Xiao Qingyin was having lunch with Han and the others when suddenly someone pounded on the door with a deafening roar.

At the same time, a familiar voice shouted: "Miss Xiao! Help! Save her!"

Xiao Qingyin immediately put down her rice bowl and went to open the door to the outer courtyard.

There were two people standing outside the door.

Yi Wu and Yi Shui Han.

Yi Wu was holding two severed arms in his hands.

Yi Shuihan was holding someone horizontally in his arms.

The man's arms were both severed in half, and blood was dripping onto the ground through the strips of cloth binding them.

Xiao Qingyin recognized Wei Yan from his profile and immediately gasped.

She opened the door, said "Come in quickly!" and hurried back to the room to get her medical kit.

Then she directed Yi Shuihan to carry the person to the main room, where there was a wooden operating table that Xiao Qingyin had previously commissioned from a carpenter.

Yi Shuihan briefly explained how Wei Yan was injured.

"He designed a musket, but it exploded during testing."

Without him saying it, Xiao Qingyin already understood.

She had just checked Wei Yan's wound.

A large amount of gunpowder remained on it.

Holding the severed arm, Yi Wu asked anxiously, "Miss Xiao, can his hand be reattached?"

"cannot."

Xiao Qingyin answered without hesitation.

"If it is cut off, there is still a possibility of reconnection; if it is blown up, there is absolutely no possibility of reconnection."

Gunpowder residue remaining in the wound will be expelled from the body through pus during the wound healing process.

This means that even if the severed limb is reattached, it will still die due to the continuous seepage of pus from the wound.

not to mention--

Xiao Qingyin looked at Wei Yan's wound.

Both arms had severe tissue loss, making reattachment impossible.

"Both of his severed arms need to be cut off, otherwise the wounds will not heal properly and could endanger his life."

Yi Wu's face turned pale instantly.

"Do...do you want it cut again?"

Wouldn't that mean Wei Yan's two arms would be severed at the root?

That's too cruel.

"Let's do it," Yi Shuihan said decisively. "He lost a lot of blood on the way back to the city, and I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on."

"good."

Xiao Qingyin removed Wei Yan's remaining severed arm and stitched it up.

During this time, Yun Shu, Han Shi, and others waited anxiously outside the main room.

When Xiao Qingyin came out to wash her hands, Yun Shu asked her with a pale face, "Sister Yin, are Silly Sweetie's arms really gone?"

"It's gone."

Yun Shu's face paled even more.

"If he wakes up, he'll definitely cry himself to death..."

Xiao Qingyin thought that Wei Yan might not be able to cry even if he wanted to.

This blow can be described as devastating.

It's enough to destroy any person with a strong will.

Moreover, Wei Yan was a noble young master who, apart from being frail and sickly since childhood, had never suffered much hardship.

Xiao Qingyin could hardly imagine the psychological impact this event would have on him.

She regretted it deeply when she thought about how she had encouraged him to study mathematics, saying that it could be applied to firearms manufacturing.

If she hadn't done that, he probably wouldn't have gone to develop firearms and wouldn't have suffered such a heavy blow.

But saying these things now won't help.

With Wei Yan so badly injured, Yi Shuihan naturally had to inform the Duke of Anguo's mansion.

As soon as the surgery was over, he went to the Duke of Anguo's residence and personally told the Duke of Anguo's wife.

Upon hearing that her son had lost both arms in the explosion, Ning nearly fainted.

She gripped Yi Shuihan's arm tightly and cried out in terror, "Where is he? Take me there quickly!"

"At the Yun family's house."

Wei Yan was still in critical condition and it was not convenient to move him, so Yi Shuihan did not take him back to the Duke of Anguo's mansion.

Ning Shi didn't bother to tell the old lady and her husband at all; she took her people and followed Yi Shuihan to the Yun residence.

Wei Yan was still asleep, under the effects of the anesthetic.

Standing by the hospital bed, Ning looked at his bald shoulders, cried until she fainted, fainted and cried again, crying from broad daylight until nightfall without stopping.

Towards the end, my voice became so hoarse that I could barely speak.

When Han came in to call her for dinner, she just shook her head.

"You guys eat, I'm not hungry."

Mr. Han patted her on the shoulder.

"You should eat something, otherwise you won't have the strength to take care of the child. If you collapse first, how will you help the child get back on their feet?"

Ning burst into tears.

"How can I eat when he's like this?"

The injury is to her son, but the pain is in her mother's heart; Ning Shi was so heartbroken that she could hardly breathe.

Madam Han sighed and silently left the main room.

Not long after, she brought in a bowl of porridge and handed it to Ning.

"It's only a few sips, so just drink it."

Ning drank half a bowl of porridge with tears in her eyes, and then returned it to Han.

"Thank you, I'm full. You've had your meal."

"What time is it? Why are you being so polite?"

Han looked at Wei Yan and said.

"He seems to be waking up soon."

As he spoke, Wei Yan indeed opened his eyes.

Ning rushed to the bedside immediately.

"Yan'er, are you alright? Are you in pain?"

Wei Yan was about to say it didn't hurt when a burst of pain struck him, causing his face to contort in agony and him to break out in a cold sweat.

Ning was horrified.

"Qingyin, come quick! What's wrong with Yan'er?"

Xiao Qingyin had just stepped into the main room when she saw this and said in a deep voice, "This is phantom limb pain."

"His arm has been amputated, but he feels that his arm is still there and is in pain from the moment it was blown off."

My arm is gone, but the pain is still there?

That must hurt so much.

Ning felt as if her heart was being sawed, the pain making it hard to breathe.

"Can you help him relieve the pain?"

She asked Xiao Qingyin.

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