Chen Yi did not need to say much at all.
The moment the words "plague" were spoken, the neighbors who had just wanted to crowd forward for a look scrambled out of the house.
They were both panicked and afraid.
"Mrs. Yuan, your family has plague, so what are you shouting for? Are you determined to drag us down to be buried with Old Yuan?"
"I heard the Yuan woman crying for help and rushed over in a hurry. Is this how you repay us?"
"Damn it..."
Yuan Liu'er's mother held a girl in each hand and likewise retreated several steps, turning a deaf ear to the curses around her.
She looked at Yuan Hao, whose fate between life and death was unknown, then at Chen Yi inside. With a thud, she dropped to her knees and repeatedly smashed her forehead against the ground.
Bang, bang, bang...
"Please, benefactor, save my Hao'er! Please save him..."
Chen Yi turned his head to glance at her, then gave the at-a-loss Yuan Liu'er a grave order:
"Go help your mother up and take her away!"
"I can save your brother!"
Yuan Liu'er looked at his unfamiliar yet somehow vaguely familiar face and, for no reason she understood, believed him.
Without time to think further, she hurriedly pulled up her mother and two younger sisters, taking them all out of the house.
"Mother, the benefactor said he can save Hao. Let's wait outside."
After soothing her mother, Yuan Liu'er did not forget to call out to the people around them:
"Thank you, uncles and aunties, for coming to lend a hand. Since the benefactor inside can save my younger brother Hao, he can save our lives as well."
"I hope everyone will watch their words..."
"That's plague, you!?"
Before the speaker could finish, Yuan