"Fraser is the oldest pirate on the island. Before I arrived in Nassau, I heard that he was already very famous here. Some people said that he fought side by side with Henry Morgan and robbed the Spanish settlements together. , looted 2 million pounds in the last battle, and made this old bastard rich. After Henry Morgan was recalled by the Queen and imprisoned, he also left Jamaica and came to Nassau, where he recruited troops. In his heyday, he Our pirate regiment has eleven pirate ships, hundreds of cannons, and seven or eight hundred men."
"What happened next?" Zhang Heng asked.
"I don't know. There were rumors that he wanted to accept the Queen's pardon in secret. When the news got out, his men mutinied. He was voted out of the captaincy. The pirate group was disbanded. The old bastard is now a The most common sailor." The armorer gloated.
"But he is still your creditor." Zhang Heng reminded him friendly.
Sure enough, the armourer could no longer laugh when he heard the words, and couldn't help but swear, "Okay, I've told you everything I know according to your request, and it's your turn to fulfill the promise .”
Zhang Heng was not stingy when he got what he wanted to know. He left ten silver pesos on the table and said, "Last question, where can I rent a house in this town?"
...
Zhang Heng still has one silver coin left in his pocket. Of course he can choose to stay in a hotel, but considering that he will stay on this small island for more than ten years, Zhang Heng decided to find a place to stay. The place he chose It is a little farther from the pier, closer to the center of the island, in a piece of farmland, but the advantage is that it is relatively quiet, and the price is cheap. Even if you buy it, it only costs 160 silver coins, and if you rent it for two years, it only costs 17 silver coins.
But there is only one empty wooden house, which looks like it may fall down at any time. In fact, there are such houses everywhere in Nassau. There was a time when the pirate activities in Nassau were rampant. Send the navy to raze it to the ground, so real estate isn't worth much here.
Zhang Heng paid the money, purchased some daily necessities, and moved in. The next morning, he started to repair and renovate the house.
During the days spent alone on the deserted island, he had built tile houses and wooden frames with his own hands, and he had a little foundation for architecture, so there would be no problem if it was just repaired and reinforced.
The Bahamas has a subtropical climate, with an annual average temperature of around 23-4 degrees. Although it is spring, the temperature is not low. Zhang Heng took off his shirt, rode on the roof with his upper body naked, and hammered and nailed the roof to the ground. Bugs are patched one by one.
A six or seven-year-old girl from the next-door neighbor was watching him secretly from behind the palm tree. Zhang Heng smiled kindly at her, but the next moment the latter hurried home barefoot.
But then a familiar figure appeared not far away.
——Marvin, the farmer, has been separated from Zhang Heng for less than a day, but his appearance has changed drastically. One sleeve of his coat has been torn off, and there is only one boot left on his feet. In addition, his body was still blue and purple, and his eyes were swollen, making him look miserable.
He came outside the wooden house and squeezed a fawning smile on his face, "Um...can you give me something to eat? I've been hungry since last night."
"Don't you have twenty-five silver pesos with you?"
"Lost, lost." Marvin said awkwardly.
The farmer's son was planning to take a boat to escape on the pier last night, but obviously failed, he was beaten severely, and his money was also taken away from him. After he came out, he was really desperate now, so he had to inquire about Zhang Heng's residence again, and rushed to seek refuge.
Zhang Heng and Marvin have been together for such a long time, and he has already known who the other party is. He is selfish and thick-faced, timid and hypocritical. Yes, I changed my mind again.
The main task this time is different from the previous ones, requiring him to establish a force of his own in Nassau.
He still doesn't know what the standard of the so-called power is, but this kind of thing is definitely not something he can do alone.
He needs a team, especially in this group of pirates who like to engage in democratic voting. The number of people often means everything. Even a ruthless character like Fraser, after losing the support of the people below, the huge pirate group formed will fall apart.
No matter how trash Marvin is, he also represents one vote, and because of his escape, he will most likely be rejected by the other people on board, so he has no other choice but to fall to Zhang Heng.
Even a rag has its use, and so does a villain like Malvin.
Therefore, Zhang Heng did not expose the clumsy lie of the farmer's son, but instead said calmly, "There are bread and cheese on the table, you can go get them yourself."
The latter came to Zhang Heng with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. There was no way, he didn’t know many people at first, and he didn’t know who else would take him in after this kind of thing happened. Seeing the cheating behavior before him, Zhang Heng beat him up together without getting into trouble, but he didn't expect that the other party not only didn't pursue the previous matter, but also gave him food.
Marvin wolfed down the bread in his hand, thinking of his tragic experience along the way, tears welled up in his eyes.
Seeing Zhang Heng coming down from the roof, he could no longer restrain his feelings, sobbed and said emotionally, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong for those things before, and I will never do it again. Your life is yours, even if someone puts a knife on my neck, I will never betray you again!"
Are you moved? Zhang Heng believes that at least at this moment, the farmer's son is really grateful, but this gratitude will probably not last for more than two days, and then it will be excreted together with the food he eats. In less than two days, now that someone puts a knife on his neck, he will choose to betray again without hesitation, because this is his nature.
But Zhang Heng didn't care about that, he never expected the farmer's son to be reliable at critical times.
After the contents of the wooden barrel were taken off the ship by the old pirate, the fate of the two of them was no longer bound. Zhang Heng wiped his hands and said to Marvin who was beside him, "Eat slowly, I'll go out and take a look around."
The latter looked a little flustered, obviously worried that Zhang Heng would find out what happened last night, so Zhang Heng had to add, "Don't worry, it's not because of you."