Chapter 3 "The Landlord Is Worried About the Lack of Food, and the Camp Sees the Plague Again"

In the early hours of the Su Mansion, Su Hua had just returned home from outside the city, removed his armor, and was eating in the lobby.

Looking at the wolf-like posture, he escaped a starving ghost.

After a busy afternoon, he didn't eat a drop of water, and he was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

The housekeeper Fu Bo walked in and saluted: "Young master, this is the silver taels sent by the Yin of Jiangnan Mansion, and the account book is here where the old slave has recorded a total of eight thousand two seven hundred taels, and the cost of food and wood used today is close to ten thousand taels." ”

All the flowing water in the General's Mansion has passed through Fu Bo's hands, and there has been no mistake for so many years.

Su Hua continued to bow his head to eat, and said vaguely: "How many silver taels are there in the house?" ”

"Coupled with the previous reward from His Majesty, and counting the gifts given by the officials at the master's funeral, there are less than fifteen thousand taels left."

Su Hua couldn't help sighing, the landlord's family had no surplus food.

seems to be a great general, but in fact he is a poor yuppie.

Silver, silver, this white silver, good things. You have to find a way to make money, otherwise it will be in vain to find a major general by yourself.

"The rest of what you owe will be added from the house."

"Young Master, then we can be in the house..."

"When the silver is gone, you can make money, and human life is a matter of genius. I'll just think about it, by the way, I remember that there are three pigs in the house, right? ”

"Back to the young master, there are indeed three heads left."

"Tell the kitchen to be slaughtered, make stewed meat, find a few people in good spirits, and send it to the soldiers standing guard in the city with me later."

"Just leave these to the old slave, young master."

"Fubo, you're old, it's not too early this day, you can go and rest when you're done."

"The young master, the old slave, is still strong..."

"Just listen to me." Su Hua hurriedly interrupted Fu Bo's words and motioned for him to start doing what he commanded. Fu Bo couldn't help but be moved in his heart, the old man and the young master treated him well, and he was grateful for the handrail in the middle of the tears to say goodbye to Su Hua.

Su Hua thought about this way to make money while eating, and thought carefully about the food in his mouth: Datang's dishes are not unpalatable, but they are not delicious, and there are a lot of seasonings, is it possible that he wants to open a restaurant? That's not good, the restaurant is too slow to make money, and now there is not so much money on hand to support, and it takes a long time to develop soy sauce, chicken essence and other seasonings, although he has read relevant books, but it is obviously not cost-effective.

Making perfumes? It takes time, and the rich businessmen in Jiangnan don't know a few, and no one promotes it, so it's not good.

Making jewelry? I don't even have a few antiques, this idea is really silly.

After thinking about it, Su Hua's head was about to explode.

Oops, why don't you have a system against the sky, brushing is a lottery to get a few perverted artifacts out. The reality is still very ruthless, Su Hua sighed, it is already very good to relive a life, and he is content.

The meal should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be taken step by step.

In the early hours of the morning, Su Hua took the stew and led the people out of the city.

"Major General, why are you here?" The leading soldier saluted a little flattered, those adults had gone back as early as nine o'clock in the evening, and the major general had just returned in the middle of the night, and had made a few carts of things.

"Today, the house killed the pig, and got some stew for everyone to eat. Everyone has been busy all day during the day, and it has been really hard. ”

"Oh, this..."The leading soldier was so moved that he was speechless, and it wasn't a festival sacrifice to slaughter a pig. Besides, it's the middle of the night, and this young general is obviously considerate of his subordinates. He has been a soldier for so long, and it is the first time that he feels such a warm superior, but fortunately it is inconvenient to salute with armor, otherwise he would really kowtow.

"Don't mind, you eat first. After eating, let the other brothers come over, so that you don't delay the patrol and can rest for a while. ”

"Thank you Major General for your kindness, come over quickly, the Major General brought us stew." As the leading soldier greeted, the soldiers all gathered around.

"Did you see Uncle Duan?"

"He took a group of people to patrol the refugee area, and it is estimated that it will be a while before he returns."

"A few of you stay here to share food for everyone, brothers, I still have to go to the refugee place to see, it's been hard for everyone these days, Liu Er, Zhang Wu, you two go to the refugee area with me." After Su Hua finished speaking, he said goodbye to the guards at the city gate.

Looking at Su Hua's distant back, the eyes of the leading soldiers were stained with a layer of mist: "The young general is really a good person, he has been wronged all these years as a soldier, how can a general specially kill pigs for us in the middle of the night and send them to us." ”

Su Hua's trick won people's hearts, although it did not have much effect, but it accumulated a small depression for thousands of miles. He is very good at this aspect, compared with his previous life, he is suspected of exploitation, but those who become big things are not informal, not to mention that they are not malicious envelopes.

"Yes, I only occasionally eat a little pork during the holidays, the young general really has a heart."

"The General's Mansion is not rich, is it? There are not many pigs in the house, and they are all slaughtered depending on the style. ”

"Brothers, hurry up and eat. There are still the rest of the buddies who haven't eaten, and after eating, hurry up and patrol, but you can't live up to the heart of the major general. ”

"Big brother, please bring me another bowl, I'm really hungry today."

Temporary shelter for refugees, sick quarters.

These are the places where the sick refugees live, and they are also divided by Su Hua. Otherwise, the patient came into contact with other people, and serious cases such as infection occurred again, which were all lessons from the past, and seeing that the next person was too busy, Su Hua also joined the ranks of distribution.

"Come on, Auntie, this is the stew that was just made in the house today, and the body is so good to eat meat." Su Hua bent down and handed it to a woman who was lying down.

The woman's face was ragged and dirty, and she hadn't eaten a full meal, let alone meat, since she joined the refugee camp. Hearing Su Hua's words, he hurriedly stood up and kowtowed to him, but Su Hua hurriedly comforted him.

"You're weak, so get some rest. Don't get up, the body comes first. Su Hua looked at the old woman and remembered that when she was a child, she also lived on the street all day long looking for food in the garbage heap.

After taking the bowl painted by Su, the woman's hands were obviously trembling, and she said gratefully: "Thank you, the young general, the general's kindness to the woman is beyond repayment, and she is willing to make cattle and horses for the young general." ”

Su Hua persuaded with kind words again, the gratitude of many refugees, so that the two subordinates were touched, in this life, few people are looking at themselves, the young general's move made both of them stained, and they couldn't help but work harder and support their young master more.

It was late at night, and the food had already been distributed. Su Hua ordered his subordinates to go home and rest, and he stayed in the refugee camp with Duan Sandao, who he met. Xuanjizi leaned against the tree not far away and drank wine, he was very tired today.

Su Hua sat around the campfire and chatted with the refugees, while Duan Sandao stood behind him. Su Hua asked him to sit many times, but he just didn't sit, maybe it was feudal thinking, and the master couldn't sit if he was standing as a subordinate. Although Su Hua didn't help him look at it as a person, Duan Sandao was still standing with a tendon. There's no way, I really can't move this stubborn donkey.

"Where did everyone come from?"

Su Hua fiddled the bonfire, the flames burned even more vigorously, and bursts of warmth hit, after the action just now, the refugees regarded Su Hua as their own.

"Returning to the young general, the old man's surname is Yu Lou, and he is a person from Yan Zhao in Jizhou."

Su Hua nodded, this was the first time he had communicated with outsiders. And this old man is still an extremely rare surname, according to the old man's words, this world is still very similar to the Huaxia he knows, and the land of Jizhou is the Hebei people of later generations.

"Why did you end up in the land of Jiangnan? Is the road from Jizhou to Jiangnan so far? ”

"The young general doesn't know, we should have fled to Jizhou Mansion. However, the gate of Jizhou was closed, and I waited outside the city for three days without help, and then I went down to Jiangnan. The old man sighed deeply, and he could imagine how many hardships he had gone through along the way.

"Uncle Duan, who is in charge of the Jizhou boundary?"

"The young master is Chang Zhaoguang, the son of the current prince and master Chang Bin." Su Hua quietly wrote down the name, the son of the Taishi let the victims go, and His Majesty had no news at the moment, it seems that this Taishi is really not an ordinary person.

"Then when the limelight passes, what are the plans of the old man?"

"When the flood comes, the family is gone, and the half-buried person in the yellow picture will have no support in the next life, so he just wants to find a craftsman to spend the rest of his life."

"So the old man is still a craftsman?"

"Yes, young general, the old man has been learning smelting skills from his master since he was a child."

Smelting and forging is a talent that Su Hua needs very much, this thing is too important to him.

"Old man, I don't know if you plan to stay in the general to do things?"

"Major General?" Yu Lou was a little puzzled, could it be that Su Hua was soft-hearted and planned to take him in? I have already caused a lot of trouble, and now I have to worry about the young general to take him in, and I am a little overwhelmed for a while.

"Old man, I'm going to build a workshop. I really need a master like you to sit in charge, I don't know if you want to? ”

"The young general is very gracious, and the old man is grateful." After saying that, the old man kowtowed heavily to Su Hua. Su Hua hurriedly helped him up, where did he accept such a big gift.

"Old man, I have to trouble you with a few things."

"The young general, but it doesn't hurt to say it, the old man will never shirk."

"I need some skilled masters, not too many, just skilled carpenters, blacksmiths. There are also some young lads, the more the merrier. Of course, if you have the ability, you can do things for the General's Mansion if you are willing to stay in Jiangnan. But the premise is that you have to be a loyal and honest person, three meals are full, and accommodation is included, 180 a day, and you can settle the bill once a month, what do you think? ”

"This!" Yu Lou burst into tears when he heard this, and hurriedly agreed to Su Hua's request. In the first day of this year, 80 wen a day still included food and shelter, how could there be such a good job, he knew in his heart that the young general was cherishing them, and he couldn't bear to let them be displaced.

I have been chatting with everyone until the second half of the night, and the humanistic atmosphere of Tiannan and Haibei. Su Hua benefited a lot, and in the end, the big guys were sleepy, and Su Hua also had a fight, so he gave up, and the old man also gave Su Hua a ticket, which will find suitable craftsmen for Su Hua today, and in the end he said that he was too lazy to go home, so he just fell asleep with a few soldiers under the city tower, after all, he was also used to such days.

The next day

The early shops on the street were also lined up, and the vendors in the market were shouting.

In the teahouse, there are scenes of literati dancing and writing, and tea, rice, oil and salt trading houses are also full of women from all walks of life who come here to purchase. Pedestrians are noisy and lively, and the traffic is a peaceful scene.

On the street of the market, a horse-drawn carriage with carved beams and painted beams is slowly moving. There was only one horse pulling the cart, black and strong, and the hooves of the horses clattered against the ground, splashing clouds of dust. The back of the carriage is impressively carved with a large "Shen" character, which is the symbol of this style outside the city of Jiangnan is none other than the Shen family of Renxintang, the largest Chinese medicine merchant in the city.

In the carriage is Shen Qinghan, the eldest lady of the Shen family, and when it comes to Shen Qinghan's name, Jiangnan City is known to everyone. At the age of 20, she is not only smart and eloquent, but also a veritable business queen under her management in recent years. is not only rich but also has the appearance of the country and the city, and is nicknamed the "wealth" girl of the four beauties in Jiangnan by the people of Jiangnan.

Looking closely, Shen Qinghan's face is like a hibiscus willow like an eyebrow, especially the eyes that are more charming than peach blossoms are very attractive, his skin is like snow, he is holding a phoenix, wearing a light cyan robe against the ink painting pattern, and his demeanor and speech are full of skillful and dignified. Next to him was the personal maid Qiu Ju, and finally the weather was clear, and the two servants were planning to go to the ancient temple outside the city to relax. Shen Qinghan is a beautiful girl, with a strict family education since childhood, and respects the woman's "boudoir" manner. In addition to business all day long, I stay at home to get some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which will inevitably get boring, so I occasionally take my servants out to finish a swim.

When Shen Qinghan was still intoxicated by the beautiful scenery outside the city, a rapid horse cry made the carriage stop. Hurriedly instructed the little maid to ask what was going on outside, and the little maid poked her little head out of the window and shouted to the coachman in front of her

"Uncle Shen? What happened? ”

"There are officers and soldiers at the east gate who are checking and saying that the east gate will be sealed indefinitely from now on. No one is allowed to leave the city through the east gate, so please go out through the north gate. ”

"Who gave the order?"

"The young general just came down last night, Miss Qiu Ju, do you see?"

"Wait a minute, I'll ask for Miss's opinion." The little maid shrank her head and told her young lady the ins and outs of the matter. Shen Qinghan couldn't help but have a cold face, he had to go around at least a few circles to get out of the city from the north gate, thinking that it was not night to reach the destination, so his leisure plan would be in vain. For Su painting, she has only heard of his name but has not seen him. After all, he is the young master of the Jiangnan City General's Mansion, and the son of Shenwei General Su Zhen, the name of the shadow man of the tree.

It's okay if you don't want to, it's bad when you think about it. Yesterday, the people of the General's Mansion arrested several of them in Renxintang, which caused the store to lose money, not to mention for the time being, when I checked the account book in the morning, I also found that the General's Mansion owed me a large amount of medical expenses.

When the subordinates of the Shen family were still negotiating with the officers and soldiers, Qiu Ju had already carried Shen Qinghan out of the carriage. I couldn't help but say that I walked straight to the city, and said to the officers and soldiers: "Official, the little woman is Shen Qinghan." Today, I have to go outside the city to collect medicinal herbs, and I will bother you to make it convenient for you. ”

The officers and soldiers looked straight in their eyes, this is Shen Qinghan, a Jiangnan native. looks so pretty, and secretly swallowed his saliva. It wasn't the subordinates around him who reminded him, it is estimated that this kid can watch for an hour.

Shen Qinghan could understand the meaning in that kind of eyes, and he couldn't help but feel evil in his heart, but he still greeted him with a pretty face. After all, the people don't fight with the officials, and besides, do they receive less eyes?

"Miss Shen, don't embarrass us, this is all ordered by the major general, if you disobey the villain's head, you have to move."

"I hope that the official will make it convenient, and the little woman is grateful."

"This really doesn't work, Miss Shen, please take a detour."

"The little girl wants to discuss with the young general, and she bothers the official family to tell her." The more Shen Qinghan thought about it, the more annoyed he became, he was angry that he didn't fight anywhere, even if he went out of the city in the past, who would dare not give face to the Shen family. As soon as this Su Hua took office, not to mention the debt, he also sent someone to block here, I want to send someone to pass the ceremony, now I should give myself a face and agree. Still thinking about it, the words of the officers and soldiers made her stunned.

"Major General, Miss Shen has something to look for you!"

I saw a stretched figure stretching out of the sandbag under the city tower, his hair was messy, and his face was even more muddy. If it weren't for the armor on his body, he would have thought he was a down-and-out scholar. Shen Qinghan also wondered, why is this young general here? Isn't it supposed to be in the General's Palace? Did he sleep all night under the castle? This is...

Before she could come back to her senses, Su Hua stood in front of her. Su Hua was actually woken up by the sound of a horse's cry a long time ago, and the reason why he was still pretending to be asleep was to test the attitude of the soldier guarding the city, and the result was very satisfactory and did not disappoint him.

When I first saw Shen Qinghan, Su Hua was also shocked. This girl is also too beautiful, she wants to have a figure and a good look, but she quickly took her mind back, analyzing the conversation between the two just now, which seems to be a rich daughter or a little unreasonable temper.

"The little woman Shen Qinghan has seen the young general." Shen Qinghan was also restrained when he was shocked, and his mentality had been honed for many years in the shopping mall, and his face had not changed, and he hurriedly saluted Su Hua.

Shen Qinghan told Su Hua his purpose again, and looking at Su Hua's very serious appearance, he should have no problem in his heart.

"That's not good, Miss Shen, please go back. The military order is like a mountain, how can I still lead the army after the order is changed. Su Hua shook his head.

The pent-up anger in Shen Qinghan's heart was on the verge of exploding.

A voice came, and she had to calm down.

A young general hurriedly ran to Su Hua and knelt down: "Major General, something is wrong." ”

"Why are you so flustered?"

"Among the victims, there was a little woman who was diagnosed with a serious illness by Lord Xuan, and someone had been sent to isolate her. The condition is very serious, and Lord Xuan guesses that there is a trend of further infection, so he asks the major general to go to the camp to discuss. ”

Su Hua's worst fear still happened, and everything he thought about was the plague. As far as he knew, the history of disease was as old as the history of mankind, with 140,000 to 150,000 deaths from plague.

The season is not right, and the source of the small illness at first is fine, but people inevitably come into contact with each other, which is the source of the source of abuse.

Su Hua quickly turned over his horse and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Seal the city gate!" "Therefore, some people are not allowed to enter or leave the city gate without my order, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law!" Leaving Shen Qinghan in the same place, he was in no mood to deal with this rich daughter now. I don't know how many people have been in contact with the pathogen, but the safest way at the moment is to prohibit contact again, and the city must be locked down.

The severely affected areas are heavily guarded. Every soldier covered his face, and the resistance effect was very poor, which was worse than the mask, but at least the preventive effect was achieved, and he really couldn't get a mask with the resources available to him at the moment.

When Su Hua walked into the camp, a soldier handed him white gauze. Su Hua also covered his face and walked to the tent.

For the sake of safety, Xuan Jizi specially ordered that he was strictly forbidden to enter, and he was the only one in the tent at this time. Looking at the little girl with a pale face lying on the bed, her brows were furrowed. It was also the first time he had encountered such a difficult condition, and the little girl had never improved after using many methods. It's no wonder that Xuanjizi can't get home, but this situation is difficult to curb even if it is a medical concept in later generations, so why bother this country that is in ruins.