Chapter 173 Plague Outbreak
Shu Zheng is not a person who is good at saying such sensational words. He has practiced what he said to Shu Wan many times in his mind. Today, he mustered up a lot of courage to finish speaking.
After he finished speaking, he did not look at Shu Wan, but turned his head to the side, waiting for Shu Wan's reaction, while sorting out his thoughts in his mind to see if he had missed anything or said anything wrong.
Shu Wan blinked and it took her a long time to digest his words.
What happened? First, Rong Chen came to confess his love to her, saying that he only wanted to drink from a small pond, and now Shu Zheng came to find her, saying that she had half of the family business. "Dad, has Rong Chen come to find you?" Shu Wan recalled that these days, Li had been by her side all the time. Before, she thought that Li was here because she was injured, but now it seems that she must let Shu Wan know that they love her very much.
After hearing what Shu Zheng said, it was hard for Shu Wan not to think of Rong Chen. Apart from the fact that Rong Chen had gone to find them, Shu Wan really couldn't think of how Shu Zheng and Li knew about this.
"Wanwan, don't blame Rong Chen!" Shu Zheng heard her say this and thought that she was going to settle the score with Rong Chen. "Actually, he did this for your own good. Dad thinks, judging from his attitude towards you during this period, this boy is not bad!" He also did not forget to praise Rong Chen in front of his daughter.
"Whether he is good or bad, what does it have to do with me!" Shu Wan pursed her lips, "He and I divorced a long time ago, and now we have no relationship!" These past few days, Rong Chen had been sticking around her, looking for opportunities to ask about her well-being, but Shu Wan had never given him a good look.
Rong Chen was not annoyed, and still had a playful smile on his face, like a scoundrel.
However, because Li was taking care of Shu Wan, he didn't have any chance to be alone with Shu Wan, which Shu Wan was quite satisfied with.
As for what Rong Chen was thinking, no one knew.
"Daughter!" Shu Zheng called her meaningfully, "Do you really not like Rong Chen?" To be honest, he as a father did not believe it in his heart, otherwise he could not understand, if his daughter had no feelings for Rong Chen, how could she go to save Rong Chen regardless of difficulties and dangers.
"I don't like it!" Shu Wan paused, then said insincerely, "Dad, you really want me to get married, right? Don't you hope that I will never get married and stay by your side for the rest of my life?" In order to stop Shu Zheng from talking any more, Shu Wan quickly changed the subject.
"Alright!" Shu Zheng sighed, "If you don't like him, then don't like him. My daughter is so outstanding, are you afraid that she won't be able to marry into a good family? As for you saying that you want to stay with your father, forget it. Dad still wants to live a quiet life for a few days. Go and make trouble wherever you want!" Although he said the last sentence with disdain, his tone and expression did not show any disdain at all.
His behavior made Shu Wan not know how to react. She had never experienced such a situation before, so when faced with Shu Zheng's loving eyes, she had only one thought: to escape.
Fortunately, Shu Zheng didn't keep talking about these topics with her. After he said what he had always wanted to say to her, he left. Maybe he didn't know how to face Shu Wan.
Shu Wan sat there alone for a while. From here he could see Li and Shengnan picking flowers in front of him. They were chatting while picking flowers. It was unknown what Shengnan said that made Li laugh out loud.
Shu Wan curled his lips unconsciously, stood up and was about to walk towards them.
But she had only taken two steps when someone grabbed her hand and pulled her in another direction.
"Rong Chen, what are you doing? Let me go!" The person who came was none other than Rong Chen.
Rong Chen did not let her go after hearing this, but pulled her to a place about five or six hundred meters away from here before letting her go.
"What are you going to do?" Shu Wan looked at her warily. She didn't know what she was thinking. Suddenly, she thought that Rong Chen might be unable to get the love he wanted, and was so angry that he was ready to kill her.
"Wanwan, I suddenly thought of a way to prove it to you!" Rong Chen didn't know what she was thinking. If he knew, he would probably want to knock open her little head with his own hands to see what was inside.
"What?" Shu Wan didn't react for a moment to what he wanted to prove to her, so her question was both a question about what Rong Chen wanted to prove and a question about how he was going to prove it.
"Wanwan, I will also hand over all the money and property under my name to you!" Rong Chen said with a little pride, as if his decision was simply wise and brilliant, unprecedented and unparalleled, "So you don't have to worry about me changing!"
"You're sick!" Shu Wan was speechless for a long time. Finally, she blurted out these two words and was ready to declare it. She really felt that Rong Chen had a problem with his brain.
"I am sick!" Rong Chen quickly grabbed her, "I have been poisoned by a poison named after you. In this life, only you can cure it, Wanwan. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Just think of me as pitiful as I am. Save me. If I can't repay you, I will repay you with the rest of my life!" He pulled Shu Wan, looking very pitiful.
Shu Wan had a headache.
"Do you know what I regret most now?" Shu Wan asked.
"What?"
"You deserve to die in the red flames!" Why was she looking for trouble? Was she bored or something, she actually thought of saving him.
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"Let's go!" Shu Wan angrily tried to pull the hand he was holding away.
"Wanwan, what do you want me to do to make you believe that I am sincere to you?" Rong Chen would not let her go so easily.
"Do you really want to know?" Shu Wan thought for a while and then asked him.
"Yes!" Rong Chen nodded quickly, "As long as Wanwan wants something, I will pick the stars from the sky for you!"
He is a smooth talker and his words sound nice, but Shu Wan thinks that there are many things in this world that he cannot do.
"Okay!" Shu Wan said calmly, "I want the iron tree to bloom, I want the water in the sky to flow backwards, I want the day and night to be reversed, I want everyone in this world to be equal and free!" Shu Wan listed several conditions that were impossible to fulfill. She wanted to see how Rong Chen would slap her in the face.
"Wanwan's conditions are indeed difficult to meet, but I will definitely make Wanwan's wishes come true." Rong Chen still looked shameless.
Shu Wan felt that this person was hopeless, or maybe he really had a mental problem.
How arrogant does a person have to be to say such things?
"Is there anything else? If not, I'll leave first!" Shu Wan reminded him that he could let go of himself.
"I just want to hold your hand a little longer!" God knows, these few days, Li has been following her, and he has hardly said a few words to her. Rong Chen regrets it as much as he can.
"Shameless!" Shu Wan really couldn't find any adjective to use to scold Rong Chen.
"Thank you, Wanwan!"
“…”
Just be patient, in three to five days they will reach the main city, and then she will be free.
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However, what was unexpected was that they received bad news before they even reached the main city! Rong Chen received an urgent report from the city saying that a plague had broken out in Songyang County.
The infected people will first have a low-grade fever, then start coughing, have difficulty breathing, and finally die! At the beginning, there were only individual cases, and the local county magistrate concealed the incident in order not to affect his own achievements, thinking it was no big deal.
As a result, the situation became more and more serious day by day, until now when the plague broke out on a large scale. Seeing that the matter could no longer be concealed, he chose to report the matter and ask for help.
They chose to report the matter only after they could no longer conceal it. This shows how serious the matter is.
Rong Chen was furious. He had allocated money to support such a good-for-nothing.
But now is not the time to blame. The top priority now is to prevent the further spread of the plague and rescue those who have been infected.
Rong Chen immediately decided to let the others go back to the city, while he would take another route to Songyang County. He wanted to see for himself what the current situation in Songyang County was like.
As soon as he came up with this plan, Yu Jianning and Feng Ling were the first to jump out to oppose it.
"No, Rong Chen, do you know what this means for you? You might get infected with the plague!" Yu Jianning wanted to grab Rong Chen and beat him up to wake him up. "If something happens to you, what will happen to your mother and sister? What will happen to the people of Blackwater City?"
"The people of Songyang County are also citizens of Blackwater City!" Rong Chen said expressionlessly, "If I don't go, how can I be worthy of them?" He asked Yu Jianning in return.
"But Master, if you go there now, you may not be able to solve the problem. On the contrary, you may put yourself in danger!" Feng Ling was not as excited as Yu Jianning. "Master, even if you stay in the main city, you can still make a living for the people of Songyang County. You don't have to go there in person."
"I have made up my mind. There is no need to say more about this matter!" Rong Chen had already made up his mind, so how could he be persuaded by a few words from them?
"Let him go!" Shu Wan had a different idea from Yu Jianning and the others, "If we don't let him go, he will never feel at peace in his life!"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Shu Wan. They didn't understand why Shu Wan did this. At this time, it would be safest for Rong Chen not to go.
"Go back to the main city with your parents and wait for me to come back!" Rong Chen reached out and touched Shu Wan's head. Sure enough, the little girl understood him.
"Tsk, don't you know? This is what they usually say in TV dramas: Wait until I come back after winning the battle, and then we'll do that and that, and in the end everyone dies without exception!" Shu Wan rolled his eyes at him unceremoniously.
“…”
Rong Chen felt a little depressed as they were about to separate and the little girl didn't even say a few nice words to coax him or make him happy.
Others couldn't bear to watch. How could Shu Wan be so vicious? Wasn't he cursing Rong Chen to death...
"I'll go with you!" After a while, Shu Wan spoke again with a dissatisfied look on his face.
"No!" Hearing this, Rong Chen subconsciously refused. What was she going there for? It was not like she was going to play. This little girl, could she not give him some peace of mind? What if something happened to her in such a dangerous place?
Before Shu Wan could refute Rong Chen, Li rushed up and grabbed her, crying, as if Shu Wan said she was going one second and really went the next.
"Wanwan, you can't go. No matter what you say this time, your parents won't let you go!" Li's tears fell one after another. "You must go home with your parents. Your parents will tie you up and take you back." Anyway, she had made up her mind. Even if she threatened with her own life, she would not let Shu Wan go.
"Mom!" Shu Wan opened her mouth and prepared to persuade her.
"No matter what you say, I won't let you go!" Li, who was always weak, was very tough this time. "Even if you say it to the sky, I won't let you go. I am selfish. In my eyes, the lives of those people are not as important as a hair on your head!"
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"Yeah, Wanwan, don't go!" Shu Zheng also disagreed with her going, "You are not a doctor, you can't cure diseases and save lives even if you go. Besides, you are a child, you can't do anything, so you'd better not go!" He didn't say it, but he was very panicked in his heart. If something happened to his precious daughter, how would he live?
"Shu Wan, please listen to Master Shu and Madam Shu!" Yu Jianning stepped forward, "I'll just go with Rong Chen. I promise you, I will bring him back to you!" Yu Jianning said the latter sentence with some difficulty.
"I don't want him to come back alone!" Shu Wan looked at Yu Jianning, "I want the safety of the people in Songyang County. I want them to be out of danger!"
"But……"
"Rong Chen!" Shu Wan ignored him and turned to look at Rong Chen. "Maybe... I have some experience that can help you. They don't understand, but you should understand!"
"Wanwan, what you mean is..." Rong Chen naturally knew what she meant. He would understand as long as she looked at him.
"Yeah!" Shu Wan nodded.
The other people looked confused and had no idea what they were talking about.
"No, then you can't go either. It's too dangerous!" Rong Chen refused again. He couldn't let Shu Wan fall into danger.
"Wanwan, you are trying to kill me!" Li grabbed Shu Wan's hand tightly and cried uncontrollably, "You just can't go, no matter what, you still have something bad happen to you, how can I live with you, Wanwan!"
"Mom, it's okay, I will definitely return home safely!" Shu Wan still insisted on going.
"Since I can't persuade you, I will go with you." Li said cruelly, "Wherever you go, I will follow you. If you want to save people, I will go with you!"
"Mom!" Shu Wan was helpless.
"Wanwan, listen to your mother!" Rong Chen tried to persuade her. He would definitely not let Shu Wan go.
(End of this chapter)
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