The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
After leaving the church and getting on his horse to leave, Pizarro asked him, "How do you feel about coming here to attend Mass today?"
Atahualpa smiled reluctantly, but said, "I was just about to discuss this matter with you. Well, you are usually busy. I will treat you to dinner at noon today, and I will discuss these matters with you by the way."
Pizarro didn't expect that the Inca king wanted to invite him to dinner, so he said, "Don't you Inca people not eat at noon?"
Atahualpa said, "We don't have to eat at noon, but to treat you, we can add a meal at noon."
Pizarro hesitated for a moment, then said, "Okay." He asked Robert and Martin to accompany him.
So, surrounded and protected by a large group of Spanish guards and some princes, the Inca King followed the Marquis and the others back to the temple. After entering the small courtyard of the temple, the princes automatically dispersed and went back to their homes, because their homes were protected by the Spanish army. Pizarro asked the guards to tie up the horses, and then took Robert, Martin and Petya to the house where Atahualpa lived.
The room was about twenty square meters and seemed very empty, with only a small square table and a chair. The chair was occupied by the Inca king himself, because all the Incas who came here had to kneel, and the Spaniards did not come here at all. Even when they came here, they would say a few words at most and then leave, and there was no need to sit down. Apart from that, there was nothing else in the room. In fact, nothing else is needed. Because anything he needs will be brought to him by his concubine.
Because I wanted to invite the Spaniards to dinner, I added a few more small wooden benches in the house. On the table were two clay pots of Chicha wine made from corn and several plates of simple vegetarian dishes. Although this is inviting people to eat, it is better to say that it is inviting people to drink. After the four people sat down, Atahualpa asked the two concubines next to him to pour wine for everyone.
After drinking a glass of wine, King Inca said, "Your Christianity seems to require people to learn to be good and not do bad things. However, I don't understand why some people are still good people before they come into contact with your Christianity. However, after contacting them, they are still good people." After your Christianity, you became a sinner."
One sentence stunned Pizarro and the others. Everyone put down their cups and looked at him with puzzled expressions. Pizarro asked, "What do you mean? Does it mean that our Christianity has corrupted people?"
Atahualpa explained unequivocally, "I mean there is a person in your army who used to be a law-abiding citizen, but now he has become a sinner after believing in your Christianity."
Pizarro seemed a little unhappy, waved his hand and said, "No way."
But King Inca said, "But this is a fact. More than one minister and concubine reported this to me, and she herself admitted it. I heard that this matter has been discussed a lot among you and our people. This matter made me The pain is excruciating, much worse than what I would have endured if I were tortured and imprisoned." As he said this, the Inca king began to cry in pain.
Maybe the Inca king was telling the truth, because whether he was arrested or in jail, he really never cried. Therefore, seeing the Inca King sobbing in pain, Pizarro couldn't help but get a little angry and said, "What is going on? King, tell me, I have told all the soldiers that anyone who dares to offend the Inca King will be killed." regardless."
As Atahualpa cried, he lowered his chest and said, "There is a man among you who keeps hooking up with one of my concubines all day long, coming and going. He is literally riding on my neck and shitting."
Hearing this, Pizarro, Roberto, Petya, and Martin himself, who were present, couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, because everyone knew that the Inca King was talking about Martin. But Martin tried his best to look calm, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.
Pizarro looked surprised and said, "Such a bold and lecherous person? When I find out, I will engage in military law."
But Atahualpa endured the humiliation and said, "I am extremely saddened by this crime. No matter if I am in prison, or suffer all kinds of disasters, or even die from suffering, I will not be so sad. Because a humble man The Indians, knowing clearly that there are laws against this crime in this land, still treat me with such disrespect, causing me to suffer such a great humiliation. It should be noted that the law stipulates that anyone who commits such crimes or simply Anyone with such a criminal motive must be burned alive together with the guilty woman, his parents, children, brothers, sisters and all other close relatives must be executed, and even the adulterer's flock must be killed. In addition, he must be born The land was turned into a no-man’s land, sprinkled with salt, cut down trees, destroyed houses in the entire village, and took other severe punitive actions so that the people would always remember the consequences of this crime.”
Listening to what Atahualpa said, Martin pretended to be calm and composed on the surface, but inside he was frightened, and he even stuttered a bit when translating.
Of course, Pizarro would not let his translator go to the gallows, because they still couldn't do without Martin. Without Martin, they could not deal with the Indians. Although Martin is an Indian, he was brought to Spain by Pizarro to learn Spanish. Not only was he a translator for the Spanish Expeditionary Force, but he also had a good personal relationship with Pizarro. Therefore, he said, "The noble Inca King "Although this matter has caused great harm to the king, it is a matter of the king's concubine voluntarily having sex with others. It is her own personal matter and your family's family affairs, and we cannot interfere with it."
These words made Martin feel a real sigh of relief, and made him grateful from the bottom of his heart for the Marquis' magnanimity. But the Inca King refused to do it. When he heard that Pizarro didn't even care about such a sinful thing, he got angry and said, "No wonder your soldiers raped and killed, and committed all kinds of evil. So this is how you indulge your soldiers?"
Martin was already very disgusted with the Inca King, and when he heard the Inca King complaining about him to the Marquis, he hated the Inca King with gnashing teeth. Therefore, he deliberately translated this sentence as, "He said that the Spaniards were a group of robbers. Rape and murder, all kinds of evil are committed.”
When Pizarro heard this, he became angry and said, "You said we were robbers. How did you do it? How did you kill your uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters?" Atahualpa choked with these words. He didn't say a word for a long time.
Although Atahualpa was captured and imprisoned, Pizarro had always been relatively polite to the Inca King and had never blushed or quarreled with the Inca King. This is the first time the relationship between the two of them has been so tense. For a moment, the atmosphere at the wine table was a little tense. Everyone was silent.
(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's signed work "Poetic Emotions", which includes short prose, life essays and short stories. Today's release is the sad story "Unconditional Love")
