After becoming a concubine, she lived a miserable life every day.

Xiao Quan also did not expect to meet Qiao Rongjin in the yard. He was slightly surprised and nodded subconsciously in response.

He had not yet realized that in the past, he would not care about a concubine, even if she was a prince's concubine.

This woman really did as she said at the beginning, as if she had never met him before. It seemed that she had done a very good job these days and really treated him as a stranger.

Although he has been very busy these days, he still knows the news he needs to know.

Knowing what the woman in front of them had been doing these days, not only did she insist on going to help every day, but she also helped a lot. No one had expected that this woman in a deep house would be so advanced in arithmetic. People reported that this person could often calculate the answer just by mental arithmetic, which would take the accountants several hours to calculate. It was amazing.

Xiao Quan thought, this is really amazing.

However, her greatest strength does not seem to be in this aspect, but that she always attracts people deeply unintentionally.

For example, now, this woman has no idea that when her clear, moist and innocent eyes looked at him, his heart instantly became hot. He couldn't help but think of their previous interactions, and every time afterwards... Stop!

Xiao Quan forced himself to interrupt his inner thoughts, and his originally gentle temperament suddenly became a little colder, but when he looked at Qiao Rongjin, there seemed to be a cluster of flames burning in the depths of his eyes.

Qiao Rongjin: This person seems to be a little strange, she should run away as soon as possible.

Thinking so, Qiao Rongjin did just that. Without saying anything else, she turned around and left.

Xiao Quan looked at her slightly hurried steps and raised his eyebrows. She was running fast!

Can he eat her?

But then he thought that she was already someone else's concubine, and his burning heart instantly turned cold, and the aura around him instantly became even more unpredictable.

Xiao Quan forced himself to suppress the inappropriate thoughts in his mind and walked straight towards the yard where he lived.

Then, after about a month, the rain stopped, the floods finally receded, and the sun came out.

The streets were filled with the sounds of people cheering and wailing.

The people were extremely happy, but when they returned home they saw that their houses had all been destroyed by the flood. Their homes were no longer their homes, and everything was gone. Then they burst into tears of despair again.

Not only that, those family members who were washed away by the flood were undoubtedly gone. When they thought of this, the entire outer city area was filled with desperate wails and tears of blood.

It was heartbreaking to watch. Qiao Rongjin had seen a lot of this in recent days, so when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but shed tears.

She has seen clearly the suffering of the lower-class people these days. The mere struggle to survive is enough to break anyone's backbone.

For them, death is a very simple thing, but living is not necessarily possible even if they go through a lot of hardships.

If they encounter a natural disaster like the current one, only one in ten thousand can survive. The court cannot always provide them with food and clothing. If they get sick, most of them can only endure it. If they can't endure it, it's their fate. The current situation is already very good. If they encounter an emperor who doesn't care about the people, it will only be more miserable and more desperate than this.

Now that the flood has receded, King Rui has begun to order the reconstruction of the disaster area and has also proposed a method of work-for-relief.

Anyone who wants food can only earn it through their own labor.

Qiao Rongjin also started to get busy, helping to register the population of each household every day, how many people died, how many people survived, etc., and from time to time he would be assigned to help elsewhere, and he was busy all day long.

Everyone is busy and every second counts when eating.

King Rui was very strict about hygiene. No one was allowed to drink dirty water. They had to boil water to drink. All the victims were concentrated in one place and strictly guarded every day. Except when they were working to build houses, they were not allowed to go anywhere else. If anyone was sick or had diarrhea, etc., they would all be transferred to a specially built place to be observed and treated by the imperial physician until they recovered.

All these actions puzzled many victims, but they did not dare to raise any objections. After all, this was a nobleman, the current Prince Rui.

Besides, there is another Lord Xiao. The deterrent power from his previous Rakshasa-like methods is still there, so no one dares to cause trouble.

Besides, if it weren’t for them, these disaster victims might have died long ago, so in the eyes of many people, these two people are still good people.

Prince Rui looked around and didn't find anyone causing trouble, but he saw many people looking at Qiao, and those looks made him very uncomfortable.

Maybe it was because she cried before, the corners of her eyes are still a little red, which looks very attractive. Her unique temperament between purity and seduction really makes people unable to take their eyes away, but she is beautiful without knowing it. Her eyes are clear and firm, her little face is very serious, but her hand speed is not slow, and her voice is gentle and polite, without arrogance or impetuosity, and there is a sense of ease and indifference between her eyebrows.

Men understand men best. Many people looked at Qiao as if she were a hungry wolves. Prince Rui frowned fiercely, but said nothing in the end.

He had noticed everything Qiao had done recently. She really wanted to do her part, and she had indeed done so. Her abilities really surprised him. She would not rely on her status to interfere and meddle in everything. She would just follow the arrangements from above.

He had never seen someone as dedicated as Qiao. He thought that she was the same as the people in the backyard of his house, except Chen. All they cared about was vying for favor and their own piece of land. But it turned out that this was not the case. She had many surprises that he didn't know about. From the news reported by the servants, it seemed that she knew a lot of things and was very easy-going.

Prince Rui stood and watched for a long time before leaving.

He would not stop Qiao from doing what she wanted to do. After all, it would be boring for her to stay alone in the mansion, and he liked her to shine like this.

In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.

A lot of things happened during this month. One of the victims fell seriously ill and infected two others. Fortunately, King Rui had been prepared and had special patrols. They discovered the disease early and isolated it as soon as any signs of the disease appeared.

Finally, the people who came into contact were hit one by one in one place, and the disease did not spread.

After diagnosis by the imperial physician, it was confirmed to be an epidemic. After Prince Rui and Xiao Quan discussed the news, they decided not to expose it to the public. Only a few people knew about it.

Qiao Rongjin is of course one of them.

After about half a month, a treatment for the plague was found, and soon all the sick people were saved. The imperial physicians and doctors breathed a sigh of relief and were extremely excited. They admired Prince Rui even more. They really didn't know where Prince Rui got this magic prescription that could actually cure the plague!