After Shen Jingdan said these words, Shen Xuan's eyes were red and she was about to cry. He knew that Shen Xuan had been depressed for the past three months, but what happened tomorrow was no small matter. Despite the fact that the officials of the Japanese state were always smiling, if something happened they would immediately turn their backs and deny anyone. He himself understood this very well.
So he quickly persuaded: "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 only had a temporary temper with her daughter, 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 words for the rest of the night. Early on the next morning, Lu Jun waited for Shen Jingdan to get up and wash up. After the three of them had breakfast, they left Tangren Yashiki and went to Nagasaki Town as Shen Jingdan said yesterday.
Shen Jingdan was about to explain to Shen Xuan again when he heard someone calling him outside the house. When I went out, I saw that it was the island country concubine of Xiao Cheng, the businessman next door, but she came to him to find medicine.
It turned out that Xiao Cheng didn't know what he ate last night and didn't deal with it, so he started to have stomach upset at night. As the old saying goes, "A good man is afraid of three things." In the morning, Xiao Cheng couldn't get up.
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 Zaotu Mo (pot bottom ash), 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 Go find Jukumachi."
After living abroad 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 uncontrollably, then hurried to the kitchen.
Looking at the back of the hurried woman, Shen Jingdan shook his head and sighed. This Xiao Cheng was still too young and didn't know how to take care of his body and ate and drank carelessly. It would take at least a few days for him to recover from his illness.
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 can be done? "
Aboard the Thor.
At 6:30 in the morning, the Nagasaki Administrative Office sent a small boat over and informed them that Qing merchants would be brought on board as soon as the Chenzheng hour passed. In addition, the monastery will send people to deliver water, rice, wine and food to provide supplies on 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 and Liu Sheng would lead Lu Shoushan to negotiate with the merchants; General Hu Ji would lead forty soldiers all armed with cold weapons to go up 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 machine checked the movement of the Chongliang Station and the east side of the port; Deng Fei, Ping Tai, and all soldiers and sailors who issued rifles 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 was still the same as 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 Tangren Pier. So Zhao Xin took a cup of coffee and smelled the 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. Just after 8 o'clock (Chenzheng), the sand boat arrived. The Tang Dynasty interpreter, who was exhausted yesterday, remembered the location of the gangway, so he directed the boat to move over.
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!" The sound was obviously not the sound of wood colliding, and everyone on the deck of the sand ship was shocked. Is this big ship covered with a layer of iron? Unheard of!
As the motor rotated, the white gangway protruded from the deck, and then one end slowly dropped and stopped at a position lower than the side of the sand ship. The Qing people on the sand boat had never seen such a Western scene before, and they were stunned.
"Such a big ship is still covered with iron sheets. It will take a cargo of cargo to pull it over. It 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-one transactions per ship. 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 on the deck walked to the top of the gangway and was about to instruct the sailors on the sand ship to tie the cable to the gangway.
At this time, the sun is in the east, and Lu Shoushan faces the southwest, with the sun behind it, making it difficult to see clearly. But when he spoke loudly, the faces of Shen Jingdan and Shen Xuan on the sand boat suddenly changed and their hearts were shaken.
This person speaks with a Dongtai accent!
Not long after, a dozen Qing businessmen, led by several officials sent by the administration, boarded the gangway and boarded the deck. Shen Xuan walked at the end between Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, and there were two officials accompanying Lao Huang.
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; turning around, one can see on the towering white mast of the bow, a 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 pointed to the highest compass deck and said loudly.
"Are those all glass windows? Such big glass!"
"What a mother! This is too high!" Old Huang looked up and couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
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, 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! Is this 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 skin hats and a whip behind their heads, 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 at the "pig tails" on the backs of the heads of the people in front of him, and an indescribable sadness and anger suddenly surged in his heart.
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 suddenly raised his head and looked at the people opposite. But those Qing businessmen were either looking up at the ship building at this time, or they were standing at the railing and breaking the railing hard, trying to take away a piece 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, I was almost discovered by that person!
"Why did this person look like he was crying just now?"
She originally wanted to find the person with a Dongtai accent. But when she looked around and turned to Zhao Xin under the awning, she saw that the man looked at her and 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 didn't 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 in his heart: "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 green 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 young, her father often took her to visit the Xu family with her grandfather. At that time, the old man and the old lady of the Xu family were still alive. Every time they met, they would tease themselves for a while and ask people to get some Su-like snacks for themselves.
Once, when she saw the attendant 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, his father hugged him and coaxed him for a long time before he recovered. So when she went to Xu's house later, she would stay away from that person when she saw him.
"Is it him? If it's him, why is he here?"
(End of chapter)
