Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Sun Wanjin and his guards felt guilty:

MD, please send lightning to kill her. Next time I see a cliff, I will take a detour. Goodbye, never see you again.

Fierce and evil! She doesn't look like a woman at all. Oh no, she's just a little girl who hasn't even reached the age of marriage yet. One can imagine how terrifying a tigress she would be when she grows up.

While Sun Wanjin was shivering, he couldn't help but think of his father and mother. Suddenly he realized that compared with this crazy girl, his mother was just a gentle and cute little kitten.

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After Lin Xiaoyue waved goodbye to the seven strong men, the seven men timidly led their horses back several steps, then jumped on the horses' backs in the astonished eyes of everyone and rode away quickly.

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Entering the County Office Three Times

Lin Xiaoyue felt that she was about to catch up with the officials in the government office who punched in and out at fixed times.

As soon as they met, they happened to meet the yamen runner who led them to the farm yesterday. With a familiar face, and the county magistrate showing his appreciation for them, the yamen runner would not be stupid enough to make things difficult for Lin Xiaoyue and the others, and he quickly went in to report for them.

This time when they entered the county government office, everyone clearly felt that the officials were busier than before when they were stamping the registration seal.

Every officer had to run as fast as he could walk, and the solemn county government office was now even more chaotic than a vegetable market.

As they followed the yamen runners into the back hall, they all pricked up their ears to listen to the sounds around them. Most of the sounds were about 'where to get the herbs if there are not enough', 'several people at the medicine-making point have been waiting in line for so long that they have been sunburned', 'there are not enough doctors in town', etc. These were all matters related to the epidemic.

Knowing that the county government was busy at the moment, when everyone saw the county magistrate, they all wanted to finish their work quickly so as not to delay the county magistrate's time.

So, as soon as they saw the people, they immediately knelt on the ground and saluted. When the county magistrate called everyone, Grandpa Lin took the lead in stating the purpose of their visit.

Firstly, they brought two jars of distilled liquor to thank the county magistrate for opening the door for them, solving their current difficulties and providing them with a place to live.

The county magistrate hesitated for a moment, then accepted it.

He knew that most of the people in this group were honest and simple country farmers. The things they presented to him were all their own property, not precious gold or silver. Accepting them would not give his political enemies an excuse to attack him, and would also reassure these honest people.

Secondly, in order to thank the county magistrate, they specially presented something - alcohol, which was used to disinfect the epidemic toxins (bacteria), prevent further infection of the wound, and control the spread of the epidemic, which had an excellent preventive and therapeutic effect.

As he spoke, he asked Chun Xing to report in detail to the county magistrate about the two doctors bringing a large amount of alcohol into Black Wind Ridge.

The wine presented to the county magistrate was two jars of alcohol that they had specially distilled after sending the two doctors away, while at the same time distilling spare alcohol in case it might come in handy on the road or in Wanbao Town.

Now, as a way of repaying the county magistrate, everyone presented the distillation method and uses of alcohol to the county magistrate.

If this operation goes well, it will definitely be a significant political achievement for the county magistrate.

Since it had to be reported to the imperial court anyway, why didn't they report it in the provincial capital first, but instead waited until Wanbao Town?

Isn't it because... I was too busy to remember?

Besides, even if they forgot to tell the provincial capital, there are still two doctors there.

How could the governor not notice that they brought more than 20 jars of alcohol to Black Wind Ridge? Therefore, the governor privately asked the two doctors about their intentions of bringing jars of alcohol, and naturally learned from them the purpose of medical alcohol.

As for whether the state officials would praise the two doctors for their noble act of entering Black Wind Ridge to treat the patients, and whether the alcohol they brought had the miraculous effects mentioned by the two doctors, and whether they would report the details to the court to commend them, we would have to wait and see the actual results.

If the plague can be suppressed and thousands of infected people can be saved, then the memorial to the emperor to commend his achievements will look good no matter how you write it, and seeking credit will be a natural thing.

But if the infected people were not effectively cured and instead a large number of people died, then what kind of achievement would that be? It would be a blessing if the emperor didn't get angry and sentence them to death.

The situation at the county government was similar to that of the state governor. The county magistrate was very excited to accept the finished alcohol they distilled, as well as the distillation method. He highly praised the Lin family team and, in addition to taking the distillation method and arranging for the county government's runners to find reliable people to speed up the production, he also placed a lot of orders with them.

It's impossible for the county government to take someone else's method and send people to do it themselves without giving them any chance to survive. Besides, let's not talk about the faraway places. In Wanbao Town under his jurisdiction and the more than 100 villages under his jurisdiction, with so many people, it's probably too late to make alcohol in time, so why would he leave them alone and send people to do it himself?

Of course, whether it will succeed in the end depends on the results.

The idea was the same as the prefecture's. The result was that he wrote a petition to request merit and submitted it to his superiors. As for the prefecture officials writing another petition to report to the court, that was another matter.

Of course, in the end, even though they knew it was inappropriate, they still carefully asked the county magistrate if they could buy the place where the county magistrate temporarily placed them.

The county magistrate expressed his curiosity. The starting price was 2,300 taels. They were all peasants. Could they afford it?

Lin Xiaoyue reported to the county magistrate without hiding the fact that there was a traitor among their group, who stole their secret distillation recipe in order to maximize their profits, but was intercepted by them and the recipe was sold to that person for 50,000 taels of silver.

Lin Xiaoyue had discussed this move with Grandpa Lin and everyone before coming here, and it was approved by everyone, so she naturally did not hold back in front of the county magistrate. She even presented the contract signed and sealed with the Luo family to the county magistrate for review.

Her behavior was so natural that the county magistrate was slightly stunned. When he saw the two different words "right of use" and "ownership" written on the contract, he asked about it.

Lin Xiaoyue smiled and explained to the county magistrate that she had signed a contract with the Luo family to sell them the distillation method. The Luo family only had the right to use it, but not the ownership. In other words, the distillation method was still firmly in Lin Xiaoyue's hands. Whether she wanted to give the distillation method away or sell it to others, the Luo family had no objection.

This was a word game that Lin Xiaoyue played with the Luo family in order to punish them.

As for the fact that the Luo family did not notice the petty tricks Lin Xiaoyue played on them in writing when they signed and stamped their fingerprints, they can only blame themselves for being so frightened at the time that they did not even have time to run away.

No worries with her.

The county magistrate looked at the innocent and harmless woman in front of him in disbelief. It was the first time he had seen a woman as cunning as a fox, and she was so good at cheating that she didn't even show any fear in front of him...