What should I do if the protagonist of every world I travel to is sick?

The crowd behind them rustled away, many of them still whispering, "They are from the imperial court..."

"But they drove those people away for us..."

"Snakes and rats from the same nest, what good can come out of them?"

"Have you forgotten the general who came to recruit soldiers? He looked like a good man and made promises to us. But none of my three sons came back!"

At this point, more people resonated with him, sobbing and shouting, "My poor child..."

Lu Yan and his group wanted to comfort them, but all they faced was their constant retreat and wary and hateful looks.

But at this moment, the old woman holding the swaddling clothes walked forward in front of all their eyes and knelt down in front of the group of young men.

"Grandma, you can't do that!" Lu Yan quickly held the old woman's arm, "You're going to shorten my lifespan by doing this."

The old woman bent her knees but stubbornly pressed them against the ground, a force so strong that even Lu Yan was frightened. The old woman's arms were as thin as firewood, and he didn't dare to exert any force at all.

The old woman knelt on the ground, holding the crying baby in her arms. She spoke softly with a firm attitude, "No matter what, it was this knight who saved us. Although I am blind, my heart is not blind. I can feel it. You are good people."

After she kowtowed for the first time, Lu Yan was so anxious that he knelt down in front of her, "Grandma, no, no!" His hand was placed on the old woman's forehead. When the old woman felt that she was not kowtow to the ground, but to his soft and warm palm, she raised her head and saw the cross iron sword pendant hanging around Lu Yan's neck in her blurry vision. Suddenly, her cloudy eyes were filled with mist.

She gently took the man's hand with one hand, and the two of them knelt on the ground. Her rough hand slowly stroked his cheek, with a smile on her face. "He's a young boy, has he reached adulthood? Why are you out so early? Won't your family be worried?" She said a lot of things one after another. Some people who knew her came to pull her away, "Grandma, he's an official appointed by the court, not your youngest son!"

The old woman pulled Lu Yan's arm and stood up to avoid those who were trying to pull her.

"I know, he is not Ah Zhi, I am not senile yet! He is not an official appointed by the court." The old man's full-hearted voice stopped those who wanted to drag her back.

Song He stood aside and asked someone at random. At first, the man was a little scared, but when he saw that Song He's tone was very gentle and he didn't have the airs of the officers and soldiers he knew before, he slowly told him the story.

"This place is close to the border, and is usually not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. Each family only needs to guard their own few acres of land and take care of the family's food and drink. At worst, the neighbors look after each other and can provide one or two meals a day. But since the imperial court sent people, saying that they want to rationalize the land planning, our own fields have been allocated to the public. In the past, we grew our own food, but now we have to pay half of the grain we grow to the government, half! The whole family can't even have enough to eat! This is when the harvest is good. If the harvest is bad, after paying half, what will we have left?

The imperial court announced a war and conscription, and a group of our young warriors went. Then a general arrived, saying he wanted to borrow men from us, claiming they'd suffered heavy casualties in the fighting and wanted to borrow our strength. What strength did we have? We were just ordinary people, happy to make a living. The general kept talking about serving the country and the people, and using threats, coercion, and inducements, until the few remaining young men in the village followed him.

She sneered, covering her face with her hands, her voice trembling, "My husband has been a sickly child since he was young. He doesn't even have enough fighting skills to support himself, and he's fighting against the enemy! I'm afraid he's dead in some corner without even knowing it."

"If those who go can have their families exempted from half of their taxes, who would be willing to go? He said that for our children and for me, he doesn't want to be just a sickly person at home, he also wants to be a man who stands tall and proud..." When he said this, the man could no longer hold back his tears.

Song He sighed, patted her back gently, and handed her a handkerchief, "My condolences, Madam."

She wiped her red eyes with her sleeve, biting her lower lip. She pushed his handkerchief aside and bowed to him. "I'm very grateful that you helped us earlier and prevented us from being kicked out. You may be good people, but you are from the government, and we will not have any more involvement with you. Please leave now."

Song He was about to open his mouth to explain, but the old man on Lu Yan's side started to explain loudly to everyone.

"If they were from the imperial court, why would they start a war for us right away? What else can we gain from them now? Moreover..."

She narrowed her eyes, raised her hand and stroked the pendant around Lu Yan's neck. It was it, it really was it.

Her laughter echoed in the air. She kept coughing, but she still held the pendant tightly in her hand and did not let go.

"How could the young master of my Lu family become a running dog of the imperial power!"

Everyone thought the old woman was crazy, until they heard her mention Lu, and many people stood up.

"You are from the Lu family, the Lu on the ground!"

"Mrs. Wu, you said he is the young master of the Lu family, so doesn't that mean he is Young Master Lu's child?"

"Is my benefactor okay now? I hope you will forgive my rudeness just now!"

Just now everyone was in a hostile and alert state. Now, not only Lu Yan was scratching his head, but the group of people at the back who didn't know the truth were also looking at the scene of a group of people kneeling on the ground around the young man with puzzled eyes.