Chapter 40 After the Rescue
Chen Yun quickly took off her handbag and handed it to Gao Ming.
The bag contained the money and tickets the couple had brought; it would be a great loss if someone stole it in the chaos.
"I am a doctor."
Someone turned around, saw Chen Yun speaking, and quickly asked, "Comrade, are you a doctor?"
"I'm a doctor, let me in."
"There's a doctor! There's a doctor! Please make way so he can get in."
The kind-hearted old lady pushed aside the passersby blocking her way, grabbed Chen Yun's arm, and pushed her inside.
The old man lying on the ground had bluish-purple lips, the color of a frozen eggplant, and his eyes were tightly closed. He was no longer responding to the shouts around him.
Chen Yun knelt down and pushed away the young man who was sobbing uncontrollably on top of the old man.
"Get out of the way, if you keep crying, there won't be any chance to save her."
The man's face was covered in tears and snot, his mouth slightly open and his expression blank.
Passersby couldn't bear to watch any longer and pulled the young man aside by his arm.
He loosened the old man's tightly buttoned collar, placed two fingers on his carotid artery, and his expression immediately hardened.
A faint carotid pulse, barely perceptible breath, and when the eyelids are opened, the pupils show no light reflex—sudden cardiac death.
"The old man's family member." Chen Yun turned to look at the man who had finally come to his senses: "Does the old man have heart disease?"
Unbuttoning my shirt, I touched the cold, sticky skin on my chest. Two fingers' width away on the left side of my chest, there was a surgical scar that looked like a centipede across my heart.
“Yes, my grandfather had heart surgery,” the young man replied immediately.
"He must have nitroglycerin in his bag. Check it quickly to see if you can find it."
The young man hurriedly shook his head and stammered, "We...we were planning to go to the hospital, so we didn't...we didn't bring any medicine."
Even kneeling on the road, Chen Yun could feel the dampness of the ground. She quickly waved to the young man, "Come and help."
"..."
"Gao Ming, come help!" Chen Yun immediately called out to someone else.
Gao Ming quickly squeezed in from outside the crowd and, following Chen Yun's instructions, tilted the old man's head and neck back and used a folded backpack to cushion his shoulder.
Interlace your fingers and press them on the middle of the old man's sternum, applying force according to what you learned in your previous life.
"One, two, three, four!"
As the pressure was applied, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Chen Yun's forehead, and large drops of sweat rolled down from her hair, landing on the old man's trembling eyelids.
The body's response indicates that the CPR is effective.
But as he continued pressing, Chen Yun suddenly stopped and gently stroked the old man's ribs below his left chest with his right hand.
Even though it was a very slight sound, almost imperceptible, Chen Yun seemed to clearly hear a "crack" sound, as if the healing from an old fracture was about to break slightly.
"Has the old man ever had a fracture?" Chen Yun asked the young man.
The man nodded: "My grandfather was wounded on the battlefield when he was young, right in his ribs."
Chen Yun nodded with a livid face.
If you continue pressing down, your heartbeat will not recover before it causes a second fracture. Moreover, just by touching her, you can feel that there are more than one or two old fractured ribs.
At his age, the aftereffects of a second fracture could be just as serious as those from a heart surgery.
Just as Chen Yun crossed her fingers again, deciding that the matter was urgent, she suddenly noticed a red five-pointed star-shaped handbag peeking out from under her neck.
"clever."
Gao Ming immediately understood, and placed the old man's head on his lap with both hands. Chen Yun then took out her handbag.
As her fingers touched the inner compartment of the bag, Chen Yun's pupils lit up slightly, and she pulled out a paper package from her fingertips.
"Pinch his mouth open."
Open the paper package and take out a small, earth-colored pill.
Chen Yun had casually stuffed the heart-saving pills that Xu Gaoyuan had given her into her handbag when Ma Cuifen had benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) last time, but she never expected to bring them to the provincial capital this time.
With a skillful touch, Chen Yun pried open the old man's jaw and stuffed the pill under his tongue.
After withdrawing his hand, he reached into his bag and took out the small cloth bag containing the tickets, then pulled out a half-broken silver needle stuck in a cotton ball.
Chen Yun casually tucked the discarded silver needles, whose ends had been accidentally cut off, into the inner layer of his cloth bag, just in case he needed them and was left without any needles.
Although the silver needle without a needle tip will tremble when inserted, this is only the most insignificant flaw at this point.
Remove the silver needle and insert it into the Neiguan acupoint. Gently move the silver needle up and down to increase the stimulation of the acupoint. Then, massage the Zhongxue acupoint on the upper arm with your right thumb.
"He moved."
Gao Ming exclaimed in surprise.
The old man's trembling eyelids slowly opened and closed again, as if something was trying to rush to his throat, and a coughing sound rose and fell with the violent rise and fall of his chest.
"cough."
Gao Ming, who had been pinching the old man's chin, quickly said, "There is pink frothy sputum."
Chen Yun simply nodded, then forcefully tore open the hem of her already somewhat transparent shirt, rolling it into a cloth stick as thick as a cigarette.
The stick was inserted into the old man's mouth, and the thick phlegm was repeatedly scooped out.
You could clearly feel that the old man's breathing was much smoother, and after a few muffled sounds, his eyelids slowly opened.
"He's alive! He's alive! He's been saved!"
The old man rolled his eyes and looked up at the person, his breathing gradually becoming lighter and more relaxed.
Seeing the young man open his mouth wide and about to pounce, Chen Yun said impatiently, "Aren't you going to find a car to take him to the hospital? You think this is the end of it!"
"I have a car, I have a car."
The cart drivers waiting to load goods at the store entrance immediately raised their hands and shouted to the crowd to push their carts to the center.
"Put the person on the cart first, but don't touch the silver needles."
Just as Chen Yun was directing Gao Ming to lift the old man into the car, the young man suddenly shouted again.
"Grandpa is shaking."
The old man experienced slight twitching, and Chen Yun immediately stood up and shouted, "Where can I buy popsicles nearby?"
"Popsicle!"
The onlookers anxiously looked around.
The old woman who had just pulled the child away shouted, "There it is!" and darted out in a few steps, snatching it from the hand of a child who was eating an ice pop.
"Here are popsicles. Here are popsicles."
The old woman rushed in and handed the popsicle to Chen Yun before hurriedly explaining the reason to the child's mother.
Two more people suddenly joined the crowd of onlookers.
Chen Yun stuffed the popsicle into the old man's armpit and shouted to the onlookers, "Not enough, give me two more."
Without saying a word, the child's mother ran to the popsicle stand at the door, grabbed two popsicles, and rushed back without paying.
The popsicle was pressed firmly against the carotid sinus, while the other hand, which was numb from the cold, quickly made circles and pressed on the area two fingers away from the fourth thoracic vertebra.
The throbbing in the veins under his fingers gradually subsided, and the twitching in his limbs also gradually stopped.
The old man's throat suddenly trembled, his chest heaved as he inhaled a long breath, and his cyanotic lips opened and closed again—his spontaneous breathing had returned.
"Let's take him to the hospital," Chen Yun finally exhaled slowly.
I don't know if it was because I had been kneeling for too long or because I was nervous, but when I stood up, my vision went black and I almost fell over.
Fortunately, someone helped her out and kindly fanned her with a palm-leaf fan.
Gao Ming helped the old man into the car and was about to let go when the young man suddenly grabbed her arm, looking at her pleadingly: "Could you please have your boyfriend come with us to the hospital? I'm afraid... afraid something might go wrong on the way."
"Let's go, I'm going to the hospital to get checked out too."
This sudden movement gave Chen Yun a premonition. She placed her left hand on her right wrist and took a pulse herself. Going to the hospital was just a convenient way to get a final confirmation.
"What's wrong with you?" Gao Ming asked worriedly, supporting Chen Yun's shoulder.
"He might be a little anemic, so we should go to the hospital to get checked out." Chen Yun waved his hand at the young man, "We're not from the city, we don't know where the hospital is, you lead the way."
The young man breathed a sigh of relief, bent down, and called out to the old man on the cart, "Grandpa."
The old man's breathing was still very weak, but he was conscious and could nod slightly in response.
This made the journey to the hospital much easier.
The young man finally wiped away his tears and snot and told Chen Yun about their situation.
The elderly man, surnamed Li, was visiting relatives in Kunming and stopped by a hospital recommended by an old friend for a follow-up examination after his heart surgery.
They usually carry nitroglycerin with them, but this morning they forgot to take their bags after leaving the guesthouse, and since they were going to the hospital anyway, they didn't go back to get it.
Who knew that something would happen just over ten minutes after I left home?
Only now did Chen Yun realize that the young man was actually only fourteen years old, at most a teenager.
When faced with problems, all you do is cry... that seems somewhat understandable.
"We've arrived at the hospital." The boy pointed to the sign for the First People's Hospital of Kun'an City and said to the two of them, "I'll go in first to call for help. Uncle and Auntie, please wait for me at the door for a while."
"Let me help you to the side to rest for a while."
Compared to the elderly man on the cart, Gao Ming felt more sorry for Chen Yun, whose face was somewhat pale.
Chen Yun smiled somewhat embarrassedly, clutching her stomach: "It seems the noodles this morning were too spicy... It's all your fault for putting the chili peppers in my bowl."
I didn't really taste how delicious the noodles were, but the chili oil was really spicy.
Gao Ming was amused by Chen Yun's wrinkled nose and glaring expression, and slowly smiled as he quickly shifted all the blame onto himself.
"It's all my fault."
"The cart is here."
Within two minutes, several doctors in white coats rushed out of the hospital lobby pushing trolleys, moving so fast that they seemed to leave afterimages.
"Move the bed and send him to the emergency room."
The leader, with a stern expression, directed the doctor to move the old man onto the trolley.
"Director Xu."
Chen Yun didn't expect to run into an acquaintance at the hospital entrance. She quickly stopped the doctor who was lifting the person to move him and said, "I'll get the acupuncture needles first."
"Dr. Chen."
Now was not a good time to catch up, so Chen Yun recounted the rescue process in detail to Xu Gaoyuan before being wheeled into the hospital.
The outpatient hall was packed with people, the air was thick and heavy, as if the floor had just been mopped, and the pungent smell of disinfectant rushed into the nostrils.
Chen Yun had never found the smell of disinfectant to be so pleasant as she had today.
The slogans on the wall were already faded and worn, and the character for "serve the people" was missing a stroke. The sanitary wall had been worn down by the family members who squatted by it and waited.
There were many wooden benches in the lobby, and busy nurses moved among them; every staff member seemed extremely busy.
"Thanks to your timely rescue, otherwise if you had been brought to our hospital from the state-run store, you would have missed the best time for rescue."
Xu Gaoyuan grew to appreciate Chen Yun more and more.
A doctor at a health center in a third-tier factory not only possesses extensive knowledge of emergency care but can also adapt to local conditions by combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
"Now that the person has been handed over to Director Xu, I can go to the window to register with peace of mind."
"Dr. Chen, what's wrong?"
"Gynecology, let's see what's wrong with the women." Chen Yun smiled.
"No need to register. I'll have Xiao Hu take you to the gynecology department. Director Xu would like to see you."
Xu Gaoyuan didn't have time to ask Chen Yun what was wrong, so he patted her shoulder and followed her into the elevator with the cart.
The provincial capital hospital... even has an elevator.
As the elevator doors closed, Xiao Hu, whom Xu Gaoyuan had called out, quickly stepped forward and led Chen Yun and Gao Ming up the stairs.
"The elevator is only for patients with mobility issues and those using trolleys; everyone else has to climb the stairs."
Chen Yun said "okay" and then turned to push Gao Ming's chest: "Go to the store and tell Su Weiming, otherwise he won't be able to find you."
"It's alright." Gao Ming refused to let go.
“I’m a doctor myself, do you think I don’t know if something’s wrong? The car we borrowed is still parked in front of the store.”
After thinking for a moment, and seeing that Chen Yun's face had regained its rosy hue, Gao Ming nodded.
"Then wait for me at the hospital. I'll go tell Su Weiming and come right away."
The gynecology clinic is on the second floor.
The factory workers' hospital was divided into internal medicine and surgery departments, but it was practically the same as not dividing them at all. In contrast, the provincial hospital had very detailed departmental divisions.
The gynecology department is divided into two departments: gynecology and obstetrics and gynecology.
"Director Xu is working in the obstetrics and gynecology department today, but she also sees gynecologists."
Xiao Hu led Chen Yun to the entrance of the obstetrics and gynecology department. Seeing that there was no one queuing at the door, he simply knocked and pushed the door open to enter.
"Director Xu, Director Xu Gaoyuan asked me to bring Dr. Chen from Hongri Machinery Factory to see you for treatment."
Director Xu looked up from the medical record, took off his reading glasses and put them on the table. It took him a long time to finally remember who Dr. Chen was.
"Let her in quickly."
"Hello, Director Xu."
Director Xu's gray hair was neatly tied back, and the collar of his white coat was meticulously buttoned to the top. The skin exposed by the collar showed deep wrinkles on his neck, which must have been caused by years of working at his desk.
"Little Chen?" Doctor Xu stood up, looking at Chen Yun with surprise and delight. His pupils were unusually clear, as if they had been tempered by the years. "You are the Doctor Chen that Xu Gaoyuan mentioned. I didn't expect you to be so young."
"I've been showing off my limited skills in front of Director Xu," Chen Yun said with a modest smile.
"Director Xu, Dr. Chen is here to see a doctor."
Xiao Hu closed the consultation room door after he finished speaking.
"Where do you feel unwell?" Director Xu put his reading glasses back on and looked up to see Chen Yun's face clearly. "With your comprehensive knowledge, you should know what's going on, right?"
Chen Yun pursed her lips and smiled, "Don't laugh at me, Director Xu, but I've taken my own pulse before, though I'm still not sure."
Healers cannot heal themselves...
"Describe your symptoms."
"I think I'm pregnant and I have a mild iron deficiency."
"Pregnant!" Director Xu looked up at Chen Yun again, a warm smile on his face. "That's great news! A blood test will find out soon enough."
Dr. Xu trusted Chen Yun completely, and without even asking routine questions such as about her menstrual cycle, she quickly wrote out a test order for Chen Yun.
"Just take the form... never mind, I'll take you there."
Director Xu simply got up, gave some instructions to the doctor in the next consultation room, and then took Chen Yun downstairs.
After paying, I went to the lab to have my blood drawn.
Director Xu had many treatment concepts he wanted to share with Chen Yun, especially advanced concepts related to newborns.
She was very curious about where Chen Yun had learned all of that.
While waiting for the blood test results, whenever there were no patients in the consultation room, I would ask Chen Yun a question to discuss.
The test results, which would normally take two days to come out, were delivered to the office within two hours after Dr. Xu gave specific instructions.
Meanwhile, Gao Ming was already sitting in the hospital corridor.
"Xiao Chen, take a look for yourself." Dr. Xu handed the examination report to Chen Yun: "There's someone else in the room. You can come in and see me after you've finished reading this."
Chen Yun placed the examination report face down on her knees, took a deep breath, and then turned it over.
Having seen countless test results, I was so nervous when it was my turn that I forgot to blink.
Gao Ming was very anxious and looked at it even before Chen Yun.
Unfortunately, he couldn't understand the string of numbers on the form at all, which only added to his anxiety.
"How is it? Is it serious?"
"It's not serious." Chen Yun smiled, folded the bill and put it in her bag. "It's just that we can't buy clothes with the money we brought this time; it all has to be spent on the hospital."
Gao Ming pursed his lips thoughtfully, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Chen Yun's hand: "Get admitted to the hospital first, I'll go back to the guesthouse and borrow money from a friend..."
Chen Yun immediately covered his incessantly chattering mouth, both amused and exasperated.
“You’re about to become a father. I plan to use the money we brought to do some tests, since our hospital doesn’t have the equipment for those tests.”
clever:"……"
His body visibly stiffened, then his eyes lit up and his cheeks flushed red with excitement.
The lips on his palm opened and closed, saying something that was hard to hear.
Chen Yun then lowered her hand, and Gao Ming immediately pointed to himself: "You mean I'm going to be a father, I'm going to be a dad..." His gaze then fell on Chen Yun's lower abdomen: "You're pregnant!"
Chen Yun smiled.
"Alright, stop grinning like an idiot!" Chen Yun said, but she couldn't hide the joy in her eyes.
Getting pregnant a little over a year after getting married isn't late, but it's not fast either.
After all, the creaking wooden bed hadn't stopped creaking all night long, so it was perfectly normal for a healthy young couple to get pregnant.
Having transmigrated to this world for two years, Chen Yun has already fast-forwarded to steps that she hadn't been able to take in her previous life, which she hadn't been able to do for over thirty years.
Next... Chen Yun gently touched her lower abdomen.
Next, she will become a mother and enter into a completely new identity.
From the moment he entered the examination room until the examination was completed, Gao Ming still felt like he was walking on cotton.
He didn't even get to see his older brother's nephews and nieces born, and it seems none of his brothers or friends became fathers before him.
Li Huguo, who is my best friend, has been married for over two years with no news yet, while he... is about to become a father.
That night, I slept in a double bed at the guesthouse.
Gao Ming stared at the snow-white ceiling, unable to sleep.
***
Ten residential buildings of Hongri Machinery Factory.
"Sister-in-law, where should we put the sofa?"
The prize for outstanding individuals at the end of the year is a four-seater plush sofa.
The dark green patterned sofa has a smooth feel when you gently run your hand through it.
Both its appearance and texture are unique in the factory.
When the sofa was moved into Chen Yun's house, several families who knew each other came to watch the spectacle.
Grandma Ma gently touched the surface of the sofa and immediately exclaimed in surprise, "My goodness! This sofa is softer than a bed!"
"There are springs underneath, so it's naturally soft to sit on."
He directed Su Weiming and Gao Ming to place the sofa by the door. The length of the sofa was just about the same as the length of the wall, and there was room to put a coffee table in the corner.
"Auntie, come and try it."
Chen Yun turned around happily and sat down on the sofa. Her movements were so quick that Gao Ming was startled and his breath caught in his throat.
He opened his mouth as if to remind Chen Yun to be careful since she was pregnant, but then he remembered that she was only two months pregnant and it wasn't good to let outsiders know. He moved his lips and quickly turned his head to look in the other direction.
"Cuifen, come and try it! I could sleep on this sofa for the rest of my life."
Grandma Ma touched the sofa with great affection, but after sitting for a while, she was afraid of getting the surface dirty, so she quickly stood up and patted the grass clippings off her pants.
"Go buy a sofa cover, otherwise this sofa will get dirty and we won't be able to wash it."
Yang Juhua didn't go inside; she just stood by the window next to the sofa and talked.
"Come in and sit for a while, sister-in-law," Chen Yun called to Yang Juhua, offering the sofa to the Ma family mother and daughters. "I ran into some trouble in the provincial capital, and people gave me a lot of melon seeds. I'll share them with you all."
After the elderly man with heart disease was out of danger, his family found the guesthouse where Chen Yun was staying the next day. To express their gratitude, they not only brought a lot of gifts, but also left their phone number.
The old man surnamed Li is from Beicheng. His son said that the phone line is a dedicated line, so he can call directly if he encounters any difficulties in the future.
Anyone with a dedicated line... Chen Yun knew they must be a big shot.
Xu Gaoyuan and Director Xu both advised her to put away her phone. Before leaving, they also brought her a lot of Kun'an specialties.
"And there's malted milk powder too!" Old Ma saw Chen Yun take out a tin can from the bag, which looked exactly like the malted milk powder she had seen at the supply and marketing cooperative.
"It's not malted milk powder, it's milk powder."
Ma Cuifen had noticed the three big characters "milk powder" on the can early on, although she didn't know what milk powder was.
"These are all gifts of gratitude from others..." Chen Yun casually recounted the rescue process to everyone.
Even the most expensive cans of milk powder pale in comparison to life itself.
Even if Chen Yun brings out something else next, everyone else will feel that it is only right.
"Eat some sunflower seeds."
After rummaging through several bags, Chen Yun finally found the sunflower seeds. She poured out half of them, intending for Su Weiming to take them back, and put the rest in front of the sofa.
Why isn't my sister-in-law eating?
Inside the house, only Old Ma's mother could be heard speaking, while Yang Juhua, who was usually quick-witted, sat listlessly on a small stool by the door without saying a word.
The sound of cracking sunflower seeds went on and on, until her hands were sweaty from holding the seeds in her hands.
"I've been feeling a bit feverish these past couple of days." Yang Juhua put the sunflower seeds in her pocket, clapped her hands, and stood up. "I'm going back inside to cook. We have to go out again after we finish eating."
"..."
Old Ma waved to Chen Yun and patted the sofa.
As soon as Chen Yun sat down, she began to quietly recount what had happened in the past few days, explaining that since it was inconvenient to crack sunflower seeds with her mouth, she had switched to peeling them with her hands.
They peeled and talked at the same time... without wasting time on either.
"Old Hu wanted to transfer Hu Yue'e's relationship back to the countryside, but the Tang family tricked her into moving to their house with just a few words."
Luo Youmao and Old Man Tang returned from the county town the next day. Not only could they not find connections to solve the problem, but they couldn't even visit each other.
The sentencing is a done deal, but the exact number of years is still uncertain.
Hu Yue'e heard from somewhere that the transport team was involved in this matter, and the first thing she did when she returned to the factory was to ask Gao Ming about the situation.
But by then Gao Ming and Chen Yun had already gone to the provincial capital.
Yang Juhua wanted her daughter to give up as soon as possible, and in her earnest words of advice, she inadvertently revealed that they had known all along that Tang Junjie was up to no good.
This really stirred up a hornet's nest, and Hu Yue'e was furious.
"That heartless brat said Tang Junjie's arrest was all Lao Hu and Yang Juhua's fault for not warning him beforehand... Is that even human language?!"
The thought process of someone obsessed with love is completely impossible to communicate with...
After arguing with her family, Hu Yue'e packed her clothes and went directly to the Tang family, saying she was waiting for Tang Junjie to be released from labor camp.
Old Tang and his wife no longer looked down on her, and even declared that Hu Yue'e would be their daughter-in-law from now on.
"You mean Old Man Tang plans to have Hu Yue'e marry him before Tang Junjie goes to the labor camp?"
Chen Yun asked again, repeatedly confirming that she hadn't misheard.
And tonight... Hu Gangtie and his wife are going to the Tang family for one last time to persuade them.
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