Chapter 18: The Swallowing Ship
The next day, dawn.
Ye Yuxuan squatted in front of Bai Jiujiu, looking at his slender eyelashes carefully, bored for a while, she suddenly began to count, "One, two, three......"
She's counting the eyelashes of the white September.
Counting and counting, she suddenly stretched out her finger and poked Bai Jiuyue's face, but at the moment when her finger was about to touch Bai Jiuyue, Bai Jiuyue suddenly turned her head and dodged away.
"Ah, Ah Yue, you're awake." Ye Yuxuan's face was a little red, and he didn't know if he knew the stupid things he had just done.
Bai Jiujiu stretched his waist, stood up and yawned, reached out and rubbed Ye Yuyi's little head, and said, "I just woke up." ”
"That's good, that's good." Ye Yuxuan smirked to herself, her beautiful eyes bent into a crescent moon, she put her hands behind her back and shook her body gently.
Bai Jiu glanced at the clothes on Ye Yuyi's body, scratched his head, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to buy two clothes." ”
"Shopping for clothes?!" Ye Yuyi smiled, hurriedly took two steps forward, and came to Bai Jiuyue's side, just about to speak, she swallowed the words that came to her mouth again, and asked, "But do we have money?" I remember that the money on the boat was a lot less, right? ”
Without waiting for Bai Jiujiu to speak, she hurriedly waved her hand, took two steps back, and sneered, "Still don't buy it or don't buy it." ”
Bai Jiujiu glanced at her and said angrily, "I have money." ”
"Ah Yue, you want to lie to me again." Ye Yuyi pursed her mouth, at this time, she really looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl.
"What are you lying to?" Bai Jiu smiled bitterly, took out a stuffed money bag from his arms, and handed it to Ye Yuxuan, "Take a look for yourself." ”
Ye Yuyi was suspicious, the money bag just took off her hand, and almost dragged Ye Yuhui to the ground, but fortunately, Bai Jiujiu helped her in time, Ye Yuhui opened the money bag suspiciously, only to find that it was indeed white silver in it, so frightened that she felt like she grabbed the money bag, and then whispered to Bai Jiuyue, "Ah Yue...... Where did you get all this money? You can't do anything to kill people and sell goods......"
Seeing Ye Yuyi's serious old mother's appearance, Bai Jiujiu couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "Don't worry, this money is definitely serious." ”
"Really?" Ye Yuyi still didn't believe it.
"Really."
"Okay then," Ye Yuyi laboriously lifted the money bag and put it in front of Bai Jiujiu, then laughed and said, "Then let's go, take me to buy clothes!" ”
Bai Jiujiu took the money bag and said, "Let's talk about it first, don't buy clothes with too conspicuous colors." ”
"I know, I know," Ye Yuhui jumped up and down like a deer, circled around Bai Jiujiu, and finally grabbed Bai Jiujiu's sleeve and said, "Let's go, let's go." ”
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At noon, Tianqian Wharf.
Wang Kun and Liu Yichen and his party were the first guests to come here to wait, they did not get on the boat together, but divided into four batches, the first batch was led by Wang Kun, with Hua Muxin's father, Wen Yu, and three other golden armor guards; the second batch was led by Liu Qin and Liu Cheng, plus four gold-armored guards; The third batch was led by Wu Ji, Hua Muxin, and ...... LIU Yichen; The last group is the remaining four Golden Armor Guards.
They stood on the dock, looking at the huge sea-swallowing giant ship from a distance, even a person like Wang Kun who had seen the world, he had seen the sea-swallowing giant ship a long time ago, and now that he saw him again, he still felt shocked in his heart.
The huge giant boat is thirty zhang long and thirteen zhang wide, with a longitudinal sail layout, a hard sail structure, and a number of small arm thick struts on the three huge sails
Since then, in order to facilitate the transportation of guests, they have separated many small cabins in the cabin, the upper floor is for guests to live, and the lower floors are still for transporting goods, if the money is not enough, or want to get on the ship, you can go to the cargo hold, stay with the goods.
And on the front of the bow of the "swallowing the sea", there is a mighty eagle head relief, there are two flying dragon paintings on both sides of the ship's side in the front position, and in the stern position, there is a peng bird with wings spread, looking at it from a distance, as if this "swallowing the sea" is no longer a ship, but a wooden giant beast, about to go to the sea and travel far away.
"Get on board." Wang Kun said suddenly.
The person who was with Wang Kun did not speak, but silently followed behind Wang Kun, holding the "boat ticket" bought yesterday in his hand, which was a wooden token, engraved with the word "swallowing the sea" in a fine way, and a tiger head relief was engraved on the head of the token, and the serial number of the guest was written on the token, starting from zero zero to ending at 118.
In other words, the ship can accommodate a total of one hundred and eighteen guests, of course, and this is not counting those who live in the cabins.
Wang Kun got on the ship with the token in hand, and the sailors standing next to the side of the ship immediately greeted him, he remembered this old man, because few people would buy tickets in advance, most people came on the ship with silver on the same day, because the "ticket" of swallowing the sea was too expensive, most of the people who wanted to go south would choose to live in the warehouse, in their eyes, although it was hard, but the bumps on the sea were the same, so it didn't matter where they lived, in doing so, they could save sixty or seventy taels of silver.
But if they had tried to live in the cabin above, they probably wouldn't have said that.
The sailor stood in front of Wang Kun with a smile and asked, "Master Wang, right?" ”
Wang Kun nodded and did not speak.
"I think you are...... Six," said the sailor, looking at the man behind Wang Kun, "please show me your tickets." ”
Then they lifted up their hands and showed their tokens to the sailor, who looked at them one by one, bowed his waist, and said, "Come with me, and I will take you to your quarters." ”
The next three waves of people are roughly like this.
Tunhai can accommodate one hundred and eighteen guests, but there are not so many cabins on the ship, so they are actually two guests living in one cabin, if you want to live alone, you can pay double the price, Wang Kun when they bought the ticket, the owner of the ship had already informed them of this matter, although Wang Kun and they bought the tickets separately, but in fact, in terms of the number of people, it only happened to open ten rooms.
Everyone got on board and rested in their cabins.
The layout of the cabin is basically the same as that of the general inn, but the bed and a few cases are special, and there are two water bladders filled with water in the room, after the water is drunk, go to the end of this cabin to say a word, and soon someone will send a new, water bladder full of water, as for food, it is unified to the center of the cabin on the first floor, and collect it yourself, if it is another ticket, it can be free, and if there is none, you have to pay extra.
In addition, there is a delicate small box in each cabin, and after opening, it is a special small pastry from Guangling and even Huaiyang, which can be regarded as a small gift.
The owner of the boat stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the people who were wandering around the ship, and at the people who kept getting on the boat, frowning, not knowing what to think.
Today...... There seemed to be a lot of guests on the boat, and he turned his head to look at the deck, where most of the hanging tokens had already been issued, except for a few pieces floating in the wind.
However, I heard that those thieves have defeated the three counties of Xuzhou, and although this Guangling cannot be reached for the time being, it is estimated that it is also dangerous, so those people will want to leave.
Two rickety old men helped each other onto the boat, and they asked for the price on the other side of the deck, although they were sorry for the expensive ship of the sea-swallowing ship
The ticket had already heard of it, but when they really heard the price of the ticket, they were still taken aback, they trembled and untied their burdens, and said, "Young man, we only have one or two or fifty taels of silver, you can be accommodating, let us get on the boat, we old couple, we will repay you as cattle and horses in the next life!" ”
The man in charge of selling tickets frowned, and said righteously, "I'm sorry, two old men, rules are rules, I'm just a person in charge of selling tickets, I can't be the master of the fare, if the two of you don't have enough silver, you can choose to live in the warehouse, where two people only need fifty taels of silver." ”
The two old men looked embarrassed, and the white-haired old man pondered for a moment and said, "Young man, otherwise, I will have one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and the two of us, as long as we have one bed, we will never occupy more!" ”
"This ......" the man frowned, but the voice of the ship's owner suddenly came from behind him.
"Two old men, I'm sorry, we are doing business, not doing good deeds, since you don't have enough money, then get off the boat, go and make up enough money, and then come back."
"But...... Our old couple has borrowed everything we can borrow, and we have sold everything we can sell, and this one hundred and fifty taels is already all our belongings. This time it was the old woman who spoke, she began to sob, according to the market price, their house should be worth a hundred taels after it was sold, but I didn't expect that as soon as the rebel army came, the house price depreciated so much, and the house that could be sold for a hundred taels was only bought for thirty taels in the end.
"Then please disembark." The owner's voice was cold.
"This ......" the old man's face was almost crowded together, he did not hesitate this time, and said without thinking, "Then we will live in the warehouse!" We live in the warehouse! ”
"Nope." Unexpectedly, the owner still shook his head.
"Why?!" The old man was anxious, he took two steps forward, and was about to grab the sleeve of the shipowner, "Can't I give more silver?" ”
"It is not good to give more silver," said the ship's owner coldly, "the sea is turbulent, if there is a storm, the guests in the cabin are very dangerous, if they are young, they can still withstand the shock, and old people like you, let alone a storm, even if you encounter a stronger sea breeze or a rainstorm, you are afraid that you will die in the warehouse." ”
"So you two, please go back," the two old men were about to say something more, but the owner of the ship suddenly turned around and returned to the bow of the boat. "Sending off guests."
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Bai Jiujiu and Ye Yuhui were the last guests to buy tickets, and before them, there was a fat man with a full face.
While the three of them were buying tickets, a young man who looked like a scholar came behind them, and he ran onto the boat panting and bought the last ticket.
This is also the first time that the sea-swallowing giant ship has been fully loaded.
But when the sailor took them down to their respective rooms, something went wrong, Bai Jiujiu and Ye Yuxuan's tickets were 116 and 117, the man who looked like a scholar was 118, and the fat man was 115.
According to the token points, it should be the fat man and Ye Yuyi in a room, Bai Jiujiu and the scholar in a room, in the past, just change a room for them, but now it is really full, and the sailors in charge have no choice but to let them coordinate by themselves.
Bai Jiu went to them to change rooms, and the man who looked like a scholar agreed, but the fat man with a full face refused to do so.
"Why should I exchange the ticket I bought with my own money?" The fat man looked like a ruffian and a hooligan.
Actually, it was he who had just caught a glimpse of the skinny girl, and it was really ...... The country and the city are alluring, why should you change if you can live in the same room with such a beauty?
The First Clan
Bai Jiu looked at him coldly, "You really don't change?" ”