A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 78

As a passer-by, Song Qinghan witnessed all the crime scene from its beginning till its end. With a shock in mind, he asked in an incredible tone, saying, ” Wha… what? But why? Isn’t here the provincial capital? How did such an evil and unfair matter just happen?”

Wu Dahu looked at the onlookers with a complicated expression while the those rubberneckers dissipated gradually, he just shook his head while sighing and saying, “Folk customs vary from towns to towns. Yet indeed, this matter is quite beyond my expectation.”

It made sense that those evil beefy villains were everywhere and no one could deny the existence of it. What really puzzled him was the attitude of those yamen runners. It was quite odd.

The yamen runners neither showed any mercy to those members of acrobatics team nor did they give them a hand. But instead, those officials took the villains’ side. In this consideration, Wu Dahu refused to believe that no corruption existed.

And this was also the most disappointing part for him. If it was a real fact that those officials were taking villains’ side, the well-being of the folk was doomed to sink in this corruption-ridden society. Then the beefy man probably was telling the truth, they were the superior law here in the provincial capital.

After all the onlookers dispersed, there were only the group of acrobatics on the ground. Some of them among the group were still adolescent. It was probably the first time they had encountered such a matter, some of them sobbed while the other was bowling right away. The extremely miserable ambience lit up Song Qinghan’s sympathy for them all of a sudden.

The most seriously injured boy was the one who was the first to be beaten on the ground. He was probably the leader of the acrobatics team. After struggling to get up, he bent down and picked up the broken props on the ground while saying in a faint tone, “Let’s move back, and leave tomorrow. I won’t believe that there will be no place where we can fit in and accept us.”

And then it was another boy on the ground shouted unsatisfactorily, “We didn’t do something wrong! Why should we leave but not them? In addition, we don’t even have any coin which can support us on the trip! Where can we go?”

The leader boy wanted to say something, but the sudden pain in the chest failed him to do so. With a succession of coughing, he collapsed on the ground again all of a sudden.

The members of the acrobatic team were all panic in rough and tumble. They rushed over to hold the leader boy and lift him up, bowling, “Brother, brother! What happened? Please wake up! Don’t scare us. Save him, save him! Anybody save him!”

Looking at those panicked expressions on these pitiful kids, Song Qinghan couldn’t help but pinch Wu Dahu’s hand while walking forward.

Wu Dahu knew what Song Qinghan intended to do. Though he knew that it was risky to do so, he let him walk to the the acrobatics team while following him behind silently.

The two weren’t meddlesome, but they weren’t the kind of person who wouldn’t leave people just sink deep into pain and do nothing. Well, saving people from danger would surely gain blessings.

Song Qinghan walked over and then squatted, saying calmly, “Give me a way, let me check him out.”

Seeing that someone was willing to lend a hand, the acrobatic group quickly gave way and said urgently, “Doctor! Please, save him. Please!”

Song Qinghan waved his hands motioning the boys to calm down, and then he quickly rolled up his sleeves and placed his hand on the boy who was now out of his consciousness, intending to make a diagnose to see what the main reason was causing his coma.

At the moment he touched the ribs of the pitiful boy, he came to an utter shock. With an astonishment, he blurted, “His rib fracture is making him haemorrhage!”

Even though he was always a man of equanimity, he couldn’t help but become a bit trembled after drawing such a conclusion, while getting his eyebrows tightened.

A single rib fracture was a big deal at all, as long as it was fixed, it would heal for a while. However, if there were more than one ribs getting fracture, blood vessels would be destroyed by the malposition, causing the internal organs to bleed. Even in the modern time, such an operation would be kind of difficult, let alone in the time of scarcity.

Though the members of the acrobatic team couldn’t understand Song Qinghan so well, they still could find the whole matter a serious one. They commenced kneeing down to Song Qinghan one after another while begging and saying, “Doctor, Please! Save him, as long as you can save him out of danger, we are so much willing to repay your kindness in any way.”

Song Qinghan’s pupils shook violently, as if there was a world-shaking earthquake shaking in his mind.

Should he do the operation, or not? What if he failed?

Just as he was pondering, a kindhearted person had gotten a doctor from Huichun Shop here.

The doctor was an experienced old man. But he couldn’t help shaking his head after he noticed the complexion and the blood from the boy in comma, saying, “I don’t think I can…”

Even though he said so, he still carefully grabbed the boy’s wrist. After a while, he just said regretfully, “Only Buddha can save him now! I’m so sorry, but get ready for his funeral… ”

The acrobatic team stopped the doctor and begged him to save their leader, but the doctor just waved his hand in embarrassment and got away with the help of passersby.

The person who invited the doctor was there witnessing everything. Although he showed a great sympathy to this group, he still tried to convince them, saying, “Just get ready for the funeral. The doctor is Shi Doctor who is with a good reputation in Huichun Shop. Since he had drawn such a conclusion, no one is able to save him now anyway.”

After that, he left hurriedly as if he didn’t want to be a ruthless man who seemingly pronounced a fatal fact to those innocent boys.

Yet, his words were so heavy that they seemed to thump those boys heavily on their heads. All the boys were dumbfounded there eyeing the leader boy in comma, they even forgot how to cry. Each of them was just like a sailing boat without a pillar, while the furious storm destroyed them leading them to an unknown gaping abyss…

Seeing that, Song Qinghan gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, saying, “I still got an idea to save him. But it’s just a faint chance to keep him alive. So will you guys allow me to take such a risk?”

Talking about the worst situation at first should be the wise decision currently. Otherwise, giving them hope and then throwing them to the despair would be much crueler than doing nothing.

Hearing that, the acrobatic team members were all cheered up again, just like a blind person regained the brightness of the world. They shouted excitedly all with one voice, “We do, we do!”

Noticing that, Song Qinghan began explaining trying to get the members informed with his method, “He got two of his ribs broken inside, so I should cut off his belly and drain the effusing blood and then adjust the ribs inside and the last I will sew his belly up. If the operation is going smooth, he will survive. But if not…”

“Cut off his belly?!”

The acrobatics team members cried out in disbelief, while they were all staring at each other with faces of utter bewilderment and shock.

In their impression, even the criminals of behave in a vicious and unrestrained way did not use such a cruel method to punish them. However, Song Qinghan just told them that saving someone required such a bloody way. They hesitated when they were all in confusion.

If someone got his belly cut off and let the blood flow out ruthlessly, wasn’t he doomed to die in such a situation? How could that be a good way to cure someone?

Song Qinghan was well aware of their concerns, but he was not prepared to explain. He just said directly, “Do it, or not, it will be up to you. I’ll count five now. If you don’t say anything, I will see it as a rejection and I will leave.”

“Five.”

The members in the acrobatic team were startled all of a sudden and they pushed each other, as if they wanted the someone other to decide and make the decision.

“Four.”

Seeing that no one was out to say something, they started getting in panic.

“Three.”

“Hurry up and decide! Our leader is going to die!” screamed a boy within who seemed to be the youngest one.

“Two.”

“How about a try?” The older man suggested hesitantly.

“One.”

“We’ll take that risk, we take it! Doctor, we take it!”

Before the countdown ended, they finally reached an agreement and cried out their wishes together.

“Alright”, responded Song Qinghan, and then he waved his hand and ordered decisively, saying, “Bring him to the lodge where I stay! Try as careful as you can to keep him lay steadily. Do not shake him and avoid violent action, otherwise he might get a worse situation.”

The members from the acrobatic team heard the order, they found a random board over and carefully placed their leader on it. Steadily, they succeeded.

One of the reason why Song Qinghan would suggest to go to their lodge was that all his tools for operation were still in the lodge, and the other reason was that such an operation required an extreme pure environment. Though he was clear that it was hard to make it a totally germ-free environment, there still existed some other ways to mitigate the fatal influence on operation by the germs or virus.

A group of people in droves walked into the lodge while the lodge owner was kind of resentful and was mumbling. It was only when Wu Dahu threw ten silver coins towards him did the lodge owner shut up.

The reason why he threw that much coins to the lodge owner was that he had already expected that the room would be polluted heavily by bloodstain. And he hoped that they wouldn’t be kicked out by the lodge owner for the coins’ sake.

Song Qinghan directed the acrobatic team members to put their leader on the bed, and ordered Yuan Wenxuan to light up all candles in the room. After that, he closed tight the windows and drove out everyone who was not involved in this operation.

After finishing all the preparations, he washed his hands and then wiped the boy’s belly with liquor.

Yuan Wenxuan, the one who was just right aside Song Qinghan, disinfected every single tool calmly and then placed them all in his hands, being ready for Song Qinghan to grab.

Song Qinghan took over one of the scalpels, and then it seemed that something had occurred to him all of a sudden, he turned his head while speaking to Yuan Wenxuan, “Use the quilt to fix his hands and legs. Make sure that he isn’t able to move from the great pain.”

Yuan Wenxuan accepted the order, and then untied the quilt, and then tied the boy in the bed up in the shape of “大”, he did also simulate the situation of the boy waking up. Making sure that the boy wasn’t able to struggle to free himself, he turned to Song Qinghan, saying, “All done, Master.”

Song Qinghan nodded while taking a deep breath trying to slow down the frequency of his racing heartbeat. With his mouth pursed tight, he grabbed the scalpel in his hand and commenced the operation.

This operation was much bloodier than the operation of cesarean delivery. The complicated operation not only required a wider incision, but also the one on some human organs. The entire operation should be kind of bloody and scary.

Yuan Wenxuan stared at Song Qinghan with an utter fright, he got his every single goose bump erupted at once. Such a bloody and terrifying scared him that in several times he just wanted to escape. But the image of his childhood playmate kept emerging every time when he was frightened, that was the reason which inspired him to plucked up all his courage. He then clenched his fists tight there, eyeing again at the movements of Song Qinghan as if he was afraid that he would miss something in details.

If his Master could make it to save someone who had already been certified to die by a professional doctor in Huichun Shop. Didn’t it mean that he could be able to save his childhood playmate who had been certified to die after he finished studying medicine?

With that belief, he approached closer and closer to Song Qinghan as if he had totally ignored the messy blood. What he wanted to do now was to memorize every step of Song Qinghan in mind. He seemed to have totally absorbed in such an environment, entering a world of vacuum.