Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

That's what war-weariness is all about, but things might not turn out the way she imagines.

For example, right now, as soon as she heard footsteps, she rushed straight into Jing Su's arms without even bothering to see who it was.

"Oh my, isn't this Warspite and the Commander? It's been a long time~" A gentle voice came, and Warspite's Wisdom Cube suddenly stopped when she heard it.

'Oh no, it's her!'

"Glory, you're here! Didn't we just see each other the day before yesterday? How come it's been so long?" After seeing who it was, Jing Su wanted to greet them, but found herself being held tightly by Warspite. Only then did she notice that Warspite's pretty face had turned pale at some point.

"Hey, that's weird. It's sunny outside, but it feels a bit cold. Is there air conditioning here? The air conditioning in the hallway doesn't seem to help much. That's strange."

After struggling for a while, Zhan Yan tightened her grip even more, as if something terrible had appeared outside. Only in Jing Su's arms could she feel a sliver of security.

"Hehe, Miss Warspite, what are you doing right now?" With light footsteps, the bridge trembled slightly. Glorious, dressed in a blue dress, strolled up to Jing Su and gently patted Warspite's head with her folding fan.

"Yeah!"

With a strange cry, the war-weary creature said nothing, immediately sent Jing Su away, and fled the scene as if its life depended on it.

"Um, is Warspite alright?" Jing Su asked, watching Warspite walk away.

"Hehe, Commander, don't worry about Miss Warspite. She's probably worried about not being able to get that mystery feast, so she went to the restaurant first." Glorious unfolded her folding fan and held it to her lips, so that Jing Su couldn't see her expression, but her voice was still gentle and emotionless.

"Is that so?" Jing Su nodded. "So eager? I'm quite curious about what that mysterious feast is."

"Hehe, Commander, today's special feast was specially prepared by Miss Curaçao for Miss Warspite. Commander, don't worry about what it is, there's no share for you~"

"Drip~"

The sound of a message being sent caught Jing Su's attention.

"Guanghui, did you send a message just now? I think I heard a sound." Jing Su looked around, trying to find the source of the sound. After all, there was no one else around except him and Guanghui. If there was a sound of sending a message, it might mean that someone's tablet was lost.

"Yes, it's me. There were some things I needed to arrange with the royal maids, but I've taken care of them now."

"Oh, it's yours. That's good. I thought someone had lost something." Jing Su laughed, then became concerned about the mysterious feast. As a Donghuang person, he might not care about other things, but he would definitely pay attention to food. "I just don't know what the mysterious feast is. Sigh, Yan Zhan ran too fast just now, and I didn't react in time. Otherwise, I would have made her leave some for me."

"Hehe, Commander, it's not a good habit to steal other people's food. Today's feast is specially prepared for Miss Warspite. Her Majesty the Queen also participated in the preparation. It's all Miss Warspite's favorite food. Who knows, by the time you get to the restaurant, she might have already finished it all~" Glorious pulled her folding fan up high and placed it in the center of her nose, but you could still vaguely see Glorious's eyebrows and eyes curved into crescent shapes.

"Oh, that's a real shame." Jing Su said helplessly, feeling somewhat disappointed at not being able to eat anything delicious.

"Commander, it's lunchtime now, and I'm getting a little hungry too." Seeing that Jing Su was no longer paying attention to Warspite, Glorious began her own operation.

"That's perfect, let's go grab something to eat. I've been busy all morning and I'm getting hungry." Jing Su nodded; after talking about food for so long, his stomach was growling.

"Commander, how's your stomach now?" Seeing Jing Su about to head towards the restaurant, Guanghui quickly called out to him. If Jing Su really went to the restaurant, with so many companions there, there was no guarantee that a few daring people wouldn't join in on his romantic solo meal with Jing Su.

"This? Heh, you already know that." Hearing Guanghui's question, Jing Su exhaled a breath of stale air and laughed heartily.

"Of course. Commander, the entire port is very concerned about your health. When they learned that you had health problems, several of our sisters almost went to the port to confront you."

"Haha, it's nothing, it's an old problem. I know how to deal with it. It's much better now. Just pay attention to your diet."

Thanks to the nutritional supplements he received during his time with the Eastern Empire, Jing Su's stomach is no longer as weak as it was when he first transmigrated. He can tolerate mild hunger without feeling unwell, and he can even drink a small amount of alcohol. However, Jing Su knows that this is only the initial effect of the treatment. His condition usually responds well to treatment at first, but he still needs to maintain a healthy diet to prevent a rebound.

"Pay attention to your diet? What kind of attention?" Guanghui frowned slightly when she heard that Jingsu was not fully recovered. She had thought that Jingsu was completely well because he was drinking and traveling around at sea. Now that she knew that there was still a problem, she became worried.

"A light diet, small meals frequently? Eating on time? Haha, these are all old-fashioned Donghuang methods." Seeing Guanghui's slightly furrowed brows, Jing Su thought she didn't quite understand the Donghuang idiom, so she added, "To put it simply, just try not to go hungry, but don't eat too much either, and then use some medicinal food or something to nourish yourself, that's all."

"Medicinal cuisine?" If Guanghui could still understand the previous words, then this "medicinal cuisine" was indeed a blind spot in Guanghui's knowledge.

Although Guanghui had visited Donghuang's residence several times and even personally experienced Donghuang's most important festivals, he also experienced Donghuang's traditional clothing with Yixian's company. He wondered if he could attract Jingsu's attention with this outfit when Jingsu returned in the future.

Ultimately, she is a ship girl from the Royal Navy faction, and her understanding of Eastern culture is superficial. She knows that such a thing exists, but she only has a vague understanding of its specifics.

"You can think of it as taking medicine and food together." Jing Su pondered for a moment, trying to explain in a way that Guanghui could understand.

"Does mixing medicine with food make it a medicinal diet? What's the difference between doing this and taking medicine after a meal?" Guanghui was even more confused.

"Well, according to the saying in Donghuang, every medicine has some degree of toxicity. Some patients have poor physical condition, and taking medicine directly may damage their bodies. So they take the two together, which helps with absorption. For specifics, Guanghui, you can ask Yixian. She should know more about it."

Oh, by the way, the medicine in medicinal cuisine is actually quite different from the kind of medicine you're familiar with. Well, how should I put it? You can think of it as cooking the raw medicinal ingredients together with the rice.

"In short, this is good for the commander's health, right?" Seeing Jing Su gesticulate wildly as she spoke, Guanghui extracted the key words.

"I guess so." Jing Su nodded. "Speaking of which, it's been a while since I've had any medicinal cuisine. I was a bit hungry today, and my stomach is acting up again."

"Ah, Commander, don't panic." Hearing that Jing Su was having another episode, Guanghui panicked, visibly panicked, and grabbed Jing Su's hand, running in a certain direction.

"Hey, wait, it's alright, it's alright." Jing Su quickly stopped Guang Hui. Why were all these girls so anxious? As soon as they saw that he had a problem, they grabbed him and rushed to one place without saying a word.

Jing Su felt that if she didn't explain clearly, she might fall hard on the road, which would be more serious than her physical ailment.

"Commander, whether your body is in trouble or not is not up to you to decide. Only a doctor can tell. Don't avoid seeking medical help." Glorious ignored Jing Su's shouts.

"Oh, Guanghui, you know idioms!"

"I've learned a bit in my spare time, but it's just scratching the surface," Glorious replied. In fact, throughout the entire port area, the phenomenon of learning idioms and some Eastern Huang allusions is very common, since their commander is the one they care about most.

Even if it's just to have more common topics to talk about when spending time with Jing Su, you still have to learn some things, but the focus of learning will be different for different ship girls.

Guanghui majored in poetry and literature. She loved reading and people often said that when she talked to others, it was like talking to a great poet, full of poetic and artistic sentiment.

"Haha, it's alright. If something happens to me, Guanghui, do you think Yixian will release me?" Knowing that she couldn't convince Guanghui with her own words alone, Jingsu had no choice but to bring up Yixian.

From Guanghui's words, Jingsu could guess that the news about her stomach problems must have come from Yixian. Binjiang was a straightforward person, but he was quite sensitive and probably didn't know about Jingsu's health issues. Otherwise, he wouldn't have dragged Jingsu out drinking every day after he took over.

Just as Jing Su said, he knew all too well how to deal with this problem. In his previous life, when he was in college, his roommates didn't even realize he had this problem for four years.

"Ha, Commander, so you mean that Yi Xian can heal you, but our Royal Army can't?" Just as Jing Su thought, Radiant did stop after hearing his words, but judging from his expression, it didn't seem to be what Jing Su had imagined.

"Ahem, what are you saying?" Seeing Guanghui's angry expression, Jing Su was surprised. Was he jealous? Guanghui could actually be jealous?

Regardless of the reason for Guanghui's anger, after such a long period of time, Jingsu knew that now, comforting him was the best course of action.

"My problem is that my stomach hurts when I'm hungry, so even if you're going to take me for some tests, at least let me have a meal first."

"Ah!?" Guanghui was stunned. She had indeed heard Yixian say that Jingsu had some stomach problems, but she didn't know the specific symptoms. If Jingsu wasn't lying, then wouldn't she have made her lover suffer?

Immediately, Guanghui was plunged into deep self-blame.

"Hehe." Jing Su seized the opportunity of Guanghui's self-blame, rushed forward, hugged Guanghui, and said, "Miss Guanghui, you don't want your husband, your lover, to be so hungry that his stomach hurts, do you?"

"Hey, Commander!" Glorious's face flushed red in an instant.

Chapter 119 The Glory of a Rich Woman

"Where is this?" Jing Su pondered, looking at the room filled with the smell of cooking fires.

"Hehe, this is kind of my secret base. Commander, how is it? Not bad, right?" Glorious produced a cup of black tea from somewhere, held the cup to his lips, tilted his head, and said with a smile.

"A secret base? You guys have something like that?"

"That's natural. Although the castle is luxurious, it's still a place where everyone lives together. Strictly speaking, it's a dormitory building. In many ways, it's inconvenient. So Her Majesty the Queen tacitly allows us to have a private residence outside. However, we have to be responsible for our own room, daily expenses, and other things."

"Every member has one?" Jing Su expressed her surprise again.

After all, the house that Guanghui brought him to was a super luxurious villa with modern style decoration, three stories high, with its own swimming pool and lawn, and a small shed at the back of the door with a red car parked inside.

“We should have all the main warships, and the smaller ships should gather in twos and threes to set up their own gaming bases, though they might not necessarily be villas,” Glorious said after a moment’s thought.

"Are you guys that rich?" Recalling her life before she transmigrated, living in a rented old, dilapidated apartment on the eighth floor with no elevator, Jing Su felt like crying.

"Ouch, that hurts, bro! What's it like when your employee is richer than you?"

"Well, it's alright. It's just a house. You can get one by making a few expeditions. Doesn't the commander have one?"

"Ahem, all my money has been spent on the construction of the port area. Money? I've never seen money before, and I don't even know what money looks like in this world. This kind of thing, well, never mind, I still care a little about it."

Jing Su became more and more agitated as she spoke, until finally she couldn't bear to watch anymore and abruptly stopped talking. It was heartbreaking.

However, Jing Su was right about one thing: since transmigrating to this world, he really hadn't seen a penny. The ship girls had taken care of his food and lodging, and with all sorts of things to do lately, Jing Su had really forgotten about it.

It seems I'm penniless!

'That doesn't seem right either. The account Changchun gave me has some strange numbers on it, something like credit points or something like that. Can this stuff be used as money?'

“Commander~” Although Jing Su was talking nonsense, Guanghui obviously took it to heart. She grabbed Jing Su’s hand, her voice soft and her eyes sincere, “It’s okay, Commander, I will take care of you.”

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“Commander, you are the head of the family. How can you not have some funds? You can’t hold your head up when you’re out in the world. Here, take this card. I was in a hurry to leave today, and this is all I have on me. It’s not a lot, around a million. Commander, please use it first, and I’ll give you more when you run out.”

After saying that, Glorious pulled out a black card from the bridge of his ship and handed it to Jing Su.

"??"

Jing Su was stunned. When he brought Changchun to Haibin City a while ago, he took the little girl to buy food everywhere. He had a general understanding of the consumption level in this world. For example, a pound of rice costs a little over three yuan, and even the most expensive rice costs only a little over ten yuan.

Of the four basic necessities of life—clothing, food, housing, and transportation—food best reflects the level of consumption. In terms of food alone, the purchasing power of money in this world is similar to that of the world Jing Su lived in in her previous life.

So now, Guanghui casually threw a million dollars at him, leaving Jing Su somewhat stunned.

"Isn't one million enough?" Seeing Jing Su looking dazed, Guanghui thought she thought it was too little and explained, "I wore a dress when I went out today and didn't bring my bag. Most of my cards are in that bag, and my phone is in my room in the castle. This is all I have on me."

"Okay, Commander, you can use this for now. When we get back to the castle tomorrow, I'll transfer five million to this card. That's all I can transfer; this is the limit I have left for this year. When I got the card, the bank on the back said there were restrictions on large transfers. I only got it because I thought it looked nice. If you don't like it, Commander, you can always go back and get a different one."

After speaking, Guanghui looked at Jingsu nervously, feeling somewhat regretful. If he had known he could bring Jingsu out, he would have made preparations earlier. It was just fate playing tricks on him. All his careful preparations and arrangements were useless. In the end, it was Hao and King George V who used tricks to seize the throne.

Today was the same. I was just wandering around the castle when I received a message from Jing Su. I ran over and saw that Warspite was there too. After sending Warspite away with a few words, I managed to get Jing Su to come out so easily.

As a result, she was completely unprepared. She barely put on any makeup, picked out clothes randomly, and even the secret base she brought Jing Su to was only recently purchased. As the owner, she didn't know much about the specifics inside.

A feeling of frustration was brewing in Guanghui's heart.

"Ahem, no need, no need, it's enough, more than enough." Having spent so much time with the ship girls, it's hard to say how much his other abilities have improved, but his skill in sensing the girls' emotions is definitely maxed out. Glorious's disappointment quickly brought Jing Su back to his senses, and he hurriedly comforted her, "I was just a little surprised. I didn't know my wife was so rich. Actually, I'm quite wealthy. Yi Xian even gave me a card, so I'm not too worried about making ends meet."

Jing Su was stunned by Guang Hui's words and didn't react for a moment. Now that she has calmed down, she remembered that when she brought Changchun to Haibin City, she bought Changchun a lot of delicious food, which was paid for with a card given by Yi Xian.

Jing Su had specifically asked how much money was in the card, but Yi Xian just smiled and didn't say anything. She only said that it was definitely enough to buy some snacks. Given Chang Chun's personality, once he got ashore, he would definitely be craving food and would ask for it everywhere. This little bit of money could be considered as money to buy snacks for the commander.

Upon hearing that it was for buying snacks, Jing Su subconsciously assumed that there wasn't much money on the card, maybe a thousand or eight hundred yuan at most. Now, Jing Su felt it was necessary to check how much money was actually on the card Yi Xian had given her, because the card Yi Xian had given her looked exactly the same as the one Guang Hui had given her.

“That’s different. The money Yixian gave you, Commander, was probably for Changchun to buy snacks. Strictly speaking, it’s Changchun’s money, and there are even restrictions on its use.” Guanghui chuckled. She had met Changchun before. She was simple-minded and mischievous, but it wasn’t difficult to get information out of her. So Guanghui easily obtained the information she wanted from Changchun. “This one is only for the Commander.”

"!"

Chapter 120 Purchasing Ingredients

In short, Jing Su, completely bewildered, took the card with one million and walked into the splendid villa.

Why come to this place?

Guanghui wanted to learn the medicinal cuisine that Jingsu talked about. It was probably too late to learn the specific principles now, but from Jingsu's explanation, Guanghui knew that medicinal cuisine, to put it simply, was a way of cooking.

Since it's about cooking, Guanghui felt that he could learn how to do it.

Once I learn it, won't I have the chance to spend every day with Jing Su?

So Guanghui tried his best to get Jingsu to come to his nearest apartment.

The ship girls in the Royal Navy faction have a particular fondness for buying houses. Queen Elizabeth has a special fondness for castles, while Illustrious will buy any house she likes, secretly fantasizing that if Jing Su were to return, she could do some intimate things with the Commander in the room.

Unexpectedly, their fantasy came true. The room they were in was recently purchased by Guanghui and had just been renovated. Guanghui himself hadn't even stayed in it for very long.

“Guanghui, this villa…” Looking around, Jing Su was at a loss for words.

"Commander, what's wrong? Are you not satisfied with this house? If not, we can change to another one." Seeing Jing Su's expression, Guanghui inwardly cursed, thinking that he should have come to take a look earlier. But he also blamed himself, because he had bought the house but had never come here much, leaving it to the renovation team and then ignoring it.

"It's not that I'm dissatisfied." Jing Su quickly waved his hand. It wasn't that he didn't believe Guanghui didn't have a second house, but he didn't want to go through the hassle. He knew Guanghui's personality well. If the other house was nearby, he wouldn't have come to this place. "I mean, this house is too new. It doesn't feel very homey. It looks a bit awkward."

"Hehe, is there no warmth or life here?" Glorious smiled slightly, walked to Jing Su's side, put his arm around Jing Su, and said softly, "That's right, there's no warmth or life here. Commander, you can see that too. No one has lived in this villa for a long time. I don't like coming to this place by myself. So, Commander, you should come and keep Glorious company more often in the future. Someone has to live here, right?"

Guanghui, being such a perceptive person, followed Jingsu's words and proceeded accordingly.

"Uh, of course." Jing Su didn't expect Guanghui to say that, but then chuckled and turned around to kiss Guanghui's forehead, smiling.

"Such a big house must be a lot of trouble to clean." After taking a quick stroll around, Jing Su sighed. This villa must be over 400 square meters and has three floors. It must be so troublesome to clean it. Just thinking about it makes her scalp tingle.

"It's alright. The cleaning can be left to the little yellow chicks; they're very good at that kind of thing."

"Can the little yellow chicks come into the secret base?"

The Little Yellow Chicken is considered a public asset of the port area. It was developed specifically for the characteristics of each faction, so its number is limited. This doesn't mean that no new Little Yellow Chickens will appear in the future, but rather that the movements of each Little Yellow Chicken can be directly tracked.

“Just buy a few from Akashi,” Guanghui explained.

It turns out that once people use the little yellow chick, they become deeply enamored with it. As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is market. Akashi, who is best at seizing business opportunities, created a black market channel. There are even rumors that the little yellow chick was developed by Akashi.

"Akashi is involved in smuggling?" Upon hearing that it was related to Akashi, Jing Su suddenly understood what was going on.

"Heh, that Akashi guy is just obsessed with money. She'll do anything to make money. Trading a few little yellow chicks in private is nothing. She's done things like turning purple tech boxes yellow and selling them as gold boxes. She's a total swindler." Glorious said, her white teeth clenched tightly, her expression somewhat ferocious.

"Uh, is that so?" Judging from Guanghui's expression, it seems she's been burned before? Jing Su decided not to bother asking her how she knew about this.