The two children nervously counted the orders of the participants in the tasting session.
Yu Yue was also busy compiling the contestant registration forms and coordinating the advertising space for sponsors.
Except for the first year when Yu Yue had to run around and earnestly explain to the ninjas the benefits of "advertising space", she never worried about advertising space in subsequent competitions.
Now it has even reached the point where bidding is required.
As an experienced contractor, Konoha is also familiar with this.
Yu Yue didn't even need to spend any special time preparing, they could have done all the preliminary preparations.
From venue preparation to participant arrangements.
Yu Yue Store only needs to provide a list and rules, and finally prepare for acceptance and take on the role of participating in the auction.
It's painless and fully automatic.
It was obviously the first time, not to mention doing it, Yu Yue even had to break down and mix up the principles to explain it.
After listening, we will have to hold two or three more meetings to confirm it.
Now, they will even take the initiative to inquire about the progress of Yu Yue Store's activities this year, and then take the initiative to take over all the work such as guest reception, security protection and even hosting of the auction.
We also learned to optimize activities and upgrade supplies when existing conditions allow.
For example, in the first year, they were only given water, but in the second year, they were given snacks and stationery such as paper and pens.
In the third year they even made a lot of souvenirs with the Konoha logo.
Isn’t it said that ninjas have strong adaptability?
Most of the participants in the auction are suppliers of raw materials used in various desserts.
Some sell sugar, some sell flour, and some sell molds.
There are also a few that are relatively unrelated - like fabric merchants or something like that.
However, considering that many high-end dessert gift boxes are still wrapped in cloth, it seems that it cannot be said that there is no connection at all.
And here is the most special one among these advertisements.
Then we have to talk about the 'Sand Village'.
That's right.
The representative of the Sand Village also sat upright in the auction room.
Although they are not the raw material supplier of dim sum.
But they are tourist attractions.
Tourist destinations also have all kinds of special foods, so it’s reasonable for them to buy an advertising space at a ‘food event’ to promote themselves, right?
——That’s really reasonable.
The people of Konoha felt their teeth ache after hearing this reasonable statement.
No, we are all from the Ninja Village. Why are you the only ones who are so showy and have so many fancy moves?
But what’s even more annoying is that they really can’t refute it.
After all, the tourism and sales of various commodities in the Sand Village have been booming in recent years.
Although no one has ever specifically counted how much the Sand Village has earned.
But seeing that they have been spending money lavishly in the past two years is enough to prove that they have really made a lot.
Otherwise, how could the Sand Village, which used to be willing to break a coin into two halves, do such a thing?
Not to mention spending money to buy advertising space.
Not to mention that it didn't exist in the past, even if it existed now, which ninja village would have thought about it?
Or is it just their Sand Village?
Facing the complicated looks from the Konoha ninjas, the representative of the Sand Village, Yashamaru, just smiled slightly.
Even Maki, who was accompanying him, had a very calm expression, as if he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
He looked so matter-of-fact that it was hard to tell that he had ever been uneasy about doing business in the ninja village in the past.
As a very traditional ninja, Maki has always believed that if the ninja village puts a lot of energy and manpower into business, it would be putting the cart before the horse in the work of the ninja.
Instead, it will put the ninja village into crisis.
But he was nervous for one year, two years, three years...the crisis he imagined never happened.
On the contrary, everyone's income is getting better and better, and their lives are getting better and better.
Even the furniture in his house has been replaced.
Then Maki calmed down - whether it would endanger the ninja village.
Are other ninja villages doing as well as the Sand Village? Do they have the courage to transform resolutely?
Of course not.
The Sand Village is the best!
So when the Sand Village decided to participate in the auction, Maki became the most staunch supporter and even volunteered to accompany Yashamaru to participate in the auction.
——It really is true in every sense that 'if you live long enough, you can see everything'.
“Ahem.”
The Konoha ninja in charge of hosting the event drew his attention back and cleared his throat.
"Welcome to Konoha to participate in the auction of the 'Sugar Art Competition' advertising space. There are a total of twelve billboards participating in the auction. This is a schematic diagram of the corresponding positions." He said,
He gestured to the huge schematic diagram behind him, which showed a total of twelve blank spaces marked with different numbers around the venue - these blank spaces were the advertising spaces for this bidding.
"The auction will still be conducted by bidding with placards. Each of you has a number plate representing your guests. Each person is limited to bidding on one placard. After the auction officially begins, please raise your placards to bid."
After a brief discussion, the ninjas of Konoha looked at Ugetsu, who was sitting in an inconspicuous position but could clearly observe the whole scene .
When Yu Yue nodded, he officially struck the gong to start the auction.
"The bidding for billboard number 12 begins now, with a starting price of 100,000 taels!"
"One hundred and fifty thousand!"
Almost as soon as the ninja finished speaking, someone immediately made an impatient offer - it was the owner of a small flour mill.
His initial target was the relatively poor positions of 12 and 11.
After all, his family is a small workshop and does not have enough capital to compete with those real big businessmen.
After all, it’s a big event that’s famous among dessert shops all over the world, so I’m already satisfied just to have a seat there.
With such a large scale, even if only 1% of people notice me, and 1% of the businessmen sign new contracts with me, I will still make money.
That's why he raised the price by half at the beginning.
But even though he added so much at once, it still didn't scare off his competitors.
Many owners of small and medium-sized factories or chambers of commerce who had similar ideas as him also followed suit and raised their signs.
"One hundred and sixty thousand!"
"One hundred and seventy thousand!"
"One hundred and ninety thousand!"
Although the price raised each time is not much, the competition is still fierce.
In the end, Billboard No. 12, which had the worst location, was sold for more than three times the starting price.
When some people are happy, naturally some people are disappointed.
——Many people who originally had a lucky mentality and thought that they might be able to get something for free, now became serious.
Even the No. 12, which was in the worst location, was sold at this price.
What about the others?
Starting with the competition for No. 12, merchants began a fierce competition for the billboards behind.
Of course, not everyone participated.
Those big businessmen and factory owners have not taken any action yet - after all, each person is limited to purchasing only one advertising space, so how can they waste the opportunity on these small spots?
The advertising spots were auctioned off one by one, and finally when the host said "number 5", these people started to take action.
The price also increased from 11,000 to 21,000 yuan to 50,000, 80,000, and 100,000 yuan.
The atmosphere became more intense and heated.
At this point, there is no chance for small bosses to participate.
They can only look at the big bosses who start to offer prices that they can only look up to and think to themselves: If only I could be like that too.
You don’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to fight for an advertising space in a corner.
Instead, they sit here and compete for the biggest and most prominent positions without batting an eyelid.
Eight hundred thousand or nine hundred thousand, more than one million.
Some people were unwilling to give up, while others were satisfied with the winning bid.
Finally, the auction reached its climax - the bidding for the absolutely core 'No. 1'.
"This bidding starts at 1 million taels, and each increase in price must not be less than 50,000."
"One million and a half million!"
Almost as soon as the ninja finished speaking, someone immediately raised the price by half a million.
Although it was also added directly in half.
But this is completely different from the feeling given by the auction on the 12th.
No, it should be said that it was 'shocking'.
"One million and eight hundred thousand!"
As soon as the words "one million and five hundred thousand" were spoken, someone followed up immediately.
"Two million!"
"Two million, three hundred thousand!"
The participants in the auction felt that their eyes were not enough.
They looked here and there following the sound of bidding.
It really didn't stop for a moment - there was no way, everyone was curious about who these generous bigwigs were.
The most eye-catching among them is the Sand Village.
The representative of the Sand Village didn't move at all.
It was not until No. 1 was auctioned that he suddenly woke up and made a bid.
The 1.5 million at the beginning was reported by him.
After the next few offers, the Sand Village did not make any more bids until the price rose to 2.5 million.
They opened their mouths again and asked for three million - really highlighting their wealth.
Even the big businessmen who were competing with him were surprised.
They all looked over.
One million is enough for an S-level mission.
It cost a lot. Three million, rounded up, is three S-level tasks.
Are all the people in your ninja village so rich?
Use the money from three S-level tasks to buy an advertising space?
If the ninjas from other ninja villages heard this, they would definitely cry out that it was injustice.
They are not, they don't.
Three million is still a lot for them, it is unlikely that they would spend it all just for an ad space...
Besides, why would Ninja buy advertising space?
They are the only ones in the Sand Village who don't play by the rules.
However, the "lavish spending" of the Sand Village has not ended yet.
Whoever raises the price, they will follow suit.
They are absolutely determined to win and don't care how much money it costs.
——The Sand Village does have this idea.
As long as there is no particularly outrageous offer, for example, someone directly bids 810 million taels, then they are indeed very determined to get the No. 1 advertising spot.
On the one hand, this is Lord Utsuki's activity - as a ninja village (self-proclaimed) that truly stands with Lord Utsuki, how could the Sand Village not support Lord Utsuki's activities with real money?
On the other hand, we really want to take advantage of the opportunity to promote it.
Their Sand Village is so good now.
There were many tourist projects before, and many new projects were added after the Chunin Exam.
They can't always trouble Lord Yu Yue to take the trouble to do this, they have to take the initiative to act themselves.
It just so happens that the annual sugar art competition held by Yuyue Store is a great opportunity.
The Sand Village doesn’t really care whether it can make a one-time profit from this promotion.
After all, they have many sources of income, and by diversifying their business, they can quickly make back the money they have spent.
What matters most is an attitude and an opportunity to show yourself.
They would be lucky if they could leave the impression of "The Sand Village has been completely transformed!" in other people's minds.
So the Sand Village dared to make the offer.
Until he reached 4.5 million by competing with others. The sugar tycoon who fought with Sand Village to the end was finally defeated.
He shook his head. It's not that he didn't have money.
It's just not necessary.
Four and a half million is not a small amount, and there are more than twelve billboards available for advertising in the entire event.
If the fighting continues and gets really out of control, it will be bad for both sides.
Even though he was unhappy about losing to the Sand Village, he was certainly a shrewd person to be able to run such a big business.
So he half-jokingly said:
"I gave this opportunity to the Sand Village, so you should also give me some chance for cooperation, right?"
In a word, the original competition and "capital preservation" has been transformed into selling favors.
Yashamaru might not have known that the other party was trying to change the subject. But he immediately smiled and continued with the other party's words:
"Of course, it is our honor to work with you."
"We are just preparing the latest plan for the Oasis Camp - please take care of us when the time comes."
Although the main theme of Oasis Camp is "return to nature", it allows people to experience the most authentic camping and starry sky in the desert.
But the Sand Village is not stupid enough to let their guests suffer the hardship of sleeping in the open air.
At that time, tents and other things can be simpler, but we must still put effort into food and drink.
So there is indeed a chance for cooperation.
The sugar tycoon felt relieved when he heard this.
Both sides were very satisfied.
The largest and most central 'No. 1' advertising space has now been acquired by the Sand Village.
With this result, not only Konoha, but even Ugetsu was quite surprised.
She also didn't expect that the Sand Village would have the courage to directly compete for the No. 1 advertising spot.
I thought the number three and number five were about the same.
But she still supports the courage of the Sand Village.
When doing business, although you can't spend money resentfully, being stingy when it's time to spend is not the right attitude to have in order to grow bigger and stronger.
After the auction ended, Yashamaru did not immediately pull Ugetsu to say anything about it.
After a few simple greetings, he was ready to leave and go get ready.
——Now that we have taken pictures of the billboards, we naturally have to prepare a good promotion so that it won’t be a waste.
As a partner of the Sand Village, Ugetsu certainly would not be stingy with resources at this time:
"If you need anything, I can contact Miss Xiaonan."
When it comes to "flawless" large-scale works, the first choice is of course Miss Xiaonan.
"Thank you so much."
Yashamaru thanked him immediately.
Rather than them finding someone to do it themselves, it would be better for Master Yu Yue to contact a professional.
The representative of the Sand Village left satisfied.
And others have not
A businessman who had been leaving and noticed the conversation between the two also came up.
Their demands are also very simple - they are all people who have bought advertising space, and as the host, Yu Yue Store should not favor one over the other.
"You will definitely not lose money, we just want a good supplier."
The products in Yuyue Store are probably famous for their high quality.
It's definitely better to find her than to find someone else.
Yu Yue: “…”
She didn't expect that there would be so much business coming to her.
Forget it, just leave it all to Xiaonan.
Based on the principle that there is no difference between doing one and doing two, Yu Yue simply prepared to entrust all the orders to Xiaonan.
In addition to the twelve billboards, there are also other large promotional materials. If anyone needs them, you can entrust them all together.
It doesn’t matter if you didn’t win the bid for an advertising spot, you can still advertise around the food tasting event.
And it is directly opposite to various dessert shops.
It is indeed vertical sales, and both parties can communicate directly if they like each other.
It saves the trip to visit the place, and there are no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference.
It's perfect.
After the bidding for the advertising space is completed, the registration forms of the contestants will begin to be counted.
Compared with the first session, the number of participants has undoubtedly increased significantly.
A lot of content and items have also been added.
This time it is no longer just a promotional activity for self-entertainment, but a truly world-class project.
The value of each reward is naturally different from the past.
It’s just that the number of ninjas of Scorpion’s caliber participating in the competition is relatively much smaller—not surprising.
After all, there were all kinds of misunderstandings in the first session. Those who went to Konoha Village and participated in the competition for various reasons were all elites carefully selected from various ninja villages.
Even if a war breaks out, we can fight it smoothly and with both sides winning and losing.
Now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, the competition among the various ninja villages...oh, the competition is still there.
After all, there is no need to fight with real swords and guns on the battlefield.
The competition for these overt projects is, in fact, more serious than in the past.
After all, this is 'technology', isn't it?
And if they could really defeat the Konoha ninjas on Konoha's territory and in front of Miss Ugetsuki, that would be a kind of proof and a slap in the face to Konoha.
Therefore, the fighting power of these ninjas who came here might not be good enough.
But when it comes to sugar art - mainly sugar syrup and sugar painting, as well as his technical skills, he is among the best.
It's hard to ask the ninjas to have a sweet taste, but they are not afraid of anything when it comes to technique and appearance.
Of course, because of the existence of these ninjas, it is normal for the sugar syrup competition to be divided into two parts: the ordinary group and the ninja group.
“There are so many people this year too.”
Yu Yue pinched the bridge of her nose as she looked at the long registration form.
At this time, Uchiha Shisui walked forward considerately and put his hands on her shoulders.
I don't know if it was because of the acupuncture points or if the ninja had some magical power.
As soon as the young man exerted force with both hands, Yu Yue immediately felt that his originally tense and stiff shoulders suddenly relaxed - and it didn't hurt at all.
"Yes." Uchiha Shisui kept his hands moving and responded quickly, "I have already discussed accommodation and other issues with the Fourth Hokage. He said he would be responsible for it and told us not to worry."
After pressing the shoulders, his hands gently and deftly pinched the cervical vertebrae.
It is also a painless but effective method.
If it were in the past, Yu Yue would definitely be shocked by her beauty.
This is much better than a store that charges 100,000 yuan to issue a card.
But now, she has become accustomed to it and is naturally not so surprised anymore.
Even her mind was still on work.
It was certainly a good thing that Konoha helped arrange it.
Yu Yue was also very satisfied.
but……
"Why don't we hold a preliminary round next year?"
At the beginning, since there were only a few participants, she didn't think about doing any pre-selection.
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if there were only three or two participants in a certain place?
But now the total number of contestants from all regions is about 200...it's time to hold a preliminaries, and only allow the winners from each region to participate.
This will not only reduce the reception pressure here, but also ensure the excitement of the game.
Even though people come to watch the game.
But only high-quality confrontations can capture people's hearts.
An audition with so many people together is somewhat problematic.
At this stage, since people in this world don’t have much entertainment, it can still support popularity.
But after a while, when people's pursuit of excellence is raised, it will no longer work.
“Pre
Qualifying match?
"Yes, we will hold a competition locally first, and then select the top few to participate in the competition."
Yu Yue briefly talked about her idea.
"This will also be good for the local area." After all, it is a large-scale event and can create more fame and revenue.
“It also allows for better engagement for those who can’t travel long distances to see the event.”
We still need to urge the nobles to develop television-related technologies as soon as possible.
Then people will be able to watch it on TV.
That's TV, it's such a waste to have only a few bits of content to watch.
——But that’s next year’s matter.
This year, let’s just do the best we can with the things at hand.
"Tell the people who have been transferred to the preparatory team that they will have to work hard for the next two days and finish the work as soon as possible."
"learn."
On the other side, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto finally realized the hard work of the job.
The checking work does not require them to run around.
But for children who are energetic but lack endurance and concentration, sitting at a table facing various words and numbers all day long is much more tiring than running around to work.
On the first day, both of them thought that this was not a difficult task, and they vowed to make Pharmacist Kabuto apologize to them.
The next day, I felt a little guilty.
This...seems...real...
It’s a little bit difficult.
Later on, the two even started to read words to each other - as children of ninjas, although they had no problem reading and writing, they were still children after all, and it was difficult for them to understand the strange and complicated names of various shops .
There are bound to be some areas that are uncertain.
At times like this, we need each other's help.
Only now did they understand why there was a thick dictionary on the table.
It turns out that the other party had already anticipated this.
The two continued to work with mixed emotions.
When you come across a complex word that no one is sure about, just look it up specifically.
As a result of this going back and forth, time was naturally wasted.
Naturally, efficiency is getting lower and lower.
I especially remember the joy we had together twisting candy syrup a few days ago.
Choked up.
Uzumaki Naruto choked up.
——Why on earth did he come here?
Although Uchiha Sasuke was already thinking of backing out.
But consider that this is precious first-hand information about the store.
He held on again.
This is for my brother!
After imagining Itachi's surprised look when he saw the information he gave him, Uchiha Sasuke felt himself motivated again.
If his brother thanked him with a smile again.
When his imagination reached the next stage, Uchiha Sasuke felt more motivated.
Even if the workload doubled, he still didn't...
Forget it then.
If it's twice as much, he will still be afraid.
If adults had to take care of so much work every day.
Uchiha Sasuke shuddered. At such a young age, he realized the horror of his job.
The black-haired boy stopped his hand.
But he was just seen by his childhood friend on the other side:
"Sasuke! You're being lazy!"
Uzumaki Naruto was shocked.
We agreed to each do half, how could you be lazy?
Uchiha Sasuke was furious:
"Who's being lazy? I'm just thinking!"
"You've been thinking for too long. You must be being lazy."
"I already said no more! You idiot!"
——Children’s emotions are really strange.
However, the fact that we can quarrel so vigorously proves that our work is not yet saturated and we still have extra energy.
Should we do something?
Pharmacist Dou secretly came to take a look at the two people's work, then closed the door silently and turned away.
The event is approaching and some people are busy as hell.
Some people were stretching lazily, preparing to take a rest.
For example, Jiraiya who wrote the last character on the manuscript paper.
After so many years of trials, he is no longer the person who used to feel pain when writing one more word.
Now he can even write a whole chapter in one breath!
My goodness, what an amazing improvement.
There is no such qualitative change even when being promoted from a Chunin to a Jounin.
Jiraiya packed up his newly written chapter, opened the drawer, and stacked it on top of the other finished manuscripts.
——Sure enough, writing "Intimate Paradise" is like this
happiness.
Although this was something he had always wanted to write, Jiraiya always felt that he lacked inspiration and could not write it.
But after he took on the job of "Ninjutsu Girl" (tentative title) given by Miss Ugetsu, he felt that his ideas flowed like a spring and were extremely smooth when writing "Intimate Paradise".
There's nothing I can do.
Encountering a cute tailed beast, being able to transform through the chakra heart or something... this setting is completely beyond his ability to handle.
Let’s not talk about how the tailed beasts are cute.
Just talking about the Chakra Heart and transformation...there's no such thing as fighting with clothes.
How is it possible to be reborn just by changing clothes?
If I write this out, I'll be scolded to death.
Jiraiya really couldn't understand it. If he couldn't even understand it, there was no way he could write a story that could move other people.
Jiraiya shook his head and sighed.
Although Miss Yu Yue’s decisions have been proven to be correct before, but this time... Miss Yu Yue, I’m afraid she’s going to suffer a big fall.
How could there be an audience for something like this?
It’s better to write "Intimate Paradise".
If he could maintain this state for a while, he felt that he would be able to finish the first draft next month... no, maybe next month.
What exciting news.
Jiraiya felt that he had worked so hard that he should at least go have a couple of drinks to reward himself.
Just when he thought of this, he subconsciously looked around.
It was only when he saw his master's wife doing handicrafts that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Really... I hope I have suffered a psychological trauma.
Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head.
Although it was still in the setting stage and no one was watching him, Jiraiya always had hallucinations of someone behind him from time to time.
Sometimes it happens like this, as soon as my mind turns to relaxing, I subconsciously shrink my neck.
no.
Jiraiya stood up.
He is the great Mo Immortal, how could he live such a miserable life?
Lord Jiraiya is going to have fun tonight!
Jiraiya doesn't just want to be happy himself.
He was also planning to bring his old teammates along.
This old teammate is certainly not Orochimaru.
Orochimaru is a cunning and annoying guy.
But at work, it's really serious. If you seek happiness from him, you will only make yourself uncomfortable.
So that’s Jiraiya’s goal.
It was Tsunade, who had always been very compatible with him when it came to eating, drinking and having fun.
I heard that guy has been very busy recently.
If I go to her now and ask her to relax, it should be like providing timely assistance.
Jiraiya went there happily.
"Tsunade! Come on, let's go have a drink together!"
Jiraiya casually pushed open the door of Tsunade's studio.
"Come on, tonight we-Ah!"
However, before he could see the scene in the room clearly, he was hit by an iron fist.
Tsunade's fist hit Jiraiya's face, and then as if in slow motion, Jiraiya, who was so big, flew out in a spin.
Tsunade's angry voice then rang out:
"Jiraiya! If the bacteria I worked so hard to cultivate die, I will take your life!!!"
But before Tsunade could really take Jiraiya's life, shocking news came.
——That means the order placed by Ugetsu Store from the Kingdom of Flowers was intercepted. !