Chapter 155

On a stormy night, after Gu Qingzhu returned to her room, she saw Qi Xuan standing in front of the window. The window was wide open and the wind was pouring into the room.

Qi Xuan waved to Gu Qingzhu, Gu Qingzhu went over, and the two looked out the window outside, which was lightning and thundering, Qi Xuan frowned and said:

"Do you still remember this rain?"

Gu Qingzhu didn't understand what it meant: "What do you remember?"

"It was that rain, intermittent, and it took a month to fall. The surrounding landslides and many villages were trapped. After the rain stopped, another plague occurred, and people in the capital were panic."

Qi Xuan's words reminded Gu Qingzhu of some scenes at that time. She probably hadn't married Qi Xuan yet. There was indeed a heavy rain for the next month. But Gu Qingzhu didn't remember when it was exactly, only knowing that that month was quite difficult. However, her boudoir in Gu's family was a two-story building, and water in the yard did not have much impact on her, but she could not buy anything even if she had money.

"Is that rain?" Gu Qingzhu asked.

Qi Xuan nodded: "It should be. I remember it clearly. At that time, I followed my father to supervise the channel outside the city, and I had never done it for several □□ servers."

"If it was really that rain, many people in the capital would probably be in trouble. If only I could remember it earlier, I could make some preparations in advance."

Qi Xuan stood in front of the window and sighed. Seeing him like this, Gu Qingzhu thought about it and said, "Try to do something. We can't help with the villages outside the city. However, it should be possible to prepare more food outside the city to give some trapped villagers. As for the plague, as long as the source is prevented at the beginning, the plague is not that scary. Remember one summer, a small-scale plague spread in the military camp in Mobei. At that time, my master found the source and finally curbed it."

When talking about that, Qi Xuan remembered that he was the commander and did not sleep for several nights for the plague incident in the camp. The doctors in the military camp did not dare to close their eyes, but they finally managed to control it.

"How could I forget?" Qi Xuan sighed quietly.

"There are a lot of spare medicines in Ren'en Hall. I will ask Yunsheng and the others to buy more medicines in other pharmacies tomorrow. It is best not to use them. If there is really a plague, I will ask someone to take the medicine."

Gu Qingzhu has seen the cruelty of the battlefield, so she cherishes human life very much and only wants to do her best. If she can save more lives, it will be worth it.

"I'll send you a few more people tomorrow. Since we live more than others, we must try our best to reduce such natural disasters and casualties so that we can thank God for his kindness to us."

Qi Xuan reached out to hold Gu Qingzhu's shoulder and sighed deeply. If God hadn't been kind to him, how could he and Qingzhu have the chance to stand here side by side?

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The heavy rain fell all night, and Gu Qingzhu got up early the next morning and asked Hongqu to go to the horse house to set up a carriage. She wanted to rush to Ren'en Hall. Qi Xuan even went out before dawn, saying that she wanted to go to the dock to check it out and planned to set up some flood control obstacles on the roads leading to the capital. It can resist it for a while and the village will be trapped one day less, so there will be more villagers who survived.

Hongqu didn't understand, so he took the umbrella back to the carriage and asked Gu Qingzhu:

"Madam, why bother going out? There is no one to see a doctor on rainy days."

Gu Qingzhu lifted the curtain of the car and looked out. He looked at the road they were driving. The drainage system in Beijing was quite good. Even if it rained the next day and night, there would be no muddy and water accumulation on the road. However, no matter how good the drainage system was, it would be flooded in the next month. Time was already very tight. Qi Xuan sent a team of twenty people to arrange it for Gu Qingzhu.

After arriving at Ren'en Hall, Gu Qingzhu arranged tasks for the twenty people, each of them in groups and a car, and they went to various shops in the city to buy food and medicinal materials. There was no shortage of supplies in the capital, but they were afraid that things would come to an end. Some merchants were obsessed with it and raised prices for all the things that the people needed urgently. Those with higher prices would get it. Generally, people could not buy things, and the family would be hungry.

After Gu Qingzhu listed the list, everyone in Ren'en Hall was shocked. Hongqu was shocked and pulled Gu Qingzhu aside and whispered to remind:

"Madam, it takes a lot of money to buy so many things."

"I know. There are only tens of thousands of taels around me. Qi Xuan gave 100,000 taels. If it is not enough, I will go to the shop in the city to collect it and ask them to settle all the accounts for the first half of this year. If it is not enough, I will open the dowry and take it from the dowry."

Of course, Gu Qingzhu knew that if she wanted to do this, she would lose all her wealth, at least she would be seriously injured and her assets would shrink by 60% to 70%. After all, she didn't know how many people in the city were affected by disasters, so she couldn't estimate the amount she would need to use in the end, so she could only prepare as much as possible. Money was something outside of her body, and she didn't want to be occupied, so she naturally had to try her best to take it back. But if human life and money were put together, Gu Qingzhu was willing to save people, and she could make money, but if people were gone, she would lose everything.

What else Hongqu wants to say is pushed to the side by Gu Qingzhu:

"Have you seen it all clearly? According to the quantity on the order, as much as possible. If the money is not enough, let the shopkeepers come to Ren'en Hall to get the money. As for the medicinal materials, they will be left to Yunsheng and Liangfu. Don't worry about the price and buy as much as possible. I don't think the time for this rain will be short. After the heavy rain, there will be high temperatures, which will easily breed plague. If the plague really breaks out, the whole capital will suffer."

Yunsheng and Liangfu looked at each other, and Yunsheng said:

"Sir, it's only been raining all night, and you're so nervous. I guess it's time to stop in the afternoon or tomorrow. Let's buy so many medicines and food. If the weather clears up, all the things will be wasted. Wouldn't you throw money in for nothing?"

Gu Qingzhu couldn't explain too much to them, so she just urged them to go out:

"Don't worry about these. If the sky clears up, the prince of the East will deal with it for us."

At the critical moment, I still had to drag Qi Xuan out to speak. Hongqu and Yunsheng were still a little afraid of Qi Xuan. After hearing Gu Qingzhu say this, he looked at each other for a few seconds, then put on a straw raincoat and jumped onto the carriage prepared outside the door.

From Ren'en Hall, dozens of carriages were dispatched early in the morning, and there was a long queue on Zhuque Street. People stayed in the shops and didn't know what Ren'en Hall wanted to do. They pointed and talked.

Qi Xuan transferred the patrol battalion to various mountain roads to set up obstacles, so he was so busy that he couldn't even go back home. Yun called Gu Qingzhu to ask. When Gu Qingzhu went, she was standing in the corridor and asked Gu Qingzhu:

"I heard that you two have been making a big move in the city these two days. You have almost bought out all the food and pharmacies in the city? Xuan'er led the patrol camp to work outside the city. What are you?" Yun's family was in charge of the family, so naturally someone reported to her about these things outside the mansion.

Gu Qingzhu lowered his eyes, thought for a while, and replied:

"Qi Xuan said, this rain will last a long time, so I asked me to prepare early. I don't know why. My mother would better ask him in person."

Gu Qingzhu couldn't tell the truth, nor could she say she wanted to buy it herself, so she simply pushed everything on Qi Xuan. The question Yun had to ask Qi Xuan to answer. No matter whether it was right or wrong, it didn't matter between them, mother and son.

"This matter is so turbulent. Why do you let him make a mess?" After making such a big noise for no reason, the Marquis kept reminding him to keep a low profile and keep a low profile. Now, everyone knows that the Qi family is doing high profile.

Yun was walking around the corridor with his hands behind his back. Seeing her expression, he must have asked Qi Xuan before asking Gu Qingzhu. It was because he didn't get the exact answer from Qi Xuan that he wanted to come back to ask Gu Qingzhu.

Who knew that Gu Qingzhu was also a "confused" person? How could Yun not be in a hurry?

Yun was very anxious and thought in his mind how she would explain to the Marquis when he came back. What should he do if he really made up something for these two children? Gu Qingzhu sighed helplessly when she saw her like this and said:

"Mother, don't worry, Qi Xuan is not the one who waits for a naughty person. Since he wants to do this, there must be a reason. I believe him, and my mother should believe him. If the guess is correct, this heavy rain will last for a long time, then people in and outside the city will definitely be affected by disasters, and the things I bought will come in handy. Of course, we don't want these things to come in handy. We just hope that the rain will stop sooner and no one will suffer from disasters. Just treat it as preventing problems before they happen, and buy peace of mind."

Yun had nothing to say to her daughter-in-law.

She felt at ease how much money she bought. I heard that her daughter-in-law had extracted a lot of silver from the dowry warehouse today. This is the daughter-in-law who is willing to spend money with him because she believes in Qi Xuan. Yun doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But no matter what, Yun could no longer stop the behavior of the two children. Just as the Marquis could not stop Qi Xuan from entering the palace to ask for an order to give a marriage, he waved his hand to ask Gu Qingzhu to go back. Yun walked in the room for a while, but decided to put on a straw raincoat and go out to find his son, and ask him what he was thinking.

The suspicion of the crowd finally turned from suspicion to astonishment and admiration after more than twenty days of heavy rain. Most streets in the capital had been flooded, and half of the people on the streets retreated to a higher terrain. The city was cut off from food, and the people were suffering.

Because Qi Xuan built obstacles overnight, the road outside the city to the city was not washed away by the water, alleviating the siege of some villages outside the city. Gu Qingzhu led the establishment of porridge and medicine stalls everywhere in the city. Everyone in the Wu'an Hou Mansion was sent to help distribute. Gu Qingzhu and the doctor who added medicine shops in the city gave free medical treatment under the eaves.

After Wu'an Hou Mansion took the lead, some families of Jixian joined the ranks of serving porridge and clothes.

This incident shocked everyone in the capital. Even officials at the court brought this matter to Emperor Yuande. If such an unprecedented heavy rainstorm was inappropriate, the losses and harm caused would be difficult to measure with money. After hearing the censor's passionate report, Emperor Yuande praised the Marquis of Wu'an and asked the court officials to open warehouses and release grain one after another.
Chapter completed!