The physician was obsessed with medicine and wanted to participate in smallpox prevention techniques, which the emperor did not refuse.
Imperial Physician Li successfully entered the Marquis's residence.
But he was new. Those in the Marquis's mansion who were supposed to be vaccinated had already been vaccinated, while those who refused remained locked in their courtyards and refused to be vaccinated.
Therefore, he could only try to find out how to inoculate smallpox by subtly inquiring with other imperial physicians, but Ye Zhen only told the prefectural physician and the head of the hospital, Feng Xing, about the specific method; the others did not know the details.
His actions, however, caught the attention of Ye Zhen and Xie Tingzhou. Xie Tingzhou immediately ordered the guards outside the mansion to investigate him.
He learned that he was Ye Wantang's man, having just met Ye Wantang before entering the mansion.
The fact that Ye Wantang had caused the beggar's death was also discovered.
"This person is despicable; she's trying to steal your credit."
Xie Tingzhou's eyes were gloomy.
"The glory of the General's Mansion nurtured her ambition, and she couldn't stand to see me doing well."
Ye Zhen was in a dilemma. "He sent Imperial Physician Li into the mansion to steal the smallpox inoculation technique. If we don't reveal it, given her greedy nature, she will definitely continue to find people to conduct experiments, harming more innocent lives."
But I'm unwilling to tell her.
Ye Wantang has already taken enough from her, and now she even wants to take the smallpox vaccination technique. What gives her the right?
Xie Tingzhou then realized that blood ties were truly a strange thing. Ye Zhen had never been raised by Ye Jinghong, yet she had grown up to look like Ye Jinghong.
Ye Jinghong revered life and never disregarded the lives of ordinary people, as did Ye Zhen.
If she were more ruthless and deliberately revealed the wrong method to Ye Wantang, Ye Wantang would definitely make a big mistake.
But the price was that the people of Dongshi contracted smallpox, and Ye Zhen was unwilling to harm innocent lives.
Xie Tingzhou patted Ye Zhen's head and said, "I'll have someone keep an eye on him. If he can't send any messages, Ye Wantang won't be able to take you away."
In the eyes of the powerful and wealthy, the lives of ordinary people are as worthless as grass.
For them, sacrificing lives to attack enemies or achieve their own goals was commonplace, even taken for granted.
Xie Tingzhou had seen too much of this since childhood and loathed it.
Ye Zhen has a compassionate heart, and Xie Tingzhou feels that this is what makes her a vibrant person, the kind of wife he wants to spend his life with.
He was willing to protect her kindness.
Ye Zhen glared at him.
"Don't touch my head."
Ever since the two became friends, Xie Tingzhou, taking advantage of his height, often liked to pat Ye Zhen's head.
When the large hand covered his head, Ye Zhen always felt like he was petting a pet.
Xie Tingzhou saw her glaring eyes as a girl's little temper in front of her sweetheart, and he liked it very much.
At the same time, he always thought of the fox he used to keep, which was noble and proud, and also clever and intelligent, and deserved to be carefully protected.
When they throw a tantrum, you need to coax them gently.
"I was wrong."
His eyes crinkled into a smile as he apologized.
Ye Zhen refused.
Xie Tingzhou had no choice but to bend down and let Ye Zhen retaliate by ruffling the noble young master's hair into a mess before he would stop.
This was a little bit of fun between them, and Xie Tingzhou enjoyed it immensely.
Xing Ze was shocked when he first saw it. His master was incomparably noble, yet someone dared to make trouble for him.
After seeing it so many times, I found it unbearable to look at, but I developed the habit of carrying a comb with me at all times.
Whenever the Crown Prince's head was a mess, he would quietly hand him a comb.
Xie Tingzhou then pestered Ye Zhen to restyle his hair. The two of them were so affectionate that Xing Ze's teeth ached, and even Wan Xing felt as if she had never met Xie Tingzhou before.
The same is true today.
Ye Zhen built her own home and combed her own hair, all the while talking to Xie Tingzhou about Ye Wantang.
"We need to trap them and expose Ye Wantang's murder of the beggar."
To prevent Ye Wantang from harming others again.
If Ye Wantang hadn't taken her identity, and the Ye family hadn't abandoned her in the southern village where she was often hungry and cold as a child, Ye Zhen felt that her height would have been much greater than what she was seeing.
My mother is a typical tall woman from the North, and with her standards, she would never choose a short man.
So, my growing into a small southern potato is the result of the misfortune of the Ye family.
"Ye Zhengqing must be keeping a mistress. Have someone investigate."
This grudge must be settled together. Since she can't leave now, she'll have Xie Tingzhou do it for her.
Although Ye Zhen was not as tall as the women from the north, she was not short either, and she had a graceful and shapely figure.
However, Xie Tingzhou is exceptionally tall, so when the two are together, she appears petite and adorable, giving off a feeling of being a little bird clinging to someone.
Xie Tingzhou smiled and agreed, promising to fulfill his mission.
Imperial Physician Li was arrested and handed over to the head of the academy, Feng Xing.
He had made many inquiries recently, and Feng Xing had also noticed that before the smallpox inoculation technique was made public, it was a secret recipe, and doctors were most afraid of learning it by stealing.
Chief Physician Feng threatened that the Li family would be expelled from the Imperial Medical Academy and permanently banned from practicing medicine, which forced Imperial Physician Li to confess the truth.
Upon learning that Ye Wantang had instigated the incident, Feng Xing, without Xie Tingzhou needing to speak, instructed the Imperial Guards to relay the matter to the Emperor and request that the Emperor terminate Ye Wantang's mission of inoculating people with smallpox in the East Market.
They all need to come to the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion to learn from him, which shows that Ye Wantang's method failed, or perhaps she simply had no way to do it.
Letting her continue will only make things worse. If someone dies from smallpox inoculation, the people will be unaware and might even become afraid of the Marquis's smallpox inoculation practice.
He was pleasantly surprised by the situation at the Marquis's residence. No one had died, and those who had been vaccinated only had mild cases. He estimated that the residence would be back to normal in another day or two.
Having practiced medicine for decades, witnessing the prevention of smallpox was something he had longed for, and he was determined not to let Ye Wantang, a single bad apple, spoil the whole bunch.
Thinking of Ye Wantang's confident vows in front of the Emperor, Feng Xing frowned and said one more thing to the Imperial Guards.
"I'm afraid the Ye family's daughter doesn't have any preventative measures, otherwise why didn't she mention it before?"
However, he only took on the job after hearing that the Marquis's mansion had a solution, showing that he was too ambitious.
He knew these words would be relayed to the emperor verbatim, and he hoped the emperor would understand Ye Wantang's wickedness and stop him in time.
But he was still a step too late.
While Ye Wantang allowed Imperial Physician Li into the mansion, she did not stop conducting experiments on living people.
After failing to apply acne ointment to the wounds of healthy people, she thought it might be because the beggars had poor health, so she sent people to capture two strong young men outside the city.
They thought they were just ordinary people, but one of them turned out to be Fang Yantong, the brother-in-law of Imperial Censor Wang.
Fang Yantong was working at the Hanlin Academy. He went on a year-long trip and upon his return, he wanted to compile his observations from his travels into a book.
Feeling that his home was not peaceful enough, he rented a small courtyard in the countryside outside the city. He didn't even bring any servants, and his life was left unattended. He was a mess and looked like an old bachelor from the countryside.
Mrs. Fang missed her husband and couldn't resist going to see him, only to find that he had disappeared.
Ye Wantang, fearing smallpox, dared not bring the person to the general's mansion, and instead imprisoned him in a dilapidated Taoist temple outside the city, with only two guards watching over him.
When the Fang family found Fang Yan by following the trail, he had already contracted smallpox and was delirious with fever.
The two guards were alert and tried to escape, but they were blocked by Xie Tingzhou's men.
Unable to withstand the interrogation, the guard revealed Ye Wantang's identity.
Ye Wantang had just received news from another region that smallpox had broken out there, and was about to enter the palace when the Fang family, dragging two guards, came to her door.
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