Why My Domineering Prince Regretted Filing for Divorce? Chapter 684 - 538: Civil Unrest

Cutting chives, what does that an?

The people were puzzled upon hearing this seemingly irrelevant remark, and the middle-aged man imdiately said, "Think about it, chives in the field are cut in one batch, and when they grow again, they’re cut another batch. Isn’t it the sa with the way they sell dicine?"

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"But, the cut chives can grow on their own, can our money, the common people’s money, grow on its own?"

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"Which penny and which cent weren’t earned through our hard work, blood, and sweat!"

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"Now, a bowl of dicine costs us a piece of silver, this is more ruthless than cutting chives! Once you make enough money, what will we have left?"

Suddenly, the people were enlightened, even Shang Ruyi was sowhat amazed—this analogy was not only vivid but also instantly made people think of themselves as worthless as weeds!

Truly, what clever thinking!

She instinctively took a serious look at the middle-aged man, but found that although he was not tall, he was sturdy and agile, his clothes were not luxurious, but clean and presentable, looking neither like a scholar nor like a farr from outside the city.

Nor did he appear to be soone capable of such clever thoughts.

Moreover, while he was shouting loudly, his eyes occasionally glanced at the crowd, with a hint of slyness in his gaze, clearly intending to stir up people’s emotions.

Sure enough, upon hearing his words, the crowd imdiately began to pity themselves, and many started to agree—

"He’s right, you’re treating us as if we’re chives to be cut!"

"It’s really like that!"

"We are not your chives!"

For a mont, the dissatisfaction among the crowd was imdiately aroused, constantly squeezing forward, so even trying to take advantage of the chaos to snatch the soup dicine on the table, fortunately, Pei Xingyuan had brought enough servants who quickly blocked in front of the long table, and the guards from Changle Square were afraid of trouble, so they blocked the front as well.

Seeing the situation turning bad, Shang Ruyi frowned and instinctively wanted to step forward.

But just as she took a step, she saw Pei Xingyuan, standing at the front, gently shaking his head at her, although his lower face was covered, his eyes were still bent with a smile.

Seeing this, Shang Ruyi suddenly rembered Shen Wuzheng’s admonition to them earlier—

Each doing their job, don’t be soft-hearted.

She imdiately stopped in her tracks.

At this mont, Pei Xingyuan raised both his hands and waved forcefully, and when the crowd saw him like this, they instinctively quieted down. Then, he cut through the air with his long arm, placed it on his waist, and put on an imposing stance, saying, "Ladies and gentlen, do you think I shouldn’t sell dicine?"

The middle-aged man had not yet opened his mouth when so people in the back shouted, "Of course!"

Pei Xingyuan chuckled and said, "Then let ask you, when you folks get sick and co into the city, what is it for? Isn’t it to visit the clinics and get treated for illness? Do you not pay for dicine?"

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"Why can you obediently pay for the dicine at clinics, but when it cos to my dicine, you expect to give it for free? Is there such a reason in this world?"

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"You don’t want to be treated as chives, and I, Mr. Pei, don’t want that either!"

The people at the back were stunned at his words.

Although when major pandemics occurred, the court would have asures for dispensing dicine and rice, Pei Xingyuan’s visit this ti was indeed not a command from the court, but his own action. To have him give out dicine seed sowhat unreasonable.

The middle-aged man saw this situation and imdiately said, "Buying dicine isn’t impossible, but Mr. Pei, have you seen dicine that costs a piece of silver per bowl?"

When he said this, the people around also reacted and chid in, "That’s right, it’s too expensive!"

"Even if we go to a clinic to buy dicine, they wouldn’t sell it for a piece of silver!"

"You’re just cutting chives!"

"Exactly, which clinic sells dicine at such high prices!"

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For a mont, the crowd’s emotions were stirred once again.

Yet Pei Xingyuan remained as steady as a mountain, even crossing his arms over his chest, looking confident and unfazed, smiling as he said, "Then let ask you this, when you co into the city to get treated, did you get the dicine at the clinics?"

Upon hearing this, the crowd was stunned and imdiately fell silent.

That’s right, although they’ve been in the city for quite so ti, so people even ran through all the clinics and pharmacies within Daxing City, and the prescriptions from the doctors were clearly just a few ordinary herbs, yet they wore out their shoes trying to buy them without success.

So, when Pei Xingyuan ca to sell dicine, they were delighted beyond asure, and money matters seed to fade away, until this middle-aged man stirred up trouble, they began to feel unjustly treated.