"My father went to jail because of Malcolm?" Karina's mouth was wide open, her expression was a little dazed, she was a little overwhelmed when she heard the news for the first time, and the black man in front of her, who was blind in one eye and had a collapsed nose and called herself a gladiator, also made her feel a little uneasy.

"So far, we don't have definitive evidence." Zhang Heng poured the businesswoman a glass of wine and asked her to calm down a little.

"But the timing of your father's imprisonment is indeed a bit too coincidental, Raymond's suspicions are not unreasonable, your father has obviously become an obstacle to the establishment of the Black Business Alliance, and his exit Malcolm is the biggest beneficiary. Billy also inquired about the familiar black market merchants on the island these days, in fact, after your father was imprisoned, no one suspected that someone was behind it, but in the end, Raymond came forward and endorsed Malcolm, and this matter was revealed, after which you should have gone to see your father, did he say anything at that time? ”

Karina recalled, "We spent a lot of money to buy the jailer after the incident, but the meeting was very short, my mother and sister used up most of the time, and there were only a few minutes left by me, and I was going to take over his business, so we talked mainly about business, and although my father gave me his connections and the rest of the transport, he didn't really approve of me coming to Nassau, and finally he told me that the most dangerous thing on the island was not pirates, and told me not to trust anyone easily. ”

The businesswoman paused, "Actually, Malcolm was good to me when I first came to the island, although he insisted that black marketeers who did not cooperate with pirate ships could not join the black merchant alliance to participate in the sharing, and also made it clear that it was impossible to persuade several other merchants to return to me the few cooperative pirate ships that originally belonged to my father, but at that time there were indeed several powerful pirate ships on the island that had not yet completed the negotiations, and Malcolm gave me some captain's names and asked me to try to fight for it."

However, because I was a woman, and I knew almost no one when I first arrived in Nassau, I could neither help them in the negotiations, nor did I have enough money to bribe the important people on the ship, and in the end I was unsuccessful, but I was very grateful to Malcolm at the time, he was one of the few people on the island who would be willing to help me, and if it weren't for the desperation, I didn't want to deal with his alliance of black merchants, and I never thought that my father's imprisonment had something to do with him. ”

Karina took a sip of the wine in her hand, but her mood could not be calmed down, and the businesswoman put down her glass and stood up, "No, I will go to him and confront him and ask him to release my father." ”

"Are you going to just walk over and let him admit that he did it?" Zhang Hengdao.

"If he doesn't release my father, then I'll tell the rest of the alliance about the good things he did, and since he was able to do something to my father before, he might do the same to other people because of something else." The businesswoman said.

"It may indeed cause him a little trouble to do so, but like I said before, we don't have enough evidence right now to prove that Malcolm did it to your father, and it's ......" Zhang Heng glanced at the black gladiator on the side.

The latter added calmly, "And your only witness is a slave origin, not to mention that strictly speaking, I only heard Raymond and Malcolm arguing. ”

"There's also bad news, your presence has adversely affected the Black Merchant Alliance, and Malcolm is ready to do something to you." Zhang Hengdao.

The businesswoman's face changed when she heard this, since she found the Jackdaw, she still had a certain psychological preparation for this kind of thing, but when it really happened, she still felt a huge pressure, especially when she learned that her father was arrested and imprisoned because of his opposition to the Black Merchants Alliance, she didn't know what kind of ending awaited her.

But from the first day she landed on the island, she knew there was no way back, at first she was just trying to scrape together the ransom money to get her father out of prison, but after selling spices and making a lot of money, Karina found that she gradually fell in love with what she was doing.

This may sound crazy, because just a few months ago, she had been busy attending salons and balls with the ladies and ladies, enjoying the good living conditions created by her father, and almost ignorant of the cruel world outside.

Until she came to Nassau to take over her father's business, she had been constantly hitting a wall on the island, and had experienced hardships that she had not tasted in the past twenty years, and in order to join the Black Merchant Alliance, she gave up her reserve, ran around, asked for help from her father's former friends, bargained with the pirates she had regarded as barbarians, tried to guess the needs of the other party, tried to win cooperation with them, and seized every opportunity in front of her.

Something like breaking into a strange man's house alone in the middle of the night and recommending herself would never have happened to her in the past.

Karina herself wondered why she hadn't broken down until now.

She is like a flower growing in a greenhouse, suddenly leaving the comfortable environment and being ruthlessly abandoned in the wilderness, but after resisting the raging wind and snow, she also gets the opportunity to grow savagely.

It's a life that you can never experience in salons and balls, where there are crises, betrayals, challenges from all sides, but there is no boredom.

Karina could feel something boiling in her blood, which she had never been in her previous life, if she was still just holding on to the idea that she could return to her previous life until her father came back, then after earning the first pot of gold and seeing her hard work during this period of time pay off, she was unwilling to return to the greenhouse.

Karina took a deep breath, "I'll be ready to be ready to not be easily defeated, no matter who the opponent is." ”

"I'm afraid that's not enough." Zhang Heng said, "Next, I hope you can behave more positively, and it is best to make the Black Business Alliance feel more pressure, and at the same time, I will start from your father's matter to provoke the conflict between Malcolm and Raymond." However, I must make it clear that if you do this, it will make your situation more dangerous, and although there is friction between us and the Black Merchants Alliance, it is not too serious, and if we really oppose each other, it cannot be ruled out that Malcolm may use some means outside the rules to deal with you, and we are now in a race against time, to see who between you and Malcolm will not be able to hold out first. ”

"I don't really have any other choice, don't I, and I don't have anything to worry about." Karina said without hesitation.