But I promise you, I will be very, very careful during my pregnancy and will not harm myself or the baby.
Xiao Yanchu raised his hand and gently touched Su Ruojin's hair, then lowered his hand and placed his chin on her head, stroking it as he sighed softly.
"Ah Jin, what am I going to do with you? I will definitely protect you and the child."
Su Ruojin leaned against Xiao Yanchu and let out a soft breath.
Phew~~~ Thank goodness, I finally managed to calm her down.
She's really bad at comforting people. If she still can't comfort them after this, Su Ruojin doesn't know what to do. She can't just hold Xiao Yanchu and cry, can she?
However, Xiao Yanchu later forbade her from vaccinating the soldiers anymore, fearing that she would get tired and also worried about what might happen if the epidemic occurred.
The imperial physicians were only allowed to consult Su Ruojin for solutions to any problems they encountered.
Su Ruojin also felt her body getting heavier and that she shouldn't overexert herself, so she agreed and entrusted some things to Yanluo.
The news gradually spread throughout the army that the princess, despite being pregnant, was worried about the soldiers' health and traveled a long distance to vaccinate them.
Furthermore, since Su Ruojin was originally a member of the Su family, the soldiers' respect for Su Ruojin, the princess, had reached its peak.
The soldiers trained every day and were in good physical condition, so their reactions to cowpox were relatively mild, which reassured Su Ruojin a lot.
The soldiers and military doctors who had recovered went to nearby villages to vaccinate the villagers against smallpox.
Although some people inevitably died from the disease, the number was much less than before the outbreak, and things were moving in a positive direction.
Once all the soldiers in the army had been vaccinated, the matter was considered closed.
Wei Xuebin also said that his deputy had administered the vaccination to him.
Now that the epidemic has been brought under control, Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu have started another project.
Hu Qing interrogated Bei Li's spy. At first, the spy insisted that Su Wenzhou had given him the defense map. Later, Hu Qing asked Yan Luo to help him by feeding the spy a poison pill and adding several injections.
The spy immediately confessed. He didn't know who gave him the defense map; he only received instructions to go to a tree north of the military camp to retrieve something, and then he was captured.
What a coincidence?
hehe.
Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu realized that there must be a traitor in the army who wanted to use this to frame Su Wenzhou.
Meanwhile, the people they had sent to investigate nearby villages returned one after another.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, the villagers don't know how the epidemic started."
Only one old man from Qinghe Village mentioned that there is a small river in the village, and its upstream is in Beili.
Some children in the village found a bag containing some clothes while playing in the river.
The villagers of Qinghe Village live in very poor conditions. Many of them only have one set of clothes. When the children saw these ownerless clothes, they happily took them home.
"Did anyone ask what the clothes look like?" Su Ruojin suddenly thought of something.
A guard brought out a package. "I've brought the clothes."
Upon opening the package, inside was a simple outer garment, the style of which appeared to be worn by people from the Great Chu Kingdom.
The guard added, "The family said that what they found was clothing belonging to the Northern Li people, and that their family members had altered the style."
Su Ruojin and Xiao Yanchu exchanged a glance, both realizing what was going on.
They had already heard from the soldiers here that there had been an epidemic in Beili recently, called something like "smallpox," but it seemed to have been brought under control.
"Hu Qing, have someone investigate."
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