The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Alan Stone's execution ability exceeded Grace's imagination. Only a few days later, the news that "vaccination can be exchanged for a loaf of bread" spread among the poor in the capital.

Allen built three temporary sheds at the corner of Crown Plaza. The civilians lined up in front of the first shed. If the doctor showed that they were healthy after the examination, they could go to the second shed to be inoculated with vaccinia and receive a loaf of bread ; but if it is found that they have suffered from smallpox, they will be quickly transferred to the third shed far away to wait for treatment.

The third shed was undoubtedly the scariest. People stayed away and walked around it.The first two huts were attacked by civilians, with some devout people standing in the distance cursing them as "shameless and wicked people", and others throwing stones and empty wine bottles at them.

William brought the troops over the next day to maintain discipline.

William thought it was a contest between ignorance and science, while Alan Stone simply thought it was the victory of "Long Bread"-the queue was getting more and more.

As the number of people who came to be vaccinated increased, the number of patients detected gradually increased, and the manpower and long bread began to be insufficient.Grace and Anna came to help every day, baking bread and heating hot water in Alan Stone's three-and-a-half-story building.

Hot water has many uses. William read in the notes left by Old Ston that the Chinese wash the patient's clothes with scalding water so that the clothes can still be used. Hot water can also kill the pathogenic factors on the scalpel. .So it was steaming everywhere, even the cafes and taverns on the square were supplying hot water to the sheds.

"Grace!" Alan Ston called Grace from the window, "Do you have boiled water here? There's no supply in the square!"

He looked nothing more than a peasant now, covered from head to toe by an old dark cloak, his blond hair was soaked with sweat and curls could be seen, with a tuft on his forehead. , appearing darker than usual.

Grace didn't look much better either, and she definitely couldn't wear a skirt with braces, and she couldn't turn around in the kitchen in that stuff.He wore the simplest cotton skirt, the sleeves rolled up to the elbows.His hair was messy too. In order not to interfere with his work, he wore a soft cap over his hair as he did when he was a maid in the villa. It was made of white cotton and was very clean.

Alan Stone asked him and Anna to go to the courtyard first, but Grace came out with two large buckets of hot water, and Anna followed behind with a large basket of freshly baked long bread.

As soon as they came out, Alan Stone backed away, "Put the water there, stay away from me!"

Grace was also very scared for the first two days, because it is said that some people who have been vaccinated will also get sick.But now he is not afraid.

He walked down a few steps at the door, put down the bucket, took a long loaf of bread from the bamboo basket Anna was holding, and fed it to Alan Stone: "Eat something."

Alan Stone was not hungry at first, and qualified soldiers had received hunger training, especially when he was busy, he would not want to eat.But after he raised his eyes and looked at Grace for two seconds, his mouth suddenly became moist, and he immediately had an appetite. He lowered his head and took a big bite on the long bread.The freshly baked white bread tasted so delicious that he couldn't help but took another big bite.Fearing that he would choke, Grace asked him to eat slowly, then took out an apple from her skirt pocket, and he bit off half of it.

Alan Stone was chewing the apple while picking up the bucket filled with hot water. He thought it was dangerous for Grace to carry it, as it was easy to be scalded by the splashing hot water.

He wanted Anna to go back first, and he would come to pick up the bread later, but Grace refused and carried the bamboo basket by herself.

Allen swallowed the apple in his mouth, "Go back."

Grace thought of Eva's evaluation of men: Men speak hard.He felt that Eva's words were very wise, at least for Alan Stone.

Grace gave him a supercilious look, "We bleed the same blood and get the same cowpox. If you're not afraid, I'm not afraid either." As he said this, he had already walked in front of Allen.

They came to the square and gave hot water and bread to the two soldiers.All the people who worked in the shed had been vaccinated or had smallpox, most of them William's soldiers.The most authoritative here is Dr. Hermann, who is over 60 years old and has been fighting smallpox all his life.He himself also has several scars on his face, which are said to be left after he failed to vaccinate himself with varicella when he was young.

Cowpox is obviously much safer than human pox.

Grace felt that maybe not everyone came for the loaves.

"Look at those two people." He motioned to Alan Stone to look at the people in line, and Dr. Herman kept the people in line at a distance so that the family could stand together.The two that Grace gestured to were obviously a father and son, well dressed, obviously not people who couldn't eat white bread.

Alan Stone stood far away from him and kept urging him to leave, but Grace wanted to watch it for a while.Then he saw William and Mr. Wales!This is so amazing, why the two of them are talking together, and there are several men with white wigs next to them.

Grace saw William and Mr. Wales sat down on the chairs in front of the cafe. A man wearing a wig put a thick stack of paper in front of William, followed by a pen.

"What is he going to do! What does he want William to write!" Grace asked anxiously.Mr. Wales is the Earl of Arundel's most loyal dog, what more does the great conspirator want from the Stons!

"Don't worry, Grace, they are just discussing some things, and William will not be influenced by them." Alan Stone said.Seeing that Grace was in a hurry, as if she was going to run over to ask questions directly, he took off the cloak covering himself, picked it up with a long stick into the boiling pot, washed his hands and face with soap carefully, and then Get closer to Grace.

"When my father was alive, most of the family's money was deposited in a bank in Geneva. Later, the family's cash increased year by year, and my mother distributed them to some trustees to operate, and there were losses and profits. Now Arundel hopes to be able to Convince William to transfer all the money into British banks, and those people are bankers from England."

"Are they speaking English?"

"Yes."

"...Arundel is lying?"

"That's not enough. British banks have a good reputation, and the interest rate on deposits is higher than in Geneva. You can also find an agent in the bank and do some business in the UK." Alan Stone laughed at himself, "It's really unlucky, Si The property of the Dun family has been joined with him... He is also doing it for his own benefit, now it is not as convenient as making money in England, but it is difficult for him to be found here."

"Then...how about listening to him? It's not following his arrangement, it's just—"

Alan Stone laughed again, "Don't worry, Grace, William won't be reckless, he will go through all the documents carefully, and then seriously consider it."

"Why don't you go there? There's your money in there too."

Alan Stone turned his head to look at him, "Then why don't you go there? There's your money in it too."

Grace was almost upset, but fortunately Alan Stone immediately became serious: "I can do anything, I listen to William, and my mother listens to William in this matter. The three sheds and the family The asylum for smallpox patients cost a lot of money, and bribes to courtiers also cost a lot. We will definitely have to spend more money in the future, and we will not have enough cash on hand...William originally wanted to withdraw some money from the Bank of Geneva, but Arundel said it's not a good deal, the British bank can lend us the money without charging interest, the condition is that we deposit the money in their bank and continue to receive income. This is actually a very good deal, but William hates this kind of business affairs, but I hate this kind of affairs even more, so I can only work hard for him to talk to those hypocrites."

As he spoke, he became serious again, "Grace, let me test you, do you know who is more hypocritical than a courtier?"

Grace looked over at William and replied uncertainly, "...the banker?"

Alan Ston snapped his fingers, "That's right! It's the bankers. These guys are the pocketbooks of the British army. Although it's a good deal for the Ston family, what if we go to war with the UK one day?" ? Although our two countries have not fought a war for a long time..."

"So what?" Grace asked him worriedly.

"Let William worry about these things!" Alan Stone said nonchalantly.

The two watched for a while, and Grace suddenly asked him, "How do you know so much? Do you teach so many things in the military academy?"

Alan Stone was amused by him, "Military schools don't teach these things."

"then you……"

"A good book can never be finished."

Grace was a little unconvinced, "I read books too!"

Alan Stone made fun of him: "I know, William sends you some collections of poetry every year, but what do Keats and Schiller know? They don't understand wars, they don't know history-oh, by the way, William also likes Tell you stories about ancient Greece and ancient Rome, but their democracies failed, all lessons and nothing to read!"

Grace was a little angry, but he couldn't open his mouth to refute, because he knew that without Alan Stonedor, he couldn't speak against him.

"You can't do the math problems you took home when you were young, but I can do it!" He was a bit like a child quarreling.

Alan Ston was so amused by him, "Ah, by the way, you even peeked at Sir Newton's book I brought home." He didn't quarrel like Grace did, saying, "You now Definitely not as good as me," or something like that.

He said to Grace: "If you want to read, I have plenty in the study on the second floor." As he said this, he suddenly pressed his hand on top of Grace's head and even rubbed it.Grace was suddenly more excited than a cat whose back was stabbed, and almost jumped up to protest, when Alan Stone said: "If only you were a boy, you are so smart, you should go to school .”

Grace froze all of a sudden, and stared at William over the tavern without moving.

As Alan Stone said, William patiently flipped through the pages of those papers. It was such a thick stack, and he didn't know what was written on it. It probably took several hours.

Grace was listless, and didn't really want to go back to the three-and-a-half-story building to boil water and bake bread, but she wanted to stay in the square.Alan Stone found him a clean job and copied a copy of the registration book.Most people don't know how to write their own names, and the registrar writes them down according to the pronunciation, which is easy to identify and is a worry-free job.

Grace was copying, occasionally looking up at William.William wanted him to be a happy "woman", and he might keep this secret from William forever.

The paper in front of William's eyes was getting thicker and thicker, as if he had sensed it, he suddenly raised his head and looked towards Grace, meeting Grace's gaze.

The pen in Grace's hand stopped.The two looked at each other for a while, and Grace suddenly worried that William would deliberately confront the Earl of Arundel because of herself. The choice made in this mood was irrational and would be bad for them.Grace hurriedly lowered her head, pretending to be busy, and continued to copy.

William Ston continued to look at him for a while, then lowered his head and signed the document.

Mr. Wales and a brave banker followed William to the vicinity of the shed.William asked Alan Stone to come over and sign, and then called out to Grace: "Grace is also here."

Grace immediately ran over and looked at the document William presented to him, "Grace is here to sign, sign 'Grace Margaret Nakoren'."

Grace took the pen from him hesitantly, looked at him, then at Alan Stone, and finally signed the false name on the document.He saw it when he signed it. It was a statement of gift of property.

Doesn't William know that he now has an annuity of fifty thousand a year?

He peeped at William's expression probingly, but William's face was extremely serious at this time, and he couldn't see anything else.He also tried to find some clues from Alan Stone's face, but the other party turned his head away to prevent him from seeing it.

At this time, Mr. Wales saluted Grace, took off his hat very humbly, and asked him, "May I kiss your hand?"

"Aren't you afraid of being infected?" Grace asked.

Mr. Welsh's smile is still amiable, "I have lived for so long, I have crossed the edge of life and death several times, and I am no longer afraid of death."

Grace found that she still couldn't be indifferent to him, so she stretched out her hand.

Mr. Wales bent down and held his hand, kissing the back of it.When Grace withdrew her hand, there was a small note in the palm of her hand, and he secretly stuffed the note into the group pocket in a panic. .

"Even if the sailors on the same ship are not friends with each other, they can still make the ship go to the same destination." Mr. Wales said these last words to William and Allen.

"Oh, then who will be the captain and who will be the helmsman?" Alan Stone asked back with a smile.

Mr. Wales only saluted him respectfully, and left without saying anything.