Chapter 618 Three Missing One

At the equator in the Pacific Ocean, there are three closely spaced ocean currents: the upper, middle, and lower equatorial currents. The equatorial current flows from west to east, while the North Equatorial Current (north of the equator) and the South Equatorial Current (south of the equator) flow from east to west.

Qin Mo chose the North Equatorial Current, the most suitable route home. It travels straight from the location of Cheshire in Central America to the eastern side of Luzon in the South Pacific. With strong northeast trade winds and favorable ocean currents, Qin Mo's fleet was even faster than when it came.

But even at its fastest speed, it's still a sailboat, not an airplane, and the journey can take a month or two. After seven or eight days, Qin Mo's "Dayuan No. 1" was covered with all sorts of patterns on both sides, each with a different style. The asymmetrical beauty gave Qin Mo a headache.

Qin Mo recalled a true story she had read when she was a child, which said that in the early years in Hong Kong, it was permissible to marry concubines. A wealthy businessman married three wives plus concubines, and his household was always filled with quarrels and unrest.

He had no choice but to consult a wise man, who said, "You're short one player!" So the wealthy merchant took another concubine, and from then on, there was no more arguing in the house, only the sound of mahjong tiles. What could he do? The fighting got too intense, and he couldn't get enough tiles to play!

"Let's play mahjong instead!"

Desperate, Qin Mo took out the mahjong set to see if it was as magical as the legends said.

As it turns out, the expert did have some clever tricks up his sleeve. The four of them did sit together quietly, but... Qin Mo began another kind of miserable life.

"I won! Pay up!"

"Didn't you guys really look at my cards? Why didn't anyone play when I was four cards away from winning?" Qin Mo threw away the last Moonstone in frustration, grumbling and complaining.

"With your terrible card skills, why do you need us to peek? Don't be a sore loser!" Luna was no longer the kind mother she used to be; she stabbed him in the back cleanly and decisively.

"I'm out of moonstones, you guys can play cards yourselves! I'm going to take a nap!" Qin Mo stood up dejectedly. He had a lot of money, but he didn't have the moonstones that were unique to the Elven race. He didn't know how many high-interest loans he had taken out in the past few days.

"Here, you can use this first, you don't need to return it!" Qi Lina pushed over a bulging little package, clearly indicating that she had prepared in advance.

"Smack!"

A small bag, equally full, was slapped in front of Qin Mo. Nelia said coldly, "Interest on interest, you can calculate how much you owe yourself!"

"Nelia, can I not lend it to you then?"

Qin Mo wanted to push Nelia's moonstone back. Ever since he won a fortune on the first day, he had started a standard gambling addiction. He borrowed and lost, then borrowed again. He didn't know who had taught Nelia the magical algorithm of usury, and even Qin Mo, who had studied advanced mathematics, couldn't figure it out.

"You won't lend me the money? Fine! Pay off your old debts first!" Nelia retorted to Qin Mo without even lifting her eyelids.

"I don't have any moonstones, but I'll give you 100,000 gold coins, okay? That's enough to buy lots and lots of beautiful clothes and jewelry!"

"You don't have Moonstone? But you have the Heart of the Galaxy! You have the Holy Spirit of the Spirits! You even have the Tree of Life! Gold coins are such mundane things...who cares about them!"

"Bang!"

Qin Mo slammed her hand on the table in anger and shouted, "Let me tell you, the Starry Heart and the Holy Chapter of the Spirits are my family heirlooms. They are to be passed down to my son. Don't you dare try to take them!"

"Want a son? Easy! But you must marry an elven girl. Our royal court will not recognize any of your sons who do not have elven blood! Humph!" Nelia said angrily, her face flushed.

“Yes! That’s right. Qin Mo, you mustn’t do anything reckless. Those two things can’t be given away casually!” Qi Lina rarely agreed with Nelia, and she looked more pleasing to the eye than Nelia in every way.

"Bang"

"What's all this arguing about while we're playing cards? Hurry up and draw your cards!"

Luna, the Great Overlord, spoke up, and Nelia and Qin Mo quickly lowered their heads to draw cards. Even Qi Lina, who was hundreds of years older than Luna, obediently listened. After all, Luna was Qin Mo's mother! She might even have to serve her a bowl of tea in the future!

As Qin Mo drew her cards, she muttered, "You win the most, and you're so stingy! You won't lend me a single moonstone, forcing me to borrow from others!"

"Nonsense, if I lent it to you, would you ever pay it back? Dongfeng... won again, haha!"

"The bigwigs don't produce moonstones, so the debts are the mother's responsibility. If I can't pay back the high-interest loans, they'll come after me anyway. I'm going to default on my debts!" ​​Qin Mo angrily pushed a few moonstones to Luna, indicating that she would become a complete defaulter.

"You want to renege on your debt? You may not have moonstones, but you can pay with your body!"

Luna fiercely cursed Qin Mo, and even Qi Lina blushed this time, but neither she nor Nelia objected. They just touched the bundle at their waists, calculating how to make Qin Mo incur even more gambling debts.

The return journey of the Tai-Yuan steamship fleet was smooth, without encountering any storms along the way, and it arrived at the freshwater port of Tai-Yuan with favorable winds and currents.

"This is... a high-ranking official?"

"How about that? Amazing, isn't it! I've built this place into what it is in just ten years. Give me another ten years, and I'll turn it into the biggest and most important city in the world!"

Luna had lived in Dayuan for many years. Back then, this place was a wild and untamed land, with only the natives and the poor retinue of the Prince of Heng. But looking at the huge port with sails everywhere and the city with towering buildings, she felt that everything in front of her was extremely unreal.

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