From Chief to Ball

After a long time, the woman finally became sleepy, and whispered: "I'll sleep first, and you can sleep again when I wake up. I'm afraid...I'm afraid this is a dream."

The man agreed and didn't need to blow out the oil lamp because there was none. After the woman woke up and fell asleep, she had many dreams of getting rich, such as having thirty silver coins and exchanging them for a lot of copper coins, which filled the whole room.

Chapter 15 Nonsense Dreams

In the medical hall near the pier, the doctors frowned, looking at the dozens of people with bruised gums, bleeding gums and loose teeth, helpless.

Another person died in the past few days, and this strange disease was also written down and sent to the academy in the capital, but now that the clipper ship is still in the sea, I am afraid that these people have all died when they came and went.

There are still many people watching the excitement every day, but no one dares to say that they can cure such a disease.

Every day when the crew opened their eyes, they would be grateful that they had lived another day; every day when they saw someone die, they would think that they would die soon, and fell into extreme fear and anxiety.

This is probably the weirdest thing that has ever happened on the pier, and people didn't notice that there was an extra flower seller somewhere near the pier.

The flower seller claimed that his father had brought these flowers back from a certain sea island.The flowers grow beautifully, with leaves like swords and flowers like fire, no matter what, dozens of coppers are still worth it.

But the man who sold the flowers claimed that they would never be sold for less than two silver coins.

The people who heard the news laughed and told this man who was crazy about money what the concept of two silver coins was, but the down-and-out man insisted on it.

This is the case with buying and selling, where the price is raised on the spot, and the money is paid back on the spot. How to sell is a person's freedom, and people don't care about it after laughing.

So I sat down and chatted about what I had seen and heard these days, and the strange disease gradually faded away, and people began to talk about other things.

For example, there are rumors that the new council has decided to cut educational expenses, revise textbooks, and no longer open the public Kaimeng school... Another example is that the Kaimeng teachers in the capital area held a rally and smashed the home of the council member who made the rumor , the government has to come forward to guarantee that this will not be the case for the time being... Another example is the experience in the city of Fujian and so on.

At noon one day, a well-dressed woman came to the medical center with a pot of flowers called Clivia that many people despised as too expensive, claiming that she could cure the strange diseases of the crew members.

The helpless doctors did not stop the strange woman, but sought the advice of the crew.The crew only wanted to live, even if there was a glimmer of hope, so they made a written statement: If they die, it has nothing to do with this woman, and if they are saved, they can give half of their money to this woman.

The woman said that she would not want half of the sailors' money, and that her ancestors were also doctors, and her family hoped that she would be a benevolent person who saved lives, healed the wounded, and healed the wounded. All she needed was a hundred coppers from each crew member.

This kind of thing is rare, especially in this materialistic era, especially in people's longing for the appearance of a real gentleman.

Soon, the news spread throughout the dock.

The women's treatment method is very strange. They put these crew members in a ventilated place, placed several pots of flowers called Clivia on the windward side of these people, and kept asking them to fan the wind so that the fragrance of the flowers could spread to the sea. side of each patient.

Other than that, it was an unpalatable potion packed in jars. After drinking it, many crew members tasted various strange flavors. Some thought it was like cabbage, and some thought it was like bean sprouts water. , and some think it looks like an orange...

But the woman did not tell these people how the potion was prepared, everything was mysterious, and the previous behavior of refusing to give money made this woman even more mysterious.

It's just that those medicines are not panaceas, so they didn't get better immediately after taking them.The mysterious female doctor told the crew the next day that they would recover within a month at most.

Waiting for a month is a long time, but this kind of behavior of treating a disease and rejecting half of other people's property seems extremely incredible, so it is widely spread.

The woman is not good-looking, but there are still some painters who have drawn this woman and the potted flower so vividly.

And during the month of waiting, an interesting, magical novel full of mysteries and rumors for a group that lacked imagination beyond nature hundreds of years ago began to circulate in the market.

The story is said to be narrated by a person whose father went to sea back then, who said it was a dream, or his father told him in a dream.

In the beginning, it was only circulated by word of mouth in the market, and then some hand-copied books gradually flowed out.

People took it as a joke, of course, but books written in sleepwalking style were hugely popular.Because dreams are beyond reality, many of the seemingly obvious nonsense in them are not as unreasonable as those who have gone to school accused them of being unreasonable.

Some of the illustrations are funny, some of them seductive, and they speak in exactly the way a drunken crew member should say.

The name of the book is "The Adventures of the Drunk Crew", everyone can understand it, and it contains a lot of nonsense and interesting content, such as this paragraph:

"At that time we had been drifting at sea for three months, but we still hadn't seen land. The water was already stinking, and we all thought we were going to die."

"There were several casks of spirits in the barrel, and the captain said they all drank, got drunk, and scuttled the ship and died painlessly at sea. They all accepted the offer, and drank and ate hard Bacon, curse the sea."

"I drank a lot, but I was the most sober person. As you know, we met pirates once, and a buckshot smashed my skull."

"I was like, fuck it, I can't wear a hat without a skull because it won't hold up. Luckily our ship's doctor used to be a tinsmith, and he said to me, 'Don't worry, man, I'll use a Tin Kettle will give you a skull'."

"Because of this skull, the captain brought a bronze sundial and accidentally exposed the sun to the top of my head. With a bang... all the wine I drank was on fire. I was afraid that the tin skull would be burned I just took it off, but all the wine I drank was burned, and I was sober, the only terrible thing was that my hair was burned."

"Everyone is drunk. The captain saw that I didn't seem too drunk, so he asked me to dig the boat. I don't think this is possible. You are all drunk and can't feel the pain. What should I do?"

"Suddenly, there was a singing sound in the distance. I assure my ancestors, this singing voice is definitely the most beautiful singing voice I have ever heard, even better than the voice of the woman in the bridal chamber on the wedding night."

"People think I'm drunk, but I know I'm not, so I tell everyone I heard it too. Someone turned a torch over my head and opened my tin skull, and there was no smell of alcohol. It burned, so everyone believed it was true."

"But it was a headwind at that time, and it was difficult for us to run over. It happened that there was a huge fish in front of our boat, and the captain thought of a way, let us hook the big fish with a hook, and pull our boat forward. .”

"In the distance we saw a small island. The man with the best eyes on the ship had a broken eye. The ship's doctor installed a big eagle's eyeball on him. Of course he was the one who discovered this island first. But you know, the eagle's eye You can only see far away, but you can’t see clearly when you get close, and there are reefs all over the place.”

"The captain asked me and a few crew members to take a small boat and have a look. You will never guess what we saw."

"An island, there is a spring on the island, and the surroundings of the spring are all piled up with gold and jade. The clean water flies from the ground to the sky, turning into little pieces of jade, filled with rainbows."

"There is a flower growing on the top of the spring. It looks like fire. The leaves are like sharp swords. Several women surround the flower."

"Of course, you can't directly call them women, because they have fish tails from the waist down, pink fish tails. But from the waist up, I dare say they are definitely prettier than all the women I have ever seen, pink and tender His skin was like congealed suet, beaded with water."

"Wet hair, only two small shells hanging on the chest, and the long tail is flapping gently."

"It turned out that they were singing. When they saw us, they screamed and ran away with their tails in their hands."

"Everyone, you know that we have been wandering on the sea for so long, and now that we have water, these mermaids are the best things. The few people next to me stretched out their hands to grab them, and even took the best and most valuable mermaids on their bodies. Take the things out and call them."

"My companions were all still drunk, but I was very sober, so I didn't go after them. Guys, I want to reiterate that I am a very normal man, but when I saw the appearance of my companions, I was shocked Laughing wildly."

"I'll tell them, what's the use of you chasing after them? These beauties are fish from the waist down..."

"But my companions shouted, they still have mouths, and I cursed in my heart that I still have mouths. Everyone, after seeing this, you know that I don't bother to do such shameless things with such people. "

"Immediately they dispersed, and most of them ran away. Only one was trapped near the spring, and there was a pile of rocks behind her. She had no feet, so it was difficult to climb over."

"At this moment, the mermaid suddenly grabbed the flower and swallowed it. My God... After eating it, all the scales on her lower body fell off..."

The book came to an abrupt end here, and there were some fragmentary booklets in front of it, all hand-copied with a graphite pen.A lot of weird, obviously nonsense, but also a lot of fantasies about different islands and countries.

For example, the country of gentlemen where everyone is a gentleman, the country of ink ink that is sunburned from head to toe, and the country of Flying Heaven where the means of transportation are big Kongming lanterns...

It’s also like being trapped in the belly of a whale that is bigger than a hundred ships, and I also saw the flame-like flower; for example, when I was shooting at a pirate, the pirate on the opposite side flew to the ship on a huge shell...

Such a flower is involved in many short stories, but only a charcoal drawing has been handed down in these few pages.

The painting is a mermaid that these people have never imagined, reclining by the pool, seems to be swaying its tail fin, and its eyes seem to be afraid and seductive.Next to the mermaid is an instantly recognizable flower, while the ground is dotted with recognizable gold and silver coins.

This painting uses a technique that these people have never seen before, using the thickness of charcoal and the dimness of light and shadow to draw a three-dimensional effect, and the shell covering the chest becomes the most seductive object.And the flower that blooms beside the mermaid is exactly the same as the flower that can cure strange diseases and exfoliate.

Chapter No.16 New Popularity