The Li family's fleet is currently mainly engaged in maritime trade and blood-licking business (mainly focused on expelling and fighting Japanese pirates). Although there are already ancestral mansions and considerable forces in Hangzhou city. connections, but generally speaking, the roots of the Li family are still in the sea.
so……
Three days later, after the goods were sold and payment was received, new local goods were reloaded, and simple maintenance and material supplies were performed at the dock, the two medium-sized blessing ships of the Li family fleet, Chunshen and Huachang, returned. We set sail again, sailed downstream from the dock of Qiantang River, and slowly entered the East China Sea eastward.
So, of course, a certain troubled little girl began to enter a long period of boredom, so that she could only lie on the bow deck, staring at the sky in a daze with her little bear on her pillow.
"..."
_(:ι ∠)_
(…)
(●￣?￣●)
Before, Annie happily set off with the Li family's sister and the fleet, planning to go to the next city to find delicious food, but as a result, she regretted it the day after boarding the ship.
Ever since, she accidentally got on the 'pirate ship', and now she seems to have nothing to do except lying on the deck and watching the sky, sea, blue sky, white clouds, basking in the sun and watching other sailors busy. She can do it.
Of course, it's not like nothing is wrong. At least, she still needs to eat three meals a day that are not delicious at all?
Anyway, Anne couldn't remember how many days they had been out at sea. All she knew was that the two broken ships were slowly swaying on the sea.
"??"
"Annie, the sun is so bright, what are you doing here?"
As the sound of boots walking on the wooden deck got closer and closer, Li Huamei, who had just come out of the cabin, caught sight of little Annie. Then she curiously covered the sun with one hand and walked over and asked softly.
"People are basking in the sun..."
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"Also, I'm thinking of something delicious..."
(?′?﹃?`?)
Of course, what Anne wanted to eat was the delicious food in the restaurants on the shore, not the nightmarish dark cuisine made by the guys on the ship.
"delicious?"
"Well……"
"Look at the sun, it's almost noon. Whose turn is it to cook our meal today?"
Li Huamei also pointed her finger at her angular chin with a little longing and thought.
Because they are all 'officers' on the ship, they must eat from the small stove. Therefore, under normal circumstances, one person will take turns to go to the kitchen to prepare food every day, so as to avoid having to eat those hard foods every day like the sailors. Pancakes, steamed buns, steamed buns or pickles.
"I don't care who built the land..."
(￢д￢.)
"Uncle James often can't tell the difference between sugar and salt in the food he cooks. The food cooked by Xingjiu and Yi An is barely edible, but Uncle Yang can only cook manly food. It's always big chunks and burnt black. Yes, I really don’t understand how you can tolerate their terrible cooking skills.”
ε=(′ο｀*)))Alas
As she spoke, Annie couldn't help but sigh again, and then lay down directly on the deck, completely losing the motivation to get up again.
Fortunately, there were many, many delicious foods in her space bag. She decided that at night when no one was paying attention, she could just take some out and eat them secretly. This would be enough for the time being on this ship. She still couldn't be hungry.
"Well……"
"Listening to what you said, it seems to make sense! The cooking skills of those guys are indeed a bit unflattering, and Uncle Yang came out of the army, so the food he cooks is indeed a bit too rough and simple?"
"All right!"
"Little guy, I'm going to cook today. Is this enough to satisfy you?"
After thinking about it, I felt that the cooking skills of those men seemed to be worse than that of the admiral who had never learned anything. There was no other way. After thinking about it, Li Huamei decided to cook it herself. Everyone cook a delicious meal.
"ah!"
!(;?o?)o
"don't want!"
(?~?)
She was startled at first, but soon, Anne, who was lying flat on the deck and taking samples listlessly, shook her head firmly.
"!!"
"Why?"
"Are my cooking skills that bad?"
"Little guy, don't believe it when I tell you. My admiral's cooking skills are the best on this ship. Anyone who has eaten the food cooked by me, who doesn't give a thumbs up?"
Seeing that the little one in front of him rejected his kindness so simply and neatly, Li Huamei felt annoyed, then she raised her eyebrows and asked angrily.
"But……"
(*ˉ﹏ˉ*;)
"Sister Li, you only know how to make fried rice. If you eat fried rice every day, people will get sick of it if you eat too much..."
(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
"!!"
"Niwai?"
"Okay! I won't cook today. Let's continue to eat the military food cooked by Uncle Yang!"
Unexpectedly, the little guy would be so ungrateful. Feeling annoyed, Li Huamei immediately gave up the burden and prepared to make the other party unable to even eat fried rice!
"Tsk!"
"Don't tell me, Uncle Yang's cooking skills with that big bowl of wine and big chunks of stewed meat are actually quite good, but sometimes he can't master the heat and ingredients?"
"In short, at least a little stronger than James!"
Thinking about Yang Xien's heavy-flavored one-pot stew cooking skills, and then thinking about other people's, Li Huamei finally felt that Uncle Yang's food was better, but she didn't want to comment too much, because in her opinion, theirs The main focus should be on expelling Japanese pirates and sailing trade, rather than paying too much attention to small things like eating.
"..."
(^～^;)ゞ
"that……"
|(*′口`)
"Sister Li, haven't you ever thought about hiring a good cook on board?"
(???.???)????
Anne finally couldn't help but ask.
Although, the meals cooked by the people on the ship, including Sister Li in front of me, were not completely inedible, but in the eyes of Annie, a little gourmet, those meals were indeed ordinary. It's just an average job, but if you are willing to work hard, such as hiring people, etc., there is definitely a lot of room for improvement.
"cook?"
"Ah!"
First, she was slightly startled, and then, Li Huamei suddenly smiled bitterly and shook her head.
"Annie..."
"You have to know that we are not an ordinary caravan. 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!"
"What we do is a business of licking blood with the blade of a knife!"
"Once the need arises, even everyone on the ship needs to take up arms and join forces to fight, including you!"
"In addition, sailing on the sea is very difficult. Diseases, huge waves, pirates, wandering, etc. can all take lives. There are also various dangers that emerge in an endless stream. In this precarious situation, anyone with some cooking skills can Yes, people who can make a living on the shore are willing to risk their lives on the ship?"
As she spoke, Li Huamei couldn't help but smile again and shook her head.
The core of the sailors and swordsmen in her Li family's fleet are still the descendants of the navy subordinates who died in the battle with her father back then, and the other part are recruited from those who died due to the war. The refugees who were unable to survive due to the war and were willing to sell their lives at sea. The last small group were the bloody men who originally lived on the seaside and came to her after their homes were invaded and destroyed by Japanese pirates. Like them, they wanted to take revenge on the Japanese pirates.
In addition, none of the serious and innocent families are willing to let their children come to her Li family fleet to make a living, not one of them!
Her vicious reputation as "Xiang Feihu" not only intimidated Japanese pirates externally, but was also feared internally by the local people in Hangzhou.
Therefore, it is actually very difficult for the Li family fleet to recruit people, and the kitchens and material warehouses will generally not let the newly recruited people get close to them casually. Otherwise, if there are people with evil intentions among them, it will be very difficult. Maybe their entire boat would be in danger, and that was no joke.
But she didn't want to say too much about that kind of thing to the little guy in front of her, so she just planned to ignore it.
"correct!"
"Annie, how did you practice your swordsmanship and marksmanship?"
Li Huamei planned to guess what kind of family Annie came from based on her abilities, so that she could purposefully find her family in the future.
Anyway, Li Huamei and her followers admired the little guy's marksmanship and swordsmanship very much. So far, no one has been able to compete with such a little guy. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the opponent to win with such a little guy. The identity of the girls directly follows the opportunity to sail with them on the sea.
"Um……"
(?˙ー˙?)
"Self-taught!"
(^0^)/
"ah?"
"Didn't your parents teach you that?"
Li Huamei was a little skeptical. She didn't want to believe that such superb swordsmanship and marksmanship, the kind of skills that made her even ashamed, could be learned by such a little guy on his own.
"Not at all!"
(lll￢w￢)
"They have only taught people a little bit of magic..."
(⌒▽⌒)
Swordsmanship and marksmanship were indeed learned by Anne herself, because there was nothing difficult to learn. It was just a matter of using the sword to dodge the enemy's attack, and then using the enemy's defense or avoidance to attack the enemy with all his strength.
As for marksmanship, let alone it!
Who doesn’t know how to aim at the enemy’s head and pull the trigger? Do you still need to deliberately learn it?
"magic?"
"All right……"
Seeing that he still couldn't ask anything, Li Huamei had to give up for now.
Anyway, so far, she only knows that the other party's parents are the mysterious warlock Gregory Hastur and the shadow witch Amorin. They live in the land of voodoo. They seem to be a mysterious family with some ancient inheritance. That seems to be the main reason why Annie knows a little magic and can conjure fireballs.
As for the rest...
Other unreliable and absurd statements, such as the countless worlds, countless strange things and bizarre experiences that Anne once said, were automatically ignored by her.
That was just the little girl's own fantasy. Anyway, that's what Li Huamei thought, just like when she first saw the Classic of Mountains and Seas when she was a child?
"that……"
(°ー°〃)
"Sister Li, we found that seagulls have been following our boat. Can their meat be eaten?"
(?????)?
Suddenly, when Li Huamei wanted to continue asking something, little Annie pointed directly at the one on the mast that was saying "Oh~!" Oh~! ' asked the white birds that had already disturbed her from taking a nap on the deck.
"Seagulls..."
"They are not very tasty. The meat is thick, sour, and spicy. No matter how you cook it, it has a pungent smell. It is difficult to make it delicious... I believe no one would be willing to touch that kind of thing unless it is absolutely necessary."
"You'd better give up on that!"
Li Huamei shook her head. In her opinion, unless there was no food on the ship, no one would be willing to eat that kind of food.
But having said that, if the ship really runs out of supplies and is temporarily unable to return to land, let alone seagulls, even rats will be found and eaten one by one.
"Is that so?"
(*ˉ?ˉ*;)
"People always think they look respectful, cute, and delicious..."
(*｀ー′)
The more she looked at it, the more Annie thought those seagulls looked like ducks...
So, she decided: if there was a chance, it seemed necessary for her to find a way to catch one, then disembowel it, pluck out the hair and bleed it, then marinate it with Orleans marinade for a short period of time, and finally cook it slowly over low heat. Roast it and make yourself an Orléans roasted seagull as a toothpaste?
"Then where is our ship going?"
|?˙?˙)?
The seagull definitely wanted to try it, but not now, so Anne quickly asked about what had suddenly occurred to her.
"Go to the capital of Goryeo to deliver goods!"
"Then turn back to Yizhou, and finally return to Hangzhou from Yizhou. In this way, you can make a lot of money by doing three trades. You can also patrol on the way to deter the Japanese pirates."
Li Huamei had no intention of hiding anything, and directly and openly stated the main destination of their voyage and the approximate route and direction of their return.
"That's it..."
┗(▔,▔)┛
"It sounds like a lot of trouble, but since you want to sell things, why not prepare more boats?"
(;￣▽￣)
"..."
"Currently, my Li family fleet only has these two useful ships..."
Li Huamei also wants to expand the fleet, but there is no way for the time being. Although she has placed an order with the shipyard in Hangzhou, it is estimated that it will take several months to complete. It will be good for them to be able to launch the ship after they return from sea this time.
"What kind of cargo is in the cabin?"
(???.???)????
"Well……"
"Mainly silk and some jade and porcelain. These things sell well and make good profits!"
"We need to drag them to Korea and then buy some local goods back."
"As long as there is no big problem with the price, we can make a lot of money from the price difference alone on this trip."
In fact, as long as Ming Dynasty goods are shipped to any surrounding country, you can make a lot of money!
In the same way, specialties from neighboring countries can also be sold at a good price when shipped back to Daming!
It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban was too strict and short-sighted, so they and other caravans could only proceed secretly, and even had to use the names of foreigners... In fact, Li Huamei thought more than once, if the Ming Dynasty comprehensively If the maritime ban is lifted, within a few years, the money from customs duties alone will probably be enough for the Ming Empire to deal with the intruders outside the customs and the northwest!
But unfortunately, Li Huamei is just a little person. Even though she has the evil reputation of 'Xiang Feihu', in the final analysis she is still just the admiral (ship owner) of the Li family fleet. Even if she is doing business, she needs to go Being controlled by the small Hangzhou county magistrates or city port officials, how could it be her turn to give advice on such important matters in the court?
"Can you make money this way? It seems very simple..."
(*^▽^*)
"Then Sister Li, why don't you give me a fleet in the future? I'm very good at doing business and I'm sure I can help you make a lot of money!"
(′???`)
After learning that she could make money simply by transporting goods from one place to another and then selling them, Anne quickly expressed her understanding and believed that she had understood the essence of seafaring business.
In her opinion, it is nothing more than buying, buying and selling.
When the time comes, she will sail around the world on a ship, sell goods to all port cities, and eat all the good things!
Then, she will attack anyone who dares not to do business with her or who dares to offer a low price to make her lose money!
(…)
ε=(′?｀●)))Alas
"ah?"
"You also want to be an admiral?"
"Ha ha!"
"Okay, when our Li family's fleet develops and grows in the future, I will make you an admiral of the sea area and give you a fleet of five large ships!"
It was an empty invoice anyway, and Li Huamei, who thought the little girl was just joking, just laughed and joked.
"Then we've made a deal!"
|???w??)???
"Let's pull the hook!"
?(?????)???
Annie jumped up, stretched out her little finger, and then raised it in front of Li Huamei.
"good!"
"Hook..."
Shaking her head, Li Huamei stretched out her hand without taking it seriously at all, and hooked her slender little finger with little Annie's tender little finger that was a little baby fat.
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