The Doctor Who Traveled Through Water Margin

The next day, Wang Li and Mi Xian set off for Jiankang Mansion. Wang Li was dressed as a Taoist priest, carrying a medicine box on his back and holding an ordinary long sword left by his master in his hand.

Mi Xian was carrying a large axe for splitting mountains. The two of them turned down the horses that a wealthy family in the city wanted to lend them and walked there.

The reason they turned it down was that they still needed to travel a distance by water...

The two hurried along and arrived at the Yangtze River in the evening, watching the few boats still coming and going on the river.

"Brother Mi, how about we rest for a night and continue our journey tomorrow?"

"Brother, you see there are boats on the river. How about we eat some dry food, take a boat over, and rest outside Jiankang City at night?"

"Okay, I'll listen to Brother Mi!"

When the two were preparing to eat some dry food, a passenger boat came over on the river. The boatman shouted before the boat reached the shore:

Are you two gentlemen planning to cross the river?

Wang Li saw that something was wrong with the boatman, but before he could say anything, Mi Xian shouted:

"No, the two of us are going to Healthy City by water..."

"Haha, isn't that a coincidence? I am a healthy person, and I can take you home. Just give me half a dollar and you can get on the boat."

Wang Li didn't want to take his boat, so he said, "Boatman, how about waiting a while? Let's talk it over, eat some dry food, and then make plans..."

"You Taoist priest, don't bargain. Half a dollar is really not much. It's already very cheap. There are wine and meat on my boat, but they have to be charged separately."

When Mi Xian heard that there was wine, he was the first to get on board, and Wang Li, who had never tasted wine of this era, followed him on board...

However, he never imagined that this seemingly ordinary ferry was actually Zhang Wang's pirate ship.

When the boat reached the middle of the river, Mi Sheng called out, "Boatman, where is your wine? Bring it up so we can have a taste."

"I'm coming……"

Soon the boatman brought up a jar of wine and said, "Sir, would you like some of the best marinated meat?"

Wang Li did not answer, Mi Xian shook his head, "No..."

Mi Sheng thought to himself, how can the braised pork be as delicious as the one made by my Taoist brother?

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Last night, Wang Li took a wild deer sent by Mi Sheng and ate it. He also found all kinds of herbs and spices in the medicine cabinet at home...

Before leaving in the morning, the Teng brothers and Mi Xian ate until their mouths were full of oil, saying that it was delicious...

Mi Xian disliked the boatman's braised pork, but he didn't know that he would be despised by the boatman.

Normally, when a roaming wretch goes to a bar in the wild, he would shout, "Cut two pounds of cooked beef" or something like that...

In fact, this is also a jargon. Killing cows was illegal in the Song Dynasty. Killing cows and killing people are almost the same crimes. It is impossible that Mr. Shi, who is well-educated, did not know this.

Generally speaking, if you shout out that you want beef, it means you are telling the hotel in the middle of nowhere that you are “not afraid of trouble and are not easy to mess with”.

Everyone these days knows that opening a shop in the wild is not an easy task.

In fact, the braised meat in the hotels outside the city in that era was all made from the meat of various prey collected from hunters. At the Cross Hill, even human flesh was used, but of course it is not ruled out that there was real beef.

In short, it’s similar to opening a blind box. What meat you get depends entirely on luck. Sometimes, if you come across a pot of meat that’s delicious or to your liking, customers will pack some to take away…

Until modern times, the braised meat and marinated meat sold outside were all stewed in the same pot of soup, but they were sold separately after stewing...

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Therefore, it was precisely because Mi Xian disdained his meat that the boatman Zhang Wang was sure that these two guys looked powerful, but were actually not that good...

Wang Li picked up the wine bowl and smelled it, he knew there was something wrong with the wine. The knockout drug was said to be colorless and tasteless, which could fool Mi Sheng, but it could not fool Wang Li who was proficient in medicine.

Wang Li stopped Mi Sheng who was about to drink. He knew there was something wrong with the wine just by looking at him. The two of them poured out the wine in their bowls, pretended to faint on the table, and even deliberately knocked over the wine jar.

Zhang Wang heard the noise inside, and entered the cabin with a sharp knife and a rope in hand, smiling, ready to carry out his skilled business - killing people and robbing goods...

"Haha, I, Zhang Wang, deserve to be rich. These are two fat sheep again."

Mi Xian and Wang Li quietly observed or listened to Zhang Wang's actions. When Zhang Wang approached, without waiting for Mi Xian to make a move, Wang Li suddenly stood up and kicked Zhang Wang down.

"What a thief! How dare you harm me?"

Before Zhang Wang could say anything, Wang Li drew his sword and stabbed it directly into his chest...

When Mi Xian saw Wang Li killing someone, he said in panic, "Brother, what should we do? We should hand him over to the authorities.

If we want to kill someone, why would we pretend to be unconscious? We can just kill him. This thief doesn't seem to have any martial arts skills..."

Wang Li finally came to his senses. He only thought about killing people for pleasure, and didn't think about the fact that he and Mi Xian were still innocent...

Wang Li said embarrassedly: "Brother Mi, I'm sorry, I was just impulsive and I got you into trouble."

Mi Xian said, "Alas! Now that things have come to this, we can just sink this thief into the river and be done with it. But we two don't know how to sail, so what shall we do?"

"Let's throw these birds into the river first, and then find a way to get the boat to the shore. We'll make plans after we get ashore..."

"Okay, it's up to you..."

"Brother Mi, don't worry. This bunch of birds are obviously veterans. We don't know how many passers-by they have harmed on the Yangtze River. We are helping the people get rid of this evil."

"Brother, what are you talking about? I'm alone, so I'm not afraid of anything. The worst that can happen is that I become a bandit. It's just a pity that you're wasting your best years and talents. Alas!"

Wang Li said cheerfully: "Let's go. The government may not care about this matter. At worst, you and I can become bandits together."

The two men tied a large stone on Zhang Wang's boat and sank it directly into the river, then cleaned the blood off the boat. The clumsy boat maneuvering took half an hour to get the boat to the shore.

But when the boat finally reached the shore, a man carrying an old woman on his back hurriedly boarded the boat and said, "Boatman, my mother is seriously ill. Please leave the boat quickly."

Mi Xian lied calmly, "The boatman is not here. We are both waiting for him. We have been on the boat for half an hour..."

"My mother is seriously ill, and I need to go to Jiankang Palace to find Doctor An urgently. I would like to trouble you two to help me take care of my mother. I will sail to Jiankang Palace, and I will turn myself in to the government tomorrow. I will not bring any trouble to you two. How do you think?"

"Haha, the guy next to me is Doctor An's junior fellow apprentice. His medical skills are not inferior to his senior brother's. Why would you go to such a far place?"

"Ah?" The man exclaimed when he heard that, and saw Wang Li dressed as a Taoist priest and carrying a medicine box.

Then he carried his mother on his back, bowed his head and said, "I am Zhang Shun, a native of Jiangzhou. My mother has a back sore. I heard that there is a miracle doctor in Jiankang Palace who can cure her, so I traveled thousands of miles to find a doctor and came to your precious place. I hope the Taoist priest can save my mother..."

Wang Li helped him up and said, "Hurry up and put your mother in the cabin so I can take a look..."

The old woman was unconscious and lying sickly on the bed in the cabin, with only a faint breath showing that she was still alive.

Wang Li first felt the patient's pulse, and then said confidently, "You will recover in about ten days.

But you have to stay in bed for the next ten days, and the most urgent thing is to find an inn to stay in."

Zhang Shun was delighted when he heard this and said, "I can sail the boat. Let's go find an inn outside Jiankang City first."

When Wang Li heard that the other party was Zhang Shun, he knew who he was. This guy and his brother were in the same business as Zhang Wang, whom he had just killed, but the two brothers were doing business on the Xunyang River.

Their work is even rougher than Zhang Wang's.

The elder brother Zhang Heng played the role of the boatman, and Zhang Shun played the role of the merchant.

After the boat picked up other passengers, it stopped in the middle of the river. Originally, it cost 500 coins to cross the river, but it cost 30 coins to stop in the middle of the river.

If the customer doesn't pay, the two brothers will start to act out a double act. Zhang Heng will viciously throw Zhang Shun into the river to let other customers see the consequences of not paying.

Zhang Shun is an excellent swimmer, so he feels at home in the water. After the passengers on the boat pay, Zhang Heng transports them to their destination and picks up Zhang Shun on the way back. The two brothers then wait for the next business...

Zhang Wang has been doing this business for such a long time without anyone noticing.

These two brothers are good, they don’t care about human life, but they get a bad reputation…