Sir Andrew Melville, the shackled and shackled palace guard, sat motionless on the deck at the bottom of the cabin, staring blankly at the iron fence directly ahead. From time to time, there was a "squeak" in my ears... Chirping... The sound of the hull squeaking on the surface of the sea, his body swayed from side to side with the slight swing of the hull.

Sir didn't know how this had happened, and the last memory in his mind was that when he was about to be "drowned", the torturers stopped and stopped torturing him. When he woke up again, he found himself in a cell with stone walls on three sides. Judging by the large stones piled up on the walls, he thought he was probably in the cell of a castle.

After some time, two attendants dressed in infantry half-armor came from outside the barred door of the cell, one carrying a bunch of keys in his hand, and the other holding a white linen bag in his hand. Sir immediately rose from the ground, stretched out his two shackled hands and clung to the impregnable bars of his cell, and shouted at the people outside, "Who are you? Why are you holding me here? ”

The squire with the key opened the door of the fence room with the key, and looked coldly at the captain of the guard and the captain of the squire inside the fence, "Captain, as long as you don't resist, we won't let you taste drowned again." ”

"Drowned?" Sir Andrew abruptly recalled the feeling of being strapped to a chair, his face covered with a piece of cloth, and an endless amount of water pouring into his mouth and nostrils.

As the door to the cell on the left side opened, Sir let go of his hands with palpitations and hung limply on his lower abdomen. Later, two attendants walked into the cell and came to him, and one of the attendants said, "Captain, now we are going to take you to a place that suits you, do you hear me clearly?" ”

"Where are you taking me?" Sir still stared at the two squires with a look of utter contempt, and spoke calmly.

The two armored attendants glanced at each other, and the attendant with the key said, "Captain, you'll know when you go." As soon as the attendant finished speaking, one of the attendants raised the white bag in his hand, pointed the open bag at the head of the guard, and lowered it.

Like a blind man, he was led from place to place, until at last when someone suddenly ripped off the pockets on his head, and Sir found himself still in a somewhat cramped cell. It's just that the walls on three sides of this cell are actually made of wooden planks. I took a deep breath and the smell of bitter and salty sea water came to my nose. Jazz pondered, and he felt as if he had arrived on a ship.

Looking at the people in front of him carefully, it was still the two armored attendants from before, and immediately asked, "Squire, is this a ship?" ”

One of the squires nodded, "Captain, I think you should think about the question of where the queen is now. ”

"Bastard, I am a knight loyal to the Queen. If you speak to me in this tone again, I will surely catch you in the days after you are released and dismember you with four horses!" ”

"Released? Brother, did you hear me? The attendant was slightly stunned, and smiled as he turned to look at the other attendant.

"I hear you." The other squire looked at Sir and nodded slightly, "Captain, if you don't tell where the Queen is hiding, you won't be released." Even if your family is willing to pay a large ransom for you, we can't let you go home. ”

Sir Andrew looked at the two armoured attendants in astonishment, "Is this what the stinky woman said?" Why not follow the custom of knightly combat? ”

"Smack...!" With a thud, one of the attendants slapped Sir with a leather whip on his left arm and part of his body, and then said viciously, "Captain, this is a punishment for your humiliation, understand?" ”

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Sir Andrew stared at the deck overhead, a little desperately, and then turned his head to look at the empty cabin, and thought to himself, "Who could these spies be sent by the English?" ”

"These squires are all dressed in the armours of the 'Arman Rivets' of the English army and the armor of the archers, are these mercenaries of the English?"

"Mercenaries? Well, it doesn't look like a Burgundian, and the accent sounds like a northerner from England. ”

"Northerners? I think these people were probably sent by some northern nobleman. Sir leaned his head against the fence on his left side and thought, "How did they find the palace of Linlithgow?" Until then, no Englishman had ever appeared in a church near the palace to kill the bishops and friars. ”

While Sir was still secretly guessing the true identities of Isabel and the others, an attendant with a plate came down the stairs in the middle of the cabin. Upon arriving outside the cage where Sir was being held, a plate containing a jar of ale, a jar of gravy, half a lump of bread, and half a lump of cooked cured pork was placed on the deck outside the cage.

Jazz squinted at the food on his plate, still sitting on the edge of the fence, not speaking or moving. The armored attendant who had laid down the plate glanced at him, sneered and stood up and left the bottom of the cabin. When the cabin was quiet again, Jazz turned his gaze to the food on his plate, "I didn't expect this stinky woman to give me high-quality bread that I hadn't sifted." ”

Know that high-quality bread that has not been sifted is a grade above cheap white bread. Although this bread is not as nutritious and expensive as high-quality bread made from flour that has been sifted twice or three times, it has become an exclusive staple food for people above the gentleman's class. Sir glanced at the unoccupied cabin, and quickly reached out of the fence and grabbed half a lump of bread and placed it on his legs.

There were no portholes in the hull of the bottom cabin, so Sir Andrew did not know if it was day or night outside. After a meal to satisfy your hunger, close your eyes and rest with your head resting on the fence. When he was still falling asleep, he suddenly heard a burst of "Bah... Bang... The sound of "boom" came.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that the squire who had whipped himself with a leather whip was standing outside the gate of the fence and struck the fence with his sword, and after a few knocks, he looked at him and said, "Captain, wake up." Get up and come with us. ”

Subsequently, Sir Andrew, in shackles and shackles, was taken to the upper deck of the stern. It was the deck of the navigators, the junior crew and the chaplain's house of worship, and the living conditions were naturally much better than those at the bottom of the merchant ships, which were used for detention and the bottom of the cabins for transporting black slaves. Staying in the cabin of the priest for worship until sunset, Sir Andrew suddenly felt the ship move.