"Sarah, when you get to school, remember to study hard. If you have any requests, just tell Cinta that she is your maid. Don't be afraid of trouble, or you can write to me."
At the door of the auditorium, Tulay Crowley squatted half-crouched in front of Sara and whispered softly. Sara listened and nodded without resisting at all.
It has been more than a year since she came to the Crowley family. A year ago, after Turay Crowley saw the recommendation letter written by Ma Wei, he immediately adopted Sara and knew that Turay had adopted a little girl of unknown origin. , Duke Crowley was very angry, but no matter how he scolded him, his son never drove Sarah out of the house.
Sarah was not popular in the Crowley family. The noble family looked down upon her, but for the sake of Turay Crowley, no one dared to embarrass her. The last servant who dared to abuse Sarah Man, had been sacked by Touré and driven out of the Crawley family.
As Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy, Toure Crowley's status in the family is getting higher and higher, second only to Duke Crowley. As long as the old Duke Crowley dies, he is the only heir worthy of the name.
For this disobedient son, the old Duke Crowley was very helpless and had no other solution. Who made Tulay Crowley the only male in the family?
Only he can inherit the title of Duke.
"Master, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of Miss Sara." said the personal maid named Cinta.
"Um."
Tu Lei nodded and suddenly caught a glimpse of Ma Wei walking towards him from the corner of his eye. He frowned slightly and stood up.
"General Touré!"
When he arrived, Ma Wei stretched out his palm and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to see you here. It's such an honor."
"Your Excellency seems to be the businessman who came all the way from Frederick's Kingdom." Toure's tone was not salty, and he shook hands symbolically.
"Nicholas von Manstein, this is my daughter, Emma..."
"It's time for the opening ceremony soon. If there's nothing else, I'll go in first."
Toure had no intention of chatting with Mavey. It was the first time that he and Nicholas von Manstein met today, and they were not familiar with each other at all. Besides, there were too many people like him who came to curry favor with him just because he was a vice admiral. So many that he didn't even want to give him any good looks.
The opening ceremony was indeed about to start soon. Toure never expected that after the students entered the venue, Mawei would sit next to him!
Although he didn't say anything, Tu Lei was beginning to feel bored. Under normal circumstances, if he indicated that he was not in the mood to talk, the other party would leave in a sensible way, but Ma Wei was different!
Of course, Ma Wei would not do anything to show off his hot face to a cold butt. He had a serious business with Toure.
Listening to the speeches of the principal and bishop on the stage, Ma Wei lowered his voice and said to Toure: "Has the gunshot wound on the general's left shoulder healed?"
Gunshot wound?
Toure's eyelids twitched as he looked ahead. He did have a gunshot wound on his left shoulder. During the Battle of Perea, his left shoulder was hit by a stray bullet, causing him to fall into the sea. He survived by chance...
This incident was reported in the newspaper, but the newspaper did not tell the specific location of the wound. It only said that he had been shot and fell into the sea. Very few people knew the specific location of the wound, except for family members and some relatives and friends.
Where did Nicholas know this?
Just as Toure was confused, Mawei said again: "Is Sarah a good child?"
Why did you mention Sara again?
Glancing at Mavi in surprise, Toure hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Of course Sarah is a good child, she is very smart."
"That's good."
With a slight nod, Ma Wei said no more and listened quietly to the principal on the stage explaining the school rules of Yinton College to the new students. He stopped talking, and Tu Lei couldn't sit still.
"Mr. Nicholas, you...know Sarah?"
"I not only know Sarah." Ma Wei said: "I also know Fredrick, Maimaiti, Amo..."
"you...."
Upon hearing these names, Toure stood up immediately. The parents around him cast puzzled glances, and even the principal on the stage paused for a moment to speak.
Under the gaze of countless eyes, Tu Lei sat back, and this time, his face became extremely solemn.
Sarah is his adopted daughter, and the students recommended by Mawei, such as Frederick, Maimaiti, and Amo... have all been adopted by others. These people, without exception, are all from the Perea Sea Battle. survivor.
Adopting children is not uncommon. In order to show their 'mercy', many nobles will adopt one or two orphans, as if this is a pass for the upper class. In fact, nobles who adopt orphans are indeed more popular at banquets. Pay more attention, this is a manifestation of the highly developed social productivity and it belongs to the old tradition of the Kingdom of Windsor.
The real problem is...
The origins of these orphans.
Mawei can name the children Sara, Frederick, and Maimaiti, which proves that he knows where Sara comes from!
In the silence, several possibilities flashed through Toure's mind. He slowly clenched his fists and became murderous.
If we dig deeper into the origins of these orphans, we will definitely dig out New Ross City and Ma Wei!
By then....
How could they, the nobles who adopted Sarah, not be affected?
Of course, there is another possibility with extremely low probability that Toure dare not ignore.
"who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me yet?" Mawei's voice on the observation deck was very low, and he said in a voice that only he and Toure could hear: "Toure Crowley, respected ship Sir, it seems that you have forgotten the friendship between us fighting side by side."
His eyes slowly widened, Tu Lei turned his head violently, opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but couldn't.
"I don't understand what you are talking about." Tu Lei suddenly said.
"Cram, Byrne, Poulsen, Moncef...."
One name after another came out of Ma Wei's mouth, and Tu Lei's heart trembled every time he said a name.
"They are all the most elite sailors in the Kingdom of Windsor." Ma Wei said quietly: "Kram was shot in the shoulder by a native with a blow dart in the Voodoo Kingdom. Who sucked out the poisonous blood for him?"
"Bourne...this poor young man is only 19 years old. He was going to return to the kingdom to marry his fiancée. For this reason, you gave him an extra hundred gold pounds in dividends."
"Poulsen, he likes to tell bad jokes. During the naval battle, he was hit by a cannonball. His body was blown into two pieces on the spot, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Last night, he was having a good time with us."
"Moncef...you said you would support his mother, and I believe you can do it. These people, they once stood with us, they have a bright future and infinite possibilities, but now... Their names have been forgotten by the world. Apart from you and me, apart from the undead who have returned from the deep sea, who else remembers them?"
Ma Wei took out a small iron box from his arms, opened it, filled it with dried mint leaves, threw a piece into his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps, we should all die in that naval battle. In this way, Then no one will disturb your wonderful aristocratic life... General Crowley."
Tu Lei panted heavily, cold sweat wet the clothes on his back, covering his cheeks, greedily grabbing the air as if he was drowning, his body trembled, his penis enlarged, and he would twitch from time to time. The man sitting next to him The noble asked with concern: "General Crowley, are you okay?"
"Don't call me General!"
Toure suddenly broke out. He roared and stood up again. The glances and rolled cheeks turned into familiar faces in his eyes. Kram... Bourne... Poulsen...Moncef....
Toure was stunned in place. After a long time, he suddenly turned around and walked out of the auditorium. He walked to the lakeside of Yinton College and stared at the reflection in the water.
The deep blue and black lake water is just like the Perea Strait under the clear sky and clear sun.
Back then, he was not a general, but a naval captain and fleet commander. The position of general was forged with the blood of his companions. He stepped on the corpses of his crew members, step by step...
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Touched the threshold of power.
He hates being called general!
Behind every general is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
clang--
clang--
The bells in the public school rang, the opening ceremony was over, and white pigeons were flying in the sunshine. Ma Wei walked out of the auditorium and found Toure standing by the lake in a daze. Like him, he stared at the reflection in the lake.
"Who are you? Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy, or Tulay Crowley?"
"What do you think?"
Toure raised his head, and the dazzling sunlight made him unable to open his eyes. After a period of calmness, he had stabilized his emotions and said jokingly: "You are really an immortal soul. The enemy's shells cannot kill you. The gallows will kill you." If I don't kill you, even Anatole, the God of Wisdom...can't do anything to you."
"Those who have died once have long been out of the realm of death." Ma Wei stretched out his arm: "You pulled us up at the beginning, now it's our turn to pull you up."
Holding the extended arm, Toure stood up from the lake and hugged Mawei heavily: "Welcome back, Your Majesty the Pope."
"The General still likes to tell bad jokes as always. Poulsen tells bad jokes because he has no natural sense of humor, and your lame aristocratic jokes are incomprehensible to those of us at the bottom... I prefer to listen to you. A lady’s nightly fun.”
"I do have a few dirty jokes about ladies, do you want to hear them?"
"Save the jokes for later. Find a quieter place first."
"Let's go to Sarah's dormitory. Now parents have to accompany their children to the school building to put their luggage..."
Tu Lei led the way, and soon Ma Wei and the others arrived at the school building area of Yinton Public School. The male and female school buildings are separate. Although Yinton Public School does not admit female students, female students can only audit, but the school provides auditors for students. The new school building was not inferior to the old one at all, it was even newer and more luxurious, causing many male students to complain.
Normally, men other than housekeepers are strictly prohibited from entering the girls' school building, but today is the first day of school, and many rules must be made exceptions.
Without any obstruction, Toure led Ma Wei and others into the girls' school building easily. The wide corridors were paved with flat marble tiles and cleaned cleanly. Each room was an independent single dormitory, equipped with The bathroom also uses the most advanced steam boiler, providing hot water 24 hours a day....
Sarah's dormitory is on the third floor, where senior students live. Even though Sarah is only 13 years old, she is already a seventh-grade student at Yinton College. Next year, she will be able to choose to attend well-known universities such as Cambridge or Oxford. But 16-year-old Daniel can only study in the fourth grade and be a junior student.
"If you hadn't forced me to learn from scratch, big brother, I would have skipped a grade!"
Daniel, who had put away his luggage and ran to join Mawei, saw that Sarah, who was 3 years younger than him, was actually a seventh grader, and he immediately felt that Frederick's Kingdom had been belittled.
"According to the teaching order, Sarah is also your veritable senior sister." Ma Weidan said calmly: "She was my student in New Ross City."
Sara looked at Mavi with a blank look on her face, not understanding why Mavi said she was his student, and she didn't understand why Toure suddenly let so many people come to his room.
"Sarah, don't you recognize me?"
Mavi activates Siren Tears to change himself back to his original appearance.
"Teacher! Yunia! You are back!"
Sara screamed excitedly, and just about to pounce, she remembered the identity gap between herself and the goddess, stopped angrily, put her palms on her chest and said, "Truth is supreme!"
"Don't be formal. Although Yunia is a goddess, you are about to enter college, and Yunia has not memorized the multiplication table yet..."
Ma Wei rubbed his daughter's head and sighed melancholy.
"Ah? Haven't the goddess memorized the multiplication table yet?" Sara's face was full of disbelief: "Don't the three major truths include geometric truths?"
"Hmph!" Yunia turned her head away: "I just haven't found the truth of geometry yet! Once I find it, I can memorize the multiplication table and so on in one day!"
While Yunia and Sara were reminiscing about old times, Toure walked to the window, looked at the people coming and going downstairs and said: "It has been two months since you came to London, why didn't you come to me as soon as possible? Are you afraid that I will betray the promise I made back then?"
"No." Ma Wei shook his head and said, "I'm just afraid that you will expose my flaws after knowing my identity. If you don't know, you will definitely not expose your flaws."
"In that case, why did you suddenly come to me now... Oh!" Toure thought for a while and suddenly realized: "Manstein Potion Company is in trouble, right? You came to me to borrow money?"
"That's right." Ma Wei smiled: "Has the eldest prince collected funds from you?"
"He not only borrowed money from me, but also borrowed money from my second sister, Rosanna, and the Crowley family, which is almost 300,000 pounds." Toure said: "Originally, he wanted to mortgage my home. assets, but my father firmly disagrees.”
"I still have some personal savings, but what you need is definitely not a small sum of tens of thousands of gold pounds, so..."
Ma Wei waved his hand and said: "It's okay. I probably guessed that the eldest prince would ask you to borrow money. After all, the Crowley family and the eldest prince had a marriage. He wanted to start a potion company. How could he not ask the Crowley family for help? Woolen cloth?"
"No, I mean... If you are short of money, I can borrow it from my old friends in the Saint-Martial fleet. They are not ordinary sailors now. The lowest rank is a naval lieutenant!"
