Leg bone correction
The room was quiet, and time passed slowly. The quieter it got, the more tense it became.
As she waited, Luo gradually tightened her grip on the bamboo pole. She felt anxious, but she didn't dare show it.
After taking Fu Wei's pulse, Yu Ying withdrew her hand and looked at Fu Wei's nails again.
His nails were light red and had some knurling. She pressed his nails a little harder and then looked up at Fu Wei.
Fu Wei didn't care what she was doing and didn't even glance at her.
Yu Ying curled her lips secretly and looked away.
The patient is suffering from deficiency of Qi and blood, with a slow pulse and weak pulse. The pulse is even weak and deep, which is obviously a sinking pulse, with some signs of a floating pulse.
The weather is hot now, but his hands are too cold.
Considering some minor symptoms, Fuwei seems to be suffering from deficiency-cold syndrome.
If the deficiency-cold syndrome is mild, it can be cured. However, if it is severe, the spleen and stomach will be damaged, and the joints and muscles will also ache. Over time, the whole body will collapse and it will be difficult to recover.
The body is in danger, and the person can naturally feel if there is any problem with the body.
But his body has been ruined like this, but he remains indifferent. It is obvious that he doesn't want to live anymore.
If you don't want to live anymore, why do you continue to hold on?
Although Yu Ying had read the book, she still didn't quite understand the reason.
"What happened?" Mrs. Luo asked nervously by the door.
Taking into consideration that Luo's health was not good, Yu Ying half-spoke and half-concealed: "She's a little weak, she'll be fine after some recuperation."
When he heard the words "feeling a little weak", Fu Wei's eyes darkened slightly.
Luo asked in embarrassment, "How much silver will it cost?"
Yu Ying knew very well that given the current situation, Luo Shi probably couldn't come up with a single penny, so she didn't elaborate, only saying, "I have my own way."
After saying that, Yu Ying stood up, rolled up her sleeves, and then lifted the thin quilt on Fu Wei's legs.
As soon as the lid was opened, the smell of herbs became stronger. Yu Ying frowned slightly and asked, "What kind of medicine did you use on your legs?"
Luo said hurriedly, "The elders in the village said these herbs are useful for leg injuries."
Most of these herbs are useful, but because Fu Wei's leg is broken, applying herbal medicine will definitely be useless.
Yu Ying did not continue to ask, but slowly rolled up Fu Wei's trouser legs, and then untied the cloth wrapped with herbs on his knees.
After removing the cloth wrapped with herbs, she saw the injury clearly - a twisted and dislocated knee that looked like a deformity.
Yu Ying's face couldn't help but darken.
Fu Wei's gaze swept across his legs, and deep disgust appeared in his eyes.
Yu Ying paused for a moment, then lowered her head to carefully examine his legs.
When the officers broke Fu Wei's legs, they must have hit his knees directly, so his knees were dislocated and twisted in a shocking way.
Although it looks scary, an experienced Chinese doctor can still fix a fracture of this degree.
But in ancient times, capable doctors basically settled in prosperous places. It was difficult to find doctors with good medical skills in such poor and backward places.
Even if there is, it may not be treated.
Who in Yu County doesn't know that the son of the Wuling County prefect suffered for twenty years because he was taken away by mistake, and is therefore full of resentment towards the Fu family?
It was the leg of Erlang of the Fu family. Even though it was not explicitly stated, everyone knew that it was broken by people sent by the son of the county governor. In this situation, who would dare to really treat him?
Yu Ying stared at Fu Wei's expression carefully, then reached out and pressed the wound. Seeing that his face was slightly pale and his brows were furrowed, she knew that he was in great pain.
It's a good thing if it hurts. If it doesn't hurt, it means she has no feeling. At this point, she really has no other choice.
Yu Ying carefully felt the dislocated joints on his leg before withdrawing her hand. She said slowly, "It can be cured."
Hearing this, Fu Wei raised his eyes and glanced at her, but that was all.
But Mrs. Luo was shocked. She had thought that this was the end of her son's life. Even though she was sad, she hid it deep in her heart and did not dare to show it.
When she heard that it could be cured, her eyes gradually turned red, but she was afraid that she had heard it wrong, so she hurriedly asked, "Can it really be cured?"
Yu Ying hummed, "If the dislocation is corrected, then rest a little longer..." She glanced at the severe dislocation and considered it for a moment before choosing a conservative date. "After about two months of rest, you should be able to remove the bamboo strips and get out of bed for a while, but you shouldn't stand or walk for long periods of time. And if you want to fully recover, you'll need to rest even longer."
It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, but in ancient times, conditions were poor and there were not so many instruments. Everything had to rely on experience and feeling, so the period was longer.
After saying that, Yu Ying walked out of the room.
In the house, Fu Wei looked towards the door, his eyes slightly turned, and he looked out the window to the outside of the yard, his eyes falling on his wife's back.
Until the figure disappeared from his sight, Fu Wei lowered his eyes and looked at the ugly pair of legs, with no trace of disgust in his eyes.
Can it be cured...
I’m afraid that after it’s cured, it will break again.
Fu Wei took a quick look and pulled up the quilt to cover her legs with disgust.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Because bamboo would be needed to fix the legs after the bones were set, Yu Ying remembered that there was a bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain, so she asked Luo for an axe to chop bamboo.
But after seeing the hatchet that Luo brought, Yu Ying fell silent.
A blunt hatchet with teeth all over it cannot even cut weeds, let alone bamboo.
Sooner or later, she would have to replace all these tools.
She went to the creek and found a relatively flat stone, and after grinding it until she was sweating profusely, she could barely use it.
After asking Luo, she learned that the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain was ownerless, so she went to cut some bamboo poles thicker than her thumb.
He cut about ten bamboo poles, polished them on rough stones, soaked them in the river for half an hour, and finally dried them in the sun.
After getting the bamboo pole, you need a fixed rope.
But because the Fu family did not have that many ropes, they had to use cloth strips instead.
After looking left and right at the clothes of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, they only had two sets of clothes to change, and they felt that they were not tough anymore, so they finally tore their lining into strong strips of cloth.
After everything was ready, she returned to the house with hot water, intending to clean the medicine stains on Fu Wei's legs.
Luo was worried and had to stay by her side, and Yu Ying didn't let her go out.
Yu Ying wrung out the handkerchief, lifted the quilt, and gently scrubbed Fu Wei's legs.
Fu Wei, who had been silent the whole time, finally spoke: "Why do you want to cure me?"
Finally hearing him ask, Yu Ying looked up at him and said, "I thought you wouldn't care about this question."
He glanced at Luo at the door and lowered his voice and said, "I thought you didn't want to live anymore, so you wouldn't care."
Fu Wei raised his eyebrows slightly, his expression remained dull, and he looked away.
"Don't tell me."
Yu Ying lowered her head and carefully wiped his legs, saying half-seriously, "I can't leave now. I may have to stay in the Fu family for the rest of my life. As a man, you are the pillar of the family. Naturally, you can't lie in bed forever."
Fu Wei looked at her expression when she spoke, and couldn't tell whether it was true or not, but he didn't believe her.
Fu Wei didn't believe it, but when Luo heard this, her expression changed.
He secretly muttered to himself: Could it be that after a fall, Yu Shi had a near-death experience and figured it out? Did she want to live a good life with Erlang?
Yu Ying didn't have the time to guess what the mother and son were thinking. After wiping Fu Wei's legs clean, she massaged them to relax his muscles and studied how to correct his bones.
After a long time, without any warning, she took advantage of his relaxation and suddenly used all her hidden strength to push and straighten him. There was a "crack" sound of bones, and Fu Wei suddenly grabbed the quilt tightly. The veins on the back of his hand were bulging, his knuckles were white, and his face was pale and bloodless. There was even a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.
Yu Ying looked at him and asked, "Can you bear it?"
"Go on." Fu Wei's voice was extremely restrained.
Yu Ying knew that bone straightening was extremely painful, especially for someone like him who had been injured for almost a month and whose bones were severely dislocated and twisted to the point of deformity. The pain of bone straightening was like a cone.
Despite the pain, Fu Wei didn't even cry out. Yu Ying admired him for that.
After adjusting the bones, she fixed several thick bamboo poles to his legs, and then firmly fixed them with torn cloth strips, and the simplest fixing clamp was ready.
After just having one leg straightened, Yu Ying was already out of breath, and her clothes on the back were completely soaked with sweat.
She let Fu Wei relax for a while and also rested herself for a while. After she recovered her strength, she would deal with the other leg.
Fu An leaned over the window and peeked in. He felt great pain when he saw the woman twisting his uncle's legs.
He looked at the careful woman, his face wrinkled.
He heard her say yesterday that she would not only treat his uncle's leg, but also his grandmother's eyes.
If she could really cure her grandmother's eyes, he would accept her beating and scolding him again in the future.
After a long time, Yu Ying finished treating Fu Wei's legs. Not only was she nearly exhausted, but Fu Wei was also leaning against the wall, gasping for breath.
When Yu Ying recovered her strength, she secretly glanced at Fu Wei.
Sweat soaked Fu Wei's thin clothes, which stuck to his body tightly. It might have been not long since the accident happened, so one could still vaguely see how slender and strong his body was before, and how smooth and clear the muscle lines were.
It would be a real pity if such a perfect body were disabled.
Yu Ying just looked at it with admiration and had no other thoughts.
After a while, Yu Ying withdrew her gaze. Out of professional instinct, she instructed, "Don't loosen these bamboo poles without my consent, and don't let your legs touch the water. I will also boil some herbs to nourish your body."
After saying that, her eyes fell on his sweat-soaked clothes. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "Change into dry clothes later to avoid catching a cold."
After giving the instructions, Yu Ying picked up the basin of water and walked out of the house.
Luo's excitement gradually subsided. After licking her dry lips, she looked at the blurry figure on the bed and said, "Erlang, take good care of your injuries. You don't have to worry about other things."
Fu Wei recovered a little from the severe pain and looked at his biological mother with an old face and gray hair, his brows furrowed.
In this kind of environment, what’s the point of worrying?
Luo turned around and left the house.
Yu Ying washed her hands, looked at Luo Shi who came out of the house, and said, "Now let me check your eyes."
Mrs. Luo wanted to refuse, but after Yu Ying said, "If you don't let me see it, then don't let me continue to treat Erlang's leg," Mrs. Luo hurriedly agreed.
Yu Ying glanced at Luo's eyes, and after carefully asking about the symptoms, she had an idea in her mind.
Luo's eyes can be cured, but it is a long process to treat the symptoms and the root cause. The most important thing is to regulate the body.
Moreover, the conditions are limited at the moment, so we can only prepare some herbs that can clear the mind and brighten the eyes to make tea to alleviate the symptoms of blindness first.
After a busy day, it was almost dusk. When she was about to take a break, suddenly a "clang" sound came into the house. Yu Ying hurriedly got up and walked to the door to lift the straw curtain to check.
Fu An was standing blankly beside the fire rack. The clay pot had been shattered into pieces, and the fragments fell on the fire that was extinguished by the wild vegetable soup.
Luo came over upon hearing the noise and asked anxiously, "What happened?!"
Fu An's eyes turned red, and he said aggrievedly: "Grandma, the jar suddenly cracked..."
When Luo heard this, his face was stunned.
Things will always break down after being used for a long time. Just seeing the expressions of the grandfather and grandson, Yu Ying had a bad feeling in her heart.
——Could this be the only clay pot in this house that can be used for cooking...?
Other families are so poor that they can’t even afford to eat, but this family is so poor that they don’t even have a pot.
If there really is only this one clay pot, I guess I can't even think about having wild vegetable soup tonight.
Yu Ying suddenly remembered what she had picked in the mountains today. She turned to look at the red mushrooms on the ground and had an idea.
She thought that dinner tonight should be taken care of.
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