When those people saw Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye, their eyes were full of expectation.

Cheng Jin looked at those people but didn't know what to say. He wanted to say something, but his heart felt sour, like a lump in his throat.

Cheng Jin's skirt was gently tugged. Cheng Jin looked down and saw a little girl holding Cheng Jin's hand with starry eyes.

She still spoke with a naive tone, and her tone was particularly innocent.

"Brothers and sisters, are you here to deliver medicine to us?"

Wei An subconsciously wanted to explain the identities of the two people, but was stopped by Chu Chengye.

Cheng Jin raised his head and met Chu Chengye's eyes, held the little girl's shiny little hand behind his back, bent down and smiled at the little girl and nodded.

"Yes, we are here to deliver medicine to you. What is your name?"

The little girl's eyes narrowed when she heard Cheng Jin's affirmative words. She said cheerfully: "Thank you, brother and sister. My name is Xiaomi. My mother said it is the rice we eat, so no one can do without me."

Xiaomi's tone was particularly exciting when she explained, and she even danced. "

Xiaomi nodded heavily, "I know, Xiaomi will be obedient. As long as she gets better, she will be able to see her mother soon."

Cheng Jin wanted to ask where Xiaomi's mother was, but was blocked by a woman who suddenly ran over.

She quickly nodded and bowed to Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye, "Sir, my child is childish and I hope you will forgive me."

"We are almost fine, almost fine, no need for adults to care."

Although the woman said it was almost done, she kept coughing, and she didn't seem to be happy.

She held Xiaomi in her hands and protected Xiaomi tightly in her arms. Although she said compliments on her lips, her eyes were full of fear.

Cheng Jin raised his hand to touch the millet, but the woman quietly dodged him. Cheng Jin could only retract his hand and looked at the woman with embarrassment.

The woman looked around, and now she just wanted to find an excuse to visit Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye. Chu Chengye saw the woman's intention and immediately raised his hand to block the woman in place.

The woman became even more panicked, "Sir, sir, you don't need to test us anymore. Although we are not cured, we will not say anything. If someone asks, we will only say that the medicine is effective. It is not It’s of no use, please let us go, sir.”

"A group of us were infected with the epidemic. Everyone was hiding for fear of catching it. The adults came up with a cure for us regardless of our own safety. We are all very grateful. How dare we say a word about adults? bad words."

After hearing what the woman said, Chu Chengye became very angry. He didn't expect that the people from the Taiyuan Hospital usually treated these Qingzhou people.

He turned around and gave Wei An a look. Wei An immediately understood and blocked the woman's way.

Chu Chengye said: "Since you said the effect of the medicine is very good, then come with us so that the emperor can see it."

The woman hurriedly waved her hand, "How can ordinary people meet the emperor if they have a low life? Besides, I'm just getting better, but I'm not cured."

Chu Chengye continued: "Since it's not completely cured, why do you swear that it's almost done? Do you really want the hospital to continue to make medicine?"

The woman's eyes became even more helpless. She turned around randomly again, but couldn't say anything else.

Knowing that this woman would not tell the truth here, Chu Chengye took her to a hidden place.

When they arrived at the hiding place, Chu Chengye and Cheng Jin deliberately concealed their identities. Cheng Jin patiently said to the woman:

"You just have to say it boldly, we and the people from the Tai Hospital, but we are definitely the ones who can help you."

"You believe in us. Everything tells us that we can solve your dilemma as soon as possible. If you don't believe it, we can't do anything. It's just that we keep delaying it like this. If we can afford it, the hospital can also afford it. Can you drag it? Can Xiaomi drag it?"

After listening to Cheng Jin's words, the woman knelt on the ground with a bang and cried: "Sir, please save our lives."

"Actually, none of us are well. We drank the medicine sent by the Tai Hospital every day, but even if we drank it every day, it didn't have any effect. However, the Tai Hospital ordered all of us not to tell other people, saying If anyone asked, all they could say was much better,"

"But this medicine is really useless. I am so old and I have lived enough, but Xiaomi is only so old. She has had a rash all over her body since yesterday. She had a fever last night and is still not feeling better today. , Xiaomi really can’t delay it.”

The woman took the millet and kowtowed to Chu Chengye and Cheng Jin several times. She cried heartbreakingly, begging Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye to save their lives.

Xiaomi didn't know whether it was because she saw the woman crying so sadly or because she was suffering from illness, but she suddenly burst into tears uncontrollably.

She started to have a fever last night, and it still hasn't gone away. Her exposed eyes were all red. She kept crying and calling her mother, no matter what the woman said, she couldn't stop it.

Cheng Jin asked with some confusion: "Xiaomi just said that she can see her mother after a while. Is Xiaomi's mother outside the city now?"

The woman shook her head in silence, held the crying Xiaomi in her arms, and whispered: "Xiaomi's mother is dead, and almost all the people in Qingzhou City are also dead."

"how come?"

“Didn’t hundreds of people die in Qingzhou City?”

Cheng Jin and Chu Chengye both looked shocked, but the woman continued to coax Xiaomi skillfully with an expressionless face.

When the person in her arms Xiaomi gradually calmed down, she sneered and said: "Huh, a few hundred people? This is just what those officials said because they wanted to be clean. I am afraid that tens of thousands of people have died in Qingzhou City now. It’s all there.”

Chu Chengye thought of the previous memorial to the Qingzhou magistrate, which only said that he tried his best to control the epidemic, but failed to control it, which caused hundreds of deaths. He pleaded guilty in the memorial, and Chu Chengye punished him for neglecting his duties. Now he discovered that he was not only negligent. He did his duty, but he also deceived the emperor and ignored his superiors, treating the people of Qingzhou City as human beings.

The woman vomited hard and continued: "Qingzhou City is now a dead city. Those of us who escaped have probably turned into a pile of bones if it weren't for those who didn't escape."

Cheng Jin thought that the fatality rate of this epidemic would be high, but he did not expect it to be that high.

Qingzhou is located on the edge of Southern Qi. Although there are not many people, there are not many. Most of them are soldiers stationed in Qingzhou. Cheng Jin does not dare to think what Qingzhou City has become now.

The lady was silent for a moment and sighed, "If it hadn't been for that kind person, we probably wouldn't have been able to escape. Xiaomi and I would have been infected with the disease long ago and had no cure, waiting to die."

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