Natural disasters in books: I stockpiled goods to escape famine in ancient times

A few days later, Wu Dahai and others who went to Linfu to buy food came back, all of them in a miserable state. Fortunately, they had successfully bought food, so the trip was not in vain.

Wu Dahai and others rushed back early in the morning. Just after noon, someone came to Song Shiwei's house to inform them of the matter and asked the person in charge to go to Wei Cai's house to distribute food.

Zhang Wu finally calmed down after worrying for a long time. He quickly put on his straw raincoat and took an umbrella to go to the village chief's house.

Wu Dahai and others bought back a lot of grain, because the prefect of Linfu had the habit of hoarding grain over the years, especially before the extreme cold. As soon as he received the letter from the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, he sent many of his subordinates to the south with the people of Zhending Prefecture to buy grain.

In addition, there are many more wealthy households in Linfu than in Zhendingfu, and the cultivated land in previous years is several times that of Zhendingfu, so they can still buy food at this time.

When Wu Dahai and his group saw the food, they forgot everything else and used all the money they had brought with them to buy food. After they were done buying the food, they realized that they had no money left for the return trip, so they had to sleep outdoors, and that's why they were in such a mess when they returned.

However, the amount of food these people brought back was still considerable, especially since there were not many people in Damo Village, so each household could get a lot of food.

The three families that had been out of food before received 200 kilograms of coarse grains each. The remaining food depended on how much each family was prepared to buy, but they could not buy too much.

Zhang Wu symbolically bought 50 kilograms of coarse grains and wrapped the grains with oilcloth to prevent them from getting wet when he carried them back.

The village bought back food, and the villagers who had been frowning for many days finally smiled. They all carried the food home with a smile on their faces.

Zhang Wu put the food he brought back directly into the basket in the woodshed. Song Shiwei had a lot of supplies, and he would never eat coarse grains that irritate the throat. Zhang Wu and Huang Ying were okay, as they had both experienced hardships. After eating white rice for a long time, they could still accept coarse grains. Although Feng Ru was also willing to eat it, the child was young after all, so he decided to follow Song Shiwei and eat white rice.

In the afternoon, a girl of the same age as Feng Ru came to the village to ask her to pick wild vegetables. Feng Ru was very interested, and after getting Song Shiwei's permission, she happily went out with a small basket.

Zhang Wu sent Huang Ying back home, and then returned to Song Shiwei, preparing to use the afternoon to steam the white flour that Song Shiwei had brought out, and then make some dumplings to store.

Even though his master didn't say it, Zhang Wu still thought a lot about it, especially since there would be a large number of victims after the plague. Once the situation in the north spread, no one knew how many victims would rush in. Even heavy rain could not stop those people from wanting to survive.

Zhang Wu was worried that it would be unsafe to live and cook in the village by then, so he asked Song Shiwei to take out the food yesterday and he would use the afternoon to cook more. Huang Ying didn't know about Song Shiwei's strangeness, so she had to send her home and pick her up before dinner or Zhang Wu would go back to eat.

This happened every afternoon for ten consecutive days.

Every now and then, Feng Ru would go to the outskirts of the mountains with the girls from the village to pick wild vegetables, and she became two good sisters through this.

On the other hand, Xu Shihe, after studying the prescription for a long time, finally made some progress. After two days of sleepless nights, he successfully developed a prescription for preventing the plague.

After the prescription was successfully developed, Xu Shihe wrote down two copies and gave them to his apprentice Xu Jingren to deliver to Damao Village. Then he turned around and lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

"Doctor Xu? Why are you here in such a heavy rain?"

Facing Zhang Wu's puzzled look, Xu Jingren smiled and said, "Master has developed a prescription to prevent the plague, so he asked me to send a prescription and ten doses of medicine to Miss Song."

Xu Jingren's tone was obviously excited. After all, he was young and it was inevitable that he would be happy and angry when he accomplished something big.

Zhang Wu was shocked and quickly invited the person into the main room, then ran quickly to Song Shiwei's room to call for help.

When Song Shiwei heard that the prescription had been developed, he quickly got up from the bed, washed up quickly, and walked into the main room.

"I heard that Doctor Xu brought me a big gift," Song Shiwei said as he walked over to sit next to Xu Jingren.

The smile on Xu Jingren's face instantly widened. He took out a prescription wrapped in oil paper from his sleeve and handed it to Song Shiwei. Then he pointed at the herbs on the table and said, "Master is worried that Miss Song doesn't have all the herbs here, so he prepared ten medicine packets for me to bring. One dose is for one person. Boil three bowls of water into one bowl and take it in two days. You only need to take it for two days. Taking it more than that may harm your body."

Song Shiwei wrote down carefully: "Thank you Doctor Xu for coming to tell me, I still have some extra herbs at home, I wonder if Doctor Xu has enough herbs?"

"That's enough, Miss Song, don't worry. The eldest son of the Zhou family, Zhou Huai, often sent medicinal herbs to him, so my master and I were able to develop the prescription so quickly. Otherwise, we would have been really short of money. However, Miss Song should be credited with the main credit for this prescription. My master said that if it weren't for the two exquisite prescriptions Miss Song gave him, he wouldn't have been able to develop the prescription so quickly. The medicinal herbs in the two prescriptions were very exquisitely matched, and my master and I benefited a lot from them."

Song Shiwei waved his hand while holding the prescription: "The prescription is only useful when it is used. I don't understand medical theory, so even if I have it in my hand, I can only watch it. It has to be in the hands of a great doctor like Doctor Xu to play its role."

It was the first time that Xu Jingren saw Song Shiwei so humble. His impression of her was still from the time when they fled together, so he was a little uncomfortable for a moment.

Song Shiwei didn't care about Xu Jingren's silence and unfolded the prescription to read it carefully.

Fortunately, there are a lot of medicinal materials used in the prescription developed by Xu Shihe planted in the space. A lot of them were picked some time ago and are now piled in the open space.

When Song Shiwei put away the prescription, Xu Jingren suddenly remembered that Shen Qianxue and the others had gone to his house that day, so he asked, "Miss Song and Mr. Zhou knew each other?"

Song Shiwei was stunned at first, then nodded: "I know him."

Xu Jingren suddenly understood and smiled: "No wonder Mr. Zhou spoke of you as being very familiar that day."

Song Shiwei didn't ask any more questions, just smiled at him.

Xu Jingren did not stay with Song Shiwei for long. Considering the difference between men and women, he repeated the dosage and then said goodbye and left.

It was when Xu Jingren left that Song Shiwei realized that he still had to deliver a prescription to Zhou Huai, so he asked Zhang Wu to lead the way. Zhang Wu had the matching cards given by Li An, so the doorman would not ask too many questions.

When Zhou Huai heard that Xu Jingren was coming, he immediately thought of the prescription and hurriedly got up and went to the front hall. Xu Jingren had no intention of greeting Zhou Huai. As soon as he saw Zhou Huai, he directly gave him the prescription and explained the dosage carefully. Then he politely declined Zhou Huai's offer to stay for dinner and left Zhou's house.

Zhang Wu was still waiting at the door of Zhou's house. Facing Xu Jingren's surprised look, he smiled and explained, "The roads are slippery due to the rain. My master asked me to take Doctor Xu home."

It's not Song Shiwei's fault for being kind. It's just that Xu Jingren is so frail and has this look of fatigue on his face. If he really let him go out in the wind and rain, Song Shiwei was afraid that he would fall on the road again.