Chapter 5: The Port of Fendra

Ahead is Fandra

Ships arriving before dawn were not allowed to enter the harbor, a rule handed down from the war years, a tall lighthouse with a clump of torches burning, Alexei ordered the sailors to light a jar of oil on the ship, and had the fire stir up, and the flames soon attracted the attention of the docks, and I saw a light that remained in mid-air flickered a few times, and then a low horn pierced the darkness

When the horn sounded, I suddenly felt a chill in my back, and my stomach throbbed, as if I had felt after a nightmare, I stood behind Alexei, and when I heard the horn, I immediately grabbed his arm

He looked back, not yet feeling my panic: "Victor, this is the horn on the docks to greet us"

After the sound of the trumpet, there were also several brass trumpets in the unseen darkness around us, as other moored ships greeted us, and the sailors of the 'Field' responded to them one by one

Alexei was able to tell by the sound of the water how many ships there were, and even knew where they came from

"There are two Rhodok ships to the east, a Salander ship to the southeast, and one ship presumably from the Frost Castle, and their horns are similar to those of the Svadians, but with a more hurried voice."

I heard the names of many countries at once from Alexei's words, and it took me a lot of effort to understand the general meaning of his words

"Oh, you know where they came from?"

"I'll know if I listen to it too much, Victor, I started listening to their horns when I was your age, and you probably won't learn this skill in the future."

"What's wrong?" I'm a little puzzled

"We won't be able to meet the sea again," Alexei said in a tone of regret, "Victor, if it weren't for that, I would have a myriad of things to teach you, you know?" To the north of the Nord Sea, there is a kind of light, which the Nords call Aurora, and the Swadians call it the Aurora, and it is said that those who see this light will be able to grant their wishes."

"Isn't that light the light coming from the open eyes of a great snake-like dragon in the north?"

"Huh? Who told you this? ”

"Uh, I don't know" I shook my head, I just knew

"A big dragon like a snake? There seems to be this kind of monster in the East, no, they treat this kind of monster as a holy thing, are you familiar with the East? ”

"I don't know, I don't know"

"Unlucky, Victor, you know so much that I can't even guess where you came from."

"Isn't it good to know more?"

"Sometimes it's not a good thing, but now you'd better learn everything well, and if you come back to learn Wiki in a few years, it won't be as easy as it is now" After speaking, he said to himself, "Well, interesting, I also got on with the Orientals."

At this time, the sound of paddling came from the darkness, and a deep voice came at the same time as the sound of the oar, "Is it a Vecchian?" ”

"Yes," Alexei replied, "it's Vykya, I'm Alexey, from the Romanovs, can we enter the port early?" We have a business with Mr. Jill."

"Oh, no one's ship can 'enter the harbor at night', Lord Jill can't come by himself any longer, it won't take three hours, and the sky will be bright I say, Wikivian, have you brought any wine?"

"Can I enter the port early?"

"No, but if you say in good conscience that you don't have any wine, I will be the last one to enter the port after dawn."

When these words came, the sailors on board laughed, laughing and scolding the navigator

"Come" a sailor put his face close to the oil lamp so that those in the darkness can see, "we have opened a large barrel of spirits, and you can bathe in it"

After more than ten minutes, the oars of the men struck the planks on the side of the boat, and several sailors lowered their nets to pull them up

A registrar, a physician, and an inspector climbed aboard, but the navigator and a paddler remained underneath and did not come up

Alexei knew the doctor, and after the meeting, the two of them hugged and rubbed their faces like Wikibians

"Do you still need to quarantine?" Alexey asked, "Although my people are healthy"

"Yes, yes," the doctor smiled, his beard twitching on his upper lip, "Recently the Orientals have brought a damn virus, God have mercy on us, this must be something made by the devil, a cousin of mine sent me a letter saying that in many villages and towns in the East there is no one left."

"Is it a tribe of the Kujits?"

"No," the doctor blew his beard, "that group of people and the Kujits are put together, you can think that the Kugit are a civilized people, that group of people is a group of evil spirits, to say that the Kugit are very similar to them, but they see the Kugit still attacking, and because the Kugit resist fiercely, they are also very cruel to the Kujiit, they often pull out the intestines of the Kujiit to make ròu intestines"

When the doctor was about to speak, Alexei pointed at me and asked the doctor not to talk too much

"Well," the doctor said amusedly, "yes, okay, this is a little Romanov?" ”

"No, he's talking a long story, you go check on the sailors first, I'll have someone get you a watch, the situation of my people is recorded, except for a few people with runny noses, there's nothing wrong with it, don't worry, I won't put the plague on your docks"

The doctor gave a sly expression, "Could this be your sī son?" Could it be that his patronymic name is 'Alexievich'? En, nice name, little Alexey. Alexievich. Romanoff, quite smooth"

The doctor's words made everyone around laugh, and Alexei was visibly insulted

"Hey," Alexei said solemnly, "is the Romanov family a family that avoids having children?" ”

Under Alexei's forced gaze, the doctor had to flinch, muttering, "I haven't heard of that"

Alexey smiled all of a sudden, "Yes, we have a baby outside, and we usually take it home happily, and the people at home have to celebrate lively, I think about it, if you want to eat pigeon soup, pickled pig's feet, and drink beetroot soup, you have to find a godfather to sing."

Alexei thought a little bit, and the doctor and the people around him squinted at him, as if they were getting to know him again

"Uh, I'm sorry," Alexei stopped remembering now that everyone was looking at him, "where did I go?" Oh, by the way, we're going to have to get checked."

The doctor exhaled and walked to the end of the deck, where the sailors were ready for their routine, they took off their shirts and waited for the doctor to come and check on the doctors, and the doctor looked at the eyes of the men, and then opened their mouths, looked at their throats, and then saw if there was anything wrong with them, and then the whole process was over, I really don't think that this quarantine method can stop any disease, especially the scary oriental germs that this doctor just said

When the physician examined the sailors, the registrar had already transcribed the list of the crew members who had come to the port, but when he learned that there was an extra me on board, he showed a look of embarrassment, because if something happened to me in the port, there would be no one responsible for me, Alexei told the registrar that I had only recently come on board, so there was no information about me on the list, but when the trip was over, my name would be on the ship

The doctor helped me at this time, and he turned back to the registrar and said, "The child is of Alexei's species, and his name is Little Alexei. Alexievich. Romanovs, don't get entangled, they just met father and son"

The registrar raised his eyebrows and said to the doctor expressionlessly, "What should I do?" ”

"Write the name of the little thing, and then congratulate them on the reunion of father and son, and praise God at the end" At this time, the doctor's fingers kept in the mouth of a sailor, and the sailor's throat clicked, and he looked at the doctor helplessly, hoping that the doctor would end the gushing speech sooner

The registrar thought for a moment, "Okay, you owe me a bag of wine," he whispered to Alexei

Finally, the inspector also came up from the bilge and told the other two that there was no problem with the cargo

After the three men had finished inspecting the ship, they prepared to return to port

The doctor said that he could go back and sleep a little more, and he smiled at Alexei and said, "Do you know who is in my bed?" The most beautiful hostess in the tavern This person and that Jona know you know who Jona is, Alexei? ”

"People say she has a relationship with Lord Jill"

"Well, now Ruona is Madame Andrei, the last time I came to Fandra for a banquet, I saw her, I couldn't recognize her as a woman who used to be in the tavern, that day she was dressed in silk, and the three servants followed him, her palms and face were thick, I bet she had little Andrei in her belly, just like you had little Alexei, okay, okay, don't look at me like that" The doctor sneered, not wanting Alexei with a serious face to lead the topic elsewhere again, "But, If you want me to say it, it's all nonsense."

"And why?" Alexey asked

"Lord Jill doesn't look like a person who can ghost with a shì girl, how can those who are with a shì girl all day have such a big appearance as Lord Jill?"

"Like you?"

"For example, occasionally I only eat one or two days a week."

"It's amazing," Alexei said in amazement, "is it really to study medicine to strengthen the body?" ”

"Thank you, hey, that's not the point, the point is that what Mr. Jill is doing proves that his heart definitely does not belong to Jona, and my female companion told me that Jill doesn't seem to have touched Jona, and that Jona's pregnancy is definitely something after marrying Andre"

"But you told me before that if this kind of girl doesn't want children, she can go to your doctor and ask for a pack of medicine."

"Hehe, I used to think the same as you, but my thoughts have changed now"

"What the hell is going on," Alexei was a little impatient, "what's going on?" ”

"It will be almost dawn, and then you will know that Jill has carved the girl in his heart into the stone, and some say that he used to be a stonemason, and some say that he used to be a carpenter, and it seems that it is not unreasonable"

After saying that, the doctor ignored Alexei's questioning, grabbed the sailor's net and returned to the boat, and a sailor hung a bucket full of several bags of liquor with a rope, and the man on the boat received the drink and said thank you, and walked away

It was still some time before dawn, and I was a little sleepy again, so I went back to sleep in the cabin

I dreamed of a lame man, people called him Jill or Master Jill, how did I think this person was a little familiar

Time passed quickly in my dreams, my dreams were simple, it seemed that I woke up with just thinking about who Jill was, and I knew at once that it was dawn, and a few red morning rays came through the door of the ship's cabin and hit the walls

Strangely, I didn't see a single person in the cabin, not Alexei, so I continued to lie down for a while, and when I saw that no one was moving back and forth, I got out of bed on my own

I fumbled through the cabin door and walked outside

In the early morning, the sky and the sea are uniformly pale blue, and the morning breeze is a little cold, but the bright red light makes people feel warm

I saw Alexei and the sailors, all standing on the side of the ship, taking off their hats and holding them in their hands, looking up at something, their mouths slightly open, like children entering the temple for the first time

Following their gaze, I looked at a cliff on one side, the one that had to be passed to enter the port of Fendra, which was high and guarded the port of Fendra behind her

There was nothing surprising about the cliff, but when the mist cleared, I was shocked to see that on the cliff, a beautiful woman was coming out of the rock: a huge statue of a woman had been carved into the cliff

She was so high that the whole cliff was just a foil to her arms, and whoever entered Fandra would have seen her demeanor, no, even those who passed by the sea in the distance would see this beautiful woman

The woman with a faint smile, dressed in simple clothes, her left hand pinto upwards, stretched forward, silk pouring down like a waterfall, she wore a beautiful laurel wreath on her head, her wonderful nose stood tall on her warm cheeks, she faced the sea beyond the harbor, calm as a beam of afternoon sun

Every night she would fall asleep in the moonlight, and in the morning, she would stretch out her hand to greet the first rays of the morning light, when her face would dissolve in the morning light, let the morning light shine, and the birds would sing for her, and fly around her

This is simply a goddess

People tell us that this is Jill's lover

Alexei saw that I was looking up and couldn't stop looking, so he smiled and walked over and pushed me, waking me up

I said, "She's so beautiful."

"Well, yes, people say that Mr. Jill has been carving this cliff all these years, and we always thought he was building a lighthouse" Alexei looked back at the goddess, the respect and admiration in his eyes were clearly visible, "This woman is so lucky that she is as beautiful as "

Alexey thought a little about the right words

"It's like the moon"

I looked at her and said it unconsciously