[One Piece] Pirate Life of Port Officers

"I don't mind, I don't mind, it hurts, Marco, what are you doing! Do you want to fight!" Sach, who hadn't stopped smiling since Sha Lai entered the door, let out a cry of pain, turning his head and glaring at his partner beside him.

Retracting his feet, Marco lazily said with listless dead fish eyes: "I just want to remind you, don't embarrass your father again."

"How shameful? If I can bring Xiao Shalai back to the Moby Dick, Dad and everyone will definitely be happy!" Sach was very dissatisfied with his behavior of throwing cold water, and almost slapped the table to protest.

Marco: "..."

But look at the redheads, how can they have any desire to let people go?Cook, who has the best relationship with you, always looks like he is about to roll up his sleeves and fight.Besides, what use are you willing to do?The little girl doesn't seem to want to join.

In his heart, he despised his partner fiercely, and Marco looked at the pretty girl who was smiling in full bloom, feeling very helpless in his heart.

Heck, if Cook hadn't said that they had information about Iasuo's flowers and plants, he wouldn't have made this trip to embarrass this stupid cook, Sage.

"Iasuo flowers and plants are usually no different from ordinary weeds, but on the night of the full moon in January every year, colorful flowers will bloom on the top of it. The flowers are colorless and odorless. After being ground into powder, they dissolve in water and can Adding it to any food will warm and nourish the body over time.”

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason why the Whitebeard Pirates have been secretly buying it is to help Whitebeard recuperate his body, right?"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly sank. Carter, who was a distance away from Xilai, was already sweating coldly and gripped the hilt of his sword with gritted teeth, but her expression remained unchanged, her eyes were still smiling, gentle and elegant.

"A normal person's consumption is 10g a day, but with the body of Whitebeard, it is almost 30g a day, 10950g a year. However, the Iasuo flowers and plants circulating on the black market every year do not exceed 5000g, which has always been the responsibility of all parties. It is estimated that even you can find about 3000g of the things you are fighting for a year."

Sha Lai stopped here, and sincerely looked at the two people sitting at the other end of the round table with difficult expressions, as if asking if she was right.

Facing her gaze, Marco took a serious look at the girl who dominated the topic for the first time.

He remembered that when her reward order first came out, there were people on the boat who were in a hurry and started talking about it, saying that the redheads were degenerate, and they started raising little girls.But in fact, anyone who has been in the New World for a while knows that that man values ​​his companions more than his life, so the old crew member is unwilling to even give a single glance to this kind of meaningless joke.

Even so, they only accepted a good young seedling as a red hair, because she has never made a name for herself, and she was soon forgotten by others.

But now it seems that after returning to the Moby Dick, it is necessary for people to pay more attention to this girl, because she may be the second brain of the red-haired pirates after Beckman.

Marco, who had been leaning on the back of his chair, leaned forward, and the killing intent accumulated in countless battles and the real coercion instantly enveloped the entire room.

But so what, even if Beckman is here, don't even try to threaten them.Their father is Whitebeard!

"So how many Iasuo flowers and plants can you provide? What do we need to pay?" Marco's dead fish eyes have not changed, and although he exudes a compelling momentum, he still looks casual.The so many words that Xilai just said were like pebbles submerged in the sea, without stirring up any waves.

However, his indifferent expression cracked in the next second.

"10950g, we can provide you with this amount every year." Xilai put an ordinary wooden box on the side of the table, flicked it, and let it slide to the opposite Marko.

"There are 1000g in this box. I only brought so much this time. I can give it to you as a deposit first." She still smiled, like a child who just bought a box of candy, handing the candy box to her little one. Partner, I want him to try it too.

But that was not a candy box. Everyone present knew that the value of the items in this box was higher than most of the treasures in tomorrow's auction.

Neither Marko nor Sachs moved, and their gazes didn't even stay on the box for more than a second, but even if they didn't need to be knowledgeable, just looking at their constricted pupils, Sha Lai knew that the fish had been hooked.

"Our request is very simple, the pollen provided every year, in exchange for you, the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Marko the 'Phoenix', a promise to the Red Hair Pirates. Of course, we will never mention any It will endanger the Whitebeard Pirates and the demands of your pirates."

The last card was played, Sha Lai didn't look at the expressions of the two people opposite her, but picked up the menu at hand, bowed her head and studied it.

Because she knew that with her current weight, she was far from qualified to make a decision in this kind of negotiation.All she could do was to make the situation as favorable to them as possible, and then let the captain who never asked her more about the arrangement and gave her unconditional trust to decide.

Marco raised his eyebrows looking at Sha Lai's attitude of letting go, he turned to Shanks, and asked word by word: "Red hair, is that what you mean?"

"No, that's what Sarai meant." To Sarai's surprise, Shanks didn't follow the end of her words this time as before, which made her feel tight, "Actually, before Sarai spoke, I I don't even know what this Iasuo flower is, so this is a promise between you and Sarai, and the rest of the red-haired pirates have no right to speak to you."

"However, Marco, she is a member of the Red Hair Pirates. If you do anything harmful to her, no one in our Pirates will stand idly by."

Shanks' voice was low and his tone didn't fluctuate, as if he was stating an objective fact, or as if he was reciting an oath, with an undeniable firmness.

Sure enough, he was such a man with red hair.

Marco glanced at the black-haired girl who put up the menu, although she couldn't see her face, but judging from her wrinkled menu and white knuckles, this girl who strategizes and controls people's hearts is still There are people who can't handle it.but--

"Okay, I promise. Now you can talk about you, it's not your condition this year."

——Since she is a person recognized by the red hair, he should trust her for the time being.

"Ah~, I was seen through." Sha Lai put down the menu and showed a smiling face. If it wasn't for the fact that he could see the folds on the side of the menu, Marco would almost think that he was dazzled just now. It hasn't changed.

"But before we get down to business, can I order some desserts first? You all order staple food now, and I want to try the desserts in this store."

"...Please do."

"Okay, waiter——I want pumpkin cake, coconut-flavored glutinous rice cake, red bean glutinous rice cake, sesame glutinous rice roll, mango glutinous rice cake, strawberry Daifuku, glutinous rice and purple potato cake..."

The restaurant they are currently in is a high-end restaurant sponsored by the Jewel family, and there are naturally a wide variety of dishes, as long as they don't require hard-to-storage ingredients, you can enjoy them here.

So, everyone in the box stared dumbfounded at Sha Lai holding the menu, ordered all the glutinous rice desserts on it, and then returned the menu to the waiter with staring eyes. For a long time, I would never want to see the word Nuomi.

"Xialai, I remember...you don't seem to like glutinous rice very much?" Cook checked the flavors of Xilai in his memory three times. In love with sticky rice.

"Ah, it's not for me, it's for—"

"Give it to me? Then I'm really flattered." A gentle male voice with a smile came from the door, and the pirates who hadn't turned their heads to see the face of the person who came, had already had a glimpse of the owner of the voice. Meager goodwill.

"But now, even though I love glutinous rice desserts, I can't finish eating the desserts that took up a whole page just now." After teasing with his friends, the handsome brown-haired man closed the door of the box and smiled Say hello to the famous pirates, "I'm Diamond Jewell, good afternoon everyone. The two captains of the Whitebeard Pirates meet for the first time. Please give me your advice."

Just introduce yourself with the two of them, that is to say, he has known other people for a long time?It seems that the red-haired pirates have developed well recently, and they have hooked up with the heir to the number one jeweler at sea.

Marco and Sach looked at each other, and at the same time decided that if they went to drink with the red-haired pirates in the future, they would definitely let those who cried poor every day pay the bill.This is considered poor, so what are they?Beggars on the roadside?

Diamond, who had no idea that his appearance had brought a financial crisis to the red-haired pirates, walked to the empty chair between Sarai and Carter and sat down.

Both he and Sha are the type who laugh before saying anything, and are easy to give people a good impression.Now the two of them are sitting together, as if two luminous bodies collided, and the brighter light illuminates the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, making the people in the box feel that their hearts have been purified.

"Xia Lai, is he your friend?" Sach looked at the almost identical smiles of the two, his eyes wandered for a moment.If it weren't for the fact that these two people didn't look alike at all, he would have suspected that Xilai was the illegitimate daughter of the current Patriarch Jewel.

"Well, that's right. Diamond is a good partner. You can consider having more contacts with him in the future." Xi Lai's tone was light, appearing very objective.

Diamond knew that she was trying to increase the credibility of her words and help him connect, but he still had a wicked look, pretending to be sad, looked at her and said, "Xai Lai, you are hurting my heart too much. I always thought we were friends, but you actually said yes? If that's the case, why did you order so many desserts for me just now?"

"Ah, that's not just for you." Sha Lai was interrupted by a knock on the door, and the waiter outside the door pushed a cart in after receiving a promise, and placed a table full of food on the large round table that could seat more than 20 people. All kinds of glutinous rice desserts.

In the eyes of the pirates who don't like sweets and have turned slightly blue, Sarai leisurely took down a plate of red bean glutinous rice cakes, picked up the silver knife at hand, and slowly cut it into small pieces. Small pieces.

Not only help people order but also help people cut?He was not treated so well.

Seeing Sarai's actions, Shanks couldn't help feeling sour.

"Of course the first one is for you, Shanks, please use it, boss~." Shanks looked at the glutinous rice cakes that were handed to him, neatly cut and served on a snow-white porcelain plate, and he was not happy for a second , just because of the elongated 'boss' at the end of the yarn, a chill came down my spine.

He turned his head with a stiff neck, and saw Sha Lai holding a knife, took another dessert from the table, and cut it into small pieces with a knife.The movement was elegant and neat, the silver knife touched the white porcelain plate lightly, almost without making a sound.

However, to eat a glutinous rice cake, it is necessary to cut it into such a small piece?And he felt that Xi Lai's posture was like gritting his teeth to vent his anger?

"Ahhh-"

Katakuri suddenly had an itchy nose and sneezed uncontrollably.

"Katakuri, do you have a cold?" Charlotte Lingling sat on a chair that could be used as an apartment for ordinary people, and glanced at her most powerful son.

"No, Mom." Katakuri was also very surprised at his inexplicable sneezing just now, but after letting out a look of knowledge and not finding anything suspicious, he immediately put the matter behind him and continued to listen to the report of the pawn soldier next to him .

"Mom, Lord Katakuri, look at this, commodity No. 46 - Asik's wheat. On page 12 of the catalog, under commodity No. 45, the golden vortex chart, this is a variety that has never appeared before. ..."