jdhmnovel Chapter 333 Smallpox
Chapter 333 Smallpox
The obedient employees are like the honest older children at home who do their work silently and never complain about the hard work. The newly recruited people are like little kids who are naughty all day long and the adults will be thankful if they are quiet for a while. And she, Lin Chuyi, is like a parent who takes care of two children as they grow up.
Although they always say that the eldest child is sensible and the second child is annoying, in their actions they still subconsciously pay more attention to the second child who is always making trouble. The old saying goes that the crying child gets the milk, and now it seems to be true.
After realizing this problem, Lin Chuyi conducted a deep self-reflection. She couldn't be an adult who favored one over the other and hurt the hearts of her own good children.
Therefore, Lin Chuyi made a new decision. She wanted to implement these two benefits not only to Lulutong and various factories, but also to implement these two benefits to all the industries under her name.
However, the development model of each industry is different, and some flexibility is needed in actual operation. Therefore, Lin Chuyi took some time to make detailed plans for his event ideas for different brands.
When Ping'an sends this group of bandits to Lanzhou, she will give the implementation plan she has sorted out to Ping'an and ask him to take it to Qian Laiye, who will be responsible for distributing it to the various responsible persons and putting the plan into practice.
After watching Ping An lead the bandits down the mountain with their weapons packed up, Lin Chuyi turned and walked deep into the mountains. She wanted to collect species in the forest to see if there were any new species that had not been included in the space.
Three days later, Lin Chuyi appeared in an ordinary restaurant in Liuzhou City. Today was the meeting day she and Ping An had agreed to meet. Before leaving, Lin Chuyi gave Ping An a two-way positioning bracelet so that he wouldn't lose her.
When Lin Chuyi checked Ping'an's position in the morning, he found that the distance between them was shortening. Lin Chuyi estimated Ping'an's speed and knew that he would reach Liuzhou, next to Lanzhou, around noon.
After several days of investigation, most of the species that needed to be collected had been collected. Lin Chuyi did not linger in the deep mountains and forests, but went directly to Liuzhou City, where he found a restaurant and sat down to order some food.
After Lin Chuyi ordered a few of the restaurant's signature dishes as recommended by the waiter, he sat down to drink the tea brought by the waiter and waited for the food to be served.
It is almost dinner time now, and many people are coming into the restaurant one after another. While waiting for the dishes to be served, many people choose to chat with their companions, and the mixed voices seem a bit noisy.
If ordinary people don't listen carefully, they may not be able to hear clearly the content of the conversation of the customers in the store. But this is not a problem for Lin Chuyi, who has sharp ears and eyes and is good at distinguishing the voices of others.
Lin Chuyi had no habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations, but his ears had ideas of his own. After hearing the sounds, he automatically distributed them in his mind and condensed the essence of the conversation. Lin Chuyi had no choice but to know.
Lin Chuyi originally thought that this was just another trivial matter like "Wang Ermaizi's dog gave birth to five puppies again" or "Aunt Fang's cat next door keeps running to my house and stole seven of my dried fishes." However, he did not expect to hear a piece of big news concerning life and death.
Lin Chuyi moved her ears and quickly found the source of the chat content. She pretended to glance at the two men sitting by the window on the left, eating peanuts and chatting, and began to listen consciously to their chat content.
"Brother Shen, before the food is served, can you please tell me in detail? I have been curious about this for a long time, but I have no way to get information. You know the inside story, so please tell me and help me clear up my confusion." The man smiled and said, then he picked up the teapot and refilled a cup of tea for the man sitting opposite him, whom he called "Brother Shen."
The man surnamed Shen picked up a peanut with chopsticks and threw it into his mouth. He chewed it for a few times and then said proudly, "You came to the right person to ask about this matter. My mother's nephew is working as an official in the Liuzhou government office. We will definitely be the first to know if there is anything."
When it came to the second half of the sentence, the man surnamed Shen seemed to have something on his mind. He suddenly turned around and looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention to their conversation, he relaxed a little, but still subconsciously lowered his voice and moved closer to his companion opposite. That man was not a fool. He knew that the next words might not be convenient to be announced to the public, so he tactfully moved a little closer.
The man surnamed Shen estimated that the distance was about right and the conversation would not be heard by others, so he began to quietly reveal the inside information he had heard.
"We received word a few days ago that someone was found to have smallpox in Yongning County. The Yongning County Magistrate dealt with the person with smallpox directly and did not report it to the court. It turned out that the smallpox was spread from the villages under Yongning County. Killing a few people did not help at all. Now, hundreds of people infected with smallpox have been found in Yongning County and several surrounding villages."
"The magistrate of Yongning County knew that if the matter was kept secret, more and more people would get smallpox. In order to prevent smallpox from spreading further, he had no choice but to seal off the county and personally wrote a letter to have it delivered to the government office in Liuzhou."
"When the governor learned of this, he was furious and immediately sent soldiers to surround all the villages under Yongning County, preventing people from entering or leaving. He also strengthened the defense of all entrances and exits of Yongning County to prevent people from running around and causing smallpox patients to appear in other places."
"This is the real reason why soldiers have been frequently mobilized in the past few days." After explaining the root cause of the recent abnormal phenomena in the city, the man surnamed Shen began to talk about his speculation on how things would develop next. "I guess the governor is only besieging but not attacking at the moment because he wants to wait for the court to receive the news and send reinforcements. Once the court's troops arrive, they will burn those places down."
The man sitting opposite him was dumbfounded and couldn't help but retort, "Ah? No way, only a small number of people got smallpox, and the others were all fine. If we just burn them all to death, how many people would die in vain?"
The man surnamed Shen shook his head and began to analyze the interests involved: "Oh, that's smallpox. Those people seem fine now, but who knows if they have smallpox? We can just burn them all, but if we let them go, people from other places will suffer. If something goes wrong and the disease spreads to us, we will be in danger."
As soon as his own safety was involved, the man stopped talking. He took a sip of tea to calm himself down, and then said with a regretful tone: "When I think about it carefully, it is true what you said. I pity those innocent people who were implicated."