Chapter 761: Please save the children (2/2)

Chu Xifeng rushed in to report, “Esteemed wangfei, it’s terrible!”

The five prominent clan heads had just departed, so they couldn’t have doubled back. What other ‘terrible’ news awaited them now? Han Yunxi felt rathered perturbed by Chu Xifeng’s breaking point expression.

“Esteemed wangfei, hurry and take a look outside. There’s a bunch of women with children outside surrounding our gates.”

Women with children? What’s going on?

Han Yunxi dashed through the gates and saw dozens of women kneeling by the entrance while holding children ranging from infants in swaddling clothes to toddlers. All of the children were bawling.

Gu Beiyue was the first to discover something amiss. “Esteemed wangfei, I’m afraid that these children have all fallen ill.”

Han Yunxi suddenly realized what had happened. She couldn’t face the crying children head-on and meet their innocent eyes or young, tender faces. She knew what they were here for. The woman at the front held her one-year-old child and stepped forward with the bawling child. Gu Beiyue rushed down the steps and gently felt the child’s forehead.

“How many days of fever?”

“Three days and three nights. Doctor Gu, I’m begging you, please save my child. I would rather fall sick myself then have him suffer. I’ve searched around all the pharmacies--it’s not that they don’t have doctors, but that the lines are too long. Even the lines at Pill Fiend Pharmacy will take ten days to reach the end! The child can’t afford to wait!”

As she spoke, she turned towards Han Yunxi next. “Esteemed wangfei, Medical City is heartless. We’re willing to follow you, but...but the children can’t shoulder this burden! Esteemed wangfei, please save the children! Please!”

All of the women raised their voices at her cry. “Please save the children, save the children…”

Their pleading mixed with the children’s cries to resound before the Duke of Qin’s gates and carry into South Ning City’s skies. Even the most ruthless heart would be moved by the sound. Han Yunxi’s hands were shaking. She desperately wanted to comfort the crying child, but couldn’t move. She knew that these people had been instigated to come here. Ordinary citizens wouldn’t raise a cry at their very gates, but the sight before her was real.

They couldn’t afford to beg for treatment!

Han Yunxi grew unsteady, not because of the scene before her, but because she had no guarantee that she’d win if she publicly went against Medical City! Fighting against them under the banner of the Poison Sect was only because she’d been pressured into a corner. Suppose she lost?

A second thought rose to her mind amidst the crying.

I can acknowledge my guilt!

She could shoulder all the trumped-up charges against the Poison Sect and accept Medical City’s punishment. The sight before her had really swayed her resolve. It’d be worth it if my one life could be used to exchange for hundreds of thousands of patients!

Han Yunxi never liked to compromise, but she couldn’t break free of her fate this time. Abruptly, a voice as clear as a bell rang out.

“The doctors are here. Pill Fiend Pharmacy arranged for ten famous physicians just to treat children and the elderly. There’s no need for long lines there, so everyone just hurry over. The head physician was once Tianning’s Imperial Physician Huang Zhengming,[1] and he’ll guarantee that everyone will receive the proper diagnosis. He won’t take a cent for examinations, either!”

Everyone looked towards the source of the voice and saw Mu Linger standing there in her goose yellow dress, looking more lively than usual. Next to her stood an old man who was none other than Gu Beiyue’s friend, Tianning’s Imperial Physician Huang. It was true that the crowd had come to make trouble for Han Yunxi after getting some benefits, but their children really were sick. Hearing the news, all of them rushed towards Pill Fiend Pharmacy until the gates at the estate were left empty.

Mu Linger saw Gu Qishao from a distance, but she didn’t rush towards him like usual. Instead, she simply stared at him and smiled--a brilliant, if foolish-looking grin…

1. Huang Gengchen (黄庚辰) - Huang is a surname that means “yellow,” Gengchen is a name for the 17th year of China’s 60 year calendar cycles.