久久综合激激的五月天

As the in charge of the factory she was a busy woman because her sister had given her a long list of kitchen equipment, farming tools, weapons and other things to make. She was already running out of money because the needs were many and the budget was tight. While she was contemplating on how these problems could be sorted out, the seventh prince suddenly approached her and declared his interest in her. 

"I am going to court you." he declared.

She had laughed, thinking that he was joking but he held no laughter in his eyes, his pale icy blue eyes had stared into her as if they could see into her every fiber. It was nerve wrecking and she could not stand it. He was dead serious!!

She made an excuse and went to hide in the house but he followed her and continued uttering the same ridiculous nonsense, changing his tone from hardcore declaration to gentle declarations but the essence of his message did not change. 

"Sister, I am the prince, gossiping about me is acceptable, welcomed even in some cases." he responded. 

"Look, your highness." 

"Call me Markey."

Carolyn stopped walking and she spun around and held both of her hands out. "Stop, I beg you, this impulsive whim.."

"I never do anything on a whim sister, and call me Markey." 

"I am not going to say your name and don't call me sister we are not related." she said sternly. 

To her amazement, the eyes which rarely held a genuine smile and a hint of a grievance, he slightly replicated the cute look in the eyes of those pets at home when they were hungry.  Carolyn always thought that she did not have a weakness but lately she was discovering that small pets, especially the soft cats were her weakness. Those eyes threw her off momentarily.

"Do you dislike me because I am younger than you?" he asked curiously.

"Of course not." she blurted. 

"Great from now on I am courting you, and since you do not want me to call you sister anymore I will call you baby." His eyes now held a sneaky amusement as if he was laughing because he tricked her and he turned around and speedily run away.

"Baby!!!!! this kid is playing around because he is younger than me, who put him up to this joke? Did Scarlet do this?"

It simply couldn't be real and it was not funny, what kind of love was possible between a lowly baron's daughter and a prince of the empire with a three year age gap between them moreover. 

'Yes, it's a joke.' she convinced herself. 'The prince must be bored.'

Scarlet was watching all this from a distance so she turned around and asked Fey, "What's up with those two?" 

"The prince does not know how to court a woman." Fey replied. "Tsk tsk, then again who can willingly throw themselves into the arms of the  prince of death. I tremble just thinking about it." 

  Scarlet occasionally enjoyed gossip like any other person and her eyes glittered with desire to know more, "What!! she blurted, "The prince is courting elder sister? Isn't he younger than her?" 

For some reason everyone's mind went straight to the age gap the moment they heard about this news. 

"We age slowly, she could be ten years older than him and it will make no difference." Fey replied. "Anyway stop paying attention to their issue and concentrate on important things like the three hundred thousand people that are moving here tomorrow." 

"That's a bigger number than we expected." she gasped.

Fey nodded and showed her a hologram with names, images, history and information on the immigrants. 

"I got this from Admiral Folsom, he said that when the announcement was made to the retired mecha warriors more than one million applications were received. But because this is a trial only one hundred eighty thousand applications were approved, the rest of the population includes their wives, children, and parents." Fey was very professional, like a trained secretary. 

"The admiral had the mecha warrior office divided them into categories according to their skills so that when they arrive you can assign them to specific positions easily." 

"Oh...this might be a problem when it comes to salary, I cannot pay them much for the moment."  she frowned. "Even if I pay them ten star coins each for starters then the original citizens of the blue star are going to be unhappy because they earn four."

"Don't worry about that sister the admiral said that all those that are coming have already been addressed on this issue and they are fine with it. Anybody that is dissatisfied is free to move back to the capital." 

Scarlet nodded in approval, liking what she was hearing. "How far has Beord gone with the identification and documentation of the original citizens. They have to be our first priority when it comes to housing and other benefits." 

All the information Fey had was on a small hand sized computer tablet which projected the image on its screen and she could touch the holograms, scroll, swipe and do whatever she wanted. 

"Eighty percent of the people have been documented, the rest will be done by tonight.  We do not have an automated AI printer so physical identification cards are going to be a problem at the moment." 

Scarlet sighed and rolled her head around. "Most of my money has gone into the factory or construction, I have about four million star coins left." She realized that she might have to ask Esong for money or borrow it because she too proud to beg. "How much do we have on the shop account?" 

Fey checked and Scarlet saw the balance with her own eyes, "Fifteen million star coins!!" she gasped. 

Fey nodded proudly and she said, "You underestimate the love people in this empire have for food and new things. We have over priced everything that we are selling but they don't care. A lot of people in the capital especially have a lot of money that they used to spend on changing cars monthly, bracelets weekly. I have even heard that open one high quality shake, take one sip and throw it out. There is no lack of money in the empire, mostly a lack of where to spend it." 

Scarlet immediately ordered for two automated AI printers that could print anything. They cost her five million but she paid happily with a smile. 

"Fey, get me some women that are fast learners right now, I am going to teach them how to make some easy snacks that we can sell in the shop."