The sun was setting and the wind started to blow outside. The dry and sultry wind blew in through the window, mixed with sporadic noises in the distance and a few glances over from time to time. Su Ci immediately closed the window.

After extinguishing the stove fire, she lifted the heavy wooden lid. The water in the pot was still boiling. She waited for a while, waiting for the scalding steam to dissipate, before she went forward with a winnowing basket and used wooden tongs to pick up the needles, tweezers and other objects in the pot one by one, and placed them on the boiled and sun-dried white linen cloth in the winnowing basket.

She wrapped the things in white linen, picked them up and walked out of the kitchen.

Father Su Di walked out of the room with his mother's help. He wiped the sweat off her forehead with his uninjured hand and said gently, "Go quickly. Yi Chu has already brought the water over."

"Yes, I understand."

Su Ci took the handkerchief and said, "Dad, you and mom should go in quickly. It's very hot outside."

In this kind of weather, it is best for trauma patients to sweat as little as possible.

Su Di knew the seriousness of the matter, so he gave a few more instructions and went back to his room.

It was very hot outside. Even in August, the weather was still as hot as the summer heat. The sun was radiating heat like a fire. In the evening, the temperature outside did not drop at all. The wind was hot and smelled of yellow dust.

But generally speaking it was still much better than the kitchen. Su Ci wiped the sweat off her face with a handkerchief. Her father turned around and went back into the house. She glanced at the small west wing opposite and saw a figure swaying behind the door curtain.

She ignored him, looked away, stood there in the cool air for a while, then walked along the shadows of the eaves and earthen walls across the narrow courtyard and went to the front yard.

Now the two families live in this small two-story house located at the edge of the military town. The house has earthen walls and tiled roofs, and is neither old nor new. Two young men in their early twenties are guarding the front yard. When they heard the voices, they turned their heads. Su Ci smiled and called out "Second Brother Yang" and "Third Brother Yang". After the two sides greeted each other, Su Ci went up to the main house with a cloth bag.

Standing outside the main door, she knocked with her fingers and pushed the door open.

The room was very quiet and a little dim. The eaves blocked the sunlight, and it seemed as if the brightness was several degrees different.

A man was half sitting and half lying on the couch in the inner room, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

The man had thick black eyebrows, a broad forehead, and very thin lips. It is said that men with thin lips are very heartless. I don’t know if it is true or not, but it is true that this man has a cold look in his eyes. He had high brows and a handsome yet cold face. He was lying on the couch in a pale round-necked robe. His face was slightly red, but it did not reduce his imposing manner at all. Su Ci walked in and subconsciously held her breath.

This was indeed a very oppressive man. He didn't speak or move, his face had no expression, and his couch was not in the place with the most light, but no one who came in could ignore him.

Su Ci held the cloth bag and called out, "Young Master."

The man on the couch nodded.

After saying hello, Su Ci didn't say anything more. She walked forward and sat down on the edge of the couch, put down the white linen bag in her hand, untied it, and spread it out.

There was a long table next to the couch. Everything that needed to be prepared had been prepared. Su Ci reached her hands into the first copper basin, poured soap into it, and washed her hands three times in a row with warm water that had been boiled and then cooled. She then rinsed her hands with water from the second copper basin. Finally, she got up, untied a cloth bag on the table, took out a headscarf to tie up her hair, and put on a gown.

Then I washed my hands again, this time more carefully, and rubbed them several times with soap.

All possible sterilization measures have been taken.

After that, she put a clean linen cloth under the table and motioned him to put his right hand on the table. She quickly untied the linen bandage on his wrist.

It was a very hideous wound. The tendons of the right hand were directly cut, leaving a big hole in the skin and flesh. The white tendons were sandwiched between the bright red flesh and blood. In the eyes of today's doctors, this strong and powerful hand was undoubtedly disabled.

Su Ci scraped off the ointment with boiled bamboo strips and looked at the wound carefully. Fortunately, the wound was still fresh, which saved her a lot of trouble.

She said: "It's going to hurt, I'll do it as soon as possible."

Without anesthetics, I can only endure the pain.

She washed the wound repeatedly with boiled and cooled medicine, then used her elbows to pry open the cork of a porcelain bottle on the table. The rich smell of wine immediately overflowed. She picked up the bottle, poured out the already clear liquid inside, and poured it on the wound.

The moment the water was poured on it, the flesh on the wound contracted violently. Su Ci glanced at him stealthily and saw that the other person's jaw was tightened but his brows did not move.

Wow, he’s quite a man, and a pretty capable one at that.

Su Ci quickly looked away.

She did not stop, and used her fingers to quickly rub the wound with the poured wine to clean it. The breathing sound by her ear was a little heavier than before, but the other party still did not make a sound, and her outstretched right hand did not even move.

After cleaning the wound, Su Ci picked up a dagger on the white linen cloth, looked at the wound for a moment, pressed the dagger on it, estimated the force, and pressed and scratched it, and blood immediately gushed out.

She observed for a moment, tied his upper arm with a cloth, and the blood flow immediately slowed down. She quickly picked up a small, bent sewing needle on the white linen, poured out the rest of the bottle, used wooden tweezers to pick up the thread bubbled inside, and quickly threaded it through the eye of the needle.

The technique was not very sophisticated, but the details of the process were crystal clear, and the tendon was cut in one go by a sharp blade, so the incision was very neat, which greatly facilitated the suturing.

Soon, Su Ci completed the tendon suture.

After that, the muscles are sutured.

Su Ci concentrated on working on one layer after another. There was no sound in the room except for the rustling sounds of stitching and sewing.

The man kept looking down, and when he saw the last layer of the seam, Su Ci cut off the red thread, carefully put the remaining piece back into the bottle, and took the black silk thread from the white linen.

The silk thread is twisted and very thick, with much greater strength and toughness. The stitches for the outermost layer of skin suture can be removed, so this is the preferred choice.

After quickly suturing the last layer and untying the cloth tied around the upper arm, Su Ci observed for a moment and found no bleeding, so the operation was successful.

She opened the cap of the white porcelain bottle, picked out an appropriate amount of the gold ointment with a bamboo strip and applied it on the wound - since she had the superior gold ointment, she didn't need to use her homemade ointment. She was short of clothes and couldn't get any good medicinal materials.

Apply ointment and then wrap it up with layers of boiled white linen.

"It will take at least a month for the stitches on your wrist to heal. During this period, try not to move your wrist to prevent the stitches inside from stretching. I'll put a splint on you later."

The suture thread inside was one of the results that Su Ci had worked hard on for more than half a year, catgut.

Catgut is considered a major invention in surgery. It is the first generation of surgical sutures that do not need to be removed after suturing and can be absorbed by the human body. Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, the toughness and strength are relatively low, and the human body's reaction during absorption will be somewhat large, which will be very uncomfortable.

But this is the only surgical thread that Su Ci can make at present. Compared with its advantages, its disadvantages are not worth mentioning.

After finishing the bandage, Su Ci washed her hands and quickly packed up the needle, thread, tweezers and other things. As for the copper basin and other things, she ignored them.

"The thread inside will be absorbed by itself. It will take about 20 days for it to be completely absorbed, but by then your tendons will have healed. There will be some discomfort during the absorption process, such as swelling, pain, fever, etc."

Su Ci packed up the things she brought with her. When she finished speaking, she stood up.

Subtext: Then I'm leaving.

Yang Yanzong raised his right hand, moved his upper arm slightly, and lowered his eyes to look at the wound that had just been bandaged. He nodded when he heard this.

He looked up at Su Ci and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

This man's voice and eyes were just like his appearance, with a hint of indifference, which naturally made it difficult for people to get close to him. Su Ci glanced at him, and when she heard footsteps outside, she nodded and smiled, then got up and went out.

Before leaving, he glanced inside. In the semi-dark room, the man was still half lying and half sitting on the couch, with a half-new and half-old curtain covering his face, revealing a small curved and indifferent jaw.

She lifted the door curtain and went out quickly.

…

The man just now was called Yang Yanzong, a very powerful person, a fourth-rank envoy and general of Mingwei.

Don't think that this sounds like a low-ranking position. It is actually equivalent to the commander of a provincial-level military sub-district, a large military sub-district in a large border province, and a vice-provincial level position.

In addition, the envoy also has the responsibility of "pacifying the border", which means he may be involved in politics to a certain extent, and his powers are much greater than that of a simple provincial military sub-district commander.

He is only twenty-four years old this year.

Relying on military merits and his own strength, the previous generation of the Yang and Su families started to join the army. By the time he came to power, their foundation was still very shallow and they could not rely on much support. He rose to the position based on his military merits and hard power.

At a young age, he surpassed his parents' generation, and now his two fathers are his lieutenants.

Yang Yanzong is the new generation leader of the Yang and Su families, and now both families follow his lead.

If it weren't for this political turmoil, such a person would probably continue to rise, right?

Su Ci returned to the backyard and saw a heroic young girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes squatting in front of the stove in the kitchen. This was her sister Su Yan. Su Yan had already helped her light the fire on the other stove and scooped half a bucket of water from the water tank to boil. Before the two sisters could say anything, they heard the sound of hurried horse hooves in the distance.

Su Yan ran out like a rabbit, crouched on the wall and watched for a while, then came back and told Su Ci: "No, there is no food."

The sisters looked at each other, and Su Yan said, "I'll go back and clean up."

After saying that, she quickly went back to the east wing where her sisters lived next door, folded up the luggage that had just been spread out on the bed two days ago, and packed it into a big bag again.

This was the third time that people had been sent to the provincial capital to request allocation of military rations, but no allocation was made. The military garrison had run out of food, and if they did not want to starve to death, they would have to abandon their garrison and move away.

Su Ci did not stop Su Yan because she knew that the next plot development would be exactly like this.

——When she was taken home by her father two days ago, she heard some people in the military town discussing something about the "Qixi Ghost Drought" in private. This special word evoked memories in her mind, and then she realized that she had actually traveled into a book!

After enduring a severe drought and living in fear for half a year, I finally waited until things at home were settled - although my father was demoted to a low-ranking military officer and was injured and sent to a frontier military town, at least my family was safe, and that was good enough. But before Su Ci could even breathe a sigh of relief, she found herself inside a fucking book!

The title of the book is "Overcoming Hardness with Softness: A Concubine Becomes a Phoenix".

Su Ci: “…”

Su Ci summarized it this way, the plot is probably about a concubine's daughter of ordinary origin but smart, who married the right man and hitched a ride to the pinnacle of her life.

The hero is a powerful man, a figure almost like Zhu Yuanzhang. He was born into an ordinary small country gentleman. At the age of 24, he surpassed the fathers of both families, became the boss of both fathers, and became the leader of both families. He is first-class in both combat power and skill.

He was once sacrificed and abandoned in the fierce political struggle for power. The tendons of his right hand were cut and he was exiled to a small military town on the border.

The story almost starts from here. An ambitious man never gives up. After getting through this low period, the hero takes advantage of the situation and establishes his own territory. He goes from being a powerful official to a powerful ruler, and finally lays the key pattern for the unification of the world in the future.

In short, it is very, very impressive.

He is cold, murderous, hard-hearted and ruthless, and the only thing that can soften him is kindness. After the clever heroine discovered this, she restrained all her edges and corners, and entangled with him with tenderness for half her life. She was heartbroken by this ruthless and cold man, and it was not until she was in her sixties that she finally won his heart.

Anyway, to sum it up in one sentence, this man is as bad as he is difficult to deal with!

He is arguably the most difficult male protagonist in any novel Su Ci has ever read, bar none.

Okay, let’s get back to reality.

Having said that, I believe everyone is clear about who this male protagonist is. However, in fact, Su Ci has nothing to do with this, because she is not the heroine, she is just a cannon fodder.

The only purpose of her appearance is probably to give the heroine a not-so-good background, and to add some twists and turns to the heroine's marriage and a sense of uncertainty in fate.

The original owner was the fiancée of the male protagonist Yang Zongyan. She was very beautiful, and could be said to have the highest appearance value in the original book. But unfortunately, she had only beauty but no brains. She would do anything stupid. She was engaged to the male protagonist, but she had another lover. Not only did she have an affair with her lover, but she also went out to meet her lover on the way to the military town's migration, and was then discovered by the male protagonist's mortal enemy.

This ignorant girl with incomparable beauty was raped directly in the wild, then dragged away and tortured. After her identity was discovered, she was used as a tool by her wolf enemy to humiliate the male protagonist, and finally died in humiliation.

After her death, the marriage contract between the two families, which was deeply involved, was finally taken over by her concubine sister Su Rong, who was famous for her dignified and cautious behavior.

Su Ci: This setting is too vicious. Doesn’t the author feel guilty? !

In the end, none of the original owner's sister, mother, and father had a good ending. Her sister died trying to save her, her mother was bedridden and eventually caught up and committed suicide during a transfer, and her father was stabbed not long after because he was too sad and in a trance and eventually became seriously ill. Before he died, he only murmured to the heroine Su Rong, "Father is sorry for you."

The setting of the legitimate wife is so dark and miserable that even Su Di did not have a good ending because of his long-term favoritism towards the legitimate wife.

Ugh, bah!

Where is the author? If Su Ci catches this guy, she must use the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to smash her head! !

…

After Su Yan hurried out, Su Ci scooped up the last bit of millet in the jar, rinsed it a little, and then put it into the boiling small ceramic pot.

She thought about it.

The timing of her arrival was neither too late nor too early, as her lover had already hooked up with her, but fortunately, no one knew about it yet. The crucial plot of the military town migration was just about to begin, and her beauty had not yet been discovered by the jackals outside.

There's still time.

There is no need to worry about my sister's parents - as long as she is fine, my sister will not die without being rescued, my mother will not be bedridden, and my father will be extremely sad.

The rest can be discussed later.

Therefore, the most urgent thing for her is to quickly change the transfer routes of the two families in the original plot!

——It turned out that the two families migrated with the large group.

All the above-mentioned plots and accidents happened on this basis.

She touched her chin. As long as the two families changed their routes and stopped moving with the main force, wouldn't everything be solved?

Whether it is a lover or a jackal, you can avoid them.

Avoid these two and you'll miss everything.

Solve the problem fundamentally.

Perfect!

Su Ci snapped her fingers. As for what happened next, she would deal with it after she solved the current problem.

Su Ci wrung out a cotton towel and wiped the sweat off her face. The water in the jar reflected a face as white as snow, bright and beautiful as a rose. The girl's eyes were particularly beautiful, with distinct black and white, and the tails of her eyes slightly upturned, giving her a bit of fox-like charm, as if she was born with affection, but there was a kind of innocent clarity in her eyes, clear and shining like pearls.

Su Ci never knew that a person's eyes could be so beautiful and bright.

She was wearing a straw hat and a cloth skirt, and even her hair and face were a little unkempt, but it was difficult to hide her stunning beauty.

Tsk.

Su Ci was also very beautiful in her previous life, but not as beautiful as she is now. But who doesn’t want to be more beautiful?

So Su Ci was in a good mood. She used a spoon to stir the yellow rice porridge in the earthenware pot and hummed.

The heroine is unlucky to meet her, she does not serve to flatter other people's preferences. As for being a cannon fodder or a tool, whoever wants to be one can be one, but I won't do that job!

Ugh!