Chapter 268 Smallpox

Jin nodded shyly: "Okay, when you get better, I will go with you to enjoy happiness."

Now that her mother-in-law has passed away, she doesn't know if her husband can survive. Jin is anxious and confused.

If her husband dies, what should she do?

Song Xiyue felt a little sweaty after drinking the medicine, and her head didn't hurt much. She asked quickly: "How is Yun'er?"

"The fever has subsided, but the pox hasn't completely come out yet. I'm afraid she will have a fever again."

Jin whispered: "We are lucky. We only got smallpox. If we got smallpox, I guess few people in our village would survive."

Song Xiyue felt uneasy when she heard this.

Could it be that she was infected because she took that bellyband?

This thing is really scary. I just don't know if Song Changan's family can get it?

She glanced at the pustules on her arms and felt her scalp tingling when she thought of the pustules on her face: "Sister, does Yun'er have pustules on her face?"

Jin nodded: "Just a few, on the forehead. If there are scars in the future, they should not be visible if you cover them with bangs."

Song Xiyue was relieved and asked about Lu Yuanjin's condition: "How is my husband?"

"His fever has temporarily subsided, and he should be completely cured when the pustules scab over."

The Jin family is in the business of medicinal materials. The brothers and sisters of the Jin family have learned some medical skills since they were young. They have seen patients with smallpox, and their appearance is simply terrifying.

Song Xiyue asked about her mother-in-law again, and she felt sad when she learned that she had been cremated.

However, why didn't my father-in-law get sick?

But seeing the lively Jin, Song Xiyue thought that my father-in-law had also been vaccinated with cowpox.

A month later, the people in the farm gradually got better, but several elderly people and children died.

But the guards outside the manor did not withdraw, but ordered the people in the manor to take out all the clothes and quilts they wore when they were sick and burn them.

Some people were unwilling, so the soldiers directly set their houses on fire, regardless of how many things were inside, and all of them turned into ashes.

The villagers nearby were frightened when they saw this, and quickly took the clothes and quilts they used when they were sick to the intersection of the manor and burned them, and they dared not hide any items privately.

The inner house of the government office in Anding City.

Chang'an ordered people to burn the children's clothes and boxes sent by Song Xiyue, and asked Lu Jingzhou to invite a doctor to come and vaccinate his son Naonao and daughter Xiangxiang with cowpox.

Two months passed in a flash, and the smallpox incident finally ended. Lu Jingzhou wrote a memorial to the capital, informing the emperor that his legitimate mother had passed away and he had to observe mourning for a year.

Who knew that the emperor did not let him mourn, but let him continue to stay in Anding.

Lu Jingzhou guessed that this would be the case, but he had to write a memorial in advance to avoid being impeached by the censors.

Lu Huainian was quite sad about his wife's sudden death, and he looked at his eldest son with more pity.

That day, he found Lu Jingzhou and pleaded in a low voice: "Jingzhou, it's not a good thing for your brother's family to live in the countryside for a long time. Besides, your mother has passed away. Why don't you let him live in the city?"

Lu Jingzhou pondered for a moment and nodded.

Finally, Lu Huainian paid for a house in the city and took Lu Yuanjin's family in.

Chang'an naturally knew that Lu Yuanjin's family had returned to the city, and set up a mourning hall where they lived, and placed Cai's urn in the mourning hall.

She took Xiangxiang to kowtow and came back, which was considered to be a complete etiquette.

Originally thought that Lu Yuanjin's family would stay in the city honestly, who knew that not long after, Song Xiyue clamored to return to Beijing.

Lu Yuanjin naturally didn't want to go back, quarreled with him, and slapped Song Xiyue a few times.

As a result, a few days later, Song Xiyue took advantage of Lu Yuanjin and Jin's absence and took away Lu Yun and her mother-in-law's inheritance.

Lu Yuanjin looked at the empty boxes and was so angry that he jumped up and cursed.

Because the boxes contained not only his mother's inheritance, but also his wife's dowry.

Although his wife's dowry had been sold by him, there were still a few gold headpieces and a few silk dresses, but now they were all gone.

"Bitch! When I find you one day, I will definitely make you look bad!" Lu Yuanjin cursed for a long time before asking Jin to count how much money was left at home.

Jin took out a bag of silver from the kang hole: "Husband, this is all."

Lu Yuanjin snatched the handkerchief bag and put all the silver money into his arms without counting.

Jin wanted to cry but had no tears, and could only watch her husband take away her remaining money.

Once, Changan took his children to the market and suddenly saw a young woman sitting in the corner of the street, selling handkerchiefs and insoles.

"Huh? Isn't she my aunt?" Xiangxiang was sharp-eyed. She saw Jin sitting on the side of the road and walked over curiously.

My aunt was very kind, much kinder than Lu Yun's mother, and Xiangxiang was willing to get close to her.

Jin looked up and saw Chang'an and her daughter. Her face turned pale, and then she lowered her eyebrows and pretended not to see them.

Chang'an knew that Jin was shy, so she didn't go over.

But Xiangxiang had already walked up to Jin and asked, "Aunt, what are you doing here?"

Jin had to raise her face and smiled, "It turns out to be Xiangxiang. I'm selling some embroidery here."

Then she picked out two of the best fabrics from the pile of handkerchiefs and handed them to Xiangxiang: "This color is good, Xiangxiang, take it."

"Thank you, aunt." Xiangxiang didn't hesitate and reached out to take the handkerchief.

Then she ran to the vendor selling candied haws nearby, bought a few strings of candied haws and handed them to Jin: "Aunt, this is for you."

Jin declined: "You can eat it yourself, Aunt doesn't like snacks."

Xiangxiang believed what she said and asked hurriedly: "What does the aunt like? Xiangxiang will buy it for you."

Jin smiled bitterly: "Xiangxiang doesn't need to buy anything."

Xiangxiang scratched her head and had to run to Chang'an with the candied haws.

Chang'an touched her head and said nothing, and left with a few people.

The next day, Chang'an sent a hundred taels of silver to Jin for emergency use.

Three years passed in a blink of an eye, and Nao Nao was already three years old.

And Xiangxiang was also eight years old.

In these three years, Anding has changed a lot.

From the original yellow earth, it has become a paradise for plants.

However, the land in Anding is not as good as Ansai. For the time being, rice cannot be grown, and only wheat or beans can be grown.

As Anding Prefecture gradually became full of vitality, Ansai Prefecture was not so good.

In recent years, the water in the ponds in Ansai area has gradually dried up, and the reservoirs have also gradually dried up.

This made the local people very panicked, and they rushed to the government office and asked the prefect to find a solution quickly.

What can the prefect do? He is not a dragon king, can he make clouds and rain?

"It must be Lu Jingzhou's doing!" The prefect grumbled and wrote a memorial: "As soon as he was transferred, Ansai had no water. How could it be such a coincidence?"

As far as the prefect knew, after Lu Jingzhou and his wife arrived in Anding, a large number of reservoirs and rivers appeared in Anding, exactly the same as when he was in Ansai.

If you say that nothing happened, he would never believe it!