Qingyuan Fucheng is not a big city, and it was once ravaged by the Jin's cavalry. However, firstly, because it is an important trade route, and secondly, the north has been peaceful for many years, and its vitality has been restored. At this time, it is very lively with people coming and going.
Of course, this kind of liveliness cannot be compared with that in the south. The people coming and going are much poorer in dress, and there are many homeless and beggars on the streets.
But at this time, the beggars and refugees who should have been lying weakly on the roadside or asking for money and food from people coming in and out were all rushing towards the city gate.
Because of the successive incidents in Zhending and Hejian Mansion, even though it is located in the middle of Hebei West Road, the security of Qingyuan Mansion is much tighter than before.
At the gate of the city, there were many soldiers and horses conducting rigorous inspections.
But at this time, these soldiers were not checking people, but surrounded the left side of the city gate, enclosing an open space there to prevent the crowd from approaching.
The place they surrounded was posted with a big red notice, and the words written on it were as big as a bucket, as if everyone could see and recognize it.
But for most of the people gathered in front of the city gate, the size of the characters really has nothing to do with whether they can recognize them or not.
The government also knew this and assigned scribes to read it out.
"Announcement that Miss Jiulingtang Jun from the capital will personally come to Qingyuan Prefecture for vaccination. If there are children over one year old and under thirteen years old in the family..."
When Miss Jiulingtang Jun said these few words, the people watching suddenly burst into laughter, and the rest of the scribe's voice was muffled.
There is a Miss Jun from Jiulingtang in the capital who can vaccinate children to avoid acne. The news has spread all over Hebei West Road with the comings and goings of military merchants.
The harm of acne is a major worry for everyone, and vaccination is a major event that will benefit future generations.
Naturally, people on Hebei West Road were also very excited. Because there were few doctors in the capital who could vaccinate, it was still their turn. They had to wait for more than half a year before Xiangzhou invited one. That was because the governor of Xiangzhou had a relationship with the Imperial Academy of Beijing.
Because of relatives.
Xiangzhou is still some distance away from Qingyuan Prefecture, but at least there is hope, but soon it was heard that the doctor on Hebei East Road had been booked in advance, and Qingyuan Prefecture suddenly became scolded.
Many people have begun planning to take their children to follow that kind of acne doctor. This is of course very expensive, and very few people can do this. For most people, hundreds of dollars of acne vaccination fees can be scraped together.
, but traveling to a different place is more difficult than going to heaven.
"Where are we? It's the Northland, a place that was once occupied by gold thieves." Someone said sadly and angrily.
"We have never been occupied, the gold thieves just passed by." Someone retorted in a low voice.
"What's the matter? If Duke Cheng Guo hadn't led the people to recover, we wouldn't be considered the people of Zhou Dynasty now." Someone shouted loudly.
"Yes, I heard that people in the south call us Northern Dogs, so they say we are the dogs of the Jin people."
"They won't remember us."
This emotion has been spreading with the news of vaccination. For many older people, this emotion is similar to the feeling when the gold thieves invaded in large numbers, the officers and soldiers were defeated, the emperor fled, and they became abandoned people.
Sad, angry and aggrieved, but also desperate.
Unexpectedly, I heard Miss Jun from Jiulingtang coming at this time.
In other places, the Hanlin Pox Division only arranged for a doctor to vaccinate, but here it was Miss Jun.
Who is Miss Jun? Miss Jun is the one who made the acne vaccine!
"Miss Jun has never vaccinated anyone herself, not even her sons and grandsons."
"Yes, the emperor invited Miss Jun, but Miss Jun didn't even go."
Such a person, a god-like person, actually came to Qingyuan Mansion to inoculate their children and grandchildren.
Those doctors hired from other places are nothing compared to Miss Jun.
The whole Qingyuan Mansion was boiling like a pot exploding, and people rushed to tell each other as if it was a Chinese New Year.
People continued to come to the city gate to watch the notice, and even those who had seen it came to see it repeatedly.
Before I met Miss Jun, this notice seemed to have become a magic weapon. One more glance could ward off disasters. If it weren't for the officers and soldiers, many people would be eager to touch the notice to get good luck.
"Give way, give way."
There was a sudden burst of pushing and shouting from the people surrounding the notice.
This scolding and the intensity of the pushing are very familiar to the people of the North. This is a characteristic of officers and soldiers.
In other places, government officials are awe-inspiring, but in the North it is the officers and soldiers who are awe-inspiring. After all, more than half of the peace here is because of them.
The people immediately got out of the way subconsciously. After they got out of the way, they looked over and saw that there were no officers or soldiers at all, only two middle-aged men wearing rags and carrying baskets on their backs.
There were chickens and rabbits in the baskets, and one basket actually carried a pig on its back. As they walked over, the chickens, rabbits and pigs squealed and the stench spread.
These are not officers and soldiers, these are clearly villagers.
The people were immediately anxious.
"Squeeze what you want, squeeze what you want." Angry scoldings sounded, and at the same time people gathered again.
But the two villagers had already walked in, and because of their stature and the baskets they were carrying, they were not squeezed out. Instead, they bumped into the people who were pushing past, and some people were covered in chicken feces.
There was a commotion and shouting in front of the city gate. The officers and soldiers guarding the city gate looked over solemnly with a warning, and the commotion slowed down.
The two villagers also stood at the front. If it weren't for the officers and soldiers using swords and guns, they would have been pressed against the wall.
The two people looked at the notice seriously, with focused and thoughtful expressions, which surprised the people around them.
Is this mountain man literate?
The thought flashed through his mind, and one of the villagers looked away from the notice.
"What's written on it?" he asked the person next to him.
The person next to me almost choked.
Damn it, why are you so serious if you don’t know how to read?
Although I was very upset, in the end the people were honest and they didn’t want people to miss something like vaccination that would benefit their children and grandchildren.
The people angrily explained the content of the notice to him. The reason why they explained it was because he was illiterate, but when the scribe read it out a few days ago, he memorized it seriously and memorized it by heart. He read it once a day.
My mother should be more pious when she recites sutras.
After he finished speaking, he waited to see the joy and excitement of the two villagers, but he saw that the two villagers just stood there blankly, and after a while they said nothing.
"Vaccinate." One of them said, "That's great, all the children in the family can be vaccinated."
Great? But don’t you want your reaction to be too great? At least be a little excited.
Maybe the villagers are closed-minded and don’t understand what vaccination is about.
"If you want to get vaccinated, you can go to the county government office now to get an appointment." Someone else reminded me.
The two villagers yelled again, turned around suddenly, and the baskets suddenly collided again. Accompanied by shouts and curses, chickens crowing and pigs croaking, they squeezed out in confusion.
"These two idiots," many people scolded angrily, "If you can, go to the queue and squeeze in, but you won't be able to give them a meal of fire sticks."
But what surprised everyone was that the two villagers did not enter the city, but left straight out of the city.
"Maybe he went back to discuss raising money." Everyone guessed.
Miss Jun Bodhisattva usually reduces the price of vaccination to a hundred cents, but for many people, this hundred cents is not a small amount.
This little episode was quickly forgotten by everyone, because something big happened the next day.
The notice posted at the city gate was stolen.
Who the hell stole the notice?
The people surrounding the city gate were excited.
Early in the morning, as before, many people strolled to the city gate to read the notice. There were also some people who had heard the news and came from afar to confirm whether it was true or false.
Unexpectedly, martial law was enforced both inside and outside the city gate. There were more officers and soldiers than in the previous few days. They all looked solemn as if they were facing a powerful enemy. The generals' scoldings were so loud that the city gate tower almost collapsed.
"Has this place been invaded by gold thieves again?" People who didn't know the situation asked nervously.
"No, the notice was stolen." Some well-informed people said.
The news spread immediately.
It's really strange. This is the first time I heard about stealing government notices. What's even more strange is that no one thinks it's funny.
Almost everyone who heard the news was angry.
They were angry after seeing the notice, because they just wanted to touch the notice and be satisfied. Unexpectedly, someone greedily stole the notice.
Doesn’t this mean that you can touch it however you want?
What’s even more angry are those who didn’t see the notice. Without the notice, is the news that Miss Jun came to get vaccinated true? Could it be that Miss Jun also disappeared like this notice?
What they didn't know was that Miss Jun did not fly away, but was already sitting in the official office of Qingyuan Mansion. (To be continued)