- 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓 -

𝕾𝖎𝖝𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖎𝖛𝖊

Two days later, Wang Yibo finally recovered. There was no one else in the room. He put on his clothes and had just walked out the door when he heard Xiao Zhan say to Zuo Ran: "Take the prescription from the doctor and boil two pots. Make it available to everyone."

"Okay." Zuo Ran raised her head and called, "Wang-daren, why are you up?"

Xiao Zhan turned around with a wave of his hand, and Zuo Ran hurried off to get to work. He walked to the door and asked in a soft voice: "How do you feel, is there any discomfort?"

Wang Yibo shook his head and asked: "What kind of medicine are you brewing? Is anyone else sick?"

"It's just medicine to reduce the heat. They're running around outside every day, so it's just in case," Xiao Zhan said.

"I was negligent." Wang Yibo had simply thought that these soldiers were well-trained and physically strong, so he just let them go to work.

"Your biggest oversight is yourself." Xiao Zhan helped him sit down, and then asked the doctor to make a diagnosis. After confirming that there was no major problem, he was relieved.

Wang Yibo asked about the current progress, and Xiao Zhan replied: "Rest assured, ba, the refugees from Zhizhou have been evacuated according to your previous method. If there is no accident, they should now be almost to the disaster relief point, and then they will be able to go on to other lands smoothly."

Wang Yibo pondered: "Where are the people from the city? Have they all been evacuated too?"

"Some people don't want to leave and have been temporarily placed in charity houses."

"How long can the water source that Yin Pinglu found last?"

"I'm not sure. It's only that the water is getting less and less, and many people are going to fetch water every day."

"Let the residents who don't want to leave fetch water themselves, otherwise they will wait at home for someone to come to their door," Wang Yibo said. "Ask your people to pick up water and send it to the disaster relief point to minimize casualties during the journey."

"All right."

At noon, everyone ate pancakes and white rice porridge. Magistrate Sun said that some people in the city were already preparing to leave for other places, because if they went to fetch water by themselves, the round-trip distance was not short. It was better to leave with the others, so that at least there were people from the government who could guarantee them a sip of water.

"Wang-daren, there is nothing else to do here, you fellows should evacuate quickly," Magistrate Sun said.

"You aren't going?"

"There are still some people in the city who are unwilling to leave, and I cannot abandon them," Magistrate Sun said. "Many thanks to everyone who came to help these days, otherwise I would not have been able to properly handle so many refugees with such ease. Especially Wang-daren, who fell ill. It is a blessing for the people to have a good official like you, ah."

"There's no need for that, I'm just doing my best." Wang Yibo thought he wasn't as good as all that. He had just happened to encounter a disastrous situation and couldn't bear to see so many lives disappear before his eyes, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten involved.

Moreover, compared to him, Magistrate Sun was the real local official, and at this juncture he was still unwilling to give up the remaining people and wanted to live or die with them.

Wang Yibo admired his perseverance, but he also knew that a gentleman did not stand under a dangerous wall, and after minimizing the damage, he should leave with his own people.