Chapter 464 I Can Cure
Wei Zhongming felt a chill as he was stared at by his eyes. He was very curious. Shouldn't the person sent by the emperor be here to inquire about the fake queen? Why did he call her "Queen Madam" directly?
"Sir, in order to keep the fake girl away from suspicion, I have tricked her into the mountains these days. She is still there. Sir, if you want to arrest her, I will send a message to the people over there to bring her back immediately."
Hearing this, the visitor frowned and asked, "When did you go there? Which mountain did you go to?"
Wei Zhongming said truthfully: "It is the mountains outside the city. If you want to go there, I can personally take you there."
"Okay, let's go now."
Wei Zhongming had no choice but to immediately ask someone to bring a horse over and lead the man out of the city on horseback.
As soon as they walked out of the city gate, they met a group of disaster victims walking towards Luocheng.
Upon seeing this, Wei Zhongming quickly signaled to the officers beside him to drive the people away quickly, but the officers immediately reined in their horses and stopped, not allowing any of them to move, and just waited for the victims to slowly come over.
"Well, there haven't been many victims coming here in the past few days. I don't know if it's because of other disasters or droughts. They know that we have relief food in Luocheng, so they all come here." Wei Zhongming frantically tried to make amends.
The disguised Xiao Jin cast his dark eyes deeply upon the disaster victims, his brows twisted into a "川" shape.
When the victims saw Wei Zhongming wearing his official uniform, they all walked towards them.
"Sir, please, let our relatives go. They are just sick but not dead yet. Please don't throw them into the mountains. They will really die if you do that."
The victims begged in front of Wei Zhongming and kowtowed to him continuously.
Wei Zhongming felt a chill down his spine, and all the hair on his body stood up in fear. He quickly glanced at Xiao Jin and met his red eyes. He said calmly, "My Lord, please don't listen to their nonsense. There is an epidemic in the city. I am worried that the patients will infect the victims who are not sick, so I sent the sick victims to the mountains. I definitely don't mean to ignore them."
Xiao Jin ignored Wei Zhongming and looked at the victims and asked, "What's going on?"
The victims looked at Xiao Jin, then at Wei Zhongming. Seeing that Wei Zhongming was afraid of Xiao Jin, they explained the situation to Xiao Jin.
"My Lord, we are all villagers from Sankou Village, Xiayang County, Luocheng. Because of the drought, the people in our village had to leave their homes to escape the disaster. After we arrived in Luocheng, the gates of Luocheng were always closed, and the city guards didn't care about us. Later, the Queen came and settled us in an open space outside the city, and gave us a meal of porridge every day."
Although they don’t have enough to eat, at least they won’t starve to death, so the victims are content.
"But a few days ago, an epidemic suddenly broke out in the resettlement site. Everyone was very scared. On the second night, officials came to take the sick people away, saying that they wanted to find a place for unified treatment. But yesterday my son escaped from the mountains and said that the officials took them away not to treat them, but to bury them alive!"
The victim's voice choked with sobs at the end of his speech.
"Sir, this person is still angry. To bury him without saying anything is really... really inhumane. Please make the decision for us, sir."
Even though he had changed his appearance, everyone present could feel that Xiao Jin's face had become frighteningly dark.
Wei Zhongming felt a chill down his spine.
"Sir, there is a misunderstanding."
"Master Wei, you are really great!"
Wei Zhongming's back softened, and he rolled off his horse and knelt in front of Xiao Jin. "Please forgive me, sir. I did want to find a doctor to treat the patients, but it was me, a fool, who acted on my own. Please give me a chance to make amends for my crime. I will definitely be able to properly resettle the victims."
Xiao Jin curled the corners of his lips lightly, with a cold look in his eyes, "Take me to the resettlement area for the disaster victims immediately."
Wei Zhongming didn't dare to refute at all, "Yes, yes, yes."
"Send a message to the mountain and ask them to escort the queen down the mountain immediately."
"Yes, yes."
Wei Zhongming recognized that Xiao Jin's identity was not simple and did not dare to neglect him. He got on his horse again and took Xiao Jin to the place outside the city where the victims of the epidemic were resettled.
It was impossible to accommodate the patients with the epidemic outside the city inside the city, so Wei Zhongming asked someone to find a large piece of vacant land, set up some tents as recommended, and accommodated the confirmed patients in them.
The resettlement area is surrounded by fences and guarded by soldiers to prevent patients from escaping.
When the officer saw Wei Zhongming coming, he quickly took out a cloth and covered Xiao Jin's mouth and nose.
"Help, help me, I don't want to die."
As soon as they arrived, a patient ran out and struggled to rush out of the door, but was quickly stopped by the soldiers.
"Let me go, please let me go, I don't want to die here, I want to leave here!"
Wei Zhongming was sweating profusely on his forehead. "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and take him in. He has an epidemic. Does he want to kill us all?"
Just as the officer was about to drag the man in, a light green figure walked out of a tent.
Her face was still covered with a cloth, and her jet-black hair was wrapped with a piece of fine cloth. As she walked, the hem of her light-colored skirt seemed to bloom like an elegant lotus at her feet. She walked up to the patient and said something to him, and the patient calmed down and obediently followed the officer back to the tent.
After the person was taken away, Zhou Xiangrong turned to look in the direction of Xiao Jin. When their eyes met, she nodded to him, then came to Wei Zhongming and bowed.
"Greetings, sir."
Wei Zhongming looked the person in front of him up and down, and after searching his memory hard, he confirmed that he did not know her.
"Get up, who are you?"
Zhou Xiangrong stood up and replied, "Your Excellency, I am Zhou Xiangrong, a doctor who is here to treat the patient."
Wei Zhongming said, "You are so young, but you know medical skills? What did you say to the patient just now that made him obey you so obediently?"
"Your Excellency, I just told him that I can cure his illness and asked him to be patient."
Wei Zhongming almost laughed out loud, thinking that even if this woman wanted to show off in front of him, she was too confused. "You said you can cure his disease? Do you know what disease he has?"
Zhou Xiangrong's almond-shaped eyes were full of seriousness. "Your Excellency, I know this is an epidemic, but I can cure it."
Wei Zhongming laughed out loud, "Who did you learn from? How can you be so arrogant?"
(End of this chapter)
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