Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 116 Situation in the City

Just as everyone was about to turn around and leave, a dirty child suddenly rushed out, growling like a wild beast, staring at Lin Yinan with a hint of begging and a hint of stubbornness.

Lin Yinan recognized at a glance that it was the boy who left alone. She didn't expect that he was still alive.

The trafficker came up and whipped the boy, cursing, "Get lost! Don't scare the guests!" He turned around and bowed to Lin Yinan and the others, smiling apologetically, "This little rabbit is hard to tame, so I've cut off his tongue and am going to send him away. Dear guest, please take a look over there to see if there's anyone suitable."

An image flashed through Lin Yinan's mind. These two human traffickers were the merchants who had left Pingcheng through the tunnel.

It's a small world, they actually met here.

Lin Yinan stood behind the crowd and looked at the two of them quietly. They had evil intentions towards her at that time. Maybe they were not businessmen at all, but human traffickers!

Yun Mo naturally recognized the boy. He frowned and said, "Since we can't tame him, forget it. We'll go back and discuss it."

Lin Yinan didn't say a word from beginning to end, and turned and left with everyone.

She gave him a chance.

It is his own choice to become like this now.

The boy looked at everyone leaving, tears of regret kept falling, he whimpered, his eyes full of despair.

Passing by a small alley, Yun Wu, who had a sensitive nose, smelled the smell of medicine coming from inside, and Lin Yinan could also vaguely smell it while wearing a mask.

"The team has run out of medicinal herbs, let's go see if we can buy some." Yun Mo said.

There was a small pharmacy in the middle of the alley, with the door ajar.

Looking inside through the half-open door, most of the cabinets in the drugstore were empty. There was a person sorting and packing medicinal materials, probably the owner of the drugstore.

The shopkeeper was very focused on his work. They stood at the door for a long time without him turning back.

After a long while, he looked up, glanced at the person outside the door, and said in a deep voice, "Please go back. I won't see patients today."

Yun Wu pushed the door open and walked in, "Boss, I'm here to buy medicinal herbs."

Lin Yinan and others followed in.

The shopkeeper stopped packing and looked up at the group of people walking into the store. These people looked unfamiliar and his eyelids twitched unconsciously.

The owner of the drugstore seemed to be in his thirties or forties, with a kind and honest look, but his face was filled with sorrow.

He said, "We don't have many herbs left in the store. Which ones do you need? Do you have a prescription?"

Yun Wu took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper took it, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, muttering to himself, "All herbal medicine shops have them, but in small quantities."

"Just pick up as many as you have for me." Yun Wu didn't mind. It was better than nothing.

The shopkeeper quickly picked up the medicine, wrapped it in a bag and handed it to Yun Wu.

Lin Yinan's mind moved slightly. She wanted to check the condition of the fetus in her belly. "Can the shopkeeper take my pulse?"

When the shopkeeper heard that the voice was a woman's, he turned his eyes to Lin Yinan, who was wearing black clothes and had his head and face tightly wrapped. "Diagnosis requires observation, listening, questioning and palpation."

Lin Yinan immediately understood what the shopkeeper meant, which was to ask her to take off her headscarf.

"Anan, what's wrong with you?" Lin Yiheng looked at her with concern when he heard his sister ask this.

Yun Mo, Su Yunzhi and others all looked at her.

Lin Yinan said frankly, "I'm not feeling well."

The shopkeeper knew she was talking about women's illness when he heard her words, "There is an inner room inside, young lady, would you like to go in?"

"Okay, shopkeeper, please lead the way."

In order to prevent there from being a trap inside, Yun Mo and others followed in.

Behind the drug store is a square courtyard with a well in the middle. Surrounding the well are wooden racks for drying medicine. The racks are now empty. There is a room on each of the three sides of the courtyard.

The shopkeeper took Lin Yinan to a consulting room. Yun Mo was worried, so he checked with Yun Er, but they found no secret rooms or passages.

After they went out, Lin Yinan took off her headscarf and mask and sat down at the table.

The shopkeeper is a capable man, otherwise he would not be detained here by the city lord.

He glanced at Lin Yinan and said, "The girl is pregnant."

"Yes." Lin Yinan stretched out his hand, "Please feel my pulse, shopkeeper."

The shopkeeper put his hand on her wrist, closed his eyes and began to listen carefully.

After a while, seeing his frown, Lin Yinan felt uneasy. It was not until the shopkeeper withdrew his hand that she asked cautiously, "Shopkeeper, how is the fetus?"

"The fetus is stable and no medicine is needed. Just pay more attention to your meals and don't overwork yourself." The shopkeeper said slowly.

Lin Yinan heaved a sigh of relief. She was really scared by him just now. It was nothing. She looked like she was seriously ill.

"Thank you, shopkeeper."

The shopkeeper didn't want to say more. He waved his hand and stood up to walk out. Lin Yinan whispered, "Have you ever thought about leaving here?"

The shopkeeper paused, turned back slowly, and said helplessly, "Miss, we can't leave once we enter Luochu City."

After they finished speaking, the two of them walked out one after the other.

Seeing the two people coming out, Lin Yiheng was about to step forward to ask.

Suddenly, a man rushed out from the next room, yelling and shouting, with bloodshot eyes, and pounced towards Yun Mo and the others, obviously going mad.

The shopkeeper turned around and shouted, "Quick! Hold him down!"

He pulled out the hemp rope hanging on the porch and walked quickly forward.

Yun Er and Yun San stepped forward and together they managed to hold the man down. Even so, the man's body continued to twist and struggle, and he kept roaring from the depths of his throat.

Seeing this, Lin Yinan, who had just stepped out of the house, was slightly startled and followed the shopkeeper to take a closer look.

Yun San raised his hand and hit him hard on the back of his neck. The man's eyes rolled back and he fainted completely.

Yun Er threw him to the ground in disgust and wiped his hands with a handkerchief.

No wonder Yun Er was disgusted. This man had dense blisters all over his body, some of which had ulcerated and oozing pus. He was breathing rapidly, his cheeks were flushed red, and he was still trembling slightly even when he was unconscious.

Lin Yinan had a bad feeling in her heart, as she was very familiar with these symptoms.

Yun Wu looked at him carefully for a long time and took his pulse. Even though he was knowledgeable, he couldn't tell what disease the man had.

"Strange, I'm obviously having a fever, why is my pulse so slow?"

The shopkeeper tied up the man's hands and feet with hemp rope. "Please carry him to this room."

As soon as he finished speaking, the other rooms all emitted the same roar, and the door of a tightly closed room was even slammed loudly.

Everyone looked at the shopkeeper, who wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Are there many more people like this in the room?" Lin Yinan asked coldly.

The shopkeeper's hands trembled slightly in his sleeves, and his chest felt as heavy as if it was pressed by a huge rock. He pointed at three of the rooms and shivered, "There are six people living in these."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yinan walked to the eaves and looked inside through the window.

Half of the people inside were tied to the beds with ropes, and a few had broken free and were walking back and forth in the room, screaming.