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Chapter 1714

Several sailors nearby looked at each other in blank dismay, and in the blink of an eye, their money was reduced by half.

"Do you want to catch him?" The captain Jack Sparrow shook his head. From the figure of the child just now and the moment Jack Sparrow just came into contact with him, he decided that the child was a girl and had a good life. Not much, otherwise there would be no stealing.

Gibbs sighed. He knew that his captain had shown his kindness again. That would be a lot of money, at least fifty or sixty coins.

"Let him go, let's go drink."

Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and followed Jack Sparrow to the tavern. After the little guy who had just escaped ran for a few streets, he leaned on the wall behind the wall and took a peek outside, but found that no one was chasing him. I was relieved.

She took out a small money bag from her bosom, which contained dozens of silver coins. The rest of her life after the catastrophe, coupled with the dozens of silver coins in her hand, made her feel a burst of joy in her heart.

The purchasing power of dozens of silver coins is very impressive in St. John's Island, and one silver coin can almost support his food for nearly half a month.

And dozens of silver coins are enough for her to consume for a year or two if she counts carefully.

It's hard to live downtown, and so is St. John's.

Living in a prosperous place consumes a lot of materials, and the same is true here, where they can't farm or graze. All the resources come from the continuous supply of the Iron Kingdom.

Even if there are some places that can be planted on the island, there are only a few very sporadic places, which are not enough to supply the island.

This is why Zeng Yunfeng used this method to restrain these islands to prevent them from rebelling or even being taken away by others.

With the maintenance of waterways and supply lines, these islands can obtain continuous energy and inland support, just like gunpowder needs to obtain gunpowder.

Without these supplies, these islands would be difficult to support. With the main supply, even if these islands were far away from the White Iron Kingdom, they could still live well.

It is because Zeng Yunfeng maintains this balance through waterways, food, material transportation, and fleets.

Once there are any people with ulterior motives on the island who want to occupy the island or want to dominate one side, as long as the White Iron Kingdom gently cuts off this supply line, it will be enough to make them cry.

At that time, the fleet will be surrounded again. There will be no food, no supplies, no ammunition on the island, and it will soon decline.

Of course, certain grain storage such as Changping warehouses and Taiping warehouses will also be established on the islands to prevent emergencies such as epidemics, which will cause a large number of people on the islands to starve to death and flee.

The little girl took off her hood, revealing an immature face, which is not immature to be precise, and now she has already grown up, and she is already an outstanding beauty.

However, she never easily showed her face in front of people.

There is as much darkness as there is light. On St. John's Island, she has encountered many people like this, especially those wandering orphans. They don't want to be oppressed by those captains and sailors, and they are unable to work as sailors. living on the island.

But they don't have the corresponding household registration and identity certificates, and they have no way to land safely on this island.

The guard officers and consuls on those islands would not allow them to settle down easily. They had to go through detailed verification before they could be arranged to live in a specific place, and they might even be assigned fields and jobs.

But the little girl knew that she couldn't make this choice. Her identity has always been a sensitive factor. She knew that she had been hunted by people from the White Iron Kingdom. She didn't understand why she was hunted down, or even The reason, let alone ask.

But the sense of danger in the dark made her know that she must avoid these people and not let them find her.

That's why she had no choice but to live this sneaky life.

Putting the money bag away, the little girl climbed up a wall, climbed in through the wall, and tiptoed into a room full of books with an attic.

She blinked her eyes and looked directly at the plate of snacks on the table in the room.

Without the slightest hesitation in his hand, he grabbed the snacks directly, biting one in his mouth, holding another in his hand, and stuffed a few more in his arms.

There was a sound outside the room door, which seemed to be the sound of footsteps. The little girl immediately climbed up the ladder to get the books like a frightened rabbit, turned over and moved to the attic above, and carefully emerged from the hood. Eyes, carefully look at the situation below.

A man pushed the door and entered. He was dressed very retro, even a little old-fashioned.

The man wore a pair of glasses, had gray hair, and didn't walk very fast. He held a piece of paper in his hand and muttered something while walking.

The little girl didn't make a sound, but just watched everything silently.

The man shook his head, "Oh, how could this happen, how could this happen, this result is wrong."

As he spoke, he put down the paper in his hand, went to the table, found a few books, flipped through them, and after a while, he wrote on the small blackboard beside him. After writing for a while, he used his left hand again Holding his chin, grabbing his beard, muttering, "No, it's not right here, and it's not right here, what's wrong?"

The little girl looked up at the blackboard. There were a series of formulas and some letters written on the blackboard, which looked like a bible to her.

"No, it's not right, it's not right!" The man suddenly became irritable, crumpled all the papers on the table, and threw them all over the floor.

Then he grabbed his hair and squatted on the ground, looking very uncomfortable.

The little girl watched this scene helplessly, she didn't understand what this man wanted to do, and why he was so distressed.

From the point of view of the little girl, the gentleman on Liang, this person has a prosperous life and does not have too much worry about famine.

Although he is not wearing the luxurious clothes like those nobles, it can still show that he is a person of status.

These rich books cannot be found anywhere else.

But here, she actually saw so many books.

You must know that not everyone in St. John's Island is qualified to have so many books.

St. John's Island, like other islands, has established a library for people to borrow and read.

As long as you are a scholar, or even have the identity of a scholar, you can eat, drink and do research here for free.

If the research has corresponding results, write a report to the local consul, and the consul can give special approval for some expenses based on the report.

In this regard, the management of the White Iron Kingdom is quite generous, and it is obvious that the scholar in front of him is a research scholar affiliated with St. John's Island.

He doesn't worry about eating or drinking, so what is he worrying about now?

The little girl blinked her big eyes and didn't understand his mood. In her opinion, such a person was already what she most hoped to be in her life.

The joys and sorrows of people are not connected to each other, and so is the sorrow.

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