Huang An did not answer directly, but said: "How long will it take?"
"Two to three months."
"That would probably use up nearly half of the inventory."
He Yunxi was stunned. That was more than a hundred cubic meters of ice, which accounted for less than half of the inventory? How big was the ice cellar dug by the Wang family?
She thought for a moment and said, "How much ice does the house consume every day?"
"Less than half a square."
He Yunxi thought about it in his mind: "So, when the weather cools down, almost half of the ice will be left."
"yes."
"I wrote to you before asking you to buy mung beans. Did you buy them?"
"Back to the county master, I bought two large warehouses."
"When I entered the city yesterday, I saw a lot of refugees outside the city. Does the city have any control over it?"
"The prefect ordered porridge to be given at the gate of the city every morning. I went to see it. The porridge is a bit thin, but it can still keep people alive." Huang An responded.
"What about other times?"
"I don't care about them at other times. But they are not allowed to make trouble. Once they make trouble, they will be driven away immediately and they will not be allowed to receive any further relief."
He Yunxi nodded, yes, it was not because of her absence that they stayed in the county lord's mansion and did not pay attention to anything.
"You have nothing to do now, right?" He Yunxi asked.
Huang An smiled, you, the master, didn't give them any instructions, so they had nothing to do.
He leaned over and said, "My master told me not to cause trouble for the county lord at will, so everyone is in the county lord's mansion on weekdays and takes good care of the county lord's mansion."
"I feel wronged to you."
"The county chief has made a strong statement. We will not be wronged. Everyone likes days like this." Huang An said.
That doesn’t seem right?
"Does the county chief have any orders?" he asked.
Coming here so late, I definitely didn't come to the County Lord's Mansion to see how big her house is and how beautiful it is under the moonlight.
"You send some ice to Yufu, and then for the next two months, every afternoon, make some mung bean soup outside the city and give it to the homeless people outside. Occasionally put some ice in it to make an ice drink for everyone.
Summer." He Yunxi said.
Huang An was stunned for a moment, not expecting that He Yunxi would pay attention to the refugees outside.
He calculated: "There are thousands of people outside the city, and I'm afraid the ice won't be enough."
"It doesn't have to be very cold, just a little cool. Those people with weak stomachs can't eat anything too cold." He Yunxi said, "When the ice is not enough, I will find a way for you."
"Yes, I know," Huang An responded.
"In addition, find some discarded fabrics to build some canopies outside the city, or find materials to build some sheds for people to rest under. On such a hot day, it will get even hotter later. If there is no shelter, I'm afraid there will be
Many people are sick. The rest area is given priority to the elderly and children," He Yunxi said.
"Then this will take a lot of manpower..."
"Aren't those people outside the city just manpower?" He Yunxi said, "I saw a lot of young people and asked them to help. Those who helped were given an extra cup of mung bean soup."
Huang An's eyes lit up, and the county boss reacted so quickly, which shows that she is a smart woman and not like an ignorant peasant girl at all.
"But if we do this, will it cause dissatisfaction with the government?" she asked.
"That's not the case. The government hopes that someone will take care of it and help share the pressure. Previously, they even encouraged the wealthy businessmen in the city to come to provide relief, but unfortunately no one paid attention."
"Okay, then you go make arrangements." He Yunxi said, "Remember, you have to tell the people that the emperor's grace is so great that today's County Lord's Mansion is possible, so it is all the emperor's grace, you know?"
Huang An: "..." I didn't expect you to be a county head who can flatter the emperor.
But the emperor must still like such flattery.
After giving instructions, a dozen people stood in the yard outside.
"County Master, there are people from our mansion outside. This is the first time the County Master comes, so I have the guts to call people over and want everyone to recognize the master." Huang An said.
"Since everyone is here, let's meet them all."
"Everyone, come in." Huang An shouted, and everyone walked in.
"County Master, besides me, there are a total of twenty people in our mansion, eight guards, four boys, four women, and four maids."
"This slave has met the county master."
"This slave has met the county master."
He Yunxi quickly asked them to get up, and then said doubtfully: "Butler Huang, didn't you say that everyone in the house has retired?"
Huang An responded: "They retired. These maids and women are their family members."
He Yunxi understood and said to everyone: "Let me introduce you first, I am Chang'an, and this is my husband-in-law. The reason we came to Fucheng this time is because the husband-in-law is going to attend the Autumn Festival. Normally we would not come here.
Others don’t know our identities, so you can just pretend not to know us when you see us.”
Everyone looked at Lu Yan, and it turned out that he was still a scholar!
He Yunxi introduced again: "In addition, the two people behind me, this is Fufeng, and that is Mo Xin. If I have any orders later, I may send them."
After meeting, He Yunxi and the others left.
Huang An was already sleepy, and he couldn't sleep now. Since he couldn't sleep, let's work.
How to make this mung bean soup?
How to build this canopy?
Everything needs to be carefully arranged.
If he can't sleep, others can't sleep either, but no one has any complaints. If you stay up late tonight, you can catch up on your drowsiness tomorrow morning. This is the advantage of not having a master.
"Old Huang, our county boss is okay." Wu Zi, the captain of the escort team, looked at Huang An who was happily arranging the arrangements, with a toothpick in his mouth that he found somewhere.
Huang An hummed.
The county lord is worthy of being his master's apprentice, and they both love and care for the people as much as he does, but they love and care for the people in different ways.
The master told them before that they would not disappoint them if they came to follow He Yunxi. But many people refused. Looking at it now, she would indeed not disappoint them.
"Do you think she will let us follow her?" Wu Zi asked again.
Huang An poked at the notebook in front of him: "If things are handled well, maybe. If things are not handled well, why do you want to follow her? To make you unable to handle things?"
What he said made sense and he couldn't refute it.
The usually calm County Lord's Mansion suddenly made some moves, which attracted the attention of many people in the city.
I saw people from the county government went to a cloth shop and bought a lot of black cloth. After buying all the black cloth, they also bought a lot of dark cloth.
The princess said that dark colors absorb heat.
What Huang An bought was very cheap, and he didn't mind if it was from a few years ago. Many people speculated that the county lord was so poor that he could only wear clothes made of cloth like this.
Got it outside the city.
When the refugees outside the city saw someone coming out, they looked over one after another. Many people even got up and walked this way. When they saw the carts of cloth, everyone stopped.
Not food, not water, nothing else can attract their attention.