Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

The weather was getting hotter, the drought was getting worse, the locust plague was spreading more widely, and the famine was getting worse.

The villages near Shengjiatun are relatively better off. They have been more or less influenced by Xiaolan's family. Many people harvest the crops before they are ripe, so they are not starving now.

Cui shut up completely, feeling lucky that the old man didn't listen to her at that time. If the crops in the fields had not been harvested, their family would probably have to go out and beg for food.

The eldest brother and his family moved back to the village from the town. Now everything in the town is expensive. The prices of food and water are ridiculously high. They really can't afford it.

Shengjia Village also began to become unstable. Many refugees from other places came in. Many families were forced to leave and their food was stolen. Xiaolan's family was also forced to leave once, but there were many strong men in the family, all of whom were armed. After seeing blood, the refugees fled in panic, and her family settled down. During the day, the village chief asked the village laborers to build some large stones at the entrance of the village and draw a line to prevent outsiders from coming in.

The sky suddenly became overcast that day, and Xiaolan's family put away all the things in the yard that were afraid of getting wet. Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian also moved the chopped firewood into the woodshed to prevent it from getting wet when it rained heavily.

"It's going to rain." Zhang Shanfeng looked up at the sky for a while and said with melancholy.

Xiao Lan also looked worried and nodded, "I'm afraid it will rain heavily."

Xiaolan's newly built house had very solid tiles. She looked at the increasingly dark weather and thought that it hadn't rained for more than a month. It might be a heavy rainstorm. Her family was fine, but those people in the village who lived in thatched houses or houses that hadn't been repaired for many years didn't know if they could withstand it.

The heavy rain had been pouring down for five days, as if to make up for the rain during this period. The water in the river rose at this time, but the weather did not cool down much. Instead, it was hot and humid and unbearable.

Xiaolan felt uncomfortable all over, with eczema and coughing. Most of the children in the family were like this. Getting sick at this time was fatal. Xiaolan asked Zhang to fumigate the house with herbs twice a day, and then give everyone a bowl of Tusu wine every day.

As for the situation in the village, she had no way of knowing. It was raining so hard that no one went out. But she knew that the people outside were not much better. The current situation was only worse than the dry days. I was afraid that it would gradually get better after the rain. For a while, life was still difficult. The locust plague, drought and flood came together. God didn't want to leave people any chance to survive.

If this was the case for those who had their own houses, the lives of those who were drifting outside were even more difficult. Every day, the men in the family took turns guarding the house, and even had to watch the door at night.

During this period of heavy rain, the river water soon flooded her farm. Now Xiaolan's family, in addition to being on guard against safety at home, was also watching the rising water level in the river.

Xiao Lan thought to herself that it was a good thing that the epidemic had not spread to their area. Although the rain was heavier now, the drought in the fields had finally eased. When the rain stopped, the villagers would plant radishes in the fields and they would be able to survive. Maybe next year, the outside world would be stable and Xiao Wen would be able to continue to go to school. As long as God didn't really want to kill everyone, life would gradually get better.

It rained heavily for ten days, and many people in the village could not stand it anymore. More and more people had diarrhea and vomiting, and they went to the town's medicine shop to get medicine. It was not only the villagers who had this symptom, but most people in the town and the county felt unwell. There were long queues in front of the medicine shops. Some medicine shops even lacked doctors and medicines, and were cursed by patients and their families. Why open such a big pharmacy without medicines? It would be better to close the business early to save them from running errands and having to go to other medicine shops to get medicines, wasting their time. After all, the disease can't wait. Because of the wide range of people affected, this is already a wave of epidemic.

Most of the pharmacies in the county and towns were short of medicinal materials. Only Chunshengtang in Taihe Town was overcrowded every day, but it still prescribed medicines and dispensed medicines for the patients in an orderly manner. It seemed that no matter how many patients came, this pharmacy could accept them.

Gradually, the reputation of Chunshengtang spread, and some patients in the county town no longer went to the county clinic. They came directly to Chunshengtang for treatment. Anyway, there was no medicine in other clinics, so there was no need to waste time.

The county magistrate was afraid that the epidemic could not be controlled, so he transferred many people from the county's pharmacies and clinics to Chunshengtang to help. Who told Chunshengtang to have medicinal materials? If he transferred people to other pharmacies, the prescriptions could be written, but where would the patients get the medicine? After much deliberation, the county magistrate decided to set up Chunshengtang as the base camp for treating the epidemic. Of course, Chunshengtang was charging for treating patients at this time, but the people transferred here were provided with three meals a day by the government office.

Since Chunshengtang had sufficient staff and herbs, the epidemic in Taihe Town was gradually brought under control. However, other towns were not as lucky as this one, as they did not have medicine shops with sufficient herbs, and countless people died due to untimely treatment.

The herbal medicine bags and Tu Su wine prepared by Xiao Lan's family were effective. Gradually, their coughs got better. After drinking the Tu Su wine, their bodies felt warm and it was able to resist a lot of moisture. No one in the family got sick again.

The people of Dafeng County did not experience the epidemic brought by the migrants, but because of the heavy rain, a local epidemic broke out. This is difficult to evaluate, and it may be that the germs brought by the migrants caused the outbreak, but people don't care about these anymore, as long as they can survive.

In order to survive, people need to endure hardships and pains that ordinary people cannot endure. In order to survive, people have to struggle and toil day and night. After experiencing locust plagues, droughts, and heavy rains, they have to endure another round of epidemics. But who would be willing to die as long as they can struggle to survive?

Xiaolan's family was doing needlework at home, Shengxuan was learning how to saltpeter rabbit skins from Zhang Qingshan, and Shenghao came over in a hurry, "Third brother, Xiaotao hasn't been able to eat for two days and has been lying on the kang. I'm afraid he's not well. I really have no other choice, so I came here to beg you."

Sheng Xuan put down his work, got up and followed Sheng Hao outside. Xiao Lan picked up the half bottle of Tusu wine on the table and followed him. "Fourth Uncle, didn't you take Xiao Tao to the medicine store?"

Sheng Hao choked up, tears in his eyes, but in the end he didn't say a word.

When they arrived at Sheng Hao's house, Xiao Ye told him what had happened in bits and pieces. It turned out that her family had asked Cui for money for medical treatment, but Cui valued money more than her own eyes and refused to give it, until the patient was in this state now.

Sheng Hao and Liu couldn't bear to watch their son die like this, so Sheng Hao went to ask his third brother for help.