Chapter 108

It was obviously not enough to rotate two towels to cool Wen Qing physically. The baby-faced nurse and another nurse on duty brought a few pieces of gauze, dipped them in water, and when Shen Zhaoyue and the round-faced nurse handed over the towels, she handed over the already wet gauze.

The four of them divided the work and cooperated with each other, making Chen Zhaoyue look less flustered.

The baby-faced nurse was called Li Xiaoyan. She looked at Shen Zhaoyue's repetitive movements in confusion and asked, "Comrade Shen, to reduce Platoon Leader Wen's fever, wouldn't it be enough to just cover his forehead with a wet towel?"

Li Xiaoyan looked at the alcohol placed aside and asked, "Or can I just use alcohol to wipe the discomfort directly?"

While wiping Wen Qing's armpits, Chen Zhaoyue explained to Li Xiaoyan, "When reducing a fever, try not to use alcohol on the body. Firstly, alcohol irritates the skin and can easily cause an allergic reaction in the patient. Secondly, the skin can also absorb alcohol, which can easily cause alcohol poisoning."

Chen Zhaoyue shook his sore arms and continued, “As for why you don’t put a wet towel on your forehead, because when you wipe your body to physically reduce fever, you should focus on wiping areas where large blood vessels are densely distributed and close to the skin surface, such as the neck, armpits, groin, elbows, and popliteal fossa—that is, behind the knees. These areas have rich blood flow, and wiping with warm water can help dissipate heat and reduce body temperature.

You should also avoid the precordial area, abdomen, and soles of the feet to avoid causing discomfort or affecting heat dissipation. Children should especially avoid the abdomen to avoid intestinal cramps and diarrhea."

Li Xiaoyan didn't expect that she could learn so much knowledge from physical cooling.

Chen Zhaoyue added, "You can't use ice water either, because ice water will stimulate blood vessel constriction and may aggravate the condition."

Seeing that Chen Zhaoyue's hands were shaking, Li Xiaoyan offered to replace her so that Chen Zhaoyue could rest for a while.

Liu Siyu came in at this time.

Liu Siyu came to take over her shift. She was one of the medical staff on duty in the second half of the night.

As soon as she walked into the ward, she saw several people who were on duty in the first half of the night were busy in the ward, as if some emergency had occurred.

Liu Siyu's heart skipped a beat and she hurried in to see what was going on.

It happened that a nurse's hands were shaking while wringing a towel and she couldn't hold on any longer, so she quickly asked Liu Siyu to come over and help.

Liu Siyu hurried forward, took the towel from the nurse's hand, and handed it to the round-faced nurse Zhang Xiaojuan.

"Sister Xiaojuan, what happened?" Liu Siyu was in charge of changing Zhang Xiaojuan's towel. "What happened to Wen Qing?"

"Platoon Leader Wen has a high fever and is convulsing. Comrade Shen asked us to wipe his body to cool him down physically." Zhang Xiaojuan raised her arm and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve. She looked at Lin Xiaomei, who had followed Liu Siyu in to change shifts. "Nurse Lin, you can continue."

Lin Xiaomei reluctantly took the wet towel, hesitant and unwilling to start. Her eyes were fixed on the towel in her hand, her face flushed with embarrassment. "Aren't you guys being rude? How can you touch someone's body all over to reduce a fever?"

Zhang Xiaojuan was visibly stunned for a second. She snatched the wet towel from Lin Xiaomei's hand and stuffed it into Liu Siyu's hand: "You come and wipe the leg pits for Platoon Leader Wen!"

Zhang Xiaojuan freed her hands and pushed Lin Xiaomei toward the basin. "Then help Nurse Liu change the towel."

Lin Xiaomei lowered her head and stared at the basin, not daring to look around.

Zhang Xiaojuan rolled her eyes at her. "At this critical moment when human lives are at stake, just do whatever you want. You're so picky. I really don't know who the capitalist lady is!"

Lin Xiaomei was about to explode when she heard this. She was a genuine working class person who came here to work as a nurse in response to the call for educated youth to go to the countryside. How could she be compared with the daughter of a capitalist?

Liu Siyu pulled her and shook her head at her: "Sister Xiaomei, Sister Shen and Sister Xiaojuan must have their reasons for doing this, we just do as they say, if you are embarrassed, you can help me change the towel."

Liu Siyu pursed her lips and imitated Shen Zhaoyue's movements, wiping Wen Qing's leg pits: "And Sister Shen said in the evening that we medical workers don't distinguish between men and women."

Liu Siyu must do something for Wen Qing and absolutely cannot let him die like this.

If Wen Qing died, her strategy mission would fail.

She didn't know what the punishment would be if she failed. Maybe all the mission rewards would be reset to zero, and then all her previous efforts would be in vain.

Liu Siyu didn't want to start over at all.

Except for herself, no one knows how much suffering and fatigue she has endured in the past.

Now she just wanted to complete the task successfully and live a carefree life as promised by the system.

This was the first time that Liu Siyu took her captor so seriously. Before, her captors had always tried to please her.

After only a dozen minutes, Liu Siyu's hands became sore from the numerous repetitive mechanical movements.

She didn't know how Chen Zhaoyue persisted, but she definitely couldn't be worse than Chen Zhaoyue.

Liu Siyu gritted her teeth and persevered, but her speed was obviously not as fast as Chen Zhaoyue.

Liu Siyu pursed her lips, her delicate voice tinged with tears: "Sister Xiaomei, I really have no strength left, can you change me?"

As she spoke, she pulled the thin blanket covering Wen Qing's stomach down to cover his thighs.

Liu Siyu knew that Lin Xiaomei was concerned about the gender gap: "You can't see anything, trust me."

Seeing that Liu Siyu's arms were so sore that she couldn't lift them, Lin Xiaomei reluctantly took the towel from Liu Siyu's hand and the two changed positions.

Chen Zhaoyue and Li Xiaoyan were also replaced by doctors and nurses on shift change.

Doctor Liu usually has a close relationship with Gao Wen. He is very optimistic about Chen Zhaoyue and thinks she is the future of the health center.

Seeing her pale face sitting on the side rubbing her arm, Doctor Liu told her to go and rest quickly: "I can tell from your appearance that you didn't get much sleep in the first half of the night. You've been giving acupuncture and emergency treatment all night. Your small body can't handle it at all."

Chen Zhaoyue picked up the water cup and drank most of the warm water, then smiled and said, “I’ll just drink some water and sit down to rest for a while.”

Doctor Liu looked at her disapprovingly, but Shen Zhaoyue smiled sweetly at him, and Doctor Liu couldn't say anything harsh.

Li Xiaoyan and Zhang Xiaojuan went to the empty ward next door to rest, while Chen Zhaoyue stayed in Wen Qing's ward.

Chen Zhaoyue stopped wiping Wen Qing's body to cool it down physically, but she was not idle either.

When she recovered, she took the basin to the water room to help fetch water, but actually added spiritual spring water into the water when no one was paying attention.

When she wasn't changing the water, Chen Zhaoyue would sit by the bed and take Wen Qing's pulse, recording it every half hour.

Time passed quietly in the busy night. The medical staff on duty in the second half of the night worked for a long time before finally stabilizing the situation, and Wen Qing's body temperature began to drop.

Chen Zhaoyue poured a glass of water for Wen Qing, and Liu Siyu took the cup consciously and was responsible for feeding Wen Qing.

Some people were rushing to do the work, and Chen Zhaoyue had a chance to relax.

That night, Chen Zhaoyue was not idle at all.

Glancing at the wall clock, Chen Zhaoyue yawned sleepily.

From the time Wen Qing was carried back yesterday afternoon until now, she hasn't had a rest for more than twelve hours.

Chen Zhaoyue took a nap against the wall, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already half past six in the morning.

Chen Zhaoyue stretched his stiff neck, calculated the time in his mind, and then removed the needle from Wen Qing's body.