Chapter 0059 – Exile (1 / 2)

The makeshift donkey caravan rattled along, roughly pieced together on open panels loaded with sick people captured by officers and soldiers from all over the place, and together they sailed off to an unknown fate.

Cheng Biao and other officials and soldiers had fierce faces, the people in the car didn’t dare to speak loudly, but just whimpered. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers had not bound their hands and feet like prisoners, and everyone could still walk around and talk, just no one was in the mood.

They never committed a crime, but were exiled by fate.

Xiang Capsicum surveyed the patients traveling with him, most of them commoners dressed in rough clothes, some already too sick to stand up, some still with mild symptoms, as if they were normal people.

But men, women, and children, one and all were gray and hopeless about the road ahead.

The oldest of these people looked to be in their forties or fifties, and the youngest child was a girl doll who looked no more than four or five years old.

“A-niang, where are we going?” That girl child was already pale from the epidemic, but she still reluctantly wiped away the tears on the face of the woman beside her, “A-niang don’t cry, Nui Nui is very good, Nui Nui isn’t uncomfortable at all.”

The woman hugged her daughter in her arms and cried more and more miserably, driving everyone around her to wipe their tears.

A round-faced woman next to her drooped her eyebrows and whispered to herself, “Our family just saved up to buy a batch of chickens the other day, and the mouth of my family, I don’t know if they’ll remember to feed those chickens–“

“It’s already this time, still thinking about that chicken cub of yours!” Another long-faced woman snickered out, “This time, we’ve got an epidemic that’s bound to kill us, and we’re all going to die outside!”

The round-faced woman’s face went white, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Xiang Capsicum sighed slightly in her heart and secretly moved towards Chen Zian in the corner, asking in a low voice, “Is the Prince hungry, the slave girl has brought some pastries.”

Chen Zian was already sick to the point of being drowsy, when he looked at Xiang Capsicum, his face still exuded a look of deep pain, “I’m sorry, in the end, I’ve implicated you, I don’t even understand why Ming Yue she–“

“My lord do not be afraid.” Xiang Capsicum gently held Chen Zian’s hand through his wide sleeves, “The slave girl didn’t get sick, it was the slave girl who asked Ming Yue to ‘prosecute’ me. The slave girl has come to accompany the second young master, so the second young master will not have to be afraid after this.”

Chen Zian froze and looked at her.

Xiang Capsicum had thought that Chen Zian would be happier, but he didn’t expect that the next instant he would be green with veins and cry out with all his might, “Officer, stop, there’s a person here who hasn’t yet gotten–“

Xiang Capsicum hurriedly stepped forward and covered Chen Zian’s mouth with death, smiling apologetically amidst the strange looks around her, “I’m sorry, this mouth of my family is sick and confused.”

For the sake of safety, Xiang Capsicum and Chen Zian wore ordinary cotton clothes, and Xiang Capsicum also wiped a thin layer of pot ash on his face, the crowd just looked at them suspiciously, and then turned their eyes away.

Fragrant Capsicum faintly exhaled, fortunately Chen Zian’s body was weak and the voice was not loud.

Chen Zi’an was covered by his mouth, and had revealed a pair of eyes, looking at Xiang Capsicum in grief and powerlessness, looking at Xiang Capsicum’s heart hairy.

“Gongzi, I, I can let go, but you must not scream anymore.” A hidden urgency surfaced on Xiang Capsicum’s face, “You are unaware of how much effort I spent in order to fool that medical officer! If you don’t let me follow again, I, I will really get angry!”

In the heat of the moment, Xiang Capsicum forgot to call herself a slave girl again, which in turn made the gap between the two melt away a little.

Chen Zian blinked helplessly, and Xiang Capsicum finally let go.

“Shampoo Capsicum, what is the point of this.”

Chen Zian didn’t call out again, only letting out a long sigh.

He had not believed Cheng Biao’s words.

It was highly likely that those of them suffering from the strange disease would still be left to fend for themselves wherever they were. Even if there were really medical officials to treat them, the number of people who contracted the plague would only increase day by day, while the medicinal herbs out there became more and more expensive day by day, so how long could they be sustained by relying on the tax money of the Jiangzhou Prefecture alone?

This disease attacks quickly, not a week will be able to kill people, if you wait until the court’s rates down, I’m afraid that they these people will also die out.

If the Chen family really wanted to keep him, there were ten thousand ways to do so. But it was even easier to give him up.

If he was still the same spirited Xiucai Lang, his father would never have let the officials and soldiers take him away so easily. But now he is no longer of any use to the Chen family, Master Chen is naturally unwilling to use his connections to plan for him.

After his leg injury, he had thought about following his sidekick and being her staff to save himself.