After they left, the villagers from Linjia Village near the city gate started discussing it.

After hesitating for a long time, village chief Lin Youcai finally spoke: "Tiezhu's words do make some sense. If we lose half our lives and arrive in the capital, only to be forcibly conscripted or attacked by Prince Ning and Prince Jing, wouldn't all our efforts have been in vain?"

"Leaving aside the war, will we even make it to the capital alive? In just three days, many of our fellow villagers succumbed to snake bites..."

"I'm afraid things will get more and more chaotic from now on. As Tiezhu said, although the south is a wild and desolate place with miasma, Prince Jing and Prince Ning don't care about it and won't bother to attack it. There might still be a glimmer of hope."

As they talked, most of them became somewhat interested.

The villagers had been away from their homes for a month and had suffered greatly during that time. Of the more than 100 people in the village, only 60 remained.

It was only thanks to Lin Laosan's wife's help in gathering medicinal herbs to save people that many more died; otherwise, even more would have perished.

They deeply understood the importance of doctors, and coupled with Tie Zhu's words that the capital was in chaos, the only place they could go was Lingnan.

Someone in the crowd suggested, "Tiezhu's mother knows some medicine, why don't we ask them to take us with them?"

Lin Youliang felt embarrassed after being publicly criticized by a junior.

Seeing the villagers praising their family made her unhappy, and she said sourly, "Do they really think they're so kind as to take you along? Besides, what skills can a barefoot doctor's daughter have? Didn't she kill someone before?"

Lin Youcai's face immediately turned ugly.

If they hadn't kept blaming Jiang, causing her to be afraid to treat her illness, how could so many of them have died later?

What's even more ridiculous is the Lin family. Their eldest grandson, Tiezhu, only had a fever and dizziness, but they stopped Jiang from treating him, and dragged it out until both of them fell into a coma.

No sooner had they left than Tiezhu and his mother recovered. Countless people in the village regretted that if their relatives who had been bitten by the venomous snake had sought treatment from Tiezhu's mother, they might have had a chance of survival.

Lin Youliang's family is stirring up trouble again right now. How can the village chief be happy about that?