Forty years later

Both Wu Bai and Xiao Zimo have reached the age of courting their grandson. In recent years, although Xiao Zimo has done a good job in government affairs, the minister he offended when he was young has always suppressed him, which also led him to stay in the county. make this position.

Fortunately, Xiao Zimo does not have the idea of ​​rising step by step. He has stayed in Puchang County for so many years and has deep feelings for everything here. The people here also love and respect him very much.

He will be 60 years old in three months now, and he has reached the age of becoming a scholar. Xiao Zimo had already submitted his letter to the scholar half a month ago, and now he is just waiting for the approval. Someone will take over his official duties. He can be completely idle at home, and he will spend a lot of time with Brother Bai and the children in the future.

Oh no, the children are all grown up and should have time to spend with the grandchildren.

.Wu Bai came over with a bowl of soup, placed it in front of him, and said warmly, "Are you still looking at the book?"

"Well, I still have a few months to go to the doctor, and I want to classify all these things, so that when the next county magistrate comes, I won't be in a hurry. This is the last thing I do for the people! "

"You're not too young, you can wait until tomorrow to see this. Looking at these things at night will hurt your eyes!" Wu Bai took the book from his hand and put it aside.

"Drink up the soup tonight, or you won't sleep well at night." Wu Bai pushed the soup bowl in front of him.

Xiao Zimo took it with a smile, drank it, and handed the bowl back to him.

Wu Bai handed the bowl to Wanfeng, then walked behind Xiao Zimo and rubbed his shoulders.

"Husband, it is my blessing to be able to marry you.Xiao Zimo turned around and held his hand.

"You, I'm tired of hearing this sentence, can't you change it to something new?" Wu Bai said with a smile.

"Then you can marry me, it's really my blessing." Xiao Zimo said another way.

"Isn't that still the same meaning?" Wu Bai pushed him.

The next day, Xiao Zimo woke up early and started sorting out the papers. Suddenly, a yamen came in and reported that there was an epidemic in the neighboring state.

The former yamen have long since retired and replaced with new ones.

However, these young yamen officers respect Xiao Zimo even more. After all, they have heard from adults how rare and good officials Xiao County Magistrate is since they were young. They will not talk about building bridges and paving roads for them. The most important thing is Xiao County Magistrate. Under the leadership of the husband and wife, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Is the news accurate?" .Xiao Zimo said sternly.

The yamen nodded and said, "Accurately, I heard that the epidemic in the neighboring state capital is raging, and the city has been closed, but a few people still escaped from the city before the closure, and some even came to Puchang County."

Xiao Zimo thought for a moment, and hurriedly ordered: "Now you call the Master to the front and back two city gates, and ask them to quickly close the city gates and not allow anyone to enter the city again."

The yamen didn't have time to think about it, and immediately called a brother to do this with him.

After he left, Xiao Zimo recruited the yamen again and asked them to buy food for storage, as well as some clothes and things to build a shed.

After the things were ready, Xiao Zimo ordered them to move the things for building the shed to the outside of the city gate, and ordered them to build the shed quickly.

.Some people who wanted to enter the city but were rejected from outside the city have not dispersed yet. When they saw Xiao Zimo, they quickly stepped forward and asked, "Sir, what's going on? Why didn't we let us enter the city?"

Xiao Zimo didn't hide it, and said directly: "There is an epidemic in the state next door, and some people will come to Puchang County in two days. This official does not know whether they have contracted the epidemic, for the sake of the people in the city. , recently, everyone should not enter the city, and you should stay at home and not walk around, let alone help strangers, so as to prevent the other party from carrying the virus and infecting you."

"Epidemic!! Is it true?" Some people were shocked.

."It's true, I just got the news. In addition, if you see suspicious people, tell them to come to the gate of the county town. I have instructed my subordinates to build shacks for them, and they will also serve porridge at that time, although I can't let them. Entering the city, but this official will not give them up easily." Xiao Zimo said sternly.

"Okay, then I won't enter the city today. Let's listen to Mr. Xiao. Let's go home and come back after this time." Someone shouted loudly.

"go home."

"go home."

In this situation, the people also understood Xiao Zimo's actions. They didn't complain at all. Everyone brought their own things and went home the same way.

As they returned home, the next state capital caught the epidemic, and the news that someone fled to Puchang County soon spread in Shili Baxiang.

.Therefore, the people outside the city did not go out one after another, and everyone honestly stayed at home and did not go out. Anyway, every family was very wealthy and there was a lot of surplus food at home.

As for the food in the fields? Most of them don't grow food anymore, they all grow medicinal herbs, and then buy food and hoard it.

Occasionally, someone in the house heard someone shouting outside, but they did not open the door easily, but only shouted to let the other party go to the gate of the county town, where someone was making porridge.

Sure enough, the people outside the door did not continue to entangle after hearing the news, and soon left the village and went to the gate of the county town.

As a county magistrate, Xiao Zimo doesn't like to see those yamen serving porridge outside the city, while he hides in the city and watches, so he occasionally comes to the city gate with a mask that Wu Bai sewed for him. , take care of the people who have fled from the next state capital.

.By the way, I asked about the situation in the next state capital from the mouths of those people.

On this day, he learned from a commoner that the imperial court had sent an imperial physician to treat the epidemic.

Hearing this news, Xiao Zimo breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, after a month, Xiao Zimo suddenly contracted the epidemic. He was already old, and his resistance was not as good as those of the young people. However, none of the yamen who served the victims all day was infected. epidemic.

Xiao Zimo fell, and Wu Bai immediately went out of the city to take care of him after hearing about it.

While taking over the affairs in Xiao Zimo's hands, he arranged things outside the city in an orderly manner, making sure that Xiao Zimo recuperates in peace, while inquiring from the people.

.Xiao Zimo lay in bed for five days, getting weaker day by day. He thought he couldn't make it, and he was talking to Wu Bai, trying to make the other party not feel sad, but the situation turned around, and there was news from the next state. The imperial doctor found the source of the epidemic, and now he has prescribed the right medicine and formulated a prescription to treat the epidemic.

Wu Bai hurriedly searched for someone to inquire about the prescription. After bringing it, he immediately ordered the yamen to boil a large pot of medicinal soup, brought a bowl to Xiao Zimo, and the rest to the people outside the city.

After drinking the medicine for two days, Xiao Zimo's body gradually improved, which showed that the prescription was right.

Seeing Xiao Zimo getting better, Wu Bai cried with joy. He had been pretending to be strong for the past two days, but he was really worried that Xiao Zimo would leave him early in this life. The old husband and the husband hugged each other, Wu Bai He couldn't cry, Xiao Zimo kept comforting him.

.As Xiao Zimo improved, most of the people outside the city also got better. They were relieved when they heard that this recipe came from the state next door and was researched by an imperial physician sent from the capital. , In addition to the health, they have returned together and left Puchang County.

They were lucky. They met Xiao Zimofufu and provided them with food, accommodation and medicinal materials for free. However, there are still a large number of people like them who have not been treated. Those people learned that the imperial doctor had developed a prescription and thought they were saved. , also dragged the sick body back.

When those people returned to the next state government, they found that the medicinal materials here had been used up, and many people who had been staying in the city had no medicinal soup to drink, and the medicinal materials sent by the imperial court were still on the way. time to arrive.

Seeing this situation, some people who took medicine from Puchang County and returned from their illness proposed to let them come to Puchang County.

.As a result, another wave of people came to Puchang County, bringing news of the shortage of medicines in the next state capital.

However, these people have already come, Xiao Zimo did not let the yamen put away the shed, but let them live and provided them with food and medicinal soup every day.

At the same time, he also issued a notice to buy medicinal materials from the people in the whole county. He planned to send all these medicinal materials to the next state capital. After all, saving people is like putting out fires. Just offered to pay for it.

Sure enough, when the people heard that he was going to buy medicinal materials, they came to the county office with the medicinal materials prepared by themselves.

Puchang County is now worthy of being the hometown of medicinal materials. The people in the county have a lot of medicinal materials in stock, which quickly emptied the county government’s finances. With the support of Wu Bai, Xiao Zimo also bought most of his family property. these herbs.

.The medicinal materials were quickly gathered, and Xiao Zimo sent a few steady yamen to order the other party to lead the people who had recovered and wanted to return to their hometowns to deliver the medicinal materials to the next state capital.

Those people also had relatives who were still waiting for help, so they didn't delay at all on the way, and it took two days to rush to the next state capital.

The neighboring state government was helped by a large amount of medicinal materials, and soon set up a large number of pots and boiled medicinal soup.

These medicinal herbs are just in time. Most of the epidemics of the people in the neighboring state have been resolved, and the remaining half have also drank a bowl of soup and medicine, and waited for the medicinal materials sent by the imperial court.

The epidemic took more than three months to completely dissipate without a trace, and the faces of the people raised a smile of hope again.

The imperial physicians also retired after their success, and got on the carriage one after another, and the officers and soldiers who came to escort the medicinal materials returned to Beijing on the same route.

.At this time, Xiao Zimo’s letter of honor to the scholar had also been approved, and the newly arrived county magistrate had already taken over his official duties.

It's just that the county magistrate looked at the financially deficient county government, and his face was very ugly, but he couldn't say that Xiao Zimo was wrong. The other party was also trying to save people, so he couldn't use this to target Xiao Zimo.

In the end, he had no choice but to swallow his breath.

As the imperial physicians returned to the capital and recounted Xiao Zimo's contribution to the epidemic, the emperor was very happy and planned to promote Xiao Zimo's official, but the minister of officials stood up and said that Xiao Zimo had already sent clerk thing.

The emperor was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that there would be officials who could not be promoted by himself?

But this also made the emperor interested in Xiao Zimo. He felt that the other party's behavior was like a person who did big things, how could he be a small county magistrate all his life.

.So he sent someone to investigate Xiao Zimo's past, and found that the other party has achieved remarkable political achievements, and he is praised in the local area every year.

The emperor immediately noticed that there must be something tricky about it. After investigation, he found that someone was targeting Xiao Zimo, which led to Xiao Zimo staying in that small county all his life.

Thinking of Xiao Zimo's outstanding ability, but because of the suppression of such despicable villains, the court lost a talented person, and this time he failed to seal Xiao Zimo's official, the emperor's heart was full of debts to Xiao Zimo, and full of feelings Angered by the courtier who suppressed Xiao Zimo, the emperor relegated him to a county magistrate for a random excuse. He wanted this courtier to taste the taste of being suppressed too.

After dealing with this courtier, the emperor still had a hard time in his heart. After thinking about it, he finally ordered Xiao Zimo to be named a 'Viscount', rewarded 10,000 taels of silver, and also gave a piece of writing 'Renshan County Magistrate'. Plaque with him.

.Puchang County

Xiao Zimo was stunned for a moment when he received the imperial decree and the plaque, but he quickly accepted it calmly.

The newly appointed magistrate was also dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he could become a 'Viscount' as a magistrate. He immediately looked at Xiao Zimo with admiration on his face. This was simply the 'Light of the magistrate'!

From then on, he no longer had any dissatisfaction with Xiao Zimo, and often went to Xiao's house to ask Xiao Zimo questions, and his style of doing things was as consistent as Xiao Zimo used to treat the people!

In this life, Xiao Zimo only lived to be seventy years old. In the end, he was still affected by the previous epidemic. After his death, Wu Bai quickly followed him.

The deeds of their husband and wife were also widely praised by the people of Puchang County.

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