Chapter 92: Gunshot Wound

In the afternoon, the cooks pickled the remaining fish into salted fish and hung them in rows on clotheslines outside to freeze. In the evening, they put them all into the kitchen warehouse.

It won't work if you leave it outside. The Great Northern Wilderness is not peaceful at night. Although jackals, tigers and leopards rarely come down the mountain, weasels often appear.

If you put food outside, it will definitely be eaten by weasels after a night.

Yun Qiao spent the afternoon at Qin Guifen's house.

He first played with the two children for half the afternoon, and then helped Qin Guifen with some work.

Qin Guifen bought two taels of pork belly the day before, soaked some dried beans in advance, and rolled out thin hand-rolled noodles with a little mixed flour, preparing to make her hometown's steamed noodles with pork belly and beans in the evening.

When it got dark and it was time for dinner, but Captain Yang still hadn't returned, Qin Guifen didn't wait any longer. She steamed the noodles for Captain Yang and left them in the pot, and started eating right away.

The steamed noodles at Qin Guifen’s hometown are a little different from what Yun Qiao imagined. Instead of stir-frying the vegetables first and then pouring the noodles into the vegetables to steam until cooked.

Instead, the hand-rolled noodles are steamed for 20 minutes before being stir-fried.

After stir-frying the pork belly and dried beans, add the steamed pork noodles into the vegetables and stir, then steam them again for ten minutes.

The noodles were slightly dry and chewy, but the broth from the vegetables had soaked them up, so while they weren't dry, they weren't hard at all. It had a very unique texture, completely different from the usual fried noodles and braised noodles Yunqiao had eaten!

It was very delicious. The more Yun Qiao ate, the more he enjoyed it. In the end, he ate two bowls.

After dinner, Yun Qiao helped Qin Guifen clean up the kitchen. Just as they were about to return to the educated youth dormitory, they saw Captain Yang rushing in from outside with an anxious look on his face.

When Qin Guifen saw him, she couldn't help but complain: "Why did you come back just now? We've already eaten. Go wash your hands! I left your meal in the pot."

"Keep it for now, I don't have time to eat now!" Captain Yang waved at Qin Guifen, not even looking at her, and shouted directly to Yun Qiao: "Ye Yunqiao, I'm looking for you, come with me!"

Yun Qiao saw Captain Yang's anxious tone and couldn't help but feel nervous as well: "Captain, what happened?"

"Come with me first, and I'll tell you slowly on the way."

Yun Qiao could only say goodbye to Qin Guifen first, and then jog all the way to catch up with Captain Yang.

Captain Yang ran with Yun Qiao to the team headquarters, saying as they ran, "A young comrade has been shot in the shoulder. Can you shoot to remove the bullet?"

Yun Qiao was startled and shook his head subconsciously: "I, I didn't take out the bullet."

Captain Yang paused in his jogging and looked back at her: "Yes or no?"

"Yes, I can, but I've never taken bullets from anyone." Yun Qiao said honestly, "I've taken glass and bamboo sticks from people, but I've never taken bullets from them."

"It's all right. It's not difficult to retrieve the bullets." Captain Yang started running again, urging Yun Qiao, "Hurry up and keep up."

Yun Qiao felt bitter and asked, "Company Commander, why didn't you send the comrade who was shot to the regiment headquarters? Instead, you brought him to our company? We don't have a bathroom in our company."

"Isn't this you?"

"But I'm not a guard." Yun Qiao said, "The regiment headquarters does have regular guards."

Upon hearing this, Company Commander Yang waved his hands. "The medic at the regimental headquarters is no good. She's afraid of blood and can't do the medical work. The hospital at the field headquarters is too far away. If we don't get there, the young comrade will lose too much blood. You're the best person to ask for help."

As he was speaking, the shadow of the team headquarters could be seen ahead.

"Okay, stop whining. I'll give you a credit for taking the bullet."

Company Commander Yang was the first to run into the team headquarters.

Yun Qiao followed closely behind, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw the young comrade lying on the kang in the inner room, covered in blood.

Yun Qiao noticed that although he was not wearing the same military uniform as the other educated youth in the Corps, he was wearing collar badges and cap badges, which showed that he was not a Corps soldier, but a regular soldier in the army.

A mattress was spread on the kang, and Jiang Ling was sitting beside the young comrade on the edge of the bed, applying pressure to the wound with gauze. The gauze was already mostly soaked with blood, and her hands were also stained with a large amount of blood.

Yun Qiao hurried over, tore open the clothes next to his wound, and began to check his condition.

The shot did not hit any vital parts, and there was no complex tissue around, so it was not difficult to retrieve the bullet.

The question was: "Was there anesthesia?"

"No."

Yun Qiao said, "It would be very painful to remove it without anesthesia!"