Chapter 15 The First Ocean Ship
"Fix it now!" beads of sweat seeped from the boss's forehead, he didn't care about wiping it, and shouted at the workers: "What are you doing in a daze, fix it for me!"
However, no one was willing to move, everyone watched the pestle on the side, and a few bold ones hid behind the crowd to make a fuss.
He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Pay your salary after repairing!"
Still no one moved.
His face turned the color of pig liver, rolled his eyes, smiled bitterly at Zheng Fei and several customers, and said: "This time is purely an accident, I have never encountered this situation before, please don't spread it, I will invite everyone to eat later."
Zheng Fei didn't intend to just stop like that, and said aggressively: "We're not so easy to fool! Do you know how big an accident the cracking of the ship's hull is?
"Then you say, how do you need to compensate?" the miser boss has to keep the shipyard's signboard even if he spends a lot of money.
Finally asked the point, Zheng Fei curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and said: "There are six customers here, we will each buy a boat, all at half price!"
"Half price?!I can't even get the cost back!"
"That's your business, if you don't agree, we'll help you expose it. After Zheng Fei finished speaking, several customers also responded.
The boss bit his lip with hatred and thought about it in his heart.
He can become the owner of the largest shipyard within a radius of 100 miles, in addition to being stingy and collecting money, business acumen also plays a big role, he knows very well that the impact of word of mouth on the industry is very important, if you care about this little money and bad word of mouth, I am afraid that it is not far from going out of business.
At a certain moment, he even had the urge to kill Zheng Fei and others, but the local legal system was very strict, and even if there was an official's younger brother, he couldn't be too reckless.
After thinking calmly, he finally compromised, took a breath and said, "Okay, half price!"
Zheng Fei smiled and high-fived the customers.
"But you have to sign a deal with me, and if it leaks out, you will compensate me for all the losses!"
"Okay. Zheng Fei nodded in agreement, glanced around and said, "It's best to be kind to this group of laborers in the future, if we don't say it, it doesn't mean they don't say it." ”
Being dialed by such a little, the boss hurriedly cleared his throat: "Pay everyone your salary tonight, double the bonus!"
As soon as the words fell, there were bursts of cheers, and this group of honest laborers thought that they were very content with the benefits, and no one thought of using this as a handle to knock on the rod again, because their status was low, and no one cared about exposing the corpses in the wilderness.
After signing the agreement, the customers paid one after another, and in ecstasy, they took the boat they wanted, and the boss, after reprimanding the engineer George, hurried to meet Claude.
"What did he tell you?" Zheng Fei asked George, taking out ten silver coins and handing them to him as a reward.
"I was fired because I told the truth in front of everyone, haha!"
"Don't worry, you can follow me in the future, it just so happens that my fleet is short of engineers. ”
"Willing to help!"
Thanks to the efforts of the laborers, the crack was quickly repaired, and dozens of people pushed together for two minutes, and the behemoth went down the slide and into the water safely.
Standing on the deck, Zheng Fei couldn't wait to come under the mainmast, raised the white sails, the breeze blew, the white sails puffed up, and carried them slowly away from the shore.
Looking at the smaller and smaller figures on the shore, Zheng Fei couldn't help but smile, which felt very similar to the original departure of the St. Hurens.
Finally, have your first big ship!
After sailing along the coastline for about two hours, the sailboat docked, which was the meeting point he had agreed with Pete, and after buying the boat, he asked Pete to go to San Diego and bring the daily utensils from the hotel.
At this time, the two men were standing on the beach, cheering excitedly.
"George dropped anchor and told them to come up, spend the night on the ship tonight, and go to the city tomorrow to do something!"
Tomorrow is the day of the trade with the restaurant owner, the ocean-going supplies.
When night came, the sea breeze was blowing, and the night sky was dotted with stars, and they sat on the deck, cooking food on a small stove, small crabs that had just been caught from the beach.
Santiago was worried about the two bottles of Lafite, and from time to time he begged to open a bottle, but Zheng Fei mercilessly refused, how could his favorite be shared with others?
But as compensation, he generously opened a barrel of beer, which he bought from the labor chiefs while he was in the shipyard.
"Cheers to riches!" from George.
"Cheers to the pursuit!" from San Diego.
"Cheers to freedom!" from Zheng Fei.
"For, for my daughter, cheers!" from Pete.
The frothy beer and umami-flavored sea crab are a perfect match!
This meal was the best dinner Zheng Fei had ever had.
The next day, nine a.m.
After waking up from his sleep, stretching in contentment, and sneezing in the sun, Zheng Fei left George and Pete to watch the boat and took Santiago to the city.
The reason why he brought Santiago was because the strong man was more reliable, and from last night's chat, he learned that the strong man was in the past, and the Renaya officer and the Renaya nation were famous for their courage and loyalty.
The delivery location was agreed in the alley at the back door of the restaurant, and there were many materials that needed to be transported by several vehicles.
Seeing Zheng Fei, the boss straightened the collar of his shirt, stood up straight, and said with a forced smile: "You are finally here." ”
Zheng Fei ignored him, went straight to the side of the truck, and after confirming that all the goods were real, he took out the parchment from his arms, whistled and said, "It's yours!"
The boss eagerly pulled over and glared at him, and gradually, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Along with this smirk, there were seven or eight cooks who came out of the door, with rolling pins in their hands, and surrounded them with good intentions.
Zheng Fei glanced around and said hatefully: "Look at this posture, will you let me take the goods away?"
"That's not it, we signed an agreement, and if we don't give you the goods, we will go to jail. The boss took a puff of his cigarette with a relaxed expression and spit it out unhurriedly.
"Oh, what do you want to do?"
"Can't you see, I'm going to beat you up! You're very good at doing business, and you've made me a lot of money by blackmail! I hate being blackmailed!" As soon as the words fell, the boss angrily threw down his pipe, grabbed a rolling pin and yelled hysterically: "I'm going to beat you so that you can't get up!"
Facing the menacing group of people, Zheng Fei raised his eyebrows and joked with Santiago in a low voice, "Man, how many can you fight?"
Santiago pinched his biceps, twisted his neck, and said disapprerovingly, "Have you ever seen a bison?"
"I haven't seen it~"
"It can knock ten people down, I can knock it down. ”