The slightly weird commander's ship girl tour

Changchun immediately stepped forward and whispered a few words in his sister's ear. Suddenly, the port saboteur suddenly realized what was going on. He stepped forward and patted Huang Chen on the shoulder. "It's okay, Commander. This kind of thing is normal! I always ruined some plans for no apparent reason in the past."

Huang Chen was a little amused and rubbed the little guy's head. "It's okay, I get it. I was just thinking... Forget it. Is our plan really reliable this time?"

"It's reliable!" Fushun nodded, gave a thumbs up and showed a determined look, "Sister Yixian will definitely like it!"

"I hope so." Huang Chen nodded without saying anything more.

Changchun, standing by, suddenly became dissatisfied and waved his hands hidden in his sleeves, "Don't worry, there will be absolutely no problems, as long as the commander doesn't make the same mistakes again!"

Huang Chen grinned and walked forward to rub the girl's head. It must be said that it was quite fun to rub the little guy hiding in the Big Tiger doll costume.

He was having fun when he suddenly heard the sound of a car horn at the entrance of the alley.

Harbin was sitting in the driver's seat of a pickup truck, waving over here.

Chapter 641 It’s time to play your role as commander

A few people looked around and confirmed that Yixian did not suddenly appear at the intersection, then hurriedly got into the pickup truck.

Harbin started the car, and with the slight vibration and roar of the engine, the pickup truck drove out of the food street and then headed onto the main road leading to the suburbs of the city.

Huang Chen leaned on the passenger seat, looked at the scenery that kept receding behind the window, and let out a long breath, "So where is our destination this time?"

"It's not confirmed yet." Harbin looked straight ahead, concentrating on driving.

"Not confirmed yet?"

Fushun sat in the back seat, poked his head out from the gap, and said, shaking his head, "It's in a small town not far away! They have a lot of osmanthus trees there."

Huang Chen nodded, rolled up the car window halfway to block out the cool morning breeze, and lay down on the seat. "Now you should tell me why the gift for Yixian was an osmanthus tree, right?"

He is still a little puzzled. Even if it is a Mid-Autumn Festival gift, why would the gift be an osmanthus tree?

He couldn't help but think of last night when he was lying in bed, half asleep, but suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. As soon as he opened the door a crack, a black thing came in.

It took a long time to research before I found out that the thing was Fushun.

He thought something had happened, but it turned out that he was going to buy an osmanthus tree as a gift for Yixian today.

I was so sleepy at that time that I didn't feel anything strange. After complaining about Zhaohe's lanterns in the morning, I came to my senses and couldn't help but mutter a few words in front of Yixian.

After all, this thing seems a bit weird no matter how you think about it.

Fushun puffed his lips, but before he could say anything, Changchun came over and asked, "Commander, didn't you notice that we're missing some things for this Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"Something is missing?" Huang Chen squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't feel anything."

"Osmanthus wine! How can you enjoy the moon without drinking osmanthus wine?" Changchun stretched out his hands from both sides of the headrest and gently tapped Huang Chen's ears, as if to avenge the rubbing of his head just now.

"Osmanthus wine?" Huang Chen felt that the word sounded familiar this time. It seemed that it was indeed something that should be available during the Mid-Autumn Festival. "In that case, why don't we just prepare osmanthus wine? Why do we have to kidnap an osmanthus tree?"

"Hmm... because Sister Yixian used to make her own osmanthus wine?" Changchun thought for a moment and said, "There used to be a lot of osmanthus trees in the city parks and squares. Every year we would go and pick osmanthus flowers and use them to make osmanthus wine, osmanthus dew, and osmanthus cakes!"

The girl chattered on and on, and Fushun beside her nodded vigorously, as if he had already remembered the taste of those delicacies.

"But this year the flowering trees have been replaced, so we haven't been able to prepare it."

As Changchun spoke, he rubbed Huang Chen's face with both hands. At first, he was restrained, but when he saw that Huang Chen did not react, he became more presumptuous.

Huang Chen nodded, and just as he was about to speak, a strange sound came out of his mouth. He immediately shook his head, then pulled Changchun's two small hands that were trapped in the Big Tiger doll costume, making it impossible for them to move. Only then did he calmly ask his question:

"Even so, wouldn't it be better to prepare some osmanthus flowers? If there is only one osmanthus tree, there will be nowhere to plant it."

Fushun, perhaps seeing Changchun's frustration, subconsciously wanted to laugh. After a moment of joking, he offered his own idea, "But a single osmanthus tree always looks more like a gift than just the osmanthus flowers."

Huang Chen remained silent, holding the Big Brain Tiger's claws in his hand, not caring at all about Changchun's slightly dissatisfied murmurs from behind the chair.

The driving in Harbin is very stable. Although the girl is carefree, there is no need for others to worry about these details.

The pickup truck drove along the main road of the city. After about twenty minutes, the surrounding scenery gradually became empty, with vast fields and woods appearing one after another, and the previously wide main road had become a simple two-lane road.

This means that everyone has left the city.

"It's almost there, just ahead. I remember there was a town with a lot of osmanthus trees. It's said to be a tourist attraction." Harbin said casually.

Huang Chen's sight passed across the vast fields, across the undulating rice and corn fields, through the clear sky and clouds, and through the sparse woods. Finally, he found a forest with twinkling dots like golden stars.

The fragrance seems to have volume and spreads in the air, like cream, like honey, with a lingering sweetness in the refreshing clarity.

Huang Chen immediately realized that it was the fragrance of osmanthus. He couldn't help but roll down the car window and breathe in greedily to capture the sweetness in the air.

"smell good."

"It smells good, but Sister Yixian's osmanthus wine smells better!" said Fushun.

Huang Chen nodded and watched the pickup truck drive towards a small road, pass by a gate archway with the words "Shishui Osmanthus Garden" hanging on it, and then stop in a square.

"This place looks like a tourist attraction. Do they sell osmanthus trees?" Huang Chen stretched and suddenly felt confused.

For a place like this that uses osmanthus as its selling point, it is understandable to sell osmanthus flowers, and it is understandable to sell osmanthus products, such as osmanthus wine or osmanthus cake, and it is understandable to even sell osmanthus books and other peripheral products.

But selling osmanthus trees directly...

Huang Chen looked into the woods. The osmanthus trees were quite large, with trunks of about ten centimeters supporting branches with a diameter of two or three meters. In short, they were lush and leafy.

I'm afraid half a tree could fill the pickup truck that drove by.

It would be easier to deal with the trees after bringing them back. If you really can't find a place to plant them, just ship them back to the island. There is plenty of space on the island, so it's no problem to plant a grove of osmanthus trees.

"Let's go, Old Huang." Harbin turned off the engine and stopped the car.

In fact, it is not necessary to have so many people just to buy a tree. Fushun and Changchun are just here to join in the fun. Of course, it is not appropriate to say this, after all, using an osmanthus tree as a gift was the suggestion of the Hong Kong area vandals.

Although she said that this was actually Changchun's idea, any normal person can see that without her making the decision on the spur of the moment, Changchun would definitely not have caused such trouble.

After all, Changchun prefers to hide in the room and read books, and would not come out unless Fushun dragged him out.

But all in all, it doesn't take that many people to buy a tree.

Theoretically, it would be enough for Harbin to come alone, with at most two people coming to join in the fun, but the girls finally called Huang Chen.

On the one hand, it allows this guy to have some sense of participation in the process of preparing a gift for Yixian.

On the other hand...

Huang Chen pushed open the car door and watched Fushun and Changchun slowly walk down the truck. Harbin, standing opposite the pickup truck, had one hand on his hips and was scratching his already messy hair with the other. "It's time to show your role as commander."

Chapter 642 This lady?

What is the role of a commander?

This question is difficult for ordinary people to answer. In their opinion, what role does a commander play?

As long as you graduate successfully from the Commander Academy and build a ship girl of your own, you can sit back and relax.

After all, the commander is not a soldier in the general sense. He does not need to undergo various physical training to temper his will, and the sea area he guards does not require him to personally attack and fight against the ferocious Sirens.

He gets a high salary every month and is always surrounded by cute girls. Although he lives far away from people, he is already a commander, so how could he be lonely?

The actual situation is similar to what everyone thinks.

The commander's job is indeed a pretty easy one. If you don't have any big ambitions and stay safely in a safe sea area, you won't even have many sorties. How can you not envy others for living peacefully with your ship girl in a picturesque place?

First comes envy, then jealousy, and even some inexplicable resentment or arrogance.

In short, ordinary people have complicated attitudes towards the commander and the ship girls. Most of the reasonable ones are naturally grateful, but some are extreme and think it is natural for the commander and the ship girls to repel the Sirens.

They would even accuse them of not trying hard enough and not fully protecting them after an attack and demand compensation from the commander.

This kind of thing has not happened before.

And it is precisely because of this biodiversity that ship girls generally rarely come into contact with people outside the commander group.

Generally speaking, the personalities of ship girls are relatively simple and honest, without any scheming. It is even difficult for them to understand why they would be scolded for helping them.

Since they cannot understand, they need someone who can communicate with them, and this person is naturally the commander.

This method is to protect the ship girls on the one hand, and to protect those sarcastic people on the other hand. After all, although the ship girls are cute, they are not really harmless little white rabbits.

At first, they treated you as a citizen who needed protection.

But if you really show your malice too obviously and are judged as a bad guy by the girl... the consequences are hard to predict. After all, most people can't withstand naval guns.

In short, one of the commander's roles is to act as a medium between the ship girls and ordinary people, to coordinate communication and ease the situation.

Of course, only the naive newborn girl needs the commander as a medium. As for Harbin, she is a seasoned expert herself, and ordinary scoundrels may not be able to defeat her.

But considering that Huang Chen was the nominal commander after all, he was still asked to take action in this matter.

Huang Chen nodded, understanding what he meant. He walked into the next room and called out, "Boss? Is anyone there? Boss?"

"Hey, yeah, yeah, how about you guys? Are you camping or something?"

Soon, a response came from the room, and then a middle-aged man in a blue work suit and a straw hat walked out. He looked around and finally landed on Huang Chen.

The latter paused and organized his words. On the one hand, it was because he felt that buying a tree was a bit weird. On the other hand, he found that he had not talked to ordinary people in this way for a long time. For a moment, he didn't know how to start the conversation politely.

In the end, he chose to speak directly, "Buy a tree! Do you sell osmanthus trees here?"

"Osmanthus tree? Potted? Or maybe planted in the yard?" The boss didn't seem surprised at all. He turned around and took a notebook from the cabinet and handed it to me. "Come and see, our osmanthus trees here are, without a doubt, the best in the entire C2 area!"

Huang Chen blinked and looked at the thing in his hand that looked like a menu. He felt that this matter was going much more smoothly than he had imagined.

"Take a look?" Huang Chen casually flipped through the notebook in his hand, then handed it to Harbin.

The boss led the way, leading everyone to a small courtyard. "What are you planning to do with the tree? As a Mid-Autumn Festival decoration? Or something else?"

"A gift."

"Gift?" The boss nodded, indicating that he understood. "Then I suggest buying a potted plant. Many customers like to come to us to buy potted osmanthus trees as gifts. We also have osmanthus wine and osmanthus mooncakes, which are all very suitable as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, whether for friends or superiors."

"Potted plants?" Huang Chen was a little curious. He swept his eyes across the yard and saw some short trees with trunks only two or three centimeters high and a little over one meter tall. They looked short and small. Although they looked good, they did not meet their requirements.

Harbin shook his head and handed over the notebook in his hand. "Are there any more trees like this?"

"Which one?" The boss leaned over and frowned, "This one... uh..."

He was stunned, his eyes swept over Huang Chen and Fushun Changchun, and suddenly realized, "Madam, this kind of tree is not like a potted plant. It needs a large open space to survive..."

Harbin was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. However, the girl didn't explain. She just pointed at a tree on the notebook and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. There's a place to plant it. This kind is fine."

The boss didn't say much and led everyone to another place.

In the end, Huang Chen and his colleagues carefully selected and finally chose a small osmanthus tree that was six centimeters thick and two meters and two meters high.

It is called a small osmanthus tree, but it is only compared with the big trees in the fields. In fact, it is not small. The boss wanted to trim the branches and leaves, but was stopped by Huang Chen.

I bought the tree just for the osmanthus flowers. If I trimmed the branches and leaves, where would the osmanthus flowers come from?

The boss was a little hesitant, but did not refuse. He just gave me a few more packets of nutrient solution and reminded me to plant them within five days.

In fact, if this kind of tree is covered with soil, it will not be a problem for it to live for ten days or half a month. If the branches and leaves are not pruned, and it is early autumn, the nutrition may not be enough, so the time can be shortened.

Huang Chen nodded. The tree could be delivered by logistics tomorrow at the latest, and it would arrive on the island in five days.

After buying the tree, Harbin carried the small tree back to the pickup truck and threw it into the cargo bag, which left the boss stunned.

Huang Chen sat in the passenger seat and took a long breath, "This is much simpler than I thought."

"It's just buying trees, why is it so troublesome?" Harbin clapped his hands and sat in the driver's seat. "I'll park the car at the intersection in a moment, and then we'll walk back to the restaurant."

Huang Chen nodded. Since it was a gift, it certainly couldn't be discovered by Yixian in advance.

Changchun and Fushun also jumped into the back seat. The port saboteur, holding the candy given by his boss, smiled and leaned over, "Commander, you have some too!"

Chapter 643 Surprise

Huang Chen leaned back in his seat, the vibrations from the pickup truck's start-up causing him to sway slightly from side to side. However, he remained steady as he picked up a candy from Fushun's little hand and tossed it into his mouth, mumbling, "That boss didn't seem to recognize me as the commander."

"This is normal. This town is quite far from the sea. The commander and the ship girls rarely come back to such a far place." Harbin rolled down the window, looked at the rearview mirror, slowly reversed, and drove out of the parking space.

"When I was in Luonan before, few of the regular customers who often came to the hot pot restaurant discovered that I was a ship girl." The girl continued to chatter.

"But the hair color in Fushun and Changchun is so eye-catching..."

"It's understandable that some people would deliberately imitate the style of Kanmusu, and the best thing to imitate is hair color... Then, Boss, you probably misunderstood it." Harbin smacked his lips and said, "Haven't you noticed that many young girls on the street also dye their hair in various styles?"

"Really?" Huang Chen was a little confused. He didn't like to study girls he didn't know, and he didn't really pay much attention to them on weekdays. Now thinking back, it seemed to be true.

"Yeah!" Harbin sighed. "Old Huang, you should pay attention to the outside of the port area sometimes, right? You can't focus all your attention on your own port area, right?"

Huang Chen snorted and didn't say anything, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.