Ji Guangda sniffed and said, "It really smells like burning moxa. What's going on?"
"Never mind that."
Chen Yong raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, glanced at the two of them, and looked towards the city gate.
“Enter the city!!”
There was no one in the city gate tower. It must be that the defenders went to grab water after discovering that Magistrate Jia and his men were dead.
Shen Yong squeezed his horse's belly and walked towards the city gate.
He knew very well about the burning of mugwort and there was nothing to say.
Ji Guangda was startled and quickly rode his horse to catch up, "Your Highness, I will go check it out first."
As he spoke, Ji Guangda quickened his pace and rushed towards the city gate.
"ah!!!"
As soon as Ji Guangda entered the city gate, a scream was heard from the gate.
Shen Yong frowned and quickly rode his horse to catch up.
As soon as we entered the city gate, we saw a group of skinny people slumped around the city gate.
After seeing Shen Yong and his group, the people were filled with fear and exclaimed again.
The crowd suddenly became agitated, and an old woman with disheveled hair and a dirty face threw herself beside Shen Yong's horse's hooves, digging her fingers like dry branches deep into the hot mud beside the horse's hooves.
The old woman's cracked lips trembled, and yellow fluid oozed from the festering wound on her neck.
Shen Yong frowned, jumped off the horse, and took out the golden medicine from his arms.
It's obvious that the wound is inflamed.
"Bring me the water bag!" Chen Yong frowned and looked at the dirt on the old woman's wound, then took out two handkerchiefs from his arms.
Ji Guangda opened the water bag and squatted down to rinse the old woman's wound. Chen Yong wiped the dirt around the old woman's wound with a handkerchief.
After cleaning it, sprinkle the wound medicine on it.
The sound of clear water dripping into the soil frightened the old woman's pupils.
"Don't...don't waste...water..."
The old woman's voice was so hoarse that it sounded like sandpaper rubbing against one's eardrums.
Chen Yong frowned, took the water bag from Ji Guangda's hand, and put it on the old woman's mouth.
“Drink it now!”
The old woman was obviously about to collapse. Even if he went to release water in the river now, she might not be able to move across.
The body is at the end of its strength and it will be too late to save it.
As the old woman drank the water, the sounds of hungry swallowing could be heard all around her.
"mother!!!"
The moment the roar exploded in the crowd, a stone flew out, brushing against Chen Yong's head.
Ji Guangda turned around suddenly and raised his hand to draw the sword at his waist, but Shen Yong raised his hand to hold him down.
A young man rushed out of the crowd with red eyes and trembling hands holding a rusty hatchet.
"You blood-drinking officials, let my mother go."
"We...we didn't go to Zhang's house to steal water."
"Last month, Jia Pa Pi said he wanted to distribute porridge and asked us to send all the water to the government."
"When my father went to ask about the porridge, Jia Papi turned around and threw him into the well and told him to dig out water."
"The well collapsed and my dad died like that!!"
The young man tore open his clothes suddenly, and the hideous whip marks under his ribs rose and fell with his heavy breathing.
"I begged Jia Baopi to rescue my father, and he beat me like this."
"Our family is already in such a miserable state. My mother won't live for many more days. What else do you want?!"
"Will you be satisfied only if we all die in front of you?!"
The young man roared in a hoarse voice.
In the past, he only dared to call Jia Pa Pi behind his back, but now that Jia Pa Pi is dead, he has nothing to be afraid of.
Anyway, he is a worthless person and will starve to death sooner or later. It is better to express his dissatisfaction directly to the new official.
As for the rumors in the city, he didn't believe any of them.
Even when many people suggested that he could go to Zhang's house and queue up for drinking water, he didn't believe it.
Haha!!
Officials protect each other. If Jia Baopi dies, Zhou Baopi and Wang Baopi will naturally take over.
The water in Zhang's mansion is not so delicious. There must be no water in the well. The government officials tricked the people into going in and then threw them into the well to dig a well.
Isn't that how his father died?
Now, as soon as these officials enter the city, they take his mother and pretend to be good people.
Who knew how my mother would be tortured by them after she used so much water?
Since they were all going to die anyway, he would rather starve to death or die of thirst with his mother than let her suffer torture before she died.
Shen Yong slowly stood up, looked calmly at the angry young man in front of him, took the water bag from Ji Guangda's hand, and threw it at the young man.
"This water bag is for you. Take good care of your mother."
As he spoke, Shen Yong placed the medicine next to the old woman and said, "If you don't treat the wound on your mother's neck, it will be incurable."
The young man held the heavy water bag in both hands and looked at Shen Yong with wide eyes in shock.
With so much water, he and his mother are not worth so much money.
A bucket of water in Anyun City starts at one thousand taels, so this water bag would cost at least five hundred taels.
The people sitting paralyzed around stared at the water bag in the young man's hand, swallowing continuously with their dry and aching throats.
It seemed that as soon as Shen Yong and his group left, they would pounce on them and rob them at any time.
The young man glanced uneasily at the medicine bottle next to his mother, and opened his mouth to speak in panic.
Suddenly there was a burst of rapid shouting from the crowd.
"Your Highness!!!" Judge Ding excitedly pushed through the crowd and walked quickly towards them. The hem of his official robe was covered in mud.
He knelt down three steps away from Chen Yong, and his forehead hit the hot ground hard.
"Your humble servant, Ding Xiuyuan, the magistrate of Anyun City, was late in welcoming you and failed to supervise you properly, causing His Majesty to be frightened. I beg Your Majesty to grant me death!"
It was all his fault for not arranging garrisons to guard the city gate. He thought King Qianhuang would have to wait at least two or three days.
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