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Chapter 12: I was 'stealed' when I just bought it

At noon the next day, Zhao Xin came out of the hotel and took a taxi to Darling Harbor. The venue of the yacht show was located there.

As soon as I got off the car, I saw that the streets were crowded with people. This was a line of local tourist and shopping centers, shops, cafes and restaurants; hundreds of yachts were also parked in the harbor, because the appearance was almost white, and it looked so dazzling.

Zhao Xin soon saw Gu Xi at the entrance of the venue. The girl wore a gray professional outfit today and a pair of long legs, which was very conspicuous in the crowd. According to what she had negotiated on the plane yesterday, Gu Xi took him to the dock directly.

Since Zhao Xin received promotional materials from various yacht companies, there were Azimut-Beti Group, so Gu Xi introduced his company's various products in detail on the plane. As a result, Zhao Xin liked the most a model called "Azimut 98".

"This yacht is 30.75 meters long and 6.8 meters wide. It is equipped with two 2216 mHP (1630 kW) MTU 16V 2000 M92 engines, with a displacement of 100 tons, a maximum speed of 32 knots, a cruising speed of 29 knots, a fuel tank capacity of 10,980 liters, a freshwater tank capacity of 1,800 liters, and a full load of 10 passengers."

Zhao Xin, who came to visit the yacht, listened to the introduction and looked at the various facilities inside. The most he saw was the engine and cockpit, and he didn't care much about the leisure and entertainment facilities on the boat.

"This place can connect the entire dining area, salon area and stern casing into a piece, without any partition in the middle, with an area of ​​120.8 square meters. If you want to drive a party on the boat..."

Gu Xi took him to the stern of the boat, pressed a button, and the semicircular glass door at the stern of the boat automatically moved to both sides, and finally completely hidden in the walls on both sides.

Zhao Xin looked at the huge space, and was not thinking about opening a party, but how many people could be stuffed in.

"I said, would it be fine if this boat is 100 people?"

Gu Xi was stunned when he heard this: "The full load of this ship is 10."

Zhao Xin pointed at the dining area and salon area where he was, gestured for a while, and explained: "I understand, I understand, the number of cabins is enough for 10 people to live in. But I mean, this deck and here are all on it. Can a hundred people be put down? Is it dangerous?"

"It should be, it should be possible." Gu Xi was a little confused, but nodded.

"Can you go out to sea now?"

"no problem."

Forty minutes later, the yacht more than 30 meters long drove out of the dock, crossed the Harbour Bridge eastward, crossed the Convenient Long Point, and made a round trip in Sydney Bay. Zhao Xin paid attention to the operation of the yacht throughout the journey, and had no interest in the scenery on the bay and the shore. During this period, he also asked the driver for a lot of start-up and operation questions. After that, the yacht drove to Clark Island, and he was satisfied and asked the driver to return.

"How about it?"

“It’s pretty good.”

"Do you want to look at other models?"

"No, just it. How to sign the contract?"

As soon as she got ashore, Gu Xi asked casually, but Zhao Xin actually asked for a contract, which made her very happy.

The contract was not the dock and the exhibition center. Although it was also possible to handle it, there were too many people visiting it. Gu Xi drove Zhao Xin to the company directly.

After sitting down and formally discussing, Zhao Xin directly asked to buy the one he had tested before and not wait for the new ship, because the time was too late and he had to return to China to handle the business as soon as possible.

The reason why he was so anxious was mainly because it was the end of July, and there were only two months left before the winter in the northeast. At the end of the year, the sea on Bear Island would freeze. If he wanted to attract refugees from Japan, he would have to wait for the next year. In addition, after returning to China, he would also take Liu Sheng to Japan to meet those refugees. If Liu was unwilling, he would have to find another way.

Because the test drive was an old ship that was two years old, and Gu Xi helped to talk about it, the yacht company gave some discounts. Zhao Xin bargained again and thought the price was almost the same, so he signed an agreement to pay.

Speaking of buying a yacht abroad, you don’t just sign an agreement and pay it. There are still many procedures to go through later.

First, you have to take a boat license, take 9 hours of English courses, and then take the exam. Usually, people who get the driver's license will join a certain yacht club first, communicate more with members, and then decide which boat to buy based on their own situation. Zhao Xin did the opposite, buying a boat first and then taking the driver's license, and he had no interest in the club.

After the new ship is obtained, you have to take the invoice to the maritime department to apply for the ship's license, get the license number and post it on the ship. After that, you have to spend a fee and ask someone to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the new ship, then apply for insurance, rent a berth, and pay electricity and fuel costs.

If a radio station is to be installed on the ship, you must also have a radio license. In addition, you must apply for an "MMSI certificate", that is, the water mobile communication service identification code; it is a code composed of nine digits, mainly used to identify the ship's radio communication system. With this system installed, the position of the ship can be quickly positioned worldwide. Once the ship encounters an emergency at sea, the rescue center can quickly obtain the relevant information and location of the ship through the code.

Fortunately, Gu Xi asked someone to help, Zhao Xin only took one week to get his driver's license and boat license.

However, he did not buy insurance and did not apply for the "MMSI certificate". He did not want people to know where his ship was. After all, he wanted to use it at another time and space. Even if the ship sank and overturned, he could only admit that he was unlucky.

In order to express his gratitude, Zhao Xin invited Gu Xi to have a luxurious dinner after the procedures were completed and gave him a brooch as a thank-you gift. Gu Xi thought this guy was interesting to him and felt happy.

The boat buying matter has been completed, and it is also early August. Zhao Xin felt it was time to go back.

At noon that day, he first bought a plane ticket to return home at 8:50 am the next day, paid the room fee at the hotel front desk, and then took a taxi to Darling Harbor. After arriving at the port, he first bought a sandwich and a cup of coffee in a restaurant, and then took his suitcase to the boat.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After getting on board, he came to the upper deck, took out a telescope, and stroking around while drinking coffee. It was fake to see the scenery, but in fact he was checking the surrounding camera surveillance and guards, as well as whether there were people living on the nearby boat.

I felt that my observation was almost done, Zhao Xin returned to the master bedroom on the lower floor, took out the pillow and quilt from the cabinet, put the alarm clock on his phone, and fell asleep after falling back.

At three o'clock in the evening, he was woken up by the alarm clock. He washed his face, drank half a cup of cold coffee, and then went to the top deck for a while, and confirmed that the surrounding boats were all black and that no one was walking on the dock, so he went to the lower floor, carried his box, and got on the pier from the stern.

He first untied the cable tied to the trestle and threw one end of the rope back to the boat. Then he looked around in peace, and then took out the jade pendant from his pocket. In a flash, the yacht more than 30 meters long disappeared from the berth, leaving a large area of ​​water empty.

Then he quickly left the dock with a box, called an online car-hailing car outside the port with his mobile phone, and headed straight to the airport.

At 8:20 in the morning, Zhao Xin boarded the flight back to China on time. However, it was not until half an hour later that the stone in his heart fell to the ground.

For other ship owners around the berth of Darling Harbor, they were not familiar with Zhao Xin, so they couldn't talk about concern. The ship was gone, and maybe they were going out to play; if there was no trace of them for several months, they couldn't take it to other ports. Australia is so big and there are many ports, so where is it not to go.

Even if someone finds that the situation is wrong, as long as the victim does not report the case, foreign police will not bother to take care of it. This is not a murder case that must be filed.

The person who was most unhappy about Zhao Xin's disappearance was Gu Xi. She found that Zhao Xin had left without saying goodbye, but she unexpectedly thought that Zhao Xin's cell phone was shut down.

Two days later, Liu Sheng, who had just returned from the sea, was sleeping soundly when his cell phone suddenly rang.

"Hello?"

"Liu, it's me."

Liu Sheng heard that it was Zhao Xin. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the time. It was only six o'clock in the morning. Just as he was about to ask the other party, Zhao Xin said again: "Someone will call you later. It is a visa agent. I will get you a tourist visa to Japan."

"Yes." Before Liu Sheng woke up, he responded casually, then suddenly reacted and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I will accompany me to Japan next week, and I will cover all the fees. There is still something to do here, so I won't talk about it for now."

Liu Sheng put down the phone and was stunned and lost his sleepiness. He got up lazily and went to the bathroom. After putting the water, he started brushing his teeth. While fiddling, he thought about what Zhao Xin said just now. He was really confused. What are you going to Japan?

After washing his face, he called Zhao Xin again, but the other side was busy. After hanging up for a while, a strange phone call came over again. Stop asking, it must be the agent.

Liu Sheng thought about it and said, forget it, everyone has helped him a lot. The money is easy to say, but it is hard to repay the favors, so let's go with him. Anyway, he is alone now, and it will take another month to go to sea next time.

After the phone was connected, he just "feeded" and the man opposite began to introduce himself: "Mr. Liu? Hello, I am XX agency. Mr. Zhao asked me to call you..."

A week later, the two got off the plane at Haneda Airport, took the subway to the central central station, and then boarded the JR Shinkansen to Aomori.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to his destination, Zhao Xin couldn't help but think that Liu Sheng should be fine either. Before going abroad, he tried the cat several times with the cat, and even bought a medical oxygen cylinder and put it in the RV. He planned to turn on the oxygen before the action. If there was no oxygen, Liu Sheng should be fine.

When they arrived in Aomori in the evening, Zhao Xin took Liu Sheng to a hot spring hotel. This place was very close to Zhao Xin's "anchor point". When the two of them had enough to eat and drink and soak in the hot spring, Zhao Xin began to test.

"Liu, if so, I mean, if you could go back to ancient times, what would you do?"

"Ancient? Three Kingdoms or Water Margin?"

"Not that far, well... in the 18th century, the Qing Dynasty, it was Qianlong."

"Qianlong was there..." Liu Sheng put the towel behind his head and leaned against the pool and asked comfortably: "Let's chat with Zhongtang, and then I'll tease Liu Luoguo.

"Well. The problem is that you have to shave your head when you go to the Qing Dynasty, and you have to shave your head, and you have a rat tail."

Liu Sheng curled his lips and said, "Grandma! If that's the case, I'll bring a machine gun to rattle those girls."

Zhao Xin laughed for a while and asked again: "If you have the opportunity to travel through time and overthrow the Qing Dynasty, do you want to be an emperor or a general?"

Liu Sheng closed his eyes and said, "What are you doing to be an emperor? It's so tiring! I watched a documentary online a few days ago, and then I realized that the emperor was not easy to be an emperor. I wanted my concubine to spend the night at night, but I had no chance to take it away as soon as the matter was over. When I met the food I liked, I could eat three bites at most. After eating one more bite, I couldn't see this dish for the first month. If I wanted to go there, I would be a general, either the horse-drawn grassland or the sea would rush around, and I would clean up the Japanese first!"

Zhao Xin laughed, suddenly changed his mind and said, "Liu, quit the shipping company and come and help me. What do you think?"

Liu Sheng was stunned when he heard this. He was silent for a moment, then rubbed his face with his hands, and said, "Work with you for medical services? Don't tease me."

"It's not necessarily a medical worker. I'm serious. You can tell me the salary. How much can you earn in a year when you go on a boat? Is there a half million?"

“How many are there.”

Don’t look at Liu Sheng borrowing money everywhere, it’s because his savings were hacked by his ex-wife. He is the second mate of an ocean bulk carrier and a senior seaman. His average monthly salary is more than 5,000 US dollars, and there are food subsidies during the boat trip.

However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The seafarer has no salary during his rest period. Before, in order to make his wife and children live a good life, he wished he could spend eleven months on the sea a year.

Now that his wife has left, the child is not his own, he has no desire to make money at once, so he came back from sea this time and went home for another month to rest, otherwise Zhao Xin would not be able to catch him.

"Liu, now I have a chance to do it well and be able to do a great job."

"Haha, how old?"

Zhao Xin stretched out his arms out of the water and gestured exaggeratedly: "You can't imagine it."

"Stop talking! I'm not interested in making money now. Go back and run the boat for another two years and pay back your money. I plan to hike around the world."
Chapter completed!
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