Chapter 15: A Dream of Nonsense
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In the past few days, another person has died, and this strange disease has also been written down and sent to the school palace in the capital, but now the clipper is still in the sea, and I am afraid that these people are already dead when they come and go.
There are still a lot of people to watch every day, but no one dares to say that they can cure such a disease.
Every time the crew opens their eyes, they rejoice that they have lived another day; Every day when I see someone die, I think that I am going to die soon, and I fall into extreme fear and anxiety.
This was probably the strangest thing that had ever happened on the docks, and people didn't notice that there was an extra man selling flowers somewhere near the docks.
The man who sold the flowers claimed that his father had brought them back from an island. The flowers are very beautiful, with leaves like swords and flowers like fire, no matter what, dozens of copper are still worth it.
But the man who sold the flowers claimed that they would never be sold for less than two silver coins.
The person who heard the news laughed and told the man who was crazy about money what the concept of two silver coins was, but the man who was down-and-out insisted on it.
Buying and selling is like this, sitting on the ground and starting the price, repaying the money on the spot, how to sell is a person's freedom, and people will no longer care about it after laughing.
So I sat down and talked about what I had seen and heard these days, and the strange things gradually faded away, and people began to talk about something else.
For example, there are rumors that the new council has decided to cut education spending, revise textbooks, and no longer open public schools for enlightenment...... Another example is that the enlightened teachers in the capital area held a rally and smashed the house of the member of the council who made the noise, and the government had to come forward to guarantee that this would not be the case for the time being...... Another example is the market in Mincheng and so on.
At noon one day, a well-dressed woman came to the infirmary with a pot of flowers called Gentleman's Orchid, which many people scoffed at and thought was too expensive, claiming that she had a way to cure the strange diseases of the crew.
The helpless doctors did not stand in the way of the strange woman, but consulted the crew. The crew only wanted to live, even if there was a glimmer of hope, so they made a note: if they died, it had nothing to do with this woman, and if they were rescued, they could give half of their money to this woman.
The woman said that she would not ask for half of the sailors' money, and that her ancestors were also doctors, and that the family wanted her to be a benevolent person who saved lives and helped the wounded, and only needed to give him a hundred copper for each crew member.
This kind of thing is simply rare, especially in this materialistic era, especially in the desire for the appearance of a true righteous gentleman.
Soon, word spread throughout the docks.
The woman's method of healing was very strange, and she placed the crew in a ventilated place, and placed several pots of flowers called Monarch's Orchid upwind of these people, and constantly fanned the wind so that the fragrance of the flowers could spread to each of the sick.
On top of that, it's a jar-filled potion, and many crew members have tasted all sorts of strange flavors after drinking it, some think it's like kale, some think it's like bean sprout water, and some think it's like orange......
But the woman didn't tell these people how the potion was prepared, everything was mysterious, and the previous behavior of not wanting money made this woman even more mysterious.
It's just that those medicines are not elixirs, so they didn't get better immediately after taking them. The mysterious female doctor told the crew the next day that it would be fine in a month at most.
The one-month wait is a long time, but the fact that this kind of treatment actually turned down half of someone else's property is extremely unbelievable, so it spreads widely.
The woman is not very good-looking, but there are still painters who have painted this woman and the pot of flowers, which is vivid.
And in the month of waiting, an interesting novel full of mystery and strange rumors began to circulate for a fascinating and magical people who had lacked imagination beyond nature for hundreds of years.
The story is said to have been told by a man whose father went to sea, saying that he had a dream, or that his father had told him in a dream.
At first, it was only circulated in the market, and then gradually some hand-copied books flowed out.
Of course, people only think of it as a joke, but this kind of sleepwalking book is very popular. Because dreams transcend reality, many of the things in them that seem obvious nonsense are not as unreasonable as those who have gone to school.
Some of the illustrations in the book are funny, some are seductive, and the way they speak is exactly what a drunken crew member should say.
The name of the book is "The Adventures of the Drunken Crew", which everyone can understand, and there is a lot of nonsense and interesting content in it, such as this paragraph:
"At that time, we had been adrift at sea for three months, but we still didn't see land. The water stinks and we all think we're going to die. ”
"There were still several barrels of liquor in the barrels, and the captain said that everyone had drunk them, and they were drunk, and then they scuttled the ship and died in the sea without any pain. Everyone accepted the offer, and drank heartily, eating hard bacon and cursing the sea. ”
"I drank a lot, but I was the most sober. As you know, we had pirates in the past, and a buckshot smashed my skull. ”
"I thought, it's over, I can't wear a hat without a braincase, because I can't hold it. Luckily, our ship's doctor used to be a tinsmith, and he said to me, 'Don't worry, buddy, I'll smash you in a tin pot.'" ”
"Because of this skull, the captain of the ship with a bronze flamin, accidentally exposed the sun to the top of my head. Boom...... All the wine I drank was burning. I was afraid that the skull made of tin would be burned, so I simply took it off, and as a result, the little wine I drank was burned, and I was sober, the only terrible thing was that my hair was burned. ”
"Everyone was drunk, and the captain didn't seem to be too drunk, so he told me to go and scuttle. I don't think that's going to work, you're all drunk and can't feel the pain, what can I do? ”
Suddenly, there was a singing voice in the distance. I assure my ancestors that it was the most beautiful song I had ever heard, even better than the voice of the woman in the cave room on the night of my wedding. ”
"Everyone thought they were drunk, but I knew I wasn't, so I told everyone I heard it too. Someone took a torch and spun around my head, opened my tin skull, and no alcohol burned up, so everyone believed it was real. ”
"But it was a headwind and it was very difficult for us to get through. It happened that there was a huge fish in front of our boat, and the captain thought of a way for us to hook the big fish with our hooks and pull our boat forward. ”
"In the distance we saw a small island, the man with the best eye on the ship had a bad eye, and the ship's doctor had installed the eye of a great eagle, and of course he had discovered the island first. But you know, the eagle's eyes can only see far away, but they can't see far away, and they can't see well when they are near, and there are reefs all over there. ”
"The captain asked me and a few crew members to go over in the boat, and you'll never guess what we saw."
"An island, and there is a spring on the island, and the spring is all made of gold and jade. The clean water flew from the ground to the sky, turning into bits and pieces of jade, filling the rainbow. ”
"There was a flower growing on the top of the spring, which looked like fire, and the leaves were like sharp swords, and several women surrounded the flower."
"Of course, you can't call them women directly, because they have fish tails from the waist down, pink fish tails. But up at the waist, I dare say definitely better than any woman I've ever seen, and her pink skin was like congealed mutton fat, covered with droplets of water. ”
"Wet hair, only two tiny shells hanging from the chest, and a long tail fluttering gently."
"It turned out that they were singing, and when they saw us, they screamed, held their tails and ran away."
"Ladies and gentlemen, you know, we have been adrift at sea for so long, and now that we have water, these mermaids are the best things. A few people next to him reached out to grab it, and took out the best and most valuable things on their bodies, and summoned them. ”
"My companions were still drunk, but I was sober, so I didn't chase them. Ladies and gentlemen, I repeat that I am a normal man, but when I see my companions, I laugh maniacally. ”
"Then I said to them, 'What is the use of you catching up?' These beauties are fish from the waist down......"
"But my companions shouted, and they still had mouths, and I cursed in my heart that I still had mouths. Ladies and gentlemen, you know this, I don't care about doing such shameless things with such people. ”
"Immediately they dispersed, and most of them ran away, leaving only one trapped near the spring, and behind it was a mess of rocks, and she had no feet to climb over."
At that moment, the mermaid suddenly grabbed the flower and swallowed it. Oh, my God...... After eating it, all the scales on the lower half of her body fell off......"
The book comes to an abrupt end here, and there are some fragmentary pamphlets in front of it, all of which have been copied by hand with a graphite pen. There have been a lot of weird and obviously nonsense things in the past, but there are also many fantasies about different islands and different countries.
For example, the country of gentlemen where everyone is a gentleman, such as the country of ink that is blackened from head to toe by the sun, and the country of flying heaven where the means of transportation is a big Kong Ming lantern......
For example, being trapped in the belly of a whale larger than a hundred ships, and seeing that flame-like flower; For example, when shooting at a pirate, the pirate on the opposite side flew to the ship on a huge cannonball......
There is such a flower involved in many short stories, but there is a charcoal drawing that circulates from these pages.
The painting shows a mermaid that these people never thought of, lying on the edge of the pool, as if swaying its tail fin, with a look in her eyes that seemed to be scared and seduced. Next to the mermaid is a flower that is instantly recognizable, and the ground is dotted with various gold and silver coins.
This painting uses a technique that none of these people have ever seen, using the thickness of charcoal and the dimness of light and shadow to create a three-dimensional effect, and the shell hidden on the chest becomes the most sultry object. And the flower that blooms next to the mermaid is exactly the same as the flower that can cure strange diseases and exfoliate.