Chapter 176 Drowning
"Water and fire are ruthless, water and fire are ruthless!"
The bearded guest Zhang Zhongjian stood high on the stern wearing a straw raincoat. Looking at the rolling rivers around him, he couldn't help but sigh. Thinking that his hometown Yangzhou was often suffering from floods, an indescribable sadness came out: "I thought I could let go of everything by going far away, but now it seems that it is still far away!"
Zhang Zhongjian was originally the son of Zhang Jiling, the richest man in Yangzhou. He had the same experience as Li Yuanji. After he was born, his father could not bear it and wanted to drown him. However, because his mother's pleading, he saved his life. When he grew up, he developed a martial arts and traveled around the world to become the world's number one hero. Later, he made friends with Hongfu girls Zhang Chuchen and Li Jing, and was called Fengchen Three Heroes.
Zhang Zhongjian took a group of like-minded strange people and strange people to travel overseas and settled on the island near the Korean Peninsula. Because he was chivalrous and righteous, he also brought a talented person to teach the cultural knowledge of the island residents and was recommended as the island owner. Zhang Zhongjian had no ambition, but had the talent to be the best. He knew the truth that forgetting war would be dangerous. He summoned the powerful people on the island to practice martial arts and boats to prevent accidents.
Sure enough, not long after, Daming of the Kyushu of Fusang pretended to be a pirate invasion, and Zhang Zhongjian led the islanders to defeat the pirates. The surrounding islands asked for help in detail. Zhang Zhongjian was loyal first and led the islanders to completely defeat the pirates.
Zhang Zhongjian was also famous for his battles in the archipelago. The surrounding 72 islands were dominated by Zhang Zhongjian, and they formed a small island country, and Zhang Zhongjian became king because of this.
In the past year, the king Zhang Zhongjian was supposed to be nourishing and prosperous, and the seventy-two islands became more and more prosperous, but the disadvantages soon emerged.
The seventy-two islands are scarce. They originally compete for nature and survive the fittest. The islanders of the seventy-two islands have experienced various severe tests and are constantly consumed to maintain the ecological balance on the island. Zhang Zhongjian's appearance taught the islanders' culture and technology, gathered them together, forming an overwhelming force, breaking the natural law of competition for nature and survival of the fittest. They destroyed the ecological balance on the island, and thus the key problem of insufficient resources emerged.
Zhang Zhongjian is also an ordinary person. He led the Chinese people to overcome the existing problems one by one, but the latest problem that has emerged is not something that Zhang Zhongjian can solve.
Insufficient daily medicinal materials.
Only by natural growth of medicinal materials can they have sufficient medicinal effects. Although there are many seventy-two islands, each island is actually limited in size, and some are even smaller than the Diaoyu Islands. This problem cannot be solved by any means.
Zhang Zhongjian could not only cross the sea to come to the Central Plains again, and exchanged the island's specialty pearls and gold for medicinal materials.
They originally planned to collect enough medicinal materials in Dengzhou and return to the Korean Peninsula, but they did not expect that although the Tang Dynasty was determined, the population of the world had been greatly reduced by three-quarters after a long war. Although there was no war in remote places, their development was still slow. Most places could only barely fill their stomachs. Even if they could eat, they could not see a doctor. Naturally, the pharmacy could not be opened.
Zhang Zhongjian had no choice but to send the ship to Dengzhou and arrive at Mengjinkou, Henan along the Yellow River.
The world is peaceful, and the two major metropolises in Chang'an and Luoyang have developed and recovered the fastest. Zhang Zhongjian and his group easily collected enough medicinal materials in Luoyang, and bought a lot of daily necessities, intending to transfer back to the Korean Peninsula.
Just the night before they planned to leave, the Yellow River broke its dam and the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River became a water town. The sea boats parked on the Yellow River were at risk of being washed away due to the strong rise in water levels.
Zhang Zhongjian had to get on the boat overnight and set off early this night after the dam breaking.
Although the storm is heavy, Zhang Zhongjian's sea ship shows enough tenacity to stand firm in the flood.
As soon as the day went by, the water became smaller, and Zhang Zhongjian called out a group of people to pick up the floating corpses falling down as much as possible, holding a faint hope to see if there was a glimmer of life. Even if there was no, they would be rescued and burned, so as not to become a meal on the plate of fish and shrimp, and even avoid causing plague, and to do a little bit of humanity.
"Master!"
Zhang Bao walked out of the cabin, "The boss of the ship asked you if you are going home directly or where to park now."
Zhang Zhongjian turned around and said, "Go back, Tang Xinli, when encountering such a disaster, they will do their best to rescue the disaster. It will be useless for us to stay. The residents on the island are still waiting for our medicine."
"Sir, look, there seems to be someone there!" Suddenly a sailor screamed.
Zhang Zhongjian took two steps and came to the sailor's side. He looked far away in the direction of the sailor's finger: a large broken dead tree a hundred meters to the right of their ship, and a woman was lying on the dead tree, not knowing whether it was dead or alive.
"Prepare the hemp rope and tell the boss of the ship to turn right!"
Zhang Zhongjian roared without hesitation, and the huge sea ship slowly moved right.
Zhang Bo quickly took out the thick and long hemp rope from the cabin.
Zhang Zhongjian snatched it, tied one end to his body with a unique technique, and threw the other to Zhang Bao. He plunged into the rolling Yellow River. Before he got into the water, he left a sentence: "Tighten."
Zhang Zhongjian grew up in the water town of the south of the Yangtze River and learned a lot of water since he was a child. In addition, his martial arts cultivation has entered a state of extraordinary power, with long qi and strong lung capacity as strong as a wild beast. The turbulent water of the Yellow River could not hinder his body, and approached the drowning person in the distance at a speed as fast as a swimming fish.
After reaching out to hug the dead tree, Zhang Zhongjian also breathed a long sigh. They traveled south all night and avoided the disaster area, the most turbulent place. But the power of nature still caused him great trouble. He just swam a hundred meters and was exhausted.
"Girl, girl..." Zhang Zhongjian pushed the drowning person's shoulder with a blank finger.
The drowning person coughed twice, moved his head slightly, revealing a blue-purple face without any expression, with beautiful facial features, and weakly opening his cherry mouth: "Save...save...save me."
Zhang Zhongjian said in a deep voice, "Occursing" and wanted to carry the drowning person over, but he used some force but found that he could not hold him.
The drowning man's slender arms were stuck tightly on the dead tree and could not move.
Zhang Zhongjian suddenly realized that if he had not been holding the dead tree like this, he would not have survived now. He was also in a little embarrassed: the girl obviously lost consciousness, but she was only holding the dead tree out of instinct for help. If he forced him to break it apart, he would probably break the tiny arm.
After thinking for a moment, his eyes fell on the dead tree, he shouted angrily, and punched up to the top and the half-meter-sized trunk actually broke out in response. Without the center of gravity floating on the water and nowhere to be subjected to force, Zhang Zhongjian actually broke the half-meter-sized tree with one punch.
The dead tree was broken into two pieces, and the drowning person could not continue to lie on the tree, and his surrounding hands were separated from Duan Liechu.
Zhang Zhongjian grabbed the drowning person in time, and with the efforts of Zhang Feng and a group of sailors, the two rescued the ship.
Zhang Zhongjian lay on the deck, panting, and said, "Let Ling'er and the aunt help me, bathe the girl with hot water, and change her clothes. They also equipped the medicine in advance, so that Ling'er could apply it. Then, they would empty the cabin and live there for the girl." He said, and felt a little lucky. Fortunately, among the people accompanying him, there was a mother and daughter responsible for cooking, otherwise it would be troublesome.
Zhang Zhongjian rested for a while, his physical strength was restored, and he also returned to the cabin to change into clean clothes.
"Master!" Zhang Bao came outside the cabin: "Aunt Wang asked you to go over and said that the girl was a little dangerous."
Zhang Zhongjian opened his face calmly and strode to the inner cabin. The drowning person had already changed into clean clothes. The stains on his face had been washed away, and the originally beautiful face was even more gorgeous.
Ling'er sat at the head of the bed, holding a bowl of ginger soup in her hand, feeding it bit by bit.
When the cook, Aunt Wang, saw Zhang Zhongjian coming in, she greeted her and said, "Sir, your girl's left calf should have been scratched by a blunt rust object. She soaked in the dirty water in the river, and now it is swollen." As she said that, she came to the bed again, lifted a corner of the quilt, revealing half of the bubble-swelled calf.
Zhang Zhongjian's eyes fell on his calves, and his expression changed slightly. He saw a scratch on the left side of his calves. He could not tell what the injured person was. However, due to the inflammation of the wound, his skin and flesh were soaked in water for a long time. The wound looked like a rolling lips, and his tiny calves were swollen and almost caught up with his thighs.
He stepped forward to check carefully, his expression became heavier, and he said solemnly: "Zhang Bao, go to my room and bring me the skin powder..." He said alone, muttering to himself: "If this kind of wound is accidentally developed into seven-day wind, it will be difficult for the gods to cure it."
Seven-day wind is also called tetanus. Even in modern times, this disease will be terminally ill as long as it is diagnosed incorrectly. This was even more so in ancient times. An infected person will die in about seven days and there is no medical treatment at all.
Zhang Zhongjian walked around the world, licking blood from the knife, and saw many iron wounds, and once experienced the situation of causing the iron to be injured and the wounds became inflamed. His understanding of this kind of wound is more experienced than that of ordinary doctors, and he could see the terribleness of the other party's small scar at a glance.
He reached out and pressed the wound, and found that the other party's skin temperature was extremely high. He vomited and said, "This is not an ordinary trouble. The wound has infected the muscles, and it has too much blood loss. The skin is permed and hot, and it is a combination of diseases. The situation is very critical. Ordinary doctors cannot treat this disease well."
Zhang Bao brought the skin-growing powder over and heard this and hurriedly said, "What should I do? By the way, I heard that there is a miracle doctor named Sun Simiao in the Central Plains who has the ability to rejuvenate and develop bones. Do you want to find him?"
Zhang Zhongjian would not answer for now, carefully sprinkle the skin-growing powder on the affected area, shook his head and said, "She can't drag her in this situation. If it is normal, we can send him to Chang'an, and take the water quickly and get in time. It is not a problem to find an imperial doctor with Qingyi's relationship. However, the Yellow River breaks its dam and cannot go upstream. Even if you take the land, you have to go around in a big circle. It's better to go back to the island... Tell the boss of the ship to accelerate downstream and return to the island as soon as possible." His most verbal sentence was to Zhang Bao.
A gangster who traveled abroad with him was a wise man with good medical skills and best at treating sword trauma. When he was young, he pulled him back from the gates of hell many times.
Ling'er said at this time: "This girl has been talking about Chang'an, getting married, etc., and I can't hear it clearly. I'm worried that she will not want to go overseas with us when she wakes up."
Zhang Zhongjian said without hesitation: "Everyone is about to die, why are you going to Chang'an? Since I have saved her, I will be obliged to treat her."
Chapter completed!