One Night Bride

                    Chapter 12 His Name

When she wakes up, her side is empty, King Qin is not there. Her body is wrapped in a thin blanket.

She is relieved, she looks around, and immediately becomes nervous again, only to see King Qin standing in front of the huge box, not knowing what to look for.

He suddenly turns around, she can not lie down and pretend to sleep, so she wraps herself in the blanket and looks at him warily.

He throws something in her hand, She does not know what it is, it’s flowery greenery. 

She brushes it away, but sees that it is a brand new light green shirt, made of the best jute, probably from where it was stolen. The next thing that is thrown under the bed is a pair of shoes.

“Girl, you wear this. There are many clothes here, you can change at will. Wear something nice.”

His voice is like a bell, but she can not gamble with the clothes at this time, can not die, and can not run naked, she can only ask for clothes to wrap herself.

She is not dressed yet, he comes over with something from the box.

She hurriedly wraps up, only to see him put those things on the table, a few tubes of wolf hair, the best Xuan paper, and several paintings and calligraphy, but does not open, and does not know who they belonged to.

“As long as you do not die, these things are for you to play with.”

He narrows his eyes, “If you dare to seek death again, I will not spare you.”

After saying that, he checks around again, to make sure that there are no more sharp objects, and then puts her in front of the only piece of shell that the teenager gave her. He throws it on the ground and crushes it with his foot, as if everything is safe, and then walks out with confidence.

Walking to the house where the pirates live, he sees the kitchen door, a man peeks out, and immediately retreats.

“Little brat, get out.”

The young man comes out trembling, his voice trembling: “You took sister, killed?”

“Get the hell out of here,” the king of Qin hits him and he tumbles over, “brat, you go play with her, get out …… watch her, do not let her seek death again, otherwise, I will chop you into meat sauce! ……”

The young man hears that Hua Rong is actually still alive, overjoyed, from the ground to get up in a flash and runs away.

Until the sound of Qin Shang Cheng’s footsteps completely disappears, Hua Rong is relieved to put on the clothes and then get out of bed and put on the shoes. The shoes are the kind of strange small boots, surrounded by holes, that can breathe, not like the things of the Middle Kingdom, and she does not know where to grab them.

She sits silently for a while, and then lays on her back, not knowing what to do, and how to continue in the future.

Breakfast comes, she eats a bowl, and lays down again, not even willing to go out, just thinking , just muddle along, waiting to die.

Someone knocks on the door, a very small voice: “Sister, sister ……”

She gets up, goes to the door, it is the teenager.

She looks around in panic: “Go away, that demon will kill you if he sees you again ……”

“He has told me to come.” The young man is very surprised, incoherent: “Sister, you are still alive! It’s really good …… I have been afraid that you were killed by him ……”

The young man does not understand what it means to be  destroyed, he thinks the most important thing in the world is to be “alive”, as long as life is still there, everything can be put aside. But see her neatly dressed, her face and hands are not wounded, a great sigh of relief, “the king of Qin, will not kill you again, right?”

Who knows. Hua Rong sighs, anyway, he now has nothing to lose, what tricks can he play?

She rememberes the tubes of wolf hair, turns inside and gets a pen and paper and ink: “Come, find a place where I can teach you to write.”

The young man is overjoyed: “Sister, where have you got all these things?”

“The king of Qin has given them to me.”

The young man does not understand why Qin Shang Cheng, a reckless man, would give her these things, but when he sees the brush, he is so happy that he forgets to ask, and follows her outside, saying as he walks, “Sister, there is a big stone on the island, very flat, it can be used as a desk.”

“Okay, let’s go there.”

This is a dense subtropical forest, the branches are thick with slightly fishy fragrance that trees on land do not have. Between the trees, there are strange rocks, as the boy said, among them, there is a big stone, very flat, although not as a real desk, but also very rare.

The young man happily spreads paper and pencil on the stone, and takes the ink stone to sharpen the ink. From his approach, it is clear that he has not used it before.

Hua Rong takes the ink, sharpens it a few times to demonstrate, and asks him: “Have you not used it before?”

“I’ve only heard my mother tell me about it.”

“Where is your mother?”

“My mother and I fled from our hometown when it flooded. I landed in a village and became a tenant of others. Once, I went out with my family, was captured by this group of pirates, the family was robbed of their belongings, people were also killed. I was left here to work, and I do not know how my mother …… “His eyes show the kind of deep sadness and longing that does not belong to a teenager,” my mother must be worried sick about me, and I can not go back …. …”

For a moment, Hua Rong forgets about her own suffering, at least, now she has no relatives and no worries, while the teenager still has to remember their mother. She suddenly remembers those women who were played with and expelled. I believe that I will be released soon, then, there will be a chance of life. She softly reassures him: “Later, when there is a chance, we will escape together.”

The young man is full of expectation: “Yes, sister, I will keep an eye out for opportunities.”

Hua Rong smiles and shows him penmanship, and writes three big words on the paper, exactly the name of the teenager.

Yue Peng ju 

The young man sees his name on the paper for the first time, and it is such a beautiful three words, he can not help himself, carefully puts it aside to dry, am so happy that he said: “I want to collect it, keep it for life ……”

The young man soon holds his breath and follows her instructions, writing the words.

After a heavy rain, the air is very fresh.

While the boy is writing, Hua Rong gets up and walks a few steps, through the trees on the island, looking at the azure sky in the distance, the sea and the sky, the breeze, if not for the horrible environment in which she is , it would be a beautiful place.

Unfortunately, it is the hell of the pirate leader.

The young man is very focused on writing, Hua Rong also does her best to guide him. She is thirsty, she drinks  the water she came with, and when hungry she picks a large mountain peach next to her and eats. It’s very crispy and sweet.

In this way, time passes, and when the young man finishes writing the last word, and looks up, the sun is already setting in the west.

He is very satisfied with the stack of paper he has written, and then, holds up to his chest a few big words written by Hua Rong, happy: “sister, this is my name, I really like it……”

The words do not finish, suddenly a large hand grabs over, and then, hears a loud laugh: “Hahahahaha, little brat, you also have a name?”

It’s Qin Shang Cheng, coming out of nowhere. .

He seems to know a few words and read them loudly and martially: “Yue-Peng-Ju …… haha… …” Then, he turns to Hua Rong, “You wrote this for this little brat?”

Hua Rong gives  a faint hint.

“Then you write one for me too. My name is ‘Qin Shang Cheng write it out, I want to see what these three words look like on the paper ……