All memorials and newspapers about the Battle of Dongfan mentioned the Xinxing's participation in the battle. Although Shen Yourong said that the merchant ship was besieged by Japanese pirates and the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to defeat the pirates, he privately requested orders from the governor Zhu Yunchang , we need to check Yin Feng's details. The governor doesn't think there is anything suspicious about such a businessman. There are many local businessmen who own ships and go abroad.
He shook his head: "You are just a general manager, a businessman going abroad, why bother to go to war? Just let him be."
After Shen Yourong retired, Governor Zhu unfolded a document on his desk; this was a report on the Quanzhou Zeng family's voluntary donation of 2,000 taels of silver to repay military pay for naval officers and soldiers to rescue their own merchant ship Xinxing from Japanese pirates. Zhu Yunchang's general plan After reading it, I replied casually: Fujian Dusi can decide the use of this fee at its own discretion.
What he didn't know was that the Zeng family and Yin Feng actually donated 3,000 taels of silver, and the Fujian Dusi Yamen only deducted 1,000 taels, which was pretty good.
However, at this time, Yin Feng was suffering from illness and was often unconscious, so he had no time to care about such bad things.
Yin Feng returned to his home the day before New Year's Eve. He was carried off the ship because of a gunshot wound to his shoulder. Yin Feng developed a high fever on the second day after the war ended. The wound infection and inflammation caused his left arm to become swollen and thick. Almost doubled.
In this era, the whole world is still trying to figure out how to treat firearm injuries, let alone how to treat bacterial infections. Yin Feng has suffered a lot this time, and he has been regretting that he should not be so impulsive and public. The Zeng family came to pick up the ship. People were shocked when they saw this, and quickly sent someone to report the news to the Zeng family.
Wan'er rushed out of the door in panic, just in time to see Yin Feng being carried out of the carriage. She pushed aside the crowd regardless, and saw Yin Feng was in a coma, with a pale face and closed eyes. Wan'er couldn't help but grab Yin Feng tightly. Feng held Feng's hand and began to cry loudly. Everyone looked at each other and was at a loss. These were all sailors of the Xinxing, including Mai Dahai, Lin Xiao and the black man Magaro, all of whom were Yin Feng's subordinates. No matter what Wan'er did, She is said to be the boss, but the big guys can't pull her away or persuade her. They all look at Mai Dahai: You are his brother!
Mai Dahai hesitated in embarrassment for a while, not knowing what to do. Fortunately, at this time, his wife Zeng Jing came out with a group of maids and servants. After giving an order, he took Yin Feng and carried him into the inner house.
As soon as the news spread that Yin Feng was injured and seriously ill, the young and old men of the Zeng family came from the opposite door; all the merchants who were doing business with Yin Feng came, and the sailors of the Xinxing came. For a time, the Yin Feng family was full of people, coming and going. They were either wealthy businessmen or large businessmen, but also Yin Feng's subordinates, clerks from the trading firm, accounting clerks, and relatives of the Zeng family.
On the third day, Li Dan's sworn brothers Xu Xinsu and Li Huayu also arrived. They were supposed to report accounts to Yin Feng - the silk weaving workshop jointly opened by Li Dan and Yin Feng was doing well this year.
Li Dan is currently spending the winter in Manila, and Xu Xinsu and Li Huayu are his representatives in the country.
Yin Feng was asking Lin Xiao to open the bandaged wound. The inflamed and abscessed left shoulder was leaking dirty blood and pus, emitting a stench.
Although Xu Xinsu is young, only 16 years old, she grew up in a pirate den and is not afraid of such bloody wounds. Li Huayu is a scholar, although he is only 18 years old, but he is steady and kind, and has not seen many bloody scenes. Seeing Yin Feng's injury, he couldn't help but take a step back.
Yin Feng could still stay awake at this moment. He was only surrounded by his followers Lin Xiao and Magaro. He tried to stand up and said to the two young people: "Boss Li said that you have all seen blood?"
The two young men didn't know why and nodded together.
"Okay, take that dagger and grill it over the candle."
Lin Xiao blurted out: "Captain, it can't be done..."
Yin Feng interrupted him: "If you can't do it, let these two little brothers try! If I delay for a few days, my life will be over!"
Yin Feng has completely lost confidence in the treatment of gunshot wounds in this era.
Zeng Ke invited a military doctor from the Zhongzuo Institute (Xiamen) who was said to be the best in the Fujian Navy. In fact, there were very few military doctors in the army at that time. There was only one military doctor in each guard station, and there was only one doctor per 10,000 soldiers on average. Moreover,
At that time, the status of doctors was not as high as that of soldiers, and they were usually dispensable in the military camp.
The military doctor surnamed Zheng did not have much experience in treating firearm injuries. While reading "March's Convenient Recipes", he used borneol, incense and grinded clam shells into powder, applied it to Yin Feng's wound, and then took some orally.
He can't do any surgery at all, and he has never done any surgery before, but there is still a bullet in the flesh of Yin Feng's shoulder! What's the use of just using some topical medicine!
So, while the women went to the temple to burn incense and pray for him, Yin Feng decided to save himself while his mind was still clear.
Lin Xiao refused to use the knife, and Magalo couldn't understand what he was saying. When Yin Feng was getting angry, Li Dan's two little brothers came.
Xu Xinsu carefully held the exquisite Arabic dagger - which was given to Yin Feng by a Portuguese businessman in Macau - and washed it with white wine over and over again.
"Do as I say, first wash the knife with white wine." Yin Feng half leaned on the bed, took a deep breath, took a sip of wine, and continued: "Pour the wine on my wound to wash away the blood and
Pus! Luster, hold me down. If I struggle, you must hold me down!"
Lin Xiao nodded expressionlessly.
The operation did not go well. Yin Feng gritted his teeth and sweated all over his body. Xu Xinsu held a sharp dagger in his trembling hands and searched for the gun in the open wound. Then he shook his hand and picked out the rusty projectile.
He came out and cut off a piece of Yin Feng's flesh, and blood spurted out. Yin Feng straightened up suddenly, shouted and fainted.
Lin Xiao was so frightened that she quickly poured cold water on Yin Feng's face, while scolding Xu Xinsu: "Boy, you fucking want to kill someone!"
Yin Feng took a deep breath and woke up. The cold water of the first lunar month was still very effective. He was already soaked from head to toe.
"Boy, bandage me quickly. Do you want me to bleed dry?" He weakly said to Xu Xinsu who was staying aside: "Remember, wash the wound with white wine first, understand?" Yin Feng let out a sigh of relief and said to himself
This is the only way you can go, it depends on your luck.
Xu Xinsu was so excited that she quickly put down the dagger and quickly bandaged Yin Feng's wound. This was not a problem for him, as he had done this kind of work on a pirate ship before. In the corner of the room, Li Huayu was so surprised that he could not speak.
At this time, Xu Xinsu, Li Huayu, Lin Xiao and others looked at Yin Feng with almost admiration. This act of using a knife to cut open the wound to heal it was almost the same as Guan Gong's scraping bones to cure poison in the play.
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Yin Feng was so weak that he finally fainted again. In the long darkness, he seemed to feel that he was still at sea, and the waves kept rocking his boat.
When he woke up again, in front of him was his wife Zeng Jingjiao's beautiful face looking at him with concern. Their eyes met unexpectedly, Zeng Jing immediately looked away, stood up, and said lightly: "Husband, wake up.
Now, I will call Wan'er to serve you."
Yin Feng sighed. This wife whom he respected as ice was an insurmountable problem for him. He originally agreed to marry her for practical benefits and for her legendary beauty. Relationships were out of the question; but now he wanted to talk to her.
Talking about feelings is like facing an iceman. Yin Feng is not sure whether Wan'er is more grateful to him than emotional.
Yin Feng was able to deal with people and foreigners, he could prosper in overseas trade, and he could calmly fight against Japanese pirates...but he admitted that he failed miserably in his family life, love life and career, and he failed inexplicably.
However, he finally came to life.
Zeng Jing went home that day and saw blood all over the floor, the unconscious Yin Feng, and the dagger. She almost fainted from fright. She forced Lin Xiao to tell the whole story. She was too embarrassed to blame the two young men of the Li family, so she could only
Lin Xiao rushed out of the door and said that if the master could not wake up, he would report him to the official.
Everyone from the Zeng family came over. Zeng Yue and Zeng Jingshan stayed by his bedside all night. In the morning, his fever had subsided. Although he was not awake yet, his breathing had eased a lot. Wan'er stayed by his bedside for another day and night,
Only then was Zeng Jing ordered to go back to the house to rest.
Yin Feng lay in bed for another month, and then slowly regained his strength. During this period, he had already started to work: there was no need to think about it when going to sea. This year, Bernardo was responsible for the transaction of the Xinxing No. 1 to Japan. He and several
The businessmen in the partnership discussed the expansion of the silk weaving workshop, and took out some patterns they had obtained from Macao, asking the silk weaving workshop to process the samples.
When Mai Dahai arrived, he reported that the construction of his second ship was going smoothly.
When his body was able to sit up, he asked someone to cut the legs of a square table short and put it on the bed. He started to draw the design again. This time, he wanted to make a "flying shear boat".
It was already May when he was allowed to get out of bed and walk by the women at home. This was probably the longest period of rest at home for him in the past few years.
He walked out of the room and breathed in the outdoor air greedily. He saw Zeng Jing pruning the branches by the peach blossom tree in the yard. Under the young woman's hair and makeup, she had bright eyes and a fair face, a light blue dress, and a close-fitting collar.
She was wearing a long-sleeved short-sleeved jacket and a corset belt with a pendant. Yin Feng thought of her soft body and slender legs under her long skirt, and immediately had the urge to push her down and perform a ritual on the spot.
But he didn't dare to take action. In fact, he didn't want to face this cold face.
He could only smile to himself: "It seems that my body has indeed recovered!"
Zeng Jing turned around and said calmly: "You're out."
Yin Feng nodded and said, "Why haven't you seen the fourth brother and Jingshan these days?" The fourth brother was Zeng Yue.
Zeng Jing continued to arrange the flower branches and said slowly: "They had gone to Yuegang and sailed to Luzon a month ago."
"Oh!" Yin Feng suddenly felt that something was wrong.
He immediately turned around and broke into Wan'er's room in the backyard, where Wan'er was dressing up. Yin Feng used a gesture to stop her from asking questions, and said hurriedly: "Find those manuscripts, I will be useful!"