Wanbi Bookstore has suddenly deserted in the past few days, and two days ago, a sensational news came from the city, which attracted the attention of all the people in the city.

A mō-like peculiar galleon entered the Qiantang River from the turtle gate, and this time it was moored on the Qiantang River outside Hangzhou. Some bored idlers climbed up the city walls or other high places to look at the strange ship and point their fingers at it.

Those who have been to the sea, to the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, and who have seen the ships of the red-haired people, or who have seen the rare "Gewu Pictorial" in the Wanbi Bookstore, can recognize this as a so-called "red-haired ship", and some even know that this should be an "Australian ship".

But it was much more beautiful than the red-haired boat, which, despite its size, did not have such beautiful lines, nor did it have a strange chimney that was constantly smoking.

The boat anchored in the middle of the river, lowered a few small boats, and cruised on the river. The boatmen on the river have naturally avoided it, but the lords and idlers of the city, staying on the safe city wall, are still pointing at the rigging and cannons on the boat with great interest. There was a lot of talk in the city.

For the old men of Hangzhou, one government and two counties, the sudden appearance of the Haitian was a heavy blow to them. Since the Jiajing year, there has never been anything threatening outside Hangzhou. And the appearance of this ship seems to announce that such peaceful days are gone forever.

They had already received the news that just two days earlier, the officers and soldiers of the Haimen Guard and the townsmen had suffered a defeat near the Turtle Gate, with hundreds of dead and wounded. It was this strange ship that defeated the officers and soldiers, although the news said that there were "thousands" of pirates, but anyone who was not a fool could see that this ship could not hold "thousands" of pirates in any case, and there was news that the enemy was actually only twenty people, but more than 1,000 officers and soldiers and village warriors were defeated.

The officials vaguely knew that this was a new wave of overseas barbarians and "thieves" in Guangdong, who had invaded Qiongzhou and Guangzhou last year, and after killing and plundering them, they did not capture the cities, and then retreated 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!

The big and small bureaucrats in the city were out of idea for a while, whether to immediately send troops to fight the ship to the death, or send a messenger to the ship to ask what it was trying to do and try to persuade it to withdraw from the Qiantang River?

After some debate, the Zuihou bureaucrats decided not to start a war lightly, which would be a burning of money, and the result of burning money would not necessarily achieve the goal. If you don't make trouble, you will get into even more trouble. The Yin Jian of Guangdong officialdom still exists: they know a little about the Guangzhou Campaign, and since the Guangdong coastal defense generals have suffered a great defeat at the hands of this gang of thieves, Zhejiang's sailors may not be able to please anything. Anyway, there has been no armed action on the other side so far, and it is just a few small boats cruising back and forth on the river all day.

Although this matter is related to the whole of Zhejiang, the specific handling has fallen on the head of the prefect of Hangzhou. The prefect of Hangzhou knew that he pinched his nose and took care of the two "people" of the first county, but whenever there was a disturbance, the people could not panic, and the heroes from all walks of life in and outside the city jumped to try and prepared to take the opportunity to make a fortune; While searching the city for someone who can negotiate.

Li Damin moved his body and woke up from a drowsy nightmare. He felt his body swaying, and he barely opened his eyes to see the light black sè deck. He noticed that his body was lying in a net pocket, shaking slowly and rhythmically.

Li Damin was ignorant for a while, he didn't know where he was, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, he thought about the last moment, he was mixed in the crowd of screaming and screaming to escape, he shouted loudly Dad, and wanted to find Li Shanmin in the crowd, but there were so many people, the gunfire of the pirates was as dense as bursting beans, and people kept falling down, and blood splashed his whole body and face. zuihou, after a loud roar, he was knocked down and lost consciousness.

When he thought of this, he felt a pain all over his body, and the coarse cloth quilt he got up on, the quilt was not thick, but it was clean, and he was startled: he was lying naked in this cloth net pocket. There were bruises all over the body, and there were strips of white sè wrapped around the tuǐ. It looked terrifying, reminding him of a comrade who had been sent home a few years ago after being beaten hundreds of times for "violating the law of martial law" and sent home—the man had died that night.

Looking around, it was a small cabin with twelve similar cloth mesh bags hanging from it, and a person was sleeping in each of them. The cabins are constantly going up and down.

"Damin!"

Hearing someone greet him, he fixed his eyes and saw that it was his neighbor Wang Jiashan. He stood by his side before the first birdshot salvo from the pirates.

"Uncle, where is this?" Li Damin hurriedly asked, "Where is my father?" ”

"I didn't see ..................," Wang Jiashan didn't know where he was injured, and he was panting when he spoke, "but I saw him running fast.................. It's about ...... It's okay. ”

"Where is this?"

"Yes.................." Li Shanmin wanted to say that it was the ship of the "pirates", but it was not possible to say that others were "thieves" on other people's territory, and besides, this "thief" kindly rescued himself from the pile of dead people, "...... on that boat"

Li Damin was taken aback, and trembled with fright, after all, he was a fifteen-year-old boy, who had just experienced a nightmarish massacre and rout, and found that he had fallen on the "thief ship", where could he not be afraid.

As he was talking, there was a sudden sound of footsteps on the deck overhead, and the grid above his head opened, and down from the ladder came a young man, no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, with short monk-like hair, wearing a gray cloth cardigan, and carrying a leather suitcase cross-body.

Wang Jiashan hurriedly beckoned: "Doctor Fu......" said and wanted to sit up.

The boy shook his hand: "Don't move, your injuries are not healed." As he spoke, he first asked a few questions, nothing more than how he felt, whether the wound was painful, etc., and then looked at his tongue coating and took his pulse.

"Your injuries are generally out of the way, just rest for a few days. After a while, send the decoction down and take a few more doses. The boy turned around again. He is Liu San's apprentice Fu Wuben. This time, he went to the Haitian with Liu San to act as a ship doctor.

Seeing that Li Damin had woken up, he asked Li Damin about his condition again. Li Damin knew a little Nanjing Mandarin, and could barely understand Fu Wuben's Mandarin, seeing that he was kind, he gave him a decoction, and thought that there was no malice. At the moment, he said that he xiōng mouth. Pain under the ribs.

"It doesn't matter, your ribs were stepped on, count your luck and not break. It's a bit bruised though. Fu Wuben said, "Drink the medicine for a while, and it will get better slowly." ”

"Master" Li Damin saw that he was speaking kindly, and asked boldly, "Have you ever seen a man named Li Shanmin?" ”

"Li Shanmin? Haven't seen it. 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, probably running back, right?" You don't have to worry, the chiefs don't want to kill people indiscriminately, don't look at you, you will be injured and become a prisoner, even if you get rid of the sea of suffering, you don't need to work for the government anymore, you will be angry. You just wait to live a good life. ”

Li Damin was confused when he heard it, he didn't know what "good life" he had when he was a prisoner, and it was already a great grace not to kill the pirates. Although he was young, he could tell from Fu Wuben's words that the other party would not let them go, and he was afraid that he would take them overseas somewhere. When I thought of leaving my hometown and never seeing my father and siblings again, I couldn't help but feel like a knife. But in front of the "thief", he didn't dare to shed such emotions, so as not to save his life.

Fu Wuben inspected all the wounded prisoners in the bilge infirmary, distributed medicines, and changed the medicines for those with external injuries. He is now very proficient in all this, and after two years of extensive training and practice, Liu San's painstaking cultivation has borne fruit. 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. I also have to take one day a week to follow Liu San in the general hospital to see a doctor.

Although Fu Wuben studied traditional Chinese medicine, Liu San also continued to impart some modern medical theories and knowledge in the process of learning, and also asked him to audit some courses and participate in anatomical observation. I tried to let him be able to "learn from China and the West". Fu Wuben's enlightenment is good, and he is willing to study, and he makes rapid progress, and Liu San values him very much.

"You're doing a good job." Liu San read the case and inspection records he filled in, and thought that there was nothing wrong with his various diagnoses and treatments, "There are dozens of prisoners on the ship now, and the density of personnel is high, so we must pay more attention to epidemic prevention and sanitation work." ”

Liu San arranged things, walked out of the ship's infirmary, and went to the stern deck to breathe. The Haitian is moored in the Qiantang River, and the sailors are seizing this rare opportunity to wash the deck, wash the clothes and hang the chuáng with the river water.

He was in a very bad mood, and Liu San didn't need to go north with the ship this time. He knew very well that the Executive Committee had arranged him for the Shanghai Sky to a large extent to avoid the limelight.

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