"You're back. I made seafood soup with the unsold conch and oysters in the afternoon. It's just out of the pot and it's still hot!" Marvin stuck his head out of the kitchen happily wearing a leather apron when he heard footsteps. Come, only to see a strange red-haired girl.
Zhang Heng followed her and introduced the two parties, "Annie, this is Marvin from the Sea Lion, Marvin, this is Annie from the Golden Swallow, a new resident here, she will stay for a while until... Well, she found her place on the island."
"Seafood soup?" Annie sniffed, "Can I have a bowl?"
Marvin was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said, "Of course, I have done a lot, even three people are enough to drink, but..."
Before he could finish his words, the red-haired girl rushed into the kitchen. Regardless of the scalding, she picked up a spoon and drank. She must have been hungry for a long time. The biggest bowl filled himself with a bowl full of oysters, and he walked out of it, squinting at the farmer's son, "But what?"
"Well, I want to say that if it's not salty enough, you can add some more salt." Marvin was overwhelmed by the aura exuded by the red-haired girl, and whispered.
"It's just food. It's enough to satisfy your hunger. The taste is not important at all." Annie sat on the dining table in the living room with a bowl in her hands as she spoke.
"I... must oppose this heresy with my real name." Mr. Cook mustered up his courage and expressed his protest in a voice that was softer than a mosquito.
According to Anne herself, she was born in a wealthy family, her father was a lawyer, owned a large orchard, and other odds and ends, but her mother was just a maid, and Anne was their illegitimate child Daughter, the mother and daughter have been arranged in a secret manor since she was born, and her father is quite reliable, at least he has not treated the two badly in terms of money, and he even hired a teacher for Annie, intending to bring She bred to be a lady.
It's a pity that things backfired. Unlike other girls, Annie was not interested in reading or prom at all. Instead, she liked to dance with knives and guns. Because of her childhood experience, she longed for freedom more and more, especially listening to her mother's story before going to bed. Those pirate stories in the book have an incomparable attraction to her.
So in the end she escaped from the manor with a passing sailor and escaped her father's control all the time. They ran all the way to Nassau, the legendary pirate kingdom, and Anne was one step closer to her dream life. However, she didn't expect that what she faced was the dilemma of not being able to find a job. Although she easily defeated the pirates in the tavern who were in charge of recruiting manpower, no pirate ship was willing to accept her.
The reason is simply because she is a woman.
But the house leak happened to be raining overnight, and the sailor James Burnie who brought her to Nassau later also had a showdown with her, saying that it was impossible to control her endlessly, unless Anne was willing to marry him as his wife, and she became irritable The red-haired girl kicked the former's lower body fiercely, and then slammed the door and walked out.
But now it seems that all of this is in the past tense. Annie got a recommendation letter from the Golden Swallow, got a job, and at the same time found a place to live temporarily. It seems that her life is about to start a new era. of the page.
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Annie's incident was a small episode. Zhang Heng just briefly understood the girl's experience and then ignored her. The only advantage of the house he rented was that it was big enough. There are few vacant rooms, especially when he and Marvin are out at sea, there will often be some uninvited guests here. It is better to let Annie live than to save those homeless people. There is no reason to refuse this kind of effort.
But then Zhang Heng turned his attention back to the most important thing at the moment.
In view of the extremely long time of this dungeon, he is not in a hurry, especially during the early stage, Zhang Heng has no plans to pull up the banner in a hurry.
Compared with other players, his biggest advantage is time. Zhang Heng can use one to two years to brush up his skills first, and then start the main task. His luck is good, the Sea Lion is the most powerful in Nassau One of the few pirates, it also means he has a lot to learn on it, and sail control is definitely one of his main goals in this one.
It was not far from the day when they sailed out to sea for the fourth time. On the last night before going out to sea, Zhang Heng found the sail leader of the Sea Lion.
Unlike most pirates who left their hometowns or came out to make a living, Roscoe was the kind of person who really had nothing to worry about. It is said that he was also the captain of a cargo ship, but he was suddenly caught by a Royal Navy ship on the way. The warship was intercepted for no reason, and the opponent suddenly fired without any warning or negotiation, sinking Roscoe's cargo ship, and what was even more terrible was that there were his wife and five-year-old daughter on board at that time.
Although Roscoe survived by luck, he lost everything. After returning to China, no one believed his story. On the contrary, he was also burdened with huge debts. In the end, he could only leave the civilized world and become a pirate.
No family, no relatives, he is one of the most bachelors on the ship, and he doesn't buy real estate on the island. Every time he gets off the ship, he just plunges into the brothel. Well, considering his age, his ability in certain aspects It's really pretty good.
In short, for the old man, there are only two ideal endings in his life, either to die at sea or on a bed in a brothel, and in order to ensure that no one will take advantage of him after his death, he almost I don't save any money.
When Zhang Heng found Rothko, the latter was playing a game of king and prisoner in the house.
Zhang Heng pushed open the door, only glanced at the scene in the room, and then backed out. He closed the door, and half a minute later, a prostitute wrapped in a bed sheet came out in a hurry.
Anyone who is interrupted while doing this kind of thing will not be in a good mood, Rothko couldn't help cursing as he put on his clothes, "How many times have I said the fuck, unless one day I'm too old to walk Move, otherwise you will never want to learn my skills, this matter is not negotiable, I will count to three, if you don't get out of my face, even if I retire, you don't even think about it... "
"Koror, your daughter." Zhang Heng interrupted the old man's curse, "After she fell into the water, she drifted at sea for three days, and when she was dying, she was lucky enough to meet a Spanish civilian ship, and the people on board rescued her Get up, and later sent her back to England, but you were no longer there, so she was adopted by a kind family, married a miller as an adult, had three sons and two daughters, and now she is a Granny."
"Impossible, you are lying to me!" Roscoe was not only not happy but furious when he heard the words, "You despicable little liar, you don't know where you heard my story, so you made up such a clumsy lie to deceive me. Proud technology, you will never be able to succeed."
Zhang Heng didn't speak any more this time, but directly put the toy wooden horse in front of the old man.
Sure enough, when Roscoe saw this thing, his gaze immediately changed, and he said excitedly, "This is a toy I made for Koror on the boat. Where did you get this thing from?!"