The third section of Shen Bao's first pot of gold
The islands in the Pirate King are strange and difficult to generalize. If they are forced to be divided by season, all the sea islands can be roughly divided into four categories.
What four categories?
The answer is very brain-dead, of course it's Haru Island, Natsu Island, Aki Island and Fuyu Island.
The current destination of Shenbao - Shangchuan Island is Xia Dao.
Shang Town Island is indeed the economic center of the surrounding islands, with a huge flow of people. Three large docks, hundreds of shops, and thousands of stalls cover all aspects of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, eating, drinking, and entertainment. After sailing for half an hour, Shao Bao and Shao Ping set foot on the land of Shang Town Island, and they felt the fiery noise and passion rushing towards them.
"I've finally escaped the life of Robinson Crusoe! Look, what a passionate merchant island this is! So many beautiful women! The Pirate King's world, my new world, I'm here, I've seen it, I'll conquer it!" Shino exclaimed, his emotions in turmoil, shouting towards the sky and attracting countless strange stares from those around him.
"Who's that guy? He looks like an idiot."
"Shh, that's a Tiger Shark Merfolk, the king of merfolk. I've heard their strength is 20 times ours, so let's not provoke them carelessly!"
"Hey, Fishman! I heard that at this auction, Gura Gura-san has raised the price of a Fishman slave to 5 million Berries."
"Indeed, he is a king among merfolk! Look, he came by boat!"
"Cut it out, what kind of ship is this, it's just a rotten wooden block... the Fishman Tribe really is ignorant..."
Shen Bao didn't care about the pointing and staring around him, his self-feeling was still super good. Just as he was about to step into his "new world", he was suddenly pulled back by Shen Ping.
Shen Ping was an honest child. He pointed at the wooden boat and asked: "Shen Bao, what's going to happen to this boat?"
"What else can be done, just lose it." The feeling is that this is not one's own labor achievement, and with a wave of the hand, it's easy to say.
Shen Ping is still Shen Ping, but Shen Bao is no longer Shen Bao.
Under the calculation of Shén Bǎo, although Shén Píng still retains his independent thinking nature, under the power of the mother nest fruit, facing Shén Bǎo's "orders", he can no longer raise any resistant or questioning thoughts.
So Shenping reluctantly obeyed Shenbao with a soft "oh". But then he asked again, "Shenbao, we're now penniless and have nothing on us. Even if we go to the central town of Shangtun Island, it's still pointless!"
"Huh......" Upon hearing this, Shen Ping suddenly realized the severity of the problem.
The currency unit in the One Piece world is called Berries, usually 100 Berries can only buy a newspaper. Poor Shinobu, a dignified transmigrator, doesn't even have enough money to buy a newspaper.
"My goodness, I was planning to buy some sailing gear too. It's really a case of 'a single penny can bring down a hero'. I'm so miserable!" Xianbao's eyes welled up with tears as he let out a long sigh. In his past life, he was just an old otaku who had spent 20 years cooped up at home, with no achievements to speak of - no culinary skills, no business acumen, and no internal martial arts abilities."
As for the concept of empty-handed white wolf, he knew it, but when it came to how to implement it, he was at a loss.
"Excuse me, is this sampan yours?" Just as the brothers Shim Ping and Shim Bao were at a loss for what to do, a sly-looking old man appeared.
"Of course it's ours, what's wrong with that? This isn't even an official dock, are you kidding me that we have to pay a berthing fee?" Shen Bao retorted coldly.
The old man hastily waved his hand and clarified, "I'm not a city administrator, don't worry about it. I want to ask if you can sell me this boat made entirely of sandalwood?"
"Sold?" Shen Bao raised an eyebrow, his expression serious, but in his heart he was overjoyed. "This is truly a dream come true, I really do have a main character mode, good things are happening one after another!"
"This ship is an heirloom passed down from my ancestors, old man! If you want to buy it, name a price!" Shao Bao began to ramble on with his mouth.
Honestly, Shěn Píng was shocked by Shěn Bǎo's shamelessness: Oh my god, it was clearly the boat I just made, and in the blink of an eye it became a family heirloom! And what kind of fisherman takes a boat as a family heirloom?!
"Uh..." The old man was also shocked by these words, and he involuntarily rolled his eyes, his face changing from pale to red for a while before forcing a smile and saying, "I'll give 50,000 Beli, that's the market price."
"10 million Beli, and I'll sell you!" Although Shinbao didn't know the market price, he was very decisive and swift in making such a bold offer.
"Damn it!" The old man was so angry that he almost cursed out loud, but considering the other person's physique and the increasingly rare cyprus wood, he still managed to hold back.
"Hmm..." The old man took two deep breaths and continued, "10w Belly is too much, Fisherman Big Brother can go ask about the market price, 5w Belly is really a honest price! Alright, I'll offer 5.5w Belly, can't be more than that!"
"Only 5.5 million Beli? At least it should be 8 million Beli!" Shao Bao shook his head, thinking that 5.5 million Beli was not a lot, just enough for 550 copies of the newspaper.
"No, no, no! 8 million is impossible, 5.5 million Baht, I'll only sell for 5.5 million Baht!" The old man's attitude was very resolute.
Shen Bao saw the old man's resolute gaze and knew he couldn't raise the price anymore. However, he thought for a moment and came up with a plan, "Alright, I'll tell you where to find the Qingtan wood, and we can settle on 8 million Berli."
"This is not good, the Qingtan wood is a very unique tree, and it's unlikely to find another one within a hundred miles. Alright, I'll add 5,000 more Beli, making it 60,000 Beli." The old man was indeed cunning.
Shen Bao was somewhat exasperated: "Alright, alright, 60,000 Berli, old man. You're so old and yet still so stingy, you should change your name to Harpagon."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the old man, "How did you know that my name was Goriot?"
Extremely precious and extremely rare.