Asean in Love

On their way to Venice, Sabadar and his daughter did not speak to each other until half way, and reconciled on the second.Subadar finally said to his daughter:"I understand you, if you had married the Majapahit emperor, the Bali kingdom might have disappeared by merging into the Majapahit empire, this is how we were now only vassals, but the Bali kingdom survived by preserving its independence. It is likely that you wanted and achieved the continuation of the royal line of your husband Jayapangus."Since then, they haven't argued anymore.One day they noticed strange sailing ships approaching them."Oh, no, now the pirates are going to spoil our plan to set a record and reach Venice in the shortest possible time," thought Subadar's daughter."What should we do father?", she asked helplessly."Best is to run away from them.We should be near the port of Constantinople soon, the compass points in that direction, but the pirates have blocked our way!""Can we negotiate with them and leave them some gold?""No way, they are cunning thieves, they would want to seize everything and the ship, and sell us as slaves on the market in Constantinople.""How about pretending that there is an epidemic of plague on board, then they would leave us alone?"When the pirate ship approached the Subadar's ship, the sailors made a dramatic performance on the ship.They painted the face and body in blue and black colors and pretended to be suffering from the plague, in order to be as believable as possible, they placed the sick around the ship to look like corpses and moan at the top of their voices as if they were sick and begging for help, to make the scene more believable they set it on fire are old rags which created a smoky atmosphere and bad smelling air it smelled so unbearably that the pirates ran away from the ship headfirst, fearing that they might get sick themselves.Before entering Constantinople, they had to wash the ship well to pass the inspection of the ship and visit the hot baths in the city themselves and buy many bottles of expensive perfume to cover the smell of burnt rags.Constantinople, as one of the richest cities of that time, shone in its splendor, decorated with golden domes, marble columns and copper bell towers, as an important commercial crossroads, the city was a metropolis where merchants from all over the world traded and the languages ​​of all nations could be heard because the merchants had their homes in Constantinople where they lived when visiting Constantinople and during business.Subadar and his daughter walked around the city and the streets looking for a nice villa that they wanted to buy and turn into a residence and business pavilion."Constantinople is too expensive, If we buy a villa here, with that money the people of Bali could buy food for 100 years.Further from the center, multi-storey houses are much more affordable, but this is a densely populated place and the streets are very crowded, so a location far from the center itself is not a good solution because it would be difficult to transport goods to the center.""You're right, father, maybe it's better to buy a house in Venice.""Venice is also a very expensive city, but there are less crowds and the whole city can be explored either on foot or by canal system like many of our cities connected by the Grand Canal in the Song Dynasty.Venice is like the Suzhou trading city on the canals.Shantang Street is still the most beautiful canal in that city. I met your mother there." Subadar was so melancholic that he started to cry out of sadness."Okay, father, let's buy a home or a building in Venice that reminds you of Suzhou."