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Chapter 041

Lu Jiuan did not dare to stop the on-site fortifications. After the rice harvest, Zhuang Liang, who had left the farm work, returned to the construction site one after another.

In order to encourage the subsequent batches of refugees to actively participate in the construction of fortifications, Lu Jiuan treated the latest refugees the same as the previous batches, and only provided free labor for three days to those who still had labor.

After thinking about it later, I simply stopped the free supply for women. These women usually do farm work at home and are no less strong than men. Finding something for them to do can also reduce the time they have to think about.

Lu Jiuan looked around for his smoky blue belt: "Where did I put it? I just used it yesterday."

Lu Qi asked, "Master, are you going out again?"

Lu Jiuan couldn't find it, so he randomly picked it from the pile of clothes. I picked a thin piece of gray-brown silk and tied it around my waist. As he walked out, he said: "Go and take a look at the construction site."

The door next to him opened with a clang, and Han Zhi walked out: "I will accompany you."

The biggest benefit of the large influx of refugees is the large number of people, because it fills the population There was a vacancy, and it would take 2 months to build the house. Now that the main body of the house has been completed, it can be put into use immediately as long as the doors and windows are installed. This made Lu Jiuan more determined to keep these refugees.

The repaired shop is a two-story house with a total area of ​​more than 400 square meters. Whether it is a restaurant or an inn in the future, or partitions can be used to create different small stores, it is definitely worth the money.

Different from other single construction sites under construction, there are many colorful banners hanging around the site. In addition to the various things sponsored by wealthy households, which make this place rich and abundant, because of the large population gathering, many smart vendors A stall was set up here.

Life Plaza has unconsciously begun to show its commercial atmosphere.

Lu Jiu'an pointed to the tall building and joked with Han Zhi: "Brother Han, your future business map will start from here."

Han Zhi shook his head: "You know, officials cannot have more than three properties under their name."

"I agree with you . You're kidding."

The two of them said as they approached the building. The engineer from the Ministry of Engineering was holding a roll of drawings and having a heated discussion with someone. They saw Lu Jiu'an coming and didn't have time to pay attention.

After a while, the arguing stopped, and the craftsman from the Ministry of Engineering put down the drawings, and came over with a blushing face and saluted: "I didn't know Mr. Lu was here in person."

"I just came to see the progress, you go and do your work. This time I'm not wearing official uniform, so I don't need to be greeted."

Lu Jiu'an can understand that these people who deal with wood and soil all day long tend to be straightforward and only recognize facts and not people. And they usually have a hot temper and can start quarreling with people they work with in just a few words, but most of them don't have any bad intentions.

Lu Jiuan actually likes this kind of people.

"It's almost noon, why don't we go back to the county town and have something to eat first." Han Zhi suggested.

Lu Jiu'an thought for a while: "That's okay."

"You sit here for a while, and I'll go to the vendor to buy you some steamed buns." Han Zhi had already noticed that Lu Jiu'an's eyes glanced in that direction several times. I don't know what kind of seasoning the vendor used, but when I took off the lid, the smell that floated in the wind was really overwhelming.

Lu Jiu'an was sitting there waiting for General Han's service. After a while, Han Zhi came back with a steamed bun in one hand and handed it to Lu Jiu'an.

Lu Jiu'an took a bite and was full of praise: "It doesn't have any fishy taste, but it gives people the aroma of chicken. The juice in the stuffing explodes, and the aftertaste is endless."

Apparently Lu Jiu'an is not the only one who thinks this way. One person, except for the local people who brought ready-made dry food from home, the refugees were willing to buy one or two with the wages they earned from working in the past few days.

The steamed buns were not expensive, and many people gathered around the vendor. The workers bought the buns, found an open space, and ate the mung bean soup provided by Xie's family for free.

The place where the lumber is stacked is not far from the building. These thick tree trunks are used to make pillars and beams for the house to be built next. Several workers were sitting around chatting and eating. I don't know what they said, and there was a burst of laughter. The whole room burst into laughter.

Several people couldn't stop laughing. Unexpectedly, their happiness turned into sadness. One of the workers laughed and suddenly coughed violently. He couldn't hold the steamed buns steadily and fell to the ground and rolled away.

His companions beat his back and handed him water, but his symptoms did not improve and he began to roll his eyes as he watched.

"What's going on?"

"I seem to be choking."

When Lu Jiu'an heard this, Huo De stood up from the ground and handed the uneaten buns to Han Zhi: "Help me take it."

"You Wait, I'll go." Han Zhi handed the bun back.

Before the two of them could decide who should be ranked first, the crowd of onlookers was pushed away by one hand. The young man who arrived helped the man who fell on the ground and shouted loudly: "Don't gather around each other, people are almost out of breath from kicking them ." "

Lu Jiu'an saw from the dispersed crowd that the young man held the choking strong man in his arms, wrapped his arms around him, made a fist with one hand and pressed his fingers above his navel, and pressed his fist with the other. Rapid and repeated blows to the abdomen with both hands.

Such postures and movements were extremely unsightly to others, and they all showed disgust: "What is this man doing? Li Goudan is dying."

The young man turned a deaf ear to the sounds around him, and his men kept moving. After repeating this several times, Li Goudan suddenly spat out a white object from his mouth and coughed loudly as if he came to life.

The onlookers were puzzled, but the young man did not give any explanation, picked up the dry food placed on the log and left without saying a word.

Lu Jiuan saw clearly from outside the crowd, such familiar movements and postures... this was clearly the Heimlich maneuver!

An incredible thought came to Lu Jiu'an's mind, and his eyes suddenly widened.

Seeing the young man's figure getting further away and about to disappear into the crowd, Lu Jiu'an stopped him without hesitation. The young man said unswervingly: "What's the matter? You saw it, I saved someone. Are you going to cause trouble for me?"

Lu Jiu'an was full of excitement at the moment, and he didn't care about his aggressive tone. He cautiously tried, "Broadcast gymnastics, the times are calling."

The young man frowned . , turned around and left.

"Don't go, don't go." Lu Jiu'an grabbed the other party's sleeve. He knew that many schools now do not like to use this kind of ancient music for radio gymnastics. Maybe the other party just didn't know. He planned to change the code: "Feng Gong Spring Festival Gala What must be said at the beginning?"

The young man suppressed his anger: "Don't tease me."

Lu Jiu'an collapsed: "The People's Republic of China!" The young man

shouted: "Let me go!"

Pulling it off, Han Zhi rushed over from behind and looked at him with a hostile face. The young man looked at the two of them back and forth and said sarcastically: "I'm really nosy. I should have known better that I wouldn't save anyone."

Han Zhi stretched out a hand to stop. After stopping the young man's next move, he pinned the opponent with his hands on the pillar. His whole face was deformed in pain. Lu Jiu'an came to his senses and quickly rescued him from General Han.

"Misunderstanding, Brother Han."

Han Zhi tugged at the corner of his mouth: "He caused you to be injured."

Lu Jiu'an noticed that when his right hand was taken off, he threw it out and scraped the broken piece of wood, making a mark. Bright red mouth.

Lu Jiuan wiped the lining of his clothes twice and wiped away the blood on the back of his hand: "It's my fault, it's none of his business."

He had calmed down by this time and realized that the other person was not from the same family as him. He asked without giving up: "How do you know the Heimlich Technique?"

"What?"

"The method you used to save the man who was choked just now is called the Heimlich Technique. Didn't the person who taught you do it? "Tell you the name?"

"You call that the Heimlich Technique?" The young man paused: "No one taught me, I figured it out myself when I was young."

Lu Jiuan took a breath and asked about the history. I was amazed by the miraculous trajectory. First, Xie Huailiang independently developed the pulley device and the prototype of the bicycle, and now the Heimlich method was independently founded by this young man. The development of the Great Zhou Dynasty strangely overlapped with that of the West.

I wonder if if we allow it to develop, it will evolve into a technological and humanistic civilization that is completely different from that of China, or even directly skip the Bronze Age, Industrial Age, and Intelligent Age, and directly enter the process of a higher civilization.

Lu Jiu'an suddenly realized that maybe he shouldn't take out the ready-made information about technology in his computer and become an interventionist in this history. The development of cosmic civilization has its own laws. If he thinks he is superior to the creatures of this era and interferes, he may break many unexpected ideas and innovations.

On this giant ship of time that is rolling forward, what he wants to do is not the captain who decides the direction, but the sails that are blown by the wind. He only needs to ensure that the ship can move forward smoothly. Where the giant ship eventually sails has nothing to do with him. .

"Can I leave?" the young man asked stiffly.

Lu Jiu'an had an enlightenment in just a few breaths. He bowed to the young man with apology: "I don't know what you call me?"

The young man's expression was clearly scolding him for being confused, but he still answered him. : "Qin Jizhi."

"Thank you for your rescue today."

Qin Jizhi glanced at Han Zhi pointedly: "Your thanks are really unique. What is your relationship with that person? Judging from your clothes, Is he your servant? I need you to come forward and thank me."

Lu Jiu'an returned to his usual gentle manner: "I am the county magistrate of Yingping. You saved my people, so I should naturally thank you.

" Stunned, he looked him up and down in confusion: "Are you Lu Jiu'an?"

"That's right."

Qin Jizhi looked at him with a complicated look, and Lu Jiu'an asked, "I wonder if this method can be promoted."

"It's up to you. "

After Qin Jizhi said this, he ignored him and walked away.

The wound on the back of Lu Jiuan's hand was very deep, and he bled a lot during the fight with Qin Jizhi. Han Zhi forcefully took him to Dr. Shi for bandage.

Lu Qi looked at the hideous wound on his hand, and his eyes suddenly turned red: "Sir... Sir, why are you so careless?"

Lu Jiu'an touched the wound that was tightly bandaged with medicine . , talked to Doctor Shi about what he saw and heard at the fortification site today, and finally said: "The first aid method created by Qin Jizhi is quite effective, but he is only one person after all, and he has no skills. Doctor Shi is highly respected, if you can If this method is widely publicized, I believe it can save many people's lives at a critical moment."

Doctor Shi is very concerned about another thing: "You said he calls himself Qin Jizhi?"

"Yes, what's the problem?"

Doctor Shi was stunned: "It's nothing. But this method was created by others and needs their consent."

"This is natural."

Lu Jiu'an took out the two medical manuals on infectious diseases that he had unlocked and copied in the past, and put them on the On the table: "I asked this from a well-known old doctor in another state. It may be helpful to you. Dr. Shi, I will have to do more trouble for you during this time. You must keep the epidemic under wraps." "

Chapter 042

Before Lu Jiuan and Han Zhi stepped through the gate of the county government office, someone came to report tremblingly, saying that someone from Jiangzhou government was here.

Lu Jiu'an was very surprised. Except for the paperwork he submitted to the superiors when he first took office, he rarely communicated with Jiangzhou Prefecture. It was not yet the time for work report and verification. Ying Ping, an unknown little man, County, who would go down to a remote place without any trouble?

"Who is coming?"

The disciple replied solemnly: "It was Mr. Yuan, the general judge of Jiangzhou Prefecture at that time."

Lu Jiu'an thought for a moment and identified this person, Mr. Yuan Honglu, the general judge of Jiangzhou Prefecture. In the 16th year of Emperor Xingzheng's reign, he served here for a term of three years. He will return to Beijing Middle School to take exams next year.

Seeing that Lu Jiuan was not in a hurry, the disciple couldn't help but urge: "Sir, please hurry up. Yuan Tongxuan has become very angry in the main hall."

Looking at the appearance of the disciple, he must have been frightened by the other party's criticism. . It's really strange that people are already showing signs of consternation even before they see him. Lu Jiu'an and Han Zhi looked at each other, and both saw in the other's eyes that the person who came was not good.

Lu Jiu'an didn't waste any time and rushed to the main hall dressed in plain clothes. Yuan Honglu was leaving the court and had taken a foreign post. Han Zhi couldn't reveal his identity and was worried about being recognized by him, so he didn't go with him.

At this moment, Yuan Tongpan was suppressing his anger and was drinking tea freely. The first time the two of them met, Yuan Honglu knocked the tea cup heavily on the table. Without waiting for Lu Jiu'an to salute, he cursed: "Yingping County The county magistrate is so proud that he allows me to sit here for a long time. You are not in the county government hall to review government affairs. You are wearing a silk shirt and a Confucian scarf. You are probably out touring the mountains and rivers, and the servants in your house have no idea. I've been here for so long, but I still don't know how to report to you."

Lu Jiu'an bowed solemnly and then explained: "It's not strange that Yuan Tong decided that he just went out to do business. I don't know who is in the mansion. Those servants will naturally not be able to find me."

Yuan Honglu snorted: "A tenth-level county in Yingping cannot pay the full amount of grain tax every year, nor can it produce a junior student like this. What can Magistrate Lu do in a place with such a depleted talent?"

Lu Jiu'an told Yuan Honglu what he had done today, and then disagreed and said, "Master Yuan, you should Ping County was once the sixth-class middle county in Jiangzhou."

Yuan Honglu sneered: "How old is this? Magistrate Lu is trying to explain it away?"

The malice in Yuan Honglu's eyes. Without making any attempt to hide it, he broke up Lu Jiu'an's pain, crushed it into pieces, and sprinkled salt on it. Lu Jiu'an was not as good as he wanted. Today in Yingping County, if millet and wheat are not produced, the harvest will not be harvested. In the future, he will create a place where the grains are ripe. , it was a good harvest year for the family; he laughed at the illiteracy of the people in Yingping, so he created a hometown of literary giants where Confucian scholars are everywhere and everyone has books to read!

Lu Jiu'an listened in one ear and out the other, pretending not to hear his obvious ridicule, and looked at his nose and heart: "I wonder what Yuan Tongpan's orders are when he comes today?"

Yuan Honglu said: "I have received a lot of calls recently. The documents submitted by other counties in the state mention frequent thefts and murders. Please submit the case files of Yingping in the past two months and I will review them. "

The general judge is assigned to the local government to assist the prefect. Handling affairs, taking charge of grain transportation, farmland, water conservancy, litigation and other matters, he can be said to be the first person below the prefect. Yuan Honglu was talking about business seriously, so Lu Jiu'an couldn't refuse and reported the case file to him for review as he requested.

Of course, these case files also include the more than 50 mountain bandit incidents that were captured last time. After Yang Gengqing took over the bandit case for interrogation, Lu Jiuan also made a detailed record of the case in the criminal chamber of the county government office, and then followed the procedures. Reported at every level. No matter how much Yuan Honglu inspected, he could not find any mistakes.

Yuan Honglu finished reading the prison case and asked about people's livelihood, household registration, money and other matters one after another. Lu Jiu'an answered fluently. Although the data was a little ugly, it could withstand scrutiny. In the end, Yuan Honglu proposed to go to Yingping's granary to take a look.

With the sudden increase in the number of refugees, Yingping's grain reserves have dropped sharply. Five granaries have been opened and used today. Yuan Honglu went to the place and pretended to walk around, putting some rice out of each granary. Checked the quality and asked a few innocuous questions.

When he was about to leave, Yuan Honglu still didn't have a good face. He singled out the review issues one by one and made comments. Finally, he concluded: "Every good thing can be said."

Lu Jiu'an quietly gave him a middle finger as a sign. Respect.

At first glance, it seemed that Yuan Honglu was really here for official business, but he was chosen as the general judge. He usually stayed in Jiangzhou to sort out various matters, big and small, and would not easily go out to the county. He was even more indifferent to Yingping.

At this juncture, Yingping came to Yingping, and under the guise of censorship, he inquired about food and accounts, which made people really suspicious.

As soon as Yuan Honglu left, Lu Jiu'an immediately told Han Zhi everything he had done today. If Lu Jiu'an was just suspicious, then Han Zhi would directly report the case and confirm his evil intentions.

"I didn't expect that the first person to show his flaws was Jiangzhou Tongjian."

Lu Jiu'an was confused: "Treads? Are you referring to the military ration case?"

Han Zhi did not answer him immediately, but just talked about another thing: "The past two days At night, an unexpected guest came to the county government, and the account books of the house were opened. "

Lu Jiu'an was shocked. He didn't know that there had been such an accident: "Why did you come to check the account books of Yingping County Office?"

It turned out that Han Zhi had explored some clues before, but because he could not find any effective clues, he asked Yang Gengqing to let the news out, in order to make those involved feel confused. Unexpectedly, during this period of time, a thief broke into the county government study room in the middle of the night and was caught by Yang Gengqing.

The county government's account book has not been opened. For some reason, the people above it may be eager to cover up some unknown evidence. Today, Yuan Tong decided to investigate it openly and through official business.

Lu Jiu'an didn't understand how Han Zhi's pursuit of military rations ended up at his own door. Could it be that the case of missing military rations was related to a remote place like Yingping?

Han Zhi made a decision immediately: "Tomorrow I will go out with Yang Gengqing to visit Jiangzhou Mansion several times. I think there has been no response recently." After Han

Zhi finished speaking, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Lu Jiu'an seriously. Lu Jiu'an was noticed by him. Confused: "What's wrong?"

"Are you wearing the soft armor I gave you?"

Lu Jiuan's eyes rolled around and he didn't dare to look at him: "Ah..."

Han Zhi came closer Lu Jiu'an, regardless of his struggle, put his hand inside the clothes and only touched the soft single clothes and warm chest. Han Zhi's eyes darkened: "Did you really throw it away?"

"No." Lu Jiu'an hurriedly said. Waving his hand: "I just feel it's too hot and the clothes are uncomfortable. I always go in and out with you on weekdays, how can there be danger."

Han Zhi's face looked better: "On the days when I am away, wear soft armor. Lu Jiu'an

said: "Don't worry, I will put it on. And even if you are not here, there will be guard Jiang.

" Those people have been making small moves in secret and overtly recently. Han Zhi is worried that if they are pushed into a hurry, they will be defeated and others will be out of reach.

Han Zhi looked at the caring Lu Jiu'an, took Mu Lin out of the house who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and whispered: "Recently, stop thinking about traveling around and stay at home and follow me closely." Good luck landing."

Lu Jiu'an looked up and down at Mu Lin's elegant appearance with wide sleeves and a high crown, and said doubtfully: "Brother Han, I know you care about me, but let Mr. Mu protect me. I don't want to say whether this is appropriate or not. I'm afraid it will be worse than using force." Anyway, Jiang Guard is more suitable."

Mu Lin approached Lu Jiu'an while waving the folding fan, lifting his chin with one hand and rubbing it back and forth: "How dare you, a little Tanhua, to look down on me? Do you think I have the same skills as you? "

Do you think I don't know what the scholars in southern Shanxi criticize me for? My grandfather was once a famous and victorious general, and he even taught Han Er. Such a capable general. No matter how weak my skills are, I can at least deal with some clowns."

Han Zhi frowned and said, "Speak carefully and don't make any moves."

Mu Lin retracted his groping palms and said, "I understand." , you can go out to do your business, Magistrate Lu, I will take good care of you."

Han Zhi thought for a while and said to Lu Jiu'an: "The memorandum regarding the Jiangzhou disaster and disaster relief food has been submitted a few days ago. When they arrived at the imperial court, the emperor was furious when he saw Long Yan. In the afternoon, he appointed Liu Shanqing, the left deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to concurrently serve as the governor. He was responsible for investigating floods and the movement of disaster food. He should arrive soon. Lu Jiu'an had an impression of this person: "

Liu Shanqing is an upright censor who hates evil and hates evil. If he comes, he should eliminate a lot of corruption and corruption."

Han Zhi repeatedly warned: "If someone in Jiangzhou Prefecture asks for help by reporting on his work." I summoned you and found a reason to reject it. Remember, no matter who the powerful government officials are, don't answer."

Lu Jiu'an wondered: "Is the situation so serious? The prefect himself can't do it?"

Han Zhi said: "There is a mixed bag of people in Jiangzhou. The collusion between the government and the bandits has become a den of snakes and rats. Now I still don't know who is involved. Even if it is a guard station that has always been at odds with the prefect, I dare not call it easily for fear of leaking this information. Lu Jiu'an was worried: "

You guys have the same origin as the Commander-in-Chief, you can't believe that you and Brother Yang are going alone like this?"

Han Zhi chuckled: "Don't worry, the worst-case scenario is just too useless. They won't dare to do anything to me until I catch them by their braids."

After Han Zhi received Mu Lin's guarantee, he no longer had any worries. At dawn the next day, he and Yang Gengqing galloped out with two horses. .

As expected, Mu Lin no longer went out to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and followed Lu Jiu'an closely. They also witnessed the birth of the house belonging to Han Zhi with Lu Jiu'an.

Mu Lin looked at the freshly baked attic and marveled, pointing to the open space next to it where equipment and wood were piled, and asked: "You said this will be built into a living square in the future? What do you want it to be used for?"

Lu Jiu'an is quite confident in his three acres of land. Guidance on the taste of the country: "In the future, a small area will be planned to store fitness equipment in the square. In that corner, the people of Yingping can exercise during their leisure time. Several wooden benches and stone tables will be built in these places. In addition to resting, you can also play chess and other things in the open space in the middle. Ying Ping will hold activities here in the future.

"What activities are you planning to hold?

" Lu Jiu'an gave examples one by one: "Book club exchanges, clothing exhibitions, garden activities, etc., when Yingping develops in the future, these can be held. I will invite you then."

These things Lu Jiu'an mentioned are also books . Mu Lin could understand the friend exchange meeting, but he did not ask in detail. He only said with an interesting face: "Then I'll wait and see."

After Han Zhi's house was completed, Lu Jiu'an immediately arranged for a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people to move in. Every space in the house is equipped with simple bed boards, just like a modern big bunk bed.

This place of more than 400 square meters accommodates about 300 people in total, which accounts for less than one-eighth of the current refugees. The rest of the people still sleep in simple cloth sheds, not to mention unstable, and when it rains There was running water everywhere and it was extremely inconvenient.

In order to maximize the use of the existing space, Lu Jiu'an found Carpenter Liang and described to him his idea of ​​bunk beds. Unexpectedly, Carpenter Liang listened but was unwilling to do it: "Master Lu, I usually don't want to make a bunk bed." Just hit some furniture. This is the first time I've heard of this. If it's not done well, what if the bed collapses and hits the people below?"

Carpenter Liang said he didn't want to do anything. Liang's Wood Industry, which he founded, has just started, and he is unwilling to take the risk of ruining his own brand.

Lu Jiuan frowned, and Mu Lin gave him advice: "Isn't there Xie Huailiang? If you recruit him into the house, you must make the best use of everything."

Lu Jiuan immediately took Carpenter Liang to Xie Huailiang: "Liang Carpenter, if you make a bunk bed, it will not only be yours in Yingping, but also your family in the whole Zhou Dynasty. From now on, if bunk beds become popular in Da Zhou, it will be with your Liang's Wood Industry. There is a person who can solve the stability problem you mentioned. If you don't go, I will find someone else."

Carpenter Liang was a little moved. After all, he is a bold and careful person. He only thinks about it. Less than an hour later, he came to the door and asked, "Mr. Lu, who is this person you are talking about?"

Chapter 043

Lu Jiuan brought Carpenter Liang to Xie Huailiang's workshop. Although Xie Huailiang liked to be alone, because of the wall clock he was given before, he had already figured out some branching components. Those parts were too delicate. , Xie Huailiang urgently needs some skilled carpenters to help him complete the project.

As soon as Carpenter Liang arrived, the two hit it off immediately, and Lu Jiuan had the illusion that the male and female guests had succeeded in holding hands.

The two of them closed the door and discussed it for a day. At night, Carpenter Liang walked out with a satisfied look on his face and promised Lu Jiu'an: "Master Lu, give me five days, and I will work day and night to make a set for you. Lu Jiu'an

still felt that it took too long: "Carpenter Liang, are you going to fight alone? Don't you think about recruiting some apprentices?"

It was a common understanding among ancient people to teach apprentices to starve their masters.

Carpenter Liang thought for a while and compromised: "Let's do this, Mr. Lu, I'll ask my nephew to help me and try to give it to you in two days."

After all, this is the first set, and some time needs to be left for exploration. Lu Jiu'an knows this Carpenter Liang has reached his limit, and there is no one faster than him in Yingping.

After the first shop was built, the construction of the next three shops started one after another. Lu Jiuan also started writing a letter to the owner of the house, hoping to requisition the house into a place to host refugees.

Lu Jiu'an used parallel prose throughout, and the lines are extremely gorgeous and sensational. His words in the letter are sincere, weeping and singing. The entire parallel prose has exhausted what he has learned throughout his life. It is bound to reach a level that no matter how hard-hearted he is, It has the effect of making people shed tears after reading it.

Three identical letters were delivered to several owners the next day. Lu Jiuan not only racked his brains for the content of the letter, but also made the envelope with great care. The paper was made of high-quality sealing paper and was as simple as jade. Thin and smooth, it was not only decaled and sealed with paint, but also soaked in aromatherapy all night.

Xie Suiqian holds such an elegant and fragrant letter, as if he has become an arty country scholar.

After he finished reading the entire article, even though he already knew the true character of this little county magistrate, he still couldn't help but scold Lu Jiu'an for being shameless!

What is meant by "Han Zhidu, who is bidding for the top spot, has taken the lead and set an example. Why don't you all stand up together to help the weak?"

Han Zhishang didn't know where he came from, and Xie Suiqian found this unbelievable. No matter how many of their families tried to investigate, they all came back without success.

It's unknown who is behind Han Zhi, but Lu Jiu'an said something right. Han Zhi is the one who really takes the lead. He takes the lead in doing good deeds, and Lu Jiu'an has such a sincere letter. It's a very sad letter, and if anyone refuses it, they will definitely be scolded behind their backs if word spreads about it.

Fortunately, it was not a matter of cutting off flesh and bones, and it was harmless. Xie Suiqian had no choice but to write back a letter expressing his approval with both hands.

But I couldn't swallow that breath in my heart. When I talked about Lu Jiu'an with my cousins ​​and eldest sons, I made it clear: "This Lu Jiu'an is full of tricks and tricks. Follow him later." When dealing with someone, no matter what he says or what he does, you must think it through before making a decision, and never fall into his trap."

Carpenter Liang delivered the first set of bunk beds to Lu Jiu'an as scheduled two days later. Carpenter Liang just mentioned the idea, but the actual object made by Carpenter Liang is no different from a modern children's bunk bed. Even the lever ladder to climb to the second floor has been replaced by a step without hollows.

Lu Qi immediately took the lead and expressed his willingness to be the one to try sleeping. Lu Jiu'an couldn't see the eagerness in his eyes and readily agreed.

Lu Qi took off his boots and climbed directly to the second floor. The bed frame was very stable and did not shake at all, and there were baffles on the outside of the bed on the second floor. Lu Qi could turn over at will without any worry of falling.

Lu Jiuan's eyes lit up, this was the bunk bed he wanted!

"Carpenter Liang, you made this. Please give me a price. I want to buy out your method. I plan to use it in the homeless shelter in the near future. You can't do so much with your own strength. We can gather the carpenters from Quan Yingping to mass-produce it."

Carpenter Liang knew it well, but he dared to ask for a price: "This is something Mr. Lu came up with, and the method was provided by Mr. Xie. I only need a bunk bed. Just one person's name is enough."

Lu Jiu'an thought for a while and took a compromise: "I won't take advantage of you, so how about it, you can tell me how to make bunk beds and what to pay attention to. , I will write it down on your behalf and include it in the book. Please add your and Xie Huailiang's names. If you encounter this kind of new thing in the future, you will put it in it. Name it the Chronicle of Strange Objects and make it into a set of books. I will post it. "How about Qianjianyin?"

Carpenter Liang couldn't believe it. His face was full of surprise, as if he had received some great benefit: "Master Lu is talking about writing a book. Is the thing I made also qualified to be in it?"

Lu Jiu'an was funny? Looking at him with a smile: "Anything that can benefit life can be included. Carpenter Liang will work hard in the future and strive to have a few more proud works."

Carpenter Liang was encouraged and seriously recalled the craftsmanship and workmanship . He explained the details carefully, including how to make the bed frame strong and what kind of wood is suitable for the pedals. On the basis of what he said, Lu Jiu'an added some backgrounds on the production of items and details of their use, describing it as a compendium of popular science.

"Okay. The first thing in the book of rare objects, the bunk bed was born." Lu Jiu'an showed him the contents of the two pages. Carpenter Liang held the light thin paper and saw his signature at the end, The whole person was very excited.

Lu Jiu'an immediately summoned all the carpenters in Yingping to start production, and in less than 10 days, nearly 50 sheets were moved in one after another to the storage room.

When the bunk beds first arrived, many on-site workers were curious to watch, but no refugee dared to lie down on them. Later, a more courageous child climbed up and down the bunk beds as an interesting toy. People slowly accept it.

After actually using it, these people have truly realized the benefits of bunk beds. It has a large capacity and can save a lot of space. It is very suitable for families with limited housing area and many children. If you have spare money, go there on the same day. I found a carpenter to customize a set.

Lu Jiu'an took a break from his busy schedule and couldn't help but think of Han Zhi when he settled in my hometown. He wondered where General Han was currently chasing clues.

Han Zhi led Yang Gengqing along the way, passing through several counties and seeing the tragic scenes after the floods in various places.

Although these counties built water conservancy works like Yingping, they were only perfunctory, so when the flood came, they would not have the desired effect at all. After the floods raged, the people harvested no grain.

The county government still opened a warehouse to provide food relief, but Han Zhi took a cursory glance and saw that the relief porridge in those broken bowls was watery, and occasionally there were broken pebbles. It was not an exaggeration to call it rice soup.

Han Zhi and Yang Gengqing told them along the way that Yingping County provided warm shelter for the people affected by the disaster, and they could fill their stomachs with their own hands. If they could still walk, they could go to Yingping for refuge.

Most of the refugees looked at Han Zhi with numb eyes and did not believe the news in his words. Only a few people rekindled their hope and dragged their families in the direction of Yingping.

Yang Gengqing's eyes showed worry: "General, there are many mountains and forests to go to Yingping. There are traces of bandits in those places. These people are unarmed. If we go there like this, will anything happen?"

Han Zhi picked up the reins of his horse and asked. Looking far to the southwest, a few sparse figures stumbling forward passed through the field of vision, climbing over the rolling mountain peaks and falling deep into the white clouds, which was the direction of Yingping.

"Although he is unarmed and penniless, bandits don't rob everyone."

When Han Zhi and Yang Gengqing arrived in Jiangzhou City, it was already five days later. As a provincial central city, Jiangzhou's situation was much better than other counties. The city walls were tall and towering, the houses were lined up in rows, and the streets were crowded with people.

They divided their forces into two groups. Yang Gengqing secretly sneaked into the guardhouse in the west of the city, while Han Zhi went deep into the office of the judge in the east of the city and began to follow the exposed parts of the horse's feet.

Han Zhi was rummaging through boxes and cabinets in Yuan Tongpan's study. He heard the footsteps and conversations outside the door in the distance. He quickly returned his belongings to their original places and turned over with a force on his legs.

The door creaked, and the person who came was none other than Yuan Honglu, the owner of the study. There were three people behind him. Han Zhi only had to scan casually and recognized one of them as Zhen Wei, the prefect of Jiangzhou.

Although there were no outsiders in the study, the four of them talked as if the walls had ears. Not only were their voices extremely low, but they also spoke in a very cryptic manner.

Han Zhi had not been a gentleman for a long time. He remained motionless and restrained all his aura. Like a cheetah waiting patiently in the dark, he kept everything the four people said in his heart.

When they blew out the oil lamp, closed the door and left, and all sounds were lost in the night, Han Zhi fell to the ground quietly and quietly.

He moved his joints to slowly eliminate the muscle soreness caused by using the same posture for a long time. After reviewing the content of the words, he found a place he had never looked for before.

He gently pinched it between his slender index and middle fingers and took out a thin booklet. I flipped through a few pages under the moonlight and stuffed them back in again.

At the beginning of the hour, the two met at the inn as planned to exchange information they had obtained from each other.

The book Han Zhi found in Yuan Tong's study room recorded several county names and several strings of data. Yingping County was among them, but the meaning is unknown for the time being. Yang Gengqing wasted no time, and only the insignificant soldiers and generals were left behind in the guard station. The commander-in-chief led his men to look for flowers in Goulan Courtyard, and indulged in female sex.

Han Zhi was very concerned about the county names on the book. Out of his intuition of making good plans during the march and war, he decided to visit those counties one by one. Perhaps the truth was scattered and hidden in these seemingly unrelated places. place.

Due to the expansion of mass production of bunk beds, the largest store in Han Zhina accommodates twice as many refugees. The elderly and children can receive relief without having to work, which is in sharp contrast to the people on site who work hard for meager wages. .

But those laborers did not show any complaints, maybe their parents and children were among them. In the face of disaster, human beings seem to have abandoned all barriers and are united like never before.

Since the immunity of this group of refugees was low, Lu Jiuan specially transferred Dr. Shi to the Life Plaza to check their physical condition every day.

Unexpectedly, even with such strict precautions, one morning, Dr. Shi's medicine-picking boy came in a hurry to deliver the news: "Many patients with coughs and fever suddenly appeared in the house, and they were spreading among the crowd."

Chapter 044

"Is this an epidemic?" Guo Wen asked with fear on his face and trembling beard.

"It's too early to draw a conclusion now." Lu Jiu'an asked, "Has the medicine been cooked?"

The boy who picked up the medicine respectfully replied, "Doctor Shi, I've been taking the prescription three times a day according to the prescription you gave me, but it still doesn't feel better. " "

Lu Jiu'an doesn't expect to be able to cure the disease with the help of documents copied from the computer. The reason why the disease is so scary is because of its extremely high transmission rate and difficulty in curing it.

Guo Wen couldn't help complaining about Lu Jiu'an's meddling in other people's business. With so many states and counties, the most they could do was open warehouses to provide food relief to the people within their local jurisdiction. They would never invite people in and provide them with good food and drink. He was the only one to blame him. Just do the opposite.

Lu Jiu'an guessed what Guo Wen was thinking from his gloomy expression at a glance. He stared at Guo Wen's eyes and said coldly: "Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and don't worry about the frost on other people's tiles. If everyone thinks so If so, then there is really no cure for this world."

Lu Jiu'an quickly picked up the unlined clothes hanging on the back of the chair and said to the medicine-picking boy, "Speak while walking."

Lu Qi grabbed him tightly from behind . Sleeve: "Sir, don't go. What if you accidentally get infected?"

Lu Jiuan showed a spring-like smile and reassured him: "It's okay, Lu Qi, my lord, I don't exercise in vain every morning. Besides, I There is this."

Lu Jiu'an shook the white cloth in his hand, and Lu Qi squinted to identify it carefully: "Mask!"

"Yes." Lu Jiu'an put the mask on his face and covered his mouth and nose tightly. Lu Qi turned behind him and helped him tie the two straps behind his head.

Lu Jiu'an only had a pair of smiling eyes exposed: "Look, with the amulet that brother Lu Qi made for me with his ingenuity, no disease or evil will invade my body."

Lu Jiu'an just said this inadvertently. Lu Qi heard it in his ears but took it seriously. He secretly sewed at night. He had liked to do this kind of handiwork that his daughter's family would do since he was a child. With Lu Jiu'an's simple description and his own imagination, it really made him happy. Make a decent mask.

Lu Qi knew that the Lord was just comforting himself. No piece of cloth could isolate the epidemic. He glanced at Lu Jiu'an worriedly and took out a gourd from the room: "Sir, you once said that wine can be disinfected. How can you put this pot away?" Bring the wine, too."

Lu Jiu'an touched his head and said, "Lu Qi really listened to every word I said. He's so good."

When he arrived at the Life Plaza, he started coughing one after another before he even entered the building. The sound reached his ears from far to near. As early as the onset of symptoms in the refugee shelter, lime had been sprinkled around the attic. Even if Lu Jiuan was wearing a mask, he could still smell the strong pungent smell nearby.

Dr. Shi was wearing a face towel and was walking among the crowd to check the patient's pulse. Lu Jiu'an saw the blue and black eyes under his eyes and felt a trace of guilt in his heart: "Dr. Shi, thank you for your hard work. You should also pay attention to rest. As a doctor, you If he falls down, what will happen to your patient?"

Dr. Shi raised his head when he heard the sound, and gave a slight hand gesture, with a tired look on his face: "I am sorry for your entrustment to Mr. Lu."

Lu Jiu'an said. , The fault is not yours, you have tried your best. Diseases are as hard to prevent as natural disasters."

Some people around recognized Lu Jiu'an's face. They were grateful to the kind and kind magistrate and finally looked at him in person. Although he felt uncomfortable, he still forced himself to stand up and wanted to salute him to express his inner gratitude.

"Mr. Lu, thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't have survived this year."

"Mr. Lu, when I was in my hometown, our county magistrate only gave us clear soup, and a handsome man told us that Ying Ping At first I didn't believe that we were willing to accept people with one foot in the ground. After thinking about it, I was going to die anyway, so let's try our luck. God really has mercy on me. Mr. Lu is. You are a living Bodhisattva sent from heaven to save people in distress."

People in the attic rushed towards Lu Jiu'an. Lu Jiu'an heard all kinds of thanks from their mouths, and at this time he realized who the husband they mentioned was. , it turns out that the recent sudden increase in refugees was brought by Han Zhi to promote him.

Lu Jiu'an felt a little warm in his heart. Han Zhi knew that he was bent on increasing the population for Ying Ping, and he did not forget to think about him on the way to track down the bandits. How could he meet such a close friend.

Lu Jiu'an took a step back and bowed to everyone: "People, please don't think this way. As the county magistrate, I have to shoulder the responsibilities brought by this status. However, there are difficulties at the moment, and I still need your cooperation." "Get through."

A limping old man leaned on a cane and said loudly: "If you have any instructions, sir, we all have a life that was picked up. At worst, I will give this life back to you. I have no complaints." "

Now that these people can hear a word and travel a long way to Yingping, they clearly have full hope of survival, but now they pretend to be carefree and careless about life and death. Lu Jiu'an's throat hurts, and he only feels trusted. The taste washed over him like a hot current, almost bringing tears to his eyes several times.

Lu Jiuan's eyes were moist: "I will never give up on you, let alone take your lives. Now some of you are sick and need to be taken to other places for individual treatment. I can only let you say goodbye to your relatives for a while."

"What a big deal. "

Those mentally weak people did not have the slightest doubt about the fate they would face if they were taken away. They even took the initiative to ask where the place was and did not dare to bother Magistrate Lu to take care of them.

"Then please come forward if you have symptoms of cough or fever and leave with this government servant." Lu Jiu'an pointed to Zhao Laosan who had been standing by and waiting at any time.

One after another, people covering their mouths and coughing took the initiative to come out of the crowd and stand behind Zhao Laosan. Some patients had more serious symptoms. People next to them saw it and stretched out their hands to help each other.

After a while, no one came forward. Lu Jiuan gestured to him, and Zhao Laosan led the people to the centralized treatment point.

Once this group of people left, most of the beds in the house were empty, but the remaining people couldn't live together anyway. It was unknown if there were some lurking patients among them who had not yet discovered symptoms, and they also needed to be isolated and separated.

Fortunately, Lu Jiu'an had considered this situation in advance and built simple facilities in the suburbs imitating the Han Dynasty's disease relocation center, and arranged for the government officials to use lime and vinegar to disinfect the place.

A cordon was set up around the attic, and no one was allowed to get close for the time being, and the on-site fortifications were naturally stopped.

A group of patrolling government officials appeared on the street. They were walking back and forth in the city wearing masks and holding wooden signs. On the wooden signs was written a line of large characters: "Don't get together, wash hands frequently, and disinfect by yourself in the presence of fire and smoke." This is to advise the people to return home. Home self-isolation.

Soon a voice spread privately in the county: "I heard that there is an epidemic in Yingping."

This statement quickly spread to everyone's ears, and Yingping became panicked. Fortunately, everyone cherishes their lives. According to The instructions on the wooden signs for government officials are to stay at home and wash hands and disinfect every day.

Yingping was only bustling for less than a month, and the quiet streets seemed to have turned into an empty city again.

This was what the officer from Jiangzhou Prefecture who was ordered to deliver orders saw. He and a group of accompanying officers with sabers rode through the streets on tall horses. There was not a single pedestrian on the road, except for the loud echo of horse hooves on the ground. It was quiet all around and you could hear the needle drop.

The autumn wind was bleak, and the withered yellow leaves on the ground were rolled up and flying everywhere. The dark birds chirped and fell from the eaves to the side of the street. There was no human scent on the road. The birds were arrogantly walking along the paved road. Flat bluestone slabs for finding food.

The silence was so eerie that the herald couldn't help but tighten the reins. He looked around in panic. The streets were closed and there was an unpleasant smell floating in the air.

The Saber officer muttered: "This is really strange in Yingping. Why is there no one in silence? Maybe they are all dead."

The herald fearfully prepared to rein in his horse and return, and the stern voice of Yuan Tongjian when he set out sounded in his mind: "We must bring Lu Jiu'an to Jiangzhou."

The clerk swallowed and was in a dilemma. He could predict that if he didn't bring Lu Jiu'an back as ordered today, I'm afraid the hat on his head would leave him forever.

Thinking of this, the herald trembled all over, gritted his teeth and continued to ride towards the county government. After walking for about four or five kilometers, he saw two pawns dressed strangely. When one of them saw them, he immediately raised his eyebrows and shouted: : "Where did you come from, and why are you still running around outside?"

The accompanying officer whipped out his sword: "You guys who don't have eyesight, don't even look at who you are talking to, and dare to yell at us. "

Zhao Laosan, who was next to the soldier, poked at his grumpy colleague: "Didn't Mr. Lu explain it before? We have to perform official duties in a pleasant manner and cannot have a bad attitude. If you are discovered, your performance points will be deducted. Do you want to earn a police dog?" "

The soldier frowned and muttered: "Then we have to wait and see. We all work together to fight the virus, and we can't fail just because of a few pieces of rat shit."

The Saber officer was furious: "Who are you calling rat shit?"

The soldier blushed. When Ru was about to come forward to argue, Zhao Laosan quickly grabbed him and glared at him: "Confused, when will you change your temper?"

Zhao Laosan clasped his fists at the visitor and took out a few strips of white cloth from his arms. He handed it to them: "I'm sorry, he got a little angry, but it's for your own good. In this special period, you'd better wear a mask."

Zhao Laosan stuffed the mask into the arms of the leader, and then He took out a container with a spout and said to the visitor: "Please stretch out your hands. This is filled with wine. Let me disinfect it for you."

Zhao Laosan spoke softly and slowly. Naturally, the herald was not prone to attack. He sat high on his horse. Handing out his hand, Zhao Lao San sprayed him with some wine. The herald felt a coolness in the palm of his hand. He took it to his nose and sniffed it. It was indeed the wine. He then distributed a bunch of masks in his arms to others. According to Zhao Lao San The demonstration is tied.

The herald had a piece of white cloth tied over his mouth and nose, making it difficult to breathe. He pulled it down to reveal a bit of the tip of his nose. Zhao Laosan stopped him and said, "Be patient, cover everything up when outside. You won't be able to protect yourself like this." You are all colleagues who have come from afar. I wonder which master came to Yingping?"

The angry Saber Officer replied: "You are more snotty than the kid next to you. We are from Jiangzhou. , I was ordered to go to your county government office. Let me ask you, there is no one on your street and you are doing all these fancy things. Could it be that something big has happened?"

Lu Jiu'an once specially warned that if you meet people from Jiangzhou, you must not take it lightly. Neglecting, Zhao Laosan became more and more respectful, and told the other party everything that had happened in the recent period. When the visitors heard that it was an epidemic, they were all shocked. They reined in their horses and took a few steps back, looking at Zhao Laosan. People's eyes are very alert.

The Saber Officer whispered to the herald: "Sir, are you still going? The epidemic can kill people!"

The herald was also frightened. He suppressed his fear and said: "Go and check the situation first."

Lu Jiuan Three Days He ran to the hospital in both directions. Every time he went out, he was fully armed. When he got home, he washed his hands and disinfected. Today, when he returned home, he threw the clothes he had changed into to the servants, soaked them in boiling water, and burned them with mugwort smoke. The door came and announced: "Sir, there are six A distinguished guest came to visit, and Team Leader Zhao said he was from Jiangzhou Prefecture and was carrying a saber. "

Zhao Laosan was rated first in the team during the performance appraisal because of his good performance. The police dog is still in the experimental stage, so there is no chance of it happening ." The method was cashed out as a reward, so Lu Jiuan simply adopted the tried and tested method of managers and directly promoted him and raised his salary.

Zhao Laosan was very proud of himself for several days. He used the name of Team Leader Zhao and giggled with his tail in the sky.

It seems from today's incident that once a person corrects his evil ways, he is still very reliable. Anyway, Lu Jiu'an is very comfortable with it. After hearing the content of the report, he put down his tied hair again just to be on the safe side. After thinking about it, he asked Lu Qi to go to the kitchen to get some flour and put it on his face. With this order, he looked sick.

As the saying goes, a powerful enemy has evil intentions, and a weak county magistrate has no choice but to resort to devious tactics.

Chapter 045

Mu Lin looked at Lu Jiu'an with a smile: "There are no female relatives in the house. You see, I used some powder to find the waiter."

Lu Jiu'an glared at him: "I only grew up in winter. Besides, how can I start a family if I don't have a career?" There is no need to talk about women."

Mu Lin raised his hands innocently: "I didn't say anything. I still want to save my legs."

Lu Jiu'an didn't understand why he was dragging his legs. " Don't bother Mr. Mu today. Just follow him. The people from Jiangzhou Mansion are honest and honest, so there shouldn't be any problems."

Mu Lin followed suit: "That won't work. If something happens to you, I won't just protect your legs. If we can't save it, our lives will be in danger."

Lu Jiu'an was followed by two tails, Mu Lin and Lu Qi. Not long after they arrived in the waiting room, several tall people with stern faces walked in, and the first one said straight to the point: "Lu. County magistrate, we are here to deliver the magistrate's order, asking you to go to Jiangzhou to report on your duties."

When he said yes, his tone and arrogant attitude were not polite at all.

really! It was exactly as General Han had guessed. Lu Jiu'an recalled Han Zhi's words of advice before he left. His vision swept across Lu Qi without leaving a trace, and he suddenly coughed muffledly.

Lu Qi is worthy of being the person he spends time with, and they have a tacit understanding. He took the water glass and handed it to Lu Jiu'an, and persuaded him earnestly: "Sir, you coughed up blood yesterday. The confirmed ward is full of patients with severe symptoms. , you go there in person every day, Lu Qi is really worried about your health."

Lu Qi said this half-heartedly, but the worry on his face was genuine. The herald exclaimed, his legs moving in an exaggerated way. They all retreated out of the door.

Lu Jiu'an drank the water and smiled weakly: "I'm sorry, sir. I don't know whether it's the cold or the epidemic. I've been coughing badly these past two days."

Even though the herald was wearing a mask, he still had to separate himself at this moment. He covered his mouth and nose with his hand, fearing that he might accidentally be infected by invisible evil spirits: "Do you have to go to the epidemic area every day?"

Lu Jiu'an said sadly: "Your Excellency, you have also seen the people who died of the epidemic in Yingping Judi. The number of corpses increased dramatically every day, and corpses were carried to the outskirts one by one to be burned. Every day, the black smoke from the burning turned the surrounding trees into ink. As the county magistrate of Yingping, I was really heartbroken, and I couldn't bear to see them. Look, I am ashamed of your majesty and the common people."

The herald's face was ugly: "People die every day?"

Lu Jiu'an said: "Yes, the corpses were burned on the outskirts of the north of the city. Your Excellencies didn't look at them when they came. Are you there?"

When the herald heard what he said, he felt that it was the wisest choice to come in from the east of the city today. Not to mention the route, a timid person would have nightmares after just taking a look from a distance. Again and again.

No wonder there is no one everywhere on the street, maybe everyone is almost dead!

Lu Jiu'an's legs were weak. He stood up and approached the visitor with support from Lu Jiu'an: "I still need to trouble this gentleman to reply on my behalf. Please allow me to wait for a day or two. If it's wind and cold, it's fine. If it's an epidemic, I'm afraid I'll bring it with me." When we get to Jiangzhou, if we get out of control, I will be guilty of a big crime. Sir, do you think so or not?"

The six tall people were forced back by Lu Jiu'an's thin body. They tried to avoid Lu Jiu'an. He no longer cared about what he said. In the end, Lu Jiu'an just responded to whatever he said, and said "Magistrate Lu, take care of yourself" and ran away in a mess.

Mu Lin threw the fan on the table, clapped her hands and laughed out of breath: "Hahaha, Mr. Lu, that's wonderful. How come I thought you were a gentleman with a clear breeze and bright moon when I first saw you? Gentleman, if you ask me, there should be one more animal in the Chinese zodiac. Are you a fox?"

Lu Jiu'an accepted this weird comment unceremoniously: "Master Mu is ridiculous, but I will admit it today. That's a bit exaggerated. The real situation is not optimistic at all. The rule I have set for the house is that everyone needs to wear a mask. It is better for the young prince to take precautions."

Mu Lin's smile slowly disappeared: "Lu County. What Ling reminds me is that I think the King of Hell is more powerful and I dare not risk my health."

Lu Jiuan recently took some time to go into the office and exchanged two books on infectious disease management, combined with the 21st century epidemic prevention. The control policy divides patients into confirmed cases, close contacts, and sub-close contacts for more detailed isolation treatment.

For such a set of epidemic prevention measures to be implemented, the most difficult condition is insufficient manpower. People need to prepare three meals a day for the refugees, people need to distribute the prepared meals to the disease relocation center, and people need to maintain order when isolating patients. After all, in the end, the word population cannot be avoided.

There are only more than 60 yamen servants in total, and it is impossible to complete such a huge workload even if they work early and late.

Lu Jiu'an had no choice but to give it a try and let the government officials go door to door to recruit volunteers.

The so-called volunteers not only have to bear the risk of getting infected, but also receive no reward for their hard work. Lu Jiu'an originally thought that it would be great if there were more than ten people, but he did not expect that the people of Yingping once again brought him a surprise.

More than 200 volunteers of different ranks stood at the county government office to wait for orders. Some of them were taken to the isolation point because of their family members, some were driven by enthusiasm, and some were affected by the Yingping County government. The kind refugees sacrificed their lives just to do what they could to repay.

"People cannot stand without spirit, and a country cannot be strong without spirit. I believe that because of people like you, Yingping will surely win this desperate battle against the epidemic!" Lu Jiuan asked the yamen servant to give each volunteer Distribute hastily made simple protective clothing, masks and disinfectant spray bottles.

The watering can was naturally designed by Xie Huailiang based on the ideas proposed by Lu Jiuan. The pot is made from a combination of purchased gourds and bamboo. Because the material is incomparable with modern plastic bottles, the volatility of wine will lead to waste, so the disinfecting liquid was replaced with vinegar.

This group of volunteers quickly got into work. With their participation, the government officials who had been working on the front line since the outbreak of the epidemic were able to take turns and rest, and they were relieved.

Isolation treatment according to the degree of contact has indeed had a significant effect, and the chain of infection has been effectively controlled.

However, there was no progress in the medication of the confirmed patients, and the patient's condition fluctuated. Lu Jiu'an wrote three-minute memorials to the imperial court urgently. If the emperor had the intention, he would definitely send a doctor to follow the governor. Arrive later.

One afternoon, Lu Jiu'an went to the treatment point to inspect the disease situation as usual. A body covered with white cloth was brought out from the treatment point. Lu Jiu'an saw a familiar pair of crutches standing at the door, and he felt an ominous premonition in his heart. He endured it. Don't stop the volunteers.

He pointed to the pair of crutches and asked, "But was it used by the deceased?"

After working for so many days, the volunteer had adapted to the fact that people left quietly every day. He thought about it for a while and answered honestly. : "This man suffered a leg injury when he was young and walked with a limp. The crutches are indeed his."

Lu Jiuan's hands were shaking so much that he couldn't control himself. He spent a lot of effort to lift up the white cloth of the deceased and saw that A face that is described as withered and gray-haired, it's him! The old man with a kind smile that day.

The suspicion in his heart was confirmed, and Lu Jiu'an's heart was shaken, and he felt that it was difficult to breathe and untenable.

"Your Majesty, just tell me if you have any instructions. We all picked up a life. At worst, I will give this life back to you. I have no complaints."

The words I said not long ago are still in my ears, but the person who spoke them has passed away.

The old man who fully supported him survived the famine and endured the long journey, but in the end he did not survive the disaster.

"Sir, are you okay?" The volunteer asked with concern when he saw Lu Jiu'an's pupils shrank suddenly and his face turned pale.

Lu Jiu'an opened his mouth twice, but was speechless. He waved his hands very slowly, and squatted down slowly while holding on to the wall.

"My lord, my lord!"

Lu Jiu'an was dizzy and his vision went dark. Different voices echoed in his ears. He kept his eyes open for a long time and finally saw that the enlarged face in front of him was Lu Qi.

Lu Qi put Lu Jiu'an on his back and rushed to where Doctor Shi was. As he hurried forward, he shouted anxiously: "Doctor Shi, come quickly, sir... Sir, you are suddenly hysterical."

"Ouch." Doctor Shi looked back and said, "Sir, what's going on? Slow down. Slow down."

Several children helped to remove Lu Jiu'an from Lu Qi's back. Doctor Shi opened Lu Jiu'an's pupils and took a look. , then put his hand on it to check the pulse, and finally used his thumb to pinch the Renzhong point hard.

Lu Jiu'an woke up faintly, turned his head and looked around. Lu Qi felt as if he had survived a disaster, his red eyes caressing Lu Jiu'an's chest.

"I've been working hard for days and worrying too much. Mr. Lu, you should have a good rest and don't worry too much."

Lu Jiu'an lost his mind and said: "I made a mistake, Doctor Shi. I promised them that I would not give up on them. But one When a person dies in front of me, there is nothing I can do."

Dr. Shi sighed: "Life and death are determined by destiny. According to what you said, I am the one who is to blame for the death. As a doctor, I can only watch the patient die from the pain. Damn it, I've been studying this disease for so long, but I still can't do anything about this epidemic."

Lu Jiu'an rolled his eyes: "Doctor Shi tried his best."

Dr. Shi asked, "I heard that Mr. Lu has informed the court about the epidemic, and the emperor will send an imperial doctor. "Should you be safe?"

Lu Jiu'an shook his head numbly: "Far water can't save the near fire. It's too late. These patients can't afford to wait."

Doctor Shi pursed his lips and hesitated, suddenly closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath: "Forget it, I know there may be someone who can save this predicament right now."

Lu Jiuan's eyes slowly lit up: "Doctor Shi, please tell me, no matter who it is, I will do my best to invite him here."

Dr. Shi He said: "Mr. Lu, do you remember Qin Jizhi that you once mentioned?"

Lu Jiu'an's head was like a ball of mush at the moment. He had been thinking for a long time and his face was blank. Doctor Shi reminded: "You once told me to listen to " You said that the person who invented this first aid method for choking was a young man named Qin Jizhi?

Did he have any method?" Qin Jizhi, a young and experienced doctor, was exhausted. What kind of transcendent genius is this person who devotes himself to spiritual practice?

Doctor Shi shook his head: "No, I'm not sure if Qin Jizhi can do anything. If his father is still alive, he will definitely be able to develop a cure."

Lu Jiu'an's hope was extinguished again. When he arrived in Qin Jizhi, he was a refugee who was forced to make a living. If there really was a father with great skills in the family, why would he abandon his superb medical skills and let his son do such menial work in fortifications?

He asked: "Why are you so sure that his father can do it?"

Dr. Shi stroked his beard and recalled the past: "The Qin family has been famous in Xinglin for generations. In the generation of Qin Jizhi's great-grandfather, he was promoted by nobles and promoted. The family moved to southern Shanxi, and I heard that he was admitted to the imperial hospital. More than 20 years ago, the Qin family brought their infant Linzi back to their hometown to worship their ancestors. I had the opportunity to chat with him about the baby during a free clinic in Jiangzhou. The name means skill. His father, Qin Zhao, was appointed as the deputy envoy of Tai Hospital at a young age, which shows that he has great medical skills."

Lu Jiu'an murmured: "Isn't he from Tai Hospital?" Doctor

Shi sighed: "I just don't know. Whether this Qin skill is the same as that of Qin skill, if so, even if he only learned a few skills from his father, it shouldn't be a problem for him. If Qin Zhao is here, he will be sure."

Lu Jiu'an said firmly. "Yes or no, you will know after looking at the registration list. Dr. Xie Shi pointed out the way for me. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will try to catch it."

Chapter 046

Lu Jiu'an didn't waste any time, and the others worked together to search for those two names in the vast sea of ​​words. During this period, Lu Jiu'an seemed to be waiting for the guilty verdict, until Lu Qi excitedly jumped up from his chair and cheered loudly: "Found it." Now, Qin Zhao, Qin Qin, Qin Jizhi, the three Qin surnames are next to each other."

Lu Jiu'an felt relieved that the heavy shackles had been lifted.

Lu Jiuan's forehead was covered with cold sweat: "It's good to find it, it's good to be alive."

The basic information recorded in the registration list was very complete, and the temporarily assigned residence was also clear at a glance. Zhao Laosan asked himself to lead the way, and soon found a few people to live in temporarily. thatched house.

Lu Jiu'an looked around the simple residence, wondering why the Qin family, who was so skilled in martial arts, ended up like this.

Lu Jiu'an was about to knock on the door when he suddenly saw two figures walking staggeringly at the entrance of the village.

He seemed to feel something, so he put down his hand on the door and waited quietly. Sure enough, he saw two figures getting closer and closer, and finally stopped in front of them.

The two of them looked like they were both over fifty years old. One of them had a hunched back, showing an old look.

Judging from his face, the other old man looked slightly younger. For some reason, he has white hair hanging down his neck, a pair of misty eyes, and he walks with a stick, seemingly invisible.

Although the hunchbacked old man has a skinny figure, his moves are bright and sparkling with wisdom.

He supported the companion next to him and asked, "I wonder what these nobles came to Pengwu for?"

Lu Qi said, "Are they the Qin family? My young master and I are here to look for them."

After hearing this, the white-haired old man turned his head towards Lu Jiu'an . The others turned their direction and said with a smile: "Since I returned to Jiangzhou, I haven't heard this sentence for a long time, old man Qin Qin."

Lu Jiuan bowed towards him: "Mr. Qin."

Then turned to The hunchbacked old man: "What is your honorific name?"

The white-haired old man seemed to have guessed the purpose of their coming here: "He is the old steward of our Qin family. Young Master, please come back. You have found the wrong person." He

didn't even finish speaking . Waiting for Lu Jiu'an to answer, he pushed the door open and walked in.

Lu Jiu'an was so anxious that he never thought that his trip here would end without success without even getting through the door.

How could Lu Jiuan be willing to do so? While there was still an inch of crack left in the door, he ignored etiquette and squeezed in arrogantly with his hands stuck.

"Mr. Qin, please stay."

After hearing the sound, two young men with pine-shaped crane bones walked out of the room. One of them was Qin Jizhi, whom he had met once before. He looked at Lu Jiu'an and frowned slightly: " Magistrate Lu. "

I met Young Master Qin because of an accident that day, and I never thought that it would be like this if we meet again today.

When Qin Qin heard this, he smiled again: "It turns out that the noble man is the magistrate of Yingping County."

He held on to the old steward's hand and climbed up the stairs. A cough deep in his throat came from the room: "Jizhi, there's someone coming from outside. Guest?"

Lu Jiu'an was shocked. It was so dark in the thatched house that he couldn't see anyone. Is this voice Qin Zhao's?

Qin Qin walked slowly to the edge of the bed: "Big brother, Magistrate Yingping has come to see you for treatment."

It's Qin Zhao. It's true that the emperor has paid off. Lu Jiu'an doesn't know how to describe the excitement at this moment. He just feels God still favored him, and he bowed to the chief of the house: "Ying Ping is in trouble, please ask Qin Gong for help."

"Please come back, Magistrate Lu."

Lu Jiu'an got the same answer, and he was not discouraged: "I think Mr. Qin should know what happened to Yingping. You are now trapped here. If the epidemic is not eliminated, sooner or later this prairie fire will engulf the entire Yingping. In the end, you will not be able to survive alone."

Qin Jizhi's eyes were complicated . Looking at him, the room suddenly erupted into earth-shattering laughter. The laughter slowly stopped after a while.

"Take care of yourself alone, don't take care of yourself alone, Magistrate Lu, the old man is like a clay Buddha and can't save his life. Mr. Lu, I can't help you."

Lu Jiu'an turned a deaf ear and stood in the courtyard with his head lowered. Qin Zhao didn't agree, so he stayed there all the time. Here, until he says yes.

Qin Zhao never showed up, and there was no sound from the house. The two sides were just in a stalemate across a wall. After two hours, Qin Jizhi saw Lu Jiuan and others still standing in the yard. He couldn't help but said: "County Magistrate Lu, you are generous and loving, known for your good governance, and admire your skills, but my father is right, we can't help you, and your persistence here is just a waste of time."

Lu Jiu'an said stubbornly: "Seed If you don't break the ground, you don't know the spring, summer, autumn and winter; if the rivers don't flow eastward, you don't know the mountains and seas. How can I know if I haven't tried it yet? You can't help me."

Qin Zhao sighed and seemed to give in to Lu Jiu'an's persistence: "Ji Zhi, please invite Mr. Lu. Come in."

Mu Lin stayed close to Lu Jiu'an, but Qin Jizhi stretched out his hand to block him: "My father only invited one person, Magistrate Lu. No one else can come in."

Mu Lin put his hand around Lu Jiu'an's waist and said, "I'm not an outsider. I am my wife, and I will never give up on Master Lu."

What time was it? Why couldn't Mu Lin know the time clearly? Lu Jiu'an clapped his hand, gave Mu Lin a vicious look, and followed Qin Jizhi through the door.

"I don't know what is good or bad." Mu Lin muttered.

The room was dark. After Lu Jiuan walked in, he closed his eyes for two seconds to adjust, and his vision gradually became clearer.

The original owner's residence was truly impoverished, with only four walls left. The room is pitifully small in size. It has a kitchen, living room and bedroom all in one, making it a true suite. There was nothing in the room except a lame, broken table.

The wall is made of adobe bricks. It has become full of holes due to years of rain erosion and insects and ants building nests. There is only one window in the wall. The roof is made of straw, which can temporarily protect it from wind and rain. If you live in such a house in winter, you will neither get light nor keep warm.

Since ancient times, it has been easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it has been difficult to move from extravagance to frugality. At first glance, the young master Qin is a person who has been cultivated in a pampered way since childhood. Living in such an environment, it is difficult to protect people's health. Seeing such an environment, Lu Jiu'an had already made plans in his mind on how to persuade the highly respected Imperial Physician Qin to take action.

Until he saw Qin Zhao with blue and white lips lingering on the bed.

Qin Zhao has been in bed for a long time, with a sallow complexion and dry hair. Even so, you can still see the man's youthful demeanor from his warm face. He exerted slight force with his left hand, and when he sat up from the hospital bed, he seemed to be in great pain. .

Lu Jiu'an could see the weirdness of his exertion. It seemed that... he only used half of his body to exert force.

Qin Zhao nodded to Lu Jiu'an: "He is a good man with a clear body and clear eyesight. With you, Ying Ping can bring him back to life."

Lu Jiu'an smiled bitterly: "If Qin Gong doesn't help, Ying Ping needs to be able to recover as before. Pay a heavy price. That is a living life, and this junior dare not despise it."

Qin Zhao tilted his head with an elegant smile: "Didn't Magistrate Lu already guess it? The old man had no use for it. He finally managed to save his life. He can still speak, but he can no longer use his right hand and foot. "

Lu Jiu'an was like a bolt from the blue. Mr. Qin Zhao had suffered a stroke! He was only a young man, but he actually got this disease.

Strokes are common to all kinds of diseases, and their changes vary from severe paralysis to hemiplegia. Most strokes are caused by cerebrovascular diseases and are difficult to cure.

Lu Jiu'an didn't know how to comfort him and mumbled twice, but the gray-haired Qin Qin was in a good mood and in turn persuaded him nicely: "Master Lu, look, our Qin family is so blind and disabled that we are really beyond our capabilities. . But we two old men can see clearly, so there is no need to feel sad."

Qin Qin can't see, and even though his family is in decline, he has never done any rough work, so his old hands are still as good as before, as if they were cultivated by a wealthy family. He has not experienced weather and weather, and his white hair does not match him at all.

He touched Lu Jiu'an's shoulders with such a pair of hands and patted him: "I heard Ji Zhi tell you that this boy is cynical and complains about all things in the world. This is the first time I have heard from him in such a long time. Hearing a word or two of praise."

Qin Jizhi snorted heavily from his nostrils. Qin Zhao shook his head helplessly and smiled apologetically at Lu Jiu'an: "Xiao County Magistrate Lu, it's really impossible to diagnose the old man like this. I haven't practiced medicine for many years, and I have already given birth."

Lu Jiu'an said: "At least let me find a comfortable place for you to nourish your body. This residence is really not suitable for you to recuperate. Please follow me.

" Qin Qin smiled freely and pushed Lu Jiuan out of the door with a slight force on his hand: "No reward for no merit."

When Mu Lin saw Lu Jiuan's appearance, he knew that his trip today was in vain. After hearing what Lu Jiuan said about Qin Zhao Regarding his physical condition, he fiddled with his nails and said in a tone of ridicule or sympathy: "So, it's better to have wine today and get drunk the next day, and be happy as soon as possible."

Lu Qi advised: "Sir, Doctor Shi just asked you to rest more, let's Let's go back to our house and have dinner first."

Lu Jiu'an couldn't help but feel pity when he thought that Qin Zhao would not live until his destiny, but would spend the rest of his life lying in bed.

He felt extremely heartbroken and admired at the same time. He felt heartbroken that Mr. Qin was trapped in a narrow thatched hut without seeing the light of day. How uncomfortable that must be.

When he returned to the county government office, he immediately went to Xie Huailiang's workshop and asked him to cooperate with Carpenter Liang to get a wheelchair out. Lu Jiu'an's idea was that the Qin family saved lives and injured people for half their lives and should not end up like this.

In the Zhou Dynasty, there were wheelchairs, which could only be used by the rich and powerful. If the poor people were disabled, they could only use their hands instead of their legs. Carpenter Liang has been making furniture all his life. He has never seen a wheelchair before. At this moment, he can only let Xie Huailiang give guidance.

Dr. Shi listened to Lu Jiu'an's message in the afternoon and said with regret: "It's really a fate that makes people tick. What a pity."

He thought Lu Jiu'an had given up. Unexpectedly, Lu Jiu'an was not discouraged and rushed off after lunch. Mu Lin He raised his long legs and put them on the door frame to block his way: "One of the old men of the Qin family is blind and the other is disabled. What's the use of you going there."

Lu Jiu'an pulled his thigh away: "Qin Jizhi will inherit the mantle. Doctor Shi said, forget it. He only learned one-tenth of what Qin Zhao did, and he was the best among the doctors in Yingping. If Qin Zhao refused to take action, I would go to Qin Jizhi."

Mu Lin wondered, Qin Zhao claimed that he had not practiced medicine for more than ten years . , how could Lu Jiuan be so sure that Qin Jizhi must have medical skills?

Qin Zhao was equally curious. Lu Jiu'an, who was still unmoved after being rejected repeatedly, asked, "Ji Zhi has never mentioned this matter outside. How did you get it?" Lu

Jiu'an said, "Junior, by chance I got it from Qin Gong's arm."

Qin Zhao lowered his head and looked at the hand that he couldn't move, and suddenly realized. On his arm, there were several tiny needle holes.

Lu Jiu'an confirmed in a tone: "Acupuncture can activate blood vessels. The needle holes on Mr. Qin's arm have not yet closed. I think it was not long ago that the acupuncture was applied. Who else in this house can perform acupuncture on you besides Mr. Ling?"

"Since It would be a pity not to use it if you have the ability to save people. I believe Mr. Qin also thought the same thing when he was guiding Mr. Ling. I beg Mr. Ling to help. "

I don't want Qin Jizhi to be here suddenly. " At this time, he lost his temper and pushed Lu Jiu'an back hard. Lu Jiu'an was unprepared and staggered when he was pushed, almost falling to the ground.

Qin Jizhi's voice broke through the roof, and even Mu Lin and Lu Qi outside the house were startled: "Why is Magistrate Lu so messy and arrogant? He even said that he should not be cured and get out."

Qin Jizhi's reaction fell on Qin Zhao. In his eyes, he felt deeply powerless. He apologized to Lu Jiu'an and recounted the old story: "Magistrate Lu, my family's trick is to express my anger on you. Since you can find the old man here, you should know Under the influence of my ancestors, I was appointed as an official in the Taiyuan Hospital. Not only I, but my younger brother Qin Qin also served with me. However, more than ten years ago, I suffered a disaster because of my poor medical skills, and was issued a decree that our Qin family would not be allowed to die for life. Practice medicine again."

"So it's not that I don't want to do it, it's because I can't disobey the sacred order."

Qin Jizhi was holding his breath and shouted loudly: "Dad, you are not good at medicine. You are obviously being persecuted by traitors. They are right and wrong. Regardless..."

Qin Jizhi's methods were rough and he drove Lu Jiu'an out again with full anger.

Qin Jizhi's distorted face left a deep mark on his heart. He was resentful and full of hatred, but he was just complaining about the unfair treatment of his family, and he could not let go of it for a long time.

Lu Jiu'an was ladling water from a soup bucket to wash his body at night. The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became. There seemed to be a fire burning in his body, driving him to be unable to forget the dead lame old man and the unspeakable grief and anger of Qin Jizhi.

The people of Yingping need the doctor's treatment, and Qin Jizhi needs the salvation of the world.

The autumn rain continued the next day, and Lu Jiuan stood stubbornly in the rain. Lu Qi tried to persuade him to no avail, so he waited with him in the cold wind holding an oil-paper umbrella. The temperature has dropped sharply since the beginning of autumn, and Mu Lin only wore a thin piece of clothing when he went out. Even though he had a strong body, he was still covered in goosebumps.

"I am too lazy to stand outside and accompany you." After Mu Lin said this, he bowed and got into the carriage parked far away.

After noon, the closed door finally opened. Qin Qin was holding his crutches, his eyes were empty and he didn't know where he was falling: "Why is it necessary for Magistrate Lu to do this? Although the emperor should be far away, the emperor has already issued an imperial edict." Now, the minister cannot disobey the order and not respect the Yang and serve the Yin."

Lu Jiuan stood motionless in the courtyard for two hours, his whole body had been soaked from head to toe by the slanting wind and drizzle, even though he was shivering with cold at this moment. His lips were black and blue, but there was still a stubbornness in his voice that refused to admit defeat.

"Human life is at stake. Today, the Holy One loves the people like a son and is a virtuous and holy man. Even if he knew about it, he would definitely not blame you." Lu Jiu'an paused and said, "If the Holy One is responsible for this, I, Lu Jiu'an, will bear the responsibility!"

Lu Jiu'an looked at Qin Jizhi with firm eyes: "Now that Yingping's doctors are at a loss, it's exactly when they need you. I believe you won't stand by and watch indifferently. I know you have good intentions, otherwise you wouldn't have done anything that day. To help."

Qin Jizhi looked away.

Qin Zhao lay on the bed coughing muffledly, but was finally moved by his sincerity.

"Sincerity leads to gold and stone. Magistrate Lu is so persistent. If I refuse blindly, I will appear to be hard-hearted."

Qin Jizhi sadly called out: "Dad..."

Qin Zhao waved his hand: "That's all. , as the little friend said, I have been immersed in medical skills for half my life. Even if I was driven back to Jiangzhou like a lost dog, I never stopped teaching the skills. I only thought that one day I could hang the pot again and come out. I can't do it here. I'll settle it here."

Lu Qi squeezed Lu Jiu'an's hands excitedly. Lu Jiu'an got his wish, a big stone fell in his heart, and he bowed impeccably to the door three times to express his gratitude.

Qin Jizhi and the old steward's son worked together to lift Qin Zhao into the carriage. Qin Qin also got into the carriage with the help of Lu Jiu'an. Qin Zhao sat on the soft stool of the carriage and looked at the carefully decorated surroundings. He knew that he was playing a trick on Lu Jiuan.

He looked at Lu Jiu'an meaningfully: "It turns out that County Magistrate Lu came well prepared. Yesterday he walked on foot, and today he drove a carriage specifically to carry us two old men, right? Are you so confident in convincing us?"

Lu Jiuan Having been exposed, he didn't feel any embarrassment at all. He replied calmly and generously: "If it weren't for the two elders Qin and Mr. Ling who care about all living beings and have benevolent hearts and skills, no matter how sharp my words are, I still won't be able to sway you in the slightest. "

Lu Jiu'an invited back the three living Hua Tuo, and the most excited one was none other than Dr. Shi. Qin Qin's eyes were broken and he could not practice medical consultation. Although Qin Zhao was half paralyzed, he could still see, hear and ask questions. He was sitting in a wheelchair customized by Lu Jiu'an. He could move freely without the help of others, as if he had another body. , I feel that my sword is not old yet, and I insist on returning to the world.

Chapter 047

With the two big mountains of Qin Zhao and Qin Jizhi sitting in battle, Doctor Shi's pressure dropped drastically.

Sitting in a real-time medical consultation with fellow experts, the experience of talking on paper is completely incomparable. Dr. Shi listened to a word or two from time to time, and things that were previously unclear were quickly solved. He is like a young apprentice studying in a master class, and he has benefited a lot at the end of the day.

Man, there really is no end to learning.

Lu Jiu'an saw that the patient's will to survive was in jeopardy because of long-term medical treatment. After consulting Qin Zhao's opinion, he announced that the Qin family had worked in Tai Hospital.

The people thought that the imperial doctor sent by the emperor had arrived. Who is the imperial doctor? He specializes in treating diseases and developing medicines for nobles in the palace. He is an outstanding existence in the entire medical field of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He is just out of reach. Now he appears here. Everyone's lives will be safe.

The power of faith is very powerful. The people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qin Jizhi and Qin Zhao, leaving Qin Jizhi at a loss.

Father and son worked together, and soon the disease was effectively controlled. At least the daily death rate plummeted, and no more patients were taken away and burned because the treatment was ineffective.

After all, Qin Zhao's health was not as good as before. He only went to the clinic for a few days for on-site consultation. After that, he only visited the clinic for an hour every day to observe the symptoms and changes of the epidemic. The rest of the time he stayed in Dr. Shi's pharmacy to prepare prescriptions.

Qin Jizhi is young, but he is better than his master, and his medical skills are superb. It should be said that this is a world based on appearance. Qin Jizhi himself is handsome, and he has a different kind of charm when he concentrates on practicing medicine. Some children and girls who have not left the court like to hang out with him when they have nothing to do, and they are obedient. He gave injections and prescribed medicine. If Dr. Qin were in modern times and wore a white coat, he would charm many people to death.

The residence of the five members of the Qin family was arranged next to Yang Gengqing in the mansion. Lu Jiu'an had another general, and his mood was no longer as heavy and depressed as before.

In the evening, Qin Jizhi took the initiative to talk to Lu Jiu'an. Qin Jizhi had been busy all day without touching his feet. He was exhausted, but felt very fulfilled and satisfied.

In fact, on the surface, Qin Jizhi showed no concern for his reputation and career, but he was determined to work hard to revive the Qin family. The invisible pressure he put on himself was like thorns that whipped him all the time. This was a problem for the Qin family and even the Qin family. Lu Jiuan could faintly notice it.

So when Lu Jiu'an gave him such an opportunity, encouraged him to not be bound by imperial power, and had an attitude of taking all the responsibilities on himself, Qin Jizhi was very moved.

Qin Jizhi brought rice wine and roasted peanuts that were donated by the people, and mixed them with them in a good mood, as if he was ready to have a drink and have a good time tonight.

Lu Jiu'an thought of the scandal that happened after drinking last time, and politely advised: "In this special period, there are many things, so it is not suitable to drink."

Qin Jizhi said: "The woman who gave it to me said that this rice wine has not been brewed for a long time, and it just smells like wine. "I'm a doctor, so I know it's okay."

Lu Jiu'an took a sip carefully. It was indeed not high in alcohol, and it tasted sour and sweet. It was more like a drink than wine, so Lu Jiu'an felt at ease. Boldly clink glasses with Qin Jizhi.

"Magistrate Lu, do you know? I have lived in southern Shanxi since I was a child, and the years have been peaceful and my family has been harmonious. But suddenly one day, my father told me that he wanted to take me back to the place where my great-grandfather lived since he was a child. I don't know what this means yet, I just know that my uncle turned gray overnight, lost his eyesight, and could no longer see his companions around him, and his life has plummeted. "

Qin Jizhi was about to open up to him, and Lu Jiu'an put down the cup temporarily. On the side, his eyes looked straight into the depths of Qin Jizhi's eyes, ready to listen attentively.

Qin Jizhi slowly recalled it, not caring whether Lu Jiuan was listening carefully or not. He seemed to just want to find someone to vent his years of depression. His eyes shimmered: "Later, as I grew older, I found that I My father no longer touches medical classics, and he no longer even uses the precious set of imperial needles given by the previous emperor. I feel very strange. It is normal for my uncle to lose his sight and not be able to practice medicine. Why is it that my father, who is perfectly fine, has also washed his hands and folded his sleeves? "

Qin Jizhi choked slightly when he said this: "My father has been teaching me tirelessly, letting me wake up from three to five every day, and study medicine regardless of rain or shine, but he himself gave up his beloved Xinglin Qihuang. I don't understand. He was so angry in the study room and ripped up many books that he rebelled against the truth before he told me the truth."

Lu Jiu'an reached out and patted his back comfortingly: "Your Majesty is poor and strong, and has no ambition to fall into the clouds. "You have been taught well, and your father is a good father."

Qin Ji said: "If you advance, you will save the world, and if you retreat, you will save the people. If you cannot be a good prime minister, you should also be a good doctor. This is what he has told me these years." I relied on this sentence to survive. Since I can't practice medicine, I will pursue an official career. But as you know, I failed in several scientific examinations because I was holding back a resentment towards the court. The last question always... I can't pass it."

Qin Jizhi smiled bitterly and said self-deprecatingly, "I made you laugh."

After hearing Qin Jizhi's words, Lu Jiu'an got to know him better and admired Qin Zhao and Qin Jizhi even more. "Thousands of sails are passing by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees are growing in front of the diseased trees. You will have a great future in the future."

Qin Jizhi was comforted and felt less uncomfortable. He continued: "Later, my father suffered a stroke. In order to go to the pharmacy to get medicine, we sold all our property, and the family soon became destitute and unable to survive. I secretly went to copy books for people without telling my father, and got to know some talented scholars. One or two, to vent the anger in his heart."

Lu Jiu'an thought, no wonder Qin Ji later became an angry young man. It turned out to be influenced by these "commentary experts". These people usually do not do serious things, but like to do the most. They just stand on the moral high ground and bite everywhere, show their benevolence and morality by blaming others, and fart everywhere, looking sanctimonious.

Fortunately, Qin Jizhi had Mr. Qin Zhao as his father. Otherwise, someone like him who could be easily brainwashed might have turned dark and world-weary long ago.

Lu Jiu'an secretly decided that he must correct Qin Jizhi, lest a promising figure in the medical field be led astray by those bullshit guys.

Lu Jiu'an raised his cup and clinked it with Qin Jizhi. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "It's just that I still don't understand. Why did Qin Gong say that he was in trouble because of his poor medical skills? What happened back then?

" Qin Zhao was pecked in the eye by a goose because he hunted geese all day long. Lu Jiu'an absolutely didn't believe it.

Qin Jizhi shook his head: "I only know that more than ten years ago, a nobleman in the palace was poisoned. It was found out that the medicine prescribed by my father contained an unusual medicinal material. My father said that he clearly deliberately I was told not to mix it with that medicinal material, but why did it appear in the recipe? Huh, didn't someone do it on purpose?"

Lu Jiu'an smelled a hint of conspiracy. He just heard the story from the person involved. Suspected, no wonder Qin Jizhi thought so.

Qin Jizhi slapped the table and said loudly and hatefully: "My father would never have any harmful thoughts, nor would he make such a simple mistake. You said, no one is jealous of my father being a genius and being respected at a young age. Are you deliberately persecuting him?"

Lu Jiu'an shared the same hatred: "That's right, why are these people so bad!"

Qin Jizhi blushed, hesitated for a long time, and summoned the courage to respect Lu Jiu'an: "So Lu County "Ling, I am actually very grateful to you!"

Qin Jizhi finally expressed his gratitude in person, and felt that this feeling was not bad.

Lu Jiu'an put his arms around Qin Jizhi's shoulders and said with a friendly expression: "It's okay, let me be your spiritual tree hole from now on."

Qin Jizhi was confused: "Soul tree hole?"

"That is, I can quietly be a qualified listener. No matter what you have, you can come to me and let me know."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Jizhi frowned and looked at Lu Jiu'an with an ugly expression. Green and white intersect and change back and forth.

Lu Jiu'an thought he had said something wrong, so he came closer and was about to ask, but Qin Jizhi suddenly opened his mouth and spit it out in front of him.

...

There is no need to spit it out so quickly. Lu Jiu'an felt sad inside. Didn't he keep saying he was grateful to me? Why did he vomit when I got close to him?

After Qin Jizhi finished vomiting, he started retching again. Only then did Lu Jiuan feel something was wrong. He patted his back and handed him tea and water. Qin Jizhi drank the water and slowly recovered. He raised his head and looked nervous. He gave Lu Jiu'an a surprised smile, which made him feel cold all over for no reason.

"I know." Qin Jizhi shouted: "There are patients in the isolation point with such symptoms in the past few days. I am infected!"

Lu Jiuan really wanted to touch his forehead and ask him if his head was burned. Why do you still look so excited when you feel like you might be infected?

Qin Jizhi slammed his palms: "I have no clue. Now, I can try the medicine with myself! Good luck and bad luck depend on each other, who knows it's not a turning point!"

Lu Jiu'an's scalp was numb, this medical lunatic.

Lu Jiu'an and Qin Jizhi had been chatting, drinking and pecking each other for so long, so naturally they were not immune. The next day he felt weak all over and his head was dizzy.

Lu Jiu'an immediately cut off his wrist and body, and decided to move into the isolation point and live and eat with the people.

Lu Qi was extremely frightened, worried that he would never come back, so he grabbed his hand and begged: "Sir, can't you just stay in isolation at the county government office? We'll just have no contact with you in the near future. Please don't go, okay?" ?"

Mu Lin was also very upset. He took every precaution, but unexpectedly, one of his own people was in trouble. He glared at Qin Jizhi fiercely, and couldn't help but shudder when he thought of Han Zhi's reaction.

Lu Jiu'an wrapped himself tightly and refused to get close to Lu Qi. He stayed three feet away from him: "The emperor must be guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law. I won't be able to convince everyone if I don't go this time. My dear brother, please go back quickly. "As long as Doctor Qin is here, everything will be fine."

"Then I'll go with you so I can take care of you."

"Nonsense!"

Lu Jiu'an scolded him and left without looking back, leaving Lu Qi behind.

Lu Qi was trembling all over. He wanted to write a letter to the old lady, but he was also afraid of worrying them for no reason. His whole body was shrouded in huge fear, and he was panic-stricken and didn't know what to do.

Mu Lin saw Lu Qi lingering at the door and thought to herself, Lu Jiu'an actually has a loyal and good book boy. The way the two of them get along is that one is not like a master, and the other is not like a servant, but more like a pair of brothers with strong feelings.

What is the charm of Lu Jiu'an, Jiang Yu, Xie Huailiang, and General Han? It actually attracted people around him to pay tribute and look at each other sideways.

Chapter 048

On the second day after Lu Jiu'an stayed at the isolation treatment point, he suddenly suffered from a high fever that wouldn't go away. He was afraid of colds all over his body and had nausea and vomiting. Lu Jiu'an could clearly feel that his body functions were rapidly being lost. He didn't want to do anything but just lie down. Sleep in bed.

As the county magistrate of Yingping, Lu Jiu'an did not want special treatment, but the medical staff tacitly cared for him and took good care of him. There were always people waiting by his side, undressing him, wiping his body and giving him medicine.

Lu Jiu'an took a trip to the gate of hell, thinking that he would not escape death this time. In a hazy state, he suddenly thought of his two sisters in the modern era, and then recalled everything he had experienced in Da Zhou. His overall condition was particularly bad. On the third day, Lu Jiu'an woke up and didn't feel so uncomfortable anymore.

Lu Jiu'an felt frightened when he thought about what happened in the past two days. The epidemic not only attacks people's bodies, but also their psychology. Because the immune system is fighting, some negative emotions take the opportunity to enter. Lu Jiuan's mental state is challenged like never before.

He couldn't describe the feeling. It seemed like the process of cultivators fighting their inner demons in cultivation novels. All the bad thoughts swarmed in, filling your head, trying to devour you. Depression, autism, powerlessness, anger.

Lu Jiuan had no way of imagining the suffering that the people suffered during the epidemic without experiencing it himself. He realized that it was not enough to just treat the physical diseases, but also to treat them spiritually. Soothe.

Mental illness has not been taken seriously since ancient times. Many people spend their lives in pain in an invisible dark room, and some even end their lives early because of it.

Qin Jizhi had been burdened with so much before. Lu Jiuan was worried that it would not be able to withstand the psychological warfare, so he put on thick protective clothing and went to visit the doctor. It turned out that Qin Jizhi had already gone to work even though he was sick. At this moment, he was in high spirits as he said before. The earth knows the medicine with its body and is extremely excited.

Perhaps it was the confession that day that untied the knot in his heart, or perhaps Qin Jizhi's mind was simple and he could clear everything with just one pass. In short, as the leader of this battle, Qin Jizhi was not defeated by the epidemic, which was an unexpected surprise.

During his days at the isolation and treatment site, Lu Jiuan resumed telling Journey to the West. In addition to Journey to the West, he sometimes told other interesting stories to comfort the sick people. Those people are often made to laugh and enjoy themselves.

Lu Jiu'an was not idle at other times. He decided to find some people with relevant interests and expertise to open a psychological treatment center or tree hole class after the people's basic life was guaranteed, specifically to listen to the demands of mental patients.

However, he was not able to understand the combined use of medication for mental patients. He could only leave professional matters to professionals and let Qin Jizhi and others consider it.

He wrote whatever came to mind, and made a rough plan for a psychotherapy clinic, which he would then refine and add later.

Lu Jiu'an didn't know that while he was fighting the disease with Yingping's confirmed patients, Jiangzhou once again sent people to urge him. They packed tightly and rushed into the county government office in full force, but they came to nothing.

The last time the herald returned to Jiangzhou in despair, he was reprimanded by the prefect in front of everyone. He lost all face. However, he kept his official position. This time he would take Lu Jiu'an back no matter what.

He felt that the county magistrate, who looked young and had no hair at all, was really cunning, and actually used a delaying tactic to hold him back. He didn't see anyone this time, so he might be up to something else.

"If you can hide from the first year of junior high school, but not from the fifteenth day, I don't believe that you, County Magistrate Lu, haven't returned to the Yamen Office."

Mu Lin rolled his eyes impatiently: "I said that Magistrate Lu was suffering from an epidemic, but you didn't believe it, No, It's just on the outskirts of the city. Let's go there to find someone."

A few people arrived at the place pointed by Mu Lin with some doubts. They saw that everyone here was wearing heavy protective clothing and masks, and they were walking around in silence with their heads lowered.

The volunteers dutifully stopped them: "The isolation and treatment point is ahead. Don't let anyone else get close to it, as they may easily get infected."

The volunteers asked for the identities of the visitors and reported the situation to Lu Jiu'an through a window.

Lu Jiu'an frowned. What did General Han do outside? He forced the high-ranking officials in Jiangzhou to come down to arrest him again and again. Why did he insist on clinging to him? They all pursued him to the isolation point.

Now that his face was broken, Lu Jiuan was too lazy to pretend. He walked to the door and looked at the herald and others from a distance across a few fields.

The herald was furious: "Lu Jiu'an, do you dare to openly disobey the orders of your superiors?"

Lu Jiu'an spread his hands and said nonchalantly: "I am right here. If you really want to take advantage of me now, just come here. However, Lu Jiu'an will never resist. I'm afraid that you will be infected soon and be left to die in a deserted place with me by the magistrate."

The herald broke a silver tooth.

They had made sufficient preparations, but at this moment they did not dare to step into the area within a few inches of the isolation point. If Lu Jiu'an was alone, even the air in that place would be turbid, and entering the crowds of people full of diseases would be like a sheep entering a pack of wolves, seeking death.

Lu Jiu'an twitched the corner of his mouth sarcastically: "The epidemic is here, and for your safety, I can't bear to obey your orders."

The herald slammed the fine jade in his hand to the ground: "Okay, I do it in your name. , Waiting here, if you want to take someone alive, if you want to see the corpse, " Lu Jiu'an summoned the Yamen servant: "Go to the Yamen office and ask the people in the house to prevent them from entering, just because you

are worried about the safety of the messenger."

The rational people are riding on his face, and he even sweeps the couch to welcome him.

Lu Jiu'an no longer cared about how the group of people danced around, and just concentrated on recovering from his illness and taking medicine. Qin Jizhi's father and son, one was well versed in pharmacology and the other was good at research. Under the premise of personally controlling the changes in the disease, the two communicated in real time. It only took more than ten days to develop a prescription to treat the disease.

"Is this a special medicine?" Lu Jiuan asked, holding the bowl.

"Special medicine? Yes, medicine with special curative effects. Trust me. If you drink it for a few days, you can be sure that the medicine will cure the disease." After Qin Jizhi shared weal and woe with him, the relationship between the two became more and more intimate, and they were already on a first-name basis.

After five days, the effect of the medicine was immediate. People at the isolation treatment point who were in low spirits a few days ago were full of energy today. Lu Jiuan sighed: "The culture of traditional Chinese medicine is really broad and profound."

In order to prevent the disease from being completely eliminated, When the epidemic came back, Lu Jiu'an asked the people to stay at the treatment point for a few more days for observation. After confirming that the epidemic had been stably suppressed, Lu Jiu'an announced: "In the battle against the epidemic, our Yingping people won the final victory!"

Crowds at the isolation point , lingering on the edge of life and death for an unknown length of time, finally turned the corner. Regardless of whether they were men, women, old or young, they knew each other or they didn't know each other. At this moment, they all put aside their secular prejudices and guarding against men and women, hugged each other tightly, cheered and cried with joy.

After a long time, the hugging people let go of each other. Thinking of their family members whom they had not seen for many days, they slowly dispersed from the isolation point.

Lu Qi, who came after receiving the news, threw himself into Lu Jiu'an's arms, hugged his waist and cried loudly. Lu Qi's worries for days turned into hot tears, soaking along Lu Jiu'an's clothes until he reached his skin. Feeling extremely distressed.

This kid really treats Lu Jiu'an as a part of his life.

Mu Lin was still frightened, so he pretended to be nonchalant and teased: "Lu Jiu'an, why don't you comfort your little boy? Lu Qi has not thought about food and tea since you went to quarantine alone. If you continue to cry, you will faint from crying. "

The reunion after a narrow escape is always touching and heart-warming, but there are always a few things that ruin the scenery and break this harmonious scene.

The herald and his entourage waited in Yingping. As soon as the news came out that the epidemic had been completely eliminated and Yingping was unblocked, he came with his people non-stop: "Master Lu, it seems that you have made a great recovery. Since you are already cured, "Then let's settle the score for your disobedience!"

With a look from the herald, the officers with swords immediately came up to hold Lu Jiu'an down. Jiang Yu waited for the guards to stand ready, and they took off their scabbards and surrounded them. Next to Lu Jiuan.

It was such a big piece of dog-skin plaster that I couldn't tear it off. Lu Jiu'an had a cold face and a stern voice: "Since you want to forcefully accuse you, then I will fight with you. The herald kept saying that he came under the order of the prefect. , so far the Japanese official has not seen a word, this is one of them;"

"The disease of my official has not been eliminated, and I am worried about your health, so I would like to postpone it for a while, but you are here to beat the enemy, this is the second one;" "

According to the official system of the Zhou Dynasty, the county magistrate It is stated once a year and tested once every three years. The time has not come yet. You should turn a blind eye to the famine and epidemic before your eyes. You are eating the king's salary and not worrying about the king. You do not prioritize and punish according to the crime. This is why. " Three."

"These three, do you agree or not?"

The herald was so angry that he was juxtaposing several crimes with his eloquent words. He shook his hands and cursed: "Wow, what a eloquent Tanhua." "Lang, I can't help you. Since you don't obey, don't blame me for being rude." The

Saber officer immediately got angry, and Jiang Yu and others were not to be outdone. The two sides fought hard, and the messenger's eyes were red: "Lu Jiu'an, you. Are you going to rebel? The magistrate has the right to kill you and others who are raising troops first."

As soon as these words came out, Lu Jiu'an immediately held down the hands of Jiang Yu and others. The crime of rebellion is not a small one. As the herald said, the prefect has the right to use the excuse of suppression to dispatch soldiers from the guard station to carry out encirclement and suppression.

The herald raised his lips proudly, and the officer with the saber kicked Jiang Yu away and walked behind Lu Jiu'an. The hilt of the sword hit Lu Jiu'an's waist. The officer used all his strength, causing him to groan in pain.

Before Lu Jiu'an could curse his mother, the officer with the saber flew backwards, throwing up dust on the ground.

Mu Lin's eyes were cold: "Let me see who of you dares to take someone in front of me."

It was like a wave of unrest. Seeing that Lu Jiu'an was about to be captured, Cheng Yaojin came out halfway, and the herald looked at this follower. The person who had been watching the show from the beginning said angrily: "Who are you? How dare you yell at me?"

Mu Lin walked slowly in front of him, and suddenly took out the Marquis token from his arms, He hit the herald head-on, causing his nose to bleed, and his face was confused: "Who am I? Open your eyes and see clearly."

The token fell to the ground, and the saber officer picked it up in a hurry. He stood up and handed it to the herald. Unexpectedly, the herald took one look and said with disdain: "It turns out that you are the son of a defeated general of the Mu family. Although you are the prince's son, you are a military general. Since ancient times, military generals have no right to interfere with civilian officials' handling of cases. Otherwise, you will write a letter to the emperor." Shi Tai, I will investigate you for abusing power for personal gain."

After saying that, he came over and pressed Lu Jiu'an forcefully, regardless of Mu Lin's identity and his ugly face for a moment.

There was a lot of commotion between the two sides, and the people of Yingping who had not yet had time to leave watched the whole process. At this time, they saw the vicious group of people tying up their county magistrate with a rope, and a bold woman picked up a stone as big as an egg from the ground. He threw it at the officer with the saber: "You are not allowed to arrest our County Magistrate Lu."

The people around him followed suit. They shared weal and woe with Lu Jiu'an under the same roof. Lu Jiu'an put down his body to comfort them and told them stories to encourage them. In the body, the image of being tolerant and loving the people has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Seeing such a parent officer with his hands and feet tied, people around him picked up the weapons on the ground, trying to protect him with their own strength.

"You corrupt officials usually don't care about the criminals and bandits, but you came here to bully our honest Magistrate Lu."

"Get out of Yingping, Yingping doesn't welcome you."

Suddenly, the herald was not only facing the county government. Everyone, and a circle of hostile people.

The saber officer took out the sharp weapon in his hand and waved it in front of the people. Lu Jiuan was worried that someone would lose his life due to impulsiveness, so he closed his eyes: "You all go home."

The herald sneered sinisterly: "Instigating people to stir up trouble. , the crime will be increased. Lu Jiu'an, this black gauze hat on your head can't be protected."

Lu Jiu'an had his hands tied and said without fear: "People's hearts are made of flesh, and whoever is good for them will naturally know that you have no heart. , so you don't understand." "Now that you are still talking

harshly, I will ask the prefect to cut off your iron teeth and copper teeth first."

Jiu An pulled his hair in front of the horse and handed the other end of the rope to the herald. The herald held the rope with one hand and shook the reins with the other, trying to drag Lu Jiu'an forward on horseback.

Mu Lin had a sinister look on his face. He raised an arm and was about to beat him all over the ground. At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves galloping in the distance. With the smoke billowing, the horse arrived in a blink of an eye. Without waiting for an order, The official scolded him and jumped off his horse.

He kicked the herald hard in the chest. Before any of the surrounding saber officers could stop him, the herald was kicked off his horse and fell to the ground without getting up for a long time.

The visitor didn't stop, and didn't care about the half-dead state of the messenger. He grabbed his face and slapped him hard for more than ten times. Everyone heard the scene crackle, like a bamboo pipe cracking. The herald's cheeks were visibly congested and swollen, and he eventually spat out a mouth full of blood foam. The blood foam was mixed with foreign matter, which turned out to be a broken tooth.

Han Zhi's face was as dark as ink, and his whole body was filled with overwhelming anger and blood. He was like a ghost who had just returned from hell. He slowly looked around the circle of Saber Officers with the eyes of a dead person: "How dare you."

Saber Officers were like Facing a formidable enemy, the person who had captured Lu Jiuan just now pulled out his knife in a trembling voice: "How brave..."

Han Zhi raised the knife and cut off one of his arms. Screaming, covering his bleeding mouth, he knelt on the ground and rolled in pain.

The rest of the people saw the evil star and took action at the slightest disagreement. When they saw him with blood on his face, he looked like a Shura. They roared in collapse and fled in all directions. No one remembered that their boss was still lying on the ground.

Han Zhi turned to look at the herald. The herald was horrified. How could he dare to yell and show his authority again? Han Zhi knocked out a few of his teeth. His words seemed to be wrapped in a cloud of wind: "A thick man rubs his life." ...Don't be fooled."

Han Zhi's voice was covered with ice: "If I don't kill you, you will collude with the bandits to rob the army, and some people will kill you."

The messenger suddenly widened his eyes: "What's wrong with the mud system? Silver?"

Yang Gengqing stepped forward, took out the bright yellow scroll from his arms, and threw it in front of him. The holy scroll rolled twice around his feet, just enough to reveal the jade seal.

"Open your eyes and see clearly. If you can't see clearly, then don't ask for it."

As soon as the jade seal was exposed, the herald couldn't bear to take a closer look. His legs went weak, his face was ashen, and he knelt down. In front of Han Zhi.

"My general is investigating the case of military rations according to the imperial decree. You keep your mouth shut, Lord Magistrate. Unfortunately, he has been arrested and imprisoned a few days ago."

The herald felt a lot cold in his heart. It was over, the matter was exposed, and what awaited him It would be a dead end. Thinking of this, the herald closed his eyes and fainted.

Han Zhi walked up to Lu Jiu'an. The murderous aura in his body had not yet subsided. The people around him were trembling. Han Zhi untied the rope from Lu Jiu'an's hand and rubbed a red mark on his wrist. , with a face filled with distress: "I'm late."

Lu Jiu'an shook his head: "Thankfully I have you, otherwise I would have suffered a great crime. These bastards actually threaten the helpless common people, and they are worthy of being officials. "

Jiang Huwei and the Yamen were waiting for an opportunity when the Saber Officer was escaping. They had no worries, and the group of people were frightened by Han Zhi. They easily tied up the Saber Officer and pushed him back. At this moment, Kneel on the ground and wait.

"What to do with these people?" Lu Jiu'an asked.

Han Zhi said coldly: "Take him to the prison. I was worried about your accident and took the first step. Governor Shi is on his way here and will probably arrive tomorrow. He is the Supervisor and Censor, and he will be responsible for hearing this case."

Chapter 049

After more than half a year, this case of missing military rations that spanned floods and famines came to an end together with the epidemic.

The military ration case was investigated from top to bottom. More than 100 people were involved in the case, and all of them were arrested. Han Zhi told Lu Jiuan the whole story.

It turned out that the day after Han Zhi and Yang Gengqing tracked down the pamphlet, they went to these county governments one by one to investigate, and found a common situation: the granaries of these county governments were very sufficient, and it really didn't seem like there were repeated crop failures. of reserves.

The two people immediately thought of the missing batch of military rations, and a bold guess arose in their minds.

In order to confirm these ideas, Han Zhi and Yang Gengqing followed the example of the thief in Yingping's study that night and sneaked into the county magistrate's offices recorded in the books to find out whether there were account books and evidence of contact with Jiangzhou. Of course the evidence was not found and should have been destroyed in time.

In the end, only Yingping County was left without a search. The two ran for so many days and found nothing.

Lu Jiu'an had just taken office this year and had absolutely nothing to do with this matter. Han Zhi believed in him and his own vision of people.

Is there no other way? Of course, there is one person left, that is, the previous county magistrate of Yingping County, who was transferred to other state capitals before Lu Jiuan.

Han Zhi remembered that Lu Jiu'an said that he was happy when he took office as the county magistrate. Now it seems that he is not happy because he is leaving this barbaric place, but because he is happy to finally be able to escape from this whirlpool.

Han Zhi and Yang Gengqing traveled day and night to his jurisdiction. When they arrived, the county magistrate was lying in the gentle countryside, drunk and dreaming.

Yang Gengqing knocked out a room of beautiful concubines amidst the screams one after another, and searched his room openly. In just one stick of incense, I easily found what I wanted.

This pleasure-seeking and cautious magistrate was afraid that one day the matter would be revealed and someone would take the blame, so he disguised his account books and correspondence as words of a private meeting with a beautiful woman, wrapped them in his concubine's bellyband, and hid them in a pile Between the pink and green belts, they thought that one day they would be able to prove to themselves that they were forced and ordered by senior officials who used their power.

The county magistrate was kidnapped by Wuhua Da and taken to his own prison. When he woke up, he was frightened by Yang Gengqing with an imperial edict, and Han Zhiqing, who looked like the king of hell, stared at him eagerly. The other party was afraid of being beheaded, so he poured out all the secrets about Jiangzhou like beans.

The entire province of Jiangzhou has been unable to make ends meet in recent years, and the economy has been depressed. Grain dealers took advantage of the opportunity and secretly stockpiled grain in the early stage, then raised prices later. The prefects and county offices did not foresee this situation in advance, and even did not issue policies to control it in advance. In the past two years, grain prices have remained high.

Later, when the officials wanted to force grain merchants to lower prices, they had no choice. Those grain merchants would rather rot the rice in the granary than sell it at a low price.

The people's crops have failed and they cannot afford to buy food. The entire Jiangzhou is already showing signs of falling apart.

After picking up such a big basket, coupled with the temptation of the sky-high price of food, and considering that Jiangzhou is located in a remote location, a long distance away from the imperial city of southern Shanxi, I unknowingly had other thoughts.

This year, after the prefect learned about the route taken by the transshipment envoy to escort the military rations, the magistrate secretly contacted the mountain bandits to cooperate. The two parties should cooperate internally and externally. The government officials would inquire about the information, and the bandits would intervene to intercept. After the matter was completed, the military rations would be divided equally. .

According to the secret message provided by the government, the bandits set up an ambush halfway. As expected, they passed by a mountain col and waited for a group of people escorting the army rations. The bandits were cruel, killing all the escorts and then dumping their bodies in the lake. The whole process was undetected except for those who knew the inside story.

It was not until the army rations could not wait for a long time that the transfer envoy noticed that something had changed and reported it to the court.

The prefect of Jiangzhou received so much food at once, and had already thought about the future. He threatened and lured, promised huge benefits, found several partners, built plank roads openly and secretly, and finally prepared to choose a suitable time to use others. In the name of buying and selling this grain, he made profits from it.

It has to be said that these people took the risk to target military rations. They were blinded by lard and acted daringly.

Originally planning to take the crying magistrate to arrest Jiangzhou, Han Zhi was worried that the prefect Tongpan and others were cunning and had plans for him. So he took a detour and went to several other county government offices. He repeated his old trick. He first presented his identity as a general and His Majesty's imperial edict, and then announced that the Jiangzhou magistrate had arrested him. With threats and deceptions taking turns, these people were all recruited.

With all the witnesses and material evidence in hand, the situation for the Jiangzhou magistrate was over. When Han Zhi rushed to Jiangzhou, he met Governor Shi Liu Shanqing who had already arrived to investigate the case. As soon as the two parties gathered and communicated, Han Zhi learned that the imperial court had not only allocated food relief, but also A lot of relief money was allocated, and after layers of exploitation, there was not much left in Jiangzhou. In the end, what was left was annexed by the prefect.

The military rations and relief rations were directed at the same group of people. The upright left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate became furious and forced several high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Jiangzhou to the lobby for interrogation all night long. The truth at the end of the interrogation shocked everyone who was listening to the interrogation.

It turns out that the prefect and the bandits had colluded for a long time. They usually teamed up to rob passing merchants, and later targeted the local rich. Finally, they became more and more courageous, and because they were greedy, they actually targeted the court's supplies.

The two cases involved pulling out the carrots and bringing out the mud. Not only Jiangzhou, but also the officials were involved. It is conceivable that when the whole case comes to Datian to hear, Xiaochen will be shocked.

Lu Jiu'an ate a big mouthful of melon and was dumbfounded. However, there was one thing he still didn't understand: "Let the governor of Jiangzhou be greedy. Why are you clinging to me? How incompetent am I? I haven't done anything." , which caused this group of people to come and make fun of you every day."

Han Zhi showed a rare laughable smile: "Because you have used up all the food they worked so hard to get, of course they want to eat your blood and sleep on your skin. "

Lu Jiu'an was stunned: "You mean...the ones in the granary..."

When Lu Jiu'an said this, he suddenly realized that these grains were originally shipped to the frontier for Han Zhi, and he couldn't help but think. The conversation changed: "You are not guilty if you don't know. You have used it all, and I will not pay it back to you. Besides, these grains are distributed to the hungry people, so they are well used."

Lu Jiu'an said confidently, like a Han Zhi said helplessly: "I never asked you to return the old hen that was protecting the food. After so long, the imperial court has already allocated the second batch of military rations to be shipped to the battlefield."

Lu Jiuan blushed and realized that he had overreacted. , he quickly changed the subject: "I gave it to them, and it would be useless for them to arrest me. If I had gone to report my work, what would they use to convict me? I can't help but accuse myself of using the military rations they stole, right?" Han Zhi shook his head: "

I was also careless. I just wanted to end the case as soon as possible. But these people were so impatient that they came to the base camp shouting to catch the thief. At that time, when I found your former county magistrate, they had already noticed it. , I guess there is a nail buried there. In addition, when the news came that Governor Shi Xia was handling the case in Jiangzhou, he rushed to the hospital because of his illness, trying to drag you into trouble, or simply push you out as a shield to give them more time to destroy the evidence. "

"One more thing." Han Zhi's eyes narrowed: "Every action you take is too honest and honest. You can't collude with them at first glance. Since you have different ways and don't conspire with each other, you naturally have to get rid of them quickly."

Yang Gengqing has been quiet all the time . Standing next to him, he suddenly answered: "The general and I only learned after the magistrate was interrogated that he sent a team of troops to Yingping more than half a month ago to forcibly arrest Mr. Lu, regardless of life or death. The general is worried Mr. Mu Xiaohou couldn't protect you and was so anxious that he said goodbye to the governor that day and ran all the way for fear of hearing bad news when he came back."

Lu Jiu An was moved. Han Zhi straightened his thin lips and looked at Mu Lin with a blank look on his face. He said with an expression: "I originally thought you would be of some use."

Mu Lin yelled: "I'll take action if you don't come. Who told you to strike at such a precise time? If I take action, he won't be able to wake up for three days."

He was poked in the painful spot by the herald, and he almost missed it at that moment A murderous intention arose.

Lu Jiu'an sighed: "Ying Ping is so poor, why do they still focus on me?"

"Are you so confident that you don't have any doubts about the people in your house?"

Lu Jiu'an suddenly became suspicious after he reminded him. Cong Sheng pulled out all the people who had come into contact with Yingping County Government and filtered it through his head. He suddenly paused and asked in a low voice: "Guo Wen?"

Han Zhi nodded approvingly, and Lu Jiu'an looked melancholy: "No wonder They have repeatedly stopped me from opening a warehouse to provide food relief. Now that I think about it, the first time I mentioned that Zuo Mingyang, the current warehouse master, took me to check the grain storage, his expression was not right. Oh, what a pity. In fact, I have felt that he has been there recently. He's very capable."

"You can't use people with secret intentions."

"I know, I just feel that when everything finally comes to an end, it's time to prepare for the battle, and there is one less person in my hand. I always feel a little powerless against someone who knows everything about me. "

Guo Wen will definitely step down in this matter. If he falls, Lu Jiu'an will have to promote him among the remaining people. This selection will be another big problem, Lu Jiu'an thought. After thinking about it, I felt that this matter needed more consideration. The chief registrar was equivalent to the second-in-command of the county government, so he should not make a decision easily.

When Lu Jiu'an was thinking about something, Han Zhi looked at him intently. Lu Jiu'an suddenly realized something. Han Zhi had investigated the military ration case, and he should be returning to the border soon. Just thinking about it, Lu Jiu'an I felt extremely reluctant to give up.

This man had been his instructor for so long. No matter what decision he made or what his plan was, Han Zhi supported him without saying a word and even paid attention to his safety at all times. He gave him soft armor that he had used for a long time. he.

The more Lu Jiu'an thought about it, the sadder he became. Unknowingly, his tone became particularly low: "Brother Han, the military rations are in trouble. What are your next plans?"

Han Zhi said: "Yang Gengqing will take my order to set off to the border tomorrow to mobilize a cavalry. " Snow and the army come to Yingping, I will wipe out all the bandits in Jiangzhou. "

I will clear all the obstacles on the road for you, so that you can fully display your talents and ambitions."

Lu Jiu'an's eyes lit up: "I thought you were going back to the border."

"You're going to stay here for a while."

"Okay, he raided the bandit's den, and he actually robbed me." Han Zhi got it Lu Jiu'an was happy after personally promising not to leave. He complained to General Han about his being robbed when he was in office: "When the time comes, capture all those people and work hard for me as cows and horses, and only give them one meal." Rice!"

Speaking of eating, Lu Jiu'an's stomach growled in response to the situation. He pressed his stomach with embarrassment and said, "I can only drink some light porridge during my illness. I'm starving. Let's go eat first. "

A few people walked towards the dining room talking and laughing. On the way, they met Qin Jizhi, who had been specially found. The disease was eliminated, and he came to say goodbye to Lu Jiu'an at the request of Qin Zhao.

What's going on? Lu Jiuan took long strides to chase after him.

"Ji Zhi, please stay..." Before Lu Jiu'an finished speaking, his face turned pale, he covered his waist and bared his teeth.

"Jiu'an, what's wrong with you?" Qin Jizhi immediately turned around and stepped forward quickly, "Have you been injured by the handle of the knife before? Go back to the house and let me help you take a look."

"It's okay, it's okay. I turned too fast just now. Pulled."

Han Zhi's face turned ugly. He held Lu Jiu'an's arm and pulled him to his side. He stared at Qin Jizhi expressionlessly: "Jiu'an, who is this?"

He has only been away from the Yamen for more than a month. Such a person suddenly appeared next to Lu Jiu'an. The way this person looked at Lu Jiu'an and the affectionate name Lu Jiu'an called him made Han Zhi feel nameless anger welling up in his heart.

Qin Jizhi looked at Han Zhi with the same hostility, and then his eyes fell on the hand on Lu Jiuan's arm.

Lu Jiu'an didn't notice the undercurrent between Han Zhi and Qin Jizhi, and introduced the two to each other smoothly: "This is Qin Jizhi, the doctor who made great contributions to this epidemic I mentioned to you, and this is Zhenyuan General Han Zhi."

Qin Jizhi came over and looked at him condescendingly: "I am a doctor, let me see the injury on your waist."

"No, I have been marching and fighting all the time, and I am always prepared for injuries. The medicine is very effective." Han Zhi answered for Lu Jiuzhi, without even looking at Qin Jizhi's ugly face, he circled Lu Jiuzhi's waist and pushed him into the room.

"Brother Han, no need, I'm a real man. It's just a small injury. Didn't you see that I was still fine just now?"

"Some injuries are nothing on the surface, but you will feel uncomfortable later. You should take them off or I can help you take them off." "

Lu Jiu reassured him: "There's really no need..."

Han Zhi stretched out his hand without saying a word. Lu Jiu'an didn't break it. He stepped back a few steps and raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, I'm not like that." It's normal for a pretty girl with tender skin and tender flesh to get hurt, so I just took it off."

Lu Jiu'an had already taken off his clothes twice in front of Han Zhi, and once he almost walked away, but now he took off his clothes without any hesitation. He took off his outer shirt and inner lining in one swift movement.

"A little further down, it's blocked."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jiu'an pulled his clothes down again, exposing his entire waist.

Lu Jiuan's waist was covered with a large mass of blue and purple, mixed with a little bloodshot, like a piece of fine jade stained with flaws. Han Zhi's eyes darkened: "I just thought that person just pulled your hair and tied you up." "Hand."

Lu Jiu'an heard what he said: "Brother Han, are you so protective of me?"

Han Zhi took out the medicine and applied it to the scar, and kneaded it vigorously on his waist. There were cries of pain and the sound of a bench falling.

"Hey... Brother Han, be gentle... be gentle."

"Be good and don't move. You have to rub the bruises away to heal quickly."

After a while, the door to the room opened. Lu Jiu'an's hair was messy and he helped him. Han Zhi and Han Zhi walked out one behind the other with their waist bared and their teeth bared.

Mu Lin raised his eyebrows meaningfully, and Qin Jizhi's face became somber that it was about to drip.

Lu Jiu'an walked up to Qin Jizhi and couldn't help but grab his hand: "Ji Zhi and Qin Gong are really out of touch. Am I the one who waits to cross the river and tear down the bridge? You just stay in my house. Since you have already crossed the river, After the doctor has asked for medicine, there is no difference between once and countless times. Continue your journey of saving lives and healing the wounded, and don't bury your talents."

Lu Jiu'an repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, and then went to see Qin Zhao. Qin Zhao was upright and unwilling to give up. Being favored for no reason, Lu Jiu'an said: "The county government will need to recruit more people in the future. They will have to increase their training to avoid injuries. Please sit here for consultation, so you don't have to go out to see a doctor every time."

Lu Jiu'an compared his feelings with his own. , throwing out such a reason, relieved the Qin family from worrying about being under someone else's roof. The Qin family couldn't refuse and never mentioned leaving again.

On the second day, the governor Liu Shanqing came to Yingping on a tall horse, followed by about ten followers. Lu Jiuan came to greet him wearing an official hat and light green official robe.

It is said that the appearance comes from the heart. Liu Shanqing has resolute features, clear eyes, and a straight back while sitting on the horse. The whole person exudes an upright, selfless and extraordinary demeanor from the inside out.

Guo Wen followed Lu Jiu'an, and his heart pounded when he saw Liu Shanqing. He didn't even know that he had been exposed, so he saluted Lu Jiu'an with a lucky mentality.

Liu Shanqing is a neat person. As soon as the two parties met, Liu Shanqing went about business and said he would first look at the current disaster and resettlement situation in Yingping County.

Zhao Laosan led the way. He chose a thorough route and took Liu Shanqing to the outskirts of the ward and isolation treatment point. Although there was no one here anymore, the infrastructure was still there and you could still see Traces of recent use.

"Ying Ping suffered from an epidemic. I wrote down the situation and handed it over in a note before. The situation was critical. Fortunately, Ying Ping's doctors sacrificed their lives at the critical moment to resolve the crisis." Lu Jiu'an explained as he walked.

Then Zhao Laosan took the people to several tents housing the refugees. There was a large pot not far from the tents, which was steaming gurglingly. A few people glanced at each other from a distance. The government officials were maintaining order with a kind attitude. Occasionally they would see one or two people with mobility difficulties and would go over to help them. The refugees queued up to receive porridge in an orderly manner, holding bowls in hand.

They led the porridge back to the tent. When passing by Lu Jiu'an and others, a middle-aged man greeted Lu Jiu'an with a grin on his face and said, "Master Lu, have you recovered from your illness? I heard that you are also suffering from the disease. All of us." I'm very worried. Have you eaten?"

Lu Jiu'an said in a gentle tone, "Not yet. Let's go back to the house to eat."

Liu Shanqing glanced at their bowls. The porridge in it is very thick, and some green vegetable leaves and minced meat are added.

Lu Jiu'an and others were escorted by the refugees and left. Zhao Laosan took them to see the granary and finally returned to the county government from the market.

The people living on both sides of the market are local people. They were very obedient and kept in isolation at home. They rarely went out when they had nothing to do. In addition, the government officials visited their homes every day to greet them and take care of their physical conditions, so there were only a handful of people who were sick. number.

They recognized and thanked the county magistrate from the bottom of their hearts, and their attitude towards the government officials also changed greatly. So along the way Lu Jiuan walked, many people greeted him cordially, and some people took out eggs and fruits from home and forced them into the hands of Lu Jiuan and the government officials.

"The eggs laid by the old hens at home are very nutritious. Magistrate Lu has lost weight, so he needs to eat more."

"I chose the big fruit that I just picked. Magistrate Lu and all the officials must taste it. " At first glance, there are floods and epidemics. You have worked hard during this time."

The group of people turned around and ran away after giving them the things, fearing that Lu Jiu'an would return the gifts to them.

"How did this happen?" Lu Jiu'an was deeply moved, but at the same time he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Just take it, Magistrate Lu. These things are not valuable, but they represent the thoughts of all of us."

Liu Shanqing watched all this intently. The sincerity on the people's faces cannot be faked. Lu Jiu'an is We have truly made it possible for the government and the people to work together, regardless of you or me.

When a few people arrived at the gate of the county government office, Lu Jiuan and the government officials were filled with enthusiastic people, and there was no room left in their hands. When the disciple saw this, he went to find about ten boys in the house before moving the things away.

"They are all local specialties. You pick up a few, wash them, and serve them to the adults who have come from afar to have a taste. The others are sent to the four refugee camps, and they are said to have been kindly donated by the local people."

Lu Jiuan said . Liu Shanqing came to the table and reported to him everything he had done since the flood. He also brought over the case files and ledgers for him to review.

Liu Shanqing read all the accounts at a glance. In fact, there was no need to read them in detail. What could be more real than what he saw and heard along the way? Liu Shanqing had a clear judgment in his heart when he was on the road. , look at these, it's just a formality on the surface.

Young people are full of vigor and ambition, but it is inevitable that their actions will be biased because of their youth and lack of experience.

This young man was relegated to a remote place when he was in his prime. Instead of being frustrated and depressed, he was fearless in the face of danger and was able to resolve crises that would be considered desperate for experienced people. In fact, It's amazing.

Liu Shanqing glanced at Lu Jiu'an approvingly, with a satisfied smile on his face: "In this disaster in Jiangzhou, all other counties suffered a huge loss of lives and heavy casualties. Only the Yingping you govern can not only help the people and bring peace to the people, but also bring peace to the people." There is still room to accommodate the refugees from other counties. Yes, the saint has an impermanent heart and has the people's heart at heart. After this incident, I will report it to the emperor realistically and ask for your favor."

Lu Jiu'an received such a high evaluation. Frightened: "Master Liu is ridiculous. I am just seeking my position and doing what I can."

"When civil servants and military generals work hard for the survival of mankind, most people can cling to their own lives. Isn't this what we, as courtiers and parents of the people, are meant to fight for?"

Liu Shanqing's eyes were shaken, and Lu Jiu'an's casual words pierced his heart. There are thousands of people in the world who claim to have compassion for the common people, but there are very few people who have such awareness and broad-mindedness.

Liu Shanqing was silent for a long time. After a while, he patted his shoulder and said lovingly: "No wonder that little old man Luo Jinshen always talks about you as a student. Today, I saw that you are really different from other students." No. "

Luo Jinshen?" Lu Jiu'an vaguely recalled that he seemed to be Luo Xueshi who had reviewed his red papers during the rural examination. The examiners of the rural examination were divided into three waves. After the candidates answered, they would name and copy the papers with the examiners from the outer curtain, and then submit them to the inner curtain. After preliminary review by the examiner, good test papers will be submitted to the examiner for marking.

Passing the examination is a major event of a lifetime, so there is a customary rule that has been inherited to this day. The co-examiner will nominate himself as the room master of the successful candidate, and the examiner will be the seat master.

If you become an official in the imperial court in the future, you will have to bow to your teacher when you meet, and the teacher will also give you some advice.

Luo Jinshen had such a young talent in his hands, so he was naturally delighted and mentioned himself as Lu Jiu'an's mentor.

Serving his teacher is like serving his father. Lu Jiu'an considered his reply: "How is the teacher recently?"

When it came to Luo Jinshen, Liu Shanqing had many close relatives with him: "It's very good. When I set off, Mr. Luo was still very upset. You came to my house and said that you are not a creature of the pond, so I must take good care of you. You don't need to take care of you. The imperial doctor sent by the emperor is still on the way, and you have already eliminated the epidemic in Yingping."

Lu . Jiu'an felt ashamed: "I don't dare to take credit, because there is someone else."

Lu Jiu'an called Zhao Laosan and asked him to invite Qin Zhao and Qin Ji. Liu Shanqing was also curious about the person Lu Jiu'an said was the most important person. When he saw the person coming, Liu Shanqing was startled: "Qin Imperial Physician?"

Qin Zhao bowed slightly: "It has been many years since ordinary people stepped down from the post of Imperial Physician. I dare not take it."

When it comes to the age of becoming an official, Qin Zhao sought a job earlier than Liu Shanqing. When Qin Zhao entered and left the palace, Liu Shanqing was still a small official and was not even qualified to enter and exit the side door of the court. No. He also heard about what happened to Qin Zhao back then.

Lu Jiu'an had long expected that the two might know each other, and was fully prepared for this. He took off his black gauze hat and placed it on the desk in front of everyone present. He also took the appointment document and placed it neatly next to the hat. He gave an impeccable and profound bow to the left deputy governor and governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Liu Shanqing was a little confused: "What does Magistrate Lu mean by this?"

Lu Jiu'an didn't even raise his head, leaving only the back of his head: "The official is guilty."

Liu Shanqing asked curiously: "What crime does Magistrate Lu have?"

Lu Jiu'an said With an upright attitude and a generous face, he went to death and said to himself: "The official has three crimes. The epidemic is coming fiercely, but the official can't find even a single doctor in Yingping who can cure it. This is a crime of incompetence. I heard that Mr. Qin Mr. He Ling has the talent to save the world, but the lower official ignores their wishes and threatens them with their benevolence and justice and the lives of the people, and kidnaps them for medical treatment. This is a selfish crime. Mr. Qin and Mr. Ling stated the reasons for their rejection. The official committed the crime knowingly, and this is a crime of disregarding the holy will. The lower official will be dismissed from his post and will be punished for his crime. "

Liu Shanqing held his short beard and laughed loudly. This County Magistrate Lu is really interesting. Every sentence is self-evidently guilty, and every word is consistent with benevolence, justice and morality. On the surface, they are listing the charges, but in fact, they are retreating in order to advance, and they are justifying everything.

Liu Shanqing had laughed enough, and looked at Lu Jiu'an as if he were looking at a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers: "You, I already understand what your intention is. I am not an unreasonable person. This epidemic has caused Qin What the imperial physician does is a loyal act, and the merits and demerits should be equal to each other. I will go to the court to intercede for them."

Lu Jiu'an was overjoyed and flattered him: "Master Liu is considerate and fair in law enforcement. I admire

him ." Shanqing's face turned solemn at this moment: "Now that we've talked about the commendation, let's talk about punishment. Where is Guo Wen?"

Guo Wen's whole body was shaken, and he thought that he had not escaped, and he had a bitter look on his face. , walked out of the queue: "The villain is here."

"You colluded with the Jiangzhou magistrate and acted as a collaborator. Although you did not directly participate in the military grain robbery case, you knew and broke the law afterwards and provided convenience for others. Now we will arrest you. , and we will interrogate him together in the future."

After Liu Shanqing finished speaking, a follower took the wooden shackles that had been prepared and put them in Guo Wen's hands. Guo Wen couldn't help but look at Magistrate Lu, praying with his eyes, and Lu Jiu'an sighed. Tone: "If I had known today, why bother? You are a person of great ability. I originally planned to focus on training you in the future. Now that you have gone astray, repent in prison and start a new life. When you return one day, you will see It's a different Yingping."

Lu Jiu'an wanted to stay with the governor for dinner, but Liu Shanqing waved his hand and refused: "The governor has other county offices to leave, so I will take the first step. I hope I can come again in the future. , as you said, I can see the brand-new Ying Ping."

Lu Jiu'an carried a basket of fruits that his servants had washed and prepared and sent them to the gate: "Master Liu, the county government is poor now and there are no expensive gifts to give. I can only express my gratitude to the people."

Liu Shanqing accepted the basket of huge and plump fruits and left in the breeze. When the figure was about to disappear at the corner of the street, Liu Shanqing suddenly turned around and said loudly, "By the way, Magistrate Lu. I forgot to tell you, I see that your granary is running low, so there is no need to worry, the food relief fund will follow me and will arrive tomorrow."

Liu Shanqing's arrival not only relieved Qin's worries before leaving . He also left an exciting message, which was really an unexpected surprise. Lu Jiuan said:

It doesn't matter if you walk a few more times!

Chapter 050

On the second day, relief arrived as promised. Along with the arrival of this batch of supplies, there were also appeasement envoys sent by the imperial court.

During the epidemic, due to the free provision of food, most of the granaries were used. Lu Jiuan was worried that he would not be able to survive the epidemic. Now this batch of food and clothing is like a timely help.

As the weather gets colder, tents are no longer able to keep people warm. Shop construction has restarted, and the policy of distributing free supplies to the people has been readjusted to the work-for-relief policy before the epidemic.

At this time, Lu Jiuan sent an invitation to the people who came to Yingping.

Anyone who is willing to stay in Yingping can hold Yingping's household registration unconditionally and be exempted from taxes and corvee for two years.

In addition, people are encouraged to open up wasteland and level the land to provide ample resources, but a lot of land has not been effectively used. If people cultivated land by themselves during this period, they could apply to the local Li Zheng, who would then report it step by step. The county government would send people to measure the area and location of the land, and after completing the procedures, the land could be owned by that person.

From the perspective of China's five thousand years of history, economic development is the last priority. The Zhou Dynasty is a country based on agriculture. Developing agriculture first, and having enough food for the people is the top priority.

After Guo Wen was taken away, Lu Jiuan had no one available for him. The task of handling the documents temporarily fell to Lu Qi. He drafted a document and gave it to Lu Jiuan to read first. After Lu Jiuan approved it, Zhao Jiuan passed it. Lao San, the leader of the yamen team, posted it at the gate of the county town.

The people and even the refugees have become accustomed to the notices posted in the county. According to past experience, Yingping's notices symbolize good things to come.

So as soon as Zhao Laosan retreated, the crowd of onlookers swarmed in, and then they rushed to tell each other what was on the notice.

A young couple was lagging behind with their three children. Forced by the situation that day, in order to save the lives of their children, they reluctantly took their children to the street and sold them at low prices. The county magistrate stopped him and got some advice, so he left the other three children to avoid the pain of separation.

Their family is now living in a homeless shelter, and the five of them occupy two bunk beds.

During the day, the children can be handed over to the care of the government officials who are responsible for this. The children gathered there are half-grown children. Some are lonely without their elders, and some are sent here on their own initiative like them. The children can Enjoy free meals provided by the county government.

The couple went to the construction site to find some simple jobs and earn some money. In the evening, I went to take the child back to the storage room.

The oldest of the children is only seven years old, and the youngest is less than four years old. They are ignorant and just join in the fun. The crowd around him exclaimed with joy, and they also clapped their hands and giggled.

From the conversation around them, the couple heard what was on the notice: "It's up to you to decide whether the head of the house will stay or leave."

The man hugged the youngest Tian Shitou and answered without hesitation: "The house in my hometown has collapsed. Just stay in Yingping, and we will work hard to redeem the eldest daughter."

When the woman heard this, her tears couldn't stop flowing down. She nodded fiercely: "Well, let's work harder and cultivate some land. acres of wasteland and start a new life in Yingping. "

The same conversation happened among different families. Without exception, they all chose to stay in Yingping. Of course, there were a few who were reluctant to leave their homeland and planned to finish their work in Yingping and buy some food for the winter. , go home to prepare for next year's farming.

Lu Jiu'an held a household registration book full of names, and excitedly whispered to Han Zhi: "Brother Han, it's so exciting, so many people have come to Yingping. It's no longer a deserted land, thanks to you for doing it in the first place. I advertised to attract so many people."

The heat of Lu Jiu'an's words sprayed on Han Zhi's ears and neck, causing Han Zhi's eyes to be filled with uncontrollable fire. He said hoarsely: "If it weren't for it. Jiu'an worked hard, but it's useless even if people come, they will leave sooner or later."

Lu Jiu'an was immersed in the excitement of planning and did not notice that Han Zhi's expression was very different from usual. He pushed Han Zhi aside: " Brother Han, please give in. I want to record this glorious scene. This is the starting point for me to set sail."

As Lu Jiu'an's body bumped into him, Han Zhi felt a surge of heat and a faint fragrance . Come on, Lu Jiu'an hit him with such force that it was like scratching someone's back, and Han Zhi held down Lu Jiu'an's waist with his backhand.

The injury on Lu Jiu'an's waist has healed. When he grabbed his waist, there was no pain, only itching. Lu Jiu'an stepped away and looked at him with clear black and white eyes, as if asking him what he was doing.

The door of the study room was wide open. When Qin Jizhi arrived, he encountered such a scene.

The loud banging of the door on the wall broke the charm of this room. Han Zhi was unhappy at first. When he saw that the person coming was Qin Jizhi, he felt even more unhappy. He frowned and looked at Qin Jizhi like a torch.

"It is inconvenient to meet guests when discussing official business."

Not to be outdone, Qin Jizhi retorted: "I come to Jiu'an, what does it have to do with General Han?"

He was worthy of being a young angry young man, and even General Zhenyuan dared to quarrel with him.

Lu Jiuan, a straight man, finally noticed the secret tit-for-tat between the two.

They are both leaders in their respective fields, and they should be sympathetic to each other, but why are they so tense when they meet each other not long ago.

Lu Jiu'an was puzzled. He tapped the table with his fingers and drew the two people's attention back: "Brother Ji, what do you want from me?"

Qin Jizhi said: "I heard that Jiu'an is encouraging refugees to register in Yingping. My father and uncle After discussion, I want to stay here." When

Lu Jiuan heard this, he had no time to think about the unhappiness between the two of them.

Yingping is not only short of people, but also of this kind of special high-level talents. The Qin family's ancestral home is in Jiangzhou. Now the imperial court has allocated disaster relief materials and distributed them in various counties in Jiangzhou. No matter how you look at it, this family is bound to go back. .

He was just thinking about what words to use to persuade Qin Jizhi and Qin Zhao's family, but he didn't expect them to stay here voluntarily, which was really what they wanted.

Lu Jiu'an was greatly moved, and at the same time he realized that he only considered attracting more people, why didn't he think about Yingping's poverty and poverty. Ordinary people may want to have a good county magistrate and stay, those who are talented and skilled. , as long as food and clothing are taken care of, it won't be the same everywhere, so why should you choose Yingping?

It seems that he has to learn from the policies of various provinces in his original world in order to retain talents.

Lu Jiu'an turned his head and suddenly thought of a particularly attractive method, but Qin Zhao still needed to agree to cooperate.

Lu Jiu'an immediately took Qin Jizhi to find his father, Han Zhi, the dignified general of Zhenyuan. He was strategizing on the battlefield and scolding Fang Qiu. He would not be overjoyed easily on weekdays. Now that he was left alone in the study, he could only feel a wave of pain coming out of his body. There is sourness and anger, and a trace of subtle grievance.

I've been treating you like this for a long time. I cherish you in my heart. Why...

why? Han Zhi couldn't think of it for a moment. He was a little confused. It was the first time that he was happy with someone. He only knew how to hold all the good things in front of him. He didn't want him to be sad, didn't want to see him hurt, and wanted to see him show off his beauty all the time. A charming smile.

No one taught him what to do if the other party turned a blind eye.

Since Qin Zhao got a wheelchair, he doesn't like to stay in the house. As if to make up for the years he spent paralyzed in bed, whenever he has free time, he often turns the wheel by himself and goes out to experience nature.

There is a 500-year-old ginkgo tree in the county government office. It has grown in the tree altar for many years. It has witnessed the changes of dynasties and welcomed and sent batches of county magistrates.

The ginkgo tree grows with luxuriant branches and leaves. This season is the time when green and yellow alternate. The ginkgo tree begins its most gorgeous chapter of the year. Each ginkgo leaf with clear veins is dyed bright golden yellow and black. The tree trunks are looming among them, intertwining into the most beautiful picture in early winter.

Qin Zhao is sitting in a wheelchair, his thin back forming a sharp contrast with the towering ancient trees, like an insignificant clump of waves in the vast ocean.

Qin Zhao closed his eyes and had a quiet smile on his lips.

Lu Jiu'an didn't dare to say anything to break this beautiful scene.

"People have life and death, and things are impermanent. Once you have experienced disaster, you will feel the preciousness of life." Qin Zhao opened his eyes: "My little friend was walking in a hurry, as if there was something urgent."

Lu Jiuan handed over his hand: "There is indeed something important. Business."

In the afternoon of the same day, the people of Yingping saw a new notice, which was a recruitment order for new talents.

Recruiting two types of talents, one is academic talents. As long as they are scholars or above and are well-educated people, everyone who settles in Yingping can enjoy a one-year monthly subsidy. The amount of the subsidy varies according to their status. , Xiucai earns 300 articles a month, increasing in sequence.

In addition, these academically qualified talents can enjoy the medical reimbursement policy. As long as the academically educated and settled talents consult and prescribe prescriptions at designated locations, half of the diagnosis and prescription fees spent can be reimbursed by the county government.

The designated place was of course the place where Qin Zhao and his son would sit for consultation. Lu Jiuan rushed to Qin Zhao to decide on this matter. The governor had promised to help present the emperor's case, but now that the edict has not been issued, Qin Zhao has already settled down. .

The second type is technical talents. Anyone with skills, regardless of craftsmanship, painting, or apricot forest... As long as they pass the assessment and are issued a qualification certificate issued by Yingping, they can also enjoy monthly subsidies and medical reimbursement. The difference is that this The reimbursement amount for these talents is 30%, but they have the opportunity to be recruited by the county government to work in the government.

The assessment location is temporarily located at the county government office. You need to apply at the registration point in advance. Unified assessments will be conducted on the 10th and 20th of each month.

Lu Jiu'an didn't think about the assessment criteria for a while, so he had to first find someone with qualifications in the corresponding field from Ying Ping to conduct the review. The total assessment score is 10 points, scored by 3 reviewers, and the average score is taken as the final score.

This assessment method is not fair and depends largely on the subjective impressions of the reviewers.

However, in order to prevent the loss of talent, we have no choice but to make do with this method for now. Later, if we have the opportunity, we can use the information in the computer to hold a meeting with these talents, each can express their opinions, and compile a complete assessment policy.

The notice was posted on the seventh day of the lunar month, which was only three days before the assessment time of that month. So as soon as the notice was posted, more than ten people came to the county government office early the next morning to poke their heads around. The government officials are now like bricks, wherever they are needed. Move, this time we need to temporarily call on the service staff to answer questions and fill in the registration information for the applicants.