Yu Jiao shook her head calmly, "I was just taking a gamble. The Si River was not desilted in time, and there has been a lot of rain in the north since the beginning of summer this year. It is inevitable that there will be severe flooding."
"Miss Yu, there is no need to underestimate yourself. To do business, you need to be bold and careful." Manager Zhou said with a smile.
Yu Jiao smiled faintly and said, "It's inconvenient for me to go out, so I'd like to trouble Manager Zhou to help me find out about the disaster situation in other places and the current grain prices in the north. I heard that Danzhou was severely affected by the disaster. I plan to sell the grain to Danzhou. Twenty percent of this grain is for Young Marquis Gu to help the victims. I will help Young Marquis Gu distribute porridge and charity in the worst-hit areas."
"Okay." Manager Zhou said, "I'll arrange for someone to go to Danzhou. Miss Yu, I heard that the two counties around the Qifeng Canal were all flooded and suffered very seriously. Would you like to take out some of the grain to distribute porridge in Qingzhou first?"
Yu Jiao did not respond directly, but said, "Let's find out the situation first."
The disaster situation in Qingzhou is definitely much less severe than that in Danzhou. If necessary, she will donate 20% of her own grain to help refugees in Qingzhou.
Manager Zhou worked quickly and had three baskets of charcoal and writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone delivered in the afternoon. As a result, the Yu family had their first hot meal after the flood.
Yu Zhixing came back from Mengjia Village and Lijia Village. The news he brought back was neither good nor bad. Yu Huangqi's family was safe and sound. When the flood came, thanks to Yu Jiao's suggestion, the whole family climbed onto the roof and escaped the disaster.
Yu Gancao's family was not so lucky. The old house collapsed and her mother-in-law was buried by the collapsed wall. When she was rescued, she was already dead.
When Zhang heard that the evil old woman from the Li family had passed away, she almost cried out in anger. She thought in her heart that it was retribution. That evil old woman had tortured Licorice so badly in the past, and her methods were so vicious. It showed that God still had eyes. Otherwise, why did the whole Li family survive, but only took that vicious woman away?
But thinking that Gancao was still pregnant, and that the Li family’s house had collapsed, they would definitely not have food to eat, and Gancao would need a place to stay with her big belly, Zhang asked Yu Zhixing to go to Lijia Village again and bring Gancao back to live with her.
The following days were all sunny, which gave the people, who were shrouded in gloom, a chance to breathe a little. When Manager Zhou sent someone to deliver the message, Yu Jiao was seeing a patient.
They were all villagers from Qingyu Village. Three or four of them were infected with typhoid fever, and the other seven or eight suffered from diarrhea, which almost cost them their lives. The most infectious symptom after the flood appeared again - dysentery.
It wasn't schistosomiasis, which made Yu Jiao breathe a sigh of relief. Although dysentery could also kill people, it could be cured with medicine. Schistosomiasis, on the other hand, was beyond the medical standards of that era and was difficult to treat without Western medicine.
Yu Jiao prescribed medicine in an orderly manner and asked these people to go to the town to get the medicine.
Several people's houses collapsed and all their money was washed away by the flood. They had no money to go to the town to buy medicine, so they asked Yu Jiao hesitantly if they could go to the mountains to pick herbs for themselves.
Yu Jiao lowered her eyes and thought for a while, "Of course you can, but some herbs need to be dried before they can be used as medicine, otherwise it will affect the efficacy."
She got up and went to the herb room, and used the herbs wrapped in oil cotton paper to prepare the dosage for several people. "Take these herbs back and eat them first. Ask your family to go to the mountain to collect herbs and bring them to me. I will use the wet herbs I collected to exchange for these herbs."
These people hurriedly took the medicine, thanked repeatedly, and asked about the relevant matters of going up the mountain to collect medicine.
Yu Jiao looked at Yu Fuling who was standing beside her and said, "Sister, I'll have to trouble you to take them to the mountain to identify the medicinal herbs. I have other things to do."
Yu Fuling agreed immediately, "Okay."
She said to them, "Let your family members come over tomorrow. I will go up the mountain with them and teach them how to identify the herbs in the prescription."
Those people nodded quickly.
Yu Jiao warned, "This disease is caused by unclean food. You must cook your food carefully. Don't use the well water in the village anymore. Go to the mountain to get clean spring water for cooking."
These people agreed one by one and then left with the medicine.
"It would be great if our family also ran a medicine shop." Yu Fuling sighed as she watched the few people leave.
It’s not that Yu Jiao hadn’t thought about hoarding some medicinal herbs, but when she went to Gu Yun to buy food, she took out all the two thousand taels of silver she had saved.
She can provide free medical treatment, but giving away medicine for free is a bottomless pit. If she were reborn in a royal palace with mountains of gold and silver at home, she could generously become a living Bodhisattva.
After inviting the man sent by Manager Zhou into the house, Yu Jiao said politely, "Sorry to have kept you waiting."
"It's okay. Manager Zhou asked me to come and tell you that in the two counties where the Xiyuan Canal flows through, most of the houses in more than 20 villages have been washed away, causing heavy losses. Refugees have entered the city to beg for food. The price of grain in Qingzhou has risen to nine cents per stone. The price of grain in Changkui was eight cents yesterday, and it has risen to eight and a half cents today. When I came here, I saw that several grain shops were surrounded by people." The man said respectfully.
"Is there any movement in the Qingzhou government office?" Yu Jiao asked.
The man said, "The Qingzhou government did not stop the refugees from entering the city, but there was no news of any relief or grain release. I guess they have to wait for the imperial court to issue an order."
Yu Jiao nodded and asked, "Is there any news from Danzhou?"
The man shook his head. "The people who went to Danzhou haven't come back yet. Manager Zhou asked me to ask you if you want to sell a batch of grain in Qingzhou first? It seems that the grain reserves of several major grain stores in Qingzhou are running low, and they are all trying to buy grain privately! Manager Zhou means that we can sell our grain directly to the grain stores and make a lot of money."
Yu Jiao shook her head and said, "Let Manager Zhou find a shop in the two affected counties and arrange for people to sell grain ourselves."
As for giving out porridge and food, we have to wait a few more days.
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