C83 (1/2)
Ma Yuanzhang took the whaleboat to the Indra. He didn't look like someone who was old and crippled, to Yao's imagination. Although his stature couldn't be considered tall and sturdy, it was obvious that he was very sturdy. His appearance was much younger than his actual age, and his entire body appeared to be agile and capable. His footsteps were also as steady as a normal person's, making it impossible to tell that he was an old man with a crippled leg.
Ashley greeted her father expressionlessly. Although she could suppress the bad feelings in her heart, she couldn't pretend to be close to him.
After a long time of disagreements, Ma Fei Zhan was already used to his daughter's cold attitude. He pulled Ashley along as he looked up and down, and saw that other than the fact that she had become much skinnier and skinnier due to the long journey outside, she didn't look too bad. At the very least, she wasn't as near to death as the little girl had mentioned in her message.
He pointed to the gauze over Ashley's head and asked, ”What happened to your head? Is the injury serious? ”
Ashley told him the story of his encounter with the White Devil in a simple manner. Ma Yuanzhang listened to it with interest, then pointed at the whaler he was riding and said, ”So that's what happened. Daddy will take revenge for you. That whale is on the boat.”
Ashley asked him in surprise, ”You guys. Capture it? By the way, why are you on a whaler? ”
Ma Zhang Zhan answered his daughter's question and looked at everyone around her, ”It wasn't really a catch. It was almost at its end, of course the captain didn't want to waste such a precious beast, so we fished it out. ”By the way, you know the captain. Captain Fukuda, the Japanese, his full name is Yishiro Fukuda. You've met him twice in Beijing.”
Ashley was completely shocked speechless this time.
Fukuda suspected that his father had been killed by Ma Yuanzhang, and when he learned in Beijing that the manager of the foundation there was the daughter of Ma Yuanzhang, he set up a plot to assassinate her, only to be interrupted by an unidentified Indian in the foundation.
After that, Ashley used his mental illness certificate to get him out and made a deal with him to use him to stop his father's evil plans. But who would have thought that Fukuda would appear here on the same boat as her father? Was he also bribed?
Ma didn't continue the topic. He said to Ashley, ”Is there anywhere we can talk about this in private? Or do you want to go with me to the whaler? ”
Ashley was tough. ”Right here, we can go down to the cabin.”
When the two of them reached the stairs, Ma Zhang Zhan suddenly looked back at the crowd on the deck and asked Ashley, ”Among your friends, do you think you need anyone to follow you down? I think there are some things that should be told to them.”
Ashley opened her mouth to say no, but then changed her mind. She reached out to Yao Yun and asked him to accompany her on this conversation with the horse.
When they arrived at the cabin room, Ma Zhang Zhan was the first to speak. He smiled and said, ”Master Yao, I've heard a lot about you taking care of my daughter. I'm also from Beijing, so you don't have to be so polite.”
However, he thought to himself, after all, this old man is still his boss, not to mention he's Ashley's father. No matter how much conflict there is between the two of them, it's not something an outsider like me can interfere with. He then quickly said, ”Aiyo, I'll just call you uncle. I don't dare to take your words for granted, you can call me San'er if you call me San'er. You've been talking for so long, and we've only just met, am I a bit of an eyesore? Why don't I go up first and have a chat?”
Ma Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, ”Little Yao, I won't be polite with you anymore. Don't leave, just listen to me together. Originally, I didn't intend to come over, but since the little girl told me about the situation over here, I had no choice but to come over. ”It was not easy for me to bring my wife when she died, and I have been used to it ever since she was young. Even I, her father, looked down on her, and if it wasn't for that girl secretly contacting me, I'm afraid that we would never have met again.”
Ashley remained expressionless. ”It's not as serious as you think. It's just that I was bitten by a poisonous bug. I'm fine now.”
Ma Yuanzhang sat on the bed. He lowered his head to look at his fingernails and slowly said, ”Do you really think that way? ”How could it just be a coincidence that you were bitten by a rare poisonous spider in Central Asia on a broken island in the Indian Ocean?”
After he finished speaking, he raised his head, looked at Yao Ling, and asked, ”Little Yao, you're an expert. What do you think?”
Yao Yun felt a little awkward. She smiled and replied, ”About this.” ”According to common sense, it's impossible for this to happen, unless someone intentionally brought the Man-Faced Spider here to commit murder, but I'm not sure if the target is Ashley. After all, from what we know, there have been a few other people who were bitten before, and it's possible that all of us went to get those fruits that day, Ashley might not be the target.”
”You're right, she is not the target. The target is any of you, and all of you in this team are their targets. Do you understand?” Their goal is to stall for time, and find Ranga before you do. ”
Ashley finally revealed a surprised expression. She wasn't surprised that her father knew about the matter in Ranga, but was instead surprised that he had directly revealed it to her. He was going to completely smash open the window, so it seemed that the matter was even more serious than she had thought.
Yao Ling was still playing dumb when he said, ”They? Who is it? ”You said that someone wanted to kill us?”