We poor people pay our taxes every year without fail, but when disaster strikes, we are driven out of the city.

You officials are utterly devoid of conscience.

The people were full of complaints and demanded that the city gates be opened.

The soldiers on the city gate remained unmoved, still pointing their arrows at the disaster-stricken people below.

However, a thin, middle-aged man was earnestly persuading the disaster victims below: "Disaster victims, it's not that we don't want you to enter the city, it's just that an infectious disease has already broken out in the city."

Letting you in would be tantamount to harming you.

The noisy disaster victims simply didn't believe what the thin, middle-aged man said.

Among the refugees, a man around forty years old, who was quite robust, looked up at the thin man.

"Who are you? Why should we believe you?"

We don't know if there's disease in the city, but we do know that if we don't eat, we'll starve to death.

Besides, if you had a contagious disease, why would the soldiers on the wall be pointing arrows at us refugees?

When the skinny man heard the refugee say this, he thought to himself: "The master is bedridden, why is he still so concerned about the people?"

It's tough...

The skinny man was the local county magistrate.

The county magistrate was so exhausted that he fell ill and was specially ordered to guard the city wall.

In the past two days, a large number of residents and tourists in the county town have been found to have symptoms such as vomiting and fever.

After examination by local doctors, it was determined to be an infectious disease.

It's hard to say whether this infectious disease was brought by disaster victims, based on the doctor's medical experience.

This disease is probably a plague...

Originally, the magistrate of Chaoyang County would set up soup kitchens at the city gate every day to distribute disaster relief rations.

However, after the doctor diagnosed it as a plague, the magistrate of Chaoyang County made a tough decision and closed the city gates.

The plague meant death, and the magistrate knew it.

Their county town will soon become a dead city.

The magistrate couldn't bear to see any more victims infected, so he closed the soup kitchens and shut down the city gates.

The county magistrate on the city wall felt wronged; he didn't even know how much longer he could live.

These ignorant disaster victims wouldn't listen to advice, so he hit them on the head and on the back.

Would he be willing to point a bow and arrow at the people?

He did this to intimidate the disaster victims and keep them away from the city gates.

What if they get infected if they get close to the infected person?

Are we just going to wait to die like them?

The county magistrate's assistant was promoted by the county magistrate himself, and he was very loyal to the magistrate.

He had no choice but to patiently carry out the tasks assigned to him by the magistrate.

So, suppressing his grief, he earnestly addressed the disaster victims below, saying, "I am the local county magistrate, and the county magistrate is currently bedridden."

I am the only one who can relay the message on behalf of the county magistrate.

Also, if you are a little further away from the city gate, I can have the soldiers remove their bows and arrows.

But you really shouldn't go into the city.

You can find wild vegetables and fruits to fill your stomach outside the city, but once you enter the city, you will be waiting for death just like us.

Whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter now.

I have said my piece; you are on your own now.

When the disaster victims below the city heard the county magistrate's explanation and saw his expression, they knew he couldn't be lying.

The disaster victims hesitated...

Yin Yi stopped the carriage and went to the city gate to inquire.

He never expected to hear this when he arrived at the city gate.

This terrified Yin Yi.

Plague...

Anyone who gets involved with it will die!

Yin Yi stopped asking about anything else, and the old man acted as if firecrackers had been set off on a monkey's butt.

He jumped three feet high and returned to Ouyang Yuqing and his wife.

"Master, something terrible has happened!"

I just heard from the local county magistrate that a plague has been discovered in their city.

So the local magistrate closed the city gates.

Shen Yingying was quite shocked when she heard Yin Yi's report.

She wasn't shocked by the plague itself; she was shocked that they had just started preparing for disaster relief when they were suddenly hit with a major attack.

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