Chapter 89: A tough guy
"It has come to this, why do you keep dragging it on? Can't you just let him die in peace? You are so selfish and don't care about Dad's feelings at all. He has been paralyzed in bed all these years and he has suffered enough!"
"But Dad himself doesn't want to stop taking the medicine, and the doctor also said that he has a strong desire to live. He wants to go to Yalujiang again after the spring next year!"
"You're still going to Yalujiang. In his current condition, it's doubtful whether he can survive these few days. The doctor told you to just give up. Using drugs to keep him alive is just fooling yourself. He won't be able to hold on for that long! I feel sorry for him when I see him like that. It's too cruel to let him suffer like this."
The quarrel in the room was very intense, and Ye Qing subconsciously looked towards Nie Wei.
Nie Wei hurriedly explained in a low voice:
"They are the old leader's children. They have long been divided over whether to continue treating their grandfather. The eldest son and the second daughter insisted on treating the old leader. In the past two years, they have been looking for people to use their connections and have tried many Chinese and Western medicine doctors."
"The younger daughter lives in her parents' house. She quit her job to take care of the old man's daily life. She may have lived with her father all year round. She has seen the old leader's physical condition deteriorate in the past two years and knows that the patient is tortured by the disease. It was so painful that she always disagreed with the idea of taking medication to hang her life and wanted to get her father out of trouble as soon as possible."
Ye Qing nodded without saying anything. Although she had not yet met this old leader of Nie Wei, if the old man was really tortured by illness and was worse than death, it would be better to kill him directly.
With just a few words, Ye Qing had already figured out the family structure. It was freezing outside, so she quickly signaled Nie Wei to knock on the door.
Realizing that there were guests, the quarrel inside stopped abruptly, and soon a lesbian in her thirties with red eyes opened the door.
Nie Wei hurriedly greeted him:
"Sister Dan, didn't I say yesterday that I know a very good doctor? I have brought him here. This doctor, Ye Qingye, is the director of the Kaoshantun Health Station in Qingshan Town of our county. Maybe she can find a way to treat the old leader's illness."
As he spoke, Nie Wei revealed Ye Qing behind him, and Ye Qing also greeted the female comrade with a smile.
Liu Dan's gaze fell on Ye Qing and his expression changed immediately.
"Ni Wei, my dad has been very kind to you. You have been living such a comfortable life in the transportation company these years, but it is all thanks to my dad's support. Now that he has fallen, you are so perfunctory. What's the matter? The tea has gone cold before the person has even left. Have you climbed up to another high branch? You find such a person to fool people. Do you think we are three-year-old children? Is this yellow-haired girl an adult? Can she be considered a doctor?! Okay, don't explain anymore, just take your people and get out. It seems that my family can't afford you in the future!"
Nie Wei was stunned.
I came here on a tractor and was blown by the northwest wind for more than an hour. I was almost frozen to death. I invited Ye Qing here with great effort, but he was not even allowed to enter the door and was scolded in the face. Who would like this?
His expression froze instantly, and he looked nervously towards Ye Qing standing beside him, fearing that Liu Dan's words would annoy Ye Qing. If this girl turned around and left in anger, he would really curse her.
Ye Qing was not so narrow-minded. After all, she had been rotated in the hospital and had met countless families of all kinds of strange patients. Liu Dan's weird and picky questioning upon meeting her was nothing but child's play in Ye Qing's eyes and was not worth her getting angry or showing off.
However, Ye Qing did not rush to speak. Instead, he stood aside leisurely, waiting for Nie Wei to come forward and solve the problem.
She had said before that if the patient's family could not fully respect and trust her, then she could choose not to treat such a patient, which would not be a big loss for her. On the contrary, if she continued to treat the patient, it would probably bring herself unnecessary trouble.
Seeing Ye Qing standing calmly by the side, not looking angry, Nie Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to explain to Liu Dan:
"Sister Dan, swear to God, we have known each other for a long time. Don't you know who I, Nie Wei, am? If I dare to find someone to fool you, I, Nie Wei, will die a miserable death!"
"The doctor I found, Dr. Ye, is not the quack doctor you think she is. Although she is young, her medical skills are very good, especially her flying needle skills—"
Nie Wei hadn't finished explaining yet, but Liu Dan had no patience to listen.
She had just had a disagreement with her brothers and sisters over her father's illness and had long since given up hope on curing the disease.
In addition, my grandfather was sent to the hospital last night and was used with various instruments. The hospital then issued a critical illness notice, asking his family to be mentally prepared to arrange his funeral.
She felt that the situation was hopeless, and her father might die in the next few days. She only hoped that her father would suffer less in his final days and leave peacefully without any pain. She didn't want any outsiders to interfere at this time.
So when Nie Wei suddenly brought people to her house, Liu Dan was very upset. No matter how Nie Wei explained, she was determined to turn these people away.
However, just when Liu Dan was about to slam the door shut, a hand suddenly grabbed the door edge and used its body to block Liu Dan's action of closing the door.
"Ni Wei, is Doctor Ye Qing here?"
A lesbian with short hair and strong features appeared at the door. She looked about the same age as Liu Dan, but she was wearing a military uniform and looked heroic and full of aura.
"Sister Rong, this is Doctor Ye Qing. I just brought him here from Kaoshantun."
Liu Rong looked at Ye Qing, smiled and nodded after just one glance:
"Come in quickly, it's windy outside, come inside to warm up first."
As he said that, Liu Rong pushed Liu Dan aside, and regardless of the change in Liu Dan's expression, he opened the door and invited the three people outside into the house. While instructing the people in the house to pour hot tea, he explained to Ye Qing,
"In fact, Nie Wei mentioned you to me before, and I even read the news report about you. But I did have some doubts about your medical skills at first, so I didn't dare to ask you to help my father."
"Until last night, my father's condition got out of control again. This time he was sent to the county hospital, but they refused to admit him."
"After seeing my father's case, the county hospital's director, Gu Changqing, told me that the hospital's conventional treatments were no longer effective and that we could only try other unconventional methods."
"Then the old dean recommended you to me, saying that your flying needle skills have reached a high level and might be useful."
Ye Qing finally understood why the Liu family had considered for such a long time but did not come to her, and why they suddenly changed their minds. It turned out that Dean Gu was also involved.
She did not hide it and admitted it openly:
"I have met the old dean several times. About a month and a half ago, I performed a ruptured spleen surgery on a patient in the county hospital, and my flying needle technique happened to be used. Later, the old dean encountered a difficult and complicated disease, and I also used flying needles to diagnose the cause of the disease. So the old dean highly praised my technique and wanted to send trainees to me for targeted training."
Liu Rong had heard about these two things from Gu Changqing yesterday. Now seeing Ye Qing's calm and composed demeanor, she felt relieved.
Eager to verify whether Ye Qing's flying needle technique was effective, Liu Rong did not bother to exchange pleasantries with Ye Qing and quickly took his people upstairs.
As soon as Liu Dan saw Liu Rong was about to lead someone upstairs, his face immediately fell. He was so angry that he rushed up the stairs on the spot and blocked the way of the two people.
"Liu Dan, what are you doing?" Liu Rong shouted angrily with a sullen face.
"I was also going to ask you what you were going to do? Can't you give Dad some respect and let him go in peace? Besides, this yellow-haired girl is unreliable at first glance, and you are so gullible that you are fooled by her in just a few words. You——"
Seeing that Liu Dan was still making noise, Ye Qing couldn't stand it anymore and a silver needle flew out.
The needle was inserted directly into Liu Dan's Hegu acupoint. The silver needle was still trembling on the back of her hand, but Liu Dan's sharp and piercing voice had stopped abruptly.
After opening his mouth several times but no sound came out, Liu Dan was forced to keep silent. His eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Ye Qing in disbelief.
Ye Qing couldn't help but scratched his ears and said lazily:
"I'm sorry, it was too noisy just now, I couldn't help it. This shot will allow you to rest for half an hour, so it will be good for you, me and everyone else, what do you think?"
Liu Dan was so angry that his face turned blue, and he subconsciously reached out to pull out the silver needle.
Just as I was about to move, I heard Ye Qing smiling and adding:
"I advise you not to remove this needle without permission. If you don't handle it properly, the silver needle might break directly into your flesh, and it might also cause permanent damage to your vocal cords. I will not be responsible for this."
This time Liu Dan didn't dare to move anymore. He froze in place and looked at Ye Qing angrily, his face full of anger but unable to speak.
However, Liu Rong and her elder brother Liu Lin breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They really had no idea about this stubborn and nitpicking little sister. Because of their father's affairs, the little sister had quarreled with them many times recently, which made Liu Rong and Liu Lin exhausted both physically and mentally. They didn't know how to persuade her.
Seeing that Ye Qing's simple and rough approach had killed the sister with just one needle, the brother and sister secretly looked at each other and couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up to the new doctor Ye.
No wonder Dean Gu strongly recommended that they bring someone in to give it a try. An expert can tell whether a person is good or not with just one move. Just the needle that Ye Qing inserted into Liu Rong's body just now showed the magic of this flying needle skill to the fullest.
The brother and sister were shocked and immediately gained more confidence in Ye Qing. Soon they led Ye Qing into the old man's room upstairs.
There was a strong smell of medicine in the room. A thin old man was lying on the bed, breathing oxygen, with a clumsy old-fashioned oxygen tank next to him.
To be honest, those who can use oxygen tanks at home these days have to have extraordinary family conditions. Ordinary people have probably never even seen this machine, let alone breathing oxygen.
Even her newly opened health station did not have such facilities. There was only a simple western medicine cabinet, which contained dozens of simple and common medicines allocated by the county health bureau, as well as some simple tools and supplies needed for surgery. Moreover, because Ye Qing was now very popular in the county, the county health bureau specially allocated some more pharmaceutical resources to the Kaoshantun Health Station. Otherwise, even those dozens of medicines might not be available in full.
In short, the medical resources in the countryside are so limited nowadays, and it is the same everywhere in the country. There is no such thing as a good cook cannot cook without rice. Before the Kaoshantun health station was built, Ye Qing had already been mentally prepared.
Of course. Then again, the Liu family was able to spend a huge amount of money to buy her 300-year-old ginseng, and also took out dozens of large and small yellow croakers without any bargaining. From this alone, we can see how wealthy this family is.
So when he saw the oxygen tank, Ye Qing didn't show any surprised expression on his face.
Before meeting the patient, Ye Qing did not ask Nie Wei about the specific condition of Mr. Liu. This was mainly because she was afraid that preconceived ideas would affect her own judgment.
But when Ye Qing placed his hand on the old man's bony wrist and followed the pulse and meridians to explore the patient's body's disease, within a dozen seconds, Ye Qing's body trembled involuntarily and he was so shocked that he was almost speechless.
After a while, after finding out all the diseases in the old man's body, Ye Qing's hands couldn't help shaking. It took her a long time to calm down. When she raised her head again, she couldn't help but ask in a hoarse voice:
"Old man, did you cross the Yalu River to join the war 20 years ago?"
I didn't expect that the first question Ye Qing asked after taking my pulse was this.
The Liu brothers and sisters were stunned for a moment before nodding their heads in unison, thinking that Ye Qing had heard about their grandfather from Nie Wei. Liu Rong even added:
"Twenty years ago, my father, as the leader of the Black Tiger Regiment of the Volunteer Army, led an entire regiment of warriors to participate in the Jincheng Defense War. They fought tenaciously until the last moment of the battle. In the end, only less than one-tenth of the entire regiment returned."
Ye Qing was in a very heavy mood. She said directly:
"To be honest, I'm surprised that the old man can still hold on until now."
"I just checked him carefully. There are at least a dozen shrapnel left in his body. He must have been shot on the battlefield. He underwent emergency surgery but the wounds were not cleaned up. These shrapnel have been hidden in his body ever since. He has been tortured by these foreign metal objects for many years, and his body has been slowly worn down."
That’s right, all of Mr. Liu’s illnesses were actually complications of infection caused by the bullets remaining in his body.
However, these shrapnel were not intentionally left unclean by the surgeon at the time. Instead, due to their special location, many of them happened to be embedded in the old man's key organs and nerve joints.
It is extremely difficult to remove all these shrapnel without damaging various organs and nerve joints.
Unfortunately, at this time, the domestic surgical medical level is limited and the medical equipment is backward. Few people can perform such a difficult operation without the assistance of precision medical equipment, so no one dares to take the risk.
As a result, these shotgun fragments have been lurking in the old man's body, gradually devouring his health over the past twenty years, until his strong body was gradually disintegrated and turned into the skinny appearance it is today.
"My father was a very strong and resolute man. After returning from the battlefield, he underwent more than 30 operations of varying sizes. Doctors removed more than 100 shotgun pellets from his body. The medical conditions at the time were not as good as they are today. Many operations were performed without anesthesia. He gritted his teeth and made it through."
When talking about this, Liu Lin's voice was choked with sobs, and his eyes were full of admiration and heartache for his father.
"The military medical corps did their best. After so many surgeries and many setbacks, they finally brought him back from the brink of death. In that battle, at least hundreds of soldiers died from shotgun shells, and he was the only one who survived. Even the doctors said it was a medical miracle."
Isn't it a medical miracle? Even if a thorn pierces the flesh, an ordinary person would feel unbearable pain, let alone a bullet.
And this thing was not just one, but more than a dozen. After more than a dozen bullets were shot into the body, it actually coexisted with these bullets for twenty years after the external wounds healed! How much terrible pain must he have endured during this period? Outsiders simply cannot imagine it. How strong a man must he be to survive it?
Ye Qing couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Originally, when Nie Wei invited her over, she just wanted to go along for the formality. At most, she could help delay the person for a while, and it would be a great achievement if she could survive this winter.
But now that he knew the cause of the old man's illness, Ye Qing immediately denied his idea.
This old man is actually in his early sixties, about the same age as the old man Chen Youde whom she met in Shanghai before.
But after retirement, old man Chen can enjoy leisurely fishing in the park with a group of old friends, his monthly allowance is too much to spend, and he can visit the homes of relatives and grandchildren whenever he wants. In contrast, the old hero in front of us is already in old age, paralyzed in bed and unable to take care of himself. How can one not sigh and lament?
Especially when thinking about the quarrel between the Liu brothers and sisters just now, and the mention of the grandfather's wish to visit Yalu River again after the spring next year, Ye Qing could no longer remain indifferent.
Without further hesitation, she took out a medicine bottle from the medicine box, took out two ginseng and ganoderma lucidum pills and stuffed them into Mr. Liu's mouth first.
Then Liu Lin was asked to come forward to help and take off all the old man's clothes. Then he started the flying needle therapy, using the flying needle to move the acupoints to accurately inject the wood-based supernatural power into the patient's meridians, to protect the organs in the patient's body that had been infected and diseased. At least in the short term, the patient's body functions could be stabilized at normal levels to avoid acute sudden death due to exhaustion.
Although this operation seems simple, Ye Qing repeated the acupuncture operation hundreds of times. A box of silver needles was sterilized four times, with less than half an hour between each time. The whole acupuncture process lasted for three hours. By the time it was over, Ye Qing's hands were shaking like she had Parkinson's disease. In the middle of winter, she even had cold sweats on her back.
However, the effect of the flying needles was still very significant. Not long after the acupuncture, Mr. Liu opened his eyes, and even slowly raised one arm, opened his mouth and shouted vaguely to Liu Dan who was not far away:
"San... Sanni'er."
Liu Dan had previously tried to stop her older brother and sister from torturing their father, but when she saw that her father had actually opened his eyes again, she realized how wrong she was.
Especially when she heard that the first person her father called out to after he opened his eyes again after two months, her tears instantly burst out like a flood and she couldn't stop them. She suddenly prostrated herself beside her father's bed and sobbed uncontrollably.
Liu Lin and Liu Rong's eyes also turned red, but they were obviously calmer than Liu Dan. After seeing that their father had really improved, they were overjoyed and immediately rushed to Ye Qing, grabbed Ye Qing's hand, and asked anxiously:
"Doctor Ye, is there any hope for my father's recovery? Do you have a way to cure him?"
Before Ye Qing could answer this question, Liu Dan, who was lying on the bed crying, also reacted. She quickly stood up and kept apologizing to Ye Qing:
"Doctor Ye, I was wrong. I didn't recognize the real man. I'm really sorry for saying so many unpleasant things. You can scold me or give me acupuncture. I deserve it for my bad mouth. Please don't take it to heart. If you are still not satisfied, I will kneel down and kowtow to you, and apologize for my crime, as long as you can save my father!"
As he said this, Liu Dan actually knelt down in front of Ye Qing, bent down and was about to kowtow to Ye Qing.
If Ye Qing hadn't been quick enough to dodge, she would have really suffered the noise.
This made Ye Qing very helpless, and he quickly signaled Liu Lin and Liu Rong, brother and sister, to pull Liu Dan up first.
After Liu Dan stood up again, she no longer had her previous doubts and contempt. Now her whole body was filled with burning gazes, and the way she looked at Ye Qing was no different from those of those fanatically worshipful die-hard fans.
Ye Qing was simply angry and amused. She even suspected that if she said eating poop could cure diseases, Liu Dan might believe her.
She looked at the three Liu brothers and sisters very seriously:
"Let me put it this way. The illnesses that the old man is suffering from now are all complications brought by the shotgun. It is not difficult to cure these complications. The difficult part is how to remove the shrapnel from his body."
"If the shrapnel is not removed, even if the complications are controlled for now, it will only be a temporary solution and the disease will relapse within ten days or half a month."
"Only when all the shrapnel is removed will his body have a chance of recovery."
"Now it depends on whether you trust me and whether you dare to take a gamble."
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