Chapter 039: Opening a Shop

Time flew by, and seven days later, Wang Bo arrived in Konoha with two trucks.

The trucks were loaded with high-quality spices.

In the end, Wang Bo chose to inherit Ichihara Chiba's business, continuing to sell spices, starting with spices and then sweeping through the Land of Fire to become a business tycoon.

The gatekeepers of Konoha were two unfamiliar ninjas. After verifying Wang Bo's identity, they let him in.

Wang Bo pushed the carts through the streets and alleys of Konoha, delivering the spices to every corner of the village.

This included various spice shops and food stores.

Most were not very famous; the only well-known one was probably Ichiraku Ramen.

That's right, the spices needed for Ichiraku Ramen were also imported from Wang Bo.

While making deliveries, Wang Bo even took the time to eat a bowl of Ichiraku Ramen. After all, this bowl of ramen often appeared in the storyline and received praise from many ninjas.

So Wang Bo also wanted to taste what Ichiraku Ramen was like.

However, after eating a bowl of Ichiraku Ramen, his expression turned somewhat strange. How should he put it? Although it was indeed good, it wasn't so delicious that it amazed Wang Bo.

At best, it was ordinary good. He really couldn't understand why those ninjas loved Ichiraku Ramen so much.

But soon Wang Bo realized something.

He thought it was just ordinary good because the food he ate came from the Gourmet's Cloth, which enhanced the food and made it amazingly delicious.

It was like magic.

But the owner of Ichiraku Ramen wasn't a ninja and had no special talent. Being able to make Ichiraku Ramen taste ordinary good was already very impressive.

Wang Bo shouldn't judge others by his own standards.

What was ordinary good to him was probably very delicious in others' eyes.

No wonder Ichiraku Ramen was so popular in Konoha.

But this also gave Wang Bo an interesting idea. After eating the ramen, he took a walk around Konoha and confirmed his thoughts.

So Wang Bo took a sum of money and went to the Administrative Department of Konoha.

A ninja blocked Wang Bo's path.

"What are you doing here?" the ninja asked, scrutinizing Wang Bo.

Wang Bo calmly said, "I plan to do business in Konoha, so I've come to pay a visit."

The ninja nodded, told Wang Bo to wait there, and split off a clone to report inside the Administrative Department.

After a while, a kindly-faced ninja came out and called Wang Bo in.

The Administrative Department of Konoha was an institution that assisted the Hokage in managing village affairs, with its highest officials being the former Third Hokage's advisors, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu.

Their status was equivalent to village elders, and the existence of the Administrative Department was one of Konoha's legislative forms.

One purpose was to assist the Hokage by providing correct opinions, and the other was to serve as a bridge between the Land of Fire and Konoha, conveying national information, receiving the financial allocations from the country to the village, and also reporting the village's conditions and situations to the Daimyo.

At the same time, if anyone wanted to settle in Konoha or do business, they needed approval from the Administrative Department.

Wang Bo was no exception.

However, it was impossible for him to meet the two elders, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu. After all, they were Konoha's elders, already big shots, and wouldn't meet Wang Bo over an ordinary business deal.

The person who received Wang Bo was a subordinate of the two, a ninja named Furukawa.

After a conversation, Wang Bo spent over one million ryo to buy a two-story street-front shop on a relatively busy street in Konoha.

After obtaining the shop deed, Wang Bo turned and left the Administrative Department.

Furukawa casually dispatched a ninja to guide Wang Bo. Half an hour later, under the ninja's guidance, Wang Bo arrived at the street-front shop he had purchased.

It was a two-story street-front shop, with the upper and lower floors totaling about three to four hundred square meters.

"Here it is," the guiding ninja said, pointing at the shop. After handing the key to Wang Bo, he turned and disappeared from Wang Bo's sight.

Wang Bo didn't mind. He took the key, opened the door, and walked in.

This street-front shop had probably been a bookstore before, as there were still many unsold bookshelves and some boxes that had been packed but not yet taken away.

Wang Bo opened a box and looked inside; it contained books and magazines.

Wang Bo didn't recognize most of these books, but there was one he had seen before.

At least he had seen it in the storyline.

That was the masterpiece of the pervy sage Jiraiya, which Kakashi couldn't put down: Make-Out Paradise.

This book was definitely not for those under eighteen, a very explicit book that in his original world could only be printed and published secretly.

But in this world, it was openly displayed in bookstores and sold very well.

This showed that the culture of the ninja world was indeed very open.

After buying this street-front shop, Wang Bo began to get busy. First, he hired a few young girls in Konoha Village and spent a day cleaning the shop inside and out.

Then he bought some tables and induction cookers.

Don't think the Naruto world doesn't have induction cookers. In fact, the Naruto world is a world where the tech tree is skewed.

This world even has refrigerators; how could it not have induction cookers?

The reason Wang Bo bought induction cookers was simple.

He wanted to open a hot pot restaurant.

The Naruto world is a world with a strong Japanese style. It has oden but no authentic hot pot, so Wang Bo thought opening a hot pot restaurant here could make a lot of money.

Moreover, he knew exactly what ingredients were needed for hot pot base.

Opening a hot pot restaurant was definitely no problem.

Over the next few days, while stocking up, Wang Bo trained the few young girls, and soon the basic framework was set up.

At the same time, Wang Bo also figured out the current timeline.

The current timeline was Konoha Year 50. Two years ago, Obito Uchiha had attacked Konoha, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze died in battle, and his wife Kushina Uzumaki also died in battle.

The orphan left behind, Naruto Uzumaki, was only two years old.

At the same time, the Uchiha clan still existed, with four years left until the night of the massacre.

But none of this had much to do with Wang Bo.

He was just a hot pot restaurant owner.

After a month of busy work, Wang Bo's hot pot restaurant finally opened. For the first three days, Wang Bo offered a 50% discount, which attracted quite a few people.

So on opening day, the hot pot restaurant's business was very brisk.