The third prince now knew why he had not received any news from the Imperial Medical Office for a day.
The doctor in charge of studying the epidemic is Wang Tao. His people have been keeping an eye on him at the Imperial Medical Office. How did Yuan Yicheng bring people out?
As expected, Wu Yushi came prepared and had already colluded with Yuan Yicheng.
The child who suddenly died suddenly was probably not caused by vaccination, but someone deliberately killed him and then used it against himself.
Such disregard for human life in order to achieve the goal made the third prince feel angry.
New things are not always easy to accept.
The Imperial Medical Office's research on vaccination resulted in the sudden death of an innocent child. The courtiers had their own opinions on the matter and were quarreling with each other. They all criticized the vaccination of people with cowpox, which was against the laws of nature and a crazy act.
Xuanzong was sitting on the royal chair. When he heard the quarrels among the courtiers, his face was gloomy and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry.
"Pass my decree and bring in Yuan Yicheng and the children who have been vaccinated with cowpox!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Eunuch Yang received the order and hurriedly arranged for the deacons and eunuchs to go to the palace gate to deliver the news. Soon, Yuan Yicheng entered the Jinluan Palace with two children who had been vaccinated with cowpox.
The third prince observed carefully and found that it was exactly what the guards reported. The abscesses on the two children who had been vaccinated with cowpox had fallen off, leaving only some deep and shallow acne marks on the exposed skin.
Being watched by the courtiers all over the hall, the little girl, who was about the same age as her little imperial sister, started shaking violently as soon as she stepped into the hall. She was led by the older boy before she moved to the center of the hall and knelt down with Yuan Yicheng.
"Your Majesty, these are the two children who survived the cowpox vaccination. Their companion died suddenly last night, which frightened them."
Yuan Yicheng looked pitifully and said, "How did they get into the Imperial Medical Office? Your Majesty will know if you ask."
Xuanzong looked at the child who was about the same age as Xiao Shi kneeling in the center of the hall. He was so scared that he shrank behind the older boy, his thin body shaking violently.
He lowered his voice and asked warmly: "Tell me, who brought you to the Imperial Medical Office?"
Xuanzong's voice was very majestic. Even if he slowed down and became gentler, the girl still felt like there was a thunder in her ears, which made her little body shake like chaff.
The older boy looked at the third prince angrily: "It's him!"
The whole palace was in an uproar!
The courtiers looked sideways at the third prince.
The third prince said that he had never forced the little beggar who entered the Imperial Medical Office, but the little beggar looked at him with such angry eyes. It was self-evident.
When Yuan Yicheng saw that the third prince had become the target of public criticism, his gray beard trembled, a hint of pride surged in his eyes, and he looked at Wu Yushi without any trace of it.
The third prince was speechless for a moment.
Xuanzong asked again: "So, it was he who forced you to inoculate cowpox on your body?"
This time, Xuanzong did not lower his voice deliberately, and spoke without being angry or intimidating. The little girl kneeling on the ground was so frightened that she subconsciously hid behind the boy.
The boy's eyes became even more angry as he stared at the third prince.
Just as he was about to speak, a young eunuch hurried into the palace and whispered something in Eunuch Yang's ear.
Eunuch Yang reported: "Your Majesty, the Queen sent someone to send the ten princesses to the court, and they are waiting outside the palace at the moment."
Ten princesses?
Xuanzong had ordered people to engrave the technique of transferring energy to save people into stone tablets for the officials to disseminate.
Two days ago, a child fell into the water by the river. After he was fished out, someone used magic to revive him in accordance with the law. This caused an uproar in the streets and alleys.
The courtiers were very curious about this newly favored tenth princess. When Li Sixu's small body crossed the high threshold of the Jinluan Palace and walked in steadily step by step with her short legs, she attracted a lot of side glances.
Li Sixu walked to the center of the hall under the gaze of the courtiers, and then looked at the trembling little girl next to Yuan Yicheng.
"Don't be afraid, my father is not cruel."
Hearing the familiar voice, the little girl who had been grabbing the boy's clothes and trembling with fear raised her head. When she saw Li Sixu, the fear in her eyes disappeared like a tide.
Li Sixu smiled sweetly at her. She was no longer so nervous and loosened her grip on the boy's clothes.
"Um!"
She nodded obediently towards Li Sixu, then grinned at her and said, "I'm not afraid."
Because the two little girls looked at each other so tenderly, the tense atmosphere in the hall suddenly disappeared.
Li Sixu then knelt down to Xuanzong and said politely: "My son, I have met my father."
When his little boy entered the palace and said in a childish voice that my father was not cruel, Xuanzong was a little cute.
Sure enough, only cubs can communicate with cubs.
The timid little thing kneeling in the middle of the hall was really no longer afraid, and even grinned at her.
With two such young children present, Xuanzong felt that the majesty of Jinluan Palace was gone.
"What's Xiao Shi doing here?"
Xuanzong's tone seemed to blame Li Sixu for disturbing the court, but he also looked a little helpless at her.
"The tenth princess came just in time!"
Before Li Sixu could speak, a calculating look flashed across Yuan Yichen's eyes, and he complained eloquently: "The person who presented the vaccination technique to prevent smallpox to the Imperial Hospital was the tenth princess, and the one who categorically said that this technique was feasible that day was The Tenth Princess, at that time, I and several medical officers from the Imperial Medical Office argued with Mr. Wang, saying that transferring the pus from cowpox to the human body was unheard of forever, and it was the Tenth Princess who said that this method was feasible."
"Then, the third prince actually believed and listened. He was responsible for whatever the third prince said."
Imperial Physician Yuan said sarcastically: "It's ridiculous that the Tenth Princess is only six years old. The Third Prince and Dr. Sun believed her words without a doubt, and ignored the dissuasion of the medical officer of the Imperial Physician's Department and allowed Master Wang to perform life-threatening techniques on these children."
"Your Majesty, the use of cowpox to prevent smallpox is nonsense. This method is not feasible!"
Yuan Yicheng persisted in this matter and reported: "I thought that the method of vaccination and smallpox prevention offered by the ten princesses to the imperial hospital was a witchcraft and evil method, and I asked the emperor to seek justice for the child who died suddenly."
The third prince felt that as soon as his little imperial sister appeared, Yuan Yicheng suddenly bit him and refused to let go. This matter was even more wrong!
He suddenly remembered that Yuan Yicheng's nephew was imprisoned a few days ago for murdering the Thirteenth Emperor's brother and the little Emperor's sister at Yaxuan Pavilion.
It is said that although Imperial Physician Yuan is the nephew of Yuan Physician Cheng, they have a deep relationship and are like father and son.
Yuan Yicheng came out to testify at this time. He was not the only one to deal with. He also wanted to involve the little imperial sister.
"Father, it was my son's decision to let Mr. Wang perform the vaccination."
The third prince said anxiously: "This matter has nothing to do with the little imperial sister!"
Realizing the purpose of the alliance between Wu Yushi and Yuan Yicheng, the third prince tried his best to remove Li Sixu from the matter, and even winked at her to tell her not to speak.
