"So, thank you very much for your help, Director Nick. I really didn't expect you to be so easy to talk to. No wonder you were the director of S.H.E.L.D.! "Li Jie flattered Nick like it was free.
Anyway, flattery really didn't cost money, so why not? Nick just helped him solve a big problem! If Nick didn't agree to accept Bucky Baines, then Li Jie would really have to think a little more about how to deal with the Winter Soldier.
It was a good thing for everyone ~ Moving their mouths was a good thing for everyone ~! In addition, Li Jie still needed to trouble Nick to do another more troublesome thing, so if he didn't please him now, when would he wait?
Nick's face was dark the whole time. Although he promised to accept Bucky Baines (after all, he said before: I'll take care of the rest), after all, he couldn't go back on his words!
In particular, Nick Fury was someone who cared a lot about his reputation to a certain extent. He didn't want to go back on his words, at least not so obviously.
Nick, who had a dark face the whole time, silently listened to Li Jie's praise. He always felt that he had been fooled. Was he fooled? He should have been fooled!
But Nick couldn't retaliate or shirk his responsibility. It was like he clenched his fist and was ready to throw a punch, only to hit the air. Nick felt like he almost spat out a mouthful of blood in his chest.
With Nick's situation, how could you expect him to be happy with Li Jie's flattery? Come on! It was already kind of him not to pull out the pulse pistol at his waist and shoot Li Jie.
And Li Jie seemed to be very clear about this. He tried to make his tone relaxed and pleasant. However, the Punisher Frank had no intention of cooperating with Li Jie to flatter Nick.
He had finished the gin in the bottle in front of him. He was now going to find another bottle of good wine. Speaking of which, Nick had collected quite a lot of good wine here. Moreover, many of them had powerful backgrounds.
Including Rémy Martin brandy, which had been in the cellar for 65 years, and 1982, when the grapes were harvested and the grapes were of high quality. Ah, that is what most people call the 1982 Lafite. Of course, in addition to the wines from Chateau Lafite, there were many other good things.
For example, there were a few small wineries in the Bordeaux region that produced very few wines.
Damn it! A person who had been the bureau chief of S.H.E.L.D. for more than ten years was indeed different. Such a large collection of wine! Frank was actually quite jealous of Nick's collection.
The Punisher Frank did not have many hobbies. The two things he enjoyed the most in life were cigars and fine wine.
He was not a simple alcoholic. Frank was a wine taster who truly understood the three flavors of wine. It was just that the way he drank was simple and crude, so many people thought that he was just a simple drunkard.
Nick's personal hobbies were similar to Frank's. During the war in Vietnam, the two became good friends because they had the same hobbies (wine and cigars).
Nick later entered S.H.E.L.D., and Frank entered the Marine Corps. However, although Frank had been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, his position had always been that of an instructor.
An instructor was a very ordinary position. It didn't have much power or a high salary. Compared to Nick who rose all the way to the top leader of S.H.E.L.D., and during his time in office, S.H.E.L.D. was completely the law.
Nick had a lot of resources and did not need to rely on corruption to satisfy Nick's personal hobby of drinking. As long as he found some shady rich villains or terrorists, their private wine stash would be confiscated by Nick. In any case, no one would say anything about this. The military and these special departments turned a blind eye to the spoils of war.
After all, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division found the country villa of the German Air Force Commander Goering. There were more than ten thousand bottles of fine wine found from all over the world. At that time, Battalion Commander Winchester waved his hand and a company came to pull a truck. Just like that, the fine wine that Goering had spent dozens of years to accumulate was all distributed. (Note 1)
Nick's collection couldn't compare to Goering's, but he still had a lot of good stuff. For example, the bottle in Frank's hand. The green bottle looked very old, and the label on the bottle was already blurred.
The bottle was tightly sealed with an oak cork, not even a trace of air could escape. Just from the appearance, one could tell that this bottle was quite old. Furthermore, there wasn't much alcohol left inside. Frank estimated that there was only about 200 milliliters and less than 300 milliliters. At most, it would be about three glasses.
This was a bottle of top-notch cognac. Nick had bragged about it many times in front of Frank. This was a show between wine lovers, and Frank had wanted to drink it for a long time. But Nick never let him.
"Do you know the history of this bottle? You want to drink it? "Nick rejected Frank more than once. He opened the bottle and they drank.
He opened the bottle and suggested. He said: "This is a bottle of wine with a lot of history and stories! Do you know who the owner of this bottle is? "
Frank shook his head. Nick said with some pride: "Napoleon! It was that fierce and powerful shorty. This was the wine he had drunk before a great battle. It was the top-notch cognac brewed in France at that time. Do you know how much effort I spent to get this bottle? "(Note 2)
Frank touched his cheek: "I feel that a blind man discriminating against a dwarf isn't a good sign. This will form a scary chain of discrimination." Since he couldn't drink it, Frank didn't mind poking at Nick.
Nick looked deeply at Frank, then put the bottle back into the wine cabinet and locked it. Ping Peng ~! Nick also made a lot of noise.
To Frank, every time he came to Nick's place to drink, he would inevitably be stared at by Nick. He tried to steal the bottle several times, but to no avail. While Li Jie was talking to Nick and attracted his attention, Frank quietly stole the top-notch cognac that he had been eyeing for a long time.
He also prepared three new cups and added three ice cubes to each of the cups. The amber liquid was poured into the crystal glasses, and the light reflected was like gold.
"So beautiful." Frank was intoxicated, and the beginning of the overflowing wine fragrance was even more obvious.
Just when Li Jie confessed to Nick that he accidentally learned about the Inhumans and Magneto's global human mutant plan, Nick's face became darker and darker. Both of them smelled the fragrance of the wine.
Nick was dizzy from the news brought by Li Jie today, and for a moment he couldn't tell that the wine fragrance was his treasured cognac. But then again, even if he smelled it carefully, he wouldn't be able to tell. Because he didn't even open the cork to smell the wine.
Just as Li Jie and Nick were talking and the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Frank walked over with a glass of wine. "Actually, there's nothing that can't be solved. Don't make the atmosphere too serious and stiff. Relax and have a good drink. I wish our plan will go well and success. "
Nick took the glass from Frank, his face stiff. "Are you using my good wine to please me?"
Frank waved his hand. "The purpose of wine is to be drunk, not to be displayed here for you to see. It only has meaning when the stomach and the mouth enjoy it. "
Li Jie also took the glass from Frank. The wine was a bit small, probably only about 50 grams. He raised his glass to Nick and said, "Then I'll have to trouble the director about the Inhumans."
Nikpi nodded expressionlessly. What else could he do at this point? Some things had to be solved! Nick raised his glass and took a sip.
The unique fruity aroma of the cognac filled his mouth. Taking a deep breath, he could smell the faint fruity aroma. Nick was a little surprised. "Wait, this bottle doesn't look the same. Where did you get it?" Nick suddenly had a bad feeling. He asked Frank.
Frank followed the standard procedure of tasting cognac. He first looked, then smelled, then tasted it. After taking a small sip, he said, "Oh, it's your collection, that bottle of Napoleonic wine that you bragged about so much."
Li Jie gently took a sip of the cognac in his glass. Although he rarely drank and wasn't good at it, he still felt that it wasn't a big deal. However, the mellow taste was still amazing. However, Li Jie noticed that Nick's hands were clenched into fists, loosened, and then clenched again. It was as though he was enduring something.
Frank didn't mind Nick's murderous stare. It was just a bottle of wine after all. If you don't drink it, are you going to give it to someone else? He wasn't a collector like Nick. Good wine was best kept in one's stomach.
Frank sipped the wine and asked Nick at the same time, "By the way, you said that this bottle of wine was drunk by Napoleon before a decisive battle. Which battle was it? The battle of the three emperors? "
Nick said coldly, "It was Waterloo."
Pfft!
Note 1: The story of the 101st Airborne Division moving the wine came from Band of Brothers. However, Band of Brothers itself came from Colonel Winchester's personal war memoir, so the story was believable.
Note 2: Could a bottle of wine be from the Napoleonic period to the present? It should be possible. In the BBC documentary Top Luxury (that seemed to be the name), there was a bottle of Napoleonic cognac in a private bar in London. There were about two glasses left.
A rich Russian businessman paid about 35,000 euros to drink it. In addition, during World War I and World War II, the allied forces in Europe had a food called British Canned Corned Beef.
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