldn't come up with a solution, mainly because he was too young and there was not much he could do. Looking at the time, it was already past 6 o'clock, and Taiichi felt hungry. So Taiichi went to the kitchen to make himself some ramen to tide him over. As he was making it, Taiichi stopped, staring at the garlic in his hand, lost in thought.
Because the orphanage was short of funds, Taiyi used to often do things like catching fish in the river and catching birds in the trees to supplement the orphanage's food supply. But this was the ninja world, and the fish and birds there weren't exactly friendly. If you angered them, they wouldn't hesitate to bite you or scratch you. And if you were going to catch them to eat, their resistance would be even more fierce.
After doing this so many times, some bumps and bruises are inevitable. Minor injuries can heal on their own, especially since Nonou is a medical ninja. But one time, Taichi and his friends went to steal bird eggs, but they were discovered by the mother bird. In order to cover his friends' escape, Taichi was pecked hard by the bird with a wingspan of more than two meters, and his arm was pierced through on the spot.
That injury was so severe that when Nono found out, she immediately dragged Taichi to the Konoha Hospital. It was that treatment that made Taichi realize that, at least in the 42 years since Konoha's founding, the village's medical conditions had been quite poor. Even the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory medications were barely effective. If it weren't for medical ninjutsu, the casualties in each Shinobi World War would have doubled.
When it comes to antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs, penicillin is undoubtedly the top choice. However, penicillin has very complex preparation conditions, and it may not even exist in the ninja world. But there is one thing that the ninja world definitely has: garlic. And with garlic, there is allicin.
Allicin is also an inexpensive and easy-to-prepare antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drug. And the ninja world, with its periodic world wars, is precisely where such drugs thrive.
Thinking of this, Taiichi clenched his fist with joy; now the problem of making money was solved. So, Taiichi quickly ate some ramen and then collected all the garlic he could find in the kitchen.
The preparation of allicin is actually quite simple. Taiyi used an organic solvent extraction method with a high extraction rate. He first obtained a jar of baijiu (Chinese white liquor) and purified it several times using distillation to increase its alcohol content. Next, he crushed all the garlic into a paste. Then, he soaked the garlic paste in the high-proof baijiu.
Ideally, it would be best to use pure alcohol for extraction, but since we don't have the means right now, we'll have to make do with what we have.
Finally, the extracted solution is distilled and purified again to obtain an oily liquid rich in allicin, which is garlic oil. Looking at the mere two or three grams of garlic oil extracted from one kilogram of garlic, Taiyi was extremely nervous; whether it would be successful depended on the following verification.
Taiyi glanced at the time and realized it was getting late. He hadn't even started his workout yet, and he couldn't afford to be late. So he packed up his things, put the garlic extract he had painstakingly obtained into a glass container, and stored it in the refrigerator.
Finally, it's time for today's training.
[Your training in basic physical techniques has improved your understanding of them.]
Your basic physical skills have been improved; experience points +1.
[You've focused on basic physical training; Ninja Apprentice experience +1]
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[Your practice of basic meditation will enhance your related understanding]
Your basic meditation skill has been improved, experience points +1.
[Your focus on basic meditation training has increased your Ninja Apprentice experience by 1]
Because there is now a new chakra refining technique, Taiichi reduced the training time for basic taijutsu and basic meditation, and set aside an hour specifically for practicing the chakra refining technique.
Taiichi discovered that as long as the amount of chakra extracted doesn't exceed the body's limits in one go, chakra still has a good strengthening and maintenance effect on the body. However, once chakra is extracted, it will continuously dissipate out of the body. How to maintain a certain amount of chakra within the body has been a question Taiichi has been pondering ever since he discovered the strengthening effect of chakra on the body.
For now, the only option is to refine chakra from time to time to maintain a certain level of chakra in the body. As for how to solve this problem in the future, whether to make chakra refinement an instinctive and silent process or to find a way to reduce chakra leakage, these questions will have to wait until we have accumulated enough knowledge to answer them.
[Your understanding of chakra refining techniques has improved as you train.]
Your Chakra Refining Technique skill has been upgraded, experience points +1.
[Your focus on chakra refining techniques has increased your Ninja Apprentice experience by 1.]
……
Congratulations! Your Ninja Apprentice class level has been increased.
[Attribute Points +1, Skill Points +1]
Finally, at the very last moment before the training ended, the job level, which was already close to being upgraded, finally increased.
Name: Matsushita Taichi
Occupation: Ninja Apprentice Lv2 (0/200)
Talent: Diligence can compensate for lack of talent; academic star
Age: 6 years old
Physical condition: 9
Power: 10
Agility: 9
Spirit: 18
Chakra: 800 (4200) The number in parentheses represents the maximum amount of chakra a person can extract in a day. Exceeding this amount will cause bodily depletion.
Attribute points: 6
Skill points: 6
技能：基础体术Lv6（124/1000），基础冥想Lv6（765/1000），查克拉提炼术Lv1（42/100）
Evaluation: Karami of the ninja world, you have no choice but to work hard.
Looking at the attribute panel and seeing the progress he makes every day, this is Taiyi's source of joy, and it also makes him clearly aware that he is getting stronger every day.