Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 112 The old friend of Dongtai
After Shen Jingdan finished speaking, he saw that Shen Xuan's eyes were red and about to cry.He knew that Shen Xuan had been really depressed for the past three months, but what happened tomorrow was no small matter.Don't look at the officials of the Wa Kingdom who usually have a smile on their faces, but once something happens, they immediately turn their faces and deny people, he himself has a deep understanding.

So he quickly persuaded: "Ah Quan, tomorrow the Japanese officials will definitely check the merchants on the ship one by one. If they are found out, the fines are trivial. What if something happens to you? What can I do? We will stay for three months." Come here, listen to your father, and don't be impatient tomorrow."

Shen Xuan is just a little temper of her daughter's family for a while, and she is rarely like this on weekdays.Seeing Shen Jingdan's sideburns and 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 nothing to say the next night.Early in the morning of the second day, Lu Yun waited for Shen Jingdan to get up to wash up. After the three of them had breakfast, they left Tangren's house and went to Nagasaki Town according to Shen Jingdan's instructions yesterday.

Shen Jingdan was about to talk to Shen Xuan again, telling her to go out as little as possible, when someone called him outside the house.When I went out, I found that it was the island concubine of Xiao Cheng, a businessman next door, who came to him for medicine.

It turned out that Xiao Cheng didn't know what to eat last night, so he started to have stomach troubles at night.As the old saying goes, "A good man is also afraid of three splashes", and he will not be able to get up in the morning.

Xiao Cheng's concubine panicked when she saw this situation. She heard that Coptis chinensis can cure diarrhea, so she hurriedly came to the next door to ask Shen Jingdan, if he didn't have it here, she could only go to Su Ding and ask someone to go to the city to find a doctor up.

Upon hearing this, Shen Jingdan hurried back to the house to look for medicine, found a pack of Coptis chinensis, and handed it to Xiao Cheng's concubine.

"Go to the kitchen to find some Zaotumo (pot bottom ash), and then take one or two powders of Coptidis and Coptidis each. 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 Sukumachi."

Having been wandering abroad for many years, Shen Jingdan knew a little bit of medicine, otherwise, if he fell ill in a foreign land, it would be really unacceptable every day.The concubine took the medicine and said thank you, then hurried to the kitchen.

Looking at the woman's back in a hurry, Shen Jingdan shook his head and sighed, this Xiaocheng is still too young, he doesn't know how to take care of his body, he eats and drinks recklessly; he will need to take care of his illness for at least a few days before he recovers.

When he turned around and returned to the house, he saw Shen Xuan changed into a green cloth jacket, bowed towards him, imitated Xiao Cheng's tone, and said in a rough voice: "Boss Shen, do you think this can be done?"

On Thor.

At 6:[-] in the morning, the Nagasaki Enforcement Office sent a small boat over, telling them that they would bring Qing merchants on board as soon as the time passed.In addition, the enforcement office will also send people to deliver water, rice wine and dishes for replenishment on board.

Upon hearing this, Liu Sheng and others who received the report immediately thought of what Zhao Xin said about the "Suzuo Tang Ship". This is a sugar-coated cannonball first.

After everyone's discussion, it was decided that Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng would bring Lu Shoushan to talk with the merchants; Hu Ji would lead forty soldiers to guard the deck with cold weapons; The aircraft checked the movement of Chong Erban Office and the enforcement office on the east side of the port; Deng Fei, Heping Tai, and all soldiers and sailors who issued rifles stayed in the cockpit.

After the arrangement was completed, Zhao Xin shook his head helplessly, thinking that there were still too few manpower; such a big boat could not even gather 100 people to accompany it.

The deck was still arranged as it was yesterday, with two large awnings and tables and chairs.

At 07:30, Zhao Liang announced on the walkie-talkie that a sandboat was sailing from Tangren Wharf.So Zhao Xin held a cup of coffee, smelled the smell of engine oil on the deck, and sat with Liu Sheng waiting for the arrival of the merchants from the Qing Dynasty.

The islanders arranged the time just right, and the sand boat arrived just after 8 o'clock (Chenzheng).Tang Ren's interpreter, who had suffered yesterday, remembered the location of the gangway, so he directed the boat to approach.

Following the exclamation of everyone on board, when the hull of the sand ship hit the side of Thor, there was a sound of "boom!"This sound was obviously not the sound of wood colliding, which surprised everyone on the deck of the sandship.Is this big ship covered with a layer of iron?It's unheard of!

With the rotation of the motor, the white gangway protruded from the deck, and then one end slowly fell, stopping at a position lower than the side of the sand ship.The Qing people on the sandboat had never seen such a western scene before, and they were dumbfounded.

"Such a big ship is still clad in iron. It will take me a whole load of cargo to pull it over, and it will take me two years to run!" Lao Huang looked up at the Thunder God in front of him, marveling.

"We only let the transaction be 190 taels for each ship at a time. No matter how much you bring in, you won't be allowed to sell it. Why don't you have to bring it all back." A businessman muttered.

"This boat is so beautiful. I don't know what the people on this boat look like." Standing beside Shen Jingdan, Shen Xuan looked 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, ready to order the sailors on the sandship to tie the cables to the gangway.

At this time, the sun was in the east, and Lushou Mountain was facing southwest, just behind the sun, making it hard to see the appearance.But when he spoke loudly, Shen Jingdan and Shen Xuan's father and daughter on the sandboat suddenly changed their expressions and their hearts were shocked.

This person's accent is from Dongtai!
Not long after, a dozen businessmen from the Qing Dynasty, led by several officials sent by the enforcement office, boarded the gangway to the deck.Shen Xuan walked between Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang at the end, and Lao Huang was followed by two officials.

When Shen Xuan walked to the top of the gangway and was about to look for the person with the Dongtai accent, everything on the deck dazzled her.

On the towering snow-white poop, the compass deck protruding from both sides of the top is like the wings of seabirds; the scattered glass portholes above are reflecting the sun's rays at this time; 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 businessman from the Qing Dynasty pointed to the highest compass deck and said loudly.

"Are those all glass windows? What big, fast glass!"

"My mother! This is too high!" Lao Huang looked up, his mouth wide open for a long time, unable to close it.

Although the father and daughter of the Shen family were extremely shocked when they saw the various buildings on the deck of the Thunder God with their clairvoyance yesterday, but when they were on the ship, everything was close in front of them, even within reach, and they couldn't help being dazzled.

An official of the enforcement office looked up at the poop building, and soon felt dizzy, and quickly stretched out his hand to hold on to the railing, feeling cold to the touch.

"This! This is steel?!" As soon as he said this, several officials of the execution office surrounded him immediately.

Under the awning, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng couldn't help but glance at a group of Qing Dynasty businessmen wearing melon skin hats and braids behind their heads.There was surprise, disdain, and a bit of sigh in each other's eyes.

I watched a lot of Qing Dynasty dramas on TV and movies, but when the real Qing Dynasty people appeared in front of my eyes, 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, 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 his best to control his anger, lowered his head and wiped his face with his palm twice, and took a few deep breaths to feel better.

Suddenly, Zhao Xin felt that someone was staring at him.So he suddenly raised his head and looked at the people opposite him.But those merchants from the Qing Dynasty were either looking up at the ship building at this time, or standing on the edge of the railing and breaking the railing vigorously, trying to take away a section as a souvenir.

At this time, Shen Xuan raised her head and continued to look at the boat building, but her heart was pounding.It was so dangerous just now, I was almost discovered by that person!

"Why did this man seem to be crying just now?"

She originally wanted to find the person with the Dongtai accent.But when she looked around and turned her eyes to Zhao Xin under the awning, she saw that the man looked at herself and others in an indescribably strange way, as if she 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 to look at her, so frightened that Shen Xuan quickly turned her head and didn't dare to look again.

Zhao Xin narrowed his eyes and looked at the Qing Dynasty businessman wearing a melon skin hat seven or eight meters away, thinking to himself: "This kid was looking at me just now."

This man looked young, with a few sparse beards growing on his upper lip and chin, his face darkened, and he was wearing a blue robe with a navy blue mandarin jacket on it; Size mille-soled cloth shoes, with leggings tied on the white cloth socks.

"It's so ugly! No matter how you look at it, it's ugly." Zhao Xin cursed secretly.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the purpose of inviting these people today, so he nodded at Lu Shoushan.

Lu Shoushan walked up to those merchants from the Qing Dynasty who were still looking around, covered his mouth with his hands and coughed lightly twice, and when he saw that everyone turned their heads 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 locked on Lu Shoushan in an instant.

At this time, Lu Shoushan's right 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 with a Dongtai accent in front of him, and when he saw the birthmark on his face, a person gradually appeared in his mind.

She remembered that when she was young, she was often taken by her father to visit Xu's house with her grandfather.At that time, the old man of the Xu family was still alive, and every time he met, he would tease him for a while, and even asked someone to bring him some Su-like snacks.

Once, when she saw the servant next to the old man of the Xu family, she was so frightened by the birthmark on that person's face that she burst into tears.Later, my father hugged and coaxed me for a long time before he recovered.So when she went to Xu's house later, she would run away from that person when she saw him.

"Is it him? If it's him, why are you here again?"

(End of this chapter)