This voice startled the kneeling people. The young woman in the lead raised her head, her gaze flickering as she looked up at the plaque of Qianjin Hall in front of her, revealing an expression that seemed both crying and laughing.

“It’s daybreak, unfurl the banner,” she said.

The woman had been kneeling in a daze all along, as if she couldn’t hear anything and had no reaction. The two children looked at each other uncertainly.

“Quickly!” The young woman turned back, her eyebrows raised as she scolded in a stern, low voice.

The two children trembled and hurriedly took out a roll of white cloth from in front of their legs.

The white cloth unfolded and was held up in front of them.

“Where is Heaven’s justice?”

Four large red characters that, with the daylight penetrating through the morning mist, were particularly glaring.

Early in the morning on the street, people were constantly running in one direction.

A peddler carrying his load ran so frantically that he couldn’t even be bothered to respond when someone called out wanting to buy something.

“What’s happening?” curious people inquired.

“Something’s happened again at Qianjin Hall!” shouted those running past.

These words were like a stone thrown into water, sending ripples as more people followed suit and began running.

The street at Qianjin Hall was once again packed solid, with the aroma of food wafting everywhere. Since most people hadn’t eaten breakfast yet at this time, watching the excitement while eating was killing two birds with one stone.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?”

People on the outside inquired of those inside.

“It seems someone died from treatment…”

This statement caused an uproar.

How could that be possible! Qianjin Hall had a divine physician – how could they kill someone in treatment!

“Is it because they were scared by the surgery? Are they making trouble?”

Those who knew about Qianjin Hall’s treatment methods shook their heads with disdainful expressions.

“No, the dead body is laid out right at the entrance!”

Ah!

Upon hearing this, the people outside squeezed even more fiercely. The scene became turbulent as everyone stood on their toes trying to see clearly, and those who could see clearly let out exclamations.

In front of several people dressed in mourning clothes, there was indeed a person lying there – a dead person.

Qianjin Hall had really killed someone in treatment!!

Even divine physicians could kill people!!

“Really?” In a small hall room at the government office, Wang Qingchun suddenly stood up.

“Really!” A medicine shop owner who had hurried over said with an excited expression, “The body is laid out right at the entrance!”

Wang Qingchun couldn’t help but want to laugh out loud, but remembering his current position, he forcibly restrained himself.

Good, good! You finally have this day coming!

Let you act arrogant! Let you act domineering! Let you be so capable! The greater your reputation, the higher you stand. As long as you make one wrong step, I’ll step on you so hard you’ll never be able to turn things around!

“Quickly, we naturally cannot ignore such matters,” Wang Qingchun said, immediately extending his hand and shouting loudly, “Change clothes!”

At this time outside Qianjin Hall, Liu Pucheng and others were also standing outside, with buzzing discussions all around.

“Miss, I’m very sorry about your father’s situation, but we truly were powerless to help,” Liu Pucheng said.

That family just knelt there wiping tears. No matter what they said, they wouldn’t speak or agree to leave.

This standoff had been going on for nearly half a watch period.

“Miss, please get up first, everyone get up first. Let’s go inside to talk,” Liu Pucheng stepped forward again to say.

The family still kept their heads down crying without moving.

Hu San stomped his foot and stepped forward to pull them.

The young woman let out a sharp scream and fell to the ground, scaring Hu San into jumping three times.

“I didn’t touch her!” he said hurriedly.

The young woman collapsed on the ground, crying even louder, with no other words – just calling “Father, oh father” over and over.

She cried painfully, and the other two children also started crying loudly along with her.

The woman remained stupefied. Apart from shedding tears, she just shed tears.

The three-year-old baby leaning against her hadn’t been crying. Being trapped here for half a day, he felt bored. With everyone crying in pain and no one paying attention to him, he wobbled over to the corpse lying on the door plank.

“Daddy, get up and hold me.”

The childish voice rang out as he tried hard to pull his father, but lost his balance and fell onto his father’s body.

The small child didn’t understand life and death, still thinking his father was playing with him. He threw himself on the man’s chest, letting out giggles.

This laughter was particularly jarring amid the crying.

“Oh my heavens, how pitiful.”

The onlookers now all had red eyes, and those women raised their hands to wipe tears. The mood at the scene was slowly changing.

No matter what, orphans and widows who had lost their man were indeed heartbreaking and pitiful…

“He was the only one in the family, and there’s also an eighty-year-old mother…” the fellow villagers who had come along tearfully told the surrounding people, “The woman is sickly all over, and they depended on the man doing odd jobs to support the whole family of old and young. Now it’s all over…”

“You could save him, so why wouldn’t you save my father!” the young woman cried out, looking at Liu Pucheng.

“We really couldn’t save him. Your father was injured too severely…” Liu Pucheng said again.

But the young woman seemed unable to hear what he was saying, just crying relentlessly and repeating this phrase.

Children crying, adults crying, and the corpse lying on the ground drew everyone’s attention. Not many people listened to Liu Pucheng’s words.

“Really killed someone in treatment?”

“How could it be fake? The body is laid out right here…”

“So pitiful…”

“How could they kill someone in treatment? Didn’t they say he was a divine physician?”

“…Divine physician… who knows… maybe not so divine…”

“Why isn’t the divine physician coming out? Did she run away?”

The onlookers discussed and pointed, their gazes toward Qianjin Hall becoming somewhat different.

“Don’t make trouble here unreasonably! Your father deserved to die – how can you blame us!” Hu San shouted, jumping with anger.

But this statement only further angered the family.

The young woman threw herself at him head-first.

“You deserve to die! You deserve to die! You killed someone in treatment, then say we deserve to die! Is there no justice in heaven!” she cried out.

Seeing their sister lunging at someone, the two older children also cried and followed, pummeling Hu San.

“Bullying our sister, bad people, bad people!”

Hu San was besieged by one woman and two children, in a complete mess.

The disciples of Qianjin Hall hurried forward to help him, but the woman tore open her clothes and lay on the ground shouting about assault.

“Hey, you killed someone in treatment, and you won’t let people make a fuss about it!”

“Exactly, this is too domineering. No matter what, someone in their family died. How tragic…”

“Still calling it a medical hall – how can their hearts be so cruel…”

Some people around couldn’t bear to watch and spoke up.

“No, we didn’t kill him in treatment!” a disciple shouted.

“Oh my, you didn’t kill him in treatment? Would they carry him to your medical hall otherwise? Why not go to other medical halls?” an old woman glared and scolded.

The disciple was so anxious he was sweating profusely.

“That’s not what I mean! He was supposed to die anyway, we didn’t kill him in treatment…” he shouted.

Before he finished speaking, the clamoring around became even louder.

“So when we get sick, we all deserve to die?”

“…Then what do we need you doctors for! We might as well just wait to die!”

The crowd’s emotions immediately became even more turbulent.

“If you can’t speak properly, don’t speak!” Zhang Tong scolded, and the disciple retreated with a red face.

Seeing that everyone around was on their side, the young woman cried even harder.

“Where is Heaven’s justice! Where is Heaven’s justice! Father, how can we live!”

She cried so heartbreakingly that the soft-hearted women began to shed tears along with her.

“Qianjin Hall, give them an explanation!” someone began to shout.

This got more people to agree.

“Right! Give an explanation!”

The crowd began to surge forward.

“Where’s the divine physician! Let the divine physician come out!”

“Let her come out! Give an explanation!”

“Divine physicians can’t disregard human life!”

Seeing the crowd surging forward, the disciples of Qianjin Hall changed color.

“Should we call Master?” Hu San stammered.

Qi Yue had been on duty the latter half of the night and had just fallen into deep sleep.

“Call her for what! She doesn’t need to come out for this kind of thing!” Liu Pucheng firmly refused.

After speaking, instead of retreating, he advanced, facing the increasingly agitated crowd.

“Everyone listen to me. We didn’t kill anyone in treatment. This person was injured too severely and truly couldn’t be saved…” he said loudly.

At this moment, who would listen to him? Everyone was clamoring.

Suddenly there was a commotion outside, with the sound of whips cracking.

“Make way!”

After a flurry of chaos, everyone finally saw that someone was coming with a team of guards.

The path was quickly cleared. It was Chang Yuncheng, who had just returned to the Marquis residence, riding his horse in.

This man’s arrival made the scene quiet down.

Chang Yuncheng surveyed the situation.

He looked at the family still crying huddled on the ground.

“Drive them away!” he said cleanly and decisively, cracking the whip in his hand.

The guards behind him responded in unison, startling the onlookers who stepped back several paces, looking at these sword-carrying men with some fear.

“My mother is hospitalized here. You all get lost quickly. If you disturb my mother, I’ll make you pay with your lives!” Chang Yuncheng shouted from his high position on horseback, sweeping over these people.

The guards took a step forward as he spoke.

The crowd of onlookers, being afraid after all, immediately retreated much further.

“Your mother is human, but my father isn’t human?” the young woman shrieked, striking her chest with her hand, tears streaming down her face. “Heaven! Heaven! Dear Heaven, why make us be born as humans! We might as well be beasts!”

“You can take that up with Heaven,” Chang Yuncheng said coldly, completely ignoring her cries and raising his hand to wave.

The guards stepped forward, each grabbing one person.

“…Is there no justice in heaven! Is there no justice in heaven!”

The cries of adults, children, and women echoed through the street.

“Who is this person?”

“How domineering!”

“Too excessive!”

“Just because they’re hospitalized, no one else can pass through here?”

“Shh, shh, better say less. Can’t afford to offend the powerful…”

Discussions scattered as people’s attention shifted from Qianjin Hall to focus on the man over there. Intimidated by his authority, they dared to be angry but not speak, only looking at that arrogant man on horseback.

“You killed my father, and now you want to kill our whole family?” the young woman cried out, being dragged by the guards while glaring angrily at Chang Yuncheng.

What? The onlookers showed some surprise.

How did it become this man who killed her father? Wasn’t he killed in treatment at Qianjin Hall?

Chang Yuncheng fixed his gaze on this woman.

“That’s you seeking death yourselves – can’t blame others,” he said coldly. After speaking, he suddenly cracked his whip, making a loud sound that quieted the chaotic crowd once again.

Chang Yuncheng pointed at the crowd with his whip.

“All of you get lost! Anyone who dares disturb my mother, don’t blame me for being impolite!” he shouted word by word.

Too domineering!

Everyone was stunned. Their questioning of Qianjin Hall was forgotten – all their anger burned toward this man.

Too detestable!