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Yan Liping, having understood the situation in "Yuanjun City," felt a bit redundant there, as the number of patients was no longer increasing and people were recovering every day. Patients with fever quickly recovered after taking the medicine Xiao Ruo had prepared, rendering his acupuncture skills unnecessary.
Smiles were increasingly appearing on the faces of the people in "Yuanjun City." Xiao Ruo learned that the young Imperial Physician, Guan Zhizhong, who was taking care of people not afflicted with smallpox, enjoyed reading miscellaneous books in his spare time. She asked Peng Yijie to help find an open space in the city to set up a stage, preparing for him to tell stories or share some anecdotes with the villagers.
