Chapter Fifty-three
At the entrance of the villa, Ye Xuanzheng was arguing with several women outside the villa. There were two families who came to the villa to seek refuge with their relatives. One was the mother and sister of the third aunt in the third courtyard, and the other was a country relative of the seventh courtyard. The quarrel with Xuan Ye turned red.
It was none other than the wife of the third concubine of the Third Courtyard.
"Miss in-laws, although your three houses are separated, my daughter is also the third wife your father is marrying, and I am also your father's mother-in-law. What's wrong with me coming to see my daughter? The other houses haven't said anything, but you just stopped me.
We won't be allowed to enter the villa."
"My mother-in-law, you must have seen it when you came here. There are officers and soldiers patrolling the official roads. Now there is a plague in the imperial city. If you want to enter our villa, you must have it checked by a doctor and carefully disinfected.
Okay. It’s not stopping you from coming in.”
"Yexuan, you also said that there were patrols on the official road, but we and I came here in the fields before dawn. Who doesn't know that there was a plague in the imperial city? My old man and two sons were just trying to earn money during the chaos in the imperial city.
I gave them some money to help carry the body. I thought they would go home after the imperial city was lifted, but two days ago they sent us a letter saying that they had died of illness. My second brother’s arranged marriage also fell through, and the girl was still complaining.
We ruined their reputation. The bride price was not returned, the dowry was taken away, and my eldest daughter-in-law packed up her children and returned to her parents' home. We, the two of us, were desperate and came to seek refuge with our already married daughter." The old woman outside the door was talking.
Start wailing.
"Miss Ye Xuan, I am the biological aunt of the headmistress of the Seventh Courtyard. Several men in my family also help the court deliver dead people to the mass graves. They also sent death letters to them a few days ago. We don't even know where the corpses are.
.Life in the countryside is hard, and orphans and widowed mothers are also bullied. I just want to send these two young sons to live with his cousin for a while, so that they can have enough to eat. My daughter and I will go back to the countryside to farm. Please.
You call my niece to come out and I'll tell her." A woman from another family said, leading a five or six-year-old boy with one hand.
"Sister Xuan, the village owner's sister is here."
"Master? After all this, Ye Xuan, you are not the master, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf like me? That village master, I am the mother of the third wife of the Third Courtyard. I have come to seek refuge with my own daughter, and your village has nothing to do with it."
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On the way here, Yuyu had already recounted the situation at the entrance of the villa to Yuqing. Now after listening to the words of the third concubine of the third courtyard, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what kind of mother there is, what kind of daughter. This
The old lady was just as annoying as the third aunt. So she said it coldly and coldly.
"Mother-in-law, we don't care who you go to. But now is a special period. We have to make sure that you are not infected with the plague, and we have to go through disinfection outside the villa before allowing you to enter the villa. Hualien, go move a table, your lady."
I'll check their pulse here."
"There are so many stinky rules, Xuan Ye, go and call the third lady out. Now I'm a little suspicious that you are the one causing trouble. We have separated. Can I eat the rice from your big house or drink the water from your big house?"
"My mother-in-law, I really can't find the third aunt for you right now. All the women in our third hospital were doing nothing, but they were arrested by the imperial patrol yesterday."
"What did she do again?" the old lady asked in disbelief.
"Mom, what could my sister do? She must have gone to search our house and was caught by the patrolling court soldiers. Ye Xuan, Ye Li was not arrested, right? Go and tell her to cook for us. My mother and I will
I went into the fields too early without eating, and now my stomach is growling with hunger." The third aunt's sister said clearly.
"I can't find Miss Ye Liben either. She was too lazy to even cook for herself, so she went to a relative's house to shame herself. If the owner of the village checks that you are not sick, you can wait in the third aunt's yard.
When she comes back, it’s best to call Ye Li back. She’s so old and still goes to relatives’ houses to eat, I feel ashamed for her.”
"Mom, ask Ye Li to come back and cook for us." Mother and daughter were thinking of good things. Yuqing had already checked the four mothers from another family, sprayed disinfectant outside the villa, and distributed them face towels and masks.
, then the four women were asked to enter the villa.
"Mother-in-law, if you want to enter the villa, come here to check your pulse and then disinfect it. And don't yell at the door of our villa. The patrol will come later and arrest you too. The owner of this village does not have the face to protect you.
I'll leave you." Yu Qing looked at the two women coldly and said.
"Pulse check? Are you the owner of the village or the doctor?"
"My young lady is the owner of the farm and also the doctor. If you don't want to check on me, you have to close the table." Hua Qiao'er had already disliked the two of them, so she pinched her waist and said.
"Mom, just ask her to take our pulse and see if we have any other illnesses?"
"Girl, come to see me and get the consultation fee, otherwise I will just check whether you have contracted the plague." Yuqing almost laughed out of anger. They are such a strange family, how can they only think about beautiful things.
The noise at the gate of the villa finally ended. Yuyu sighed with Yuqing in her consciousness again.
"Master, Yuyu is willing to bet that neither the Third Courtyard nor the Seventh Courtyard will take them in. Your seventh uncle takes her son to climb the wall to smell the smell all day long, and she doesn't even say that she will learn to do it. Seventh Courtyard'er
I've been clamoring all day long about dividing the family, but I still haven't gotten a share yet, and we quarrel when we're full."
"Yuyu, why are you acting like a gossip now?"
"Master, I'm not gossiping. It's not because I have to monitor my master's popularity at all times. The Seventh Courtyard and the Fifth Courtyard are both within my perception range. You don't have to listen if you don't want to. Master, when your popularity is high enough, you can also
You will be able to sense more. I will see if Master is bothering you at that time. At that time, the power of the soul pen will be given to Master, but I will be dormant and prepare to be your daughter or sister."
"Yuyu, please shut up now. I am already very happy as your master. The medicine soup from my doctor's master should be ready again, and I have to make some medicine balls."
When Yuqing returned to the small medicine shop in the villa, the wrapped pills were divided into 10 pills in a large package. More than 200 pills were made from a large pot of medicinal soup and placed neatly together.
The old doctor started to cook another pot of medicinal soup. When he saw Yuqing coming back, he was very worried and said: "Apprentice, I can only boil this pot of medicinal soup. Master, I have used up all the medicinal herbs I saved."
"Master, don't worry. When you have time, my apprentice will accompany you to the back mountain to collect herbs. In these special times, even if you have money, there is no place to buy them. We can collect as much as we can from guarding a mountain."
"Master, I think so too, Xuan Ye is a sensible and reasonable child, why did she start a quarrel with others?"
"Grandpa Langzhong is a relative of the aunt in the Third Courtyard and a relative of the mistress of the Seventh Courtyard. The relatives from the Seventh Courtyard are okay. The two women from the Third Courtyard are always annoying. I would have given up on them a long time ago.
They are locked up outside, and the food they have to feed the chickens and ducks is not given to them." Hua Qiaoer said in a loud voice.
"Qiao'er, Grandpa Langzhong believes that you are capable of locking people out. Your sister Xuan can't. Your sister Xuan is the educated and sensible lady among us."
"Grandpa Langzhong, you are so annoying. To put it bluntly, I seem to be an uneducated wild child."
"Hahaha..." Everyone was amused by Qiaoer's appearance.
Everyone boiled this pot of medicinal soup together, and it was finished quickly. With the experience of the pot just now, they packed the pills into a large package of ten pills. They sang and danced.
The aunt and uncle worked together and made more than 200 pills. Everyone was busy until the afternoon.
"Miss Village Owner, the boss asked us to come over and take a look at the prepared pills. He also went to eat instead of you." Gui Si and Gui Wu finished their lunch and came to the small medicine shop.
"Okay, these are life-saving medicines. Master doctor, it's time for us all to go have lunch."
In the afternoon, Ye Xuan stayed in Sanyuan and did not come to the villa. Zhen'er led two beggar soldiers to guard the gate of the villa. The old doctor went back to the medicine shop to look at the prepared pills. Yuqing and the remaining beggar soldiers were there in person.
Patrolling the villa.
"Miss Villa Owner, even in the imperial city there are places where holes are drilled to save a few coins. Not to mention our villa, we have probably visited the entire villa these days. The wall near the back mountain
There are two gaps, and the villa wall next to the official road is the best maintained. The remaining two sides are almost adjacent to the courtyard, and we haven't really seen them these days." The ghost boss said to Yuqing.
"Master, can the carriage pass through the gap between the two walls and the yard?" Yuqing asked the mute woman driving the carriage.
"Yes, but it's all weeds at this time."
"Uncle Ghost, just leave two people with me. You can drive the carriage to the other side of the villa. If you find any holes that people can get into, block them immediately if they can be blocked. Mark the holes that cannot be blocked."
If there are people who come to seek refuge with relatives during special periods, it is understandable that they would sneak in through holes. Ask them all to go to the drug store for a physical check-up, and be sure to block the source of the plague."
"Master's apprentice, don't worry. If there are such ignorant people who tolerate relatives, I, the mute woman, will never show mercy to them."
"Master, you should also take precautions. The courtyards you pass by ask them to make their own masks and wear them. The walls of the villa are a barrier to the safety of the villa. After the war, the plague has come, and the world is too chaotic and banditry has to be guarded against. So we are looking for
It is a top priority to get out of the loopholes in the villa's wall. The owner of the villa hopes that the villagers can understand."
"Master's apprentice, don't worry, the master will not quarrel or quarrel with them."
What Yuqing and Gui San Gui Wu were inspecting was the wall surrounding the common people's area. The entire wall was about several kilometers long, and several dog holes were actually discovered. They were all washed out by deep rainwater over the years.
The fence is also a hundred meters away from the courtyard, which is mostly vegetable fields and crop fields.
"Miss Village Owner, these are real dog holes. No one can get in." Gui San and Gui Wu said while blocking the dog holes with stones.
"Uncle Ghost, please make the blockage stronger and mark it. After a while, the walls of the villa will also be repaired and raised."
"Miss Village Owner, let's go to the back mountain to get rocks. We are going to open up wasteland in the back mountain to grow vegetables, and we will also lay out some of the rocks, which can be used to plug loopholes."
When the sky was getting dark, the inspection of the wall on this side was completed. Five holes, large and small, were blocked. Yuqing, who passed by the yard, gave everyone the knowledge of disease prevention. After turning a corner, we were at the back of the mountain.
The fence was checked.
This wall is relatively well protected, but there is a big hole. It is the same hole that the few people who rescued Yuanwai Villa got through last time.
"Uncle Ghost, this hole cannot be blocked today. Let's find a way to disguise it better. When we repair the wall of the villa, we must block it properly to prevent the wild beasts on the mountain from entering the villa."
"Miss Village Owner, this hole looks like it was made by man. Good disguise is a must, but there is no need to block it. It is also a way to escape at a critical moment."
"Uncle Ghost, you are well-informed, and this is a good suggestion. Then this hole will remain, and someone will be guarding the back door of the villa from now on."
"Miss Village Owner, we originally wanted to go to the imperial city to find some more beggars, but we didn't expect the plague. The boss told us that we should work harder during this period, so don't worry, Miss Village Owner."
"Master's apprentice, is there nothing going on here?" At this time, people on the other side also turned here, and the mute woman asked from a distance.
"Master, there are several holes in this wall that no one can get through. What about your side?"
"We found people who got in on our side. There are two holes in the wall on that side. They were dug out by the villagers themselves, so that they could work in the fields. From what they said, they didn't want to go through the gate of the villa and the direct exit.
Those people met. This time, the people who came in through holes were all relatives who had fled to the side branch. When we passed by, the people in the two courtyards had already asked the villagers who had come in to go to the drugstore to check their health. "
"Unpleasant things won't happen in the future. We have to find a way to plug those two loopholes."
"Miss Village Owner, we have blocked the blockage. They have not thrown away the bricks and stones they dug out. They will just reinforce it when the weather gets warmer. We feel that the homes in that area are better than those in the middle.
Understand the truth." Gui Er said.
"From now on, everyone in the villa will be thinking about the same thing. It's getting late. Everyone should go back to rest. Master, let's go to the medicine shop to have a look." Yuqing said and got on the carriage.
There were two more people guarding the small drug store, and the old doctor had just finished checking the health of the villagers who came to seek refuge with their relatives.
"Master's disciple, the two families who just came here have not been infected with the plague. There are no patients with plague symptoms in their countryside."
"Master doctor, if the imperial city has good control, the plague will not spread to the countryside. Those who went to the imperial city to help dispose of the dead bodies should have borne the brunt of the plague and died. The days of martial law in the imperial city can be regarded as a blockade.
The epidemic of the plague has spread. You two should go back to sleep. These pills are not enough, and those who are not sick will make themselves sick if they take them. Master Langzhong, apprentice, I will go and take a look at those pills."
"Okay, if I lock the meatballs in the cabinet, I just need a key to keep it for the master. The mute woman and I will wait for you outside."
Chapter completed!