But after seventeen years Marco began to think of home. The Khun was now seventy-seven years old and Niccolo and Maffeo were getting older too. The Polos were very rich by this time, and they had a lot of valuable jewels.
The three men also knew one important thing – they had many enemies at court because they were the Khan’s favourites. This meant that there could be problems when the Khan died. They needed to leave China soon – but how?