At the blink of an eye, at sunset, the sunset glow is covered with clouds in the sky, and the afterglow of the sunset reflects the calm sea, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, immersed in the vastness of the moment.

From the dull cabin lounge to the deck of the boat, Xia Lan put her hands on the railings, allowing the gentle sea breeze to blow on her face. When people are on the journey, the scenery changes, strange and lonely, distant and desolate, stop hurriedly and reminisce about the past, clear and hazy, like a long dream.

He is not a sentimental person, and his occasional sentimentality is just to regulate the state of mind or to resolve certain problems.

At some point, Brady came to him, and the two of them watched the sea scenery side by side, as if they were speechless as strangers who didn't know each other.

"Mr. Lowell, do you like the sea?"

After a long time, Brady took the lead in breaking the silence.

"No, I just like quietness." Xia Lan turned her head and smiled at Brady and said, "The unpredictable sea is like a woman's mind is always unpredictable. Under her gorgeous appearance, there is a fierce and terrifying fatal threat."

"It seems that this unfortunate shipwreck encounter made Mr. Lowell still feel scared." Brady chuckled.

"It makes you laugh." Xia Lan smiled bitterly: "Although you can only grow up by constantly experiencing setbacks and hardships on the road of life, I don't want to encounter such a bad thing again. If I hadn't been fortunate to meet you, Mr. Captain, you might have already sank to the sea in the next line."

"Does Mr. Lowell have any plans to return to Korkis?" Brady said intentionally or unintentionally.

"I don't know..." Xia Lan said with a gloomy expression: "Actually, I don't want to go back, but I have no other choice."

Brady heard the indescribable hiddenness from his words, and he did not ask deeply. Instead, he said to himself: "I came from an ordinary fisherman family. I have lived a stable life since I was a child. I once thought I would inherit my father's business and continue fishing for a lifetime. But once I saw people who returned from overseas trade in the town, I completely changed my mind because, I don't want to live mediocrely, I want to take risks, I want to see the vast world outside, I want to live a more exciting life... So, I secretly ran away from home with the ship that went to overseas trade. I haven't returned home for six years..."

He stared blankly at the sunset falling from the sea level, and the last orange afterglow poured on his face full of vicissitudes.

"In the past six years, I have met many people, experienced many things, and experienced the customs and customs of different cities and countries. If I had been staying in the original town, I would never have these unforgettable experiences in my life. Later, with my hard work, I successfully earned enough connections and the merchant ship under my feet and returned home because I proved my success and proved my choice, but reality played a joke for me... My parents passed away due to oversadness." Brady took a deep breath and continued: "I have ever asked myself if I regretted my original choice? In the end, I spent a year thinking through the answer, no!"

"No?" Xia Lan, who seemed deeply attracted by the content of Brady's story, said in surprise.

"Yes." Brady nodded and said lightly: "A person's life is too short. Everyone has the right to pursue the meaning of life, such as dreams, freedom, and feelings... My choice is right, but I used the wrong method."

"I can't tell that Mr. Captain, you are also a wise philosopher." Xia Lan complimented.

"Stop joking with Mr. Lowell, I am just a vulgar businessman who is illiterate." Brady shook his head and laughed at himself.

"Captain! Mr. Lowell! It's time to start dinner!"

At this time, little Toby trotted out of the cabin with sweat and shouted loudly when he saw Brady and Xialan on the railings of the ship.

"We'll go there later."

Brady responded to Toby little, and then said to Xia Lan: "Mr. Lowell, the simple meal may not be well received. I will give you a meal to you."

"Captain, please be polite." Xia Lan said quickly: "Thank you for your kindness to help me, how can I be too picky?"

"Haha, Mr. Lowell, don't forget that you are our most honorable guest now. We cannot neglect you for the sake of gold coins." Brady said with a smile.

"Maybe I really don't have the awareness of being a guest." Xia Lan touched her nose and said.

"Go ahead and arrange some preparations first, Mr. Lowell please feel free."

After saying that, Brady said goodbye to Xia Lan and left.

There is no special kitchen in the cabin of the merchant ship, but there is a small compartment in the freshwater food storage room, where there are messy pots and pans, and the most eye-catching thing is a small mud-cast stove wrapped in iron.

There was an iron pot on the small stove, and the soup of marinated meat, salted fish and beans was boiled. The unique fragrance was scattered everywhere and could be smelled from a distance.

When Brady walked into the storage room, Tarber and Toby had already returned to their posts with food. There was a shaking figure in the dim compartment. After a closer look, he realized that Wrights was constantly stirring the soup pot with a spoon inside.

"Brother Brady, are you here? Come and try my carefully prepared broth."

When Wrights saw Brady, he immediately filled a bowl of broth and handed it to the other party.

Brady took the steaming broth and tasted it lightly, and said, "It seems that there are more spices."

"Yes, it's hard to hide the smell of anesthetic powder if you don't put too much spices." Wrights smiled.

Brady silently put down the soup bowl in his hand and said, "Remember to add white bread when delivering the meal later."

"White bread? Is it okay to give them a meal before dying?" Wrights said: "Anyway, the white bread will be broken in another day or two, so it's okay to give it to them... By the way, I just seemed to hear you and that man chatting well on the deck of the boat. Can you know what you are talking about?"

"It's nothing, I just casually told some life experiences." Brady stared at Wrights and said, "Don't worry, since I decided on this matter, I will not regret it."

Wrights breathed a sigh of relief, put down the last trace of worry in his heart, and then he took out a packet of medicine from his arms and slowly poured it into the boiling soup.

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...

The lounge was still dull, and there were three people silent.

Xia Lan leaned against the door as if closing her eyes to rest. Adelina sat on the window and stared blankly at the sea view after nightfall.

cold war?

Winnie thought to herself, for some reason she felt a sense of pleasure.

When two people with disagreeable personalities get along, conflicts will eventually break out, unless one party is willing to endure forever and disguise.

But the reality is that Xia Lan lost patience first and exposed her nature, which triggered a dispute.

This really made Winnie feel strange because Xia Lan's actions were completely inconsistent with his original nature.

Perhaps if she has the chance, she will personally seek the other party’s answer.

Dongdongdongdongdong-

The door suddenly made people knock, and a strange and low voice came in.

"Mr. Lowell, I will deliver you food according to the captain's instructions."

Xia Lan opened her eyes and opened the door. Then she saw a man standing respectfully in front of the door with a tray full of food.

"Please trouble you."

Xia Lan took the tray of food and said to the man before closing the door again.

He looked at the food on the tray, smiled inexplicably, and looked at the silent Adelina and Winnie and said, "Let's eat something first."

Winnie first walked up. She picked up a bowl of broth and a white bread on the tray, and then returned to the position she had just started eating and drinking. She was so hungry early in the morning, especially after spending most of the day swimming in the sea, she was overdrawn violently. She was exhausted and she finally had no strength to speak.

Just as Adrina was about to get up and get food to Xialan, Winnie suddenly vomited heavily, and the soup bowl in her hand was thrown to the ground and coughed.

"Winnie?! What's wrong with you?"

Seeing this, Adrina exclaimed immediately.

“There is poisonous in the broth!”

After calming down his chest, Winnie gasped heavily and said with a thick breath like frost.

"What?" Adelina said with wide eyes.

Xia Lan stretched out her finger and dipped it in the broth in the tray for a brief taste. After savoring it for a while, nodding and said, "Winnie is right. The broth is indeed poisonous, but it is not a fatal poison, it seems to be a poison in anesthesia."

"Haha, I didn't expect that I would have poisoned me." Winnie panted and said to herself with a pillow against the wall and the ship's bulkhead.

"What's going on? Why do they poison the food?" Adelina said nervously.

"It's probably because I'm thinking about wealth." Winnie looked at Xia Lan and said with deep meaning in her eyes.

Before, she was wondering why he simply killed the crew and seized the ship after he didn't board the ship, but instead threw out a large amount of gold coins to hire the other party. Considering that he suddenly exposed his nature in front of Adelina, was it because he did everything on purpose?

"Adelina, this world is far less kind than you imagined. Blind mercy will only hurt yourself in the end." Xia Lan said lightly at the right time.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"

Adrina quickly walked to Xialan, picked up the broth on the tray and took a sip regardless of the heat. Soon, the attack of the anesthetic toxins in the broth in the body proved that Xialan and Winnie did not lie.

"If you don't believe it yet... please come with me, I will let you witness the truth with your own eyes."

Xia Lan whispered to Adrina, turned around and opened the wooden door and walked out of the room.

Adrina stood there for a moment, and followed her with a blank expression.
Chapter completed!