I, Azure Commander!

A warm expression appeared on Lin Xiao's face, and then he remembered something important.

"By the way, Beifa, I have something to ask you about little Beifa..."

"what?"

"Do you know why this child is a little...mature? I always feel like she knows things that she shouldn't know. Befa, do you know what's going on?"

"..."

Well, now the truth is out, Belfast quickly realized that the master actually had no idea about little Belfast at all, everything was just her speculation on the master's end.

"I don't know either, Master."

Although a maid shouldn't lie to her master, if she admitted it at this time, her image in her master's mind would be completely destroyed, right? It felt like she could no longer stay in the port area.

So Belfast lied with his eyes open without hesitation, and even put the blame on little Beifa, "Maybe little Beifa accidentally read some books that are not suitable for her age?"

However, she did not regret teaching little Beifa those things. After all, little Beifa was a maid no matter what. If you want to be strict about it, there was no strict distinction between adults and children in the ship girls, at least not in some aspects. After all, for the ship girls, if they looked like children, they would always be children. In some ways, this was very unfair.

Whether the master has any thoughts about little Beifa is his business. As for Belfast and little Beifa, since they are maids, they should be prepared and never show disrespect in front of the master. So there are some things that must be mastered.

In fact, all maids are the same in this respect, and some things are already included in the maid tutorial.

"I think so too. This needs to be taken seriously. Children are children. Some books cannot be allowed to them."

This seemed to be consistent with Lin Xiao's previous guess, so he did not doubt it, nodded in approval, and then gave instructions.

"Okay, I'll let everyone pay attention to this next time. I'm very sorry, Master, this is my negligence in my work..."

"It's okay. You're busy in Belfast too."

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hand, and the matter was temporarily forgotten.

Although he got up a little early, there was no need to go back to sleep since he was already up. The main reason was that he slept very well yesterday so he didn't need to sleep any longer. It was rare for Lin Xiao to go out for a walk so early in the morning.

After all, it is a royal palace, and its area is quite large, so it seems a bit deserted.

It seemed that I got up a little too early. Few of the ship girls had gotten up yet. When I passed by Haitian's room, I quietly opened the door and took a look. The girl was indeed awake and tidying up the room. However, Haiqi was still sleeping soundly, and she didn't look very good when she was sleeping.

"commander?"

Haitian saw him, stopped what he was doing in surprise, and walked towards him, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing, I just woke up early so I came to see if you just woke up?"

"Well, get ready to clean up the room and make breakfast."

As Haitian spoke, she tied up her hair, holding a hairband in her mouth, and tied her beautiful white hair into a neat single ponytail. Haitian looked different like this, less fairy-like and more worldly, and no longer gave people the feeling of being unapproachable as before.

but……

"Actually, you can take a break. There are so many ship girls in the port area. It takes a lot of time to cook a meal. If you cook every meal, it would be too hard."

"How could that be... I just joined the port area, and my training level is not high. There is not much I can do for everyone. I am also very happy that everyone likes the food I cook."

Haitian shook his head when he heard this, "Besides, I really like cooking, so this isn't that hard."

"Is that so? Anyway, just be careful not to work too hard. You can ask for help from everyone when cooking, the maids, or other ship girls. Everyone will be happy to help you, or I can...Haha, I feel that if you continue like this, Haitian, you will soon become a big celebrity in the port area. Everyone who sees you will praise you. No one can resist food. When you return to the port area later, those two foodies - Yudachi and George V, you should have heard from them that they are very greedy. I guess they will pester you to make delicious food for them every day."

Lin Xiao smiled as he finished speaking, patted the girl on the shoulder, and said, "That's all. Just take care of yourself. If you want to cook, you can go to the kitchen later. I'll ask the maids to prepare the ingredients first. Although their cooking skills are not very good, their knife skills should still be pretty good."

"Um……"

Haitian nodded somewhat flattered, feeling the commander's genuine concern for him, and a warm feeling surged in his heart.

"Okay, Commander, I understand."

"If you need any help in the future, you can always come to me. There's no need to be so reserved. I won't bother you anymore..."

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he turned around and left the room.

Chapter 36: Tea Party of the Royal Ladies

Caring about Haitian was not just a casual move, nor was it a sudden thought. Although going to her room in the morning was purely accidental, Lin Xiao actually wanted to say these words to Haitian since yesterday.

Just like what he said just now, although she is a rare cook, we can't always rely on her to cook, right?

Especially for a meal like breakfast which is not complicated to prepare, the royal maids can make it very well.

I can’t cook and my cooking skills are not very good, but I have no problem baking bread.

Coffee is also their forte. You just need to heat up the milk and drink it. Adding some sugar will make the children like it very much. It is also very simple to cook a pot of white porridge and boil a few eggs. Although it is a bit monotonous overall, especially the staple food, breakfast itself does not need to be so rich.

So at least the maids can do things like breakfast and dinner well, and they don't necessarily have to trouble Haitian.

As for Hai Tian, ​​he was not at peace as he watched Lin Xiao walking away.

As a newly born ship girl, she actually has no confidence in herself. Her ship equipment is not impressive, but as for beauty, she is a ship girl, so who is not beautiful?

There is nothing wrong with such a new ship girl joining an ordinary port, after all, she is a purple-skinned ship girl after all. However, if she wants to join such a super powerful port, although it is not impossible, it will be difficult for her to make any contribution to the port for at least a long time. Instead, the port will have to spend a lot of resources to train her. Even if she is trained, she will still be far inferior to the predecessors in the port because of her poor ship equipment.

So after Hai Tian understood the situation, she was actually very uneasy. While she was grateful to the commander for giving her the opportunity, she also wanted to contribute to the port. After knowing that everyone liked the dishes she cooked, she put a lot of effort in this regard.

However, even so, she was still uneasy until Lin Xiao suddenly came to her this morning and said these words.

Knowing the commander's true thoughts and feeling the commander's sincere concern, Haitian's mood naturally changed, as if he had suddenly become enlightened. The previous gloom was swept away, and the pressure that had been lingering on his body disappeared in an instant.

After being encouraged, Haitian was obviously more motivated. He directly woke up Haiqi who was still sleeping, helped her wash up in a hurry, and then took her to the kitchen.

After leaving Hai Tian's room, Lin Xiao did not go back, but went to the rooms of other ship girls one after another, just like an old man checking the rooms. Although under normal circumstances, a man who broke into a beautiful girl's room early in the morning would definitely be beaten up.

However, the ship girls were obviously very welcoming of this, and did not mind being seen in pajamas... well, except for a certain blonde dwarf who was wearing children's pajamas with cartoon patterns printed on them.

Lin Xiao's morning walk came to an end after he was kicked out of the room by the angry Elizabeth.

After walking around the palace for such a long time, I looked at the time. It was only 8:30 in the morning. It seemed that I had woken up a little too early today...

When she returned to her room, she found that little Belfast was still sleeping. Belfast obviously doted on her very much. Although it was definitely a dereliction of duty for a maid to oversleep and even get up later than her master, she still didn't have the heart to wake her up.

But now, it seems like it's time to get up.

Lin Xiao walked to the bedside and looked at the little angel's cute sleeping face. Because he was gone, little Beifa was hugging the quilt tightly, just like she hugged him tightly last night. A little saliva flowed from the corner of her cute mouth, wetting a small piece of the pillow.

"Little Beifa, little Beifa..."

Lin Xiao gently pushed her, but it seemed that because she fell asleep in the commander's arms, the little girl was obviously sleeping too peacefully, and it was impossible to wake her up for a while. Lin Xiao was reluctant to lift the quilt or anything, so he could only poke her soft face and called softly again: "Little Beifa, it's time to get up."

However, she was sleeping very soundly, or perhaps this was the quality of sleep she should have at her age. Lin Xiao could only slowly support the little angel's back and help her sit up.

"Um... um..."

At this moment, little Beifa finally woke up slowly. He rubbed his eyes in a daze, opened his beautiful big eyes, and what he saw was Lin Xiao's big face that was very close to him.

"Ah, Master!"

Little Beifa woke up instantly, and then noticed her current appearance - sleepy, her pajamas were loose and wrinkled, while the owner in front of her had already changed his clothes and stood in front of her in high spirits.

The clever little brain quickly realized what was going on. The little angel then showed a somewhat lost expression, lowered his head and apologized: "I'm sorry, Master, Belfast overslept."

"it does not matter."

Lin Xiao rubbed the girl's head. She was so cute. No matter what mistake she made, Lin Xiao felt that it was difficult for him to blame such a cute child. Besides, she just slept a little longer. What kind of mistake was that? If he had to apologize for this, he would have to kowtow a few times every day when he got up.

"Don't worry about it, little Beifa, but you have to get up quickly now. It will be time for dinner soon. Here, these are your clothes. You forgot to bring them yesterday, so I went to your room and got you a new set."

Lin Xiao shook the small maid outfit in his hand, but little Beifa covered her face with her hands, wailed, and felt even more lost.

"Wow~ Master, Belfast is a useless maid. She even asked the master to help her get clothes. She is so careless..."

In fact, she was so nervous last night that her lips were trembling. It was normal for her to forget things.

In the end, nothing happened. Did the master have no interest in poor Belfast? If it was Sister Belfast, she would definitely not do this, right?

Little Beifa looked at his thin arms and legs, and began to worry about why the ship girl couldn't grow up.

"Who said that? Little Beifa is my favorite maid~"

Lin Xiao walked forward helplessly, hugged the child, patted her on the back and comforted her.

"But……"

Little Beifa looked at his master who was so close to him with some surprise, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Lin Xiao kissed the little angel on the face and said, "I'm not lying. The commander would never lie to a child."

He really wasn't lying. It was true. If you asked him to choose among the older girls, which maid would he like best, Dido, Sirius, or Belfast? Or Sheffield or Newcastle?

It’s hard to explain. I like them all, and I like them all about the same. But if we expand the scope to include all the maids, then we can say without hesitation: “I like Xiao Beifa the most. Xiao Beifa is the best in the world.”

There is nothing wrong with saying this, and the older girls won’t have any objections. Who would argue with a child?

Oh, Elizabeth felt that way...but she herself was actually a child in some ways.

"Really...really?"

Such sudden words obviously surprised Xiao Beifa, and Lin Xiao nodded without hesitation to confirm, "Of course it's true, so Xiao Beifa must always be good in the future, and the commander will always like Xiao Beifa. Come on, get up now."

"Ok!"

Little Beifa nodded heavily, immediately threw back the quilt and stood up, taking off her pajamas. Lin Xiao helped her put on a maid outfit, and the cute little maid was transformed successfully. She then put on beautiful white stockings, and the little feet wrapped in the white stockings looked like ice cream, making people want to take a bite.

However, if I really do this, it seems a bit perverted...

Lin Xiao took the cute little angel to the restaurant for dinner, and after that, it was time to discuss the next plan.

I have gathered some reliable girls to discuss things together. My wife, the Eagle, will naturally be present, and Hood and Belfast will not be absent, as well as Aurora and Newcastle.

As for Elizabeth, the nominal queen... why not just forget about it? Lin Xiao really couldn't think of how she could help, and it would be great if she didn't make things worse.

After everyone gathered, they began to sort out the current situation, summarize and analyze the information. Because at present the ship girls at the palace were not sure where the remaining royal ship girls were scattered, and only knew some general information, it was conceivable that it would not be an easy task to find those scattered ship girls later.

In order to improve efficiency, Lin Xiao could only organize and summarize all the information he knew so far. Finally, he compiled a page of possible information, and then started a meeting to discuss where to go first.

Naturally, everyone has different opinions in this regard, but Hood and Belfast have more say. After all, they have been in Area E for quite some time and are relatively more familiar with the situation here. The reason why Lin Xiao is anxious to hold a meeting is mainly because he wants to hear their ideas.

Naturally, there was a process of constant discussion and exchange of ideas. Of course, it was mainly the ship girls who were conducting the discussions. Commander Lin Xiao was basically fishing in troubled waters. He said nothing and nodded whenever anyone spoke. In the end, they did determine the basic plan and the plan for the next period of time.

Even so, there is no rush to take action today. In fact, after so many days of long journey to Area E, and then traveling to two areas, Lin Xiao is indeed a little tired.

Besides, even if he said that he was not tired and wanted to set off today, the ship girls would not agree. Their biggest concern now was the commander's health, fearing that something might happen to him, or that he would feel too tired and find a chance to slip away.

Especially Dido, this poor little maid was obviously left with a deep psychological trauma by the departure of her master. Although Lin Xiao had comforted her more than once and promised her many times that he would not leave again, the effect was minimal.

He is always fearful when doing things on weekdays. Once something goes wrong, he will immediately apologize profusely, putting on a pitiful expression, like a little abandoned animal, and looking at you pleadingly, which really makes people feel helpless.

I feel like if I continue to be flattered by the maids like this, I'll become more and more despicable...

Although after the number of maids increased, Lin Xiao's quality of life did improve visibly.

In the past, there were only two maids in the port area, and there were always times when they were too busy, but what about now? Almost all the maids in the port area are here, and it seems that only Gloucester is missing, but there is one more Charybdis. This girl is also a very capable maid. Although she is a Dido-class ship girl, compared with her sisters, she is not as pessimistic as Dido, nor as inferior as Sirius. Although she is still a little timid, her overall personality is more normal. At the same time, her work ability is also very outstanding, and she is not worse than Belfast in all aspects.

Well... in every aspect, including the front armor, it even feels like it has surpassed Belfast.

Lin Xiao knew very well what such a big softness felt like.

He had already experienced it fully from Skyhawk and Sirius...

Well, because he had a good rest for two whole nights, Commander Lin Xiao seemed to feel that he was in good shape again, with a vague feeling of restlessness.

Tonight, the brave man will try to conquer the battlefield again. Although he has not won a single victory, he still insists on fighting again and again. This may be the so-called spirit of adventure.

From this point of view, to some extent, every man is actually a great explorer. A man is a boy until he dies, and he always maintains the spirit of exploration...

After the meeting, Lin Xiao and the other ship girls had a brief discussion and finally decided to rest in the palace for two or three days to adjust their condition before setting off again to look for other ship girls.

According to the recollections of the reliable maid Belfast, there should be less than twenty Royal Navy girls left who came along at the beginning and later dispersed.

Although these twenty ship girls are probably not together but relatively scattered, the purpose of coming to Area E can still be said to have been more than half accomplished. It is certainly not possible to relax, but there is no need to be so nervous and think about this matter all day.

The ship girls asked him to rest, so he took a good rest. After the meeting, Lin Xiao began to wander around the palace, trying to find something fun to kill time. Newcastle followed him - since the number of maids increased greatly, there was almost always a maid following Lin Xiao. It was not certain who it could be, except for Suffolk, Kent and Edinburgh, the three less mature maids. They basically took turns, waiting for his orders at any time.

This sometimes made Lin Xiao feel like he was traveling with a great landlord, as if he had returned to the old times. Mm, extravagant, too extravagant...

But who would refuse such a luxurious life? Just imagine, no matter when you are, there is always a very cute girl in a maid outfit waiting for your orders. Sometimes the maid is doing nothing... When she is not doing anything, she will turn her head and look at her, which is also very pleasing to the eye.

Lin Xiao now understands why some big bosses like to hire a female secretary...

After wandering around the palace, I soon saw a group of royal ladies sitting in a small pavilion in the palace garden. Several maids were standing beside them, helping to make and pour tea.

"Newcastle, what are they doing?"

Lin Xiao asked curiously.

"It should be a regular tea party... Actually, it's just everyone sitting together drinking tea and chatting, and eating some snacks. Her Majesty the Queen and Miss Hood both like this activity very much. It's basically held every day, sometimes twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When everyone gets together, there's always endless things to talk about."

"I see. No wonder Hood was in such a hurry to leave just now. It turns out he was going to attend the tea party..."

In fact, there is one more point that Newcastle did not say. During the time when the commander was away, although the tea party was held as usual like in the port area, everyone obviously lacked interest when chatting, and sometimes even fell into the dilemma of having no topics to talk about. The tea party that was originally reluctant to end seemed to have become a routine task to be completed. It was hastily held and ended hastily, and it never lasted long.