Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 933
Wanbi Bookstore has suddenly become deserted in the past few days—a piece of news that caused a sensation in the city came two days ago, which attracted the attention of all the people in the city.

A strange-looking large sailing ship entered the Qiantang River from Biezimen, and this time it was moored on the Qiantang River outside Hangzhou. Standing on the city wall, you can see this streamlined ship with tall masts outside the city. The white triangular sails have attracted many people to wait and see.Some bored idlers climbed up the city wall or other high places to look at this strange ship, pointing and talking about it.

Those who have been out to sea, been to the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian, and have seen red-haired boats, or those who have read the rare "Gewu Pictorial" in Wanbi Bookstore, will recognize that this is a so-called "red-haired boat". People even know that this should be an "Australian ship".

But it looks much more beautiful than the red-haired boat. Although the red-haired boat is huge, it does not have such beautiful lines, nor does it have a strange chimney that is constantly emitting smoke.

The ship was moored in the middle of the river, and a few small boats were put down to swim on the river.The boat owners on the river had already escaped, but the lords and idlers in the city, staying on the safe walls, still pointed at the rigging and cannons on the boat with great interest.There was much discussion in the town about this matter.

For the gentlemen in one prefecture and two counties in Hangzhou, the sudden appearance of the Haitian was a heavy blow to them.Since the Japanese pirates riot in the Jiajing year, nothing threatening has ever appeared outside Hangzhou.And the appearance of this ship seems to declare that such peaceful days are gone forever.

They have already received the news that just two days ago, the officers and soldiers of Haimen Guard and Xiangyong suffered a defeat near the Biezi Gate, and hundreds of people were killed or injured.It was the people on this strange ship who defeated the officers and soldiers.

Although the news said that there are "thousands" of pirates, anyone who is not a fool can see that there are no "thousands" of pirates on this ship. There are private reports that the enemy only has 1000 people, but they put [-] pirates on board. Many officers, soldiers and Xiangyong were defeated.

The officials vaguely knew that this was a new group of overseas barbarians in Guangdong - "Kun Thieves". Last year, they invaded Qiongzhou and Guangzhou. After killing and looting, they failed to capture the city and returned to the sea. .I didn't expect this to appear in Zhejiang again!And it actually entered the Qiantang River in a big way, all the way to the outside of Hangzhou!
All the bureaucrats in the city lost their minds for a while—should they dispatch troops immediately to fight the ship to the death, or send an officer to the ship to ask her why she came and try to persuade her to withdraw from the Qiantang River?

After some debate, the bureaucrats finally decided not to use weapons lightly - fighting a war is burning money, and the result of burning money may not be able to achieve the goal.If it is not good, it will cause more trouble.The lessons from the official circles in Guangdong still exist: they have a little knowledge of the Guangzhou campaign, and since the Guangdong coastal defense generals have suffered a big defeat at the hands of this group of thieves, the Zhejiang navy may not be able to win anything.Anyway, the other side hadn't taken any armed actions so far, and it was just a few small boats cruising back and forth on the river all day long.

Although this matter concerns the whole Zhejiang Province, the specific handling has fallen to the prefect of Hangzhou.The prefect of Hangzhou knows that while pinching his nose, he takes care of the two "Anmin" of the first county - but if there is any trouble, the common people will not be in a panic, but the heroes from all walks of life in and outside the city are eager to try and prepare to take the opportunity to make a fortune; Search for people in the city who can handle negotiations.

Li Damin moved his body and woke up from the drowsy nightmare.He felt that his body was swaying, and he barely opened his eyes, and what he saw was the light black deck.He found that his body was lying in a net bag, shaking slowly and rhythmically.

Li Damin didn't know where he was for a while, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses - he thought for a moment, he ran for his life among the roaring crowd, he called out loudly, I wanted to find Li Shanmin in the crowd, but there were so many people, the gunshots of the pirates were as dense as popping beans, and people kept falling down, blood splattered all over his body and face.Finally, after a loud boom, he was knocked down and lost consciousness.

It was only when he thought of this that he felt pain all over his body. He lifted up the coarse quilt on his body. The quilt was not thick, but it was very clean—he was shocked: he was lying naked in this cloth net bag.There were bruises all over his body, and white strips of cloth were wrapped around his legs.It looked horrific, and reminded him of how a companion was sent home after being beaten hundreds of times for "violating the military law" a few years ago—the man died that night.

Looking around, it was a small cabin with twelve similar cloth net bags hanging inside, and one person was sleeping in each net bag.The cabin is constantly going up and down.

"Damin!"

Hearing someone calling him, he looked intently, and it turned out to be his neighbor Wang Jiashan.He was standing by his house before the pirates fired their first volley.

"Uncle, where is this place?" Li Damin quickly asked, "Where is my father?"

"I didn't see it..." Wang Jiashan was injured somewhere, and he spoke out of breath, "But I saw him running very fast... probably...he's fine."

"Where is this place?"

"Yes..." Li Shanmin wanted to say that he was on the boat of a "pirate", but calling others a "thief" on other people's territory is not acceptable. Besides, this "thief" rescued himself from the pile of dead people with good intentions. "On that boat..."

Li Damin was taken aback and trembled with fright—he was a 15-year-old boy after all, he had just experienced a nightmare-like massacre and fleeing, and found himself trapped on a "thief ship", how could he not be afraid.

Just as he was talking, there was a sound of footsteps on the deck above his head, and the grid above his head was opened, and a young man came down from the ladder, only fourteen or fifteen years old, with short monk-like hair and gray clothes. Wearing a cloth double-breasted jacket, with a leather suitcase slung over his shoulder.

Wang Jiashan hurriedly greeted him: "Doctor Fu..." He wanted to sit up as he spoke.

The young man shook his hand: "Don't move around, your injury is still not healed." After speaking, he came over and asked a few words, nothing more than how he felt, whether the wound was painful, etc., and then looked at his body. Tongue coating, taking the lower pulse.

"Your injury is mostly okay. You'll be fine after resting for a few days. You'll be fine after a few more doses of decoction." The boy said and turned around again.He is Liu San's apprentice Fu Wuben.This time, he accompanied Liu San to serve as the ship's doctor on the Haitian.

Seeing that Li Damin was awake, he asked about Li Damin's condition again.Li Damin knew a little Nanjing mandarin, and could barely understand Fu Wuben's mandarin. Seeing that he looked kind and gave him the soup, he didn't expect any malice.Now he talked about his chest.Pain in the ribs.

"It doesn't matter. Someone stepped on your rib. You are lucky. It is not broken. But it is a little bruised." Fu Wuben said, "Drink the medicine in a while, and it will heal slowly."

"My lord—" Seeing that he spoke in a friendly manner, Li Damin asked boldly, "Have you ever met a man named Li Shanmin?"

"Li Shanmin? I haven't seen him." Fu Wuben shook his head. Seeing his disappointed and worried expression, he comforted him and said, "I heard that there was a mess at that time, and many people ran away. Maybe they ran back? You don't have to worry." , the chiefs don't want to kill people randomly, don't think that you will be injured and become a prisoner, and you will be freed from the sea of ​​suffering in the future - you don't need to work for the government and be angry. You just wait for a better life."

Li Damin was confused by what he heard, and he didn't know what "good life" would be like if he was a prisoner-it was already a great grace not to be killed by the pirates.Although he is young, from Fu Wuben's words, he can tell that the other party will not let them go, and they are probably going to take them somewhere overseas.Thinking of leaving home and never seeing my parents, siblings again, I can't help but feel like a knife is twisting in my heart.But he didn't dare to show such emotions in front of the "thief" so as not to lose his life.

Fu Wuben inspected all the wounded prisoners in the infirmary in the bilge, distributed medicine, and changed the medicine for those with trauma.He is very proficient in all these things now, and Liu San's painstaking efforts in the past two years of training and practice have yielded fruitful results.Fu Wuben is now not only Liu San's disciple and assistant, but also a member of the first batch of registered doctors issued by the Ministry of Health.One day a week, I will follow Liu San to see a doctor in the General Hospital.

Although Fu Wuben learned Chinese medicine, Liu San continued to pass on some modern medical theories and knowledge during the learning process, and also let him attend some courses and participate in anatomy observation.Trying to make him able to "learn both Chinese and Western".Fu Wuben has good comprehension, is willing to study hard, and has made rapid progress. Liu San values ​​him very much.

"You've done a good job." After reading the medical records and inspection records he filled out, Liu San thought that there was nothing wrong with his diagnosis and treatment. "There are dozens of captives on board now. The density of personnel is high, and epidemic prevention and sanitation work also needs to be done." Watch out."

Liu San arranged things, walked out of the infirmary on the ship, and went to the poop deck to get some air.The Haitian is mooring in the Qiantang River, and the sailors are seizing this rare opportunity to use the river water to wash the deck, wash clothes and hammocks.

He was in a bad mood - there was no need for Liu San to go north with the boat this time.He knew very well that the executive committee arranged him in Shanghai Tianhao largely to avoid the limelight.

The matter of Xuanchun's pregnancy finally couldn't be covered anymore. It was not a new thing for a naturalized maid to become pregnant and give birth in Lingao.Tang Menglong took the lead: the maid gave birth to a son, and then more maids reported that they were pregnant-the Senate was ushering in a "baby boom".

(End of this chapter)