On June 21, the fifteenth year of Wanli, Wang Jingyi ate the first piece of filet mignon in her life. The juicy and tender texture made her feel like she was in the clouds, and she smiled even more flatteringly at Cologne.
After realizing the beautiful girl's complete surrender to him, the prosecutor general gave up the idea of "disposing" her - like all the girls he had dealt with before, by disposing of she meant killing or throwing her out of the city.
Maybe she could become a good apricot slave. Cologne looked at her admiring eyes and felt that this beautiful girl was his biggest gain in coming to Manila. So he arranged for his servant to find a Spanish tutor for her and get her.
Name Blanca. [Note 1]
On June 29, after finishing her Spanish course, Blanca played the "No, sir" game with Colon for a while. Then Colon sent her out of the bedroom because Father Lopez came to visit late at night.
"I have told the housekeeper that you can move around, but you cannot leave home." Looking at Blanca's clear and confused eyes, Colon felt that even though he said it simply and added gestures, she still didn't listen.
Understood - but he had no intention of explaining, he just waved her away.
Blanca adjusted her skirt and walked out, the smile on her face not diminishing by half. In front of her small room at the end of the corridor on the first floor, she met a servant who happened to come down from upstairs. It was the same servant who followed Cologne that night with a lamp.
of indigenous people.
Blanca bent her knees slightly, smiled and said: "Buenas noches!"
The native remained silent. There was no expression on his face. He just quietly walked around her, opened the small door at the end of the corridor, and left the huge two-story building.
Blanca stopped quietly. She thought for a while and then tried to push the door that was usually locked. The door opened and she entered the garden. At this time, there was the sound of the door opening in the distance, and the guest was in the housekeeper's room.
Under the guidance of his wife, we entered through the main entrance of the house.
Because the attack on Manila by the Ming Dynasty's sealing fleet had stopped for a long time, the sounds of chaos outside the high wall disappeared, and the whole city fell into silence at night.
She looked up at the starry sky and the dazzling Milky Way, and an imperceptible sob came from her throat.
Blanca stood quietly, breathing in the fragrance of the flowers in the garden. The stone house was located in the middle of the garden, diagonally across the garden from her position, and at the end of the stone corridor was the iron gate that gave her freedom, but Blanca
But Ka's feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, motionless.
After a long time, the main door of the house opened and Colón sent Father Lopez away. No one noticed Blanca standing in the corner of the garden.
After a long time, all the lights in the house went out. Blanca quietly took off her shoes, held them in her hands, and slowly moved towards the corner of the house. Her movements were so slight that even the midsummer breeze could hardly detect them.
As soon as she turned the corner of the room, she held her breath and was too frightened to move. She saw a wooden ladder beside the high wall behind the room, and a person was climbing up on the ladder. She looked like Cologne.
Aboriginal servant.
She took a breath slowly, turned around, and walked away.
Blanca's tutor was the wife of a Spanish city defense officer named Felicia. Her alcoholic and gambling husband squandered all his military salary, and Felicia could only work to support the family. She often went to
I went to the north bank of the Passi River to buy bargains, so I learned some simple Quanzhou dialect, which was perfect for training Blanca.
This ugly middle-aged woman likes this mulatto very much because Blanca always loves to laugh and is about the same age as her daughter.
In the past few days, she had noticed the unspeakable relationship between Cologne and Blanca. Cologne hired her in the name of the professor's adopted daughter, but the relationship between Blanca and Cologne was obviously not a father-daughter relationship.
But the Attorney General of Cologne has no family in the Philippines, and it is normal to have a bed-warming girl - this is what all high-ranking people in this city who do not have families do.
Although Blanca was too young to be a mistress, Felicia could not do much except sympathize with her and give her the best care she could.
All day long the next day, Blanca kept asking Felicia a lot of questions, and Felicia was exhausted by her entanglement. In the evening, when Mr. Colon came home, the tutor arrived almost as if he was running for his life.
Rested in my own room.
After having dinner with Cologne's prosecutor general, Blanca heard Cologne tell the housekeeper a lot - she really didn't understand this time. Then the housekeeper accompanied Cologne to the study and motioned for her to go back and rest.
Blanca returned to her room with a flattering smile on her face. She tried her best to open her sleepy eyes and waited quietly.
But it started to rain in the middle of the night in Manila during the rainy season. Amidst the pattering sound, she, who was still growing, failed to defeat the Sandman and fell asleep at some point.
Later in the night, a loud noise woke Blanca up. She suddenly sat up from the bed and punched her still groggy head with some annoyance.
First there was a commotion in the whole house, and people were running in the corridor. Blanca pricked her ears, as if she heard the Cologne prosecutor leaving the mansion.
Although no one paid attention to her at this time, Blanca did not dare to go out of the room, so she could only light the whale oil candle and wait quietly.
At dawn, the whole city was in commotion. When she was at a loss, her door was suddenly opened, and a disheveled Felicia rushed in.
"Oh God! Get out of here quickly! The Seris people have entered the city!" A shiver of happiness rushed into the body and mind. Blanca stood up suddenly and asked: "What did you say?"
"Stop talking and come with me." The tutor looked around as if he was looking for something valuable. "There is no one in the whole house, everyone has escaped!"
"." The girl was about to speak when suddenly a nightmare-like cry came, "Blanka!! Blanca!!!"
It was the voice of the Cologne Prosecutor General. Blanca turned around and pulled out a table knife that she had stolen in the kitchen from under the mattress. Felicia looked at her in horror and asked: "What are you going to do?"
Amidst the shouts of people in the whole neighborhood, Blanca still clearly heard the messy footsteps coming from the floor. She pushed Felicia away and opened the door suddenly.
The Prosecutor General of Cologne, followed by the indigenous servants, was running towards this side from the other side of the corridor. "Quick! Get out of here with me!"
Felicia rushed out of the room in surprise, "Mr. Cologne, my Philippe -" Before she could finish asking, she saw a scene she would never forget:
The indigenous servant carrying the whale oil lamp raised a long dagger behind the Cologne Attorney General and stabbed him in the back.
Colon let out a scream, turned around and struggled with the native. At this time, Blanca stepped forward quickly, and with Colon's curses, she stabbed Colon's back with the knife in her hand with all her strength.
The whale oil lamp smashed to pieces on the ground, and blue flames ignited on the floor. Cologne was hit hard twice and staggered to the ground. The expressionless native stabbed him several times in the chest.
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Cologne looked at Blanca with a self-deprecating smile on his face. He opened his mouth to say something, but only spit out a bunch of blood foam. Seeing that he had lost the ability to resist, the native looked fiercely and walked towards Fei, who was so frightened that he lost the ability to move.
Lithia.
Felicia spoke a few syllables in a hoarse voice: "Please! Please! God."