Chapter 179: Pretty Brother

The next morning, everyone abandoned their cars and boarded the ship.

After boarding the ship, some people began to feel seasick. Fortunately, the elderly Gu and his wife, as well as several children, did not react. Others were also fine. Even if they reacted, they would not be unable to stand steadily.

Only Zhang Yunniang felt seasick on the first day, but she did not react much. On the second day, her seasickness worsened and she even had difficulty getting out of bed.

Niuniu did not feel seasick, but she was anxious when she saw Zhang Yunniang's pale face from seasickness.

"My dear, don't worry. We will take a boat to Beijing and arrive soon. Maybe when we reach the next dock, I will not feel so dizzy." Zhang Yunniang endured the discomfort in her heart and kept comforting her daughter.

Niuniu put her little face next to Zhang Yunniang's face, trying to make Zhang Yunniang feel more comfortable in this way.

Gu Mingda, who was standing by, felt bad for his wife and advised her, "Take a nap first. Maybe you won't feel seasick when you fall asleep."

Zhang Yunniang leaned against her sweet and soft daughter, and felt strangely at ease.

Niuniu reached out and patted her mother gently, singing a song to lull her child to sleep.

Zhang Yunniang fell asleep slowly.

After seeing his wife sleeping soundly, Gu Mingda breathed a sigh of relief and asked others to help take care of Zhang Yunniang. He turned around and asked someone for a solution to seasickness.

Niuniu immediately followed, grabbed Gu Mingda's hand, and whispered, "Dad, I'll go with you."

Gu Mingda thought of his daughter's good luck and nodded, but he also said, "My dear, if we can find it, forget it. If we can't find it, we won't force it. If your mother is really uncomfortable, we can just take the land route again, but we will go to Beijing more slowly. We are not in a hurry, understand?"

Gu Mingda said this because he didn't want his daughter to use her special ability.

Niuniu nodded obediently and said, "Niuniu, be obedient and don't let your parents worry."

Gu Mingda touched her little head and then picked up the child.

Before in Dengzhou, the Gu family had bought some food such as plums, but this antiemetic that worked for other people had no effect on Zhang Yuniang.

This ship is the king of Dengzhou shipping companies, which can carry 500 people at a time. Gu Mingda thinks he can always find a few seasickness recipes.

But unfortunately, the solutions the boatmen gave him were just a few familiar methods, and these methods had long been proven to be useless to Zhang Yunniang.

"Hey, when we get to the next dock, we will change to land." Gu Mingda said to his daughter.

Although he said that it was okay to change the route, it would be slower to go to Beijing by land, and he might not be able to take the imperial examination in time.

If he could not take part in this imperial examination, he would have to wait another three years.

Niuniu had also heard the adults mention this matter. She understood the importance of taking the waterway, and Zhang Yunniang also understood it, so Zhang Yunniang never mentioned changing the route.

"Dad, the boatmen have no way, let's ask others? Ask other guests? Ask one by one, maybe we can really find a good solution." Niuniu suggested.

Gu Mingda and others lived in the upper-class room, and he was not used to disturbing others presumptuously, but for his wife, he held Niuniu and asked one by one with strange eyes.

He started asking from the upper-class area, and the attitude of the people there was not bad. But they still couldn't give a useful solution.

Gu Mingda asked all the way down, and even asked in the lower-class cabin.

The lower-class cabin only had beds, no private rooms, and the people living here were inevitably mixed, and their attitudes were not so polite.

Some people saw that they were well-dressed and thought they were rich, and wanted to rip them off. Gu Mingda didn't care about spending money, but the so-called exclusive secret recipes of these people were all things that were common on the street.

If it was just a scam, it would be okay.

There were also people who relied on their large numbers to sneer at them, without any reason, and directly spoke ill of them, and even waved their fists at every turn, as if they wanted to teach them a lesson.

Although Gu Mingda didn't know why these people had such a bad attitude, he covered his daughter's ears and didn't argue with them, but went to find other people who were willing to communicate.

When no one was around, Niuniu clenched her fists and said angrily: "Daddy, if they scold you, I will scold them. I will scold them back for you!"

Gu Mingda touched his daughter's head, chuckled, and said: "Reason should be told to reasonable people."

Niuniu was still very unhappy and said: "Even if they don't understand, I will say that Daddy is the best, how can they scold you!"

Although Gu Mingda was very happy to be defended by his daughter, he still said: "My dear, it's just a momentary verbal pleasure. You just saw that their clothes are dirty and ragged. Several neighbors left their hometowns to make a living together. They don't look happy. They just dare to talk to us like this because they have more people. If we meet them somewhere else in the future, I'm afraid they will avoid us."

"This kind of people are bad!" Niuniu said with a puffed mouth.

"Because there is a boatman watching them, they dare not do it directly." Gu Mingda knew that they didn't dare to do it, but he still felt scared.

He had always been thoughtful, but today he was so anxious that he brought his daughter to such a chaotic place.

He was afraid that his daughter would suffer in the future, so he said, "My dear, remember that barefoot people are not afraid of those wearing shoes. Desperadoes are the most terrifying because you don't know what they will do. In everything, remember to protect yourself first."

Niuniu was always obedient. She said, "I understand. When I meet people who have very little, I try not to argue with them. Their lives are already very poor. I have no worries about food and drink. My parents love me. It's nothing to give in to them."

Gu Mingda felt that there was nothing wrong with this understanding and said, "My dear, you are really smart."

Niuniu proudly puffed up her belly.

But Gu Mingda was still frightened when he thought of what had just happened. He wanted to send his daughter back first and then ask slowly.

Before he said anything, Niuniu suddenly exclaimed, "It's the handsome brother!"

Gu Mingda looked in the direction Niuniu pointed and saw a young man wearing ragged clothes and his face was painted black.

His face was like this, and Gu Mingda couldn't see how beautiful he was.

Seeing her father's puzzled face, Niu Niu explained, "Dad, have you forgotten? The day before yesterday at the dock, the pretty brother grabbed the old Taoist priest."

Gu Mingda recalled that it was difficult to connect the young man dressed as a little beggar with the young man in brocade clothes surrounded by servants the day before yesterday.

"Dad, I want to talk to the pretty brother, can I?" Niu Niu asked Gu Mingda in a low voice.

The young man sat alone in the corner of the deck, looking very pitiful, and his physique did not look like a fighter, so Gu Mingda held his daughter close.

"Pretty brother, you had a lot of servants serving you the day before yesterday, why are you like this today?" Niu Niu asked.

After hearing this, the pretty boy suddenly burst into tears.

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