Chapter 130: Snake Venom
Bai Zhi smiled and replied tactfully, "Grandpa, let me get to know him better first. He seems like a good person for now."
"Is that alright?" Ye Rufeng glanced at Lu Ye and said coldly, "I think he's a bit dull."
Bai Zhi explained, "Soldiers are generally more composed."
Ye Rufeng, however, was unconvinced. "Aren't we not wearing military uniforms now? How can we mix up life and work? What's with the pretense?"
Sitting there, prickly as a hedgehog, Lu Ye exclaimed, "!!!"
He truly deserves the title of a miracle doctor; he openly showed his disdain without any fear.
The person involved was sitting right next to them, and Bai Zhi awkwardly tried to defuse the situation with a laugh.
"Actually, he's usually quite easygoing. He was probably just too nervous when he first met you out of respect for you."
"If you're this nervous around an old man like me, what kind of future do you have? And you want to be a soldier?"
Ye Rufeng glanced at Lu Ye with disdain, then made a comparison, "I think the other young man looks quite cheerful and is also lively."
Lu Ye, "!!!"
Bai Zhi, "!!!"
Just then, Xie Zheng walked in from outside, humming a song, carrying two bags of cookies and various snacks.
As luck would have it, Ye Rufeng's words reached his ears.
"Dr. Ye, I'm back." Xie Zheng smiled broadly and dumped everything he was carrying onto the table. "These are snacks I bought for you and Xiao Zhi. The convenience store has too little stuff; I wanted to buy you some tea, but they didn't even have any."
Ye Rufeng was kind and said, "It's alright, I have tea leaves."
"What kind of tea do you like? I'll buy it for you when we get back to Nancheng." Xie Zheng handed Ye Rufeng a slice of spicy tea, saying, "Please try it."
He had just overheard the shopkeeper saying that Doctor Ye often came to buy spicy snacks.
This is a greedy old man.
Win him over through his stomach first.
The two of them sat there eating and chatting.
Lu Ye was pinned up like a hedgehog, sitting motionless, watching helplessly as Xie Zheng, this scheming man, so brazenly displayed himself.
Bai Zhi's head was also throbbing from Xie Zheng's nagging.
"Grandpa, you two, slow down. You're disrupting my acupuncture train of thought."
"Okay, slow down."
"Young man, what do you do for a living?" Ye Rufeng asked Xie Zheng.
When the topic of work came up, Xie Zheng's expression turned slightly awkward. He forced a smile, his voice tinged with apprehension, "I'm a music composer."
"Oh?" Ye Rufeng became interested upon hearing this. "Have you composed any songs? Sing them for me."
Xie Zheng scratched his head, "It hasn't been published yet."
Lu Ye lifted his eyelids and looked up arrogantly.
Some people are just unemployed bums.
They only know how to use such petty tricks to please others.
Just as Lu Ye felt he had a chance of winning, Ye Rufeng patted Xie Zheng on the shoulder and encouraged him, "Keep trying, I believe in you."
Xie Zheng, “???”
Lu Ye, "!!!"
Xie Zheng was flattered and grabbed Ye Rufeng's hand, shaking it vigorously. "Dr. Ye, you truly deserve to be called a divine doctor. Not only are your medical skills superb, but you also have a discerning eye. Only someone as skilled as you could see my hidden potential. Rest assured, I will definitely work hard to create."
Ye Rufeng's high praise for Xie Zheng made Xie Zheng incredibly arrogant.
After the acupuncture session, Lu Ye went to the yard alone to chop firewood.
Doctor Ye was going to the village to find a heart attack patient he had treated, intending to try changing the patient's prescription.
Xie Zheng followed along eagerly.
Bai Zhi sat listlessly in the shade, watching Lu Ye chop wood.
Perhaps provoked, Lu Ye took off his coat and, wearing only a vest, vigorously swung the axe, chopping wood with considerable effort.
Bai Zhi reminded him to take it easy; although the wound had healed, the soft tissue inside was definitely not fully recovered, so he shouldn't exert himself too much.
Hearing the girl's concerned words, Lu Ye slowed down.
Just then, the sound of dogs barking came from outside the fenced yard.
Then came the sound of hurried footsteps and shouts.
"Dr. Zhang, Dr. Zhang San, please save my son!"
Dr. Zhang San?
Upon hearing this title, Bai Zhi's expression turned strange.
Then she remembered seeing her grandfather's prescription book earlier, which listed the doctor's name as Zhang San.
This is such a fresh, elegant, and casual name given to her by her grandfather, a renowned physician.
Bai Zhi got up and went out to greet them, and saw a woman in tattered clothes carrying a six or seven-year-old boy on her back rushing inside.
She asked, "What's wrong?"
"My son was bitten by a snake, where is Dr. Zhang?"
Upon hearing the woman's words, Bai Zhi hurriedly squatted down to check the situation. "My grandfather has gone out. I am also a doctor. Let me take a look first."
"good."
Bai Zhi noticed that the little boy had blood blisters on his lower legs, and the area around the wound had turned black, indicating that it was likely caused by a venomous snake.
"Can you tell what kind of snake bit you?"
The little boy was sweating profusely from the pain and was in very poor condition. His mother said, "It must have been a white-flowered snake bite. I've sucked the blood from his wound several times, but his condition hasn't improved."
After carefully examining the wound, Bai Zhi's expression became serious.
If the snake venom is not removed in time, it can spread and be life-threatening.
She directly untied the elastic hair tie she was using and tied it up near the heart of the wound on her calf.
Then he instructed the little boy's mother, "Keep the child lying like this and don't move. Make sure his legs don't stick up and are definitely not higher than his heart, or something bad will happen. I'll go and make some preparations."
Bai Zhi said to Lu Ye, "Let's go get something. Go to the kitchen and bring out half a basin of water for later use."
"good."
The two of them ran into the house together.
She took gauze, iodine, and her own acupuncture needles.
Lu Ye brought a basin of water, Bai Zhi added salt to it, and then began to clean the wound.
"It might hurt a little, you'll have to bear with it."
When the salt water came into contact with the wound, the little boy let out a heart-wrenching scream.
"Bear with it, I have to clean you thoroughly before I can proceed to the next step."
After the wound was cleaned, Bai Zhi took out a large needle for pricking the wound.
"What are you trying to do?" The little boy's mother looked at the large pin in Bai Zhi's hand with fear and apprehension.
"Acupuncture detoxification".
Bai Zhi quickly said, "I am Dr. Zhang San's granddaughter. If you trust me, I can remove the snake venom from your son's leg. If you don't trust me, you can take him away now."
Along the way, her medical skills have always been doubted, and she has always needed to prove herself. She has lost patience.
"I believe you, I believe you. Please save him quickly. We are too far from the hospital, we have no money, and Dr. Zhang is the only one we can rely on."
With the parents' permission, Bai Zhi used a needle to prick the wound and made several small, rice-grain-sized punctures on the skin around the wound. Then she asked Lu Ye to prepare a bucket of cold salt water and bring it over.
After the water was brought in, the little boy's leg was placed directly into the water, which covered the wound.
Then, Bai Zhi began to squeeze the venom out of the wound from top to bottom...
She pressed her hands against the little boy's wound, her hair disheveled, and she was covered in sweat from exhaustion.
Lu Ye couldn't bear to see her working so hard, so he suggested that he take over squeezing her.
"No, you can't control the force."
When dealing with patients, Bai Zhi is determined not to be perfunctory or lazy, and she does not trust any laypeople, insisting on doing everything herself.
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