Chapter 820 - A Story I (1/2)

Chapter 820: A Story I

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The old man shook his smoking pipe and inhaled deeply.

“You called it an infection. Here, we called it a plague,” declared the old man, as if to answer Gu Juexi’s question earlier.

“The plague took a lot of lives, including the husband and wife of the Ye family and their youngest son Ye Xuan. The brother, Ye Shu, and the sister, Ye Di survived,” said the old man with a sob.

“All his life, Brother Ye practiced medicine to help the people, but in the end, he died of the plague. Anyway, humans are very selfish by nature.”

As the old man was telling the story, Ye Yuwei’s hands curled into a fist.

“The first one to fall sick in the Ye family was Ye Xuan. The couple wanted to send Ye Shu and Ye Di away but no one was willing to take them in. Ye An was worried that the two kids might be infected by their brother, so he sent Ye Xuan to the isolation center. There were only a bunch of sick people there in the isolation center.”

The old man continued with a chuckle, “Two kids, five and three years old, stayed in an empty house without anyone looking after them. So I told my son to bring them over and I let them stay with me.”

“What happened then?”

“What happened? Since Ye An and his wife were treating the patients, they too were infected. It was that particular night that Ye An burnt the isolation center to ashes. It was untreatable! Everyone didn’t want to die so they wanted to escape from isolation but if they did, the whole county, no, the whole city would be infected and everyone would die. So, Ye An set the center on fire.”