"134, you are familiar with their living relics. Please help me keep an eye on them. Judging from the current situation, they are very important to us now."
Hearing Charles' words, Margaret withdrew her gaze from the slightly wriggling black tentacles on his head.
"I understand. Anna told me this. Everything in Hefang will be centered around this."
After saying these words, Margaret saw the man in front of her staring at her, "What about you? How have you been lately?"
"Thanks to the trade diversion from Hope Island, Hefang has developed rapidly. It is certainly a good idea for me to be the governor of Hefang Island." Margaret's voice sounded very calm.
"But if I want the Cavendish family to regain its glory, I can't do it alone. If anything happens to me, the entire family will wither, so I need to marry. As a woman, I need to give birth to an heir."
"No!" Charles stood up instantly as if he had touched a reverse scale.
Margaret covered her single eye with her hair and looked down, avoiding the other's aggressive gaze. "Governor, some things happened in the past, so let them stay in the past forever. Most marriages are not connected by emotions."
After saying that, Margaret walked out. Charles seemed to say something behind her, but she didn't want to know at all.
Margaret took two quick steps and walked to the back of a room. She leaned against the wall with a painful expression on her face. "Finally, I said it out."
She couldn't keep wasting time like this. Nothing would change if she kept waiting. The Cavendish family needed to expand, and as the only heir of Cavendish, she had to do the same.
I thought that I could let this matter go by telling it to others, but for Margaret, it was not an easy thing to do.
Her mood became more irritable and extreme, and the soothing fruit that she had given up not long ago appeared on her dressing table again.
But even so, Margaret still followed the steps she had set, and she had already started choosing her husband.
The situation in Earthsea is very unstable, full of opportunities and dangers, but there are still some excellent choices among the new governors.
A photo of a gloomy young man appeared in front of Margaret. He was a captain exploring the surface. He was decisive and ambitious. His island was also the most abundant in resources and was only more than 100 nautical miles away from Hefang.
The Cavendish family's status as the ruler of the North Sea was exactly what the new governor urgently needed.
Where there are people, there are circles, and the same is true for the Governor. As long as the two are married, Cavendish's network of contacts will be his.
After this marriage, Cavendish also gained a lot of benefits, and the strength displayed by the other party was exactly what He Fang needed.
"If there is no other solution, then it must be him!" Margaret stared at the photo on the table with bloodshot eyes.
At this moment, the maid Gina, holding a comb, said hesitantly, "Miss, why does this man look a bit like Mr. Charles in the past?"
Margaret, who was thinking about various interests, was stunned. She picked up the photo with trembling hands. The appearance of the young man in the photo unconsciously overlapped with the person in her mind. He really looked like Charles.
Even if I forced myself to choose other men, I still chose a substitute unknowingly, and I still couldn't forget him.
Margaret grabbed the corner of the photo and pulled it hard, tearing it into pieces. She suddenly became extremely depressed and squatted on the ground, rubbing the wall. "Am I crazy? What's so good about him! Why did he have to be the one!!"
As soon as she opened the door, Margaret saw a bald woman standing in front of her with a white inverted triangle painted on her forehead.
That was Linda, the ship's doctor on the Narwhal, and she was holding a boy who was only a few years old in her arms.
"What is this?" Margaret expressed confusion.
Linda forcefully thrust the child into her arms without explanation. "Your brother Jack's illegitimate child, he lives such a romantic life, as his sister, don't you know anything about it?"
This shocking news stunned Margaret. She froze in place and was unable to react.
Linda said irritably, "The captain asked us to do this. Since you have this child, you don't need to get married, right? If you don't want to, don't force yourself."
"Are you serious?" Margaret hugged the child in her arms tremblingly. She felt like she was hugging her dead brother again, the cynical but very responsible brother.
"Of course, he actually had three illegitimate children. Two of them died in the sun when they died. This one was found by the Hope Island Naval Intelligence Department after searching for a long time."
After Linda finished speaking, she looked at Margaret in front of her and said, "I have heard about your relationship with the captain. My advice is that you should not look for other men. Otherwise, with the captain's personality, they probably won't live to marry you."
"Of course, I don't recommend you to look for the captain. His woman won't live long either. On the contrary, that man-eating monster is the most suitable for him." After saying that, Linda turned around and left. She was just a messenger.
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In the Governor's Mansion on Hope Island, Charles, sitting on a chair, was looking at the Sandman in front of him and saying something. He was holding an Earthsea Conference.
There were not many people present, only Jenny, the representative of the West Sea, Jax, the president of the Explorers Association, and Julio, the governor of Cat Island.
The other governor, Charles, did not invite them. It was certain that there were spies of the Foundation among them. When discussing how to deal with the Foundation, of course the fewer people the better. Besides, they could not help much in this regard.
"My ship is monitoring the Sea of Misty Sea. There is nothing unusual in the outer waters. Any spies sent in never return. So for the time being we don't know the specific situation of the foundation, nor do we know any of their actions." Julio said slowly with a very gloomy face.
Charles was certainly not surprised by this news. If the foundation really wanted to take action, they would definitely be fully prepared and must be plotting something now.
Compared to the foundation's reaction, Charles was more curious about where Julio had gone before. He thought this guy was dead.
Facing his allies, Charles didn't bother to cover up anything and just asked directly.
"My entire island was swallowed up. Do you think I could have reached you at that time?"
Hearing Julio's words, Jenny beside him asked solemnly, "The black wall has retreated, and the people on the island are all fine?"
(End of this chapter)