179 Letters for help
When the weather was slightly cool, it was the time when the crops were ripe, and the new autumn products had just been sent away, and Chen Qing had to start preparing for the autumn harvest.
This year's weather is good and the crops are full, and it will be a bumper harvest year at market prices.
Families are busy polishing farm tools and paving the drying fields, and there is no shortage of laughter and laughter in the fields, anticipating this year's harvest.
After the new clothes arrived in Beijing, as expected, they received a lot of orders, and Liang Zijun had a lively mind, and did not exhibit all the ready-to-wear clothes, but divided them into two batches successively to avoid competitors from following suit. In particular, the complicated styles are hidden in the inner room, and only accept reservations from distinguished guests.
Only two of the ten sets of new clothes are full embroidery that is laborious and time-consuming, and the rest are mostly simple and elegant styles, with only the collar and mouth of the clothes highlighting the features, supplemented by the dark lines of the fabric itself to achieve a dazzling effect.
Don't look at the new shop has only been open for two months, but the profit is three times that of the old store, don't forget that the price of the capital is expensive, and the price of high-end goods has doubled, so although the business seems to be tepid, it is enough to earn back the rent of the shop.
Liang Zijun is accustomed to wearing Chen Qingxiu's clothes, and he is naturally full of joy when he gets new clothes, and he has been in and out of the banquet more often, which has also attracted a lot of customers to the store.
Even King Jing has customized a few sets of new clothes in Liang Ji, who else dares to say that the threshold of Liang Ji Cloth Workshop is too low?
Although the new shop caused a gimmick for a while by King Jing, it was Chen Bi's two sets of women's dresses that really benefited Liang Ji.
Chen Qing boldly used the bandeau corset common in costume dramas to highlight the woman's beautiful figure, and the outer tulle was light and elegant, showing a woman's graceful demeanor.
The other set is to choose the way of the drawstring behind the wedding dress to tie the slim waist to the point that it is unbearable, and the upper body is wearing a translucent tulle looming, and the wide-sleeved coat with the placket is open, like a breeze supporting the willows, showing the woman's delicate and beautiful side to the fullest.
Chen Bi was forced to become a female model who showed her dress, and at first she was shy and afraid to look up to meet people, but later she was accustomed to generous sales. The people who enter the door on the left and right are all female customers, and they can talk freely when they come and go.
Chen Bi is already good-looking, and she is not like a peasant girl who was raised by Chen Qingjiao, so she will dress up and apply rouge gouache, which looks no less than those ladies in Beijing.
Liang Zijun's sister-in-law Yu Wanqing has been here twice, and she loves her little brother very much, and after getting acquainted, she loves her even more.
With the help of the sister-in-law, it didn't take long for the two sets of dresses to be publicized among the women, and the orders flew to the cloth shop like snowflakes.
Chen Bi also wanted to take the opportunity to make embroidery at home, but was persuaded by Liang Zijun, so he had to follow his sister-in-law to participate in various flower-viewing banquets.
Women love more than beauty, and they have participated more times, so it is inevitable that they will be shallow and self-ashamed of their knowledge, Wan Zhuoping doesn't like his daughter-in-law to show up like this, but because he has been helped by his brother-in-law in many ways, he will have to bow his head and do things silently.
Yu Wanqing saw through Chen Bi's discomfort, so she found some of the objects that women like nowadays to explain, and took her to listen to the drama and taste tea to increase her knowledge.
These two sets of dresses are not only well received in the rich circle, but even the brothel women come to the door, stripping off their coats and wearing only middle clothes, not to mention how sultry they are. The gentlemen are not happy, so they are naturally willing to spend money to buy * spring, if not, Liang Ji will not be able to earn a lot of money.
Liang Ji recruits workers on a large scale, no matter how good or bad the craftsmanship is, he can show his strengths, according to Liang Kee's previous division of labor, but he is a competitor who has worked hard.
The embroidery girl is stuffed in, but she can't learn the subtle embroidery method, even if she has the heart to follow suit, she only learns some fur. Besides, time waits for no one, and when Liang Kee has a large number of new models on the market, he has already missed the best time to sell.
The old store was busy making autumn clothes, and it had to take into account a large number of orders from the new store, but fortunately, Chen Qing finished embroidering the new products half a month early, otherwise it would be a temporary cramming and really let go of the opportunity to make money.
At present, the autumn is crisp and the breeze is gentle, Chen Qing is busy spreading the recovered wheat ears to dry, and the two little guys, Yuan Yuan and Tuo To, are not willing to run out to play lonely.
Yuan Yuan was already walking very steadily, and at first glance he followed behind his brother with two little arms, giggling and picking up an ear of wheat and handing it to Chen Qing to invite him to "Daddy"
Chen Qing praised twice, touched the little guy's head and said with a smile, "Yuanyuan is good, play with my brother to the side, don't make trouble for my father"
The little guy nodded as if he didn't understand, and threw himself on his short legs.
"Oops~ my brother is bad" was properly thrown into the wheat pile and patted the little guy's ass as if it were a similar lesson. Yuanyuan stretched out his hand and plucked the ears of wheat from his head and poked them into his brother's nostrils......
"Wow...... Bad brother...... Bad!" After being bullied, he cried with a round face and a slurred voice, "Bad ......"
Seeing the two little guys twisted together, Chen Qing picked up Yuanyuan with a headache and said, "I just played well, and if I don't look at it for a while, it will be bad!"
Seeing his younger brother being spanked, he wiped his nose and the good-tempered Yang to "don't beat his brother"
Chen Qing glared at the little thing that was bad, touched his proper brain and praised "Proper is really a good brother, be good, take my younger brother to the side to play"
After speaking, he slapped his fat son again: "If you bully my brother again, I will beat you!"
Shao Fengzhi walked out of the door with the steamed chicken cake and said with a smile, "Come here, eat."
Yuan Yuanji didn't remember to eat, he didn't even have a tear bump, and after breaking off the ground, he quickly threw himself into Shao Fengzhi's arms, and pushed his proper head like a puppy to prevent him from eating.
"Hey~ You little calf, why don't you allow your brother to eat a bite?" Shao Fengzhi poked the round brain door with a smile, and fed a big spoonful of chicken cake to Tu Tu.
is properly good-tempered and doesn't care about his younger brother, and when he was slapped twice, he only grabbed his brother's hand and didn't let him hit anyone.
Yuan Yuan was full, and it was rare to stop for a while, so Shao Fengzhi took the time to go back to the house to cook, but after a while, Yuan Yuan rolled his eyes and began to bully his brother.
The little guy is only one year older than Yuanyuan, and he followed Brother Yang's temperament, and when he was hurt, he pulled his throat and howled, and after a while, he led Brother Yang out and scolded, "It's dead! Chen Qing take care of your son, don't keep bullying my family."
Chen Qing rolled his eyes, scolded with a wooden shovel and scolded, "How can a kid not fight?
"Yo~ Is this to blame my baby bear?How could my brother let my younger brother do wrong?" Brother Yang snorted from his nose, squinted at Chen Qing and began to roll up his sleeves.
Chen Qing was happy when he saw it, this little one couldn't beat the old one, he rubbed his wrist when he threw the wooden shovel, and picked out disdainfully at the end of his eyes, "Are you one?"
"Oops~ Son, look at Daddy's anger for you!" "If you lose, you don't lose the battle, Brother Yang protects the calf like a life, but he also has a bit of a desperate posture.
Pity...... Before he could pounce on him, Chen Qing fell into the wheat pile like a chicken.
The little guy squatted to the side with wide eyes and watched, not even howling, and watching the play with his mouth open.
Yuan Yuan held his little fist and gestured, and after watching it for a while, he followed his father's example to clean up his brother.
was pounced on, and asked his father for help with tears in his eyes, but unfortunately his father was cleaned up and had no power to fight back, how could he have the kung fu to save his son?
Shao Fengzhi's eyebrows jumped when he was listening in the courtyard, and he couldn't stand it, dropped the frying spoon and ran out and scolded: "Big is not big, small is not small! Seeing that the sky is a demon is over, right?"
Brother Yang was picked up by Chen Qing and fell into the wheat pile, struggling to get up to pull his hair, Chen Qing effortlessly put one hand on his head, let Brother Yang's hands flutter, only leaned back slightly to avoid the scratch of the "shrew", and helplessly grinned and defended "He recruited me first"
"Are you still reasonable? The gentlemen can't please you under your hands, what's the strength to compete with a daughter-in-law, look at what you can do" Shao Fengzhi said separately from the two little guys one by one.
"Hey, hey, hey......" Chen Qing let go with a smile and warned, "Don't make trouble, I'm playing, I don't have time to take care of you!"
Brother Yang suffered repeated losses, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth and say cruelly, "Chen Qing, I want to break off my friendship with you!"
Chen Qing shook his head and laughed, this guy wanted to break off with him twice in three days, but he came over to talk to him every other day, he had heard this more than three hundred times, how could he take it seriously?
"It's really this time!" Brother Yang couldn't beat him, and kicked him with red eyes.
"Okay, it's really a broken relationship" Chen Qing gritted his teeth and rubbed his calves, picked up the wooden shovel and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Brother Yang took advantage of it, grinning and scolding, "You deserve it!"
Shao Fengzhi sighed, since the Yuanyuan Club left, these two people have to fight for their son every three or five times, and they don't know that they have four babies at home.
"Ah Qing, there's a letter from the town," Li San shouted as he pushed the door open.
Chen Qing was turning over the ears of wheat, and when he heard the sound, he stopped what he was doing, and then asked suspiciously, "Aunt Liu asked someone to send it?"
"The third master was sent to the county, and it is estimated that this is not a letter from home" Li San also looked at it in confusion.
"It's Brother Shen!" Chen Qing quickly opened it, looked at it twice, and replied with a smile.
"What's the matter?" Brother Yang came over to join in the fun, and he had forgotten what he said earlier about breaking off friendship.
Chen Qing saw it, but the smile that was still bright just now was replaced by a sad face. He has occasional contact with Brother Shen, and he has not been in contact for most of the year recently, because of the plague under his rule.
At first, it was just a large number of livestock deaths, and then it was infected to people for some reason, first the high fever did not go away, and then the vomiting did not stop, and the inability to swallow naturally caused dehydration, until it became skinny and bone-covered before swallowing.
"Tsk, this plague is not easy to treat, hurry up and burn the letter and wash your hands twice" Shao Fengzhi shouted nervously, even Brother Yang took the doll away from Chen Qing's side, and muttered in fear, "Don't infect the baby"
Chen Qing and Li San glanced at each other and hurriedly went into the hospital to wash. It's no wonder that the family is so cautious, the plague is a big disaster, once infected, not to mention incurable, it is very likely to affect a family, a village, or even a county and town!
If it weren't for the fact that the epidemic could not be cured for half a year, Shen Shucheng would not have written to inform him so far.
Seeing that his term of office is about to expire, isn't this plague a major event that burns his eyebrows? Not to mention that this will affect the official fortune, he can't bear to watch the people of a county endure the suffering of the epidemic.
At first, it was only one village that contracted the disease, but later it was the neighboring villages that became sick one after another, and even if the affected villages were besieged, the spread of the plague could not be suppressed.
Those who are afraid of death want to break through the encirclement with their heads, but the people who run out carry the epidemic disease, and they are infected with people and animals who have been in contact with them one after another.
Not to mention the disaster in the entire county and town, there are rumors of human and animal diseases in Linxian County, and the epidemic people who have fled out of the county are still being arrested, and finding a definite treatment method is a top priority.
Shen Shucheng first raised medicinal materials for epidemic prevention, and then went to the imperial court to seek a cure.
The imperial court also attached great importance to this matter, and it was impossible to deduce what kind of epidemic it was based on the illness for a while, so it had to send an order to let the birds and beasts of the entire Yilai County not come out to stop the spread of the epidemic.
Controlling the epidemic within a county is only a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and the imperial court knows that this law is unfavorable but has no choice but to find an effective solution, so it can only be suppressed temporarily, and if it can't be done, it will order the slaughter of the county to burn the city.
Slaughtering the people of a county, although it can stop the spread of the epidemic, is too inhumane. As a county official, how could Shen Shucheng see that the people under his rule were hopeless? That's tens of thousands of lives!
Once the city was slaughtered, not to mention the lives of the people under his rule, even he was able to die in his duties, and he could not think of it, so he sent the letter after several turnovers, and implored Chen Qing to help him think of a way, whether it was to seek a prescription or mobilize medicinal materials, as long as he could save a life, he must not slaughter the city.
Chen Qing went back to the house and took out the money box, took all the belongings and went out.
The top priority is to find a prescription for the anti-epidemic disease, no matter how much money is spent, the imperial court cannot be allowed to slaughter the city, and Brother Shen is deeply involved, I am afraid that even he will have to die in the slaughter of the city.
It is said that all the belongings are only tens of thousands of taels of silver, and when the new shop opened, most of the family property was taken away by Liang Zijun, and it cost tens of thousands of taels of silver just to hoard the goods, not counting the carriage and horse expenses for transporting goods back and forth.
As soon as he entered the county seat, Chen Qing made a difficulty, and now that Liang Zijun is not there, how can he have a way to get a prescription? Not to mention that the prescriptions are the secret of various pharmacies, even if he is willing to spend a lot of money to buy them, he must be able to talk to people, right?
Chen Qing hurriedly went to Liu Hengshan to discuss, Liu Hengshan shook his head and persuaded after listening, "It is not possible, the shopkeeper Wan has some connections in the county, but in the end, the friendship is not deep, I just took over as the big shopkeeper, even if I give up my face to beg, I am afraid that people will not sell ancestral prescriptions."
"Let's ask first, I'll think about it again," Chen Qing said, and then acted separately with Liu Hengshan.
When he found Qin Kexin, Chen Qing only had the mentality of trying it out. Although Qin Kexin's uncle and nephew took advantage of the relationship of the Liang family to join the government and temporarily act as county officials, it can be said that it is only a mutually beneficial relationship, which will come to the door, although it is reckless, but it is really a helpless move.
Qin Kexin originally didn't want to meddle in the affairs of other counties, but only gave some pertinent suggestions and methods to prevent and control the epidemic.
Chen Qingzuo thanked him for being inconvenient to stay for a long time, and before leaving, Qin Kexin persuaded, "Listen to what you say, then Shen Shucheng is from this county?
Chen Qing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly thanked, "Thank you for mentioning it, I'm going to visit Mr., speaking of which, Brother Shen and Zijun are both worshipping under Mr., and Chen Qing has also been fated to visit once, maybe there is a way."
"Although you are a civilian, you can think so much about the people of Yilai, which is really admirable. If there is a place where you can serve, although someone spreads a word, Qin Kexin thinks about it, or feels that he can't stand by, how to say that the Yilai County Order is an official who has gone out of the county, once he leaves office, he must have some contacts, if he can send charcoal in the snow at this time, it can also pave the way for future exchanges.
"One side is in trouble and all sides are rescued, Chen Qing is here to thank you in advance" Chen Qing hugged his fists and thanked Shen Shu.
"Well said, if one side is in trouble, rescue from all sides, if everyone can serve the country and the people like you, why worry about the peace of the country and the people in Daxia?" Qin Kexin felt Chen Qing's benevolence, got up and said, "If you want to say that this Qingping County is still a little thin." I'm going to go out and look for some pharmacy shopkeepers, whether it's prescriptions or medicinal materials, as long as I can do a little bit, it can be regarded as a glimmer of life for the people of Yilai."
"Chen Qing is grateful for being able to do this" Chen Qing took out the silver ticket on his body and handed it to Qin Kexin in half. With him negotiating on his behalf, I think I will definitely be able to gain something.