Chapter 206: Flower Festival
Astri wonders if she should make salt and sell it slowly, or if she should sell her knowledge to the Emperor and get the ship faster.
She will take time to build everything she needs on the ship. Even if Nature will help her by providing food, she needs to build things to keep everything clean, gadgets that will help her navigate alone, an area to grow crops, and clean water. There are a lot of things to do.
"Once we’re back from the ocean, can you buy me paper? A lot of paper. If it’s too expensive, I can pay with the gems we will get from the first bucket of salt." She asks Kenzou.
"I have gems. I’ll buy for you. Do you know how to write and read?" Kenzou asks her.
"Yes. I do."
"Wow.." Kenzou and Shinkou say together.
"What else do you know?" Shinkou asks, curious.
"Farming." She answers, and then gets more impressed. "Medicine." They widened their eyes so much that it made her chuckle. "I speak 3 languages fluently, but I’ve learned 5. Two of these languages I only know survival words. I know how to draw and paint, it’s the ability I love the most. I know how to build things." She started to count on her hands.
When she looked at them again, they were shocked with their jaws hanging open.
"I think I made my point." She smiles awkwardly.
"Well... It’s better if you don’t expose the things you can do because probably the Emperor will know and won’t for sure want to let go of someone so precious in knowledge. Who would?" Kenzou says, after clearing his throat.