Chapter 73: Ading is seriously injured
The secret guard collapsed to the ground in pain, his entire body drenched in cold sweat. He forced himself to sit up, nodded gratefully to Qin Xiangnuan, and said, "Thank you, Third Miss." He had seen friends injured before, and the imperial physicians in the capital hadn't been as skillful and decisive as Qin Xiangnuan. He felt lucky to have encountered such a miraculous doctor in a place like Phoenix Mountain.
"Excuse me, Miss Third, where did you learn your medical skills?"
Anliu was suspicious, and now that he had the chance, he naturally wanted to ask directly and find out some information.
Xiaoyao Hou enjoyed the emperor's trust, so imperial physicians often visited the palace to check on Jiang Lin and his son's pulses. Anliu, following Jiang Lin by his side, had seen this several times. However, the white-haired imperial physician, despite decades of medical experience, wasn't as decisive as Qin Xiangnuan in making a diagnosis. Seeing how she'd treated the wound just now, she was probably similar to the military doctors who accompanied soldiers on the march.
"How do you treat these broken bones?"
Undercurrent's thinking was meticulous, and fooling him wasn't easy. He interrupted Qin Xiangnuan's explanation, "If you say you studied medicine at home, I think you're just treating women's illnesses, or maybe a cold. In this critical situation, even if the Third Miss learned it from books, she'd have nowhere to use it and no one to practice with, right?"
This guy is as annoying as his master.
Qin Xiangnuan secretly rolled her eyes in her heart, then turned back to look at Anliu with a smile, "You are wrong."
"Before this month, I was the legitimate daughter of a general, and my father was a general who fought bravely on the battlefield. When I saw the medical books at home, the first thing I naturally wanted to learn was how to treat people who were in critical condition, whether they had bruises, poisoning, or sword injuries. I needed to memorize them all, just in case they might be needed." Qin Xiangnuan's eyes were frank, without any evasion, and she didn't make any unnecessary movements even when she lied.
Anliu carefully observed her expression, trying to find any clues, but failed.
"Maybe I'm gifted, so I can remember everything I see in medical books. Although I haven't tried some of them, setting a bone is still a piece of cake. After all, the general's mansion used to have a few big dogs to guard the house. They were always naughty. One day they broke their front legs, and the next day they broke their hind legs. I always secretly treated them without my mother's knowledge. For them..." Qin Xiangnuan cast her eyes on the two embarrassed secret guards, and gently uttered two words with her red lips parted. "It's almost the same."
The two secret guards looked at each other and wailed silently in their hearts. What did this have to do with them? Why were they being scolded?
Not only was he injured, but he was also nominated alongside a dog.
Anliu didn't gain any benefit at all, and still said with a doubtful look in his eyes, "The Third Miss is kind and eloquent. I am the one who offended her!"
"No problem, now that things here are done, let's go see them."
Qin Xiangnuan was a little worried, afraid that Kong Wu would have a backup plan and find the location of the cave. So she deliberately delayed for a while, and when she was sure there were no eyes watching from the dark, she hurried back to the cave. She lit a fire and ran to the bottom of the cave, first coming to Old Lady Qin and Liu. "Mother, Grandmother, are you all right?"
Liu shook her head, and Qin Xiangnuan instinctively noticed that the atmosphere here was a bit awkward.
Anliu followed in and reunited with the previously injured secret guards. Qin Xiangnuan wanted to ask what happened to Liu, but just as she was about to open her mouth, she heard a cry from behind, "Ading! Wake up, what's wrong?" Anliu knelt beside a young-looking secret guard and patted his face.
From a distance, Qin Xiangnuan saw that the secret guard named Ading had a pale face and purple lips, and looked like he was dying.
"Master Liu, I'm glad you're back. My mission is complete."
Ading struggled to open his eyes, his hands completely drained of strength. Anliu held him, looking back at Qin Xiangnuan as if searching for his only hope. "Third Miss! Please help me, save him! He's the youngest and has never seen his parents. The prince raised him, and we watched him grow up. Originally, he wasn't allowed to come on this mission, but he insisted that he admired the general and wanted to see him in person."
"this……"
Qin Xiangnuan had originally thought Anliu had no extra emotions, but now, seeing his red eyes and trembling voice, she knew that Ading was very important to them. Without wasting any time, she walked straight towards Ading and handed the tinder to Anliu, "Hold it."
Anliu nodded, and everyone gathered in a circle, too nervous to breathe, staring closely at Qin Xiangnuan's movements.
They were all dressed in black. Qin Xiangnuan frowned and felt around his body with her hands. Black was a good color for concealing oneself, ensuring safety at night and during tracking. However, it also made it difficult to discern the most serious injuries when under attack. Although Ading was injured, he never cried out in pain to the others.
Anliu thought he was only injured slightly, so he didn't take it seriously.
Qin Xiangnuan touched Ading's abdomen and felt a pool of blood. She immediately tore off his clothes. The black clothes had been stuck to his body due to the blood and the cold temperature. When she tore them, the flesh was pulled out. Ading gasped and coughed up two mouthfuls of blood.
"How could this happen! Why didn't you say anything!" Anliu saw a fist-sized wound on Ading's abdomen, bloody and mangled, and shouted in grief and anger, "How did you manage to hold on until now!" Qin Xiangnuan frowned. She had to admit that this boy was indeed a man.
With such a large amount of blood loss and injuries, it is not easy for him to hold on until now.
Even if it was myself, in such a simple environment, there was no guarantee that I could snatch Ading's life back from the hands of the Black and White Impermanence.
Seeing Qin Xiangnuan's hesitation, Anliu knelt on the ground without saying a word. He kowtowed twice and said, "Please save my life, Third Miss! If you can save Ading's life, Anliu will repay you even if he has to work like a slave in the future."
"I try my best."
Qin Xiangnuan didn't put forward any conditions to him. She just looked at the environment in the cave and quickly thought about what she needed. There were indeed machines that Ading could use and scalpels for suturing, but with so many eyes watching, she had no way to move.
"You can ask me to save your life, but there are three rules. If you agree, I will save you immediately."
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