Chapter 281 Fear of power but not virtuous
The house given by Wang Jinsong is good for everything, but it is not good at all, and there is no place to detain people.
After all, even if the servants make a mistake, they will be locked in a woodshed or something. If they are hungry, they will beat and scold them. If they really build a water prison at home, they will probably not be a wealthy businessman, but a powerful man.
In the Ming Dynasty's Acropolis, anyone could appear, including the demons and ghosts of the White Lotus Sect, but it is impossible to have people like "powerful people". If you really have a decoration in the Ming Dynasty's ward station, you are all powerful. What can you eat in the ward station?
Therefore, the environment in which Serena was detained was actually quite good. There was a separate yard and a separate house. When she walked into the house, Xu Bai even saw the beds in the house, the mattresses and quilts were all new. If it weren't for a few fully armed Jinyiwei guards guarding at the door, this place would be more like a maid or something, rather than a cell.
"I heard you want to see me!" Xu Bai sat down calmly at the Dutch woman with wide eyes and seemed a little nervous: "So, I'm here, what do you have to say!"
There was an old missionary Mu Tianyan who acted as a translator, and the communication between the two was not very difficult.
However, this kind of communication through translation is somewhat delayed, which gives Serena a little time to think before speaking.
"I want to exchange the news I know about the pirate treasures of the East for my freedom and my subordinates!"
Serena said slowly, carefully considering the words, the attitude of the young powerful in front of her determines her fate, and the changes in her treatment these days are enough to increase her vigilance, that is, the other party may have seen through the lies she made up.
She didn't think about being careful anymore. If it was not necessary, she didn't want to anger the person in front of her who could decide her destiny.
"So, are your origins and the lovers you come to the East to look for, all of them are false?"
Xu Bai looked at the other party and showed a light smile on his face: "Ger family in Amsterdam, Major Lisse of the Royal Navy, you are bullying me, Daming, and cannot verify these things, right?"
"No, no, no, these are all true!" Serena shook her head repeatedly: "I am the seventh heir of the Geer family, and Rise is indeed my lover, but there are many people who admire me. In Amsterdam, his love for me cannot make me love him as much as he loves me!"
Xu Bai suddenly felt a little sad about Major Liser. After a long time of fun, this guy who was regarded as a life-saving straw by the woman in front of him turned out to be just a spare tire and a licking dog.
What a poor Riser.
"The news about this pirate treasure was told by Liser, and he also attached a treasure map to me in the letter he gave. I offended a person in Amsterdam who could not afford to offend our Geer family. In order not to bring disaster to the family, I had to leave there and join Liser!"
Serena said as she looked at Xu Bai's face. She was a little surprised to find that Xu Bai looked at her expression, very calm. She did not have the disgust of other soldiers from the Ming Dynasty looking at him, nor did she have the lustful eyes she was used to. Her proud appearance and figure seemed to have no effect in the eyes of this powerful young man in the Ming Dynasty.
He looked at himself as if he was looking at an ordinary person.
"If you were in the past, only 10% of the 10% credibility, then now, you can probably be about 50% credibility!"
Xu Bai said slowly: "Before you suggested that you use this treasure map that you don't know where to come from to exchange your freedom, have you ever thought about what would you do?"
Serena's face turned slightly pale, and she asked tentatively: "In exchange for ransom, if the ransom is not obtained, will she be sold as if she is a female slave?"
"You think so beautiful?" Xu Bai showed his white teeth and smiled: "Your actions on the sea are pirates. By the way, let me tell you that the Japanese ships attacked by your ship were ships sent by the Japanese to pay tribute to my Ming Dynasty. In your understanding, you plundered the tributes of my Ming Dynasty's vassal state to my Ming Dynasty and killed the messenger who transported the tributes!"
He looked up and down at Serena: "What will be done to the captured pirates in Amsterdam?"
Serena's face turned pale. Xu Bai turned his head and looked at the old missionary: "Lao Mu, you have a lot of knowledge. Let me tell me what to do with pirates in Amsterdam?"
"I will hang them all in the port to warn everyone!" Mu Tianyan said with a serious face.
Xu Bai's eyes returned to Serena, and Serena couldn't help but take a breath, making her breasts look plump and taller.
Unfortunately, the boy in front of him seemed to have no interest in this beautiful scenery at all.
"The same is true for my Ming Empire, but the way to execute is probably a little more than you Dutch people, such as hanging. In my opinion, this is a kind of tolerance for pirates, not punishment. For example, our Ming Empire has a punishment called Lingchi, which means cutting off the flesh on a person's body piece by piece with a sharp knife. At most, thousands of knives can be cut. In this process, the prisoner cannot die, otherwise the executioner will be punished!"
Xu Bai looked at Serena's almost bloodless face and nodded with satisfaction: "I think this is the punishment, and can warn everyone not to violate the laws of my Ming Empire again..."
"I think you are a kind lord and will not be imposed on a noble noble girl with such punishment!"
Serena murmured, when Xu Bai came in just now, the last little bit of confidence, or luck, in her heart, she no longer knew where she had gone.
In fact, it was also these words that finally made her realize clearly how bad she was now.
"I'm not the lord you mentioned!" Xu Bai shook his head: "I am just a small official next to our Emperor. Coincidentally, my duty is to specifically detect and punish these crimes that violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. I just said that the executioner who cuts thousands of people and does not die. I think I should still have a few such subordinates!"
He saw Serena's lips trembling slightly. He probably wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it. Moreover, this woman probably wanted to maintain her last bit of decency and reserve in order to maintain her demeanor.
He nodded with satisfaction in his heart. That's right. She didn't let her recognize the reality, but she was afraid that she would always think she was here to visit?
"How can you forgive my... sin?" After a while, Serena finally spoke: "I am willing to offer Rise to me the treasure map, just to get your forgiveness!"
"Hey!" Xu Bai sighed: "You should be a smart person. Why don't you understand until now? You have not been executed until now. It is not because of your inexplicable treasure map, nor is it what you call a ransom of a thousand gold coins. Didn't you think about the reason yourself?"
Serena's face suddenly turned slightly red, and her voice suddenly became smaller: "If you want, Serena is willing to be your lover..."
"Uh..." Xu Bai choked, looking at Serena who seemed a little shy in front of him. Looking at the other party's white skin, plump figure, and exotic and pleasing face, his heart was slightly moved.
What were you thinking? He shook his head and drove out the beautiful thoughts in his heart. The woman just said that she had many lovers and she was not a second-hand shoe.
The old missionary looked at the two people in front of him with some embarrassment, hesitating whether to leave quietly, but heard the Lord Xu around him coughing.
"What good things are you thinking about?" Xu Bai said angrily: "You are of some use, but it's not in this regard. Let's talk about where you learned the navigation skills. Where did you get the experience of sailing on the sea? You are a noble woman, where did you bring a boat of people from the distant Amsterdam to here?"
Serena didn't have any thoughts of hiding at this moment. She would answer whatever Xu Bai asked. She didn't want to be hung on a gallows or to be shattered by a sharp knife.
So Xu Bai quickly asked clearly what he had always wanted to know about this woman.
It turns out that Serena is indeed a good successor to the Geer family, and she has all the tutors she should have. In the Netherlands, with the advent of the era of great maritime adventure, this knowledge of navigation has almost become a must-learn for every young aristocratic man and woman. This is due to the atmosphere of the aristocratic circle. If you don’t understand these things, you can’t even get into the mouth when others talk about these topics in the aristocratic circle.
The talented men and women of these nobles can even go directly to the Naval Academy to study. Don’t doubt that all the senior officers of the Dutch Navy are all nobles, and civilians can be the most capable of becoming low-level officers.
These noble children almost became the talent reserve of the Dutch Navy, continuously providing new blood to the Dutch Navy.
What's so hard that Serena is a relatively talented among these noble men and women. Although she will not be able to become a naval officer in the future, she still participated in the study at the Naval Academy, and even went to sea for his ordinary talented brother on the warship.
In the words of the Naval Academy teacher, if Serena was not a woman, with her talent, it would be possible not to mention being a captain or even a commander of a squadron.
Of course, if this is true, and how many of them are the components of the Piaogeer family, don’t be careful. The only thing that is certain is that Serena is really talented in sailing.
This is also an important reason why Serena chose to come to the East herself. If anyone else had chosen to choose such a dangerous path, but for her, she felt that she was fully capable of solving the dangers she encountered along the way.
"Your crime cannot be forgiven!" After hearing Serena's answer, Xu Bai nodded slowly: "The Japanese mission has been asking me to punish you and your accomplices recently. I must give them an explanation..."
Serena looked at Xu Bai with a wings, and she understood that it was time to decide her fate.
"I'll give you a few choices!" Xu Bai said: "First, I will hand you over to the representative of the Japanese mission, that is, Miss Shiori Oto who was once captured and detained by you. As for how Miss Shiori Oto deal with you, that's her business!"
"No, I don't want this choice!" Serena shook her head decisively. She knew the little woman's thoughts too well. During the days she was imprisoned together, she wanted to kill herself more than once, and she would never give the other party a chance.
"The second choice is that I will hand you over to the local governments of my Ming Empire and let them judge your crimes. As for whether you are hanged or released, everything shall be subject to the law!"
"There must be a third choice, right?" Serena blinked her big blue eyes. If there were only these two choices, the young powerful in front of her would not have to say so much nonsense to herself here.
"Of course there is a third choice!" Xu Bai glanced at her: "You are still responsible for your crimes, but since you are of some use, I will not recommend executing you, but punishing you for hard labor. In this case, Miss Shiori Otomo and my local government in the Ming Dynasty will also have an explanation!"
"I choose the third one, I am willing to serve hard labor!"
Before one can be despair, he really doesn't know how strong his desire to survive is. Before Xu Baihua could speak, Serena interrupted him and nodded repeatedly. It seems that she is willing to do anything at this moment as long as she lives.
"The place where the hard labor is in my yamen!" Serena nodded repeatedly. She didn't understand the meaning of Xu Bai's words at all.
"You have to do whatever I ask you to do!" She continued to nod. This was not a big deal.
"I will set rules for you to tell you that things can be done and those things cannot be done!" Xu Bai's face darkened: "You'd better not test the rules I set for you. You only have one life, and my patience is not particularly good, do you understand?"
"I understand completely!" Serena nodded seriously. If this was her own destiny, she had already accepted her fate. Moreover, she had been observing the young powerful in front of her. He felt that although this young powerful in the Ming Dynasty seemed a little weak, others were young and had a high status, and it seemed that it was not very ugly. It seemed that it was not particularly unacceptable to do things for him to offset his crimes.
Of course, if we can really be his lover, it would be the best. With such a young and powerful man, even the East, which looks extremely dangerous, shouldn't be that difficult!
"Okay, the first thing I asked you to do is to follow him to learn the Ming dialect well, and communicate with me as soon as possible in the Ming dialect. If you learn well, you have meat and fish. If you can't learn well, you'll be ready to go hungry!"
Xu Bai didn't know the thoughts that were turning into her mind, so he stood up: "The scope of your movement in the future can be in this small yard, and you don't have to be locked in the house all day long. However, without permission, if you leave this yard, I will chop up your leg!"
Chapter completed!