The sound of the waves seemed to get louder, and the Japanese pirates exclaimed, wondering what they said?
Everyone looked towards the sea level. Several warships were approaching from a distance. The lights illuminated the sea, as if cutting a path from the waves. Wang Rui couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
At this moment, the man next to him spoke, and he said unhurriedly: "Gu Yan, turn around."
It turned out that the person opposite was a middle-aged man named Gu Yan? Wang Rui silently remembered it in his heart.
But who is this person next to him? From the side, does he look like the emperor?
After hearing this, Gu Yan sneered and said: "Your Majesty, I want to know why you don't leave the capital? We have so much money to start trouble. As long as you want, the world can change hands at any time."
"Absurd!" Wang Rui couldn't help but cursed.
What kind of wishful thinking was this? It made his body hurt so much, but he couldn't help but want to laugh.
Gu Yan looked at Wang Rui coldly, pointed at the person next to him and said, "Do you know who he is?"
Wang Rui frowned, he didn't want to know.
But Gu Yan continued: "He is the elder brother of the current emperor and the eldest son of Concubine Guo."
Wang Rui was a little dumbfounded, but he also understood why he felt that the person next to him looked very similar to the emperor.
However, he ignored Gu Yan and remained silent.
When Gu Yan saw this, he couldn't figure out whether Wang Rui knew the truth? Also, Zhou Ling had obviously chosen to side with the emperor, so why did he come?
At this moment, Zhou Ling took out the portrait of his mother and concubine. Gu Yan's eyes tightened and he looked at Zhou Ling in disbelief.
Zhou Ling said calmly: "You said you would take this painting away, but you broke your promise, so I suspected that you faked your death to escape. As expected, I guessed it right."
"Gu Yan, you treat me like your own son, and I don't want to see you go into the abyss. Now you come back with me, and I will make sure that you are safe and sound and enjoy your old age."
Gu Yan laughed, but his face gradually became distorted as he smiled.
He looked at Zhou Ling angrily, with pain welling up in his eyes, and angrily said, "Just because Zhao Lin won't kill you, you compromised?"
"What about the Guo family's unjust case? What about your mother's reputation? And your true identity, don't you want them all?"
"I never thought that you would be willing to accept your fate and turn out to be a humble person who only wants to make ends meet!"
Zhou Ling listened and ignored Gu Yan's accusation. He just said lightly: "If Zhao Lin was not the one who succeeded, would you still put your hope in me?"
Gu Yan was stunned, he had never thought about this problem.
But Zhou Ling quickly answered him: "You don't know how."
"If my legs don't heal, neither will you."
"You just saw that I had the opportunity to replace Zhao Lin, so you secretly did so many wrong things. In fact, you know better than anyone else that the Guo family has its own fault!"
"Shut up!"
"You have no right to talk about the Guo family! Everyone has it, but you don't! Because if it weren't for the Guo family and your mother, I would never have saved you!"
Gu Yan retorted excitedly and looked at Zhou Ling angrily.
Zhou Ling was as calm as ever, and even said without any fluctuation: "So, you saved me just to use me."
Gu Yan was stunned, his heart pounding. In fact, that was not the case at all. He raised Zhou Ling as his own son, even closer than his own son!
How could he save him because he wanted to use him?
He just saved him, wanted to protect him as he grew up, and wanted to take back everything that originally belonged to him.
Gu Yan smiled bitterly, feeling very sad.
He looked at Zhou Ling and the painting in his hand. He stopped arguing and stretched out his hand.
"Give it to me, no need to say any more."
If we continue to talk about it, the friendship that has lasted for so many years will really be gone.
Zhou Ling didn't say anything more, because he knew that Gu Yan was very sad at this time, and he still loved him sincerely.
It's just that... his feet are no longer mutilated and can replace Zhao Lin at any time, so Gu Yan has delusional thoughts.
But now, this delusion seemed to be possessed by a demon, and he couldn't wake up.
Gu Yan got the painting, opened it and looked at it carefully. It was indeed the one he gave to Zhou Ling.
But at this time, he felt that Zhou Ling was cruel. His mother left such a painting in the world, and he gave it to others so easily. It showed that he had no feelings for his mother.
Gu Yan put away the painting and said to Zhou Ling: "Go away, far away. I won't act in your name anymore."
Zhou Ling glanced at Wang Rui. He wanted to take Wang Rui away. This was the purpose of his visit to the island today.
Gu Yan looked at the seriously injured Wang Rui and smiled coldly: "If you take him away, you won't be able to hide your identity. The Wang family is different from Lu Yunhong and his wife. They will only think about Zhao Lin at all times."
Zhou Ling said: "If you come with me, I can abandon him. If you don't come with me, then I can only take him away!"
I have to say that Zhou Ling's words moved Gu Yan.
At least Zhou Ling showed that he was more important than the Wang family.
This is enough.
He colluded with the Japanese pirates and divided Zhou Ling's power. At this time, Zhou Ling still wanted to save his life and did not care about the gains and losses. This was enough to prove that Zhou Ling regarded him as a relative.
It's a pity...everything can't be gone back.
And Zhou Ling can appear here, which shows that Emperor Zhengxing trusts him, so he does not need to worry about Zhou Ling's safety in the future.
This is good, he has no worries anymore.
"I have always been cowardly in my life. Nothing I want to do is successful. But I want to fight for your mother once. If I die, I will have the dignity to see her."
"Take Wang Rui away. From now on, we will never know each other again."
Gu Yan turned his back. He was talking to the Japanese pirates, and the Japanese pirates looked at Zhou Ling with eager eyes.
But in the end, as soon as Gu Yan left, they put away their knives and followed Gu Yan.
Zhou Ling looked at Gu Yan's back and knew that he would definitely fight to the death, but this was undoubtedly an egg against a stone. With Lu Yunhong in Taizhou, Gu Yan couldn't even break into Zhejiang, let alone the capital.
Although those Japanese pirates were ambitious, Gu Yan knew very well that they were destined to fail.
But even if he knew the outcome, Gu Yan would never look back, so Zhou Ling knew that there was no need to persuade him anymore.
He took Wang Rui to the seaside and quietly waited for Dayan's warship to approach.
At this moment, the water waves covered my ankles, and the sound of the waves became louder and louder.
But the surroundings were surprisingly quiet.
I don’t know how much time passed, but when the boat put down by Dayan was about to row to the shore, Wang Rui asked: "You haven't asked me your name yet?"
Zhou Ling raised his lips in a self-deprecating manner and said, "My surname is Zhou, and my name is Zhou Ling."
Wang Rui chewed the name, as if he knew it, but also seemed not to know it.
But Zhou Ling only said one thing: "If you meet that person just now in the future, please leave him a complete body."
After Wang Rui heard this, he looked at Zhou Ling and said, "If I meet him."
Zhou Ling smiled, thinking that he was indeed a member of the Wang family.
He turned around and prepared to leave.
Wang Rui wanted to grab the corner of his clothes, but found that he was out of reach.
So he could only watch Zhou Ling's back disappearing on this barren island and blending into the shade of trees shrouded in night.