Reborn As a Pirate

Carmen Xavier is a country girl...

That Carmen Xavier, the executive director of the Drake General Chamber of Commerce, the helm leader of the asset management company, the fashion leader of the New World, the social queen of the Caribbean, has been called the most outstanding woman in Spain in the past thirty years, and can even compete with the mother of France. Carmen Xavier, who is as famous as His Highness, is actually a village girl?

Sir Tussela suspected that he might have sunstroke, and the disease was so deep-rooted that there was no cure.

Otherwise, with his hearing, how could he hear laprincesa as unachicadepueblo?

Just like the two identities themselves, these two words have no similarity at all!

or...

Carmen Xavier is really a village girl? What had happened to this young girl that caused such a radical change in her soul?

Miracle of God?

Tussera looked at Dipuyani in shock, and Dipuyani was looking at him with the same expression. The look in their eyes was more blazing than the sun in the sky. Shock only accounted for a few of them, and more of them were hope.

Di Puyani tried to extract himself from the complex emotions.

"Miss Xavier, I'm sorry, you just said you were born in?"

"Soria, more precisely, a Castilian village on the outskirts of Soria that has nothing to do with the world."

"Then why did you...uh... leave your homeland?" Dipuyani racked his brains to search for words, "I don't mean anything else, I just think that a young and beautiful woman like you often chooses a more stable life."

"I understand, Mr. Mayor." Carmen stroked the hair on her temples and smiled softly, "Let me think about it, when should I answer this question?"

"As you said, selling a beautiful daughter to a stable life is indeed a responsible choice for most parents, and my parents are no exception."

"I am beautiful. When I was young, many people told me that I am the most beautiful flower raised by the mountains and waters of Castile."

"My parents wanted me to marry into the noblest baron's family in Soria, maybe the second son, maybe the bastard. So I had a tutor at a very young age, she was the secretary of the town hall, a kind and A learned old woman."

"Unfortunately, when I was ten years old, my father went bankrupt."

"We had no food and clothing in our hometown, and I was too young to sell for a good price. My parents could only take me to Victoria to join my mother's wealthy distant relatives. This is how I left my hometown."

Carmen was surprisingly frank, but while being frank, Tussella and Dipuyani couldn't hear anything they wanted to hear at all.

Tussela wanted to join in the interrogation himself, but Lorraine was opposite him, eating the lunch in front of him like an emotionless cook with perfect table manners.

If Lorraine does not move, he cannot move. The etiquette of nobles is like this, and so is the law of the jungle on the battlefield.

He could only give Dipuyani a wink.

Dipuyani understood, and forcibly changed the topic from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean to the deep bottom of the Pacific Ocean without saying a word.

"Miss Xavier, my daughter has always admired you. Last night, she heard that we had an appointment to meet today and insisted that I convey her wish to you."

"She wants to be a noble and charming lady like you, but she is very confused and doesn't know how to work hard. Can you give her some advice? The kind of pertinent and instructive advice."

Lorraine, who was busy wrestling with the seafood risotto, was almost choked to death by Dipuyani's clumsy question.

Carmen worked hard, through intentional or unintentional guidance,

Completely grasped the opponent's weakness.

Even Lorraine has heard the jokes of the Florida ruling group in the social circle. Before that, he always thought that those jokes contained the malice of the upper class. Normal thing.

But now it seems that those nobles who spread gossip are models of humility and kindness at all. Under their beautification, Lorraine actually ignored the important status of Tussela's upstart class.

Fortunately, it is not too late to remedy the situation.

Lorraine swallowed the risotto in his mouth, piled up the empty plates, and turned to the former meeting center, smoked salmon balls.

Carmen smiled brightly under Dipuyani's gaze.

"I'm very glad to hear a girl who is full of self-motivation and good wishes, although my self-cultivation is far from enough to be a role model for others." She said, "If you don't dislike it, as a person who has experienced it, I think I am willing to use the experience of someone who has experienced it. Identity helps your daughter avoid some detours."

"All ears!"

Carmen thought for a while: "The cultivation of self-cultivation requires persistent learning, perseverance, and the courage to dare to innovate. These three are the foundation, one of which is indispensable and irreplaceable."

Dipuyani was dumbfounded, he didn't control his mouth for a while, and opened his mouth to ask: "It has nothing to do with money?"

"Money?" Carmen looked around harmlessly, and finally his eyes stopped on the thick walls of San Marcos Castle, "I heard that the San Marcos Fortress has the strongest defense on the entire east coast, and has repelled countless times. The mob that coveted it. So St. Augustine's beaches must have the most hardest shells in the world, don't they?"

"Sorry, I didn't catch you, you just said that San Marcos is strong because of... shells?"

"Isn't it? Surely not." Carmen's voice and eyes suddenly turned cold, bitingly cold, "Shells are not the reason why the city is strong, they are the raw materials. Money is not the condition for a lady to be well-educated, it is the raw material."

"There is a saying in the social field, 8,000 gold coins let you see the social, 16,000 are tickets for speaking, 32,000 are for ladies who will not fall behind, and 64,000 are for stars on the dance floor."

"A lady is a work of art cast in gold, but that's the work of the craftsman. When she is in the showcase, the audience only cares about her artistry, and artistry is the only reference to determine value."

Carmen fully entered her rhythm, and saluted Lorraine with water.

Lorraine paused and nodded in return.

"My president once told me that everything in this world is a business, whether it is running a country or cultivating ladies."

"The money invested is the cost, the performance of the dance party is the product, the word-of-mouth accumulated over a long period of time cultivates value, and the level of value determines the profit and loss."

"For example... Sir is an experienced silk collector, he should have discovered my skirt today, right?"

No……

Tussella's soul was shivering behind his strong body. He had no idea about Carmen's skirts, nor was he an experienced silk collector.

Back then, he set up this persona for himself by chance because one of his personal trophies happened to have a screen that seemed worthless, but if he really wanted to collect it, he didn't have enough money or the necessary knowledge.

Everything is fake.

Tussella is well aware of her weight, but Carmen didn't know it before, but after a whole day of contact, she has already guessed the importance of this "amateur silk collector".

"Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery are art treasures from the East, but they are not suitable for cutting dresses at all. Especially Shu Embroidery, if its stitches are accidentally cut off, no matter how exquisite the embroidery case is, it will become worthless .”

"Until an accidental reading, I read from a scattered oriental travelogue that embroidered women in the Qing Dynasty would add exquisite embroidery to their wedding dresses. It turned out that they had already started the most high-end clothing as early as a thousand years ago. custom made."

"So I sent my tailor to the Qing Dynasty. A travelogue, three years, 30 embroiderers, a cost of 3,000 pounds, and 24,000 gold coins. These things were finally combined into this unremarkable and simple Skirts are only for the momentary appreciation from the heart of those who know silk like Jazz on occasions like today.”

"This is the social accomplishment of a lady."

This is the social accomplishment of a lady?

As soon as this remark came out, Tussella's curled up soul really throbbed as Carmen said. That throbbing has nothing to do with the nobleness of appreciating art, it's just pure, almost overwhelmed by the flash of 24,000 gold coins piled together...

Twenty-four thousand gold coins for a piece of clothing?

If other metals are removed, a full twenty-two and a half kilograms of pure gold?

And this hellish self-cultivation... has nothing to do with money?

Tussela has completely seen the essence of the high society he has been pursuing, [nomoney, nodream], poor ghosts are not worthy of dreams!

He still clearly remembers the first high-end dress in his life that his wife ordered for the prom in the first week of his tenure.

That exaggerated deep purple dress covered with lace cost him one hundred and seventy octagonal gold coins, which was equivalent to his full three-month salary as a colonel, and it also gave him his first taste of the viceroy.

There is a corresponding public account for such a large amount of expenditure!

He had been complacent about this for a long time, but who would have thought that that joy would settle down to this day, and all that was left was a sour and bitter irony...

One hundred and seventy pieces, twenty-four thousand pieces...

This is the social accomplishment of a lady!

Tusera smiled bitterly, and suddenly heard Lorraine's voice.

"Thank you, sir, for allowing me to enjoy a delicious lunch." He wiped his mouth, and there were empty plates in his hand, "The break is over, can we talk about business?"