Part 5 Pirate Legends 6, negotiate conditions
When Captain Jack heard that he was about to rush to the Gulf of New Guinea, he could not hide his excitement, and even made a gesture to Zhang Gou'er, who was guarding him, that he wanted to take a few mysterious gifts in exchange for him, and begged everyone to let him go.
Zhang Gou'er was curious and wanted to see what treasures he had, so he escorted him into the cabin and found a dirty sheepskin bag, from which Jack took out a statue of a god and two bluestone slabs, took them in his hand and looked at them carefully, and found that this statue was not ordinary, it looked like it was made of faience, but it was very heavy, neither Guanyin Bodhisattva nor Mazu.
Look at the two bluestone slabs again, one of them has a square with four corners not connected on it, and there is a small square in the middle; The other is like a courtyard with open doors, and each line is connected by some small circles, black and white, black and white. Zhang Gou'er couldn't understand what this was, so he ran to Bai Haishan for help.
At this moment, Zhu Hui was on the tilller, Han Xiaoyu was carefully observing on the side, and saw Zhang Gou'er hurriedly on the deck, so he asked, "Are those Westerners honest?" โ
"Smith, Nelson, and Erikson are all quite honest, and they have more sailing experience, and they have been helping their brothers, but this Captain Jack always plays tricks to escape, in order to let us let him go, he handed over a few treasures, and asked my brother and Mr. Bai to come and take a look." Zhang Gou'er replied.
"What kind of baby?" Bai Haishan asked in surprise.
"I can't see it."
"Let's go, let's see." Bai Haishan said and led everyone to the rear cabin.
As soon as Captain Jack saw Bai Haishan, as if he had seen a savior, his mouth began to gush:
"Please make no mistake about it, we are not Vikings, we are not Vikings, we are devout Christians, and in order to survive we passed through Iceland to Greenland and via Greenland to the New World. God was very kind to us and gave us a statue of the Virgin Mary, and through astrology, we received the oracle of the Virgin Mary......"
At this time, Bai Haishan picked up the two stone tablets and looked at them carefully, shook his head and asked, "What kind of revelation did the Virgin Mary give you?" โ
Captain Jack twisted his body and leaned forward, smiling and replying, "Untie the rope from me, and I'll tell you the secret." โ
Bai Haishan glanced at Zhu Hui, and Zhu Hui stepped forward to untie the rope on Jack's body.
Captain Jack hurriedly rubbed his eyes, took off the blindfold on his face, rubbed it, put it back on, squinted one eye and pondered for a moment, but pursed his lips and did not speak.
"Captain Jack, what other secrets are you hiding?" Zhu Hui asked.
Finding that his one-eyed eyes were always staring at the two bluestone slabs, Bai Haishan called Zhu Hui, Zhang Gou'er and Han Xiaoyu to the front and asked, "Come and see, do you know the pattern on this?" โ
Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er glanced at each other, and they both shook their heads.
"Senior Bai, this is the Hetuluo book, why does it appear in the hands of Westerners?" Han Xiaoyu asked in surprise.
"Little Jade Girl is really knowledgeable!" Bai Haishan praised: "Yes, this is the Hetuluo book." I heard that Natian Youcai is far-fetched, saying that the Indians are from Anyang, which is from Yindi, although there is a fallacy, but it is not groundless. โ
"Senior Bai, is this statue like a bodhisattva?" Zhang Gou'er asked.
Captain Jack, who was praying silently, came up to take the statue, but was kicked down by Zhang Gou'er, and only heard him angrily say: "The two tablets of stone belong to you, the Virgin Mary cannot be a gift, I am a devout Christian, and you are not, please do not defile the statue of the Virgin." โ
"I'm also a Christian, don't you look like it?" As he spoke, Bai Haishan recited a passage from the Bible.
Knowing that Bai Haishan was also a Christian, Captain Jack became very nervous and asked loudly, "Where is my crystal skull?" You're not going to ruin it like those stupid priests, are you? โ
"Rest assured, we will take good care of the crystal skull, and we will not destroy it like the Jesuit priests." Bai Haishan replied.
Captain Jack nodded and said earnestly, "That's good! Since you're as Protestant as I am, I'm relieved. Mr. Bai, let's talk about a condition of cooperation: if you give me Zรฌ Yรณu, I will not break my promise, these two stone tablets and the statue of the Virgin Mary belong to you, and when Mass is celebrated, I will go to you and return the crystal skull and finger to me, and I must not fall into the hands of a foolish priest. โ
At this time, Zhu Hui held the statue in his hand and whispered: "Senior Bai, this is definitely not the Virgin Mary, I look like Mazu Bodhisattva." โ
"Little Jade girl, come and see who this idol is?" Bai Haishan asked with a smile.
Han Xiaoyu pursed his lips, respectfully saluted the statue, and held it in his hand, it was obvious that this was not clay pottery, but should be carved from extremely hard jade, and after thinking for a moment, he replied seriously: "Senior Bai, this is the statue of Emperor Wa's mother." โ
"Little Jade Girl is really extraordinary!" As he spoke, Bai Haishan gave a thumbs up.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er suddenly admired Han Xiaoyu, and they all opened their mouths in surprise.
Bai Haishan put the statue of Emperor Wa and the book of Hetu Luo together, and led everyone in the cabin to burn incense and worship, and proudly preached to everyone: "The river is out of the map, Luo is out of the book, and the sage is the same." This saint is our ancestor Fuxi, Nuwa is the wife of Fuxi, she is called Wahuang Niangniang by later generations, this is a goddess who mends the sky and saves the world, and creates people from the earth, she created all things, therefore, it is also known as the mother of the earth, and we are the creator god and the first mother goddess of China. โ
Although Jack couldn't even understand a word, he could see that Bai Haishan denied that the statue was the Virgin Mary, so he stood up to protest, but found that no one paid attention to him.
In the past few years, Bai Haishan has never been able to figure it out: there is a crystal skull in the ruins of the temple of the Aztec Empire, how did this group of Viking pirates know? How did they learn that Che-Roy had a crystal finger? What can the crystal man do when he spells it out? So much so that it's worth their lives? Could it be that these secrets are hidden in the statue of Emperor Wa and the book of Hetuluo?
With these questions, Bai Haishan bowed and bowed to this Emperor Wa Niangniang, carefully wrapped it in a fast white cloth, Zhu Hui took the river map and Han Xiaoyu brought Luo Shu, and asked Zhang Gou'er to escort Captain Jack into the captain's room in the front cabin together.
The five of them sat down in the spacious and comfortable cabin, Han Xiaoyu boiled water for everyone to make tea, and Bai Haishan faced Captain Jack and said reservedly: "As a defeated, you have no room for negotiation, but for God's sake, I still decided to talk to you." โ
"It can be seen that you are a very knowledgeable old captain, I believe that the two of us will work together to subvert the cruel and stupid Holy See and rebuild a heavenly world, I don't know what you think?" Captain Jack asked.
After hearing this, Bai Haishan's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly asked, "May I ask why you have such an idea?" โ
Jack, with one eye squinted, looked at the roof of the cabin and blinked and blinked, and finally shed tears, and whimpered: "My wife, Anna, is from England, she is gentle, virtuous, kind, and beautiful, and she was burned alive after she was insulted and burned alive for saving a monk wanted by the Holy See, and was condemned as a witch by the Church......
Speaking of the sad part, Captain Jack was already silent, and Bai Haishan hurriedly comforted: "May the merciful Virgin Mary bless her soul, and may the merciful father bless her in heaven, Amen." โ
"Thank you for your kindness!" Captain Jack continued: "Later, when our village was burned down by the Holy See, we crossed the Norwegian Sea to Iceland, and from Iceland to Greenland, and continued our flight across the sea, and in this way we came to the territory of the Akismos, and met many like-minded companions, William, Smith, Nelson, etc., from whom we bought this statue of the Virgin Mary when we were on a mission to the Akismos......"
Bai Haishan shook his head and asked unceremoniously, "You should have stolen it, right?" โ
Captain Jack was stunned for a moment, and replied rather embarrassedly, "Please don't say that. It's a pity that these artifacts are placed on the altar of the Akismotes, who don't know astrology at all. โ
"So, there should be an astrological compass, right?" Bai Haishan asked with a smile.
Captain Jack hurriedly waved his hand and replied, "Ah, no, there is no need for a compass at all, those two stone tablets can be used for astrology......"
How could Bai Haishan believe his nonsense, smiled and motioned for him to stop talking, and turned sideways and said, "Two sons, you go and ask that honest Mr. Erickson, what treasures does our Captain Jack have?" โ
After a while, Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er came back together, each bringing a wooden box.
When the lid of one of the wooden boxes was opened, and there was a thick cylinder inside, like a musket, but not so long, and there was no butt, trigger, or crosshair, and Zhang Gou'er looked at the cylinder, and hurriedly threw it on the deck in fright.
"What do you see?" Zhu Hui hurriedly asked.
The panicked Zhang Gou'er replied: "I, I'm almost on your face, and your face has become big, big ......"
Han Xiaoyu picked up the cylinder and walked out of the cabin, standing on the side of the ship and watching from afar......
At this time, he found that Zhu Hui was about to open another wooden box, and when Captain Jack saw this, he rushed forward like crazy, pushed Zhu Hui aside, and shouted: "The things in here are my personal belongings, you can't move them." โ
"We promise we won't ask for your personal belongings." Bai Haishan said, pointing to the wooden box and said, "It's always okay to take a look." โ
Lift the lid of the wooden box, there is a crystal ball crystal ball into view, look closely, there seem to be two fish in it, one black and one white rotate alternately, surrounded by stars, sometimes arranged in broken lines, sometimes arranged in long lines, around the black and white double fish orderly arrangement......
"The Fuxi gossip map is still three-dimensional." Bai Haishan shouted in surprise.
It seems that this is the real secret of Captain Jack!
Zhu Hui patted Captain Jack's face and asked, "This ball can't be your grandfather's heirloom, right?" Captain, I hope you will be like Mr. Erickson, a little more devotion to God, say, where did it come from? โ
At this point, Captain Jack knew that he couldn't hide it, so he put forward the last condition: "Captain Bai, I have given you this crystal ball, the Virgin Mary, and the two bluestone slabs, but you have to return the crystal skull and the finger to me, and I will put the crystal man together." โ
"For the time being, it's all handed over to Zhang Gongzi for safekeeping, the crystal people have been dismantled and scattered, I'm afraid it's difficult to find them, and it's not easy to put them back together." Bai Haishan replied noncommittally.
At this time, Han Xiaoyu's exclamation came from outside the cabin: "It's amazing!" I could see distant birds flying in front of me. โ
(End of chapter)