Li Ran felt a little embarrassed, after all, his town guard mansion didn't even have a chair, so he could only use some wooden boxes to act temporarily, and he said apologetically:

"Please don't mind if it's not well taken care of. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"No, but the decoration of your house is top-notch, I don't know which master wrote it. Bai Nuoyan sighed, although she didn't understand why Li Ran's town guard mansion looked so new, but she couldn't afford to buy furniture, but she still thought that Li Ran had something unspeakable, she smiled:

"If you don't mind, our chamber of commerce just has a batch of mahogany furniture that has just come from France, and I can give you a seven-fold discount on the price. ”

Li Ran spread his hands:

"Then I'm afraid I can only thank you for your kindness, but I don't have a dime in my pocket. ”

Bai Nuoyan was stunned for a moment, and she asked:

"No, if you take over an escort commission, with your ship's strength, you should be able to earn ......"

Li Ran's face turned cold, and he said in a light tone:

"My shipwives are not tools, and I won't force them to do thankless things. ”

Bai Nuoyan knew what she had said, so she quickly apologized and said:

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I mean, since you are now the Admiral, accepting some escort commissions can not only alleviate your current predicament, but also provide your ship's wife with an opportunity to train, after all, you can't live without firewood, rice, oil and salt, right?"

Li Ran knew that he had overreacted, and he was not to blame, after all, as a traverser, these ship girls were actually more like the only trace of comfort for him to come to this world, and they were also the way for him to integrate into this world, he knew that he was a little impulsive in his speech, and his tone softened, saying:

"I'm sorry, I didn't listen to you, it was so rude. ”

"Nope. Bai Nuoyan shook her head, and she said:

"You're not wrong about doing this, although I didn't pass the Admiral exam, I still understand the first rule of the Admiralty Code. ”

"What?" Li Ran felt that he didn't understand at all, he was such an outsider, and he came out halfway, and he didn't understand what the commander's code was.

"The first article of the first admiral's code, the significance of the admiral to the ship's mother is to resist the slander of secular remarks for her, and to avoid the ship's mother's soul from being bewitched by the world. ”

The corners of Li Ran's mouth twitched, good middle school two regulations, who wrote the code, can you speak human words.

"In layman's terms, the duty of the admiral is to deal with some trivial matters, such as communication with the outside world, accept some escort commissions, and ensure that the ship girls are able to fight without distractions, which is the duty of the admiral. ”

Li Ran listened to Bai Nuoyan's words, and seemed to understand a little, but he smiled bitterly:

"Even if I want to take some commissions, but I don't know my life well and I don't have a social circle, even if I go to the door, the other party may not be able to see it, right?"

"I just have an escort commission here, I don't know if you're interested. ”

"You?"

"Well, our ship's compass wind vane is broken, it is likely to delay the deadline for delivery, the original plan was to go through the safe channel, so that although the time is delayed, but it is better to be safe, but this accident, we have deviated far away, if the delivery is still according to the original route, it will definitely be too late, so I wonder if I can risk through some more dangerous waterways to save time, but because I have not found the town guard who accepted the commission, I am worried about this matter. ”

"Wait, you mean, you want to take a shortcut, and the shortcut is infested by the deep sea, so you want to find a ship's mother to escort?"

"That's right, you see, this is a nautical chart, we originally passed through the golden channel, that is, these islands, because these islands are surrounded by ships from the town guard to carry out cruises, but because of an accident, our current location is probably here, by the way, I have always had a question, and the location on the map was originally located in the sea area, is your island newly discovered?"

Li Ran looked at Bai Nuoyan with a stunned face, he just looked at this exquisite chart, and when he heard her inquiry, he raised his head:

"Yes, I just found out a few days ago, so I became the Admiral, and the investigation team of the Efunume Academy Headquarters and the delegation from the Admiral Academy Headquarters have also come, and it seems that a batch of supplies will be sent in a few days, so I may not be able to accept your commission. ”

"Can you ask if that batch of supplies will arrive in a few days?" Bai Nuoyan felt a little helpless, but she didn't want to give up, after all, if Li Ran could agree to this commission and make a good relationship, the Chamber of Commerce would be able to open up more channels in the future, and she would be able to increase more business volume, which could help the Chamber of Commerce become more and more difficult in its predicament, she said:

"I didn't mean anything else, I was thinking, if you have a few days left for supplies, you can wait a few days. ”

"It's about five days later, by the way, I haven't asked what kind of goods you want to send?" Li Ran was a little curious, the other party's merchant ship looked like a large passenger ship of tens of thousands of tons, and the cargo capacity should be very large, but as the saying goes, no profit can not be early, if this batch of goods is really precious, the other party should not even send the escort commission, he is a little suspicious, could it be smuggling?

Bai Nuoyan sighed, she could see that Li Ran's face was strange, maybe she thought of herself as a profiteer and smuggler, she said:

"The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is a serious businessman, and it will not do smuggling business, so we can't hide it, our batch of blue and white porcelain imported from Xia Kingdom, and some tea silk, because of the frequent dispatches in the deep sea recently, the business is also very difficult. ”

"Then where is your destination?" Lan Scott Kingdom?" Li Ran nodded, this is also true, the deep sea blocking navigation and transportation is indeed a big trouble for these merchants who run the sea, he pointed to the Blue Caster Kingdom in the Atlantic theater closest to Xia Country on the map.

"No, it's New England, a large colony of the English Empire, where the aristocracy is now practiced, and the porcelain, tea and silk of the Xia Kingdom can be sold at a good price, after all, the price of gold is low there, and the difference is very objective. ”

Li Ran nodded, although the land area of this chart has indeed shrunk a lot, correspondingly, there are still many similarities between the entire chart and the earth, such as the general location of these countries.

New England is the equivalent of the United States.

However, the biggest difference with the earth is that the middle part of the chart is densely marked with all kinds of archipelagos, and the country that Bai Nuoyan said is only as big as one or two provinces of the motherland before Li Ran's death, and many areas on the chart are blue waters, and the unknown and danger are specially marked, he visually measured it, the area of the unknown area is at least nearly seven-tenths of the entire chart, and human beings live in these three known areas, he felt a little shocked, the predicament of human survival in this world is more difficult than he imagined, he said to Bai Nuoyan with understanding:

"How long does it take to get from us to New England?"

Bai Nuoyan hesitated for a moment, she thought about it, and said:

"It's the largest Nile port in northern New England, and if the destination is here, it's at least 1,200 nautical miles from your island, and it takes about a week. ”

"And how many days are left of your delivery date?"

Bai Nuoyan thought for a while and said:

"There's still half a month left, but a week is just ideal, because this is the nearest shipping lane, but there are the fewest ships, do you know why?"

Li Ran thought about it for a while, indeed, on this route, there are only a few islands and reefs, there are no large islands, and there is no town guard, and there should be a lot of words in the deep sea, he said:

"Because of the Deep Sea Fleet?"

"That's right, this route is indeed the closest route from Xia to New England, but because there is no supply point on the way, it means that there is a higher logistics cost to take this route, and what is more deadly is that there is no town guard along this route, although there are many islands and reefs, but they are all desolate, if you encounter the deep sea, there is nowhere to run. ”

Li Ran nodded, but he immediately thought that this route was not the direction where ABC Mishima was located, as long as he could explore the reality of this route, this route might become an opportunity for the prosperity of his port area in the future, he thought about it for a while, but he had to be cautious about this kind of thing when escorting this kind of thing, and this route was indeed too empty, he said to Bai Nuoyan:

"I can't give you a definite answer for the time being, and when Lexington and Bismarck come back, I'll ask their opinions, and by the way, if you don't dislike it, spend the night on the island, it's not too early. ”

Bai Nuoyan also knew Li Ran's concerns, after all, this route seemed to have been explored, but she had been in business for so many years, but she had heard a lot of rumors about that route, some said it was a death route, some said it was a greedy route, all in all, the danger of this route was recognized by all maritime merchants, after all, there was no route near the town guard mansion, as long as it encountered the deep sea, it was a dead end.

Li Ran and Bai Nuoyan talked about some customs of the Xia Kingdom, Bai Nuoyan, as a native of the Xia Kingdom, was also very cordial to Li Ran, who was the same color as herself, and she was happy to tell him some information.

……

Seeing that her admiral was talking and laughing with a strange woman, Pinghai was angry, and the firefly was also a little unhappy, she said to Quincy:

"Sister Quincy, that woman doesn't look like a good person. ”

Quincy didn't realize anything, was she a fool? just made an OvO expression, and Firefly shook Juno's hand:

"Sister Juno, do you say yes? ”

"Well, but it doesn't look like your Admirals are good guys. Juno complained in passing.

Pinghai was annoyed by Juno's words, and she smiled and patted her on the head:

"Nonsense. ”

Juno stuck out her tongue, she didn't want to make Pinghai's friend angry, so she whispered:

"Are you jealous? ”

"No, I didn't. Pinghai's face turned red, and she and Juno had a quarrel like this.

Li Ran was a little embarrassed by the noise of Juno, and said to Bai Nuoyan:

"Sorry, they're like kids. ”

"Hmph, people are not children. Pinghai straightened his chest full of vitality and glanced at Bai Nuoyan angrily.

Bai Nuoyan was a little dazed, she looked at this little girl in a red cheongsam like this, and then looked at Li Ran's reaction, she glanced at Ping Hai with a smile, and teased Li Ran:

"Looks like your ship's wife likes you very much. ”

Ping Hai's face turned red instantly, she covered her face, it's too bad, this time the admiral is definitely going to curse.

Unexpectedly, Li Ran did not deny it, he got up, walked to Pinghai and touched her long gray hair, his face was full of doting, and he said to Bai Nuoyan:

"I like them too, they are like family to me. ”

Bai Nuoyan smiled, and she said:

"Family, you're really different from the Admirals I've ever seen, what an outlier. ”

Li Ran shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal:

"Maybe. ”