Chapter 218: Li Dan
Guo Zhiyuan nodded heavily and said, "Of course it's true, uncle, since I'm here, I will definitely take you back with me and go back to China!" ……”
The old Chinese fell to his knees and wept bitterly: "God, you have finally opened your eyes!" We were finally able to go back! I can finally go back! ……”
Guo Zhiyuan hurriedly helped the old Chinese up, lowered his voice and said: "Uncle, don't make a noise for the time being, if I want to save you back, I still have to fight wits and courage with the Spaniards, so I have to find Li Dan, he may be able to help me!" ……”
The old Chinese also came to his senses, wiped his tears, and said busily: "Yes, yes, you can't make a noise now, you want to find Li Dan, right?" He's in the hard labor shipyard, well, that guy has a brain, and the big guys obey him, and you might be able to help you if you find him, but it's stricter than here......"
Under the guidance of the elderly Chinese, Guo Zhiyuan found the hard labor shipyard, the labor shipyard is mainly a place to repair some damaged sailboats, such a place is naturally messy, the laborers eat and drink Lazar are here, Guo Zhiyuan smelled a suffocating stench from afar, as if he was in the vegetable market, not to mention Felisa, he was so disgusted that he covered his nose and almost vomited on the spot.
Hundreds of shackled prisoners do hard labor here, from large men with bears' backs to juveniles and old men who are described as emaciated and yellow-skinned. Several Spanish sentries patrolled around with guns, and some Spanish sailors walked among the prisoners with whips, and when they saw the prisoners they thought were lazy, they beat them mercilessly, and screams and begging for mercy rang out from time to time on the docks.
A yellow-faced and thin boy was carrying a heavy wooden sleeper and staggering, accidentally tripped over the stone under his feet, the heavy wooden sleeper smashed directly on his feet, the boy let out a scream, it is estimated that this time directly smashed his feet, but the Spanish sailor on the side immediately ran over, with a whip at the young man to split his head and head is a slam whip!
Guo Zhiyuan was so angry that blood rushed to the top of his head, and he was about to rush over to save the young man, "Stop!" A roar suddenly sounded from among the shackled prisoners, and an unusually burly middle-aged man stood up from the crowd and shouted angrily at the Spanish sailor: "His foot has been broken by the sleeper, do you want to kill him?!" ……”
Seeing this middle-aged man, Guo Zhiyuan's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he secretly praised, what a good iron man! This middle-aged man is seven feet tall, looks like a tiger's back, looks about forty years old, has short hair like a hair pin, a very broad forehead, and a face like a knife, although he is wearing a prisoner's blue cloth uniform, but has a lofty momentum, two green dragons are tattooed on his bare arms, and his feet are shackled, and the iron rings are twice as thick as others, but the middle-aged man is like nothing, and he walks like a tiger, and he is not affected at all, but because of the iron shackles The sound made him a little more terrifying!
The Spanish sailor was also so frightened by his momentum that he couldn't help but take a few steps back, probably feeling that he had lost face, and pointed at the middle-aged man angrily and said angrily: "Li Dan, do you want to stand up for him?" I'm going to hit him! ......", he said and swung his whip at the boy who had fallen to the ground!
Guo Zhiyuan's eyes lit up when he heard this, it turned out that this middle-aged man was Li Dan! Sure enough, he has an extraordinary bearing, no wonder he can become a Chinese leader in the Philippines, but he is not in a hurry to stand up, he wants to see how Li Dan will deal with this matter, so that he can see that this person's heart can be used for himself?
Seeing Li Dan sneer, he reached out and grabbed the sailor's whip, ignoring the blood marks left by the whip on his arm, he grabbed the tail of the whip, and with a little force, he snatched the whip from the sailor, and as soon as he raised his hand, the whip was thrown away without a trace!
"Li Dan, do you want to rebel?!" The Spanish sailor shouted loudly, and the Spanish guards who were standing on a high place to monitor also noticed the movement here, and surrounded one after another, aiming the gun in their hands at Li Dan, and the other prisoners also put down the sleepers in their hands when they saw this, surrounded them, and stood beside Li Dan, and the two sides confronted each other.
At this time, a Spanish officer with a mustache also came over when he heard the sound, and when he saw the situation at the scene, he sneered, pointed at Li Dan and said coldly: "Li Dan, it's really you again!" Do you want to rebel? Then I will fulfill you! As he spoke, he raised his right hand and shouted at the Spanish guards under him: "Prepare to shoot!" ”
"Wait!" Li Dan shouted, then slowly raised his hands and said coldly to the Spanish officer: "Second Lieutenant Andrew, I don't want to rebel, if you kill us all, who will work for you?" I'm afraid you won't be able to make an account of your Excellency the Governor, right?! ……”
The Spanish officer hesitated, he knew that Li Dan was reasonable, if he killed all these Chinese prisoners, he would not be able to deal with him, and thought about it: "You so many people gather here, isn't it a rebellion?" ……”
As soon as Li Dan heard this, he knew that the Spanish officer didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he quickly turned his head and said to the other Chinese prisoners behind him: "Everyone disperse, don't give the Spaniards an excuse to kill us!" ……”
The Chinese prisoners behind him shouted a little unwillingly: "Brother Dan, these Spaniards are too deceitful!" It's a big deal, we fight with them! ……”
When Li Dan heard this, he shouted: "What are we going to fight with them?!" Is your fist better than a musket? Don't you think you're dead? If you want to recognize me as a big brother, you should quickly disperse for me! ……”
It can be seen that Li Dan is still very prestigious among these Chinese prisoners, although those Chinese prisoners are very reluctant, they still obey Li Dan's words and disperse, Li Dan bent down to remove the sleepers that were pressed on the young man's feet, and said softly to the young man: "Little brother, bear with me, I'll help you up!" ”
The young man was also stoic, gritting his teeth and really standing up again under Li Dan's support, Li Dan helped the young man to leave, but was stopped by the Spanish officer: "Stop!" Just want to go?! ”
Li Dan clenched his fists, suppressed the anger in his heart, slowly turned his head, looked at the Spanish officer calmly, and said coldly: "Then what do you want?!" ……”
The Spanish officer stroked his mustache with his fingers and sneered: "Someone makes a mistake, someone must be punished!" ……”
Li Dan helped the young man aside, then took off the blue cloth prison uniform on his body, revealing his bronzed chest, patted his chest hard with his big hand, and then smiled contemptuously at the Spanish officer: "Come! Come here! I'm going to frown and count me as if I didn't plant! ……”
The corner of the Spanish officer's eyes shrank violently, obviously irritated by Li Dan's disdainful attitude, and stretched out his hand, and the Spanish sailor immediately handed him a whip in a flattering manner, this whip is not an ordinary whip, it is made of nine strips of leather fixed on a short handle, and there is a small lead ball at the end of each strip, which is far more painful to draw on a person than an ordinary whip, so the prisoners named this whip, called "Nine-Tailed Cat".
The Spanish officer waved the "nine-tailed cat" and slammed it at Li Dan's chest, and nine bloody and blurred blood marks immediately appeared on Li Dan's bronzed chest, but Li Dan sneered at the Spanish officer as if he was fine: "Second Lieutenant Andrew, haven't you eaten?" Just a little bit of effort? ……”
This completely angered the Spanish officer, and he waved the "nine-tailed cat" again and was about to teach Li Dan a hard lesson, when he heard an angry shout from behind him: "Stop!" Needless to say, everyone guessed it, it was Guo Zhiyuan who came forward!
Second Lieutenant Andrew turned his head a little annoyed, although he was only a junior officer, but in this hard labor shipyard he was an existence that could decide the life and death of others, who would dare to stop him from beating people? When he saw Guo Zhiyuan, he was stunned, weren't all the Chinese in Manila arrested? How could there be such a swaggering Chinese presence in the hard labor shipyard? Still wearing Spanish clothes? However, he quickly found the answer, because he saw Felisha not far behind Guo Zhiyuan, and quickly threw the "nine-tailed cat" leather whip, ran over with a flattery, and said, "Miss Felisa, why are you here?" ”
Guo Zhiyuan glanced at Felisa, Felisa understood, knowing that Guo Zhiyuan was asking her to give him a chance to be alone with Li Dan, she was uncomfortable staying in this stinky shipyard boss, so she covered her nose and said: "Andrew, I'm too bored in the city, you can take me around......"
Felisa is the goddess in the hearts of all young Spanish men in Manila, Andrew usually doesn't have a chance to talk to her, but now Felisa asks him to accompany her around, naturally he is very willing, where can he take care of Li Dan, and quickly led Felisa to visit the shipyard to a cleaner place.
Guo Zhiyuan walked in front of Li Dan, those Spanish guards didn't dare to stop him when they saw that he was coming with Felisa, Li Dan glanced at Guo Zhiyuan in surprise, said thank you, and prepared to help the injured young man leave, of course Guo Zhiyuan couldn't let him leave, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and said in a low voice: "Li Dan, my name is Guo Zhiyuan, I am a messenger sent by the Ming Dynasty, I am here to save you out!" ……”
Li Dan heard that Guo Zhiyuan was the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and glanced at him in surprise, but he did not show the same excitement as the old Chinese before, but said expressionlessly: "It turned out to be the envoy, Li Mou's life is cheap, so I won't bother with it!" Excuse me, I have to go and treat this little brother......"