My years as a menswear boss

Jiqiu rolled herself into a ball and lay on the deck shivering. The leaky wooden door poured in a cold sea breeze from time to time. She piled sandbags in front of the door to prevent the broken door from being blown open by the wind.

"Huh~" Jiqiu took a breath of warm air into his palms, and rubbed his cold arms vigorously.

'Hopefully I can live till tomorrow morning. ' she thought silently.

The sun rose from the sea level, and a ray of light came in through the crack of the door. Jiqiu rolled her eyelids and opened her eyes slowly. She stretched her waist, 'Hiss—my waist is numb. '

She touched her shriveled belly, brushed her long curly hair over her face a few times, just covering her eyes, and then got up and walked out of the abandoned storage room.

There was a noise from the deck above, and the sailors were talking about today's weather in rough voices, mixed with their own adventures on the shore yesterday.

After a while, it caused the other people to boo, and was quickly suppressed by the bosun's loud voice.

If Jiqiu was still the Prime Minister of England, he might be very interested in observing the daily life of this great voyage.

It's a pity that she is just a hungry apprentice now, not even a sailor, maybe she will die in the sea tomorrow.

Like a little mouse, she slid into a group of big-shouldered sailors, trying not to attract anyone's attention. While they were discussing a certain prostitute, Ji Qiu touched a plate and moved to the end of the line.

The sailor who was cooking for others noticed the boy who had just reached his waist, and thought of the news about the heated discussion in the cabin yesterday, Paul bought a little carrot head with eyes like a tiger.

Jiqiu pursed her lips, looked at the silent sailor in front of her, and finally gave her a spoonful of sticky fish soup and a small piece of black bread.She carried the plate to the far corner and devoured it all.

The sea was calm today, and Jiqiu was assigned to clean the first deck. She lay on the ground, wiped the dirt on the deck vigorously, and applied a layer of waterproof wax to the iron parts.

On a ship, apprentices are the lowest and cheapest labor force, just a little bit better than the black slaves in the black triangle trade.

If it’s not that they can’t afford to eat, some people would rather be a peasant exploited by the landlord than sell themselves on a boat. The apprentices have to climb to the high mast and hold the sail when the waves come, and they will fall if they are not careful. smashed to pieces;

When the ship is docked, it has to carry the goods, and if it is neglected, it will be whipped;

Some sailors feel bored during the voyage, and they will vent on their apprentices.

When Jiqiu went to the bathroom, he finally saw his appearance in this life. Simon Roshi had brown wool curly hair and a pair of golden eyes.

She leaned closer and took a closer look. In fact, amber should be more suitable, but the Italian coast is sunny most of the time, and Simon's eyes will turn golden without impurities under the sun, which is regarded as heresy by Simon's mother.

Looking at her malnourished body, she put the plan of maintaining her body on the agenda in her heart, otherwise she would not be able to live to adulthood.

Totti watched a little boy come out of the toilet slowly, and he frowned and called out, "Hey, little monster!"

Jiqiu glanced at him, turned his head away, and walked around him.

"Hey!" Totti grabbed the back of Jiqiu's neck with one hand, "I'm talking to you."

Jiqiu patted his hand away, she had seen that this young man was not bad-tempered, so she was always very courageous when facing him, "I have a name, my name is Simon."

Totti scratched his black cropped hair irritably, "Okay, Simon. You haven't claimed your bedding yet."

So Jiqiu got her first set of equipment, a musty-smelling bedding, she raised her little head and showed a small smile, "Thank you, Totti."

Totti looked at the little monster with two dimples in front of him, and waved it away impatiently, "Stay away from me when you're done, and continue with your work."

Jiqiu carried the bed rolled up to the same height as hers, dragged it back to her small site, and spread it on the deck.

She worked all day, and finally figured out two pieces of information. This ship is called the Mermaid. It is a cargo ship contracted by a Frenchman to do business. Its routes are wandering around Venice and Marseilles. Encounter pirates and storms.

It is now 1829, and Napoleon has completely fallen, about the same time as when she was reborn in her previous life.

The sun disappeared into the sea level, and Jiqiu could finally rest. She rubbed her sore arms and swollen knees. She didn't have medicinal wine, and the ship's doctor couldn't use it on her apprentice.

'At least I have a quilt and won't be cold. She thought bitterly, Jiqiu wrapped herself in the shape of an egg roll and shrank her feet in.

Waking up under the sun the next day, Jiqiu felt that there was no place on her body that was not sore. She shook the salt grains left by the sea water on her body. She had to avoid getting hurt, otherwise she would not only face the risk of infection, He also faces the torture of rubbing salt into his wounds.

Breakfast was milk with a fishy smell and black bread mixed with oatmeal. Jiqiu swallowed it without chewing it carefully. She thought that if she tasted it carefully, she might vomit it out.

"Boy, come here!" The sailor who cooks for others waved to Jiqiu.

Jiqiu got up immediately, and trotted up to him, his body was tense, his covered eyes were full of vigilance, "Sir, did you call me?"

"Today your job is to wash the dishes. After they finish eating, you take the dishes to the kitchen to wash them." The sailor said hoarsely.

Jiqiu nodded obediently, and lifted a wooden barrel. She neatly stacked the dishes left by the sailors on the dining table in the wooden barrel, and dragged the wooden barrel to the kitchen, without kneeling on the ground to wipe the deck. It is good news that her knee can rest for a day.

The fresh water on the boat is a rare resource, and the water used to wash the dishes is drawn from the sea. Jiqiu patiently washed the dishes one by one. She turned her head and glanced at the dead fish on the plate beside her. The body of the fish was covered with insects. Underneath were biscuits, and the top pieces were eaten by maggots.

This is the best way to preserve biscuits, because the mice on the ship can eat through the iron sheet.

Jiqiu suddenly realized that he had to find a way to get vegetables and fruits to avoid scurvy.

It's just that the vegetables and fruits on board are rarer than meat, and they are all locked in cabinets.

'I need a wire. '

At night, when Jiqiu tidied up the storage room, she found a rusty iron nail. She broke it off a few times, checked the thickness, and found that she couldn’t get into the keyhole, so she had to keep searching. She soon found another nail. Rusty razor blade, eyes light up, 'That's it! '

The next day, after eating the moldy cheese and the hard bread that could grind your teeth, Jiqiu quietly walked up to the sailor who was serving the meal, and squatted at his feet without saying a word, trying to make himself look weak, pitiful and helpless.

Sure enough, the sailor gave Jiqiu the job of washing the dishes again, and pinched her mouth and threw a piece of corned beef.

Ji Qiu smashed her mouth, reminiscing about the meaty taste in her mouth, she almost forgot that she only ate the tenderest part of the whole cow in her previous life, and now she only wanted to get an orange from the locked cabinet door.

She inserted the sharpened blade into the keyhole and twisted it a few times, and the cabinet door was opened. Jiqiu quickly reached out to pick up an orange and put it in his pocket, then locked the door as if nothing had happened, and continued to wash the dishes.

Jiqiu walked out of the kitchen after washing the dishes, and ran into Totti walking towards her. Her heart sank, but her face remained calm.

"You didn't steal anything, Simon?" Totti pulled his face and looked at the little hairy head under his eyes. "Stealing things on a boat means being tied to the mast and whipped twenty times."

"I dare not, sir." Jiqiu replied in a low voice.

"Are you not full, the voice is so low?"

Totti's eyebrows frowned, he held Jiqiu with one hand, and groped her with the other.

Jiqiu watched her pocket being opened, the hand continued to stretch down, her heart was raised, and her big hand squeezed it hard.

"Tsk, I can't tell." Totti twitched the corner of his mouth, and said in a strange way, "Your place is quite big, and it doesn't match your age."

Jiqiu broke away from his big hand expressionlessly, threw Totti away and ran all the way back to the storage room, leaned against the door, took out the crushed oranges from his trousers, and ate them all in one gulp, even the juice .

She spits out orange seeds and puts them in a simple flowerpot she made herself.At the bottom of the flower pot is a pot of fine sand, covered with distiller's grains, and the orange seeds are arranged one by one, and then covered with damp gauze.

Jiqiu is silently praying that it can germinate, and she can get green vegetables.

After finishing all this, Jiqiu felt her stomach was empty again, and began to groan dissatisfiedly. She found the iron nail from yesterday, tied it to the loose hemp rope in the storage room, and found another one. Discarded shovel, the handle was removed, tied to the other end of the hemp rope, and a simple fishing rod was made.

She catches a maggot from the biscuit, hangs it on the "hook", and slowly lowers the rope into the sea.

Jiqiu stared at it for an hour with her eyes open, then lifted the rope up, but the insects on it had disappeared, so she had to hang another one.

Jiqiu pondered silently, which would be easier, fishing or going to the kitchen to "get" something to eat. The busy movement on the deck above her head dispelled her idea of ​​going to the kitchen, so she could only sigh heavily and continue to fish.

When she released the pole for the last time, she finally got something. She harvested a fish as long as an arm. Jiqiu couldn’t help but smile on her face. Alcohol burner.

A sound of gnawing came from the corner, Jiqiu picked up a fork, and pushed the wooden board aside, the hand that wanted to stab stopped in mid-air.

"Wow~" An orange and white kitten looked at her with blue eyes blinking.