Early the next morning, Bai Erlang came to the two of them angrily, "You did it on purpose."
Bai Shan did not admit it, "What did we do on purpose?"
Man Bao said directly: "Are you stupid for actually asking?"
Bai Erlang glared at Bai Shan angrily.
Bai Shan shrugged and refused to deny it.
Bai Erlang said angrily: "You are too bad!"
Bai Shandao: "It's called learning from mistakes and gaining wisdom. Don't worry, you will never make such a mistake again in the future."
Man Bao nodded with a smile.
The two of them succeeded in making Bai Erlang angry, so they continued to look for delicious melons and fruits in the village. Since they had to go home today, they only played in the village for most of the day, and then set off back to Beijing in the afternoon when the sun was not so bright.
This time, Manbao and the others stopped riding horses. They sat in the carriage, opened the windows and blew in the wind, dozing off as the carriage rocked.
In order to seize the time to play, they did not take a nap today.
While he was drowsy, Man Bao seemed to hear loud crying coming from outside. He woke up with a jolt, and Bai Shan also woke up. The two of them pulled Bai Erlang, whose head was still biting, and came to the window.
Look out there.
I saw a woman on the side of the road, falling to the ground, slapping her thighs and crying in grief. Magistrate Tang and several government servants were standing not far from her, their faces serious, because they were still fair-skinned under the scorching sun.
His face was now very red, so red that it turned a little black.
Magistrate Tang met their eyes as soon as he raised his head, nodded to them slightly, then turned back and said a few words to the person behind the woman, and then turned around and left with the Yamen servant.
Because there were many people watching, the carriage was blocked. Magistrate Tang, who was holding the horse, threw the horse to his subordinates and walked three steps at a time to catch up with their carriage.
Daji also slept well, and immediately got out of the car and put down the bench to let Magistrate Tang get in. Bai Shan poured Magistrate Tang a cup of hot tea.
Magistrate Tang glanced at the steaming tea and said, "Now I have a headache when I see the heat?"
Man Bao curiously looked away from the window. At this time, the road was open, and the carriage was moving forward, slowly passing the woman who was still crying, "What's going on?"
Magistrate Tang sighed: "Her man went out to work in the city two days ago and has not returned. They searched for him along the road for two days but could not find him. They reported to the government office, and the government officials found his body at the bottom of a hillside."
Bai Shan asked: "Did he slip and fall and die?"
County Magistrate Tang shook his head, "He was suffering from heatstroke. We have confirmed that he only had some small scratches on his body when he fell, and he was not fatal. The real cause of death was heatstroke, and he was sunburned to death."
Man Bao and the other three had their mouths widened.
Magistrate Tang County said: "Today's case is the third person to die from heat in Chang'an County. The first two were old people and could not survive the heat, but this one is young and strong."
And precisely because he was young and strong, he was so distraught that his death was unexpected.
The four of them turned to look at the sunshine outside the car window. Even Bai Erlang couldn't help but said: "This year is so strange."
Magistrate Tang said nothing.
But both of them are a little worried. They are afraid that there will be a natural disaster this year and life will be difficult.
Even they feel this way, let alone the ministers in the DPRK. Although it is summer vacation, they cannot have a peaceful vacation.
Even the emperor, after three days of rest, had to go to the front hall to read the news from various places.
The prince had already read these documents in advance, and gave a general summary when submitting them to the emperor, "What has been reported now is that the most serious ones are near the capital, including Yongzhou and Shangzhou, with a total of four prefectures having more than one month's worth of rain.
The rain has not yet fallen, and the heat continues. As of today, twenty-three people have died due to the heat, sixteen of whom are old people, four are young adults, and three are children."
The emperor got up and walked around for two times with a sullen face. He felt that his throat was a little on fire again. He turned around and asked in a deep voice: "How is Shengzhou?"
The prince was silent for a moment and then said: "Shengzhou is blocked by siltation and a river has collapsed. Fortunately, the situation is not particularly serious. The report said that it has been blocked. There are not many farmland and guesthouses that have been destroyed, but the people in five li are homeless."
The families who can return home are now temporarily arranged in various counties in Shengzhou. The governor of Shengzhou is afraid that they will gather and cause trouble, so he has been keeping them scattered."
The emperor looked at the scorching sun outside and worried, "It would be better if the two sides were more evenly spaced."
The prince thought, he had thought this way since he was a child, but when he grew up, he realized that if things in this world were so random, there would be no need for emperors and ministers to govern the world.
Even though his father is so old, he never thought he would still be so innocent.
The situation is getting more and more serious. Of course, front-line officials like Magistrate Tang cannot take vacations. Some related senior officials also quietly return to Daming Palace to work overtime.
It is impossible to control the sun. What the emperor and others can do is to inform the people to pay attention to summer vacation and not to work under the strong sun;
Let the Ministry of Industry work with local officials to find water sources, dig wells, or straighten river channels to ensure that the people have water as much as possible;
The Ministry of Household Affairs also has to make preparations for disaster relief.
However, this year we have to add another measure. The prince said: "Father, the Imperial Medical Office is in the process of being established. Originally, the Imperial Medical Office has to build medical centers in various places to deal with the epidemic and patients living in poverty. Why not take this opportunity to let them go to work?"
Go to the local area to clean up the people and prescribe some prescriptions to relieve the heat?"
The emperor asked the Ministry of Household Affairs, "Then allocate another amount of money to purchase medicinal materials?"
Liu Shangshu thought for a while and then said: "We have to ask Donggong and Imperial Hospital to jointly come up with a budget."
Now the Imperial Medical Office is under the control of the East Palace, and the Imperial Medical Office basically has no qualifications to go to court to discuss matters, so he can only ask the prince for it.
How did the prince know about curing diseases and saving people? He decided to send someone to find Xiao Yuan later.
Xiao Yuanzheng was staring at the watermelon frost at the moment. After confirming that the watermelon frost was really effective, Xiao Yuanzheng found some more watermelons and made a batch. At this time, he just put it in a cool pharmacy.
Then, together with Dr. Liu and others, he went to see the palace attendants who were taking medicine, wrote down their pulse records, and made observation notes.
Because it is a new drug, it must be taken for at least three months to make sure there are no side effects before it can be slowly used.
They didn't know that Zhou Man had already given the medicine to his future mother-in-law, and was still monitoring it bit by bit.
But Manbao took Teacher Mo's shortcut, and the procedures for new drugs still have to be followed.
But Mrs. Zheng didn't know these things. She didn't know if Mrs. Fang was exposed to the heat after staying in the kitchen for a long time. When she got up early in the morning, her throat was a little itchy and sore, and she couldn't help but cough twice.
When Mrs. Zheng saw it, she said, "The watermelon cream that Man Bao gave me some time ago is pretty good. Do you want to sprinkle some on it?"
Mrs. Fang knew that her sister-in-law had good medical skills, so she responded with a smile.