Gu Jin was very happy to see Grimes like a treasure, this kind of vacuum-plated metal jewelry has a lot in the supermarket small commodity shelves in the cave, and there are also a lot of them under his name, but it seems that only women are interested in these small ornaments, such as the Duchess Margaret and her sister-in-law on the ship, those two ladies have harvested many of these cheap trinkets from the old world from Sun Lao and Hou Xianglin respectively.

Obviously, this cheapness was only limited to the Old World, after all, these metal ornaments were a combination of Old World metallurgy and vacuum electroplating, and the resulting metal ornaments that reflected strange colored light proved to be very popular with women in the New World.

Speaking of which, what makes people laugh and cry is that just a while ago, in the Sunflower Girls' School, the female students used to compare the jewelry sent by the men of each family, however, some honest people gave their women real gems, real jade necklaces, but, because the appearance is not as bright and dazzling as the copper alloy electroplating jewelry, the result was complained and disliked by their own women......

Gu Jin is a caring person, and he also brought some with him when he went to sea this time, of course, not to hook up with women, but to make friends, and now it really comes in handy, and it is also a happy harvest.

Later, Grimes and Gu Jin became lifelong friends, not because of these gifts, but because the two had various topics to talk about, and both captains spoke good English.

As a devout Protestant, Captain Greens was a man with a different view of the world, while Gu Jin was intrigued by Grimes's resume and the situation he brought about the lives of Europeans.

At the same time, Grimes also felt that this captain was not simple from the questions asked by Captain Gu, and he found that this Captain Gu knew more about his hometown than he did, however, it was not only Captain Gu who knew his hometown, but also his crew, and some questions were not simple.

In short, Greens believed in his own vision, and at the same time he had a strange feeling that they were from another world, and in a way, they were not from this world, but they seemed to be people of this world, because they knew more about the world than a captain or a sailor should have, and there was a confidence in their speech and demeanor that could not be expressed in words, which can only be said that the world is so big that it is not ......

Grimes would love to see what they said about Australia, of course, not yet, but he had decided to tie his fate to these people, a group of promising people, and there must be meat to eat with them......

Three days later, the Nicole and the Pride towing the Red Bay finally crossed the Sulu Sea, passing through the treacherous islands off Palawan and into the relative safety of the open sea.

By this time, the duchess had fully recovered, and she and her sister-in-law were already familiar with the ship and the people on board, and on the high white ship, there were often two little women's dresses fluttering in the wind, and they were holding flower umbrellas, and from time to time they appeared on the top of the cockpit of the Nicole to look out at the railing, which had become a beautiful scenery on the ship.

In the past few days, Duchess Margaret has made a major decision in her life, as soon as she arrives in Macau, she will invest all her capital to buy as big a ship as possible, and then do business with the Australians, and she has seen the cargo in the cabin of the Nicole, and she will never let go of this business opportunity.

She also had a deep talk with Greens, who was glad that he didn't have to worry about whether to resign, and told the Duchess that there was a big secret hidden in the soup you were drinking: it was a condiment that would drive the world crazy - five-spice powder.

As for the chocolate that the esteemed Miss Zezilia loved, the Australians had plans to sell it worldwide within a few years, and Grimes strongly advised the Duchess to pay attention to sugar cane and cocoa beans, the ingredients from which chocolate was made, and all these things had been told to him by her wise friend, the Chef.

The Duchess very much agreed with Grimes, believing that this was indeed a way to make money, but the Duchess immediately told Captain Grimes that Mr. Sun and Captain Gu had given her an even more important proposal: to fund and support Pimont's efforts to regain Timor, and if this could be achieved, not only would our estate on Timor Island be recovered, but we would also gain a foothold.

Greens sensitively noticed that His Excellency the Duchess's eyes would light up whenever he mentioned Mr. Sun, and he knew that his chef friend's surname was Sun, so he cautiously replied, Mr. Sun is really the wisest chef I have ever met in my life, is he your friend now?

The Duchess laughed when she heard this, and she told Grimes that the chef was in fact the recognized leader of the group, and that the young Mr. Xu explained to me for a long time why a ship's chef had a "part-time" role similar to that of the convener of the board of directors of the Portuguese East India Company or the president of the national parliament of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.

Margaret said to Grimes, although she can only understand part of it, but it is clear that Mr. Sun is not a simple chef, and this friend of yours is not only wise, but also noble......

On December 16, the Nicole, Pride and Red Bay headed north into the South China Sea, and Gu Jin was familiar with this route, so instead of sailing as close to the coastline as he had before, he crossed the deep ocean directly, where there were neither pirates nor islands and reefs, and the trade winds in the ocean were strong, and the average speed of the fleet reached more than ten knots.

A few days later, at nine o'clock in the morning on December 25, 1657, a bell rang from Nicole's watchtower, telling the people on board that we were soon to reach our destination.

Almost all of them took binoculars to look north, I don't know how long it took, when the humid morning fog of the South China Sea dissipated, on the distant horizon, undulating hills, rich green sandbanks and yellow-brown estuaries gradually came into view, in the distance, there were several wide Chinese hard sailing ships and Western soft sailing ships fluttering various penangular flags, slowly moving in different directions.

At this moment, everyone on the Nicole, including all the young crew, was very excited.

For the time-travelers, this is the first time they have seen the land they once lived in on this plane---- which was the home of 300 years ago.

The two ladies on board were also excited, they also had Australian binoculars in their hands, and of course their focus was a little different, they were looking curiously at the different Oriental ships at sea.

A few hours later, the people on the deck of the Pride at the front of the fleet finally saw the turret standing on the hill of Fortress in Macau City, with a Portuguese flag fluttering on it.

On the Nicole, Gu Jin and Sun Lao also each held a telescope and looked into the distance, and the life experience and knowledge of the two made them sigh more while looking.

"Look at that triangular vault, isn't it St. Paul's Cathedral!? That's what the locals call St. Paul's, and sure enough, it's a mixture of Baroque and Oriental architectural styles, and I finally saw the whole thing! ”

Sun Lao said excitedly.

"It's beautiful, it's just been built, it seems like it's been less than 30 years......"

Gu Jin nodded in response, his eyes did not leave the telescope, and he responded after a while:

"I think I ran the route from the Persian Gulf to Macau, and I can't count the number of times I've seen St. Paul's, but it was the remains of the fire, and now I finally see the whole body, I didn't expect that I was quite excited......