When the crowd of onlookers dispersed, Yan Junheng knew that it was impossible to block the news now.

"Uncle Zhuang, go back now quickly and tell my grandfather about the situation here, and ask him to immediately organize people to control the city gate."

Until now, Yan Junheng still wants to restrain the people of Sizhou County in the city.

He did this for several reasons.

On the one hand, a large number of people fled from Sizhou County, and his grandfather, as the county guard of Sizhou County, had to bear huge responsibilities.

As a shepherd guard, the people in the county town fled in large numbers, and the imperial court was bound to hold them accountable.

And once these fleeing people become rogues or join the grass army, they will inevitably be a disaster, and Sizhou County will also be ruined.

On the other hand, if the people of Sizhou County are allowed to flee, it will inevitably cause those who are already infected with smallpox to follow out of the city.

When the time comes, these smallpox people will bring the smallpox plague out of Sizhou County.

In this way, the smallpox plague will spread throughout Sizhou County and even throughout the southern part of the Dayu Dynasty.

At that time, the smallpox plague will be completely out of control, and it will eventually lead to a catastrophe.

And the last point is also Yan Junheng's selfishness.

Because if these people are allowed to flee from Sizhou County, his grandfather will definitely be discredited, and their Yan family's career will also be cut off.

Therefore, Yan Junheng did not hesitate to choose to let his grandfather block the city gate.

Faced with Yan Junheng's decision, even Tan Kexun, who was on the same front as him, was surprised.

In fact, Tan Kexun's idea is much simpler than Yan Junheng's.

His idea was to arrest all the Duowen Gang members who might be infected with smallpox before the matter was completely ruined.

In this way, the smallpox epidemic can be controlled.

And he treated Tian Hanyuan and Gu Sansi so arrogantly just now because he felt that these two people were blind.

In his opinion, revealing the matter here now would only create panic and give Tan Kelong and the other two infected people a chance.

This will not save the people of Sizhou County at all, and they are even contributing to the spread of smallpox.

But now, listening to Yan Junheng's meaning, he is preparing to trap all the people in Sizhou County in the city.

This means that Yan Junheng wants to gamble with the lives of the people in the city.

And this time, there were only two big bets, and either they caught Tan Kelong and the three of them as quickly as possible, and then the county town of Sizhou was safe.

Either the smallpox plague infected the entire county town of Sizhou and then the lives were devastated.

However, the probability of the latter is much greater than that of the former.

Therefore, this kind of gamble seems to Tan Kexun to be completely crazy and will choose.

"Yan Shao, the closure of the city is absolutely impossible!"

Tan Kexun immediately stopped.

"Tan Keqing, do you know what the consequences will be if the city is not locked down?"

Yan Junheng looked at Tan Kexun with a cold face and said.

"I know the consequences, but once the soldiers of the city guard battalion can't catch Tan Kelong and the three of them in time, the entire Sizhou county will be completely finished."

Tan Kexun said eagerly, and there was even a hint of supplication in his tone.

"I believe in the abilities of the soldiers of the City Guard Battalion, and you should trust them too."

Yan Junheng was unmoved, he still said coldly.

"But ......"

"There is nothing, if the city is closed, Sizhou County may be devastated, but if the entire Sizhou County and even the entire southern part of Dayu are not closed, how many people will die at that time, have you ever imagined?"

Before Tan Kexun could finish speaking, Yan Junheng immediately interrupted him.

Tan Kexun was directly told by Yan Junheng that he didn't know how to refute it.

But he still couldn't bear to feel that the people of Sizhou County had suffered countless deaths and injuries because of this.

But the truth is indeed as Yan Junheng said, if the people in the city are allowed to flee the city, there will be more dead and injured people.

"Brother Gu, Brother Tian, you just reprimanded us for blocking the news for fooling the people, but don't forget that the sage also said that you can make the people know about it, not the people, this is not a foolish move, this is a move to save the people!"

Yan Junheng turned his head to Gu Sansi and Tian Hanyuan and said.

Although Gu Sansi felt that what Yan Junheng said was also reasonable at this time, he still felt that Yan Junheng's method of concealing the news was a little inappropriate.

But if he had to come up with a better solution on his own, he couldn't think of it.

"You say that you are doing this for the people, but if the city gate is sealed, all the people of Sizhou County are infected with smallpox, and the people will be killed and injured by then, you may be able to bear this responsibility, or how can you decide the life and death of others? Just because you have a grandfather who is an official? ”

Tian Hanyuan was not persuaded by Yan Junheng, and now he asked the question he wanted to ask from the perspective of an ordinary person.

"How can you decide the life and death of others?"

Tian Hanyuan's question hit Yan Junheng's heart like a hammer.

For a moment, he was stunned on the spot, and he couldn't even say a word.

Yan Junheng fell into silence at this time, he felt that as long as Tian Hanyuan's question could be figured out, he would probably go further in his state of mind.

At that time, whether you are doing knowledge or dealing with people, you will have great improvement.

Just when Yan Junheng was deep in thought, his servant Uncle Zhuang was running towards the City Lord's Mansion in a hurry at this time.

He also knew now that he had to hurry up and report the news to the county keeper.

If the time drags on, and the people who fled just now release the news, the situation in the city will be completely out of control.

At that time, the county guard will also be severely punished by the imperial court, and he, a servant of the Yan family, will also lose the opportunity to be powerful.

Thinking of this, Uncle Zhuang's pace couldn't help but speed up a little again.

But what he didn't expect was that at this time, there was a figure following behind him.

And the speed of this figure is even faster than his, and the distance between the two sides is also rapidly narrowing.

Just when the distance between the two was less than a foot left, Uncle Zhuang, who was running in front, suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart, and then the hairs on his arms were counted down.

This instinctive sense of crisis made Uncle Zhuang turn back immediately.

But the moment he turned around, a blue-gray rectangle appeared in his field of vision.

And the thing grew rapidly in size in his field of vision until it completely occupied his field of vision.

The next second, he felt that his eyes were dark, and then he lost consciousness.

"This brick is not strong!"

The blue-gray square brick in Li Yi's hand had now broken into two sections, he pouted, threw the square brick aside, and then quickly pulled Uncle Zhuang into a small alley with Uncle Zhuang's legs.

"You guy is really unlucky, at such an old age, if it weren't for the sake of saving the lives of the people in Sizhou County, I wouldn't bear to give you such a beating."

Li Yi looked at the brick marks on Uncle Zhuang's face that began to slowly turn red, and said helplessly.

In fact, Li Yi had been hiding in the crowd before, carefully observing Yan Junheng and others.

When he heard that three members of the Duowen Gang had managed to escape from the siege of the city guards, he knew that his plan was half the battle.

Then he saw with his own eyes that there was a conflict between Yan Junheng and the four of them, which was actually what he expected.

And from the conflict between the two sides, Li Yi also saw that because of the different identities and statuses of the four people, their perspectives on dealing with the smallpox plague were completely different.

In particular, the controversy between Yan Junheng and Tian Hanyuan is even more-for-tat.

In fact, in Li Yi's view, there is no one right or wrong, Yan Junheng wants to close the city from the perspective of the overall situation.

What he wanted to do was to solve the problem with the least possible cost, so it was worth sacrificing some people's lives to save many more lives in his opinion.

But Tian Hanyuan is different, as an ordinary blacksmith, he thinks about the interests of the individual.

In his view, everyone's life is worth cherishing, and others should not have the right to ask others to use their own lives to fulfill other people's lives, even if they sacrifice one person's life, they can save more people's lives.

His idea is closer to the Buddhist idea of the equality of all beings.

After Li Yi knocked Uncle Zhuang out of a brick, Li Yi quickly climbed over the wall and entered a small courtyard not far from the Duowen Gang.

This small courtyard is uninhabited for many years, so the yard is overgrown with weeds, and the houses in the yard have also fallen into disrepair and the roof has collapsed in several places.

After Li Yi fell into the courtyard, he soon found two figures curled up in the southeast corner of the courtyard.

These two people found Li Yi as soon as he fell into the courtyard, but the two did not dare to jump out.

At this time, they were worried that Li Yi, who jumped in, was a soldier of the city guard battalion.

Just now, as soon as these two people left Tan Kelong's room, several members of the Duowen Gang directly took them to a room.

And as soon as they came up, they directly asked themselves to hand over the glass beads.

The two of them understood in an instant that these people had been sent by the gang master to trouble them, and the two of them were frightened at that time.

But just as they were about to pull the glass beads from their cuffs, the people who grabbed them quickly retreated as if they had seen a ghost.

This confused the two of them, and they couldn't figure out what these people were up to.

However, since the men had withdrawn on their own, the two of them immediately took the opportunity to escape.

But just as they were about to escape from Tan Kelong's mansion immediately, one of them grabbed the other, and he suggested that they must find out what was going on.

For such a crazy move by this person, the other person would have wanted to refuse.

But considering the look on their faces as if they had seen him, he finally agreed to stay and figure out the situation.

So the two hid outside the courtyard and quietly overheard the conversation between Tan Kelong and his subordinates.

Only then did they realize that they had contracted smallpox.

The news was like a thunderbolt that plunged the two into complete panic and despair.

The two originally planned to stop running away and stay here and wait for death.

But it didn't take long for the soldiers of the city guard camp to completely surround the place.

When the two saw the menacing appearance of the soldiers of the city guard battalion carrying weapons, the two who were already dead were immediately frightened and overwhelmed.

It then took a while of observation for the two to find the uninhabited yard.

And they didn't know that they were discovered by Li Yi who was hiding in the shadows when the two of them were squatting outside Tan Kelong's courtyard and eavesdropping.

When Li Yi recognized these two people as the guys who had blackmailed him with Zhong Duoqian before, he roughly guessed their current situation.

"You two don't hide here, the soldiers of the city guard camp have already begun to hunt you one by one."

Li Yi said in the direction of the two.

"Who are you, aren't you afraid of smallpox on us?"

The two saw that Li Yi had discovered themselves, so they no longer hid.

"I'm really not afraid of this, I've had smallpox before, and now I'm not afraid!"

Li Yi said indifferently.

"Then you're not afraid to get it again?"

One of the two pulled up his sleeve and shook it in front of Li Yi, as if the pimple on his arm was some kind of hidden weapon.

"Whoever has had smallpox will never have it a second time!"

Li Yi said helplessly, it seems that these two people really don't know what kind of plague this smallpox is.

"And what do you want?"

Seeing that their only means of threatening the other party were ineffective, the momentum of the two of them suddenly withered.

"I don't want to do anything, I'm just here to remind you that the city gate is about to close, if you two want to live, hurry up and get out of the city, otherwise you two will definitely die."

Li Yi said gloomily.

And the two of them were so frightened by Li Yi and immediately showed a look of fear.

"Why are you helping us?"

Although the two of them were now full of fear and helplessness, they still did not let down their vigilance against Li Yi.

"I'm helping you because I don't want you to die, that's all!"

Li Yi said without the slightest tone.

Although the reason Li Yi said was different from what he thought, the two still chose to believe Li Yi's statement.

Because Li Yi's tone was too flat at this time, so flat that he didn't have the slightest emotion.

At the same time, in the eyes of the two of them, a person who can take out seven glass beads of such quality will definitely not have any plans against the two.

Therefore, the two immediately knelt down and saluted Li Yi.

"The benefactor please accept our defeat, your great kindness and great virtue we will keep in mind, if my brothers can survive in the future, I will make cattle and horses for the benefactor to repay the benefactor for saving his life."

The two said as they kowtowed.

"Well, you don't have to do this, and now you better hurry up and get out of the city!"

Li Yi couldn't help but be taken aback by the two of them.

He didn't expect these two to be so courteous to him.

"That being the case, we will set off at once, but before we go, please ask the benefactor to inform us both of us that your honorific name is already addressed, so that I can find you later."

One of the two men bowed again.

"My name is Li Yi, and I don't have a fixed place to live at the moment, as for the matter of repaying the kindness, you don't need to mention it again, I saved you, but I can't bear to let you lose your life."

Li Yi said as he turned around and jumped towards the courtyard wall.

Then the body fell gently on the wall like a flying leaf.

"If you have a chance to see you again in the future, I hope you two can change your ways, and don't do this kind of extortion again."

After speaking, Li Yi disappeared on the wall, leaving only the two of them looking at the wall in a daze.