At the same time, I vaguely heard a gunshot and the hands looked at each other.
What does that mean? asked the captain
A prisoner escaped from Chateau Yves, and they were firing warning shots. Dants answered the captain, glancing at him, he looked very calm and drinking, and the captain’s doubts were dispelled.
This wine is so good that Dantè s wiped his forehead with short sleeves as he spoke.
Whatever, the captain looked at him and said to himself, even if it’s him, it’s good because I got a young veteran after all
Dantè s asked him to take the helm on the pretext that he was tired. The helmsman was glad to have the opportunity to let go and looked at the captain and motioned for him to give the helm to his new partner Dantè s, so that he could always keep an eye on the movement in Marseilles.
What’s the date today? He asked Jacob sitting next to him.
February twentieth
Which year
What year? You asked me what year.
It was the young man who replied, I asked you what year this year is.
Have you forgotten what year it is?
I was so frightened last night that Dantè s smiled and replied that I almost lost my memory. I mean, what year is this year?
In 129, Jacob replied that it had been fourteen years since Dantè s was arrested. He was nineteen years old and was thirty-three when he fled to Fort Yves.
A sad smile passed over his face, thinking that after so many years, I don’t know what happened. She must be dead. Then he thought of the three people who had been imprisoned for so long and suffered a lot. His eyes shone with hatred. He relived the oath of revenge against Danglars Fernand de Villefort in prison. This oath is no longer a hole threat, because the fastest sailboat in the Mediterranean can’t catch up with this small sloop, and every sail is full of wind and flies straight to Liwo.
Chapter 1 Smugglers
In less than a day, Dantè s became familiar with the crew of the ship, the maiden Amelia, the name of the Genoese sloop. Although the honorable captain has not been taught by Father Faria, he knows almost all the languages along the Mediterranean coast, from Arabic to Provence. He can speak a little. He doesn’t need to hire an interpreter. This language ability is always an extra burden and often an extra chance to reveal secrets. It is very convenient for others to exchange information, whether he meets sailing boats at sea or those sailing along the coast. Those people with different origins have no names, nationality or white names. They can be seen at Haikou Wharf. They live by that secret financial source, but because we can’t see their financial source, we can say that they live by the sky. Reading may have guessed that Dantè s is on a smuggling ship.
In view of the above situation, the captain left Dantè s on board. There is no doubt that he is very familiar with the coastal officials and these respectable gentlemen are always intrigued. At first, he Dantè s may have been a spy sent by the tax bureau to spy on the secret of his action, but Dantè s’s skill in manipulating the boat was completely relieved. Later, when he saw a plume of light smoke rising from Fort Yves, he immediately thought that his ship had accepted a figure like the king who wanted to salute. At that time, he was somewhat relieved, because such a newcomer was better than a naval officer, but when he saw that the newcomer was very calm, the latter layer of doubt disappeared as before.
Edmond took advantage. He knew what the captain was like, but the captain didn’t know who he was. No matter what the old sailor and his crew did to trick him, he could hold back without revealing any truth. He insisted that his initial words were vivid. He knew these places as well as Marseilles. The Genoese, though sophisticated, was deceived by the attitude and skillful navigation skills of Dantes Wen. Of course, perhaps this Genoese is the same as those wise men. They don’t want to know anything but want to believe something.
It was in this mutually beneficial situation that they arrived at Liwo, where Edmond was to be tested again. This is that he had not seen himself for 14 years. Does he still know himself now? He still has a good memory of his youth. Now he has to face what he has become as an adult. His new friends believe that he should fulfill his wish. He had stopped at Liwo for less than 20 times before. He remembered that he went there to shave his hair in a hair shop on St. Di South Street. Looking at this man with long hair and black beard, he looks like incense. span, a famous Italian painter, did not have such long hair at that time. If today a person is so beautiful and willing to give up, he will be surprised that the hairdresser in Liwo immediately started to work without thinking.
After the repair, Edmund felt that the bus was very smooth and his hair was shorter than that of ordinary people. He asked for a mirror to look at himself from the mirror. As I have said, he is now 33 years old, and his fourteen years in prison have changed his temperament. When Dantè s entered Yves Castle, he was a happy young man with a round and frank smile. His early walk in his life was flat, but his future continued in the past, but now all this has changed. His oval face has been elongated, and Zhang Hanxiao’s mouth has been engraved to show a strong and calm line. There is a thoughtful wrinkle on his full forehead, and his eyes are full of depression, from which the light of anger, resentment and hatred flashes from time to time. His face turns pale due to long-term exposure to sunlight, and with his black head, he finds a Nordic aristocratic beauty, and his face glows with a calm and intelligent light. He has been tall since he was born, and he has accumulated strength for many years, making him even stronger.
Plump, strong and muscular, his figure has changed, and he is thin, strong and gentle. His voice has changed a lot because of praying, sobbing and cursing. Sometimes it sounds very touching and sometimes it is hoarse.
Moreover, because he has lived in a dark place for a long time, his eyes have already become like those of a hyena and a wolf. Edmund looked in the mirror and smiled. Even if his best friend had any friends left, it would be impossible to recognize him. He didn’t even recognize himself. Captain Amelia, the girl, wanted to keep people like Edmund. He gave some dividends to Edmund’s hairdresser in the future. As soon as Edmund changed his appearance, he left the hair shop and bought a sailor suit for us. Everyone knows that it’s very simple, but it’s just a pair of white pants, a sea soul shirt and a hat. Edmund wore this suit to the boat, lent Jacob his shirt pants and returned them to him. The captain told him to tell his life story again in front of the young captain Amelia. He didn’t recognize that this clean and elegant sailor was the one who was rescued naked by his hands when he was drowning in the sea with a big beard and seaweed in his hair.
Seeing Edmond as a new man, he reconsidered the idea of hiring Dantè s for a long time, but Dantè s had planned to accept the appointment for three months.
The young girl Amelia is now a very capable and very dependent captain. The captain always cherishes time and money. He has docked at Liwo for less than a week. His ship has been filled with printed gauze and forbidden cotton. The British gunpowder monopoly bureau forgot to stamp the tobacco. The captain has to transport all these goods to Liwo and transport them to the coast of Corsica, where some speculators will transfer them to France. Their ship set sail again in the light blue sea. The sea is the world of his youth activities. He was in prison. I often dream about it. Now Gollner is on his right and Pianozza is on his left. He is heading for Napoleon’s hometown in Paoli. When the captain comes to the deck the next morning, he always goes to the deck early in the morning. He finds that Dantè s is leaning on the side of the ship. He has a strange look at a granite mountain dyed rose by the rising sun. That is, the girl Amelia of Monte Cristo has passed less than a mile away from it on its port side and headed for Corsica.
The name of this island is so close to each other. When they passed it so close, he couldn’t help thinking that he would jump into the sea and he would be able to land on the land given to him by the emperor in less than half an hour. But in that case, he wouldn’t have the tools to dig up the treasure or the weapons to protect it. What would he do and what would the sailors think? He had to wait. Fortunately, he had waited for 14 years. Now he is rich. Of course, he can wait another year and a half. At first, if he gave him permission, he wouldn’t give him money. Isn’t it acceptable for him to be rich? Besides, the wealth isn’t an illusion. Is it that what poor Father Faria thought when he was suffering from encephalopathy has passed away with him? But the letter from Cardinal Spada is the only evidence, so Dantè s recited the paper from beginning to end. He didn’t forget a word.
As dusk came, Edmund watched the island being pampered in the dusk and gradually drifting away, and finally disappeared in front of the other people on board, but not before him, because his eyes had been trained in prison to see through the darkness, and he continued to look at it and finally left the deck.
At the dawn of the next day, they had already arrived overseas in Ariya. They sailed along the coast and in the evening, the shore lit a light, which was probably an agreed signal. As soon as they saw the light, they knew that they could dock, because a signal light was hung on the masthead instead of the flagpole, so they approached the shore and reached the range of the cannon. Dantè s noticed that when they approached the shore, the captain set up two old-fashioned small guns, which could eject a four-pound heavy gun thousands of steps without making a big noise.
But this time, this kind of defense was superfluous, and everything went smoothly. Four boats approached the sailboat gently, and I suspected that I had let go of my own boat. The work of the five boats was extremely fast. By two o’clock in the morning, all the goods were from the Maiden Amelia to the Global Maiden Amefan. The captain was a methodist person. That night, he distributed a bonus to each of them, which means that it was ten francs, but the voyage was not over. They turned the bow and sailed for Sardinia. The island was there to refill the imperial ship, and the second operation was as successful as the first one. It was really lucky that the new cargo was destined for Luga, and almost all the goods along the coast were Havana cigars, white wine and Malaga wine.
When they came back from there, the captain of their maiden Amelia clashed with the tax police. A naval officer was killed and two sailors were injured. Dantes was one of them. One bullet grazed his left shoulder. Dantes was very happy to be frightened and injured. It was a lesson that taught him how to observe the danger with his eyes and how to endure the pain. He smiled and said the pain like a Greek philosopher when he was injured. You are not a bad thing. He also witnessed it with his own eyes. I don’t know if the sea officer was injured and died because of the battle, but his blood was boiling, or because his human feelings were numb. He was almost indifferent to this scene. Dantes stepped on him to walk towards his set goal. His heart was undergoing tempering. When Jacob saw him fall, he rushed to him and helped him up. He did his best to take care of him as a good partner