The next morning, Alphonse accompanied Baiserion Juan to the Calais House Hotel early in the morning. He left him in the hotel to contact his men, and then he went to talk to Francis about the business alliance.

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As a result, I had lunch with Francis at noon, and when I went to take Baiserion back to the mansion from the hotel, I happened to bump into old Anda who was returning from Amiens!

"Master, something happened." Old Anda shouted in the distance when he saw Alphonse!

Alphonse frowned, but fortunately Old Anda did not blurt out, but stopped the carriage in a hurry, ran forward in small steps, and said to Alphonse out of breath: "Master, Paris... Paris

Someone is here, at the manor, it’s the same... it’s the same as last time..."

Alphonse immediately understood that Riet de Vigeri had come from Paris and had already arrived at the manor. Unsurprisingly, he would be staying at the manor that night and would not leave for Calais until tomorrow!

"Brother!" At this moment, another little girl jumped out of the car and crawled into Alphonse's arms without any care!

"What's going on?" Alphonse looked at Old Anda in confusion!

Before Old Anda said anything, the little girl raised her head and looked at Alphonse and said, "Brother, don't you recognize me? I'm Kristina!"

"Uh...Tina? Why are you here?" Alphonse recognized it immediately. This little girl is Christine de Laurentois, his uncle's only daughter.

Because her uncle's business failed, Kristina was fostered in her grandfather's house since she was a child. Armand got engaged in February this year. Alphonse also visited his elderly grandfather and met Kristina; he didn't expect to suddenly come here to look for her.

Yourself?

"Where's grandpa? Why aren't you at grandpa's house?" Alphonse asked, stunned for a moment.

"Grandpa...Grandpa is gone...My aunt sent me to the manor to find you. Who would have thought that if you weren't here, that stinky aristocratic woman would drive me away!" Christina's eyes were red at first, and then she shouted angrily.
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"It's Madam Sir, Butler Anderson asked me to bring Miss Laurence back..." Old Anda said helplessly.

"How did you end up like this?" Alphonse knelt down and wiped her dirty face. Not to mention that her uncle was her godfather. For such a little girl, her grandfather had just passed away and she was driven away by her aunt.

After leaving home, he went to the manor and asked Yvette to be kicked out. Putting himself in Alphonse's shoes, if Alphonse didn't take her in, the consequences would be disastrous.

"What can I do? No one wants me anymore." Kristina shrugged.

"I will live here from now on. Let me get to know each other. This is Mr. Juan." Alphonse pointed at Sirion. Juan introduced him casually, then looked at Alfred who walked out of the door and said: "

Mr. Alfred, clean up a room, Tina will live with us from now on."

"Well... there are only two rooms left on the second floor, one is for the Jazz..." Alfred replied with some embarrassment: "I haven't had time to clean up yet."

"Live in another one." Alphonse replied without hesitation: "Throw out all the things Armand used. There will be no room for him here in the future."

"That's it! Damn it, what kind of brother is he!" Christina also shouted.

"But that room is next to your room. Could it be that Miss Charles..." Alfred replied with some embarrassment. It doesn't matter that Kristina is only eleven or twelve years old now, but what about two years later? Ann will have opinions sooner or later.

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"I sleep very quietly, and I will never disturb my brother from resting!" Christina immediately replied.

"Let's just decide. Start construction on the annex building on the left as soon as possible. We don't have enough rooms." Alphonse looked at Old Anda again and said: "Go, Mr. Alfred is going to arrange a room for Tina. You can take it now."

I’ll take Tina to make new clothes, and then I’ll take her to Uncle Darren’s dinner party later in the evening.”

"Let's go, let's go, oh, there's still luggage." Kristina pushed Old Anda, then got on the carriage and waved to Alphonse.

"Go." Alphonse went up to take the suitcase from Kristina, and then accompanied Baiserion Juan into the hall while carrying the suitcase.

"Mr. Alfred, I asked you to put the mirror in my room and send it to Tina's room to make it more comfortable. This is Tina's future home. Don't let her not feel at home." Al Fang

Si smiled and explained, then handed Christina's suitcase to Alfred and said:

"Look at what's inside, be careful not to break souvenirs or other valuables, and make a list for Tina. When I have time, I'll ask her if she lost anything at the manor or at home.

It’s a good idea to find a way to get it back.”

"Yes, sir." Alfred's tooth ached when he heard that. He knew very well about Christina's situation. When she was a child, her father's business failed and her mother ran away with someone else, leaving her to be fostered at her grandfather's house while her father took care of her.

Living a wandering life, spending most of the year lodging in the manor.

Two years ago, Alphonse's father died and he disappeared. However, Alfred heard that he had become a pirate and even went to the New World. Alphonse was kind enough to take Kristina in, but he couldn't.

It's good to make me look sexy...

"That's funny." After Alfred left, Alphonse opened a bottle of red wine and poured a glass each for himself and Baiserion.

"What are you laughing at? The little girl's family?" Baiserion took the cup and said: "If my sister was treated like this, I would lead the guards to burn down his home."

"You put it lightly. The manor was also my former home. If it burned down, I would suffer a loss." Alphonse shook the red wine in his hand and said helplessly: "As for her aunt's house, Tina can take care of her at any time just by her quick talk.

Her aunt was very offended."

"Master..." Alfred called Alphonse awkwardly from upstairs.

"What?" Alphonse asked strangely, and Alfred's reaction was too unusual.

"Musket." Alfred helplessly raised a wooden box in his hand. Alphonse was stunned, where did he get the musket? Then he thought of Christina's suitcase!

He could only shrug helplessly at Baiserion with a wry smile, then turned back to Alfred with a wry smile and said, "Take it down and let me take a look."

"Yes." Alfred quickly walked down the stairs and put the wooden box in front of Alphonse. Alphonse opened the wooden box and saw that inside was a flintlock gun with a wooden handle!
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Slightly larger than the palm of your hand, the flintlock machine is a British dog machine. There is a barrel of gunpowder and a barrel of lead in a wooden barrel next to it, and there is also a bullet clamp for casting lead.

"British dog-machine flintlock?" Baiserion sat up straight and asked curiously.

"Can it be used?" Alphonse handed the flintlock to Baiserion.

Baiserion Juan took over, fired the fusillator a few times, stared at the barrel of the gun again, and finally paused on the table with the muzzle down. No foreign objects fell out, and then handed it back to Ah.

Fang Si said: "This gun is well maintained and can be used."

"Sir shouldn't have such a pistol." Alfred said more.

"I know, it must have been given to her by her uncle, maybe not long ago, or maybe 2 years ago. She knows how to take care of it, and maybe she can still use it. Just put it back in her suitcase. The way she came here wasn't safe either.

Keep something with you, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night." Alphonse replied, handing back the pistol.

In fact, it was not just Alfred who was hesitant to speak. Darren Desai had already told Alphonse that his godfather had been a pirate for a long time. Even Darren Desai himself had encountered a pirate at sea.

to him.

But they are old acquaintances after all, so Darren Desai naturally came back unscathed and unscathed, but he was frightened after all and did not go to sea for a long time.

As a person from the future, Alphonse knew that his godfather was the most notorious French pirate king during this period, François Laurence! Only in relevant records, 1660-1665

During this period, he wandered around the New World and Beihai. It is estimated that the main hunting ground is still the New World. He returned to Beihai just to go home and see...

"Just now, your people said someone came from Paris?" Baiserion changed the subject again.

"Well, it turns out that I came here once and I told you that they wanted to control my artillery workshop." Alphonse said with a smile:

"Because we are friends, I won't sell you; but you have to pay a little extra ransom, for example, escort my merchant ship for a year or two..."

"Then you'd better sell me." Baiserion replied calmly.

"Let's be practical. The Louvre is not robbing my workshop outright, but in the name of investment. So this time we also plan to make good use of this investment in the name of the business alliance. After all, the king's money is on the trade road.

It’s smoother.”

Alphonse smiled and said: "But I can get your batch of gold right away, so I don't really want to take the king's money, but I just haven't figured out how to refuse them."

"Why refuse?" Baiserion said something that confused Alphonse: "You said that the king's money can make trade routes smoother, and this smoothness is only domestic, right?

It just so happens that you can buy more food and send it to Spain, and you have more money to develop artillery. The king's share of the money earned by the Merchant Alliance, and the artillery and blueprints you sold us are all

Your money."

"I found that you understand the essence of a businessman. I believe that if you switch to business, you will definitely become the most successful businessman in the world." Alphonse was also shocked by Baiserion's sudden change, otherwise he would be a navy man.

As for generals, this brain is also very easy to use.

"God needs you to save the world, and I just want to save Spain; work hard and make your traces in the world brighter, preferably with some Spanish colors." Baiserion stood up and continued:

"Spanish mercenaries are actually quite good. Do you want one?"

"Let's get an etiquette teacher first. Look, my sister is here." Alphonse couldn't just say that the Spanish phalanx had no market, let alone that a group of Spanish mercenaries would easily label him a traitor...

Christina came back soon. She didn't like the popular baroque skirts, especially the tutu skirts with bustles, which made her feel very inconvenient to move.

So she customized two long dresses with embroidered puffy sleeves similar to bohemian dresses, and made two new pairs of leather shoes. She even came back without buying a hat; although she saved Alphonse money, she felt

In this way, it is easy for others to misunderstand that they have abused Kristina...

"Tina, you don't need to save money for your brother, just make some beautiful clothes again." Alphonse helplessly pulled Christina and said.

"I don't want to wear those skirts that take half an hour to put on, and I don't want to tie my waist." Christina shook her head repeatedly, and Alphonse realized that she didn't tie her waist;

Although this is a perverted and bad habit like the three-inch golden lotus, it is really difficult for relatives to muster up the courage to take in such an alternative if they are from a noble family and do not have girls with belts...

"Okay then, but you still need to make clothes, hats and shoes. Well, wait until An comes back and let her arrange it for you." Alphonse said to himself, and then said to her: "I have prepared snacks for you.

, you go eat quickly, take a shower after eating, put on new clothes and we will go to the banquet."

"Dad said you'll get the Black Death if you take a bath." Christina shook her head repeatedly.

"If you don't take a shower, you will get smallpox. Do you want to die from the Black Death or from smallpox with a pockmarked face?" Alfonse said out of breath.
To be continued...