Dust to dust, earth to earth.


    After the execution of Thomas, Lorin renhaina helped her down to the water prison and stood in front of the fragmented and silent lake for half an hour.


    Half an hour later, he went out of the water prison, with the help of Haina, hung the fishing boat on the boat rack of the Artemis beauty, picked up all porcelain and tin ware, and opened the obstruction of the water tank.


    It''s time to really go our separate ways


    Lorraine handed Haina the title deed of the water tank, old Barry''s IOU and 200 gold pounds and smiled.


    "I should go. I hope I can meet again in the future."


    Haina''s eyes were a little confused: "can you drive this big ship alone?"


    "It could have been." Lorraine felt weak and couldn''t help smiling bitterly. "It may be a little difficult now."


    "I can help you."


    "Eh?" Lorraine raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Can you sail, too?"


    Haina shook her head and said, "no. But I learn very fast. It''s not a problem."


    "If this is not a problem... Leave black harbor and go to a strange sea..."


    "This... Is not home." Haina looked at the bloodstained warehouse with her eyes brighter and brighter. "I hate here, but I can''t find the way to leave. Going to the sea may be the right direction..."


    She turned back and smiled at Lorraine: "and it''s fun to be with you. Sometimes she doesn''t use money to measure her life... It''s also fun."


    "Really..." Lorraine also smiled. "Miss Haina yesla, Congratulations, you have been admitted."


    Smoke rose from No. 3 sump.


    In the sky of fire, a fat ship sailed out of the Watergate, astringently but firmly towards the broad strait


    ……


    In order to teach Haina the skills of looking out and steering, the Artemis beauty took her sails and floated in the calm strait for ten days.


    In ten days, Haina, who learned things quickly, barely became a qualified sailor. Lorraine''s injury was more than half better. Although there was still a risk of collapse, her daily work and rest were no longer a big problem.


    At the beginning of April, the Atlantis beauty returned to Plymouth.


    Lorraine registered the ship''s cargo with the Soto port authority and paid a three pound escrow deposit. After that, Lorraine left the ship and took a carriage with Haina to the world-famous town of Axminster, which is famous for weaving flower carpets.


    That''s Lake''s hometown.


    The carriage stopped in front of a milk white two-story building. Lorraine and Hannah jumped out of the car and saw a strong boy in a sailor''s shirt in the yard.


    He is a handsome young man, about eight or nine years old. He has the same flaxen hair and green eyes as lake. He is seriously attacking the big tree in the yard with branches as a sword.


    This reminds Lorraine of her eight years old.


    At the age of eight for the first time, he was in the second grade of primary school. He raised the first little turtle in his life and took pulling the girl''s pigtail as the only way to express his favor.


    The second time, when he was eight years old, he vomited darkly on the Galen ship bound for the Indian Ocean because of a sudden storm. He once doubted whether he could live to Calcutta.


    Of course, that''s him, not Lorraine.


    Lorraine laughed and raised her hand to ring the bell at the door.


    Ding Ling, Ding Ling


    The boy who was practicing fencing seriously looked up blankly and saw a man and a woman outside the fence.


    Both are young and tall.


    The man is wearing a tuxedo, an umbrella and a top hat. The woman is wearing a wide pure black smock. Even her face is covered with gauze. Only her upturned nose and green eyes like gemstones are exposed.


    A strange combination


    A strange and strange combination.


    The boy was very careful, holding the branch carefully close to the door, across the fence and asked, "Sir, madam, are you looking for..."


    "Are you pierce? Pierce Yates, the son of Lake Yates."


    "Yes..."


    Lorraine closed her eyes and recalled the broken and desperate look of Lake in the water prison.


    After a while, he opened his eyes again.


    "My name is Lorraine ananson Drake, and I''m Mr. Yates''s crew. I''m sorry to inform you that your father died. He died of illness and fever on the way... And died very peacefully."


    Cluck!


    Pierce stood there, twigs, falling to the ground.


    ……


    "Before he died, Lake entrusted me to be your guardian."


    Lorraine and Hannah enter Lake''s simple and shabby ancestral home, sit in the living room and quietly explain the next arrangements for Pierce.


    "I''m going to send you to Plymouth sea school. Sir Leighton is my mentor, a noble with integrity, preciseness and faith, the best teacher of the sea school and the best officer of the Royal Navy."


    "He has no children. I will persuade him to be your adoptive father, which will help your future."


    Lorraine crossed her fingers, frowned and looked at Pierce.


    "And the Artemis beauty..."


    "This is lake''s boat, and now it''s yours. I hope to buy her."


    Haina silently took out a bundle of gold pounds from under her blouse, a total of 100.


    Lorraine continued, "the beauty of Atticus is a standard Kirk. The market price is 500 pounds. I can''t take it out at the moment."


    "Of the hundred pounds, fifty pounds are the proceeds of this trade and lake''s property. The other fifty pounds, I hope to temporarily rent the beauty at fifty pounds every two months. I will sign an IOU and settle the ship and the rest of the rent with you within a year, totalling 750 pounds."


    "Of course, if you don''t trust me, this IOU can be notarized by a local gentleman, and the notarization fee will be paid by me."


    After that, Lorraine took a deep breath: "Pierce, are you willing to accept my arrangement?"


    Pierce looked at him blankly: "Mr. Drake..."


    Lorraine nodded slightly


    "My father told me that the beauty is very old and can only sell for two hundred pounds..."


    Lorraine smiled disdainfully: "the captain didn''t understand the ship. He was cheated."


    "Old leather can''t sell at the price of new leather. Although I haven''t learned saltpeter, I still understand the truth when I was a child doing business with my father." pierce looked at Lorraine gratefully, "you are a good man and think for me wholeheartedly, but I can''t accept your arrangement."


    "Why?"


    "I want to go to sea!" pierce clenched his small fist and looked firm. "After getting the boat, my father''s dream is to become a marine merchant. I want to inherit his legacy, not a large legacy, and become an excellent person who is completely different from him!"


    "Do you... Want to go to sea?"


    "I want to go to sea!" pierce stood up and waved his arm excitedly in front of Lorraine. "Mr. Drake, after my father left, I learned swimming, fishing and simple cooking! I... I am very diligent and brave. I can wash the deck on the ship, cook, watch and carry goods..."


    "I don''t want that boat!" he looked at me imploringly. "Sir, will you take me? Let me go to the sea like my father, will you?"


    Lorraine looked at him firmly: "it will be very hard to be a sailor of a merchant ship. You have to learn a lot. More importantly, the sea eats people."


    "I''m not afraid of death! I''m more afraid than death... I''m afraid that after you take me to Mr. Leighton''s place, I will slowly forget my father... I don''t want to forget him, I don''t want to forget..."


    Big tears rolled out of the boy''s eyes, but he just opened his eyes for fear that he might miss it. He nodded very slightly.


    Lorraine looked at Haina with a bitter smile.


    "Haina, you know what? I was eight years old when I first went to sea. I was an intern in a relative''s merchant ship. I wouldn''t do anything but make trouble..."


    Haina was quiet without any expression: "you''re the captain. Don''t ask me for advice."


    "This is your responsibility..."


    "You guessed right."


    "Really..." Lorraine''s bitter smile grew stronger, "pierce Yates..."


    The boy stood straight with a slap: "yes, Mr. captain!"


    "In the near future, I will set up Drake chamber of Commerce. If you take the ship as a shareholder, I can consider giving you 10% of the dry shares."


    Lorraine thought carefully and said, "this is likely to be a loss, because if the assets of the chamber of Commerce cannot exceed 8000 pounds, the value of 10% of the dry shares will be lower than what I originally arranged for you."


    "I don''t care about money, sir!"


    "You have to learn to care, because businessmen are born to deal with money." Lorraine got up and smiled and held out his hand to pierce. "Welcome, Mr. pierce Yates, second deputy intern. You have been admitted."