Chapter 494 New Year and Firecrackers
After returning to the Navy Headquarters, Zhang Da also started the children's training method again, and at the same time urged others to practice the Six Styles, especially the Moon Step.
While exercising, everyone was waiting for the next internship activity, but before that, they were waiting for the New Year.
So Zhang Da also took the lead in skipping classes these two days, allowing everyone to go wherever they wanted to play.
We even cooked dumplings on New Year's Eve. Since we can't calculate the lunar calendar here, we have to celebrate New Year's Day as the Spring Festival, and the day before is naturally New Year's Eve.
In the morning when everyone was about to go out to play, Jackie Chan called everyone over and started giving out New Year's money one by one. Every day everyone called him "Uncle Long" and "Uncle Long". He really regarded himself as an elder.
After receiving the red envelope, Ye Yan was still not satisfied and pestered Zhang Da to give him a year-end bonus.
"Year-end bonus..." Zhang Da thought for a moment and said, "Okay, everyone gets one, except you."
"Why? I don't accept it!"
"The clothes you wore the day before yesterday disgusted me. I was so disgusted that I almost couldn't eat dumplings yesterday, so I deducted it."
Ever since returning from Push City that day, Ye Yan has been in a state of inspiration, with performance art works coming one after another, including prisoner costumes, guard costumes, clown costumes, pharaoh costumes, and even demon costumes.
It would be fine if it was a normal black devil costume like Magellan's, but this guy actually got a devil costume like that of little Sati. Zhang Da also looked at him at that time, and his eyes popped like light bulbs.
It was Tom who picked up the fragments and put them back, otherwise he would have become Tatsuya the Blind Monk in the future.
Ye Yan raised his hand and shouted exaggeratedly: "I object! You are maliciously withholding employee bonuses. Labor Bureau, I want to contact the Labor Bureau!"
"Go ahead, as long as you can find it." Zhang Da also waved his hand, "If you can't find it, remember to come back and perform a performance art to demand your employees' wages."
Ye Yan suddenly lost his spirit: "Forget it, maliciously asking for wages is against the law."
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There will not be a large number of sailors taking holidays during the New Year in the Navy, and they can only wait for their turn to rest.
Although there were no big celebrations at the headquarters, there were lights and decorations, but it seemed a little deserted compared to the bustling town of Marinford.
The biggest event was that Zhan Guo convened a meeting of all the soldiers in the headquarters, similar to a New Year's speech by a leader, summarizing the navy's achievements in the past year, talking about the plans for the coming year, and boosting morale.
The meeting process was broadcast to naval branches in various places using video telephones. Although it was a rather boring meeting, the marines in the branches watched it with great interest. This was a rare opportunity to see the big guys in the navy's top brass.
After seeing it, the Marines sighed that it was worthy of being the headquarters of the Navy. From the marshals, heroes, chief of staff, to the three admirals, everyone who came out was full of majesty, and one could tell at a glance that these people were very powerful.
This was Sengoku's first year as Grand Admiral, and he had made the process a bit more formal, even bringing Garp in to help out. However, Garp's only job was to stand there, silent and motionless, maintaining his dignity as a naval hero.
Garp was very uncomfortable because he couldn't sleep or pick his nose for a whole hour or two. After the meeting, he threatened that he would never attend such a meeting again unless Zhan Guo gave him all the snacks for a year.
Zhan Guo ignored him. Snacks didn't matter; Garp would grab them anyway, whether they were given or not. He was now thankful that the Amber Tour Group had gone out to play, otherwise Zhan Guo would have been inconsolable .
To boost morale, he attributed many of the pirate groups captured by the Amber Tour Group independently to the Navy's "cooperation." However, only a few people knew that this so-called cooperation meant the Navy paid for the goods and the Amber Tour Group provided the labor.
After the conference, the Marines trained as they should and went on missions as they should, and their lives were no different from before.
If I have to say something, it is that the dishes in the cafeteria are much richer than before, and the chefs have all brought out their best skills. I heard that many giant vice admirals will be coming in the next two days, so we have to be fully prepared.
There are also some people whose appetite is no less than that of the Giant Vice Admiral. The chefs are aware of this and are on high alert.
"Where have you been? You all look so dirty." Zhang Da also looked at the little girls, Tom and Carew. They were going out to play in a team today, and Zhang Da did not go with them.
Xia Lulu sighed and said, "They went out to set off firecrackers. They used the New Year's money Uncle Long gave them to buy a lot of firecrackers. They blew up bottles, water bottles, and the sand castle that Weiwei made..."
"Build sand castles... take me with you... When I was a kid, I could only blow up sand piles or at most make snowballs to blow them up, but you can actually build sand castles!" Zhang Da suddenly felt a little envious of them. When he was a kid, if he had a friend who could make a sand castle for everyone to blow up at any time, he would definitely be the coolest guy in the village.
Xia Lulu looked at Zhang Daye with empty eyes: "Hey, isn't your focus a bit strange ?"
"Ah? Oh yeah, blowing those things up wouldn't be such a mess, right?" Zhang Da also asked, "Could it be that Tom got carried away and pulled out a mine or something?"
"Not really, it's just that a few little boys nearby saw the sand castle and insisted on playing with us..." Xia Lulu thought about Zhang Daye's behavior just now, and she seemed to understand why those children came over.
Weiwei continued, "Of course it would be fine if they were just playing together. Building a sand castle is easy anyway. But after playing for a while, they said they were bored and wanted to tie a string of firecrackers to Tom and Carew's tails, then light them to see who could run faster..."
Zhang Da was not angry even though they wanted to use firecrackers to blow up Tom. Instead, he was a little worried about the safety of the children.
"How could we possibly agree to something like this? Just as Perona was about to teach them a lesson, Tom got angry and took out a firecracker this big to scare them..."
Weiwei opened her arms to indicate that the firecrackers were very large, and Zhang Da felt that he had guessed the outcome: "Did he intend to scare them, but Tom accidentally set off the firecrackers?"
Several people nodded, and Tom also nodded with an awkward smile. Kalu, whose half feathers were blackened, looked aggrieved. He did not react at the time and was used as a shield by Tom.
It really seemed like something Tom would do. Zhang Da also asked, "How are those kids?"
"I checked them out and they were all fine," Wendy said. "But because the noise was so loud, their ears rang for a few minutes, and they thought they were deaf, so they started crying."
"And they made their clothes so dirty that two of them got beaten up after returning home, hehehe~" Perona laughed maliciously.
As long as no one was hurt, Zhang Da felt relieved. "Hey, how did you know they were beaten?"
"Because I followed them secretly with the Negative Ghost!"
“…”You are so idle, but you do a great job.
