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In the urban area of Havana Port, on an old street.
August hid hesitantly in the shadow of the street corner, looking at a small shop not far away diagonally opposite.
It was a small shop run specifically for housewives, selling everything from needles, thread, rouge and gouache to washing tubs, washboards, baking pans and egg beaters. The owner was an old but burly man. The old man, whose disheveled hair and beard were all gray, was wearing durable canvas clothes, a sailor's round hat, and a large apron.
When August saw him, he was sitting in the sunshine beside the shop, holding a wooden basin. A pair of rough hands with protruding veins combined the wooden board and the iron sheet with great dexterity. Use a mallet to pound the wood firmly, and it will become a big wooden basin in no time.
This large wooden basin looks like it can be used for bathing children.
After the old man finished his work, he stretched his legs tiredly. He casually placed the wooden basin on the ground as a table, took out a bottle of rum and a cup and placed them on the bottom of the basin, and slowly sipped with squinted eyes. Drink it. It seems that this store manager was also a captain on a sea ship in the past. Ordinary people do not have the habit of drinking rum, red wine is their choice; and ordinary sailors drink directly from the bottle, and there is no such big one. Pu'er.
August hesitated for a long time, but finally made up his mind and walked towards the shop with great strides! But courage comes quickly and disappears just as quickly... When I almost reached the old man, my steps were lighter than a kitten and slower than a snail.
Unfortunately, the old man's eyes had already fallen on him, leaving him unable to escape. "Ogu," the old man greeted with a smile. "When did you disembark? I don't know if you can still stay in Havana." ?" He looked Auguste up and down, and the old man smiled happily. Then he looked in the direction he came from. When he noticed that no one came back with him, his face gradually lost the smile. "Jacques Woolen cloth?"
"Grandpa Furio..." August shouted with difficulty, but didn't know how to continue. Looking at August's appearance, Furio's heart sank.
"Is Jacques... injured?" Holding the hope of the eventuality, Old Man Forio asked with a hint of trembling in his voice, pretending to be calm. In this life, he has never expected anything like this. His grandson Jacques had been injured. It was just an injury... Even if he was missing an arm or a leg, Auguste's next performance extinguished his illusions.
"I'm sorry, Grandpa Forio. I didn't take good care of Jacques." Auguste lowered his head, not daring to look at the old man's expression. He was so ashamed that he wished he could die in Jacques' place! If Lu Yuan hadn't told him that a big war was about to begin and it was best to deal with any funeral arrangements first, then he might still be hesitant in Port-au-Prince and not dare to inform Jacques's family of the bad news.
Hearing this apology, the old man felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His body stooped, and he suddenly aged ten years. Jacques was an illegitimate son. His father's family was in the upper class of the British society. Jacques was raised by his grandfather.
"I heard that you followed the new captain and made a big name... I was very worried at that time... Last time, you wrote to me and told me... Jacques is going to the British military academy..." The old man staggered When he almost fell, August helped him and asked Old Man Furio to sit down on the chair. "How could this happen..." the old man muttered to himself, covering his face with his two old big hands. Kong, tears streaming down the back of his hands.
August looked at the sad old man, his heart twisted. He took a deep breath, knelt down on one knee beside the old man, and put a large backpack on his back and a long flintlock gun. He took it off and put it in front of the old man.
"Grandpa Forio, these are the things Jacques left behind..."
August carefully took out the contents of his backpack one by one and placed them on the overturned wooden tub - an old sheathed knife, a thick black leather diary, a few changes of clothes, and a The necklace box, the short musket, a few beautiful stones, and a few notes from loan shark shops...of course they were deposits, a total of more than two hundred thousand pesos!
Auguste didn't know how Lu Yuan got these things from the sunken ship. In fact, Lu Yuan almost lost his life trying to pass through the cabin and go to the adjutant's room to get Jacques's belongings.
Old Forio stretched out his hand tremblingly, stroking each piece one by one. First the few stones, then the old knife. The diary of Jacques, which was soaked and dried by the sea water, the old man hugged tightly. When he saw the necklace box in his arms, he seemed to sigh... But when he picked up the bill, Forio's eyes suddenly rose with huge anger!
"What is this?! Is it Jacques's life money?! Your captain is so generous! My old man has hands and feet, so he doesn't need it!" He was about to rip it off with any force on his hand!
"Don't!" Auguste quickly grabbed the old man's hand, "This is Jacques's own money! His own money! We... have made a lot of money during this period, and Jacques also said that he would open a bigger restaurant for you. Shop, let you live a good life..." This sentence completely destroyed the old man's defense and made him burst into tears.
If the jar is broken without leaving the well, the general will inevitably die in battle. The moment Mr. Forio boarded Auguste's father's ship with Jacques, who was abandoned when he was less than a year old,...[,! ] was destined to live on the edge of a knife's edge. After Auguste's father was killed in battle, Forio took Jacques to settle in Havana. Later, he became Jacques and followed Auguste who planned to reorganize the family business... except this time it was his turn To Jacques.
"Kejak is dead! You are alive!"
An angry female voice came from behind, interrupting his words. The surprised August was about to turn around when a sharp sword was placed next to his aorta, causing him to freeze instantly. He had already He guessed who the woman who spoke was, it was Jacques's half-sister who had been living in England. Auguste lowered his head and remained silent, because she was right...
When he lowered his head regardless, in order not to cut off the main artery in his neck, the rapier moved slightly outward. Then it continued to stop firmly on his neck.
"When did it happen?!" the female voice behind asked the question, obviously holding back her anger.
"Four... weeks ago." August lowered his head in shame. He began to hate his cowardice and evasion. In fact, he was blaming everything on himself. To be precise, four weeks ago, Auguste only knew that Jacques and Lu Yuan were attacked by a giant octopus together, and that something happened to Jacques. At that time, the only people who could confirm that Jacques was dead were those who had the power to issue arrest warrants. For example, the 'Shadow Governor' Austria Derich, or the royal families of various countries.
The real confirmation of Jacques' death was what happened after meeting Lu Yuan, which was three days ago.
"Four weeks... I didn't notify you until now..." The woman behind him withdrew her rapier, "Why don't you die!" A delicate cowhide boot kicked him hard in the face!
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Half an hour later, August was beaten, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, his clothes were torn and he was squatting there. He stared at the ground in silence, still looking like he was willing to be killed.
Next to him, a young woman with a red skirt and long fiery red hair. She was as beautiful as a flame. She was panting and pinching her waist. She was obviously very tired.
However, during the whole process, Old Forio was completely unaware of what was going on in the outside world. He had been tremblingly sorting out Jacques's relics, touching this, looking at that, and bursting into tears.
"Asshole! Asshole!" the woman yelled angrily, but seeing Auguste's cowardly look, she couldn't help but continue to beat her. No matter what, she knew that Jacques' death was not Auguste's. Wrong. When he was a child, no matter what happened, Auguste always blocked Jacques behind him. He was closer to Jacques than his own sister. "Tell me! What exactly is going on?! Also, your captain , why didn’t that bastard named ‘Magician’ come?! Jacques sold his life to him, why can’t he even show his face!”
"The captain doesn't know that Jacques has a family..." Seeing the woman in red about to get mad again, August immediately added, "But he gave me this! He said... this is Jacques' pride!" August Ste took off the other backpack on her body, and the woman noticed that August had been protecting that backpack, and even when she beat her severely, it didn't hurt her at all - although she didn't use her full strength, she could still do it. It was obvious that August was much stronger than her now, so the woman couldn't help but snorted, but she did not embarrass him.
"Take it out!" The woman in red adjusted her sword, "Let me see what sweet words this guy has that can make... Jacques feel proud."
August solemnly opened his backpack and took out a huge transparent jar. His cautious move made Old Forio also turn his attention.
The jar is made of thick glass, with wax and fire paint used to seal all the gaps in the lid. The jar is filled with transparent liquid, and there is a bulging ball in it, as big as a football, like an eyeball. Something like an oyster. The woman looked at him doubtfully, and August placed the heavy jar on the ground. The woman and Old Man Forio looked at it carefully for a long time, and then they realized that this thing was actually a bowl-shaped suction cup, and it was A bowl-shaped suction cup cut off from a larger limb!
The old man raised his head in surprise. He was not a rookie who had only been in the sea for a few days. He was an old sea wolf with decades of sailing experience! He could tell at a glance that the sucker was on the arm of an octopus - but just a sucker as big as a human head, with tentacles like this arm, and how huge that monster must be?!
He continued to watch carefully, and in the center of the suction cup, he found a round lead bullet that had penetrated the suction cup. The cut was just right, so that a small part of the lead bullet was exposed from the back...
"!?" Mr. Forio said with a trembling voice. The woman in red was stunned at first, and then was shocked! She opened her mouth wide, but couldn't speak at all! "The North Sea, Atlantic and Caribbean Predator" has been a nightmare that has been raging on the oceans for a thousand years. Countless ships have fallen under its claws. It is a must-have disaster villain in everyone's childhood...
"Yes..." August nodded, "The Norwegian sea monster attacked the Maria. Jacques and Captain Lu Yuan cooperated. They killed the big octopus, but both the ship and Jacques... Later, Lu Yuan Captain Yuan sat on the corpse of a Norwegian sea monster, blown out to sea by the storm, and has only recently returned to the Caribbean."
The Kraken is dead?!
The woman and Furio were both shocked and... silent. What was shocking was the killing of the Kraken. Silent... because they knew what August said. It must be an embellished statement... If so Jacques killed the big octopus, so he should have survived. It should have been the captain who killed the big octopus and then shared this honor with Jacques.
"Jacques's body..." This is what Forio is concerned about.
"Buried with the ship," August said immediately.[,! ] said, he knew what Grandpa Forio was worried about. Jacques's body was not eaten by the big octopus. He believed what Lu Yuan said. "Captain Lu Yuan arranged it himself after killing it, according to the captain's specifications." "It means using the captain's bed as a coffin and sinking it with the ship. This is the highest level.
Seeing that the two people began to change their attitudes, August immediately recounted in detail the entire process of killing the octopus that Lu Yuan told him - Lu Yuan and Jacques fought side by side to contain the Norwegian Kraken. No one escaped. After that. The Norwegian sea monster dragged the ship into the deep sea, and Jacques was unfortunately killed. After Lu Yuan temporarily resettled Jacques, he jumped into the mouth of the big octopus and killed the big octopus from the inside...
Of course, many details were beautified and modified when Lu Yuan said it, and then Auguste did it again - for example, in the description, Jacques's role was even more exaggerated, and jumping into the big octopus's mouth was also Even more dramatic - it's dead anyway, and no one knows it has enough teeth to cut potatoes into shreds.
The whole process sounded as if Jacques had completed 90% of the previous steps and Lu Yuan had made the finishing touch.
After a long time, Furio picked up the jar with difficulty and walked towards the back of the store.
"Grandpa Forio?" August stood up at a loss, but the old man Forio just waved his hand behind him, as if he didn't want to see him again for a while.
August felt extremely sad, but he still turned around with a strong face and called out to the woman, "Cousin Christina." They had known each other for a while when they were young, and they got along well. But because of Chris Tina's mother...he lost contact with her later. He didn't expect to see her here today.
"Hmph!" The woman in red named Christina looked at him coldly, "After receiving your letter, my grandfather and father were very happy. You know, my father has never been able to give birth to another son. So my mother no longer objected to recognizing Jacques's identity. Of course, your fame also played a big role... A letter from my father asked me to help Jacques arrange a place to live in London. I contacted everything in the UK, but I couldn't wait. When I come to Jacques, I can only come and take a look... I didn't expect it to be like this! Damn it!"
"I'm sorry, Cousin Christina. I didn't take good care of Jacques!" Auguste lowered his head again. He was almost two meters tall, but he shrank in front of Christina, looking awkward. .
"It's none of your business!" Christina said impatiently, "You were not on the boat at the time! And Jacques is not a child anymore. He can take care of himself and has his own choices! It's just... you guys That bastard captain, take me to see him!"
"What are you going to do?!" August was shocked.
"Let me see what he is capable of and kill him!" Christina raised her eyebrows, "I want to use my brother's blood to create his own reputation! I want to see if he is qualified!"
"Stop making trouble, aunt..." August held his forehead.
"Huh?!" Christina glared, and her emerald green eyes immediately made August shiver. At this time, some things that he had tried hard to forget when he was a child seemed to resurface... He couldn't help but sigh. Clamp your legs.
"It's my cousin! Cousin... Really, there's no need to go. Our captain can hit two of us with one hand..." Upon hearing this, Christina's eyes suddenly lit up, and August was immediately stunned. Secretly complaining, why have I forgotten Christina's competitive temperament again?
But before he could continue to explain, there was a "canglang" sound, and Christina's thin sword was placed on his neck again. She looked at him with a sneer and said softly, "Do you want to resist me?" ?Dear Ogu...I didn’t expect you to become very manly when you grow up."
"I...will take you there right now." August didn't care about the sword around his neck, but he was afraid of the provocative kick.
