The Li family fleet is currently mainly engaged in maritime trade and blood-licking business (mainly to expel and attack Japanese pirates). Although there were originally ancestral mansions and considerable forces and connections in Hangzhou City, in general, the Li family's roots were still at sea.
so……
Three days later, after the goods were taken over and received the payment, reloaded new local goods, and carried out simple maintenance and material supply at the dock, the two medium-sized lucky ships of the Li family fleet, the Chunshen and Huachang, set sail again, sailed downstream from the dock of Qiantang River, and slowly entered the East China Sea to the east.
So, for granted, a bad little girl began to enter a long boring time again, so she could only lie on the bow deck and stare at the sky with her little bear pillowing on her.
“…”
_(:ι』∠)_
(…)
(●￣?￣●)
Before, Annie happily set off with the Li family's sister and the fleet, intending to go to the next city to find delicious food, but as a result, she regretted it the day after boarding the ship.
So, she accidentally got on the pirate ship, and now she had nothing to do except lying on the deck looking at the sky, the sea, the blue sky, the white clouds, basking in the sun and watching other sailors busy.
Of course, nothing happened. At least, she still needs to eat three meals a day that is not delicious on time?
Anyway, Annie could not remember how many days they had been going to sea, but only knew that these two broken ships were slowly swaying and floating on the sea.
“??”
"Anne, the sun is so big, what are you doing here?"
As the sound of boots walking on the wooden deck became closer, Li Huamei, who had just come out of the cabin, saw Little Annie at a glance, and then curiously covered the sun with one hand, walked over and asked softly.
“They are basking in the sun…”
???(＿＿*)??
"Also, people are thinking of something delicious..."
(?′?﹃?`?)
Of course, what Annie wanted was the delicious food in the restaurants on the shore, not the dark food that the guys on the boat made like nightmares.
“It’s delicious?”
“Um…”
"Looking at the sun, it's almost noon. Who's the turn to cook our meal today?"
Li Huamei also pointed at her angular chin with a little longing and thought.
Because they are all "official officers" on the boat, they must have to eat small dishes. Therefore, under normal circumstances, one person takes turns to the kitchen to make food every day, so that they can avoid having to eat hard pancakes, steamed buns or pickles like sailors every day.
"No matter who they do..."
(￢д￢.)
"Uncle James often can't tell the difference between sugar and salt when cooking. The foods made by Xingjiu and Uncle Yian are hard to eat. Uncle Yang only knows how to cook manly food. They are always big and burnt black. I really don't understand how you can stand their bad cooking skills."
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
As she said that, Anne couldn't help but sigh again, then lay down on the deck, and there was no motivation to get up again.
Fortunately, there were many delicious foods in her space bag. She decided to take out a little more at night and hide and eat secretly. She still couldn't starve on the boat for the time being.
“Um…”
"It seems to make sense after hearing what you said! The cooking skills of those guys are indeed a bit unfair, and Uncle Yang came out of the army, so the food he cooked is indeed a little too rough and simple?"
"All right!"
"Little guy, today I am the Admiral cook. Can this satisfy you?"
After thinking about it, I felt that the cooking skills of those men seemed to be a little worse than those of the admiral whom I had never learned before. There was no way. After thinking about it, Li Huamei resolutely decided to cook by herself and make a delicious meal for everyone.
"ah!"
!(;?o?)o
"don't want!"
(?~?)
At first, he was surprised, but soon, Anne, who was lying on the deck flat on the deck, shook her head firmly.
“!!”
"Why?"
“Is my cooking skills that bad?”
"Little guy, don't believe it. This admiral has the best cooking skills on this ship. Whoever has eaten the meals made by this admiral, wouldn't he give a thumbs up?"
Seeing that the little guy in front of him was so straightforward and rejected his kindness, Li Huamei felt annoyed, then raised her eyebrows and asked angrily.
"But……"
(*ˉ﹏ˉ*;)
"Sister Li, you only know how to cook fried rice. You eat fried rice every day. If you eat too much, you will get tired of it..."
(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
“!!”
"Get tired?"
"Okay! I won't cook today. Let's continue to eat the military food made by Uncle Yang!"
Unexpectedly, the little guy was so unhappy. When he was annoyed, Li Huamei quit and was ready to make the other party unable to even eat fried rice!
"Tsk!"
"You can't say that Uncle Yang's big bowl of wine and big stewed meat are actually pretty good. Sometimes I can't master the heat and ingredients?"
"Anyway, at least a little better than James!"
Thinking about Yang Xien's heavy-tasting one-pot cooking skills, and thinking about others, Li Huamei finally felt that Uncle Yang's food was better, but she didn't want to comment more, because in her opinion, their main energy should be on expelling Japanese pirates and sailing trade, rather than paying too much attention to the trivial matters of eating.
“…”
(^～^;)ゞ
"that……"
|(*' mouth`)
"Sister Li, haven't you ever thought about hiring a special good chef on board?"
(???.???)??????
Anne finally couldn't help asking.
Although the people on the boat, including Sister Li in front of them, did not cook the food that was completely unpalatable, but in the eyes of Anne, a small gourmet, those foods were indeed ordinary, but if you were willing to take care of yourself, such as hiring someone, there would definitely be a lot of room for improvement.
"cook?"
"Oh!"
At first, he was slightly stunned, and then, Li Huamei suddenly smiled bitterly and shook her head.
"Anne..."
"You have to know that we are not ordinary caravans. Our Li family fleet needs to fight against Japanese pirates at any time. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a navy!"
"We did it, but the business of licking blood on the knife!"
"Once there is a need, even the entire ship needs to pick up weapons to jump and fight, including you!"
"In addition, it is difficult to sail on Shanghai. Epidemics, huge waves, pirates, treks, etc., which can kill people, and there are various dangers that are endless. In this situation of stagnation, who would be willing to fight for life on the shore if anyone has some cooking skills?
As he was talking, Li Huamei couldn't help but smile again and shook her head.
Now the core part of the sailors and swordsman in her Li family fleet is still the children of the navy subordinates who died in battle with her father. The other part is recruited, those refugees who could not survive due to war and war disasters and were willing to go out to sea to work hard. The last small part is the bloody man who originally lived by the sea and whose home was destroyed by the Japanese pirates and took the initiative to vote for her. Like them, they wanted to avenge the Japanese pirates.
In addition, none of those serious and innocent families were willing to let their children come to her Li family fleet to make a living, none of them!
Her reputation as "Xiang Feihu" is not only to scare Japanese pirates from the outside, but also to be feared by the local people in Hangzhou.
Therefore, it is actually very difficult for their Li family fleet to recruit people, and the kitchen and material warehouse generally do not let the recruited newcomers approach easily. Otherwise, if there are people who are ill-hearted, it is very likely that the whole ship of people will be in danger, and that is not a joke.
However, she didn't want to say too much about the little guy in front of her, and she just planned to skip this matter and not mention it.
"By the way!"
"Annie, how did you practice your swordsmanship and shooting skills?"
Li Huamei plans to guess from Annie's ability what kind of family she comes from so that she can purposefully find her family for the other party in the future.
Anyway, Li Huamei and her followers admired the little guy in front of him very much for the shooting skills and swordsmanship. No one is such a small opponent so far, otherwise the other party would not have had the opportunity to go sailing with them directly as a little girl.
"Um……"
(?˙ー˙?)
“Self-study!”
(^0^)/
"ah?"
"Didn't your parents teach you?"
Li Huamei was a little suspicious. She didn't want to believe that the superb swordsmanship and marksmanship, and the ability that made her feel inferior to herself, would have been learned by such a little guy.
"No!"
(lll￢ω￢)
"They have only taught them a little bit of magic..."
(⌒▽⌒)
Anne learned swordsmanship and marksmanship by herself, because there is nothing difficult to learn. She just takes the sword to avoid the enemy's attack, and then greets the enemy hard before defending or avoiding the enemy.
And as for marksmanship, let alone marks!
Who can't do that by aiming at the enemy's head and pulling the trigger? Could it be that you still need to learn it deliberately?
"magic?"
"All right……"
Seeing that he still couldn't ask anything, Li Huamei had to give up for the time being.
Anyway, she only knew that the other party's parents were the mysterious sorcerer Gregory Hasta and the shadow witch Amore. She lived in the Voodoo Land. It seemed to be a mysterious family with some ancient heritage. It seemed that it was the main reason why Anne could make a little trick and could turn into a fireball.
As for other things...
Other unreliable absurd rhetorics, such as the countless worlds, countless strange things and bizarre experiences that Anne once said, were automatically ignored by her.
That's just the little girl's own fantasy. Anyway, Li Huamei thought so, just like when she first saw the Shanhai Jing when she was a child?
"that……"
(°〼°〃)
"Sister Li, I found that there were seagulls following our boat. Can their meat be eaten?"
(??????)?
Suddenly, when Li Huamei wanted to continue asking something, little Annie pointed directly at the ones on the mast, shouting "Ou~!Ou~!", and asked the white birds who had already disturbed her nap on the deck.
"Seagull..."
"They are not very delicious. The meat is thick, sour, and slutty. No matter how you make it, it's hard to make it delicious... I believe no one will be willing to touch that kind of thing unless it is absolutely necessary."
"You'd better give up that heart!"
Li Huamei shook her head. In her opinion, unless the food on the ship was cut off, I was afraid no one would want to eat that kind of thing.
But then again, if the supply on the ship is exhausted and cannot return to the land for the time being, let alone seagulls, even mice will be found and eaten one by one.
"Is that true?"
(*ˉ?ˉ*;)
"People always think they look respectful, cute, and delicious..."
(*'　〼')
The more I looked, the more Anne felt that the seagulls looked like ducks…
So, she decided: if she had the chance, it seemed necessary that she would find a way to catch one, then break her belly, pluck her hair and bleed, then marinate it with Orleans marinade for a short period of time, and finally roast it slowly over low heat to make yourself a Orleans roasted seagull to beat the teeth?
"Then where is our ship going?"
|?˙?˙)?
The seagull must have tried the taste, but not now, so Anne quickly asked what she suddenly thought of.
"Go to the capital of Goryeo to deliver goods!"
"Then return to Yizhou, and finally return to Hangzhou from Yizhou. This way, you can make a lot of money by trading three times. You can also patrol and deter those Japanese pirates from Japan."
Li Huamei had no intention of hiding it at all, and she told them openly about the main destination of their voyage and the approximate route and direction they returned.
"That's what..."
┗(▔,▔)┛
"It sounds like a lot of trouble, but since you are going to sell things, why not prepare to order more boats?"
(;￣▽￣)
“…”
"At present, my Li family fleet only has these two useful lucky ships..."
Li Huamei also wanted to expand the fleet, but there was no way out for the time being. Although she had placed an order for the shipyard in Hangzhou, it would probably take several months to complete the work. It would be nice to be able to get into the water when they came back from sea this time.
"What kind of cargo is there in the cabin?"
(???.???)??????
“Um…”
"The main thing is silk, some jade and porcelain. These things sell well and make good profits!"
"We need to pull them to Goryeo and buy some local goods back."
"As long as there is no big problem with the price, this trip will make us profit a lot by just the difference."
In fact, now, as long as the goods from the Ming Dynasty are shipped to any surrounding country, you can make a lot of money!
Similarly, when specialties from neighboring countries are shipped back to the Ming Dynasty, they can also be sold at a good price!
Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty's sea ban was too strict and short-sighted, which made them and other caravans have to carry out the sea ban secretly, and even rely on the names of foreigners... In fact, Li Huamei had thought more than once that if the Ming Dynasty fully opened up the sea ban, it would take a few years to rely on the tariffs alone, it would probably be enough for the Ming Empire to settle the thieves outside the pass and in the northwest!
But unfortunately, Li Huamei is just a small person. Even though she has the reputation of "Xiang Feihu", she is still just an admiral (ship owner) of the Li family fleet. Even when doing business, she needs to be controlled by the small Hangzhou county magistrate or the Maritime Bureau. Where is the turn of her to point out the big things in the court?
"Can you make money like this? It seems very simple..."
(*^▽^*)
"Then Sister Li, why don't you give me a fleet in the future, as they are super good at doing business, and they can guarantee that they can make a lot of money for you!"
(′???`)
After knowing that you only need to transport goods from one place to another and then sell them to make money, Anne quickly expressed her understanding and believed that she had learned the essence of sailing and doing business.
In her opinion, it is nothing more than buying, buying, buying, selling, selling, selling.
At that time, she will drive a boat around the world, sell the goods to all port cities, and eat all the good things!
Then, whoever dares not do business with her and who dares to offer a low price to make her lose money, she can still bombard someone!
(…)
ε=(′?●))) Alas
"ah?"
"You want to be an admiral, too?"
"Ha ha!"
"Okay, when our Li family fleet grows and grows in the future, I will let you be an admiral of the sea area and give you a fleet of five large ships!"
Anyway, it was a short invoice and Li Huamei, who thought the little girl was just a joke, also laughed and joked.
"Then let's make a decision!"
|???ω??)???
"Let's pull the hook!"
?(?????)???
Annie jumped up, stretched out her little finger, and then raised it to Li Huamei.
"good!"
"Hook..."
Shaking his head, Li Huamei didn't take it seriously at all, and directly reached out her hand, hooked her slender little finger with her slightly baby fat tender little finger.
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?°(°ˉ??ˉ?°)°?
Chapter completed!