He knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, and raised his other hands, with Jingxu's token in his palms.

Jing Xu took it and snorted coldly: "Your crimes will be judged later. First, find someone to carry the living patients in and find a place to put them!"

"My Lord...they...they are all seriously ill. Even with the curtains, we are at risk of infection. It's too dangerous."

"Dangerous? Then let them die in front of the city gate, rot and stink, and let the plague worsen?" Jing Xu scolded in a deep voice.

The guard shut his mouth. Not long after, a slightly plump guard came up to him in a panic with his men.

"Your humble servant, Zhang Hao, the defender of Mocheng, greets the Crown Prince and the two distinguished guests."

Zhang Hao kept wiping the sweat from his forehead. He knew that what he had done was enough to kill him more than ten times, but he didn't dare to run.

The only male in his Zhang family is still here. If he escapes, the entire family will be finished, and his parents will not forgive him.

"You're fine!" Jing Xu kicked him over.

Zhang Hao was so scared that he almost peed himself. He trembled and climbed to his feet and knelt again: "Your humble servant knows that leaving the county magistrate in the blockade area is wrong, but your humble servant is also doing this for the other people in Mo City who are still healthy. Your humble servant..."

Jing Xu didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore and angrily scolded him: "You threw the patients into the caves outside the city and left them there. The patients outside the city were already suffering from illness, and you poured water on them. It would be fine if you just ignored them, but why did you do such a beastly thing!"

"The plague is raging, and other towns are trying to save themselves. Even if they don't know what's going on, they will arrange for doctors to treat and save people. Is it possible that there is not a single doctor in such a huge city like Mo City?"

Zhang Hao lowered his head and said nothing.

Jing Xu noticed something was wrong, frowned and scolded: "Why don't you speak!"

"Reply, reply to the prince, there are seven doctors in Mo City. Three of them were infected and thrown into the blockade area. Two escaped. There are two, two..."

Zhang Quan's follower answered for Zhang Hao, but the last two did not dare to say anything. They looked at Zhang Hao while speaking, obviously because they were afraid of Zhang Hao.

"Speak!" Jing Xu suppressed his emotions and looked at the guard.

"Two more were beheaded by General Zhang." Zhang Quan hesitated for a while, but still told the truth.

Jing Xu was so angry that he laughed: "Okay, okay, you guys in Mocheng are playing like this, right? When the disaster hit, not only did you throw the doctor who treated the patient into the blockade area, you even killed the doctor who saved the patient."

"Zhang Hao, who gave you the guts?"

Zhang Hao, the defender of Mocheng, shuddered. He knew that he was doomed this time.

I don't know what he was thinking, but he suddenly stood up and said angrily: "Catch those people for me. As long as they die here, no one will know that they have been to Mo City."

"Even if we find out about Mocheng, there are so many patients out there. Who knows how they died? They didn't say who they were, so who would know?"

"By then, the most I will do is fail in my duty and not let anyone into the city."

As soon as Zhang Hao said this, everyone else was stunned.

Then he thought about it and realized that it was indeed true. In this situation, there was no way that the prince would let him and others go.

Might as well give it a try.

Jingxu didn't expect Zhang Hao to be so bold, and he was so angry that he laughed.

"Go!" The defending general Zhang Hao believed that a young man, even the eldest son of Duke Jing, might not be as brave and good at fighting as Duke Jing.

But he guessed wrong. Jing Xu was not only good at martial arts, but also had been training with Qiu Yinong for a long time.

Things are no longer what they used to be.

He held a horsewhip in his hand and soon knocked the group of guards to the ground.

Zhang Hao collapsed all of a sudden, Jing Xu kicked him in the chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out instantly.

There were also a few guards who did not obey and acted. It was obvious that these people were helpless and did not dare to resist.

"Go and fetch a few buckets of clean water." Qiu Yinong didn't bother with these people. Everyone has to be forced into a corner, and some of these people were also angry with Zhang Hao.

Upon hearing this, the guards hurried to fetch some clean water. Qiu Yinong stepped forward and threw the detoxification pill into the water to dissolve it.

"Go and give it to them to drink." Qiu Yinong pointed at the patients. They hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and left.

The patient recovered quickly after drinking the detoxifying water.

"A few of you go to the city and call some people over to register the bodies. If no one claims them, leave them alone for now. Just record the color of the clothes and the place of origin."

"Where should the body be taken?" a guard asked bravely.

Qiu Yinong pointed to an empty lot not far away and said, "Pile up the firewood and burn it."

"Burn them?" The patients who had recovered from the disease were also nervous: "We are all pitiful people. It was tragic enough that our homes were destroyed by the flood. Now some have fallen ill and some have died. Now the girl wants to burn them..."

"If we don't burn them, the disease in the corpses will mutate again, and the plague will become even more severe. Are you sure?"

Qiu Yinong looked at everyone calmly.

Everyone fell silent after hearing this, and finally shut their mouths.

The guards quickly entered the city, and Qiu Yinong and the other two also entered the city.

Although I was mentally prepared, I was still shocked when I saw the scene in the city.

One has to say that Zhang Hao is truly a talented person. He actually set up several checkpoints in the city.

The most seriously ill ones were placed in the farthest west city.

Then they set up layers of defense and drove all the poor people who were not infected with the disease into the first blockade area.

Next came the ordinary residents, then the businessmen, the scholars, and finally those who were afraid of death but willing to spend money.

"He has some brains, but it's a pity that he doesn't use them in the right way." Qiu Yinong shook his head speechlessly, and praised Zhang Hao at the same time.

"My Lord, you are of noble status and cannot enter the blockade area." The guard who had mustered up the courage to speak earlier was called Chi Min. When he saw Jingxu and the other two were about to go to the blockade area, he quickly spoke out to stop them.

Jingxu looked at him and asked, "Chi Min, do you have any family members in the blockade area?"

"Yes, my mother has unfortunately contracted the disease and is now in the blockade area. We don't know if she's alive or dead. My wife, children, and other family members are all in the third area."

"All I can do is listen to Zhang Hao more, get some food and medicine, and ask someone to send it to them." Hatred and guilt flashed in Chi Min's eyes.

Jing Xu looked at him and sighed: "Have you ever thought about how they are doing now? Have the food and medicine been delivered to them?"

"It shouldn't be possible, they said..." As he spoke, Chi Min's face suddenly turned pale.

Yes, the reply I always get is that your wife, children and family are fine for the time being and the things have been delivered.

He had never seen it once.

"My Lord, you are of noble status and you really cannot go in. Let me go. I am not afraid. It is like this anyway. I really don't know what they are doing now."

"The worst that can happen is we'll get sick and die together. I'm willing to go in and deliver the medicine."

Seeing him like this, Qiu Yinong said, "Alright, you all drank the detoxifying water just now, so you won't get sick."