Chapter 298 The Lin Family Merchant Ship Sang Zhitao looked at the Lin family's large ship…
Sang Zhitao hesitated for a long time, looking in the direction the Lin family's large ship had left.
She wanted to follow and bring Zhifeng down, but she was afraid that Zhifeng, who always longed to board a first-class ship, would refuse, and she was also afraid that the Zhou family's young lady would hurt Zhifeng in her violent temper.
Looking at the calm sea, she felt a strong longing for the unknown.
Torn between two conflicting emotions, she sighed after a long while and decided to go find her things first.
After all, Zhifeng's parents were with her, and he himself was powerless; even if he went with her, he probably wouldn't be able to help much.
"How could I possibly think I could help her? Surely I don't actually have some kind of extraordinary background?" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but laugh at herself, then turned and headed to the driver's seat.
The ship sailed on the calm sea, and whether her luck was too good or too bad, she sailed for more than a dozen days and nights without encountering a single other ship.
During this time, she encountered two Level 3 disasters, both involving extremely low temperatures. Fortunately, as Zhifeng had said, her ship had an excellent temperature control system, which allowed her to maintain a certain level of warmth even in such terrifyingly low temperatures, thus preventing her from freezing to death.
However, because the sea was frozen, she could not continue to move forward and had to stay on the sea for the time being.
"Phew..." During the second low-temperature disaster, considering that she had not encountered any merchant ships and was worried about running out of fuel, she could only wrap herself in a thick quilt and adjust the temperature control system to just the right temperature so that she wouldn't freeze to death.
"How come only ten minutes have passed?!" She looked up at the clock several times, but the hour hand seemed to be frozen and moved forward slowly, to the point that she sometimes felt disoriented, wondering if the world had stopped.
The world here is very strange. If such disasters were rampant on Earth, the sea would never be so calm and safe when the disaster ended, as if the disaster was just a terrible illusion.
And so she steered her boat forward through the natural disasters.
"Woo...!" The distinctive whistle of a merchant ship interrupted her calming thoughts.
Upon seeing this, Sang Zhitao quickly raised the flag.
These little bits of knowledge were prepared for her by Zhifeng before she left; the purple flag she raised meant she wanted to buy something.
However, Zhifeng once said that if a ship sails alone, some small merchant ships are afraid of being trapped and are unwilling to stop.
Thinking of this, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but feel worried, fearing that the merchant ship might also refuse her for the same reason.
Fortunately, she wasn't that unlucky.
Looking at the ship, which was several times larger than hers, Sang Zhitao was momentarily stunned.
This ship is not much smaller than the Lin family's large ship, and it doesn't look like a small merchant ship at all.
However, according to Zhifeng, large merchant ships are very rare on the sea because third-class ships prefer to attack large merchant ships and are not afraid of retaliation.
Even Zhifeng's father, who was already forty years old, had only met him five times.
She couldn't believe she was so lucky, but when a furry head peeked out from behind the railing of the big ship, she thought maybe she was lucky.
"Do you want to buy something?!" The owner of the head was a young girl with a childlike face.
She was dressed in exquisite clothes, and even though she was a bit far from Sang Zhitao, you could still see her fair skin, which glowed slightly in the sunlight.
The girl's face was full of the innocent charm that comes from being pampered as a child.
"Hmm, is it a merchant ship?" Sang Zhitao greeted the girl with a smile.
"Yes, we are the Lin family's merchant ship." The girl smiled innocently and waved to her repeatedly.
Before Sang Zhitao could reply, a handsome man appeared behind the girl. He glanced coldly at Sang Zhitao before turning around and carefully helping the girl away from the railing: "Miss, things have been quite unsettled at sea lately. Please don't meet strangers."
As he spoke, the man glanced back at Sang Zhitao.
The girl was taken away by him. Sang Zhitao couldn't see the girl's expression, but she could hear her coquettish voice saying, "But I think she's a good person~"
"Bad people never admit they are bad."
"But……"
"Young Miss, Madam will be angry."
"All right……"
The echoes of their conversation still lingered in their ears when a rope ladder was thrown down from the ship.
Sang Zhitao took the money from the room and nimbly climbed up the rope ladder.
"What would you like, sir?" A boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old walked towards us.
He was dressed in clean and tidy clothes and gave Sang Zhitao a gentle smile.
It was clear that he had undergone very rigorous training, so much so that he didn't show any unusual reaction when he saw that the water on Sang Zhitao's feet had soaked the deck.
It's not Sang Zhitao's fault that her feet got wet. After all, who would have thought that a water pipe would freeze and burst? The frozen water pipe thawed after the natural disaster, causing the cabin where the water pipe was located to be flooded.
"I need a section of water pipe, the best material, resistant to both high and low temperatures..." she said to the boy, counting on her fingers, "and some fuel, some food..."
"Alright, guest, please follow me." The young man smiled and led the way.
Sang Zhitao isn't particularly fond of shopping, which is quite different from her brother Sang Leping.
Of the three siblings, Sang Leping loves shopping the most, but his work keeps him from going shopping, so he can only indulge in online shopping when he has free time.
My older sister, Sang Lezhi, has absolutely no interest in shopping; her husband even takes care of rolling out toilet paper at home.
As for the mulberry peach, it takes 48 hours to charge and only takes 5 minutes to use.
So during this shopping trip, she bought everything in just half an hour, with most of that time spent walking.
What did you buy?
"scare!"
Just as Sang Zhitao was about to pay, a voice suddenly came from the side, startling her.
She turned her head and saw that it was the girl who had just greeted her from the railing.
"What did you buy?" she asked again, thinking Sang Zhitao hadn't heard her.
"Some daily necessities." Sang Zhitao had no intention of explaining in detail to the stranger.
"Oh." The girl could tell that Sang Zhitao didn't intend to talk about it further, and a hint of disappointment flashed across her face.
Sang Zhitao's heart softened at her pitiful expression. Just as she was about to say something, she felt a sharp gaze from behind.
She raised an eyebrow and turned to look; it was the man who had been looking for the girl.
"My name is Lin Luoluo, what's your name?" Lin Luoluo was indeed a well-bred girl; she quickly adjusted her mindset and continued to ask.
"Sang Zhitao." Sang Zhitao couldn't help but roll her eyes at the man before turning to Lin Luoluo and saying.
"Zhi Tao..." Lin Luoluo hesitated for a moment before clapping her hands and saying, "Can I call you Tao Tao?"
Sang Zhitao wasn't a particularly socially awkward person, but she still found Lin Luoluo's overly familiar manner quite uncomfortable.
She wanted to politely decline, but the man behind her was still giving her a warning look.
The more assertive the other party was, the more rebellious Sang Zhitao became. She looked at the girl and nodded slightly.
Lin Luoluo's eyes lit up, and she immediately grabbed Sang Zhitao's hand and started to walk back: "Great, I have a friend now, I'll take you to my room to see!"
Ignoring the man's attempts to stop her and Sang Zhitao's attempts to refuse, she grabbed Sang Zhitao and ran towards the room.
Seeing this, the man had no choice but to follow with a grim expression.
Seeing this, Sang Zhitao could only sigh, without uttering the refusal she had been holding in her heart.
The living quarters of the merchant ship were decorated very beautifully, with an overall style that was very standard Song Dynasty, exuding elegance everywhere.
To achieve the desired effect in Song-style interior design, both the materials and the design require a very high level of aesthetic appreciation. Not to mention, Sang Zhitao's attention to detail reveals that every decoration in the room is priceless.
As she looked around, the man watched her warily.
However, Sang Zhitao's calm expression and generous scrutiny, along with the approving look in her eyes when she looked at the details, gave the man a sense of bewilderment.
The person in front of her was not the captain of an ordinary ship, but a young lady from a top-tier family who was used to seeing such luxurious items and even had the leisure to evaluate their merits in her mind.
“You…” He looked at Sang Zhitao and opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Lin Luoluo.
"Tao Tao! Come quick!"
Sang Zhitao glanced at the man, shrugged, and walked towards Lin Luoluo.
The rest area of this large merchant ship has about four floors, and Lin Luoluo's room is on the second floor.
Sang Zhitao looked at the pink bedroom, where extremely rare and precious pink jewels were strung together and hung by the bed as if they were free.
But such priceless items are nothing more than ordinary decorations here.
Even Sang Zhitao, who considered herself knowledgeable, couldn't help but sigh at the other party's extravagance, and became even more certain in her heart how much Lin Luoluo was pampered.
“Speaking of which…” Sang Zhitao paused before looking at Lin Luoluo, who was calling for people to bring in food.
Seeing the hesitation on her face, Lin Luoluo couldn't help but smile and say, "Just say what's on your mind."
Sang Zhitao looked at her seriously: "I wonder what your relationship is with the Lin family of the Lin family's big ship?"
Before Lin Luoluo could say anything, the man who had been watching over her glanced at Sang Zhitao with surprise in his eyes.
Sang Zhitao's image changes from the initial impression of a lower-class person, to an ungrateful ordinary person, and then to a mysterious person with a mysterious background when she enters the rest area.
Only now did he breathe a sigh of relief, after all, no one of noble birth would be unaware of the power of aristocratic families.
Lin Luoluo didn't have as many thoughts as him. She smiled at Sang Zhitao and explained softly, "Yes and no."
Sang Zhitao stared at her in a daze.
"I don't know which Lin family ship you're referring to. People from large families don't put their whole family on one ship."
Lin Luoluo sighed as she spoke: "My mother said that in the early years, large families used to keep their entire families together in order to protect themselves. However, many families disappeared completely from history when they were attacked by third-class ships."
Sang Zhitao nodded knowingly, then thought for a moment before saying, "It's the one with Miss Zhou."
"The Zhou family?" Lin Luoluo was taken aback, then lowered her eyes and pondered.
Before long, she had unearthed the memories of this family from the corners of her mind: "The Zhou family."
She frowned: "She should be on the eldest son's ship. I heard that the eldest son is planning to continue the marriage alliance with her. That... madwoman."
Lin Luoluo's face showed a look of disgust.
The man next to her quickly coughed twice to remind her.
Lin Luoluo quickly sat up straight and looked at Sang Zhitao, hurriedly changing the subject: "Why did you ask that?"
Sang Zhitao briefly explained Zhifeng's situation: "My friend boarded that ship, and I'm a little worried."
Seeing this, Lin Luoluo quickly waved her hand: "It's alright, we just need to get there to do a deal with the main ship. I'll have your friend work on my ship then."
Unlike first-class ships, large merchant ships rarely accept staff with families. They prefer orphans or people raised from childhood, like the boy who takes Sang Zhitao shopping.
Lin Luoluo's willingness to make an exception and let Zhifeng's family onto the ship warmed the heart of Sang Zhitao, who hadn't known her for long.
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