88 Choose One
◎Xie Wuyang said nothing, just remained silent.◎
Song Jinyi forced a smile and said, "If we're going to do business, you can do it with me. I'm not very talented, but I run a tea shop in Yunzhou. I have a little income, which is probably enough to buy my life."
The pirate shook his head and said coldly, "Although I'm a pirate, I still have to be honest when doing business. How can I marry a woman twice? I have to complete this deal first, and then I can worry about the future. As for your business with you, Madam Song, we'll talk about it in the next life!"
Song Jinyi and the other person were tied up like dumplings and thrown onto the deck. The ship swayed slightly in the waves, making a dull "creaking" sound, like the low moan of a siren.
She looked at the sea outside the railing. The dark sea surface was sparkling with a strange silver light under the pale moonlight. The light was like countless pairs of greedy eyes, staring at her coldly.
Her heart was beating rapidly and her lips were shaking unconsciously. She knew very well that if she fell into the sea in the middle of the night, she would surely die!
Song Yunting, who was beside her, was also witnessing such a scene for the first time. His eyes widened with fear, and he asked in a mournful voice, "Are we doomed to die now?"
Song Jinyi bit her lip, thought carefully, and whispered to him, "Delay! Delay for now! Delay for a moment, delay for a moment, delay for a moment."
"How to drag it?"
The pirates' approaching footsteps were like the footsteps of death, making people panic. Song Jinyi simply shouted, "Wait! Although you accepted the employer's order, you don't want to break the contract.
"But I have a business that won't interfere with your work and can make you money."
Seeing the other party's interest, Song Jinyi continued, "When I brought it, there was some silver and jewelry in the package. Can we talk for a while?"
The pirate leader waved his hand and told his men to search her room. "Now's the time to speak quickly."
Song Jinyi said some irrelevant words to Song Yunting, while keeping one eye on the pirate boss and looking around with the other eye, looking for a way to break the deadlock.
She took a quick look and saw that there were seven or eight people on the deck alone, plus the people who went to her room to search... There was no chance for the two of them to escape!
The feeling of despair spread like a vine in her heart.
After a while, a commotion came from the cabin. The pirate leader pointed his knife in displeasure and said, "Damn it! You two go over there and take a look. Why are you quarreling over something? Tell them, if they dare to divide the loot in front of me, I'll kill them and feed them to the fish."
The two minions did not dare to delay and ran towards the cabin.
"What a bunch of useless guys, they can't even do such a simple thing!" the pirate leader cursed.
Soon, several henchmen threw a heavily tied-up man in front of the pirate boss. One of them replied, "Boss, we caught a tail."
The pirate leader glanced at them and saw that each of them was covered in wounds, with bloody arms and swollen noses and eyes, looking in a miserable state.
He suddenly stood up, pointed at their noses and cursed: "A bunch of good-for-nothings, beaten up like this by a brat! If this gets out, will we pirates still have any face left?"
"Boss, it's really not our fault. This kid knows some martial arts, and we brothers risked our lives to take him down. Look at the cut on my arm. We can't let this kid get away with it. We'll make sure he's neither alive nor dead."
Song Jinyi saw the blonde from afar and guessed who it was. Her heart sank suddenly, and a surge of anger surged into her heart. She whispered, "What are you doing here? Are you trying to cause trouble?"
Xie Wuyang said nothing, just remained silent.
Seeing this, the pirate boss smiled sinisterly, "So you two know each other!" His eyes swirled around the three of them, "I've thought of an interesting way to play."
He had Song Yunting and Xie Wuyang placed on the railing, "Don't move, or it won't be fun if you fall down."
He then said to Song Jinyi: "The employer only bought two lives, but there will be one more person on the ship, so I will give you a choice."
He brandished the knife, circling it in front of the two men. "How about you choose one of them to die with you?"
Song Jinyi's mind went blank for a moment. What had he just said? She sat there in a daze, her eyes filled with disbelief. How could she choose?
When Song Yunting and Xie Wuyang heard the pirate leader's words, they both looked up at Song Jinyi.
Time passed minute by minute, and the moisture brought by the sea breeze soaked her clothes.
Seeing that she was still hesitant to make a choice, the pirate boss said impatiently, "If you don't choose, I will choose one for you."
He walked around in front of the two men with a big knife in his hand, looking at them as if he was picking cabbages. He lifted Xie Wuyang's chin and said, "This kid looks good, but it's a pity that he is a man. If he was a woman..." As he spoke, his eyes became obscene.
Xie Wuyang was enraged by his gaze and struggled desperately, leaving bloody marks on his wrists.
"Oh, you're still quite hot-tempered!" He jokingly asked, "What's your relationship with this Miss Song?"
Seeing that he didn't answer, Hun said, "There's only one kind of relationship between a man and a woman." He moved closer to Xie Wuyang and said with a malicious smile, "It's a relationship of having sex."
After saying that, he laughed a few times and walked over to Song Yunting. "This is your brother. I heard that he's in poor health and a sickly person. I don't think he'll live many more years. Letting him die is a good idea, right?"
As the pirate leader spoke, he raised the big knife in his hand.
Song Jinyi yelled, "No! No!"
"If this doesn't work, then this!" As soon as he finished speaking, the big knife in his hand fell down, leaving her almost no time to react.
With a "splash" sound, a circle of waves was created on the calm sea surface.
Song Jinyi's eyes suddenly widened and she moved forward like crazy.
"Are you in such a hurry to die? I'll grant your wish!" The pirate boss was about to take action when suddenly a sharp sword pierced his chest. He held the knife in his hand, staring at the arrow in his chest, blood constantly flowing out of his mouth.
The big knife slipped from his hand, and then the whole person fell backward with a "bang".
Song Jinyi looked back in the direction of the arrow and saw a group of people on the boat. They were wearing black robes, had brown hair and deep features.
Is he Xie Wuyang's fellow tribesman? !
Song Jinyi didn't care about their origins or purpose, she just kept shouting at them, "Go and save Xie Wuyang quickly, go!"
The leader, upon hearing her words, rushed to the railing and looked down, but saw nothing.
Song Jinyi shouted at the top of her lungs, "He fell into the sea! Please save him! I beg you to save him!"
The other party said calmly: "It's impossible to save him. He can't swim. If he falls into the sea, he will definitely die!"
The words "certain death" were like a huge rock hitting her head, making her dizzy. How could he not be saved?
"Why did he fall into the sea for no reason? Why was he the only one who fell into the sea?"
Song Jinyi couldn't utter a word in response to the other party's questioning. Why? It was all because of her, because she had abandoned Xie Wuyang...
Hunnamu kicked a pirate to the ground and asked in a nasty tone, "Tell me why?"
"That young man's death has nothing to do with us! Our boss was paid to deal with the Song brothers and sisters, but he didn't expect him to show up. Then the boss told the lady to choose someone and throw him into the sea. Now that the boss is dead, you should go after the lady."
The spearhead turned, and the eyes of the black-robed men all fell on Song Jinyi. "I didn't expect that a woman like you could be so vicious! Our master loves you so deeply that he is willing to give up his great cause for you."
Song Jinyi knew she was doomed, so she retorted, "What do you mean by affection? I heard your conversation the other day clearly. If you hadn't coveted the Song family's wealth, why would you have played such a trick with me? You've ended up like this. Ultimately, it's all your own fault."
After hearing this, Hunnamu sighed deeply and said sadly, "So it was because of this incident that I harmed my master."
Faced with Hunnamu's sudden change of mood, Song Jinyi was surprised but said nothing.
Hunnamu called a man over in Xirong language, and when the man came to him, he asked him to turn his back.
The man's figure was almost the same as Xie Wuyang's, and his hair was also golden, but a little darker. If you stood far away and didn't look carefully, it would be easy to mistake his back.
"What do you mean?"
"Did you see Xie Wuyang's face that day when you eavesdropped? Are you sure it was Xie Wuyang?"
The series of questions made Song Jinyi have a terrible idea in her mind - the person that night was not Xie Wuyang!
"I was just using a trick to drive you apart, but I never thought you would kill him because of this."
Song Jinyi stared blankly at the bottomless sea, her whole body trembling uncontrollably, her knees weak. She had never thought of hurting Xie Wuyang! She plunged forward, lowered her head, and wailed loudly.
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A bright ball emerged on the horizon, and the color of the sea surface also changed, from thick ink color to azure blue, and finally to an almost transparent blue.
This light blue is the same color as the sky, just like the reflection of the sky in the sea. Under the blue sky, Yunzhou City is still as lively as ever.
A carriage slowly stopped outside the corner gate of the Song Mansion. Shen Lingyu, supported by her mother, got off the carriage. When she was about to walk in, she was startled by Geng Niang's exclamation, "Why are you so startled?"
"Miss, look over there."
Shen Lingyu followed her gaze and saw Song Jinyi standing not far away.
!
Wasn't she supposed to have died at sea? How did she end up here?
Song Jinyi approached her step by step with a smile on her face, but one could not feel a trace of smile.
"Aunt Shen, how are you?"
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