Chapter 74 - 74 The Quack's Pretense
74 The Quack’s Pretense
At this moment, everyone was busy saving their lives. Who had the mood to visit the brothel?
After entering, Lin Yue heaved a sigh of relief when he did not see any seductive ladies.
Qingfeng went straight upstairs and entered a particularly luxurious private room with ease.
Lin Yue followed behind with a frown.
When the people in the private room heard the commotion, they suddenly stood up. Before they could take out the dagger hidden under the table, Qingfeng had already pressed down on their hand that wanted to use the dagger.
Li Niang’s beautiful face was filled with killing intent. She asked in a low voice, “Who are you?”
Qingfeng took out a token from her pocket. Li Niang’s expression suddenly changed. She immediately knelt on the ground and said respectfully, “Greetings, Commander!”
Qingfeng nodded calmly. “Where is the person I asked you to investigate?”
Li Niang lowered her eyes. “The gates are closed. The news has not been passed on.”
Qingfeng’s eyes darkened. “Any progress?”
Brothel owner Li said, “Previously, we found traces of Wen Renhua’s disciple in Fengming City. Now, the news can’t be sent in, so…” Brothel owner Li lowered her head even more.
Qingfeng asked again, “Can you recognize the person outside the city?”
Brothel owner Li nodded. “Sure.” Then she looked at Qingfeng eagerly, her charming eyes filled with charm.
When Lin Yue saw this scene, he immediately gritted his teeth and cursed silently. ‘Using seductive tricks to attract people!’
Qingfeng made sure she didn’t dare lie to her before she took out a pill. “Take it.”
Li Niang took it happily. “Thank you, Commander. Thank you, Commander…” As if afraid that someone would snatch it from her, she took the medicine in one gulp and asked eagerly, “It’s late. Do you want to stay overnight?”
Qingfeng glanced at the sky outside and nodded. “Go get ready.”
Lin Yue asked in confusion, “Can’t we just ask the magistrate to open the city gate?” With Madam’s prescription, Magistrate Shi would definitely give them face.
Qingfeng looked at him as if he was a fool. Lin Yue’s face darkened before he said, “Even if Duke Chu doesn’t attack the city, there’s a curfew. The magistrate is afraid of death. He won’t agree to open the city gate at night.”
Lin Yue replied with an “oh” and regretted his stupid idea.
After a night, Qinghe got Li Niang to change into a set of clothes and went to the magistrate’s residence with them.
Before he reached the entrance, he saw a group of commoners waiting at the entrance for the magistrate to give them the previous day’s medicine.
After drinking the medicinal soup the day before, they felt much better. That day, they went to wait for the medicine again. When they realized that the medicinal shed was empty, they ran to the entrance of the magistrate’s residence to wait for the medicine.
Qingfeng and the others looked at the many people and directly led Li Niang over the wall.
If they caught a servant, they would ask him to inform Magistrate Shi.
Magistrate Shi’s subordinates, who were worried that they could not find the two of them, immediately nodded and agreed to open the city gate. They even sent someone to escort them out of the city in order to prevent the refugees from hurting them after they left the city.
Qingfeng and the others left the city. Li Niang quickly found a striking muscular man in the crowd.
The man took out a portrait from his wooden hairpin.
When Qingfeng saw this, her expression suddenly changed. She rode her horse and turned around to enter the city again.
Lin Yue quickly caught up.
Li Niang and the muscular man looked at each other and quickly followed.
As soon as they left the city, they entered the city again. Qingfeng’s subordinates had no choice but to follow them.
Following them, they realized that Qingfeng had returned to the magistrate’s residence.
At this moment, the entire magistrate’s residence was blocked by the commoners.
They rode on their horses and were almost pulled off by the commoners.
Lin Yue frowned. “What’s going on? Why have the commoners surrounded the magistrate’s residence?”
Qingfeng didn’t know either, but she had something more important to do now. She had to save Gu Zhongxun, who had been pushed out by the magistrate to be a human shield.
Gu Zhongxun stood at the entrance of the magistrate’s residence and said to the agitated citizens, “Don’t worry, everyone. The magistrate is doing his best to arrange it. Everyone will have medicine!”
Gu Zhongxun’s prescription for treating the plague had spread around quickly like it had wings.
The citizens saw hope and came to verify if it was true.
After the servants in the magistrate’s residence confirmed that the medicine was very effective, all the commoners, regardless of whether they were sick or not, wanted to drink a bowl of medicine concocted by Gu Zhongxun.
The men in the crowd looked at each other, and someone shouted at the commoners, “The dog official snatched all the medicinal herbs in the city and said that he was giving them away as a gift. Where are the medicinal herbs! We didn’t even see the dregs of the medicinal herbs! If there’s really medicine, then give it to us now!”
“Give us the medicine!”
“Give us the medicine!”
Another person said angrily, “The dog official must be trying to monopolize these medicines and use them to make money!”
As soon as he said this, the commoners immediately swarmed towards Gu Zhongxun even more angrily than before, questioning if it was true.
Gu Zhongxun looked anxiously at the magistrate’s housekeeper. The housekeeper looked at him with a frown, then looked at the angry commoners and said in a low voice, “Doctor Gu, calm the commoners first. I’ll go and see if the medicine is ready!”
With that, he hurried through the door. “Bang—” The door closed quickly.
Gu Zhongxun turned around and saw that he was the only one left at the entrance of the magistrate’s residence.
Immediately, someone pointed at the door and said angrily, “Look! The dog official has a guilty conscience and must have sold those medicine to rich people! If we don’t go in and snatch the medicine, we’ll probably die in Jiangyuan City!”
Gu Zhongxun hurriedly comforted them. “It takes time to boil the medicine. Everyone, wait a moment. The magistrate will be able to administer the medicine to everyone soon. I guarantee with my life that the magistrate will definitely not ignore you.”
The commoners were still quite convinced by Gu Zhongxun. After all, they only felt better after Gu Zhongxun gave them medicine.
Immediately, a commoner said, “Then let’s wait a little longer. Doctor Gu has been administering medicine for a few days. He wouldn’t lie to us!”
“Yes, we have to trust Doctor Gu!”
“Doctor Gu is a divine doctor. He must be right!”
The commoners almost rushed into the magistrate’s residence, but Gu Zhongxun calmed them down.
A man in the crowd glanced at the tall man beside him and asked softly, “What should we do?”
The tall man glanced at Gu Zhongxun and smiled gloomily. “The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment! Let’s wait. There are so many people in the city. It’s impossible for Magistrate Shi to give out medicine. When the people get desperate, it will be his death.”
Magistrate Shi was pacing around the hall anxiously. When the housekeeper came in, he grabbed him and asked, “What’s going on? Didn’t I ask you to seal the news? How did so many people know that our prescription worked!”
How would the housekeeper know? He immediately pushed the blame to Gu Zhongxun. “Gu Zhongxun must have wanted to publicize his reputation as a divine doctor and deliberately told others!”
Magistrate Shi gritted his teeth in hatred. “I shouldn’t have let him live! Go, tell the commoners now that the prescription is fake. Those who have recovered are all hired by the quack to promote his reputation!”