Chapter 28: There is no false reputation
After all, she is a little girl. With a tablet, even if there is no game installed, it is great to watch videos. A fat seal is cute, a groundhog eats an apple, is there anything cuter than a big cuckoo? From then on, she never wanted to leave.
Mutsu poured wine for the two of them, took a sip first, and tilted his head to look at Su Xia.
The girl drank first, and as a grown man, Su Xia felt embarrassed to not drink, so he could only pick up the small wine glass with plum blossom pattern.
He took a look at it before drinking. It was light yellow, clear and transparent. He could not smell any alcohol, only a fragrance. It was probably not a strong liquor. At least it was not like the strong liquor he had drunk before. He wanted to put it down after picking it up and smelling it.
Su Xia took a sip. He thought he was the type who couldn't drink. Some people said he had never tasted good wine. In short, this wine gave him a sweet feeling, but not the sweetness of a beverage. The taste was unexpectedly good. But that was all. He really didn't like drinking.
The square table, Mutsu sat on his left and asked with a smile, "How is it?"
"Can."
"Just okay?"
"This is the best wine I've ever had." Su Xia didn't know how to evaluate the quality of wine. His criterion was whether he could drink it.
"That's good. I was worried that I got the wrong wine. The Admiral doesn't like it." Mutsu picked up the wine glass. "Cheers?"
"Okay." Su Xia naturally wouldn't refuse. He raised his glass and the two of them clinked it lightly.
Su Xia didn't say anything, just took small sips of the wine glass.
This won't work. Without an atmosphere like this, it's hard for the admiral to drink more. Mutsu thought for a moment, tugged at his collar, and suddenly asked, "Admiral, do you feel hot?"
"No feeling." Su Xia looked up and saw the central air conditioner hanging on the ceiling. "Isn't there an air conditioner?"
"I feel a little hot." Mutsu said, holding the wine glass, not drinking, but just putting it to her lips. Under the yellow light emitted by the lanterns hanging from the ceiling, her lips moistened by the wine looked particularly beautiful. "But it's not because of the hot weather, but because of the heat in my heart."
Su Xia said nothing and drank silently.
Mutsu laughed: "The Admiral's reaction must be that he must be thinking... how should I put it, he must be thinking that what Mutsu said about his heart being hot is because he saw the Admiral's heart being hot and his whole body being hot, right?"
"That's what you said, not me." Su Xia denied it flatly. Xingzhi was simple, or stupid, but the girl in front of him was not simple and he had to be careful in dealing with her.
Mutsu pressed his chest and said, "What I mean by a hot heart is... I don't know why, but the third turret feels a little hot."
"Uh, you said your third turret is a little hot? Your third turret..." Su Xia didn't react for a moment, and when he did, he immediately became excited. Mutsu's third turret is not the third turret of others. This third turret sank a large ship, which is incredible.
"Look, the admiral laughed when I mentioned the third turret." Mutsu said dissatisfiedly, "Drink, the admiral must drink, a full glass. How can there be such an admiral, who laughs when talking about other people's black history."
"I wasn't laughing." Su Xia defended.
"I don't care. I just laughed and had to drink."
"Okay, I'll drink." Su Xia didn't know if he was laughing or not. It was just a little bit of wine. After finishing his drink, he was silent for a while and asked, "Mutsu, you are kidding, right? The third turret can't really be a little hot, right?"
"If it's true, are you going to run away right now, Admiral?" Mutsu glanced at him coquettishly and picked up the bottle again, "Stop talking nonsense and drink. I'll pour it for you."
"That's what you said, I didn't say it, I was just asking." Su Xia said, "I found that you were looking for every opportunity to get me drunk."
"I won't force you to drink. How about I finish my drink and you finish it too?"
Mutsu finished the wine first, gulping it down in one gulp. Su Xia couldn't refuse and could only pick up the glass.
Mutsu looked at the little girls sitting next to her. With the tablet, they were more obedient. She picked up the bottle and poured wine for Su Xia, saying, "If the third turret is really hot, I hope the admiral can run as fast as possible, the faster and farther the better."
Su Xia said: "You are not the battleship Mutsu in history. You are the shipgirl Mutsu. That kind of situation will not happen. The third turret heats up and then explodes."
That’s right, the only ship that sank the Daishichi and the only Daishichi that was sunk, they were the same ship - Mutsu.
Historically, the powerful battleship, a member of the Big Seven, was not sunk by the enemy, but rather by a sudden explosion near the No. 3 turret while anchored at Hashira Island in Hiroshima Bay. The hull instantly broke in two, with the front section flipping to the starboard side and sinking almost immediately.
"Who knows, maybe one day the third turret will suddenly get hot and explode." Mutsu said unhappily, "Drink, drink, and have fun while you can."
Mutsu drank a full cup, and Su Xia was being stared at, so she had no choice but to accompany him.
As an admiral, what else could Su Xia say? He looked at Mutsu firmly and nodded, "Definitely not... Isn't it said that ship girls come from people's thoughts and wishes? Among people's thoughts and wishes, there is absolutely no way that a Mutsu will suddenly explode."
"Thank you for your kind words, Admiral." Mutsu raised his glass again.
Mutsu had another drink and Su Xia couldn't keep up.
Mutsu said: "Shipgirls come from people's thoughts and wishes. People will not have bad intentions, and Mutsu will not explode casually. But because of the self-explosion of the battleship Mutsu in history, among people's thoughts and wishes, some bad luck is inevitable. You absolutely don't know how bad my luck is."
Su Xia laughed again. He remembered that the game set Mutsu's luck to only five points.
Mutsu noticed the smile on his face and yelled, "Okay, Admiral, you're smiling again. I'm unlucky, but you're very happy, right? Wine, wine, wine."
"I'm not happy... Stop pouring. If you keep pouring like this, this bottle of wine will be finished in no time."
"Just take more after you finish your drink. Admiral, are you worried that we don't have any wine here?" Mutsu said, "How dare you look down on our izakaya? Have another drink and don't even think about running away."
"Hurry up, Admiral, please be more generous." Mutsu picked up the wine glass, "Okay, since the Admiral gave me the Ring of Oath, which made my luck a little better, I will drink a glass with the Admiral."
Su Xia was really helpless. The girl had drunk alcohol, so how could he not drink?
He drank glass after glass of wine. Even though the glass was small, it couldn't hold up to the frequent gulps. By the time Su Xia realized her face was getting hot, the bottle of wine was finished.
"Wait a moment, Admiral. I'll get some more wine."
Without waiting for Su Xia to stop him, Mutsu got up and left for the bar. Su Xia didn't have time to catch her breath and go to see what the little girl was playing with her tablet. Mutsu came back with wine and the snacks that everyone had ordered, including some that they hadn't ordered.
This time, Mutsu did not sit in her original seat. She brought a stool and squeezed next to Su Xia, introducing : "This is the saury grilled by Isuzu, and the tempura fried by her. Isuzu's cooking skills are very good, Admiral, please try it quickly."
Mutsu picked up the chopsticks and picked up some tempura to feed Suxia.
Su Xia was really not used to this kind of thing, especially when Mutsu almost leaned on him and said, "Don't feed me, I know how to eat by myself."
Mutsu was relentless: "Hurry up, Admiral, do you want me to keep my hands up?"
There was no other way, Su Xia could only let Mutsu feed her: "Okay , eat it."
Mutsu chuckled: "Why are you so scared, Admiral? Am I that scary? Is Mutsu a tiger? The woman down the mountain is a tiger."
"Not used to it, just not used to it." Su Xia said. She noticed from the corner of her eye that Mutsu's chest had been wet with wine at some point. His wet clothes stuck to his skin, leaving wet marks. The water droplets or wine droplets were so conspicuous, rising and falling with his breathing.
"To be honest, sometimes I really care." Mutsu noticed his gaze, but said nothing, "Mutsu is not the battleship Mutsu in history. Mutsu is the Mutsu that belongs to the admiral. Even so, we are still somewhat related."
"You said that a certain battleship in history was so lame. Not only did the third turret explode, but it also blew up by itself. It had almost no record of any battles. I couldn't hold my head up in front of everyone. When they talked about the Bismarck sinking the Hood with one shot and the Santiago getting 18 battle stars, I didn't dare to say a word."
Su Xia thought about the life of the battleship Mutsu in history. It was built, modified, and participated in the Battle of Midway, but made no contribution to the war situation, and then it blew itself up.
The Japanese have a very strange mentality. After they have a powerful weapon, they are reluctant to use it, but hide it in the rear. They are very cautious about this gold-eating beast, fearing that there will be any mistakes. This situation continued until the outbreak of the Pacific War, when aircraft carriers, destroyers and old battleships fought to the death on the front line.
Su Xia said: "It's not that Mutsu is inferior, how could Daqi be inferior? It's just that I can't bear to use him."
"Use it when you need it, otherwise there will be nothing left."
"When flowers are in bloom, you must pick them. Don't wait until there are no flowers left to pluck." Mutsu looked at Su Xia and said lazily, "Admiral, don't you agree?"
"Probably." Su Xia said. He had drunk a little too much and didn't understand how Mutsu connected the two things.
"Let's drink a little more... Admiral, try this wine too." Mutsu continued to pour him wine with a smile.
Su Xia didn't know how much she drank, but she felt a little dizzy. She vaguely noticed that Mutsu had a strange smile on his face. She shook her head, and that strange smile turned into concern and worry.
"Come here, Admiral, sleep on my lap for a while."
