Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 500 Forced to Stay

Chapter 500: Chapter 500 Forced to Stay

The crowd, originally sitting quietly below the high platform doing their "fogging" treatments, turned around upon hearing the noise, and seeing that it was the Hu Family people, they began to curse discontentedly.

"Do you have the nerve to show your faces?"

"Get lost, back to your medicine cauldrons!"

"Quacks harming themselves and others! Just roll out of here!"

Those few, the subjects of scorn, turned pale-faced, and ultimately, without saying a word, silently led the young man back down the alley.

Bai Junjun was watching the bustle when the Government Official, who had gone to deliver the message, returned. He apologized profusely to Ah Fu and Ah Gui, "I’m so sorry, but the Wizard’s treatment has already started, and the County Magistrate cannot leave the Sacrificial Altar until the treatment is concluded. You’ll have to wait until after the treatment to get your seal stamped."

"When will it be over?"

"Generally, not until the next Chen Hour."

It was only 6 o’clock in the evening now, so, does this mean the Wizard would be chanting on that high platform all night long?

They’re really going all out, huh.

So what about all these people?

"You all can rest first at the lodging station. If there is no accident tonight, better not to go out. With this bizarre illness unseen and unfelt, if you catch it by accident, you won’t be able to leave."

Ah Fu and Ah Gui nodded, "Rest assured, we definitely won’t go out."

As they spoke, they turned the caravan toward the lodging station.

The lodging station was near the city gate. The Leader of the Guards was heading the same way, so Bai Junjun couldn’t help but pull back the curtain and ask him.

"Who were those people just now who were stopped and not allowed to come out?"

They seemed to be patients too. If they were all patients, why were some allowed to receive treatment and others not?

Judging by their attire, those people even looked better-off than some lying on the ground—they didn’t seem to belong to the lowest social tier.

"Those were apprentices from Doctor Hu’s family."

"Doctor Hu?"

"Yes, he’s the only doctor in the county town. However, Doctor Hu has been imprisoned for delaying treatment, and although his apprentices and children haven’t been locked up, the villagers don’t want to stay with them, so the County Magistrate simply banned them from appearing."

Bai Junjun raised an eyebrow. The ancient times were truly odd – they always said ’the crime does not extend to the wife, children, or parents,’ yet they were also the most fond of collective punishment.

The doctor was thrown into jail, but they wouldn’t allow his children to seek treatment. What kind of authoritarianism was this?

But this was someone else’s business.

Bai Junjun silently let the curtain fall and, along with everyone else, arrived at the lodging station.

The place was deadly quiet, as it seemed the owner had also gone for treatment.

They had no choice but to fend for themselves.

A lodging station was different from a tavern. Its role was simply to provide temporary supplies and transitions for traveling merchants, so surely the environment couldn’t compare, and even the rooms were just large communal bunks.

The entire lodging station had three floors: the first floor for dining, the second and third floors each with three communal bunks.

Each communal bunk had fifteen beds.

Dongsheng Tavern travelled to and fro all year round, and they had a fixed room here.

At that time, Ah Fu and Ah Gui led everyone to one of the communal bunks on the third floor.

There were only fifteen beds here, and they had a party of sixteen. They were one bed short.

However, this problem was easy to solve, for Xiao Yu was a child and willingly snuggled with his bedmate, which was Li Wenli.

So, the fifteen beds were just right to accommodate them.

Being away from home, the people couldn’t be too particular, and compared to a desolate wilderness, having a roof over their heads was already quite good.

Once everyone was settled, hunger set in.

Old Uncle Qiu made them lovingly-prepared steamed buns, and after counting, there were just enough to eat.

Ah Fu and Ah Gui have also brought their own provisions, and everyone gathered to eat together.