Chapter 4 The grinding house

Summer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It had only rained in this county near the sea, and it had cleared up at this time, and the sky was as blue as a wash, but the coolness in the air dissipated very quickly, and soon standing on the street, you could see the locals sitting under the many bridges and holes to enjoy the shade.

At this time, in the most lively street in the county, the merchant selling coconuts placed the wooden table under the shade of the trees on the side of the street, and a little girl with short pink hair held the coconut and showed an ugly expression on the side of the wooden table.

"Others look like they are in their teens, how can they be called aunts. ”

The owner of the coconut water seller is a teenage girl, but she looks much older because she wears a flower cloth on her head, after all, it is a dress that only older women like. It's just that you can still see a faint fluff on the other party's slightly dark face, which indicates that the other party is not very old.

I remembered the conversation I just had.

"Auntie, Auntie, I want two coconuts. ”

Then came a sweet smile: "Call sister." ”

"Auntie, two coconuts, two coconuts. ”

Is there anything more worrying for a girl than being called an aunt? she can't even take care of her own business, even if the other party is just a little girl, but she still shouts out.

"It's my sister, my sister!"

In the end, the aggrieved little Tirbitz held the coconut and endured the malicious laughter of some unscrupulous adult.

At this time, little Tirbitz fiddled with the coconut and said, "I can't see what it looks like from the back, my sister and aunt are about the same." ”

"If you can't tell the difference, it's definitely called sister, anyway, it's not wrong to call your sister, anyway, it's absolutely not wrong to call people younger. ”

Tirpitz Jr. retorted: "It's so troublesome, you can call it whatever you want." ”

"Nonsense, you don't usually have such a good name as Sister Hood, so why don't you call Aunt Hood when the time comes. He squinted his eyes and remembered that he went to an amusement park in junior high school, and wanted to ask the women in front of him to borrow a map to take a look, but he just called Auntie, and immediately saw the other party's almost jumping expression, and then he was chattered for a long time "call sister" "call sister" or something. If little Tirbitz had been called Aunt Hood, it would have been a wonderful scene compared to that.

It's just that little Tirpitz is not a weakling, and retorted: "Okay, okay, just call Aunt Hood, call Grandma Hood." ”

After Su Gu became the admiral, he returned to the county seat in the afternoon. On the second day, I took little Tirpitz around and went to the local church, which was not big and had nothing to see, just watching a group of people worship from afar. Although he had just experienced such a miraculous experience, from one world to another, he still believed that it was just an unknown science compared to God, and to this day he is still barely an atheist, of course, not too firm, to a certain extent, it should be said that he worships ghosts and gods and stays away. Get out of the church and get ready to walk down the street back to your residence.

At this time, he looked at the little Tirbitz who was bouncing in front of him and said, "Have you heard of another way to eat lychee? ”

Little Tirpitz showed a confused expression and said, "Alas, I have never eaten lychees. ”

Su Gu suddenly felt a sense of guilt.

In the afternoon, he walked to the wharf of the county seat, on the wharf, he stepped on the stone bricks all over the ground and looked at the neatly arranged warehouses on the roadside, surrounded by bustling people, and huge passenger ships moored on the sea. The road is not wide, with black cars in the style of various Ford cars from the Republic of China, tall horses leading beautifully decorated carriages, rickshaws and board cars. Because several ships are stranded in the county, there are more vendors on the wharf than ever, tourists, traders, sailors, people who want to fish in troubled waters, workers pushing canoks to move goods on the roadside, entertainers sitting on the ground playing monkeys, beggars, and all kinds of people.

At the ticket window on the pier, Su Gu looked at the itinerary on the window glass: "How much is the ticket to Guicheng?"

Guicheng is the city where Lexington is located, and it is far from here.

The answer he got was that he couldn't afford the ticket at all, after all, he didn't have much pay for the work he had done so far, and coming here meant that the savings he had nothing to do with the present, there was no way for money to circulate, and his salary was all pressed in the residence, wardrobes, tables and chairs, basins, everything needed to cost money.

The sky was getting dark, and the setting sun was gilding the pier with a layer of red. He watched as one ship departed, and saw another slowly approaching. At the dock, sailors drop the ropes on the deck, and the dock workers tighten the ropes. There are no gantry cranes at the wharf here, and there are no large containers for cargo ships. Workers at the docks put up shelves for the cargo ship, and someone stood on the boat and said something, and soon saw the workers begin to unload the ship.

Su Gu accosted the sailors on the dock: "Is it easy to meet the deep-sea ship lady at sea?"

"It's not so easy to meet the deep-sea ship mother, there are town guards in every other sea. ”

"But the route can't be close to the coast, and the town guard should have something that can't be taken into account. ”

"Yes, the big fleet is guarded by the ship's mother, but the small boat depends on luck. ”

Su Gu laughed and asked, "Which city do you want for your fleet?"

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In the evening, dinner is seafood.

Little Tirpitz, who was sitting at the table, shook his legs and said, "Admiral, what have you been talking to those people?"

Su Gu tapped his fingers on the dining table and said, "It's not that Lexington is in Guicheng, let's take a boat." ”

Little Tirpitz's journey has been weathered all the way, and now she has found the Admiral to settle down, at this time she holds the bowl and finds that her Admiral finally has a little self-consciousness as an Admiral, and she responds: "Uh-huh, and then what?"

In the dim light, Su Gu pinched his chopsticks: "But the money I have now is not enough for us to buy a ferry ticket, so I thought of other ways?"

He was quite confident in his eagerness, even if he didn't have money, he easily thought of a way to solve the problem, Su Gu said: "Let me ask the sailors on the dock, cargo ships generally need a ship's mother's escort, and then we can go and rub the ship's boat, and promise to be a guard, you are a guard, you are not a ship's mother." ”

Little Tirpitz did not speak, but pulled the rice chop from her bowl, for she was now sitting in a high chair, her legs dangling in the air, not knowing what she was thinking. After a while, little Tirbitz suddenly looked up and said, "Do you have to go on a cargo ship? ”

Su Gu was stunned and said, "I don't want to do it either, but I don't have the money for us to make a passenger ship, and I said that I am very poor." ”

"But I have money, it was given to me by Sister Meow before, and I haven't spent it. Little Tirbitz grabbed a handful from his pocket and let go of his hand on the table, and the tinkling coins fell.

Su Gu was silent for a moment, and said calmly: "Actually, there is another reason why I don't want to be a passenger ship, this is especially important, it will be very late when the ship departs, and the cargo ship will be able to leave the next day after loading the goods, although the conditions are more difficult." ”

"But to be the escort of a cargo ship, it costs a lot of fuel and ammunition, and it costs a lot more to replenish than a passenger ship, and it costs a lot more. ”

Su Gu continued to be silent, and then said, "Oh, too. Well...... Are you enough to eat only these dishes for dinner? Children need to eat more when they grow older. ”

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Soon after, as it entered the night, the lights went out. Little Tirpitz slept on the bed, and Su Gu slept on the floor of the mat, although they could sleep together, but Little Tirpitz was a little girl, and she had to be conscious first.

"Admiral, can you knock us barnacles?"

"You're not staying in the water and not going ashore again, where did the barnacles come from. ”

"So will you help me change my paint? I'm going to paint red. ”

"Paint? That's fine. ”

Little Tirpitz's voice suddenly paused, and he said, "Admiral, can I sleep with you?"

"Why?"

"I used to dream that I was standing in the harbor and there were a lot of planes flying over my head and then a lot of bombs coming down, and it was really scary. ”

Su Gu learned about the life of the battleship Tilpits, which had not moved several times in its life, and was finally sunk by British bombers. In the darkness, he whispered, "Whatever you want." ”

Soon after, he felt little Tirbitz sleep beside him, his little hands clutching his clothes.

"Admiral, I've caught you, you won't leave all of a sudden, even if you do, you won't be able to leave. ”

"No, it won't. ”

"Well, Admiral, I want to hear the story. ”