Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 993: Chapter 994 Panic, Rioting

Gong Juechen laughed and said, ”Didn’t you say before that if I kept being offensive and overboard, you’d stop associating with me? I didn’t want to lose you and Changyi as friends, so I really tried to control myself, to not always make sharp remarks, and to not do everything too excessively. But now, we may die here in Nanshen City. Why should I still restrain myself? Of course, I have to enjoy myself while I can~”

An Jing continued to glare at him, ”Is your happiness built on other people’s misery?”

Gong Juechen actually admitted it, ”I suppose so.”

An Jing was too lazy to talk to Gong Juechen any further, but still spoke up, ”We are entrusting the plague matter to you. Whether you can cure it or not, we won’t blame you. We are actually very grateful that you’ve come with us, and we feel sorry for you. If you contract the plague and die here, one could say, we’d have caused your death.”

Gong Juechen still wore a playful smile, ”If you really are grateful to me, and if I cure this plague, from now on let me say whatever I want when I’m with you. You don’t know how hard it was for me before, always biting my tongue, afraid to say this or that for fear of losing you guys as friends.”

Although the man in front of them was extremely cunning, both An Jing and Xiao Changyi could tell that Gong Juechen had developed a fondness for them and considered them friends.

An Jing first exchanged a glance with Xiao Changyi before promising, ”If we do make it back alive to the Capital, from now on, you can say whatever you want in front of us.”

”You said it! For that, I will work even harder to cure this plague!” Gong Juechen looked as if he could once again be his unrestrained self after returning to the Capital.

An Jing: ”...”

Xiao Changyi: ”...”

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By the time An Jing and Xiao Changyi returned to their temporary palace from the Medicinal Diet Hall, before they could even step inside, General Lu hurriedly came to report, ”Reporting to the Prince, a group of people who haven’t caught the plague are making a fuss. They’re afraid of a mass execution and want us to open the city gates to let them leave.”

Xiao Changyi’s expression turned stern, ”Where are they causing trouble?”

”At the West Gate.”

”Lead the way.”

”Yes!” General Lu immediately led the way, taking Xiao Changyi and An Jing to the Western Gate of Nanshen City.

Before they even reached the gate, An Jing and Xiao Changyi could hear the clamor from afar—

”The ones with the plague are them, why should we be not allowed to leave the city? We are all fine!”

”Exactly! Let us out quickly!”

”We’re not infected with the plague, yet we are trapped in the city, is this their way of wanting us to catch the plague, of wanting us to die?” someone cried out.

Some were so terrified of the plague within the city that they went mad, ”Staying in the city is a death sentence, I don’t want to stay here, I want to go out! I want to leave the city!”

With that, someone charged at the soldiers guarding the gate.

But they were quickly subdued by the soldiers.

Even though the soldiers subdued that person, the atmosphere became more chaotic, making the uninfected townspeople even more panicked, feeling that they were indeed meant to die in the city.

Suddenly, someone broke down crying, ”My grandfather told me, once a plague breaks out, a mass execution follows, we’re all going to die in this city, even if we don’t die from the plague, others will kill us.”

Originally, many people were afraid of a mass execution, which was why, despite the soldiers maintaining order, they gathered to make a fuss, wanting to leave the city, not wanting to die; and now, hearing this person’s desperate cries, the emotions of the crowd who came to cause a commotion surged instantly, all of them wanting to rush forward, kill the soldiers, then open the city gates so they could escape this cursed place.