Chapter 80: A Little Thing
Now that Sandro and James already know I'm back on the island, there's no need for me to hide it, but I'm not going to go to the Doge's Palace right away, but I'm going to go back to the winery first.
Just in case, Da Xiong offered to go with me, Su Yuliu and Lin Ruyi also wanted to go with me, I said to Da Xiong, "You better stay in the camp first to soothe your wounded heart, don't be happy yourself, but also destroy the happiness of others." ”
In the midst of the scolding of the big bear, I took Lin Su's two daughters to the winery.
Walking in the familiar island forest, I have never felt that the grass and trees on the paradise island are so kind, especially with two beautiful girls on the left and right, the feeling is really indescribable. I sneaked at Lin Su's two daughters along the way, and I always had the urge to hold their little hands at the same time, but every time this evil desire took over, the gun behind Lin Ruyi would remind me not to dream.
When I got back to the distillery, the first thing I saw was Rockefeller, who was my savior, who found me by the sea and carried me all the way to Camp Boulder. I wanted to give him a hug, but I didn't expect this kid to babble at me and look up, as if there was some dirty ambiguity between me and him, and I took back my outstretched hand.
Then, Long Xin'er also walked out, and a trace of imperceptible joy flashed in her eyes when she saw me, but when she saw the second daughter of Lin Su behind me, she quickly returned to normal, and after a set of courtesy greetings, Long Xin'er went to busy with her own affairs. I've always been curious about Long Xin'er, what did this aristocratic lady from the East come to Paradise Island for? If you want to say that you are attracted by my personality charm, there must be this reason, but it can't be completely so, and from the previous clues, I also had doubts about Long Xin'er and them, but I have never found direct evidence.
I asked how the Rockefeller distillery was doing, and Rockefeller told me that the distillery had entered a normal production rhythm, but that it was not selling very well. Although the number of inhabitants of the island is increasing, most of the immigrants have limited economic strength and covet rum, but cannot afford to consume it. We also sent a batch of goods to the mainland of the British Empire, but it is a long way to wait for all the wine to be sold, and then we don't know how long it will take to get the money back, and although there are a lot of wine grapes on the island, most of them are far away from the winery, and they are widely dispersed, so it takes more time to collect raw materials every time. Rockefeller had planned to buy wine grapes from the islanders and let them pick them on the island, so as to save our time, but in this way, the cost of making rum increased, and the distillery was not profitable, and there were not many sales channels, and if the cost was increased, it would only be more difficult to make ends meet. It would be a good idea to open up an area around the winery to grow your own grapes, but it would also involve the labor cost of planting, and at the same time, the division of the island's various functional areas was planned, and our so-called industrial area had to be approved by the island cabinet to grow things.
After Rockefeller finished the report, he wanted to say something more, but after looking at Lin Ruyi and Su Yuliu, he was a little hesitant to speak, and I smiled and said to him: "It's okay, it's all sister-in-law, my own people." ”
Lin Ruyi and Su Yuliu both rolled their eyes at me, but they didn't say anything.
Rockefeller asked me, "What did you think about trading with the pirates of the Golden Isles?" I gave you a map before you went to Pelican Island, did you go to the Golden Islands later? ”
I said to him, "I did go to the Golden Islands, but for various reasons, I didn't talk about trade, and there were a lot of things going wrong, and I'll talk to James later, and if the conversation goes well, we can start doing business with the pirates." ”
"Talk to James?" Rockefeller looked at me incredulously, and the boss with his mouth open, "Manager, are you crazy?" How can you talk to James about this, he's the Governor of the British Empire, and if he knew you were going to do business with pirates, he would have arrested you. ”
I said, "There are some things that I can't tell you for the time being, and since I plan to do so, I must be sure of a certain amount." You don't have to worry about anything else, just think about how the distillery can maximize the production capacity and quality of the wine once we can trade with the pirates. ”
After staying in the winery for a while, I set off for the Governor's Mansion again, originally I wanted Lin Su and the others to stay in the winery and wait for me, and I took the opportunity to go to the clinic to see An An, but I didn't expect the second daughter to be unwilling, so I had no choice but to take them with me.
On the way to the Governor's Palace, Lin Ruyi suddenly asked me, "Just now you told Rockefey that they are all sisters-in-law, who is his sister-in-law?" ”
I didn't expect Lin Ruyi to ask this question suddenly, and I was stunned for a while, and Su Yuliu also asked on the side: "That is, who is your own person?" ”
Nima's, these two girls didn't ask knowingly, I pondered in my heart that this question is a pit anyway, no matter how I answer it, I simply don't do it and stretch out my hand to hold the two of them, the second daughter suddenly felt shy, and without hesitation stretched out her little hand and pinched my waist fiercely, I immediately rushed to a sharp pain, but I held on, my face was still smiling, I was cheeky, endured the pain and said to the second daughter: "You are all your own people!" ”
After all the fighting, we came to the commercial center of the island, and when we arrived here, we all returned to our proper appearance, after all, we still need to pay attention to our image in public. At the same time, we didn't rush to the Doge's Palace, but found a bar to rest first, and by the way, I also wanted to know what the islanders said about rum.
As soon as he found a place to sit down, he heard someone at the next table talking about Matthieson's death, and one of them said that the empire would soon send a high-level investigation team to investigate the matter, and that Governor James's position might not be secured. Another person chimed in and said that not only was James' position not secured, but he heard that even Sandro was going to be dismissed, after all, he was the governor of the island and the other was the commander of the island guard, and let the pirates run to the island and take hostages, and finally caused casualties, and the impact must be bad.
As we listened to their small talk, we had the waiter serve three glasses of lemonade, and I asked the waiter, "How is your rum selling?" ”
The waiter shook his head and said, "The sale is not very good, although the rum tastes good, but the price is a bit expensive, and there are not many people who order it." ”
As we were talking, several men with large bags on their backs suddenly walked into the tavern, and they looked like they had just arrived on the island, among them were three middle-aged men, two young boys, and two young girls. After these people sat down, they ordered a few drinks casually, and chatted with themselves while drinking, because they were sitting a little far away from us, and I couldn't hear what they were talking about, although these people didn't seem to have anything strange and special, but I don't know why, but I felt that there was something wrong with these people, and I couldn't say what the problem was.
Just as we were about to leave, a drunkard who had drunk too much suddenly stumbled to the side of the group, put a hand on the shoulder of one of the girls, and said with a smile: "Little girl has just come from somewhere else, do you need me to take you to familiarize yourself with Paradise Island?" ”