Chapter Thirty-Eight: Before Setting Sail, Do What My Sister Loves to Do
It is impossible for any fleet not to buy supplies before sailing.
Needless to say, food and water went without it, and running out without these things was tantamount to death.
But wandering on the seas is not something that can be topped off with bread and beef, and scurvy has always been a nightmare for all navigators on the ocean routes of the Middle Ages.
Therefore, Wang Ming also needs to buy a large number of fruits and vegetables.
Let's say Apple.
And that's not all, you need a lot of wine in addition to fruit. On the sea, wine is a valuable commodity, a temporary substitute for food, a disinfectant, a cold to keep the crew out in low temperatures, and a morale boost before the start of war.
The most important thing is that the eldest sister likes to drink.
So Wang Ming had to buy a lot of liquor, from ale mixed with water, inferior beer of unknown origin, to choking tequila and distilled vodka, and even fine white wine sealed with wax and silver.
Of course, this costs a lot of money, but these money are reimbursed with public funds, so I don't feel distressed.
Now he just wants to take the opportunity to take a kickback, eat a good meal, and buy some scrolls to defend himself.
It's a pity that Wang Ming just arrived in the market area when he saw an acquaintance.
"Oh, dear Lord Silver Scale, I will meet you again in the distant black waters, am I dreaming, or am I dreaming?"
The silver balance, that is, the richest ancient dragon in the whole dragon sky mountain, the starting capital of the knights was brought by this golden royal sister.
However, all the old immortals, including Scarlet Moon, had warned themselves that this royal sister who seemed to be a profiteer on the surface was in fact. She's a profiteer. And it is a model among profiteers. A legend among profiteers, an ancient dragon among profiteers!
Therefore, Wang Ming knew that this product appeared here, either preparing to pit himself, or preparing to set off a financial storm in Heishui.
"The purpose of my coming here is to set off a financial storm and pit you by the way. β
You don't have to say it directly, do you?
Bai Yinping took out a piece of parchment from his sleeve: "Oh, I will help you purchase everything you want, just go to the dock area to collect it directly, and if there is no problem, sign it here." β
Wang Ming read the agreement several times. Sure that this was just a purchasing agreement that he had taken advantage of, he took out his quill and smeared his name under the parchment in twisted Zerg language.
After doing this, Wang Ming returned the parchment to the silver balance with anxiety, and when the other party took the parchment gently and skillfully, and looked at him with gray eyes, Wang Ming's entire back was wet with cold sweat.
"Don't be nervous, although I do want to pit you, but it will be difficult to pit you again after pit you this time, so what. Don't worry, sister, I will never cheat you today!"
Wang Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Without thinking, he asked, "Really?"
"Fake. β
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"Parchment actually has a mezzanine, and the real agreement is covered with carbon paper and then hidden in the mezzanine, look, it's like this. The silver scales tore open the agreement and pulled out a delicate white piece of paper.
"Party A: Mia Scarlett, Party B: Silver Balance, Party A will transfer all of its property to Party B free of charge, in exchange for the supplies required for the voyage, and this agreement is guaranteed by the Dragons. β
Below is Wang Ming's Zerg text signature.
"Give it back, give it back to me!" Wang Ming reached out to snatch the thing back, but the silver balance only stretched out his left hand and pressed it on Wang Ming's forehead to keep him out of reach.
Letting the agreement float in mid-air, Sister Duojin wrote her name on it with a delicate quill pen while supporting Wang Ming's offensive: "A fool is a fool, by the way, 'all property' includes your body and soul~"
In December, it was cold outside the sea style, and Wang Ming was frozen into an ice sculpture in an instant.
"Ahra, many heteroplanes have been prevalent lately, Mia will definitely be able to sell it for a good price there, by the way, do you want to be [beep] by the ogres or do you want to serve the Demon King?"
β...... The Ethics Society won't let you go!"
The hand that pressed the silver balance on Wang Ming's forehead slowly slid down, covering Wang Ming's mouth: "It's useless, my trading channel can't even be managed by the city management, you still ...... obediently"
"You'd better fulfill the contract obediently!" a voice interjected into the conversation between the two, it was Tsukizakura's voice.
The girl filed her paws with a nail clipper, walked up to the two casually, and looked at them with a smile. The silver balance was hairy in his heart, and that kind of smile was the smile that he would habitually bloom after he succeeded in pitting people.
"Dear Silver Balance, please fulfill your obligation to provide us with the supplies we need for this voyage. β
Bai Yintian looked at Yueying vigilantly, but he didn't see anything wrong at all, so he could only obediently hand her the list.
After Yueying signed for it, she grabbed Wang Ming's collar and walked back to the tavern.
Bai Yinping saw that his goods were snatched away, and hurriedly stopped: "Hey! That's mine!"
Yue Ying turned her face with a smile on her face: "What you collected is the private property of 'Mia Scarlet', but we don't know this person Mia Scarlet, this guy in my hand is called Wang Ming, so what you want to collect, please find 'Mia Scarlet' to collect it, don't pester our family Wang Ming." β
This time, the silver balance was frozen into a popsicle.
Back in the tavern, Yue Ying stuffed her cold numb hand into Wang Ming's clothes, causing the poor boy to tremble all over.
"Don't move, the eldest sister just rescued you from the devil's cave, and now I'm just asking you to get paid. β
Wang Ming could only feel the cold little hands rubbing back and forth on his chest, although it was very cold, he didn't dare to say a word, for fear that his resistance would arouse the anger of his eldest sister.
But it was really cold, and Wang Ming soon got goosebumps.
"Mia, don't get goosebumps, it affects the feel...... But then again. The skin is so good. If the chest is a little more bulging. That would be perfect!"
If I had a bulging boobs, I'd be a monster......
β...... Alright, let's get down to business. β
Cangyang pulled out the discordant object of Yueying from Wang Ming's body, causing the young man to moan unconsciously.
"Unconsciously, I actually think that the eldest sister makes me comfortable...... Woo woo woo I finally broke ......"
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List of Supplies:
Dried fish: 1,000 pounds
Biscuits: 3,000 pounds
Brown bread: 4,000 pounds
Rum: Twenty barrels
Brandy: three barrels and four vials
Orange: Fifteen boxes
Fresh water: 40 barrels totaling 16,000 pounds
Secret gunpowder: 5,000 pounds
Tungsten core armor-piercing shell with gun plug: 3,000 rounds
Shotmagazine: 2,000 copies
Chain rope: 500 copies
Spare cables: 30 bundles
Spare logs: 150 ......
These supplies stuffed the cabin to the brim, and if it weren't for Tsukizakura taking the lead in drinking half of the excess high-grade brandy, it is estimated that the ship would have run aground directly at the dock. Even though Tsukizakura drank two hundred pounds of wine alone, the Moon Angel's waterline was still two inches below the surface.
"Sister, we have too many things. If you go on like this, you'll capsize as soon as you go to sea!"
Yue Ying looked at Wang Ming in a daze, and clumsily raised the large glass bottle in her hand, because the action was too big, the spicy liquid in it spilled a lot, the girl stuffed the bottle mouth into her mouth with difficulty, and took a sip: "Afraid, afraid of what, this is the best ship in the West Sea, how can there be, how can it sink so easily!"
Wang Ming shook the moon cherry blossoms unrelentingly. Pointing to the poor waterline that was refracted into a curve by the waves: "But eldest sister, the load of the ship is really too large." Please get all that wine down, the waterline is flooded!"
Tsukizakura walked to the side of the boat, leaned down and looked at the waterline below the surface with her drunken eyes, and after a long time, she said this.
"No, it's okay, when the tide rises, the boat will float and the waterline will rise!"
Are all your brain cells used for wine?
In the end, Wang Ming still failed to convince Yueying, and in order to reduce the load, he made a difficult decision.
Two hours later, Wang Ming rolled to the back deck with a half-man-high empty wine barrel, his head resting on a bundle of cables, and half of the cables were wet with saliva.
"Woo woo, I, I'm not drunk, I can still drink!"
The boat shook gently under the impetus of the waves, and the sound of the waves was more magical than a lullaby, and Wang Ming fell asleep in a daze.
Cangyang walked out of the stern, kicked a soft thing, looked down, and found that it was Wang Ming, who was drunk, so she stepped directly on Wang Ming expressionlessly, and walked to the side of Yueying near the bow.
"Sister, the storage space is ready. Cangyang bowed his head and signaled.
Tsukizakura rubbed her eyes and wiped away all the disguised alcohol: "Well, let the crew move everything in...... Mia, let him go back to sleep, he hasn't rested much in days, don't let him lie in the open air, move into my room, it's not good to catch a cold. β
Cang Yang turned his head, looked at Wang Ming silently for a while, lowered his head, and stretched out his palm from the cuffs of the loose mage robe, drawing a rune.
Wang Ming's body was grabbed by an invisible huge palm and gently carried into the captain's cabin on the middle floor of the stern.
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PS: I've been really busy lately (busy playing.)
Let's say with a group
Let's say you want to play KV3 before 7.3
Let's say you want to play LOL
Let's say reading a novel
For example, chasing a new one
Let's say balabala......
I've worked so hard!
Well, I'm a very lazy person, and I didn't think about what would happen to Mia and them when they went to sea, I wrote everywhere I went, so all kinds of super ......
That's it, I lol went......
Blackwater's harbor area is large because the harbor has a lot of boats, and those ships are also very large.
So, in this huge port, you can hardly see anything other than the boats. There are masts on all sides, some with sails open, some under the masts, the cables are staggered back and forth, and the sound of the ship's bell ringing comes and goes. Sailors can be heard shouting on every boardwalk, pulling anchor chains and ropes. Porters pulling wooden carts to transport goods shuttled back and forth between merchants and captains from Poleka, Wiesman, Yaslan and beyond. Move cargo from dock to dock and from cabin to cabin at a fast pace.
The salty sea breeze was turned into something like a frozen ribbon fish by the cold wind of December, fishy, cold, slimy, and fanned at people with their heads and faces, burrowing into their sleeves and necks, and people couldn't help but pull the thin clothes on their bodies.
However, there are still seagulls this season. Although many males have gone out to fish, there are still some females left behind circling in the air, trying to find the fish that have been swept into the shallow water by the vortex in the wake of the ship. They made a crisp call, and the dull morning, which was lifeless because of the cloudy weather, was a little alive because of the seagulls.
In one corner of the harbor, a beautiful three-masted schooner docked, the spinnaker of the mainmast has now been converted into a jigsprof sail, and the original moon angel symbol on the bow jib is now a cherry pink crescent.
Compared to the smell of leather, kerosene, spices, and sweat on the side, the smell of this ship can be said to be quite good, and the smell of flesh wafting from the bow stimulates saliva secretion, which makes the sailors on the ships next to it look sideways.
After all, for the poor sailor who eats hard bread and biscuits mixed with sawdust at sea. Fresh, clean and well-groomed meat is a rare thing like the Loch Ness Monster.
Then again, if after a few months of sailing at sea. Suddenly there is a mysterious meat of unknown origin, do you dare to eat it?
The sailors who were waiting to dock hadn't eaten anything decent for months, and they had been on a diet since yesterday to make room for their gluttonous trips ashore, and now was when they were at their hungries.
On the bow deck was a large table at which the captain and the command class had dined on the Moon Angel. Tsukizakura is now naturally occupying the top seat of this table, holding red grapes in one hand and a toothpick in the other, and the skewer is tied with a roasted loin that is charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
"Captain Helo, are we done with our supplies?"
The stern tone of the sΓΉ Yue Sakura tried to make her voice look majestic, but no matter who it was, there would be no such thing as "majesty" when talking while munching two taels of pork.
"Miss, your majesty has fallen. β
Because she was afraid that Yueying would kill people, Harrow also gagged her mouth with two potatoes when she spoke, so to others, this sentence sounded similar to "The food in the cafeteria is getting worse and worse" or "This potato actually smells like a potato".
However, Moonying's question, Heluo didn't dare to ignore it, so she added another sentence.
"The last batch of computer accessories has been moved into your private collection, and this batch is in great condition and the medicinal effects will work quickly. β
I've been studying computers for so many years, and it's the first time I've heard of the word "fineness" to describe computer accessories.
Tsukizakura put down her wine glass, picked up the beer bottle on the side, and poured half of the bottle into the mouth, flushing down the meat stuck in her esophagus.
"So, how about we set sail while we were eating?"
As she spoke, Tsukizakura climbed onto the anchor chain winch and pulled the iron anchor up from under the water one by one.
Wang Ming looked at the anchor that was rising like a price, and felt a chill all over his body, the anchor weighed a hundred kilograms......
At the signal of Tsukizakura, the cable was untied by the crew, and under the impetus of the waves, the unbound Moon Angel began to float out of the berth without the help of a tugboat.
With the toothpick held high by the moon cherry blossoms, the sails were lowered one after another, and the moon angel spread its white wings and sailed to the deep port area with two large merchant ships.
"Put the mainmast sail down, and the elven sail is ready to be charged!" one-two! pull! one-two! pull! Have you not eaten or have you just gotten up from under the man? Give me some strength! Force! For God's sake! Or do you want me to whip you? The sea breeze blew, and the first mate, who was only 1.5 meters, was almost blown off the bow deck.
However, the dexterous cat's tail kept its balance at the critical moment, allowing the first mate to stand firmly on the railing of the bow facing the ship's waist deck.
Wang Ming stared at the first mate of Lori who fanned the fluffy cat ears with the number, and asked puzzledly: "Eldest sister, your boat will be handed over to the minor to take care of?"
The sea breeze blew again, lifting the first mate's gothic dress, and after the wind and waves calmed down, Tsukizakura quickly got up from the deck: "That's right, red lace." β
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"Pretty cute, isn't it? red lace?"
β...... I always felt that it was a miracle that the ship sank without being in port. β
Wang Ming is not prepared to dwell too much on such trivial matters, after all, everyone's lives are obviously more important.
"Are you sure our first mate is an expert in navigation and leadership, and not a natural loli who only sucks a spiral lollipop in an all-age/eighteen-year-old limited anime?"
Yue Ying looked back at Wang Ming with eyes shining with alcohol: "Of course I can guarantee that the Moon Angel has always taken the elite route!"
Harrow finally finished dealing with the two potatoes stuck near the epiglottis cartilage, and interjected: "Chrissy is the successor to the captain I personally selected and cultivated, and she is definitely the best first mate in the West Sea. β
"Oh?"
"Chrissy's strength is only 17, but her leadership and navigation skills have been upgraded to the expert level!
At this time, Wang Ming realized that Heluo's eyes also flashed with the brilliance of alcohol.
"You two, go to sleep for me!"
"Don't, I'm still going to drink~"
"How can it be that you drank so much when you weren't drunk...... ...... vomit"
"Wow, the captain threw up, doctor, doctor, we must save the baby!"
When he heard the last sentence, Wang Ming felt as if he had drunk too much.
But I didn't even drink a sip.
The bow hatch opened, and Cangyang, who came up with the pot, kicked the door shut, and placed the pitch-black boiling pot in the center of the table. The gurgling liquid inside was constantly pushing against the lid of the pot, and through the gap in the lid, it seemed that there was something indescribable inside.
"I had expected them to get drunk. β
Cangyang put his left hand on his waist, and then lifted the pot: "So I cooked a decanting soup." β
A purple fish made of bones and carrion jumped up from the pot, flicked its tail in the air twice, and then was slapped back into the pot by the lid, and the splashed soup corroded several pits on the oak table, and the green smoke rose with the miserable green heat rising from the soup. (To be continued......)