The crowd, originally sitting quietly below the high platform doing their "fogging" treatments, turned around upon hearing the noise, and seeing that it was the Hu Family people, they began to curse discontentedly.
"Do you have the nerve to show your faces?"
"Get lost, back to your medicine cauldrons!"
"Quacks harming themselves and others! Just roll out of here!"
Those few, the subjects of scorn, turned pale-faced, and ultimately, without saying a word, silently led the young man back down the alley.
Bai Junjun was watching the bustle when the Government Official, who had gone to deliver the message, returned. He apologized profusely to Ah Fu and Ah Gui, "I'm so sorry, but the Wizard's treatment has already started, and the County Magistrate cannot leave the Sacrificial Altar until the treatment is concluded. You'll have to wait until after the treatment to get your seal stamped."
"When will it be over?"
"Generally, not until the next Chen Hour."
