Chapter 312: A New World About to Be in Chaos
Making dumplings is a very simple thing. Zhang Da also confidently started by kneading the dough. If there was too much dough, he would add water. If there was too much water, he would add more dough...
Five minutes later, Zhang Da looked at the small mountain of noodles in the basin with despair, and finally decided to call for help: " Mengmeng, can you make dumplings?"
"Yes..." Rui Mengmeng was shocked when she saw the mountain of noodles in front of Zhang Daye, "Boss, do you want rain?"
"Why am I asking for rain?"
"It's said in Journey to the West that when a dog licks the flour mountain, a chicken eats the rice mountain, and fire burns through the copper lock, it will rain."
"..." Zhang Da also said awkwardly, "I made a small mistake. Anyway, I'll leave the dough to you. I'd better go and chop the stuffing."
Rui Mengmeng looked at the mess left by Zhang Daye with a headache. How many hundreds of dumplings would be made with so much dough? But considering everyone's appetite, a few hundred didn't seem like a lot.
Chopping the stuffing is much easier. Just ask everyone what they want to eat, and then cut some pork, mutton, beef and sea animal meat respectively.
After all, Zhang Da is now a great swordsman. He can use two kitchen knives to create afterimages. He can chop the meat without splitting the chopping board at the same time. Even a double-bladed turkey would have to admit defeat with his efficiency and skills.
When the preparations were done, everyone gathered around a table.
Zhang Da also picked up the rolling pin and quickly rolled out round dumpling skins. This is easy to learn and there is no need to worry about messing up.
Others learned to make dumplings under Rui Mengmeng's guidance.
Of course the one who learns the fastest is Tom. He can imitate it almost perfectly after watching it once. Ye Yan is almost the same. He said he has done it before.
Altria followed Rui Mengmeng step by step with great interest. She didn't know when a trace of flour was smeared on her cheek, but it did not affect her serious look. The success of studying oden with Tom in the past few days made her more and more interested in making food by herself.
"Yohohoho~ This feels very interesting. So does this mean I also learned how to make a delicious dish?" Brooke's pair of bony hands were unexpectedly dexterous, and the dumplings he made looked very good.
"It's nothing special, look at my Kumasi!" Perona proudly held up her work, a dumpling with bear ears pinched out, and even decorated with meat filling for eyes and a nose.
"So cute~" Wendy looked at Perona's little bear, but she just obediently learned to make ordinary dumplings.
Xia Lulu saw that everyone was busy, but her little paws were not as flexible as Tom's, nor as big as Tom's hands, so she couldn't help with making dumplings. After watching for a while, Xia Lulu said, "I'd better go to the lookout room to stand guard. Wendy, I'll leave my share to you."
Wendy nodded: "Well, leave it to me."
"I'll be there soon." Shark Chili looked at his hands. Making dumplings was difficult for him. But it was a rare group activity, so he tried his best. "Activate Super Transformation!"
"Well, actually we don't have to work so hard..." Zhang Da also said this, but Shark Chili had already completed the transformation. After moving his fingers slightly, his hands moved as fast as if he was convulsing, making one dumpling per second on average.
In the end, there were not enough dumpling skins and everyone else could only stare in amazement.
So Shark Chili snatched Zhang Daye's rolling pin and started rolling the dough as if he was at double the speed: "I don't have much time to transform, so I must work twice as hard!"
Wendy asked worriedly, "Brother Tatsuya, is he okay like this?"
Zhang Da also comforted him: "It's okay, don't you remember that Shark Chili is like this every time it's his turn to do the laundry?"
Poor super-transformation form, it is in such an explosive combat state, but it is used to wash clothes and cook every other day. It is really unfair to it.
Thanks to Shark Chili's efforts, the grand dumpling-making activity came to an end quickly, and Zhang Da also stuffed a coin into the filling of the last dumpling.
"Whoever eats the coin will have good luck and lots of money in the coming year." Facing several pairs of curious eyes, Zhang Da also explained.
In the end, the kitchen was almost filled with dumpling trays and trays. I don’t know whether I made hundreds or thousands of dumplings.
Leaving the task of cooking dumplings to others, Zhang Da pulled Tom to the deck and rummaged through a bunch of firecrackers and fireworks from the inventory.
"Tom, come and help me distinguish which are normal fireworks and which ones can kill people ."
Tom bit his finger. Firecrackers are all the same. How can they kill people?
But since the owner asked for it, he still selected some small-power firecrackers, thinking that they would not blow up the boat.
Zhang Da also found some gunpowder and thread to string together the ordinary firecrackers that Tom jumped out of, and set off the fireworks separately.
Tom suddenly found it interesting, so he took a firework and placed it above the head of the bow statue and lit the fuse.
With the sounds of bang, bang, bang, the fireworks rose into the sky, blooming with colorful lights in the air.
"What a nice view!"
“So beautiful!”
Everyone came out of the cabin and looked up at the fireworks in the sky. Xia Lulu in the observation room flew out of the window and fell into Wendy's arms. She looked up at the sky while demonstrating what a tablet computer was.
Various lights shine on everyone's smiling faces, heralding the arrival of the new year.
In such an atmosphere, everyone was very happy, except for the Tom statue on the bow, whose head had been blackened by smoke after a set of fireworks.
From an angle that no one can see, the statue looks aggrieved and even wants to cough out a few puffs of smoke.
"The dumplings are out of the pot!" Rui Mengmeng shouted.
Everyone cheered and ran towards the restaurant. Zhang Da also used his beloved street lamp to pick up a string of firecrackers he had strung together and lit the fuse.
Crackling, crackling, crackling…
Fortunately, apart from a firecracker that didn't go off, nothing unexpected happened. Zhang Da went into the restaurant to eat dumplings with satisfaction.
The dumplings coming out of the pot are only the first batch, there are still many more to be cooked while eating.
As Zhang Daye expected, the bear-shaped dumplings that Perona had been longing for had their fillings leaked out, and Perona could only eat them with a sad face. Fortunately, the kind-hearted Rui Mengmeng prepared soy sauce and vinegar for her.
"Wow, oh, oh, this tastes really good!" Brooke ate one dumpling in one bite. It looked like he was swallowing it directly . No idea how he could taste it.
The dumplings made by other people are all very similar. They are basically unrecognizable after being put into the pot. Anyway, most of them are the result of Shark Chili’s hard work.
At the beginning, Rui Mengmeng had to take care of the pot, and after Ye Yan was full, she gave it to him.
Actually, Tom had almost finished eating, but in order to find the coin that represented good luck, he insisted on holding on.
If Zhang Da hadn't stopped him, he would have already stabbed them one by one with chopsticks.
Brook was just as childish as him. However, when he had eaten most of the dumplings, he finally couldn't hold on any longer and covered his abdomen with one hand: "Burp~ I can't eat anymore..."
There's clearly no sign of my stomach getting bloated at all.
Not long after, there was a sound of "crack", and Artoria bit into something hard. However, she did not spit it out immediately. Instead, she bit it hard again in disbelief: "Ouch..."
She spat out a coin with two rows of thin teeth marks on it.
Before everyone could congratulate her, Altria said with disdain: "What bad luck! I bit into a coin and the whole dumpling tasted bad."
All we can say is that this result was within everyone's expectations, and everyone absolutely believed that the following sentence came from her heart, and was not just a pretense.
Zhang Da also reluctantly took a dumpling from his plate and gave it to her: "I'll make it up to you."
"Yeah!" Altria's happiness is very simple.
It was a quiet night. Even though so many fireworks were set off, not a single pirate ship was attracted. I don't know whether this should be considered good luck or bad luck.
Maybe the news of the navy changing its commander and adding admirals really frightened many small pirates. No one wants to get into trouble when the navy's morale is at its high.
However, there are pirates who are afraid of the navy and dare not act recklessly, and there are also pirates who ignore the navy and continue to do as they please.
There is even a group of pirates in the New World who are unwilling to let the Navy successfully achieve its goals. As soon as they receive the news, they immediately prepare to attack Navy ships and even attack the Navy branch base.
Although these actions were not under unified command and did not cause any serious damage to the navy, they did cause a lot of trouble and had a significant impact on the navy's plan to strike a blow to the pirates' momentum.
While everyone was eating dumplings on the Amber, the new Navy Admiral Zhan Guo was sitting in his office, with "Justice Reigning Over the World" written on the wall behind him.
Zhan Guo picked up a document and fed it to the lamb beside him. His first day as marshal started with overtime work.
"Hahahahaha! Sengoku, do you have to work overtime on the first day? It's a good thing I haven't been promoted!" Garp pushed open the door of Sengoku's office roughly, and his laughter was so loud that almost the entire floor could hear it.
Zhan Guo pinched his brows and said with a headache: "Garp, I've told you several times to knock on the door before coming in."
"Don't worry about it." Garp skillfully opened the drawer of Sengoku's desk, ignored the confidential documents, and took out a bag of senbei from it. "Sure enough, it's hidden here! Hahaha, I brought tea leaves... Where's your teapot?"
"Don't mess around with my drawers, Garp!" Sengoku yelled, but he had no way to deal with this old comrade, so he simply took out the teapot and handed it to him, "Drink your tea and leave quickly, I still have work to do."
Zhan Guo continued to work at his desk, but soon his ears were filled with the sounds of 'clicking' and 'slurping', which made him extremely annoyed.
"Be quiet, you bastard!" Sengoku slammed the table and left his seat, simply sitting next to Garp to snatch the tea and senbei from him.
The two old sailors, both over fifty years old, were fighting like two children.
After finally finishing the senbei and driving Garp away, Sengoku was able to continue working quietly.
The actions of the New World pirates were generally within his expectations. Any pirate with a little foresight would try to make things difficult for the navy at this time.
In order to prevent the pirates from losing fresh blood, if qualified young people are deceived by the navy and all join the army, they will not even have time to cry.
The way for the Warring States to deal with this was simple, which was to fight back forcefully. It just so happened that Kuzan and Sakaski had just taken office, and they needed some achievements to completely dispel their title of "monsters".
They already had many outstanding generals under their command who were waiting for promotions based on their merits, and now was a good time.
Of course, there are outliers among the powerful pirates, such as Whitebeard, Red Hair, and Big Mom, who did not participate immediately.
Although Whitebeard understood everything, he had no interest in this kind of thing. Ambitious people would always become pirates, and there was no need to force them. At most, he would take in some idiots who attacked the navy with passion but were defeated.
The Red Hair Pirates have just entered the New World not long ago. Some time ago, the World Government sent him a letter inviting him to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but he refused without a second thought. Now he is still rampaging in the New World with a few companions.
Fighting and partying are the eternal themes of the Red Hair Pirates, but with his personality, he will not actively attack the navy. He is just like Whitebeard and occasionally provides help to some pirates he likes. In this way, he inexplicably has a bunch of younger brothers, or pirate groups under his command.
BIG MOM is amazing. She still insists on having children at the age of 58. According to the original timeline, her youngest child, Charlotte Anana, will be born in three years.
So her current focus is still on building the Kingdom of Totland (Ten Thousand Kingdoms), and occasionally she will covet the Fishman Island protected by Whitebeard. However, her eldest son Perospero will take the opportunity to gather some pirate groups with other brothers and sisters.
As for Kaido, who was on Onigashima in Wano Country, he was drunk and unconscious when the news was released. After finally waking up and listening to his subordinates reading the newspaper, Kaido immediately turned into a blue dragon, broke through the roof and flew high into the sky.
"End the Great Pirate Era? What a joke!" With the alcohol taking effect, Kaido staggered towards the direction of the Marine Headquarters. He wanted to see if Garp and Sengoku were still able to lift their fists, and by the way, try if those little brats were qualified to be admirals.
"Lord Kaido!" Kaido's men shouted in vain, and finally decided to report to the big bulletin board. This matter was obviously not something they could handle.
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At this time, Zhang Daye still didn't know how chaotic the new world would be. After all, it was not shown in this part of the anime.
After happily celebrating the New Year with my companions, we greeted the new day as usual. The first thing we did on the new day was to clean the deck and wipe the statue on the bow.
I don't know when the firecracker that didn't explode last night exploded, and the entire upper half of the statue was smoked black. I don't know how the firecracker exploded, but the lower half should have been smoked black.
But thinking about the fact that these were firecrackers from Tom's world, Zhang Da felt that it was not surprising that such a thing happened.
They sailed in the East China Sea for another three days, and defeated two unknown pirate groups on the way. Wendy, who played the role of lookout today, made a new discovery:
"Everyone...I think I saw something strange..."
