"Then it's decided." Lin Yiqing nodded and said, "Let Xu Shoushan be the pipe band of 'Weiyuan'." ”

"'Weiyuan' was the ship of Lin Wenxiang's visit to Europe back then, and now it has been ten years, the ship type is old, the firepower is also weak, and the Taixi Sea Road is not peaceful, why don't you ask the Ministry of the Sea to allocate a new ship to accompany you?" Deng Zhengqing asked.

"During this visit to Europe, the movement should not be too big, and it is enough to have a 'Weiyuan'." Lin Yiqing smiled, "Otherwise, if I know the true purpose of my trip, I'm afraid that there will be many obstacles to national affairs." ”

Listening to Lin Yiqing's answer, Zhang Cheng and Deng Zhengqing both sighed.

After learning that the "Saxony"-class ironclad ship "Fuso," which Japan had secretly built in Germany, had returned to China, the gossip officials were also in an uproar, but many of them still pointed the finger at Lin Yiqing, saying that Lin Yiqing had "forced Japan too much." As a result, Japan intensified its purchase of warships to deal with the big cadres, and dragged the big cadres into the quagmire of the arms race. Of course, Lin Yiqing disdained this accusation, and he also knew that the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces would not change her attitude towards him because of these unwarranted words, but this kind of argument still had a certain adverse impact on the coastal defense plan, so much so that when the imperial court made public decisions, it clearly denied Li Shaoquan's proposal of "borrowing foreign debts at light interest" to develop the navy.

"Although Fang Boqian didn't let him be the 'Weiyuan' pipe belt, he let him follow him this time." Lin Yiqing said again, "I have another appointment for this person." ”

Zhang Yuanlai secretly felt sorry for Fang Boqian, and couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when he heard Lin Yiqing say that he wanted to take Shang Boqian.

"In addition, this time, the students of the Harbour Master Academy who accompanied the trip should bring as many as possible." Lin Yiqing said, "The opportunity is rare, and it is necessary to come out and have a long experience." ”

Zhang Cheng and Deng Zhengqing glanced at each other again, and each saw admiration in each other's eyes.

After arranging all the matters related to the trip, Lin Yiqing returned to his own mansion in the capital, and He Yunqing and Chiho Kirino were already eagerly looking forward to his return in the mansion.

Their hearts are filled with indescribable joy.

When Lin Yiqing was ordered to prepare to visit Europe, they also received the grace of the Empress Dowager Renxi, allowing the two of them to accompany their husbands on a visit, which can be regarded as compensation for their "quality" in the palace over the years.

From the day they received the grace, they were allowed to leave the palace and return to their home in the capital to be with Lin Yiqing.

For them, this autumn is dear; For them, the days before this autumn were long—but now, they were a golden song.

In these days, every day at noon, Lin Yiqing would hear their footsteps ascending the steps. In the normal noon, in the light of health and joy, they were the people he loved, the women in his messy room, the people who brought delicious food, the chefs who used their brains, and their lively, small footsteps outside his door could evoke the joy of jumping in his heart. Their faces were like a light and a piece of music in the midday light; Their faces were full of joy and tenderness, delicate as plums, and ruddy as flowers; Their faces were so young, so beautiful, full of health and joy; Their faces are lovely, showing strength and majestic beauty that nothing in the world can match. He kissed them a thousand times on the face, for they were so beautiful, so vibrant, so radiant and so charming.

Every part of their bodies clearly exudes the music of hope, morning joy and good life. Their gentle faces had a thousand pleasant and humorous looks, unpredictable, swift and lively like a child's face, yet there was always a deep and sad beauty on their faces, like a shadow on the sun. Their hands were so small, so stable, so strong, that they could make crazy meals, even if the palace meal for the emperor was placed next to their dish, and that kind of meal that no one had ever seen, heard, or imagined before.

In this way, when he heard their footsteps ascending the steps at noon, and when their tiny knuckles clicked briskly at the door, they brought him the greatest health and joy he had ever experienced; They came in from the cruel, numb streets, like a cry of victory, like a loud music in the blood, like the immortal birdsong in the first morning light. They bring hope, they bring delicious food, they bring good news. The hundreds of scenes and splendid landscapes they had seen in the streets that morning, and a dozen accounts of life in the palace, poured out from between their lovely red lips, and they spoke as eagerly as two children. After listening to them, he looked at them, and saw and felt their vitality, youthfulness and charm again.

They entered his veins, and they began to sing and throb through the inertia of his strong muscles, but he was still weighed down by a great dense sleepiness, until he jumped up, grabbed them, swallowed them, and felt that there was nothing in the world that he could not do, that there was nothing in the world that he could not conquer. They give language to joy, to all the music of autumn, and the great throbbing of autumn trembles in the golden and azure singing of the air.

Everything - the clapping and fluttering of a little sugar man on the delicate pastry, the shouts of children, the smell of old planks in the sun, the smell of oil in the warm streets of autumn, the thousands of beating and intertwined colours and points of light on the sidewalks, the smell of the market, the smell of fruits, flowers, vegetables and fertile land, the heavy and stirring whistle of a large ship as it leaves the canal docks at noon – all give them intensity, structure and joyful forms.

They had never been as beautiful as they had been in that autumn, and sometimes seeing them so vibrant and good-looking, Lin Yiqing almost couldn't help but go crazy. He knew they were there even before he heard their footsteps ascending the steps at noon. At twelve o'clock in the night they fell asleep, and at noon he fell into a groggy and alert sleep, and his feelings for them were so strong that as soon as they entered the house, whether he heard the slightest sound or not, he knew at once.

Their bodies are filled with all the good and joyful life in the world; There they stood, in the dazzling light of the noonday, their beautiful faces as wonderful and delicate as flowers, as ruddy and soft as cherries. And every part of their body was so plump and delicate, their slender figures, their slightly plump bodies, their slender ankles, their plump and swaying legs, their towering twin peaks, their small straight shoulders, their bright red lips and flower-like faces, and their blinking-bright black hair—they seemed to be better, more elegant, and more gorgeous than any woman in the world. The first sight of them at noon always gave him hope, confidence, and faith, and transmitted the invincible power of the raging waves into the tremendous inertia of his muscles, while he was still controlled by a drowsiness of great calming effect.

They would throw their arms around him and kiss him like crazy; They would fall on his bed at once, lay beside him, and gradually cling mischievously to him, leaning over their radiant, exciting faces, and receiving kisses insatiably, so that a thousand kisses would cover and stick to their faces; They are as fresh as the morning, as crisp as cress, as delicate and soft as plums; She had an irresistible charm like tender, soft, and juicy fruit, and he felt he could swallow them in one gulp, and hide them in him forever. Then, when he had embraced them to his heart's content, one of them would stand up and begin to prepare a delicate meal for him.

There is no more attractive sight in the world than the sight of a beautiful woman cooking for the man she loves. His lovers were ruddy and delicate, and they bent over the meal prepared for him with the eagerness and devotion of a religious ceremony, and he was filled with love at the sight of such a sight.

At such a moment, he couldn't restrain himself. There was a joy in his heart that no words could express. He would inhale the scent of maddening food into his lungs for a moment until he couldn't control himself. When he saw their gentle faces eagerly approaching and aiming at their work for love, at their handy movements, at the sight of her plump and lovely figure, with the maddening scent of delicacies, a tender affection and hunger welled up in his heart that could not be expressed in words.

He couldn't say what he wanted to say, but he couldn't control himself anymore. A frantic shout would come out of his throat; He'll pounce on them. He engulfed their faces with kisses, flattened their bodies with hugs, dragged them through the room, and threw them on the bed; Some of them may scream in protest, but they are still happy at his madness.

During these days, his and theirs' lives were filled with silly words, love, and joy; He and they didn't care what anyone in the world thought of their words—how stupid, crazy, and loving they sounded. They enjoy life to the fullest with an insatiable desire, they love, they hug, they snuggle, they interrogate, they imagine, they answer, they believe, they deny, they live all kinds of lives to the fullest, and then they all live it all over again with an unquenchable hunger and thirst - but it is like a fire that is always burning. They lived together for tens of thousands of hours, each of which was like the entire course of a crowded life. And it always resembles hunger: it begins like hunger; It lasted like a hunger that could never be satisfied—a real, clear, insatiable hunger that he felt could eat her alive. As long as she was with him, he was like mad, for he could not live without her, and he could not swallow her whole, as he wished; After she leaves him, he will miss her and go crazy.

They are like spirits who cannot be disobeyed, who dominate every action, every feeling, and every memory in his life. It wasn't that he missed them all the time, it wasn't that he couldn't get his mind out of the images that had left him in a haunting situation, and that all his life was focused on that. No, their conquest of him was ten thousand times more terrible. For if they were to be entrenched in the court of the mind as the proud Empress ascended to the throne in a mind full of temporary images, they could be expelled by some effort of will, by some savage act of violent rejection, by some debauchery of oblivion, or by some deliberate punishment of a hateful heart. But they had entered into the porch of blood, they had seeped into all the tissues of the muscles, they had permeated the circles of the brain, and until now they were in his muscles, in the blood, in the life, as if a man could not exclude his mother's blood from him, and the blood and tissues that concealed his father's life from himself, they had become like the cunning and mighty elves, from whom they could never be expelled.

In this way, whether he consciously missed them or not, they were now present in every action and moment of his life with a damn and inescapable inevitability. Nothing is his own anymore, not even the tiniest and most distant memories of his childhood. They inexorably dwelt in his life, dominating his most distant roots, appearing again and again in his memories, as witnesses to every triumphant and secret thing that had always belonged to him. They were now placed at the center of his life, so that they could not be forgotten for a second, and as if they were going to dwell there forever, they had mingled and mixed with his muscles, scattered in every channel of his life, coming and going with every breath of his life, with vivid colors, jumping and moving with every pulse.

The leaves flutter and rustle in the autumn breeze; Sunlight comes and goes with all its sudden changes of color, shining into the magically forbidden, throbbing green center. The sound of horses' hooves and rumbling wheels passing through the streets is always the case; Millions of feet have stepped on the wide streets, and the crowds have walked and walked through those streets; The high, immortal voice of time was low and continuous, enduring and forever enveloped the walls of the mansion and the pavilions within.

At such times, the love and thirsty joy of him and them welled up in his heart and spread throughout his body. He stared at them with tender and loving eyes, gently rocking them back and forth, showing a gentle and savage appearance. He would clamp one of them tightly with his knees, and look down at her reverently with a triumphant but difficult look. He suffocated them, and they would let out short screams. Then he would step back for a moment, let them go, and let them gasp for breath slowly and violently. Their delicate, flushed faces were lifted up with a childlike, flower-like hunger that could not be contained. His gaze had a calm, almost material visual power, and for a moment he inhaled their fresh fruit-like scent, his lower lip protruding; His face was gloomy and tense; He will briefly and unintentionally show a salivating look. The blood churned violently and began to thump and leap stickily in the veins, his pulse and temples throbbed slowly and heavily, hardening his thighs with savage force, and he produced more and more intense a slow and suppressed threat that reached his hands, bending his palms and filling his fingers with enormous, tearing power.

He would pounce on them again, clinging to their jade legs with his knees, hanging over their heads like a dark cloud of storm.

This is love, pure suffering, there is nothing in the world but love! He would look at them for a long time with a hungry desire, and then hold them tightly. He would put his arm around them as he corrected his movements, and then kissed them again and again......

"Remember that when you attend a banquet, only one of you can go up, but don't go up with two people like now."

Finally, when it was time for them to rest, Lin Yiqing looked at He Yunqing and Chiho Kirino beside him, gasped fiercely, and said.

"It's a good thing for the two of us to discuss." He Yunqing looked at him gently, and gently held Chiho Kirino's hand caressing Lin Yiqing's chest muscles, "Isn't it, Sister Chisui?" ”

"Of course." Chiho Kirino looked at Lin Yiqing, whose chest was fluctuating, and a hint of narrowness flashed in her eyes, "At the banquet during the day, our sisters can take turns to accompany you to socialize, but at night...... You have to sleep with both of us, three of us, no one less. ”

"You two want to devour me alive......" Lin Yiqing grinned. He Yunqing and Chiho Kirino looked at his bitter face and laughed happily.

"By the way, what does the Queen Mother want you to do in Europe this time?" He Yunqing asked, "Is it related to the three ironclad ships built in Europe?" ”

After listening to He Yunqing's question, Chiho Kirino's face showed a solemn look, she already knew that the fifth "Guiyuan" ship of the "Longwei" class ironclad ship built at the Volkeng shipyard in Germany was for the Satsuma Navy.

Although she has been in the country for a long time, in her heart, she has not forgotten for a moment the great cause of Satsuma's restoration.

"This time we are going to buy ships and equipment, and at the same time ask a big donor to invest money in us." Lin Yiqing smiled slightly, "I'm going to the white wolf with empty gloves this time, and the task is not ordinarily arduous!" ”

"This big financier is the old Luo family, right?" He Yunqing blinked and asked with a smile. (To be continued.) )