Transmigrated into a corrupt female county magistrate, defied fate and changed her life in a deserte

"Ugh!"

Song Jinshu looked at the raindrops outside the window, holding his chin with his hands and frowning. It had been raining for almost a month.

Even if Jingyang County had done a good job in dredging the waterways previously, it would not have been able to withstand such turmoil.

In recent days, she has found that more and more disaster victims have come from other counties to Jingyang County.

I heard that the river in Dafang County has become flooded and the fields and houses have been submerged.

Hundreds of villagers were killed or injured, and the remaining people fled in all directions. Those who had relatives in other counties went to live with them.

Those who didn't have any either went to the provincial capital or to Guangrao County. The number of people from Dafang County who came to Jingyang County was the smallest among all the counties under the jurisdiction of Shun'an Prefecture.

After all, Jingyang County is well known to be poor, and most of the victims who came here are the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, because they cannot beat the strong men in other counties.

I went to the city to make a living, but the city people only hired strong men and skilled women as servants.

They have no other options except begging on the streets.

I don't know who told me that Jingyang County was giving out free porridge, but even though I thought the possibility was extremely small, I still came here with a glimmer of hope.

Song Jinshu was worried that if this continued, the disaster would become more and more serious. She did not forget that a plague would break out after the flood.

So she ordered everyone to boil hot water before drinking, and to take isolation measures when resettling the victims.

People are asked to spray alcohol for disinfection from time to time, but there has been no large-scale illness so far.

But she had to be on guard!

In modern times, she still remembers the three-year epidemic vividly. Even in such a technologically advanced era, fighting the epidemic was so difficult.

Not to mention the backward medical care in ancient times, how could she not be afraid?

Just as Song Jinshu was daydreaming, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps. She came to her senses instantly and hurried out to meet them.

Wang Er was seen walking out of the afterimage in a panic.

"My Lord, something bad has happened! Outside the city... Whew... a lot of disaster victims are suddenly coming in from outside the city!"

Song Jinshu: ???

"How many people came in total?"

She had a bad feeling, as in the past, the number of disaster victims who came at a time was no more than a dozen or twenty people.

Judging from Wang Er’s expression, it’s estimated that there will be even more this time!

Wang Er tried to calm his breathing and finished speaking in one breath: "A lot of people have come, probably as many as the entire population of our Wangjia Village!"

There are about fifty or sixty households in Wangjia Village, and the total population is over three hundred.

"Hiss... so many?"

There are so many people this time!

Song Jinshu's heart skipped a beat. Something was amiss, and she quickly instructed Wang Er, "Have them moved to another place. Remember not to let them come into contact with other people. You should also be careful, wear masks, and take protective measures!"

Wang Er sighed, turned around and went to deal with the victims.

Even when she could no longer see Wang Er, her heart was still beating like a drum and she felt very uneasy.

After thinking about it, she went back to the backyard to take protective measures and then headed straight out of the city.

Outside Jingyang County.

The yamen runners, led by Cao Dutou, all wore masks and held sharp swords and guns, glaring at the victims in front of them.

Just now they actually tried to break into the county town by force, and some of them were even more dishonest and wanted to attack them!

This abnormal behavior aroused everyone's vigilance.

Cao Dutou glared at the victims and cursed, "Our county magistrate is kind and willing to accept you, which is a great favor. He only asked you to rest a little further away, but you are ungrateful and try to force your way into the county!

Do you want to rebel? Who gave you the courage?

The victims were afraid of the weapons in the hands of Cao Dutou and others, and they all lowered their heads and dared not speak.

The man who had been the most troublemaker before, skinny and with a wretched appearance, gritted his teeth.

He glared at Cao Dutou and others fiercely, and Cao Dutou also looked at him vigilantly.

I plan to catch him before he makes any move!

"Don't listen to him! We are disaster victims and good citizens. They don't dare to kill us! They say they will take good care of us, but who knows if they want to drive us out too!"

"Don't forget how many times we've been kicked out before! If we're kicked out again this time, we'll starve to death or die of disease!"

Following the wretched man's words, the victims began to get restless again.

There was half fear and half hope in their eyes. As long as they broke in, they could survive!

Cao Dutou looked at the wretched man as if he were a dead person, and captured him with just one move before the victim could even make a move.

Then he held a big knife to the man's neck, scaring him so much that he trembled, and the next second he smelled the smell of urine.

It turned out that the man was so scared that he wet his pants.

"Boss, I think this guy is the best at stirring up trouble. Why don't we break his legs to intimidate these people!" a yamen runner suggested.

Cao Dutou was about to agree when he saw the man's legs weaken with fear. He hugged his thigh and cried, "Sir, please spare my life! I won't do it again! I just want to stay alive. I mean no harm!"

"Live? You want to live so you don't care about other people's lives? If you really let someone like you into the county, who knows how many people will suffer!

I think breaking his thigh is too light a punishment. Why should I cut off his tongue as well? Just because you like to stir up trouble!"

As he said this, Cao Dutou took the knife and was about to put it into the man's mouth, but the man fainted from fright.

Cao Dutou cursed, kicked him away, and ordered his men to tie up his hands and feet, so that Lord Song could interrogate him later.

The victims witnessed Cao Dutou's methods with their own eyes and no one dared to step forward anymore. They almost hid their heads in the ground.

Wang Er looked at the majestic Cao Dutou with envy. No wonder he could be their boss!

"Boss, the adults said that we should place them all farther away and not let anyone come into contact with them. Also, if any of them have a headache or fever, they must be locked up separately!"

Cao Dutou nodded and immediately arranged for people to take action. After what happened just now, the victims dared not cause trouble again.

They all followed the yamen runners obediently to their residences, and the yamen runners would lock up any sick people alone.

What they didn't notice was that some people with headaches and fevers were secretly hiding among the normal people.

When Song Jinshu arrived outside the city, Cao Dutou had already arranged for everyone to be settled.

He also told Song Jinshu about the man.

"You did a great job, Captain Cao. Keep up the good work and I'll give you a bonus at the end of the year!"

Cao Dutou scratched his head embarrassedly. He didn't know what bonus was, but since the word "gold" was in it, it should be related to silver.

After following Song Jinshu for so long, he also learned to interpret some of her words.

Song Jinshu went to look around at the group of disaster victims and found that the people this time seemed to know each other.

She picked a familiar-looking person to ask and found out that they were all from the same village.

They fled because there was a large-scale outbreak of the disease in the village next to them.

However, when people from other counties heard that they were very close to the people in that village, no one was willing to accept them.