209, lend a helping hand
209, lend a helping hand
On the way back to the city, I met the woman holding the dead baby again.
Realizing that if they ignored this woman, she would most likely die, Lu Mingfei stopped the carriage again and discussed with his father, "Dad, let's take her back to the city for treatment. After she recovers, we'll find out where her home is and whether she has any other relatives. Then we can find a way to send her back home."
"She doesn't have any identification documents on her, so she probably can't enter the city now." Lu Youtian glanced at the woman on the side of the road and sighed in his heart.
He didn't want to deal with such trouble, but since his eldest son offered to help, he couldn't just turn a blind eye and sit idly by.
Even he himself was a little bit troubled by this hurdle in his heart, so he said: "How about this, I will send her back to the village and ask the village doctor to see her."
"With the way she's acting, I'm afraid even if she has family, they won't want to take care of her."
"After she wakes up, we'll ask her where she wants to go. If that's not possible, we'll send her to the mountains and tell the tribe to help take care of her. As for the future, we'll make the arrangements later."
They were just ordinary people, and it was difficult for them to guarantee anyone's life. All they could do now was to provide these refugees with a way out. Whether they could continue to survive, and what their future held, depended entirely on their own efforts.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei glanced at the nearby city wall, then got off the carriage and said to his father, "We're not far from the city. I'll walk back, and you take that woman back to the village. We're running out of time today, so don't go back to the city. Stay in the village for one night and return tomorrow."
"She's been carrying the dead baby for so long, I don't know if she's been infected with the disease. It's best for you to keep your distance from her. Send her back to the village and make arrangements with the villagers to give her a separate place far away. Don't let them have contact with her for the time being. Even if you invite a doctor to treat her, make sure he takes protective measures."
"Okay, I know what to do." While talking to his eldest son, Lu Youtian also got off the carriage.
Their village had recently taken in so many refugees, and Lu Youtian was already well aware of the initial procedures for interacting with them. He pulled the mask up around his neck, covering his nose and mouth, then put on gloves and said to his eldest son, "You go back to the city first. We'll go and take that woman away."
"Jikang, come with me."
Ji Kang, whose name was called, also pulled the mask to cover his mouth and nose and followed their master.
However, Lu Mingfei did not leave immediately, but stood by the carriage and watched his father and Ji Kang go forward.
Ji Kang knocked the woman unconscious without a word. His father wrapped the dead baby in a piece of cloth and held it in his arms. His father seemed to hesitate for a moment about how to deal with the dead baby, but finally came over to their carriage with Ji Kang, who was holding the woman.
The people around saw this scene, but no one stepped forward to ask his father where he was taking the woman.
When they were almost at the carriage, Lu Youtian saw his eldest son still standing there, so he said to him, "Go back to the city quickly, I'll find a place to bury the child later." It was so pitiful to see a child who was only a few months old gone like this.
Lu Mingfei nodded, took two steps back, and watched Ji Kang put the woman into the carriage. His father also put the dead baby in it.
However, his father and Ji Kang did not get into the carriage again. They sat outside the shaft. His father waved to him and drove the carriage away with Ji Kang.
After watching the carriage leave, Lu Mingfei took Zhang Qi and the guards back to the city.
There were crossbows in their carriages. His father and Ji Kang were both skilled in using them, and Ji Kang was also skilled in martial arts, so it was enough to protect his father. Unless they encountered any powerful villains, ordinary refugees would not be able to harm his father and Ji Kang. That was why he was not very worried about his father walking outside the city for a while.
Fortunately, they were not far from the city gate at this time. Although there were many refugees on both sides of the road, these people were just begging here and did not dare to rob passers-by.
Therefore, it is not too dangerous to leave the city during the day.
However, Lu Mingfei knew that this was because these refugees did not dare to kill or rob people at the gate of Kyoto City. In fact, many places outside the capital area were already very chaotic.
When he reached the city gate, he looked back, couldn't help but sigh, and then he walked into the city.
***
After returning to the city, Lu Mingfei first went back to the courtyard on Chunxi Road, took a bath, changed his clothes, and then came to South Street. He found his mother and told her about some of the things they encountered when they were out of the city today.
After listening to her eldest son's words, Liu Sanniang didn't think her husband and eldest son were meddling in other people's affairs. She just sighed and said, "If we can help, let's do it. It's all a life."
As a mother who also gave birth to a child, Liu Sanniang could imagine that if she lost her child, she would probably go crazy.
Thinking that things hadn't been peaceful outside the city for a while, Liu Sanniang said to her eldest son, "Go back to the Imperial College tomorrow to study. Don't stay out here. There's been a lot going on outside the city lately, so don't go out unless you have to."
"Mother, don't you always say that I'm studying hard at the Imperial College and you want me to rest for a few more days at home? How come you're urging me to go back to the Imperial College to study just two days after I came home?" Lu Mingfei asked with a helpless smile after hearing what his mother said.
"That's because mother is worried about you. You can't stay idle at home, and when you are idle, you always want to run outside." Liu Sanniang glared at the child.
"Okay, then I will go back to the Imperial College to study tomorrow." Lu Mingfei said he was going back to the Imperial College, but what he was thinking about was going to Zhao Lang's farm to study something with the craftsmen. It happened that he would be out of the city for two days.
Liu Sanniang looked at her well-behaved eldest son and never suspected that he would lie to her.
After having dinner at the store in the afternoon, Lu Mingfei brought Zhang Qi and the guards back to their courtyard on Chunxi Road.
He waited until very late that day before Zhao Lang came to see him.
"What are you writing? You started studying hard right after the provincial examination?" When Zhao Lang came, he saw Lu Mingfei sitting in the study writing something. He thought Lu Mingfei had started studying day and night again.
He walked behind Lu Mingfei, wanting to see what this man was writing in the study in the middle of the night. However, after taking a look at what Lu Mingfei was writing, Zhao Lang was a little stunned.
"I'm not studying hard, I'm writing something that can make money." Lu Mingfei pulled out some of his finished works and showed them to Zhao Lang. "You can take a look and see if there's anything you can use. Take it and use it."
"Tomorrow I'd like to go out of town and visit your farm to work with the craftsmen on something. I might be gone for two or three days. Are you staying in town, or are you coming out with me?"
"I'll go with you." Zhao Lang said without thinking.
"Can you stay out of the city for so many days?" Lu Mingfei knew that the emperor had sent people to keep an eye on the hostages, for fear that they would escape by accident.
"I will arrange it, don't worry." What Zhao Lang didn't say was that he had already turned the people sent by the emperor to monitor him into his side.
Given the current situation at court, the emperor had no time to bother with these hostages. Unless someone from the palace suddenly came to summon him, no one would know he was not in the city.
The two of them agreed to leave the city tomorrow morning.
Zhao Lang carefully read through Lu Mingfei's writings from beginning to end, then put them back on the table and said to Lu Mingfei, "Just tell me what you want to do. I have money, people, and plenty of shops here. You can use them if you want."
"Really?" Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows.
"Yes." Zhao Lang nodded, very seriously. "Tomorrow I'll bring you a brochure of the shops in the mansion. You can choose whatever you like."
Lu Mingfei knew Zhao Lang was serious. He laughed and didn't bother to be polite with Zhao Lang this time. He replied, "Okay. I'll sort it out and pick out some money-making ideas. Then I'll lend you the money from the shop to make some money."
"If we make any money, we'll split it fifty-fifty."
"Okay." Zhao Lang has never had any objection to how much money should be divided.
The department store they had previously opened together had made a lot of money in the past few years, but Lu Mingfei never took any of the money, always giving it to Zhao Lang to use to expand the business.
In recent years, Zhao Lang has hired a group of people, one of whom is specifically responsible for business.
In fact, this team was ostensibly engaged in business, but in reality they were traveling around to do business and gather information. Of course, they also made money on the side.
Although Lu Mingfei had been studying at the Imperial Academy for the past few years, he was not completely ignorant of what was happening outside. He knew what Zhao Lang was doing and would occasionally offer advice to him.
In today's world, it is better to make more plans than to do nothing.
It would take more than half a day to finish writing these things on hand. Lu Mingfei had been writing for several hours and was a little tired. He simply packed up all the things and prepared to continue writing tomorrow. "Why did you come so late today?"
"I was tripped by a few people." Zhao Lang said.
Lu Mingfei nodded, took Zhao Lang to the next room, made some tea and chatted with Zhao Lang.
That night, the two chatted until the middle of the night. Zhao Lang left him and he went to take a shower and go to bed.
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