Shen Shuli was very measured in her actions.
After all, she was just a peasant girl in the ancient times, while her best friend had become a high and mighty prince!
Of course, you can't be too offensive, otherwise people will be suspicious.
But even her best friend is a princess!
Why is she just a country bumpkin?
"Huh! Prince Xuan, huh?"
Shen Shuli punched her fist again, and finally she had vented her anger.
Xiao Yuxuan could feel that although Shen Shuli's fists were dense, he didn't feel any pain when they landed on him.
Seeing that she had almost vented her anger, he stood up and looked at Shen Shuli with a flattering face.
"Hey, are you still angry? How about you hit me a few more times?"
...
...
Xie Chengyuan who was standing beside him couldn’t understand: “……?” Why has this world become so crazy?
"Humph." Shen Shuli rolled her eyes at him, then turned to look at Xie Chengyuan, "If you don't mind, why not have dinner with us tonight?"
Xie Chengyuan was confused, but that didn't stop him from grasping the key points. His eyes lit up instantly.
"If you don't mind, why don't I treat you tonight!"
Shen Shuli grinned at him, then raised her chin and looked at Xiao Yuxuan fiercely, gritting her teeth and said, "No, someone else will pay for it."
After saying that, he took Xie Chengyuan's wrist and walked in front, ignoring Xiao Yuxuan at all.
How could Xiao Yuxuan not know that Shen Shuli already knew his identity and was angry that he had teased him.
But he also heard that Shen Shuli was calling him to eat together!
He followed the two of them happily, with a warm smile on his face that never faded.
Just walked around the corner.
Su Yunhai, Shen Yuehua and Mu Wanjun came over together.
Seeing the three people opposite him, Su Yunhai guessed that they were the people who were going to have dinner together tonight.
"Come on, come on, I have already booked a restaurant. Prince Xuan, Mr. Xie, let's go straight over." Su Yunhai entertained them with a smile.
"Then I am sorry to bother you."
Xie Chengyuan smiled and nodded in response, but he did not take his hand away from the little girl at all. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy in his heart.
He just saw Uncle Su glance at his hand, but he didn’t react too much. Does this mean... ?
Xie Chengyuan couldn't help but think wildly.
Xiao Yuxuan couldn't stand it anymore.
How could his sister, whom he had spoiled since childhood, be taken advantage of by another man?
He strode forward, unhappily separated their hands, and said righteously: "Men and women should not touch each other, what are you doing?"
Shen Shuli then realized that she was still holding Xie Chengyuan's hand, and her cheeks turned red unconsciously.
But she turned around and glared at Xiao Yuxuan fiercely, then took a step forward and inserted herself between Shen Yuehua and Mu Wanjun, pulling the two of them downstairs in a skipping manner.
Thinking about eating delicious seafood, Shen Shuli was in a very good mood.
The six people soon arrived at Zuixianlou.
Zuixianlou is the most famous restaurant in Lihai.
Whether it is the floor space, floor area, cuisine, decoration style, etc., it is definitely the ceiling of this era.
The price is naturally ridiculously high.
Even so.
You need to book your table in advance, otherwise you won't be able to get a table.
For the sake of his two daughters and his best friend's son, Su Yunhai spent a large sum of money to buy the seats that had been reserved in advance.
That family often comes here to eat, so it’s no big deal if they don’t eat here once. They generously gave up their seats to tourists who were obviously from out of town.
In order to increase the popularity of Lihai, the locals are happy to show their favor in front of outsiders.
This way more outsiders will come here to promote economic development, right?
They are smart~
The main theme of the restaurant is the Dayong classical style, but it is mixed with many characteristics of other ethnic groups.
Not only does the decoration not feel too numerous and messy, but it is very beautifully matched and has a sense of atmosphere.
It’s like integrating Dunhuang elements into the Chinese style, and the decoration is entirely based on the aesthetic tastes of several people.
Su Yunhai ordered almost all of the restaurant's specialties.
I still don’t know what the portion sizes are at this restaurant, so I might have to order a few rounds.
The Li Sea is surrounded by the sea on both sides, and seafood is the specialty here. However, for the people of this era, the risks for fishermen going into the water to catch seafood were hundreds of times greater than they are today.
And the output is very low.
As a result, although this place is close to the sea, the price of seafood is not as cheap as imagined.
But it is definitely much cheaper than in the mainland!
But for Shen Shuli, she is already the richest person on the entire planet in this era, right?
She can definitely afford to eat it every day.
The meal was quickly brought up by the waiter.
Most people here like to eat cooked food and rarely eat raw or cold food.
So these seafoods are all cooked and served.
Except for Xie Chengyuan who thought it was extremely normal, Shen Shuli and the others secretly exchanged glances.
They shouldn't have had too high hopes for the food of this era.
"You guys eat first, I'll go to the kitchen to see if I can get some dipping sauce. I like seafood with dipping sauce." Shen Shuli stood up and said to the few people.
Su Yunhai and his wife and Mu Wanjun immediately understood what Shen Shuli was going to do and nodded in response.
Mu Wanjun also stood up and said, "Ali, I'll go with you and order some other food."
"Okay, Dad, call Prince Xuan and Master Xie, we'll be right back~"
"Okay, go ahead, Prince Xuan, Mr. Xie, I'll toast you one." Su Yunhai immediately entertained the two warmly.
Chen Shuli and Mu Wanjun came to the door of the back kitchen together, wanting to see what fresh seafood was in the kitchen.
What they actually want to eat is seafood sashimi.
Instead of lobsters and sea fish that are steamed, boiled, or fried.
But the kitchen did not allow anyone to enter, and as expected, Shen Shuli and Mu Wanjun were stopped outside the door.
The servant stopped the two men politely with an apologetic look on his face: "I'm sorry, my two distinguished guests, the kitchen is a restricted area and outsiders are not allowed to enter. Would you like to go somewhere else?"
The guests who can come here to eat are definitely wealthy.
As servants, they dared not neglect to drive the guests away and could only beg humbly, for fear of angering the guests and bringing about unforeseen consequences.
Shen Shuli stuffed a small piece of silver into the servant's pocket and said, "Young man, could you please tell the shopkeeper to let us pick out some seafood ourselves?"
The servant boy looked at the change in his hand and felt a little excited. He felt relieved when he saw that they did not try to break into the kitchen.
"The two distinguished guests please wait here for a moment. I will go to the front lobby to invite the shopkeeper."
"good."
Shen Shuli and Mu Wanjun did not rush into the kitchen when no one was around, and waited there for less than five minutes.
The servant came over with the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper didn't expect that the people looking for him were two little girls, but he still had a deep impression of these two girls with outstanding looks.
The parents who came with them booked a superior room and ordered dishes that were not cheap in the restaurant.
He would not be perfunctory just because the people looking for him were two little girls.
The shopkeeper asked respectfully, "Dear guests, what do you want?"
Shen Shuli explained her purpose: "We want to buy some fresh seafood to take back. Could you please take a look at your ingredients so we can choose?"
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper felt that this request was not excessive.
Many people who come to their restaurant to eat occasionally make such requests, and they have long been accustomed to it.
"Okay, please follow me. Here are some fresh seafood that were just delivered this afternoon." The shopkeeper quickened his pace and led the way.
There are still things waiting for him to deal with in the front hall, so he can't stay here for too long.
It was dinner time, and Shen Shuli knew that the shopkeeper must be very busy, so the two of them quickened their pace and followed behind him.
Underground ice storage.
All freshly caught seafood is stored here.
As soon as they came in, Shen Shuli and Mu Wanjun felt the temperature drop suddenly, as if they had entered late autumn and it was particularly cool.
"Let these two distinguished guests choose their ingredients here, and you can pay them according to today's prices."
The shopkeeper gave instructions to the servant in charge of the warehouse, and then said to the two men, "You two, take your time choosing here. I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now."
"Okay, you go ahead and do your work."
When the servants in the warehouse saw that the shopkeeper had personally sent someone over, they did not dare to be negligent at all and took out all the fresh and still jumping seafood for the customers to choose.
Chen Shuli and Mu Wanjun often ate seafood sashimi in their previous lives, so they knew which seafood tasted best when eaten raw.
The two of them quickly picked out a bunch of them.
I didn’t expect there were fresh sea urchins, prawns, crayfish, mantis shrimps, large oysters and lobsters.
There are many varieties of sea fish, but none of them are what Shen Shuli really wants to eat at the moment.
After picking for a long time, she suddenly saw three fat salmon!
Must get it!
There is also the local specialty big bolong!
Get it, get it!
Unfortunately, there are no king crabs in the waters here, or the fishermen do not have the skills to go down to the deep sea to catch king crabs.
In short, Shen Shuli searched the warehouse but couldn't find a king crab.
I did find a few large crabs from the waters around here, but the crabs had already been ordered, so Shen Shuli didn't choose them.
Worried about delaying too long.
The two asked them to help clean the selected ingredients and then quickly took them back to the room.
Walk outside the room.
Shen Shuli took out the tray she had just asked the servant for, took out several kinds of dipping sauces from the space, arranged them and brought them into the room.
"Dad, I've been waiting for a long time."
"That's great. We're having a great time drinking." Su Yunhai responded with a smile.
Shen Shuli walked over with a smile and distributed the dipping sauce to everyone.
Mu Wanjun hurriedly prepared the ingredients.
Shen Shuli also joined in.
Seeing that the two of them had taken a lot, Xiao Yuxuan also stood up and went to help.
Xie Chengyuan naturally did not want to be left behind and learned from them to help deal with the situation.
Seeing that the children had left the table, Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua came over to help.
Hundreds of kilograms of various ingredients were quickly processed and placed on the table.
Shen Shuli replaced the ice cubes from the restaurant with clean and sterile ice cubes in the space, divided the ingredients into six portions, and arranged six beautiful sashimi boats, which looked very appetizing.
Xie Chengyuan was the only one present who had never eaten like this. Looking at the pile of food in front of him, which looked good but was actually raw, his face became a little stiff.
"Is this how we eat it?" He asked them with a puzzled look on his face.
Seeing that Xie Chengyuan was just an ancient boy with little knowledge, Xiao Yuxuan immediately felt superior.
"You've never eaten it? You're really ignorant."
When Xie Chengyuan heard this, his face turned dark.
This Xiao guy is really no good!
Although he has never eaten it, if they can eat it, then he would risk his life to accompany the gentleman!
Never let others look down on you!
Especially this guy with the surname Xiao!
Shen Shuli sat on the left side of Xie Chengyuan and smiled as she introduced the eating method to him.
"Don't worry, it's definitely delicious if you eat it this way. I'll teach you."
Xie Chengyuan then relaxed a little and ate with Shen Shuli.
He picked up a piece of yellow and white raw fish with chopsticks and dipped it in the sauce like Shen Shuli did.
But before putting it into his mouth, he swallowed subconsciously.
Seeing that everyone else was eating so deliciously and contentedly, he gritted his teeth and put the food into his mouth with his eyes closed.
"Huh?"
The taste is totally different from what I expected!
So this is what eating raw fish tastes like?
"Hey, this is called salmon. How about it? Is it delicious?" Shen Shuli looked at Xie Chengyuan with a smile and ate with great satisfaction.
Mu Wanjun prepared several salmons, and her knife skills were definitely no worse than those of professional chefs.
Moreover, these fish live in unpolluted waters, and their taste is even purer and more delicious than modern ones.
"Well, the taste is indeed unique." Xie Chengyuan commented seriously.
Everyone finished eating the raw and cold food first, and then started to eat the cooked seafood in the restaurant.
The sashimi and cooked food each have their own flavor, especially with the dipping sauce provided by Shen Shuli, the taste is enhanced to another level.
Everyone ate very contentedly.
Su Yunhai and Shen Shuli are both big eaters, and the amount they eat is enough for six people.
The six people ate up all the food on the table.
Only Xie Chengyuan seemed a little restrained, and while eating he still maintained the elegance and dignity of a young master from an aristocratic family.
After eating the steamed and boiled dishes, Shen Shuli still felt unsatisfied.
We also ordered a few stir-fried seafood and the restaurant’s signature hot dishes.
The others also had good appetites and ate a lot of each dish.
Mu Wanjun and Xiao Yuxuan were so full that they leaned back in their chairs to digest their food.
The meal cost more than two hundred taels of silver.
If it were put in modern times, the average per person would be around 33,000.
"It's getting late, let's go back." Su Yunhai suggested.
"good."
Several people had already dressed and went out one after another.
Shen Shuli was the last one to leave. Seeing that everyone had left, she quickly and secretly took away all the things she had taken out of the space to avoid being discovered by the people in the restaurant.
Shen Shuli had never eaten seafood in her current body, and the first time she ate it, she was so excited that her eyebrows flew up.
"We must put the sea into the space as soon as possible and go fishing for all kinds of seafood!" Shen Shuli couldn't help but look forward to it.
After returning to the inn, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
"Wife, daughter, you guys take a rest first. I'll go outside and look for news."
"Okay, don't be too late." Shen Yuehua warned.
After Su Yunhai had eaten and drunk his fill and was full of energy, he did not forget that he still had an important task waiting for him to complete.
The rainy season is coming soon.
The team also has to rush to the uninhabited island wilderness to survive.
It is necessary to inquire clearly from local people in advance about the prices of various infrastructure resources and which factories have good quality materials.
There are also trivial matters such as renting a boat in advance to go out to sea.
Shen Shuli knew that time was tight and the task was heavy, so she also proposed to go with her father.
She had left her grandson with Su Changan, so Shen Yuehua had to bring him back quickly to coax him to sleep, so she couldn't help them.
Because fishermen need to go out early and come back late, there is no curfew in Lihai City.
The father and daughter acted separately, one to inquire about fishing boats, and the other to inquire about various infrastructure materials.
Shen Shuli chose to inquire about the fishing boat.
Because she doesn't have the patience to do those tedious tasks that require constant communication with people, it is most appropriate for her father to step forward.
There are two docks in Lihai City, one outside the South City and the other outside the East City.
Shen Shuli was very curious about how Dayong Shipbuilding was developing.
She first came to the closer South Pier.
There are many large and small fishing boats, as well as passenger ships and cargo ships docked at the pier.
The development of commercial trade in the south is absolutely inseparable from the Cao Gang.
When she was in Qinzhou before, Shen Shuli had worked on inland river boats, but those boats were completely incomparable to the ships on the sea.
After all, the sea is much more dangerous than rivers, and ships must be built more solidly to withstand risks.
Shen Shuli had collected a lot of ships before, and originally thought that they might be useful.
But those ships can only sail in shallow waters at best. If they enter deep sea areas, they will probably be knocked to the bottom of the sea by a wave.
The map of the Great Yong Dynasty is almost the same as that of Blue Star China.
If Lihai City were placed in modern Blue Star, it would be roughly located in Guangdong.
The uninhabited island is located more than 550 kilometers away from the Li Sea.
If it were converted into Blue Star’s standard sea unit, it would be a full three hundred nautical miles!
This distance is definitely a very long distance for Dayong today!
According to the ship speed of that era, they could travel 80 to 100 kilometers per hour, and this was when traveling downstream.
If you want to reach the uninhabited island, including the rest time, it will take at least seven days to get there!
The situation at sea is unclear and the risks are extremely high.
If there is bad weather, the delay will probably be even longer.
Moreover, these large ships rarely go to deep sea areas to explore unknown dangers. They basically travel along the coastline, transporting merchants and goods to coastal cities.
Shen Shuli inquired for a long time.
The largest sea vessel is 50 meters long and 15 meters wide, enough to accommodate the entire team.
But there are very few large ships of this size, only five, and they have all gone out, and the earliest one will return in three days.
There are other smaller ships idle at the dock, but these ships do not pose the risk of heading to deep sea areas.
Shen Shuli didn't dare to let the team take risks.
But three days later.
The rainy season is definitely coming!
Even if there are large ships returning by then, no one will be willing to take the risk of going out to sea!
You know, a light rain on land may cause huge waves on the sea!
If a huge wave hits, everyone on the boat will probably be doomed!
Chen Shuli could only go to the North City Wharf to see if there were any large ships that were temporarily idle.
Half an hour later.
Shen Shuli arrived at the North City Pier.
She quickly inquired about the situation of the ship, but the result was equally disappointing.
A large ship will pass by the pier tomorrow morning, but the ship's berth is fully booked.
Besides, they are heading to the northeast coast, and no matter how much money is paid, they will not change their route and take risks in the deep sea for them.
"Sir, do we have a shipyard here?" Shen Shuli asked anxiously.
"Yes, but don't hold your hopes up. It takes the shipyard three years to build a ship of the largest size. Forget it."
"Let's just say, why did your family have to go to that damn uninhabited island?"
"Let me tell you, ever since that uninhabited island was discovered, many fishermen have wanted to visit it, but many boats never returned after going there."
"And the island was discovered because a fishing boat lost its way at sea and found it by accident. They were lucky to have found the right direction to go home, otherwise they would definitely not have been able to return."
Shen Shuli knew that this soldier had good intentions, but she couldn't reveal too much to him.
However, Shen Shuli also got a piece of news because of this.
That is, the island was only discovered by the people on that ship.
Other ships that went there for adventure never returned.
There are only two possibilities in this situation.
One possibility is that the sea area is extremely dangerous, and ordinary small boats cannot pass through the dangerous sea area to reach the island.
Second, the island may not even exist!
But Shen Shuli prefers to believe the first reason.
Because this island is an important location designed by the author, the future heroine will develop there.
So this island must exist.
Then, the only possibility is that the sea area is too dangerous and it would be difficult for ordinary people to find it without some luck.
It is a gift specially prepared by the author for the heroine.
Shen Shuli thought about these key points clearly, said goodbye to the official with a smile, and immediately found a hidden place to contact Su Yunhai via walkie-talkie.
"Dad, are you there?"
Su Yunhai recovered quickly.
"I'm here, what's wrong, girl?"
"We may be in trouble." Shen Shuli told Su Yunhai that there were no ships available.
Not only Su Yunhai and Shen Shuli have this walkie-talkie, but Shen Yuehua and Mu Wanjun also have one, and they are all on the same channel.
Any conversation can be heard by others.
Su Yunhai was still bargaining with the boss of the blue brick factory, but the news revealed by Shen Shuli made his scalp numb.
"What should we do? Is there no way for us to go to an uninhabited island?"
Shen Yuehua consoled her: "Girl, if it really doesn't work out, let's just buy a house in Lihai and settle down, right? As for the rest, we can only take it one step at a time."
Mu Wanjun also advised: "Yes, A-li, the rainy season is coming soon. According to your analysis, even if we rent the largest ship, it may rain halfway through the journey. We may encounter a shipwreck by then. It is better not to take risks. Let's find another way."
In modern times, with such a developed shipping industry, many people still encounter shipwrecks, let alone in this extremely backward ancient times?
Shen Shuli: "Don't worry, I have another solution, please listen to it first."
The three of them immediately stopped talking and listened carefully to Shen Shuli's thoughts.
Chen Shuli: "Dad, A'li, I still have a helicopter. Why don't the three of us fly the helicopter to explore the distance and location of the island, and then survey the specific conditions of the sea area."
"If we can't find the island, then we'll just give up. If the island is still there, we'll first carefully explore the area around it to see what's going on."
"I have a three-story luxury yacht in my space. If we squeeze in, it should be able to accommodate 200 people. I can make a few more trips and send everyone to the island in one day."
"But the yacht will definitely be exposed."
The entire team has more than 2,000 people.
Shen Shuli's helicopter could only accommodate 10 people at most, which was not even within her consideration.
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