Nongmen Space: Farming lady is not easy to mess with

Chapter 285 The old man deserves to be the old man

The sky is bright, the stove fire is extinguished, and the stove room is busy packing and eating.

Zhu Yu got the cotton cloth from the storeroom and came back to see Jing Yunyan lifting the lid of the pot to scoop up hot water. His face was full of surprise: "You and the girl don't use hot water to wash in winter. Why do you need hot water in hot weather?"

Caijuan and Guo Liuniang both lowered their heads and held back their laughter, pretending they didn't hear anything, and put food into the jar seriously.

Jing Yunyan's ears felt hot, he took a deep breath, pulled the corner of his mouth and turned to look at Zhu Yu, "Do you know why Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, can live to be over a hundred years old?"

"Because I'm the king of medicine. I eat ginseng and bird's nest every day. If you let me go, I can live for that long." Zhu Yu replied confidently.

"No." Jing Yunyan walked out with a wooden basin, and smiled politely when passing her, "Because he doesn't like to meddle in other people's business."

Zhu Yu looked at his back and scratched his face in doubt, "Is it true or not? This can live for more than 100 years?" After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized, "Then he still didn't say why he used hot water? "

"Cough" Caijuan coughed dryly, "I'll find out after you get married."

Zhu Yu still didn't understand, but she didn't have the time to ask, so she quickly moved the table and set it up in the yard.

A table of people gathered around the round table to eat breakfast, Zhu Yu slurped down a bowl of noodles, and when she was picking up the second bowl, she suddenly asked Shu Yingtong, "Miss, are you feeling unwell today?"

"No."

"Oh, that's fine." Zhu Yu sat down with a big bowl of noodles, and added, "I thought you were uncomfortable and asked Jing Yunyan to bring hot water for you."

Except for Zhu Yu and Si Yao, everyone buried their faces in the bowl and ate the noodles seriously.

Shu Yingtong didn't change his face, and kicked Jing Yunyan under the table, "No, we are dispensing medicine."

Si Yao muttered in a low voice, "You guys are taking medicine, so you can just lie..." Before he finished speaking, Xuemei who was beside him kicked him silently.

He turned his head and received a reproachful stare, so he obediently shut his mouth and continued to eat noodles, and put a poached egg into her bowl flatteringly.

Last night, on the grounds that there were no extra guest rooms, she stayed in her room with a shameless face and refused to leave.

After all, it is the owner who provided the soft tofu, so how dare to offend.

After breakfast, Si Yao bid farewell to everyone, rode on a fast horse and headed straight for the outside of the city, and then a carriage drove out from Shishishi side alley.

A small number of merchants in the county had received the wind in the middle of the night, and their shop doors were closed tightly, while the rest of the shops were still open.

Everything seems to be the same as usual, only the county town archway is guarded by Yamen guards, and people are not allowed to enter and leave at will.

Jing Yunyan drove the carriage through without hindrance, and there were Shu Yingtong and Xuemei sitting in the carriage.

It was not time for the three of them to make lunch when they returned to Huanshan Village. The Beicun dormitory building was built on both sides of the official road. Shu Yingtong and Xuemei got out of the carriage and asked Jing Yunyan to drive the carriage home first.

Several lines were lined up in front of each dormitory building, and each line corresponded to a vat, and each person held a bowl in their hands, and they were orderly receiving herbal tea.

"Girl and Xuemei are back!"

Many people greeted warmly, and some waved their hands again and again, "Don't come here~"

Shu Yingtong raised her eyebrows. It was only last night that Yuanxian discovered smallpox. Are these people so perceptive?

"Don't come here, just stand over there and talk if you have something to say. Father Jing said that someone in the next county has smallpox. Our Beicun is on the side of the official road. Some passers-by came to the grocery store to buy things. At that time, he was coughing." Come on. If we get sick, we can't live with the girl!"

"It's okay, I won't get smallpox." Shu Yingtong slightly frowned, walked to the front of the line and took a look at the medicine in the tank, "Did the old man make it boil?"

"Yes, yes. There were a few people in the village who had a fever yesterday, and they didn't know if it was smallpox. Father Jing said that this medicine can clear away heat and detoxify, and cure diseases if they are sick.

Kuang replied like a cannonball, because her voice was muffled because she was wearing a mask, she put down the long spoon and raised her sleeves to wipe the sweat from her head, and then gave out medicinal tea.

Shu Yingtong glanced at her appreciatively, a person who can stand up and disregard life and death at a time like this is worthy of respect.

There is a certain degree of danger in this matter, because many people will be exposed to it, and smallpox has an incubation period.

"Okay, you guys get the herbal tea first, I'll go back to Nancun first, and come back later." Shu Yingtong took Xuemei away after explaining.

When the two walked into the courtyard, they found that all the village stewards had arrived and were sitting in the courtyard waiting for them.

Shu Yingtong understood that Jing Yunyan was not idle when he came back, so he immediately called all the stewards to discuss the matter, scanned around, and sat down next to Jing Yunyan, "Where is the old man?"

"My master has already set off for Fanling City. In order to prevent those who are willing to use smallpox to make money for the country, he will contact the Huichuntang in various cities to deliver medicinal materials to the places where the epidemic is the worst." Jing Yunyan handed her a letter.

After reading it quickly, Shu Yingtong lamented that the old man is worthy of being an old man. Although he did not have advanced epidemic prevention strategies, he still grasped the key point, medicine.

He knew that she must have a good plan, so he smoothed over the difficulty of medicinal materials to her and Jing Yunyan first, and provided various symptomatic prescriptions to the epidemic area first.

He took away a batch of masks used by kiln factory workers from the warehouse in the village and said that they looked useful.

She put away the letter and returned it to Jing Yunyan, and glanced at the paper that everyone handed out.

"Okay, time is tight and tasks are heavy. I have assigned tasks to each manager. The first thing is Uncle Wei's side. Vaccines must be given to all villagers as soon as possible. If any villagers with fever are found, they will be given to those in Beiying last year. There are still bamboo sheds on the side that have not been demolished, and they are all placed there.”

"You are all my right-hand man. Let me tell you, even if it is smallpox, it doesn't matter. I have a secret medicine, but don't disclose it. Just add it to the medicine and let them drink it. Don't panic."

Wei Dafu nodded solemnly, thought for a while, this was obviously the tone of explaining things, and asked tentatively: "Miss and uncle are leaving?"

"Yes, there are a few provinces where the epidemic is very serious. The old man is busy outside at such an old age. As a member of their family, I have to do my best to share some of it."

Jing Yunyan was very moved by what she said. This was the first time she officially declared that she was from their family.

"Okay, I got it, girl, don't worry, go get busy. Leave the family and the village to us." Wei Dafu smiled kindly.

Shu Yingtong took the paper that Jing Yunyan handed over, and continued: "Second thing, Mr. An's care for our village can be said to have reached an unprincipled attitude, and we have to repay one or two of the favors we receive."

As she said that, she looked at Hu Zidi, "The village guard selects a group of strong laborers who volunteer to go to the county government to assist them in their work. This is hard work, and there will be no great rewards. It depends on your own will."

Daddy Huzi patted his chest, "The men in Huanshan Village are all conscientious, don't worry, girl, if Mrs. An is in trouble, we will definitely help!"

Shu Yingtong nodded, and then looked at the excited Yao Shi, who was eager to speak and could tell that she was not convinced.

"Women hold up half the sky. You are also very important in logistics and supplies. There are still a lot of cotton and kudzu linen in the warehouse in the village. You are responsible for organizing a large number of masks and gowns. These two things are important in dealing with various plagues."

Yao patted his thigh, and smiled brightly, "I just love to listen to girls talk, whoever said that women are inferior to men, the daughters and daughter-in-laws in Huanshan Village are all the best!"

Shu Yingtong gave her a thumbs up in agreement, and turned to tell Xuemei the last thing.

"Come to my room to collect the money. If the price of vegetables soars in the county, you organize a few people to collect the vegetables in the village and distribute them to Muchu Pavilion, Twelve Foods, Populus euphratica Wood Workshop, and the county government. Make sure the vegetables are normal. supply, let them spend their own money to buy meat.”

There are hundreds of households in Huanshan Village, and each household has more land, so the cultivation of vegetables is also open.

The first batch of all kinds of melons and beans will be harvested soon. The advantage of the small-scale farming economy is self-sufficiency. Except for those residents in the county town who do not have land nearby and migrants, the countryside is not short of vegetables.

"Oh, by the way, as for the watermelon, pick it off and let the villagers taste it when it's ripe. There are too many people, so you can watch the distribution."

The unexpected and reasonable plague disrupted Shu Yingtong's original plan in summer.

The reason why she brought people to flee famine to such a far place was because too many people died in the place where the original owner was born, and the outbreak of the plague was inevitable.

But I didn't expect that someone would maliciously spread the source of the epidemic, implicating the small and remote county of Yuan County.

I never thought that I would find a husband with heavy responsibilities on his shoulders.

(End of this chapter)