Chapter 1878 Daphne’s Pleading

Facing Daphne's bright eyes, I laughed and said, "What's wrong?"

Daphne seemed to be hesitating, or perhaps trying to gather the courage to speak. She bit her lips hard, until her thin pink lips turned white.

I was worried that if I continued to bite like this, her lip would be bitten before she could speak.

"Xiao Yi." Daphne's voice was no louder than the buzz of a mosquito.

"Yeah." I nodded and gave her an encouraging smile.

"That." She hesitated for a few more seconds, and just as she was about to speak, she heard Jin Siqi's shouts coming from the kitchen.

"Xiao Yi, come and bring the plate!"

"Here we come!" I responded and pressed Daphne's shoulder: "If you have any questions, let's talk about it after dinner."

The dinner was quite sumptuous, with more than a dozen plates filled with various dishes. Although it was not a dazzling array, for us, who were only four diners, this table of dishes still greatly satisfied our needs for dinner.

Kailan was the most enthusiastic eater among us. She swallowed nearly half of the dishes into her stomach. If Phoenix, a foodie, hadn't set a precedent, I really couldn't believe that her flat belly could hold such a huge amount of food.

Jin Siqi and I ate very ordinary portions, and our eating habits were relatively elegant.

Daphne's appetite was surprisingly small, even less than at other times.

The heartless Kailan naturally wouldn't notice Daphne's abnormality, but Jin Siqi and I both noticed it.

Jin Siqi winked at me, and I shook my head slightly, telling her to calm down and wait until after dinner to talk about anything else.

After the meal, Kailan went back to his room to rest carelessly, while Jin Siqi went to the study room to review unfinished documents.

Daphne and I were the only two people left in the empty hall.

I leaned on the sofa, sitting opposite Daphne, holding a teacup and sipping tea, while waiting for the girl to talk.

After being silent for more than ten minutes, Daphne finally spoke: "Xiaoyi, regarding what my father mentioned today about establishing a line with the military."

Seeing her hesitation, I couldn't help but smile and said: "Don't worry, since I promised to help Mr. Mavro contact the old Duke, I will definitely do it."

"No, that's not the case. I just want to say...say..." Daphne began to hesitate again.

I sighed softly and said: "If you feel embarrassed, don't say it yet. When you can say it out loud, you can tell me later."

Daphne's face tightened, she stood up suddenly, and then bowed deeply to me.

She bowed so much that I could even follow her open collar and see the hint of white.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Xiaoyi," Daphne said with a trembling voice, "I, I apologize to you for your father's irrationality!"

I frowned, put down the tea cup, reached out to help her up, looked through the crystal lenses, staring at her watery eyes, and said slowly: "That was your father's choice, you don't need to apologize."

I pressed her shoulder and asked her to sit back quietly on the sofa. I continued: "Any shop that wants to become bigger and stronger must either get involved with the royal family, establish a relationship with a well-known guild, or get involved with the military. These three methods are already known to everyone in the business circle as unspoken rules."

"The reason why Mr. Mavro didn't choose the royal family or the well-known guild is probably because he didn't have enough cards to satisfy the former, and he was not qualified to hook up with the latter. If you didn't choose me, but remained single, you would definitely be Mr. Flo will definitely use you as a bargaining chip and send you to a royal family as a concubine or maid, so as to achieve the goal of becoming a dragon and a phoenix. I guess that your selection into the magic airship base is probably the result of your father's management. I hope you can be spotted by the director of the airship base and marry into a wealthy family, but he underestimated your stubbornness and didn’t expect you to choose to become a handyman in the logistics department rather than relying on physical relationships to get to the top.”

Looking at Daphne's pale little face, I feel very distressed, but there are some things that I must say even if I feel distressed.

"After losing your trump card, but gaining huge liquidity and shops, Mr. Mavro's ambition can finally be launched, so he can't wait to use me as a springboard to jump on The military is a giant ship.”

"There's nothing wrong with that." I shook my head and said slowly, "Being ambitious and ambitious is a good thing and needs to be encouraged."

"The reason why I dissuade him today is just because I feel that now is not the time to contact the military." I sighed softly and said, "Your father, who has been in business for so many years, should not understand this truth - The more profitable it looks, the more complicated it becomes.”

"You may not know, but I know very well that the military in Dashai City is not just the sword in the hand of the Orc King. They also involve countless large, medium and small adventurer guilds, as well as the interests of most nobles, and some The interests of the royal family, to put it simply, the military is as important to Dashai City as the nerves are to the human body."

"Once such an important national organization has a relationship with them, future business will definitely be much easier, and those organizations that seek trouble and collect protection fees will definitely not visit again, but at the same time, you will also be burdened with a The heavy burden is that you must complete any mission assigned by the military."

I sneered and said, "If the military only needs ordinary materials, that's fine. If they want to forge special equipment and need extremely rare materials, you won't be able to find them for a while. Have you thought about the consequences?"

Daphne's little face turned even paler, and her eyes were filled with fear. She opened her mouth and made a trembling voice, saying: "Xiaoyi, can you please not go to the military leaders?"

After a few seconds of silence, I shook my head: "I have already promised Mr. Mavro."

"Then can you please stop going and give me some time so that I can try to persuade my father?" She begged me anxiously, her eyes quickly filled with mist: "I can't, I can't just watch my father sink into the mud. !”

He stood up and sat next to Daphne, and gently wiped the corner of her eyes: "I promise you, I won't contact the military leaders for the time being. You can lobby Mr. Mavro first. If there is no result, it doesn't matter if I contact the military leaders again. "

Daphne nodded with tears in her eyes.

The next day, Daphne got up very early. While I was still practicing my knife, she had already changed into formal clothes and hurried out.

I guess she may have gone to see Mr. Mavro.

Jin Siqi didn't say anything after not seeing her back for a whole morning, but Kailan couldn't sit still. She said uneasily: "My sister has always been a shy and well-behaved child, and she never leaves without saying goodbye. Could something have happened to her?" ?”