The next day, Yutan sent people back to Manado to sell his shop, and he took the other crew members on board the ship and returned to Camecca. He knew that Wood Auction House's plan had failed and he would not let it go easily. He would not be able to return to their territory again, and Wood's power in Matt Harbor was still small and would not pose much of a threat to him. Therefore, in the future, Let’s just do business between Camecca and Port Mat.
Xiao Tianjian, after much thought, decided to write a letter and send it to his wife's family. In the letter, he explained what he and his granddaughter saw, emphasizing that the child was very sad, and asked Dora to make her plans clear and not to betray the family and make her husband and daughter sad. He also mentioned in the letter that he was going to take Minna to Kamega for a few days, and hoped that Dora would not let them down when he came back.
After writing the letter, he looked at his little granddaughter beside him who had been staring at what he wrote, and sighed. Although he doesn't like Dora as his daughter-in-law, for Mingna's sake, he still hopes that his son can live in harmony with his wife. After thinking about it, he added a few more words, implying that Anlong had not done anything wrong to his wife. He only made that illusion out of some need, and repeatedly drove his wife and daughter away from him, all for their sake. He advised his daughter-in-law Dora not to misunderstand him.
Ming Na saw these words and blinked: "Grandpa, what is dad going to do? Is it dangerous?" Could it be that what those people said yesterday were not true
Xiao Tianjian hesitated for a moment and said: "You are still young, I can't tell you. Anyway, you just need to remember that your father did not do anything bad." Ming Na looked at his expression and became serious, and she became serious. nod.
Xiao Tianjian handed the letter to the people at the Xiao family branch, took some money with him, and then took his granddaughter onto Yutan's boat and set off for Kamega.
The journey was boring. Ming Na has been living by the sea or at sea for two or three months in a row, and there is nothing new left. Yutan brought a limited number of toys, and as a gift for his beloved daughter, it was impossible for her to play with them. At first, Xiao Tianjian and Yu Tan talked about what happened after they broke up and their past experiences. Ming Na listened with interest for a day, but as time went by, she felt that her own experience was more interesting, and she became impatient to listen to others. Yes. While the two old men were drinking and reminiscing in the cabin, she walked to the deck alone.
Yutan's fleet has a total of two large ships and three medium-sized ships, as well as a dozen small sampans attached to the ships. This time, in addition to one large one still transporting cargo in the southern waters, and one medium-sized sampan, Some stayed in the port of Mat, while the others returned to Camecca together. Minna was on one of the largest ships. She remembered that the bilge contained flour, butter, sugar, eggs, fruits and vegetables, wine, glassware, and cloth. Other ships also contained livestock, poultry, and wood. . There were many crew members on the deck. I heard that Yutan had nearly two hundred people under his command, all of whom were capable and strong. Minna was not worried about danger as she walked around alone.
She lay on the stern side of the ship, looking at the Port of Mater with only a small black dot left in the distance, feeling a little uncomfortable. She didn't know if it was right for her to leave like this. Originally, she thought that her parents had done bad things. They had each found a lover, and they probably no longer wanted her, so she felt very sad. Now, even though she knows that her father did not do anything bad, she still feels sad when she thinks of her mother.
I remember that when I was in the Weisha Desert, my grandfather once said that although he had enjoyed many good things, power, wealth, fame... but he still wished that he was still the clerk who earned two or three thousand a month (she didn't quite I understand why people who get two to three thousand gold coins every month are still small employees), and they can live happily with their families. And what about her? Although she traveled all over the continent and learned a lot of things she didn't know before, she still missed the days when her family of five happily spent time together in Qidun.
Huh, this is all the fault of that vicious woman named Veronica and that pretty boy named Goodwin (Xiao Tian Jianyu)! They were the ones who made Mom and Dad leave!
There were several bundles of straw ropes scattered on the deck, which seemed to have been dropped by the crew while carrying cargo. Minna was furious for a moment and kicked one of them away. The flying grass and dust fell, but they happened to fall on a crew member who was walking towards them, and then slipped into the food plate in his hand. The crew member lost his voice and said, "Oh, who did this?"
When Ming Na saw that she had gotten into trouble, she hurriedly ran over and bowed her head to apologize: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it." She felt uneasy. The other party wouldn't get angry, right
The crew member looked quite young, only in his twenties, thin, with a pointed face, a small nose and small eyes. He looked at Ming Na and suddenly smiled: "Aren't you the young lady who came on the boat with our boss's noble friend? It's okay, it's okay, but why are you kicking the rope?" As he spoke, he threw away the straw rope. , shook the plate, patted away the dust on the bread, bent down and showed it to Ming Na: "It's just a little dusty, just pat it away and it'll be fine."
Ming Na's face turned red and she whispered: "I... I was in a bad mood, so I just... kicked it... I really didn't mean it... I, I'll help you change to clean food." After that, she stretched out her hand. Come and pick up.
The crew member smiled and moved away: "It really doesn't matter. What we ate today are bread and wheat cakes, not fish soup. It doesn't matter if it's stained with grass ashes. Don't worry about it, young lady." He cautiously put the box covered with linen next to him. He sat down and ate the bread. He opened the linen cloth next to him, wiped the box with his sleeves, and said, "Are you tired from standing? Please sit down, please sit down. This is not dirty. Why is the little lady in a bad mood? ?The sea is beautiful.”
Ming Na felt relieved when she saw that he really didn't care at all. Seeing how warm and friendly he was, she sat down on the box. But she didn't want to mention the reason for her unhappiness to strangers, so she just lowered her head and said nothing.
The crew member did not continue to ask, and said: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it. But why should a noble kid like you worry? You should be happy."
Ming Na glanced at him and tilted her head: "Are you from Bath? Are you a slave on the ship?" Judging from his appearance, his skin is dark, but a little yellow, with brown hair and brown eyes. Although he is short, he is He is a bit hunchbacked, but the veins and calluses on his hands indicate that he is a man who does hard work, which is in line with the characteristics of the Bath people who are described by others as "small stature, strong strength, hunchback, yellow skin, brown hair and brown eyes". It seems that driving Bass slaves is very popular in the southeastern coastal areas of the mainland. She has also seen it in Gutenberg. Compared with the crew in front of her, the skin of those slaves is just not that dark.
The crew member hurriedly waved his hands and said: "I am from Bath, but I am not a slave, really! You see, there is no slave brand on me." He opened his collar to show his dark and smooth chest, "My name is Corbin. The whole family lives in the lower city of Kamega, and I am a crew member under Master Yutan, not a slave!"
"Oh." Minna didn't care if he was a slave, she was just curious. Seeing that this Bass crewman looked similar to the one in the legend, she stopped asking any more questions.
Corbin finished his lunch in two bites, glanced at Minna, and said with a smile: "Little miss, are you feeling bored? In fact, the boat is very fun."
Ming Na looked at him: "I've looked everywhere. Where is the fun? It's no different from other boats." If she wanted to play, she would have been tired of it all the way before.
Corbin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "So the little lady often takes boats? No wonder. How about... I show you something you haven't seen before?"
Ming Na became somewhat interested: "What is it?"
"Guess?" Corbin suddenly jumped up, climbed to the mast behind him, scratched his head and shrank his feet, and made a grimace with his teeth gritted. Then he jumped into the pile of boxes, somersaulted down the deck, and stood on one foot. , but the other foot was retracted, his arms were raised high, his hands were like claws, and he rushed over with a bluster.
Minna smiled and dodged away: "It's a monkey!" The big-eared monkey, a specialty of Bass Island, has a picture in the school's geography textbook, which looks almost like this. "Learn the truth! What about the big ears? Monkeys still have big ears!" Minna shouted.
Corbin followed the good example and spread his hands by his ears like a beckoning gesture: "I'm a monkey, I have big ears, I'm a monkey, I have big ears..." He pretended to be close to Minna and made faces, making her giggle. Laugh.
"Ming Na, so you are here." Xiao Tianjian's voice came from behind. Ming Na looked back and saw that it was indeed him: "Grandpa!" She rushed over.
Xiao Tianjian hugged her and said with a smile: "Aren't you hungry? It's already time to eat." Ming Na touched her stomach and found that she was indeed hungry. Was it already noon? Corbin was eating just now, but she didn't notice.
When Corbin saw Xiao Tianjian, he quickly arranged his clothes and bowed to him with a smile on his face: "Hello, noble lord, I am a crew member of Boss Yutan."
Xiao Tianjian looked at him for a few times and frowned slightly: "Are you a Bath slave? What were you doing just now?" Ming Na whispered: "Grandpa, Corbin is not a slave. He was playing with me just now pretending to be a monkey." Corbin showed a flattering smile, bowed and said: "The villain saw that the little lady was in a bad mood, so he wanted to make her happy. Everyone said that the villain looked like a monkey when he pretended to be a monkey, so..."
Xiao Tianjian interrupted him before he finished listening: "Is that so? Thank you for your hard work. Go and do your work." He threw out a gold coin as a reward. Corbin's eyes lit up and he hurriedly took it and said diligently: " If you have anything to do, you can ask me to do it, and I am always at your command." Xiao Tianjian glanced at him with disgust, then took his granddaughter and walked into the cabin. Minna hurriedly turned back to say goodbye to Corbin, who waved with a smile, looked down at the gold coin she just got, took a bite, and put it into her arms.
Ming Na secretly smiled and turned around, and whispered to her grandfather: "Corbin is biting the gold coins. It's so fun." Xiao Tianjian pulled her into the cabin instead of going to the restaurant. Instead, he entered her room and said to her sternly: "Mingna, have you forgotten what I told you? Don't think that someone is a good person just because he treats you better and makes you happy. Have you forgotten about Frido?"
Ming Na put away her smile and stuck out her tongue. Grandpa always believed that the storm he encountered in the Weisha Desert was a trap secretly set by Frido, so he sneaked back to Mongli to look for him to bring bad luck, but he could never be found. It is said that he had offended someone and hid. Grandpa has been very depressed. But in Minna's opinion, how could Frido know when there would be a desert storm? How do you know they will lose their horses and food? So it was just an accident.
But Corbyn is even different, he just makes himself happy.
Ming Na said: "Grandpa, Corbin only plays with me when he sees me bored. He is not a bad person."
Xiao Tianjian snorted coldly: "How do you know he doesn't have ulterior motives? I hate him when I see his flattering smile, his eyebrows and eyes, and he bows... He doesn't look like a man at all." That made him feel bad. The association reminds me of people from a certain country. Bath happens to be an island country located in the east sea. It believes in gods. Although it is docile on the surface, it is actually life-threatening when it comes to ruthlessness. It is said that a slave in Bath once betrayed his master, causing Hundreds of people were killed and injured in the tragedy, so he didn't have a good impression of the people of this island country at all.
Minna asked suspiciously: "Is that so?" But she felt that the Corbin people were very kind.
Xiao Tianjian patted her on the head: "You are young and ignorant, and you can't judge who is right and who is wrong, so you have to be extra careful. People like Corbin who specialize in currying favor with rich and powerful people and don't know how to work honestly, you You have to be more careful and don't trust him too much, you know?"
Minna nodded hesitantly, and soon the growling sound in her stomach reminded her that it was time to eat. The grandfather and grandson looked at each other and smiled, and headed towards the restaurant together.
The ship sailed on the sea for three days, and on the morning of the fourth day, they arrived at Camecca. Ming Na looked at the large number of buildings near the pier and her eyes widened in surprise.
She had learned some general information about this country in school. She always thought it was a coral island that was ten times larger. The sea was beautiful, there were beaches, there were trees on the island, and there were not many houses... Unexpectedly, what caught her eyes was an ancient island. It is a city about the size of Denburg, with houses one after another, and the water is as turbid as the one in East. Boats are docked densely on the beach, and many people are walking on the shore. Most of them have bronze skin. , wearing a white and light robe, with dark curly hair on his head. Many of them were short, hunchbacked Bass people, running back and forth on the pier with heavy cargo strapped to their backs.
"This is the city of Kamega." Yutan happily said to Minna's grandparents, "Xiao, it has been fifteen years since you left, right? Kamega has changed a lot now, you must Unrecognizable."
Xiao Tianjian looked at the land with a smile: "It has indeed become a lot more prosperous. Your life is getting better and better, right?"
Yutan nodded with a smile, turned around and ordered his crew to dock, and assigned a few people to supervise the unloading of cargo on other ships, while he accompanied the guests off the ship. But when the ship just docked, he, the boss, couldn't take it easy. After continuous reports of problems with the cargo on the ship, he finally had to leave temporarily. Xiao Tianjian didn't care and took his granddaughter off the boat first.
Several long wooden boards have been set up on the side of the ship to connect to the land for people to get on and off the ship. Mingna stepped on one of them and walked down, but she heard a noise next to her and quickly turned her head to look.
It turned out that there were about a dozen Kamakan children gathered around the ship, pointing, patting the cargo boxes that were brought off the ship from time to time, and laughing with each other.
A man came down from the boat carrying a cargo box. When he saw this, he quickly put the box down. He walked over and waved and cursed to drive people away: "Go, go, go, let's play, what if we touch the box?!" Those children refused to behave. He left and made faces at him. He was so angry that he reached out and wanted to hit him.
Minna recognized it was Corbin. Xiao Tianjian saw this and shouted: "Stop! What are you going to do?!" Corbin turned around when he heard the sound, smiled and bowed: "Noble Lord, these children are not sensible, I'm afraid they will break..."
"Those are big crates, how could they be broken so easily? Children are ignorant, just give them some advice. Why are you beating them?" Xiao Tianjian looked at him with disgust, "Stop acting like you are wronged. Have I wronged you?!"
Corbin lowered his head and said nothing. A child next to him shouted: "This Bath slave is the worst, he scares us every time!" "Yes, yes, noble master, please beat him." Other children also agreed. .
Corbin secretly glared at them and whispered: "I am not a slave!" The children made faces at him and complained to Xiao Tianjian: "Look, sir, he is still scaring us!"
Xiao Tianjian stared at Corbin coldly, then turned to his granddaughter and said: "Mingna, can you see clearly this time? I have said before that he is not a good person, but he actually bullies children, hum!" Mingna nodded, with some regret. Look at Corbin. The latter shrank his head and bent even lower.
You Tan stepped off the boat at this time and asked, "What happened?" Xiao Tianjian said, "Nothing, but Lao You, when you hire people, you should be selective and don't accept those with questionable character. Man, lest he cause trouble in the future and implicate you." After that, he ignored Corbin and walked forward with his granddaughter. Yutan looked hesitantly at several busy crew members nearby, then at Corbin, frowning and said: "Why don't you get to work quickly?"
Corbin hurriedly bowed in response and turned back to pick up the goods just now. The group of children refused to let him go, and continued to gather around and yell: "You are about to lose your job, let's see if you still show off your authority!"
Another crew member came over and scolded them: "You bastard, get out of here! If you don't leave, I'm going to find your parents!" The children ran away with a whoop, but they would look back and make faces from time to time.
The crew member comforted Corbin and said, "Don't take it to heart. These brats are always annoying, and the boss knows it." Corbin nodded and walked forward in silence.
When passing another ship, two crew members were carrying a bundle of wood. Another man accidentally touched it. The wood became crooked and one of its branches slid down. However, Corbin happened to be walking under the side of the ship. His companion saw him from behind and rushed up to push him away: "Be careful!" Corbin avoided the wood, but his companion fell down and was hit by the slipping wood on his hand, causing a bruise on his wrist.
Corbin leaned over worriedly: "Ruel, are you okay?"
Ruhr turned his wrist: "It's okay, it's just a little painful. Just take a rest and it'll be fine." He patted Corbin's shoulder with his other hand: "I know you're in a bad mood, but you have to be careful when walking. Yes." Corbin nodded sheepishly, helped him up, and faced the three companions who ran over and caused the accident.