Chapter Ninety-Three: The Only Chance in This Life

Of course, Summer Night wouldn't be stupidly watching them peel whales in the cab, and when she saw that nothing was wrong with her, she resolutely slipped back to her room and went to sleep.

Probably because she was tired, she slept as soundly as Xiu Ji this night.

By the time she got up, it was already dark outside the window. And Xiu Ji was still lying on the pillow, curled into a plush mass and falling asleep, with no sign of waking up.

It seems to be still digesting.

Summer Night thought about it and didn't wake it up. After taking off her pajamas and changing into a sailor suit, she deliberately did not wear socks, but picked out a pair of white stockings and pinched them in her hands, and walked out of the room.

When she got to the wheelhouse, she found that the deck was brightly lit, the whale harvesting was not over, the incandescent searchlights were shining on the whales, and the crew were brandishing saw knives, covered in golden whale blood.

The first mate is not here, presumably working with the crew below. The helmsman was also absent, and most of them rested. Yaha was the only one in the cab of Nuoda, and she stood in front of the chart table, her hands propped up on the table, and she stared at the chart with a frown, as if she was thinking about something.

Walking over on a summer night, holding up the palm of his hand on the edge of the platform, he sat on the chart table with one pin share.

Yaha looked up, "Awake?" ”

"Hmm."

"How did you sleep?"

"It's very fragrant."

Summer Night replied while gently shaking her calves without socks.

"What about you? Haven't slept all the time? She asked.

"Well, I'm wondering what to do next." Yaha said.

What's there to think about here, isn't it just according to the original plan...... Summer Night was about to say this, but suddenly understood what Yaha meant.

"Counting these dead whales, and the one you killed, how much did we earn?" She asked.

"The first mate estimated that there were about 66,000 moles."

"So much!" Hearing this number, Xia Ye couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "This is equivalent to 3 whales." I remember you said that every time you go out to sea, even one whale can be caught enough for everyone to be free for a while. ”

"Yes, but the average whaling ship usually has only 11-12 people, and there are 30 people on the Moby Dick. But even so, whether it is the crew or the management, if they return to the sea now, everyone will be able to get a considerable amount of Moor. ”

As soon as Yaha said this, Xia Ye also remembered: "I remember Ling also mentioned to me that because there are more crew members on the Moby Dick, the management share ratio is lower than normal?" ”

"Yes, under normal circumstances, the captain can divide forty percent, but this time I only divided thirty percent."

"So, I'll take half of yours, and we'll get 15% of each of us...... What's wrong? Looking at me with this expression? ”

"I thought you would still take 20%, and I only took 10%." Yaha said.

"Because this witch is beautiful, kind and generous, thank me."

Summer Night boasted triumphantly, ignoring Yaha's speechless expression, and continued to calculate:

"In other words, the two of us can each get 9,900 moles, so that you can not only pay off the debt of 7,000 moles, but also have 2,900 moles left."

And I removed the 100 moles I lent to Xiu, the overdraft limit was 9885, and 9900 moles was just enough to pay off the overdraft, and only 15 moles more.

It's just too good, Summer Night thought to herself.

"So, if you announce your return now, I guess the whole ship will be happy, and my investment in you will be a small success. So, what do you think, dear Captain Yaha? ”

Yaha straightened up and was silent for a few moments before saying, "I want to keep hunting that beluga whale." ”

"Oh, why?"

Yahab was silent again, and she walked to the window and looked at the crew members who were busy harvesting the whales, each of them with a smile on their faces.

She looked at it for two or three minutes before she turned around, walked back to Summer Night, and said:

"Because this may be the only chance I have in my life."

"What chance?"

"A chance to change your fate."

Summer Night smiled and gestured for her to continue.

"Of course, I can go back now and pay off my debts, and the remaining Moor is enough for me to live in peace for a while. But so what? I still don't have a whaling ship of my own, and the Moby Dick will be returned to the 'Far Away Charter'. At the same time, I didn't manage to kill the beluga whale, I couldn't make a name for myself in Downtown, and I was just an ordinary whaler.

"That means I can't have a team of my own. This time, I was lucky enough to find a good first mate, second officer, chief engineer, and these crews, but as soon as I returned to Debussota, they would soon be poached by other whaling ships, because I had no capital to keep them.

"And you, Miss Summer Night, you are a more greedy person than I am, and your investment in me has indeed achieved 'small success', but I know that compared to what you have paid, 9900 moles will not satisfy you, and perhaps when you return to Debussota, you will abandon me and look for an investment with a higher return.

"So if I go back to sea now, I won't be able to change anything, and I'll soon be renting a small boat and putting together a crew to go to sea, as I did before, hoping to hit the shit. Eventually, he died or went bankrupt during one of his voyages to sea......

"No !!" Ahab roared suddenly.

"Since now, this time, there is such a good opportunity in front of me, why should I give it up?! We now have plenty of fuel, no loss of personnel and high morale. I'm going to command the Moby Dick to keep going until I kill that white whale.

"I'm not going to harvest it on the spot because it's so big that the Moby Dick's hold is half full and can't hold all of its whale oil. Therefore, I will tow it in the stern of the boat and all the way back to Debussota. Let everyone see then, I'm not bragging, there is indeed such a whale, and besides, I killed it!

"When the time comes, I will not only have more Mor, but I will also have fame, and every whaler in the lower town will say: Look, that's Ahab, she killed an incomparably gigantic white whale. At that point, I will be able to buy the Moby Dick from Far Away Charter, and I will have the capital to keep the first mate, second officer, chief engineer, and all the crew members who are willing to follow me.

"Not only that, but there will be more powerful whalers coming to me, and I can build a stronger team than I have now. Wait until the next time I go out to sea, I'll sail farther afield, look for bigger whale packs, hunt more whales......"

"Papapa......" Summer Night clapped softly.

As if awakened by the applause, Yaha finally got rid of the venting emotion, and she looked at the summer night, her chest sinking together, and she kept panting.

"Very well, Captain Jaha. I agree with you that we should continue to hunt that beluga whale. ”

Summer Night said with a smile. "Do you know why I chose you? Not just because you're a good captain, but because you're an ambitious person. I like ambitious people because they've always been good investments.

"Your ambition isn't enough, though. Once we succeed in hunting that beluga whale and get back to Debussota, we're going to buy more than just the Moby Dick...... We're also going to buy a 'long-distance charter'. ”

"How is that possible?!" Yaha blurted out.

"That's not something you need to care about, Captain Yaha."

Xia Ye chuckled as she shook her white little feet: "As for now, shouldn't you fulfill your promise before you set out to hunt that beluga whale?" ”

"What promise?" Jahab seemed to have forgotten about it.

"It's time for you to put on my socks."

Summer Night shook the white stockings in his hand.

(End of chapter)