After sitting in the room for more than ten days, Ye Zhen finally couldn't bear it. With Ye Yiqing's consent, she finally had a chance to go out for a walk. Although she was not allowed to stay outside for too long, at least she didn't have to stay in the room anymore.
As soon as she came out of the room, Ye Zhen saw a young man coming towards her. His face was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember who he was for a moment. She only felt that she should have seen him somewhere before.
"Yao Yao!" Ye Chundong looked at the woman in front of him in surprise. He had heard that Lu Yaoyao and Ye Zhen looked alike, but he didn't expect them to be so … similar. Although he had not seen Ye Zhen many times before, he was very familiar with her look. Not to mention Lu Yaoyao's facial features, even her expression was very similar to Ye Zhen's!
Ye Zhen looked at him suspiciously. She really felt that this man was familiar. It seemed … impossible! Wasn't that man dead? "You are?"
"My name is Ye Chundong, your cousin …" Ye Chundong smiled. "You may not have heard of me. I didn't live in the Ye family since I was a child. I spent more time with my second uncle. I used to be with you … with your brother and sister."
Ye Chundong! The illegitimate son of her uncle, who was later killed by her aunt!
No, she remembered that Ye Chundong was dead. Even his body was buried in the ancestral grave of the Ye family. How could he be here?
Ye Zhen was dumbfounded. She stared at Ye Chundong. "You are … the son of my uncle. That is Ye Chunming's younger brother!"
"You have already met my eldest brother!" Ye Chundong smiled. Obviously, he was a little uncomfortable when he mentioned Ye Chunming. He was bullied by Ye Chunming in the Ye family.
"It's really …" Ye Zhen almost said it was really him. Fortunately, she remembered that she was not Ye Zhen now, but Lu Yaoyao. "Then I should call you second cousin!"
"I have no ranking in the Ye family, but your sister always calls me fifth brother!" Ye Chundong said with a smile.
Ye Zhen laughed. "Then I will call you Fifth Brother too!"
In fact, Ye Yisong had three sons. In addition to Ye Chunming, the second son was also beheaded. The other one was Ye Chundong, but Ye Chundong was born from a concubine and had always been hated by his aunt. When he was first brought back to the Ye family, he was bullied by Ye Chunming to the point that he could only hide in a corner and cry secretly. If it weren't for her and Ye Chunnan's protection, he would have been bullied badly. Thinking of the younger generation of the Ye family, Ye Zhen sighed in her heart. Ye Chunming had been placed under house arrest, and now only one cousin had not appeared.
However, Ye Wei should not come back again. Ye Zhen heard that her cousin had eloped with someone else. Ye Yisong said a long time ago that no one should mention his daughter at home. In fact, Ye Zhen didn't remember what Ye Wei looked like.
Ye Chundong smiled and said, "Hey, if you need anything on the ship in the future, just come to me."
"You …" Ye Zhen still didn't understand. "How did you end up with my father? When the Ye family was in trouble, weren't you in the capital?"
"What's the difference between being in the capital or not? In everyone's eyes, I am already dead," Ye Chundong said. "You don't know this yet. I am actually a child born by my father outside. When I was ten years old, I was taken back. First Madam couldn't tolerate me. When she asked someone to take me out to play, she found a kidnapper to take me away. If it weren't for Second Uncle who saved me, I would have been beaten to death by the kidnappers. Later, I stayed in Jinkou City.
It turned out that her father saved Ye Chundong! She didn't know anything at all. Her father was really good at hiding things!
"Doesn't First Uncle know that Father saved you?" Ye Zhen asked curiously.
Ye Chunnan smiled and shook his head. "No one knows."
"Alright." Ye Chun was also convinced by her father. He seemed to have done too many surprising things. Whether it was becoming the prime minister of Dongqing Country or conjuring such a big ship to go out to sea. Now that she knew that he had saved Ye Chundong, she would not feel that anything else was magical anymore.
"You haven't seen this ship yet, right? Let me take you for a walk." Ye Chundong said. He didn't know if it was because of the resemblance, but he always felt that the Lu Yaoyao in front of him was the sister who protected him when he was a child.
Ye Zhen smiled and nodded. "Okay."
After being on board for so long, Ye Zhen didn't know what the ship looked like. She could only feel that it should be very big. She followed Ye Chundong out of the cabin and finally saw what the ship looked like. She was dumbfounded.
"This … ship …" Ye Zhen was dumbfounded. She knew that the ship was big, but she didn't expect it to be so big.
Ye Chundong explained to her with a smile, "Second Uncle personally designed the paper for the boat. All these years, I've been helping Second Uncle complete the manufacturing of this boat in Jinkou City. Afraid that it would be discovered, I even divided it into three shipyards to make it. This is called a Great Fortune Boat. It's a little different from the Great Fortune Boats of the previous dynasty. There are three levels in the tower, and it's wide at the top and can accommodate a hundred people. The previous Great Fortune Boats had a deep draft and were slow to start and stop, so Second Uncle made some changes to the hull.
Ye Zhen had seen the ship of Qi Yanling when she went to sea in a book. It was the Da Fu Ship she had built at that time, but it was different from this one. She was secretly surprised. What could her father not do?
"There are four floors here. The bottom floor is loaded with ballast stones, the second floor is for the crew, the third floor is for the wing rooms, and the top floor is for the terrace. I will take you to the terrace one day." Ye Chundong smiled.
"What is this?" Ye Zhen asked, pointing to something she had never seen before in the bow of the ship.
Ye Chundong said, "Oh, that is the Hong Barbarian Cannon. If we encounter pirates, we can use it."
"These are all things that Father secretly asked you to do in Jinkou City. How many years have you been preparing?" Ye Zhen remembered the travel notes in the villa. How many years ago did her father want to go to sea? Otherwise, he would not have prepared these things.
"More than ten years. When I took over, Second Uncle had already begun to prepare." Ye Chundong smiled.
Ye Zhen walked to the deck and looked at the blue sky and sea. Even the air was salty. She smiled and said, "No wonder people say that even if the ship is as tall as a city, it is still a light boat in the sea."
"Have you ever been out to sea before?" Ye Chundong asked.
"No." She had just always yearned for it.
Ye Chundong smiled and said, "Then you are very used to it. Many people who have never been on a ship will get seasick at sea."
"How long before we can reach the shore?" Ye Zhen asked with a smile. They had been at sea for a long time. By this time, they should have left the territory of the Jin Kingdom.
"Baoxiang Kingdom is ahead. Let's go there to exchange for some food." Ye Chundong said.
Ye Zhen's eyes lit up. "So soon?"
(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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