nycdaug Chapter 122 Who is this Sister Zeng?
Chapter 122 Who is this Sister Zeng?
next day
A temporary office was set up in each of the five streets near the east gate of Lincheng.
A temporary porridge distribution point was set up outside the office, where porridge was distributed once at noon and once in the evening every day.
In the morning and afternoon, people would go to the office to collect relief supplies with the receipts given by the government office.
At that time, the government office classified the refugees according to the areas where they lived in the city, so Shangguan Yue also classified the refugees who came to the office to collect supplies according to their areas.
For example, if the refugee registered in the government office is from Yicheng New District, he should go to the disaster relief supplies collection office marked as Yicheng New District Office.
This prevents everyone from crowding into one place and disperses the crowd to avoid trampling. Those who have received their items will have their receipts stamped so that no one will receive them repeatedly.
Cheng Rui has been busy comforting the disaster victims and worried about the emperor's allocation of grain, and he hasn't had a good rest for a week.
Shangguan Yan showed up yesterday and said that she could provide the disaster victims with enough food for half a year, and it was donated for free, which kept him awake all night.
He sent people to check whether the people coming from Yuecheng had brought a large amount of food. Unexpectedly, the general's wife and her entourage not only brought food, but also cloth, medicine, etc.
They bring whatever Lincheng needs now, which is really thoughtful.
(If Shangguan Yue heard Cheng Rui's words at this time, she would definitely scold him. Nonsense! How could people under the red flag not understand what is needed after a disaster?)
Cheng Rui arrived at the main office at the East Gate early in the morning. According to his subordinates, the other five branches had not yet opened, and there was a large blank wooden frame in front of the door.
It looks like it's used to post some kind of notice, but the notice hasn't been written yet, so it's left blank.
Shangguan Yue had been sorting out information in the head office early on. There were a total of six offices, which needed to receive more than 90,000 people, with an average of more than 10,000 people in each office, which was not easy.
People can only collect cloth and other supplies once, but since we receive two to three thousand people every day, we can collect all the supplies in a few days.
The issue of medicinal materials is a bit more troublesome, and it depends on Cheng Rui. She will find a clinic in the name of the government that is willing to provide free medical treatment and free medicine, and then she will send the medicinal materials over.
If it really doesn't work, she doesn't mind opening a few modern chain pharmacies in Lincheng.
Based on the recipes of herbal tea that was often drunk in the previous life, there are recipes for dehumidifying tea, beauty-enhancing tea, and recipes for eliminating food stagnation and removing stagnation.
There are also daily medicines such as Baifeng Pills, Fu Ke An, etc. that are commonly used for nourishing blood and regulating menstruation.
The recipe for tea is simple, and the quantity is not strictly controlled. The recipe for pills is stricter, and the medicine has to be constantly tested, because we only know the various materials needed for the medicine, but not the quantity.
So the same medicine is produced by more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, but the effects received are different.
She has been researching all of this. More and more people are being taken in by Jiazi Alley, and many of them are willing to try the pills.
Because it is a Chinese herbal formula and the herbs in it are non-toxic, Shangguan Yue has tried it herself, so she is not worried about any side effects after taking it.
She also only tries it when they have symptoms so that she can know the exact effect.
Several types of pills have been tried out so far, and the results are acceptable, but it is not yet time for production. The pills need to be tried on more people for a longer period of time before they can be mass-produced.
After the matter in Lincheng is settled, she will have to find a way to get the Purple Flame Feather after returning to Yuecheng, so that she can find out why she and Bianbian traveled to South Yue.
When Cheng Rui came in, he saw Shangguan Yue and several people dressed as servants cutting cloth.
The three-foot cut pieces are put in one basket and the six-foot cut pieces are put in another basket. The cloth comes in two colors, gray and dark blue. The old coarse cotton cloth is stain-resistant and wear-resistant, and is durable and strong.
Seeing Cheng Rui wearing the official uniform of the prefect, several servants hurriedly saluted for fear of being neglected. This also brought Shangguan Yue, who was working with her hands and thinking with her mind, back to her senses.
"It turns out that it is Lord Cheng who is here. The place is simple. Please take a seat if you don't mind." Shangguan Yue asked the servants to leave and sat down face to face with Cheng Rui at the desk.
“Miss Shangguan, there’s no need to be polite. This is the official record of the victims and their specific numbers, as well as those who died of hunger, disease, or accidents after arriving in the city.
I am very grateful to Miss Shangguan and the General's wife for their boundless love and for doing their part to help the victims."
Cheng Rui handed Shangguan Yue a large stack of information and booklets. He was really grateful. No matter what their reason for coming to the city was, he would treat them with courtesy as long as they could do good things for the people.
"Master Cheng, I didn't hand Nanny Zhu over to you last time. It wasn't my idea, but the victim, Sister Zeng, asked that the prisoner be handed over to her brother.
We think what Zeng's sister said is right, and Zeng's brother is indeed more suitable to try this case. "
Shangguan Yue made no secret of the fact that she had indeed handed the person over to Zeng Zhongkai. If Zeng Zhongkai couldn't handle it, then Cheng Rui would be even less likely to do so.
The seventh prince is not an ordinary person. As a prince, as long as he does not intend to usurp the throne, the emperor will usually just deal with him in a perfunctory manner, like tickling an itch.
So she had to find more evidence. If the Seventh Prince didn't want to be the emperor, he wouldn't have started planning and doing so many evil things so early.
"Leave it to the brother who loves to hurt others? Sister Zeng? Is it Qian'er? But you..."
Cheng Rui didn't understand who this Zeng sister was. Could it be Madam Zeng Qian'er? But Qian'er must be 20 years older than Miss Shangguan, right? Not to mention the age of being her mother, she could be her grandmother in another ten years.
Aren't you ashamed? You have the nerve to recognize a child as a sister, or even a daughter. No, it's not like they don't have a daughter, so there's no need for her to recognize a daughter.
This time he sent people to check the people coming to the city, and found that there was a young lady from the Shangshu Mansion who came with them, but they kept their faces covered. However, it was said that the young lady had a graceful figure and was gentle and amiable when she smiled.
She is not similar to his wife. His wife is almost thirty years old and the age does not match. But this woman is surnamed Zeng and is a daughter of the Shangshu Mansion. She is also a victim. Could it be that Li Caiju has harmed another daughter surnamed Zeng?
"Master Cheng, there is one more thing. Is there any clinic in Lincheng that can provide free medical treatment to disaster victims and refugees? The medicinal materials we collected need to be treated and provided by regular doctors."
"Don't worry, there are several large drug stores and clinics in Lincheng that have a good reputation. As the number of disaster victims increases, they provide free medical treatment and free medicine.
It’s just that business people can’t provide free medical treatment and medicine for a long time, so they will definitely give away the free herbs that Miss Shangguan brought.
They would love to use other people's things to improve the reputation of their clinics and pharmacies. They are just common medicinal materials for curing diseases, not high-end life-saving ones, and they don't bother to embezzle them. "
"That's good. Sir Cheng, please give me the addresses of a few pharmacies and clinics, and I'll arrange for someone to deliver them. Please also inform the clinics and pharmacies in advance."
After saying goodbye to Shangguan Yue, Cheng Rui took out the multiple copies of the document he had just written with Shangguan Yue, and just changed the name at the top. This was a letter entrusting pharmacies and clinics to provide free diagnosis and treatment and free medicine.
After instructing his servants to take the information to the pharmacies and clinics, he returned to the government office in a daze. The person that came to his mind most was Sister Zeng, whom Shangguan Yue had mentioned.
Who is this Sister Zeng?