Chapter 417 Hawkeye: I might have drunk fake wine
Hawkeye has excellent knife skills. The roast meat he cuts is neatly cut and evenly thick. It's obvious that he's a good material for a chef.
He politely asked Rui Mengmeng for a set of tableware, and went back to his boat to get a bottle of red wine to share with everyone.
Unfortunately, the only people present who knew about red wine were Shark Chili, Altria, and Tom.
What surprised Hawkeye was that Zhang Da, as a tavern owner, could not say anything except that he could see that the bottle of wine was not cheap. It was really a waste of resources. But it didn't matter, just consider it as paying off a debt.
Zhang Da was also imitating Tom's way of tasting wine, and suddenly he felt despised. He looked at Hawkeye with a bit of displeasure: "Excuse me, why can you eat and drink for free so confidently?"
"I provided the wine." Hawkeye said that at least he didn't drink it in vain.
Before Zhang Da could continue to find fault, Hawkeye waved the knife he had just used to cut meat a few times, and then a big bird fell from the sky. When it landed, all its feathers were shaved clean.
"I helped with the hunting and also processed the ingredients."
The three little lolis clapped together, their eyes sparkling. This uncle was not only powerful, but also very easy-going. They were a little afraid of him after watching the competition between him and Altria, but now they felt much closer to him.
Zhang Da also moved his lips but was speechless. Damn it, I clearly earned a few glasses of wine and a big meal, why can't I be happy at all?
Brother, your character has collapsed! Zhang Da also wanted to say this, but after thinking about it carefully, Hawkeye in the original work was the kind of person who would seriously argue with Perona about who cooked more often, so his current behavior didn't seem strange.
It's just that most people can't see this side of him.
"Damn it, he's pretending!" Ye Yan nudged Zhang Daye with his elbow and said with a playful smile, "Is that what you really meant to say?"
"..." Zhang Da didn't say anything either. He felt that Ye Yan didn't hold his fart well.
"He's clearly here to eat and drink for free, but his attitude is so arrogant, and he's also stealing the attention of the sisters. How can we tolerate this? We can't tolerate this, Mr. Ye!" Ye Yan fanned the flames and instigated, "Cut him out, I'll lead the cheerleading team to support you!"
I think you want him to cut me!
It’s a pity that Zhang Da is not one of those brainless little pirates, and he didn’t fall for Ye Yan’s trick: “Since you can’t bear it anymore, how about giving you a chance, you take the lead?”
"Ah? What? Uncle Long, you called me?" Ye Yan turned around and instantly disappeared from Zhang Daye's sight.
Zhang Da also looked at Hawkeye's black knife thoughtfully. He learned something every time he was beaten. Now Hawkeye was right in front of him, should he fight him?
When Hawkeye's gaze swept over, Zhang Da shook his head and thought, forget it. Going after him would probably end with him getting stabbed.
This person is not the one who can teach his apprentice well. If he doesn't learn much swordsmanship and then loses an eye, that would be a lot of fun. It's good to learn from Altria.
"You two haven't decided who won yet?" Zhang Da also asked. Just now, Altria was busy eating and Hawkeye was in a hurry to go back to get wine. When no one was paying attention, these two people came over to eat. No one knew how it ended.
Hawkeye said, "There is no winning or losing."
Altria nodded, "Since we're almost past lunch time, we decided to eat first."
Hawkeye didn't say anything. You were the only one who decided to terminate the order without authorization, right?
When the scent wafted over, Artoria was a little shaken. If this was a battle with life at stake, it would be fine. Winning was more important than anything else, but this was just an ordinary competition...
Then Hawkeye didn't want to fight anymore. In battle, he was always able to keenly perceive the opponent's state, and Altria's changes could not be hidden from him. Nothing is more boring than a distracted opponent, even if it's only a little bit.
How could a swordsman be shaken by such a small matter? Hawkeye felt a little regretful, although the food Tom made was indeed delicious.
Hawkeye is not a talkative person. When facing people he is not familiar with, even when attending a banquet, he just drinks quietly by himself, exuding an aura of keeping strangers away. But fortunately, Shark Chili took the initiative to find Hawkeye to talk.
For Altria's sake, Hawkeye didn't mind communicating with the strange robot Shark Pepper, especially since he didn't look like a weakling.
So the two of them talked about the red wine in the glass, then talked about which red wine tasted the best, then talked about the famous red wine producing areas in the world, and then talked about the climate of Paradise and the New World, and got a lot of useful information.
Zhang Da was also listening nearby, silently giving Shark Chili a thumbs up. It would be OK for him to liven up the atmosphere himself, after all, he had been running the pub for so long, but he certainly couldn't be as smooth and natural as Shark Chili.
Hawkeye was also surprised. Over the years, the person he got along best with besides Shanks was actually the robot Shark Pepper. It was really unpredictable. If that red-haired idiot saw the robot Pepper, his eyes might light up.
The atmosphere at the table was quite harmonious, and this simple lunch ended quickly. The little girls had already gone out to play by themselves, while the others were clearing the tableware.
In the kitchen of the Amber, Hawkeye took off his cloak, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and stood by the sink to help.
"Click!" The sound of shutter was heard.
Hawkeye turned his head and looked at Zhang Daye: "What?"
Zhang Da also smiled and raised his camera: "Sorry, I saw the world's greatest swordsman washing dishes, and I couldn't help it. Do you want to give you the film?"
Hawkeye rinsed the plate in his hand, wiped it dry with a rag, and said lightly: "Don't do such boring things."
Does this mean it doesn't matter? Zhang Da also pressed the issue: "Can I submit my article to a news agency? The remuneration will be split 30% to 70%."
"Sure, you are also a swordsman, right? As long as you can beat me." Hawkeye wiped his hands and left the kitchen.
"Okay, I'll make a lot of money then." Zhang Da also put away his camera. After thinking carefully, he felt something was wrong. "Will this photo lose value if I win?"
Zhang Da also looked at the handsome uncle's back with a bit of disgust.
"Brother Tatsuya! We found an old man walking on stilts! The stilts are so high!" Vivi rode on Kalu and ran back to report the news.
"Stilt walkers? Oh, here they come!"
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"My name is Dongjit, and I'm a herdsman from Changhuanchang Island. Thank you for saving me from the bamboo stilts. Thank you very much!" said an old man with a white beard and wearing a felt hat. "It's amazing, a flying cat that can also talk."
Xia Lulu was used to being told this, so she asked, "Why is Grandpa trapped up there?"
“Ah…” Dongjit put his hands behind his back, looking deep, “I wanted to challenge the world record for the highest stilts, but I didn’t expect that after I stepped on them… I couldn’t get down, and I stayed there for a whole year!”
"Are you an idiot?!" Perona complained loudly.
"Perona, it's so rude to talk to an old man like that." Jackie Chan held Perona's head, although he wanted to say that too.
Perona apologized obediently, she didn't want to listen to Uncle Long's nagging.
"No, it's okay. I'm glad I can come down." Dongjit said, "You know, the bamboo is still growing taller this year. The taller it grows, the more I dare not come down. It really scares me to death."
Ye Yan narrowed his eyes. There are really many strange things in this world: "This statement has a lot of flaws. Let's not talk about why you, who are afraid of heights, like to walk on stilts. Let's just talk about this bamboo. After being made into stilts, can it continue to grow taller?"
"Ah, that's right." Dongji nodded and gave a ridiculous reason, "Because life on this long island is so leisurely, everyone always procrastinates, so the length of animals and plants is naturally longer."
As a result, everyone knew the names of many animals and plants on the island, such as "La———Sausage Dog", "Duck-billed Beast", and "Apple———Fruit Tree". The pronunciation of the name of each animal was dragged out very long.
Then Wendy caught the point: "Can you grow taller just by being more leisurely and procrastinating?"
Xia Lulu patted Wendy's calf: "It must be because of the special geographical environment, don't believe it."
"But - how - will - you know if you don't try?" Wendy has already imagined what she will look like when she grows taller, and is dazzled by her bright future.
"It's hopeless." Xia Lulu patted her forehead and tugged at Zhang Daye's trouser leg, signaling him to think of a way. Wendy couldn't be allowed to become like that.
Zhang Da also nodded and pointed in a direction: "Wendy, look there."
"Hmm?" Wendy turned her head slowly.
Zhang Da also said: "That one is called a snow leopard, which is elongated . You don't want to become like that, do you?"
"Eh? No!" Wendy immediately returned to normal.
The effect is immediate.
On the other side, everyone was still chatting, and Jackie Chan wondered, "But if you stay on stilts for a year, how do you usually eat and sleep?"
"Well, it is a little difficult, but fortunately the trees on the island are very tall. I can sleep leaning against the trees and eat the fruits on the trees." Dongjit said these nonsense words lightly.
Donggit introduced that the residents here are nomadic people who migrate every three years. The migration time is the day when the sea water recedes and the passage is exposed.
The day he stepped on stilts last year happened to be the day of migration. The villagers couldn't find Dongjit, so they had to leave him behind.
You can't blame them for being ruthless, the tide is just too short. As a nomadic people, if they don't migrate in time, the island's pastures will be seriously affected, and the livestock in the village will starve to death, and the people won't be much better off.
Donggit's family left him a horse, a tent and some supplies, perhaps thinking that even if he missed it this time, as long as he persisted for a year, he would still be able to catch up next year.
However, what they didn't expect was that without Zhang Da's influence, Dongjit would have to live on stilts for another ten years until the Straw Hat Pirates arrived to save him. In a way, he should be considered a very powerful old man.
But since they had met each other, Zhang Daye and the others decided to be good people and just send him over.
"Is this true? Thank you so much!" If possible, Dongjit also wanted to reunite with his family as soon as possible, "But the ten small islands of Changhuan Changdao belong to the same island, and there is no magnetic connection in the middle..."
Sailing without magnetic guidance is dangerous.
Shark Chili said: "It's okay, I can dive underwater and lead everyone to sail along the channel where you migrated."
Donggit ran home gratefully to pack his things, and he saw his tent still there on the stilts.
"Haven't you been here for several days? You should have discovered this person a long time ago, right?" Zhang Da also said to Hawkeye, "Why don't you lend a hand?"
"It has nothing to do with me." Hawkeye didn't want to meddle in other people's business. Besides, he didn't know that the man was standing on stilts and couldn't get down.
"You can't say there is no connection at all. One is the world's number one swordsman, and the other is the world's number one stilt walker." Zhang Da also wanted to laugh.
"You want me to cut him down?"
"No, no, no... He is not worthy of you to chop him. Why don't you chop Tom? Tom..." Zhang Daye's gaze moved up along the two bamboo poles running back and forth, and sure enough, he saw a familiar figure at the top of the bamboo poles.
Tom was having a great time on the stilts of the Dongit. He was striding along on them, and Kalu was trying hard to catch up with him below - even a super fast duck couldn't outrun Tom on stilts.
Ye Yan was thoughtful and thought that stilts seemed worth a try.
Hawkeye was doubting his own judgment at this moment. Why did he think that this thing could surpass him and become the world's greatest swordsman? Did Zhang Daye give him fake wine that day?
"Sigh~"
Dongjit rode over on a white horse with long legs and a long neck and introduced happily: "This is Shirley. They really kept Shirley."
"Shirley?" Zhang Da just wanted to say, what a nice name.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." A bat flew over, circled around Zhang Daye, and then flapped its wings in front of him, keeping suspended up and down.
"Bats?" Zhang Da also looked at the sky. "Is it daytime now?"
Hawkeye said: "It's the messenger bat of the World Government."
"Oh, the World Government still keeps this thing? It's creepy." Zhang Da also noticed that the bat was indeed holding a letter, "Is it for you?"
"No." Hawkeye said, "Looking for you."
If the World Government wanted to find the Seven Warlords of the Sea, they would either contact Den Den Mushi or send someone to issue a summons. They wouldn't use this. At this time, they sent the Messenger Bat to find Zhang Tatsuya. He almost guessed what it was about.
"Looking for me?" Zhang Da also felt a little uncomfortable. He shouted to the distance, "Tom! Give me a bottle of disinfectant!"
Two bamboo poles came running over from a distance with a thumping sound. On the road, they tripped over something and fell straight down, leaving a cat-shaped hole on the ground.
Tom raised his hand tremblingly, and a bottle of disinfectant appeared on the ground.
Hawkeye couldn't bear to look at it. I must have made a mistake at the beginning.
"Thank you." Zhang Da also caught the bottle and sprayed it at the bat.
The poor little bat handed the envelope to Zhang Daye in a daze, flew away unsteadily, and almost hit a tree.
Zhang Da also opened the envelope and looked at it for a while, then leaned back with the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone: "Recruiting us to be Shichibukai? Are the Five Elders crazy?"
