Chapter 52: Landing
Although land was seen, it took more than a day for the wrecked ship to finally drift to the shore, and the captain ordered the dinghy to be lowered and sent a few sailors ashore to check on the situation. It took more than a day for the sailors to return, and the sailors reported to the captain: "We found a village, and inquired with them, and we could reach a port north along the coast, and the villagers could not tell the name of the port, as if it was called Ann or something......
When the captain heard this, he immediately turned out the chart, and then looked at it carefully. After a while, the captain tapped his hand on the chart and said, "I think we are near the fork in the river, and the port that the villagers are talking about may be Port Anders." ”
The sailors looked at each other with a look of confusion, and one of the sailors asked, "Port Anders, how come you have never heard of it?"
The captain smiled bitterly: "It is a small and dilapidated port, and ships sailing south will not be resupplied there, but will arrive at the port of Erman after rounding the fork in the river. I didn't expect us to be blown to such a place to the west, the original plan was to reach the Triangle Bay and go north, but now that we are here, we will go to Port Anders first, and find a way to repair the ship. ”
The captain made a decision, and the sailors immediately went into action, adjusting their direction and continuing their voyage north along the coast. The captain asked the first mate to tell Savin and Eliza about the current plan, and the two naturally had no opinion, they didn't have a specific destination, and they were the same everywhere.
The wrecked ship staggered for several more days, and though the speed was slow, the captain and the crew were in a good mood, and with hope and a clear purpose, they were no longer worried, and the ship resumed its laughter and laughter, even happier than it had been when it had been unscathed. Speaking of which, the voyage was also really unlucky, first lost its way on the Misty Island and almost hit the reef, and then encountered a rare storm that almost destroyed the ship. Thinking about it afterwards, the captain couldn't help but secretly thank God for being able to let his boatload survive so many hardships, and when he returned to his hometown, he must go to the temple to worship.
When the ship finally reached Port Anders, many of the sailors shed tears of emotion, and looked at the small, dilapidated harbor and the people on the docks, and they were all very affectionate, and they finally escaped from the hands of death, and set foot on solid ground again, and those who have not sailed do not know the feeling of stepping on land.
It was the first time that Savin and Eliza had seen a port, and it was also the first time they had seen such a human being, and a staggered house of height...... Everything is so fresh, it's like in a fairy tale, this is the human world they have dreamed of for a long time, completely different from the silence and depth of the seabed, it seems that everything here is closely connected, it is unbelievable!
The two of them boarded the dock with the crew, and everything around them was so new that a pair of eyes was simply not enough, and several times Savin was so busy looking around that he almost fell to the ground. One of the sailors said: "This is normal, after staying at sea for a long time, your legs will be weak, and it will be fine in a few days, hehe." "Savin and Eliza followed the sailors out of the harbor and headed for the town, where the sailors had been suffocated for months, and the tavern brothels in the town were bound to be very lively to-day.
Port Anders was once a bustling port, but with the rise of other surrounding ports, it has become deserted. Although the port of Anders is located at the fork of the river, it is a necessary place for navigation at the southwestern tip of the mainland, but it is far from the big cities and far less convenient than other ports, so merchants slowly run to other ports, and only a few local merchants are still stationed here.
The long-deserted harbor suddenly came sailors, and the whole town became lively, and the men of all kinds of shops ran into the streets to solicit customers enthusiastically, and adults and children welcomed these sailors like heroes, and the rude sailors were a little embarrassed. Savin and Eliza didn't know what was going on at all, looking at so many enthusiastic people, and they kept soliciting customers, if the two hadn't held each other's hands to death, I'm afraid they would have been torn apart by these overly enthusiastic people.
Finally squeezed through the crowd, the two hid in a secluded alley and gasped for breath, Sawan asked breathlessly, "Is this ...... This...... How...... What's going on?"
Eliza leaned against the wall with one hand and wiped her sweat with the other, and said with a flushed face, "I...... I don't know...... How can there be ...... So many people...... It's scary......"
The good impression of the human world on the two of them collapsed in a short period of time, and Savin and Eliza discovered that the human world also has a very scary side!
After resting for a while, Sawin looked left and right, and found that the noisy crowd had finally dispersed, and the two of them had the courage to come out of the alley. Without the overly enthusiastic people, the streets of the town gradually returned to their former calm, and the two walked around the street holding hands.
At the door of a shop, Sawan saw a surprising sight, only to see a dozen large and small wooden boxes stacked at the door of the shop, each containing some round objects, large and small, different colors, and a very good aroma could be smelled when you got close.
Curious, Sawan picked up a round object and looked at it over and over, not knowing what it was. Sawin looked at Eliza, Eliza shook her head and said she didn't know, and then the shopkeeper came out of the house and said with a smile: "Welcome, if you need something, please ask!"
Samin shook the red round object in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
"Uh......" The shopkeeper didn't expect that there would be someone who didn't even know about Apple, and for a while he was a little skeptical that the other party's question had any deep meaning. However, the shopkeeper hesitated a little and replied honestly: "This is an apple, from Golma Manor, it is crisp and sweet, if you don't believe it, you can taste it." ”
"Apples?" Sawan looked at his hand, then at the shopkeeper, and asked uncertainly, "Is this okay...... Eat?"
"Yes, yes, you can eat. The shopkeeper laughed, now he's sure he doesn't know Apple.
Sawin cautiously took a bite of the apple, and a fresh fragrance and sweetness suddenly overflowed his mouth, and Sawin was stunned. "What does this taste like! It's delicious, it's ...... This...... It tastes so good!" Sawan didn't expect such a delicious thing in the world, and he felt himself deeply shocked.
The shopkeeper looked at Savin's face and became very surprised for a moment, and said to himself, "What's the matter, is there something wrong with my apple?"
Sawan said excitedly as he chewed the apple in his mouth, "This...... Apple...... It was just delicious!"
"Okay, okay, you can eat......" The shopkeeper thought to himself, this man is probably not in his right mind.
"Eliza, you can taste it too, it's so delicious!" Sawan picked up an apple and handed it to Eliza. Eliza took the apple and took a bite of it in the same manner as Savin, and sure enough, it was more delicious than anything she had ever eaten before, and it was probably the legendary sweetness. Creatures living in the sea do not have a chance to taste sweetness, and Eliza had only heard her father say that some of the food on land was sweet, and that taste was unforgettable for the rest of her life.
Savin and Eliza ate the apples one by one, and the sweet taste filled the faces of the two with joyful smiles, and even the shopkeeper next to him was amused by the two young men.
"Can we buy some?" asked the shopkeeper.
"Of course, you can buy all these fruits, how much do you want?" said the shopkeeper.
Savin and Eliza stared at each other with wide eyes, neither of them had ever bought anything, and they really didn't know how much to buy. In the end, Eliza's brain turned quickly, she took out a gold coin from her bag, put it on the shopkeeper's hand, and said timidly, "I don't know how much this can buy?"
The shopkeeper was startled when he saw the yellow gold coin in his hand, and he stammered, "This ...... This...... That's too much, isn't it?"
Sawan didn't understand what he meant, and asked, "Is it because the money isn't enough?" Saying that Sawin was about to pay for it, the shopkeeper hurriedly stopped Sawin and said, "No, no, no, I mean there is too much money, this gold coin can buy a whole box of apples, and this box of oranges also belongs to you, what do you think?"
Savin and Eliza were also taken aback, and asked in disbelief, "Really?
"Yes, it's all yours, and if it's not enough, this can be given to you. The shopkeeper said and brought another green watermelon.
"Oh, what's this green one?" said Samin, looking at the round watermelon, feeling himself shocked again.
Eventually, Savin carried two large boxes of fruit, and Eliza struggled to hold a large watermelon and happily walked towards the docks. The shopkeeper looked at the backs of the two of them, and couldn't help but smile knowingly: "It's good to be young!