woman and sea

Chapter 36

The passionate Hongyan really underestimated the world's prejudice against women.

——Of course, she also knows that ordinary women in this world cannot go to sea, so she chose to obtain the status of a quasi-noble through the Navigation Academy;

In addition, she naturally knew that if a quasi-noble woman in this world wants to go to sea, she must accompany her husband who is a nobleman, so she chose to study at the Daqinglong Navigation Academy, just to make herself more capital.

At first, when she was young, she naively thought that she could end the world's prejudice against women with excellent grades—she thought that if she was lucky, she could set a precedent for female navigators all over the world.

Therefore, she spent a hundred times, or even a thousand times, the energy of other students to complete her studies.

In order to realize her dream, she strives to do her best——

In order to overcome her physical weakness, she entrusted a blacksmith to wrap a pair of arm guards weighing [-] kg each and leg guards weighing [-] kg each on her arms and calves from the beginning of school, and she took them off only when she was sleeping. Come down, just to train yourself so that you can lift winches, sails, cargo, cables, and anchors like a man.

While others are huddled together in groups of ten or eight to weave their interpersonal network, Hongyan seeks advice from the old sailors and captains in the port, constantly enriching their knowledge reserves to deal with various emergencies at sea. .

She works very hard, almost insanely hard.

But reality played a big joke on her.

——Graduated for nearly five years, with zero sailing experience.

She doesn't want a lord or a fiefdom, she just wants to go to sea as a "quasi-navigator", even if she is a quasi-navigator for a lifetime, she will not hesitate.

However, in the past four years or nearly five years, she has traveled almost all over the Qinglong Continent and the White Tiger Continent, but there is still not even a ship lord or ship owner who is willing to retain her as a "quasi-navigator".

——Moreover, the vast majority of them still want to retain her as a "madame" and make an appointment to marry her.

This is naturally not Hongyan's original wish.

If she agrees, then, now, she will have already married the eldest son of the current Daqinglong Ship King, and will become his wife and the mother of the next generation Daqinglong Ship King.

—and she just wanted to be a navigator.

She wants to go out to sea with dignity as a navigator, instead of being a vassal of a noble man as an accompanying family member, taking care of trivial matters and comforting loneliness for him during the voyage.

Unlike the vast majority of people in the Maritime Academy, Hongyan, who is about to turn 23, is neither the daughter of an aristocratic family, nor the rich lady of a merchant guild owner or a landlord among the common people.She is just an ordinary girl from a commoner family.Of course, the economy is still better than ordinary civilians.

Hongyan's father was the captain of a civilian ship, and he belonged to a chamber of commerce among the common people. He was a common "foreign navigator" in the world.

In this world, navigators are divided into two types: native and foreign.

Those with aristocratic status were registered navigators, and those who engaged in ship operations among the common people were foreign navigators.

The captain of a civilian ship starts as an ordinary sailor. There is no standard for promotion. It all depends on the designation of the shipowner, that is, the chamber of commerce. Usually, whoever has rich sailing experience is appointed as the captain. Therefore, the level of captains varies.

They are not qualified to testify to anyone's sailing experience.

As for the registered navigators with aristocratic status, they are all holders of nautical certificates without exception, that is, graduated monks from formal nautical colleges. Witnessed.

Registered navigators in this world are divided into eight levels according to their nautical experience, from low to high: brown wood, red iron, bronze, brass, silver, gold, purple gold, and black gold.

They use the "forehead flower" on the "beam crown" as a distinction-it is an anchor medal of different materials and about three fingers wide.

It can also be disassembled and worn as a brooch when wearing ordinary clothes.

In addition, the qualification certification for junior navigators below the gold level is a step-up every two years; the qualification certification for senior navigators above the gold level is a step-up every ten years.Only by passing the assessment can one be promoted to Lord.Therefore, from the day of becoming a registered navigator to becoming a top registered navigator, at least 40 years of nautical work experience is required.

Hongyan's father died in a shipwreck.The body was buried in the ocean with the wreckage of the ship, without even a single thought left to his family members.

Of course, this is the most heroic way of death for men in this world.

Hongyan's mother was also heartbroken and died of vomiting blood more than ten days after learning the news due to excessive grief.

The family of three who used to be harmonious and happy, has been left with only Hongyan since then.

Although the ship union stipulated that men among civilians could marry up to three female wives, Hongyan's father and his wife were in harmony with each other, and they swore to each other that they would be faithful to each other. Even the child had only one Hongyan.

Because of this, their husband and wife were regarded as outliers by the entire Chamber of Commerce family—men in the clan who were of the same generation as Hongyan's father all married three wives without exception.

As for Hongyan, as the daughter of a "heterogeneous" family, she is naturally different.

While the sisters of the same generation were locked up by their mothers at home and were learning the virtues of female reds without stepping forward, Hongyan was sent by her parents to a school in the clan to learn how to read and write.

Although the elders in the clan had some complaints about this, but because Hongyan was the only daughter, they gradually stopped saying more.

Later, due to Hongyan's talent and outstanding academic performance, the elders in the clan also intended to train her, and planned to send her to the Nautical Academy to study, and then marry the ship king or ship owner by appointment, in order to make the entire Chamber of Commerce family advance from the commoner class. Pave the way for the nobility.

——Unexpectedly, something like this happened.

Parents die and mothers die.

According to the law of etiquette, those who die without illness will observe filial piety for three years, and those who die in misfortune will observe mourning for six years.

Therefore, the young swan geese will spend six years of filial piety for their deceased parents in their wonderful youth.

During these six years, she had to thank the guests behind closed doors, not interacting with anyone, and praying to the gods for her parents with a sad face, asking the gods to let them rest in peace.

The elders in the clan, Xianda, are somewhat regretful.

After all, Hongyan was already 15 years old at that time, just the right age to get married.

——The older the daughter's family is, the less valuable it becomes.If Hongyan went to the Nautical Academy to study in those years, then it would be a good time for her daughter's exquisite and graceful family when she graduated; and after six years of mourning for her parents, she would go to the Nautical Academy to study, and when she graduated, Hongyan would be 24 years old and old old.

In this world, there are many 24-year-old daughters whose children can already go to school.

Such an old girl, not to mention His Majesty the Ship King and the Ship Owner, even men from ordinary families would not necessarily want her so rare.At that time, if you want to marry her off, then, let alone put on three times the dowry than the average daughter's family.

It turns out they were overthinking it.

Just when those elders and pioneers in the clan were getting angry with each other, Hongyan did a rebellious thing that has never been done before, but there may be no one who will come later——

Before her parents were buried, or even before the first seven days, Hongyan, who received the survivor's pension from the owner of the chamber of commerce, that is, the patriarch, sold the family property and disappeared with more than 120 gold coins.

The elder Xianda, who had been missing for a long time, was so angry with the unfilial Hongyan, and deeply shamed her Hongyan family, threatened to expel her from the clan and no longer recognize her as a descendant.

It wasn't until a year later that a certain clan member who was going to do business in Daqinglonggang ran into Hongyan on the street by chance, and then realized that she had gone to the "Daqinglong Navigation Academy" to study quietly.

The elders of the clan, Xianda, were even more furious when they heard this, and they hated her for showing her face shamelessly, it was really shameless.

So, I asked someone to deliver a message to Hongyan, telling her not to return to the family in this life.

The haughty Hongyan didn't take it seriously, and said in her heart that it was just right, it was a clean break, clean and tidy.Anyway, from the very beginning, I was determined to break the boat and set foot on the road of studying across the ocean.This time is just right, and even the guilt can be saved.What's more, her swan goose is still a navigator who is going to travel around the world, and her little aunt and grandma don't care too much about that shitty place.

Thinking of this, the young and frenzied Hongyan became even more arrogant.

In the end, the reality played such a big joke on Hongyan, causing her to fail again and again.

——The elders and Xiandas in the clan naturally knew that Hongyan would be reduced to such a situation, they had foreseen it a long time ago.

They had already expected that if they did not have a lot of friends, they would match up for Hongyan, so even if they became quasi-nobles, Hongyan would still not be able to get married to a better noble family.

Naturally, they also foresee that the swan geese will eventually go back and humbly beg for their mercy and alms.

——In this world, if a daughter's family is not attached to the family or the family, then she will become unable to move an inch.

This is just right, so that she can completely kill her swan geese's prestige, so that she can behave honestly with her tail between her legs, and be willing to be controlled by the family.

However, they were wrong in the end.

They had been waiting there for nearly five years, but she still didn't go back and begged them humbly.

——Of course, they didn't expect that Hongyan, who was at the bottom of his boat, forced himself to become the first double-subject monk in the history of Daqinglong Navigation Academy to obtain the first-class grade.

However, it is undeniable that Hongyan also thought about going back to beg and rely on them.

Find a well-matched person to marry, stay at home, take care of your husband and raise your children, and spend your whole life—this is the life trajectory of all women in the overseas country under the joint rule of ships.

Just by imagining it for a moment, Hongyan felt his scalp tingle.

She didn't want to spend her life doing nothing like this.

As a human being, there should always be some pursuits that are different from those of animals.

—For example, to explore something.

What Hongyan yearns for is the endless sea, a vast world of freedom, and the expectation of the unknown in the next moment.

If you become a navigator, then you can follow the fleet to open up the sea route, and gallop freely and freely in the ten directions of the world.

That's exactly what she thought.

In the end, reality slapped her hard.

All her assumptions, in the face of reality, have all become vain.

All the ship kings and ship owners she met did not give her this chance.

Perhaps, this society, and the order that governs the operation of this society, did not intend to provide a chance for daughters like Hongyan from the very beginning.

From the very beginning, they were imprisoned in chains.

From the very beginning, they were not allowed to have any yearning.

—— Hongyan hated her own name more and more.

What her parents expected of her was to spread her wings and fly freely——

Originally, she was supposed to spread her wings and fly freely.

However, she was born in the wrong era.

Therefore, from the very beginning, her wings were broken, and she could only change from a swan goose that was supposed to soar high above the sky, to a poultry crouching in the earthen nest, humblely begging for food from its master.

She doesn't want this.

However, she was powerless to change the status quo.

——There are more than ten thousand "swan geese" with broken wings like her in this world!

Hongyan has nothing now.

No home, no kin, no pride—

Although with her talent, she should have been a proud daughter of heaven who soars around the world, but now, she has been reduced to a situation where she is almost deprived of food and clothing.

However, Hongyan never doubted, nor wavered in her persistence.

She is very clear that she wants to become a navigator who is famous all over the world and praised by thousands of people, and then, at the end of this world, leave her footprints.

One year, two years, three years...

Ten years, 20 years, 30 years...

As long as she persists, her dream will always come true one day.

——That's exactly what she was looking forward to.

It is precisely this expectation that makes her support herself hard.

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The passionate Hongyan really underestimated the world's prejudice against women.

——Of course, she also knows that ordinary women in this world cannot go to sea, so she chose to obtain the status of a quasi-noble through the Navigation Academy;

In addition, she naturally knew that if a quasi-noble woman in this world wants to go to sea, she must accompany her husband who is a nobleman, so she chose to study at the Daqinglong Navigation Academy, just to make herself more capital.

At first, when she was young, she naively thought that she could end the world's prejudice against women with excellent grades—she thought that if she was lucky, she could set a precedent for female navigators all over the world.

Therefore, she spent a hundred times, or even a thousand times, the energy of other students to complete her studies.

In order to realize her dream, she strives to do her best——

In order to overcome her physical weakness, she entrusted a blacksmith to wrap a pair of arm guards weighing [-] kg each and leg guards weighing [-] kg each on her arms and calves from the beginning of school, and she took them off only when she was sleeping. Come down, just to train yourself so that you can lift winches, sails, cargo, cables, and anchors like a man.

While others are huddled together in groups of ten or eight to weave their interpersonal network, Hongyan seeks advice from the old sailors and captains in the port, constantly enriching their knowledge reserves to deal with various emergencies at sea. .

She works very hard, almost insanely hard.

But reality played a big joke on her.

——Graduated for nearly five years, with zero sailing experience.

She doesn't want a lord or a fiefdom, she just wants to go to sea as a "quasi-navigator", even if she is a quasi-navigator for a lifetime, she will not hesitate.

However, in the past four years or nearly five years, she has traveled almost all over the Qinglong Continent and the White Tiger Continent, but there is still not even a ship lord or ship owner who is willing to retain her as a "quasi-navigator".

——Moreover, the vast majority of them still want to retain her as a "madame" and make an appointment to marry her.

This is naturally not Hongyan's original wish.

If she agrees, then, now, she will have already married the eldest son of the current Daqinglong Ship King, and will become his wife and the mother of the next generation Daqinglong Ship King.

—and she just wanted to be a navigator.

She wants to go out to sea with dignity as a navigator, instead of being a vassal of a noble man as an accompanying family member, taking care of trivial matters and comforting loneliness for him during the voyage.

Unlike the vast majority of people in the Maritime Academy, Hongyan, who is about to turn 23, is neither the daughter of an aristocratic family, nor the rich lady of a merchant guild owner or a landlord among the common people.She is just an ordinary girl from a commoner family.Of course, the economy is still better than ordinary civilians.

Hongyan's father was the captain of a civilian ship, and he belonged to a chamber of commerce among the common people. He was a common "foreign navigator" in the world.

In this world, navigators are divided into two types: native and foreign.

Those with aristocratic status were registered navigators, and those who engaged in ship operations among the common people were foreign navigators.

The captain of a civilian ship starts as an ordinary sailor. There is no standard for promotion. It all depends on the designation of the shipowner, that is, the chamber of commerce. Usually, whoever has rich sailing experience is appointed as the captain. Therefore, the level of captains varies.

They are not qualified to testify to anyone's sailing experience.

As for the registered navigators with aristocratic status, they are all holders of nautical certificates without exception, that is, graduated monks from formal nautical colleges. Witnessed.

Registered navigators in this world are divided into eight levels according to their nautical experience, from low to high: brown wood, red iron, bronze, brass, silver, gold, purple gold, and black gold.

They use the "forehead flower" on the "beam crown" as a distinction-it is an anchor medal of different materials and about three fingers wide.

It can also be disassembled and worn as a brooch when wearing ordinary clothes.

In addition, the qualification certification for junior navigators below the gold level is a step-up every two years; the qualification certification for senior navigators above the gold level is a step-up every ten years.Only by passing the assessment can one be promoted to Lord.Therefore, from the day of becoming a registered navigator to becoming a top registered navigator, at least 40 years of nautical work experience is required.

Hongyan's father died in a shipwreck.The body was buried in the ocean with the wreckage of the ship, without even a single thought left to his family members.

Of course, this is the most heroic way of death for men in this world.

Hongyan's mother was also heartbroken and died of vomiting blood more than ten days after learning the news due to excessive grief.

The family of three who used to be harmonious and happy, has been left with only Hongyan since then.

Although the ship union stipulated that men among civilians could marry up to three female wives, Hongyan's father and his wife were in harmony with each other, and they swore to each other that they would be faithful to each other. Even the child had only one Hongyan.

Because of this, their husband and wife were regarded as outliers by the entire Chamber of Commerce family—men in the clan who were of the same generation as Hongyan's father all married three wives without exception.

As for Hongyan, as the daughter of a "heterogeneous" family, she is naturally different.

While the sisters of the same generation were locked up by their mothers at home and were learning the virtues of female reds without stepping forward, Hongyan was sent by her parents to a school in the clan to learn how to read and write.

Although the elders in the clan had some complaints about this, but because Hongyan was the only daughter, they gradually stopped saying more.

Later, due to Hongyan's talent and outstanding academic performance, the elders in the clan also intended to train her, and planned to send her to the Nautical Academy to study, and then marry the ship king or ship owner by appointment, in order to make the entire Chamber of Commerce family advance from the commoner class. Pave the way for the nobility.

——Unexpectedly, something like this happened.

Parents die and mothers die.

According to the law of etiquette, those who die without illness will observe filial piety for three years, and those who die in misfortune will observe mourning for six years.

Therefore, the young swan geese will spend six years of filial piety for their deceased parents in their wonderful youth.

During these six years, she had to thank the guests behind closed doors, not interacting with anyone, and praying to the gods for her parents with a sad face, asking the gods to let them rest in peace.

The elders in the clan, Xianda, are somewhat regretful.

After all, Hongyan was already 15 years old at that time, just the right age to get married.

——The older the daughter's family is, the less valuable it becomes.If Hongyan went to the Nautical Academy to study in those years, then it would be a good time for her daughter's exquisite and graceful family when she graduated; and after six years of mourning for her parents, she would go to the Nautical Academy to study, and when she graduated, Hongyan would be 24 years old and old old.

In this world, there are many 24-year-old daughters whose children can already go to school.

Such an old girl, not to mention His Majesty the Ship King and the Ship Owner, even men from ordinary families would not necessarily want her so rare.At that time, if you want to marry her off, then, let alone put on three times the dowry than the average daughter's family.

It turns out they were overthinking it.

Just when those elders and pioneers in the clan were getting angry with each other, Hongyan did a rebellious thing that has never been done before, but there may be no one who will come later——

Before her parents were buried, or even before the first seven days, Hongyan, who received the survivor's pension from the owner of the chamber of commerce, that is, the patriarch, sold the family property and disappeared with more than 120 gold coins.

The elder Xianda, who had been missing for a long time, was so angry with the unfilial Hongyan, and deeply shamed her Hongyan family, threatened to expel her from the clan and no longer recognize her as a descendant.

It wasn't until a year later that a certain clan member who was going to do business in Daqinglonggang ran into Hongyan on the street by chance, and then realized that she had gone to the "Daqinglong Navigation Academy" to study quietly.

The elders of the clan, Xianda, were even more furious when they heard this, and they hated her for showing her face shamelessly, it was really shameless.

So, I asked someone to deliver a message to Hongyan, telling her not to return to the family in this life.

The haughty Hongyan didn't take it seriously, and said in her heart that it was just right, it was a clean break, clean and tidy.Anyway, from the very beginning, I was determined to break the boat and set foot on the road of studying across the ocean.This time is just right, and even the guilt can be saved.What's more, her swan goose is still a navigator who is going to travel around the world, and her little aunt and grandma don't care too much about that shitty place.

Thinking of this, the young and frenzied Hongyan became even more arrogant.

In the end, the reality played such a big joke on Hongyan, causing her to fail again and again.

——The elders and Xiandas in the clan naturally knew that Hongyan would be reduced to such a situation, they had foreseen it a long time ago.

They had already expected that if they did not have a lot of friends, they would match up for Hongyan, so even if they became quasi-nobles, Hongyan would still not be able to get married to a better noble family.

Naturally, they also foresee that the swan geese will eventually go back and humbly beg for their mercy and alms.

——In this world, if a daughter's family is not attached to the family or the family, then she will become unable to move an inch.

This is just right, so that she can completely kill her swan geese's prestige, so that she can behave honestly with her tail between her legs, and be willing to be controlled by the family.

However, they were wrong in the end.

They had been waiting there for nearly five years, but she still didn't go back and begged them humbly.

——Of course, they didn't expect that Hongyan, who was at the bottom of his boat, forced himself to become the first double-subject monk in the history of Daqinglong Navigation Academy to obtain the first-class grade.

However, it is undeniable that Hongyan also thought about going back to beg and rely on them.

Find a well-matched person to marry, stay at home, take care of your husband and raise your children, and spend your whole life—this is the life trajectory of all women in the overseas country under the joint rule of ships.

Just by imagining it for a moment, Hongyan felt his scalp tingle.

She didn't want to spend her life doing nothing like this.

As a human being, there should always be some pursuits that are different from those of animals.

—For example, to explore something.

What Hongyan yearns for is the endless sea, a vast world of freedom, and the expectation of the unknown in the next moment.

If you become a navigator, then you can follow the fleet to open up the sea route, and gallop freely and freely in the ten directions of the world.

That's exactly what she thought.

In the end, reality slapped her hard.

All her assumptions, in the face of reality, have all become vain.

All the ship kings and ship owners she met did not give her this chance.

Perhaps, this society, and the order that governs the operation of this society, did not intend to provide a chance for daughters like Hongyan from the very beginning.

From the very beginning, they were imprisoned in chains.

From the very beginning, they were not allowed to have any yearning.

—— Hongyan hated her own name more and more.

What her parents expected of her was to spread her wings and fly freely——

Originally, she was supposed to spread her wings and fly freely.

However, she was born in the wrong era.

Therefore, from the very beginning, her wings were broken, and she could only change from a swan goose that was supposed to soar high above the sky, to a poultry crouching in the earthen nest, humblely begging for food from its master.

She doesn't want this.

However, she was powerless to change the status quo.

——There are more than ten thousand "swan geese" with broken wings like her in this world!

Hongyan has nothing now.

No home, no kin, no pride—

Although with her talent, she should have been a proud daughter of heaven who soars around the world, but now, she has been reduced to a situation where she is almost deprived of food and clothing.

However, Hongyan never doubted, nor wavered in her persistence.

She is very clear that she wants to become a navigator who is famous all over the world and praised by thousands of people, and then, at the end of this world, leave her footprints.

One year, two years, three years...

Ten years, 20 years, 30 years...

As long as she persists, her dream will always come true one day.

——That's exactly what she was looking forward to.

It is precisely this expectation that makes her support herself hard.

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