Jia Zheng said: “This Prince Teng can remember that I am his brother-in-law. It is indeed worthy of gratitude for his efforts to rescue me. But the harm Wang Shuhui caused to you cannot be reduced in the slightest.”

Ruier said: “Now I have a long way to go with you, and I haven’t seen them all year round, and I won’t be oppressed by her, so I am very satisfied.”

After escaping the catastrophe, Jia Zheng’s burden became even heavier. He continued to write to ask for relief food and relief funds, and pleaded for tax relief.Without those people in the middle, the food and relief money came down soon, and the disaster relief work started smoothly.

The heavy rain lasted for more than a month before it gradually cleared up and the flood finally passed.

Jia Zheng was busy arranging the post-disaster reconstruction, and the victims also evacuated from Jia’s house one after another. Rui’er took everyone to wash and scrub at home, and took out everything that could be dried. She could even smell the sun, the fragrance , soft taste.

Seeing the whole city come back to life day by day, Jia Zheng was happy, and Rui’er was also very happy.Although it is still not easy to buy vegetables and miscellaneous things, after all, everyone’s faces are starting to look bloody and smiling!

Then came the hot summer, this summer seems to be unusually hot, the flowers and plants in the yard finally came back to life after the flood, and now they are all drooping their heads under the scorching sun, and the white flowers on the ground dazzle their eyes, go out and take a step It just hurts the scalp.Everyone drank water like a buffalo, so much so that their stomachs rattled when they walked.

In fact, no one wants to take an extra step, because if you move a few times, you will be sweating profusely and panting like a cow.

Heat is not the most terrible thing, but the most terrible thing is-the plague!

From the high morale of reconstruction, Jia Zheng fell into another abyss!

He told Rui’er: Now that there is an epidemic in the urban area and the suburbs, more and more people are infected, and he himself may soon be infected.

Ruier said: “After such a long flood, it is normal to have plague. I heard the old lady say that after a natural disaster, there must be a plague. I thought this time it would be an exception.”

Jia Zheng said: “That’s right, so many rotting corpses and garbage have been soaked in water for a long time, how could there be no plague? It’s just that the interval is a bit longer this time, so we took it lightly and thought we had escaped by luck.”

Ruier asked: “What symptoms do you have?”

Jia Zhengdao: “I have met many people who have been infected. The symptoms are very similar. It is said that they have a fever like a fire, and they have a splitting headache. They are also unconscious and have vomiting and diarrhea. It is painful enough to think about it in such a hot summer day. of.”

Ruier asked: “Are there enough doctors in Nanchang Mansion now? Is there a suitable prescription?”

Jia Zheng shook his head: “The prescriptions given by everyone are different, but the results are the same, that is, it is invalid. I am worrying about this matter. I go to visit famous local doctors every day, and report to the court. I don’t know if I can get it as soon as possible. Control it. If the city is full of plague, it will be difficult!”

Jia Zheng, who shuttled among the patients all day long, was not infected with the epidemic, but Rui’er, who soon developed the symptoms Jia Zheng said.

At first it was constant diarrhea, but then it stopped, and I vomited from time to time.

Within three days, Rui’er had a fever and fell into a coma, talking nonsense, having nightmares, and pillow ink and Ruyan kept scrubbing her body and changing her clothes, but as soon as she lay down, her whole body was soaked, even the bed was wet .

Jia Zheng was busy looking for prescriptions from famous doctors during the day, and went to various places to check the epidemic situation. When he came back at night, he didn’t have time to rest, so he personally fed Rui’er soup and porridge, trying to find a way to cool her down.

Rui’er was confused and shouted that the joints all over her body were very painful, and she always screamed that someone was chasing her with a knife, and she was startled and unstable every night.Jia Zheng sat on the bedside every night, let Ruier lean on her, gently patted her on the back, told stories, and only squinted for a while in the morning.

Seeing that there was no reliable famous doctor nearby, Jia Zheng hurriedly wrote a letter to his family, begging his family to go to a few acquainted imperial physicians for prescriptions.

After Mrs. Wang received the letter, she learned that Rui’er was infected with the plague, so she refused to ask for a prescription.

Aunt Zhou secretly went to ask Mother Jia, who told Mrs. Wang to be nonsense, and reprimanded her face to face: “The grievance between you and Aunt Zhao is a private matter. Now Jiangxi is full of plagues and thousands of people are suffering. You don’t want to find a way to get rid of it. You are still haggling over prescriptions here, are you still afraid that Zheng’er will not go to jail?”

Jia Amnesty had nothing to do, and was forced by Jia Mu to go to Wang Taiyi, Wang Taiyi read the letter, knew the corresponding strategy, immediately wrote the prescription, and said modestly: “I hope I can do my best, but I don’t know if it is right. .”

Jia She said: “Our family’s belief in you is like believing in gods!”

Mother Jia read the prescription and ordered Mrs. Wang to send it out overnight.Mrs. Wang thought about it, and sent a pair of her usual calming prescriptions. Jia Zheng was convinced that it was a good way to cure the epidemic. He not only tried it for Ruier, but also distributed a lot of medicines to the surrounding people.

Rui’er has been struggling in dire straits for too many days. After drinking this wrong medicine for several days, she has more headache and fever, palpitations and weakness, which are worse than before. She lies on the edge of the bed every day, almost dying.

As the legitimate son of the Duke’s Mansion, it was very common for Jia Zheng to invite the imperial physician, and naturally he gradually gained experience in various prescriptions.He pondered over the prescription sent by his family, always suspecting that it was not for curing the epidemic.

Zhen Mo leaned aside and took a look: “This is madam’s soothing and nourishing soup!”

Jia Zheng said, “You are illiterate, what do you know?”

Zhen Mo said: “I used to take this recipe to the kitchen to explain it, and I was familiar with it. This is ginseng, this is angelica, and this is Schisandra, right?”

Jia Zheng nodded again and again: “Yes, you ask Ruyan to come and see!”

Ru Yan ran over to take a look: “That’s right, even though I can’t read, this is the prescription of Second Grandma! Second Master, even if you don’t know whose prescription it is, don’t you even understand the principles of medicine?”

Jia Zheng sighed and said, “I never imagined that she would do such a thing. How could she be suspicious when she said it was the prescription of Imperial Physician Wang?”

Zhen Mo said: “Madam may have sent the wrong prescription. If she deliberately gave the wrong prescription, then it shouldn’t happen. She also knows that the whole city is waiting for it!”

Jia Zheng didn’t want to waste time by talking too much, so he sat down and wrote a letter to Jia’s mother immediately, and emphasized that the letter should be sent directly to Jia’s mother without outsiders.

When Jia’s mother received Jia Zheng’s letter, she knew that Mrs. Wang had conspired and was furious, but she remembered that Wang Ziteng had rescued Jia Zheng not long ago.

Mrs. Wang was still thinking that Aunt Zhao couldn’t be cheaper, and she turned her head to think about what to do. Jia’s mother had to lie and said, “Zheng’er is also very sick now, and he is said to be dying. Are you going to be a widow?”

When Mrs. Wang heard that Jia Zheng was also infected, she immediately handed over the prescription: “It must be Aunt Zhao’s little hoof that got the infection! She is a broom star!”

Mother Jia didn’t argue too much, and immediately sent out the prescription.

Jia Zheng treated Rui’er according to Wang’s prescription, and Rui’er’s fever went down that day, and she could sleep peacefully the next day. Within three days, she was basically healed, but she was still a little tired.

Jia Zheng was overjoyed and led his servants and yamen servants to distribute medicines and prescriptions everywhere. Afraid that many people would not see the prescriptions, he set up relief centers in various parts of Jiangxi to provide free epidemic medicines, and posted prescriptions everywhere among the people, causing the plague to spread throughout the city. It was under control within days.

Aunt Zhao burned incense and worshiped Buddha at home, and prayed for Imperial Physician Wang: “Physician Wang is really a living Bodhisattva! How many lives have been saved just now! We should set up a shrine for him!”

Jia Zheng laughed and said, “I want to write a letter to Doctor Wang to thank him, and I also want to write a letter to ask for credit for him.”

In the case of the flood, Jia Zheng was almost convicted of a felony and escaped disaster, but it was not considered a credit.

In the fight against the plague in the city, Jia Zheng handled it in a timely manner and effectively controlled the epidemic. Although he was not promoted, he was affirmed by “paying for it with merit”.

When the local officials gradually gained experience, Jia Zheng became more and more aware of the sufferings of the people, and became more and more determined to benefit the people, not just the future of the family.

In addition to working hard to deal with complicated and messy affairs, Jia Zheng took Rui’er around to check on people’s conditions whenever he was resting.In order not to affect Jia Zheng’s freedom of doing things, Rui’er always wore the servant’s clothes, with her face up to the sky.

The two trekked across mountains and rivers, went to fields, streets and alleys, restaurants and teahouses, and often left the city to the suburbs or villages.After riding away, Rui’er said that she felt like a knight.

After visiting many villages one after another, Ruier raised a question: “Have you noticed that people here like to carry buckets over mountains and ridges. I didn’t know what they did at first, but later I found out that they all went to the river to carry water. !”

Jia Zheng said, “You’re right. I’ve noticed this too recently. I’ve been in the city for a long time, so I don’t know the real situation in the countryside. It turns out that so many villages don’t even have a well, so we have to look for clean water everywhere!”

Rui’er said: “It is better for some villages to be close to the river. It is also a place for washing clothes and drinking water for cattle and sheep. People also drink the water. The villagers don’t care about these things. But there are no rivers in the whole village in some places. There is nothing around, and it takes more than ten miles to carry water, overcoming thorns and thorns, so I don’t know how much labor will be wasted in a year!”

Jia Zheng said: “I never imagined that such a small matter would be so difficult for many people! I want to change this situation!”

Ruier said, “Are you going to drill a well in every village?”

Jia Zheng nodded and said, “It’s hard to say, but as long as we take the lead in opening up one village, other villages will follow suit.”

In the blink of an eye, it was autumn again. Jia Zheng led a large team to choose a village by himself and mobilized the villagers to dig wells together.In fact, this is something that everyone has been longing for for a long time, and it just needs an opportunity.

Jia Zheng was busy with the yamen servants and villagers every day, and his face was ashamed. No one could tell that he was an official, let alone the legitimate son of the state’s lord, who was raised in rich clothes and rich food.

With Jia Zheng taking the lead in hard work, no one has any reason to steal and play tricks.

Halfway through autumn, the well was dug.

All the people in the village brought buckets and basins, young and old happily went to their homes to carry water and scoop water, to wash the whole family thoroughly, and to drink thoroughly!