The boat boss shook his head: "The water hooks all look the same, so I can't tell them apart."
Xiao Lingyue stopped talking.
Prince Xiang frowned and asked, "What should we do now? It's not a problem to continue to stop here."
The boss of the ship hesitated for a moment, then raised his hands and said, "Sir, I have an idea."
King Xiang: "Say."
"The sailors on the ship have been paying attention to the surrounding situation, and have not seen the water bandit's boat appear for the time being. This water hook may have been missed before, but to be on the safe side, we still need to send people into the water to feel the situation in the nearby waters.
, if there are other hooks hidden in the water, it’s better to fish them out to avoid scratching the bottom of the boat.”
The boat boss knew that they were not familiar with waterways, so he explained.
King Xiang's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Can your people salvage it?"
He glanced outside the boat.
After the sky darkened, the wind began to blow on the river, and the water was rippling. Coupled with the poor lighting, the entire water surface looked dark, as if there were countless dangers hidden there.
The boss of the ship said: "Salvage is not a problem. All the brothers on the ship are good hands in the water, but..."
King Xiang: "Just what?"
The boss of the boat apologized and said with a smile: "We are only halfway into the water. According to the rules on the boat, we need to pay some head fees to the brothers. After all, as you have seen, my lord, there are strong waves on the river and it is dangerous to go into the water to salvage. If anything goes wrong."
....."
King Xiang suddenly realized that he wanted to increase the money!
The boat they were on was a private boat, so they paid for it with their wallets.
Originally we just agreed to take them to their destination, but now someone needs to take the risk to go into the water, so the ship boss came over to negotiate the price.
It's okay to just ask for money.
The household official beside him secretly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak.
But King Xiang stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a half-smile, "Boss, are you trying to raise the price on the ground?"
The captain's expression changed: "Sir, I don't mean this..."
"Originally, the price we negotiated was to hire your ship to take us to our destination. Now that the ship has just sailed not far away, something like this has happened. You ask us for money. Isn't it justified?"
King Xiang said calmly: "We did not set this water hook."
Shiplao Dadao: "That's what I said, but..."
King Xiang smiled and said: "It's not that I can't afford the money, but I'm a little curious. If the customers you usually receive encounter the same thing halfway and can't come up with the money, what will you do?"
"This..." The boat boss hesitated to speak.
The Ministry of Revenue official on the side suddenly thought of something and looked sharply: "You are not going to be in the same group with the water bandits, are you? One of them lowers the hook to stop the boat, and the other sits on the ground and raises the price to collect the money?!"
The boss of the ship was stunned, and waved his hands repeatedly in fear: "No, no, sir, please don't misunderstand..."
"Then what will you do if the guest cannot come up with the money?" King Xiang raised his eyebrows and asked again, "We have already collected the money for chartering the boat. Are we going to abandon the guest halfway? Or continue to drive on regardless?"
There will always be a solution.
King Xiang didn't believe the boat boss. They had been sailing for so many years and they had never encountered the same thing.
The ship boss sighed, his dark face looking a little bitter.
"To tell you the truth, we have encountered this kind of thing many times. If the customer is easy to talk to and is willing to pay the money, and the brothers use the money to get into the water, everyone will be happy.
If the customer is hard to talk to, or really can’t come up with the money, there’s nothing you can do!