Jiang Hao ignored the two old geezers making eyes at each other and said to the steward beside him, "Prepare brush, ink, inkstone, and silk. I need to write."
The steward immediately looked to Duke Lu. Duke Lu glared and rebuked him, "What are you looking at? From now on, Young Master Jiang's orders are my orders. Hurry up and prepare them."
Before long, several servants brought over brushes, ink, silk, and an inkstone. Jiang Hao spread them out and began writing, putting the heading: "Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Typhus."
"Epidemic typhus is transmitted by rat fleas. Prevention and treatment require scalding clothes with boiling water, washing hair, shaving all body hair in severe cases, completely eliminating rats, and disinfecting and isolating with limewater."
"Causes of epidemic typhus."
"Prescriptions."
Women always said changing clothes would be quick, but that was something one should never believe. Jiang Hao planned to use the time to write a few things first. Duke Lu and Xiao He stood behind him, and when Duke Lu saw Jiang Hao's handwriting, he could not help saying, "Excellent calligraphy."
Jiang Hao used clerical script, otherwise known as Qin clerical script.
Regular, cursive, clerical, and seal scripts. The Qin Dynasty used small seal script and clerical script. As a Juren, Jiang Hao was proficient in calligraphy and painting alike. He also knew small seal script and could read and write it, though he was not especially skilled at it. Clerical script, however, was something he had mastered, and he could write a beautiful hand.
Jiang Hao wrote quickly, but it still took half an hour. When he finished and raised his head, he found Duke Lu, Xiao He, and Lu Zhi all standing nearby.
Looking at the yellow silk on the table, Xiao He said excitedly, "Scribe Jiang