Nan Ming heard some conversation overhead, followed by the footsteps of "Tuk Tuk".

A strong force came from the oars, and it seemed that several strong men were twitching the oars together, and he grasped the oars with one hand, allowing his body to be pulled out of the water.

A bearded man on the boat frowned: "I was hooked by a corpse." Sixth, how are you rowing? Get it away, bad luck!"

"Big boss, this can't be helped. There are so many floating on the river, it is inevitable that there will be one or two troublesome ......" The boatman, who was called Lao Liu, defended with a look of grievance.

At this time, a hoarse voice came from the canopy: "Wait a minute, he seems to be alive......"

As she spoke, a slender girl in a cloak and hood lifted the tarpaulin and stumbled to the side of the boat.

"Little girl, don't talk nonsense, it's none of your business here. ”

The bearded man glanced at her, ignored her, and motioned for a few boatmen to continue their work.

The boatmen worked together to lift the oars and swing them from side to side in the water, but they could not shake off the "corpse" hanging on the oars no matter what, and finally had to drag the oars onto the board.

"Ahem...... cough cough cough ......"

Suddenly, the corpse's chest rose and fell violently, and he coughed heavily.

The surrounding boatmen were startled and subconsciously retreated, only the cloaked girl immediately came up and beat him on the chest.

Her five fingers are slender and powerful, not like an ordinary girl, or have practiced kung fu on the palm of a few fingers. Pressed on Nanming's chest, there are quite some rules, and it doesn't seem to be pressed randomly.

After a while, Nanming woke up.

His eyes opened a slit to catch the face of the cloak girl.

The girl's hood was blown back by the river wind, revealing half of her face. Her eyes were like stars, her smooth forehead was slender, and her slender green silk was tied up with only a hairband, flying in the wind.

The other half of her face was wrapped in layers of black veil, and she couldn't see what it looked like.

But just looking at her appearance, she is already a beauty that is difficult to describe, and the hidden half of her face is like a light cloud covering the sun, which makes people's hearts itch, and they want to lift her veil to see her true face.

"Give him some hot water. ”

The girl turned around and said to the people on the boat.

For some reason, her voice was extraordinarily hoarse, like a knife scraping on wood, which was regrettable.

The boatman looked at the bearded man standing at the bow of the boat.

The bearded man's face was a little unhappy, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't meddle. Although this man is alive, he was also fished out of the water, and you don't know what is in the water, do you? I think it's better to throw him back into the water......

"He's not sick. ”

"So what? Who doesn't know that those things can get sick at any time. He's fine now, but it's hard to say in a few days!"

The bearded man snorted coldly, and looked at Nan Ming as if he were looking at a dead man, "I've been soaking in water for so long, and I said that I didn't get dyed with that thing, who believes it?"

"I'm a physician at Lancheng Medical Center. ”

The girl's eyes did not show weakness, and she said slowly in a hoarse voice, "I don't dare to say that the medical skills are clever, but who has the plague or not, you can still see it." ”

"Little girl, you're kidding the lives of a boatload of people. ”

"A person's life is also a life. Boat boss, I must save this person, please bring hot water. The doctor's girl's eyes were firm.

The bearded man snorted coldly again, and waved his hand to signal that she could do as she pleased.

If it weren't for the fact that this little girl was the only doctor on the ship, he wouldn't have given any face, so he just threw people off the boat and left him to fend for himself. Now that the world is so chaotic, not to mention that you just don't save yourself when you die, even if you kill someone, the government won't care.

Count this kid in luck. He thought to himself.

The surname of the bearded man is Zhang, and the single name is one character.

He was not a ship boss, but a thief from the Mao Mushroom Mountain in the northwest of Lancheng, commonly known as the King of the Mountain.

A few months ago, a plague broke out in the village at the foot of the mushroom mountain, and several villagers fled to the mountain.

Zhang Yuan, the big boss, became the commander of the light pole, and had to take a few surviving younger brothers down the mountain to find a job.

Originally, he planned to do some roadblock robbery, but it turned out that the world had changed, the plague was rampant, and the living dead swept through the surrounding villages like a tidal wave.

He wanted to take refuge in Arashijo, but the plague was full of living dead people all over the mountains, and it was risky to travel by land.

So he hijacked a fishing boat and planned to sail down the Qingming River into the canal of Lancheng.

This is a small awning boat, and there are still some fleeing people on board, men, women and children, crowded into the cramped canopy like chickens in a cage, and there is no place left for a long time.

It wasn't that Zhang Yuan had a kind heart to take these people in, but that these people had come with the doctor girl, and he had to take them with him in order to invite the girl on board.

But then Zhang Yuan also figured it out, bringing these people is not necessarily a bad thing.

There is a sluice gate at the checkpoint of the Qingming River into the Lancheng Canal, which can only be opened by the officers and soldiers in the city, and these people may have some role at that time.

Now it's just one more person, and he didn't pay attention to it, he glanced at Nan Ming, and went to the bow of the boat to blow the wind.

On the board of the boat, the girl was handing Nanming a bowl of hot water, Nanming took it and drank it all, and hugged her fists.

"In Xia Nanming, thank you girl for saving me. ”

"No thanks. ”

The girl said lightly, "You should be fine, rest well on the boat." ”

Nan Ming nodded, and asked again, "I don't know ...... this ship Where are you going?"

"Arashijo. ”

"It's such a coincidence, I have an urgent matter in the next place, and I want to go to Lancheng......"

There was a fitting hint of surprise on his face, and he grinned instead, "Then I'm going to bother you." ”

After talking with the girl for a while, he learned that her name was Fu Huijing, who was originally a native of Lancheng and had a family medical hall in the city.

When the plague broke out, she was going out to see a doctor, and when she returned, the main road was impassable, and she had to take the waterway. Along the way, he treated many villagers who had fled from the plague, and then took them to the ship, ready to enter the city together.

While the two were talking, they didn't realize that it was getting late.

As the afterglow of the setting sun sinks into the river, the surrounding river becomes more and more silent.

There was no one on the boat to speak, and the atmosphere was a little tense, like a heavy feeling of a storm coming.

"Shhh ”

The big boss Zhang Yuan glared fiercely at the two who were still talking, and said in a low voice.

Nan Ming glanced at him obliquely, feeling a little strange, and then a slender jade finger reached out and pressed against his lips.

"Don't make a sound, it will attract the living dead. Fu Huijing whispered softly, "It's not safe here at night......"

Insecurity?

Nan Ming blinked, and no one could see his expression clearly in the darkness.

It's just that the corners of his mouth are slightly hooked, and a strange smile floats, which seems to be mocking and joking.

- Is there anything more dangerous than him on this river?