Chapter 105 – Washing the Island

In the early hours of the next morning, a large stone was missing from the pier outside Suzhou, a sack was missing, and someone heard the pounding sound of a heavy object falling into the river. Immediately afterward, it was heard that the third concubine of the young master had gone back to his hometown of Quanzhou to save his family, and he did not know when he would come back again, and the date of his return was undetermined.

The same gray morning fog, far away in the city of Quanzhou outside the sea on top of an island, taking advantage of the cover of the pre-dawn night, many ferocious bird-eating gulls from the layer of clouds rushed down, landed on top of the island, densely covered the entire ground, these thieving gulls greedily lowered their own head, with the tip of the beak with black blood pecked and tore something, because the number of birds is too much, so grabbing up food to Because there were so many birds, they grabbed food in a violent manner, and from time to time, there were gulls who tore themselves up in order to grab a place to eat, and for a while, bird feathers flew about on the dimly lit surface of the island, and blood and flesh splattered all over the place.

What they snatch to eat is not the small chicks and turtle eggs that they like to enjoy every day, but …… the corpses of people.

The entire island, at this time, was actually strewn with corpses! The pungent blood stained breath rises up to the sky, but it is good that the early spring is in the early spring, so there is not too fishy and evil rotting breath issued, but spare me, so many corpses, still messed with the thieving gulls within a circle of hundreds of miles.

What a feast.

The island can vaguely see the pier general building, but at this time has long been all deserted, the dead people opened their frightened eyes, the whitish eyeballs can not move, covered with a layer of mucous membrane formed after death, it seems that how can not imagine that there will be someone touched to the island to kill themselves.

Snort, a thief gull accurate and incomparable peck in the eyes of the corpse is difficult to rest in peace, holding a grain of bloody eyeballs, proudly twisting the neck, then lowered his head, seems to be afraid of a companion to snatch food with their own, wings spread, moved to a place, hiding under the reef began to eat, but found that some of this food is a little hard, cackling their necks, panicked cackle cackle.

The island is full of corpses, meat flying white bones, organs were pecked out, blood stains, death, fluttering, fighting birds, the smell of death and fear permeate the sea.

A hand, some difficult and feeble to peel off the body above, carefully chased away from the side of those damned thief gulls, a pair of eyes from the gap nervously looking out, confirming that the team of officers and soldiers on the island has been on the boat left, the island pirates, only to palpitate from the companions of the bodies climbed out.

This person received a knife in the shoulder, blood and flesh, if not because of his identity, for those officers and soldiers to carry the murderous aura of perception is very fast, take the first step to pretend to be dead, and with the companion’s corpse to cover their own, perhaps he would have been dead.

Those on the island to the officers and soldiers, should have been these pirates companions, but suddenly ferocious, the ruthlessness of the hand is unspeakable, until all the people on the island are dead, think that the pirate’s leader will think, the Ming family, is to silence.

The man who escaped with a dark face, it seems to be living at sea for many years, with an unusual face, a resolute look, and slightly narrowed eyes. After experiencing such a great difficulty, yet he didn’t seem to be much alarmed. Gasping for breath, he sat among the corpses of his companions, forcibly calmed his mind, tore off the clothes of his companions around him, tightly bandaged his wounds, and then began to get up, searching for fresh water and food on the island.

When the officers and soldiers left, they thought that all the people had died out, so they did not destroy the fresh water and food, giving him a chance to live.

After recovering his spirit for a bit, the sky, too, dawned.

Facing the sunrise rising from the sea, the man slowly sat on the pier, looking at the flocks of birds that flew and fell not far away, looking at the miserable after-death appearance of those long-time companions, his lips began to turn white, but he held back the nausea and desire to vomit, and backhanded over a jug of fresh water, and poured it down into his parched mouth.

The people who had died were all his companions, but he would not bother to bury them. For one thing, there were too many dead people, and it was impossible for him to bury so many corpses by himself. Secondly, being a pirate, if you can’t be buried in the sea after death, being taken up to the sky by these thieving gulls, it doesn’t have to be a bad end. Thirdly, these pirates usually do a lot of evil, killing and raping things often happen, now first killed, and then eaten by the birds, it is also considered retribution.

His name is Qingwa, Quanzhou local, family is ordinary, ability is ordinary, always in the sea as a sailor, sometime last year, he was riding the big ship was robbed by pirates, do not know what method he used, but also lucky to survive, and also joined the pirate’s internal, began to become partners with the pirates, in the monstrous sea outside of Quanzhou, to do those very ugly things.

The pirates on this island are the largest group on the sea, but it is very strange, they do not do much business, and the chief seems to deliberately hide the whereabouts of this team. Stayed on the island for half, Qing Hua finally realized that the main business on the island, is to rob the Ming family to the Western Ocean delivery of cargo ships.

Every time the ship is robbed, all of them do not leave any survivors, especially the court officials on board who are responsible for escorting the ship.

Just half a year’s time, Qingwa because of their own calm and cold-blooded, got the chief’s appreciation, became a small leader among the pirates, began to gradually understand more details, and began to have access to some very important things, it is a pity that …… at this time, this night, a group of powerful sailors found the island, and bloody massacre. And bloody and incomparable slaughtered all the people on the island.

The sunrise brushed his face, but it was not refreshing, because his body was full of dead bodies and blood, Qingwa s throat rumbled twice, recognizing the pirate who was being pecked by the birds on his thigh not far in front of him, and it was the talented boy who lived in the same cave with himself.

Qing Wa blinked his eyes feebly, stood up with some difficulty, walked to the side of Cai Zai’s corpse, used the wooden stick in his hand to drive away those god damned pirate gulls, looked at Cai Zai’s corpse, was speechless for a long time, and finally said slowly, “If I go back alive, your parents, I’ll take care of them.”

After saying these words, he decisively threw down his partner’s corpse, and walked along the hidden path under the pier, and went in another direction, the boats on the island had all sunk, but there was a backhand left by the pirate leader, I don’t know if the wooden boats there were still there or not.

Qingwa did not walk fast, but was extraordinarily determined. He had to hurry back to the land, because although he had survived, those later letters of information had not been sent out, and Lord Tiji’s side should have already started to get anxious.

He wiped his tears as he walked, forcing himself not to look back, although those pirates behind him had a way of taking their lives, but after spending half a year together, even if he was hard-hearted, he couldn’t help but have some feelings.

At this time Qingwa’s chest rose a flame called anger. Eyes can get the evidence of the collusion between the Ming family and the pirates …… Yesterday night that batch of troops, the fighting force is extremely powerful, exactly which side of the force is the person? Since it is on the island to exterminate, it must be a certain military big brother, so that it is possible to mobilize the powerful sailors along the coast …… Could it be the Ye family? However, he has no qualifications to make a judgment, and he only hopes that he can hurry to send this intelligence back to Suzhou.

Yes, the Qingwa who was crying was one of the five crows in the peripheral B group of the Inspection Division of the Supervisory Court around Quanzhou, and he was the secret agent who had once reported the Ming family’s association with pirates to Fan Xian.

Away from the island outside of the city of Suzhou in Jiangnan, the beauty of that seems to refuse to stain a trace of secular flavor within the Ming Garden, the contemporary Ming family master Ming Qingda is standing respectfully in front of a chair, back to the chair in the person’s questioning.

The person in the chair was a woman, an old woman.

Even in front of Her Highness the Princess, Ming Qingda didn’t need to be so formal and polite, but in front of this old woman, he had to lower his head, because this old woman was the real and most powerful …… Taijun of the Ming family, his real mother.

A number of years ago, if it is not this old woman ruthless, poisoned that most favored foreign room, after the old master died, and that old seven chased out of the family, the Ming family this favored family property, only afraid that it has already fallen in the hands of that person, which has Ming Qingda what share?

Ming Qingda every time he looked at his elderly mother, always associated with the four words can not be high virtue Shao, but thought: old but not dead is a thief …… seventh brother’s body probably somewhere has been turned into white bones, right? He thought like this, although his heart was at ease, but also a little chilled, as long as this old woman still lives for one day, he can not be considered a real principal in the Ming family.

“Your movements are too slow.” The Ming family’s old Taijun looked at her son and said in an unforgiving cold voice, “If you want to clean yourself up, then you should have started two years ago.”

Ming Qingda Shi claimed to be intelligent, otherwise it would not have been possible to hold such a large industry in the Ming family, but in front of his mother, he was criticized for not being able to do so, his face heated up, frowned and said, “Why two years ago?”

“Because two years ago, the palace decided to let Fan Xian marry Lin Wan Er!” The old woman said in a hateful voice with a cold light in her eyes.

Ming Qingda’s face was respectful, but in his heart, he had other thoughts, thinking that even if he had guessed at that time that Fan Xian would go down to Jiangnan to take charge of the inner treasury, but at that time, who knew that he was the Emperor’s illegitimate son? Who knew that he was the descendant of the Ye family? Who knew that he would be in charge of the Supervisory Yuan in the future? This old woman, it seems that she is really confused.

The old woman scolded, “This time, if I hadn’t asked for the military’s help, if I let the Supervisory Court find out about that island, with Fan Xian’s character, how would he deal with you?”

Ming Qingda laughed coldly in his heart and responded with a respectful face, “It’s really ungrateful of my child to let my mother be bothered.”