Pampering the sea

There is no pain in her whole body, her stomach hurts from hunger, she feels as if she is being pulled together tightly, her hands and feet bound by ropes hurt, her wrists and ankles are bloodstained, exuding burning pain meaning.She couldn't move at all, her body was almost stiff, and when she moved, it felt like tens of thousands of ants were biting her skin, making her very uncomfortable.

Although there is something added to this place, the room is not cold, there is no winter atmosphere, and although Xin Yue is not wearing thick clothes, it does not make her feel cold all over.However, she couldn't sleep. It seemed that she was very calm and could still open her mouth to laugh at others, but the pain in her stomach and the dryness in her mouth were enough to keep her awake at night.

Hearing Xin Yue's sarcasm, Yan Zhan said coldly: "If you behaved better and stopped fighting against me, how could I treat you like this? You are as smart as you, and you don't know that a person who understands current affairs is a hero. In my hands, it is already a chopping board fish. If you try to fight against me, you will only make me torture you more and more. I can not give you food today, I can have people flog you tomorrow, and I can make people flog you the day after tomorrow. There are so many ways to torture people by cutting your cheeks, you will never be able to bear it." Yan Zhan glanced at Xin Yue, and said in a calm voice, "Why are you bothering?"

He looked at the girl who raised her head slightly, and stared at her eyes as clear as water. When the two met, his eyes were as deep as an ancient pool, secretly storing a little compassion.

Although these words are extremely threatening, they also tell the truth, they are extremely polite, and there is a faint sense of persuasion.

Yes, as long as she tells him the whereabouts of Xia Chuan Yizhi, as long as she tells him which direction Xia Chuan Yizhi is going, as long as she tells him Xia Chuan Yizhi's daily preferences and possible places to go, as long as she tells him some things , he can give a reason to let her go.

However, the stubborn girl did not accept any persuasion or threat from her. She moved her lips, smiled slightly, and repeated his words as her answer:

"What's wrong with you?"

She half-closed her eyes, the dim lights shone in her eyes, her pair of black eyes were like plum wine, as if she was about to be drunk, with infinite confusion, there was subtle and endless mockery in her eyes, and her intoxicating smile .

"you……"

"Why so much nonsense? Why do you have to look so benevolent? What did Xia Chuan do wrong, and you want to hold him alive? You want me to sell his freedom and even his life to save a way out for myself Is that right?" Xin Yue casually raised his lips, his lips and teeth were lazy, but his eyes were as clear as a mirror, "Selling friends to survive, if it were you, would you do it?"

She asked several questions in a row, not tricky at all, and not difficult to answer, but Yan Zhan couldn't say a word.The dim candle flickered slightly, and the room became very quiet.

"If it were Chu Zhiling who forced you to hand over the whereabouts of Xiachuan Yizhi, what would you do?"

Yan Zhan pursed his lips, did not answer her words, but asked an unrelated question.

There are indescribable emotions in his eyes, sometimes as complicated as the sea, sometimes as calm as a stream, with unclear meanings and turbulent undercurrents.

"Is there a difference?" Xin Yue originally had a calm face, without any emotional fluctuations, suddenly turned his eyes, and continued softly, "If I listened to Chu Zhiling like that, would I still leave Tianze Zhaizi? ?Some things cannot be shaken even by the closest people, let alone other external forces?"

Yan Zhan frowned slightly: "You love Xia Chuan Yizhi, so for him, can you be desperate?"

Xin Yue smiled palely, and asked back: "Then you love Emperor Zhu Yan?"

"It's different."

"What is the difference?"

"He is the emperor, and I must do everything for him."

"For me, my friend is more noble than the emperor." She said in a deep voice, "I don't allow anyone to touch him, just like you don't allow anyone to touch your emperor."

As soon as her words came out, Yan Zhan suddenly recalled a long time ago, when they knew each other not long ago, he sat in the huge cabin and asked her, who was facing the calm and calm wind.

He asked, "Love Chu Zhiling very much?"

She replied: "I don't love it, on the contrary, I hate it."

"Then why help him against us?"

"Because I hate the Dutch more than Chu Zhiling."

"Where does your hatred come from?"

"You are not Chinese, you don't understand."

A slight heartstring tension, perhaps at that time.That sentence, you are not Chinese, you do not understand.

At that time, the coast of China was occupied by the rulers of the Netherlands. No matter how mild a nation was, once it became an invader, it would be bloody and brutal, because the nature of the invader was cruel plunder.To drive the people who originally lived here to other places, to occupy property, land, and even their lives, violence will inevitably be used.

When he was a child, he was captured by an ocean-going warship in the Netherlands. Together with his parents, he was imprisoned in the cabin. There were many Chinese prisoners there, tied together two by two. There are guards everywhere.

At that time, they were as tame as sheep, and when they were untied occasionally, they would fold their hands and kneel on the ground to kowtow to the Dutch.Because of this kind of tameness, they were able to barely survive the disaster, but they witnessed the massacres outside.

The Dutch ship called "Bear" moored in a bay, and used speedboats to burn [-] or [-] Chinese junks, large and small, and no one on board was spared.Later, the Dutch and their captives were going to land on a small island in the South China Sea. Yan Zhan saw with his own eyes that they brutally slaughtered the villages, and repeatedly shot and occupied some villagers who resisted their entry. The villagers worshiped them, and humiliatedly handed over their land and property.

Yan Zhan, who had some experience with the behavior of the invaders, felt fluctuated in his heart when he heard Xin Yue say "You are not Chinese, you don't understand".

At the beginning, when he entered the East India Company undercover, why didn't he hold the idea of ​​breaking into the interior and driving the Dutch invaders out of China?Although as he grows older, he knows that everything is not so easy, even a bit fantasy, but he still wants to do it, and he still wants to try.

In the vast sea of ​​people, she was regarded as a like-minded person with him, which was the fundamental reason why he had shown mercy to her again and again, even if she refused to tell him the whereabouts of Xia Chuan Yizhi, he did not really act cruelly.

And now, just when he wanted to abandon his admiration for her and hit her thoroughly according to the task, she said to him again—"For me, my friend is more important than the emperor." Be honorable. I won't allow anyone to touch him, just like you won't allow anyone to touch your emperor."

He somewhat understood her feelings, but he would rather, he didn't understand.