Early the next morning, Bai Erlang came to the two of them angrily, "You did it on purpose."
Bai Shan didn't admit it, "What did we do on purpose?"
Man Bao said directly: "Are you stupid, did you really ask?"
Bai Erlang glared at Bai Shan angrily.
Bai Shan shrugged and did not deny it.
Bai Erlang said angrily: "You guys are too bad!"
Bai Shandao: "It's called gaining wisdom through a pitfall. Don't worry, you won't make such a mistake again in the future."
Man Bao nodded with a smile.
The two of them managed to drive Bai Erlang away, so they continued to look for delicious melons and fruits in Zhuangzi. Since they were going home today, they only played in Zhuangzi for half a day, and set off for Beijing when the sun was not so bright in the afternoon.
This time, Man Bao and the others stopped riding horses. They sat in the carriage, opened the windows and let the wind blow, and dozed off with the shaking of the carriage.
In order to hurry up and play, they didn't take a nap today.
While drowsy, Man Bao seemed to hear loud cries coming from outside, and Bai Shan woke up, and the two of them pulled Bai Erlang, whose head was still ticking, to the window Look out there.
I saw a woman on the side of the road falling to the ground, patting her thigh and crying in grief. Magistrate Tang and a few government servants were standing not far from her, with a serious face, because she was still fair due to the scorching sun. His face was now flushed red, so red that it was a little black.
As soon as County Magistrate Tang looked up, he met their eyes, nodded slightly to them, then turned around and said something to the person behind the woman, and then turned and left with the yamen servant.
Because there were a lot of onlookers, the carriage was blocked, and the county magistrate Tang, who was leading the horse, threw the horse to his subordinates, and took three steps at a time to catch up with their carriage.
Daji also behaved, and immediately got out of the car and put down the car seat to let Magistrate Tang get on the car. Bai Shan poured Magistrate Tang a cup of hot tea.
County magistrate Tang glanced at the steaming tea and said, "I feel a headache now when I see the heat?"
Man Bao looked away curiously from the window. At this time, the road was clear, and the carriage was going forward, slowly passing the crying woman, "What's the matter?"
County Magistrate Tang sighed, "Her family's man went out to work in the city two days ago and he never came back. They searched along the road for two days but couldn't find it. They reported to the government office, and the officials found his body under a hillside."
Bai Shan asked, "Did he stumble and fall to his death?"
County magistrate Tang shook his head, "He suffered from heatstroke. It was confirmed by Wu Zuo. He only had some small scratches when he fell. He didn't die. The real cause of death was the heat. He died from the sun."
The three of Man Bao grew their mouths.
County Magistrate Tang said: "As of today's case, Chang'an County is the third person to die due to the heat. The first two are elderly people who couldn't survive the heat, but this one is a young man."
And it is precisely because he is young and strong that it is so unsatisfactory, and his death is very unexpected.
The four of them turned their heads to look at the sunshine outside the car window, even Bai Erlang couldn't help saying: "This year is so strange."
Magistrate Tang did not speak.
But each other is a little worried, fearing that there will be natural disasters this year, and life will be difficult.
Even they feel this way, let alone the ministers in the court. Although it is a summer vacation, they can't rest assured.
Even the emperor, after resting for three days, had to go to the front hall to read the news from various places.
The crown prince had already read these papers in advance, and when he handed them over to the emperor, he briefly said, "The most serious ones in the newspapers are near the capital, including Yongzhou and Shangzhou. The rain has not yet fallen, and the heat continues, so far, twenty-three people have died due to the heat, of which sixteen are old people, four are young and strong, and three are children."
The emperor stood up and walked around twice with a sullen face. He felt that his throat was a little angry again. He turned his head and asked in a deep voice, "How is Shengzhou?"
The prince was silent for a while and then said: "Shengzhou was silted up and a river channel collapsed. Fortunately, the situation was not particularly serious. It was reported that it had been blocked. There were not many farmland and guest houses destroyed, but there were five miles of people without people. The family can return, and now they are temporarily arranged in various counties of Shengzhou, and the governor of Shengzhou is afraid that they will gather and cause trouble, so they have been scattered and resettled."
The emperor looked at the scorching sun outside and worried, "As long as the two sides are evenly distributed, it will be fine."
The prince thought, he had always thought this way since he was a child, but when he grew up, he realized that if things in this world were so easy to follow, then there would be no need for the emperor and ministers to govern the world.
His father is so old, he didn't expect him to be so innocent.
The situation became more and more serious. Of course, front-line officials like Tang County Magistrate could not take vacations, and some related high-ranking officials also quietly returned to Daming Palace to work overtime.
It is impossible to control the sun. All the emperors can do is to inform the people to avoid the heat and not to work under the sun;
Let the Ministry of Industry cooperate with local officials to find water sources, or dig wells, or clean up river courses, so as to ensure that the people have water as much as possible;
The household department has to make preparations for disaster relief.
But this year we have to add another measure, the prince said: "Father, the Imperial Medical Office is preparing to build it. Originally, the Imperial Medical Office was going to build medical services in various places to deal with the civilian epidemic and patients living in hardship. Why don't we take this opportunity to let them go down?" Go to the local area to rectify the people, and prescribe some prescriptions to relieve the heat?"
The emperor asked the Ministry of Household Affairs, "Then allocate another part of the money to buy medicinal materials?"
After Liu Shangshu thought for a while, he said, "The East Palace and the Imperial Hospital must share a budget together."
Now the imperial medical department is under the management of the East Palace, and the imperial hospital basically has no qualifications to go to the court to discuss matters, so he can only ask the prince for it.
How does the prince know about curing diseases and saving lives? Decided to send someone to find Xiao Yuanzheng in a while.
Xiao Yuanzheng was staring at the watermelon frost right now. After confirming that the watermelon frost had really worked, Xiao Yuanzheng found some more watermelons to make a batch, which had just been placed in a cool pharmacy.
Then he went to see the palace servants who were taking medicine with Doctor Liu, took down their pulse records, and made observation notes.
Because it is a new drug, at least after taking it for three months, it will be used slowly after it is confirmed that there are no sequelae.
They didn't know that Zhou Man had given the medicine to his future mother-in-law, and he was still monitoring it bit by bit.
But Man Bao took the shortcut of Mr. Mo, and the procedures that new drugs should go through still have to go through.
But Mrs. Zheng doesn't know these things. I don't know if Mrs. Fang is suffocated by the heat after staying in the kitchen for a long time, and her throat is a little itchy and sore when she wakes up in the morning, and she can't help but cough twice.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zheng said, "The watermelon frost that Manbao gave me some time ago is pretty good, would you like to sprinkle some?"
Fang knew that my sister-in-law was good at medicine, so she agreed with a smile.