Hokage: Unable to persuade Madara, I chose to build my own ninja village.

Chapter 36: Going All In is a Kind of Wisdom! (Please add to your favorites, follow the story, and vote with monthly tickets.)

Time flies.

An afternoon passed quietly.

Danzo Shimura reluctantly left the tulip market, as it was almost time for his rendezvous with Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Danzo, how did things go this afternoon?"

"I visited three or four stores in a row before finally settling on a deal with a homeowner."

Hiruzen Sarutobi inquired about Danzo Shimura's activities that afternoon, but Danzo had spent the entire afternoon boasting to a group of speculators at the tulip market, so he could only give a perfunctory answer.

"Hiruzen, don't even mention him, all I've encountered are a bunch of shady merchants."

"I'll try again tomorrow."

Danzo gave a perfunctory reply, but his face showed a look of annoyance. However, Hiruzen Sarutobi did not suspect anything. He had also encountered a group of unscrupulous merchants and had finally managed to negotiate a deal with one of them at a reasonable price.

Danzo's bad luck was understandable.

"Let's call it a day then."

"Let's go have dinner first, then get a good rest tonight, we have to continue tomorrow."

Hiruzen Sarutobi said this.

Unlike Danzo, who sat alone in the tulip trading hall chatting with that group and even had free tea, Hiruzen Sarutobi, after a busy afternoon, felt parched and exhausted.

"Um."

Danzo Shimura nodded, letting out a long sigh of relief that he had finally managed to fool Hiruzen.

The two arrived at the restaurant where they would have lunch and, as usual, ordered two bowls of miso soup to soothe their throats.

"Miso soup is so delicious."

As soon as Hiruzen Sarutobi saw the miso soup being served, he couldn't wait to take a big gulp and then let out a sigh.

But as soon as he raised his head...

He saw Shimura Danzo sitting there absentmindedly fiddling with the spoon in his miso soup bowl, not drinking the soup with great gusto like he was. So he asked, "Danzo, why aren't you drinking your miso soup?"

"Oh, it's too hot. Let it cool down first."

Shimura Danzo snapped out of his daze. He was now sitting in a restaurant, but his heart was actually still at the tulip market. As for the miso soup?

He drank tea in his room all afternoon and wasn't thirsty at all!

Not long after.

The food was served, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ate heartily as he had at noon, while Danzo only ate a few bites before putting down his chopsticks.

Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to talk to Danzo several times, but Danzo brushed him off each time. However, Hiruzen understood Danzo's feelings.

"Danzo, it seems he's unhappy because he returned empty-handed this afternoon..."

"Hey, but I'm actually a little bit better than him."

"However, I can teach him some bargaining techniques tonight."

Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a little proud, but he still planned to talk some words of advice to Danzo that night. After all, they were comrades!

Danzo, however, was still wondering if tulip prices would rise tomorrow.

If it surges, it will prove Hiruzen Sarutobi wrong.

In a rather silent atmosphere, the two of them finished their dinner, each with their own ulterior motives.

Back at his lodgings, Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to break the silence and teach Danzo Shimura some bargaining tips.

However, Danzo rejected him, speaking in a tone much like a middle-aged man who had just finished a long day at work and was exhausted when he returned home to face his wife.

"Hiruzen, I'm too tired today, let's talk tomorrow."

"All right."

Hiruzen Sarutobi could only nod, and the two settled down to rest.

That night, Hiruzen Sarutobi slept soundly and soon began snoring because he had indeed worked all day.

Danzo Shimura, on the other hand, tossed and turned, unable to sleep at all. He was still worried about the tulips. That was a million-dollar investment!

A long time passed like that.

In a hazy, dreamlike state, Danzo had two dreams in succession. In the first dream, he dreamt that he had lost everything and was eventually discovered by Tobirama Senju. This startled him awake, and after calming himself down, he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep again. Unconsciously, he fell into another dream, this time in which he made a fortune. Tobirama Senju praised him highly, took him as a disciple, and even...

Soon, dawn broke.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, still wide awake after a good night's sleep, nudged Danzo Shimura, who was still fast asleep.

"Danzo, wake up."

"Enough, Hiruzen! I am the Hokage!"

"What Naruto? Danzo, wake up!"

Danzo Shimura opened his eyes and saw Hiruzen Sarutobi urging him to get up. He quickly regained his senses and sighed inwardly with a sense of loss: It was all just a dream!

"Danzo, let's go have breakfast first!"

"Let's split up and proceed as we did yesterday!"

As Hiruzen Sarutobi said this, he planned to teach Danzo some bargaining tips while they ate breakfast. Danzo Shimura nodded, and the two quickly got dressed and went to a breakfast shop.

"Danzo, let me tell you about bargaining. First, you need to cut the price in half. After bargaining for a while, you can pretend to leave and silently count to three. The shopkeeper will definitely come back and grab you."

"What if the boss doesn't turn around and pull you back, Mr. Wu?"

"Then let's quickly find another one, this one's a rip-off!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke solemnly, while Danzo Shimura let it go in one ear and out the other, his mind already itching to go to the tulip market to check today's tulip prices.

After the two finished breakfast, Danzo, seeing that Hiruzen Sarutobi had walked away, circled around twice and immediately arrived at the tulip trading market he had been longing for.

Tulip trading market.

"This place is really lively!"

"There seem to be even more people than yesterday."

Looking at the bustling scene at the tulip market, Shimura Danzo couldn't help but sigh, then immediately headed towards the room from yesterday—the tulip prices were going to be updated today!

As soon as I entered.

Danzo Shimura then noticed the striking increase in the figures.

Soaring!

Prices have increased by a whopping 30%!

"I earned 300,000 taels in just one night?"

Danzo Shimura's face beamed with delight; his anxiety, which had lasted all night, was finally relieved.

As more and more people entered the room, the noisy sounds began again. Danzo met a group of friends he had just met the day before. The group sat together in small groups, drinking tea and discussing the market.

"It's gone up again!"

"Rumors were circulating yesterday that a large group of wealthy merchants from the Land of Earth had come to the Land of Fire. You newcomers have caught this wave of opportunity."

"Why didn't you tell me about this inside information? I should have bought more shares yesterday."

"Tch, just gossip. I paid for this gossip!"

Danzo, beaming with delight, mingled among them, eagerly seeking information about the tulips.

"Hey, newbie, your name is Danzo, right? How much did you earn?"

"Not bad, three hundred thousand taels!"

"You're this happy with 300,000 taels? Everyone here has earned at least a million taels, and tens of millions are quite common. There are even people who have earned hundreds of millions. Some people are so daring that they've already earned billions or tens of billions?"

Upon hearing this, Shimura Danzo, though he didn't understand some of the terms, such as "all in," still couldn't help but gasp. Billions of ryo!

This is absolutely terrifying!

"Hey buddy, what does 'all in' mean?"

"You don't even know what 'all in' means? You're really a newbie!"

"Going all in on poker is a sign of wisdom!"

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(End of this chapter)