48 Hours a Day

“Did my father go to jail because of Malcolm?” Karina opened her mouth and was a little confused. The first time she heard about it, she was a little overwhelmed, and the black man in front of her who was blind and whose nose collapsed claiming to be a gladiator also made her feel a little uneasy.

“So far we have no conclusive evidence.” Zhang Heng poured the merchant a glass of wine to calm her down a bit.

“But it was a bit of a coincidence that your father was in jail, and Raymond's suspicions were not unreasonable. Your father had clearly become an obstacle to the establishment of the Black Business Coalition, and Malcolm was the biggest beneficiary of his exit. Billy also asked the familiar black market businessman on the island these past few days. In fact, when your father went to jail, no one suspected that someone was behind this, but Raymond came out and endorsed Malcolm, and the matter was uncovered. After that, you should have met your father. Did he say anything? ”

Karina recalled, "We spent a lot of money buying a prison warden after the accident, but the meeting was short, my mother and sister spent most of their time, and I had only a few minutes left when I arrived, and I was going to take over his business, so we were mainly talking about business matters. Although my father gave me his connections and the rest of the convoy, he didn't actually approve of me coming to Nassau. Finally, he told me that the most dangerous thing on the island was not the pirates, so I didn't want to trust anyone easily. ”

The businesswoman paused, "In fact, Malcolm was good to me when I first came to the island. Although he insisted that black market businessmen who did not have cooperative pirate ships could not join the Black Merchants Federation to participate in the sharing, he also made it clear that it was impossible to convince several other businessmen to give me back the cooperative pirate ships that formerly belonged to my father, but at that time there were still some powerful pirate ships on the island that had not yet been negotiated. Malcolm gave me the names of some captains and let me try to fight for them.

However, because I was a woman and I barely knew anybody who came to Nassau shortly after, I could neither help them in the negotiations nor have enough money to bribe important people on the boat, which ultimately did not succeed, but at that time I was grateful to Malcolm, who was one of the few people on the island willing to help me, and I did not want to work against his black business alliance if I did not really have no way out, I never thought that my father was actually in jail for him. ”

Karina finished her mouthful of wine, but her mood never calmed down, and the businesswoman put the glass down and stood up, "No, I'm going to confront him and let him release my father. ”

“Are you going to walk over there and make him admit that he did it himself?” Zhang Hengdao.

“If he doesn't let my father go, I'll tell the rest of the coalition what he's done, and if he could have done it to my father before, he might have done it to someone else afterwards because of something else.” Women merchants humane.

“Doing so may cause him some trouble, but as I said before, we don't have enough evidence to prove that Malcolm did it to your father, and..." Zhang stared at the black gladiator next to him.

The latter is a calm addition, "and your only witness is of slave origin, not to mention strictly speaking, I just heard Raymond and Malcolm arguing. ”

“There is also bad news that your presence has adversely affected the Black Business Coalition and Malcolm is ready to attack you.” Zhang Hengdao.

The businesswoman's face had changed, and even though she had caught the Cold Crow, she felt a great deal of pressure when it really happened, especially when she learned that her father had been imprisoned because of his opposition to the Black Business Coalition, and she did not know the outcome of waiting for herself.

But since her first day on the island, she knew she had no way out. At first, she had merely rescued her father from prison for ransom, but after making a fortune selling spices this time, Karina found herself getting a little fond of what she was doing.

This may sound crazy, because a few months ago, she was busy attending salons and proms with the ladies and ladies, enjoying the excellent living conditions her father had created, with little knowledge of that cruel world out there.

Until she came to Nassau and wanted to take over her father's career, she had been on the island constantly touching the walls, trying the hardships she had not tried in the past two decades. In order to be able to join the black merchants' union, she gave up herself, ran around, sought help from her father's old friends, bargained with pirates who she had previously regarded as savages, tried to speculate on each other's thoughts, tried to find ways to work with them and seize every opportunity at hand.

Things like breaking into a strange man's house by herself in the middle of the night were never going to happen to her.

Karina herself was wondering why she hadn't collapsed until now.

Like a flower growing in a greenhouse, she suddenly left her comfort environment and was relentlessly abandoned in the wilderness, but after withstanding the raging wind and snow, she also had the opportunity to grow barbarically.

This is a life you will never experience in salons and proms, where there are crises, betrayals, challenges from all sides, but only boring.

Karina could feel what was boiling in her blood, something she had never done before in her life. If she had only held onto the idea that her father would return to her previous life, she would have been unwilling to return to the greenhouse after earning the first bucket of gold and seeing her hard work for that time paid off.

Karina took a deep breath, “I will be ready, whoever the opponent is, will not be easily defeated. ”

“I'm afraid that's not enough.” Zhang Hengdao, "next, I hope you can be more positive, it would be better to make the Black Business Coalition feel more stressed, and at the same time I will start with what happened to your father to provoke a conflict between Malcolm and Raymond. But what I have to say is, once we do this, it makes your situation even more dangerous, and now there's friction between us and the League of Dark Businesses, but it's not too serious, and if we're really up against each other, and we don't rule out Malcolm's possible use of some means against you, we're now racing against time to see who you and Malcolm won't last. ”

“I don't really have a choice at all, do I? Well, then I don't have much to deal with.” Karina has no hesitation.