Pirate's Swordsman

In the next few days, Barati Restaurant finally ended the neglected scene when it first opened and ushered in a period of rapid development.

Perhaps Zhepu's advertisement finally had an effect, or perhaps there were more merchant ships passing by the nearby sea. From the next day, there was an endless stream of customers coming and going from the restaurant. Most of the seats can be filled.

Zhepu's chef recruitment plan is also going smoothly. After five days, the restaurant has four more chefs and six or seven waiters. After adding the previous Pedikkar, although the number of people is still not too many, but It is enough to cope with the current situation.

It is worth mentioning that as birds of a feather flock together, the four newly added chefs have the same bad temperaments as Pedikkar. They are all prickly heads who are not afraid of trouble, but their cooking skills are very good. It can be said that It was just right for Zhepu's taste.

After joining Barati, everything else was okay. What made these arrogant guys the most unhappy and incomprehensible was naturally that the restaurant's head chef was a kid like Xiano.

Ever since, in the next few days, overtly and covertly, making troubles and looking for trouble became the daily routine of these guys.

It's a pity that they never expected that they would face a guy with a worse temperament than them...

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Boom!

With a dull loud noise, a tall figure suddenly flew out like a kite with its string broken, and hit the wall with a bang, raising a cloud of dust.

"Well, is there anything else you want to do..."

On the deck at the stern of the ship, Xia Nuo spit out the chewed grass roots in his mouth. His eyes were as calm as water, and he lightly glanced at the people around him.

At this moment, his body was leaning slightly in the sea breeze under the morning light, holding Lake Toya in his arms, as if he had been standing there quietly and never drew his sword, but the chefs who were watching were all watching. It was clear that the two new chefs who joined in a row did not even have a chance to get close. They flew out after a flash of cold light. The strength gap between the two is simply farther than the distance from Barati to Rogge Town.

Therefore, when Xia Nuo looked over at this moment, the remaining two chefs suddenly broke out in cold sweat. They hurriedly waved their hands and raised their heads like a rattle: "No... no more!"

Paddy and Carl next to them looked at each other with gloating expressions on their faces, and couldn't help but chuckle and look at each other.

Hey, who knows, when these guys first joined, they were so manic that they even ignored us two old people. In the end, they dared to confront this monster. Now they are all bruised and swollen, and they finally got it. Lesson learned?

"It's gone, right?"

After waiting for a while, Xia Nuo, who didn't hear other noises, nodded slightly. After sweeping his eyes over everyone, he tilted his head slightly towards the kitchen and said calmly: "Then, let's go and get busy. It’s getting late, prepare the ingredients, and soon there will be customers coming to your door.”

"Yes, chef!"

Including Paddy and Carl, the six chefs present suddenly became solemn, stood up straight with a snap, and responded in unison.

Then they stopped staying and walked through the corridor one after another towards the kitchen. In the blink of an eye, the originally crowded and lively stern of the ship became empty and deserted again.

Looking away from the backs of Karl and others, Xia Nuo looked back at the sky. It was early in the morning, and the sun had just jumped above the horizon. The sunlight was like boiling molten steel, vast and majestic, dispelling the mist, illuminating the sky, and The boundless blue waves in front of me were dyed with a touch of gold.

A faint bitter taste came up from his stomach, mixed with the slightly acrid aroma of grass, and surrounded his mouth. Xia Nuo didn't pay attention, glanced at the crumbs that he had just spit out on the ground, and then silently touched it from his trouser pocket. An identical emerald green grass root came out and was peeled off

With the crystal clear outer shell, gently put the hard stalk in the middle into your mouth and chew it slowly.

This is an ingredient called "bitter bamboo grass" that Xia Nuo found in the storage room three days ago. It tastes bitter and dry. It has a refreshing effect on the mind when eaten. The reason why the restaurant stocks this is because it is popular in some flavors. In special dishes, this herb is often added in small amounts as a seasoning.

In his words, he regarded it as a temporary refreshment prop to ensure that he would not be distracted by sleepiness when he got up early. If I really wanted to give a chestnut, it was probably similar to the Red Bull Betel Nut in his previous life...

In the past few days, since the development of the restaurant has been on the right track and the kitchen is no longer short of manpower, Xia Nuo is finally free and no longer has to rush between the kitchen and the hall all day long like before.

However, leisure does not mean relaxation. For Xia Nuo, becoming the world's greatest swordsman is the path he pursues. Being a cook is only his temporary identity, not a lifelong career. Therefore, after having ample training space, Xia Nuo almost immediately formulated a rigorous and outrageous training plan.

Get up at five in the morning and go to bed on time at nine in the evening. In addition to necessary survival issues such as eating and washing, Xia Nuo spent almost all his time on the training of wind-control swordsmanship and basic physical literacy. In the middle, he only gave a few The interval is very short to meet the most basic rest needs of the body's muscles.

Under this kind of high-intensity and cruel training, the effect played by bitter bamboo grass can only be said to be minimal, and the bitterness that spreads in the mouth when chewed is incompatible with the real hardship in this long training process. Compared to, nature is nothing.

"Then... let's begin."

Facing the rising sun, Xia Nuo tightly grasped the hilt of Lake Toya's sword. After taking a deep breath, he shook his wrist slightly, raised it, and slashed the sword into the air, and then repeated While doing this, I silently thought of the first small goal of today's training mission:

"Swing the sword three thousand six hundred times in one hour."

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In the fusion of sword and sweat, the interplay of light and darkness on the horizon, time passed day by day.

Everything is so peaceful, the business of Barati Restaurant is getting better and better, regular repeat customers begin to appear, and new chefs and waiters continue to join. Of course, occasionally, there will be old people leaving due to some accidents.

But no matter how you say it, this restaurant on the sea, which opened in the late autumn of 1511 in the Haiyuan calendar, has indeed slowly expanded in size and popularity at a clearly visible speed in the alternation of cold winter and warm spring, and has established itself in the East China Sea. The north gradually developed its own signature.

During this period, some newcomers also questioned the cooking skills and strength of Xia Nuo, who had become the head chef. However, after defeating the first batch of new chefs that day, Xia Nuo, who was in intense training day and night, no longer had the time to compete with them one by one. past.

Fortunately, we have reached the same destination by different routes. Since many of the guests are pirates, there will be a dispute in the restaurant every ten days and a half.

However, every dispute did not turn into a big mess, because often when these disputes were just starting to appear, the head chef, who they regarded as not doing his job properly and not cooking much, would end the training at hand and silently come to the front desk. Use the fastest and most brutal method - beating to subdue the troublesome guests.

Under the thunderous method, not only the pirates who originally liked to make troubles and make noises turned into honest customers, but the chefs who joined later also gradually understood who was the most powerful being in the restaurant, so Qiao Wu In the sound, the looks of disdain and arrogance intertwined, all turned into spontaneous awe when Xia Nuo appeared.

Xia Nuo naturally felt this change in the atmosphere in the restaurant, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He still devoted his energy to life-threatening training all day long, like a river rushing into the sea without stopping at all.

In the blink of an eye, six months passed by so leisurely.