"Mojana, what are these soldiers going to do?" On the deck of the British merchant ship Bogali, a British woman in her thirties stood on the bow of the ship, looking at a group of Taiping soldiers in the West Hall who were boarding the deck with a pair of curious eyes and asked. She wore a velvet lilac dress with a veil that was not only veiled, but also quite wide, hanging at the back near the placket of the top garment, covering the head, and also including the entire upper shoulders, similar to a nun's headscarf.

"It's nothing, Lady Lantern, they're just routinely checking on passing ships." Louis. Mo Jiana, dressed in a pale red round-necked robe, is a women's dress with Chinese characteristics, and her head is also wrapped in a red headscarf, which can be seen everywhere in Shanghai by Taiping Heavenly Kingdom women.

After hearing Mo Jiana's slightly joking words, the lantern lady said slightly discouraged: "Mo Jiana, I didn't expect you to be so cheerful, you and your Chinese fiancé are the Chinese lantern couple." ”

When Mo Jiana heard the mention of her fiancé, she did not have the shyness of a Chinese woman, but raised her head proudly and said: "Of course, my Yao Yuan is the best battlefield ambulance officer in China, and there is no one." Nightingale, why did you come to China? Aren't you planning to run an ambulance school in London? ”

Nightingale's beautiful eyes lowered slightly: "When I was still on the battlefield in Crimea, I heard that the mysterious and ancient country of the East, they also broke out a civil war, and they also had battlefield rescue on the battlefield, but their battlefield rescue was very successful. When I returned to London, I met a woman from China who had done these jobs in your Taiping Army. She told me a lot about the essentials of your Taiping Army's battlefield rescue. ”

Mo Jiana sighed and said, "Is that woman's name Xuanji. Plum? ”

Nightingale bowed slightly, and continued: "She frequented the major church schools in London, and unlike her husband, she was a Christian. Her husband was Jewish. ”

Mo Jiana nodded and said: "I know, her husband is Clifford of the Rothschild family, Xuanji is indeed a very good battlefield female ambulance, she once led a logistics force composed of 3,000 women, their job is to provide soldiers with clean food, change of shoes and socks, tidy camp and first aid on the battlefield." Later, after the Shanghai Taiping Army began to reorganize the new army, the battlefield ambulance was separated from each other, and the Taiping Army now has a special field hospital and field ambulance. Every soldier must know simple first-aid knowledge so that he can save himself first in the first place. ”

Nightingale said enviously: "People with status in Britain will not do ambulance work." ”

Mo Jiana shrugged her shoulders and said, "In the Taiping Army, no one thinks that saving lives has to be divided into identities, they think that everyone is brothers and sisters. Everyone must be protected, and when the people around them are injured, they must be rescued as soon as possible. ”

Nightingale said gloomily: "It seems that I still have a long way to go to promote health care in the UK, and the first thing to change is people's opinions." You know. Ignorant, rude, drunk, and untrained women who had previously worked as ambulances in hospitals and in the field had a mortality rate of up to 50 percent for soldiers wounded on the battlefield in Crimea. ”

Mo Jiana touched her chin and said: "Here in the Taiping Army, this number is about 10%, in fact, I think you can promote the experience of blood transfusion, many soldiers actually died of excessive blood loss." ”

"We also have experience in replenishing nutrients in the body, but can blood also enter codes?"

"Of course, my fiancé and my brother in Shanghai studied for a year and finally found out how to make a reasonable blood transfusion. Do you know? It was the wife of the King of the West who first proposed this idea. She also once predicted that there are different types of blood in the human body, and only those of the same blood type can achieve blood transfusion. Otherwise, there will be rejection. ”

Nightingale covered her mouth in surprise and said, "I heard you tell a lot of legendary stories about this pair of Oriental princes along the way, but I didn't expect his wife to be so good." ”

Mo Jiana sighed and said, "Lady Xiwang is as proficient in English, French, German and other Chinese as you, and she is indeed a very magical woman. Now my brother is listening to her advice on penicillium, and we have found that penicillium can kill those infected germs very effectively, and if it can be purified into medicine, I believe that fewer people will die from infection. ”

Nightingale's eyes were full of eagerness, and he looked at the vast Yangtze River and sighed: "I am even more eager to see your fiancé earlier, and I also want to visit your king and wife of the West." ”

Mo Jiana smiled and said: "Soon, after Zhenjiang, we will reach the Tianjing section of the river, but it will only take half a day." ”

"Miss Mojana, please come here, this sergeant won't let our ship go any further." Wilmert, the captain of the merchant ship Bogari, shouted in the back, Mojana was a little strange, and immediately walked over, and Wilmert negotiated with a sergeant of the Taiping Army Marines, their military uniforms were obviously different from the army's grass green camouflage, their clothing was blue camouflage, and they looked more handsome.

"Sergeant, I am Mo Jiana, the chief nurse of the General Rescue Hall, and we have a pass permit issued by the Navy Political Department, and we have to transport medicines to Tianjing." Mo Jiana was slightly angry.

The sergeant of the Taiping Army still said with a straight face: "I'm sorry, ma'am, we received an order this morning that foreign ships are strictly forbidden to go to Tianjing in the near future, and I will build yì You will dock at Zhenjiang Port, where you will exchange Chinese ships In the past, many foreign merchant ships were concentrated there to change ships." ”

Mojana wondered: "Is there any point in doing this?" ”

The sergeant shook his head and said, "I don't know, ma'am, I'm just carrying out orders." With that, he turned around and took the soldiers off the ship, and told Wilmert to follow the guide ship of the Taiping Army to Zhenjiang Port to dock.

Nightingale said disappointedly: "Is there another day of delay?" ”

Mo Jiana frowned and said: "I think that King Xi is worried that the British and French forces will take advantage of the chaos to go inland, after all, Tianjing is not an open port city, and it has just ended a terrible military coup, and I heard that many people have died." ”

Nightingale sighed and asked, "Was it His Excellency the King of the West who carried out the coup d'état?" ”

Mo Jiana tilted her head and said, "I don't know, it seems to be and it doesn't, I don't care too much about this, you know." I went to see Xiwang this time, in fact, I was more concerned about the uniform dress of our battlefield ambulances and doctors, our current attire is very messy and not easy to distinguish, I want to build a unified ambulance costume. ”

Nightingale smiled and said: "Yes, I think the costumes of these Taiping soldiers are very peculiar, but the costumes of your battlefield ambulance are no different from ordinary people, it is indeed not easy to distinguish, how do you plan to design the clothing style?" ”

Mo Jiana said: "I plan to use white as the main color of clothing, white represents purity and cleanliness, and at the same time gives people a sense of peace of mind, which is very suitable for battlefield ambulance, but you also know that the Taiping army is very strange and taboo white, I need to convince King Xi to change." ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Bogli came to Zhenjiang Port, where many British and French merchant ships changed ships, and the Taiping Army completely closed off the shipping into the interior, and all foreign ships had to unload their goods here and transfer them to the inland by Chinese merchant ships.

Captain Wilmert didn't lose anything, his ship was originally to transport the goods purchased by the Taiping Army's quartermaster department, and it was the same wherever the goods were placed, so it was more cost-effective for him to run a little less.

Just as the Bogali was unloading, the ship's sailors found two Chinese, one old and one young, dressed as ordinary Chinese residents, in the sampan. Wilmert wondered how the two of them had come to the ship, and unceremoniously invited them to disembark. But the two refused to get off the boat, and begged Wilmert to take them to Hong Kong, Wilmert was a Chinese expert, and he had been in Guangdong for a long time before he could understand the Chinese spoken by the two with Cantonese accents, and he insisted on refusing to agree to the request of the two, and he refused to catch the two strangers.

The noisy sound attracted Nightingale and Mo Jiana, and the two women were about to change to the smaller Chinese fortune ship and continue to Tianjing with their attendants, when they heard the noise, the two women stopped, Mo Jiana stepped forward to inquire and then looked at the two strangely and asked, "Who are you?" What to do in Hong Kong? ”

The older man cried very sadly, saying that he was an ordinary person who had escaped from Tianjing, and that he and his son had to go to Hong Kong to join relatives there after his family had died in the civil unrest in Tianjing.

The two are very pitiful crying and kowtowing there, although Mo Jiana has been in China for a long time, she is still not used to the Chinese way of asking for people, they often use kneeling to force you to promise something, if you don't agree, you won't stand up, which bothers Mo Jiana.

Nightingale seemed to have encountered this for the first time, and immediately said to Captain Wilmert: "Mr. Captain, the two of them are so pitiful, please take them with you when you return to the voyage, and I will pay for the boat." ”

Wilmert said hurriedly: "Miss Nightingale, you don't know these cunning Orientals, they don't tell the truth many times. ”

Nightingale frowned and pointed to the cross that fell out of the collar of the two and said: "They all believe in God, I believe they can't lie, and you see them crying so sadly, I think the loss of a loved one must be a big blow." ”

Wilmert sighed lightly and said, "Kind young lady, I hope your kindness is not taken advantage of by people with sinister intentions, okay, I'll take them to Hong Kong." Mo Jiana didn't say anything, and in her opinion, the two were indeed pitiful.

So, with Nightingale's help, the two refugees, one old and one young, escaped from Tianjing, boarded the British merchant ship Bojali and sailed to Shanghai together. The Bogali was then loaded with tea, raw silk and other goods in Shanghai, and sailed on to Hong Kong. A week later, Wilmert sent the two to the preaching hall of the Swedish Pakse priest Han Wenshan in Hong Kong, and he saw a preacher who called himself Hong Renxuan come out to greet the two, and it was only at this time that Wilmert was relieved, these two men had really come to join their relatives, and he felt ashamed of his suspicions, and he felt that the legendary goddess of the lantern had a more generous and merciful heart. (To be continued......)