"Mr. Bergram, please allow me to remind you again that you told me the same thing three months ago. Unfortunately, there are three days left on the repayment date you promised. If three days later you Not being able to repay the loan—it is not the first time, you will remember—I will repossess your mortgage, which is your steam engine laboratory."

Mr. Smith's voice was cold, and after a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "I have guaranteed you more than once, Mr. Bergram, you should know that I am only a part-time worker, not the owner of the bank!"

But Annie could sense something unusual from his words.

Not the first time?

Who said that he was a hard-hearted person just now?

The fact that the bank can continue to lend him a loan when a sum of money is not paid off is in itself worthy of admiration.As we all know, the bank is the coldest place, and the bankers are also the most realistic.

"Mr. Smith, I promise this is the last time!" Mr. Bergram's face suddenly glowed red, "I had a breakthrough in my experiment this morning, but unfortunately I still need to buy a real ship Let’s install the steam engine—if it can be advanced smoothly, all the shipyards will rush to buy this technology, and Britain will become the sole hegemon at sea from now on!”

"Anyone can say beautiful words, but you have already exhausted my trust." Mr. Smith didn't want to talk any more, and turned around to motion for Anne to go upstairs with him.

"Mr. Smith!" Mr. Burgram yelled again, pleading and choking.

Annie looked at Mr. Smith, and saw that his face with his back to Bergram also showed a little unbearable.

"Miss de Bauer, just now a staff member of the bank told me that you have finished your work?" Du Li's voice sounded behind Bergram, and she looked warily at Bergram who was obviously being held hostage. He and the police officer with the wooden warehouse in his hand walked slowly along the wall towards Annie.

Annie looked at the back of Bergram being dragged away by the police, thinking.Then he and Du Li exchanged a tacit understanding look.

"Yes, I'm going to the VIP room with Mr. Smith." Annie rolled her eyes and said, "Go and buy me some small cakes from the coffee shop in front of the bank. When I came here, I smelled When it comes to the taste, it’s very good.”

"Miss de Bourgh, I'll have someone sell it for you. How can you have the reason to buy dessert yourself when you come to our Bank of England?" Mr. Smith bent over courteously.

"I appreciate your kindness, but I want Du Li to pack it for me and bring it back to the Earl's Mansion. I'm sorry to ask you to honor the Countess for me." Anne waved her hand, "Du Li, go."

Du Li immediately took the order, saluted Mr. Smith and Annie, and trotted outside in a hurry.

Annie turned around and smiled slightly at Mr. Smith: "Let's go up, Cousin Lawrence must be waiting impatiently."

Du Li hurried to the door of the bank, just as Mr. Bergram walked into the coffee shop she had just left.She followed quietly.

Mr. Bergram sat down in the corner, and Du Li found a place near him that was shaded by a huge potted plant.

The waitress ran to Mr Bergram's side.

"A cup of coffee and a piece of black bread." Mr. Burgram reported the same choice without hesitation before she spread out the menu.

The waitress also sketched it in the notebook as usual.

"Mr. Bergram, I saw you just came out of the bank, and thought you were finally going to be generous to yourself this time. Don't you really need white bread?"

"I'm afraid I won't even be able to eat brown bread in three days, my dear." Mr. Bergram shook his head with a wry smile.

The waiter shrugged and said nothing.

She took back the menu, came to Du Li, spread the list on the table politely, and said, "Miss, is the cheesecake just to your liking?"

"Very good, so I'm going to order two more, please pack them for me." Du Li flipped through the menu and ordered another pound cake, and the waiter took note of them all.

"Can you lend me a pen and a piece of paper?" Du Li asked as she watched the waiter put away the menu.

"Of course." The waiter tore off the last page of the record book in his hand and put it on the table, leaving behind the pencil in his hand.Du Li took out a pound from his pocket, put it on the menu, and closed it.

The waiter immediately left with a smile on his face holding the menu.

Du Li turned her face slightly, and through the branches and leaves of the potted plants, she saw that Mr. Bergram had already taken out a pen and paper from his backpack, frowning, writing and drawing on the paper, and making strange gestures from time to time. Gestures seem to be thinking about the principles and trends.He was still muttering something to himself, looking crazy, even a little scary.

But such a person was favored by Mademoiselle de Bourgh.

Du Li and Annie have been together for a long time, and they have a tacit understanding.With just one look from Anne, Du Li understood what she meant.During the confrontation at the bank just now, she stood behind Mr. Burgram and heard all he said—this is a person who has borrowed money from the bank many times for experiments but has not yet produced benefits and cannot repay the debt.

Ms. de Bourgh must be interested in investing, so I asked her to see if she was a liar who used the excuse of invention to swindle money, or a talent who was really desperate.

Du Li looked at his dazed look, and secretly made a judgment in her heart.

She lowered her head, wrote a line on the paper, and folded it.

When the waiter came back, she still came to Mr. Burgram's place first, took the coffee and black bread off the tray, but couldn't put it down.Mr. Bergram came back to his senses, and shyly put away the blueprints all over the table.

The waiter is not surprised.

Then she came to Du Li's table and placed three cakes in front of her.

"Is this a pound cake?" Du Li pointed to a cake wrapped in kraft paper and asked.

After getting a definite answer, Du Li stuffed the folded note into the folds of the kraft paper.She waved to the waiter: "Please give this cake to that gentleman after I leave."

The waiter's eyes widened, and then he nodded mysteriously.

Du Li mentioned the other two cheesecakes, nodded her farewell, and walked out the door.

After she walked out of the coffee shop, she hid her figure by the window.Du Li squinted her eyes and looked in. Sure enough, after her back disappeared, the waiter handed the cake to Mr. Bergram with a face full of teasing and "bad intentions".

Bergram took the cake in surprise, and took out the note hidden inside at the prompt of the waiter.After a quick glance, he glanced at every table in the coffee shop in amazement. What did the waiter say? He ran outside without hesitation, knocking over two small tables, causing the guests to look sideways.

Du Li turned her head and left the moment she saw him get up.

At this moment, Mademoiselle de Bourgh's carriage stopped just in front of her.

"Are you really going to invest in Mr. Bergram?" Du Li asked while combing Annie's hair.

Annie looked at the information in her hand and said casually: "I have this idea, but... you know, I have to understand Mr. Bergram's 'invention' before I can start. Listen to him and Mr. Smith Speaking of which, it seems that the improvement of the steam engine is coming to an end."

"Then don't we want to pick up a cheap one?"

"How can it be so simple. To put it into use, it needs round after round of experiments and improvements. There are too many places to spend money here." Annie clapped the booklet in her hand.

Du Li leaned over and looked. This was the material that Mr. Bergram had submitted to the bank before.

"Mr. Smith actually gave you this material?" Du Li involuntarily increased her movements.

Annie let out a "hiss", and quickly reached out to save her hair - she didn't want to be bald now!

Du Li apologized again and again.

Annie waved her hand: "Thanks to Cousin Lawrence's help."

Annie didn't come forward, she was still hesitating.

How to circulate the money that Count Louise gave her is all under Mr. Smith's eyes, and it is not as simple as simply opening an account under the name of "Mr. Richter" as before.To invest in the name of "Miss de Bauer," she must sign a non-disclosure agreement with Mr. Smith.

A young lady invests in a steam engine improvement studio, and perhaps later in production!

Annie could already imagine how explosive the news would be.

All kinds of criticisms and accusations followed, and maybe someone would come forward to stop her from doing anything.

"Have you and Mr. Bergram agreed to meet?" Anne asked.

Du Li shook her head: "No, I'm not sure when you'll be free to see him. I left an email address and asked him to write there if he intends to accept your investment. I'll check it out tomorrow. Look." After a pause, Du Li added: "I think he will definitely accept it, when he came out of the coffee shop, his demeanor and actions were very urgent."

Annie was not surprised.

"Go and rest, we'll be busy all day tomorrow. What's the name of the boy—the one who delivered our letter to Mr. Brown?"

"Little Guli, as you ordered, I found a vagrant who lives near the factory area. He is the little overlord of that area."

Those who are most familiar with London's factory districts, and also least conspicuous, are the waifs.For a small sum of money - nothing to Anne, but enough to last him a month's worth of white bread - combined with Dolly's natural affinity for children, Anne could win over London The most "reliable" helper in the great shadows.

Annie took out a letter from the drawer, wrote the addressee on the envelope, and handed it to Du Li.

"Again...wait a minute? Is this letter for Little Coulee? Not Mr. Brown?" Du Li thought she had read it wrong.

"Otherwise?" Annie shrugged her shoulders, then stood up, and walked towards the four-poster bed with the thick booklet she brought back from the bank, "Don't worry, you can go find Mr. Bergram tomorrow after seeing Mr. he."

Du Li scratched her head, did not continue to ask, and left Annie's bedroom after saluting.

Annie was lying on the bed, and by the time she finished reading the whole dozen of materials by candlelight, the sky had already turned pale.

After yawning for a long time, Anne slowly buried herself in the quilt, her mind was still circling the dense numbers and images in the book... Those were things she couldn't quite understand, Bergram The husband described all the failures and progress truthfully and handed them over to Mr. Smith.Perhaps it was his seriousness that made Mr. Smith repeatedly make an exception, come forward as a guarantee, and lent him the money.

Annie forced herself to remember a general idea, and realized that this investment was actually a half-bottomless pit.

It is said that "only" one ship is needed for transformation, plus a steam engine and a coal bunker, but if the operation fails, it will start again at least, or the entire wooden ship will suffer and burn out.

Moreover, where is the boat so easy to buy?

Not only was Anne rich, but she had too much to spend.But those shipyards have always made huge profits, and of course they are not short of money.Even if Annie wanted to break open the door with money, she couldn't find where the door was.

Annie yawned again, the boat...

A surname suddenly flashed through her mind.

Those two young Mr. Edgerton, who interrupted the tea party at Bridgewater House, seemed to jointly oversee a shipyard?

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