Chapter 108 Relief for Disaster Victims

"Daddy, lend me a team to maintain order."

Doctor Yuan treated several patients infected with the plague. Although the prescription has been developed, it still takes time. Jiang Ruohua did not want to wait blindly, but wanted to do something: "Daddy has been exhausted these days. I guess the refugees are making trouble for you."

"Too dangerous." Jiang Shizi disagreed, "In this way, you can leave the porridge and rice. These displaced people outside are difficult for even the soldiers to deal with. How can you go out alone?"

"Daddy can be here, why can't I be here?" Jiang Ruohua would not leave, "Even if I am not a man, I also want to do things. Before the incident, the refugees were not refugees but ordinary people. Now it is far more important to appease people's hearts than to give porridge. What's wrong with me trying to talk about it?"

Jiang Shizi felt that he did not give birth to this daughter in vain. Her courage was not inferior to that of men, but as a father, no one wanted his children to get into trouble.

Finally, they compromised and let Jiang Ruohua go up to the city wall to try and see if she could calm the refugees down after her speech.

Standing on the city wall, Jiang Ruohua's heart was beating violently. Although she was familiar with and practiced every word beforehand, she still felt nervous. It was the first time she spoke so much in front of so many people. The refugees were in chaos at first, but soon they calmed down with the soldiers' stop and her speech.

The porridge was distributed spoonful by spoonful. Although not everyone could eat enough, the hot porridge gave these people hope after all.

"I will come again tomorrow. I hope you can be patient until the treatment prescription is developed."

After returning, he took the servants to prepare tomorrow's meals without stopping. There were too many people outside the city, and the consumption was far beyond expectations. Jiang Ruohua asked Gan Yunsheng to find ways to get food from those who had a mountain of food but made black money at this time. There was no need to act too gloriously.

"Miss, I will go with you tomorrow."

Li Ge wiped the sweat off her face and looked at the temporary stoves in the Duke's Mansion, and felt like sharing the worry.

"There are enough people now." Jiang Ruohua watched all this in person, and then said, "I have to be busy with this matter, and I am afraid that the mansion can't take care of it. Aunt Ying is still pregnant, and Aunt Yuan has to take care of the young son. The mansion can't be left without anyone to take care of it, so I'll leave it to you."

"Yes..." Li Ge's interest seemed to fade a little, but she didn't complain. Almost all the servants in the mansion were busy, and they all had to contribute to the plague. Jiang Ruohua gave them twice the monthly salary this month, and the servants' complaints stopped abruptly.

In fact, she was a little curious about why Jiang Ruohua did this.

But as they continued doing this day after day, people's mentality seemed to have changed. There were actually wealthy families in Beijing who were willing to give out porridge, but there were almost no wealthy families like Jiang Ruohua who gave out almost everything. Others were trying to gain some fame at this time, but they didn't expect that someone who really wanted to feed all the refugees would sneak in among them.

Jiang Ruohua was using practical actions to show her brilliance to the world.

At a young age, she was in charge of a large Duke's Mansion, and it was well organized. Even in this situation, she could devote so much energy to doing things that others couldn't do, which was shocking enough.

Not to mention that the white porridge given out every day was not only large in quantity, but also not like other families' clear soup with few grains of rice in a bowl.

But such a large amount of daily supply, even if it emptied the Jiang family, and with the help of the Wen family, it was far from enough. Soon, someone knew about Gan Yunsheng's existence, and knew that this man was helping the Jiang family to manage the industry and using some not-so-proper means to get food to help the refugees.

Jiang Ruohua and the Duke's Mansion were all becoming more and more famous among the common people, but this also hindered those who were looking for money because of disaster. They began to fabricate and directed all the bad words at Jiang Ruohua.

"Too much!"

The people in the Duke's Mansion were all standing up for Jiang Ruohua. Those unpleasant words were used to target a teenage girl, but they were not ashamed!

"Okay, forget it after hearing it." Jiang Ruohua took a look at today's share and yawned a little tiredly. "No matter what people say outside, it's just to target us. Do we have to stop doing it just because of their words?"

The porridge distribution was carried out day by day. Although some people still died of the plague, it was not useless. It would be a lie to say that there was no sense of accomplishment. In the past, who would have dared to think that a woman with a group of servants could help the victims?

This has always been the work of officials and men.

Li Ge once asked the doubts in her heart out of curiosity in her daily life, and Jiang Ruohua's answer was: she wanted to do it, and she could do it, so she would do it.

Looking at those people who had a hard time living, perhaps it was indeed difficult to suppress her pity, but could she only pity them in her heart?

When an ordinary woman encountered any problem, she would ask her father to solve it before she got married, her husband to solve it after she got married, and her son to solve it after her husband passed away. When she couldn't see these people, she would pray for them day and night. Jiang Ruohua couldn't help but wonder, what's the point of thinking about others to solve the problem and praying day and night for someone to help solve the problem?

It took a lot of time, but it didn't work.

Then why didn't she do it herself?

She also grew up listening to her father's reputation and stories of loyal and virtuous ministers. She also learned to be loyal to the country. She was influenced by all this, but she didn't want to be influenced by all this for the rest of her life.

The public opinion and the slander of those people with ulterior motives did not hit Jiang Ruohua. Instead, she felt that if she didn't do it, who else would be willing to do it?

Fortunately, whether it was her father, grandfather, or other family members, they all supported Jiang Ruohua's approach. Their Jiang family was loyal for generations. Regardless of whether they were men or women, they should have the word "loyalty" engraved in their bones and blood!

It was naturally shameful to instruct Gan Yunsheng to use improper means to get food, but such an action solved the emperor's urgent need.

Since the person on the dragon throne sat in this position, he was naturally worried about the people. But asking these rich people to spit out food for the court and refugees for free was as difficult as climbing to the sky. The treasury did not have so much money, and it was impossible to meet the requirements of these rich people.

Jiang Ruohua did something dishonorable, but she did what the emperor wanted to do but couldn't.

As a result, not only did the Jiang family not receive punishment, but they were praised and rewarded by the emperor. The emperor was even more surprised when he learned that this was actually the idea of ​​a little girl named Jiang Ruohua.