Chapter 1397 Antonio Xiao
Xiao Peng originally planned to have a good rest on Norderney Island, but he found that he couldn't rest at all here. He was disturbed by all kinds of reporters and people came to his door. This is not Orange Garden, and there are people blocking the door every day.
Especially after William arrived, the reporters and security personnel at the door became a sea of people. Xiao Peng had no idea what to do, so he took William and his party to the "Luna" by helicopter and got rid of those people.
After arriving at the Luna, William asked curiously, "Why don't you live on the Luna instead of on the island? It's so comfortable here."
Xiao Peng shook his head and said, "Comfortable? Why don't you try being on the sea every day? I've been on the boat for almost a year now. I'm about to collapse, okay?"
William laughed and said, "You were chatting with the reporters when you left just now? That's rare!"
Xiao Peng explained, "I feel like the reporters here are all idiots. Guess what question he asked me the other day? The female reporter asked me if I smoked to look cool or just to feel good! Holy shit, smoking to look cool? I even smoke when I'm on the toilet. Is it to show off?"
"Pfft!" William laughed: "Xiao, after not seeing you for so long, you're still the same style!"
Xiao Peng said: "Okay William, I'll show you what you want to see most! Come with me!"
William followed Xiao Peng to his room. Xiao Peng pulled open the painting on the wall, revealing the safe inside. Xiao Peng opened the safe and took out two flat cardboard boxes, each about half a square meter in size. He laid the boxes flat on the floor and opened them, revealing two copper plates covered in rust.
William's eyes suddenly grew moist as he murmured, "That's right...that's right...look here it says 'In the name of William, Prince of Orange and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, conquer the world—God bless us.' This is 'The Brave,' and this is 'The Fury.' Look, this pattern is the crest of the House of Orange. Back then, the House of Orange and the House of Nassau hadn't married yet, and it wasn't the current House of Orange-Nassau... Found it! Found it!"
William was ecstatic, but Xiao Peng was full of disdain: "William, do you know where these two copper coins are placed? They are placed on the floor above the steps leading to the steering platform. This means that every time the helmsman steers, he has to step on your ancestral crest!"
"Could you please not ruin the mood?" William said with a dark face.
Xiao Peng said helplessly, "William, I really don't know what to say. Don't tell me you don't know I can't go back to the Netherlands now! Isn't this why you came here?"
William did not deny it.
This was actually quite embarrassing. It would have been fine if Xiao Peng hadn't found the item, but finding it actually caused more trouble.
He left the Netherlands from Rotterdam, and his ship often docked in Rotterdam. Logically, he should have returned to Rotterdam.
However, it was the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce that funded Barents to expand into the north, and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce was composed of Dutch aristocratic families. Although the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce has now disappeared in the long river of history, those aristocratic families are still there and many families still have great influence in the Netherlands. Now where Xiao Peng will return to the Netherlands has become a dispute between the north and the south of the Netherlands.
William was still looking at the copper plate that Xiao Peng brought back, and was deeply immersed in it.
Xiao Peng patted him: "William? William?"
William came back to his senses: “Let’s not talk about your return first, let’s talk about what you care about.”
Xiao Peng poured William a glass of champagne and asked anxiously, "How is it going?"
"One good news and one bad news, which one do you want to hear?" William asked.
Xiao Peng almost cursed: "William! It's already this late and you're still beating around the bush with me? Do you believe that when I get back I'll hang a sign on the gate of Orange Garden saying 'William and dogs are not allowed to enter'?"
After hearing this, William said, "But you have a dog at home!"
Xiao Peng: "...Speak quickly!"
William took a sip of champagne and said to himself, "The good news is that the child named Antonis Xiao has been picked up. After all, her mother is Paula, the famous 'Man-Eating Witch' in Uruguay. Keeping her in prison is really not good for her growth."
Xiao Peng agreed to search for the Barents shipwreck because William told him that Paula, a survivor who had been stranded with him on the uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Anomaly, had given birth to a child in prison and named him Antonio Xiao. No one knew why she had chosen this name.
In fact, not many people knew about Xiao Peng's connection to the "Man-Eating Witch," Paula. William happened to be an insider. When he stumbled upon this news, his first reaction was: This is Xiao Peng's child! Of course, this matter still needed to be verified. How to verify it? Of course, a paternity test.
At that time, he used this incident to make a deal with Xiao Peng: he was responsible for investigating the matter for Xiao Peng without anyone knowing, while Xiao Peng was responsible for finding the Barents shipwreck.
But William was the king after all, and if he went directly to find him it would surely arouse suspicion, so he could only investigate secretly.
William said, "Originally, everything was going smoothly, but the local Mayer family was furious when they found out about this. They wanted to kill Paula, after all, Robin Mayer died at her hands. So they tried every way they could to stop this adoption, and they mobilized public opinion to cause us a lot of trouble. They even made the person I sent to do this into a human trafficker selling Uruguayan children... Oh, you probably don't know about Mayer."
Xiao Peng said directly: "I know about the 'Heineken Kidnapping Case'."
"Right, right, right!" William said, "Robin Meyer is the child of Frans Meyer in the Heineken kidnapping case. Even though they are originally Dutch, they hate the Netherlands."
"Why?" Xiao Peng was puzzled.
William explained, "When Frans Mayer fled to Uruguay, his Dutch bank account was frozen. He lost a lot of money. Plus, he was later arrested by the Dutch police, so his family naturally harbored resentment towards the Netherlands. They'd been a wealthy family in Uruguay for so long, so they were still quite powerful. Paula had already escaped murder four times in prison. Prisons over there... well, you wouldn't want to go in there."
At this point, William grinned and said, "It's time to tell you the good news. The adoption procedures for the child named Antonio Xiao have been completed. He has been brought out of Uruguay and is now living with a local family in Suriname. But there is still some bad news for you."
"What bad news?" Xiao Peng asked quickly.
"Well... the DNA results are out, he's not your child!"
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