When it was completely dark, Xu Jin returned to his residence, which was a compound provided to him by a gentry in the county, with all the necessary household belongings and intimate arrangements for maidservants to wait.

Xu Jin was busy for most of the day, and finally arranged the personnel of the Caozhou County Yamen, let the entire Yamen operate again, and arranged a special person to be responsible for opening a warehouse to help the victims, and the situation in Caozhou City was temporarily stabilized.

However, the situation is not optimistic, because the granary in Caozhou City is already in serious deficit, and it has only been a short time since the last flood, and there is not much grain left in the granary, even if only one meal of porridge is given to the victims every day, it can only last for seven or eight days at most.

Xu Jin also convened a meeting of the gentry of the county this afternoon and called on everyone to donate money and grain, but after the disaster, there was a shortage of food, and these gentry were obviously reluctant to donate food, but because of Xu Jinqin's poor status, they reluctantly donated some, which was not enough for a hundred stones. Therefore, the top priority at the moment is to find a way to transport grain.

After Xu Jin finished dinner, he took a hot bath under the service of a maidservant, and then returned to the study to write a recital, he had already learned from Sima Yuan that Xiao Huai had also suffered a flood and was still missing, and he had to hurry up to the court immediately to play this matter.

After Xu Jin finished writing the book, he immediately repaired another book and handed it to a Jinyi guard, and sent it to Puzhou the next day to hand it over to the eunuch Huang Jin, so that he could speed up the transportation of grain to Caozhou for emergency relief.

All the work arrangements were set, Xu Jin went to bed to rest, he was really tired these days, since the day of the flood, he had not touched the bed for seven days, so he almost fell asleep as soon as he lay down, and did not wake up until dawn the next day.

Xu Jin got up and washed up, and immediately bought medicines, spirits, vinegar, and quicklime in the city non-stop.

After the catastrophe, the prices in the city skyrocketed, these things are not cheap, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy them, but those stores don't dare not give the things that Jinyiwei wants, so they can only consider themselves unlucky and give the goods to Xu Jin in the form of credit.

When all the items were ready, Xu Jin immediately left Caozhou City in a hurry, the current Ji'an Village is a time bomb, once the plague breaks out, it is not as simple as killing a few people, and it is still easy to exterminate a few nearby towns, so it can't be delayed for a moment.

It is said that as soon as Xu Jin and the others left the city, they met another group of Jinyi guards (20 people) who came to the official road, so the two groups of people gathered together, loaded medicine and food, and hurried to Ji'an Village.

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Renxintang is a large-scale medical center in Caozhou City, the boss is named Cao Rende, and he is also the doctor of the medical hall, and his medical skills are still a little famous in Caozhou City.

At this moment, Boss Cao was dialing the abacus with a painful face, calculating today's losses. Today, Jin Yiwei took a large number of medicinal materials on credit in his pharmacy, worth fifty taels of "huge", although the Sima General who led the team swore that he would pay it back, and also made an IOU, but the word "official" has two mouths, can the official's speech be believed? What's more, it was Jinyiwei who gave the medicine on credit, even if they didn't pay back the money, could the little people still go to the capital to collect debts?

Therefore, this medicine is basically a tiger borrowing a pig - there is a loan but not a return.

Therefore, Cao Rende was extremely depressed at this time, fifty taels of silver is a huge amount of money for ordinary people, and for Cao Rende, it is almost a quarter's profit.

At this moment, two people walked into the pharmacy, both middle-aged men in their thirties, one of them carried a medicine box on his back, and had three long strands of beard under his head, looking refreshed and quite calm. The other man was tall and strong, and very brave-looking, but he was on a cane, and he appeared to have a wound on his thigh.

The long-bearded man carrying the medicine box glanced at Cao Rende, brushed his beard and smiled: "Boss Cao's face doesn't seem to be very good, he is angry and hurts his liver and lungs, it seems that Boss Cao hurts his liver and lungs today."

Cao Rende glanced up at the long-bearded man, and said bitterly: "Doctor Li, don't say cool words, anyway, the contemptible person is injured in the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys today." ”

The man with a cane grinned and quipped: "I don't think Boss Cao seems to have injured his purse!" ”

"Isn't it just that I hurt my purse, a full fifty taels of silver, those brocade guards really eat people and don't spit out bones." Cao Rende raised the IOU in his hand with a sad heart.

Doctor Li frowned and said, "Boss Cao, Jinyiwei also got medicinal materials on credit from you?" ”

Cao Rende nodded stupidly.

Doctor Li hurriedly asked, "Then Boss Cao, is there still Xionghuangsan here?" ”

Cao Rende shook his head and said, "No, let those brocade guards take it all!" ”

Doctor Li couldn't help frowning and said, "Why does Jinyiwei want so many male yellow powders?" ”

Cao Rende pouted and said: "Not only Xionghuangsan, but also the Yushu Dan of our store, Renzhong Huangsan, and the dissolution of the double dissolution of increase and loss have all been asked by them, in addition, I also heard that Jinyiwei has a large amount of spirits and vinegar on credit, and there is a chance that there is a plague, and the funny thing is that those Jinyiwei are still secretive, hehe, it is okay to deceive laymen, but in front of us experts, it is simply ridiculous and generous." ”

Dr. Li's face changed, and he blurted out: "Could it be a pimple plague?" ”

Cao Rende nodded and said: "I guess it is, there have been two major floods in a row, and it is normal for plagues to occur, I hope it will not spread to Caozhou City, otherwise the contemptible people will have to pack up and go to Beijing to take refuge temporarily." ”

The pimple plague is famous, although the doctors of the past generations have explored a set of treatment methods, but the cure rate is not high, because the disease comes quickly, death is fast, once the disease occurs, there is basically no help, can only be resigned to fate, only early detection and treatment when the early stage has not occurred has a glimmer of life. Therefore, even doctors, few are willing to enter the epidemic area to treat patients.

Doctor Li frowned and said: "Boss Cao, the so-called benevolence of the doctor, knowing that there is a plague but choosing to retreat and dodge, this is not the work of a virtuous doctor. In vain, you still named Rende! ”

Cao Rende's face suddenly couldn't hold back, and he said sarcastically with a red face: "Li Yanwen, you have excellent medical skills, you are benevolent in medical ethics, and if you have the ability, you will go to Ji'an Village to treat those villagers who have the plague, if you can extinguish the plague there, I, Cao Rende, will worship you as a teacher." ”

"The epidemic occurred in Ji'an Village?" Li Yanwen blurted out.

Cao Rende said stupidly: "The old man also overheard those Jinyi guards mentioning Ji'an Village by chance, but he wasn't sure if it was there." ”

Li Yan didn't say a word, he went to the hospital with the medicine box on his back, and the big man on crutches hurriedly followed.

"Hey...... Li Yanwen, Brother Ziyu, Lao Li, alas...... This stubborn donkey! Cao Rende shouted several times, but Li Yanwen walked out without looking back.

At this time, the big man on crutches had already caught up with Li Yanwen, who stopped and said apologetically: "Brother Qi, as long as your leg injury is changed twice, it will be fine, remember not to get wet." Now I am going to rush to Ji'an Village, where there is a plague, it is very dangerous, you better not follow, stay in Caozhou City to recuperate. ”

Qi Jingtong shook his head and said: "Doctor Li, although there is an injury on his leg, he is still good at martial arts, as long as he has a knife in his hand, it is still easy to send three or five thieves." Now that there are thieves everywhere after the catastrophe, and the security outside the city is extremely poor, let Qi follow and protect you, so that it is at least safer. ”

Li Yanwen hesitated: "But the pimple plague is quite terrifying, and Brother Qi is afraid of worrying about his life if he follows me." ”

Qi Jingtong patted his chest and said: "The husband is standing in the world, what joy is there in life, and there is no fear in death." Doctor Li did not hesitate to die, but Qi was not afraid of it. What's more, Qi's life was saved by Dr. Li, so why not accompany Dr. Li to the Ghost Gate Pass again! ”

Li Yanwen stroked his palms and said loudly: "Okay, there is no joy in life, and there is no fear in death, then Brother Qi will go with him." ”

At that moment, the two prepared some food and water, and left Caozhou City together, neither of them knew the road to Ji'an Village, but it didn't matter, Jinyiwei's horse team left a lot of hoof tracks, and they followed the horse tracks all the way.