The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 354

"The city is under lockdown. The city is under lockdown. No one is allowed to enter or leave."

The heavy city gate was pulled down, and from then on, the inside and outside of the city became two different worlds.

"Let me out! I want to get out!"

After the news of the lockdown spread, many wealthy families immediately tried to flee with their households.

As a result, they were ruthlessly stopped at the city gate.

One person roared, then everyone roared, and in an instant, a huge, dark mass of heads appeared.

They heard the news: the city was under lockdown, and the whole city would die here.

The common people, with their lives hanging by a thread, could only lie in bed wiping away tears, while the capable ones managed to get their hands on carriages and were preparing to rush out of the city.

In the end, we were a step too late.

"What you are doing is wrong. We will appeal to the emperor."

"We want to get out of here. We don't want to die here."

"Whoever tries to prevent us from living, we'll make sure they can't live."

"This idea was all ordered by that corrupt official Zhao Minglang. Let's go find him."

"Yes, go to the Governor's Mansion to find him."

"Let's go! Anyone who wants to live, come with me and fight for our lives. Kill that corrupt official Zhao Minglang."

On the city gate, Zhao Minglang, dressed in an ordinary soldier's uniform and wearing a white cloth mask, glanced at him coldly.

"As expected, the bad guys are causing trouble."

Zhao Minglang had anticipated this move.

Those barking the loudest are Governor Sun's dogs!

Governor Sun was escorted to Beijing for a joint trial, and his entire family waited quietly in prison for their fate.

It's likely that his henchmen have been looking for an opportunity to cause trouble, and are even prepared to fight to the death.

"My lord, have my men arrest him."

"not now."

At this critical juncture, inciting the people to direct their anger at the imperial envoy is, as one can imagine, extremely malicious.

Unfortunately, many ignorant people believed this evil to be true.

Sending someone to capture them at this point would only lead to falling into a trap.

"But, sir, he can't go on like this."

"Solve it secretly."

Killing this kind of person would be too lenient.

"Yes, my lord."

The guards were very worried as they watched Zhao Minglang step forward.

"grown ups……"

"I'll go say a few words."

"Sir, danger!"

"It's alright, I'm wearing armor. I'm just explaining why the city is closed and the doors and windows are shut."

"grown ups……"

The guards were ultimately unable to dissuade him.

Zhao Minglang stood atop the city gate, looking at the dense crowd of people, the wailing and lamenting surging forward, and felt a heavy weight in his heart.

Chun Ning is right, this is also a kind of danger.

"Fellow villagers, please go back quickly and cooperate with the decision to stay indoors. We have an epidemic here. What good will it do if you leave the city?"

"Whom do you want to turn to? Who will risk their lives for you? Once they find out you came from this city, they will only distance themselves from you, resent you, and kill you, because you brought the plague out and will kill them..."

“If you have relatives or friends outside the city that you care about, you will bring the plague there. Aren’t you harming them?”

As soon as Zhao Minglang finished speaking, the chattering crowd actually quieted down.

"With the city closed, the doors shut, and all doors locked, we must save ourselves."

Zhao Minglang said, "The other imperial envoy this time, Lord Xiao, is the grandson of Imperial Physician Xiao. He has the Xiao family's ancestral secret recipe, which will definitely cure this disease. We must trust the Emperor and trust the court."

"This white cloth face towel was specially requested by Lord Xiao from the Emperor, because Lord Xiao said that it was recorded in Physician Xiao's medical notes that when there is a disaster, there will be an epidemic, and when there is an epidemic, a face towel should be used. However, none of you used it, which led to the widespread spread of the plague." "Lord Xiao also specially applied to the Emperor for a lot of anti-epidemic medicines, which are on their way."

"Fellow villagers, listen to my advice. Stay home and close your doors for seven days. After seven days, things will definitely get better in this city."

After thinking about it, everyone agreed that the soldier was right.

Then some people started walking back.

At least here I have a home; even the shack the government built for me is a home.

Furthermore, the government allocated wasteland for families to cultivate and plant, and they were exempt from taxes for three years. Where else could one find such a good thing?

The government also purchased a lot of vegetable seeds for them to plant. At this time, green vegetable leaves had already sprouted in the ground. In ten days or half a month, the ones that grew fast were ready to eat.

Here, there are doctors and medicine for you to take; once you leave, you have to pay for your own medicine and doctor's visit.

They have trouble even getting food, let alone money for medicine.

After much deliberation, and more importantly, seeing that the city gates were indeed impossible to open, they had no choice but to turn back.

People have a herd mentality; if someone wants to leave the city, everyone else wants to leave too.

If someone is willing to go back, everyone else will follow suit.

As the crowd surged toward the city, those few people began to incite others again.

"Don't listen to him. He's just a lackey of the Zhao family. He's talking nonsense. We'll only have a chance to survive if we break out of the city gates."

"Yes, everyone, don't let him sway us. If we don't get out, we'll just die here."

"I don't want to die."

"If they don't leave the city, they'll all die."

"That's right, that's right, we need to leave the city."

On the city gate, the guards drew their knives.

"My lord, let me deal with him."

"Do not impulse."

Executing him in front of the people at this time would only cause them more panic.

“Fellow villagers, pay attention to your surroundings. Whoever lets you leave the city, grab him and follow him closely. He will definitely have plenty of food outside the city, and you won’t go hungry if you follow him.”

Yes, they have grain; they can survive once they leave the city.

He relied entirely on receiving rations from the government office to make a living; how could he survive outside the city?

"Yes, yes, he's the one who told us to leave the city. We were to capture him, follow him out of the city, and eat his food..."

Who wouldn't want to live? Upon hearing this idea, everyone naturally grabbed the few who were shouting the loudest.

"Heh, what good is it for you to catch him?"

An old man laughed when he saw the young man who had been captured: "If you want to leave the city, then you can. I'm not planning to leave. I just came to watch the excitement."

"Old man, why do you say that catching him is useless?"

"His name is Qu Sangou, the scoundrel from our village. He's lazy and poor, and he'll side with whoever gives him a handout," the old man said. "He's a 'whoever feeds him is his mother' type. Today he's loudly urging you to leave the city. If you really want to leave, guess what awaits you?"

"So that's how it is. I knew it. The reason they kept shouting to leave the city was because they received favors from someone."

"He's a bad seed."

"Kill them, kill these bastards."

Who can stop the angry crowd?

Several people who instigated the disturbance were caught by the people and started being beaten.

What started as a desire to leave the city ended up turning into a beating.

The onlookers joined in, all shouting, "Kill him! He's hurting us!"

"grown ups……"

"very good."

The fastest way to kill someone in the world is to use someone else's knife or a person, without getting a drop of blood on your hands.

"My lord, that's truly brilliant."

"I only hope that these people can go back and truly obey the order to close the city and shut their doors."

With this massive influx of people, who knows how many more will be infected with the plague? I can only hope that Chun Ning's ancestral recipe will be effective.