Chapter 231 Little Smart Ghost
Shark Chili did not forget to give Blue a snack. It just so happened that water meat was Blue's favorite food, so he ate it very happily.
After seeing this, Tom thought that he couldn't treat the Blue he was riding badly, so he decided to feed it as well, but his method was a bit unethical - he used a wooden stick connected to a thin rope, hung it in front of Blue's mouth, and let it swim a long distance before giving it a bite.
Since they wanted to cross the Seven Water City from north to south, they needed to ride the Blue upstream to the central city, and then downstream to the port on the edge of the city.
It was especially exciting when going downstream. The speed, coupled with Tom's cheers, made it feel like we were doing mountain rafting.
Happiness belonged to Tom. Zhang Da could only hold a pile of shopping bags in each hand and clamp a large box under the seat with his legs to prevent them from flying out.
The bag was filled with food bought on the road, which they planned to bring to other people to try because they tasted good. The box was filled with various toothpastes carefully selected by Shark Chili, plus four large toothbrushes.
The grocery store owner has prepared a really comprehensive range of items, even toothbrushes come in various sizes. It seems that besides Shark Pepper, there are other people who also use this large toothbrush.
"At times like this, I start to miss the bubble wrap from the Sabaody Archipelago." Zhang Da also complained while protecting a bunch of things on the boat.
Shark Chili said, "Doesn't Boss Tatsuya have an inventory?"
"Well, the things that are obtained through means other than lottery need to be packed in a container such as a box or cabinet that you have drawn before they can be put in. It is very inconvenient. Now those limited containers are filled with our spare supplies."
Zhang Da also made sufficient preparations before going out to sea. Because he was worried that the big eaters on the ship would accidentally eat up all the food, he filled all the items in the inventory that could be used as containers with food and drinking water.
Like shoe cabinets, bedside tables, refrigerators, suitcases...even the space for rice cookers and ovens is not spared.
Only a wardrobe was left to store the gold and Bailey they had acquired .
Altria was always willing to share Zhang Da's worries: "Why don't you choose a cabinet, take out the food from it, and then put the things we just bought in it."
"You still have to take a lot of things. You can't just throw away all the food you take out..." At this point, Zhang Da finally understood Altria's true intention and suddenly realized, "You are such a clever little ghost."
In the end, the things were successfully put into a cabinet and then stored in the inventory, and the original food was not wasted.
Altria licked a little cream off the corner of her mouth and said, "So, Tatsuya, you also hid the desserts from Fishman Island. You are so cunning."
"Actually, I myself have forgotten what is stored in each cabinet, and what I took out was completely random." Zhang Da also thought about Altria's luck, and it seemed that it was not completely random.
In short, we ate, drank and shopped along the way. Although the city was not too big, we didn't arrive at the port that Kokoro mentioned until the afternoon.
After the ship stopped, Tom and Altria stayed behind and licked the sugar candies with great enjoyment. Zhang Daye and Shark Chili went to various docks to talk to people.
The port is not very big, with more than a dozen docks in total. Only a few of them have cargo ships docked and unloading, while at the rest of the docks there are many porters chatting.
Zhang Da also came over to say hello, and when he saw someone smoking, he took out a box of cigarettes that Shark Chili had bought on the way and distributed them around.
Shark Chili told him that it was okay if he didn’t smoke, but sometimes it was better to have a box on hand.
The workers took the cigarettes, some put them in their ears, some lit them up immediately, and some held them between their fingers and continued talking, but the common point was that they were obviously much more enthusiastic when facing Zhang Daye's questions.
"Biznis? Merchant? I can't remember. Do you have any impression?"
"I haven't seen it. Maybe it's not parked at our dock?"
The workers were talking and exchanging information, and suddenly one of them slapped his thigh and said, "I remember, I think I heard someone mention it before, that was a profiteer, right?"
Zhang Da also nodded: "Yes, I was cheated by that profiteer, and I came to settle the score with him."
Speaking of profiteers, the workers suddenly became indignant:
"The most despicable ones are these profiteers, especially those from Saint Poplar. They saw that it was difficult for our Seven Water City shipyard to get raw materials, so we had to rely on them, so they deliberately raised the price very high!"
"That's right. And those guys on Puch Island are not good people either. The food they sell is extremely expensive. If it weren't for the fact that our island can produce some food ourselves, I don't know how many people would have starved to death."
"Thanks to the sea train built by Mr. Tom, there has been some improvement in recent years. Otherwise, those guys would always use the transportation difficulties as an excuse , and I don't know how much the price would be raised."
"In fact, even if we have a sea train, there are only three islands that can supply us . The various shipyards here will compete with each other, and those profiteers will succeed in the end."
"Let's get off topic. Let's continue talking about Biznis." The worker who provided the information earlier brought the topic back to the topic in time:
"That guy is the best among the unscrupulous merchants. On the surface, he is humble and polite, but in fact he is very good at instigating buyers to bid against each other for his goods. Last time, two shipyards had a fight because of him, and dozens of ship workers were admitted to the hospital."
"Is there no one in charge of this kind of thing? I remember there is a mayor here?" Zhang Da couldn't help but ask. He remembered that in the original plot, Ace Bago was the mayor, the kind who could directly negotiate cooperation with the World Government. Although he was called the mayor, his status in the Seven Water City was actually as respected as the king of a small country, and he had great power.
"Mayor..." The workers curled their lips and whispered, "The current mayor is completely useless. He talked a lot during the election, but he can't do anything after becoming mayor. He can't even control those shipyards. Don't vote for him in the next election."
"Instead of voting for someone else, I think it's better to vote for Mr. Tom, the world's number one shipbuilder. No one in those shipyards would dare to disobey him."
"But he's a fishman. It's not good for a fishman to be the mayor, right?"
"Hey, you are too heartless to say such things, aren't you? So what if he is a fishman? He worked hard for ten years to bring the Seven Water City back to life. If he becomes the mayor, the sea train may be able to connect more islands, and then we won't have to suffer the anger of those islands. Let their people double the ticket price!"
"But……"
The workers argued endlessly, and the topic gradually escalated from profiteers to the economic development of the entire city, and then to the racial conflict between humans and merfolk, and then suddenly shifted to whether the mermaids were pretty and whether they were willing to marry humans...
The messy topic trends made Zhang Da feel like he was participating in a group chat. They all started from small things around him, sublimated to the national economy and people's livelihood, and might gradually shift to international relations, but they would always start racing or playing keyboard magic for no apparent reason, and eventually either they would be banned or the group would be disbanded.
After chatting with these people and bragging about what he saw and heard on Fishman Island, Zhang Daye's smile suddenly disappeared: "Um, what question did I ask at the beginning?"
