I couldn't believe my eyes, I looked at her beautiful and familiar smiling face stupidly, and hurriedly tried to stand up, but my hands were still weak, so I could only lie on the bed honestly, and said in great surprise: "You, why are you- here?" ”

Instead of answering me immediately, she leaned down to help me up, put the pillow against my back to make me more comfortable, and then sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "They helped me up." ”

"They? Save? ”

"Oh, you probably don't know yet, that-"

I hurriedly said: "I heard that Yan Qinghan's ship was attacked by pirates and was beaten badly. ”

"Well," she nodded, "it was a terrible blow, even the boat was broken, and I fell into the sea during that confusion." ”

"Huh?! Are you okay then? ”

"It's fine." She smiled and nodded: "I was just soaked in the seawater and got a little bit of typhoid fever, but I'm also a doctor myself, and I'll be fine soon." ”

"Then you say, they rescued you, they mean—"

She looked at me, her eyes flickering, and she paused before she said slowly, "Pirate." ”

“……”

"Those pirates, you rescued me."

"......," I gasped.

The pirates rescued her, which means we're still on the pirate's ship now?!

However, looking at her appearance, it doesn't look like she was hurt or coerced, but she is still very free, what is going on? Did the pirates still treat her kindly?

As if to see what I was thinking, she said slowly: "Don't worry, these pirates are not the kind of people who kill and plunder and do all kinds of evil. ”

“…… Oh? ”

Seeing that I didn't believe it, she smiled faintly, and didn't want to explain more, but I suddenly remembered, Liu Qinghan and Han Zitong, the two of them fell into the sea with me, what about them?

I hurriedly asked her, and Xue Muhua patted the back of my hand at the right time, and said in a comforting tone: "Both of them have been rescued." That Lord Liu, he seems to have eaten a lot of messy things before, and he has been holding back in the sea for so long, I gave him an injection, but he is still very weak now, resting in another room. ”

"Will he—"

"Don't worry, I'm here, it's fine."

As she spoke, she looked at me with a complicated expression and said, "He cares about you very much." ”

“……”

"Both hands are tied like that, and they save you from the bottom of the sea...... The pirates said that they had never seen him so desperate, and they were all convinced of him. ”

“……”

I didn't speak, but with my weak hands, I slowly tightened the quilt on my body.

Xue Muhua looked at me for a while, as if he felt something, and didn't say more, only said: "That Miss Han is also very concerned about you, I told her that you are fine, and she is willing to go to rest." ”

……

That said, at least for now, all three of us are okay and safe.

I couldn't help but let out a long breath.

It was also at this time that I had time to look around.

We are now in a cabin that is not very spacious, and the corners, the window ridges, and the somewhat broken hatch can be seen to be some years, and although some places have been rested again, they cannot hide the mottled marks left by the years.

I asked, "Are we on the ships of those pirates?" ”

She nodded.

I looked at her: "Then how are you with them, uh......"

Seeing that I was a little embarrassed, she smiled herself, and then said: "Before, Yan Qinghan's ship was attacked by them, which happened to be the location of my cabin, and it was half blown up, and it threw me out directly, I also thought that I would definitely die, who knew that those pirates actually rescued me." ”

"And then?"

"It just so happened that some of them had dysentery and were dying. I thought about it, the parents of the healer couldn't watch them die, and besides, they saved my life in the end, so I helped them heal. These people are also very righteous when they say it, and they are polite to me. ”

“……”

I sighed softly in the bottom of my heart.

I vaguely remembered that back then, Huang Tianba once said that the reason why he fell in love with Xue Muhua at first sight was because of her compassion and the feelings of the doctor's parents, even after they were separated, after so many years, he still had unforgettable feelings for her. Although I watched how their marriage was broken, now, I can somewhat understand how his love was born.

But now, it's useless to talk about it.

I looked at her fair-skinned, faintly pink face under the light of the candle flame, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Miss Muhua, listening to you, you have been with these pirates for a long time, do you know who they are?" Why are they attacking us? ”

Xue Muhua said: "We have been together for a long time, but although they are polite to me, they are not willing to tell me anything. It's just—"

"Just what?"

"When I talked to them, I found that some of these people spoke with a Shudi accent, and some of them looked like people from Yangzhou."

"Oh?!" I was startled and flicked off the soft pillow: "Really? ”

"I've been in Xichuan, and I'm still very familiar with the Shu accent, and I've heard Yangzhou dialect, so I can hear them as soon as they say it."

“……”

I just felt my heart pounding.

When I recalled watching the appearance of this pirate ship before, the shock brought to me by that behemoth seemed to be inextricably linked with some things in my memory, and her words made my guess more confirmed.

Of course, just the accents of some people are completely not enough to prove.

I then asked, "Do you see anything else?" ”

This time, Xue Muhua didn't answer me immediately, but looked at me and said, "Madam, are you investigating something about these pirates?" ”

I was stunned, and she continued: "I don't know if you have any purpose to go to sea, but after I was taken on the ship by Wei Zhengbang and them, I also heard something from their words, they seem to be going to sea to find something, and that thing seems to have been hidden overseas by your mother back then, right?" ”

I nodded silently.

"You're here for this too?"

"......" I thought about it, and I didn't deny it.

She looked at me for a moment, then looked back at the hatch, as if to make sure it wasn't just us, then sat down a little closer to me and whispered, "These pirates—actually, I don't think they're ordinary thieves. ”

"Oh? How? ”

"Ordinary thieves must rob houses and houses, and pirates are certainly supposed to rob passing merchant ships, but I have been on this ship for so long, and I have not seen them rob other merchant ships. They wander around the sea every day, saying they're looking for merchant ships, and I think they're more like, like, patrolling. ”

"Patrol?"

Xue Muhua, who said these two words, probably felt a little ridiculous, and a little embarrassed smile appeared on his face, and when I listened to it, I also felt that it was indeed ridiculous.

Pirates, patrolling the seas?

It's as fresh as a thief catching a thief.

However, she had been in contact with these pirates for so long, and since she said so, there must be a reason for her.

I frowned and said, "But, why did they go to rob Yan Qinghan's ship?" ”

She glanced at me and said, "They weren't robbing Yan Qinghan's boat. ”

“…… What? ”

"It's not robbery," Xue Muhua said, "they just want to hit their boat." ”

"What?!"

I couldn't help but raise my voice a little, and she was startled when she heard it, and hurriedly waved her hand at me, I immediately closed my mouth, and both of them turned their heads to look, the hatch was still closed, and there was no sound of anyone approaching outside.

I breathed a sigh of relief and asked her in a low voice, "They just attacked Yan Qinghan purely?" ”

"Yes."

"Not for money?"

"They don't look like it." She said: "After I was rescued by them, I listened to those subordinates talking to their leaders, and they only talked about the casualties and where Yan Qinghan's ship went, but they didn't mention anything about money or anything. ”

"Well, they beat us before—"

"They're going to fight that bunch of pirates."

"Two bands of pirates?"

"Yes. The one who grabbed you, I heard what it was—some sea serpent's men, especially bad. It seems that there has always been a festival on both sides of them, and they have been fighting for many years, and as long as they meet, they will fight. ”

“……”

"It seems that this time, the sea serpent took advantage of their boat, took their place, and took their things, and they are about to kill them now."

"Oh......"

This time, my heart beat even harder.

Something, constantly fluttering in my mind, seemed to be only separated by a layer of lantern paper, and was about to come out.

When I was still a little distracted, Xue Muhua continued: "However, this group of people is also very mysterious, what they are doing and how they became pirates, I haven't figured it out. It's just that although some of them look fierce and vicious, they are not bad, and they say that they will come to shore once every six months, and they make me more patient, and when they come to the shore next time, they will put me on land. ”

I listened and nodded.

I didn't ask where they would go to shore during this kind of sea ban, after all, the identity of "pirates" is different from ordinary merchant ships, and they naturally have their own way. Even if the pirates really looted, they still need to go ashore to sell the stolen goods, and we know from the tone of the pirates who caught us before that they also want to go ashore to find women and "enjoy".

However, for some reason, hearing Xue Muhua talk about their actions reminded me of another person.

Huang Tianba.

When he was the chief of the seventy-two water and land provinces in the three southern provinces, although he was also a good man in the green forest, he used another set of means to punish those thieves and bandits who were really evil, and standardize them.

This ship, Crossing the Sea and Feiyun, and these people on the ship, let me see the shadow of Huang Tianba back then.

I raised my head to look at Xue Muhua, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Then, who is the leader of these pirates, the owner of this ship?" ”