After landing on the shore, it was obvious that Xu He was not a local, so it was a shame.
After Daozi walked for a while, he called Xu He to the woods on the roadside and looked outside.
Qin Lie was already half dead, and Xu He didn't know what the knife was still looking at.
"Ahead is Fanggang Bridge, where archers from the county government are stationed all year round!"
Xu He said: "Don't worry and follow me. I'll make sure you're fine."
"That won't work!" Daozi said with caution in his eyes: "If you are caught by the government, you will be fine, but the third brother and I will be trapped!"
Xu He said: "Don't worry, I am a Juren, and I know the prefect of Huzhou!"
Daozi glanced at him, then turned around and continued to stare at the bridge, obviously turning a deaf ear to Xu He's words.
After observing for a while, I guess it was due to the Japanese commotion in the past two days. There was no light or movement in the small thatched shed at the end of the bridge.
Daozi carefully carried Qin Lie and walked in front.
Xu He complained: "You won't let me find someone to treat Qin Lie's injury, so why are you letting me go ashore?"
Daozi said coldly: "If the doctor here can't cure Third Brother's injury, then I will have no choice but to believe you!"
"...!" Xu He was really speechless.
When they carefully avoided the shacks at the entrance of the bridge and entered a village in the dark, they searched for the knife for a long time before stopping in front of a courtyard.
He patted the door, and a man's alert voice immediately sounded inside: "Who is it?"
Daozi said: "Master, are you a doctor? Please help me!"
The people in the courtyard shouted: "You have found the wrong person. I am a doctor who treats cattle and horses. I don't know how to look at people. Let's go quickly!"
Daozi said: "I know, doctor, my eldest brother was injured by the Japanese pirates and can't stand it anymore. Please do something good and save my eldest brother's life!"
"Let's go!" The voice in the hospital gradually became impatient, "I don't know how to treat people!"
Daozi suppressed his anger and said, "Is there a doctor in this village?"
"The second house at the east end of the village!"
"Thanks!"
Knife wiped his sweat, and without saying a word, he carried Qin Lie and left.
Xu He looked at his back. In fact, if he ran away now, the knife probably wouldn't care about him, but he thought about it and followed him.
When Daozi saw him chasing after him, he sneered: "You're smart! If you dare to run, the brother who fell behind will kill you!"
When Xu He heard this, he broke into a cold sweat. It turned out that the other party was more defensive than he thought.
After walking in the dark for a while, the knife came to knock on the door again.
This time it went smoothly. After telling me why we were here, someone finally opened the door wearing clothes.
Daozi said urgently: "Doctor, please save my brother."
The doctor seemed to be a scholar. After entering the room, he looked Xu He and the three of them up and down, then nodded and said, "Let me take a look!"
"Who is it! It's so late at night!" A woman's voice came from the back room.
The doctor said: "Sleep while you sleep, and I'll cure you!"
Seeing that the doctor had begun to check Qin Lie's injuries, Daozi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The doctor seemed to be a village doctor. After seeing Qin Lie's wounds, he said: "It's been too long, too much blood has been lost, and there are still swellings in the wounds. People are talking nonsense, why are you here now? "
Daozi looked at Xu He, lowered his head and said nothing.
Seeing this, Xu He said, "This gentleman has invited me. I wonder if my friend can be saved?"
The doctor said: "Help? I don't have the ability. Even the imperial doctor came and didn't treat him. Now I can only apply some herbal medicine on him. Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor!"
"It should have been here a long time ago, but now, I wonder what you are doing?"
Daozi lowered his head when he heard this. In fact, if he had listened to Xu He earlier, he probably wouldn't be like this.
To put it bluntly, it was their [cautiousness] that harmed the third brother.
Xu He saw that he was stunned, so he ordered: "Go and get some well water. You...your elder brother has a severe fever. Let's cool down first!"
Hearing this, Daozi quickly asked the direction of the well and ran to fetch water.
After he left, the doctor looked outside the house and said, "Little brother, you are not with them, are you?"
Xu He said in surprise: "How did you know, sir?"
The doctor looked outside the house and sneered: "I also know that these people are water bandits!"
Xu He was even more surprised.
The doctor didn't show off, and said: "Although these two people wear shoes, their toes are not tucked in like mine, but spread apart. And from the look of their clothes, they look like those who make a living on the water. It's easy to guess!"
After speaking, he asked curiously: "But you, you don't have a local accent, and you look like a scholar, how could you..."
Xu He looked outside and whispered a few words to the doctor.
The doctor's face changed greatly when he heard this: "You, are you Mr. Xu?"
Xu He said in surprise: "Do you know me?"
"The people in the government have been looking for you like crazy these past two days! They knock on the door every day and ask if they have seen a scholar! I saw you coming in with two men, but I didn't expect this, this..."
Xu He saw the knife coming in with the water ready, and signaled the doctor to stop talking.
After Daozi came in, he looked at Xu He and saw that his face looked the same. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The water is here!"
Xu He took the well water, moistened it with a cloth and applied it to Qin Lie's hot forehead.
He also wiped his big joints constantly.
This process was actually very hard. The three of them worked hard for most of the night, until the sky gradually became brighter. Miraculously, Qin Lie's fever subsided.
When the doctor saw this, he called out God's will. With such a severe fever, ordinary people would have died long ago.
At dawn, he said to Xu He and the others, "I'm going to collect some medicine. I'll ask my mother-in-law to get up and make you some food."
Daozi warned: "Don't try to play any tricks!"
Xu He also said: "We still have people guarding outside, don't report it to the government!"
He was really afraid that the doctor was pretending to be smart, so he warned him.
The doctor had already guessed the identity of the knife, so he said calmly: "I am a doctor. I only care about treating diseases and saving people. The rest does not concern me!"
But just when he woke up his mother-in-law, suddenly, there was a whistle outside the courtyard, followed by a short clash of swords, and soon the sound died down.
The doctor said: "It's none of my business!"
Daozi looked at Xu He.
"I'll be with you all night!"
Daozi was really panicking now. He turned around and was about to carry Qin Lie on his back and walk out the back door.
But at this time, how could he escape.
I heard people in the front and back yards shouting: "Thieves put down their weapons!"
Xu He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this voice. It was Zhou Ju and Zhou Shangbin.
He knew that he should be fine.
Daozi was still hesitating, but Xu He said: "Don't talk for a while, I will handle it!"
Daozi said dubiously: "How can you, a loser, be so kind?"
Xu He looked at him and ignored him, turned around and shouted outside: "Brother Shang Bin, I'm here!"
A surprised voice came from outside the hospital: "Mr. Xu..."
"Coax..." The door was knocked open, and sure enough, Zhou Ju rushed in with a group of government archers!
