In the following days, Su Pan’er was busy rushing between her ho and the patients.
Aside from these few people with fevers, high fever patients started to appear in surrounding villages.
At this point, rumors began to circulate, accusing Su Pan’er of toying with the villagers’ lives out of malicious intent and causing great alarm among the villagers.
To prevent any accidents among those vaccinated, Su Pan’er swiftly moved between various villages almost ceaselessly, leaving her trail everywhere.
At this ti, the news of the elder Clan Leader of the Qin Family suddenly falling into a severe fever and being in critical condition after vaccination spread like wildfire, stirring up widespread resentnt among the villagers!
When Su Pan’er hurried over to examine the elder Clan Leader upon hearing the news, villagers from several nearby villages also rushed over!
More and more villagers were gathering outside the Qin Family ancestral hall, cursing Su Pan’er with wrathful expressions.
Under the influence of agitators, the angry crowd beca increasingly restless, collectively demanding justice from Su Pan’er.
Seeing that the situation was about to spiral out of control, soone hastily went to inform Qin Yi.
Before Qin Yi could arrive, Jun Ruochen ca with a group of Governnt Employees.
Seeing the frenzied villagers, Jun Ruochen quickly gestured to his colleagues.
The governnt employee imdiately stepped forward, posing an intimidating front to the crowd.
"What are you all doing here? You want to cause public disturbance? Disperse, everyone disperse!"
"Don’t block the way here, otherwise, don’t bla us for not being polite!"
These villagers instinctively wanted step aside when they saw the governnt officials.
Soone imdiately began to speak in a sarcastic tone.
"Su Pan’er’s smallpox vaccination is killing us. We’re here to confront her! The people in your governnt office can’t ignore this!"
When the villagers heard soone speaking up, they all followed suit and started to rant and rave.
"Right, you governnt officials can’t favor her! She wants to kill us, we demand justice!"
"Punish the culprit, we want justice, we want justice!"
"..."
The noise of the crowd grew louder and louder, showing a growing montum.
The situation has turned tricky.
"Fellow villagers! Everyone, please don’t get agitated."
Jun Ruochen gestured to Hwa Diexiang and stepped forward, calling out loudly.
"Doctor Su is still doing her best to rescue people, and the elder Clan Leader is not in mortal danger! However, I really don’t understand what you are making a fuss about. You are all shouting that the elder Clan Leader is in trouble. Are you deliberately cursing him?"
Upon hearing his words, the crowd was noticeably quieter, and so people seed to show a realization.
At this ti, the sarcastic voice rose pitch again.
"The elder Clan Leader was healthy, why did he suddenly have a high fever and beco unconscious? Clearly, there’s a problem with the vaccine Su Pan’er used! Otherwise, why would there be continuous problems after vaccination for everyone who was once healthy? It’s clear that Su Pan’er’s dical skills are poor and are harming us. Honorable County Magistrate, you must stand up for us!"
This caused an uproar among the seemingly pacified crowd.
"You want the Magistrate to act on your behalf? That’s absolutely fine!"
Jun Ruochen nodded his head: "However, when you say you are seeking justice from Doctor Su, in what respect? When you were vaccinated, didn’t you all sign a Life-or-death Statent? Her actions have nothing to do with your life or death!"
Having said this, he scanned the crowd with his eyes.
That’s right!
When they were vaccinated, everyone had signed a Life-or-death Statent, stating they understood their life was in the hands of the Heavenly Mandate.
The crowd exchanged looks, and then they all started to curse Su Pan’er for being ruthless.
The crowd beca restless, but under the strong suppression of the governnt, they had to quiet down again.
"Ruthless? Haha! When you all were forcing her to vaccinate everyone, and now you want to ask her for justice? Did she Murder or harm anyone? Words must be backed by facts."
With a face filled with indignation, Jun Ruochen said, "Want to lodge a complaint? Sure! Follow the procedure and write up a complaint, and then submit it to the governnt office. However, if it is found to be a deliberate fra and entrapnt, the complainant will not only be beaten, but will also be fined a lot of money. Have you all thought it through clearly?"
At these words, many villagers began to reconsider.
"Don’t just listen to one person shouting and blindly follow along. The vaccination issue is a major public event, and the county governnt has been paying attention to it all along. Even if you don’t trust Doctor Su, you have to trust the county governnt, right?"
Having reached this point, Jun Ruochen looked stern and admonished the crowd: "If the governnt finds any unrest under this pretext again, we will arrest you all and put you in jail, so you all can taste the Rod of Execution!"
As the saying goes, ordinary people don’t contend with officials. When the villagers saw the County Magistrate getting angry, they all hesitated and stepped back. Even the sarcastic voice did not reappear.
After a bit, the people who caused disturbance fled the scene. Jun Ruochen shook his head, looking troubled.
In such a crisis, everyone should work together to fight the epidemic, but there were still people out there who only cared about selfish interests, intentionally sowing discord among the people and inciting unrest. True enough, self-inflicted troubles can’t be forgiven, they are deliberately seeking death!
Hwa Diexiang walked beside him and smiled faintly, "Everything is going as planned."
"Good!" Jun Ruochen nodded his head.
After the ti for one incense stick to burn, four governnt employees brought two n in front of Jun Ruochen and Hwa Diexiang.
One of the governnt employees reported to Jun Ruochen, "Magistrate, these two people intentionally defad others in the crowd. We found, after the crowd dispersed, they parted ways only to regroup and whisper amongst themselves. We subsequently apprehended them. Please decide their fate."
The two suspects were trembling in fear and couldn’t even hold their heads up.
"You dare to incite villagers to cause public disorder, that’s bold of you!"
The County Official beside him widened his eyes!
The two n were so scared that they fell to their knees with a thud.
"Do you think that I, the magistrate, should step in? Are you all eating for free? Haven’t I ordered you to take them away yet!"
"Yes, Magistrate. Let’s go!"
The governnt employees quickly escorted the people away.
Soon after, faint cries of agony could be heard from a distance.
Before long, soone reported the news.
"Magistrate, the two n confessed. They were hired by soone to maliciously provoke the public."
"Good!"
Jun Ruochen nodded his head, hoping to grab the instigators behind the scene by tracing back, and also hoping that such incidents would not happen again in the future.
On this condition alone, it would allow Doctor Su to concentrate on researching the thod for preventing and treating smallpox. The only hope for this epidemic in Yongze County was her.
Unaware of what was happening outside the ancestral hall, Su Pan’er was still busy inside.
The elder Clan Leader was old, and the complications arising from the smallpox vaccine were fierce and rapid, causing a high fever that even young people couldn’t bear, let alone soone his age?
Su Pan’er was continuously busy and by the second day, the high fever finally subsided, and rashes started appearing on the elder Clan Leader’s face and body.
She let out a great sigh of relief!
Now that the rashes appeared, it would be better. As long as the rashes appeared, the condition would drastically improve.
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