The gates of the palace were opened one after another and more people were walking along the road. The people were still very upset about the smallpox and walked about a furlong apart.
Song Yin went back to the palace.
The fourth prince’s smallpox had not yet completely healed, so Sun Qi still sent six people to guard the palace gates, which were not closed as before, but were open.
Although they were not allowed to go out, the palace people who had been locked up for many days were still very excited and did not work hard, finding an opportunity every now and then to walk to the palace entrance and look out.
The aunt in charge didn’t reprimand them when she saw them, so even she wanted to go to the palace door and take a look outside, not to mention the palace staff.
After so many days of being on tenterhooks, she could finally feel at ease.
Song Wangyue also stood in the courtyard in the sun, moving a few steps every now and then.
The aunt in charge looked at her and smiled as she moved a soft stool over and placed it behind her, “Although the sun is shining today, it’s still a bit cold, so Miss Song should go inside after sitting for a while.”
“I’m just walking around, I don’t need a stool, thank you for reminding me.”
She was the fourth prince’s life-saving benefactor, yet she never put up a front in front of them, the aunt in charge sighed in her heart while smiling and responding, carrying the stool away.
Song Wan Yue moved a few more steps and looked outwards, meeting Song Yin’s line of sight and immediately arched her eyebrows in delight.
Song Yin almost couldn’t control himself and lifted his feet towards the palace, but it was Sun Qi’s quick eyes and a heavy cough that reminded him.
Returning to his senses, Song Yin made a gesture.
Song Wan Yue saw it clearly and walked unhurriedly to the entrance of the palace, taking the note given by Song Yin under the cover of his body. Clutching it in her hand, she walked back again unhurriedly and walked twice in the sunlight before returning to the house.
The fourth prince was playing chess with Consort Xiao Xian, not even a mark left on his boyish white face.
Song Wan Yue moved a stool over and sat down, without moving her voice, and handed the note in her hand to Consort Xiao Xian Fei.
The face of Consort Xiao Xianfei changed halfway through reading it. When she finished reading it, she gave it to the fourth prince. The Fourth Prince read the contents on it, and his small brow furrowed.
His father was so cruel that he did not even care about the lives of the people of the capital.
Song Wan Yue took the note over and gestured for the two of them to continue playing chess, whispering, “I taught the method of treating smallpox to the courtyard, if there is really an outbreak of smallpox in the city, they will not stand by and do nothing, not to mention that there is still my master, he will certainly make good arrangements in advance, I also had someone go and invite another doctor who can treat smallpox, with them around, we can just rest assured. ”
“Yue’er ……”
Xiao Xianfei opened her mouth, Song Wan Yue knew what she wanted to ask and held out two fingers.
Consort Xiao Xianfei pursed her lips.
Inside the city, people were on edge.
The magistrates were shouting, “Anyone who feels unwell, or has a fever, go to the doctor immediately, if you don’t report it, you will be killed!”
The people were already panicking, and when they heard the officers shouting this, they were even more panicked, so they went home and closed their doors tightly, not going out unless necessary.
This was the effect that the governor wanted, as fewer people were on the streets, fewer people would be infected, and as long as the infection was not massive, the people would not get upset.
On the evening of the second day, the magistrate dragged his tired body, carrying a gong, banging it once or twice, and his voice was hoarse.
“Official, official ……”
A man stumbled out from the front corner, his face in pain, and before he could run a few steps, he collapsed on the ground, his hand outstretched towards the magistrate, seemingly begging for help.
The magistrate was startled and took a moment to put on the mask on his own face before he cautiously stepped forward, and before he could ask a question, another man hurriedly came out from around the corner and quickly stepped in front of the fallen man, nodding and nodding towards the magistrate.
“This is a servant of our house who has been locked up for a mistake, and the guards were inattentive enough to let him escape, scaring the magistrate, so I am here to make amends to the magistrate.”
The man who spoke was wearing a green robe, and by the way he was dressed, he looked like a steward of one of the mansions.
The magistrate was not convinced, for he could see that the man lying on the ground was very red in the face, as if he had a fever.
“Which House are you from?”
The man being asked did not answer and took out an ingot of silver and tried to slip it to the magistrate.
The magistrate took two steps back, “Stop, don’t move!”
The man stood still with the silver in his hand.
He was just about to strike the gong and call the other officers to come over when a pain in his neck caused him to fall limply to the ground and the gong in his hand fell to the ground with a soft thud.
The attacker put the silver ingots away, took the mask out of his pocket and put it on, knocked the man unconscious as he looked on in horror, carried him on his shoulders and left.
Hu Yong stepped out from the other side and picked up the gong from the ground and banged it.
The rest of the magistrates quickly rushed over and were shocked to see their companion on the ground, and were about to help him up when they heard someone shouting in front of them, “Stop, don’t you dare attack an official!
When he heard the shout, he immediately drew his sword and followed the voice with a few officers.
The sound came intermittently, and they chased him for three blocks before they saw a man running wildly with a man on his shoulder.
Zhang immediately leapt up, pointing his toe at the wall next to him and leaping in front of the man running wildly, pointing his belt knife, “Put the man down.”
The man who was running wildly almost hit the tip of his sword and broke out in a cold sweat, but he didn’t put the man down and turned around to run back, with the magistrates catching up behind him.
The man didn’t hesitate, he threw the man into the distance and leapt up instantly, leaping over the officer’s head, landing just in time to catch the unconscious man, pulling his legs out and running forward.
A stone flew from diagonally in front of him, hitting the man right in the knee. The man suffered pain and fell to his knees, and before he could struggle to stand up, Sheriff Zhang’s big sword arrived.
Hearing the sound of the wind behind him, the man rolled on the ground to avoid the move, but he had no chance to grab the man again.
The magistrates tried to chase after him but were stopped by Sheriff Zhang, who looked down at the man on the ground and, with just one glance, was horrified and backed away in a panic.
“All put on your masks!”
The magistrates’ hearts tightened and they put their masks on in a panic.
The man on the ground was clearly the man in the portrait.
“Head ……”
The voices of the magistrates were all up.
Sheriff Zhang told them to stand back, and he himself picked the man up and prepared to carry him to a place of isolation.
Just a few steps away, the man on his shoulder woke up and said in a broken voice, “Quickly, quickly arrest, arrest Liu, Liu Ying, he has, has in his hands people who have the same smallpox as me, he, he deliberately released, released these people in batches, just, just to make the people of the capital, the capital catch the sky, smallpox.”
Sheriff Zhang was so shocked that he almost threw him away.