One Night Bride

            Chapter 6   Similar teenagers 

“King, should we let this ship go? Otherwise, it will cause the siege of the court ……”

The king’s eyes glare: “This is my territory, don’t mention the prince or even the emperor, I the king will have to ask him to leave the money to buy his way out, it’s been a long time since I’ve met a fat sheep, this time we must make a serious profit …… immediately ready?”

“Yes.”

The lucky escape, Hua Rong feels that the sound of the bullhorn, is really a natural sound , that is a signal. something must have happened, Qin Da Wang left in a hurry.

That night, the fear of “torture” does not come, because the king has not returned to the room all night.

Hua Rong is lying alone in a huge bed, cowering, tossing and turning, finally she can not help it but tremble, she sneaks to the door, and looks around.

There is silence all around, and the fire from last night at the carnival is gone. She suddenly thinks, isn’t the group of pirates not “out” again?

She quietly walks out a few steps, but finds not far away, a pirate with a torch patrolling, holding a long knife, and in his opposite, there is a person in the same outfit, patrolling the opposite direction.

The house is all within their view, she dares not take another step, and slowly she goes back to the house.

The next morning, she wakes up very early, and the patrol is withdrawn. She finds that during the day, this place has not much patrol, because there is no other way to escape except to get to the ship.

From far away, she sees  the stone that she saw yesterday, that is the only place to “climb up and see”, but, thinking of King Qin, I do not know if he will come out from somewhere again, so she stops and does not bother to go that way.

After standing for a while, she suddenly hears a small voice: “Sister, sister ……”

It is the little boy that I saw yesterday, still carrying a big basket, behind a big rock, looking at her smartly.

As if a little sunshine has been seen in the magic realm. The tongue is still very painful so she can not make a clear sound, she vaguely agrees, and does not care about fear, quickly she walks over.

Yue Pengju sees her coming and he is very happy, he rolls his trouser leg and climbs up the stone, looking at her mouth,he whispers : “Sister, did he hit you?”

Hua Rong is surprised, she lowers her head to look at the sea water, this piece of sea water is very clear, can shine a little shadow, she sees her lips high swollen, very much like a sausage mouth. Yesterday she bit her tongue and bit her lips, but I do not know what ointment he applied, and I do not feel pain, and there is no mirror in the room. She did not know that her head and face are swollen like this.

“Sister, they went out today, went to ‘business’ again.”

Trading is their jargon, that is, they have gone to kill people again.

She is happy, for the time being, she is not afraid that King Qin will come out from somewhere again. She would like to ask this young man some questions, she opens her mouth but her tongue is very inflexible.

The young man sees her open her mouth several times, her voice is slurred, horrified: “Sister, you have become mute? Did he beat you to death?”

She shakes her head, I think in a couple of days i will be healed, I will not become mute.

The young man looks at her suspiciously, then, smartly he pulls her to  jump out of the water, he runs to the beach in front of her, he breaks a branch and hands it to her: “Sister, you will not become mute, right?”

She smiles and writes the word “no” on the sand.

The young man seems  to be a little relieved, thinking and takes out something from the large basket he is carrying in his hand , which is a bright red conch, very beautiful: “Here you are.

She takes the conch, looks at it carefully, she is very happy, and writes two words with a branch: “Thank you.”

The young man stares at the words she has written for a while, and actually sighs: “Sister, if only I can know many words.”

She writes with a branch: “Don’t you have a book?”

He shakes his head sadly: “My mother could read a few words and taught them all to me. Then she died, so no one taught me. I was brought to this island to work for them, and I can’t write anymore ……”

She smiles and says,  “I’ll teach you.”

The young man is so happy that he falls down and worships: “Thank you, sister.”

All day long, Hua Rong writes with the young man under the coconut tree by the sea. The young man learns very hard, when he gets thirsty, he drinks the coconut picked from the tree. The two of them lose track of time, and at dusk, the boy suddenly shouts: “Oh no, I forgot to pick crabs ……”

Qin Shang Cheng and a group of pirates like to eat those small crabs, his duty is to pick crabs and help the pirate chef cooking, today he actually forgot to go back, waiting for him will certainly be a beating. The good thing is that today the pirates are out, there are not many people on the island, no one came to urge him. Hua Rong pulls him: “I’ll go help you pick.”

However, the weather is not good tonight, soon dark clouds, it looks like it will rain, there are not many crabs here , it has taken half an hour to pick up a small half basket.

The young man walks back with his basket, and Hua Rong is very worried about him. Ahead is a row of very concentrated houses all of which are very simple and crude, as if the pirates are living in these concentrated houses. And those women, tied to a tree not far ahead, I do not know if they have been released.

Hua Rong doesn’t dare to go any further, as she is about to say goodbye to the teenager, she sees a fierce big man, it is the same man she secretly saw last night patrolling, holding a branch on the rush: “little brat, where did you run lazy to? If you do not quickly cook, you will starve the master ……”

The young man can not dodge, and does not dare to dodge, Hua Rong stretches out her hand , she quickly blocks in front of him, the big man’s branch hits her left ribs, and her whole body is aching hot.

After seeing her face clearly, the big man seems to be quite afraid, do not dare to fight: “little brat, count your luck today.” He throws the branch and leaves

Seeing that she has taken such a heavy blow for him, the young man almost cries: “sister, does it hurt?”

How can it not hurt? But the pain is not as terrible as the threat of King Qin, it seems the group of pirates have not yet returned. She happily smiles and shakes her head, “You go back first.”

The young man nods and walks a few steps, then turns back: “Sister, will you still teach me to write tomorrow?”

She doesn’t know how to answer, if King Qin comes back, whether she can still live is a question. The good thing is that there is no sign of him yet, so she still nods her head. The young man receives a positive answer, forgetting the terrible beating she has just suffered, he then goes away with great joy.

At a distance , she sees another person patrolling outside the door, and as soon as he sees her, the pirate flicks to the side. She doesn’t care, she goes straight into the house and sees that the table has been placed on some fruit, and a piece of roast meat, as if she has been sent a meal.