Ji Qi was stunned and felt the softness and wetness of the girl's palm, and her eyes like autumn light flowed with clear stream. He didn't know what special merits he had that deserved to be admired by the secretary general in front of him, but in her eyes, he seemed to be the most important thing in the world, and nothing else mattered.

"Why...... Choose me? Jiqi looked into the girl's eyes and whispered.

"What do you mean?" The avant-garde asked, tilting his head.

"That's it...... Why did you choose me as your admiral? He said, "There are so many admirals in the world, and there are those who are better than me, and some who are richer than me." But why did you, as Secretary-General, choose me? It's like the most noble princess of the empire, who chooses to sign a marriage contract with a farmer, I'm just an ordinary person with no shining points, avant-garde, why did you choose me? It's not that he's not confident, but he feels that he's not as invincible as he is in the novel, and he can make all the shipwives in the world favor him.

The avant-garde suddenly smiled happily, and she leaned back with a smile that squeezed tears out of her eyes. "Did you know...... You're really just like a fool, why would you ask such a stupid question? She leaned on the table next to her and took a few deep breaths to calm down. It's hard for me to answer your question, and I don't know why I chose you. Because I thought of you, I chose you. She thought for a moment and smiled and replied.

"But...... You are going to sign a contract with me, how could you not know? ”

"Hmm...... How so? The avant-garde pondered and gave an answer. Your question is like a bride who works as a waitress on the side of the road and asks a noble groom, saying that you are so handsome, so good, so rich, and there are many girls who pursue you, why did you choose to marry me in the end? Admiral, what do you think the bridegroom will answer? ”

What kind of girl would a rich and excellent man choose as his lifelong partner? Is it a daughter of the upper class, a doctor who graduated from an aristocratic college, or a girl with a beautiful face? No one knows the answer to this question, except the groom himself. "I ...... I don't know, because I'm not the groom, I don't know why he made such a choice. Jiqi shook his head.

"That's because...... "Because the groom likes the bride, it is precisely because he likes it, so he doesn't care about the bride's poor background, nor does he care that the bride's appearance is not perfect, and he doesn't care if she is a descendant of a nobleman, or whether she graduated from a prestigious school." Because they like, the groom can not care about anything, even if no one gives them a blessing during the whole wedding scene, they will put the ring on each other's hands and give themselves to each other. And there is no complicated reason, just because I like it. ”

Jiqi opened his mouth to refute, but found that he couldn't find any reason. Just like the avant-garde said, if the two are not because they like it, they will not be together at all, and they will not choose each other at all. Although there are thousands of reasons for two people to be together, the most important and basic of them is liking, if you don't have the slightest feeling for each other, you don't even want to look at each other. "So, you ...... avant-garde" Ji Qi didn't say the last few words, because he was afraid that he was thinking too much.

"yes, I like Admiral." The avant-garde smiled happily, like a girl who has eaten candy. "From the very beginning when I met the Admiral, I liked it very much, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen the Admiral you."

"Is that so?" Jiqi looked at her stupidly, as if a spring breeze mixed with peach petals was blowing on her face.

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A room full of sunlight

Jiqi sat on the edge of the bed, leaning on the girl's gentle body in his arms, and he carefully forked a piece of sliced steak with his fork into the girl's small mouth, and the spilled sauce dripped onto her mouth.

"Wales, I have something to tell you." Jiqi pinched the cloth he had brought up from the dining table downstairs and carefully wiped the corners of the girl's mouth.

"What's the matter?" The girl munched on the delicious beef in her mouth, her cute little head resting on her admiral's shoulder, waiting for the next piece of beef to eat.

"It's the avant-garde, she said she was going to join our town guard." Jiqi forked up a piece again.

"Avant-garde? The blonde? "Wales bites off the meat on the fork." So the Admiral, you agreed to her request? ”

"Yes, I agreed to her request." Jiqi said that he didn't say any reason, just like the avant-garde told him, the reason why the ship girls signed a contract with the admiral was that they liked it, and if they didn't like it, they wouldn't give it for a lifetime at all. Maybe the reason for agreeing is the same, just because I like it.

"That's not bad, after all, avant-garde, as the last British battleship, her strength is still very strong." Wales did not object to the decision to gather prayers, because the increase in the number of ship girls means the growth of the town guard, and the other party is still the secretary general, and her participation is like charcoal in the snow, and it is also the kind of charcoal fire of very high quality.

"Is that so?" Jiqi sends the last piece of beef into the mouth of Wales. "By the way, Lexington and Saratoga went out to buy me clothes in the morning, you know?"

"You know, we've been planning to do that for a long time. Obviously, the most important thing in the town guard is the commander, but you don't even have a decent dress. Every time I went out with us, I was wearing that white navy suit, and it never changed at all. Wales grumbled with a pout. In fact, she also knew that the Admiral did this to save the money for the ship's girls, after all, he was not a rich man, and he could only rely on the government and the college's allowance every month, and the money was not much, so he would rather choose not to use it himself, but also to leave it to the ship's girls. Wales instantly felt like a fool to the boy who was holding her, silently paying in the darkness they couldn't see. If they hadn't packed their bags when they left, they wouldn't have known that the wardrobe in the Admiral's room was so empty, and the huge space was simply a few pieces of clothing that had been attached. At that time, they realized that the Admiral had done so much for them in an invisible place, and that they had nothing.

Thinking of this, Wales felt her heart blocked, and she hugged the big fool so hard that her voice trembled. "Admiral, why are you so stupid, if not...... If Lexington hadn't told me these things secretly, I wouldn't have known at all. She also told me that once when you went out with us, you stood outside the store and peeked at the black chimono with a thousand flowers and dark patterns on the side, but you never said it to anyone, and you didn't mention ...... at all. Wales' eyes were moist, and she had only now realized that she was not at all competent as a wedding ship, and that she did not even know what the Admiral liked to eat and wear. And every time he goes out, he can clearly remember everyone's favorite style and food taboos. When she left that day, she found the little notebook in the Admiral's office, which was densely filled with the likes and dislikes of each shipwive.

Wales likes to laze in the morning, so make breakfast in the morning to wake her up, and she likes to eat braised pork and wear a blue pleated skirt............ Lexington likes to drink porridge and eat burgers for breakfast, likes to eat fried aluminum strips, likes to wear small black leather shoes or sandals, only likes the color of leg socks black, and likes pure white flower skirts............

At that time, I knew that the Admiral knew them so well because every bit of life was recorded by him with a pen, and it was deeply in his mind. And there was not a single word in the notebook about his preferences, just like the last time I went to the small town of Heidelberg, everyone proposed where they wanted to go, but he didn't.

It's like a fire that only burns itself, and no one can give him a little light except for him to give warmth.

Ji Qi also recalled the scene at that time, he secretly glanced at it a few times purely because he thought the dress looked good, but when he saw the countless zeros below, Ji Qi dispelled the unrealistic idea, he couldn't afford such an expensive thing. I didn't expect my little action to be seen by the flaxen-haired girl. He sighed, rubbed the girl's cute head, and explained, "Actually, I just looked at it a few times that day, and I just thought it was good-looking. ”

"What if the Admiral doesn't buy it? I like it so much. ”

"Actually, I didn't like that dress much, and the kimono with a thousand flowers and dark patterns seems to have been handmade by the master tailor of the town, and the price is ridiculously high."

"But...... I don't blink my eyes when I pay for our purchases. Wales looked up and looked at it with teary eyes. Why didn't the Admiral think for himself? ”

Jiqi smiled and slid his fingers over the girl's eyes, wiping away the wet tears. "I remember my mother telling me that girls are stupid and that if she really likes someone, it's for life. So if you meet a girl you like in the future, you must be kind to her. And you are all my ship's mother, I have the obligation to give you love and care, this is my responsibility. Besides, I myself came out of the slums, and I am used to being poor, so it's okay. He chuckled, a glint of satisfaction in his eyes. As he said, the shipwrews are all he has, and they are the pillars that support his entire little world. Without them, there would be no meaning in my life. A person who was once in the dark longed for light, and once there was a little starlight in the palm of his hand, he would only desperately protect it.

Wales was silent and did not speak, she only felt how lucky she was to meet this silly boy, just as in a fairy tale the clumsy bear shields the disobedient little girl from the rain with his wide palm, and the bear faithfully cared for it with its bulky body, while the mischievous girl did not realize its care at all.

She sniffled, hugged him with all her strength, and buried herself in the chest of the silly bear, tears overflowing from her eyes.