Chapter 1642: 1642: Can’t Get on the Boat, Can’t Go Back
If she was having a hard time, why should anyone else have it easy? She would make sure each one of them would cry for their parents.
“Brother Zheng, that’s quite the question you have there. Why don’t you go hang at the stern for so many days and see?” After a long silence and mentally cursing countless times, she asked in an unpleasant tone.
Upon hearing her words, Brother Zheng didn’t say anything, but the motions of the senior brother who was serving Gu Qingyu faltered.
He didn’t want to offend Gu Qingyu, but he still felt that her tone was really making an unreasonable fuss. If they could have pleaded for mercy on her behalf, wouldn’t they have done it?
But they had been on the ship for so many days, and they hadn’t even seen the faces of the few masters on board, which shows those people really didn’t want to see them at all.
“Junior Sister Qingyu, you should rest for a while. We may have to set off soon,” Zi Mo reminded softly.
“They’ve already said to rest for two hours. No need for your reminder, pretending to be so caring,” Qingyu rebuked Zi Mo with an even worse tone, rolling her eyes. She wasn’t deaf and missed nothing.
Everyone else was a senior brother, so it was harder for her to say anything. But Zi Mo, like her, was a female student. Why should she be the one hanging at the stern while Zi Mo could eat, drink, and sleep comfortably?
It was unfair, outrageously unfair. At that moment, expecting her to speak kindly to Zi Mo was impossible.
This woman must surely be mocking her in her heart. Perhaps, she is also planning to present herself in a good light in front of Qian Jiyun. Seeing herself unwanted and hanging at the stern, who knows how delighted Zi Mo must have felt?
“You…”
Zi Mo opened her mouth, wanting to retort.
She had merely reminded her kindly, hoping that Qingyu would rest well so as not to hold the rest of them back later.
After all, they were depending on someone else’s ship for their journey, and they would have to follow them the whole way. Otherwise, how would they return if they missed this ship on the return trip?
Why was her well-intentioned reminder being rebuffed like this?
“Zi Mo, let it be,”
Brother Zheng said indifferently.
There was no saving Gu Qingyu’s temper. She probably was still hoping for a chance to catch Qian Jiyun’s attention.
“If you all don’t have anything else to do, you can go down from the ship and take a look. In two hours, we will set off with King Qian and his party to the Zhedu Sea Area,” he said to the group of junior brothers and sisters.
“Why do we have to follow them?”
“Yeah, Senior Brother, wouldn’t it be better for us to go on our own? We still have a lot of medicinal herbs to find. Following them… what can we find?”
“We’ve come all the way to the Zhedu Sea Area, we can’t possibly return without finding anything, right?”
Hearing Brother Zheng’s words, several senior brothers voiced their doubts. Wasn’t it better for them to go their own way? Why should they follow Qian Jiyun and his party?
“Yes, we’ve come all the way to the Zhedu Sea Area.”
Brother Zheng sighed softly, his eyes becoming distant as he looked at the junior brothers who had spoken, and said,
“But what should we do if we miss the ship and can’t go back?”
“Er…”
The senior brothers were taken aback by his remark and suddenly fell silent.
Indeed, they had come on Qian Jiyun’s ship. If they were to find the ship gone when it was time to return, how would they get back?