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Wang Yipeng calmed them down a good deal, yet the patients' skepticism about Xiangxiang's medical skills still lingered.
As it turns out, Xiao Ruo was quite foresighted; when Cang Mofeng learned that Xiao Ruo had planted numerous medicinal herbs inside the palace and outside Anhe City that could treat smallpox, he was delighted and assigned a few helpers to Xiao Ruo. These individuals were palace attendants skilled in tending flowers and plants.
Nevertheless, Cang Mofeng worried whether the herbs Xiao Ruo planted could mature in time; after all, smallpox is not like other diseases—it cannot be delayed. Even if the herbs Xiao Ruo planted could grow overnight, the citizens in "Yuanjun City" infected with smallpox might not survive; those herbs merely offered a glimmer of hope.
