When the rescue boat returned to the stern of the official ship, Cang Tou over there suddenly made a series of surprised sounds, and the scene was a little noisy for a while.
The sound immediately attracted Ge Hong and others on the ship's side. Chai Yan and Hang Baiqiu, who were still watching the fire at the bow, walked at the end.
Chai Yan and Hang Baiqiu walked across the side of the ship to the stern. By this time, most of the people on the ship had already gathered here, making it feel very crowded.
"Everyone give way, give way!" Chai Yan shouted as he walked inside.
When they came to see the man who fell into the water, Chai Yan and Hang Baiqiu were stunned.
Because the person who was rescued turned out to be a blond man, about thirty years old, quite tall, with a typical Western face like Chai Yan remembered.
"Damn it, why is he a foreigner?"
Chai Yan was surprised and at the same time understood why the Cangtou people made surprised sounds just now.
Hang Baiqiu asked puzzledly: "What is a foreigner?"
Chai Yan replied casually: "It's the abbreviation of foreigners."
"Foreigner..." Hang Baiqiu read it softly and nodded slightly.
Chai Yan saw that the blond man was motionless, so he asked the old men beside him: "How is he?"
A Cangtou immediately replied: "Sir, this man drank a lot of river water and drowned..."
"Then hurry up and save people!" Chai Yan shouted hurriedly.
"Oh oh..." Only then did the green heads around him react, and together with their companions, they started to rescue the blond man.
But the Cangtou pinched and pressed for a while but there was no response, so Chai Yan immediately shouted: "Where is Fatty Lai?"
"Sir, I'm here!" The voice came from behind the crowd.
Chai Yan immediately waved to him and shouted: "Come here, save people!"
"Ah?" Fatty Lai was stunned, thinking, "I know how to fight, but how can I save people? How can I..."
Ge Hong quickly pushed Fatty Lai and said, "Go if I tell you to. Why are you so stunned?"
Fatty Lai reacted and hurriedly strode to Chai Yan.
"Squat down!" Chai Yan immediately patted Fatty Lai.
Fatty Lai immediately followed the instructions and squatted down.
Then, Chai Yan asked everyone to help him lift the blond man up, put his face down on Fatty Lai's shoulders, and pressed his shoulders against the blond man's stomach.
"Get up and run! You can run back and forth, run in circles, in short, just keep running! Knock him hard and make him spit out the water in his stomach!" Chai Yan said loudly.
Fatty Lai didn't dare to hesitate, stood up immediately with the blond man on his shoulders, and then started running in circles on the boat.
Seeing this, everyone hurriedly stepped back and gave way to their place.
Under the bumps of Fatty Lai's running, it didn't take long for the blond man on his shoulder to move. After a twitch, he vomited out with a "wow" sound, almost all of which was the river water he drank in his stomach.
"Put it down, put it down!" Chai Yan immediately shouted again.
By the time Fatty Lai put the man back on the board of the boat, the blond man had already begun to pant, but he would occasionally vomit, but it seemed that his life was safe.
"Huh..." Chai Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Captain Du came over and said to the Cangtou: "You guys, please carry the man into the cabin to rest first, and then get him some porridge when he wakes up."
Everyone nodded and worked together to lift the blond man into the cabin.
Chai Yan said: "Old Du, stop the boat temporarily and send people to search the area around the civilian boat to see if there are any other survivors."
"Yes, sir." Du Shipguan immediately agreed and made arrangements.
Then, Chai Yan ran back to the bow of the ship and found a position with the best view to observe the surroundings of the burned civilian ship to see if there was anything else going on.
Then, the boat circled around the burned civilian ship several times, and after finding the bodies of two men, nothing else was found.
After the bodies were put on the boat, everyone gathered around to take a look and found that they all had faces from the Sheng Kingdom. Judging from their appearance and age, the younger one should be the book boy and the older one should be the boatman.
Chai Yan found Captain Du and asked, "Old Du, are there any water bandits around here?"
Du Shipguan thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, sir, little people often use this river route. I have never heard of water bandits in this area!"
"There are no water bandits..." Chai Yan began to think.
Just as he was thinking about it, after observing the two corpses, Hang Baiqiu stood up and said to Chai Yan: "I've seen it. Both of them were stabbed in the abdomen. It seems that they were stabbed to death and then thrown into the river."
"Do they still have any money on them?" Chai Yan asked immediately.
Hang Baiqiu checked again, shook his head and said, "No."
Chai Yan thoughtfully nodded slowly and said: "Let's not talk about the book boy, how could the boatman not have a penny on him... From this point of view, it is likely that he is a robber or bandit, or someone who is interested in wealth.
The interception..."
After hearing this, the people standing around felt that it made sense and nodded one after another.
Hang Baiqiu couldn't help but ask: "What, you plan to check it yourself?"
Chai Yan smiled and said, "What should I check? I just thought about it. I must hand it over to the local government and ask them to send someone to check it!"
After saying that, Chai Yan went to ask Du Chuanguan: "Old Du, what is the boundary here? Which yamen is in charge of it?"
Du Shipguan looked at the surrounding environment and replied: "Sir, this place should be Liuju, and it is under the jurisdiction of Liuju County Government."
"Well, wait until daybreak and send someone to contact the Liuju County Government and hand over the matter to them." Chai Yan decided.
"Young man, I obey," Du Chuanguan responded quickly after hearing this, and then walked away.
After finishing his work for a while, Chai Yan suddenly felt a little sleepy. Seeing that it was not light yet, Chai Yan thought about going back to catch up on his sleep.
So he said: "Let's all go and have a rest. We'll talk about it at dawn."
After saying that, Chai Yan yawned and walked lazily towards the cabin.
Ge Hong also hurriedly asked everyone to go back to the cabin to rest.
When he reached the cabin door, Chai Yan suddenly stopped, turned to Ge Hong behind him and asked: "Old Ge, which country do you think that blond man is from?"
Ge Hong shook his head and said: "Sir, I don't know this either, but I can be sure that if you are not from Piz Country, if they don't look like this, the color of their hair is wrong."
"Well, I understand, you go and rest." Chai Yan said.
After Ge Hong left, Hang Baiqiu came over. Seeing that Chai Yan was still thinking about something, he said, "That man is not dead. When he wakes up, you can just ask him yourself."
Chai Yan nodded and suddenly asked: "By the way, Sir Hang, have you ever heard of France, France, and England?"
Hang Baiqiu shook his head and frowned: "I've never heard of them before. What countries are these? Where did you hear about them?"
"Uh..." Chai Yan was stunned for a moment and then said: "I read it..."
Chai Yan thought to himself that the world today is very different from the world in the past. It seems that these countries may not exist, or they may exist, but they are not what they were called in the past world.
Hang Baiqiu shook his head and said worriedly: "Chai Yan, you should stop talking a little less recently, you are always talking nonsense..."
"Am I talking nonsense?" Chai Yan frowned immediately.
Hang Baiqiu, however, acted as if he hadn't heard anything. He walked straight outside his cabin, opened the door, turned around and said, "Get some rest now!"
Then, the person entered the cabin and the door closed silently.
Seeing this, Chai Yan had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, then opened the door and walked into the cabin.