The Serudini family, the richest family in the area.

Possessing almost all the land and trade around Rome, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rich country.

Rumors that the Serudini family has received the ancient heritage of ancient Rome are of course nonsense, but they also confirm the family's wealth.

The sun gradually deflected over people's heads, and finally disappeared behind the mountains.

The Serudini family prepared a sumptuous meal for the bounty hunters they had invited.

The mercenaries who had wandered the town during the day had all gathered in the courtyard of Serudini's house, and hundreds of people walked around the courtyard, eating and drinking, and it was not crowded at all.

"The Serudini family is really rich." Aaron Walker was happily picking up his favorite food.

The banquet was in the form of Yalian's favorite buffet, and apparently the host had also considered that the group of guests he had invited were rough men with wide stomachs, so there were no delicate dishes, and the wine and meat were served like water, and the group of mercenaries screamed at the meal.

"Really, are we here for a picnic?"

Li Nali looked at the big bowl in Yalian's hand and covered her forehead**.

"You can't do anything with a hungry stomach." Aryan replied with a smile and added a large chicken leg to the bowl.

"We're here on a mission, Brother Xianhua?"

"He's eating over there?"

Li Nali turned her head to see that her brother was hiding in the corner, with several stacks of plates piled up beside him.

"Brother Instantaneous!"

"Haha, it's Li Nali? Have you eaten? ”

"Me"

"Go and call me Aaron, what kind of chicken legs do you eat at the buffet! He was quite satisfied, and he me off. ”

“”

"Children just don't know. Of course, the buffet should be good, expensive, and not enough to eat. You see, I've brought all the prawns they made. Shrimp are a rarity in this place."

"Bang!"

Li Xianhua had a big bag on his head.

"You give me a little serious!" Li Nali waved her small fist

Yalian and Li Xianhua knelt side by side on the ground, and Li Nali dangled in front of the two, chattering:

"It's mission time! Kanda's whereabouts are still unknown, and Holiness has not been recovered, and you are still eating so happily! According to the intelligence, there is a thousand-year-old swordsman named Bitstream in the arena, what does he have to do with holiness? We don't know anything, don't laugh! ”

Li Nali looked sad.

Yalian secretly asked Li Xianhua: "Senior brother, is Li Nali like this when she is on a mission with you?" ”

The white-haired boy really couldn't connect the strong woman in front of him with the well-behaved and sweet girl in the Order, serving tea and water.

"Well, it's just that I'm spoiled like this" Li Xianhua was silent for a moment and then opened his mouth, his tone full of bitterness from eating the bitter fruit.

"Did you listen to me?"

"Yes, yes!"

One big and one small hurriedly raised their hands.

"Brother Xianhua, don't waste food like this in the future!"

Most of the food on Li Xianhua's plate was thrown away after being bitten, and he was completely using food as a toy.

In this regard, Li Xianhua spread his hands: "Li Nali, if you run into a very, very bastard bastard, and you can't kill him or beat him, what will you do?" ”

Li Nali blinked her big watery eyes, she didn't know why Brother Xianhua said that.

"Maybe you can only be like me, make some small moves and lose your temper." Li Xianhua shrugged.

"You mean"

The noise in the courtyard gradually dissipated, and the bounty hunters who had quieted down looked up in unison and looked at the balcony of the small building.

Li Nali also followed everyone's gaze, and on the balcony, there were two middle-aged men with beards. One is tall and thin, and the other is already a little tired.

The tall and thin man made a "quiet" gesture to the people in the courtyard and slowly spoke:

"Warriors! Please put down what you are doing and listen to me! I think everyone already knows that Miss Claudia of the Serudini family has been captured by a thief who calls himself Bitstream! ”

"Bitstream? Isn't that the thousand-year-old swordsman of intelligence? ”

Aaron and Li Nali looked at each other in surprise. Li Xianhua hugged his arm and didn't react.

The tall and lanky man continued, "Beside me is the patriarch of the House of Serudini, Miss Claudia's father, who is suffering heart-wrenching! As a descendant of the noble Paretti, I stake the honor of my family, and promise you that if anyone can take my beloved fiancée, Miss Claudia, from that evil thief, I will give him a tenth of the property of the Serudini family! ”

The last words of the tall and thin man were like throwing a stone into the calm water, and the bounty hunters in the courtyard boiled.

"The property of the Serudini family! Even a tenth is an astronomical number! ”

"Now we're going to be rich too!"

The bounty hunters, all with red eyes, howled wildly in the yard like doping beasts.

Li Nali and Aaron were outside the crowd, incredulous at the news just now.

"That man just said that Miss Claudia was his fiancée? A 16-year-old girl and an uncle his age? Aaron was still reminiscing about what the tall and thin man had just said.

Li Nali also found it difficult to accept.

Young boys and girls who are not deeply involved in the world are still very ignorant of human nature.

"Brother Instantaneous"

Li Nali, who felt confused, looked at Li Xianhua, hoping that he could show her direction.

Li Xianhua seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while he came back to his senses, he smiled and pointed to the small building, and jumped onto the roof

"Claudia, I now know that you are a daughter who will bring misfortune to her father."

In the villa, Claudia's father, Serudini, held a glass of red wine, looked at the photos of his daughter's youth and beauty, and sighed softly.

"Paretti, I still can't agree! Claudia was abducted, just hand it over to the police! Why spend a fortune on mercenaries? And you have taken a tenth of the property of the Serudini family as a guarantee without my consent! ”

"Oh? It's really strange, as a father, in order to save his daughter, even if he goes bankrupt, he will not hesitate to do so, right? Why can't you even give up a tenth of your wealth? ”

"You"

"If you marry me, the Serudini family, which started as a merchant, will become an aristocracy, and the desire to enter high society for many years will be fulfilled. There's no bigger pie in the sky! ”

"Hmph, you, a poor nobleman, are just coveting my family's wealth?"

"You!"

Not to mention the two men who tore their faces in the house, Li Nali and Yalian, who were eavesdropping outside the window, felt cold inside.

Do they not consider Miss Claudia's feelings at all? The happiness of their daughter is just a deal in their eyes?

The young boys and girls who dared to stand up in the face of demons had a deep fear and anger towards the two ordinary people in the room.

Yalian gritted his teeth and wanted to rush into the house to reason with them, but was caught by Li Xianhua.

Don't speak, leave everything to me. Li Xianhua's gesture quieted the young man.

"Ahem!"

Paretti and Serudini, who were staring wide-eyed, looked at the window in panic, someone eavesdropping on their conversation?

A white-haired young man in a yellowed coat was smiling at them.

"I'm sorry, I was just passing by."

"Who are you?" Sensing the threat, Paretti and Serudini were once again on the united front.

"The king of mercenaries in the Mediterranean, Monchi D. Luffy."

The white-haired youth smiled, his green pupils making the two of them uncomfortable.

"I've never heard your name." The aristocrat Paretti looked at Li Xianhua cautiously.

"Of course, a noble lord like you will have nothing to do with a peddler and pawn like me. However, there is one thing that you may have the impression of, ten years ago, a Portuguese royal warship mysteriously disappeared in the Mediterranean"

In this era, Portugal was still the hegemon of the sea.

"Is that you??"

The white-haired youth smiled and nodded.

"Son-in-law" Serudini didn't know the bottom of his heart, and asked Paretti softly.

Paretti shook Serudini's hand to reassure him, but his own hand was trembling slightly.

"Why haven't I heard from you since?"

"Ahaha, it's whitewashed. Now the pirate business is not good, so I will change my job to catch pirates."

It was an unscrupulous man, and Paretti and Serudini looked at each other.

"Luffy-sama, why are you here this time?"

Li Xianhua smiled: "Merchants who need titles, nobles who need wealth, a match made in heaven." It's a pity that he was disturbed by the villain named Bitstream. ”

Paretti looked at Li Xianhua and didn't reply.

"One day," Li Xianhua stretched out his index finger, "within one day, I will bring your fiancée back." Of course, mercenaries should look for professionals. Are you going to rely on the dogs down there to save people? ”

In the courtyard, the bounty hunter drank too much alcohol due to the stimulation of the huge bounty, and looked at the other people with hostility in their eyes - this is the person who grabbed the bounty with Lao Tzu!

Before we even set off, the fight had already begun, and someone had already been injured.

Li Xianhua snapped his fingers: "It's noisy." ”

A dazzling light filled the courtyard, and the loud noise made everyone deaf.

When everything calmed down, people were horrified to find that the water in the pool had evaporated to the ground and that the pit had become even bigger.

"What the hell!!"

The mercenaries scrambled to run out, lest they run slower and be wiped out.

Paretti and Serudini's faces turned white.

"I'll take care of things and leave nothing to chance, just a little bit of Mistress Serudini." Li Xianhua rubbed his fingers.

"How much?" Serudini's eyes narrowed. At the mention of money, he immediately regained his usual shrewdness.

"It depends on your mood. You're a smart person, can you turn that little bit of meaning into embarrassment? The white-haired young man smiled shyly.

Serudini was silent.

In the end, it was Paretti who clapped: "Then please, Luffy-sama!" ”

"Well, let's talk about it, do you think you paid the deposit first?" Li Xianhua rubbed his hands

On the quiet street, Li Xianhua was holding a toothpick and a small bag in his hand.

The contents of the bag are enough to feed and clothe a commoner family for the rest of their lives.

"Senior brother, you are so amazing!" Aaron's eyes were full of little stars, "It's so relieving!" ”

"Yalian, teach you a trick, the wicked still need the wicked to grind." Li Xianhua put away the small bag and was in a good mood.

"Makes sense!" Aaron remembered the long road of repaying his debts when he was a child, and felt the same way.

"Senior brother, are you really the king of mercenaries in the Mediterranean?"

"That's," Li Xianhua plucked his nostrils, "bragging and not paying taxes." ”

"You're lying to them? So why would they believe it?? ”

"Because that Portuguese warship was indeed sunk by me, and there are a few merchant ships attached."

"Nani ?!!"

Aaron suddenly felt that he was playing cards and drawing Lao Qian or something, which was really pediatric.

"Don't get me wrong, they're reselling. I did a little bit of a favor in the middle with the local pirates."

"That's not the level of help!"

"There's no way, pay off the old rascal of Kuros"

This sentence seemed to have magical power, and Yalian instantly agreed with Li Xianhua's actions.

"Senior brother must have had a hard time back then."

"Alas, junior brother, you are the hardest, and honest people can only endure the sins of following Kuros"

The two white hairs, one big and one small, shushed each other and asked for warmth, but Li Nali on the side was surprisingly silent.

"Li Nali? What's wrong? Come on, come on, pick whatever you want in it, and treat it as a dowry from your brother. Li Xianhua has the face of an upstart.

Li Nali was quiet.

"Brother Xianhua, you're really good at deceiving people."

"Huh? Li Nali, how are you?"

Women's thinking patterns are always very weird, which makes Li Xianhua unguardable.

"It used to be the same, there were things that were always hidden from me and Brother Komui."

"Amount"

"Brother Xianhua, will you lie to me like this in the future?"