Chapter 304: Gift giving, new skills acquired√
Zhang Da also trimmed his beard, stuffed a lot of stuffing into his clothes to make him look like he had a big belly, took two tentative steps, and asked, "How is it?"
"Not bad, almost one-tenth of my level." Reindeer Ye Yan said shamelessly.
"Thank you." Zhang Da also put on the big bag, "Okay, lie down, it's time to test your physical strength."
Ye Yan was confused: "What for?"
“Ride a reindeer.”
"Reindeer are meant to pull sleds, not ride on them!"
"Don't be so rigid. Performance art should be innovative."
"Go away! If you really want to be innovative, it would be reindeer riding Santa Claus to deliver gifts!"
"Forget it, just go."
The snowflakes were still falling, and a thin layer of snow had accumulated on the deck of the Amber.
Zhang Daye and Ye Yan walked on it, leaving behind a series of footprints and hoof prints - Ye Yan's reindeer costume was very realistic, even the reindeer's hooves were imitated.
Ye Yan observed the hoof prints he left behind for a while and felt very satisfied: "I'll ask those lazy monsters to sweep the snow later."
"Forget it." Zhang Da also said, "It's fun to sweep the snow by yourself. Tom, Perona, and Wendy might want to play in the snow."
Zhang Da also remembers that when he was a child living in his hometown, he had a lot of fun sweeping snow on the roof every winter. Later, he went to high school and college in the city. It was not always possible to catch a heavy snow during the winter vacation every year, and he hadn't experienced it for a while.
"Okay, let's wait until everyone has had enough fun and then let them clean up." Ye Yan would not tolerate those monsters who were as shameless as him.
The two of them talked in low voices and soon walked down the stairs into the living area of the cabin. The stairs faced the corridor, and on both sides of the corridor were their respective rooms, facing each other.
Ye Yan's room is on the left side of the stairs. One of the two rooms next to it is occupied by Zhang Daye and Tom, and the other is empty. Brooke lives opposite.
The two of them walked lightly. Ye Yan raised a Huang Yao Banner and asked Sui Feng Er to mist it and float in through the crack of the door. After confirming that Brooke was sleeping soundly on the bed, he gently opened the door.
Brook's room was not much different from what it was before he moved in. There were no extra decorations. There was only a set of tea sets for drinking black tea on the small table by the window, a violin that had been with him for decades on the bedside table, and a cane and sword leaning against the bed.
At this time, Brooke was lying flat and sleeping soundly. Although he had no nose, there was still a snot bubble hanging above the hole.
Because there was no fireplace in anyone's room, Zhang Da simply suggested hanging socks on the head of the bed during the science lecture. It was obvious that Brooke was very childish and specially prepared a large sock that was one meter long and half a meter wide. It seemed that he was very greedy and wanted a bigger gift.
Zhang Da also smiled and took out a gift box from the cloth bag and put it into the socks. In the box was an exquisite violin. Zhang Da didn't know whether it was good or not, he just knew it was very expensive.
After putting it away, the two left Brooke's room, next door was Shark Chili's room.
Similarly, Sui Feng Er was asked to explore the way first, and then Zhang Da and Ye Yan opened the door and went in. Shark Chili's room was much more interesting than Brook's. He moved the wardrobe into the utility room and replaced it with two display cabinets with glass doors. Various types of toothpaste and toothbrushes were placed inside, and each one was carefully labeled with the usage effect and advantages and disadvantages.
Although he knew what Santa Claus was, Shark Chili still cooperated with everyone else and hung a sock.
If I were to give Shark Chili a gift, the simplest answer would of course be toothpaste and a toothbrush, but Zhang Da changed his mind temporarily and decided to give him a tape recorder and tape that he won in a lottery one year. On the tape was the song "Jingle Bells" that they sang today, which was recorded by Tuoqi Yao. I believe he will like it.
Walking along the corridor, Rui Mengmeng's room is next to Shark Chili.
Rui Mengmeng lives a relatively frugal life. Although she is not short of money now, she has not bought herself too many decorations.
The most common decorations in her room were swords, including the bamboo sword she used for practice at the beginning, an ordinary double-edged sword, the knight's sword from the palace where Tom worked as a guard, and the broken sword from the battlefield of Camlann...all of them were swords she had used before.
Although she now has the dark alloy sword that suits her best, she still can't bear to throw those swords away and keeps them in the room as decorations.
In fact, she also had a golden sword made by the Dragon Palace Kingdom. Because it was too valuable, she felt uneasy keeping it in the room, so she asked Zhang Da to keep it.
In addition to the rack for placing these swords, there is also a desk in the room with a dozen notebooks on it. These are the notes that Rui Mengmeng took when she was learning cooking, foreign languages and other skills from Tom. Rui Mengmeng always felt that she was not smart enough, so she worked extra hard when learning things.
This time, Zhang Da decided to give Rui Mengmeng a set of changeable dolls, a very girly toy. Zhang Da also hoped that in addition to exercising and studying every day, she could also be a little nicer to herself like an ordinary girl.
Leaving Rui Mengmeng's room and walking forward is the end of the corridor, which is Perona's room. Zhang Da originally arranged it as the innermost room because he was worried that she would run away. Now he feels that it was unnecessary.
In fact, he just didn't know that Perona once tried to slip away, but was caught by Ye Yan. However, Ye Yan never exposed her. Later, Perona gave up and gradually adapted to life on the Amber.
One could tell at first glance that Perona's room was well decorated, with a large pink princess bed, curtains hanging on the side, and pumpkin-shaped pillows. Perona was sleeping on her side, hugging the Kumasi doll that she had customized in the Seven Waters City.
There are also plush dolls of various sizes and shapes in the room, most of which are cute, and a few are dark.
In fact, Perona once proposed to decorate the entire Amber in the style of an ancient castle, but it was rejected after voting.
Zhang Da had been to her room when Wendy and Xia Lulu fell into a coma. There wasn't much change since then, except that the number of dolls had increased.
Perona scoffed at Zhang Daye's statement about Santa Claus, but she still hung a black and white striped stocking at the head of the bed.
The gift Zhang Da also prepared for her was a devil-shaped parasol, and she should like this style very much.
In fact, Zhang Daye's first thought was to give her a leave note, a homework offset voucher, or something like that, but he gave up after thinking it was too weird.
Opposite Perona's room is Wendy and Xia Lulu's room. Although a crib was bought for Xia Lulu when she was in the Goa Kingdom, she still sleeps in the same bed with Wendy most of the time.
Their situations are similar to those of Tom and Zhang Da, except that the fact that Tom is still alive shows that he has strong vitality, and the fact that Xia Lulu is still alive shows that Wendy's sleeping posture is much better than Zhang Da's.
Wendy had not been here for long, so the room was not decorated much. Only the bed and some ornaments showed that it was a girl's room. The two teddy bears, one large and one small, beside the bed were given to them by Perona when they first moved into this room. It seemed that Perona really liked them.
Wendy and Xia Lulu were quite looking forward to their Christmas presents. There were two socks, one big and one small, hanging on the head of the bed - Wendy's were ordinary black stockings, and Xia Lulu's... looked like fingers cut from a larger glove.
Zhang Da also put away two gift boxes, one large and one small, and asked Ye Yan to leave.
What was given to Xia Lulu was a bow ribbon, the kind she usually likes to use to decorate her tail. It feels like a hairpin to her.
Wendy was given a dress, exactly the same as the one she was wearing when she first arrived. The dress had been torn a lot during the battle, so Wendy washed it carefully and put it away. Whenever she missed her companions in the guild, she would take it out to look at it, and then cheer herself up and practice hard.
Zhang Daye was worried that Wendy would not be able to adapt to life here, so he secretly found out about this from Xia Lulu. He then ordered one in the Kingdom of Goa and waited until today to give it to her.
After leaving Wendy's room and walking towards the stairs, Altria's room was next to it. This time, no flag monster was used to explore the way. Zhang Da also felt that he would be discovered regardless of whether he explored the way or not, so he simply skipped this step.
Zhang Da also thought for a second about how to end the situation less awkwardly if he was exposed by Altria on the spot, then he took a deep breath and pushed open the door.
Zhang Da had only been to Altria's room when he moved from the tavern to the ship. After that, he would just knock on the door when he wanted to see her again, but he never went in again.
The room was as simple as I had remembered. Every time they were together, when it came to buying some ornaments or decorations for her room, Altria always said to give her the money and let her choose... but in the end, most of it went into her stomach.
So now the only things that could be considered decorations in the whole room were the teddy bear that Perona gave her and the two pots of green plants by the window.
In addition to the wardrobe and shoe rack, there is also a dressing table. Zhang Da once saw Altria sitting in front of the mirror braiding her hair. If he had to describe the scene, he could only say it was - as beautiful as a painting.
Now the picturesque Altria is lying quietly on the bed wearing a cute little lion pajamas, with the silly hair on her head playfully sticking out through the lion headgear. I wonder what the principle is.
Zhang Daye bent down and took out a half-meter-high gift box from his pocket and gently placed it on the side of the bed. Seeing that Altria had no intention of sitting up suddenly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But when he stood up, he saw the hair on Altria's head moving. "My sister, this is amazing. Does your hair have its own thoughts?"
Being stared at by Zhang Daye like this, Altria's eyelashes trembled, but in the end she did not open her eyes.
Zhang Da also wisely chose to pretend that he didn't see it and was not exposed and turned away.
When the door was closed tightly, a little lion crawled out of the bed, opened the gift box, and happily stuffed various snacks into his mouth one by one.
"Not exposed?" Ye Yan did not follow in, but just waited at the door. Since he did not hear Zhang Daye and Altria talking, he thought everything was going well.
Zhang Da also said helplessly: "It has been exposed, but not completely, so let's just pretend it didn't happen."
Zhang Da also thought about it and realized that Altria didn't care much about clothes, accessories and the like. The best gift to make her happy would have to be delicious. However, there was one biggest drawback to giving gifts like this - he bet that Altria's gift would not survive tonight.
"Okay, next is Tom's." Zhang Da also pushed the door of his room open a crack and looked out with Ye Yan. There was a Santa Claus head and a reindeer head in the crack of the door, which looked very interesting.
Tom was still wearing his noise-canceling earmuffs and there was no sign that the quilt had been opened. Zhang Da was relieved and gently put a small gift box into the socks hanging on Tom's nest.
After that, he couldn't help but touch Tom's head, tiptoed out of the room and closed the door, and like Tom, he reached in unscientifically and locked the door from the inside.
"Done!" Zhang Da also smiled happily. It was a happy thing to leave some interesting memories for everyone.
However, Ye Yan looked at Zhang Daye with a funny look in his eyes: "I understand the truth, but why did you lock yourself out?"
Zhang Da was also taking off his Santa Claus costume. He was stunned when he heard Ye Yan's words: "...I've gone through the same process too many times. I'm used to it. Brother Yan, ask the flag demon to go in and help me open the door."
Ye Yan wondered, "Why don't you just open the door the same way you locked it?"
"If I could do that, I wouldn't have asked them to leave the door open for Santa Claus." Zhang Da said with some distress, "This ability is unscientific. Sometimes the more I want to use it, the harder it is to use it. But it's easy to use it unconsciously, and I can't control it..."
"Okay, okay." Ye Yan released the flag monster and went in to open the door. "Also, did you forget something?"
Ye Yan stretched out a hand and rubbed his thumb, index finger and middle finger together, hinting wildly.
Zhang Da understood immediately: "Your gift? I was thinking since I've been working with you to distribute gifts, I might be able to save one. You don't believe in Santa Claus anyway."
"I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I want presents!" Ye Yan pretended to be furious, but then he broke it in a second and said with a grin:
"If it doesn't work out, we can still get a discount! Besides, since I helped you cover up and move things on Christmas Eve, shouldn't I get some overtime pay? It's not too much to triple your salary on such an important holiday, right? After all, you are so wise, handsome, and righteous..."
“Stop, stop, stop…” Zhang Da also got goose bumps from what he said, and quickly took out the gift box, “I prepared it for you, but I didn’t put it in the bag.”
After all, everything was prepared in advance. Other people's gifts were put into their pockets and hidden in Ye Yan's place, so Ye Yan had to hide his own gift on himself.
Ye Yan weighed the gift box and smiled happily: " Goodbye, Mr. Ye, go back to your room and sleep."
Zhang Daye closed the door silently and went to bed.
A moment later, Zhang Da suddenly woke up. He remembered that he had not turned on the lights when he went to everyone's room tonight, but he could see everything!
Zhang Da also stretched out his hand. He could even see the lines on his palm in the dark. "Is this the night watchman's night vision technique?"
