Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

I couldn't believe my eyes, I looked at her beautiful and familiar smile silly, and hurried to stand up, but my hands were still weak, and I could only lie down on the bed honestly, saying: " You, how are you-here? "

She didn't answer me immediately, but leaned down to lift me up and leaned the pillow against my back to make me feel more comfortable. Then she sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "I was saved by them."

"They? Save?"

"Oh, you probably don't know yet, that--"

I hurriedly said, "I heard people say that Yan Qinghan's ship was attacked by a pirate and was hit hard."

"Well," she nodded, and said, "It was a terrible fight, and even the ship broke down. I fell into the sea at that time of chaos."

"Ah ?! Are you all right?"

"It's okay." She nodded with a smile: "I was just soaked in the seawater, which caused a typhoid fever, but I myself am a doctor and will soon be fine."

"Then you say, they rescued you, they mean--"

She glanced at me with a glint in her eyes, and then she said slowly, "Pirate."

"..."

"Those pirates rescued me."

"..." I took a breather.

The pirates rescued her, that is, are we still on the pirate's ship now? !!

However, looking at her, it doesn't look like she was hurt or coerced, but she feels free and easy. What's going on? Did those pirates treat her well?

As if seeing what I was thinking, she slowly said, "Don't worry, these pirates are not the kind of people who kill and plunder and do no evil."

"……Oh?"

Seeing that I couldn't believe it, she smiled slightly and didn't want to explain more, but I suddenly remembered that Liu Qinghan and Han Zitong, they both fell into the sea with me, they What about people?

I hurried to ask her, and Xue Muhua patted the back of my hand in a timely manner, and said in a soothing tone: "They are both rescued. Lord Liu, he seemed to have eaten a lot of mess before, and was walking in the sea After so long, I gave him a needle, but he is still very weak now, and he is resting in another room. "

"Will he--"

"Relax, it's okay with me."

Then, she gave me a complex look again, and said, "He, he really cares about you."

"..."

"Both hands are tied like that, and they rescued you from the bottom of the sea ... The pirates all said, I have never seen him so desperate, I am very convinced of him."

"..."

I didn't say anything, but with weak hands, I slowly tightened the quilt.

Xue Muhua looked at me for a while, and seemed to feel nothing. She only said, "The Miss Han is also very concerned about you. I told her that you were all right, and she was willing to rest."

...

That said, at least for now, none of the three of us are okay and safe.

I could not help but exhaled for a long time.

It was also at this time that I had time to look around.

We are now in a cabin that is not very spacious, and the corners, window edges, and some damaged cabin doors can be seen for some years. Although some places have been re-rested, they can't hide the years Mottled marks left.

I asked, "Are we on those pirate ships?"

She nodded.

I looked at her: "Then how did you talk to them, uh ..."

She smiled when she saw that I was posting, and then she said, "Before, Yan Qinghan's ship was attacked by them, which happened to be the position of my cabin, which was blasted in half, and threw me directly. , I also thought that I would die, no one knew that those pirates had rescued me. "

"What happened then?"

"Exactly, some of their group have dysentery, and they are almost dead. I think the parents of the healer ca n’t watch them die. Besides, they really saved my life, so I helped them. Alright. These people are also very kind when talking about them, they are kind to me. "

"..."

I sighed softly in my heart.

Vaguely remembered that year, Huang Tianba once said that the reason he fell in love with Xue Muhua at first sight was because of her compassion and the heal of the doctor's parents. Even after they separated, so many years later, she still had unforgettable love. Although I was watching how their marriage was broken, now I can understand how much his love was born.

But now, it's useless to say that.

I looked at her white, with a pale pink face under the candlelight. After thinking about it, I asked, "Miss Mu Hua, listen to you. You have been with these pirates for a long time. Do you know who they are? Why are they attacking us? "

Xue Muhua said: "It's not too short for us to stay together, but although they are kind to me, they don't want to tell me everything. It's just--"

"Just what?"

"When I talked to them, I found that some people in this group spoke with Shudi accents, and some of them looked like people from Yangzhou."

"Oh ?!" I was taken aback, and bounced from the soft pillow: "Really?"

"I've been in Xichuan, and I'm still familiar with the accent of Shu, and I've heard the Yangzhou dialect, so when they said it, I heard it."

"..."

I just felt the heart beating suddenly.

Looking back at the time when I watched this pirate ship appear, the shock of that behemoth brought me seemed to be inextricably linked with some things in memory, and her words made me guess even more Get some confirmation.

Of course, just the accent of some people is not enough to prove it.

I then asked, "Do you see anything else?"

This time, Xue Muhua did not answer me immediately, but glanced at me and said, "Mrs., are you investigating these pirates?"

After I was stunned, she went on to say: "I don't know if you have any purpose to go to sea, but after I was taken by Wei Zhengbang on board the ship, I also heard some of their words. They seem to be looking for something Thing, and that thing, it seems that your mother hid overseas that year, right? "

I nodded silently.

"You, too, for this matter?"

"..." I thought about it and didn't deny it.

She looked at me for a while, then looked back at the hatch, and seemed to confirm if it was just the two of us, and then sat closer towards me, and whispered, "These pirates-in fact, I don't think they are Like an ordinary thief. "

"Oh? How?"

"Ordinary thieves must have looted their homes. Of course, pirates should have robbed past merchant ships, but I have been on this ship for so long. I haven't seen them go and rob other merchant ships. They wander in this area every day. Come and wander, saying that they are looking for those merchant ships, and I think they are more like-like-patrolling. "

"patrol?"

Xue Muhua, who spoke these two words, probably felt a bit ridiculous, with a little embarrassing smile on her face, and I thought it was ridiculous.

Pirates, patrolling at sea?

This is as fresh as a thief going to catch a thief.

However, she has been in contact with these pirates for so long, and since she said so, she must have reason.

I frowned and said, "But why are they going to rob Yan Qinghan?"

She glanced at me and said, "They are not robbing Yan Qinghan."

"……what?"

"It's not robbery," Xue Muhua said. "They just want to hit their ship."

"what?!"

I couldn't help raising my voice, she was shocked when she heard it, and hurriedly waved at me. I closed my mouth immediately, both of them turned to look at it, the door was still closed, and the outside was also closed. No one approached.

I took a sigh of relief and whispered to her, "They just attacked Yan Qinghan?"

"Correct."

"Not for money?"

"Looks like they don't look like." She said, "After being rescued by them, I listened to those men who talked to their bosses, and only talked about the casualties, and said where Yan Qinghan's ship was going, but money or something. Nothing was mentioned. "

"Then they hit us before--"

"They are going to hit that pirate."

"Two pirates?"

"Yes. The one that caught you, I heard what it is-what the sea snake's men are, especially bad. They seem to have been festivals on both sides, and they have been playing for many years. If they meet, they will fight."

"..."

"It seems like this time, the sea snake took advantage of their boat to get out of the back and did some mess. They are about to kill it now."

"Oh……"

This time, my heart beat even harder.

Some things are constantly flapping in my mind, as if only through a layer of lantern paper, ready to come out.

While I was still a little bit fascinated, Xue Muhua continued to say: "However, this group is also very mysterious. What they are doing and how they became pirates, I haven't figured it out. It ’s just that some of them look fierce. Yes, people are not bad. They said that they will dock ashore every six months, and they will be more impatient. When they next dock, they will put me on land. "

I listened and nodded straight.

I did not ask where they go to shore during such a sea ban. After all, the status of "pirates" is different from ordinary merchant ships, and they naturally have their own way. Even if the pirates really plundered, they need to go ashore to sell their stolen goods. Listening to the tone of the pirates who caught us before, they will go ashore to find women and "enjoy".

However, for some reason, when I heard Xue Muhua talk about their actions, it reminded me of another person.

Huang Tianba.

At that time, when he was the master of seventy-two water and land operations in the three southern provinces, although he was also a good man in the green forest, he did another set of methods to punish the really evil thieves and bandits and regulate them.

This ship-crossing the sea and flying clouds, and these people on board, let me see the shadow of Huang Tianba.

I looked up to Xue Muhua, and said a little dumbly, "So, who are these pirate bosses and the owner of this ship?"