Looking for the lost ship girl

Summer.

This county town close to the seaside had just rained once. It had already cleared up and the sky was as blue as a vast expanse of blue. However, the coolness in the air dissipated very quickly. Soon, standing on the street, I could see locals sitting in numerous crowds. Enjoy the cool air under the bridge.

At this time, in the busiest street in the county, a merchant selling coconuts placed a wooden table under the shade of a tree beside the street. Beside the wooden table, a little girl with short pink hair held a coconut with an ugly expression on her face. The reason for the unsightly appearance was that she was sitting there. Opposite her was an adult with a suppressed smile.

"Others look like they are in their teens, how can they be called aunties."

The owner of the coconut juice seller is a girl in her teens, but she looks much older because she wears a floral cloth on her head. After all, that is a costume only liked by older women. However, you can still see a hint of down on the other person's slightly dark face, which indicates that the other person is not very old.

Thinking of the conversation just now.

"Auntie, auntie, I want two coconuts."

Then came a sweet smile: "Call me sister."

"Auntie? Two coconuts, two coconuts."

Is there anything more worrying for a young girl than being called aunt? She didn't even care about her own business, even though the other party was just a little girl, she still shouted out.

"It's sister, sister!"

In the end, little Tirpitz, who was quite aggrieved, held a coconut and endured the malicious laughter of an unscrupulous adult.

At this time, little Tirpitz was playing with the coconut and said: "You can't even see what it looks like from the back. My sister, aunt, and sister are all the same."

"If you can't tell clearly, you must be calling me sister. Anyway, there is nothing wrong with calling someone younger. Anyway, there is absolutely nothing wrong with calling someone younger."

Little Tirpitz retorted: "It's so troublesome. You can call me whatever you want."

"Nonsense, you usually don't call me Sister Hood so well as your famous sister, why not call me Aunt Hood then." He narrowed his eyes and thought of going to the amusement park in junior high school and wanting to ask the woman in front of him to borrow a map. Looking at it, I just called her aunt, and immediately saw the other person's almost jumping expression, and then she was nagging for a long time, "call me sister", "call me sister" and so on. If little Tirpitz called Aunt Hood, the scene would be very exciting compared to that.

But little Tirpitz was not a weakling, and retorted: "Okay, okay, let's call her Aunt Hood and Grandma Hood."

After Su Gu became the admiral, he returned to the county seat in the afternoon. On the second day, I took little Tirpitz around and went to the local church. The church was not big and there was nothing to see. I just watched a group of people worshiping from a distance. Although he had just experienced such a magical experience, going from one world to another, he still believed that it was just unknown science compared to God. To this day, he is still barely an atheist, of course not too firm, some kind of To a certain extent, it should be said that one should respect ghosts and gods and stay away from them. After leaving the church, we headed back to our residence along the street.

At this time, he looked at little Tirpitz jumping in front and said, "Have you heard of another way to eat lychees? Dip them in soy sauce."

Little Tirpitz looked confused and said, "Oh, I have never eaten lychees."

Su Gu suddenly felt a guilty feeling.

In the afternoon, he walked to the pier in the county town. On the pier, he stepped on the stone bricks on the ground and looked at the large warehouses neatly arranged on the roadside. There was a bustle of people around, and huge passenger ships were moored on the sea. On the narrow road, there are all kinds of black cars in the style of Ford cars from the Republic of China period, tall horses pulling beautifully decorated carriages, rickshaws and carts. Because several ships are stranded in the county, there are more vendors on the dock than ever before, including travelers, vendors, sailors, people who want to fish in troubled waters, workers pushing carts to move goods on the roadside, entertainers sitting on the ground and playing monkeys, and beggars. There are all kinds of people here, and it’s like a museum exhibiting the old scenery of the world in the 1900s and the Republic of China.

At the ticket window on the pier, Su Gu looked at the itinerary on the window glass: "How much is the ticket to Guicheng?"

Guicheng is the city where Lexington is located, which is quite far away from here.

The answer he got was that he couldn't afford the boat ticket at all. After all, the work he had done so far had not paid much at all. Coming here also meant that the savings in the past had nothing to do with the present. There was no way for currency to circulate, and he My salary is all spent on my residence. Wardrobes, tables, chairs, basins, everything costs money.

The sky was getting dark, and the sunset gave the pier a layer of red. He watched one ship leave, and then saw another ship slowly approaching the shore. At the dock, sailors dropped the cables on the deck, and workers on the docks put the cables on and tightened them. There are no gantry cranes at the wharf here, and there are no large containers on cargo ships. Workers at the dock were setting up shelves for the cargo ship. Some people were standing on the ship talking. Soon after, workers were seen starting to unload cargo from the ship.

Su Gu talked to the sailor on the dock: "Is it easy to meet a deep-sea ship girl at sea?"

"It's not that easy to meet a deep-sea ship girl. There are guard houses in every sea area."

"But the route cannot be close to the coast, and there should be places that the garrison cannot take into account."

"Yes, the big fleets are all escorted by ship girls, but for small ships, it depends on luck."

Su Gu laughed and asked, "Which city does your fleet want?"

******

At night, dinner is seafood.

Little Tirpitz, who was sitting in front of the table, shook his legs and said, "Admiral, what are you going to say to those people?"

Su Gu tapped his fingers on the dining table and said, "It's not that Lexington is in Guicheng. Let's go by boat."

Little Tirpitz's journey has been full of ups and downs, and she has only settled down after finding her admiral. At this time, she hugged the bowl and found that her admiral finally had some self-consciousness about being an admiral. She responded: "Yeah, then, Woolen cloth?"

Under the dim light, Su Gu held his chopsticks and said, "But the money I have now is not enough for us to buy the boat tickets, so I thought of other ways?"

He was quite confident in his quick wit. Even if he had no money, he could easily think of a way to solve the problem. Su Gu said: "I'll ask the sailors on the pier. Cargo ships generally need ship girls to guard them. Then we can go and rub the ship. Promise Just be a guard. If you are a guard, you are not a ship girl."

Little Tirpitz didn't speak and emptied her bowl of rice, because she was sitting on a high chair, her legs dangling in the air and she was thinking about something. Not long after, little Tirpitz suddenly raised his head and said, "Do we have to take a cargo ship? It will be very uncomfortable."

Su Gu was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't want to do it either, but I don't have the money for us to build a passenger ship. I told you I'm very poor."

"But I have money. Sister Meow gave it to me before, but I never spent it." Little Tirpitz grabbed a large handful from his pocket and let go of his hand on the table, and then the jingling coins fell down.

Su Gu was silent for a moment and said calmly: "Actually, there is another reason why we don't operate a passenger ship. This point is particularly important. It will be very late when the ship leaves, and the cargo ship can leave the next day after loading the cargo. Although The conditions are a little tougher.”

"But to guard a cargo ship, it costs a lot of fuel and ammunition. It costs more to replenish it than to use it as a passenger ship. It costs a lot extra."

Su Gu continued to be silent, and then said: "Oh, that's right. Well...is it enough for you to only eat these dishes for dinner? Children need to eat more as they grow."

******

Soon as the night progressed, the lights were turned off. Little Tirpitz slept on the bed, and Su Gu himself slept on the floor with a mat. Although they could sleep together, little Tirpitz was a little girl, and she had to be self-aware first.

"Admiral, can you knock us out of the barnacles?"

"It's not like you stayed in the water and didn't go ashore. Where did the barnacles come from?"

"So will you help me change the paint? I want red paint."

"Paint it? That's no problem."

Little Tirpitz's voice suddenly paused and he said: "Admiral, can I sleep with you?"

"Why?"

"I always dreamed that I was standing in the port, with many planes flying over my head, and then dropping many bombs. It was really scary."

Su Gu knew about the life of the battleship Tirpitz. This battleship had not taken action several times in its life, but in the end it was sunk by British bombers. In the darkness, he whispered: "Whatever you want."

Soon he felt little Tirpitz sleeping next to him, holding his clothes with his little hands.

"Admiral, I caught you. You won't suddenly run away again. Even if you do, you won't be able to leave."

"Will not."

"Well, Admiral, I want to hear a story."