Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1207 Donna Marina

"That's true. Speaking of which, many of the captives this time were not Spaniards. I don't think they are all that loyal to the Catholic king—it's nothing more than a milk or a mother."

The two did not continue to discuss this issue. Using European captives was a very sensitive topic. Before getting the direction of the Senate, no one was willing to speak out their true thoughts.

In order to change the subject, Chen Haiyang said: "I heard that this time I caught a Spanish giant horse, which is a rare thing..."

"I also find it strange, why is there such a noble lady on the boat to the Philippines?"

"How do you know she is noble?"

"With several servants, living in the stern building, and many boxes of valuable luggage." Qian Shuiting has read the mission report written by Lin Chuanqing and others, "I can't say that he is an ordinary person."

"No matter how noble, what use is it to us?" Chen Haiyang smiled, "I'm afraid that there will be troubles for women again."

Although the elders were more or less imperial-han-inclined, when it came to Europeans, although they were not as open-mouthed as "white humanoids" like Liu Zheng and Little White Wolf, and closed-mouthed as "white-skinned pigs", they always dismissed them with disdain.However, they are full of great enthusiasm for white women.Once Yu Eshui drank too much and said that many elders were actually followers of the "Worshiping Yangma Sect". The word "Dayangma" is simply a G-spot trigger, as long as someone mentions it on the BBS, there will be hundreds of replies.

This Spanish woman who fell from the sky is not so much a beautiful trophy as a ticking time bomb.

"It doesn't matter, just sell it by bidding according to the method of disposing of spoils. Everyone is free to bid, and the highest price wins." Qian Shuiting said casually, "If you feel that it is not fair, you can simply send it to Lingao Ziminglou—serving the public will be over. .”

"In this way, the Queen will not get mad, and will directly label you as a slanderer of women..." The two chatted and walked along the road.

Just as they were discussing how to deal with the Dayan horse, the information about the Dayan horse had been collected on Li Yan's desk in the Foreign Intelligence Agency.

The foreign intelligence service's interest in the young girl was natural: in this age of dangerous navigation, a woman of high birth rarely ventured to sail - let alone sailing from the well-established American colonies to Manila. The new colony to go!Only something very necessary drives her to do it.

Combined with the large amount of luggage she carried with her, it made people feel that she was going to Manila for some kind of long-term purpose, rather than just a short-term visit.

According to their inquiries to the captain and other senior seamen and the passenger list, they already knew that the lady's name was: Donna Marina de Arellano, and she was the daughter of a "peninsula".All the captain knew was that she was from a Santo Domingo convent near Mexico City, a convent for noble girls.The client who sent her to the merchant ship ordered him to send the lady to Manila safely, and nothing else was known.

This situation attracted Li Yan's attention. Combined with the mercury found on the ship far exceeding the general demand, Li Yan believed that something unusual must be happening in Manila.

So he immediately went to meet with Jiang Shan and reported the situation to him, and asked Jiang Shan to come forward to the Executive Committee: don't deal with the Spanish girl in accordance with the "Regulations on the Disposal of Spoils" for the time being, but "freeze" her.

"It is very likely that she will be useful!" Li Yan said, "If you shave your head, it will be very troublesome to use it."

He pointed out that if she was to be allowed to redeem herself or to do some work through her, the "purification" measure of shaving her hair according to the standards of this time and space would be extremely humiliating.Families of captive origin are unacceptable.

"You're right, there are quite a few mysteries on these two ships that we don't know about." Jiang Shan said, "I'll go to the executive committee right now."

All the Spanish prisoners on board the two ships were held in the temporary detention facility in the isolation and quarantine area of ​​Bopu.Yanghe has come up with basic counting data: excluding those who died on the road, the prisoners who entered the quarantine area totaled 289, including 4 women and the rest were men. The youngest was 11 years old: a cabin boy; 65: Captain of the San Raimundo.

Although no detailed interrogation has been conducted, judging from the skin color and appearance, it is obvious that they are not all Spaniards. Some of them are typical yellow faces, and they may be native sailors from Southeast Asia or America.

Although the executive committee decided to screen and interrogate them first before deciding their fate, it is essential to clean their dirty bodies before that.The staff at the quarantine camp quickly got busy.

Donna Marina de Arellano sat alone on a long chair fixed on the ground waiting for "purification". According to her education in the monastery, she lowered her head modestly.

There could have been a hundred "purified" aboriginal women waiting in the shed, but now there were only her and three maids.

The three maids sat in a row of chairs behind her—as usual, they remained silent.

Although Mrs. Tolosa said nothing, Marina could still feel her stern and wary gaze on her back.
"This nasty witch!" Marina thought secretly, sincerely disgusted with this escort who followed her from New Spain.

Mrs. Tolosa was a widow—the kind of widow for many years, deeply religious, very pious, who regarded carnal desire and worldly temptation as the greatest sin, and thus became the favorite of young girls and young women in respectable families. The ideal companion.

Marina grew up in a nunnery in New Spain. This nunnery specializes in accepting ladies from famous families and undertaking their education until they can be taken out by the family to marry—those who cannot marry or do not want to marry The lady of the family will stay in the monastery and vow to be an official nun.

Because most of the girls were born noble, and the families often paid large donations for them, this convent was not as strict as other convents with strict rules and poor life.If you leave aside the excessive religious activities and the loneliness and boredom of not being able to go out all year round, the life in the monastery is not difficult.

In contrast, the days of being accompanied by this chaperone after leaving the monastery were even more unbearable.Mrs. Tolosa watched her every move as closely as the strictest jailer.Any behavior that is considered frivolous will be "reminded"-if not "rebuked" by her.

She even forced her to stretch her hands out of the quilt when she was sleeping-"to prevent us from touching our sinful bodies!" Marina thought of how maddened she was when Mrs. Shame and indignation.Although the nuns and nuns had said similar things, they never forced her to do such a thing.

But she knew she had no right to stand against Mrs. Tolosa -- a woman her father had chosen for herself.And she depends on her father for everything.So she had to endure Mrs. Tolosa's "companion" meekly.

Not even being captured by pirates can get rid of her!Marina secretly cursed!

Regarding being captured by pirates, although she was afraid and frightened at first, her mood has gradually settled down after boarding the ship.Despite their eccentric appearance and their incredible smoky clippers, this band of pirates was well-dressed and disciplined, no less than the best Spanish team from the peninsula.

As long as they weren't a murderous and ignorant mob, she had nothing to fear.Based on her background and status, some rational pirates would definitely treat her with courtesy in order to ask for a ransom, and the family would also take out a sum of money to redeem her body.It's just that she will inevitably be delayed for a year and a half in this unknown, simple and desolate place.

As for Mrs. Tolosa, it is clear that my father will not pay ransom for a lowly woman like her, so you are here as a slave.There was even a smile on her lips at the thought of what would become of the sanctimonious Mrs. Tolosa.

However, it had been several hours since they were brought off the boat to this "pirate camp".But none of the "pirates" ever came to the places assigned to them.This made Marina very strange.

The whole prisoner camp seems to be very lively. From the high wooden fence wall, the voices of men and women can be heard from time to time-they are all in a language they don't understand, mixed with scolding and shouting from time to time, and there will be people's voices from time to time. Howling and crying.

These voices revived the fear in the originally calm girl.Can't help but tremble slightly.

What she didn't know was that the delay was due to a debate between the Intelligence Service and the quarantine camp over "whether to shave their hair", and the Intelligence Service, in some ways, thought it was enough to do only the necessary cleaning, But Yanghe insisted on shaving all their hair.

This debate was reported to the executive committee, and only then did they get a clear answer: "You don't need to shave your head, but you must wash it thoroughly!"

"This is simply an irresponsible order!" Yang He murmured, and called the most capable middle-aged women under him.This order was conveyed.

"Wash that young foreign woman's hair well for me!" Yang He ordered viciously, "Prepare a few more grates, and give me a few more grates, and give me a good grate dozens of times! Don't be stingy with soap and hot water, wash thoroughly clean!"

The staff nodded together, and the team leader asked, "Where are the other three?"

Yang He sneered: "Do you still need to ask? Shave them all - not a single hair left."

(End of this chapter)