Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 267 Ambition
Jiang Xiaoxiao was eating with her mouth full of oil and just smiling foolishly.

Since we can’t eat the big fat fish on the boat, we can just eat some shrimp to satisfy our cravings.

While the mother and daughter were happily eating shrimp and seaweed dumplings, a slender and tall maid came down from Su Wanwan's room to the second floor of the merchant ship, and went straight to the stern cabin with her head down.

This type of merchant ship is generally divided into two layers. Above the deck is a structure located above the inner floor, which is used to cover the space inside the ship and has guest rooms for merchants to rest.

Below the deck are cabins for various purposes. In addition to the bow cabin and stern cabin which are places for fixed storage of objects, the middle part is the cargo hold where important goods are stored.

Next to the cargo hold is the boiler room, where there are only two sailors responsible for boiling water.

"Is Chef Yu here?"

The two busy boatmen looked up and recognized her as the maidservant of the noble lady. They nodded attentively and turned to shout towards the kitchen cabin: "Old Yu, someone is looking for you."

The boiler room is where the chief chef prepares meals for the people on the ship, and there are two assistant cooks who take turns helping out.

The kitchen assistant Yu she found was one of them.

After a while, the kitchen helper Yu came out. He was a burly man in his thirties or forties, wearing an apron so dirty that the color could not be seen.

There was a hideous scar on his face that ran from his forehead to his chin, which looked very scary.

"Scarlet Yu, the girl is looking for you." One of the boatmen looked at him helplessly. He was covered in dirt. The apron around his waist was stained with the blood of the freshly slaughtered fat fish. He didn't care about his image at all and was not afraid that the girl would dislike him.

"Just do your thing, no more talking." Scarface Yu pulled off the apron around his waist and casually wiped the remaining blood on his hands.

The maid glanced at the two boatmen next to her, then took out two silver ingots from her purse and stuffed them into their hands with a smile: "Excuse me, brothers. My wife is seasick and feels really nauseous. She asked me to ask Liu the assistant chef for some fresh ginger to drink. My wife always likes to be quiet, so I hope you two brothers will not spread this matter."

"Okay, we'll keep our mouths shut." The two boatmen agreed hurriedly.

"The fresh ginger is in the cargo hold, come with me." Yu Scarhead glanced at the boatman who was so confused by the two silver ingots that he turned around and entered the cargo hold next to him.

The maid turned around and followed her in.

As soon as you get inside, the stale and sour smell of all kinds of food hits you in the face.

The cramped warehouse was filled with food materials, including rice grains that had been stacked against the bulkhead for who knows how long, sun-dried beans that were not easy to mold, and dried fish that had been air-dried for who knows how long...all kinds of smells mixed together to form an even more unpleasant smell.

Yu Scarhead seemed to have been accustomed to it and dug out two barely fresh pieces of ginger from the corner of a pile of pickle jars.

There were no supplies on board, so they had to carry enough food reserves to meet the needs of hundreds of crew members. However, vegetables and other ingredients were easy to spoil, so for easy storage, they were usually salted in advance and made into pickles.

The vegetarian soup that Jiang Xiaoxiao thought was unpalatable before was made by just throwing two handfuls of pickles into the pot.

"Where's the food?" She didn't take the ginger piece handed to her by Scarface Yu. Instead, she looked at the dirty ginger piece with a flash of disgust in her eyes.

Yu Scarhead then impatiently took out a packet of medicine from the lining of his extremely dirty outer shirt and said, "A little bit of this knockout drug can make people fall asleep immediately and sleep soundly. Don't give too much, or someone might die."

The maid hurriedly took the medicine bag and opened it. There was finely ground white powder inside, which dissolved in water and no one would notice.

She put the medicine bag into her arms with a nonchalant look on her face, and said impatiently, "I know."

After saying that, she turned around and walked out. The smell in the cargo hold was really bad, and she was afraid that if she stayed any longer, she would vomit out of nausea. "Ying'er." Yu Scarhead suddenly called her.

"You must be on guard against others, but you must not have the intention to harm others... Just stop once you get the money."

Yu Ying'er paused.

She turned around and looked at the scar that almost covered the entire face of Yu Scarhead, and said coldly: "Why do you want to harm me? I just don't want to be a slave for the rest of my life and be ordered around by others. Is that wrong?"

Yu Scarhead paused and fell silent.

He tightened his fingers around the ginger, then walked over quickly and stuffed the ginger into Ying'er's hand without caring about anything else. "Don't forget to take the things back."

After saying that, he didn't even look at Yu Ying'er again and quickly walked out of the cargo hold.

Yu Ying'er pursed her lips, then left the cargo hold and returned to the deck.

The thin white sunlight shone through the clouds onto the deck, warming our bodies and dispelling the moisture from the dark and cramped cargo hold.

Yu Ying'er then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sister Ying'er!"

At this time, the maid Yu'er patted her shoulder from behind and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Yu Ying'er was startled, but quickly calmed down, straightened her slightly messy clothes, and smiled: "It's really cold after staying on the boat for so long. I came out to bask in the sun."

Yu'er didn't doubt him, and took out two round red lychees from her bosom and stuffed them into her hands, blinking at her and smiling, "This is a gift from the Madam, take two and eat them, and I'll give the rest to Xiaoxiao."

Yu Ying'er looked at Yu'er's arms full of lychees, which were bright red and juicy. Greed flashed across her eyes, but she didn't show it on her face.

She pursed her lips, her tone a little unconvinced: "You are just a country girl, why are you always rushing to please me? I just gave the lady two pills, why do you have to give them such precious food?"

Even in the capital, lychees are a rare fruit that most wealthy families cannot afford.

A country girl has probably never seen such a precious thing, so it would be a waste to give it to her.

"Sister Ying'er, you can't say that. Miss Xiaoxiao is kind-hearted and has been so good to my wife. These lychees can't be kept for too long. It won't hurt to give them a few as a thank you gift." Yu'er shook her head, carefully wrapped the lychees in her arms with a cloth, and walked towards the cabin not far away. "My wife has just rested. Go and help take care of her. I'll be back soon."

Yu Ying'er looked at the lychee in her hand and bit her lips lightly.

In fact, what she wanted was not only money.

She could eat as many delicious lychees as she wanted every day. If the lady was gone, would she have a chance to climb onto that bed...

The handsome face of the prince in her memory was vaguely visible, and the look he gave her when he raised his head inadvertently made her young heart beat uncontrollably...

Madam, oh madam, you are the one who doesn't know what is good for you. You take advantage of the prince's favor and act arrogantly and recklessly.

Since you don't like the princess's seat, let someone else sit there.

Thinking of this, Yu Ying'er seemed to have made up her mind and strode towards the guest room on the second floor.