The imperial envoys sent by the imperial court came with secret folds. The imperial envoy was the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, whose surname was Ye Mingjing. The Ministry of Punishment was in charge of judicial prisons. He was more ruthless than other officials in dealing with such matters. The new emperor ordered the Ministry of Punishment. The Shang Shu is an imperial envoy and can go to Raozhou.

Seeing that it was the Minister of Punishment, Zhu Taishou couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart.

I wish the prefect salute.

Ye Shangshu waved his hand, "Prefect, let's take a look at the secret book the emperor gave you first."

The two entered the study, Ye Shangshu was unsmiling, and was asked by Prefect Zhu to sit down in the first place. His subordinates held the secret book in his arms and handed it to Prefect Zhu. Prefect Zhu opened the book and saw the contents, and the more he looked at it, the more his face became darker. Bai, after reading it, he said to the Minister of Punishment: "My lord, in fact, Xiaguan wrote a booklet yesterday, and asked people to send it to the capital. The lord did not know that the diarrhea in Yuanbao Town was under control, and the diarrhea patients They have also recovered, so the diarrhea is not uncontrollable and incurable. The county magistrate of Yuanbao Town came up with some measures to prevent the spread of diarrhea, and the effect was excellent. The patients in Yuanbao Town did not spread by using this method. healed."

The content of the secret letter was the same as what he thought. The new emperor ordered him to slaughter all the victims outside Yuanbao Town and burn them on the spot.

Not only that, whenever there are victims in the southwest, they will be killed on the spot to prevent the spillage of diarrheal diseases. If the victims have already entered the town or village, the town or village will be closed, and the entire village and town will be set on fire directly, without even waiting for the entire town. The people of the village or town are infected, and even those who are not infected are also killed.

How could Prefect Zhu manage this kind of thing, not to mention now that he knows that diarrheal disease can be controlled, and it is even more impossible to slaughter the people and victims according to the secret letter.

I wish the prefect even had a feeling of sadness of the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Since ancient times, even when a plague broke out, the emperor sent people to seal the villages and towns, but they would also send imperial doctors to treat them. Just wait until they fend for themselves.

I don't know how the victims discovered diarrhea after they went to the capital, and how the new emperor made decisions, but the guess is that it should be similar to now. Neither the new emperor nor the empress dowager thought of treating these victims and patients, and they chose to kill them directly. .

He was afraid that even if the second document was handed over to the capital, the new emperor and the empress dowager would not believe that the diarrheal disease could be controlled and cured, so he would still kill everyone.

After Ye Shangshu heard this, his face was expressionless, "The new emperor sent his official here to supervise the prefect."

Zhu Taishou trembled: "Sir, but those people have been cured, they are living people, even if three villages are implicated by the disaster victims, they are all getting better at the moment, and there should be good news in the near future. , please think again, Lord, can't you wait a few more days? Wait a few more days, the subordinate's book should have been sent to the capital, the emperor may change his decision after reading the book, can you please wait for the prefect? last few days."

Ye Shangshu still had the expressionless expression, but what he said was, "This official is getting older, and the journey is very hard. After arriving in Raozhou, I feel unwell and have a sudden illness. Please also wish the prefect. Let's find a place to live first and come over to the official to have a look."

Prefect Zhu was stunned for a while, and then he choked up: "Thank you, my lord."

Ye Shangshu was an imperial envoy, so naturally he would not believe it with a single word from the prefect, so he made a special trip to Yuanbao Town before 'recuperating', and watched the victims living by a forest in Yuanbao Town, wearing oilcloths. In the shed, life is pretty good, there is food and drink, and the complexion is much better than that of the disaster victims he saw outside the capital in two months, but some of the victims are still too thin, with sunken cheeks, but their spirits are not bad. , with a blush on his face, those people should be patients who contracted diarrhea before and have recovered.

Ye Shangshu was not wearing an official uniform, so he went over to ask.

The victims told him that the county magistrate of Yuanbao Town was a good person, and that he had thought of ways to protect them, and he also asked Lang Zhong to treat them, so they were lucky to meet such a good magistrate, and said that Mrs. Xu from Yuanbao Town was very lucky. Also a good guy.

In fact, these victims never thought of going to the capital at the beginning. They were all from the same village. They took the wrong direction and fled all the way to the southwest side. They did not know that the victims who had gone to the capital were found to be infected with diarrhea. Being ordered to be massacred, many victims fled in fright and fled to other places, and were sent by the new emperor and the empress dowager to hunt them down.

Ye Shangshu knew that it was the magistrate of Yuanbao Town who made a great contribution, but who was the little lady Xu that the victims were talking about?

Ye Shangshu naturally asked, and the victims said, "Xu Xiaoniang is the owner of Xu Ji Restaurant. When we are sick, Xu Xiaoniang will feed us Zhang Luo, and Xu Xiaoniang's food is the same as that of the gods. I have never eaten something so delicious, my mother-in-law just ate the food made by Mrs. Xu, and she wants to continue living, she doesn't want to die here."

They ate Miss Xu's food for half a month, and they already knew about this lady from the yamen and the clerks.

Even if they have eaten such delicious food, they have the idea of ​​continuing to live, feeling that even if life is difficult right now, they will definitely get better in the future.

In short, it was the food made by Mrs. Xu that gave them hope.

Ye Shangshu did not expect that the little lady Xu was called by the victims was a cook. He didn't think much of it. It should be the little cook who was kind-hearted and was in charge of their food these days. Can it be compared to the royal chef in the palace? It is nothing more than that these victims have never eaten good food, and they have escaped from the famine all the way to this place. Naturally, everything they eat is delicious.

Ye Shangshu did not enter Yuanbao Town, but returned to Raozhou City after seeing the situation of the victims.

After returning to Raozhou City, Ye Shangshu also wrote a book to send him back to the capital.

The book states the situation of the victims and the diarrhea patients. It is true that they have recovered, and the diarrhea has been controlled and will not spread. hope the emperor can think twice about changing his decision.

For the next few days, Ye Shangshu temporarily stayed in the Prefect's Mansion.

Governor Zhu also breathed a sigh of relief. When he returned to the back house, Mrs. Zhu came over tremblingly and called the governor's name twice.

Mrs. Zhu is already in her early seventies, which is considered a long life, but her health has deteriorated in recent years, and her eyes have become blurred in the past two years, and she has to be supported by maids when she goes out.

The old lady is also very worried about the situation of the victims and patients. Now the entire Raozhou city is almost aware of the disaster victims in the southwest, and some of the victims have contracted diarrhea, because even if there is no diarrhea in Raozhou city, it is still using Yang county magistrate Give a way to protect it.

The people in Raozhou City also knew that the diarrhea patient in Yuanbao Town had been cured. It was because the prefect Zhu posted a notice to inform the people in the city, and also to reassure the people.

So Mrs. Zhu is also very worried that the imperial envoys sent in the capital will ignore the lives of the people and the victims.

At this moment, she heard her son's footsteps outside, and immediately asked the servant girl to help her out of the room.

The prefect Zhu hurriedly stepped forward to help the old mother, and said in a gentle voice: "Mother, why did you come out, you should rest in the house."

The old lady Zhu asked worriedly, "Wen Yi, the imperial envoy is here, how does the emperor plan to accommodate these disaster victims and patients with diarrhea?"

The prefect Zhu did not hide the matter from his old lady, and told her about the matter. Mrs. Zhu couldn't help stomping her crutches. She wanted to scold the new emperor for being stupid, but she was afraid of hurting her son, so she had to sigh a few times, "Wen Yi, can you You must not do such stupid things, the patients have been cured, and the diarrhea has not continued to spread, of course you can’t listen to the emperor’s words and massacre the people and victims, this will be punished by God.”

"Mother, don't worry." The prefect Zhu helped the old lady into the house, "Son, the imperial envoy is also a good person. He didn't force the son to massacre the victims and blockade the villages and towns. He even wrote a note and handed it back to the capital. There should be room for things to turn around, so Don't worry, mother, just take good care of yourself, you might find your sister in the future, mother and sister still have a chance to meet."

Mrs. Zhu has given birth to two children in her life, a son and a daughter.

The son is naturally Zhu Taishou, and Zhu Taishou has a sister who is more than three years older than Zhu Taishou. When he was young, Zhu Taishou was probably a year old and would be abducted by kidnappers.

Zhu's family is just an ordinary door in the market, and Mrs. Zhu has to take care of the young ones at that time, and the family can't afford maids and servants. Zhu's father is earning money outside, and at that time, Zhu's elder sister was only four or five years old. Looks like, occasionally playing in front of her own house, but was taken away by a kidnapper that day, this is also the biggest regret of Mrs. Zhu's life. Ever since her daughter was taken away by a kidnapper, Mrs. Zhu cried day and night, Thinking about it now, still can't help crying, eyes have been blinded from crying.

And Taishou Zhu has been told by Mrs. Zhu since he was a child, hoping that he can find Miss Zhu's parents in the future.

Master Zhu took this matter to heart, and also thought about how difficult it was for ordinary family members to find people, so he studied hard, passed the imperial examination, and then was sent down to the local county magistrate, and gradually promoted to the prefect, have been inquiring about the whereabouts of eldest sister all these years, but there is no news at all.

Mrs. Zhu heard her son's words, and smiled wryly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day."

She is still aware of her own physical condition, which has reached the point of exhaustion, at most half a year.

Zhu Taishou is actually very clear in his heart, and he can't help but feel uncomfortable.

Zhu Taishou's letter was sent to the capital and entered the palace three days later. It was still early in the court, and the courtiers in the court were worrying about the disaster victims and the plague. Some courtiers wrote that the emperor should not directly send people to massacre the victims. They should be imprisoned first, and find a doctor to treat the diarrhea patients. If it is really uncontrollable, it is not too late to make other plans. If they come up directly, they will massacre the victims, otherwise they will not scare the victims and let them run around. , diarrheal diseases also appeared in other places.

Now that they heard that some victims of the disaster had reached the southwest, the courtiers became more and more flustered. The southwest was the frontier, and there were heavy soldiers guarding it. They were afraid that the diarrhea would also spread to the barracks, and the entire barracks would collapse without attack.

In the past few years, the eldest prince led the troops to beat the country of Bin on the southwestern edge of the country. If the southwestern army camp really fell due to diarrhea, the southwest would also become the possession of the country of Bin. The frontiers were gone. Bin The vitality of the country's injury will also recover. I am afraid that it will continue to attack the Dasheng Dynasty.

The courtiers said that they did not blame the new emperor, that was false, they all felt that the new emperor was too ruthless.

Even the courtiers who had bowed their heads to the new emperor, they hoped to be followed by a wise emperor. The first emperor died strangely, and the eldest prince was directly beheaded. They were not given the opportunity to investigate the new emperor. They didn't dare to say anything more, but even if the new emperor succeeded in ascending the throne, the admonishers kept blaming the new emperor for exiling the royal prince, princess and queen, and scolded them very harshly. There was a lot of trouble for a while.

If it wasn't for the diarrhea among the victims, the admonishers could continue to scold. When they scolded, the courtiers could feel the new emperor's anxiety, and they were really afraid that the admonishers would be cut off again.

Now that he has diarrhea, seeing the new emperor's handling methods, the courtiers also feel that the new emperor is not good enough. If it was the former emperor or the eldest prince, he would definitely not deal with it like this.

At this moment, the letters sent from Raozhou City were rushed into the palace.

The new emperor immediately said, "Hurry up and submit it to me for a look."

The minister hurriedly took the secret letter from the sweaty officers and soldiers. It was written by the prefect of Raozhou City. After reading it, the new emperor couldn't believe it. Diarrhea can be cured? Could it be that the prefect of Raozhou City deceived him for his merits?

The courtiers below were a little anxious, "Your Majesty, but the secret letter sent by the prefect of Raozhou City, has the diarrhea disease spread to the barracks?"

The new emperor waved his hand and asked the courtiers to read the letter to the courtiers.

After listening to the eunuch's recitation, the new emperor couldn't help but say, "Isn't this Zhu Prefect coaxing me? Since ancient times, diarrhea diseases have been directly blocked and cut off from the source. How can there be a cure?"

The courtiers looked at each other, and some couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, maybe the diarrhea patients in Yuanbao Town have really recovered. Didn't the first secret letter sent by Zhu Taishou talk about the preventive measures against diarrheal diseases? Wei Chen thought he could try it. Try it, if it is really useful, it is also a great merit, you can let people go to the place where the disaster victims appeared and put up notices and send them to the imperial doctor for treatment, and Wei Chen did not realize that the prefect Zhu dared to deceive this kind of thing."

Officials in the DPRK have heard a bit about Zhu Taishou's conduct.

The new emperor stopped talking. If he really cured the diarrhea according to the methods that Zhu Taishou said, wouldn't it mean that he was really a stupor, and he slaughtered the victims without thinking of any methods?

Seeing that the new emperor did not speak, the courtiers persuaded to kneel.

Some of these courtiers are in the line of the eldest prince, some are in the line of the new emperor and the empress dowager, and some really love the people, and naturally some are more selfish.

They all knew very well that if the new emperor was desperate to kill the disaster victims and the people who were implicated, his reputation would be lost.

Besides, without the common people, what are they who are officials?

The people are water, and water can carry a boat or capsize it.

In the end, the new emperor was also annoyed and said to wait for the secret letter from the imperial envoy.

After three days, the secret letter from the imperial envoy was also sent to the capital.

The imperial envoy also said that all the patients in Yuanbao Town have recovered, and only one case died of a severe illness. Although disaster victims and patients appeared in the other three villages and towns, they were all under control and the patients were slowly recovering. He also said that the protection measures presented by Yuanbao Town did play an important role.

The new emperor can't do anything, so naturally he can't continue to let the prefect and the imperial officials go to slaughter and cure the victims. They can only send people to the places where the victims go to provide disaster relief and announce protection measures and treat the sick.

There was a lot of uproar in the courtroom, and every household in the capital was also in danger.

In particular, Xu Qinyu's mother Xue Shi knew that there were disaster victims in Yuanbao Town, and she was too worried. Even her niece's brother Xue Liang came to look for her, saying that she wanted to send a letter to her niece and some money, because she was worried that her niece would be harmed in the border town. impact of disaster victims.

With the formula Xu Qinyu gave to Xue Liang before, even if his small tea stall did not expand, there would still be about sixty to seventy taels of net profit every month.

The kebabs and milk tea he made are also well-known in Beijing. There is no shortage of people to eat them. Many people would rather wait in line and buy a few skewers to eat. This month is summer, and the weather is getting hot. roasted some vegetarian dishes and added some sour plum drinks, and they all sold very well, and the business was even hotter than before.

He has made a lot of money in the past few months. He wants to give his niece some more money, but he can't get anyone to go here for a while. Recently, there are no prisoners or criminals exiled in the capital, and he has no chance to go to the border town in Ma Liu. .

Speaking of Ma Liu, he got the recipe of Xu Qinyu wooden bucket milk bean curd, and let his wife and mother make a lot of them. When he took the time, he let his father or himself sell it on the streets and alleys in wooden buckets. The income of the last two or three taels of silver, at the back, his family's wooden barrels of fermented bean curd sold some fame, and most of the neighbors who ate it could earn five or six taels of silver every month.

Later, there was a restaurant that used his wooden barrel fermented bean curd for cooking and seasoning.

So now, because of this wooden barrel of fermented bean curd, his family has a random income of a dozen taels of silver every month.

Ma Liu is more grateful to Xu Qinyu.

But he didn't go to the southwest side for a while, and he couldn't thank Mrs. Xu in person.

Xue Liang still prepared 200 taels of silver notes, and gave a letter to the Xue family, and asked her to give it to Ma Liu later.

Xue was worried about her daughter, so she added all the red seals her brother had given her in the past few months, and prepared to send it to her daughter. She listened to her daughter and her brother's words and stopped doing embroidery work.

It's just that the flood victims from the border town have made her feel uneasy recently. The victims who came to the capital two months ago had diarrhea and were ordered to be killed by the new emperor, and they appeared again in the border town. She must be worried that Yu Niang would be implicated. It was ordered to kill all the victims and the people who were implicated in the border town. What should Yu Niang do?

Xue's family couldn't sleep at all these days. Fortunately, a notice was suddenly posted on this day, saying that the diarrhea in Yuanbao Town had been cured, and now they would send people to other places to rescue the patients.

Xue felt at ease now, and planned to go to the incense and worship in a few days, thank the Bodhisattva for blessing her jade mother.

...

Xu Qinhui from the third room knew what the fate of the victims was when she heard the maids talk about their fate a few months ago. Before she entered the city, she found out that she had contracted diarrhea and was finally killed by the new emperor. escaped, and then the courtiers rioted, and there were several disaster victims in the border town. The new emperor continued to order the massacre, and the courtiers continued to make trouble. He felt that it was too cruel to kill everyone, and the new emperor was dizzy. ,do not know what to do.

The new emperor hesitated, but the lunatic Empress Fu did not hesitate, and sent people directly to the place where the victims fled, killing the victims and the villages and towns involved.

Even the three villages on the side of the border city and Yuanbao Town did not leave a living room, and they were slaughtered overnight.

Xu Qinhui really didn't care too much about this, because the disaster victims in her previous life didn't affect her, not to mention that the trouble was resolved almost at this time.

But in the past month, she was still hesitant, because she only knew a month ago that the second sister and the family members of King Shu lived in Yuanbao Town.

In the last life, only the Shuwang and Wen Shi were left in the Shuwang lineage. It should be that the Shuwang and Wen Shi were never settled in Yuanbao Town and escaped disaster in their last life.

But in this life, the vertical king's lineage has lived well, so the next fate has also changed, making them choose to settle in Yuanbao Town.

It was only more than a month ago that she learned from the second aunt that the second sister and the Shuwang lineage were settled in Yuanbao Town. After knowing that, she hesitated whether to send a letter to the second sister, but she didn't know what reason to find. You can't tell the second sister and Shu Wang directly that Yuanbao Town will be slaughtered by the disaster victims and diarrhea.

And she is still a little selfish. She doesn't know if the king is leaving at this time. She hopes that the king can survive. After all, there must be no hope for entering the palace. A few months ago, she fell and broke her leg because she did not enter the palace for the draft. Phase, definitely can not enter the palace.

She feels that King Shu is the emperor who will inherit the great lineage in the future. He should not die from diarrhea this time. I am afraid it will still be the same as in the previous life. The elder sister died of illness on the road, and the others died in the mudslide. I don’t know why they avoided this fate in the first place in this life, but I am afraid that their fate will not change, but the way of death is different, and they will die in this plague.

In this case, only King Shu and Mrs Wen will survive in this life.

In this case, does she still have a chance to marry the vertical king? Finally in the back seat?

After hesitating for a month, things were about to settle, and she could only accept it.

Just when it was about dinner time, the maid Ping'er suddenly came in and told her happily, "Girl, girl, it's great, just now a notice was posted outside, saying that all the diarrhea patients in Yuanbao Town, Biancheng City, have been cured, and they have also found a way to prevent it. The way the diarrhea spreads, the imperial court has now sent people to various places to relieve disasters and save people."

Xu Qinhui was stupid.

How can this be so?

It is clear that Yuanbao Town has been slaughtered in the last life, and there is no way to prevent the spread of diarrheal disease. Why is this life different? They avoided the dead end again this time.

Xu Qinhui was stimulated by this and fell ill again.

...

Not to mention the different thoughts of everyone in the capital, Yuanbao Town has resumed its usual life these days, small traders have come out to set up stalls, and various shops have also opened.

Xu Ji's restaurant naturally also opened. Uncle He's side was far from the other three villages affected by the disaster, so it didn't have much impact. As usual, he began to deliver aquatic products and milk to Xu Qinyu's side.

Xu Qinyu knew that the diarrhea was successfully cured this time, or it was because the diarrhea was a plague, but it was different from the real cholera. It was actually lighter than the various plagues in that world she was in. , It is mainly because the victims do not know how to enter the disease from the mouth, and they do not love cleanliness, which leads to the serious spread of diarrheal diseases. As long as they take precautions to prevent the disease from spreading, it is easier to treat than cholera and other plagues.

As soon as Xu Ji Restaurant opened, there were many more guests coming to eat morning and evening meals. They all came after hearing about her kind deeds before. It can be said that Xu Ji has already become famous throughout Yuanbao Town.

Speaking of this, Xu Qinyu was really afraid of wasting ingredients at the beginning, and the people in Yuanyuanbao Town also began to send her ingredients and firewood. She didn't lose much, and she knew that her kind deeds could also bring Xu Ji. good reputation.

Therefore, she is indeed a little selfish.

She is also just an ordinary person with good cooking skills. Every ordinary person will be a little selfish, and no one can make an exception.

She doesn't feel that she is a little selfish. She doesn't do bad things, and she can do some good things within her capacity. Isn't that the case with most people?

In addition, Xu Qinyu can also guess some of the new emperor's actions. The new emperor and the queen mother can both poison their father and husband. They have a vicious heart, and diarrhea is a very terrible and easily contagious plague here. This The era's treatment of plagues is to close up and let people self-destruct.

The disaster victims have spread to Yuanbao Town again. At that time, the new emperor will feel that all the disaster victims have come to the mouth of the town, and they must have had contact with the people in the town. On the previous point, what if the townspeople were directly slaughtered?

So in the end, she could be considered self-help.