After Shen Jingdan said these words, he saw that Shen Xuan's eyes were red and about to cry. He knew that Shen Xuan had been depressed for the past three months, but what happened tomorrow was no small matter. Don't look at the Japanese officials who usually smile. When something happens, he immediately turns his back and refuses to recognize anyone. He knows this very well.
So he quickly advised: "Ah Quan, tomorrow the Japanese officials will definitely check the merchants on board one by one. If they are found out, the fine will be small. What should I do if something happens to you? We have to endure it for three months. Come here, listen to dad and be patient tomorrow."
Shen Xuan was just a little tempered by her daughter for a while, and she rarely acted like this on weekdays. Seeing Shen Jingdan's hair gradually growing, she knew that it was not easy for her father to take her to a foreign country, so she lowered her head and agreed.
There was no conversation for the rest of the night. Early the next morning, Lu Jun and other Shen Jingdan got up to wash up. After the three of them had breakfast, they left Tangren Yashiki and went to Nagasaki Town as Shen Jingdan had told them yesterday.
Shen Jingdan was about to tell Shen Xuan again and ask her to go out as little as possible when he heard someone calling him outside the house. When he went out, he saw that it was the concubine of Xiao Cheng, the businessman next door, who came to him to find medicine.
It turned out that Xiao Cheng didn't know what he ate last night and started to suffer from stomach upset during the night. As the old saying goes, "A good man is afraid of eating too much." He couldn't get up in the morning.
Xiao Cheng's concubine immediately panicked when she saw this situation. She had heard that Coptis chinensis could cure diarrhea, so she quickly came next door to ask Shen Jingdan. If he didn't have it here, she would have to go to Su Town and ask someone to go to the city. See the doctor.
When Shen Jingdan heard this, he quickly went back to the house to look for medicine, found a pack of coptis, and gave it to Xiao Cheng's concubine.
"Go to the kitchen and find some Zao Tu Mo (the ash from the bottom of the pot), then take one or two of each with Coptis and grind it into powder. Take it with two qian of white wine, twice a day. If you still don't feel better after taking two doses, then hurry up. Let’s go find Juku Town.”
Having been wandering for many years, Shen Jingdan knew a little bit about pharmacology. Otherwise, if he fell ill in a foreign land, he would be in trouble every day. The concubine took the medicine and thanked her, and then hurried to the kitchen. .
Looking at the back of the hurried woman, Shen Jingdan shook his head and sighed. This Xiao Cheng is still too young and doesn't know how to take care of his body and eats and drinks carelessly. If he falls ill, it will take at least a few days to recover.
When he turned around and returned to the house, he saw Shen Xuan changed into a blue cloth robe, bowed to his body, imitated Xiao Cheng's tone, and said in a rough voice: "Boss Shen, do you think this is possible? "
Aboard the Thor.
At 6:30 in the morning, the Nagasaki Office sent a small boat over and told them that Qing merchants would be brought on board as soon as Chenzheng time passed. In addition, the Office would also send people to bring water, rice, wine and food to supply the ship.
When Liu Sheng and others who received the report heard this, they immediately thought of what Zhao Xin said about the "Susa Tangbune". This was a sugar-coated cannonball.
After everyone discussed it, it was decided that Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and Lu Shoushan would come forward to negotiate with the merchants; General Hu Ji would lead forty soldiers all armed with cold weapons to go to the deck to guard; Ding Guofeng and Zhao Liang would go to the compass deck to look out and warn, and operate the unmanned aerial vehicle. The aircraft checked for movement at the Chongliang Station and the command post on the east side of the port; Deng Fei and Tai Tai, as well as all soldiers and sailors with rifles issued, stayed in the cockpit.
After all the arrangements were completed, Zhao Xin shook his head helplessly, thinking that the manpower was still too small; for such a big ship, there could not even be a hundred people accompanying him.
The deck is still arranged as it was yesterday, with two large awnings set up and tables and chairs placed.
At half past seven, Zhao Liang announced on the walkie-talkie that a sand boat had sailed out of the Tangren Pier. So Zhao Xin took a cup of coffee, smelled the smell of engine oil on the deck, and sat with Liu Sheng waiting for the arrival of the Qing businessmen.
The islanders arranged the time just right, and the sand boat arrived just after 8 o'clock (Chenzheng). The interpreter from the Tang Dynasty, who was exhausted yesterday, remembered the location of the gangway, so he directed the boat to approach.
As everyone on the ship exclaimed, when the hull of the sand ship hit the side of the Thor, there was a sound of "Boom!". This sound was obviously not the sound of wood colliding, which made everyone on the deck of the sand ship
Everyone was shocked. Could it be that this big ship was covered with a layer of iron? It was really unheard of!
As the motor rotated, the white gangway protruded from the deck, and then slowly dropped at one end and stopped at a position lower than the side of the sand ship. The Qing people on the sand ship had never seen such a Western view before, and they were dumbfounded.
"Such a big ship is made of iron. It will take a whole load of cargo to pull it over, which will last me two years!" Old Huang looked up at the Thor in front of him and marveled.
"We only allow one hundred and ninety transactions for each ship at a time. No matter how much you bring in, you won't let us sell it. Why don't we have to take them all back?" A businessman muttered.
"This boat is so beautiful. I wonder what the people on this boat look like." Shen Xuan stood next to Shen Jingdan, looking up at the big boat in front of her, and exclaimed in her heart.
Lu Shoushan, who was on the deck, walked to the top of the gangway and was about to instruct the sailors on the sand boat to tie the cable to the gangway.
At this time, the sun was shining in the east, and Mount Lu Shoushan was facing the southwest, with the sun behind him, making it difficult to see clearly. However, when he spoke loudly, the faces of Shen Jingdan and Shen Xuan on the sand boat suddenly changed.
, my heart was shocked.
This person speaks with a Dongtai accent!
Not long after, a dozen Qing businessmen, led by several officials sent by the executive branch, boarded the gangway onto the deck. Shen Xuan walked at the end, sandwiched between Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, and there were two more behind Lao Huang.
Officials accompanied him.
When Shen Xuan walked to the top of the gangway and was about to look for the man with a Dongtai accent, she was suddenly dazzled by everything on the deck.
On the towering snow-white stern, the compass decks protruding from both sides of the top are like the spread wings of seabirds; the staggered glass portholes above are reflecting the rays of the sun at this time; turning around to look, on the towering white mast of the bow, one side
The red flag was fluttering in the wind, and below it were two rows of very strange branches.
"There are people up there, look," a Qing businessman said loudly, pointing to the highest compass deck.
"Are those all glass windows? Such big glass!"
"What a mother! This is too high!" Lao Huang looked up, his mouth wide open for a long time and couldn't close it.
Although the Shen family's father and daughter were extremely shocked yesterday when they saw the various buildings on the deck of the Thor with their clairvoyance, when they were on the ship and everything was so close before their eyes and even within their reach, they couldn't help but be dazzled.
An official of the execution office looked up at the poop of the ship. Soon he felt dizzy. He quickly stretched out his hand to hold on the railing, and his tentacles felt cold.
"This! This is steel?!" As soon as he said these words, several officials from the surrounding execution office immediately surrounded him.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng under the awning looked at a group of Qing Dynasty businessmen wearing melon caps and pigtails in front of them, and couldn't help but look at each other. There was surprise, disdain, and a bit of sigh in each other's eyes.
He had watched a lot of Qing Dynasty dramas on TV and movies, but when real Qing Dynasty people appeared in front of him, Zhao Xin felt an indescribable awkwardness. He squinted and looked at the "pig tails" on the backs of the heads of the people in front of him. , a wave of indescribable sadness and anger suddenly surged in my heart.
What a shame!
At this time, Zhao Xin's eyes were gradually blurred by tears of humiliation and anger. He tried hard to control his anger, lowered his head and wiped his face twice with his palms, and took a few deep breaths before he felt better.
Suddenly, Zhao Xin felt that someone was staring at him. So he raised his head suddenly and looked at the people on the opposite side. But at this time, those Qing businessmen were either looking up at the ship building, or standing on the railing and breaking the railing hard. , trying to take a piece of it as a souvenir.
At this time, Shen Xuan raised her head and continued to look at the ship building, but her heart was pounding. It was so dangerous just now, and she was almost discovered by that person!
"Why did this person look like he was crying just now?"
She originally wanted to find the person who spoke with a Dongtai accent. But when she looked around and turned her eyes to Zhao Xin under the awning, she saw that the man looked at her and the others with an indescribably strange look, as if he was crying.
She was about to take a closer look, but the man lowered his head and rubbed his face, then suddenly raised his head and looked at her, scaring Shen Xuan so much that she quickly turned her head and did not dare to look again.
Zhao Xin squinted his eyes and looked at the Qing businessman wearing a melon-skin hat who was seven or eight meters away, and thought to himself: "This guy was looking at me just now."
This man looked young, with a few sparse beards on his upper lip and chin, and a dark complexion. He was wearing a blue robe, a navy mandarin jacket, and a pair of small shoes on his feet. Thousand-layer cloth shoes, white cloth socks with leggings.
"It's so ugly! No matter how ugly it looks," Zhao Xin cursed secretly in his heart.
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the purpose of inviting these people here today, so he nodded to Lu Shoushan.
Lu Shoushan walked up to the Qing businessmen who were still looking around, covered his mouth with his hand and coughed twice. When he saw everyone turning to look at him, he said: "Everyone, please go and sit down. My master I have been waiting for you for a long time."
"It's him!" The eyes of the Shen family's father and daughter were immediately fixed on Lu Shoushan.
At this time, the right side of Lu Shoushan's face was facing the sun, and the two inconspicuous blue birthmarks on his face were very eye-catching.
Shen Xuan stared at the burly man in front of her who spoke with a Dongtai accent. When she saw the birthmark on his face, a person gradually emerged in her mind.
She remembered that when she was a child, her father often took her to visit the Xu family with her grandfather. At that time, the old man of the Xu family was still alive. Every time they met, he would tease her for a while and ask someone to get some snacks like Su. eat by yourself.
Once, when she saw the servant next to the old man of the Xu family, she was so frightened by the birthmark on the man's face that she burst into tears. Later, her father hugged her and coaxed her for a long time before she recovered. So when she went to the Xu family again, she saw If you see that person, you will stay far away.