Pampering the sea

In mid-spring at sea, the north wind is still strong. A huge two-masted sailboat sails on the sea surface. The sea wind blows the flag high. When you look up, you can see a big "Chu" character on the yellow flag, flying in high spirits.

There were rumors in the southeast sea again that Chu Zhiling won by surprise and defeated the Dutch army. After traveling thousands of miles, Will almost died and fled in a hurry. Most of the Dutch forces gradually withdrew from the Chinese stage.

On the other mast of the Chu ship, there was a black flag flying, with five big characters written in seal script - "Golden Jiaolong".This is the name Chu Zhiling gave the boat not long ago.

The "Golden Jiaolong" sailed from Hirado, Japan, fully loaded with Japanese gold, silver, copper, sulfur, camphor, rice, wheat, swords, stationery, fans, lacquerware, household utensils and other products, mainly heading for today's Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian , Taiwan and other places for transactions.

Three days ago, Chu Zhiling proposed that Xin Yue should be the ship's wife, but Xin Yue didn't expressly refuse, and naturally he didn't agree.

Twilight was gloomy and the sky was dark, Xin Yue opened a cabin door where the prisoners were held.

Light up the lights, walk slowly, and look down at the person sitting cross-legged inside: "How are you doing?"

The man smiled: "Thanks to the girl, everything went well."

Both are fluent in Dutch.

The man was Pu Yang who was framed by Xin Yue.

Xin Yue recklessly sat cross-legged opposite Pu Yang, took out two big steamed buns as if by magic, and handed them to him: "Well, eat."

Pu Yang was not restrained, and he ate gracefully. Xin Yue looked at him lightly with a smile.He also looked at Xin Yue from time to time.

The woman's light blue dress is as quiet and elegant as a poem, while the man's white clothes are sweeping the floor, with picturesque eyes, and they often look at each other. Those who don't know it think they are tender lovers.

In fact, the two pairs of equally calm eyes imply that the shadow of the sword is dark and the sword is bright and bright.

"I heard that the girl will be married to Captain Chu for a hundred years. Congratulations."

"Thanks to the lieutenant."

The two of you talked to each other, polite and hypocritical.

After a long while, Pu Yang looked at her quiet face and smiled softly: "You are the most ruthless woman I have ever seen."

"Praise?"

"That's it."

"From the very beginning, you knew that the medicine I gave you was Bi Yunchun, not Hanxue Danmo. You made a mistake on purpose to confuse me?"

Xin Yue shrugged gracefully, noncommittal.

After a while, she said lightly: "You can guess the purpose of my coming here."

"Well," Qingjun pursed his thin lips lightly, his eyes sparkling, "answer me a question first, and then I'll give you what you want."

Xin Yue nodded: "Ask."

"Will you answer truthfully?"

"I try my best."

"Love Chu Zhiling very much?"

This question was a bit abrupt, but Xin Yue replied calmly with lazy brows and eyes: "I don't love it, on the contrary, I hate it."

"Then why help him against us?"

Xin Yue stood up and simply replied, "Because I hate the Dutch more than Chu Zhiling."

"Where does your hatred come from?"

Xin Yue looked down at him, and his voice was as slow as fine sand: "You are not Chinese, you don't understand."

At that moment, the moonlight seemed to be refracted into the cabin through the blue sea water, and the faint light seemed to flicker in her eyes, flickering and fading indistinctly.

Pu Yang seemed to see something between her brows and eyes, which was as vast as the sea.He stood up.

The sea water was stained with silver gray, he looked into her eyes, and the eyes were ethereal under the brows for a moment, as if mixed with various feelings, and more like nothing.

Xin Yue just spread his palms and smiled shallowly: "Master Deputy, please hand over Bi Yunchun's remaining antidote, just now you said that I am ruthless, be good, and avoid the pain of flesh and blood."

After getting the medicine, Xin Yue closed the cabin door with his backhand, and leaned closer to smell it. There was no doubt that the remaining Bi Yunchun had the antidote. Xin Yue put the pill into his mouth and threw the porcelain bottle into the sea water.

As the night gradually fell, Xin Yue felt a slight feeling in his heart.

Cooperating with Chu Zhiling to drive away the Dutchman made Chu Zhiling's power even stronger. I don't know if this decision is right or wrong.

Chu Zhiling's room.

"Brother, are you alright?"

Chu Zhiling took a deep breath, held back his anger and said to Song Chang, "Ah Chang, you go out first."

Chu Zhiling was left alone in the room immediately. He kicked over the chair by the table and walked around in the huge room with a very bored expression on his face, muttering to himself: "Hate me? You think I'm very Do you like you?"

"If it weren't for the fact that you look like Xiaoyue, I would have thrown you into the sea to feed the fish."

The man sat on another nanmu stool, put the mouth of the teapot to his mouth, and gulped it down. When he thought of something, he picked up the teapot in his hand and threw it against the door.

"How dare you splash me with water."

The man couldn't hide his anger.

Recalling that night, Xin Yue splashed him with a pot, making him drenched.

"Ah Chang, call that woman over."

When Xin Yue arrived, he saw Chu Zhiling sitting at the table with a dark face.

There were only the two of them in the room, Xin Yue was careful not to close the door.

The man said in a low voice, "close the door."

Xin Yue was unmoved, and cut straight to the point: "What do you want from me?"

"Just to let you know, we will get married when we arrive in Quanzhou."

"Who said he wanted to marry you?"

"I said."

When Xin Yue wanted to say something, Chu Zhiling stood up, kicked the door shut, and at the same time grabbed Xin Yue's hand and let her fall into his arms.

He put his big palm on her slender waist, Xin Yue didn't struggle or shout, he raised his eyes to look at the handsome face who was close at hand, and said in a cold voice, "Your thick skin is beyond my expectation."

"What did you say?"

"Didn't I say I hate you? What is it if you are still so stalking?"

"You know—I have someone watching you?"

"of course."

She wouldn't be so stupid as to think he was off guard against her.

——Love Chu Zhiling very much?

There is no need to answer Pu Yang's words, but she still expresses her feelings truthfully.

——I don’t like it, on the contrary, I hate it.

"The words about hating you are not to Pu Yang, but to you. At any rate, we have cooperated once. I didn't want to bluntly reveal my feelings, but now you are like this, it really makes me sick."

The man suddenly jumped up with blue veins, but Xin Yue still had that neither salty nor bland look.

"If you fancy my talent and want me to be willing to help you, you shouldn't use means like getting married, but you should," staring at him with calm eyes without blinking, "use what you do , conquer me."

After saying that, he shook off Chu Zhiling's hand, and escaped from his arms as deftly as a loach.

Chu Zhiling looked at her thoughtfully.

After a few seconds of thinking, he calmed down, collected himself, and looked at her: "How to say?"

"In this world, only the truly strong can conquer me."

He came interested: "What is a real strong man?"