Qi Haoran pulled the little lion to ask him to write down a few questions, and said in a low voice: "Quietly tell you little brother An and big brother, let them ask Andre."

Qi Haoran knew that if he stayed there, Andre would be a little wary even if the children asked questions, but it would be different if he was alone with the children. His children were too young, and Andre would not guarded.

Just as Qi Haoran thought, after he left, Andre let go of his mind and tried his best to answer all kinds of strange questions from the children, and sometimes he could even crack a few jokes.

For example, Hutou will ask, "What do you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Do you also drink tea?"

And the little lion will ask, "At what age do children in your country start to read..."

And Xiaoan said that he is still most interested in maritime trade. He asked: "If I drive a boat to your country, will I have to pay taxes too? Can children not be exempted from taxes?"

Little Bear listened with his eyes wide open. This was a question his father explained.

Andre laughed loudly, and said, "Young master, the tariff is calculated according to the goods, not according to the owner's age."

Xiao An felt a little regretful, and asked, "Then how much do I have to hand in ten bolts of silk and satin?"

Andre smiled and said, "Four horses."

Little Xiong rolled his eyes and asked, "Is it because you paid more gems, or more spices?"

"It must be a gem," cried the little lion. "The gem is more beautiful."

"Then let's buy all the spices when we go." Hutou suggested, "Let Lichun make us a few more pouches at that time, and we will pack them all with spices and bring them out. Shouldn't the things we carry be taxed?"

Andre, who was a little wary, laughed after hearing this kind of childish talk, and said: "The young masters are wrong, the tax on spices is heavier than that of gems, but this young master is right. It’s true that you don’t have to pay taxes on your belongings, but what you carry with you is limited, and if the other party finds that you intend to evade taxes, you may have to go to jail, which we don’t care about.”

Every time they go to sea, they bring a whole ship of goods. Are they afraid of paying the tariffs for the extra items they carry?

That is to say, the sailor will bring some things onto the boat, so that he can earn more money back and forth, but the cost of the sailor is also very high, and sometimes it will disappear after a few months of being romantic. Of course, he will not talk to the children about these things. Said.

Andre was dragged by a few children, and asked questions here and there, some were childish, some were about maritime trade, and sometimes politics.

Of course, it is impossible for a few children to ask clearly, they will only ask, "How many concubines does your emperor have? How many princes? Are they as old as us? Is the princess beautiful? There is also a prince who is as capable as my father Will your chancellor grow a beard?..."

When the children were finally satisfied, Andre's mouth was dry, and they had already walked a long way. There were only a few fishing boats floating in the sea, and a slightly sharp voice came from a distance, and the children were lying on their backs. Looking from the bow of the boat, he exclaimed, "Look, that's a fish, a fish that can spray water!"

The group of fish yelled again, which was different from the sharp one before, and it sounded much better. The four children yelled and squatted on the bow of the boat to watch, not daring to blink their eyes.

Andre said with a smile: "That's a whale, it seems that our luck is very good."

The whales were not coming towards them, they were far away from them, and the children watched them disappear into the sky helplessly.

Hutou exclaimed: "Mother told me about this kind of fish, saying that it is very precious, we must protect them."

Andre smiled and said: "Whales are very powerful and don't need human protection. Moreover, as far as I know, there are many countries near the sea that like to catch whales."

The four children said "ah" and asked, "Is the whale delicious? Why do you want to catch it?"

Just as Andre was about to answer, one of the two identical children suddenly yelled, excitedly shouting: "Pirate, it's a pirate, we've met a pirate!"

Andre froze, and hurriedly turned to look at the sea, because of the violent movement, his neck accidentally twisted.

The three children who hadn't paid attention to the sea at first ran to the bow of the ship when they heard the tiger's head yelling, and when they saw a flag with a skeleton in the distance, they immediately shouted excitedly, "It's really a pirate!"

"A pirate with a warship!"

"Go ahead, go forward, we want to defeat the pirates—" Little Bear shouted excitedly, wishing he could run towards the pirate ship immediately.

The soldiers on board also spotted the pirate ship, and immediately became vigilant, readying their weapons one after another. Some even wanted to come up and carry the young masters back to the cabin to prevent them from being accidentally injured here.

But the tiger head and the little lion beat and kicked because they were unwilling to go back, and they helped Xiao An, who was weak, fight off the soldiers who came to hug him, while the little bear, after expressing his unwillingness to leave, no one dared to come forward and hug him forcibly Well, this master's strength is very strong. If you don't control your strength with a slap, they can slap the boat down.

Several soldiers were looking at them anxiously, Qi Haoran strode out, and suppressed the four boys with a single glance, but he didn't ask to send them back to the cabin, now they are still far away from the pirate ship, what are you afraid of?

Now their eyes were on the corsair, and it would be a long time before they reached it, or it took a long time for it to catch up.

Qi Haoran didn't intend to turn the four boys into cowards, it's okay to see the pirate ship, anyway, he didn't intend to run up to get beaten.

Qi Haoran ordered the captain, "Go forward for a while, let them see the pirate ship clearly, and we will set sail back."

The captain, with black lines all over his head, turned the rudder together with the crew and walked forward for about a quarter of an hour before he could see the situation over there clearly.

Someone shouted: "The pirate ship seems to be robbing the merchant ship."

"No wonder they hung up the skeleton flag, which is usually kept away, so as to confuse merchant ships."

"Then shall we go and rescue them?"

"You are stupid, we only have so few people, how can we save them, the prince and the young masters are still on the boat, don't you fail to save them, but put us on board instead."

"These pirates are too rampant. They dare to rob here so close to the port. Didn't your lord suppress many pirates before? Could it be that they are not afraid of encountering our warships?"

"Actually, it's not too close. It's been almost two hours since we sailed from the port..."

The soldiers on the boat were whispering, the four children listened seriously, and rushed forward to pester Qi Haoran to suppress the bandits, and Xiao Xiong even volunteered, "Father, let your son go and catch them himself, okay?"

Qi Haoran stared and was about to teach him a lesson, when he heard a veteran shout: "Why is that merchant ship so familiar? Isn't the Zhou family's mark on the ship?"

"Hey, it's really the mark of General Zhou's family." Zhou Zhou has just been promoted from a school lieutenant to a general because of his meritorious service in suppressing bandits.

Qi Haoran and the four children straightened their bodies immediately, and stared at the merchant ship with wide eyes.

Zhou's merchant ships are Zijin's fleet = their fleet.

Their merchant ship has been hijacked!

Hutou was the first to react, and shouted: "That belongs to our family!"

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