49.
The boat was shaking violently. Lightning tore through the gloomy and dark sky, just like a woman's shriek of pain tore through the scorching air of the cabin.
Hailian was kicked out of A Niang's room, the boy couldn't stand in the bumpy cabin, staggered and grabbed the rope used to fix it on the wall. No one came to tell him what happened outside, what happened to Auntie, the smiling brother was always on the deck above his head with a playful smile, as if he was swearing, and the always gentle and gentle Sister Chun sent him out of Auntie's room that one.
Where is dad
Where did dad go
Another wave came, Hailian couldn't hold back, the rope in his hand slipped, and he was thrown flying out screaming. Fortunately, he didn't hit the other side of the ship's pillar, but fell into a in the arms of a man.
"It's all right," the man grabbed the rope with one hand and wrapped his arms around the child with the other, "it's all right."
Before the man finished speaking, a thunder exploded from outside the cabin, and the child in his arms was frightened and screamed again. The boy's limbs were stiff, and his slender fingers were tightly hooked like a kitten on the only piece of the skirt he could touch.
Hailian knew that she was crying. He didn't like the big whale he saw yesterday, and he didn't like the sunset he saw the day before yesterday. The sum of those things couldn't match what he experienced today.
"I want to go home..." Hai Lian cried hard, tears and snot falling into his mouth, "Daddy, I don't want to go to my new home anymore, I want to go back to my old home..."
The man holding him, his father, didn't take out some weird gadgets from his arms to comfort him as usual, the man just hugged Hailian even tighter. "Don't be afraid." Dad said, "Didn't Dad say it before, as long as I'm here, your mother is there, and the little sister who is about to be born is there, it's A-Lian's home."
"But I..."
"You're going to be an older brother soon, how can a man who is going to be an older brother still cry like this? My younger sister will laugh at you when she sees her," Father put Hailian down, and wiped his chin with his sleeve. face, "Take a breath, blink again, don't cry."
Hai Lian has always listened to his father's words the most, he took a deep breath with his small mouth puckered, the drops of water hanging on his eyelashes shattered in the blink of an eye, the boy finally stopped crying. Someone was urging his father at the stairway of the cabin: "Sir! You have to go up quickly, that pirate ship is coming towards us!"
"Come right away!" Dad raised his voice, and he stretched out his fist to Hailian, "There may be some bad guys who want to board our boat, Dad has to go up now to help brother Xiaoxiao and the others, you promise me to stay here, Guard your mother and sister, and dad will fight those bad guys away, this is what the two men in our family will do today, can you promise me?"
"Hmm!" Hailian held his own hand tightly, and fisted with Father like a man.
Dad went up. He was afraid that Hailian would not be able to hold the rope anymore, so he tied the rope around the boy's waist. Hailian felt that he was like the little yellow dog raised by Uncle Jing's family. at the door.
I miss the little yellow dog. Hai Lian thought while snapping his fingers. Uncle Jing promised me that next year the little yellow dog would give me a puppy when he had a puppy. Father also promised me that he would take my sister and me to see the outside of Taiyan city in autumn. "Hundreds of miles to step on the gold", it doesn't count for adults to talk like that...
The boy almost fell asleep under the reciprocating shaking of the hull. Just as he was about to close his eyelids, there was another thunderclap.
No, not bombing. Exploding thunder will not smash the railing, will not let the smell of gunpowder stick out its tongue from the fishy smell, and lick the wet tears on the boy's face, and will not make a piercing roar on the deck... This is a signal that the bad guys are coming !
Helian woke up suddenly. At the same time, the closed door that pushed him out was also slammed open, and a young woman with blood on her hands rushed onto the deck from Hailian's side like the wind. , the sweet fragrance that only sister Chun can have. The scent mixed with the overly strong smell of blood rust, as well as her scream carried by the sea breeze, became Hailian's last memory of that chaotic night.
"—It's bad, ma'am, she's bleeding profusely!"
50.
"Are you sure you can meet Count Simona, the king of licking stinky feet in the southern region just based on your guesswork?" Zhou Buyi looked disbelieving.
"Knowing how to talk nonsense is the first skill you have to learn to be a bad guy." Fang Tinglan replied.
The two of them were sitting in the largest ticket shop of the Gubei United Chamber of Commerce in Jiumeng City - the living room, and even the fragrant tea on the table could only be drunk by Dongzhou Yuqian. Zhou Buyi took a sip and felt bitter, so he asked someone to pour a bunch of honey into it. Holding the cup of sweet tea, he was satisfied, and continued: "Let's settle this matter again?"
"No hurry, wait until I finish withdrawing the money."
"I just wanted to ask, where did you get so much money?" Zhou Buyi finished his tea and began to peel the pastry from the snack box to eat, "If I remember correctly, your powerful father is finished." Afterwards, the Zhenhai public land was gone, and the house was also confiscated. Even the ancestral house was taken by the Qin family and used as a palace for expansion. Since you came out of the prison, even the copper plate with green hair growing in the bottom of the wall has been taken by them. Cleaned up."
Fang Tinglan glanced at the other party and smiled: "You also said that they only checked the fief."
"You mean..." Zhou Buyi pondered for a while before he understood, "Looking at it this way, the Fang family has already anticipated and prepared."
"I only found out later. In the second year after I was released from prison, I received a bill from Xilu, and the amount was so large that I was shocked." Fang Tinglan sighed, "My father knew that a long time ago. The reason why the position is high and easy to shake, so it leaves a way out for the Fang family."
"Like those Bolang businessmen in the previous dynasty, went to the west to make money? Open a garden or mine?"
"All of them. In addition to the real estate on land, my father also invested in four merchant ships." Fang Tinglan made a gesture of four and made a cross, "Now I have fourteen in my hand."
Zhou Buyi sneered: "No wonder you set up a gold mine for Qin Weishen so easily. You seem to be a veteran."
Fang Tinglan raised his eyebrows as an answer.
"It's great to have money," Zhou Buyi sighed, "It's much more convenient to do bad things with money. If my mother had a piece of gold in her hand at that time, she wouldn't have..." When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking, He watched the shopkeeper come out of the inner room holding a wooden box.
After taking out the money ticket, the two returned to the street amidst the nodding and bowing farewell of the ticket shop clerk. Fang Tinglan still had time to calculate the time, so he said to Zhou Buyi: "Before the curtain opens, let's check the actors one last time."
"Where do you start?"
"From the king?"
"Start from the top of the tower, no problem." Zhou Buyi whistled, "Abal, the Amber King, a tyrant. Generally, a tyrant must have a seductress and a jester by his side."
"Mrs. Nando, Count Simona. They were husband and wife before."
"This is even better. Maybe ten years after the Amber King's death, the love affair between the three of them can be staged in the big theater seven or eight times every ten days." Zhou Buyi didn't have any sweets to eat, so he began to bite his fingers.
"And when we chatted last time, we already speculated that this Earl of Simona might be bearing the burden of humiliation. For some purpose or ambition, he had to continue kneeling by the tyrant's side."
"It would be too poignant if it was for women." Zhou Buyi said, "It's not bad for money, but the audience may not buy it."
Fang Tinglan responded with a smile to Zhou Buyi's bitter sarcasm: "We also discovered the downline who was active for Count Simona, the sheriff named Faluco in the Public Security Department."
"Supporting roles, responsible for some insignificant lines, and act as a messenger pigeon when necessary."
"Back to the main storyline, there is a pirate named Fecna on the Yunhai Sea who works for the Amber King."
"And Fei Kena is Fei Yi, a traitor from Dongzhou, your father's former friend and your current enemy." Zhou Buyi took his fingers away from his mouth and slapped his hands perfunctorily, "It's not easy, finally After introducing the villains, it's our protagonist's turn, Mr. Fang Tinglan from Yushu Linfeng."
"I want him to die." Fang Tinglan said lightly.
"Revenge drama is a bit old-fashioned, but if the ticket price is discounted, people will still watch it." Zhou Buyi said.
"It is also necessary for Qin Weiyu to get Tisu's support and return to Dongzhou so that he can start the next script." Fang Tinglan: "So I have already established my position in the camp."
"There's nothing wrong with breaking the tyrant's arm. Naturally, he's also the tyrant's enemy. You and the jester now have a common enemy, and just need an opportunity to form an alliance—Fecona's head is a great gift. But let me remind you, You might mess up Tisu." Zhou Buyi reminded, "That's no ordinary revenge drama."
"Haha," the Dongzhou native smiled calmly, "This is not my country, and I don't care."
"That's right, that's right, you look so much like the decent male lead in the big theater, I always forget that you are the same kind of person as I am," Zhou Buyi asked again, "What am I in charge of in this play?"
Fang Tinglan took out a silver ticket from the wooden box and gave it to Zhou Buyi: "Help me keep an eye on Weiyu and Tisu."
"Two more."
Fang Tinglan handed over three more: "Be serious."
"how about you?"
"I want to go to sea."
"What are you doing, killing your enemies? It's too old-fashioned."
"No." Fang Tinglan ignored Zhou Buyi's teasing. When he thought of that person's name, the man's smile that never reached his eyes finally warmed up: "I'll... pick up someone."
51.
Helian woke up.
He lay quietly in the hammock for a while, and the old things in his dream became more and more fragmented, becoming dim in his mind. How the bad guy was beaten away, and what happened that night, he can't remember at all. The next scene that the young man can recall now is the scene of his father holding him with one hand and his newborn younger sister with the other, watching the crowd bury A Niang at sea.
Hailian closed her eyes again, and put the back of her hand on her eye sockets.
"Haileen!" Someone on the deck called him.
The young man sat up: "What's wrong?"
"Ready to draw water to the shore! Come and help!"
"Docking?" Are you going to resupply on a deserted island? Hai Lian was puzzled, but still responded, grabbed the coat hanging on the boat pole, put it on, and walked out of the cabin.
As soon as he came to the deck, he heard a long and stagnant horn sound. Hai Lian looked along the source of the horn sound and couldn't help but gasped.
Right in front of the Banshee, there is an unfamiliar long and narrow deserted island. Someone on the shoal is signaling to the Banshee, instructing it where to drop anchor, while others are busy busy beside a large ship on the other side. wearing something. The tonnage and standard of this ship are almost the same as that of the Banshee, except that the mast used to set up the sail and its two flags at the top are painted with black paint.
The black flags fluttered and fluttered in the cold wind. One flag was an eagle holding a knife, proving the sphere of influence it belonged to. Tell everyone the name of the ship.
"Poseidon..." Hai Lian's eyes widened.
He finally came to the territory of Yunhai's most powerful and most ferocious pirate Fecna.