Chapter 46 Having a gorgeous dress is a good thing...
"So comfortable~" Sang Zhitao stood at the door of the room, slightly raising her face to enjoy the salty and damp feeling of the sea breeze on her cheeks. The warm sunlight shone on her black hair, forming a deep brown halo.
"Your Highness? You're up?" Baron walked over with breakfast and this was the scene he saw.
A girl dressed in simple men's clothing, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, stood bathed in the golden sunlight. Her fair skin shone like pearls. The clothes, which should have been ill-fitting, had been simply adjusted, and her petite figure exuded a heroic air.
"Good morning, Baron." Sang Zhitao turned to look at Baron.
"Have something to eat." Baron raised his arm in a gesture, then turned and went to his room.
Sang Zhitao tidied up the room again, and the bed was made neatly, with a sparkling dress folded and placed at the foot of the bed.
Baron placed the food on the table before saying, "Your Highness, the food on the ship is simple, please don't mind."
Sang Zhitao stepped forward and looked at her breakfast: a fried egg, two palm-sized pieces of bread, a glass of milk, and a small dish of jam.
She raised an eyebrow and replied with a smile, "It's not simple at all; they even have milk."
Baron sighed and said, "There's not much left. It'll probably only be enough for you and Eureka for two more days. We won't have enough eggs and jam either."
"Didn't you go shopping when you docked?" Sang Zhitao glanced at Baron with some surprise, then thought about how it was written in the original work.
Before she could figure it out, Baron spoke up, "No, we originally planned to do the Rose Princess job before making our purchases, but we were chased by the guards and didn't have time. We also planned to bring the Rose Princess to Rose Port, but..."
Although he didn't finish speaking, Sang Zhitao understood what he meant. She didn't expect that the wrong person would be kidnapped in the end, and the matter of going to the Rose Port naturally came to nothing.
At this moment, she also thought of the account in the original book. The same thing happened in the book. The heroine hesitated for a long time before deciding to sell the clothes, but she did not trust Baron and the other two. As soon as she got off the ship, she was met by the captain of the guard who was looking for her. In order not to return to the kingdom, she had no choice but to give up and run back to the ship. As a result, she ate black bread with the crew for many days and almost died from gastrointestinal discomfort.
After thinking for a moment, Sang Zhitao said, "Let's find the nearest port."
Baron looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Before he could speak, Sang Zhitao said, "Sell my clothes. They should fetch a good amount of money."
Following her gaze, Baron's eyes fell on the magnificent dress on the bed, and he said incredulously, "You're going to sell the dress? To us?"
Seeing Sang Zhitao nod without hesitation, Baron blankly withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Sang Zhitao. His previous composure had vanished. He shook his head and continued to ask, "Your Highness, are you serious? That's...that's..."
Before he could gather his thoughts, Sang Zhitao finished her meal quickly and said, "It's not for you..."
Baron let out a breath and couldn't help but laugh as he replied, "I knew it."
“It’s you and us.” Sang Zhitao gestured between her and Baron with her hand.
Barron almost choked on his own saliva, coughing a few times before asking in confusion, "Why? We've only known each other for two days, and we're the ones who kidnapped you."
Sang Zhitao's eyes lit up as she said, "Consider it payment for hiring you."
“Hire us? Why?” Baron was even more puzzled.
“I want to be a pirate, so I need to live on the Anling until I run out of money, so all expenses will come from there,” Sang Zhitao said without any hesitation.
"Huh?" Baron stood there stunned for a while before saying, "Why? Isn't it good to be a princess? You'll become a queen someday."
“It’s precisely because I will be queen in the future that I want to fulfill my dream before I ascend the throne.” Sang Zhitao put down the plate she had finished eating, placed it in front of Baron, and put it in his hands. “It’s decided.”
Baron instinctively took the plate, and seeing Sang Zhitao turn to look for something, he quickly said, "But I haven't agreed yet."
“Just agree, after all, you’re very poor, aren’t you? And you should ask your captain.” Sang Zhitao said without even turning her head.
Seeing this, Baron kept glancing at the obviously priceless clothes, then at Sang Zhitao who was ignoring her and rummaging through drawers. He gritted his teeth, picked up the plate, and turned to leave.
Sang Zhitao searched the entire room for a long time before finally sitting down at the table, fanning herself with her hand and exclaiming in a huff, "Such a big room, and there isn't even a pair of scissors!"
"Bang!" The door was suddenly pushed open, and a figure rushed in, accompanied by an urgent question: "You're going to give us money!?"
Startled by the commotion, Sang Zhitao leaned back and realized that the figure rushing in was Eureka.
"You're going to give me money, right? Right? Right?" Eureka rushed up to her and kept asking, his handsome face full of urgency.
Sang Zhitao stretched out a finger and pushed his head back, saying, "It's not giving money, it's hiring."
"What difference does it make? They're all the same," Eureka said dismissively, tossing his hand away.
Sang Zhitao's lips twitched before she pointed to the clothes and said, "Find me a pair of scissors first, and I'll take a few gems off for you."
Eureka followed her finger to the dress, her eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly, then called out to Baron, who was following behind, "Baron, get a pair of scissors."
Barron stopped in his tracks, glanced at him sideways, and then turned to find the scissors.
Not long after, Baron returned and saw Sang Zhitao and Eureka standing in front of the bed, arguing about something over the smoothed-out dress.
Listening closely, Barron's eyelids nearly popped out of his head; the two guys were arguing about which gem was more valuable.
"Two childish brats!" Baron couldn't help but mutter, until he heard the two had escalated their argument from gems to personal attacks, then he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I've brought the scissors."
"Hmph, ignorant fool!" Sang Zhitao rolled her eyes at Eureka before taking the scissors and heading towards the pearls on the clothes.
With a few swift snips of the scissors, from the waist to the front opening and then to the hem of the skirt, round pearls fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and check, this is all money!" Sang Zhitao glanced at Baron and Eureka, who were standing motionless to the side, and urged them on.
Eureka reacted the fastest, quickly crouching down to pick up the fallen pearls. Baron's first reaction was to step forward and lift up her skirt to prevent the pearls from falling further before joining Eureka in searching. Eureka even chased them under the bed, making Sang Zhitao's lips twitch.
"Let's forget about under the bed," Sang Zhitao finally couldn't help but say.
Eureka pulled a pearl from the foot of the bed, wiped it happily on her clothes, and then retorted, "You're talking about money."
Sang Zhitao glanced at him speechlessly, then continued to look down at her skirt.
This dress is a new one this year. Pearl embellishments are the current trend, so there are more pearls than gemstones on this dress. Apart from the five rubies on the collar, the only other things on it are the crown I took off and a set of ruby jewelry.
After thinking for a moment, Sang Zhitao directly used the scissors to remove the ruby, and then used the tip of the scissors to pry off the small gems and diamonds next to it.
After tossing the dress, now devoid of jewels, to Baron and handing him scissors, Sang Zhitao finally spoke, saying, "There's still a lot of gold thread in the dress. Do you want to use scissors or fire to remove it?"
Baron was overwhelmed by the dress, looking down at it that still shimmered in the sunlight even after the jewelry had been removed. He couldn't help but twitch his lips and said to Sang Zhitao, "Okay, I'll try it."
Sang Zhitao was busy tidying up the gems and didn't have time to pay attention to him. She just casually replied, "Whatever you want. You can sell the whole thing if you don't like it."
After tidying up the gems and looking at the bag full of pearls, Sang Zhitao thought for a moment and pointed to a small pile of diamonds and rubies the size of grains of rice, saying, "Sell this pile first, and if it's not enough, sell some more pearls."
Eureka stroked his chin and commented seriously, "It should be enough for us for a month or two."
"Only a month or two?" Sang Zhitao looked at him in surprise.
“Of course, although the Anling is still very weak, it is still very expensive! I am not the kind of bad captain who enslaves his subordinates.” Eureka raised his chin proudly and said.
"I see..." Sang Zhitao looked at the remaining pile of rubies and said thoughtfully, "So, even if I sell all of these, it will only be enough for a year's expenses?"
Eureka looked at the pile of jewelry, then, feigning maturity, rested her chin on her hand and said, "That should be enough."
"Bang!"
"ah!"
Eureka clutched her head, which had been throbbed by Baron, and turned to glare at him angrily.
Baron, who had already rolled up the clothes and placed them aside, couldn't help but knock him on the head after hearing his comments before saying to Sang Zhitao, "Your Highness, don't listen to his nonsense. Even if we sell them cheaply, they'll be enough for us to use for half a year."
"So selling all of these will last for three to five years?" Sang Zhitao nodded and pointed to the jewelry next to her as she continued to ask.
Barron looked at the few egg-sized rubies, the exquisite crown and jewelry, and his lips twitched. He held back for a moment, but couldn't help but say, "Those are more than enough for a year or two. If we sold them all, they would be enough to support us for half our lives."
"So many!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Thinking of what she wrote in her original book, that the original owner planned to sell the clothes for three thousand gold coins, she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
However, considering that she was only 16 years old when she wrote this book—her first year after leaving the orphanage, three thousand dollars was an astronomical sum for her—she wrote it that way in the book.
She sighed softly, putting those painful memories behind her. Now she had older brothers and sisters, enough to ensure her a life of wealth and comfort. Not to mention that she was now working for the country and was even more wealthy. Even in this other world, she held a high position. Those days of poverty would never come again.
"So, Your Highness really intends to sell them all?" Baron looked at the few rubies with a pained expression and couldn't help but ask.
Sang Zhitao thought for a moment before replying, "Then let's prepare for a year's worth of expenses first."
Baron looked at the gem again, took a deep breath, and nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll take care of it."
Eureka covered her head, looking at Baron with displeasure: "We also need to deduct our hiring fees."
“Confiscated, confiscated.” Baron glanced at him before smiling at Sang Zhitao. “Your Highness, I’ll take my things and leave first. We’ll return to the first port in three days and talk about it then.”
Without waiting for Sang Zhitao's reply, he dragged Eureka outside.
Sang Zhitao shrugged and nonchalantly lowered her head to put the jewelry spread on the bed into a box she had prepared beforehand.
In the distant palace of the Rose Kingdom, an ordinary-looking but beautifully dressed woman looked at the guard before her, her face contorted with rage. After much restraint, she finally snapped, "I told you to look for the Anlin, not the Anling!"
The guard, having been scolded, quickly lowered his head and repeatedly begged for forgiveness.
The woman closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and then said, "So, now Rose is fine, but the Anling Ship, which took the deposit, kidnapped the Holy Spirit Princess?"
"Yes...yes, Your Majesty," the guard said cautiously, trembling with fear.
The queen tapped the armrest of the throne, and after a long while, she opened her eyes and looked at the guard, saying, "Erase all traces. This matter has nothing to do with us, understand?"
"Yes, yes." The guard breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly in response. Then, he suddenly looked up and asked cautiously, "Then...then Princess Rose?"
The queen shot a sharp glare at him, so frightening the guard that he knelt before her, too afraid to look up. She then coldly said, "We'll talk about it later."
Upon hearing this, the guard quickly responded and then slightly raised his head. Only after seeing the Queen wave her hand did he silently retreat.
The Queen rubbed her fingertips, a hint of worry in her eyes. After thinking for a long time, she seemed to realize something, and a calculating glint flashed in her eyes.
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