Chapter 63: Assassination on the Water
The landing was clever, and the orders he received were to cooperate as best he could, and his own judgment was useless until the matter was decided.
There are more than 300 miles from Jiangning City to Xuanzhou, if you hurry up, you can go to Xuanzhou Mansion Post Station in the evening, stay overnight, and then arrange a carriage to pull goods to Yizhuang. In order to be able to rush to the post station outside the city of Xuanzhou Mansion before dark, the bumps in the carriage made Zhen Feng cold, his bones fell apart, and the stomach juice was tumbling. As for the view from the outside, it is completely insignificant.
In the afternoon, when it was warmer in winter, they arrived at the Dongyun Village ferry on the Shuiyang River. Shuiyang River is a tributary of the south bank of the Yangtze River, flowing through Jixi, Xuanzhou, Dangtu, Wuhu and other places, here is already within the boundary of Xuanzhou, after crossing the river and then traveling for more than an hour can reach the outside of the city.
After getting out of the carriage and preparing to cross the river, Zhen Feng was a little unsteady, he really didn't know how the landing of the horse and the coachman Martin were used to, and he still had to directly resist the oncoming cold wind. Maybe I should also learn to ride a horse, in this era, I won't be able to ride a horse.
There are two boats parked at the ferry, one of which is more like a horse or carriage for transporting official roads, and the other is a canopy boat that carries people. The two boatmen were middle-aged, and the horse-carrying boatman saw that Zhen Feng and his party had a horse, a carriage and five people, and asked that only one person follow the horse-carrying boat, and the rest let the canopy ferry across the river.
Landing followed the horses, got on the horse carrier, and the rest of the people got on the canopy boat. In fact, it didn't take a cup of tea to cross the river, but after the boat started, Martin kept staring at the river, and he seemed to notice something wrong, and just as he was about to call, suddenly there was a strange noise at the bottom of the canopy boat, as if it had hit something sharp, and soon a hole was broken in the bottom of the boat, and the river was whirring upward.
Soon, the anomaly under the water calmed down, and the black canopy boat in front had sunk in the middle of the river, and the people on board all looked at the horse carrier, waiting for rescue.
The horse-carrying boat followed behind, and when he landed and noticed something unusual, he immediately guessed that someone had taken the boat to the center of the river to scuttle the boat. He snatched the oars for the first time, pierced the suspicious place in the river, and the second time he touched an object, which seemed to hit the person who scuttled the boat, and under the wave of his oars, he even did not hesitate to drill under the horse's belly, and he hit the underwater assassin four times.
But the distance between the two ships was a bit far, and with the delay in landing against the underwater assassins, the canopy had sunk. Fortunately, there are few assassins, and they don't plan to show their faces and kill people directly, otherwise someone will definitely die here. The boatman and Zhen Feng all fell into the water, Zhen Feng fortunately knows water in his memory, and he is also a person who has taken a sea bath, and now on the relatively calm river, try a few ventilation and balance, there is no big problem, but the heavy clothes in winter have entered the water, as if it is a lead block dragging people down, and it is cold and particularly laborious to swim.
At least Zhen Feng knows how to water, Martin and An Ta both grew up by the river and can make do with it, but some people are miserable, Zhang Yuan grew up on Longhu Mountain since he was a child, and he doesn't know water, at this time he is panicking from shouting "help" to constantly struggling and fluttering, Zhen Feng and the boatman are swimming to Zhang Yuanlai, although it is not far, but Zhang Yuanlai has already drunk a lot of water, and his flapping strength is weak.
The horse carrier behind resumed moving forward, and when they arrived at the wreck point of the canopy ship, Zhen Feng and the boatman dragged Zhang Yuanlai's arm and swam slowly, Zhang Yuanlai had already fainted, and he didn't know at this time. Everyone hurriedly helped Zhang Yuanlai onto the boat first, and then got on the boat.
"Oh no, the Taoist is out of breath."
The boatman who fell into the water was also anxious, and he didn't care about his wet clothes, after all, it was a human life: "It would be good if we went ashore, you can pry the mouth of the Taoist chief, find a chopstick to prop it open, and put the person on the back of the cow, and the cow can let the water in the Taoist chief's belly flow out if the cow walks slowly." ”
The couch on the side has begun to whimper, the two have been in the same room for a month, Zhang Yuanlai is older than him, the two of them are like father and son like friends, and when they hear the words of the landing and the boatman, they feel that they are helpless. Martin was also full of sadness, patting An's back, which was a little comfort.
Landing looked at this scene, shook his head, sighed, and said, "Mourning is changing." ”
"Get out of the way, let me come."
Zhen Feng grabbed Zhang Yuanlai's side and touched the pulse on Zhang Yuanlai's neck, and it seemed that the pulse had stopped. In this case, water control is no longer the first step, because the respiratory pulse stops, and water control may cause gastric reflux or even aspiration, and can also lead to delayed CPR. Unless there is still breathing, water control is the first step, which is to prevent choking.
Zhen Feng hurriedly flattened Zhang Yuanlai's body, knelt beside Zhang Yuanlai, untied his collar, clothes, and trouser belts, confirmed that there was no foreign body in his mouth, and immediately put the root of his left palm above Zhang Yuanlai's heart, and the palm of his right hand was stacked on his left hand, his fingers were cocked upward, his arms were straight, and he quickly performed chest compressions.
"Shopkeeper Zhen, what are you doing? The Taoist has already passed away, how can he be so disrespectful? ”
I am unaware of the doubts, sadness, and lamentations around me. Time is running out. When he pressed thirty times, he lifted Zhang Yuanlai's jaw, pinched his nostrils, and opened the airway. After he took a deep breath, he aimed at Zhang Yuanlai's mouth and was about to stick to it, but the landing on the side couldn't help it, and held down Zhen Feng with one hand to stop him.
"Zhen Feng, you...... Don't insult the Taoist like that! "Landing is arrogant, and in his philosophy of life, he needs to be respectful of death as life.
"Fuck off! The Taoist can still be saved, but if it's too late, it's really dead! ”
Zhen Feng shouted irritably, startling the landing, and the strength in his hand unconsciously relaxed, but he didn't expect Zhen Feng to be rude so far.
Martin and An Yu both looked over in surprise, only to see that Zhen Feng immediately took a deep breath and pressed against Zhang Yuanlai's mouth, blowing the air into it hard, and did not stop blowing until Zhang Yuanlai's chest wall expanded, and moved his mouth away. Repeat this twice. Then continue to press on the chest.
The landing can no longer be watched, in broad daylight, how can a man do such a corrupt and shocking thing to a man. The two boatmen were so shocked that they forgot to paddle the oars in their hands.
Landing was about to stop him again, but Martin suddenly grabbed his arm, and Landing immediately broke free and blocked with a backhand. Just above Zhen Feng's head, after a few moves between the two, Martin fell behind. Martin hurriedly said: "General Deng, wait a while, and believe the shopkeeper once, the shopkeeper's capable people can't, maybe he can really save the Taoist." ”
"Such a desecration of the body of the Taoist Chief, do you think it can really be saved? It's good that the Taoist is also an outsider, how can he be humiliated like this! ”
"I've kissed everything, I've touched everything, are you missing these few times?" In fact, Martin's idea is somewhat similar to Landing, but now he has to use such reasons to convince himself and persuade Landing.
Landing shook off his hand hatefully, and looked at Zhen Feng with disgust, since yesterday evening, the first time he dealt with Zhen Feng, Zhen Feng left him with the impression that he was unreliable, just like a peerless liar like the warlock Xu Fu deceived the emperor, the kind that deceived people's hearts.