Two days later, the British visiting fleet set sail from Guangzhou and began its journey back to Britain. At the back of the fleet, not far from it, were followed by two merchant ships, laden with the finest Chinese silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, a small amount of porcelain, and a full set of Oriental-style rosewood furniture, which was all that Wickham had learned from his trip to the East.

The thought of these strange Oriental goods being shipped to London for sale made Wickham's blood boil, and those were all golden coins. With this money, some of Wickham's ideas can be realized, and he can really make a career in this turbulent era.

Of course, there were also a few special oriental guests on these two merchant ships, one was Zhang Mingxia, who was going to Europe, and the other was Ye Shihan and a group of accompanying servants.

Ye Wensheng originally planned to send his sister to Nanyang, but the Pan family also had a lot of connections in Nanyang, and Ye Shihan was still in danger of being exposed when she hid there. But Europe is different, it is a strange place that almost no Chinese have set foot in, plus Zhang Mingxia plans to travel to Europe and can take care of Ye Shihan nearby, so Ye Wensheng made up his mind to let Ye Shihan go to Europe.

This Ye Wensheng has loved his sister very much since he was a child, and his sister is going to Europe at this time, so naturally he will not treat her badly. There were more than a dozen slaves accompanying him, including the maid Xiaolian who ran away with Ye Shihan.

Although those servants didn't want to go to that "wild land", their deed of sale was still with Ye Wensheng, so after Ye Wensheng made a promise to restore their freedom after ten years, he also half-pushed and half-agreed on the spot.

Ye Wensheng also moved a large number of items to Wickham's merchant ship, saying that it was the dowry that his brother handed over to Ye Shihan in advance. In addition, Ye Wensheng also used Kuping silver to exchange a large number of Bahrain Bank acceptance bills from the British East India Company's office in Guangzhou, and handed them to Ye Shihan.

According to Wikeham's guess, the money should not be less than 100,000 pounds, and he does not know exactly how much it is.

After the fleet sailed out of the Pearl River estuary, Wickham's role as Margarny's adviser on Chinese affairs came to an end. Wickham had little interest in military affairs, and after leaving most of them in the hands of Second Lieutenant Aven, he was free.

But the voyage at sea was very boring, and in order to pass the time, Wickham had the cheekiness to borrow some books from Lord Magalny, one of which was a book by a British scholar about Chinese customs.

A large part of the book is caused by fallacies and rumors caused by cultural differences, and many of them have strong emotional colors of the author, which makes Wickham, a genuine Chinese, look very unhappy. So Wickham came up with the idea that if he could translate some books and introduce Chinese history and culture objectively and fairly, he might be able to reduce the existence of such misunderstandings in the future.

As soon as he said it, Wickham dug out the hardcover edition of the Analects given to him by Emperor Qianlong from the clutter pile, intending to translate the Analects into English first. As a result, Wickham gave up decisively after a night of gnawing on the Analects, and such advanced things as ancient texts were not something that he could control as a graduate of international trade.

However, Zhang Mingxia is a real talent, so Wickham rushed to find this product and asked for advice. However, Zhang Mingxia was really busy learning English, and he didn't bother to guide Wickham, who didn't know anything about Confucian classics.

After being annoyed by Wickham again, Zhang Mingxia said perfunctorily: "Miss Ye is different from other boudoir ladies who are only popular, but a talented girl who is familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Confucianism and Taoist classics. As soon as Wickham heard this, Harazi immediately flowed down, men and women are not tired of working together, and asking such a beautiful woman for advice, Wickham believes that his learning efficiency will be greatly improved.

Ye Shihan's room was the best cabin on the merchant ship, and it cost Wickham a full hundred pounds to get the Portuguese captain with yellow teeth to agree to give up his captain's room.

Wickham walked to the door of the cabin, knocked lightly three times, cleared his throat and said, "Is Miss Ye here?" Below is Wickham, who has something to do with Miss Ye to ask Miss for advice. ”

After a while, a little maid in a warm green dress flashed out, with a thick guard on her face, after all, there are most men on this boat, and normal girls will be careful.

Wickham was happy, this little girl was the little lotus who embarrassed him when they first met. Wickham wore a harmless smile on his face, trying to be as kind as possible: "Miss Xiaolian, may I ask your young lady to be there, I have something to ask your young lady to help, please." ”

Xiaolian saw that the person who came was Wickham, and then she smiled, and the last time Wickham remembered her life-saving grace Little Lori: "My young lady said that the cabin was a little stuffy, and she went to the deck to breathe, if Lin Gongzi had anything to do, you can tell Xiaolian first." ”

It may be the first time to stay alone with an adult man, Xiaolian's cheeks are a little red because of shyness, and she is cute. What Wickham couldn't stand the most was those cute Lori, and he hurriedly chanted indecent things in his heart, so he controlled his wandering eyes.

"Your young lady goes out to breathe, why don't you follow?" In Wickham's impression, Ye Shihan, a little girl, will take Xiaolian with her wherever she goes, even if she is running away from marriage, so she asked.

As soon as Wickham asked, Xiaolian said with some grievances: "I originally wanted to follow Miss, but Miss said that she wanted to go by herself, and she wouldn't let me follow." ”

The relationship between Ye Shihan and Xiaolian is not so much a master-servant relationship as a sisterhood, Ye Shihan has never shied away from Xiaolian in what she did before, and the two have always been inseparable. The refusal and reprimand of her own young lady made Xiaolian, a little girl, a little sad.

Wickham smelled an unusual smell, this Ye Shihan must be planning something! "Xiaolian, I'll go out to find your young lady, you will wait in the cabin, if your young lady comes back, you must go to the deck to inform me." With that, he walked briskly to the deck.

Wickham searched all over the foredeck, but still didn't find Ye Shihan, which made him anxious. Wickham looked up and asked one of the sailors on the mast, "Second class sailor, have you seen a brunette?" "The mast is the best view of the whole ship, overlooking the entire deck, so Wickham chose to ask the sail sailors on the mast to see what might be rewarded.

The sailman, seeing that it was an officer who had asked him, hurriedly shouted respectfully downward, "Mr. Captain, that young lady is on the aft deck." "Now the sail on the mast is in a half-retracted state, so the view is excellent, not to mention that Ye Shihan's white dress is very conspicuous.

Arriving on the back deck, Wickham was startled by what he saw. I saw Ye Shihan standing outside the railing, with two lines of tears hanging on her beautiful face, and her white dress fluttering with the sea breeze, like a fairy dancing down to earth as sacrosanct.

It's just that under the short plank is the choppy sea, and if a weak woman like Ye Shihan falls, she will definitely be swept away by the seawater. "Miss Ye, what are you doing here?" With that, Wickham ran towards the side of the boat, trying to pull Ye Shihan back from the brink of danger.

Suddenly, Ye Shihan moved half a step outside and shouted, "Don't come here, if you come, I'll jump down!" Seeing this, Wickham immediately stopped, and at this time he also understood that Ye Shihan was going to jump into the sea and commit suicide.

"Miss Ye, what are you doing here? There are no hurdles in life that cannot be overcome, is there anything that can't be said? Wickham rolled his eyes in his heart, how can this scene become more and more familiar, isn't it the part of Rose in the Titanic who wants to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, so is he learning from Jack now, saying "You jump and I will jump", and then hug the beauty?

Whoa, whoa, Wickham tried to get these strange thoughts out of his head, calmed his mind and persuaded him with great difficulty.

Ye Shihan smiled and muttered, "Say it well? Hehe...... You won't understand. ”

As soon as Wickham heard this, he immediately became angry: "Don't understand? What do you mean I don't understand? I look down on you rich ladies the most, stretching out your hands to eat all day long, living a life that ordinary people can't think of, but you have to pretend to be lonely and miserable. You think others don't understand your pain, but when do you understand other people's pain? Those ordinary people are suffering from three meals a day every day, they are suffering from illness and cannot afford to hire a doctor, and they are worried about having a place to stand, when will you rich children understand their suffering? You don't have to worry about money every day, and with your brother who cares so much, I really don't know why you want to jump into the sea and kill yourself! Can't you think about the brother who took the risk to send you out, and for the little lotus who is worried about you? ”

In his last life, Wickham hated those pretending rich second generations the most, saying seemingly noble words such as "I regard money as dung", but in fact, they didn't understand the hardships of dicks like him struggling to survive in society, so they would say such things. So when he saw Ye Shihan's appearance, the anger in his heart exploded.

Ye Shihan's chest rose and fell, and his eyes looked at Wickham with resentment: "What qualifications do you have to admonish me, I ...... Ah......" Before Ye Shihan finished speaking, he screamed. It turned out that Ye Shihan's emotions were too excited, and he didn't keep the balance of his body at once, and slipped down from the outer edge of the ship.

When Wickham was reprimanding Ye Shihan just now, he had unconsciously moved several steps towards the stern of the boat, and it was not too far away from Ye Shihan. When Ye Shihan was about to fall, Wickham hurriedly rushed forward, and grabbed Ye Shihan's arm tightly with his right hand.

The moment he grabbed Ye Shihan's arm again, Wickham only felt a huge force coming from his right hand, and his body slid uncontrollably towards the deck. Wickham was shocked, and hurriedly hooked his foot to the ropes stacked on the deck, so that he could stabilize his body.

Ye Shihan looked down and saw a huge rudder under her, if she fell, the most likely thing would be to die on the hard rudder before she fell into the sea.

"I don't want to die...... Woo woo...... "No matter who is facing death, they will be extremely frightened, at this time, Ye Shihan's heart is full of fear of death, and he has long thrown the idea of suicide out of the clouds."

Because he was pushing too hard, Wickham felt that his palms were already sweating slightly, which was not a good sign, and the friction of wet palms would be greatly reduced, and it was easy to slip his hands.

Sure enough, Ye Shihan's body was slowly sliding down, and Wickham felt that he couldn't catch her anymore. Ye Shihan also noticed this, and struggled a few times in horror, but the tighter she gripped it, the more slippery her hands became.

Wickham secretly cursed a stupid woman in his heart, and yelled: "Stinky girl, if you want to live, don't move!" It may be that Wickham's eyes are too scary, Ye Shihan immediately stopped squirming and looked at Wickham blankly.

Wickham felt that it would definitely not work like this, so he ignored his sore muscles, slowly arched his waist with force, and slowly lifted Ye Shihan's body, and at the moment when the two of them slid their hands away, Ye Shihan's hands were finally able to reach the side of the boat.

"Grab the ship!" Wickham yelled, he felt that his kidneys were about to burst, if his Wickham family was cut off in the future, it must be Ye Shihan's fault!

Ye Shihan hurriedly grabbed the side of the boat, and finally returned to safety with all hands and feet. She was a pampered young lady, but she had lost her strength under the toss just now, and as soon as she got on deck, she fell softly, right in the arms of Wickham, who was standing on the side.

Under the soft fragrance of warm jade, the lower body of this guy Wickham is shamelessly hard! Since coming to this world, Wickham hasn't touched a woman for a whole year, and if he can still hold on to such a glamorous scene, he is not a normal man.

After his body regained some strength, Ye Shihan suddenly took a few steps back like a frightened rabbit and left Wickham's embrace. Since the day she met Wickham, this is the third time she has thrown herself into her arms.

The first time was in a horse-drawn carriage, the second time in an alley in the early morning, and the third time on this ship bound for Europe. Ye Shihan felt that the handsome English man in front of him was the patron saint sent by God to his side, and every time he encountered danger, he stepped forward, and she was in danger. Although Ye Shihan has not read the romance novels of later generations, no matter how the times change, the feelings of the girl will always remain the same.

Faced with a wordless situation, Wickham scratched his head in embarrassment: "Miss Ye, I'm ...... It was just an accident, I ...... I didn't mean to. At this moment, Wickham's tongue seemed to be knotted, and his speech began to be a little inverted.

Ye Shihan took a step forward with a blushing face, and her cherry mouth gently pecked at Wickham's cheek: "Ye Gongzi, thank you." After speaking, Ye Shihan ran away quickly and disappeared around the corner.

Looking at the empty back deck, if it weren't for the warm marks on his cheeks, Wickham would have suspected that the scene just now was just a spring dream.