At the end of September, the plague that raged wildly gradually subsided.

There were plague outbreaks in Lingnan, Fujian and Zhejiang, and the casualties were very serious. The imperial court was shocked, and even Emperor Hongzhi was alarmed, and ordered Xie Duo, the priest of Nanjing, to inspect Fujian, Zhejiang and Lingnan to report the epidemic.

Xie Duo visited more than ten cities in Fujian, Zhejiang and Lingnan, and went to October to repair books with Emperor Hongzhi of Beijing.

“…… The epidemic broke out in the northeast coast of Guangdong in early summer, and it was born four times in October, and four or five out of ten people died of the disease in various places, only in Tingzhou Prefecture, there was a method of planting pox, and there were not many people who were sick, and the plague went north around Tingzhou Prefecture, and it had reached the banks of the river in October, and there were not a few infected people around Nanjing......"

Only then did the imperial court know the specific situation of the plague.

Emperor Hongzhi ordered the household department to "select the subordinates and Fuzhou County Zhengzuo Wind Force" disaster relief, and at the same time went to Tingzhou Mansion to visit the details of specific pox.

In Ninghua County, this round of plague has basically passed.

With the government coming out and the locals being the first to plant pox, the plague lasted only two months in Ninghua County. By mid-October, the people who had been infected in Ninghua County had either died or recovered, and although many people had acne scars on their faces, they had left a life.

Although the plague in Ninghua County has become a thing of the past, there are still gentry from surrounding prefectures and counties who come to Ninghua and make a special trip to Hui Niang's pharmacy to plant pox.

I heard that there was a "goddess doctor" in Ninghua County, and these people worked tirelessly, dragged their families and came to "seek medical treatment".

You must know that the plague is not a joke in these years, even if the royal relatives are infected with the plague, it is not in a way. Thinking about the later Manchu Emperor Xuan Ye was a hemp, you know how worthy of writing about it is to be able to avoid contracting smallpox.

Originally, Hui Niang didn't want to receive these people, because the government explicitly forbade the residents of the city to contact the outside world, but in the end, she was still compassionate and planted pox for these dignitaries and their families.

During this time, although the pharmacy did not receive many people, it made a lot of money.

When these people came, they all brought generous gifts and paid them enough, and the big red envelopes that were shot were either gold or silver.

Until the end of October, even the prefectures and counties around Tingzhou Prefecture also learned the method of planting pox, and the number of people who came to Ninghua County to get pox gradually decreased, and it disappeared completely by November.

Or the plague is still afraid of everywhere, but in Ninghua County, the people's lives returned to normal in mid-October, and people came to give gifts to Hui Niang every day to thank her for saving the people of the city.

Hui Niang couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the big guys, although those expensive gifts were returned, but some worthless symbolic things were left to show appreciation.

On October 29, the county government sent a plaque of "Wonderful Hands Rejuvenation", which was personally brought by the county commander Han Xie, and followed by the three classes of officials, beating gongs and drums along the way.

Ninghua County was able to avoid this catastrophe, Hui Niang can be said to have made great contributions, and the people spontaneously followed the people of the government and flocked to send the plaque.

Hui Niang was very happy, three months ago she was poked in the back because of the fight for property, and now she is respected by the people of the city, and she finally feels that she has raised her head, and her face is full of tears of happiness under mixed feelings.

Han County ordered to personally send the plaque to the door of the pharmacy and let the officials hang the lintel, and at this time, Han Xie's face was also full of spring breeze.

Because Xie Duo, the priest of the Nanjing Guozi, mentioned the merits of the local officials of Tingzhou Mansion in disaster relief in the recital of the imperial court, and even mentioned Han Xie, according to Xie Duo's letter, the imperial court will soon send people to learn the experience of preventing and controlling the plague.

However, since the outbreak of the plague, Han Xian Ling has been hiding in the inner hall of the yamen, and he doesn't even know what happened outside, and he can't deal with the people from the court.

"Lu Sun, you see that the people of this city are grateful for your kindness, and the official is very grateful, and he is proud that I have turned into a goddess doctor like you."

Han Xie said these words, but in fact, it was to pave the way for the reception of the imperial court in the future.

Now the people in the entire Tingzhou Mansion know that the reason why they can "bypass" the Tingzhou Mansion when the fourth round of the biggest plague breaks out is entirely because there is a goddess doctor in Ninghua County.

As soon as the imperial court is sent to Ninghua, it will inevitably visit Ninghua, and as long as Hui Niang can mention the name of Han Xie, then Han Xie's promotion will definitely be expected.

Hui Niang was a little flattered.

In the previous case of fighting for property, if it weren't for Shen Xi's help behind her back, Han Xianling would not have helped her at all. But Hui Niang didn't know this, she only knew that it was the government that ruled that she won the lawsuit, so she was hospitalized from beginning to end, and when Han Xie left, Hui Niang sent her to the street before returning to the shop.

When the people from the government left, the people outside still did not disperse. Many people knelt down for Hui Niang to express their gratitude for her kind act of saving people.

"People know how warm and cold they are."

Shen Xi stood at the door of the pharmacy, watching Hui Niang go up to help those villagers, and couldn't help but shake his head with emotion.

The same people used to sneer at Sun Huiniang, and even when Huiniang told her about the pox, these people still regarded her as a victim.

People are terrible, Hui Niang was under great pressure when she gave people pox at the beginning, if it weren't for Han County's fear of death, Hui Niang might have been imprisoned when someone sued the official.

When the people dispersed, Hui Niang came back with a relieved face, Shen Xi looked up at her and said, "Auntie, these people are white-eyed wolves, and they are not worthy of you treating them like this." ”

Hui Niang touched Shen Xi's head with a little pity and smiled, but she didn't complain.

Shen Xi shook his head again, Hui Niang is a beautiful, kind, gentle and virtuous woman, who knows how to repay grievances with virtue, and now the villagers are grateful for her goodness, and they laugh at the past grievances, and they don't think about revenge or asking for it at all.

Shen Xi only hated that she had come a few years late, and she hadn't met a good woman like Hui Niang earlier, otherwise she would have been a good wife and mother if she was married, but unfortunately now Hui Niang only has her deceased husband in her heart.

What Shen Xi can do now is to use the knowledge in his mind to help Hui Niang's mother and daughter and make their lives better.

The government sent a plaque and a generous amount of condolences.

Hui Niang invited the Shen family to dinner that night.

Shen Mingjun didn't come back at the Wang family, and the only ones who could come over were the Zhou family, Shen Xi and Lin Dai, and the two families gathered together, lively and lively.

Hui Niang and Zhou cook together, and the three little ones play in the house. Xi'er was still a little sick, but at this time, she was like no one, and from time to time she let out a pleasant laugh like a silver bell.

After all, Shen Xi's psychological age is almost thirty, and he is with two little girls, more of a loving father's psychology of doting on his daughter, it is impossible to say how involved he is. For example, now he found a vacancy, lying on the kitchen door frame to see the two women who were busy by the pot counter.

At this time, the Zhou family was burning the fire, and after Hui Niang put the filtered rice into the steamer, her hand was finally free. She cleaned her hands in the wooden basin by the stove, took out a purse from her arms, and stuffed it into Zhou's hand.

"Sister, what are you doing?"

Zhou didn't know why, but when he opened his purse, he saw that in addition to the silver ingots, there were also a few gold leaves made of gold leaf.

Shen Xi knew that gold was not circulated as currency in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the gold leaves that Hui Niang gave to the Zhou family were red envelopes given by the gentry from other places when they came to plant pox.

Hui Niang's expression was very resolute: "My sister's family helps my sister too much, if it weren't for Xiaolang to plant pox for me, maybe my sister's life would have been lost." Now let the villagers raise love, these days my sister and Xiaolang are also in the pharmacy up and down, I am still afraid that my sister will think that my sister is cold, please let my sister accept me to feel at ease. ”

Zhou refused to accept it at first, but in the end, he couldn't screw it...... Although Hui Niang looked weak, she was very insistent on matters of principle, and Zhou had no choice but to take the thank you gift into her arms.

These days are busy, although Shen Xi is young, but in the pharmacy is half the sky, all the men who come to plant pox are Shen Xi through the curtain under the needle, Zhou is also busy in charge of reception and serving tea, water and medicine, now have such a large amount of money, Zhou is overjoyed.

"That stinky boy, he just has a lot of ghost ideas." Zhou said secretly, his face full of pride.

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