Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

At the end of July, it is the season when the great Mars crosses the sky in the evening, announcing that the hottest season is about to leave the Central Plains.

Hedong, a land exhausted by successive great disasters. After exhaustion comes the numbness of accepting militarized management. Under the management of Zhao Qi's characteristics, this numbness actually gave rise to normal social life:

The golden wheat fields were harvested in pieces, summer beans and corn were sown, and rice was even planted in the paddy fields along the river. Farmers were busy in the fields, and officers and soldiers patrolled the roads. Women, children, the elderly, and the weak from big families stay behind closed doors, but there are always young people who want to come out to work—either to join the army, or to carry knives and pens. When the epidemic area is lifted, there will always be a way out.

Quiet and stable, this is the portrayal of Hedong today. Everyone's temper turned into no temper in front of Zhao Qi. For example, he is walking on a newly paved rammed earth road, and the farmers along the road dare not look up at him.

This road leads to Dayang City. Half a mile away from the barracks guarding the city, there was a bamboo forest with streams, flowerbeds, and small buildings in which lived a special woman.

"I received news that Zhonghua had already entered Dayang City yesterday." Xun You asked first, "I don't have the same information as you, so tell me why? With her current status, where does she need to take risks?"

Zhao Qi snorted: "It's not because the promotion of cowpox is not smooth, she came here in person. It's also a decades-old problem, and she can't get rid of it."

"Can't none of your 20,000 retainers be able to speak?"

Zhao Qi squinted at Xun You: "If a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, isn't Gongda a gentleman? Didn't he stay with me in the epidemic area for a few months?"

Xun You sighed and stroked his beard.

"The reason why the master came here is the same as the reason why Gongda came here. If a man has no power, he will not be able to stand, and if she has no merit, she will not be famous. If she can be persuaded by danger, then today It's just a woman in the back house, not Duke Zhonghua."

While they were talking, the two entered the bamboo forest. The sunlight casts the shadows of the overlapping bamboo leaves on the pebble-paved path, which is very quiet. As I turned a few corners, I saw a small closed courtyard door, which was patterned with dark green bamboo tubes. It is not so much that it can prevent theft, but it is more to say that it shows the talent of the owner here.

The long sound of the piano came from the building behind the small door. The two-story cottage is spacious and comfortable. The living room on the first floor has a large door. The corridor in front of the door is three meters wide. Bamboo curtains are hung around it. When the curtains are pulled up, it becomes a balcony.

At this time, a woman in plain clothes was playing the piano on the porch, with a gentle and dignified posture, like a fairy in a painting, and a hermit in Foshan.

Zhao Qi and Xun You looked at each other and saw the same emotion in each other's eyes. The person in front of him has top-notch talents and looks, which is enough to amaze an era, but with Cao Sheng, a great man who wants to stand shoulder to shoulder with the sky, it seems that this person is too poor in the word "deed". .

They waited at the door until Cai Yan's song "High Mountains and Flowing Water" was finished. "Everyone Cai." Zhao Qi took the lead and stepped forward and cupped his hands across a short courtyard gate, "I don't know why Cai everyone wants me? The letter from Lingzun has been delivered this month, and the food and clothing are also divided according to the agreement. Quite a lot. Qi has been ordered by the master to settle the Cai family, so I dare not be inconsiderate."

Cai Yan put down the piano and bowed to the door. "Prefect Zhao, everything is fine with Yan." She did not call herself "concubine", but "Yan". The change in this title made Zhao Qi squinted slightly.

"Prefect Zhao, I invited you here this time to ask you something."

"Cai everyone, please speak freely." Zhao Qi raised his head and smiled. He has a face that can make him ten years younger with a smile. Even if he knows that he is a cruel official who does not recognize his six relatives, few people can resist the kind of affinity he has when he smiles.

"Prefect Zhao," Cai Yan rubbed his hands indiscernibly, "I heard that Duke Zhonghua has a cure for scabies, but is it true?"

Zhao Qi said sternly: "We have been preaching the cowpox method for half a month. Although everyone in Cai lives in a remote place, they should know it."

"You have to get cowpox once, and then you won't get human pox again, right?"

"That's right."

"I heard that there are birds at the door of the vaccination center, is it true?"

Zhao Qi smiled wryly: "Hedong did not find that it has been three months since the sores were found. As long as three months pass, the epidemic area can be unblocked. No matter how high or low the villagers are, they don't want to take the initiative to develop acne. I would rather hold on to luck and delay the day. I will not lie to you, for the sake of cowpox, the master has personally entered Hedong. "

Cai Yan raised her warm eyes: "Mr. Zhong Hua has inoculated himself with cowpox, so is he not afraid of sore?"

"Not only the master himself, but the entire Cao family has been vaccinated, even the fifth and sixth sons who are under a year old are the same. , it's not difficult to save your life..."

"You don't need to say any more, I believe in Duke Zhonghua." Cai Yan interrupted him, "I want to be vaccinated against cowpox."

Zhao Qi: "What... what?" Unexpectedly, the first person in Hedong who wanted to eat crab was Cai Yan.

"Please also ask Zhao Taishou to inform the families of Anyi, Hebei, Xiexian, Dayang, and Wenxi that Cai Yan will be vaccinated with cowpox."

Zhao Qi's eyes changed, as if it was the first time he knew this woman who lived in seclusion in a bamboo building, writing books and playing the piano. He bowed deeply: "Qi, on behalf of the people of Hedong, thank you Cai everyone."

Cai Yan's cowpox was planted by Ah Sheng himself. It was on the wall of Dayang City, and there were hundreds of people watching. The arm was disinfected with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, and then the vaccinia cytoplasm was pumped into the body with a metal needle.

"Does it hurt?" Ah Sheng asked her softly.

Cai Yan shook her head: "I've already experienced pain in my heart. Just acupuncture, it's fine."

The last time I saw her, although she was quiet, she was still a naive girl, but now she was ripened by reality.

A Sheng couldn't help but want to touch the child's head, but because of the hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at him, he had to give up. "I'm in the Academy, and I'll give you a place." She said softly, then turned around and announced to everyone that the vaccination had been completed.

For the next few days, Cai Yan was sitting in the grass hut at the foot of the city wall, accepting the onlookers of the people. The wound on her arm turned red, and the people ran away as if they had seen the plague. However, there were still people who couldn't help but watch it the next day. The third day was more crowded. Her herpes festered and scabbed in plain sight, and finally healed, leaving only a circular scar.

Next, the vigorous Hedong vaccination campaign kicked off.

"Your name will remain in the history of the youth." The day Cai Yan walked out of the grass shed, Ah Sheng said to her, "Not only because of your talent, but also because of your courage. Courage! , In troubled times, it is more valuable than talent, it can make the war run away and let the nation continue."