Chapter 43 The injury (1)
Chen Hui asked Ah Er to bring a scissor and pour wine on the scissor and her hands, which she regarded as disinfection.
Li Youde naturally didn’t understand what Chen Hui was doing that and couldn’t help but ask her, “What are you doing?”
Chen Hui said casually, “Use wine to be courageous.”
Li Youde’s face turned dark instantly. Before he could say anything, Chen Hui had started the cut from the edge of the cotton cloth that had been soaked with blood little by little. He shut his mouth and stared at her nervously for fear that a shake of her hand would hurt himself even more.
The blood sticking to the hands felt very uncomfortable and a bit nauseous. There was also a pungent odor of blood and alcohol in the nose. Chen Hui frowned subconsciously but her movements were careful and gentle for fear that she might hurt Li Youde. However, no matter how light the movement, Li Youde’s wound was still there. Even if she didn’t touch it, it still hurt. After a while, she saw sweat on his forehead. If it weren’t for the person in front of him, he would’ve groaned.
After removing the cotton cloth, Chen Hui faced the bloody injury and her face turned pale instantly. The injury was more than ten centimeters long. Because the cotton cloth had been disassembled, the wound turned outwards, revealing the medicinal powder that was washed away by blood.
Li Youde took a glance at the wound and immediately looked away, feeling that the wound seemed to be more painful.
Seeing that the blood was still flowing out, Chen Hui glanced at Li Youde and said, “Lord, haven’t you taken care of your injury?”
Li Youde took a cold breath. He had lost too much blood, looked pale and felt the loss of his strength at the moment. He said with little energy, “The imperial physician is not good at treating traumatic injuries. So, he just bandaged it for me. I thought about finding a doctor to have look after coming from the palace…”
Chen Hui tried to recall the emergency scenes she had seen and hurriedly raised Li Youde’s arm in search of the brachial artery on the inner side of his upper arm and held it down. She accurately found it after looking for a while. She felt relieved when the blood gradually stopped flowing out. She turned her head and called, “Ah Er, come here.”
The several servants stayed not far away. They watched Chen Hui nervously and looked at her unskilled but seemingly safe movements. They have never dealt with such a stab injury before. They would simply bandage it at best and wouldn’t be much help and could only look. Hearing Chen Hui calling him, Ah Er hurriedly went forward.
Chen Hui said, “Wash your hands like me. Wash them cleaner.”
Ah Er followed suit.
Chen Hui asked Ah Er to come over and let him follow her movements in holding Li Youde’s brachial artery and raise his arm.
Ah Er did as told.
After Chen Hui’s hands were free, she washed them with hot water and disinfected them with wine. Then, she looked at Li Youde’s arm and her heart beat like a drum. This injury looked so big. Did it need to be stitched up first? She, she wouldn’t be able to do it! Moreover, stitch it with what? The commonly used needles and threads for embroidery? She seemed to have seen some aboriginal people use fire ants to sew stitches in the past. That was, let the fire ants bite the cut and then take off the skin. It was like a skin stapler, similar to a stapler used in modern medicinal world. However, where could she find fire ants here?!
Chen Hui looked at Li Youde’s pale face and thought about giving medicine to a dead horse. It was better than doing nothing and let the probability of getting infected be high. If it didn’t work, it could only be said that Li Youde’s life is not good and he didn’t run into a surgeon who time-traveled.
- To give medicine to a dead horse: keep trying everything in a desperate situation
“Doctor Zhou is here!”
As soon as Chen Hui decided what to do next, she heard someone shout excitedly. Doctor Zhou rushed in and was taken aback by the movements of Chen Hui and Ah Da. When he approached and saw Li Youde’s injury, his face paled.
Seeing that a doctor finally arrived, Li Youde relaxed. He heard doctor Zhou say, “Lord Li, this…this humble one is only specialized in internal injuries. I am afraid that lord has to find a military doctor to deal with such outside trauma!”
It was not that doctor Zhou hasn’t treated outside traumas before. There had been someone who fell from the roof when he was building a house and broke his leg. That person was sent to him. He wasn’t able to stop the bleeding at all and that person died soon after. There was also someone who had been slashed by a knife. He stopped the bleeding and prescribed medicine, but it didn’t take long for that person to die from a high fever and he wasn’t able to do anything. Therefore, he was really shocked by such severe trauma. The one in front of him is a eunuch. If something went wrong by accident, he would lose his head!
“Where can I find a military doctor now!” Li Youde exclaimed. It was a pity that his voice was weak and he didn’t have much deterrence. If there was a cup of tea at hand at this moment and he still had the strength, he would throw it out from anger.
Chen Hui originally hoped that doctor Zhou could have more reliable methods. Hearing him say that, she knew that there was no hope. They still had to rely on her who couldn’t even be considered a half-professional.
She saw doctor Zhou kneel in fright and say, “Lord Li, this humble one really doesn’t dare to mess around! If something goes wrong, even if this humble pays with the lives of this humble one’s whole family, it will not be enough to pay for Lord Li’s health!”
So messy. Chen Hui moved ten fingers and say to Li Youde, “Lord, since doctor Zhou has no way, let this Lady Chen do it. In any case, we should give medicine to a dead horse.”
- Give medicine to a dead horse: keep trying everything in a desperate situation
Li Youde’s complexion turned from pale to blue for a while. Treating him as a dead horse? This Lady Chen is really…
Before he got angry, Chen Hui had already instigated people to do things one by one. She first asked doctor Zhou if there were any medications that would make people unconscious. Doctor Zhou was thinking about how to not get involved in this matter. Seeing that Chen Hui really took over, he immediately said, “There is, but it is in the drugstore. The humble one didn’t bring it.”
“Go get it now,” Chen Hui said, “Bring a lot.” Chen Hui was not surprised that such medication existed. The original was once drugged by this kind of medication and had been sent here.
A servant immediately accompanied doctor Zhou to go get it.
Chen Hui asked Ah Da to find needle and thread and boil them in boiling water. Then, she ordered others to help Li Youde get on the bed.
Li Youde finally said something, “Lady Chen, what on earth do you want to do?”
Chen Hui pointed to Li Youde’s wound and said, “Lord, your injury is too big. If you leave it like this, you will die from blood loss. It must be sewn up.”
Li Youde’s face turned green.
Chen Hui quickly said, “But don’t worry. I have asked doctor Zhou to bring the medication. You will lose consciousness after you take it and won’t feel any pain.
Li Youde raised his uninjured hand to stop everyone’s movements and stared at Chen Hui, “Lady Chen, where did you learn these?”
What Chen Hui did have exceeded Li Youde’s understanding of her. How could she, a daughter of a merchant, know how to deal with a stab wound? Moreover, this method was unheard of. Why did he let her mess around? A thing that even a doctor couldn’t handle, could she, an unmarried woman, know about it? If it really doesn’t work out, he could ask the imperial doctor to come over again. Even if the imperial doctor was not good at stab wounds, he was better than a woman, right?
Where did she learn it from? Of course, even if she told these ancient people, they could never imagine what the internet is!
Chen Hui said, “Lord, it is because this Lady Chen had been wounded when this Lady Chen was a child. A passerby genius doctor told me. I remember the genius doctor had told me that the most feared thing for this kind of wound is evil spirits entering the body. Wine and boiled water could annihilate these evil spirits to a degree. He also said that if the wound is too big, it should be sewn up, otherwise, it would be exposed to evil spirits and bleed without end until death.”
What Chen Hui said naturally coincided with what she was doing. Knowing that Li Youde couldn’t understand what bacteria was, she randomly picked an impression that seemed to have appeared in the classics of Chinese medicine.
Li Youde asked, “Genius doctor? Who?”
Chen Hui said, “He called himself Levin.”
Of course, Li Youde had never heard of this weird name. Chen Hui said it so methodical, but he was still skeptical.
Chen Hui saw that Li Youde might not intend to continue listen to her and hurriedly continued, “Lord, you have to hurry up, otherwise the evil spirits will enter your body. Even a god would not be able to save you then.”
She lowered her eyes again and whispered, “This Lady Chen doesn’t want anything to happen to lord…”
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