The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

Xu Qingye put down the book and went to the kitchen to get some dishes and chopsticks. He placed one set of dishes and chopsticks in front of Song Yuntang.

"Are you going to the clinic tomorrow?"

Song Yuntang nodded.

"Of course I will. Shopkeeper Li and I have an agreement that as long as I'm in Cile Town, I have to see patients there for at least an hour every day."

Then he continued, "Mrs. Lin took Lin Zhaozhao and He Yuanfei to the clinic today."

Xu Qingye was stunned.

"They didn't do anything to you, did they?"

Song Yuntang took a wooden spoon and scooped a piece of taro from the soup bowl for him.

"With Xia Ning following me, they can't hurt me." She turned to look at him, "Do you know He Yuanfei?"

Xu Qingye shook his head and said, "I don't know much about it. I just heard that he passed the imperial examination three years ago. I'm not very clear about the details."

Song Yuntang pursed his lips.

"I've heard A Rao mention him. He's thirty this year, has two sons and a daughter, the older one is thirteen, the younger one is seven. His first wife passed away three years ago, and he's been relying on his late wife's family for support before he passed the imperial examination. I'm just curious, on the day of Madam Yang's birthday banquet, did he enter the room Lin Zhaozhao had prepared for you intentionally or unintentionally?"

"Maybe it's intentional."

As Xu Qingye spoke, he picked up the big bone with the most meat from the taro bowl and put it into Song Yuntang's bowl.

Song Yuntang looked at him.

"How to say?"

Xu Qingye said calmly, "He passed the imperial examination three years ago, and his first wife died of illness three years ago. It's too much of a coincidence."

Song Yuntang nodded. "When A Rao told me this before, I also thought it was too coincidental. Lin Zhaozhao also said that He Yuanfei would also participate in this year's Autumn Examination, and he seemed very confident. I thought that for someone like him, it would take him 26 years to pass the examination. It must be difficult for him to pass the examination in three years."

There was a sharp glint in Xu Qingye's eyes.

"Perhaps, the Lin family has their own way."

Song Yuntang understood the hidden meaning and looked at him hurriedly.

"You mean cheating? Could it be that Lin Jingyao also had this suspicion when he passed the imperial examination?" Seeing Xu Qingye remained silent, she immediately asked, "The Lin family cheated in such a secretive way that I hadn't even heard of it when Lin Jingyao passed the imperial examination. How did you find out?"

"I have a friend who is familiar with the son of the governor's staff."

The conversation ended abruptly here.

After Song Yuntang understood the situation, she stopped asking. It would be meaningless for her to know too much about such a secret matter. When the time comes, she can just send an anonymous letter and let the examiners check it directly.

However, Xu Qingye has a lot of friends.

He had been ill for so many years, how did he maintain these relationships?

"You don't go to the provincial capital often, so how do you have so many friends?"

"We've been friends for a while now, but we haven't interacted much, so we can't say we're that familiar." Xu Qingye looked at her and said, "Eat first, or it'll get cold."

Song Yuntang nodded, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

After running in the fields in the morning and going to town in the afternoon, Song Yuntang felt a little sticky all day. When she went to the yard to digest her food after dinner, she asked Xia Ning to heat up the hot spring in the backyard for her. While Xu Qingye was reading, she ran to the backyard to take a bath.

When I returned to the house after washing, Xu Qingye had already lit the lamp.

Seeing that her hair was wet, the man put down the book, took the handkerchief and walked forward to wipe her long hair.

Since they got married, Song Yuntang has been the one who wipes Xu Qingye's hair whenever he is around, so he is used to this action.

She leaned back in her chair, picked up the notebook and charcoal pencil she usually used to record medical records, and wrote down several special cases diagnosed today. If she set up a medical school in the future, the materials in her hands would serve as ready-made cases.

Song Yuntang recently had two sets of clothes made for her to wear at night. They were made of silk, thin and cool.

It shows off her perfect curves when she wears it.

She put the recorded medical records aside, raised her hand to touch her hair, and when she was almost done, she turned around and looked at Xu Qingye.

"Would you like to try the hot spring in the backyard? It's so comfortable. I just asked Xia Ning to heat up the water."

He looked at her for a long time with deep eyes, then nodded. After putting the handkerchief away, he took the clothes to change and went to the backyard.

When I returned to the room, Song Yuntang was already asleep on the couch with his eyes closed.

Xu Qingye smiled helplessly.

I thought this girl was hinting at something by asking him to try the hot spring, but I was overthinking it.

After covering her with the quilt and clearing away all the distracting thoughts in my mind, I went back to the table and continued reading.

……

Xu Qingye stayed at the farm for five days and then left with a horse-drawn carriage that was delivering goods to the county town.

As time went by, the locusts grew in number.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Song Yuntang asked Qiao Da and Qiao Er to stop collecting locusts.

The nearby fields were less damaged by the locusts because they took precautions in advance. However, the crops of those families who did not believe in evil were almost completely eaten by the locusts.

However, relatively speaking, among the five towns under Anyang County, Cile Town is in the best situation. In the other towns, many people's fields are left with only bare poles.

Now that the relief grain distributed by the government has been consumed, Anyang County has once again fallen into chaos.

Although the harvest was poor, the Jiang family still managed to hold Jiang Surao's wedding smoothly.

The next month after the wedding, Mr. Jiang passed away.

After Mrs. Jiang hastily handled Mr. Jiang's funeral, she buried him and lived peacefully in the backyard as Mrs. Jiang, leaving all the matters of the Jiang family to her son and daughter-in-law.

Seeing that the situation in Cile Town had stabilized, and Xu Qingye's autumn examination was approaching, Song Yuntang took Xia Ning back to the county town.

Looking at the refugees begging along the way, Song Yuntang thought of what Wu said to her before he left.

Before she left, she asked Qiao Da to count the grain on the farm, and found that there were a total of 26,352 dan of grain.

Soon, the fields on the farm will be ready for the autumn harvest.

Not to mention the rice fields, the yield from the twenty or thirty acres of sweet potatoes should be quite high.

Even if we donate some food, there will be no problem surviving until next year. We can't have disasters every year.

Thinking of this, Song Yuntang asked Xia Ning to turn the carriage around and go to the county government office to find Master Qin.

"Master, I would like to donate 20,000 dan of grain to the people affected by the disaster in Anyang County in the name of Xinglin Medical Clinic."

Twenty thousand shi of grain is not a small amount.

You know, the imperial envoy sent from the capital at the beginning of the year only brought 50,000 dan of disaster relief grain.

Now, Song Yuntang alone donated 20,000 shi of grain. Not to mention that according to the current price of grain, so much grain would cost more than 10,000 taels of silver. It would take a lot of effort to raise so much grain.

As soon as she said this, one can imagine how shocked Master Qin was.

"Doctor Song's actions have truly saved the people of Anyang County from disaster!" He bowed to Song Yuntang, "On behalf of the people of Anyang County, I would like to thank Doctor Song first."