More than a month later, a ruined temple on the outskirts of Yuchang Mansion in Zhongzhou was crowded with scrawny victims.

It is now the middle of October, and Zhongzhou Yuchang Mansion has entered winter, although there is no snow, but the temperature in the morning and evening is very low, and there will be a kind of white-headed frost like snow.

A white-headed frost can make people cold to the bones.

The victims had nothing to keep warm, so they could only hide in groups in the ruined temples and light fires to keep warm.

In a grass shed under the broken temple wall, Gu Jinli's family hid here to keep warm.

After they bypassed Yongtai Mansion and galloped on the road, they turned right and went south, and arrived at Zhongzhou, but half of the land in Zhongzhou was dry and was also affected.

The area affected by the disaster this time was too large, half of Dachu was affected by the famine, the imperial court's disaster relief efforts were too small, and the food for disaster relief was far from enough.

The six prefectures of Zhongzhou were too busy to take care of themselves, and they did not dare to provide relief to the victims who fled from the northwest at all, so they closed the city gates one after another, and let the guards set up barricades to block the road, and did not allow the victims to enter the city.

They had no choice but to spend the night on the outskirts of Yuchang Mansion.

But all the way to escape the famine, and the temperature plummeted, many of the victims suffered from the wind chill.

Among Gu Jinli's group of more than 30 people, the third grandmother, Lao Yan's, Cheng Ge'er, Tian Xiaohua, Gu Dalin's youngest son Gu Qingxi, and Gu Dewang's Gu Dagui's family, all suffered from wind chills and high fever.

"Mother, Aunt Tian, Aunt Guizi, Aunt Dalin, the medicine is boiled, come and get it." Gu Jinli found a lot of medicinal materials for the treatment of wind and cold along the way, and now they are all boiled, and after boiling, she poured the medicine into the wooden bowl that was arranged, and said to several women in the grass shed.

"Done?" Chen was the first to rush out, snatched the bowl of medicine that Gu Jinli had not yet poured, carefully protected the medicine bowl, trotted into the grass shed, helped the sleeping Gu Dewang up, blew the medicine in the bowl a little cold, and poured medicine into him in small sips.

Cui's, Yan's, and Aunt Tian also hurried out, brought the medicine into the grass shed, and fed it to their own people.

"Hui Niang, you continue to boil the medicine, and after the medicine is boiled, everyone will drink a bowl to prevent wind and cold."

After a long journey, they did not have enough food and clothing, and the group was in very poor health, so they had to drink medicine to prevent wind and cold, otherwise they would fall ill in large pieces.

"Okay." Luo Huiniang continued to boil the medicine according to the method taught by Gu Jinli.

Gu Jinli brought the last bowl of medicine to the third grandmother, and said to Gu Jinxiu, who was taking care of the third grandmother: "Sister, you help the third grandmother up, and I will feed the third grandmother medicine." ”

"Huh." Gu Jinxiu picked up the third grandmother, supported her back with one hand, fixed her, straightened the third grandmother's head with one hand, and worked together with Gu Jinli to finally feed the third grandmother.

After taking the medicine, several patients were still asleep, Chen remembered that it was okay, and said to Gu Jinli: "Xiaoyu, are you going to do this?" Don't cure our brother Wang. ”

Gu Jinli replied: "If your aunt is not at ease, take Brother Wang to Fucheng to see a doctor now, the doctor in Fucheng has good medical skills, and he will definitely be able to wake up Brother Wang immediately." ”

There were guards outside Yuchang Mansion, and they didn't let the victims in at all, and even if the victims could get in, the Chen family didn't have the money to see a doctor for Brother Wang.

Chen choked, her face was sneering, but she has always been thick-skinned and can bend and stretch, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, my aunt believes in you the most, so don't worry." ”

Gu Dagui was tying the branches and dead grass together with the men of several families to make simple grass and wood boards one by one, planning to enclose all the roots of this wall with these grass and wood boards to block everyone from the cold wind, and when he heard Chen's words, he said angrily: "Take good care of Brother Wang, don't have nothing to do." ”

Along the way, just count this mother-in-law who is the least good person, how much has the Dashan family helped them, and she won't say something nice?

Chen knew Gu Dagui's temper and didn't dare to speak again.

Gu Jinxiu looked at the third grandmother, and then looked at Brother Cheng, who was also asleep, a little worried, and asked Gu Jinli in a low voice: "Xiaoyu, how long will it take for the third grandmother to wake up." ”

Gu Jinli said: "I took the medicine, I sweated, and I could wake up after a good night's sleep." ”

The thing she was worried about was released, and the high fever did not go away, and it would be bad.

and Brother Cheng, he is not yet four years old, but he can't be allowed to burn like this, it will burn his brain.

"Sister, you take good care of the third grandmother." Gu Jinli explained Gu Jinxiu, came to Cheng Ge'er's side, probed his forehead with the back of his hand, felt the back of his hand be hot for a while, picked up his sleeves and trousers, and began to massage several acupoints on his hands and feet.

If a child under the age of 10 has a high fever, constantly massaging the acupoints on the hands and feet can play a fever-reducing role.

She kept repeating an action, pressing the acupoints on Cheng Ge'er's hands and feet until they were red, and a little purple-red dots appeared on her skin before she stopped.

After a while, when he looked at Brother Cheng'er's forehead again, his fever had subsided a lot.

Gu Jinli breathed a sigh of relief, and looked out of the grass shed, there were many grass sheds built around, all of them were disaster victims, and some of them didn't even have grass sheds, so they were crowded next to other people's grass sheds, and they couldn't get rid of them.

There were a lot of people here, and Gu Jinan and Luo Wu, the half-grown sons, were led by Qin Erlang and surrounded their grass sheds along the root of the wall, so that the victims were not squeezed in.

As for Qin Sanlang, he followed Qin Lao, the third grandfather, and Luo's father to nearby people's houses to buy cotton clothes or thicker clothes from those people.

The city does not allow the victims to enter, but there are many villages outside the city, and these villages are also afraid of the disaster and do not let them in, but they will sell things to them, but the price is several percent higher than before.

But there is no way, several families are sick, and if they don't spend money to buy things, everyone will die.

When it was almost dark, Qin Sanlang and the four of them finally came back with a load of things, all of which were some shabby thick clothes.

When the surrounding victims saw them coming back with their things, their eyes were fierce, and many of them wanted to come up and grab them.

Qin Erlang rushed over with a machete, stood beside Qin Lao, scanned the surrounding victims with a pair of angry eyes, and sneered: "If you are not afraid of death, come here!" ”

Those who can escape all the way to Yuchang Mansion and have not died on the road are all people who have passed by, and when they saw Qin Erlang's appearance, they knew that he had seen blood, and those victims who wanted to come up and grab things immediately shrank back.

The third grandfather and the others quickly returned to the grass shed at the base of the wall, put the four loads of things in the grass shed, and several families all gathered around, and Chen moved the fastest, and immediately ripped off three old cotton clothes.

The third grandfather looked at her coldly and said, "An old cotton coat costs five hundred dollars, and if your family wants these three old cotton clothes, you have to add another one or two silver." ”

Five hundred big coins were half a tael of silver, and when Chen searched and everyone went to a nearby farmhouse to buy something, she also gave half a tael of silver.

"What? This tattered cotton coat costs 500 yuan, isn't this a robbery! Chen screamed, but refused to let go of the old cotton clothes in his hand.

The third grandfather said: "You're right, the farmhouse near here is robbing us, but can we not buy it?" If you don't buy it, you'll get frostbite, and you'll die of cold. ”