Ever since hearing from Constable Zhang that a female physician in Yunxi Village had discovered a method to prevent smallpox, Feng Zhiyi had been searching for villagers who had been inoculated, hoping to replicate the procedure. She had been sequestered for days, tirelessly repeating her experiments. Unfortunately, the pox matter she produced was either inert or so potent that it caused severe illness rather than the mild reaction the villagers described.
Thankfully, through her persistent study and several trials on the poor folk Qiongzhi had brought to her, she finally succeeded in cultivating the perfect pox vaccine that very day.
Lady Qiu had originally wanted to intervene; her sister-in-law had been pampered and sheltered since childhood, and she could not afford any mishaps. However, the wet nurse beside her whispered that news of the inoculation method was indeed circulating in town, and many who had tried it had never contracted the disease again, proving the efficacy of the treatment.
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