Chapter 412 Donating 20,000 shi of grain in the name of Xinglin Medical Clinic
Xu Qingye put down the book and went to the kitchen to get some bowls and chopsticks. He placed one of the sets in front of Song Yuntang.
"Are you going to the clinic tomorrow?"
Song Yuntang nodded.
"Of course I will go. Shopkeeper Li and I have an agreement that as long as I am in Cile Town, I will be there to see patients for at least one hour every day."
Then he continued, "Mrs. Lin took Lin Zhaozhao and He Yuanfei to the clinic today."
Xu Qingye was stunned.
"They didn't do anything to you?"
Song Yuntang took a wooden spoon and scooped a piece of taro from the soup bowl for him.
"With Xia Ning following me, they can't hurt me." She turned to look at him, "Do you know He Yuanfei?"
Xu Qingye shook his head and said, "I don't know much about it. I just heard that he passed the exam three years ago. I don't know the details."
Song Yuntang pursed his lips.
"I have heard from A Rao that he is thirty this year, has two sons and one daughter, the oldest is thirteen, the youngest is seven. His first wife died of illness three years ago, and he has been relying on his late wife's family for financial support before he passed the imperial examination. I am very curious, on the day of Madam Yang's birthday banquet, when he entered the room prepared for you by Lin Zhaozhao, was it intentional or unintentional?"
"Maybe it's intentional."
As Xu Qingye spoke, he picked up the big bone with the most meat from the taro bowl and put it into Song Yuntang's bowl.
Song Yuntang looked at him.
"What do you mean?"
Xu Qingye said calmly, "He passed the imperial examination three years ago, and his first wife died of illness three years ago. It's too much of a coincidence."
Song Yuntang nodded. "When A Rao told me about this before, I also thought it was too coincidental. Lin Zhaozhao also said that He Yuanfei would also participate in this year's autumn examination, and he looked very confident. I thought that for someone like him, it would be difficult for him to pass the examination in three years after he passed the examination at the age of 26."
There was a sharp gleam in Xu Qingye's eyes.
"Perhaps, the Lin family has their own way."
Song Yuntang heard the hidden meaning and looked at him hurriedly.
"You mean cheating? Could it be that Lin Jingyao also had this suspicion when he passed the imperial examination?" Seeing that Xu Qingye didn't say anything, she immediately asked, "The Lin family cheated in a very secretive way. When Lin Jingyao passed the imperial examination, I was still in the Lin family and had never heard of it. How did you know about it?"
"I have a friend who is familiar with the son of the governor's staff."
The conversation ended abruptly here.
After Song Yuntang understood the situation, she stopped asking. It was such a secretive matter, and there was no point for her to know too much detail. When the time came, she could just send an anonymous letter and let the examiners check it directly.
However, Xu Qingye has really many friends.
He had been ill for so many years, how did he maintain these relationships?
"You don't go to the provincial capital often, how come you have so many friends?"
"We have known each other for a long time because of calligraphy and painting. We don't interact much in normal times, so we can't say we are very familiar with each other." Xu Qingye looked at her and said, "Let's eat first, or it will get cold."
Song Yuntang nodded, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
After running around in the fields in the morning and going to town in the afternoon, Song Yuntang felt a little sticky at the end of the day. When she went to the yard to digest her food after dinner, she asked Xia Ning to heat up the hot spring in the backyard for her. While Xu Qingye was reading, she ran to the backyard to take a bath.
When I returned to the house after washing, Xu Qingye had already lit the lamp.
Seeing that her hair was wet, the man put down the book, took the handkerchief and went forward to wipe her long hair.
As for the matter of brushing hair, ever since they got married, he was the one who did it whenever Xu Qingye was around, so Song Yuntang was used to this action.
She leaned back in her chair, picked up the notebook and charcoal pencil she usually used to record medical records, and wrote down several special cases diagnosed today. If she set up a medical school in the future, the materials in her hands would serve as ready-made cases.
Song Yuntang recently had two sets of clothes made for her to wear at night. They were made of silk, thin and cool.
It brings out the perfect curves on her.
She put the recorded medical records aside, raised her hand to touch her hair, and when she was almost done, she turned around and looked at Xu Qingye.
"Would you like to try the hot spring in the backyard? It's so comfortable. I just asked Xia Ning to heat up the water."
He looked at her with deep eyes for a long time, then nodded, put the handkerchief away, took the clothes to change and went to the backyard.
When I returned to the room, Song Yuntang was already asleep on the couch with his eyes closed.
Xu Qingye smiled helplessly.
He thought the girl was hinting at something by asking him to try the hot spring, but he was overthinking it.
After covering her with the quilt and clearing away all distracting thoughts, he returned to his table and continued reading.
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Xu Qingye stayed at the farm for five days and then left with a horse-drawn carriage that was going to the county town to deliver goods.
As time went by, the locusts became more and more numerous.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Song Yuntang asked Qiao Da and Qiao Er to stop collecting locusts.
The nearby fields were less damaged by the locusts because of advance precautions. However, the crops in the fields of those families who did not believe in evil were almost completely eaten by the locusts.
However, relatively speaking, among the five towns under the jurisdiction of Anyang County, Cile Town is in the best situation. In the other towns, many people's fields are left with only bare poles.
Now that the relief grain distributed by the government has been consumed, Anyang County has once again fallen into chaos.
Although the harvest was poor, the Jiang family still held Jiang Surao's wedding smoothly.
The next month after the wedding, Mr. Jiang passed away.
After Mrs. Jiang hastily handled Mr. Jiang's funeral, she buried him and lived peacefully in the backyard as Mrs. Jiang, leaving all the matters of the Jiang family to her son and daughter-in-law.
Seeing that the situation in Cile Town had stabilized and Xu Qingye's autumn examination was approaching, Song Yuntang took Xia Ning back to the county town.
Looking at the refugees begging along the way, Song Yuntang thought of what Wu said to her before he left.
Before she left, she asked Qiao Da to count the grain, and found that there were a total of 26,352 dan of grain on the farm.
It won't be long before the autumn harvest comes in the fields of Zhuangzi.
Not to mention the rice fields, just the twenty or thirty acres of sweet potatoes should have a considerable yield.
Even if we donate some food, there will be no problem surviving until next year. We can't have disasters every year.
Thinking of this, Song Yuntang asked Xia Ning to turn the carriage around and go to the county government office to find Master Qin.
"Master, I would like to donate 20,000 shi of grain to the people affected by the disaster in Anyang County in the name of Xinglin Medical Clinic."
Twenty thousand shi of grain is not a small amount.
You know, the imperial envoy sent from the capital at the beginning of the year only brought 50,000 shi of disaster relief grain.
Now, Song Yuntang alone has donated 20,000 shi of grain. Not to mention that according to the current grain price, so much grain would cost more than 10,000 taels of silver. It would take a lot of effort to raise so much grain.
As soon as she said this, one can imagine how shocked Master Qin was.
"Doctor Song's move is to save the people of Anyang County from danger!" He bowed to Song Yuntang, "On behalf of the people of Anyang County, I would like to thank Doctor Song first."
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