Chapter 121: A Hungry Man Doesn't Know A Hungry Man
Although the conditions of this Minsheng are 108,000 miles worse than ordinary passenger liners on this plane, compared to the average of Elta, it is still enough to be widely praised by the passengers on board with the nickname "overseas luxury paradise" for a long time to come.
Of course, what makes the most of the first impression on the travelers? The answer is also obvious - of course, the food that cannot be enjoyed at this stage outside of Mendong City and Shield City, as well as the various Elta agency departments.
"It's ...... Fried fish! ”
"Damn, it's real white bread!"
Such exclamations filled the canteen prepared for passengers one after another. The lunch service that comes with the ticket is a sandwich with fish cutlet today, which is a little worse than that of ordinary convenience stores, and the crew is used to it - you know, the crew canteen can eat freshly made crew meals every day, the dishes change every day, free choice, Chinese food and Elta style, the standard is not worse than that of various institutions on land. Therefore, the crew was naturally not very interested in these batches of food.
If nothing else, let's just say that the rich salad dressing and ketchup bombardment in turn is a veritable nightmare for the crew from China. Even if they want to eat high-calorie food because of their intense work, they will not go to tomato sauce without tomatoes or fish steaks without whole fish.
But here many people made the same choices as the residents of Mendong City and Dun City had when they first encountered these foods - they chose to pull out the gold, silver and bronze coins on their shoulders in the hope of buying one of these foods again - along with the bubbling soda.
"Don't crowd, don't crowd—" A long queue immediately formed in front of the window that had already prepared for oversupply. "Please go over there to exchange the bills, we don't accept gold and silver coins, this gentleman, I won't exchange a box of gold coins, please go there to exchange them...... We don't accept gold and silver coins, and the amount is enough, so don't worry! ”
"People from other worlds really carry out business to the extreme." Bori Fetzno complained, standing on tiptoe in dissatisfaction and looking at the team in front of him.
"Don't say that, didn't you buy one too? I think they have prepared something, because they have confidence in their food. ”
"Isn't it?" Borifezno continued to complain, but turned the muzzle of the gun in the other direction, "When we came to Elta, the ship was full of dry stuff that was so light and sour or only salty every day, where could we eat these things?" Damn, it is said that those generals ate cake and white bread, and honey to spread...... They are all officers, why is the gap so big? ”
The soldiers behind Borifezno did not want to speak, much less to complain - it was a great pleasure for the commander to eat dried and salted meat, and the occasional fish caught by the sailors, and to know that these little soldiers who slept in hammocks and large beds in the bilges were like pickled minnows in a wooden basin of salt, and of course they ate the same as minnows - just dry food and pickled fish with enough salt.
"And they have fruits and vegetables that the magician has frozen to eat...... Oh, my God. Romorno, you have to think that in the heat of the summer, there is a bowl of freshly thawed fruits and vegetables, topped with molasses......"
"Borifezno long...... Please don't say any more, sir. The soldier finally opened his mouth rarely, "I don't have much money on me. If you say that, I'll probably have to buy a second one. ”
"Okay." Bori Fitzno closed his mouth that was almost full of saliva, "Didn't I eat this too?" It's just talking......"
The sandwich was of course sandwiched with a slice of lettuce, and the ketchup gave the passengers a sweet and sour vegetable—but in the eyes of most of the crew, the bright red stuff was nothing more than a fraud made up of thickeners, flavors, and syrup. There are fruits prepared for them in the cold storage and distributed every day and vegetables added to the three meals, so they naturally don't need to be lamented by this.
But Borifezno was right on one thing - the Minsheng passenger service did have an experimental component to open up new business. Chinese will never make loss-making transactions in other worlds, some are only short-term investments and long-term investments, and this time will naturally be no exception.
The so-called "fish fillet" made from frozen minced fish spliced and extruded in China, plus the same cheap white bread, can be sold on the ship for a high price of three Elta gold coins after being transported to Elta - even the Charles, which has the lowest gold content, can make the director of the food factory who makes a lot of money on the other side of the portal scream in anger, and then jump up and hammer the ground with his head: although the frozen products made from him are already much higher than the general official purchase price, But the business of exchanging a sandwich for a few dozen grams of gold and silver is worth a lot more than that!
"Our shipbuilding business, in the end, will be made back from the commercial activities they bring. If the situation allows, of course, if it is my personal estimate, I think that the last liberation ship has not yet been launched, and its construction is already profitable to replenish. At that time, these words were the words of the elders who were dedicated to promoting the Great Navigation Program and the construction of the Liberation Ship. His opinion at that time was to let the development of another world not stare at a piece of the Elta continent, but he didn't expect that the footsteps of the Liberation Wheel had not yet set foot on other continents, and his words began to be confirmed.
"Besides, this little piece of thing has three gold coins, it's really ruthless!" Borifezno spoke again, and then turned the target and placed it on the otherworldly, "Isn't this going to be a good meal on our Lancas Island?" And good drinks......"
"Don't talk about Lancas, it's okay to stay in Elta!" The soldier's dissatisfied reply stuffed Borifezno's mouth, and Borifecno immediately understood - the difference between him and the soldier was not whether he could buy it with three gold coins, but whether or not he could spend these three gold coins regularly in high-end places.
I guess that his three gold coins were also taken out after they were freed out. Thinking of this, Borifezno patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "Don't worry, brother." It will be a matter of days before the ship falls into our hands, and we are afraid that we will not have this food to eat? ”
Seeing a look of disbelief on the other party's face, Borifezno added: "You see, this place seems crowded, but there is no one in their weird dark blue clothes, have you noticed?" ”
All crew members of the Minsheng who will appear in the Green Zone are uniformly dressed in naval uniforms, with the exception of the staff in the Black Zone and the inspectors at the bottom of the hold, the people in the hot and humid hell in the engine room, and the crew members who are in danger of overboard on the deck outside the cabin. The summer white, winter dark blue outfit was naturally a positive assessment to the Erta and Chinese who were accustomed to modern style, but it was naturally out of place in the eyes of a foreigner like Borifezno—especially the two rows of polished copper buttons.
"Indeed!" The soldier's eyes lit up with his head down, "Long ...... Sir, do you mean? ”
"Of course they want to 'share the stove' with us, and they definitely don't eat this thing. Heck, to put it bluntly, they must have eaten better than us! As long as we can grab this ship, we may not even be uncommon! ”
After saying that, Borifezno, who found himself at the head of the line, immediately stood up straight, and carefully handed a small piece of red paper in his bosom respectfully to the hand stretched out from the window.
"Well, that's right!" The man at the window glanced at the printed handwriting on the ticket, swept it into the drawer with his elbow, and then took a pack of sandwiches and a paper drink from the foam cooler and placed them on the plate on the counter, motioning for a smiling Borifezno to take it.
"Be careful, please put the plate on the shelf over there as usual after eating! Wrap paper and paper cups in the trash! ”
The second fried fish sandwich, although Borifezno was unwilling to divide it by two, but to savor its taste, but unfortunately the taste stimulation that overflowed from the layers of ingredients still made him involuntarily open his mouth and chew desperately, and soon there was only a paper bag and some bread crumbs left in his hand.
Looking at the kraft paper made into a bag and the paper cups stacked on the plate, Borifezno and the other Elta people really couldn't understand why this good, which can not only keep out oil stains, but also fold and knead without wrinkling, and why should the impermeable magic paper made of paper be recycled? Why did you go and get the paper back from them when they had already sold them the sandwiches? Could it be that this piece of paper is more expensive than the food wrapped in the paper?
Bori Fetzno is holding it in his hand at this time, the coated kraft paper and paper cup paper in the bilunar planet are of course still worthy of the name of the zenith star technology, not to mention that polyethylene is an unimaginable creation for the natives, just that layer of kraft paper, in any country of the bilunar planet can not exist, this seemingly simple packaging material is actually limited to the raw materials are limited to sulfate taiga pulp, the same products manufactured by the modern paper industry.
The people who instituted this procedure for the health and safety of the ship were in no way thinking about the Eltas, and most of the Elta carried out this order well, respectfully placing the brown paper bags and cups containing the sandwiches in the trash. Of course, they misunderstood the true meaning of this regulation preached by the crew of the Minsheng, and the hygiene and cleaning on board was far more valuable than the reuse of brown paper bags.
But Borifezno not only "unsurprisingly" misinterpreted the true meaning of this rule, but also reversed it—he looked at the paper bag for a long time, glanced left and right, and then quickly folded it in half and in half, and stuffed it into the pocket of his clothes.