After hearing this, she smiled and said, "I trust Confucius. Otherwise, I wouldn't have told you this."

After letting Kong Ming have a good rest, she left the yard. Looking at the familiar copper lock on the door handle, she couldn't help but think of when she first came here, she still relied on the grapes in the space to earn money to buy daily necessities.

Time flies! She has been here for a year.

Seeing that Xiao Huaizi was still there, she said, "Teacher, it's okay. I'll be able to teach you in a day or two."

After hearing that the teacher was fine, Xiao Huaizi also jumped up and down to share his news with his deskmate.

Bao Yi followed her to get the medicine. Tong Wen Yao took him to the medicine store. There were very few medicines left there. She picked and chose before finding one or two medicines that could reduce fever for him.

"This is a medicine. Take it morning and night. It will take two days."

Bao Yi bowed and thanked him, "Thank you, Miss Tong."

Tong Wen Yao said, "You're welcome." After seeing Bao Yi off, Tong Wen Yao went to find the village chief. Wu Qing was sitting on the kang at the time, smoking a cigarette with a chimney. When he saw Tong Wen Yao coming, he immediately took the cigarette outside and put it out.

"Why do you have time to come to my place today?" Tong Wenyao sat aside and said, "Village Chief, I want to discuss some business with you."

After hearing this, he knocked on the chimney and said, "What kind of business are you doing?"

The paper business couldn't be sold because of the epidemic. Now that the epidemic is rampant, what business is there to do?

She handed the piece of paper she had just copied in the back mountain to Village Chief Wu and said, "Village Chief, take a look at this." Wu Qing looked at the sharp strokes of the white paper, the strong and powerful strokes at the turns, and asked quickly, "What is this for?"

He placed the paper on the kang and then said, "Village Chief, guess how long it would take to write on this piece of paper in such a style?" Wu Qing had never been to school or written before, but looking at the size of the paper, he knew it would take more than a quarter of an hour! The last time he went to the boy next door to write calligraphy, it took him almost a quarter of an hour, and he didn't write as much back then.

He thought for a moment and said, "That'll take more than a quarter of an hour!" Tong Wenyao shook her head and said, "Village Chief, it only takes a cup of tea to come up with so many words." Wu Qing's eyes were filled with disbelief when he heard this. He asked, "So fast?"

"This is the business I want to discuss with you."

It just so happened that the village was producing paper. Wu Qing thought for a moment and said, "This time, our village will give you 30% of the net dividends." Tong Wenyao said, "Village Chief, it doesn't need to be that much. 20% will be enough."

After agreeing on the profit sharing, Tong Wen Yao then started talking about opening a rubbing workshop near the village school.

After hearing this, Wu Qing said, "This time, we'll listen to you. When the time comes, I'll just arrange for people to go in and do the work."

Tong Wenyao nodded and said, "After the epidemic is over, I will go to the city to buy some books and make rubbings of them. In the early stage, I will buy the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, and Thousand Character Classic and make rubbings of them. Our village needs these right now, and I can find someone to sell them to you when the time comes!"

After hearing this, Wu Qing said, "You guys are very knowledgeable. When the time comes, I'll find someone to arrange for you to make the rubbings. Now, should we build the workshop?"

Tong Wen Yao also wanted to build these, but she thought that there were no materials here, and she had to go to Changzhen Village to get them back. Now that the city gates were closed, she couldn't go around the county to get the goods.

"Let's wait until the epidemic is over before sending people to get the materials back."

Wu Qing was not surprised after hearing this. He nodded and said, "Then I'll let them work on the foundation first. When they bring the goods, we can start building the house directly."

The village chief’s idea was good, and she didn’t have to worry about lack of execution.

"The epidemic will be over soon. They have a prescription. As long as you follow the method I wrote, it will be over within two weeks."

In fact, this is indeed the case. After drinking medicine for three or four days, some refugees in the suburbs of Cangzhou with low fever have recovered. Those with serious illnesses that cannot be saved were taken away and burned. They were also asked to wash their bodies every day and sprinkle lime around them for disinfection.

Even Yuguan County, which was originally infected because someone defecated upstream, is now almost recovered.

However, the situation at the border was not optimistic at this time. Not only was there an epidemic in the city, but the barbarians outside the city were also eyeing them covetously. If Tong Hong had not said to send more people in the next two days, they would not have discovered that the barbarians were so close to them, just in the mountains outside the suburbs.

The barbarians also took the opportunity to launch an attack!

The leading barbarian leader had been with the Great Chief since childhood and was now a general. His name was Nie Zha. He was ruthless and a master at military operations! That was why the leader of the Wu Kingdom sent him. Nie Zha was just one of the Great Chief's sons.

At that moment, Nie Zha sat at a table in the barbarian tent and asked, "How is Dongsai City doing now?" A figure with feathers in his hair on the ground below replied, "The city gates have been closed for three days. Based on the time of the outbreak, it has probably infected about a quarter of the city's population."

"Then let's launch the attack tomorrow night! We must capture this city. After the winter, our food supply has run out."

After hearing this, the men under him quickly responded, "Yes!"

At this moment, a graceful woman walked in from the doorway. Her face was covered with a slightly transparent gauze. After seeing someone under her control, she did not hesitate to sit directly on Nie Zha's thighs, put her arms around Nie Zha's neck, and said coquettishly, "Sir, have you handled the business?"

Seeing this, the people with low hands hurriedly left the tent to give them some space.

Nie Zha directly pulled off the woman's veil and said, "Hey! Wan'er, don't come in next time. I'll come find you after I finish discussing things."

The woman stretched out her white, delicate hand and gently pounded his chest, saying coquettishly, "But I can't wait!" Nie Zha picked her up and threw her onto the bed, then pressed forward...

After they were done, Nie Zha fell asleep beside her. The woman beside him looked at Nie Zha with a hint of disgust in her eyes! But when she thought about the attack on Dongsai City tomorrow, she suddenly felt less disgusted with Nie Zha.

Nie Zha cried out in her dream, "Wan'er, stop it!" She was startled when her hand was suddenly grabbed by Nie Zha! The rough hand hurt her a little!

Thinking back to when Pei Guanyu had thrown her to the frontier, on the vast grasslands, she had no idea where to go, had been hungry for two days, and was chased by wolves at night, she swore at that time that she would fight her way back to the capital! She wanted to ask him why he had thrown her to the frontier in the first place! But she had only walked less than two kilometers when she was captured by the barbarians.

Those barbarians had no mercy at all and wanted to take her body by force. If she hadn't begged Nie Zha desperately, she would have been gang-raped by them!

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