The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Soon, those people were devoured, leaving only bits of limbs and residue floating on the water.

Perhaps the poison Mu Shaoling had used began to take effect, causing the strange creatures to move more sluggishly and some even began to float on the surface. Mu Shaoling took this opportunity to order the boat to speed up and move away from this area.

One would have thought that escaping from there was like ascending to heaven, but the real terror lay ahead.

When they were still a great distance from shore, someone from the bilge suddenly reported that the boat was taking on water.

It turned out that the bottom of the ship had been damaged by those large creatures during the earlier attack and was full of holes, which could only be temporarily plugged.

Fortunately, there was a spare small boat in the cabin, so everyone abandoned the big boat and boarded the small one instead.

Some say that when a person is unlucky, they would choke on cold water or could even be choked to death by a mouthful of gruel.

Indeed, that was the case!

The small boat travelled smoothly on the sea for two days. Although the remaining provisions were not plentiful, by being frugal they could survive until they reached shore.

However, that very night, goddammit, a torrential downpour began, accompanied by strong winds. The fierce winds created towering waves, and in short order, the small boat capsized, throwing everyone into the sea.

The rest of the people quickly disappeared without a trace.

However, when Commandery Princess Dongyang and Mu Shaoling were thrown off the boat, Commandery Princess Dongyang quickly clung to Mu Shaoling, so they were not separated when they hit the water!

In the process of holding on to each other, Commandery Princess Dongyang realized that Mu Shaoling was completely helpless in the water, like a duck out of water, and couldn’t coordinate with her at all.

The storm at sea stopped as abruptly as it had started; from the onset of rain to their boat capsizing to the calm, it took merely a quarter of an hour.

Yet Mu Shaoling had still been choked unconscious.

Fortunately, the heavens did not leave them utterly without hope; the storm had carried them not far from a small island.

Commandery Princess Dongyang, guided by the starlight and eyeing the distance to the island, gritted her teeth and decided to swim there with Mu Shaoling.

Dragging a man over one meter eighty, especially when they were wearing long robes that only added more weight in the water, one could imagine the effort it took. She doubted herself multiple times, fearing she would faint from exhaustion halfway and they would both die at sea.

But deep down, she was convinced she could make it. She had yet to be married, and Mu Shaoling had yet to wed her. How could they die? With that in mind, she desperately persevered and eventually pulled Mu Shaoling ashore when she had reached her limit.

Once on shore, she simply had no energy left to check on Mu Shaoling and passed out from exhaustion.

When she woke up again, it was already daytime, the sunlight was warm, and Mu Shaoling was lying next to her.

Thinking that Mu Shaoling had inhaled water in the sea, and unsure of his condition, she crawled over and called out several times, fearing he was dead. Thankfully, thankfully, Mu Shaoling had just passed out.

Mu Shaoling naturally felt grateful and deeply moved by the Commandery Princess Dongyang’s rescue, but the process was damaging to his pride. As a grown man, he was ashamed that he had to be carried by a woman to escape.

Mu Shaoling’s sense of male pride kicked in: he felt exceedingly ashamed, too ashamed!

"Mu Shaoling, where do we go now?"

"Of course, to the island."

"What are we going to do on the island?" Commandery Princess Dongyang looked around at the island, which was clearly another uninhabited island. It seemed that all the islands near Shandong were uninhabited.

Unlike Yunnan, where several small islands were inhabited.