Chapter 3691

Sitting in the office of the new nursing home, Shiler was concentrating on drawing comics. Because the time is too short, it is difficult to finish a whole story with a fine style, so Shiler chose to use fountain pen to hook lines and markers to color, using strong light and shadow and large color blocks to express the picture, focusing on storyboards and stories.

Contrary to what many people imagine, compared to black and white comics, color comics are actually simpler. Once you can use color, it naturally adds a lot of visual fun, and the requirements for dynamic light sources and structural rigor will also decrease. As long as you can make the basic storyboard shots not go wrong, they all look good.

Shiler adopted this method: use a fountain pen to outline the general outline, then fill in the color on it, and then add details with a hook line pen. The painting part is basically completed. Leaving aside the hook line part, it looks a bit like an oil painting draft, which relatively meets the aesthetic needs of Westerners for comics.

Also because the time is too short, Shiler only had time to draw one episode. He followed Gwenpool's suggestion and didn't draw Captain America fighting Hydra, but started from his breaking through the ice and returning to human civilization. This episode focuses on expressing his confusion and helplessness when returning to the new era.

Shiler actually knows many similar stories, such as Steve who just came back not knowing how to use modern appliances, making many jokes; stubbornly following past hobbies and work and rest, and being somewhat out of tune with modern life.

Although he got rid of this awkward situation in a very short time, there are still many things that can be drawn. Shiler wrote while recalling the memories at that time, which can simply be called writing with divine help.

The storyboard problem he was worried about was not a problem at all, after all, he didn't watch so many comics for nothing. Speaking of comic fans, he is the most fanatical one. He has basically read the comics of the two big worlds. The so-called "familiar with three hundred Tang poems, can recite even if you can't write poems", is exactly this.

And Steve's story is indeed very interesting: from the pioneer of the era to the backward old antique, his behavioral transformation preceded his psychological transformation. It just so happens that Shiler, as a psychologist, personally participated in the whole process of his psychological transformation, and can vividly depict his psychological thoughts and feelings at that time.

In order to catch up with the comics, Shiler can be considered to have gone all out, sitting at the table and drawing for at least 10 hours every day, and also having to study roast duck and roast goose in his spare time.

However, there has finally been some progress in this regard. Stark and Peter helped him modify the oven, mainly by adding a modern blower, which can control the flame more accurately. Although the roast goose is not that perfect, the roast duck can basically perfectly replicate the flavor of Beijing roast duck.

Three days before Steve's birthday party, most people have completed their preparations.

Peter is indeed lacking some talent in cooking, to be precise, he is not very good at baking. But he didn't know this before he started, and had to bite the bullet and bake raspberry pie. And the raspberry pie brought to the birthday party is not the portion made at home on weekdays—that large baking tray is more than a meter long, and it is easy to be undercooked or burnt if the heat is not mastered. In the end, Shiler helped him and successfully made a golden baked pie.

Conversely, the progress of Stark's cheeseburger was surprisingly smooth, probably because this thing is indeed simple. After overcoming the most difficult baking of the bread embryo, adjusting the ratio of beef and cheese a few more times, the taste was quite good. Considering Steve's taste, Stark also reduced the salt in the cheese, added some pepper to the beef patty, and sprinkled white sesame seeds on the bread embryo. Even Shiler had to admire that the finished product was indeed delicious.

Seeing Natasha was busy chasing her new flame and old love all over the world, and only made a temporary effort when the day was approaching. But she is indeed talented in cooking, not only making a large portion of Olivier salad, but also baking an improved version of nut big bread with Ivan, baking three in total, each more than a meter long. Shiler was simply shocked when he saw the huge bread.

This thing can definitely be counted as his childhood shadow. At that time, there were many Soviet experts in the institute where he was, so the canteen would provide Russian specialty dishes, and the most unpalatable one was the big bread that was as hard as a brick. It just so happened that Anatoly liked to eat this thing, Shiler really tasted it many times, but he couldn't chew or swallow it, and there was a nasty sour taste of gluten. He once deeply suspected whether the Soviets had no sense of taste.

In order to confirm the taste of this thing, Seeing Natasha specifically brought a trial version—a small piece of bread about the size of a palm. Shiler looked at this thing and hesitated for half an hour without daring to take a bite, until Seeing Natasha chatted with him privately, asking him to share the trial report, Shiler took a bite very reluctantly.

The result was very unexpected, the big bread Seeing Natasha and the others baked was quite delicious, it was a bit like a harder nut bread. The gluten aroma is strong, and it will be slightly sour at the end of chewing, but it is not unpalatable, and there are nuts and raisins to improve the taste, even better than the staple bread in the United States. Shiler was amazed by the cooking skills of Seeing Natasha and Ivan.

The dishes made by Wanda and Jarvis are relatively simple. The two of them made a ratatouille together, which is to cut various vegetables into slices and arrange them evenly on the plate, and then stew them. This dish is neither delicious nor unpalatable, it's just that the plating is particularly beautiful, very suitable for bringing to parties.

Coulson's cake was also baked, but he really couldn't solve the problem of the chiffon collapsing, and the cake made would collapse at the waist. But he solved it by applying more cream, and sure enough, he learned the technique of fondant on the Internet, and drew a portrait of Steve and put it on it.

Others basically brought specialty dishes from their hometowns. Shiler also specifically asked what dishes Xu Shangqi brought, and very unexpectedly, he made a boiled fish, which can be considered his hometown specialty dish.

As for gifts, everyone basically chose to keep it secret, so that there could be a sense of surprise when unpacking at the banquet. After Shiler's comic was drawn, he didn't go to print it, but searched for a book-making tutorial on the Internet, sealed the original manuscript into a book with thread himself, signed his signature, and packed it in a gift box.

Today is a sunny day for the birthday. The birthday party is held at the Avengers base and will last from noon to midnight. The first thing Shiler did when he got up was to eat something, because he knew that this group of people would start drinking after going, and they all drank that kind of party wine with a lot of ice cubes, if they didn't eat something to cushion their stomachs, it would be too easy to hurt their stomachs.

After breakfast, Shiler started making real banquet dishes. He took time out of his busy schedule to glance at the group chat, and everyone took photos of their start of work, like a competition—you wear an apron and I wear a chef's hat, you cut vegetables and wash vegetables, I stir flour. Everyone was working vigorously.

"Doctor!" A voice appeared outside the window, "Here, here! The ingredients you want!"

"Oh, thanks, Pietro." After Shiler tied his apron, he shook the water on his hands, hurried out, took the big plastic bag from Pietro's hand, and then took out a supermarket gift card from his pocket and handed it over, saying, "The frozen food in this supermarket is very good, you can buy more and take it back to the Andromeda Galaxy, I know you can't eat anything good over there."

Pietro was very moved, took the gift card and put it in his wallet, and then said: "Thanks to the Chinese, I lived entirely on noodles and wontons over there. You wouldn't want to know how moved I was when I saw a fried noodle shop opened by a Chinese person at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy..."

"Have the mutants of the Andromeda Galaxy arrived?"

"Yes, they went to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. The students and teachers are preparing to make a dish together, probably mashed potatoes or something, Charles and Erik made a German dish together, it seems to be roast pork knuckle."

"Yes, they can only make German food together, they can't make British food, right?"

Pietro laughed loudly, and then said: "I still have to go to Wanda's side, she called me early in the morning saying that the white pepper was caked and not fresh, I have to go and send her a bottle. I'm leaving, Doctor."

Shiler waved his hand. When he turned back to the stove, a ray of morning light happened to sprinkle over, which was a warm orange color with a slightly melancholy tone. He turned his head to look there, and through the layers of fences and green belts, he could see the trees in Central Park waking up in the morning light.

This is such a bright, clear, and vibrant morning. In the steel forest of Manhattan, New York, on the green space of Central Park, in the blue sky with light clouds, the expectation for such a lazy and beautiful day flows like a river and blooms like daisies.

Shiler cleaned the ingredients in his hands, carefully brushed them with skin water with a brush, put them in the oven, and then immediately went to add firewood to burn the fire, and then controlled the heat with a blower.

It is very hot to squat by the stove in summer, and it is inevitable that burning firewood will dirty hands and clothes, but Shiler doesn't care at all. For everyone, cooking is not a simple matter, requiring a lot of physical strength and energy. Although at the moment of tasting delicious food, many people will think that this consumption is worth it, but if they can get the praise of their loved ones because of this, it makes all the fatigue and indecency in the process become medals for soldiers when they are reviewed. The love condensed on the food flows into the stomach and heart together, making people feel the most affection through the most primitive method of eating.

The moment the roast duck and roast goose came out of the oven, heads poked out of every room in the nursing home. They began to cheer loudly and applaud continuously, obviously everyone knew what their doctor had been busy with recently.

"Say hello to Captain America for me!" Someone shouted.

Shiler looked up at them, and they also waved at him. He felt like a general about to go on an expedition, saying goodbye to the people full of expectations for victory. Although his weapons were only roast duck and roast goose, he was still full of confidence... until Stark and Peter's flying car appeared on top of his head.

"Hey! Shiler! Get in the car! We should go!"

(End of chapter)