The morning star is slightly dewed, and the night is dark.

The early gulls swept over the side of the ship, the sun flag on the flagpole hunted in the morning breeze, and the sailors on duty lit the last cigarette of the long night, and whispered to each other, laughing, talking about the approaching shore, and longing for the girl's wine, and reveling all night longing.

This 6-deck luxury cruise ship departs from Liverpool and sails across the ocean towards the rising sun.

At dawn, the fog suddenly fell on the sea, and for a moment, the dense fog surrounded the whole cruise ship---- South China Sea is always like this, every late autumn, the fog always comes quietly like a ghost, the thick fog is like a heavy velvet curtain hanging on the sea, not to mention the ships in the distance, even the reef in front of you is difficult to identify until the moment it touches. The experienced old captain turned on the fog lights, and the bright yellow light shone on the fog a little bleakly.

The fog horn sounded, the speed of the ship was halved, the long flute echoed on the sea, and after a month and a half of sailing, the passengers, although they were accustomed to the sound of the horn, were still disturbed from their dreams, and there was a sparse sound in the cabin, and the waiters shuttled through the aisles, with a hazy drowsiness on their faces.

The ship was getting slower and slower, and several searchlights shone in through the string windows, strafing inside and outside the cabin.

"Attention cruise ship ahead, I am the coastal defense flagship of the Luzhou fleet, and I will conduct a routine inspection of your ship, please stop the ship immediately! If you ignore the warning, you do so at your own risk! ”

The shouts rang out, and even the roaring engines were still recognizable.

The speed of the cruise ship is getting slower and the engine is quieter. Soon, the neat and powerful footsteps of the boots echoed across the deck, driving away the drowsiness that lingered in the cabin.

In the first-class cabin at the end of the top deck, two girls huddled in the same bed woke up from a light sleep, and the blonde girl sleeping in it looked up at the Chinese girl next to her, who was slightly older than her, with a timid gaze, with these temptations. The Chinese girl put her forefinger to her lips and motioned for her to be silent, while she cautiously turned slightly and looked at the man on the other bed, who had slipped in the night before while they were eating in the dining room, and had not come out of the cloakroom until the servants had gone to rest, and threatened them not to make a sound, or they would be thrown into the sea, and their bones would be gone.

So they spent the night with the man, who was suspected of being a robber, and fortunately there was nothing wrong with the night.

At this moment, the man must have heard the shouting, woke up from his sleep, and opened his eyes to see the Chinese girl looking at him, glaring at her angrily, and sitting up while warning her in broken English not to be clever.

The noise outside the door was very close, and it could be heard that the soldiers who were boarding the ship were checking the information of the passengers one by one, but I was afraid that it was not as simple as a routine inspection. The man's expression was a little nervous, and he quickly put on the uniform of a squire that he had obtained from nowhere, first leaned at the door and looked through the cat's eye, and then took a few steps back to the window, as if he was looking for a way to escape, but before he could make a decision, there was a knock on the door.

The man hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that the Chinese girl seemed to be going to open the door, he lowered his voice and called out to her, and ordered her to go back to the bed, while he straightened his clothes, lowered the brim of his hat to cover his forehead and eyes, and then went to the door.

The hatch opened, and there were far more people standing outside the door than imagined - the captain personally led the security team on the cruise ship, and stood at the door with the non-commissioned officers who boarded and inspected, that is, the hatch opened, and everyone did not enter, and the captain led the security team to bow slightly:

“My apologize，Lady . But，May I Commi

g？ ”

The man had planned to escape when the door was opened, but he never thought that there were so many people outside the door, and he couldn't help but feel timid, and when he hesitated, the best time to escape was fleeting, so he had to give up and pretend to be calm and returned to the cabin.

This cabin is three times the size of a typical first class cabin and occupies the last position on the deck, with nearly 180-degree views of the sea, a separate dressing room and terrace, cloakroom, writing desk, and living room. From this equipment and decoration, it is not difficult to see that the status of the people living in this house must be different.

On this point, the young officer standing beside the captain could naturally see that although he was waiting outside the door under pressure from the captain, he obviously did not take this etiquette seriously, and looked the whole room with contempt for a week, and finally fell on the two girls.

The girl in the quilt was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, blonde hair and blue eyes, with a high nose, and she looked like an authentic Englishman. The girl standing next to her looked older than her, and although she was wearing a gorgeous Western-style nightdress and delicate curly hair, she was the most familiar oriental face at first glance, and there was no doubt that she was Chinese.

So when the Chinese girl opened her mouth to allow everyone to enter the inspection, and the captain treated her respectfully, with a mouthful of "my lady", the young officer's surprised expression gradually became a little playful—he had never seen a foreign devil who regarded himself as a high-minded foreigner so cautious and courteous to an Oriental face. So his eyes returned to the Chinese girl, but he saw that one hand was tightly grasping the corner of her clothes, and the other hand on the bed was slowly reaching under the pillow, and her expression was nervous and frequently aimed at the attendant standing beside her. The attendant was also strange, no matter what he knocked down during the inspection, he just stood by the bed, the brim of his hat was low to cover his eyebrows, and the most abnormal thing was his hand in his trouser pocket - let alone a male maid, even a male pet would not dare to pose such a pose in front of his master.

Thinking so, the young officer paced up to the man, looked him from head to toe, and then stretched out his hand and said:

“You

Passpo

t.”

The man must not have been able to get his papers, so the hand hidden in his pocket tightened his grip.

The captain looked at them when he heard the voice, and when his gaze fell on the collar of the man's uniform, he could not help but exclaim exaggeratedly:

“Oh God！ Why you a

e he

e，Bedfo

ds！ You ca

ot up to this floo

！ ”

Each family has its own logo, and the logo on the men's uniform clearly does not match all the decorations in this room.

Seeing that his fake identity was about to be exposed, the man's heart was crossed, he pulled out the hand that had been in his pocket, showed a spring dagger, and turned around to capture the Chinese girl as a hostage, so as to have a chance to survive. Maybe as a soldier, he has an extraordinary sensitivity to danger, the man has just stepped forward, he has rushed to the girl first, and without thinking about protecting her into his arms, he should have thought that this knife was decided, he never thought that the gunshot suddenly rang out, followed by the sound of the dagger falling, he straightened up in surprise, but saw that the Chinese girl in his arms hidden under the pillow was holding a pocket gun, the white body of the white gun decorated with gold paint was only the size of the palm, different from the common pistol, the arc of the pocket gun was extremely round and soft, If he hadn't just heard the gunshots, he would have thought it was just a handicraft with no practical value.

The girl didn't expect to really hit him, and the hand holding the gun trembled, and it took a long time to retract in front of her. Although this shot did not hit the vital point, it also saw blood, and the man was in pain, and the soldiers who had come to their senses swarmed up and dragged the man out.

Although the strange man was taken away, the young officer didn't seem to have any intention of leaving, he seemed to be very disdainful of his instinctive "hero saving beauty" just now, and without waiting for the girl to thank him, he had already stood up, straightened his crumpled military uniform, stood aside, took the documents handed by his subordinates and looked at them:

"Lin Wanjing ......" He whispered the name on the certificate, carefully examined her academic certificate, and raised his eyes to look at the girl from head to toe a few times.

At that time, studying in the West was a favorite way for many rich children, but most of them graduated from unknown schools, and they just bought a degree casually, but the girl in front of her was holding a prestigious school degree, ranking in seniority, in the United Kingdom, and even Europe, and in her nationality column it was written: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Hearing him read her name, she subconsciously raised her eyes and watched the officer's every move - the man in front of her was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, tall and outstanding, a crow-blue military uniform modified his already tall silhouette more and more majestic, his knife-like angular face, the corners of his mouth were gently pursed, and when he didn't speak, he had a majesty that was not easy to question, his sword eyebrows were in his sideburns, his starry eyes were like torches, and his eyebrows were full of heroic spirit, like a stone cliff standing on the west coastline of Sussex, Guarding the fertile homeland that is only 100 meters away, the arrogant and indifferent seem to be rejecting people thousands of miles away. But his eyes were so beautiful, and his eyes were deep and quiet, as if she had seen the deepest sea in the past month and a half. If he didn't act so domineering, and he could be a little polite, he shouldn't be a nasty person.

Seeing that he was just reading her name, and then he looked through her documents carefully with great interest, and his eyes looked like he was reading an interesting novel or miscellaneous conversation.

The girl, visibly upset, spoke:

"Whatever you want, just ask. There's no need to question me with such looks. ”

The young officer didn't seem to expect her to speak Chinese so well, so he was stunned, chuckled, and asked rhetorically:

"You say I question you?" He paused, then added, "Yes, I'm just interested in who you are. You're British? ”

"So what?" Lin Wanjing raised her head, she tried to ask rhetorically with an attitude that was neither humble nor arrogant, but when the words came out, she seemed to be arrogant.

The young officer snorted coldly: "I originally wanted to ask how much effort your family has put into this paper nationality. But now, it seems that there is no need to ask. ”

So saying, he took out a Medal of the Order of the Second Class from the velvet-covered crystal box, which was awarded to a person who "held a high office in the colony, or rendered service in the colony to the foreign affairs of Great Britain," in other words, the person who received the medal was sheltered by British diplomatic immunity.

"Miss, allow me to remind you that you are now in China's territorial waters and are about to dock at a Chinese port, and you, since you have the blood of Chinese in your veins, you have been Chinese all your life. I hope you won't forget who you are because you've spent too much time with foreigners. ”

Although the captain is not good at Chinese, he still understands and can speak some. The strange man in front of him first did not shy away from reading the girl's name, word by word, vaguely a little picky, and now he heard a lesson from a lady, and the old gentleman couldn't help frowning, and warned in his extremely non-standard Chinese:

"Sir, Miss Wanjing is an envoy of the British Empire. We reserve the right to resort to diplomatic avenues, please be careful about your words and deeds, and retain the necessary etiquette and respect! ”

When the young officer heard this, he was silent for a long time, then looked at the girl and said:

"No offense, and I hope your Excellency will forgive me. But I think Your Excellency should have understood what I meant, and did not mean to be offended. With that, he took the medal in his palm and stretched it out to Lin Wanjing.

Lin Wanjing took it, held it in her hand, and nodded—she knew, so she never regretted choosing to leave the UK, the place she saw as her second home.

But, the second home, will always be the second home.

"Just now, thank you." Lin Wanjing said softly, what she said was that he was desperate to save her.

"With a gesture, Miss doesn't need to remember." The young officer happily accepted her thanks, put away the previous sharpness, and took the passport handed over by the accompanying non-commissioned officer, but he did not accept the official seal, but took out the private seal from the inner pocket, stamped it heavily on the passport, handed it to Lin Wanjing, and said, "If you really understand what I said, welcome home." ”

By the time the Sunset arrived at port, the morning fog had lifted.

When the young officer stepped out of the cabin, he saw Lin Wanjing hugging and saying goodbye to the British girl who was traveling with her, and then sat in the car that was already waiting in the harbor, followed by a wagon, the body was full of suitcases, and two sturdy men were busy tying them up.

"Go find out who owns those two cars." The officer said to the adjutant beside him, and his eyes never took his eyes off Lin Wanjing.

In the Lin family's car, Mrs. Lin, who was sitting in the car with Lin Wanjing, seemed to sense the gaze, opened the curtains, and saw the young officer on the deck, the golden tassels on the military uniform were very conspicuous.

"Wan Jing, how come there are still officers on your ship," Mrs. Lin whispered to her daughter, her tone a little worried, "and he always seems to be staring at you." ”

When Lin Wanjing heard this, she also followed her mother's gaze and met the tepid eyes of the young officer.

"What a thing!" Lin Wanjing smiled, "Mom, you think too much!" ”

Although she heard her daughter say this, Mrs. Lin was obviously not at ease, turned her head and looked at it again, and then said to the driver: "Let's leave when everything is ready, don't delay here." ”

The driver answered, started the engine and left, Lin Wanjing stuck out her tongue at the young officer when the curtain was lowered, and then the curtain was tightly covered, this small action The young officer saw it clearly, and the little pride when she closed the curtain, he naturally understood it vividly, and involuntarily, the corner of his mouth provoked a smile.

After disdainful for a while, the adjutant who had just been sent to inquire reported:

"Young marshal, find out, the car is the property of the Lin family's Wanli firm, the person in the car is the eldest lady of the Lin family, and the girl is the eldest lady of the Lin family, who traveled to the United Kingdom 8 years ago and was raised under the name of the British Grand Duke Fernande, who is 20 years old and un......married."