Infrastructure masters in the red building

Sure enough, Jia found the pyrethrum in the "list" of Hengwu Garden, and followed the vine to find the original plant of this pyrethrum from Hengwu Garden, and cultivated it in the accelerated cultivation nursery.

Looking at these plants with small white flowers, he wondered: This small flower looks quite ordinary, and it can be seen everywhere in later generations. How come no one in the land of China knows about it? ——He looked through the "list", only to find that the words "originated in Europe" were recorded on it.It may be that imports have not been transplanted in this time and space.

Jia Fang asked Shuangwen: "These little flowers are very, very important, I'm afraid I have to ask you to help me take care of these plants without interruption."

Shuangwen naturally responded, and as Jia Fang said, he planted pyrethrum in these "accelerated cultivation gardens" without interruption.Once these plants grow, they are dug out from the cultivation nursery by Shuangwen and handed over to Jia Fang to take them to Taoyuan Village, where the villagers plant them in front of and behind their houses.

These pyrethrums bloom very quickly, and Jia Fang also tried his best not to waste the shuangwen. When he saw some blooming, he picked off the inflorescences and put them in a dry place to dry. After drying, they lit the smoke to kill mosquitoes directly.Even throwing the flowers directly into the waters of the Grand View Garden without drying them can kill mosquito larvae.

As for the plants Jia Fang took to Taoyuan Village, the villagers planted these plants with small white flowers in front of and behind the houses according to Jia Fang's words.

Perhaps because of the accelerated cultivation in the nursery, these pyrethrums grow very quickly, and in just two or three days, small white flowers can bloom in front of and behind the villagers' homesteads.

The effect is immediate, and the people who planted the mosquito chrysanthemum immediately said: there are fewer mosquitoes at night, and it is almost impossible to beat them.

Jia Fang still asked everyone to help him, try his best to grow pyrethrum, collect more white flowers from pyrethrum, and dry these flowers and grind them into fine powder.

However, in the entire Taoyuan Village, no villagers who had experience in making incense could be found.After all, they were either local aborigines or ordinary people from Yujiang. Making incense and burning incense was an elegant thing, and the common people would only use a few pieces of thick incense when celebrating the New Year and worshiping their ancestors.

Therefore, the most important task of trying to make incense was led by Gui Yaxue from the Faculty of Science. Mosquito coils".The composition of mosquito coils is not complicated. It uses pyrethrum powder, finely ground sawdust, plus sorrel oil and elm noodles, and a little honey to make a paste. Then it is pressed into a mold and then dried in the sun. Become a mosquito coil.

However, after the "paste" of the mosquito-repellent incense is made, it is difficult for Gui Xia to learn what shape the incense should be made into.

Jia Fang's requirement for this "mosquito incense" is that it can be lit for at least four hours after being lit, otherwise it will not be able to guarantee people a good night's sleep.

However, the lump incense and incense sticks produced by Gui Xiaxue, no matter which one they are, cannot meet this requirement. Can burn for an hour.So Gui Xiaxue spent all day trying to figure out how to prolong the burning time of this incense.

"If the entire copper incense burner is filled with mosquito coils—"

Jia Fang passed by Gui Xiaxue's office and heard this guy say viciously.

The whole copper incense burner is filled with mosquito coils?Then the cost of this mosquito coil is so high—Jia Fang couldn't help but sighed, walked into Gui Xiaxue's room, sat down opposite him, picked up a pen, and drew a swirl on the paper.

Gui Xiaxue's mouth was nestled into an "O" shape at that time.

Jia Fang hadn't finished the drawing yet, so he drew another scroll, then stacked the two pieces of paper together, then separated them, spread them out on the table, and left the office by himself.

Gui Xiaxue stared at the two pieces of paper in front of him, and suddenly realized after a while.He dropped the two pieces of paper and immediately chased after Jia Fang, shouting loudly behind Jia Fang: "Jia Fang, Mrs. Jia, Mr. Jia... May I worship you as my teacher?"

He chased for more than a dozen steps, and suddenly stopped - Jia Yi and Bing Ding, who looked like two iron towers, were standing in front of him at this moment.Gui Xiaxue grinned at the two of them immediately, and while backing away, he said, "Talk about it, I'm just talking...Master Jia, Mr. Jia, he is always, always willing to teach me—"

The guy then ran away from Jia Yibingding, and only after returning to the office did he sneak out to observe secretly.

Jia Fang heard it from a distance and thought it was funny.

In his opinion, Gui Xiaxue's IQ and receptivity are already high enough to make people envious.Jia felt relieved: If this guy were placed in another time and space, he would surely become Edison's first-class figure.To a certain extent, the development of human civilization is also driven by such people.

Compared with Jia Fang himself, what Gui Xiaxue lacks is experience and insight.Therefore, Jia Fang didn't feel that he had any qualifications to be the other party's teacher at all.He just hopes that he can give pointers at critical moments, so that this guy's ingenuity can shine in this world.

Sure enough, soon Gui Xiaxue made a scroll-shaped mosquito-repellent incense, two scroll-shaped mosquito-repellent incense were stacked together, and then disassembled when it was time to use.Each mosquito-repellent incense can be lit for exactly four hours, which is almost one night.

Not only that, Gui Xiaxue also fiddled with the hydraulic loom during this period.However, there seems to be a problem with the cloth woven by this first hydraulic loom: the loom uses linen yarn, and the distance between the warp and weft of the linen woven is a bit large, which is thicker and larger than normal cloth. From one end of the linen gauze, one can clearly see the other end, which is not suitable for clothing at all.

Gui Xiaxue got the woven hemp yarn, but kept silent, just sat on the floor of the textile factory, staring at the thin yarn eyes in a daze.

The women of "Jinhua" were naturally disappointed when they saw this situation.But Gui Xiaxue had been studying the loom day and night before, and they all saw it.So the women all comforted: "Teacher Gui!" "Immortal Gui!"

"Don't be sad, we believe in you, it will definitely work next time."

Unexpectedly, Gui Xiaxue stood up with a bang, raised the linen yarn in his hand and said, "Who said we have failed?"

"My lord Jia usually says that if you lose the mulberry elm in the east, you will know that it is not a blessing. Our loom may not be impossible. Let's take a look, what does the hemp yarn woven by this loom look like?"

Women: ...Like what?

Gradually, a woman noticed it: "It's like the screens that a rich family put on the windows!"

"Yes!" Gui Xiaxue slapped his thigh and said, "Exactly! Mrs. Jia didn't ask us to make a mosquito net. The mosquito net is thin and soft, but it also has such a big hole on it, which can breathe and prevent mosquitoes from flying." Come in, don't you?"

Mosquito nets are mostly made of cotton yarn, and the cost is relatively high. Most people are reluctant to use them. They are only willing to buy a small one and let the youngest child in the family sleep in it.

"But if we don't make it into a mosquito net, but use it as a window screen and paste it on the window, wouldn't it be a mosquito net for the whole house?"

Suddenly someone asked: "What if the door is open?"

Her companion immediately retorted: "When there are many mosquitoes at night, who always keeps the door open?"

Gui Xiaxue looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and then said: "We can make a screen door, just like a window, we make a door frame, and then stretch such hemp yarn around the door frame, isn't this a screen door?"

The women looked at each other, all stunned by Gui Xiaxue's imagination.But it's a really nice idea.

Immediately, a woman whose man was a carpenter rushed out of the textile factory and said, "I'll go and ask our family—"

The defective hydraulic loom just made by "Jinhua" was saved because of such a brain hole.

But just as the people in Taoyuanzhai were working together for various anti-mosquito products, Jia Fang had already arrived at his own Jiedushi official office in Wuyuan County.

Prince Taifu Xia Xingshen has already received Wuyuan County.Yuan Hua, the county magistrate, called the best doctor in the county and ordered him to stay in the Confucian Temple to take good care of him.But County Magistrate Yuan did not dare to stay in the Confucian Temple for a long time. He said that he wanted to go to the countryside to inspect the incidence of malaria, so he took Master Li to leave the county and went to inspect the towns in the county.

Jia Fang came to Wuyuan County just at this time.

He personally went to see Xia Xingshen's situation, and he kind of understood why Yuan Hua had to run away quickly—seeing that the situation of the boss is really bad, Yuan County Magistrate still decided that this responsibility should be carried by Jia Fang. , not him Yuan Hua——what a practical old fritter in the officialdom.

Xia Sheng fell ill while on the road, and the journey to Wuyuan County was tiring, and it only got worse.

When Jia Fang saw Xia Shengshen, the old man was chilling, his eyes were closed tightly, tremblingly, he only shouted cold.But look at him, five or six layers of quilts have already been covered - all the quilts in the Jiedushi's office should have been taken to cover this old man.

Jia Fang had no choice but to ask someone to boil hot water, and then ordered someone to go to Yuan County Magistrate's house to borrow Mrs. Tang.

In the days of May and June, it was a bit silly to borrow Mrs. Tang—the family of County Magistrate Yuan felt a little silly, but for the sake of Jia Fang's official position, they finally found Mrs. Tang who was kept in the warehouse.In other words, this is also the item that Yuan County Magistrate used when he was in office. Since he took office in Wuyuan County in the south, his Yuan family has never used this.

Jia Fang helped Xia Shengshen use Mrs. Tang, and then covered him with the quilt.At this time Zheng Boyi came in and said, "Lord Jia, why don't you let me come."

Jia Fang shook his head and said: "It's okay, I have met this old man several times in Beijing, his white hair... I saw it turning gray a little bit before my eyes. Therefore, I feel responsible and take care of him more .”

Zheng Boyi nodded, but did not speak.The chaos in Beijing because of the fraudulent case in the examination room, the aides, they didn't have the slightest reason because they were in the south.

Therefore, Zheng Da's staff sighed sincerely: "Master Xia must live."

For Jia Fang's side, Xia Shengshen must be alive.

Jia Fang thought the same way: His original intention was to invite Xia Shengping to come over and take a look at the construction and development of Taoyuan Village, so that he could know what the real grassroots is like and how to manage it well.

He wanted the old man to see a Taoyuan Village where the households were never closed at night and where things were not picked up, and a Taoyuan Village where the people lived and worked in peace and contentment without any disasters or diseases.

"Mr. Zhang has already come to see him, and he has used medicine for the old man, and he should be fine." Jia Fang said.

Zhang Youshi came here with Jia Fang. After taking Xia Shengshen's pulse, he left enough artemisinin, left in a hurry, and went back to extract artemisinin from the artemisinin that the villagers picked spontaneously. went.

Jia Fang stayed here to take care of her. He said, "It's more important to take good care of her."

As soon as Jia Fang finished speaking, Xia Xingshen suddenly opened his eyes and started shouting hotly.

This is a common symptom of malaria patients. One moment they are shivering with cold, and the next moment they start to have a high fever-so the folk dialect calls this "swinging".

Jia Fang hurriedly lifted off the three, four or five layers of quilts on the old man, took Mrs. Tang away, then touched Xia Shengshen's forehead, and said, "No, it's too hot."

At this time, Xia Shengshen started to have a high fever all over his body, his face was flushed, he seemed to be very awake with his eyes open, but in fact he was talking nonsense, looking at Jia Fang and calling "Zhou Dejin".

Zheng Boyi was terribly surprised, and asked, "Zhou Dejin?"

Jia Fang nodded: "It's the crown prince's name."

Zheng Boyi naturally knew this, and what he was curious about was actually: "...Master Jia and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there should be some similarities!"

Jia Fang: ...Why did the gossip spread so far?

As a last resort, he could only think of an excuse to send Zheng Boyi away.Before leaving, Zheng Boyi said worriedly: "I heard that this disease will spread to others, sir, please be careful."

Jia Fang didn't care, and said: "This disease is a vector-borne disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes. You and Nan Yong lived in this government office before, remember to light this 'mosquito coil' at any time."

Jia Fang will also light mosquito coils here to ensure that there will be no mosquito infestation around malaria patients.At this time, he didn't know that Gui Xiaxue and the others had already fixed the screen door, otherwise, simply changing the doors and windows of this room would at least ensure that Xia Xingshen would not spread the malaria to outsiders.

He ordered people to fetch water from the deep well - the climate here is warmer and it won't freeze in winter, so even rich families don't have cellars and don't store ice.Jia Fang could have considered chemical ice making at first, but he was in a hurry and did not bring all the materials, so he had to take deep well water.

The temperature of these wells is about 4°C, which is the coolest liquid he can get.If you want a better effect of physical cooling, you can consider using spirits, but if you use spirits, you are afraid that the body of the elderly will not be able to bear it.

So the whole night, I saw Jia put Xia Shengshen in his room and wipe his body with well water to cool down Xia Shengshen. Finally, seeing his high fever subside, the old man started to cry again, shivering and wanted to cover himself with a quilt.Jia Fang hurriedly covered the quilt layer by layer, poured hot water into Tang Pozi and stuffed it under his feet.

Both Zheng Boyi and Nan Yongqian watched silently outside the window, thinking that their little masters were so "soft-hearted" towards a political opponent.Zheng Boyi, as Jia Fang's political staff, naturally knew Xia Shengshen's position and understood Jia Fang's purpose.He sighed silently in his heart, and thought to himself: my lord, you need to be appreciated by the other party for all your hard work!

However, Zheng Boyi also understands Jia Fang's situation - no matter what, he must cling to the name of this "political enemy".Otherwise, it will be very difficult for Jia to be placed in the court.

As for whether "political enemies" can turn into "allies" in the future, at least we have to wait until the boss wakes up and recovers from his illness before we can talk about it.

Even though Xia Shengshen was sick, he still had a vague feeling that someone was feeding him medicine, that someone was cooling him down when his body was burning like fire, and covering him with a quilt to keep him warm when he was falling into a cave like ice.

He also woke up a few times and found that Jia Fang was reading with his back to him; when he woke up again, he found that Jia Fang couldn't hold on anymore, resting his head on his hands, and fell asleep bit by bit.

Xia Shengxin said: This young man has such a heart?To be able to bear the temper to take care of such a sick old man?Could it be that he wants to show kindness and take credit for himself after he recovers?

At this time, Xia Sheng was still weak, and fell asleep drowsily not long after waking up.But before long he was getting more and more awake each day, as the days seemed to go by.

Xia Shengshen immediately discovered that the person staying in the government office to take care of him was another young man who looked like a scholar, 26 and [-] years old.When asked, the other party replied: "The student's name is Zhang Youshi."

"Zhang Youshi?" Xia Xingshen had heard the name before, "Zhang Youshi who wrote the "Schistosomiasis Report"?"

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Youshi heard what the elder said, he immediately took a step back and said: "Don't dare, the student's "Schistosomiasis Report" was completely completed under the guidance of Master Jia Fang, but Master Jia is indifferent to fame and fortune. Give all the signatures to the student alone..."

Xia Xing thought about it: that young man, is he actually such a high-minded person?

He hurriedly asked, "Where is Master Jia now?"

Zhang Youshi replied respectfully: "Yesterday, I saw that my lord has gradually recovered, so lord Jia accompanied the local county venerable, lord Yuan Hua, to inspect the work of preventing and treating this malaria in various townships under his jurisdiction."

Xia Xingshen was a little disappointed when he heard this: I originally guessed that the other party might take this opportunity to curry favour, to ask for credit, so that I could accept his theories—who knew that he would even disdain them? !

However, from this point of view, this young man should not be underestimated.