Chapter 1074: Have You Ever Seen the Sea?

Miaoyin also prepared very generous gifts; she herself possessed a great deal of wealth, but women, well, their nature is just like that; they would not care about how much grain or food they have, at least Miaoyin would not care.

She only cares now about how many beautiful animal skins she has, how many beautiful Silk, how many pieces of jewelry, and how many gemstones.

Miaoyin took many of the broken gemstones and Peridot from the Meteorite that was said to be a gift bestowed by Heaven, using them to make jewelry for herself; in reality, only those other than Baifeng's family would truly regard that Meteorite as a gift from Heaven, while Baifeng's children all knew that this was just a Meteorite, a very ordinary Meteorite.

Miaoyin had never even seen what a falling Meteorite looked like, which was a regret for her; after all, such things might not be seen once in several lifetimes, but fortunately, she was able to obtain countless, inexhaustible Peridot to make countless pieces of jewelry for herself.

This time Changle had a wife, which meant Miaoyin had a sister-in-law, so she naturally had to prepare gifts; as a woman, she could not prepare anything else, so she prepared a lot of things like Silk and jewelry, among which there was even a bolt of Silk that could be considered an experiment in Embroidery; although the patterns were not that beautiful and the color coordination was not good, it was one of a kind, and it was Silk with Embroidery patterns—besides Huaxia, it existed nowhere else.

Sui and the others did not want it either, because Miaoyin had promised them that she would give them the best, so this first piece would be given to her sister-in-law with a rather special meaning, letting her use it to make clothes; she imagined that in this Jiuli, it would be impossible to have Silk, let alone such special Silk.

Changle's Large Ship was about to reach the shore, and Bingzhu and the others were also waiting expectantly; they had been on the boat for this period of time and felt so dizzy and nauseated from the rocking that their thinking had become chaotic; they had long since lost their initial sense of novelty and desire for knowledge, and their only thought was to get ashore quickly and have a good rest, feeling as if they had vomited up all their bile and were about to die.

Ayuduo was the same, having completely lost her former beauty and radiance, with only a pale face and an expression of wanting to die while holding Changle; she did not know that riding a boat would be so uncomfortable, and she did not even know what kind of Grass could be used to cure such a condition.

Because he truly felt sorry for Ayuduo and also for the sake of Bingzhu and the others, every night, Changle would have people set up a small boat, and after finding a suitable location, take them ashore to camp, at least allowing them to have a good night's sleep.

Moreover, for their safety, Changle also had to have Soldiers stand guard for them; fortunately, the Navy Soldiers could also understand, as they could not bear to watch them vomiting so miserably, and smelling the odor of vomit on the boat every day did not make them very happy either.

Furthermore, Ayuduo was Changle's woman, a princess, so they had to give her enough preferential treatment and enough respect; not to mention camping on the shore at night, even if the Large Ship was sailing and she said she was uncomfortable and wanted to stop the boat and go ashore immediately, they would have to stop immediately as long as there was no mission, though doing so would certainly wear down the Soldiers' morale, so it naturally could not be done too casually.

Even Changle only came up with this method after seeing that they really could not take it anymore; if their status were a bit more ordinary, or if Ayuduo had no relationship with him, then they would just be rocking on the boat every day, suffering; why would he make trouble for himself?

Hadn't Changle himself rocked over slowly like this at the beginning? If the waves were a bit bigger now and the wind a bit stronger, he would also get seasick; after all, this was not something he could decide, unlike Zisheng and the others who seemed to be born with an affinity for water and were naturally good at swimming; their children, once on a boat, no matter how big the wind and waves were, would never get seasick.

Zisheng, on the contrary, suddenly remembered something; one day he found Bingzhu, who was crawling by the side of the boat with a face that had turned green, and said, "Bingzhu, I once heard my King tell me about your Jiuli, saying that there is a sea there, right at the furthest east, where the sun rises."

Bingzhu no longer had any expression, looking as dull as a dead person; a powerful Soldier of the Jiuli had now become like this, which was still very painful, and this made Bingzhu feel very dissatisfied with himself; even though he could sleep on the shore at night, he did not feel much relief, and as soon as he got ashore, he still felt the world spinning, his feet feeling as if they were stepping in mud.

Regarding Zisheng's inquiry, his thinking was also unclear, and he had never even heard of the word "sea": "What is a sea? I have never heard of it. How do you know about our Jiuli? You have never been there."

"I heard it from our King; our King seems to know everything, he knows everything, and everything I know about the Jiuli is what he said."

"As for the sea, he said it is a body of water that you cannot see the edge of at all, a place much larger than a Dahu, with water so deep you cannot see the bottom, and the wind and waves roll up higher than mountains; inside, there are fish larger than mountains, and there are dozens of fish and other things that even Huaxia could not finish eating."

"I am a person who was born liking water and grew up in the water; if it weren't for being in Huaxia, we would still be living in lakes now, so after hearing that there is such a large body of water, I really wanted to go and see what it is like, but it seems that apart from our King, no one in Huaxia has ever been to such a distant place, and no one has ever seen the sea."

"Now I didn't expect to meet you few people from the Jiuli, so I wanted to ask if you have ever seen the sea and what kind of place it is."

Bingzhu really wanted to say that he had not seen it and did not know, but listening to Zisheng's description, he seemed to think of something; he seemed to have really heard of these things—does the Jiuli have it? He endured extreme discomfort while recalling, and then asked, "Where is the sea you speak of?"

Zisheng repeated, "In the furthest east, where the sun rises."

Bingzhu thought carefully, and it seemed their people had seen such a place: a Dahu that one could not see the edge of, where not even a bit of land could be seen, and there was an extreme amount of food, with countless fish and the like, but staring at it would make one faint, as if it were under a Spell, but why was he feeling dizzy now too?