Lady of the Lord From the East - Chapter 162

Most of the decorations and furniture were deliberately taken away, and the room that became empty, the floor covered with thick blankets was full of various toys, a white and fat little doll, using both hands and feet, like a The little beast just came out of the nest, crawling quickly.

His hair is as black as ebony, his skin is as white as snow, his eyes are as blue as the sea, and his lips are as pink as petals. He is simply the cutest little angel in the world.

This is our Snow White… Little Anthony.

One-year-old Anthony crawls steadily and fast. He crawled back and forth, holding a rag doll in his hand, and took it to Wei Wei who was sitting on the blanket. He also sat up, his hands forward Stretched out, cracked his small mouth, revealing a small rice tooth, and sweetly called “ma~”

“Oh, my baby.” Wei Wei responded with a smile on her face, looking at the doll handed over by her son, she asked gently, “Is it for Mommy?”

Little Anthony had been educated long ago, and he could already understand some simple words of adults. After Wei Wei asked, he nodded vigorously, and while calling “ma”, he pushed the doll into her arms.

After stuffing it, I crawled out to pick up another one, and sent it back, never tired of it.

This is the most common game he will play after he can crawl. He likes to pick the one he likes from a pile of dolls and give it to his mother.

Soon, there were many more dolls around Wei Wei.

Little Anthony looked at his results with satisfaction, and finally put himself into his mother’s arms.

Wei Wei sat there, watching his hands and feet crawled onto her lap, then sat down, grabbed the doll and started playing by herself.

Occasionally, he turned back to her and babbled for a while, and occasionally a word or two could be heard.

In fact, I didn’t understand it, but it didn’t prevent her from responding, and the little baby who got the response would turn around and continue playing.

Little Anthony is very attached to his mother, but he is not noisy, and he does not need Wei Wei to respond to him all the time and play with him. In fact, as long as his parents are around, he can play very well by himself.

What’s more, he usually has his cousin Caroline to play with him. Although they are a few years apart and talk to each other like chickens and ducks, they still become good playmates.

This room full of toys is actually jointly owned by little Anthony and Caroline. Many of those dolls are also contributed by Caroline. If they don’t go out every day, they have to play here for a long time, and the toys in the room are always It is on the increase, and wooden fruit cutlers, beach toys, fishing toys, and building blocks can all be seen here.

Not to mention children like them, the servants in the castle can’t help but wander around the door, peeking at what the little master is playing inside, and then go and pester the carpenter who lives in the castle to help the children in their family do it too. One.

But Caroline didn’t come today. The little girl ran into the garden in the morning. Wei Wei guessed that she was going to prepare a birthday present for little Anthony.

Under Wei Wei’s image, the Williams family began to celebrate their birthdays, but they didn’t do much, so they got together as a family and had a birthday cake to celebrate, and today was no exception.

However, our little birthday star today is very poor and can’t eat the very popular cream on the birthday cake, so he can only eat some cakes that have been specially reduced in sweetness.

Because it was little Anthony’s birthday, both parents should have left work to play with him, but Felix was called away temporarily, so now there is only Wei Wei in the toy room.

Wei Wei fed him a little water, and when he was about to play and started yawning, she picked up the fluffy baby and kissed his little cheek.

“Okay son, let’s take a nap.”

Little Anthony’s work and rest time is very stable. Every day after lunch, he has to sleep for two hours, so when the time is about, he will yawn and pull his mother to sleep.

On the way back to the room, he lay on Wei Wei’s shoulder, his eyes were half-closed, and he quickly fell asleep.

Putting the sleeping child into the crib, Wei Wei stood by for a while, making sure that he would not wake up suddenly, then got up and instructed Penny beside him: “Look at him, if I don’t come back soon, You wake him up.”

Penny nodded and stayed in the room with another little maid.

Anthony is still young, and Wei Wei has not arranged a personal servant for him for the time being. The nanny who originally hired was also taking care of the duties of a nanny, but after they were not needed to breastfeed, Wei Wei transferred the person away, saying that she was selfish, anyway. She doesn’t like her son to be closer to others than to herself, so let’s talk about nanny and nurse when she can’t bring her son.

After coming out of the room, Wei Wei went downstairs to find Felix.

She remembered that Felix was called away, apparently in connection with some ship.

Satinson had two boats of her own, which were booked from the docks in the Royal Seaport. They were usually used to transport cargo. They were very busy. Felix was suddenly called away because of the boats. She was worried that something had happened.

Then Wei Wei knew that there was indeed an accident on a ship, but it was not their ship.

To be precise, “yet” is not their ship.

“Port Royal was attacked by pirates and they lost a few boats and set fire to one.”

Although the fire was discovered early and was extinguished after only one boat was burned, it was a shame for the Royal Seaport, which belonged to the royal family and was heavily guarded.

When the king heard about this, he smashed the porcelain he was playing with in anger—he regretted it after hearing it—calling the officials in charge of the Royal Seaport to scold them, and dismissed a group of people.

Wei Wei’s eyes widened in surprise: “Are pirates so rampant?”

This is not the era of great sailing, nor is it in the ocean. There are indeed pirates in the Mediterranean, but they are not large in scale. It is too bold to attack the Royal Seaport.

Felix also thinks this is a bit strange. The Royal Seaport’s defense force is very strong, and it can be sneaked in by pirates. Even if the pirates didn’t set a fire before they left, it might take several days for them to find out that a ship has been stolen. things to come.

The first reaction of those who heard the news was that someone inside the Royal Seaport had leaked secrets and stole the ship.

But the strange thing is that although the stolen ship is a new ship, it is not a special warship. For so many ships to go to the Royal Seaport, no matter what you think, the pay is greater than the return, and it is completely unnecessary to do so.

Therefore, some people speculate that this is a deliberate layout in order to dismount the responsible officials of the current seaport, and some people say that those pirates deliberately provoked Prady to increase their reputation. When they left, they also deliberately left the pirates at the scene. What about the logo.

Exactly how, there are different opinions.

Originally, this matter should have nothing to do with Sardinson, and such a shameful thing, Royal Seaport will not publicize it.

However, the stolen boats and the burned one were all newly ordered by Felix, and they have been ordered for a while. The dock in the Royal Seaport has just been completed and is ready to be launched and tested. The problem is the delivery, and this kind of thing happened as a result.

The dock in the Royal Seaport had to send someone to inform them about this, because the ship was gone, and they couldn’t deliver the goods there. I hope he can give him more time and let them make two more supplies to him.

Felix was very reasonable, knowing that it was not their fault, and they were the ones who suffered the most, so he agreed.

Wei Wei was so angry that she didn’t understand what the pirates were doing. They ordered merchant ships, which were specially used to transport goods. The pirates stole them if they didn’t steal anything else. Fortunately, they only burned them. Is it really not intentional?

“This must be aimed at us! Otherwise, why don’t so many ships steal, but they will steal us!”

These ships were bought by Sardinson to prepare for the establishment of a marine fleet. Wei Wei had long wanted to form a fleet to send to the other side of the Mediterranean to explore Africa. The continent seems to be very backward in future generations, but its own product resources are very Rich, when she met a businessman from a foreign country before, she would ask him if he brought anything special, and if there was any, she would spend money to buy it.

Overseas businessmen who often go to Sardinson now know that the countess here likes strange things, so when they come to Sardinson to do business, they will also bring some eligible things.

And just last month, an overseas businessman brought her coffee beans and cocoa beans, but because it was the first transaction, the other party was not sure whether these things could be exchanged for money from her, so she only brought one Show her the pouch.

Wei Wei naturally needs these. Who told her that the seeds she brought by herself could not be planted in Sardinson, so she had to pack them and send them to the Song Mission.

After Wei Wei determined that he needed these and hoped that the businessman would bring more coffee and cocoa back, the businessman left the contract and returned in a hurry to find more coffee beans to exchange for money.

Others have also heard about this. Many merchants on the sea have begun to make special properties along the way. Now there are often merchants in the name of offering sacrifices to come to Sardinson Castle to have a relationship with the earl and his wife. Sometimes they The things brought did surprise Wei Wei, but most of the time, it was a big disappointment.

But always relying on those merchants to deliver things, the uncertainty is too great, Wei Wei wants to send someone to go to Africa to see the various plant and mineral resources there, which is an unexplored guarantee, rich in There are large reserves of iron, manganese, chromium, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, copper, lead, zinc, tin, phosphate, etc.; gold and diamond are also famous for a long time. Buying with merchants is very expensive. If they can find ore veins in Africa, ask the locals to help mine them and transport them back by their own ships. The cost and transportation costs can be reduced a lot. No matter how you think about it, it is better than buying from other people. cost-effective.

And Wei Wei’s information in this regard, although it may be a little different due to world deviations, the approximate locations of those famous ore veins should not be wrong, and it will be much easier to find.

In addition, although Africa is not the origin of rubber trees, it is very suitable for planting rubber trees. Maybe there are actually locals in Africa, but they have not been discovered. After all, this is a parallel world, and everything may not be.

With such a big treasure placed there, she couldn’t help but explore it.

But now, seeing that all the people who went to sea have found them, and the boat is about to arrive, but it was stolen and burned. Although the losses are all from the dock that has not yet been delivered, who will accompany the delay among them? ?

The author has something to say: Wei Wei: Angry to explode!