Led by Scarman, we went up the stairs straight to the third floor, where we met Master Arthur in a large room.

Arthur was about a little over fifty years old, with bronzed skin, a big round bald head that could reflect the light, a thick black beard neatly across the upper edge of his lips, and two thick and strong arms on the armrests of the chair, which made people look a little angry.

After beckoning us to sit down, Arthur asked, "Are you from Paradise Island?" ”

"Well," I nodded, "we're merchants from the Rum Distillery on Paradise Island, and we're here to talk to you about trade." ”

"Paradise Island, it's the island that Sister Hua and they went to, right?"

"Yes, last time Sister Hua and they went there unintentionally, and they also talked about trade at that time, but some changes happened later, so they didn't come to visit until today."

"Hmm", Arthur answered, suddenly stood up and walked to the wall by the window, took down a short knife hanging diagonally on it, and pulled out the knife with a bang.

Arthur played with the short knife in his hand and walked in front of us, everyone was puzzled and their hearts were a little up and down, especially Xiaoka looked at the short knife and looked nervous, I was afraid that he would release his superpowers out of the instinct of survival.

King Arthur was not in a hurry to speak, but he was holding the knife back and forth in front of our eyes, and he seemed to enjoy the feeling of making us fidget, when suddenly he walked up to the bearded man, struck the knife twice in front of him, and asked, "How do I seem to smell a familiar smell in you, you are not a merchant!" ”

The bearded man was not frightened by Arthur's short knife, but grinned and reached out to grab the knife, Arthur sneered twice with a backhand, put the knife behind him, and then stared at the bearded man with a confused face.

Uncle Wei, who was sitting next to the bearded man, hurriedly explained: "He is indeed not a businessman, he used to be a pirate, and then he inadvertently injured his brain, and since then he has become crazy, don't worry about him, he is not even a child now." ”

"Oh", Arthur let out a meaningful oh, walked up to Xiaoka again, and asked with the same momentum, "What about this little friend?" The blue color of his face is really rare. ”

"He's our friend, he's been like this since he was a child, and we're very weird, but he just has strange skin and eyes, and the rest is the same as normal people." I explained.

"Oh", Arthur said again, and one stood sideways in front of me, he bent down close to me and asked coldly: "As far as I know, Paradise Island is the territory of the British Empire, and the laws of the British Empire are supposed to prohibit trade with pirates, why should you take a risk as merchants of the British Empire?" Why should I believe you? ”

In the face of Arthur's fierce coercion from top to bottom, I tried to control my emotions not to be disturbed, I said: "Paradise Island is the territory of the British Empire, the island is not only managed by a cabinet, but even garrisoned, the laws of the British Empire do not allow citizens to trade with pirates, but we are merchants, we have to chase money, you must also know, Paradise Island is far away from the mainland of the empire, relying on sea transportation, sooner or later we will lose all our money, and foreign trade licenses with other countries, We can't get it for a long time, so we can only make a living through domestic sales on the island, but we can't sustain it for long at all, once the distillery goes bankrupt, not only will we not have the business to survive, but we will even have to take on a huge amount of debt, in this case, in order to survive, we can't care about the law. ”

Arthur listened to my words, his expression was very complicated, he held the knife and gently gestured with the back of the knife on my face, although it did not hurt my skin, but the murderous aura faintly emanating from the knife still made me a little uneasy, Lin Ruyi, who was sitting on the other side of me, was even more nervous than me, I glanced at her, her small hands were already a little unsure where to put it.

Arthur also noticed that I glanced at Lin Ruyi, he turned his head and wanted to see some clues from Lin Ruyi, but Lin Ruyi was nervous in addition to being nervous, but there was nothing else wrong with it, the most important thing is that Lin Ruyi is now disguised, and the dark spots on his face are panicked when he looks at them twice, Arthur probably can't stand this visual impact, so he quickly returned his attention to me.

"Even if I believe everything you say is true, how can you guarantee that your merchant ships will arrive here every time? Wouldn't those imperial officials on your island be suspicious? ”

"Since we dare to come here to negotiate with you, we must have made preparations, how to transport the wine from the island, we must also have our own methods, and we are paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, as long as you can't see our wine, you don't need to pay a penny, so if you can't ship it out, there is no loss for you."

"You say you're merchants, but how do I think you're more like a spy sent by the British Empire?" Arthur suddenly changed his words, and his sharp momentum became a little tougher, and he stared at me and asked.

"Spies? Are you kidding? We are old, old, small, and crazy, where does it look like a spy? Besides, the British Empire is 108,000 miles away, so why is there any need to send spies? Even if they send a fleet from thousands of miles away, what good will it do them if they take the Golden Islands? ”

"Haha, even if they come, there will be no return!" Arthur suddenly burst out laughing again, "Where's your rum, open it for me to taste." ”

The atmosphere that had been a little tense suddenly relaxed again, and this Arthur was so startled that people really couldn't guess his thoughts, and I felt that this grandson was not much better than a beard.

We took out the last bottle of rum we had with us and handed it to Arthur, who took two sips of the bottle off, smacked his lips, drank several more sips, and then stretched out his thumb and said, "Good wine!" After taking two more sips, he tossed the rum to the scar man on the side, who raised the bottle and took two sips, and the scar on his face seemed to be happy.

Arthur thrust the dagger back into the scabbard on the wall, and said in a hearty voice, "Your wine does taste good, a little better than the rum I've drunk between me, and this business can be done." Seeing that Arthur agreed to the trade, we were all a little happy, but Arthur changed his words and said: "Well, I can't have the final say in this matter alone, when they come back from robbing the merchant ship, we will discuss it carefully, and you can also bring some rum, and when everyone agrees, our trade matter will be settled." ”

In this way, everyone walked out of the parliament building with a little excitement, although Arthur was babbling, but since he opened his mouth, the matter of trade should be a certainty, the so-called meeting to discuss, it is estimated that it is a process of things, just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, a small minion who stood guard before leaned over with a flattering gesture, and hesitated for a long time, asking if we could give him another bottle, I patted my chest and said that of course there is no problem, as long as I help us more publicity in the future, No problem with both bottles.

The rest of our rum was on the boat at the docks, and the students watched from the cabins, and as soon as we left the courtyard of the parliament building, we headed straight for the docks.