After Zhang Miao performed the Monstrous Strength and the Heavenly Foot of Pain in public, the rumor that he was Tsunade's illegitimate child spread more and more fiercely.
Now, even Kakashi and Hiruzen looked at him with a strange look, and at a glance he knew that they must be thinking something rude.
But Zhang Miao didn't mind at all, because compared to these trivial details, he could get more benefits.
The first was economical benefit.
Although it might be caused by saturation of the market, or the high price of his items, previously, the sales of Zhang Miao's wood statues were not good, and he often couldn't anything in two or three days.
But since that rumor about him being Tsunade's illegitimate child spread, his wood sculptures business suddenly boomed again. He could even sold over a dozen of Tsunade's statues in a day!
Seeing that the sales were so good, Zhang Miao sculpted hundreds of various Tsunade statues overnight, and while at it, sculpted dozens of his own statues, and then bundled them and made a fortune.
Not only that, under Zhang Miao's influence, even Himura's business was doing very well. Although his statues is not as good as Zhang Miao's, it is cheaper. His statues costs only a few thousand ryos, so a lot of people would buy multiple statues from him.
And now he also accepted custom requests. His customers only needed to bring him a picture of the objec they wanted to be sculpted. Such statues were slightly more expensive, usually around 10,000 to 20,000 ryos. He made a lot of money from that in addition to selling the usual statues. His success had invited envious gaze from his former colleagues already
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"Way to go, Himura. I heard that he got himself a girlfriend recently. Although she is not from a famous family, she is very cute!"
Zhang Miao was thinking that maybe they will be able to drink their wedding wine by the end of the year.
In addition to the economic aspect, new relationships and connections are also a big gain for Zhang Miao.
In the past, Zhang Miao felt that it didn't matter whether he had a good relationship with the villagers, but now he found that he was wrong, because now every time he went out, the system prompt sounded non-stop.
"[Ding! - Congratulations to the host for obtaining ninja fragments x1.]"
"[Ding! - Congratulations to the host for obtaining ninja fragments x3.]"
"[Ding! - Congratulations to the host for obtaining....]"
The system's notification sound almost always rang wherever Zhang Miao went without a pause. In desperation, Zhang Miao could only turn off the notification sounds to stop them from annoying him.
After Zhang Miao had done with his visit to Fugaku, Shikaku, Inoichi, and Choza's houses, he found that there were more than a thousand ordinary ninja fragments in his system space. .
What a great harvest!
Although ordinary ninja fragments cannot be used for lottery draws, and it could only be used for recruiting fodder-level ninjas, but they can be used as consumables for Forbidden Jutsus!
For example, the Eight Inner Gates, a Forbidden Jutsu which Zhang Miao had always regarded as a trump card and should not be used carelessly, could be used safely thanks to the ordinary ninja fragments.
According to the System's explanation, it took fifty ordinary ninja fragments to open the First Gate, and opening the Second Gate will cost double the amount needed for the First Gate. So as long as Zhang Miao has 12,750 ordinary ninja fragments , he could open all Eight Gates safely!
Now Zhang Miao's physical strength has almost caught up with Guy. As long as he opens all Eight Gates, he could unleash a huge amount of power in a short time!
Although such power would be short-lived like fireworks, it was enough as an emergency move in case of danger!
Of course, the premise was that he must have 12,750 ordinary ninja fragments, otherwise he wouldn't save anyone, but committed suicide!
In the past, , it was not easy for Zhang Miao to collect so many ordinary ninja fragments. Even he spent a year and a half, he wouldn't have enough. But now it only took him less than a month to collect enough fragments to use that jutsu.
Thinking of this, Zhang Miao couldn't help feeling emotional.
"I can easily get over a thousand ordinary ninja fragments in one trip!"
" And like Haku, it seems that I still underestimate the power of the masses, I must get along with them well in the future, and I will never scold them for being poor! "
Of course, Zhang Miao also knew very well that the reason for such a result was entirely because of Tsunade's name, so at this moment he was full of gratitude towards Tsunade.
"Aunt Tsunade, I have written down your kindness, and I will definitely repay you in the future, so during this period of time, you must not suddenly run back to Konoha and let me enjoy a happy time. May God of Shinobi bless you, amen!"
When he was talking, Zhang Miao completely forgot that the name of the God of Shinobi was Senju Hashirama, and Tsunade was his granddaughter...
Although Zhang Miao's prayers were unclear, it did not affect the result he hoped for, because Tsunade would definitely not come back.
Tsunade's beloved younger brother and lover both died in the previous War, and their dream before their deaths were to become Hokage, which made Tsunade seriously reject Hokage and even Konoha.
As described in the original plot, if it wasn't for Naruto, the child of destiny, who persuaded her with his big mouth, She would never return to Konoha in her whole life.
Now Naruto had just learned to walk, and he was still a baby. He had not yet grasped his "Mouth Release" power, so Zhang Miao can naturally continue to enjoy his life comfortably until he got exposed. .
But for now, it was a bit impossible for him to be exposed, because he was the son of Minato and Kushina, the hero form the Kyubi's Rampage incident. Only Hiruzen and a few higher-ups knew about it, and it was impossible for these people to expose Zhang Miao.
For them, the misunderstanding was also good for the village, at least it could make the villagers still remember Tsunade's deeds.
After all, the defection of Orochimaru had a great impact on Konoha. If people from the outside world knew that Tsunade had not returned to the village for several years, it might lead to very serious consequences.
For this exact reason, the higher-ups of Konoha didn't stop the misunderstanding from spreading. They even put fan to the flames for that rumor to spread faster.
This was also one of the important reasons why this rumor has spread to the whole village in just a few days.
As the saying "Three men make a tiger", Even if it is a lie, as long as there were many people speaking about it, it would naturally become the truth. Now that rumor had been known by the whole village, no one ever questioned the real truth of that rumor!
It only took more than a month, with the word of mouth of the villagers and the passive attitude of Konoha's higher-ups, Zhang Miao completely embraced his new identity of being Tsunade's son.
Under such circumstances, he finally got the opportunity that he had been waiting for for a long time - the opportunity to contact the Hyuga clan!
On a quiet evening, someone unexpected came to his shop, bought ten statues of Hyugas, and then said something like this to him:
"Ryunosuke-kun, if you have time, please come to my house. My son Neji is also a genius. I think you can become good friends!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Miao's heard a system prompt.
"[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 5-star Jonin, Hyuga Hizashi Ninja Fragment x10.]"
Hearing this prompt, Zhang Miao revealed a bright smile.
"My pleasure!"