Chapter 106: The King Is a Vampire (16)
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, William was hanged.
On the day of the execution, Maki Qi went to see it, William's eyes were full of hatred when he looked at her, and the corners of Maki's lips hooked up with a smile, and then put on a wide cloak and hat, and slowly left.
As soon as she got home, she saw Catherine knocking on her door.
"What's wrong, Catherine?" Ying Qi asked softly, she had always had a good impression of this girl.
Catherine had a rare smile between her eyebrows: "Miss Seeper, the dark-haired man I mentioned earlier, he has been in Raymond near Keane for the past two days. ”
Maki Qi smiled, "Really? Then I'll take the time to visit him in the next two days. ”
Raymond is a transportation hub near Keane, with the largest port in Norton, because of the convenient transportation, merchants from all over the world who come to Norton to do business will always go there first, and over time, Raymond is also a relatively important economic town in Norton.
Maki took Catherine and Bill with him to Raymond.
Through Bill's introduction, they found the dark-haired man.
When Ju Qiyi saw that person, he was immediately disappointed, the man in front of him was not strictly Oriental, his facial features were deep, his eyes were brown, and he looked like he was of mixed race.
"Hello, I'm Miss Interlaken, and I've heard that you have a lot of interesting things in your hands."
The man also introduced himself, his surname was Chen, and then led them into the house.
Ying Qi was stunned for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Are you from the Tang Dynasty?" She calculated when she was bored before, Norton's current era is almost the Tang Dynasty in China, maybe it is still the rule of Zhenguan, but she doesn't know if the Tang Dynasty of this plane is the Tang Dynasty she knew before, or the name has changed, but the dynasty is still the same dynasty.
"You're talking about Dazhuang." Mr. Chen was a little puzzled at first, but it took a while to react, "My father is a merchant in Dazhuang, and my mother is a dancer in Wells. ”
Wales is in the south of Europe, so the road that Mr. Chen came to is the Maritime Silk Road?
"How many things did you bring with you?"
"In fact, silk and porcelain, which were in high demand, were ordered in Wales, and now all that was left was lacquerware, ornaments, and ironware." As he spoke, Mr. Chen took them to a storeroom, and sure enough, there was only what he had just said, and there were not many of them.
Ju Qi frowned, now the silk and porcelain of Dazhuang have blown a gust of oriental wind in Wells, all the nobles are proud to be able to wear oriental silk, they think that only in this way is the real aristocratic atmosphere, this atmosphere has not yet hung in Norton, Norton people have always been proud of themselves, it is difficult to accept foreign culture, but if someone leads, I believe that selling oriental silk and porcelain will soon become Norton's most profitable line.
But right now, these things have been ordered, wait, ordered, not sold.
"Mr. Chen, how much did the silk and porcelain of your caravan sell to the people of Wells?"
Mr. Chen said a number, in fact, they came to Wales to trade, but the negotiated business was not paid for a long time, they did set the price too high, but who called the people of Wales to like their things.
Ju Qi smiled slightly: "In this way, I will buy the silk and porcelain of your caravan at twice the price, and I will also ask for the rest of the lacquerware and furnishings, but I will sign a treaty with you, from now on, your caravan will come to trade again, and I will bring everything I want, and the price will only be sold to Wells, but your things are not allowed to be sold to any one in Norton, how about it?" ”
Mr. Chen was a little hesitant, he really wanted to eat such a large piece of fatty meat, but they had already agreed with the people in Wells.
"Wells has booked there, but it shouldn't have been paid yet, my conditions are so generous, you are really not tempted?" Ying Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen hesitated again and again, and finally decided to agree to Ying Qi, anyway, even if the Wells merchants were watered once, they could cooperate with this Miss Interlaken in the future, not to mention that the merchants in Wells had not paid until now, and they were really a little impatient.
Mr. Chan said that their goods were at the docks in Wales, and that he would contact the people of their caravan to bring everything over now.
In line with the principle of paying money with one hand and delivering goods with one hand, Ying Qi saw the goods half a month later, and she asked people to transport all the things to a warehouse, but she was not at ease, in the warehouse of this era, a fire could burn her things clean.
So she took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and hid all the goods in the ring.
At the same time, only a few dowries remained in her ring, and all the others were sold to Mr. Chen.
Just when everything was settled, the king issued a decree that since the Marquis Ferdinand had been killed at the bar mitzvah of Miss Interlaken, the rites of passage of the nobles were to be banned, all arranged by the royal family, and the social month in April was extended to the end of July for a total of four months.
The promulgation of this decree immediately caused an uproar, and many old-school nobles were indignant and refused to have the coming-of-age ceremony banned, in their opinion, the coming-of-age ceremony was the charming upbringing of their old-school Norton aristocracy, and the ban on the coming-of-age ceremony would only make them live more like Europeans, and they were Nortons.
However, the king's decree still gained a lot of supporters, most of them were new-style nobles, and their roots were not deep, and the coming-of-age ceremony was a huge burden for them.
It was precisely because of the rivalry between the new aristocracy and the old aristocracy that Ulysses was busy again.
When Juqi was free, she hadn't seen Ulysses for half a month.
Finally, as social season approaches, Ulysses makes an appearance.
He seemed to be in a good mood, and flew to the top of the church with Ying Qi in his arms, and Ying Qi was startled, and she wrapped her arms around his waist: "What are you bringing me up for?" ”
"Look." The smile on Ulysses' lips was like the warm sun in spring, real and warm, he gently dropped a kiss on the lips of the seven lips, and then raised his hand to point to the full moon in the night sky, "Is it beautiful?" ”
"Well, it looks like you can get it as soon as you reach out." Maki snuggled up in his arms.
The church is the tallest building in Keane, and from the top of it you can look out over the city, and the cool breeze blows her face, like a gentle touch of his gentle hand.
"When I was younger, I used to come here and sit all night."
It was the first time he had spoken about himself.
Seeing that there seemed to be a kind of nostalgia between his eyebrows, she thought that that time must be the best memory of his life.
"Ulysses." She called him softly.
He heard her voice and lowered his eyes slightly, but he was accidentally kissed on the lips by her, he was stunned, closed his eyes gently, and responded to her kiss.