: see tricks

: see tricks

Chapter 215

Elizabeth's face is reflected in the vanity mirror, her skin is fair and delicate, her cheeks are a healthy pink color, her lips are dyed with lipstick, her eyes are light and light, with a shrewd light, and she has a simple but beautiful shape on her head. Clearly, maintaining such good maintenance on a long journey is no mean feat.

She looked at herself in the mirror and took pity on her, observing every detail, sometimes pushing her temples, and sometimes showing all kinds of coquettishness in front of the mirror. She was intoxicated with her beauty, and felt that looking in the mirror and dressing up were very pleasant things. In the boring voyage, she often takes pleasure in it and kills time.

She spent more than a year at sea, traveled tens of thousands of miles of sea, passed through dozens of countries, and met people of different races, skin colors, and languages. Along with the huge caravan, she went through various tests and finally arrived at the Wuzhou Kingdom depicted in the "Oriental Knowledge Record", which is an ancient and rich land - although not everyone is rich, but the dignitaries are rich. People are really very generous. The nobles of the Wuzhou Kingdom were very hospitable, and the merchants received warm hospitality at the mansion of the princes and marquis, and also received many gifts, including very precious gold and silver utensils.

The president of the Shamrock Caravan, Sikamon, was even summoned by the king of the Five Continents. In addition to the royal gift, he also received a famous one, right? A real title of nobility.

In Elizabeth's impression, Wuzhouguo is a treasure land, rich in resources, flat and fertile. The only disadvantage is that the technology is backward and cannot keep up with the pace of this era, and cannot manufacture flintlocks and artillery. This is actually a very dangerous thing, but the nobles of the Five Continents do not seem to take it seriously. In terms of customs and customs, she feels that Orientals respect etiquette, are hospitable, and especially love face, which can be seen from many aspects.

Like other businessmen, she brought in a large amount of goods, all of which are special products of the West, which are very cheap, but the Wuzhou Kingdom could not manufacture them. She used two boats of cheap gadgets to make a huge profit of 40,000 gold coins, and the boat also carried back the goods that were only available in the East. After returning to the Greenland Empire, she could make another profit. She brought back boxes of ceramics. The pottery-making process in the East is very different from that in the West, especially in terms of patterns. The ceramics she brought back are called blue-and-white porcelain by Eastern merchants. They have beautiful blue patterns and are beautiful. It has a unique charm, and it will definitely sell for a good price when it is shipped back.

In fact, doing business at sea is just like this. Merchants transport goods unique to one place to another place that needs the goods, and make a difference in price, so people call them sea coachmen.

On the way home, whenever she thinks of the goods, Elizabeth will occasionally sigh in addition to being happy.

Among the caravans, no merchants would let their ships go home empty, and they each bought their favorite goods. Many, many merchants bought slaves along the coast and planned to bring them back to the five empires to sell. In this day and age, is it? It's a shameful thing, even the laws of the Empire support the slave cause.

However, Elizabeth hates the slave trade in her heart. She thinks that merchants cannot sell their souls, right? Whether it is the soul of the fight, or the soul of someone else. The act of selling slaves is equivalent to reducing the merchants to the level of goods

Elizabeth's father was also a businessman. She had heard her father say something like this when she was a child - businessmen today have forgotten the two most important sons in business, one is integrity and the other is conscience.

Because she bears in mind her father's teachings, she will never do business that burdens her heart. She wants to make money, but she wants to make clean money

Thinking of this, she once again aroused her thoughts of her father. How is the amiable old businessman doing now? Did you suffer in prison? Whenever she has this kind of worry, she will be eager to rescue her father. Fortunately, God blesses her. The profit she made this time is enough to cover the debt owed by the fraud case, so that she can redeem her father. . After going through these things, she clearly realized the power of money. Even if her father was rescued, she would still continue to be a businessman and earn more money. This is not only because she worships money, but also because of her love for the business cause, she likes doing business in her bones.

For the future, in addition to rescuing her father and continuing to be a free businesswoman, Elizabeth's heart is still vaguely surging. She has just turned twenty-one years old this year, and she is already quite old. To be discovered, the noble ladies of the empire, Some get married at the age of sixteen. Thinking of getting married, all kinds of men that she knew popped up in her mind. These men stood in her memory in different postures, and the clearest figure among them turned out to be the eastern pirate Tangke.

"Bah, bah, what do I think about that rude pirate?" Elizabeth showed a charming blush, she wiped her cheeks, and the burning temperature couldn't be dissipated. She consoled her, but Tangke was only a little impressed by her, right? other.

Just when she was struggling with this matter, there was a sudden cannon fire, and then more and more cannons sounded. It didn't sound far away. It should be a certain ship in the caravan firing guns.

Did you meet a sea monster?

She murmured in her heart, straightened up, and walked quickly to the door, her knee-length golden skirt fluttering gracefully. She walked through the cabin corridor and passed the sailors, her graceful figure attracted the admiring eyes of many young men, but she was accustomed to it. She found out that the sailors didn't notice the sound of the cannon, so she didn't ask, she went straight to the deck, took off the telescope hanging around her slender waist, and followed the sound of the cannon.

On the distant sea, beyond the position of at least six ships, two ships were bombing one ship. The bombed ship was not a pirate ship, but a ship within the caravan. This is obviously a very strange thing, why do you want to beat people?

With the scale of one to a dozen ships, you can move forward in a line-up formation during the voyage, but when a larger fleet is advancing, as long as the sea is wide enough, it will adopt different formations. After all, there are too many ships. Connecting in a line is not good for tailgating.

At present, the formation layout of the caravan consists of ships with powerful firepower on the periphery, and is subdivided into forward, left and right flanks, and left and right flanks at the end. Within the protection circle of the warships, the first layer is ordinary merchant ships and material ships, the second layer is the ships of some big businessmen, and the center is the ship of President Cikamon.

Cicamon cared for Elizabeth along the way, and what he did clearly exceeded the scope of the president's obligations to the members. Because of this relationship, Elizabeth's two ships are mixed in the innermost layer. This is the safest place. Even if there is an attack, there is no need to worry, because there are outer warships to resist the attack.

Elizabeth's ship is in the core position, and the position of the gun battle is in the outer position. Visually, the bombed ship is not large, similar to the Mandela, between small and medium-sized ships, solitary, right? foreign aid. The two ships that were attacking were flying the flag of Sikamon, which meant that the battle was initiated by the supreme leader of the fleet. Because of this, no one took the lead in expressing dissent.

The battle slowed down the entire fleet, more and more merchants came to the deck to watch, and an atmosphere of unease enveloped more than 160 ships. Fortunately, the battle took a short time, the two ships carried out several rounds of artillery fire, and then attacked the paralyzed enemy ship and captured the whole ship.

Elizabeth had a very bad hunch that this battle would never explode because of a small friction. There should be a deeper and more serious reason.

When the battle was over, the caravan continued to advance, and soon recovered its original speed. The dilapidated ship was abandoned, but the prisoners and the gold coins on board were taken away by other ships.

Ciccamon claimed to the outside world that the cause of this battle was that the people on that ship misbehaved and stole his treasures, so he would punish him. At least he gave everyone an explanation, and this matter was quickly over.

Although the cause of the incident has been discovered, but Elizabeth is not? Fa to dispel the worry in my heart. She can guarantee that she is the person in this caravan who hopes to return home safely. Only by returning home successfully can she save her father. To this end, she has a very high vigilance against various red flags.

In the evening, Sikamon sent someone to invite Elizabeth to dinner, Elizabeth agreed to the dinner, and wanted to ask about it during dinner.

The Rider of Waves, the ship that Sikamon rides, is also the command ship of the fleet.

This ship is a magic ship. When defining the rank, there have been disputes among many shipbuilders, resulting in opposing ambiguities. Some people think this ship is a third-order magic ship, but others strongly refute, He insisted that the firepower of this ship was enough to be regarded as a fourth-order magic ship. It can be seen that the firepower of this ship is stronger than the ordinary third-order magic ship.

The Rider of Waves is 130 yards long and 12 yards wide. It is covered in silver-white metal skin. The boat has a trident-shaped ram, and there are as many as six thrusters in the stern. Although the metal hull makes this ship heavy, right? than, but with the help of five mast sails and six thrusters, the speed of this ship can still reach a terrifying eighteen knots. With this flying speed and a solid angle of impact, this ironclad ship can easily Crash the enemy ship and break the enemy ship into two pieces. The ship also has a huge extendable blade hidden in the belly of the ship. Once the enemy ship attempts to engage in a side battle, the blade can be used to pierce the approaching enemy ship.

With these two fighting styles, the ship is invincible in close-range collisions from the front as well as from the side. But the builder of this ship was obviously not satisfied with this. The ship was also equipped with several specially made huge metal crossbows, which could shoot long crossbow arrows three yards long and as thick as the wrist, and their range and power were far from ordinary cannons. In this way, the ship also has considerable combat effectiveness in long-distance combat.

In addition, there are two rare and powerful dragon eagles on board. With these two dragon eagles escorting them, even enemies from the sky can easily deal with them.

With these attacking magic weapons, the Rider of the Waves can already be a hero at sea. Anyone who wants to fight this caravan's ghost plan must be prepared to face the Rider of the Wave.

Dressed up, Elizabeth came to the Rider of the Waves. She took the steps that a lady should have, walked across the red carpet on the deck, and entered the brightly lit ship building. Except for the slight swaying defect, it was just like this. Like a mansion on the shore, the decoration is luxurious and magnificent.

A tawny dragon eagle flew by suddenly, deliberately clinging to the sea, the strong wind under its wingspan even lifted the waves. It passed by, bringing a cool breeze to the corridor, which was pouring in through a row of windows.

Elizabeth's show fluttered, and she stretched out her white hand and folded it. She noticed just now that the dragon eagle's beak seemed to be stained with some red liquid, which made her have some bad associations.

Although there is a larger dining room in the boathouse, Ciccamon chose a small room that gave Elizabeth a comfortable feeling. This moderately sized long table in the house can make the distance between the two people a little closer when eating.

Cicamon bent down very gentlemanly, took Elizabeth's hand, and kissed lightly on the slippery surface of the white glove. During this brief and sweet process, he kept looking up at Elizabeth, with nostalgia in his eyes. with admiration.

Elizabeth withdrew her hand and smiled politely.

"Miss Elizabeth, please take a seat." Sikamon's voice was a little sharp, or neutral. He was also very slender, with fair skin, and even had ears pierced and a diamond-studded earring.

Elizabeth doesn't really like a sissy man like Cicamon. She likes his muscles and his slightly dark face. Because of this, she shows her love for Cicamon very clearly, and she has always kept it tepid. Attitude.

The two greeted each other politely, then sipped wine and nibbled beef.

Elizabeth felt that it was time, so she tentatively said: "I don't know how the thieves on the Xiaomeng stole your valuables, did they find it later?" Her tone was soft and seldom revealed in the past. I think this tone is conducive to getting the truth of the matter.

Cikamon raised his orchid fingers, took a sip of wine, and after savoring it carefully, he said with satisfaction, "Do you think keeping secrets is a required course for a lady?"

"I think so," said Elizabeth firmly.

"Okay then. You are very, very ladylike, so you must be very good at keeping secrets. Since that's the case, I'll tell you the truth of the matter. After you've heard it, you must put the truth in your heart. Of course, the most important thing is So that you can put me in your heart too."

Elizabeth smiled but didn't answer, her card and gold refracted brightly, and her smile was as sweet as honey, making one want to sip.

Cikamon showed an intoxicated look, and said in this half-drunk state: "Actually, the people from Xiaomeng did not steal my son, it was just a rhetoric to make everyone feel at ease, you are so smart, you must have guessed it, right?"

Elizabeth tilted her head slightly and blinked playfully.

Even more intoxicated, Ciccam continued: "Though those damned—sorry, I said foul language—well, they didn't steal my ornaments or my gold, but they had more sinful guilt. They, in fact, A spy sent by pirates."

Elizabeth's pupils shrank a little, and there was indeed another secret.

"And the pirate who sent them is a tricky pirate chief. His name is Christine. Have you heard of this man? He is a notorious pirate, and no businessman would want to meet him."

"I found him, you can skip the part introducing him and the ghost pirate group and go straight to the point."

"I really like your frankness, and your inner drive. It's like a beautiful flame, shining into my life and making me unable to extricate myself." Sikamon praised several words without hesitation. , and then turned back to the topic, "The point is that my Dragon Eagle caught the Information Eagle they secretly released, and cut down a letter, which reported our affairs in detail. The most terrible thing is that they wrote The exact date of our arrival in the turbulent sea is definitely within half a day. Think about it, if Christine found out our whereabouts, what would he do?"

Elizabeth wasn't interested in the sarcastic compliment, but the important information made her tremble. Christine was a very scary pirate. He owned a lot of ships. If Christine led someone to guard the channel, the Shamrock Caravan would be in danger. . Suddenly, she lost all her appetite and never wanted to touch those tender beef again.

"Yes, they will stand in front of the turbulent sea, waiting for us to deliver to the door. It is estimated that they will treat us as fat sheep."

"Fortunately, fortunately you intercepted the letter, so we can change the route and avoid the ghost pirate group directly." Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief and exhaled a faint fragrance.

"No, I'm not going to change the route." Sikamon giggled a few times, pretending to be mysterious.

"Why?"

"Because I have a more brilliant plan," Sikamon applauded in order to beat Wisdom, and clapped a crisp sound, "After I captured the people of the Xiaomeng, I forced the captain to write a new letter, in which Said that we changed the route, and asked Christine to quickly move the position. In this way, Christine and the others would leave the turbulent sea and run to the open sea to wait stupidly. And we can also follow the original plan without changing the route. , Continue to the turbulent sea. If you want to find out, if you pass through the turbulent sea, you can save a long sea journey, and you can avoid several thieves' dens."

"This plan is not safe." Elizabeth was clearly unhappy. She didn't like this kind of gambling plan.

"Your expression is even more charming."

"We're talking business, Mr. Ciccammon, please be more serious."

"Elizabeth, what's the matter with you? Why are you so angry all of a sudden? I thought you would be amazed at my wise decision and look at me with admiration."

Elizabeth closed her beautiful eyes, she adjusted her attitude, and told Shikamon that a smile is far more effective than a questioning.

"Mr. Ciccammon, your ingenuity really impresses me, but I always feel that your plans are a little too risky, don't they?"

"You can rest assured, there will be no mistakes." Sikamon said confidently, "I deliberately compared the handwriting, the letter that the thief captain wrote under my persecution, the letter I intercepted, in The handwriting is the same, and when Christine receives the letter, he won't doubt anything."

"What about Newshawk? Newshawk is very smart."

"I picked one of my Newshawks, and the two Newshawks are almost identical."

"Almost?" Elizabeth? Nedi smiled and pointed out the problem.

"Anyway, you can rest assured that this strategy of mine can make the pirates go round and round, so that we can pass through the turbulent sea safely" Sikamon showed a trace of impatience, and continued to strengthen his tone.

Elizabeth maintained her previous gentleness and tried hard to persuade Cicamon to adopt a safer plan, but Cicamon did not listen to her suggestions. She scolded inwardly, Cikamon is usually such a bitch, why did she have a stubborn temper at this time?

Although Cikamon is interested in her, Cikamon has always been arbitrary and has always been in a leading position in the caravan. He has always changed other people's ideas, and his ideas cannot be changed by others. He looked forward to the thrill of a successful plan, and changing his plan would make him feel like he had failed.

"Okay, Elizabeth, thank you for your reminder, thank you for your concern, I'm very moved. But, this is not a good topic, because I have already made up my mind and don't plan to change it. I think we should talk about something else. Yes, talk about something I would like to talk to you about, for example... I have a deep love for you. If you are willing, the sea and the sky can testify, and I can marry you when I return to the Greenland Empire." Sika When Meng talked about this topic returned to the previous excited attitude and looked at Elizabeth with anticipation.

Oh my god, here it is again... Elizabeth pretended to have a headache, rubbed her temples, and waved her hands: "I'm sorry, I've been in poor health these two days, my head is always confused, let me say goodbye first, and thank you Tonight's treat." She held her head, stood up, and bowed politely.

"What's wrong with you? Is your head confused? Then did you hear what I said just now?" Sikamon also stood up, wiped the oil stains on his mouth with a napkin, showing a suspicious look.

"What did you say just now? Oh, no, my head is so uncomfortable, I'm really sorry, I have to go back and lie down for a while." Elizabeth waved her hand and walked away, holding her head, she walked with firm steps to avoid Sicamon stepped up to help.

Cicamon caught up, Elizabeth lied about being dizzy, continued to perfunctory, and refused to accept the diagnosis of the ship's ship's doctor. She returned to her new ship, free from Sikamon's entanglement. Although Cikamon was full of confidence, she was still worried that this forged letter could not deceive Christine, because Christine was called the sea loach at sea and was always known for his cunning.

"Huh, Sikamon, I hope your little trick this time will be successful." After Elizabeth returned to the room, she prayed to the moon outside the window.