Chapter 313: Serving as the best man
Su Qiubai saw that his attitude towards him was too respectful, and he suddenly felt a little unaccustomed, so he sat him down and said, "You don't have to be so polite, if you want, just call me Brother Lang." By the way, how old are you? ”
Xiaofeng replied, "I'm sixteen years old, Hong ...... Longo. ”
Su Qiubai was a little surprised, he didn't look so big, at most he was fourteen years old, it seemed that he usually didn't eat very well, so he was stunted.
"How did you become a pirate at such a young age?" Su Qiubai asked suspiciously.
Xiao Feng probably felt that Su Qiubai was not a bad person, so he relaxed a little, and his words were not as restrained as just now: "I followed my father here when I was six years old, but I'm not a real pirate, because I haven't been out to sea yet!" ”
Su Qiubai was also bored when he was idle, so he chatted with Xiaofeng: "Can you tell me about it?" ”
Xiao Feng nodded with a smile and said, "There's nothing wrong with it, in Sierra Saint, everyone has no secrets, and everyone's background knows each other." My dad turned out to be a boxer, but he didn't have a good temper and always beat my mom, and then my mom couldn't stand it anymore and ran away. Then my dad got hooked on gambling and didn't work well, and it didn't take long for him to lose all his possessions, and he owed a lot of loan sharks, and when he was desperate, he took me to pirates, and then I grew up here. ”
Su Qiubai looked relaxed when he said this, without a trace of sadness at all, and he didn't know if he was optimistic by nature, or if he had been smoothed out by life.
"Is there a difference in the lives of pirates here? It doesn't seem like your life is going to be good. Su Qiubai said euphemistically.
In fact, Xiaofeng's appearance is not very good, it can be described as down-and-out. He wore a white-washed blue shirt and a pair of worn-out jeans, but neither of them looked like his own.
Xiao Feng scratched his hair embarrassedly and replied: "Pirates often go to sea, and there are a lot of dividends to be paid, as long as they don't usually squander too much, there are basically few poor people." But I'm not a pirate, I don't have that kind of source of income, so I can barely make ends meet by doing odd jobs. ”
Su Qiubai frowned and asked, "Does your father care about you?" ”
Xiao Feng sighed when he heard this, and said: "He died when he went to sea a year ago, and he usually likes to gamble, so he has no savings left to me." But in two years, when I am an adult and my body is a little stronger, I will be able to go to sea, and then I will not have to live this poor life. ”
Su Qiubai saw that his little face was full of smiles, looking forward to a future that was actually not good, and suddenly felt distressed.
In Huaxiaguo, a child of his age has just entered high school, which is the same age as flowers, but he has already begun to run for a living, and he is still living such a hard life. He grew up living in a pirate den, and he didn't realize that piracy was an illegal profession, and in his eyes, it was a lucrative job, and as for the origin of the money, he probably didn't know it at all.
Su Qiubai couldn't bear to see such a young child fall like this, so he decided that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would rescue him together and give him a normal life. However, now he is not sure of Xiaofeng's loyalty to Dale, and naturally he does not dare to reveal his thoughts at will.
Xiaofeng was a simple child, so Su Qiubai quickly gained his trust and became acquainted with him. The most straightforward way to do this is to give him money.
After getting acquainted with Xiao Feng, Su Qiubai began to inquire about the internal situation of the pirates under the pretext of being familiar with the environment, especially the power structure here.
Xiao Feng was defenseless against him, so he preached to him: "The person with the highest status in the Holy Saint of Sierra is Master Scott, who controls a single qiē here and does not allow anyone to disobey his orders. Then there was the Sea Officer, Lord Turner, who was responsible for every transfer of personnel to sea, as well as the usual training. He was joined by Lord Raul, the chief of the law, who was responsible for maintaining order in the saint of Serra and had great power. In addition, there is the treasurer Feng Junjie, who is in charge of the key to the vault of Sierra Sheng, and even Lord Scott has to ask him for money. The three of them are directly under Master Scott's orders, and in addition, each of them has other supervisors under him, and the division of labor is very detailed, and I can't explain it clearly. ”
Su Qiubai nodded, he only needed to know a few key characters, the others were just inconsequential small characters, and they didn't play a role in his task. Listening to him call out one by one, it seems that this pirate kingdom still adopts a centralized system, which seems to have a lot of power among the leaders, but once the lower levels unite to overthrow the upper rule, it is also relatively easy.
Hearing the name Feng Junjie, Su Qiubai asked curiously, "Is this financial chief official from Huaxia Kingdom?" ”
Xiao Feng nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It used to be, but once we came to Sierra Saint, our previous nationality was invalidated, and we were all from Sierra Saint." ”
Su Qiubai nodded and didn't speak, thinking that this kid was brainwashed too much, and he couldn't correct him for a while, so he simply didn't say anything first.
"By the way," Xiao Feng suddenly remembered something, and said, "There is also a very special person, he has no special power, but Lord Scott respects him very much, and will ask for his opinion on many things, so the people on the island also respect him as much as they respect Lord Scott." ”
"Oh? Who is this person? Su Qiubai asked curiously.
Xiaofeng replied, "He is Archbishop Mosa, this man is very mysterious, I heard that he can do magic, but I have never seen him perform it, because he usually stays in his house and rarely goes out." Even Lord Scott had to go to his house in person when he had something to do with him, a position that was unique in Serra. ”
Archbishop? Su Qiubai pondered for a while, and felt that this person was indeed worth studying, even a person like Dale who had no one in his eyes could respect him so much, and this person's identity must not be simple.
"What are the personalities of these people? Do you get along well? Su Qiubai asked.
Xiao Feng thought for a while and said, "Actually, with a low-level identity like me, I can't see these big people. However, those who have heard them say that Master Turner has a very short temper, and controls his subordinates very strictly, and beats and scolds him at every turn if he makes a big mistake. Lord Raul is not as fierce as him, but he is also very strict and enforces the law very strictly, so the law and order of Serra Saint has always been good. ”
Su Qiubai nodded, no wonder the Serra Saint didn't feel like a pirate's den, but like a city verified by the law, it turned out that because of the constraints of the law, it seemed that Dale was still very careful about managing his kingdom.
Xiao Feng continued: "Lord Feng's personality is much kinder than the two of them, but he is a person who distinguishes between public and private, and he has always been meticulous about financial issues. As for the Bishop...... No one knows what kind of person he is, because he almost never speaks to anyone other than Master Scott, and he hasn't done anything special, so he's always been the most mysterious person in the Holy of Serra. ”
This information was very useful to Su Qiubai, because if he wanted to obtain information about pirates, it was not enough to get close to Dale alone, and among these people, there was a high probability that there would be people he could use.
Su Qiubai also learned from Xiaofeng that the number of pirates in Serra Saint was about 50,000, not including women and children who had no combat effectiveness. It seems that they are a little more powerful than the navy estimates, and Darle has been trying to grow them in size in recent years, but it is not known what he is doing so.
Su Qiubai had been bored in the room for a few days, and no one from Dale's side had come to look for him, and he even wondered if Dahler had forgotten his savings.
Seven days later, the explosive news spread in Serra-St. that Dale was getting married.
The bride is naturally Yang Kexin, since she came to Sierra Sheng, Su Qiubai has not seen Yang Kexin. He did not dare to go to see her lightly, for fear of arousing Daller's suspicions, and when he heard the news that she was going to marry Dalle, he could not help but feel sorry and sad for her.
Dale has dominated the Serra Saint for so many years, although there have been women, but they are just to solve their physical needs, and they have never had the idea of getting married, and at this time, they actually want to marry Yang Kexin, which shocked all the pirates.
The wedding was scheduled to take place in a month's time, and this event was regarded as a grand event, and he even secretly sent many of his men to various countries to purchase supplies needed for the wedding, and the pirates who remained on the island were also busy decorating the whole city for this event, which was even more lively than the Chinese New Year.
Su Qiubai watched them busy all day long, and couldn't help but have an illusion that the king was going to marry the queen, this feeling was very absurd, it was obviously a group of pirates, and they had to put on such a big show, this Dale really regarded himself as a king.
Not long after the wedding date was set, Su Qiubai was taken to Dale's home, because Xiaofeng was the translator, and the communication between the two was finally unhindered.
"I came to you to inform you that you will be our best man at the wedding." Dahler said to Su Qiubai.
Su Qiubai was a little surprised, Dahler had so many henchmen, how could it be his turn to be the best man?
"That's what she meant." Daller added.
So that's the case, it seems that Yang Kexin deliberately wants to create a chance for him to appear in front of Dale, but the wedding is not a big deal, at most it is just to make him remember that there is such a person as himself.
"No problem, what am I going to do?" Su Qiubai asked.
Dahler took a puff of his cigar, squinted at Su Qiubai for a long time, and said, "In addition to the best man's duties, you are also responsible for protecting the two of us in case something unexpected happens." ”