"I don't know. How would we know where they are going? But they are in a hurry, so I guess something happened at home." After the aunt finished speaking, she muttered something.
"Why are so many people looking for them recently?"
"Who else has looked for them?" Feng Lihen asked.
"Censor Zhou. It seems they came to look for Divine Doctor Xue to go to Yanzhou to treat the plague. They didn't find him that day, and now he's gone to Yanzhou."
Feng Lihen's cold black eyes narrowed slightly.
Plague, Yanzhou...
Before that, she had built up a reputation in the disaster-stricken area of Yanzhou...
Ying Er said, "Young Master, do you need me to have someone investigate their whereabouts?"
"No need. Let's go to Yanzhou."
She must have gone to Yanzhou.
Ying Er heard this and tried to persuade him, "Young Master, there's an epidemic going on over there right now. It's really too dangerous."
Feng Lihen glanced at him coldly, and Ying Er immediately shut his mouth obediently.
On the other hand, Bei Yutang and his group rushed to Yanzhou as soon as they learned that smallpox had appeared in Yanzhou. They rode at full speed along the way and finally arrived in Yanzhou before dark the next day.
But as soon as they arrived in Yanzhou, a group of soldiers appeared at the intersection and blocked the road.
"The road ahead is closed and no one is allowed to enter. If you want to go to Chongzhou, you have to take the detour at Huaxing County ahead," the soldier reminded.
"We are going to Yanzhou Prefecture."
"There is a plague in Yanzhou Prefecture. Now you are only allowed to enter but not to leave. If you don't want to die, you'd better leave early and come back after the plague is over." The officers and soldiers kindly reminded.
They were about to speak when they heard a whistle.
The officer's expression changed, and he immediately ordered the surrounding officers and soldiers: "A few of you guard here, the rest of you wait, follow me."
The group of people left in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, most of the officers and soldiers guarding both sides of the road had left.
Dai Xiang, Xue Qian and others looked at this sudden scene in surprise, wondering what was going on.
"Sir, what happened?"
The officer guarding the intersection said, "It's the people from the nearby village who were trying to escape, but were spotted by our patrol. So, the captain is leading his men to intercept them."
Every time a plague breaks out in a place, this kind of mass exodus occurs. Many people, unwilling to sit and wait for death to come, try their best to escape the place. As a result, many people carrying the virus escape, infecting more people outside, and the affected area will expand accordingly.
Although restricting them and not allowing them to leave is very cruel, it is to prevent more people from being affected and reduce the death toll among the people.
"You better leave quickly."
Suddenly, many villagers with axes and sticks in their hands rushed towards them on the road.
There were only four officers guarding the road, but there were more than twenty or thirty people coming.
These people came with great momentum, as if they were going to force their way through.
When the four officers and soldiers saw them, their faces changed drastically.
They fell into a trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
"Don't come over here." The officers and soldiers shouted at the people coming.
The leading villager said to the four soldiers, "Get out of the way! We don't want to hurt anyone. If you insist on stopping us, don't blame us for resorting to violence."
"What do you want to do?!" the officers and soldiers shouted.
"We just want to survive."
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