Episode 4 Isle of Tribulation (8)
It's not as luxurious as an RV inside, and there's no mess. I could see the oil lamp on a sandalwood table, a round bronze mirror in front of it, a large wooden cabinet, and a simple bed. There is also a large ancient ink painting hanging on the wall, which depicts a middle-aged literati with a twisted beard, who looks a little old. The whole feels like the dwelling of ancient people.
I boldly pointed to the literati and asked, "Who is this?" ”
She walked over and put the scroll away, and I asked absurdly, "Is it your husband?" "After asking, I also felt inappropriate, that was an ancient person!
She said coldly: "It's Master Zu." Newly married tonight, you can't hang a statue. Wait for tomorrow...... You're mine, and you're going to have to kowtow to this image. "I felt a chill in my heart: this madman insisted that I follow her strange rules, and I couldn't resist it.
As soon as the portrait was removed, a metal wall of cooked copper color appeared in the place where the painting was originally hung. There is a circular relief on the wall, with five lines of text carved on the side, and a delicate pattern carved below each of the words. Only one line of the five characters is a Chinese character, the two Song-style characters of "Quantong", and the dragon and phoenix in the clouds are engraved underneath, but that seems to be some kind of sign, not just a pattern. I don't know the other fonts, but the motif below is a moon, a lion, a skeleton, and a cross, with a keyhole in the center. I was confused, I didn't know why.
She pulled me away violently and snapped, "Don't look at what you shouldn't!" ”
I was so frightened that I crouched in the corner again, and she snorted contemptuously: "You have this guts, and you are a man!" Then she waved her hand: "Go to bed and wait!" I'm going to make dinner. Tonight is our wedding night and we have at least four dishes...... Do you drink? ”
I didn't know what evil I had fallen into, so I suddenly howled out my throat, vented the anguish in my heart, and then said in despair: "I'll do it." ”
She was taken aback: "What? Do you? ”
"I ...... I'm a chef. ”
She seemed pleased with my submission, unaware of my despair: "Alright, I'll try your handiwork." At the beginning, my husband, he also cooked a good dish...... "Her eyes actually made me feel pity again, damn it! Why should I think that? Who will have mercy on me?!
We had a wedding that night. It was a tragic nightmare for me that is hard to describe in words. An ugly girl will not stop imagining a future husband because of her appearance, and I have dreamed countless times of how gentle and beautiful my bride is, and although I know it is impossible, I would rather wait hopelessly than end it completely in the cruel reality.
I felt like I was forcibly brought into the rite of passage by a monster of the opposite sex. She was still laughing weirdly, making me more and more frightened and disgusted. Eventually, when it was all over, I was vomiting on the edge of the bed, and that's when she brought me a container like a woman, and watched me vomit in silence.
She seemed contented, indeed, who would do such a thing with her like this? This is a female Frankenstein face that even her fellow members of the opposite sex would hate. Thinking of the wreckage of so many planes and ships on the island, I couldn't help but feel a pang of disgust, anyway, I had already suffered a great humiliation, and I was a little more bold in despair, and asked directly: "What are the wreckage of those planes...... Are the survivors all ...... by you?"
She was furious, her face was even more hideous, and her hands were raised high, and I was stunned, but I felt a sense of imminent relief. But she didn't knock it down, but froze for a moment, and then smiled in a tolerant manner, and I felt her voice a little younger than before: "What do you think of me?" Female whore thief? I only chose you to be my husband, and no one else is qualified to do so. ”
I didn't want to argue with her about why she thought so highly of herself without considering her own actual conditions, but instead asked, "So...... Didn't the survivors die tortured to death by you? ”
She doesn't seem to like answering such questions, but says lightly: "No one survives." You are in a special situation. So...... I think you're a man from God. ”
"No one survived?" I stood up in shock.
"Nope. Do you see that film-like fog outside the island? ”
I've noticed the fog for a long time, it's like a protective shield from a science fiction movie...... I asked, "What...... What is that? Are you saying that all planes and ships will be knocked down when they get there? That...... And what is that flying fish? ”
She was noncommittal and asked teasingly, "What?" You put your wife side by side with that monster? Just because I'm ugly? ”
"Then you didn't raise it?"
"That kind of animal, there's a lot of ...... Alright, don't interrogate me like a county magistrate. She didn't want to continue the subject, but said to me seriously, "Listen, you just need to know your duties as a husband." You've told me who you are and what happened to you. Xiang Qihang...... You don't know who I am yet, let me tell you, your wife's name is Ji Yinghan. What is my previous husband's name...... You don't need to know, either. My grandfather's surname is Ning, and his name is good for marrying the upper hand. As my husband, you don't have to do a lot of things, and the least thing you have to do is that you're going to stay here with me until you get old, until you die. ”
How can I allow my freedom to be so cruelly deprived? Without thinking about it, I blurted out: "You can kill me!" ”
Ji Yinghan still smiled inclusively: "If you think about it carefully, not everyone is suitable for social living. You were born to live outside the world, have you been happy all these years? …… Well, you won't be able to chew it through too much. Although you are very diligent, you don't need to work later, just let the four slaves do it. However, you cooked so deliciously last night...... Hehe, I haven't had time to compliment you yet. In the future, you will only be responsible for cooking, of course, this does not include the four, who can survive if they eat some leftovers. ”
I thought there might be room for negotiation in the future, but I couldn't bargain with her right now about treating my four female colleagues equally. I looked at her departing figure, and I felt an inexplicable sadness in my heart, but then a strong suspicion sprung up: "She said she had nothing to do with that monster...... But how did she find five survivors, choose a husband, and find four women as slaves? …… Who the hell is she? I glanced at the wall again, and she had hung up the portrait of the so-called grandfather, covering the mysterious metal pattern wall. This wall, and this entire underground room, is very old, and it is credible to say "more than a hundred years" or even more than that, as she said...... But how did the ancient Chinese make this thing? There is a kind of script close to the European alphabet in those special scripts, could it be that it was made by craftsmen from many countries? To use such an engineering team, I'm afraid that only the royal family can do it, ...... she?
I even wanted to tear everything down and start all over again, it was on the plane, and I was having nightmares......
But the voices of the four girls' pleading and crying became clearer and clearer, and I saw Chi Yinghan pulling them with a rope, and their hands and feet were blistered with blood. I became irrepressibly angry, jumped up and yelled, "What are you doing? Stop it! Who gave you the power to turn people into slaves at will? Don't you just have a little more strength? ”
The four girls didn't know that I had become her husband, and they were all stunned to see that I was so decent, and so rude.
Chi Yinghan glanced at me: "Long ability?" Sit down! "I lost all my confidence, and I collapsed on the bed. In fact, I can also detect that she has made a lot of concessions to me, and the root cause of my fear of her is her terrifying appearance.
"You ......," I said in a flattering tone, "can you let them go?" They have never suffered like this......"
Chi Yinghan didn't refuse me, and with a shake of the rope, they were all untied. She said to me, "It's all about your face." But slaves and maids should have the appearance of slaves and maids, and from now on, fetch water, farm the land, wash vegetables, raise rabbits, grouse, and deer, and I will tie a bell to you and be on call. If you don't obey, hehe, you should be clear, what about letting you go? Even if there are more than a hundred people like you combined, I can kill them all. Even if I don't do it, it will be impossible for you to build a ship and leave this island, the fog outside...... I can bury you at the bottom of the sea. If you are obedient, you can still live! Now go up to the mountains to pick wild vegetables and hunt! Before noon I will see at least two animals in the pen for feeding and milking, or one of you will have to gouge out his eye. Go ahead! ”