novelpro Chapter 1549 The Canary in the Cage (3)
Chapter 1549 The Canary in the Cage (3)
Chapter 1549 The Canary in the Cage ([-])
It was the boy in the bottom of the boat who turned her in.
There was someone on the ship who could understand their language. Maybe he just wanted to exchange such a report for some better treatment, but there was no doubt that after she was discovered, their biology still did not change in any way, nor did they improve their understanding of the situation. any of their treatment.
Because even without this report, it would have been difficult for her to survive this long voyage with the meager food.
But she didn't die.
When she woke up again, she was hung like a trophy in the cage where he kept large birds.
She is too thin.
It can even be lifted up with one hand by the cage and shown off and admired like a pet.
But she never said a word from beginning to end.
Even when those people asked her about her experience in a language she was familiar with, she remained silent.
For sailors and crews who have been sailing on the sea for a long time, sailing is an extremely boring thing, and they are also very happy to carry out bloody torture on those who illegally take their ships to stowaway, and then dock again. They are sunk to the bottom of the sea in front of the shore to feed the fish.
There is no law here, the only law here is the captain.
But she didn't die.
But this is not God's protection, it is just because she is too insignificant, like a seabird that fell on the deck, and the reason why they kept her is also very simple, just like raising a monkey or myna, You can have fun during this boring voyage, or like the decent gentlemen of the upper class, raise your own little canary in the ballet theater.
Another point.
She is really beautiful.
Even though she is already skinny, even if she is only a few years old, it is enough to see that she will be a beautiful lady who will attract attention in the future.
They could keep her and hide her in the deepest part of the cabin as the captain's most personal trophy, waiting for this little canary to slowly grow up and become delicious, and even if they didn't have this idea, With her exquisiteness, she can get a lot of money from selling it.
A new day begins on the ship.
She was kept in a cage every day, with her hands and feet shackled, and only fed a small amount of food.
Many sailors like to play tricks on her. They will drag her and the cage at the stern of the ship, watching the undulating waves submerge her hairline, and watching the white sharks from the deep sea surrounding her cage and being attracted eagerly. Usually they would let out bursts of loud laughter and drag her back from the stern of the boat together with the cage.
But luckily.
Her puppy didn't die.
It had a new owner, and ever since she woke up, she could see it fawningly following the sailors, wagging its tail, as if it had forgotten her, happily begging for some leftovers from them. Bones and scraps of food, bobbing their heads.
It seemed that it had really forgotten her previous owner.
later.
She was finally allowed to come out of the cage, either because she neither cried nor laughed, or because she had never spoken and treated her as a mute. The sailors slowly lost interest in teasing her. Because you can't always maintain a high mood for a piece of wood for a long time.
She was asked to clean the wet deck below the cabin in shackles.
The corridor was dark and smelly.
She had to clean up for a long time every day, and was only allowed to return to her cage at the end of the night to eat the scraps left by the sailors.
But compared to the dozens of days when there was no food to eat, this was already very good.
every night.
She was leaning against the cage alone, holding her stuffed doll, thinking about what Sister Shirley had said to her.
"Even if you have to endure hardships, you must live well."
She closed her eyes.
She thought of that dream again, of the warm fireplace and blanket, of her mother, of her brother, of that little home...
And they are in the New World.
Soon!soon.
Soon the sailing ship will dock, and she will definitely be able to find them...
That little bit of hope supported her, igniting the candle swaying in the cold wind in her heart, so that she would not be extinguished in the darkness.
But she still forgot.
Sometimes the evil in human nature strikes faster and more violently than you think.
She didn’t know how many days they spent on that boring and depressing voyage. She only knew that the cold winter in the north did not affect this place. They survived a sudden huge storm and finally survived. , and she also learned from their communication that they only had a few days left to sail from their destination.
During that time, the sailors and crew members on the ship also stopped frugal with supplies and supplies on the ship.
According to them.
After this voyage is over, each of them will be able to receive a large sum of money. The smuggling and trade of slaves now has almost a huge profit.
So in those few days.
There are banquets held every day on the ship. They hold rum and talk in various languages about how they will spend and have fun after docking.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten about her.
Forgot about the little canary in the cage.
Until that night, when another banquet was over, she still passed silently through the drunken sailors and was authorized to clean up the garbage on the floor after the banquet. This kind of job was very good, because Finally, you no longer need to eat food that is about to expire or go bad. You can pick up some leftover food from the sailors and quietly satisfy your hunger.
She would put away the leftovers.
Quietly go to the warehouse on the lowest level, pass the small lookout, and distribute the normal food to the hungry, thirsty and tortured inhuman slaves.
She never spoke, she did it silently.
She met the black boy.
He cowardly hid in the corner, howling and not daring to look at her. He kowtowed to her and kept saying many words, but she couldn't understand what he was saying.
She would quietly give them food and then crawl back into her cage at night.
But that night.
When she was walking through the corridor to return to her cage as usual, a huge shadow hiding behind the door suddenly caught her.
He was a drunken figure, with a strong smell of tobacco and alcohol in his breath. She recognized him as a sailor on the ship. He had suffered from smallpox, and his face was full of pitted scars left by smallpox. He told her in the midst of the strong smell of alcohol that he used to have a niece like her, who was as beautiful and cute as her, and even had the same eye color.
He said he hated those people in the church and his wife who was as ugly as a sow.
He said his niece was an angel just like her.
They maintained an underground relationship for a long time. It was not until they were discovered that the church members burned her to death, and he luckily escaped across the ocean.
He said he wanted her to be his niece on the ship.
He misses her so much.
He misses her so much that he no longer wants to wait for her to grow up, and he no longer wants to watch the little angel in his heart being treated as a private canary by his captain and first mate.
he said drunkenly.
Those eyes were full of hidden sin. She was very familiar with that look. Just like when Shirley knelt down and begged the foreman, she had also seen it in the eyes of those people. They were worse than beasts. Want scary eyes.
At that moment, her pupils dilated, and she thought of Shirley, and the unconcealable pain in her once smiling eyes.
For the first time she was afraid.
She didn't know how she broke free. She hugged her doll and rushed through the corridor to escape.
But the tall figure was chasing after her.
The drunkenness all over his body was like the devil's grin.
She fell several times.
She rushed to the cabin room and tried to close the door, but before she could do it in time, she was slammed open by the drunken figure.
She could only hide in her own cage, like all the pets on the ship who needed cages.
Those starlings, those cats, those snakes and peacocks.