A Wind Kite Ferry Boat sailed south toward Tongye Continent.
It stopped midway at Taoye Ferry outside Mirage City.
Song Yushao was still dressed in a blue scholar's robe and cloth shoes. Alone, he boarded the ferry boat. As agreed with the Great Quan Dynasty, the ferry would help transport a batch of goods to Bicheng Ferry of the Jade Guizong and Mountain Driving Ferry at the southernmost end of the continent for sale.
Seeing neither Han Guanghu nor Jian Ming accompanying them, Mi Yu wore an amused expression. Zhou Mili hung her whole body over the railing, lightly kicking her legs, rather regretful that she still had not seen that Great Quan Emperor His Majesty whom Pei Qian had once said was "as pretty as a flower." Back then, Pei Qian had spoken with absolute certainty, saying that the water-spirit elder sister named Yao Jinzhi looked at her master with eyes that—hehe—held far too much drama.
Once all the cargo had been loaded aboard, the Wind Kite continued south. Chen Ping'an drank a few cups with Senior Song. Song Yushao said that the Prefectural Governor had recently been so busy that his head was spinning and his feet were aflame, truly unable to get away. Han Guanghu's willingness to voluntarily become the Great Quan National Teacher had shaken the entire nation, from court to countryside.
Song Yushao drank as he spoke of certain matters concerning the Great Quan court in Mirage City. "Excavating a great waterway is too significant a matter. It needs proper justification. There is one matter we are destined not to avoid. Have you thought about how to discuss it with those academies?"
They had to obtain the Central Plains Confucian Temple's permission, as well as the opinions of Tongye Continent's three academies. They first needed