After reading the task description carefully, Nuo Xia couldn't help but shake his head, turned off the system panel, put the last piece of barbecue on the plate into his mouth and chewed it.
Hold a wedding ceremony with three wives at the same time and get married?
It's not difficult to say it's difficult, it's not easy to say it's easy either.
The key point is that the relationship between the harem group must be properly handled before the wedding.
Shia knew about the existence of Motu and Bellemere from the beginning, so there was no problem there. No matter what the situation, she would not be angry with herself, she would only feel sorry for her brother...
The difficulty still lies with the proud little rabbit and the hot-tempered and strong-tempered Bellemere.
"Lord Nosha."
While Nuo Xia was thinking silently, the owner of the barbecue restaurant came over at some point and rubbed his hands flatteringly:
"I didn't know it was you just now. I was really negligent. I just said hello to the front desk. I took the order from your table as an apology for the poor reception..."
"No need." Nuo Xia, whose thoughts were interrupted, suddenly frowned slightly, "It's not like you don't pay the bill when you eat. You can come as you like."
This guy has a fat head and big ears, and looks like a profiteer. He is not from Chaili Island, so it is really difficult to get a good impression of him.
"Ouch, how can that be done..." the boss said quickly, "It's an honor for such a big man like you to come to our place for dinner in person. How can we let..."
"What does it mean to be in person? You can let others do things like eating for you, right?"
Nuo Xia glared at him angrily, and Bellemel across from him burst out laughing.
"It depends on what you said..."
The boss smiled coquettishly, rolled his eyes, and was about to continue to flatter him, when Nuo Xia waved his hand to signal him to stop, pointed to the barbecue on the table and asked:
"I said boss, where did you buy this meat? You sell it so cheaply, are you not afraid of closing down at a loss?"
He originally really thought that the owner of this self-service barbecue restaurant retired and came to Chaili Island to do charity, but now, looking at this guy's moral character, it is impossible to do so.
Therefore, it is difficult to reassure people about the origin, quality and safety of these barbecued meats.
"This... this..." The boss scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "Sir, this is a trade secret. It is really inconvenient to disclose it."
I'm a Navy man and you're telling me about trade secrets?
Nuo Xia was too lazy to talk to this guy, so he simply said:
"Let's put it this way, I don't have much confidence in the safety of these cheap barbecues now. How about you not disclosing it? How about I ask Colonel Satsuma over there to take people to check your kitchen from bottom to top?"
"No, sir!"
The boss suddenly panicked. He struggled for a long time, looked around, lowered his head and came over and said in a low voice:
"It's fine if I tell you, but please don't tell anyone about this, otherwise the future business of my barbecue restaurant will be..."
"That depends on whether you have done anything illegal or criminal."
Nuo Xia was unmoved. He picked up the milk cup and looked at it. He began to feel that there was something wrong with the unlimited supply of milk.
Bellemare didn't like milk, so he basically didn't touch it after this meal. He actually drank five or six glasses. He won't have a stomachache tonight, right?
"Not to mention committing crimes, I have never done anything heartless, sir!"
The boss shook his head hurriedly and whispered in a voice that only this table could hear:
"It's like this. I accidentally ate a Devil Fruit two years ago. Not only did I become extremely strong, I could grow horns on my head, I could also consume my physical strength and transform into unlimited beef."
"The barbecue served in the restaurant every day was transformed by me at night. I was as tired as a dead dog after the transformation. I lay in bed for a long time before I could recover. My lord, all I earned was my hard-earned money.
ah……"
Did it happen like this?
Nuo Xia was stunned and looked at the aggrieved boss in front of him. An unknown barbecue restaurant in Xiaodonghai actually had a Devil Fruit ability user hidden in it?
I made a mistake and judged others by their appearance.
"Sorry, I wrongly blamed you." Nuo Xia had a correct attitude, immediately smiled apologetically, and asked curiously, "Then do you know what kind of fruit you are, one of the fruits of the animal family Niu Niu?"
Speaking of which, the other party's fruit development ideas are quite strange.
When others get similar fruits, they will only think about how to use the bonus of the orc form to their physical constitution to make themselves stronger.
It's a good thing for this guy to use all his energy to turn into beef, and then use it to open a cafeteria to make money...
Simply talented.
If Big Mom knew what was going on, I'm afraid she would have to try her best to rob this guy back and lock him up in the world as a meat-making machine for the rest of his life, right?
"I don't know about that."
Regarding Nuo Xia's question, the boss scratched his head in confusion, "To be honest, sir, I was shocked when I found out something was wrong with my body. I still asked around for information and asked people, and then I found out that this thing is called a devil fruit.
I didn’t dare to tell the customers after I got to the restaurant, for fear that they would think of me as a monster..."
This is true, and Nuo Xia can understand it.
There is relatively little information in the East China Sea, and most ordinary people don't even know what a Devil Fruit is.
When a person with abilities displays abilities that are difficult for ordinary people to understand in public, they are no different from monsters in the eyes of onlookers, and they will only be frightened and make people scream and run away.
"What about the milk?"
Nuo Xia took a sip of the fresh milk. After he was no longer worried about safety issues, he found that the quality was quite high. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Do you have a partner who accidentally ate a devil fruit like you?"
Can you produce unlimited amounts of milk?"
"That's not the case!"
Nuo Xia's attitude improved, and the boss's anxiety was completely relieved. He straightened his chest: "Sir, I made this milk myself after racking my brains and developing my abilities to the extreme!"
As if he was afraid that Nuo Xia wouldn't believe it, he took off his shirt and squeezed his chest hard. A stream of white and rich liquid shot out instantly, and then he said proudly:
"You see, they are sold on the spot every day, so it's so fresh!"
puff--
Nuo Xia squirted out all the fresh milk in one mouthful on the spot.
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That afternoon.
Nosha followed Bellemere back to the orange garden, and continued to chat and take care of the orange trees in the garden as in the morning.
During this time, Bellemere made fun of the fresh milk, which made Nosha very angry. He threatened to find a name when he came back, and asked Colonel Satsuma to lead people to seal down the barbecue restaurant and detain the owner for ten and a half months.
Of course, this is just a joke after all.
At most, I will never go to that barbecue restaurant again, lest it bring back the shadow in my heart.
The next few days.
In this way, he lived a simple and happy vacation life between the orange grove and his home. Sometimes he would go fishing and hiking in the woods with Bellemeier, and sometimes he would accompany his parents for a walk and chat.
In the process, he also took out the Rust Fruit. Unfortunately, neither his father, a navy captain, nor his mother, an ordinary housewife, had any interest in becoming a Devil Fruit user.
After all, I am getting older.
Bellmere is still hesitant. She likes swimming very much and doesn't want to become a landlubber. Moreover, the ability of the rust fruit is really a bit of a catch for girls, and it is not very attractive.
"Strength is always more important than being cool. Eat it when you figure it out later!"
——This is what Nuo Xia said at that time.
After saying that, he forcibly left the Rusty Fruit to Bellemere. He didn't like it anyway, and with the "somewhat magical rod", there would be more opportunities to fish out Devil Fruits from the sea in the future.
As for whether to move away from his hometown to Marineland, Nuo Xia also found an opportunity and had a serious discussion with his parents at the dinner table for a long time.
Mom and dad must have been reluctant to leave their hometown, but as Nuo Xia made more and more enemies and stayed here, safety was always a problem.
So in the end, a compromise plan was adopted. The two of them would stay on Chaili Island for the time being. When Nuo Xia was transferred back to the headquarters from the West Sea to take up a post, they would then move with the whole family and settle in the headquarters.
otherwise.
The only son is far away in the West Sea, and the two elders live in the headquarters. They have no relatives or even acquaintances, so there is not much meaning in living there.
——
In the blink of an eye, it was a week later.
During this week, Nuosha spent a rare leisurely time with his family. Unfortunately, as a rear admiral, he could not stay here for a long time.
The family leave was about to expire, and the headquarters and Taotu each called him to ask when he planned to leave.
It's almost time to leave and go to Xihai to take up a post.
In the early morning of this day, Nuo Xia, who was lying on the bed and looking at the sunshine coming through the window, thought silently.
"You pressed my hair..."
Bellemeier in his arms suddenly pushed him in a daze, and Nuo Xia quickly stepped aside.
When he turned his head, he found that the girl had turned sideways, her arms resting on her head, and she fell asleep again.
Too tired?
Nuo Xia gently stroked the girl's smooth forehead and smiled silently. It seemed that Bellemere had an ordinary body after all. What the little rabbit could bear, she might not be able to bear.
It seems that when we meet again in the future, we have to pay attention to the time and intensity.
———
In the morning, about nine o'clock.
As his parents and Bellemare waved reluctantly, the warship slowly sailed out of the port and headed for the West Sea.
"The next time we meet, it will be at the headquarters, right?"
Nuo Xia stood at the bow of the boat, quietly looking at the three figures on the pier, then at the pile of lunch boxes in his hand, and sighed softly.
The box was full of potato and beef stew made by her mother, which weighed at least a dozen kilograms in total. She had been busy in the kitchen early in the morning. Nuo Xia thought she was making breakfast, but she didn't expect it to come out like this.
It was really a worry for the mother after her son traveled thousands of miles, and Nuo Xia felt guilty. He didn't bring anything for his parents when he came back this time.
In addition to three special life cards and a phone bug for communication, when I left today, I secretly left all this year's salary and bonuses, a total of about three million beli, under the sofa in the living room.
Seeing that Chaili Island was getting further and further away and was about to shrink into an invisible black dot in his sight, Nuo Xia finally withdrew his gaze, turned around and prepared to go to the kitchen, put the lunch box in the refrigerator to store it, and then went to the training room to practice.
As soon as he entered the kitchen door, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
tangerine.
The entire back kitchen, including the storage room and warehouse, and extending to the corridor outside, were all filled with large, plump oranges, so yellow that they almost blinded him.
"Hey, what's going on!"
After recovering from his stunned state, he immediately called his subordinates who had been staying on the warship.
"Your mother sent these last night, Major General." The subordinate said sincerely, "It's about more than 2,000 kilograms. You insisted that she send them to us and keep them for us to eat on the way."
Nonsense, when have I ever said such a thing?
Nuo Xia was furious, stared at this subordinate, and said with hatred:
"Are you a pig? You don't want to think about it. How could I make such an outrageous request, more than two thousand kilograms? You are all suffering from scurvy. Do you want to eat oranges?"
"Eh? Didn't you propose it?"
The subordinate was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and moved his hands to wipe away his tears, "That's it, Major General, your mother was afraid that you wouldn't accept it, so she secretly sent it here in advance. This... this is so touching.
maternal love……"
Touching ass!
Nuo Xia immediately went out and hid aside, and dialed her home phone number.
"Hey, Mom, tell me honestly, are our oranges unsaleable this year and unable to be sold?"
"Ah, what's the word?"
Tulip on the other end of the phone smiled, "What do you mean this year? Last year was unsaleable, so I had to give all the stock to the children nearby. Fortunately, you are here this year, so I can waste less..."
"But isn't more than two thousand kilograms too outrageous, mom?"
"Ah, you are a rear admiral. Come on, I believe you can help mom solve it. Well, let's not talk anymore. I have to go and play the cards."
With a "kocha" sound, the phone bug closed his eyes.
"..."
Nuo Xia looked at the microphone with a constipated look on her face and said, "You are treating me like a garbage disposal plant. You are taking back all my previous feelings, Mom!"
"What do you say, Major General?"
Several subordinates poked their heads out anxiously.
"Now that you know how to ask me, why didn't you come to me last night to confirm?"
Nuo Xia angrily put away the phone, looked at the oranges piled up in the kitchen, gritted his teeth, and issued a vicious order:
"In order to avoid waste, let the chef rearrange the recipes. From today on, you have to pay for this. Each of you will eat at least 18 kilograms of oranges for me every day!"
Eighteen kilograms????
No matter how delicious the fruit is, you can't resist eating it like this. Isn't it fatal?
The subordinates screamed like ghosts and wolves howling:
"——No, Major General!!!"
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West Sea.
The first branch base.
In the office on the top floor, the setting sun streamed in through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Taotu, who had just finished processing a bunch of reports, stretched and looked out at the harbor.
"It will be almost fifty days soon..."
The flaming clouds in the sky were magnificent and moving, but she felt a little irritable for no reason. She tapped her knuckles on the desk unconsciously, "Does that guy want to leave me alone here to die from exhaustion? He doesn't know when he will come back..."
The pirates in the West Sea are rampant and arrogant, the underground forces are complicated and chaotic, and the situation is far more complicated than expected.
In the more than a month since she took over the position of head of the branch base, she has to deal with a lot of chores and personally go out to encircle and suppress the pirate group. She is really distracted and feels very tired every day.
But that guy Nuo Xia, as his deputy, is still in his hometown in Donghai, living a leisurely and pleasant vacation life.
It seems that it has already been ten days beyond the vacation period, and there is still no trace of anyone...
Damn it!
"Three days, and finally I'll give you three more days!"
As if talking to himself, or giving a distant order to someone, Taotu gritted his silver teeth, pushed away the documents on the table angrily, stood up and paced back and forth:
"If you don't come again, I will be completely angry!"
As for the consequences of being angry...
Humph, after that guy takes office, let's live separately and sleep alone for a month!
Boom, boom, boom.
At this moment, a rapid knock on the door suddenly sounded. Taotu was awakened from his thoughts, frowned and glanced at the door, "Come in."
With a "squeak", the door was pushed open, and a pretty female major appeared at the door. Taotu had already sat back behind his desk, regaining his calm and calm demeanor.