After the first contact, I was able to talk to Alexei

The most time he talked to me was at the stern of the boat, I sat next to him, he put his rod out, and I helped him look at the bucket

He fished not with earthworms, but with a kind of fish puree, which was like flour, in a tin pot, which was said to be a knack of the Nord people, and every time he wanted to use it, Alexei would order the sailors to build a stove in the stern of the boat, and then mix the fish paste with olive oil and fry it, which was very fragrant and sticky when cooked, and his fingers could skillfully knead the fish paste into small balls and place them on the hook

Later, after I learned how to rub mud, he gave me the job

It's not just that I think it's fragrant, but the fish also think that this kind of thing is very fishy, as long as the boat is anchored somewhere, Alexei will set up a hook, and soon there will be fish to bite the hook, and those fish are jumping around, there is a fish, estimated to be more than three feet long, stirring up a huge wave, almost dragging Alexei down the river, Alexei pouted his ass and worked hard for a long time, and finally the fish pulled the rod away, and Alexei looked sullen all day after his life, and some sailors always quietly stared at him and sneered, Sprinkle salt on his wounds

Out of boredom, Alexei began to concentrate on teaching me to speak

The sentence can't be too long, and if it's too long, I can't understand it, and there are some quite abstract words that I can't understand and express

"You, where, came from?"

"I don't remember, on a small boat and a big ship, you found me"

"Well, don't you remember?"

"I remember, but I don't know what"

"Before, lived, where?"

"On the Carriage"

"No, where is the house?"

"Mountains, with streams"

"Zenda?" Alexey tried to say

"Is it called Chanda? I don't remember the big cities, the cherries, the markets, the people, the apples" I said incoherently the things I remembered, some of which Alexei gave me, and some of which popped straight out of my head

"No, no, you say mountains and streams, there are no big cities in this kind of place, etc., you won't be a Rhodoc? You're speaking the lingua franca of the south, which is spoken by both the Rhodoks and the Swadians."

Alexei said so much and it was too complicated for me to understand, so I had to tilt my head and look at him

Alexei took the moment, he shook his head, and then pointed at me, "Rhodok? ”

"Rhodoks? Am I? Don't remember."

"Aaron of Rhodoc, the city of Aaron, between the mountains, with a stream flowing, is a great city"

"Aaron, Aaron"

I don't know where Aaron is, I just have a vague impression, I don't want to make Alexei sad, so I can only make an understanding look and nod and follow him

Alexei saw that I was at a loss, and went on to say, "Djerkhala, the city of mountains, the place where the Rhodoks slain the North Sea generals in the valleys."

"General of the North Sea" I laughed when Alexei came up with the name, and now I have heard of this word, and it sounds exactly the same way as I remember it

"You're from the North Sea?" Alexey said

"General Beihai, yes," I nodded, "General Beihai"

I think someone must have told me the story of this Beihai general, otherwise he wouldn't have appeared so clearly in my mind I nodded, indicating that this time I really know the word

"Are you from Beihai, a Zen master?"

I heard the word Zendha again

"Zen master? Am I? ”

"Don't talk like that, Victor you ought to say," he slowed down here, motioning for me to listen carefully, "'Am I a Zen master?'" ”

I opened my mouth for an 'ah' and then paused slightly, "I'm a Zen master, am I?" ”

He drew a line in the air with his fingers, "Finish together, from the beginning to the end, without breaking the sentence, 'Am I a Zen master?' ’”

"Am I a Zen master?"

He gave a thumbs up

Then, suddenly, he uttered an aphorism, which was the first half of the aphorism of one of the emperors of the Zen people, "We are friends with poetry, and we are servants of the gods"

This phrase is not Wikiyan, nor is it Swadiya, it is for the precision and rigor of the Zenda

Alexei was shocked by what I did next, and I almost immediately picked up the next sentence, "We are with spears, we are the masters of the world"

I don't know who told me these two sentences, but I have the impression that after the first sentence appears, the next sentence will follow

"Oh, Vido," Alexei stuck out his tongue, "You're really a Zen master, born in Swadia, your home may be in the Frost Castle or something, this time we will pass by there when we go back, and we will know if there is a shipwreck recently, don't worry, Vidor, we can find your family"

"Am I a Zen master?"

"Well, it's very likely, of course, you may also be the child of a noble family in the south, in that case, it will be easy to find, the children of the noble family will be registered by the king's messenger, and someone will know about your family, if you are really a noble child"

I couldn't understand him again, and he looked at me sympathetically

"I'll help you find your home"

I understood, and I nodded gratefully at him

"By the way, we're going to a place called Fendra right away, and there are a lot of Zen masters in that place, just like you."

"Are people Zen masters?"

"I should say, 'Are they Zen masters?' ”

"Are they Zen masters?"

"Yes, there is a university of Zen people and an independent guard of Zen people, if you are a Zen person, there should be someone there, what knows that your university is a place I have always wanted to go to, called Dongquan University"

I struggled to grasp the last sentence and asked

"What is Winterspring University?"

"The university is uh, we'll talk about it later, it's not too early, follow me to check the goods, Victor"

"Okay, Alyosha"

"No, no, you have to call Brother Alexey, or uncle can't be called Alyosha Alyosha, no"

"But others call me Victor, you call me Victor"

"Nicknames can't be messed around, okay, call me Brother Alexey"

"Big Brother Alexey"

"Well, bring the notebook, follow me, this time you will clear the goods"

So I followed him into the warehouse, in fact, every day the sailors can eat very little, but there is no theft, the contents of the warehouse are generally no different from the previous records, but Alexei always insisted that every day all ships have an inspection manual, in principle, they all require that the goods be counted every day, but there are not many people who really do it as seriously as Alexei

I can feel that Alexei can cut off a lot of people's thoughts by doing this, and no one will think that he is a good deceitful person, because his meticulousness makes anyone have to think carefully about the consequences before trying to do something, so he just checks the cargo, but in fact, he saves most of the trouble and hidden dangers for his ship

The wages of the sailors are generally very low, because the shipwrecks are not willing to provide the full salary of the sailors, but choose to give the money directly to their families through the ship on the shore, which is worried that some sailors will spend the money within a week of receiving the money, so that the life of the sailors is generally very hard, the general practice of the shipwrights is to allow the sailors to carry a certain amount of private goods with the ship, which is a tacit rule, so Alexei will carefully inspect every corner of the warehouse, In case of loss of goods or the occupation of space for their belongings, Alexei would never have asked the sailors about their own warehouses

Moreover, Alexei knew that after this was the last trip, these sailors would no longer serve the Romanovs, who would gradually disappear from the minds of the westerners, and the Romanovs would look for their ancestors in the mountains

Maybe one day, the Wikians will be able to advance to the sea on the east side of the mountain, and at that time, maybe the Romanovs will form their own fleetSpeaking of fleets, in fact, there are only four ships of the Romanovs, one sail ship, and three sail shipsThe 'Wilderness' that Alexei followed is the only big ship, and she has already gone on several voyages, which is sad to say: this ship is selling off the Romanov family's hundreds of years of accumulation, and will sell itself on the last voyage

On the port of Fendra, the people of the White Pigeon Firm took a fancy to the ship, and after hearing that the ship was ready to be sold, the White Pigeon Firm immediately paid a deposit, and this time when the goods were sold to Fendra, the name of the 'Wilderness' would be brushed off the side of the ship, and the White Pigeon Firm logo would be painted instead, and the sailors on board would re-sign the contract to provide services to the owner of the White Pigeon Firm, who was said to have a disabled leg

The White Pigeon Merchant House is a prosperous guild, and its rise is tied to the exhibition of Fendra People say that due to the support of the Kingdom officials, the White Pigeon Merchant House has almost monopolized all the grain trade and most of the tool trade in the port of Fendra, and for other fields such as cloth, weapons, spices, porcelain, gold and silverware, the White Pigeon Merchant House is also actively challenging the old guilds that control the market, and it is known that the exhibition of this guild is unlimited

This time to the east of the mountains, the Romanov family signed an agreement with the White Pigeon Trading Company: if the Romanov family wants to go to the Oriental Exhibition, it must get sufficient manpower and material support, and it also needs to choose a continuous selection of gold coins to support its activities; And the White Dove Merchant also hopes to expand trade in the East, and quickly occupy the market before anyone touches there, especially the spices of the East, which is the most crazy thing, if one day it can bypass the greedy Salanders and the shrewd Rodocs to directly act as an agent for the spice trade, then the White Dove Merchant House will become a wealthy guild

This time, Alexei will go to Fandra to meet a representative of the White Dove Firm, who will return to the port of Kudan on the changed 'Field', and follow the Romanovs to the east, where they will decide how much aid to give to the Romanovs on the basis of the field trip

At present, the White Pigeon Merchant Company promises to provide the Romanov family with enough armor, leg guards, helmets, short swords, spears, longbows, crossbows and other weapons and armor equipment to arm a hundred people, and at the same time, the White Pigeon Merchant Company will also help the Romanov family livestock and immigrants in the Vicia Plain In the first five years, high-quality cattle, sheep and horses will be provided by the White Pigeon Firm, and the White Pigeon Merchant House also needs to help the Romanod family recruit 50 to 100 homesteaders. Or go to the Salanders and buy strong serfs or slaves to send to the east of the mountains

All this required Alexei and several other members of the Romanov family on board to go to Fandra to complete the negotiations

During my days to Fendra, Alexei gradually allowed me to speak like a normal Wikibian boy

I felt like that summer was so clear and long, as if my whole life had started there

"Alyosha, who are we going to see in Fandra? Can I find my parents? ”

"Call me Brother Alexey"

"Big Brother Alexey"

"It should be possible, if you are a Zen person, there will be people who know you, as for the person we want to meet, he is also a Wikibian."

"Oh? What's his name? ”

"Ivan," said Alexei, "people call him Ivan of the White Dove Firm."