Inca Elegy (Novel) "The Fall of the Inca Empire" (Volume 2) by Zhang Baotong
Pizarro frowned when he saw how hard he was coming, and started to use soft moves. He bent down, picked up the wave crown from the ground, handed it to Vaipalkon, and said, "Young man, don't get angry. I originally asked Juan to ask Prince Chachikata to investigate and understand this matter. Who would have thought that he would inflict severe punishment on Prince Chachikarta. I will handle this matter well."
With that said, he lectured Juan next to him, "What did you do? Who asked you to punish Prince Chachicata? Don't you know that Prince Chachicata is the most trusted prince of the Inca King?" Hu Ann lowered her head and bowed, and replied repeatedly, "I know my crime, I know my crime." Pizarro was still upset, so he said to Petera beside him, "Bring him to me and put him in confinement for a month." Petera first said He didn't move, and reminded Pizarro in a low voice, "Is it too heavy, Commander?" However, Pizarro didn't care about that at all, and just said, "Stop talking nonsense." Then, he faced lying down. Prince Chachikata, who was on the bed, apologized and said, "It's all my fault for my lax discipline that has caused you such great injustice. However, I will send the best doctor to treat you."
Then, he said to the Inca King in a reassuring tone, "Dear Inca King, please rest assured. If anyone dares to disrespect your prince again in the future, just tell me and I will not forgive him." After finishing, he took all the Spanish officers and soldiers present out of the room.
After leaving the door, Pizarro came to Juan's office again and said to Juan and Petya, "You must open your eyes wider and not let any news enter or leak out. If this happens again, I want to question you about such incidents." Juan and Petya said, "Yes, sir."
Several events in a row made Pizarro upset, and there was no peace. On this day, a spy came to report that Soto and the others had arrived in Abancay. They only needed to cross the Apurimac River and climb the Vilcaconga Pass to go straight to the capital city of Cusco.
After Pizarro heard the news, his mood immediately changed from gloomy to gloomy. When I feel good, I feel I have an appetite and feel better when eating and sleeping. Therefore, before it got dark, he and Tutula had dinner early, and then went to bed early with his arms around his beloved beauty. The worries and worries these days have also made him restless and exhausted. Actually thinking about it, he feels that it is unnecessary and meaningless. Therefore, he thinks people should be more open-minded: you have to enjoy yourself while you are alive, and nothing will exist after you die. Therefore, people should still enjoy their time while they are alive and not make themselves so pitiful and miserable.
He had not stayed with his beloved beauty for several days, so when he stayed with Tutula, he felt that he had entered heaven and sweet dreams again. That kind of drunken and dreamy feeling made him feel like he would never wake up. So, after making life-and-death love with Tutula again and again, he put his face on the chest of his beloved beauty, panting slightly, and thinking silently: he has gone through thousands of years in these years. Isn't it just to get this kind of reality and feeling by going through all kinds of difficulties and risking one's life? Yes, life can have this kind of reality and feeling, what else do you want?
However, at this moment, there was a sudden "bang bang bang" banging on the door. The sound was so loud that it almost shook the whole house down. Tutula was almost frightened out of his wits. He burrowed into the felt and held on to Pizarro for dear life. Pizarro thought it was an Indian army sneak attack at night. He was so frightened that he didn't even bother to put on his clothes. He got up from the bed and went to get the pistol hanging on the wall next to the bed.
After he held the pistol in his hand, he shouted outside, "What happened?" Captain Juan outside shouted in a mournful tone, "Commander, it's bad, the Inca King was poisoned to death. ." When Pizarro heard this, he felt relieved. He got dressed in a hurry, opened the door, and let Juan enter the house. Juan suddenly crashed into the house, and the wind brought in suddenly blew out the oil lamp.
Pizarro was already very annoyed with Juan for interrupting his sweet dream, and he was holding back his anger. When he saw that Juan had put out the oil lamp, he used the topic to get angry and said, "You encountered a ghost." Or have you lost your soul? What’s the rush, what’s the panic, the sky hasn’t fallen yet, right?”
Juan was so frightened that he quickly took out the match from his pocket and lit the oil lamp. Normally, this captain was always conceited and arrogant. Even in front of Pizarro, he always acted like a brother rather than a subordinate. However, right now, he looked completely embarrassed and guilty. look.
Pizarro shouted angrily, "What's the matter? Tell me slowly." Before Juan could speak, his body could no longer hold up, and his waist was so bent that he almost fell to his knees. He was speechless for a while before he finally got his words together. He said, "The Inca king Huaypalcon was poisoned to death." Pizarro asked, "Who put the poison? Have you found out?" Juan said, "It hasn't been found out yet. ." Pizarro scolded, "You are a loser. Besides gambling and playing with women, what else can you do?" Then he yelled at Juan loudly, "Go get Antonio and Martin." Juan. He immediately replied, "Yes, Commander."
Pizarro quickly put on his military uniform, put on his sword and pistol, put on his hat, and went out to his headquarters office. After lighting the lamp, he sat on a chair and waited for others. About ten minutes later, Juan called Antonio and Martin. However, Pizarro did not get up immediately. Instead, while smoking a cigarette, he asked Antonio, "Who do you think might have done this?" Antonio thought for a while and said, "Is it related to the knotted rope?" What's the relationship?" Pizarro nodded and said, "There should be some relationship. Otherwise, I found out that thing in the morning and this happened in the evening. But what is the meaning of it?" Antonio shook his head and said , "I don't know, but there must be a relationship between the two." Pizarro pondered for a while and said, "But, no useful clues were found from the knotted rope." Antonio said, "Otherwise, Let’s go check it out?” Pizarro threw away the cigarette butt, stood up, and said, “Let’s go to where the Inca king lived first.” After saying that, he took Antonio, Juan and Martin and walked straight towards Walk inside the military camp.
When we arrived at the place where the Inca king and his princes and ministers lived, the entire row of houses were filled with sentries. Torches illuminated the entire row of houses. Pizarro led the people into the house where the Inca king lived.
There were many oil lamps lit in the room, illuminating the large room very well. On the big bed inside the room, the young and frail Inca king was lying. Several young women were surrounding him, sobbing softly. Seeing that Pizarro had brought people, they quietly stood up and stood aside. .
Pizarro walked to Huaypalcon's bedside and saw that the Inca King had been covered with a large piece of black cloth, but the deceased's brows were frowning, his facial expression looked a little painful, and there were some unwiped black marks on the corners of his mouth. of blood. Apparently, he was poisoned to death. Pizarro looked very sad and sad, bowed his head in silence for a while, and then said to Juan, "Take good care of the body of the Inca King. No one is allowed to get close without my order." Juan shouted loudly He replied, "Yes, Commander."
Pizarro came out of Huaypalcon's house and asked, "Where are those people?" Juan pointed to a room next to him and said, "They are all locked up in this room." Pizarro came to the door, The guarding soldier opened the door and entered the house with a torch to illuminate Pizarro. The room was very large and contained almost all the princes and nobles who were traveling with the Inca King this time. There were twenty or sixty people in total. Seeing Pizarro bringing people in, everyone in the room stood up from the ground and stood together.
Pizarro glanced at the people in the room with a very fierce look, and then said, "The young Inca king Vaipalcon was poisoned to death. I think one of you should be responsible for this. Then he shouted in a furious voice, "Who did it?" His voice was so loud that it shook the whole house. Everyone in the room was frightened by his furious and ferocious voice. However, no one answered his question.
"Whoever did it, please come forward." He shouted loudly again, but still no one paid attention to him. This made him feel a little embarrassed and out of sorts. At this time, he saw the familiar figure with a cane again.
This short and thin old man always made him feel a kind of hatred and jealousy, but he couldn't figure out why he hated and hated him so much. Maybe it was because he was a victorious general of the Indian army, but more importantly What's more, he has an unyielding cunning and stubbornness, and this cunning and stubbornness have made him feel angry and helpless many times. In this land he conquered, even the King of Inca was obedient to him, but this tough old man was always playing a game of wisdom and quality with him, which can also be said to be a kind of internal strength. The battle made him embarrassed and helpless every time, so he was always looking for a reason and method to subdue him.
At present, he seems to have found this reason and method. Because he has always believed that Santos's death was related to him. Now that Santos's case has not been investigated, Vaipalcon's murder has appeared under his nose. This incident clearly shows that some of these Inca princes are secretly cooperating with the outside world. And this person must be Chalkuchma. So, he walked up to the old man and said coldly, "General Chalkuchma, don't you think you should be responsible for this?"
Chalkuchma slowly raised his head, but asked Pizarro in a very disdainful manner, "Why should I be responsible for this?" This sentence stopped Pizarro in his tracks. Pizarro stared at Chalkuchma with fierce eyes and said decisively, "Because no one else dares to do such a thing except you?" Chalkuchma smiled contemptuously, Said, "Why do I dare to do things that others dare not do?" Pizarro said, "This is determined by your personality and identity, as well as your courage."
Chalkuchma seemed to be very funny and asked, "Really?" Pizarro didn't like Chalkuchma's Indian-like harmony, and said viciously, "You don't have to admit it, but I will I asked you to tell the truth." But Chalkuchma smiled contemptuously and said, "I have nothing to admit. I poisoned this young Inca puppet king to death."
Pizarro originally wanted to use torture to force him to interrogate him, but he didn't expect Chalkuchma to admit it himself, which made him a little at a loss. He stood in front of the old Indian, stared at him for a long time, and asked, "But why did you poison the young Inca king? You, an unfaithful and unjust minister, are subject to death." "Chalcuchma said disapprovingly, "The country is going to end, what's the point of me still living?" Pizarro nodded, and then asked closely, "Does this mean that the arrest and murder of Santos and others have something to do with you?" Chalkuchma said, "No comment." Pizarro's ferocious eyes showed streaks of blood, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Very good, I will let you get a good end." With that, He said to Juan next to him, "Take him to me, put him in shackles, and put him in death row. When we get to Cusco, I will burn him alive."
