Pirates: The first companion is Tom Cat

Receive encouragement from Artoria, mood +1.

In fact, he wasn't too depressed. Compared with innate conditions, Charlotte Lingling, also known as the aunt, was the king.

It is enough to have a body with strong resilience, and the only thing left to do is to work hard.

As long as you work hard, you can achieve your goals. Is it already a very happy thing?

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Master Tang brought out a sumptuous meal from the kitchen.

By the way, the way Tom serves food is getting more and more fancy, with one plate in his left hand, one plate in his right hand, and another plate on his head. I'm afraid he will suddenly play acrobatics with these things.

Since moving to the tavern, Zhang Da has never bothered about the leftovers.

Even if Tom didn't get his portions right when he cooked, there was always just enough to eat when he cooked less, and just enough to eat clean when he cooked too much.

Zhang Da also asked cryptically if Arturia was full, but he always answered in the affirmative.

But as long as you don't train after a meal, you always have snacks and snacks, and the appetite is puzzling.

After dinner, they open for business. They only plan to open until around 8 o'clock in the evening. Although making money is very important, you can't leave it behind for late training. Compared with money, strength is the most important thing.

"Brother Tatsuya, I'm here again!" A young boatman greeted enthusiastically.

"Welcome!" Zhang Da also recognized the guests brought by Goodman at noon. The names were not introduced at that time, so he did not know.

However, this young boatman was very familiar with himself, and he approached Zhang Daye mysteriously and asked, "Brother, will Tom still perform tonight?"

Zhang Da also turned his head and took a look. Tom put a cushion on the bar, lay on his back, and raised his legs. mouth.

Artoria sat beside her, carefully read a newspaper, glanced at the boatman who was talking to Zhang Daye, and found no hostility, took a sip of tea and continued with her own business.

"Tom, do you want to play the piano tonight?"

Tom stopped chewing and shook his head, playing the piano was not as comfortable as lying down.

"Sorry, Tom doesn't want to perform." Zhang Da also replied.

"No, little brother, please let him play a song!" The young boatman cried sadly.

"Although Tom plays the piano really well, you're not so addicted to it, are you?" Zhang Da also thinks that this person may need an anti-addiction system.

"That's not the reason." The young boatman looked around and said, "Actually, I'm making a bet with my friends. As long as they come here and see the cat playing the piano, I can earn 30,000 Baileys, and then I will divide it into small pieces." Brother, half of you, help me."

Zhang Da also spread his hands: "Although I'm very tempted, I'm not a circus here, and I won't force Tom to perform. If you want to watch it, you can convince him yourself."

"Why is this... well, I will convince him!" The young boatman walked towards Tom with a firm face.

Zhang Da didn't bother with him, and continued to deliver wine to the guests who came in one after another.

A few minutes later, he saw the boatman running out in a hurry, and running back after a while, with a lot of things in his arms clattering on the bar.

Zhang Da also vaguely recognized that the things he carried included cat food, canned fish, dried fish...

Then I saw Tom jumping up with a smile on his face.

The young boatman happily greeted Zhang Da, and went back to call his unlucky friend.

Zhang Da also reached out and poked Tom who was lying on the pile of food: "You've been bribed? Have you prepared some snacks at home?"

Tom showed an embarrassed smile, gestured at these things, and signaled that the three of them would share.

Zhang Da also patted Tom's head, rummaged through the inventory, and found out all of Tom's clothes he had drawn before and gave them to him, so that he could wear them when he wanted to.

When the young boatman brought his friends over, he made a please gesture to Tom.

Tom changed his costume in a second, walked to the piano and started his performance under the shocked eyes of unsuspecting guests.

Perhaps it was because he took something from others, Tom took out the extremely difficult "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" very seriously this time, which is the one played in the performance that Jerry messed up.

As there was no interruption this time, Tom performed so well that he didn't even bother to help the false collar that had fallen off.

When Tom finished playing and bowed, the audience was silent, and then immediately burst into enthusiastic cheers.

Not everyone here understands music, but they can all hear the sound of the piece and feel the emotions when it is played—especially when such a powerful performance is performed by a kitten who has always been inconspicuous, which is even more impressive Excited.

Judging from their discussions, it is estimated that Tom will soon become a star of 59GR.

Zhang Da also looked at Arturia who opened a bag of cat food and put it in his mouth, thinking that even if someone has evil intentions, he should be able to cover it.

but……

"Artoria, that's cat food..."

"I'm just... checking the quality for Tom." Chew Chew, Artoria blushed a little, and said seriously, "It's not bad, it tastes like fish and chicken. Hmm."

Zhang Da also raised his forehead, don't analyze the taste of cat food so seriously... I want to try it too...

Arturia finally put down the half-pack of cat food and opened a box of canned fish.

Zhang Da also expressed his relief, at least it is the food eaten by normal people, the cat food is obviously not tasty at all.

After Tom returned to the bar, someone still wanted to listen, and cleverly followed the example of the young boatman to buy some snacks to bribe Tom.

But Tom really didn't want to play this time, he was tired.

Zhang Da also came forward to persuade them to go back. Although not everyone was satisfied, most of them had an extra drink or two because of their knowledge, and contributed a lot of Baileys to the tavern.

After sending away the last customer, Zhang Da also calculated the profit on the first day of opening the store. After deducting the costs, he made a net profit of more than 120,000 Baileys. Much of this was due to Tom.

Calculating the food expenses without buying too expensive ingredients, you need 20,000 to 30,000 Berries a day, so it seems that it is not difficult to feed the three foodies in the tavern, including yourself!

Even if the business in the future is not as hot as it is today, it is not a big problem. Even if the income is discounted in half, after deducting the food expenses, there will be a lot of surplus to buy clothes and other daily necessities.

Uh... No, it seems that I didn't take into account the issue of paying taxes and the 2 million Baileys I owed when I bought the tavern...

So, it seems that one day's income is only enough for two days' food expenses?

"Is the profit of opening a tavern so low?" Zhang Da also had a frown. If this continues, he will doubt whether he can repay the debt of 2 million Baileys.

In fact, what he overlooked was that even for the Straw Hat Pirates when they first landed on Sky Island, the daily food expenses of the seven members of the group were only 30,000 to 50,000 Baileys...

That's what Nami said when she first arrived at Sky Island, she still has 50,000 Berries left in her hand, which can only last for a day or two. Luffy taught them sternly that they don't know how to save money. Then he got scolded because most of it was his food bill.

py link: "The Heavens: Starting from Setting Tang San on Fire"