Chapter 3451: Extra Chapter 30
Chief Li paused and said, "Your Excellency is right. I will send someone to bring Asi back right away."
He smiled and said, "She's married and has to take care of the children. She hasn't been home for a long time. I didn't tell her that her mother and I were sick."
Bai Shan nodded, "Chief Li and Madam Li are kind and loving, and as their children we should be filial to them."
So in less than an hour, Bai Shan saw a young woman leading a little girl into the main hall.
Bai Shan put down his pen and looked at her with a smile, "Madam Li?"
The young woman nodded coldly, also looking at Bai Shan. Seeing him sitting at the top, she turned her eyes away, not seeing Chief Li, and asked, "Are you the chief's new staff?"
"No," Bai Shan ignored the servants standing outside the hall and slowly but clearly introduced his origins. "I am Bai Shan, from... Chang'an, a native of Longzhou, the former Left Prime Minister of the Great Jin Dynasty. I occasionally travel to southern Xinjiang."
Li Si was stunned.
Bai Shan said, "Madam Li should also know that the Liaozi tribe is now suffering from malaria, and the people in the city are in panic. We urgently need someone from the Li family to come forward to comfort them."
Li Si showed sarcasm and asked, "Where is the chief?"
Bai Shan: "He also contracted malaria."
Li Si's face froze, and the expression on his face gradually disappeared, finally becoming expressionless.
Seeing that she was silent, Bai Shan did not urge her and picked up the document next to her to deal with it.
After a long while, Li Sicai asked expressionlessly, "What should I do?"
Bai Shan smiled slightly and said kindly: "It's very simple. Please ask Madam Li and the officials of the chief's mansion to go out and help the people and make arrangements for all the patients."
Li Si frowned upon hearing this, and held his daughter's hand tightly. After a while, he asked, "Are there many people in the city who are infected with the disease?"
Bai Shan picked out a piece of paper from the desk next to him and handed it out.
Li Si stepped forward to take it, and couldn't help but gasp at the first sight. She clenched the paper in her hand, and now she finally knew why the Chief's Mansion had come to look for her.
With so many people infected with malaria, if no one from the Chieftain's Mansion went out to appease them, Annan City would definitely be in chaos, and then the entire Liaozi tribe would be in chaos...
Li Si really wanted to throw away the paper in her hand and tell the noble person in front of her that she didn't care. She was no longer a member of the Li family and she had married ten years ago.
But she tightened her grip on the paper and didn't throw it away. Instead, she closed her eyes and said, "Okay, but I have a condition."
Bai Shan did not bargain with her and said directly: "Madam Li, please speak."
Li Si pushed the little girl forward and said, "This is my daughter. Please send her to the Central Plains. I don't ask for her to be rich and noble, but as long as she can eat and wear warm clothes instead of being a slave, that's enough."
Bai Shan tapped his knees lightly with his fingers, smiled after a moment, and nodded, "Okay."
Bai Shan beckoned over a servant from the chief's mansion and pointed at the little girl, saying, "Send her to the princess's courtyard and leave her in the care of the princess's maids."
Li Si was surprised, and Bai Shan then said, "The people traveling with me this time include the former Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau, as well as the current princess and her husband."
Li Si's attitude became more cautious. He lowered his head slightly and said humbly, "Just give your orders, my lord. I will obey you."
Bai Shan was very satisfied with her attitude and even more satisfied with her choice.
Mingda, Bai Erlang and Yin Huo were taken to the chief's mansion early. Mingda helped Zhou Man organize the patient data, while Bai Erlang and Yin Huo helped Bai Shan count the supplies in the city and assign manpower.
Medicinal materials, grain, cloth, wood for building medical sheds, etc. all need to be counted and arranged.
So they were not in the yard. The little girl, who was holding back her tears and looking timid, was sent to the empty yard with no one there. Finally, she couldn't help crying out loud.
Seeing this, the senior palace maid who stayed in the courtyard could not coax her any more, so she could only take her to find the princess.
As a result, the princess was not found, but Zhou Man was found first.
Seeing that she looked only six or seven years old, with tears in her eyes, Zhou Man took her to his side, took out a candy and gave it to her, and asked with a smile: "Whose little girl is this? She is so beautiful."
The maid hurriedly said, "She is Chief Li's granddaughter, sent to the princess. Lord Bai promised Lady Li to take her back to the Central Plains to raise her."
Zhou Man was surprised, "Are we raising him?"
The palace maid smiled and said, "She said that as long as she is content with a small fortune, she can find a family to foster her in the Central Plains."
Zhou Man frowned, "Why doesn't she raise it herself?"
The maid paused and said, "Perhaps she is afraid of contracting malaria?"
Of course, there is more to it than that. Zhou Man's mind raced as he thought about the love-hate story of the Li family in southern Xinjiang that he had heard from Wu Yin in the past few days.
Wu Yin: ...What I am talking about is clearly the development story of southern Xinjiang.
Chief Li was forced to lead his people to leave the big tribe and seek development elsewhere. Of course, he did not wander around all the time. Otherwise, how could he have taken control of the entire southern Xinjiang as soon as he came back?
Marriage has always been one of the most effective means of winning over power. Chief Li was still wandering outside at the time, so he married his eldest daughter back to the Zhang family.
After he rushed into the chief's mansion and tied up Chief Zhang, he reported Chief Zhang's crime of withholding tribute to the court, and at the same time killed all of his cousin's sons and grandsons, including his own grandson who had just turned one year old.
Only the women of the Zhang family were left, and they were taken by Li Si to live on the other side of Annan City. The father and daughter rarely met.
When Zhou Man heard about this, he and Bai Shan sighed, "As expected, power is stained with blood, and there are many ways to do it. For someone like him who has his hands stained with the blood of his relatives, there is no need for that."
Unexpectedly, just two days later, she met the daughter of one of the parties involved.
Zhou Man touched her little face with pity and said, "There are too many patients here. It's not safe. Let her rest in the teahouse."
Zhou Man said: "The princess and the others are upstairs."
Not only was the princess present, but Bai Er and Yin Huo were also there. The three of them were reviewing the supplies calculated by the officials, frowning as they looked. "This chief was quite frugal in the first two years, but this year he has gradually become extravagant. It seems that he has also been blinded by the prosperity."
Bai Erlang used an abacus to calculate how long these supplies would last and sighed, "Why bother? The prices are much higher when they're shipped to Southern Xinjiang. If I really want to enjoy myself, I might as well just take the money and go out for a trip. I can enjoy the good stuff and the beautiful scenery at the same time. How wonderful!"
He said with great understanding, "Not everyone can maintain their original intention after getting what they want. Besides, who knows that his original intention was originally to care about the people of the Liaozi tribe, rather than just the glory of himself and his ancestors?"
Bai Erlang was curious, "What do you think Bai Shan would do? If he really bullies her like that, would she just work for him and clean up his mess?"
The chief steward was also questioning this with Chief Li. Isn't it a bad idea to give so much power to Bai Shan?
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