Chapter 203: The Banquet

In fact, it is not a wise thing to hand over your negotiation outline to the other party, and the other party can see its own negotiation intention and bottom line, so the negotiation outline provided by Gu Qingqian has actually been specially revised after discussion between the commerce and trade department and the executive committee personnel, and the conditions in it have been modified in favor of the other party, and some harsher clauses have been added to the negotiation intention. However, Jacqueline, who took the document at this moment, was confused, and looked through the entire document, but the more she looked at it, the more confused she became.

This document is translated into English based on the Chinese character text, according to the grammar is the old world of the relatively standard American English, not only mixed with a lot of "Chinese English", but also mixed with a lot of "German English", "French English" and other English with different grammatical standards, many words in it are common in the old world and have not yet had time to be invented in the new world. Jacqueline looked at it for a while, and with an embarrassed face, she handed the document to Miro, who was in a daze on the side, and whispered in Miro's ear by the way, "I basically know the words in this, but I can't understand them at all when I get them together, can you help me translate them?" ”

Miro himself is also confused, isn't this his own language? Why do you need me to translate? I took a look at it, and sure enough, I was confused, and I knew almost all the words in it, but I was blind when I got together. After a while, he put down the outline and looked at Gu Qingqian with a bitter face, "Can you provide an outline of your language?" ”

This time it was Gu Qingqian's turn to be stunned, isn't this your language? She majored in English and international trade when she was in college, and it stands to reason that the outline she translated with several English majors should not be incomprehensible to the other party. "What's the situation?" "You can't read the language?"

Scratching the back of his head a little embarrassed, Miro spread out the outline and pointed out a few words on it, "I don't understand these words, and they are listed in this order, which is really incomprehensible, so I want to see your own outline, so we can compare." ”

Xiao Jing couldn't help but come over to take a look, he studied business administration in college, but he also dabbled in English, and according to his personal hobbies, he also learned ancient English. It doesn't matter if you make it up, if you take a closer look, you will immediately find the problem in the middle, but he can't explain it on the spot, this is the gap between the development of knowledge for hundreds of years, the accumulation of history, how can it be explained clearly in three or five sentences. He had no choice but to quietly pull Gu Qingqian aside and whispered, "Don't you look at it, the words and sentences in it are all those American English in the old world, even in the old world, it is a little confusing for the British to see it themselves, how can they understand it now if you hula it is thrown to this group of Medenor people?" ”

Gu Qingqian was also confused, picked up a spare English version of the document and looked at it carefully for a while, and then she could see the taste, "What should I do?" She didn't bother, and hurriedly asked Xiao Jing, Xiao Jing shrugged his shoulders, "How do I know this?" They have to find their own people to re-translate from our documents, but where are they going to find such translators at this time and a half? ”

"Hmm...... The voice on the side of the ...... sounded, making Xiao Jing and Gu Qingqian turn their heads to look at the past at the same time, it turned out to be Miro, who had been wandering on the side for a while. He had already noticed it keenly when Xiao Jing and Gu Qingqian whispered in a low voice, and he also secretly heard several words next to him, although he was not particularly familiar with "Mandarin", but he also heard several words, such as "Old World", "British" and "Maidno", although he heard it a little clueless, but when he got together, he could roughly guess that there was a problem with the translation of this document, so he weakly interrupted the conversation between Gu Qingqian and Xiao Jing.

"Can I ask someone who is already working in Oriental Harbor to help us translate these outlines?" Miro's words made Xiao Jing's heart twitch for no reason, there are now a large number of Maidno people in the Oriental Harbor, you must know that in the defense of the Oriental Harbor, the army has captured thousands of Maidno and Yaning prisoners, because most of these captives have skills that the patriarchs are not proficient in or even do not understand at all, just they can drive a huge sharp ship everywhere, this is already a matter that most of the patriarchs are blind. It is precisely for these reasons that a very small number of Medenor captives have not undergone political trials or are even directly protected in the class struggle, and even though the vast majority of captives have been carefully screened, these "escorted" captives are now in high positions of authority - for example, the culprit of the swaggering attack on Vostochny of the six sharp ships commanding the Eastern Fleet is now the de facto commander of the Chinese Navy's sail fleet, even when the destroyer is besieged by the Meednor fleet, He directly commanded the capital ship Victory to escape from the reef area, rather than fighting the Medenor fleet. During the post-mortem investigation, Ston recounted that he was concerned about the lack of firepower and the safety of the ship's veterans, who were unable to fight an unknown number of enemies, and did not know that the destroyer was still in combat condition with the Meedno fleet due to the fog. Although Stone's confession was reasonable and passed at the hearing, it was seen by most of the senators as proper war-fear.

Now Xiao Jing has heard the elders complain in private more than once, and even he himself actually has this opinion, that is, "the heart of the non-I race must be different", although these Maidno people seem to be very obedient and work hard, but who knows what kind of plans they have in private? Will it be secretly preparing to be detrimental to the Senate? Even though Yang Minghuan, Du Yande and other members of the executive committee assured that they would serve the Senate wholeheartedly, the vast majority of the senators were still unwilling to let the naturalized people of Medeno and Yaning come into contact with the core technology.

"Who would you like to ask for help?" Gu Qingqian didn't care about the change in Xiao Jing's face, but asked Miro directly, Miro touched his chin, "Can I ask Mr. Ston to help?" ”

His request did not surprise Xiao Jing, although the last time Miro came to Oriental Harbor, he was overheard by the Counterintelligence Department in the farmers' market, but there are still many veterans who do not want to believe Stone, and with the habit of exemplifying "doubting everything", he did not let the Counterintelligence Department relax its surveillance of Stone.

"Stone?" Gu Qingqian had to look back at Xiao Jing, who was still stunned behind her, "We still need to discuss this, so let's answer you tomorrow." ”

Miro nodded, and looked at Jacqueline again, the princess was also in a daze at the moment, she couldn't understand the Mandarin of these people, so she could only pretend to look at the ceiling to eliminate the embarrassment. Miro only then remembered that the princess couldn't understand Mandarin, so he hurriedly leaned over and whispered a few words to her, Jacqueline looked at Gu Qingqian, smiled slightly, and then looked at Xiao Jing with a black face behind him. She is already very clear about the main person in the negotiation now, the black-faced thin and tall person in front of her is obviously a person with real power, although Gu Qingqian has a lot of power, she still has to follow the will of the black-faced man in decisive matters. "Okay, then we'll wait for your reply tomorrow." She paused slightly, then asked tentatively, "Can I take a stroll around the Oriental Harbor?" ”

This sentence was deliberate, and from what she had seen at the window before, she was sure that she was under house arrest, but she still wanted to make sure. Now when he asks at this time, it is obvious that he is forcing the Chinese woman in front of him to express his position. But what she didn't expect was that Gu Qingqian didn't hesitate, and nodded casually, "Yes, but does Her Royal Highness the princess need us to protect her safety?" ”

Jacqueline was stunned, and after a while, she asked in a casual tone, "Is there anything interesting about this Oriental Harbor?" Can you recommend that? And how are you going to protect me? ”

"There are a lot of interesting places in Dongfang Port," Gu Qingqian suddenly came to her senses and said endlessly, "You can't enter the old district because you haven't been purified, but you can go to other places, such as the port area...... Oh, where are you from, then you can go to the farmers' market in the west of the city, there are a lot of local flowers for sale, and there is a business area, there are many shops in the business area, there are more goods in it, if you like it, you can keep my account, but it is only 300 yuan. If you like to travel, you can go to Xishan Cemetery, where the scenery is very good, you can also take a bus to Anyun County to have a look, but there is nothing to do there. By the way, you can also take the small train from Dongfang Port to Yancun Industrial Zone and then to Beiqiaotou Town, which lasts about a little more than an hour. ”

Jacqueline froze again, there are so many places to play in this city? She was born in a city on the sea, and she never left the ship when she grew up, and then when she was about to become an adult, she went to Yaning when she was married to Yaning, and it was the first time she set foot on land - she still remembers lying on the dock and dizzy for a long time before she dared to stand up, and she needed the support of three or four maids to be able to walk slowly. Now it's one of the most interesting cities in the world, so you can still find something to do, right? It's not like those cities in Yaning, where the roads stretch for miles and are full of blacksmiths, and there is no sound to be heard along the way except jingling, and the air is filled with charcoal and soot, and there is black charcoal ash everywhere, and there is really nothing interesting about such land.

"If you work safely," Xiao Mingwei added, "we have professional protection personnel to protect your safety, but I also hope that you can obey the arrangements of our protection personnel and do not do some dangerous things to avoid danger." ”

Miro's mouth opened wide, he had a headache after hearing that the princess's identity was leaked, for fear that the princess would lose the port of the East. Even if he knew that the Chinese would act above board and would not do such a thing, he was still very worried. But now when they heard Gu Qingqian's gushing recommendations for places to play, their hearts suddenly let go, they definitely wouldn't detain the princess. Otherwise, she would have to go to so many places, and the princess could run away at any time.

"By the way, in order to welcome the princess of Medeno to our Oriental Port," Gu Qingqian said as if she suddenly remembered something, "We specially set up a table of wine banquet in the banquet hall on the first floor to welcome Her Royal Highness the princess. Is it convenient this afternoon? Jacqueline nodded, she knew that this kind of "wine banquet" was basically for entertaining guests, and since people could entertain themselves, they should still not treat themselves as prisoners.

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"This is Xiao Jing, the executive committee member of Dongfang Port," Gu Qingqian introduced to Jacqueline, who seriously noticed the tall and thin man in front of him for the first time. Xiao Jing's skin was not so dark, he was tanned by the sun when he ran shopping every day before the crossing, and after arriving in this new world, he presided over the production work in the Dongfang Port Timber Mill all year round, and was reworked by the tropical sun, so it became the bronzed skin now.

Xiao Jing is only twenty-eight or nineteen years old, he was busy with work in the old world, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the affairs of men and women. Being single for a long time has made him feel less trusting of women, so no matter what kind of woman the other party is, no matter how beautiful he is, he can maintain a cool expression, including now, his expression is the same. Xiao Jing's face is relatively thin, and his height of about 1.76 meters is not tall among the patriarchs, but he can be regarded as tall among the natives of the New World, especially Jacqueline, who is no more than 1.6 meters tall now.

Jacqueline smiled at Xiao Jing, in exchange for Xiao Jing's mechanical and perfunctory smile in response. This made Jacqueline's heart feel as unhappy as if she had pressed a stone, her status as a princess, even if she went to accompany her sister to marry, which of the kings of Yaning and a large number of lords and viscounts did not greet each other with a smile on their faces? Even though she knew that the identity of the man in front of her had a very high status in the Senate, equivalent to the king of this force, Xiao Jing's cold face made her very unhappy.

She stepped forward a little unconvinced, stretched out her hand to Xiao Jing and said, "Hello, it's nice to meet you, I'm Jacqueline Belwood, I wish you good health!" Xiao Jing saw the woman stretching out his hand, and he was about to reach out, but he was slapped on the back of his hand by a hand stretched out from the oblique thorn, and he couldn't help but reflexively retract it.