Chapter 663: Got the News

As the Navigator stepped backwards out of the captain's cabin, he gently closed the two wooden hatches. Fast who was sitting at the desk leaned over to look at his captain when he heard the door close, "Captain, you're going to buy so many arquebuses... Plundering the city of Santo Domingo? ”

Isabel leaned back in her chair and looked at him, chuckling softly and said, "Good idea, loot the city of Santo Domingo!" However, the Spaniards are still our allies, and it would be furious for our king to do so. ”

"I see, you want to build a Spanish phalanx, don't you?"

Fearing another intrusion from the sea breeze, Isabel replaced her fragile glass with a metal one, and after pouring herself a little wine, she looked at the other party again, "Fast, I called you here to deal with another matter, our Spanish navigator. ”

"Cassiano Avigliana? What do you mean, Captain? ”

Isabel took a sip of wine and gently stroked her left index finger back and forth on the rim of the glass, "Before the fleet enters the harbor of Santo Domingo, you go to two people to get rid of the navigator completely." ”

Fast rested his left arm on his desk and leaned closer again, "Captain, I don't think he'll find out that we had plundered his plantation. ”

"Somebody will find out about it. Did you know that before we returned to the ship on the ferry with our belongings, I found him watching us from the open deck of Captain Hawkins? ”

"Captain, I seem to remember. God willing, he did not find those treasures. ”

Isabel didn't say anything, just turned her gaze to the blue sky and sea outside the porthole behind her. After a while, in calm the order was given to extinguish the mouth. Fast shrugged his shoulders indifferently, pouted and said, "Well, soon I'll let the Spanish navigator leave quietly." ”

At this moment, Cassiano Avigliana, a Spaniard who had boarded the ship from the Canary Islands and lived with the crew on the "Nemesis", had already become acquainted with the crew. When he was involved in the looting of Portuguese merchant ships, the crew dragged him into the celebration of the defeat of the Portuguese. What he didn't expect was that this would make him accidentally learn a somewhat "shocking" news.

A middle-aged sailor with an ale jar filled his mouth with ale snorted at him and said proudly, "Navigator, do you know that this raid on the Portuguese is not the first of our voyages. ”

Cassiano smiled disapprovingly, and put his arm on the sailor's shoulder to look at the other sailors and craftsmen who were enjoying their drinks, "That's right, not only the Portuguese, but you also plundered the French and Italians before you came here. ”

"The French? Italian? No, no, no. The mid-hand sailor shook his head vigorously twice, and after pouring himself another sip of wine, he exclaimed nonchalantly, "Navigator, when we docked at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where you boarded the ship, the captain once took a dozen gunners to the shore in knightly armor and weapons with them. ”

As the other party finished speaking, the smile on Cassiano's face gradually disappeared. His expression became a little serious, and his eyes were fixed on the sailor who was about to drink too much, "Man, do you know what they are doing when they go ashore?" ”

"Pilot, come, drink, today is a good day to celebrate the defeat of the Portuguese." The sailor squinted at him, handed the jug to his eyes, and seemed to turn a deaf ear to his questioning.

Cassiano glanced down at the jar handed to him, took the jar and poured a few sips of ale into his stomach. When he was done, he wiped the ale from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and smiled as he turned his head to look at the sailor, "Now, can you tell me about it?" ”

The sailor did not doubt his motives, but only said as he brought the jar back, "Actually, most of the people on board don't know about it. I was also carrying their goods for them, only to find out that they went ashore to... Grab! ”

"Raid...!?" Kasiano almost screamed at the word, and hurriedly glanced at the others on the open deck. When he found that no one was paying attention to them, he quickly pulled the sailor to the starboard fence and whispered, "How do you know that they came ashore to plunder?" ”

"Navigator, it is common to plunder the Spanish plantations, just as the captain led us to plunder the Portuguese merchant ships."

"That's right, the guns on board the Nemesis can attest to that."

The middle-aged sailor leaned against the fence and poured the last bit of ale from the jar into his mouth. Then, he raised his right arm and threw the jug into the air behind his head, reaching out and patting Cassiano on the shoulder, "Navigator, although I don't know which guy the captain led the man to rob, this guy must have a rich man. Because the captain brought a lot of hides, spices and cane sugar......"

When Kasiano wanted to ask again, he found that the middle-aged sailor had collapsed on the deck and was asleep. Leaning silently against the fence, he looked at the other Englishmen who were still drinking and celebrating, and thought to himself, "Which plantation will Miss Brenda and her men plunder?" ”

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At this moment, Cassiano stood on the captain's lookout and looked at the land in front of the port side, the eastern part of the Spanish island, and his heart was a little excited. As everyone knows, the artillery commander Fast, who was standing on the other side of the helmsman, had been paying attention to him for a long time.

Faster casually leaned against the fence on the left side of the lookout, nodded to the two Duke's Palace colleagues under the lookout, and walked over to the Spanish navigator with a smile. When he came to Cassiano's side, he gazed at the land he was about to arrive at, and said with emotion, "This is a land that even God will love." Navigator, is that so? ”

Cassiano was not surprised by the sudden appearance of Fast, but nodded and looked at the land that was getting closer and closer, "Yes, otherwise, Master Columbus would not have asked for his body to be transported back to Santo Domingo City for burial." ”

As the two made small talk, Kasiano recalled the incident that the middle-aged sailor had mentioned after drinking. Leaning against the fence and staring at the rolling sea, "Commander, you probably have a good relationship with Miss Brenda, don't you?" ”

"Brenda?" Fast muttered, he almost forgot about Isabel's fake name. Squinting his eyes, he glanced at the navigator on the right, smiled softly and said, "Yes, navigator, what do you mean?" ”

Kasiano lifted his upper body and turned to look at him, "Miss Brenda will take you to loot from time to time, won't she?" ”