Silk Road by Weyand Richard F

Author:Weyand, Richard F.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weyand Associates, Inc.
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

After six weeks in hyperspace, Star Runner appeared in the Earthsea system and made her way toward the planet, using her thrusters to brake the big ship all the way.

Blazoned along her bows was her name, and under it, two Chinese characters:

Star Runner

吉星

Ji Xing.

Lucky Star.

Ensuring The Future

Jessica Chen-Jasic’s display in her tea room had become her window onto the wider world beyond her gardens. She increasingly communicated from here rather than from her desk.

In one such call, she spoke to Chen JuPing on Tahiti.

“Hello, JuPing. You are looking well.”

“I’m feeling very well, Jessica. My apparent physical age is going down with the treatments here.”

“When do they say those will be completed?”

“Another month or two. I would be happy to be done with them. I would like to go back home. Back to the mountains.”

“How is Paul doing?”

“Also very well. His heart is strengthening as well.”

“All this is good news, JuPing, and has relevance to me as well.”

JuPing nodded in the display.

“Yes. You and Paul are almost eighty now, Jessica. They could take perhaps fourteen or fifteen years off your apparent age, to sixty-five or so. You would then have seventy years before you were a normal hundred years old.”

Jessica nodded.

“That was the direction of my thinking, JuPing. But I think David Bolton and Chen YongLin should go to Tahiti first. Slow down their aging first, before they become Chen Zufu and Chen Zumu. They will not be able to travel during that period, as the Chen should be here. Once Paul and I retire, we can go.”

JuPing nodded.

“Do not wait too long, Jessica. You’re aging now at twice the rate you need to, and only half that difference can be clawed back. That said, you are probably correct on the best course.”

“Unless you would wish to step back into the leadership, JuPing?”

JuPing shook her head.

“No, Jessica. I was happy finally to set such responsibilities aside. I am pleased to be able to consult from time to time, but the leadership role belongs to someone younger. There is something you might do, however.”

“Yes, JuPing?”

“Encourage JieMin and ChaoLi to come here. They would not get much younger, but they would age much more slowly going forward. They can conduct business from here as well as there.”

Jessica nodded.

“That would allow them to play an active role in the family business for a much longer time.”

“It would preserve what has been a valuable resource for the family well into the future. See to it, Jessica. Perhaps they can come with David and YongLin, on the ship that takes Paul and me home.”

“I will take care of it, JuPing.”

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