At noon the next day, the Sanshasha boat arrived at the dock.
At this moment, the sailors and porters who had been busy all morning had all gone back to the town to eat, leaving only a few gang members to chew dry food under the straw shed while watching over the goods and ships at the dock.
Suddenly, they saw a sand boat without the flag of the Sand Boat Gang approaching the dock from the south. The gang members hurriedly dropped their food, picked up their weapons and walked to the pier, watching the boat carefully.
"This is the dock of the Sand Ship Gang. Outsiders are not allowed to dock here casually. Leave immediately!" the little leader warned loudly.
A little boy with half-opened hair and long clothes and trousers appeared on the sand boat and said to them in a crisp voice:
"Hurry up and tell Madam Shen that the doctor Li she invited has arrived!"
"What's that Doctor Li? I've never heard of him." The gang members scratched their heads.
"If you don't know, let's ask them right away." The boy said arrogantly, "Our sir will only wait for a cup of tea. No more waiting!"
"Wow, what a big tone." The little leader was frightened by the child and quickly sent someone to the town to ask.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the person who left hurried back, followed by a man with thick eyebrows and big hands and feet.
The big man shouted at the top of his voice from a distance: "Divine doctor, please stay and wait a moment!"
The little boy was startled. "Oh my god, so fast!"
"Hehe, my madam told me to wait at the dock these two days. I didn't expect that when I went home for dinner, the miracle doctor arrived." The big man explained as he approached the sand ship.
After seeing the child's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"Ah, you're not..."
The big man was about to bow subconsciously, but he saw the other party glance at him and said unhappily: "Do you know how to be polite? Hurry up and welcome the miracle doctor."
The man with thick eyebrows then realized that things were not simple, so he swallowed his words and walked forward to lift the cabin curtain with the boy.
"We respectfully invite the miracle doctor to come to Sansha."
A doctor in his forties or fifties with a sage-like appearance walked out of the cabin. It was none other than Li Shizhen, the world-famous vice president of Jiangnan Hospital.
Li Shizhen was just a tool without any emotion this time. He just nodded, and with the help of the child, he got off the sand boat steadily.
"Please wait a moment, Doctor. Our lady will come to greet you soon." The man with thick eyebrows bowed hurriedly.
Li Shizhen glanced at the boy, who answered for him, "My master has been on the boat for a long time and wants to walk a few steps to stretch his muscles."
"Okay then." Seeing Li Shizhen nod, the man with thick eyebrows quickly took the medicine box and led the way.
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The little boy was naturally played by Zhao Hao.
He persuaded his apprentice, dispelled the girls' concerns, dressed up as Li Shizhen's medicine boy, and followed him to Sansha Island.
As the saying goes, seeing is believing. He had to see with his own eyes what the Sand Ship Gang was like and whether it was worth fighting for.
Along the way, he followed behind Li Shizhen, looking around with an innocent look, which did not seem out of place at all.
Li Shizhen, Gao Wu, Ma Yinglong and others only felt their hair stand on end.
Oh my god, the old cucumber has been painted green, someone is pretending to be young!
However, his disguise was really effective. Who could have thought that Master Zhao, who made the Xu family shudder at the mere mention of him, would actually become like this?
Zhao Hao ignored their strange looks and just carefully examined every brick and tile of Haisha Town.
Although the streets here are not wide, they are clean and there is no garbage. Although the houses are old, they are all repaired very carefully and do not look dilapidated at all.
This was the time when the townspeople had finished their meals and went to work. Although the men and women were wearing patched clothes, they were all washed clean and their spirits and appearance were very different from those in other places.
Zhao Hao felt like the workers in the state-owned factories in the 1970s: orderly, powerful, and confident.
Is this the secret that has allowed the Sand Boat Gang to survive for hundreds of years on the rivers and seas?
In this era, they are such a unique group of people, no wonder they attracted the covetousness of the Xu family.
"After a little arming and training, they can become a very good navy." Zhao Hao nodded with satisfaction and was about to continue observing when he heard a series of greetings coming from the street entrance.
"lady!"
"Hello, ma'am!"
"Good day, ma'am!"
The pedestrians on the street automatically parted to make way for the other side.
I saw the pretty young widow, Mrs. Shen Chen Huaixiu, leading an empty sedan chair, hurriedly coming towards me.
Seeing the handsome doctor behind the thick-browed man, Chen Huaixiu's pretty face showed joy.
"Oh my, Dr. Li is here. Thank God, Xiao Teng is saved."
As she said this, her eyes swept across Zhao Hao's face, but she hesitated for only a moment, then passed by as if nothing had happened, only bowed to Li Shizhen as usual, and then invited him to get into the sedan chair.
From the beginning to the end, Mr. Zhao was treated as an ordinary rocking boy.
Zhao Hao glanced at the thick-browed man and thought to himself, learn from your master. Look how clever he is.
Li Shizhen naturally declined to sit down, and accompanied by Chen Huaixiu, he walked to a three-story blue brick house in the center of the town.
In front of the large square not far away, there is a row of rather spectacular buildings, which is the headquarters of the Shachuan Gang.
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After entering the courtyard and closing the door, Chen Huaixiu hurriedly bowed to Zhao Hao and apologized, "I was rude just now, please forgive me, young master."
"No, no." Zhao Hao smiled and waved his hands, "I'm just here to watch the fun. Madam Shen, just pretend I don't exist."
"How dare I?" It would be strange if Chen Huaixiu believed him.
"Let's take a look at the patient first." Li Shizhen couldn't stand Zhao Hao's eye-catching outfit and couldn't help but said in a deep voice.
"That's how it should be." Master Zhao naturally agreed.
"Then I'll have to trouble the miracle doctor." Chen Huaixiu quickly led the two of them to the back house.
Before they passed the Moon Gate, the two heard a childish scream coming from the yard.
"Let me go, I want to find my sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, where have you been!"
"Little Teng, don't worry. Madam will go get the miracle doctor to treat you..."
"I'm not sick, get out!"
Chen Huaixiu's expression darkened when he heard this, and he whispered to Zhao Hao and Li Shizhen, "I'm sorry, Xiao Teng is sick again. Please forgive me if I have offended you."
"It's okay. It's a good opportunity to observe the symptoms." Li Shizhen entered a professional state of oblivion, left Mr. Zhao behind, and strode towards the backyard.
As soon as you enter the backyard, you can smell a strong smell of medicine.
Zhao Hao saw the woman with thick eyebrows tightly hugging a child who was very emotional, with his body bent and screaming.
The child looked to be only eight or nine years old. He was skinny and had a distorted expression. He didn't look normal at all.
But you could vaguely see that the whites of his eyes were red, his eye bags were blue, and his face was flushed.
Zhao Hao couldn't help but get goose bumps. This little thing was really scary.
Li Shizhen stepped forward quickly, pinched the child's mouth, observed his oral cavity, looked at his fingers, and then took his pulse briefly, and said in a deep voice:
"It's mercury poisoning."
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