frightfiction Chapter 623 Extra Income
Chapter 623 Extra Income
And under him, there was a pool of red blood.
Ji Yuntang frowned, and just as she stepped into the room, the alarm in her space started beeping.
That was a sign that the patient was in critical condition, meaning that Gu Hao's brother Gu Zhou was about to die.
Ji Yuntang didn't care about the unpleasant smell and hurried forward to put on the oxygen machine for him, and took out a syringe to draw blood for examination.
When she was rescuing people inside, Luo Junhe knew that Ji Yuntang had a lot of high-tech equipment that could not be seen by others, so he took the initiative to stand outside to help her guard.
Not long after, the examination report came out. When she saw it, an expression of true or not appeared on her face.
Gu Zhou's illness was basically the same as she had imagined, dysentery.
Dysentery is not a plague, but it is also contagious to a certain extent.
It’s just that some people have better physical constitutions and the disease will develop much slower.
Ji Yuntang moved his mind and flashed into the space.
Her lab just happened to have a drug for treating intestinal bacteria that only needed a little mixing.
In ancient times, many doctors were helpless in treating this kind of illness, but for Ji Yuntang, it was much simpler.
In order to prevent dysentery from spreading widely in Liangzhoukou, Ji Yuntang thought about it and decided to allocate more in case of emergency in the future.
After doing all this, she flashed back into the room, took out the prepared medicine and gave Gu Zhou an injection in his arm.
As if feeling the pain in his skin, Gu Zhou frowned slightly, but did not wake up.
She didn't open the door and walk out until the other person's body temperature gradually dropped.
Gu Hao and Gu Mu came over immediately, "Miss, how is my son?"
Ji Yuntang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, your son's fever has subsided and he will wake up soon."
"By the way, I have something else for you."
After she finished speaking, she went to the carriage again and took out a large bottle of electrolyte water and medicine to prevent dysentery from the space.
Ji Yuntang handed the electrolyte water to Gu Hao, "Your brother's condition has just been controlled. He can't eat in the short term, but he still needs to replenish the necessary water."
"Ahao, go feed him some of this electrolyte water, several times a day, a small cup each time will be enough."
Gu Hao didn't understand what electrolyte water meant, but he heard Ji Yuntang say that his brother was saved.
He was ecstatic and after saying thank you to his sister, he went in with the electrolyte water bottle.
Ji Yuntang handed the pill to Gu's mother and said, "Auntie, your son is infected with dysentery. This medicine can prevent dysentery. You and Xiaohao can both take one."
Gu's mother took the pills handed to her by Ji Yuntang, and her legs went weak as she was about to kneel down to Ji Yuntang.
Ji Yuntang helped her up and said, "Auntie, you have difficulty walking, so you don't have to do this."
Gu Mu's eyes instantly turned red. "Miss, I really don't know how to thank you. If it weren't for you, my son would have died."
"It's dry now, and the crops in the fields are all gone. We, a family of three, all depend on him to earn a living. If he collapses, I and Xiaohao will probably starve to death at home."
Luo Junhe walked over with his long legs. He asked in confusion: "The situation in Liangzhoukou is so serious. Haven't the villagers here ever thought of reporting to the court and asking the court to distribute food and supplies for disaster relief?"
He just took a walk around the surrounding villages and got a rough idea. There are more than fifty households in this ancient village where the Gu family lives alone.
Every household is very poor, but slightly better off than Gu Hao's family, but the situation does not look optimistic either.
When Gu Mu heard this, she said helplessly: "How could I not have thought about it? But how could the villagers' behavior escape the eyes of City Lord Jiang?"
"Now Liangzhoukou is full of his people. He himself is unwilling to help the common people, and he also won't let anyone from above send down to help us."
"Some time ago, the head of the neighboring Liujia Village spontaneously wrote a petition, signed it with all the surnames in the village, and took two villagers with him to the capital to request the court to allocate disaster relief grain to help the people here."
"Then, before they even left Liangzhoukou, they were discovered by City Lord Jiang's lackeys. Now the head of Liujia Village is still imprisoned in the dungeon."
"Not only that, the people who signed the petition were also beaten up by City Lord Jiang one after another."
"What he said was that if the people of Liujia Village continued to be restless and tried to contact people from outside, they would be punished with blood next time instead of just a few verbal warnings."
Luo Junhe frowned, and spoke with a slightly lowered tone, "He did this probably because he didn't want the court to interfere in the affairs of Liangzhoukou."
If he doesn't intervene, naturally no one will care. Doesn't that mean he is the only one who has the final say here?
Ji Yuntang touched his chin and thought for a while, then he said: "I think it's more than that. If the court doesn't provide relief food to the people in Liangzhoukou, then if the people here want to eat, they have to spend more money to buy it from the vendors."
"In this way, the merchants will make money, and the city lord will also get some benefits. The imperial court cannot reach here, and he can always be the local emperor here."
Luo Junhe looked over, his eyes a little darker than before.
"What Atang said is right, but I don't think this place is that simple. I'm afraid there is some hidden secret behind it."
As far as he knew, Jiang Wangbei, the city lord of Liangzhoukou, was only in his early thirties.
Normal people at this stage would all think about climbing higher. Who would be willing to stay in this remote place and be the master of a city?
Even if Jiang Wangbei colluded with the merchants and could get some benefits from them, these benefits would be minimal.
After all, the people in Liangzhoukou were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat. How could they have money to buy things from merchants?
They may get some benefits in the short term, but what about in the long term?
It was precisely because of this reason that Luo Junhe had a bold guess in his mind.
He felt that Jiang Wangbei's main source of income must be more than just the money earned from collusion between officials and businessmen.
He must have other extra income, of course this does not include the monthly salary given to him by the court.
For an official position like his, the monthly salary is no more than a hundred taels of silver, and at most a little over a thousand taels of silver a year, it is impossible to get more.
However, Jiang Wangbei's daily expenses were very extravagant. He ate the best food, wore the best clothes, and even had dozens of maids around him, both plump and thin.
The extravagant way of his life was incompatible with the people of Liangzhoukou.