Chapter 700: Weddings and Choices
Life at sea was boring, which meant that most of the entertainment of the seafarers and sailors could only be found on shore.
Seeing the scene of these sailors hurrying ashore, Chen Fang smiled lightly at Liu Yi.
"Yi'er, what do you say they are doing in such a hurry?"
"Drinking, smoking, looking for prostitutes."
"They're running in the direction of home."
Liu Yi didn't understand, they ran home, obviously a tavern, a hotel, and other places.
Chen Fang didn't say anything anymore, put down the curtain on the carriage window, and leaned slightly against the car wall.
Old Scar said that the home of the sea people is the arms of prostitutes, perhaps for the sea people who have been running around the sea for many years and the sailors who have been training at sea for a long time, this sentence is too true.
Liu Yi saw that Chen Fang closed his eyes and rested against the wall of the car, so he gently snuggled in his arms, docile like a cat.
Chen Fang caressed Liu Yi's back, and the carriage moved along the coastal road, passing by increasingly dense and huge warehouses.
At this time, these warehouses are no longer sufficient, and the North Port has requisitioned many slaves and is stepping up the arrangement of the warehouses, but there are still many goods exposed to the open environment at this time.
A pile of goods collapsed ahead, and the carriage had to stop.
The overseer had already driven the slaves to carry the goods with a leather whip, and the leather whip in his hand was mercilessly whipped on the slower slaves, and the other party cried wolf, and the skin on his body was open.
Chen Fang took Liu Yi's hand and walked down the carriage blocked by the goods, and Chen Fang quietly watched as the leather whip in the overseer's hand drew shocking blood marks on the slave's body.
Maybe it was because he saw Princess Jingnan's car and saw that the princess was looking at them, the leather whip in the overseer's hand was whipped harder, and the scolding in his mouth became more intense.
Chen Fang sighed, this is this era, the aristocratic life in the castle must be forged with the blood and sweat of commoners and slaves.
It is good to be a master, to be able to take the princess by the hand, to see the slaves being whipped and bloodied, and to listen to their groans and wails of pain, and not to be the one who has been whipped with a leather whip.
The struggle against fate, for them, may be this moaning and wailing.
The goods were quickly cleared, the roads were cleared, and the carriage was back on the path it was supposed to be traveling.
There are more and more warehouses, and many of the warehouses that are rushing are actually just thin planks.
These warehouses contained all kinds of souvenirs, guns, gunpowder, grain and other goods from South America.
People of this era may not have experienced the explosion in the warehouse area, and such things as gunpowder were piled up in tons in the harbor.
Thinking about the strict and standardized port management in later generations, the big explosion in the port was not once or twice.
If a spark here in the port of North Harbor ignites the gunpowder, the consequences...
Chen Fang is waiting for an opportunity, a chance for all the ironclad ships to return to Hong Kong.
At this time, looking at the continuous warehouse, thinking that he was going to bury the family wealth of the Northern Han Dynasty for I don't know how many years, Chen Fang looked at Liu Yi beside him, and said sorry softly in his heart.
It is rare in the world to have both laws, and it lives up to its promise. After all, it was time to choose, and he must choose between his left hand and right hand.
If he could travel again, Chen Fang wanted to travel to the Northern Han Dynasty at this time, to the side of this Jingnan princess, to take care of her life, compensate her for her life, and accompany her for a lifetime.
But there are no ifs in the world, there are many crossroads in life, choices exist everywhere, sometimes difficult, sometimes dilemmas, sometimes, some choices no matter how to choose, are heart-wrenching.
But the road is always going forward, Chen Fang looked at Liu Yi and gently squeezed her jade hand.
"Yi'er, I want to go back."
"Didn't you say you were going to see our soldiers trained in the Americas?"
"I'm tired!"
"Oh, alright, let's go back."
The carriage traveled through the stone fort, and it happened that two carriages were outside the stone fort together, and the carriage had the symbol of the sword, shield and rose, which was the carriage of the royal family.
The attendant in the carriage got out of the carriage and bowed slightly to Princess Jingnan, who also got off the carriage.
"Is it the will of the royal brother?"
"Your Royal Highness Princess, you ask like this, how else can your subordinates make a decree?"
"The emperor's decree is given to me, otherwise it will stain my skirt."
The attendant was helpless, so he could only hand over the holy decree, and Chen Fang was also helpless, why did the Han Emperor's marriage decree happen to arrive in Beigang at this time.
Liu Yi had already opened the holy decree on his own, then looked at it and hugged Chen Fang.
"Xiao Mo, we will get married tonight, we shouldn't be in such a hurry, we should go to Black Swan Castle to hold the wedding, but the war is imminent, and Yi'er doesn't want to wait any longer."
Chen Fang sighed in his heart, he wanted to refuse, but after looking at Liu Yi, he couldn't refuse ruthlessly.
The wedding was in a hurry, so anxious that the church in Beigang was preparing in the afternoon, and when twilight rose, Chen Fang and Liu Yi arrived at the church.
Originally, as a Han Chinese, Chen Fang didn't like this kind of European-style wedding, but he was in a hurry, and second, Liu Yi said that he wanted to experience it, so Chen Fang could only reluctantly agree.
The wedding ceremony is simple, simple to crude. Compared with Chinese weddings, Chen Fang can only sigh at the simplicity, directness and roughness of foreign weddings.
When the wedding was over, Chen Fang and Liu Yi returned to Shibao, and in the carriage, Liu Yi snuggled in Chen Fang's arms, and from her face, she could read the joy in her heart at this time.
The carriage passed through Beigang Bay, and Chen Fang saw six ironclad ships moored in the harbor in unison.
The previous three, in the past two months, the shipyard has delivered three more, at this time, Beigang, a total of eight ironclad ships, six of which are still in the slipway.
Chen Fang looked at the silhouette of the ironclad ship reflected by the street lamp in the night, and sighed in his heart, why did it happen to be tonight.
The carriage entered the stone castle, Liu Yi always snuggled in Chen Fang's arms, and entered the bedroom, the princess of the Northern Han Dynasty was full of love and honey that could not be dissolved.
"Xiao Mo, we finally got married, although in a hurry, after all, I married you, and you will be my colt in the future. When the war is over, I'll make up another grand wedding for you in Black Swan Castle. ”
Chen Fang didn't know what to say, looked at his daughter's color, stroked the extremely delicate waist with his hand, and kissed Liu Yi deeply.
The two fell in love, and the bed in the stone castle was fortunately strong enough, otherwise there was a possibility of collapse.
Late at night, Liu Yi lazily leaned on Chen Fang's arms, looking at the shadow of the night sky outside the castle in the window.
"Xiao Mo, I really want to accompany you like this all the time, accompany you, watch you read, watch you look in a daze, look at your eyes on me."
"Xiao Mo, you don't know how much Yi'er likes you in her heart, and she forgets who she is."
In response to Liu Yi, it was a deep kiss.
It was nearly early in the morning, when the princess of the Northern Han Dynasty fell asleep, Chen Fang got up, put on his clothes, and took off his coat.
The night outside was at its deepest, and the June wind finally stopped being cold, and he hurriedly walked out of the stone castle, and Chen Fang stepped into the night.