Chapter 216: Murder

Cheng Jin also knew Pei Yu's character. When he was fired as an official, he never interacted with anyone and always kept to himself, only interacting with the Cheng family.

Even after being invited out by Cheng Jin, he never changed, and was even more taciturn than before. He only went between the palace and his own mansion every day.

People who knew his character might admire his integrity, but there were also many people who slandered Pei Yu when they couldn't get him.

Cheng Jin looked at Pei Yu's slightly embarrassed look and couldn't say no at all.

It was Cheng Jin who invited Pei Yu to serve as an official in the court, and it was Cheng Jin's request that he be asked to prescribe medicine for the people of Qingzhou. Everything Pei Yu did was related to Cheng Jin, so how could Cheng Jin ignore it? Cheng

Jin smiled faintly and put his hand on Pei Yu's shoulder.

"What are you talking about? I know you are not good at socializing, but since I asked you to do it, then of course I will be the one to distribute medicine to the people."

Pei Yu also smiled, "Then I just need to follow you."

Cheng Jin nodded, "Just follow closely."

The two of them chatted and laughed and soon arrived outside the city. The medicine had no effect for several days in a row, and the people were getting impatient.

When Cheng Jin went to see them again today, they were not as calm as yesterday. Instead, they were abnormally excited when they saw someone coming.

Knowing that the people living here did not have an epidemic and it was not contagious, but since they had to temporarily conceal the truth and not tell those people, Cheng Jin and Pei Yu still took good protective measures before entering the yard.

When the people in the yard saw someone coming in, they thought it was someone from the Imperial Hospital, and they all crowded in front of Cheng Jin and Pei Yu.

Someone among them shouted, "Do you want us to die in the Imperial Hospital? The lives of you officials are important, but the lives of us ordinary people are worthless?"

"We have been taking medicine for so many days, why is it that it is of no use? The fever is so severe every day, and even the medicine was not delivered today. Are you planning to ignore us?"

"Since you are here, I don't care what you say, you must give us what we need. We want to live."

"Give us medicine."

"We are young and old here, how can you be so cruel to just watch us die?"

The crowd squeezed Pei Yu and Cheng Jin into a corner, leaving them no way to retreat. They kept talking to each other, and Cheng Jin didn't even have a chance to speak.

Cheng Jin shouted several times, "No, the court has not given up on you, we came with medicine", but Cheng Jin's voice was hoarse and no one listened to her.

Pei Yu, who was beside Cheng Jin, saw that it was useless to say anything, so he could only protect Cheng Jin in his arms.

Those people not only attacked her verbally, but some of them even pushed Cheng Jin who was trying to explain.

Cheng Jin didn't realize that she was in Pei Yu's arms, but seeing that the people who were still peaceful yesterday were rioting today, she was a little anxious and could only explain loudly.

"Listen to me first. It's not that we didn't bring medicine, but we just changed to a more effective medicine."

Those people pushed and squeezed in front of Cheng Jin. Cheng Jin didn't know who took off the mask in front of her and threw it aside, exposing her face to everyone.

Cheng Jin seemed to hear someone saying viciously: "Poisonous woman, want us to die? Then die with us."

If she didn't know that the diseases these people had were not epidemics and were not contagious, I'm afraid Cheng Jin would have been dragged to the Yanwang Palace by those people.

But even if she knew, Cheng Jin couldn't help but feel heartbroken for those malicious words.

She even doubted whether everything she wanted to do before was wrong.

Why did those people say the most vicious words to her, why did they use the most vicious behavior to her, and didn't even give them a chance to explain.

Cheng Jin thought about what Pei Yu said yesterday about why the truth should not be told to the sick people for the time being. If they were told like this, they would probably not believe it. Just like now, they just thought that the court was going to give up on treating them, and there was no chance for explanation at all.

The hundreds of faces in front of him were full of resentment, and their mouths opened and closed, but Cheng Jin could not hear anything they said.

Until the short blade with a cold light suddenly appeared in front of him and was only a little distance away from him, Cheng Jin broke out in a cold sweat at that moment, and for a moment he did not know what to do and stopped where he was.

Cheng Jin subconsciously closed his eyes, thinking that he would die here today.

The imagined tingling pain did not appear, but screams came to his ears one after another.

"Murder, murder."

Cheng Jin opened her eyes and saw that the knife that was supposed to stab her was not on her body, and the crowd that was supposed to be in front of her was separated by Pei Yu.

The man standing in front saw what was going on and instantly loosened his grip on the knife. The short blade fell to the ground with a sound, and the crowd instantly moved away from Pei Yu and Cheng Jin.

The man looked at everyone around him at a loss, waving his hands constantly, "It wasn't me, I didn't mean to."

"It was him, it was him." The man suddenly pointed in the direction of Pei Yu, "He was holding my hand."

"I didn't mean to hurt anyone at all, I just wanted to scare that woman, it wasn't me, it really wasn't me."

The man was frightened and paralyzed on the ground.

But everyone thought his words were just nonsense. Who would stab himself with a knife?

Cheng Jin looked at everything in front of her in disbelief. She had no time to care about the turbulent crowd and could only look at Pei Yu in front of her motionless.

Knowing that Pei Yu's body fell on her uncontrollably, Cheng Jin reacted and supported Pei Yu.

All the weight of Pei Yu leaned on Cheng Jin. Cheng Jin staggered a few times before standing up in front of her. She hugged Pei Yu and sat on the ground. Before she opened her mouth, tears had already fallen on Pei Yu's face.

Tears slid down Pei Yu's cheeks. Pei Yu ignored Cheng Jin's tears dripping on his face, but instead forced his hands to gently wipe away the tears on Cheng Jin's face.

Pei Yu forced a smile, "Why are you crying? Don't cry."

"Didn't I tell you that I would never let you cry in front of me? Don't make me break my promise."

Cheng Jin shook her head violently but no sound came out. Her hands were panickedly blocking Pei Yu's wound.

Cheng Jin searched for a long time before finding her own voice, "Don't talk anymore, I'll find a doctor right away, you'll be fine."

Pei Yu didn't say anything to refute, he nodded along with Cheng Jin's words, "Okay, listen to Xiao Jin, I'll be fine."