Married to a Villainous Minister

Yu Jiao wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated into the body of a poor rural girl, sold off in a marriage of luck to a sickly man.

Thinking she’s landed in a farming-romance novel, ...

Chapter 232: Complete

Yu Jiao listened to his words, her face calm and she smiled faintly, "Don't bother preaching to me, Doctor Lin, but when it comes to not knowing the immensity of the world, I admit that I am not as good as Doctor Lin. When I look at you, I think of a phrase, 'sitting in a well and looking at the sky'. I wonder if you have heard this story?"

"You are incorrigible!" Lin Fang shouted, "I have been practicing medicine for so many years, and I have never seen anyone as arrogant and stubborn as you!"

Yu Jiao sneered, "You are short-sighted and ignorant, so you just deny other people's medical skills. You should know that there are always people better than you! Just because you have never seen it doesn't mean it is impossible. You are the one who is stubborn! Madam Sun has already taken abortion medicine once, and she lost blood due to spotting. In her current physical condition, she can't use strong and wolf medicine at all. You know that one corpse and two lives will be lost, but you stick to your own opinion! You are the quack who wants to kill people! I have to return what I said just now. If the medicine can't save Madam Sun's life, do you dare to pay for Madam Sun's life?"

"You...you...you little girl are so sharp-tongued!" Lin Fang pointed at Yu Jiao angrily, his chest heaving.

"You are quibbling! Madam Sun was weak to begin with. It was fate that she couldn't hold on with the medicine. Doctor Lin was just doing his best and leaving the rest to fate. If Madam Sun dies, how can you blame Doctor Lin? If she takes the medicine, she still has a glimmer of hope. If she doesn't, she's waiting to die!" The young doctor who came with Lin Fang always followed Lin Fang's lead. Seeing that Lin Fang was angry, he spoke up.

Yu Jiao said slowly, "So, if you use the medicine, you only have a 10% chance of saving Madam Sun?"

She looked at Chen Wan and said in a calm and steady voice, "If I perform a caesarean section to remove the fetus, I am 80% sure that I can save Miss Xueyan."

Shen Wan looked into her clear and transparent eyes and asked, "Miss Yu, can I trust you?"

Yu Jiao nodded at her.

Shen Guan clenched the handkerchief in her hand. She was shaken by the confidence between Yu Jiao's eyebrows and eyes. Thinking of what she had said to her cousin in the inner room before, Shen Guan took a deep breath and said with determination, "Miss Yu, my cousin's life is entrusted to you."

Yu Jiao nodded, "Don't worry, Miss Yang, I will do my best."

"Miss Shen..." Seeing that Shen Wan actually agreed to let Yu Jiao perform a cesarean section to remove the fetus, the young doctor said to stop her, "Miss Shen, you must not do this. Doctor Lin's master is a doctor from the Imperial Hospital. Even he has never heard of cesarean section to remove the fetus. How can you trust her?"

Doctor Song, who had come with Lin Fang and others and had not spoken a word, pondered and said, "The Bamboo Annals record that 'Xiu Ji gave birth to Yu by caesarean section at Shi Niu', which means that Xiu Ji gave birth to Yu by caesarean section at Shi Niu. If the record is true, my method may not be a bad idea."

The young doctor frowned and said, "Doctor Song, those are just rumors. The life of Emperor Yu of Daxia was legendary to begin with. Maybe it was just a rumor written by later generations to deceive the world."

Lin Fang could not be easily offended in Qingzhou. Doctor Song smiled and said, "I just suddenly remembered such a record. It is really impossible to verify whether it is true or not."

The young doctor was about to say something, but Lin Fang stopped him and said, "Since Miss Shen has decided to perform a cesarean section to remove the fetus, if anything goes wrong, this female doctor Yu will be responsible. We don't need to say anything more."

He wanted to see how this little girl performed a caesarean section to deliver the baby.

"Mr. Lin still wants to kindly remind you, Miss Chen, that your body and hair are given by your parents. If Madam Sun can't take the medicine and dies, at least she will be safe and sound. If her stomach is cut open, her intestines will be spilled all over the floor. When Miss Chen sees that scene, I'm afraid she, as a close relative, won't be able to bear it." Lin Fang said calmly and deliberately alarmistly.

Chen Guan's face turned pale when she heard this. She was three years younger than Wang Xueyan and had never thought that she would encounter such a thing in Qingzhou. She was a little at a loss.

Yu Jiao soothed him, "A cesarean section does not mean cutting open the abdomen, it just makes a small cut in the abdomen, and it will never happen like what Doctor Lin said."

She then sarcastically said to Lin Fang, "You are ignorant, but you don't have to be so anxious to prove your ignorance. Hasn't Doctor Lin read the books of sages? Know what you know and don't know what you don't know. Don't pretend to know and mislead others."

Lin Fang was so angry at her that he was at a loss for words and his face turned pale.

Yang Jiyan held Shen Wan's hand and persuaded, "Sister Shen, why don't you let Doctor Lin use the medicine? How can a living person endure the pain of cesarean section?"

Shen Guan was in great pain. Neither of these two methods was appropriate, but she had to choose one.

"I asked my cousin." Chen Guan really couldn't make up his mind, so he decided to tell Wang Xueyan about it and let her make the decision herself.

Shen Guan went to the inner room.

At this moment, Yu Fuling, who had gone back to the Mu family with her maid to get the medical box, rushed back.

Yu Jiao used the paper and pen in the room to write two prescriptions, handed them to Yu Fuling, and said, "Sister, the Mandragora flower written on this prescription is also called the Sheep Heart, the Peach Flower, the Heart-Intoxicating Flower, and the Dog Walnut. If you can't buy these, then buy the Sheep Heart."

Yu Fuling took note of it carefully and hurried outside the house to get the medicine.

Chen Guan came out from the inner room, and seemed to have cried again. There were still traces of tears on her face. She looked at Yu Jiao carefully and trustingly, and said, "Doctor Yu, my cousin said she believes you."

Yu Jiao has seen this kind of heavy trust countless times, but she still feels touched every time.

She walked towards the inner room with the medical box and said to Chen Wan, "I need a jar of strong liquor, the stronger the better, and a pair of scissors. I also need the servants to boil a pot of licorice water and a pot of pepper and salt water and send it over."

Chen Guan ordered the capable maidservant beside her to do the job, and she followed Yu Jiao into the inner room.

Yu Jiao placed the medical box on the bedside, took out a bag of herbs made with magnolia, cyperus, and perilla, and put it into the incense burner in the room and lit it.

He lit another candle and placed it on the bedside table. He took out the instruments used for surgery from the medical box and roasted them one by one over the flames.

Chen Guan looked at the cold knife with a chilling glow and felt her heart pounding. She poured herself a cup of tea and drank it to calm herself down.

Wang Xueyan, who was lying on the bed, showed no fear at all. She stared at the instruments in Yu Jiao's hand with curiosity, and asked with a weak smile, "Miss Yu, are you going to use these to perform a cesarean section on me?"

Yu Jiao nodded, and in order to ease Wang Xueyan's nervousness, she explained to her in a soft voice the use of each piece of equipment.

Chen Guan listened at the side and gradually felt relieved. The instruments that Yu Jiao took out were all made of wrought iron and were extremely rare. She also knew them all so well, as if she was very experienced.

Soon, the servants brought over licorice water and other items. Yu Jiao wiped the instruments with the wine, soaked them in pepper and salt water, and then took them out and wiped them dry.

After asking Chen Guan to help take off Wang Xueyan's underwear, Yu Jiao used a handkerchief dipped in pepper and salt water to carefully wipe the blood stains on Wang Xueyan's lower body, and shaved the sweat hair on her abdomen with a scalpel.