"Sit down and talk."

Ah Da nodded and sat down opposite Lin Meiyi, but the embroidery stool in Yang Qingqing's house was a little small for him, and he sat insecurely, so he simply stood up and slowly told him what he saw under the city wall.

"Zhu Laosi bought off the official errand, and blatantly exchanged rice for people in the city, as long as women and children, ten catties for a woman, five catties for a child, he picked it very much, and he didn't want those who didn't look good, and he knew at a glance that these women and children would not be sent to any good place."

"That's it, there are still people begging him to accept it at a discount." Ah Da's face was full of sighs, but he knew that this world was like this.

Lin Meiyi poured tea and took a sip, and her tone was light: "As long as you can enter the city, you will have food, and if you have food, you can live, and if you don't give rice, someone will be willing to sell it." ”

Ah Da continued: "The victims of the disaster have set up camp outside the city, the sun is so strong that there is no place to hide from the sun and people can be sunburned, some people are sick, some people die, the officials dare not leave the city gate too far, no one cares, and the dead bodies are thrown on the side of the road, and they stink under the sun. ”

"Master, do you think there will be a plague?" Ah Da asked worriedly.

He had been with an official before, and he also had some knowledge, and in the early years, he passed by a small village infected with the plague, and the whole village died, and the tragic scene is still vivid.

Lin Meiyi shook her head, she didn't know either, but she hoped that the plague wouldn't happen.

"Didn't the prefectural order do anything?" Lin Meiyi asked.

Ah Da thought for a while and nodded: "Yes!" The prefectural magistrate personally led the officials to collect donations from house to house. Oh, and the doctors in the city were all called to the county hall, as if they wanted to discuss something. ”

"How's the fundraising going?" Lin Meiyi asked curiously.

Ah Da shook his head, "It's not good, it's okay to give a few dozen yuan, and some only give a penny, this is still the county magistrate to go in person, those rich businessmen are like this, tsk!" ”

"I still have some silver left over from the master, and I have donated half of it, but those rich merchants have not pulled out a dime, really, and I am not afraid that when the time comes, this city will not be able to hold it, and they will also suffer?" Ah Da was indignant.

Lin Meiyi's attention was on the doctors in the city, what was the county order to do when the doctors were summoned?

Is it epidemic prevention?

Lin Meiyi asked Ah Da to go back to the embroidery workshop first, the backyard of Yang's mansion was full of female dependents, and it was not good for him to stay here.

Of course, this is also convenient for Ah Da to find out the news.

Seeing off Ah Da, Lin Meiyi quietly touched the back of the county hall from the back door, she wanted to see what the county order was doing when the city doctor was summoned.

Unexpectedly, she really guessed correctly.

Through the gap in the door panel, she saw that the county magistrate and the county clerk were sitting in the lobby, and under the hall stood all the doctors in the county who could be named, a total of seven people.

Seven people gathered together, and one of them held a pamphlet in his hand and pointed to the pamphlet to introduce,

"This epidemic prevention manual was handed down by the old man and grandfather, and it was copied from the old doctor Wang of the Tai Hospital, and the plague prevention and treatment plan written down according to Her Majesty the Empress's own description."

"Today, Lu County is in trouble, and the county commander specially ordered us to discuss the prevention and control of the plague among the victims outside the city, and the old man took out this manual for everyone's reference, and did his best."

After that, he clasped his hands and presented it to Yang County, asking him to read it, and at the same time explained: "The book says that plague control mainly lies in prevention and control, prevention is prevention, disaster victims gather outside the city, and stains are accumulated and not cleaned up, and this environment is the most likely to cause plague ......"

Listening to the words coming from the lobby, Lin Meiyi had a sense of chaos in time and space, but she soon came to her senses and deeply admired the mysterious empress of Da Zhou.

What did this empress study? How do you feel that she is a decathlon and understands everything?

However, with this epidemic prevention manual, she feels that Lu County can hold on for a while.

Came quietly and returned quietly, all the officials of the county government were guarding the north and south cities, the county government was empty, and Lin Meiyi was not found at all.

But now she has to tell the shopkeeper Qiu that Luxian is okay, and she has to believe it!

……

The days of eating and drinking in the backyard of the county government are relatively pleasant, except for the fact that there are no fresh vegetables and eating white porridge with pickles every day, everything else is very good.

Oh, by the way, sleeping at night is becoming more and more restless, and the victims outside the city have changed from making trouble every day to making trouble every morning, noon and evening.

Because two meals of white porridge a day have become one meal a day.

The rich people in the city are still singing every night, and Ah Da came back and said that Zhu Laosi has been having a prosperous life recently, and the woman who bought eight catties of rice can buy fifteen taels when she changes hands, which is simply a big profit.

Other families also want to learn from him, and they also raised the price of rice to ten catties, ready to do a vote.

It's a pity that he died before he was born, and daring to snatch meat from his Zhu Laosi's mouth to eat is simply looking for death.

Zhu Lao Si forcibly pressed all these scattered families to the ground and rubbed them, and no one dared to snatch food from his mouth.

The fundraising team led by the county commander is no longer roaming the streets, but has begun to go to the homes of those old men outside the courtyard to eat and drink.

Even Mrs. Wang and Yang Qingqing joined in, and now every day when they wake up, Lin Meiyi is the only one left in the courtyard.

On the 10th day of the first month of June, the fundraising business that had not improved for the county magistrate suddenly ushered in the peak of performance, and I heard that it was because of the guidance of the masters, and some convenience that could be easily achieved for the prefectural magistrate was exchanged for a large number of donations.

Lin Meiyi went out to inquire, and as expected, the mysterious master was Wang Yun.

Unexpectedly, she was always in the city.

However, this is a good thing for Lu County, and it is also a good thing for merchants and Wang Yun, a win-win situation.

Lin Meiyi was playing with the leaves, and when she was so bored that she didn't know what to do, the closed courtyard door was suddenly slapped with a "crackling" sound.

"Master! Oh no! ”

It's Ah Da's voice.

Lin Meiyi immediately threw away the leaves in her hand, got up and opened the courtyard door, and saw Ah Da rushing in sweating profusely, and reported:

"Oh no, the victims outside the city rioted, and people died!"

As soon as Ah Da's words fell, Lin Meiyi heard "knock knock" from the direction of the south city gate, a muffled sound higher than the other, and her heart sank, and she listened attentively, like the sound of a heavy object hitting the wooden door.

At this time, Ah Da also heard this movement, and his face sank like water, "Master, it's the sound of a wooden stake hitting the city gate!" ”

Lin Meiyi turned around, "I'll take a look." ”

Ah Da wanted to persuade her not to go, but before she opened her mouth, the person walked away, so she could only close the door with her backhand and follow quickly.

Most of the people of the city ran out, and all gathered under the south gate, looking at the gate that had been struck and trembled.

The official messenger drove the people away, and the effect was equivalent to nothing, and more and more people rushed to hear the news, and the city gate was crowded with people.

Lin Meiyi was like a slippery fish, turning left and right, coming to the front, and as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw two corpses of officials covered with white cloths, and Long Biao, who had lost his companion and was full of anger and ordered to shoot arrows.