The hall was silent, with only the crackling of the lamp. The doctors were still looking at Miss Jun, their expressions becoming complicated as they recovered from their shock.
Everyone seemed to want to say something, but didn't know what to say, or didn't know whether they should say it themselves. The doctors' eyes began to collide with each other.
In the end, it was Doctor Feng who spoke first.
"How do we do this?" he asked crisply.
"It's about vaccinating people who are not sick," said Miss Jun.
She had said this before, and the doctor hesitated.
"To everyone?" he asked.
Miss Jun shook her head.
"Not for now," she said. "It's mainly for children, who are most susceptible to acne."
"We know this," said another doctor, looking helpless, "but the key now is how to do it?"
"Yeah, how do you explain this to people?"
"If I tell people this is smallpox and you get infected, will you no longer be afraid of smallpox in the future?"
"Then why don't you call it out?"
The doctors in the temple started discussing again, but this time they were no longer questioning whether the matter was true or false, but were discussing how to do it.
It was as if the previous questioning, arguments and anger had never existed, as if they had been talking about how to do it from the beginning to the end, not whether to do it or not.
Doctor Feng smiled.
"This smallpox virus is absolutely safe." Miss Jun said.
"Miss Jun, it's useless for you to tell us this." A doctor said with a wry smile, "Your medical skills are superb, and we are convinced, but now we can't just convince ourselves, we have to convince the people."
"It's easy to convince the people. Just let them see that cow...pox is effective. Then we have to verify its effectiveness. But how do we verify it?" said another doctor.
Yes, the doctors all nodded, and just as they were about to agree, they heard a cough outside.
"You need to verify it. That's very simple."
The sound was eerie, as if it suddenly came out from underground, and it made people feel cold when they heard it in the middle of the night.
Everyone looked over subconsciously, feeling even colder.
A group of people had been standing outside the palace gate since I don't know when. They were all wearing scarlet cloaks and had sinister expressions. The Xiuchun swords at their waists were faintly visible as their cloaks fluttered.
Chen Qi stood in front of them, with a Jinyiwei guard holding his shoulder. His body seemed to be frozen and motionless. When he saw everyone looking at him, he forced a smile.
When did these ghosts come?
Of course, they also knew that these Golden Guards would follow them like shadows as they entered the temple.
But they have not appeared in the temple these days. This place in front of the hall is where doctors discuss illnesses and medical records, and it is strictly forbidden for outsiders to approach.
Well, the Royal Guards are not idle people. Although they don’t appear in the temple all the time, they are definitely everywhere. In the eyes of the Royal Guards, there are no secrets.
The doctors looked at each other, and it seemed that these Royal Guards knew what had been said before.
"What do you want?" Miss Jun asked, looking at the person standing next to Chen Qi who was obviously the leader.
Baihu Jiang smiled.
"We are fine. We just came to help because we heard that you, Miss Jun, were in trouble," he said.
Whenever these Jinyiwei take action, they either destroy a family or even wipe out the entire clan. They never help others.
The doctors in the hall turned pale.
They must have known what they said before.
Smallpox virus.
The Jinyiwei would definitely not believe such a bizarre idea as using smallpox poison to treat diseases, and might even take the opportunity to get rid of them.
Soldiers have surrounded the temple, allowing only entry but not exit. It is obvious that the people in Guanghua Temple have become lambs to be slaughtered. Once the disease here cannot be controlled, they will be abandoned together.
How could people who come here to treat smallpox not know about the tragic smallpox case in Lingnan? No matter whether they were infected or not, anyone who had contact with the infected people was killed.
That time, it was the governor who bore the bad reputation, but this time the bad reputation does not need to be borne by the imperial officials because of these doctors who voluntarily requested to be executed.
They said they could cure it, but in the end they didn't. Isn't that their fault?
What’s more, now there is this smallpox virus.
Imagine what they talked about when they got together just now.
This acne cannot be cured. It cannot be cured.
This is smallpox virus, taken from a cow.
Infect healthy people with smallpox.
They were almost scared to death when they heard this. If the people heard about it, they would be terrified.
There is no need to wait until they are questioned for the crime of failing to cure the disease. This is enough to have their entire clan exterminated, and the people will still applaud them.
He can leave his name in the history books, but it will be a bad reputation.
The doctors looked at these Jinyiwei and felt secretly regretful in their hearts. What they said just now were too frightening and they really shouldn't have said them like that. They were still making a lot of noise in the hall. Not to mention the hidden Jinyiwei, all the people in the entire temple would be attracted.
It's over now.
"How can I help you?" Miss Jun asked calmly.
Captain Jiang smiled but said nothing. He turned sideways and waved his hand. The Jinyiwei soldiers in front of the door stood in a row on both sides, presenting the night scene to the doctors.
In the darkness of night, there were more than a dozen people kneeling or lying on the ground, both men and women.
What is this for?
The doctors stepped forward and looked at these people in the light pouring out from the hall.
"Hey, aren't these the patient's family members?" Everyone recognized them and said in surprise.
Hearing the sound, the dozen or so men and women whose hands and feet were bound and their mouths gagged raised their heads, struggled, sobbed for help with tears streaming down their faces, and looked terrified.
"What are you doing?" Miss Jun asked with a frown.
"Verify it." Lu Yunqi's voice came from the night.
Only then did everyone see him walking out from the mixed light and darkness of the night.
Lu Yunqi walked over and stood in front of the palace gate, looking at Miss Jun.
"Are these people enough?" he said.
The doctors finally came to their senses and looked at Lu Yunqi in shock and disbelief.
He means...
They looked at the dozen men and women tied up on the ground.
Do you want these people to try Miss Jun’s acne poison?
This, this, is a living person.
"Nonsense." Jiang Baihu said, "What's the point of verifying a dead person? Isn't it to see if there is this... cow or something, or if the person is dead or not?"
As he spoke, he pointed at the dozen or so men and women on the ground.
"Come on, give it a try."
As he pointed, a Royal Guard came forward and picked up a woman.
The woman was trembling with fear and almost fainted.
"What are you doing!" Doctor Feng couldn't help but scold, "How could you do this?"
Once he started talking, the other doctors couldn't help but speak too.
"Yeah, how can you do this?"
“They are family members of patients who come to seek medical treatment.”
"Why did you arrest them?"
Captain Jiang glanced at the doctors with a gloomy expression, which stopped the doctors' questioning.
Lu Yunqi ignored these doctors from beginning to end and just looked at Miss Jun.
"Not enough, more," he said.