Chapter 256: Overseas Buddhists (Part 1)

After leaving Hong Kong, Joan of Arc has been sailing on the sea for almost ten days. It may be because the weather is beautiful. Apart from the first day of the sea, the sky is clear all the time.

During the voyage, the cruise ship only stayed in Brunei for half a day, and spent the rest of the time on the sea. Although the various beautiful scenery on the sea is intoxicating, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will become a bit boring after ten days. For sailors who live on the sea for many years, this boredom has long been accustomed to it, but for those tourists who take the boat, it is obviously a bit unbearable.

In the past few days, there have been some complaints on the ship such as riding on the Joan of Arc as if he was in jail. For the captain, these complaints have nothing to do with him. He just needs to drive the ship to the destination safely. However, as the flight attendant in charge of passenger affairs on the ship, he cannot turn a blind eye to this. It is his main responsibility to make every passenger happy and satisfied when riding the ship. For this reason, he suggested to the captain that a large dance party will be held tonight to activate the atmosphere on the ship.

Since we will arrive at the next berth of Lampung Port tomorrow, and we can replenish the consumed materials at that time, the captain has no reason to refuse this proposal. As the news of the boat holding a dance party spread, the atmosphere on the boat immediately became active, and all the staff in the passenger cabin were mobilized to start busy with the evening dance party. Even the manager in charge of various passenger cabin services was sent to the deck to peel potatoes, and Andy was one of them.

Andy's full name is Andy Gilman Andevinton, a Dutchman, and is a waiter manager in the upper class cabin. He has worked on the Joan of Arc for six years. Although he was born and raised in the Netherlands, his appearance is slightly different from that of most Dutch and even Westerners. His appearance is not as rough and hard as Westerners. Instead, he is as delicate and soft as an Easterner. His hair and pupils are all black. The reason why he has such an appearance is mainly because he has one-quarter of the Chinese bloodline in his body, and his grandmother is Chinese.

In the Netherlands, the surname Antevindon is considered famous. Although it cannot be said to be well-known, there are more or less names of members of the Antevindon family in the Dutch public museums. The Antevindon family is an ancient noble family in the Netherlands. In the past, many members of the family had a slight connection with the Dutch royal family and were once respected as the first family in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, in the past century, the family has gradually declined. In addition to the sparse population, the main reason is that the family's investment in all parts of the world has problems. By Andy's father's generation, the glory of the nobles has completely faded, and the Antevindon family is almost the same as ordinary Dutch civilians.

With the family's past glory, Andy's father sought a university teacher in Hamburg, mainly teaching the history of world civilization. His monthly salary plus the wealth his grandfather received from the East, and the family was still living a wealthy life. Andy's grandmother's identity was a bit embarrassing. She was a Chinese prostitute. When she was receiving customers, she met Andy's grandfather. The two fell in love. After Andy's grandfather redeemed her, she returned to the Netherlands together, and the next year she had Andy's father.

Although Andy's grandmother is very low-level, her knowledge is not bad at all. She can be said to be well-versed in Chinese and Western culture. Since she was a child, she personally taught Andy's Eastern culture, which made Andy obsessed with Eastern civilization. Later, under her influence, Andy followed her to believe in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism despite her family's opposition, and she practiced the extremely authentic Pure Land concepts and methods.

It was precisely because of Andy's obsession with Eastern civilization that after his family passed away, he sold his property without hesitation and applied for a crew member of the Joan of Arc. He worked on this cruise ship that traveled between the east and west for six years. In these six years, he did not go out to spend money as soon as the boat landed, spend all his money, but saved it little by little, as if he had used it for other purposes. His unique behavior was seen by the upper class of the company and admired it very much, so within a year he became the waiter manager in the upper class cabin, specializing in entertaining distinguished guests on the ship. Although he was very low in his position, his power was second only to the captain and the first mate. If he had not offered help for the whole ship this time, his potatoes would not have to be cut.

"Manager, Manager!" A senior waiter ran out of the cabin and looked around. When he saw Andy, he ran and shouted.

"What's so panicked? Don't forget that you are a waiter in the top cabin!" Seeing his subordinate's performance, Andy couldn't help frowning, put down the work in his hand, and scolded in a deep voice.

Hearing Andy's words, the waiter stood up quickly, calmed down his rapid breathing, and tidied his clothes until he returned to normal, and said: "The guests from Room 103 did not come out today. I tried to call the door just now, but there was no sound inside, as if there was no one."

"You're going to call the door?" Andy's eyebrows stood up and he was about to curse, but when he saw his poor look with his neck tucked, he swallowed the words of curse and said with a gloomy face: "Don't you know that when the guest was on the boat, he told us not to disturb him no matter what happened? Or did you forget the most important rule in the cabin rules, 'The words of passengers are God's will'?"

"Of course I haven't forgotten this, but Room 103 is really strange." The waiter knew that Andy was a good man and would never fire him for the ship rules. At most, he only cursed a few words, so he looked a little casual. He walked up and whispered: "Manager, it has been almost ten days since the customer of Room 103 boarded the boat to this day! In these ten days, he has never left the cabin and has not eaten anything. An ordinary person may be able to keep going without eating anything in ten days, but he has not drunk any water. I believe you should be very clear about what this means, the manager, right? Don't the manager feel curious?"

Andy recently heard his subordinates say the weirdness of Room 103, but he saw many strange people on the boat and didn't care much at that time. However, when he heard from his subordinates, he felt that things seemed a little abnormal. He thought for a while and said, "Although he didn't eat our food, he might have brought the food on the boat and ate his own food on the boat."

"No!" The waiter replied with great affirmation: "I asked Martin who brought the guest to the cabin. He said that when the guest entered the room, he didn't carry anything with him."
Chapter completed!