The Stark Villa in New York was Li Jie's new workplace. On that day, May solicited Li Jie and offered him a monthly salary of $2,000, which was quite high in 1965.
Li Jie pretended to think about it and agreed. Then, there was a simple health check and a passport to make sure that Li Jie was not an illegal immigrant. Li Jie spent some time. First, he went back to the atrium to get a fake passport, and then he went to the New York City Police Department to secretly get a fake file.
In the main world, the anti-counterfeiting technology of the 1965 passport was basically no secret. For a national archive database that had not yet been connected to the national network, the archives of different places were managed separately. Li Jie secretly filed a fake file in the middle of the night in the New York City Police Department. It was almost no difficulty for him.
It took Li Jie two days on Earth One, but it was actually not difficult.
So, the Stark family's New York villa in Long Island welcomed a new chef. The Stark family's business was basically concentrated in New York, although their manor was in Los Angeles. But it was difficult to go back a few times a year, especially since the Howard couple had passed away. Except for every year on the anniversary of their death, Peter would take the family, including Anthony, to visit the grave. He basically would not return to the Stark Manor in Los Angeles.
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"Jason, what did you prepare tonight?" May Parker returned to the villa after work and stretched into the kitchen. "It smells so good! Is it still stew? "
Li Jie, who was cooking in the spacious Nakajima kitchen, was chopping celery. "Yes, onion soup. I've been cooking for almost the whole afternoon. Mrs. Parker doesn't look very well. She needs a little more hot soup in winter. "
What Li Jie said was the main reason why May invited him. After drinking Li Jie's soup on the side of the road that day, May and Peter felt a lot better. May thought of her mother, Mary.
Mary, who was 51 years old this year, was not in good health. Although she was still healthy, she was unusually afraid of the cold in winter, so the heating in the villa had to be turned up to meet her needs. After all, Mary Jane was just an ordinary person and had not been bitten by a mutant spider.
Li Jie's diet method was very suitable for Mary. Peter did not refuse May's invitation because he had considered this point.
Li Jie had been working in the Stark villa for almost a week and was very familiar with Old Peter, as well as May and Mary Jane.
Looking at Peter and Mary, Li Jie always felt as if it was a lifetime ago. Because in the world of Midgard, his best friend was Peter Parker, and Mary Jane was one of his best female friends.
Seeing that his familiar yet strange friend was now old and even afraid of the cold, Li Jie found it hard to describe his complicated feelings.
So he had been very attentive to the food of Peter's family, especially that of Mary Jane, who had been drinking special soup every night for a week to improve her health. Li Jie did not want to make it too obvious, but the legendary cooking utensils were really powerful.
For Peter and May, the stew only had a slight effect, but for Mary Jane, the most obvious was that after only a week of conditioning, she was no longer afraid of the cold. Even though this year's winter was unusually cold, she still accompanied her daughter to the garden behind the villa and made a little snowman to welcome Christmas.
Peter and his family were very glad that they had hired a very good chef, and Li Jie did add some herbs to Mary's stew to cover it up. Peter and May also trusted their Spider Sense very much. Because the Spider Sense did not alarm them, they believed that Li Jie did not have any malicious intentions towards them.
This allowed Li Jie to build a good relationship with Peter's Family in just a week. Especially He May. Although Li Jie had a good relationship with Peter in Midland, Peter on Earth One was a middle-aged man, and he was more dignified.
Moreover, he was the temporary head of Stark Corporation. It was impossible for him to be so close to a chef in his family. May, however, did not care too much. Her current job was Peter's secretary, and at the same time, she was also Anthony's personal assistant.
She was about the same age as Li Jie, so it was easier for her to talk to him. Li Jie was also very willing to joke with his niece (yes, Li Jie regarded May as his niece) and get close to her.
Under these circumstances, the relationship between the two improved a lot. Especially after Li Jie came from another dimension for decades, he had a lot of new things to share with May.
There were also a lot of seasonal jokes to tell May. Plus, he was very good-looking, so May did not dislike the occasional communication with Li Jie.
However, although May did not dislike communicating with Li Jie, it did not mean that other people would do the same. In particular, a certain someone especially hated to see May talking and laughing with a good-looking young man, and even cooking together in the kitchen.
Yes, that person was Anthony Edward Stark.
May and Anthony got off work at the same time, because it was convenient for them to live together, and also to protect Anthony's safety.
When Anthony went to the garage to park his car, and then put some of his personal belongings in the car, Li Jie had already begun to teach May how to cook in the kitchen.
May planned to learn some dishes to cook for her mother. Li Jie was teaching her how to use the oven to make some simple but delicious dishes. For example, using the oven to cook steak at low temperature and slow, using food bags to wrap the steak, spices, and marinades, and then cooking it at low temperature and slow. The temperature was controlled at 50 degrees, and it was heated for two hours.
In this way, the medium rare steak could be very evenly cooked, and after it was done, it would be fried in oil to get the aroma. This was the most suitable way for lazy people, or beginners who could not control the heat of the steak.
"Yes, we can put the steak in the oven after softening it to a certain extent." Li Jie was teaching May. Because the kitchen was so big, the two of them were relatively close.
But the two of them did not feel anything, and Anthony, who was standing at the kitchen door, was very happy. He snorted heavily, "Humph!"
Li Jie looked back and saw him, waved his hand, and said, "Mr. Stark, what would you like to eat tonight?" He already knew that this was Tony Stark. But the Tony Stark of this world was not the Iron Man Tony Stark who gradually matured into a superhero after going through trials and hardships.
This Anthony was just a naive young man, such as the current situation. He was very unhappy that May and Li Jie were very close, although May was simply learning to cook, and Li Jie was simply teaching. However, he was still very unhappy, as if his beloved toy had been taken away. He had such a childish side to him.
In this respect, he was in the same vein as the Midgardian Tony Stark, the middle-aged version of Stark was also a childish ghost. But because he was old, he was better at hiding it, and would not easily let people see his childish side.
Anthony wanted to find a chance to fire Li Jie directly, but now his words did not count. Whether it was the company or the villa, Peter's words counted.
Mary's body had improved a lot under Li Jie's diet, and Anthony could see that. So although he was very unhappy, he could not say anything for the time being. Now he could only express his dissatisfaction with May in a very childish way. "I won't eat dinner, I still have research to do. Help me tell Uncle Peter."
After saying this, Anthony left the place angrily. As he walked, he scolded in his heart, "Can't you afford to cook now? What's so great about being tall? I can also do research, I can make inventions, and I can also be 1.75 meters tall after wearing a pair of heels, okay?! "
When it came to love, Anthony was a complete naive ghost. Because of Peter's control, Anthony did not have the opportunity to be a playboy. He had two relationships, but nothing happened. Because he had liked May a long time ago, but May's father was Peter Parker.
This man left a deep shadow in Anthony's heart. He did not know if Peter Parker would hang him upside down under the Brooklyn Bridge with spider silk if he wanted to hit on his daughter.
After walking into his underground laboratory, Anthony took a deep breath and prepared to do some research.
Because the previous MK4 had proven to be a failure, but Tony did not intend to give up Iron Man's plan. He felt that this plan must have development potential, but he just did not find the right direction.
He needed to improve, improve, and improve, but improvement required money, and now Anthony did not have extra money to buy materials. Because Peter Parker locked all his pocket money for this month.
The MK4 cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in the end, it turned into a handful of fireworks, useless. Peter Parker did not stop Anthony from continuing to research. It was already good enough to just cut off his money for this month.
Without money, a lot of things could not be done, but this did not mean that Anthony had nothing to do.
"I need to study further purification of oil-hydrogen fuel. The oil-hydrogen fuel developed now can provide 350% of the energy of traditional fossil fuels, but it is still not enough. But it was still not enough. The internal combustion engine that drove the Iron Man only had 550 horsepower, and its reaction speed was very slow. I also need to improve the transmission mechanism. "Anthony thought about it and found that there were still many things he needed to do.
So he plunged into the sea of improvement and research, and suddenly he forgot about May and Li Jie. The Anthony Stark of this world had become a pure science and technology man, and he did not know whether it was a blessing or a curse.
Anthony was immersed in academic research and forgot the time. When he came back to his senses, it was already past eleven o 'clock in the evening. He did not feel it when he was working, but as soon as he stopped, he felt hungry.
But at this time, no one in the kitchen cooked for him, and everyone went to sleep. In addition to the bodyguards outside the villa, even the servants in the villa went back to the servants' room to rest.
Anthony kicked the wall of the lab like a sulking child. Apart from the pain in his toes and the hopping pain, he didn't get anything out of it.
Rubbing his sore left foot, Anthony sat on the ground feeling a little wronged and said: "You don't know how to come to me for dinner, and you don't bring me anything to eat." Although he did not add a subject, it was clear that Anthony was talking about May. A childish ghost is a childish ghost. If this goes on, I'm afraid that I will be destined to be alone.
Anthony did not know that everything he was doing in the research room was being watched by another pair of eyes. Li Jie has been here for more than half an hour using the cloaking device, looking at the samples from waste 1 to waste 4 (MK1 ~ MK4) that Anthony had studied before.
And the oil-hydrogen fuel he got, is this the new energy of this world? Well, it's much better than gasoline, but it's far worse than the Arc Reactor on his side.
With this kind of Iron Man, I'm afraid that he won't be able to make a name for himself. Perhaps even Spider-Girl is much stronger than him.
Li Jie was right. Anthony was protected by May since he was a child, although he was a man. But he could only be a soft princess in the fairy tale world, and the role of riding a white horse and waving a long sword to kill the dragon and rescue the princess was usually played by May.
This made Anthony angry for ten years, he wanted to prove that he was also able to protect May. Because at least he had the ability to protect May, he dared to confess to May and persuade Peter.
But now the Iron Man robot he made was garbage from beginning to end, none of which had real practical significance. Except for being used to verify some scientific experiments, it was a live target on the battlefield.
He wanted to protect May, but it seemed that he was not doing enough.
"Hey, when will it end." Anthony sat on the ground and suddenly sighed. He was really a little discouraged. The enemy of his parents had not been found yet, the girl he wanted to pursue seemed far away, and the steel robot he made was of no practical use. Anthony felt that he was useless except for having money.
Oh, wrong, he didn't even have money. Because now his property was still under the control of Peter -Parker. He felt that life was boring now. He wanted to fight criminals, but he didn't have the capital to fight criminals at all, and he didn't even have the capital to protect the girl he liked.
Li Jie looked at Anthony sitting on the ground and sulking at himself. Li Jie's face was full of expressions. Such a pure and coquettish science and technology man, Tony -Stark, was something Li Jie had never thought of.
The Tony -Stark he knew was a womanizer and a master of flirting. Looking at the young Anthony's aggrieved look, Li Jie suddenly felt a little sorry. This child was good in nature, at least better than Tony in the other world. But this child was a little unlucky.
Li Jie didn't intend to take action so early. He wanted to observe for a while. But now he felt that he might as well do something now.
Li Jie directly removed the cloaking device and suddenly appeared in Anthony's research room.
Anthony, who was still sulking at himself, didn't notice Li Jie behind him until a strange voice appeared in the basement.
"Anthony Edvard Stark. Greetings."
The sudden voice startled Anthony. He turned around and a man in a medieval hooded robe suddenly appeared behind him.
According to the teachings of Peter for so many years, Anthony immediately became alert. He wanted to take out his pistol from his waist to defend himself. But when he touched the back of his waist, it was empty.
The hooded man raised the pistol with one hand and said, "Are you looking for this?"
Anthony's heart skipped a beat. The man's movement was so fast. He tried to see the man's face clearly, but the face under the hood seemed to be magical, making it impossible to see clearly.
He wanted to escape, but the door of the research room couldn't be opened no matter how hard he tried. He tried to wake the others up by shouting, but the outside world didn't seem to hear his voice. This was the hooded man's trick!
The hooded man didn't seem to be afraid of him calling for help. He just sat on the chair in the research room and watched him banging on the door, the window, and yelling. He didn't even pay attention to him, as if he was watching a show.
Until Anthony was exhausted from kicking the door, he couldn't attract the attention of the others in the villa. He panted heavily and leaned against the wall, sweating profusely, but his heart was cold.
The hooded man was too strange. Anthony didn't know how he did all this, but he knew that this man could do all this.
He was no longer worried about his own safety, but began to worry about Peter's family, especially May. While he was still trying to think of other ways, the hooded man said, "I think you're tired now. If you are, we can sit down and talk. "
Anthony forced himself to calm down and asked, "Talk about what?"
"Something small. Something about your father. Howard Stark, he used to be a member of our great organization, but unfortunately he died. I only learned the news recently. After hurrying to his grave to pay my respects, I came here to find you. Because in the organization, your father Howard left you a legacy. "The hooded man's voice was calm and emotionless.
Anthony didn't dare believe him. Now Anthony was just stalling for time, trying to think of a way to remind Uncle Peter, so he asked, "What organization?"
The hooded man shook his head. "You're not qualified to know yet, but I think there's some information that you'll be interested in."
With that, the hooded man put a strange black glass twice the size of a palm on the table. Under Anthony's curious gaze, the hooded man pressed a few times on the strange black glass, and the originally black glass suddenly lit up.
"LCD screen!" Anthony couldn't help but exclaim. In this era, the concept of liquid crystals was only a paper in academic journals, and the first stage of it had not even been completed. As a scientist, Anthony had the habit of browsing through various scientific journals. He knew about the concept of liquid crystals, but it would take at least 20 years for liquid crystals to appear in the laboratory, and more than 30 years for the factory to mass-produce it.
The hooded man casually took out a technological product that transcended an era, and it was not as simple as an LCD screen. Anthony noticed that the hooded man didn't connect an external power cable and video signal cable for the LCD screen.
But the LCD screen already had a picture, which proved that the LCD screen had a built-in power supply and a built-in image!
How was that possible? The LCD screen was only the size of two palms, and it was no more than 9mm thick! How could it have a built-in power supply? How could a large chip be added to provide an image?!
The hooded man glanced at Anthony's reaction and chuckled twice. "Don't be surprised, you'll be more surprised later."
Anthony had now forgotten his nervousness, forgotten his fear, and even forgotten who the stranger in front of him was.
His eyes were now fixed on the LCD screen in front of him. This cross-era product had completely subverted his thoughts. Now he just wanted to know what the hooded man was going to show him.
The hooded man continued to touch the LCD screen with his fingers, and then it seemed to be done. The LCD screen dimmed, then lit up again, and a bright red figure appeared on the screen.
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