Chapter 63 Snowstorm Reset
Two days later, the snow that originally covered the ground had gradually grown to a depth that could reach the knees.
Not to mention Chen Yin, even the older generation like Wu Gui saw such heavy snow for the first time.
"It's snowing so heavily, Dongmei and Yinyin, you two should wait until it stops before going back."
"At this altitude, your feet will be frozen before you even walk far." Grandma Li Chunhe joined in the persuasion.
Wu Dongmei understood that her daughter was concerned about the clinic, so she did not answer and instead kept her eyes on her daughter.
Chen Yin met everyone's urging gazes and explained:
"The snow is so heavy it's hard to travel, but I'm worried it'll be so heavy it'll collapse the roof and cause injuries. I'm also not sure if the town's health center can handle it."
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw a familiar figure struggling to pull his legs out of the deep snow, and his position was getting closer and closer.
"Uncle Qiufeng, several houses in the village have collapsed under the weight of the snow. Grandpa asked me to call for help."
"I'll be right there—"
Upon hearing this, Wu Qiufeng quickly changed into snow-proof rubber boots, while continuing to ask:
"Which houses collapsed?"
When Wu Yushu approached the house and saw Chen Yin's figure inside, he unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
"There's Uncle Seven's family, Brother Yucheng's family, and Grandma Quan's family. Especially Uncle Seven's family, there are still people trapped underneath..."
Upon hearing this, everyone instantly showed worried looks.
Chen Yin felt that her worries had finally become a reality, and she hurried to the main room and picked up her medicine box.
"Let's go! Let's go and take a look together."
In an instant, all the rubber boots in the house were put on and people walked towards the house of Uncle Seven, who Wu Yushu said was the worst hit.
There were many other people on the road who heard the news and rushed to help. When they saw Chen Yin in the crowd, everyone's nervous hearts calmed down a lot.
When Chen Yin and her group arrived at Uncle Seven's house, looking at the scene in front of them that was completely crushed by the snow, no one had any hope that Uncle Seven's family could survive.
But following a command from the village party secretary Wu Sheng, everyone came forward to help in the cold wind.
Even Chen Yin is no exception.
Because he collapsed in the early morning when no one was paying attention, most people should have been resting in the room. Everyone looked in the direction of the bedroom that Uncle Qi's family remembered.
Chen Yin carried the medicine box on her back and carefully turned over the tiles to reveal the wood underneath.
Everyone worked together to move the wood to another location.
Next came wooden boards, plastic sheets and other miscellaneous items, but there was no sign of a human being.
Finally, when everyone was sweating profusely from searching, someone shouted in surprise:
“Here they are!”
Before he finished speaking, everyone rushed towards the direction of the sound.
I saw a thick quilt under the broken wooden board, and there was a bulge underneath the quilt, which obviously showed that someone was lying inside.
With hope, everyone worked harder and soon cleared the space around the quilt.
Seeing that everyone was about to move the person under the quilt, Chen Yin quickly spoke out to stop them.
"Don't move! We don't know if they have any broken bones. Don't move easily. Let me take a look first."
"Quick, quick, quick! Get out of the way and make way for Yin Yin."
Wu Sheng felt that this made a lot of sense and quickly directed the crowd.
"Besides this room, look in other rooms. There must be people trapped underneath."
Upon hearing this, everyone stepped aside and began searching for other people.
Chen Yin put down the medicine box behind her, squatted down, and lifted the quilt covering her, revealing the person inside.
It was obvious that the people inside were the son, daughter-in-law and grandson of my seventh uncle's family.
The three of them were in a strange posture. Brother Yufeng was lying on his back, holding his wife and children tightly in his arms, and his sister-in-law was holding the child in her arms.
The quilt was lifted, and the cold air quickly dissipated the warm atmosphere formed inside.
Under normal circumstances, when the human body feels the invasion of cold air, it will definitely wake up quickly from sleep, but the family of three in front of him were unconscious and it was obvious that they were seriously injured.
Not only Chen Yin, but other onlookers also thought so.
Everyone focused their attention on Chen Yin, wanting to know what was happening to the three of them as soon as possible.
At just one glance, Chen Yin could tell that Brother Yufeng was the most seriously injured, with his back in a somewhat strange position.
She gently touched upwards and immediately felt that there was something wrong with a section of the man's spine on his back, with a noticeable bulge, which showed that he had suffered serious damage.
But what is more important now is not to treat the spinal fracture, but to rescue the patient from the cold environment first.
Chen Yin stood up suddenly and instructed the people beside her:
"Hurry up and take down the door panels at Uncle Qi's house. Two more people will help roll Brother Yufeng onto the stretcher."
When everyone heard this, they immediately took action.
With two "clicks", the door panel appeared next to the quilt, with a thin mattress on top.
Chen Yin carefully straightened and brought Brother Yufeng's legs together, then placed her hands at her sides①.
Then he looked at the two people standing closest to him and shouted:
"Come! Please, help protect Brother Yufeng's shoulders and waist, hold them tight. Brother Yushu, you are responsible for holding Brother Yufeng's hips and legs."
"Remember, when moving, make sure that Brother Yufeng's body does not become deformed or change shape."
When the two heard such a serious tone, their already nervous hearts rose high. The part they were responsible for seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and they dared not be careless at all.
Chen Yin glanced at the expressions of the two and continued to remind:
"Now follow my movements and roll over to transfer Brother Yufeng to the stretcher. Remember, do not let Brother Yufeng's posture change."
Following Chen Yin's words, the two carefully transferred Wu Yufeng to the stretcher, not even daring to breathe in the middle.
Only when they saw Wu Yufeng lying on the stretcher with a peaceful expression did they breathe a deep breath.
"good!"
"Please help move Brother Yufeng to the house next door. Be sure to protect his back when moving. Because Brother Yufeng's injury is to his spine, he must not suffer any secondary injury, otherwise he may have problems walking in the future."
"Once we've arrived at our destination, quickly change Brother Yufeng into dry, warm underwear. Place a hot water bottle around his neck, armpits, and groin to help warm him back up."
Chen Yin repeatedly reminded them to prevent any accidents.
Wu Yushu and the others didn't expect that there would be such a complicated recovery process. They were listening very carefully, afraid that they would make a mistake in any step.
As for asking Chen Yin to accompany them, they had no idea at all, after all, there were so many people under the snow.
After dealing with Wu Yufeng, Chen Yin continued to diagnose the next patient.
After her diagnosis, she confirmed that the patient was just suffering from hypothermia. She informed the person next to her and had him transferred.
Finally, there was the child who was tightly protected by his parents. As soon as Chen Yin touched the child, she felt a different breath.
The child's body temperature was obviously much higher than his parents', and his face was rosy, as if he was not affected by the snowstorm at all.
Chen Yin continued to explore with her hands in disbelief, and finally put her hands under the child's armpits, with a helpless smile on her lips.
Everyone saw this scene and couldn't help but ask:
"Yinyin, how is the child?"
"He is just fast asleep." Chen Yin's answer shocked everyone.
Who would have believed that a child buried under snow and a broken house could sleep so soundly?
Everyone moved closer to the child in disbelief, and a group of people curiously touched the child back and forth to check his breathing and body temperature.
Now, everyone really didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.
"This unfortunate child! He was really well protected by Yufeng and his wife, and he didn't get hurt at all."
The love of parents for their children is fully displayed in their children.
"This child must have been in trouble when Yufeng and his wife heard the noise and subconsciously protected the child under them."
"Looking at Yufeng's injuries, he must have been hit. Even so, his wife and children are fine. He is a man."
"I just don't know if Yufeng can still..."
Everyone's heated gazes followed Chen Yin's figure as she moved to rescue her seventh uncle and seventh aunt from the messy ruins.
After examination, it was found that both Uncle Qi and his wife had bruises of varying degrees, and Uncle Qi's arm even had a radius fracture.
Chen Yin led the two people she had just rescued and hurried to the nearest house.
Wu Yufeng and his wife have been sent to the house and are being taken care of. They have changed into dry clothes and are using hot water bottles to warm their bodies.
Seeing someone familiar, Chen Yin immediately asked for details.
"Sister-in-law Xiuying, have their body temperatures risen now?"
"Your sister-in-law Mei is fine. Her body temperature is gradually rising and she has started to react to our voices. But your brother Yufeng..."
Sister-in-law Xiuying really couldn't bear to continue talking. Who could have thought that Uncle Qi's family's house would suddenly collapse?
Moreover, it happened in the early morning when it was cold and everyone was sleeping soundly, so no one noticed it at all.
If someone had not noticed something strange on the opposite mountain early in the morning, the whole family would probably have been buried in the snow and died.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yin instructed everyone to use the same method again to help Uncle Qi and his wife warm up, just don't hurt Uncle Qi's arm a second time.
She quickly walked towards Wu Yufeng's room with her medicine box and shouted:
"Two people come to assist me. I need to reset Brother Yufeng's spine."
Upon hearing this, Uncle Fengyu and Brother Yulong, who were closest to her, quickly followed.
When they walked into the room and looked at Wu Yufeng, whose life or death was unknown, both of them showed expressions of pity on their faces.
As soon as Chen Yin approached the injured person, she immediately went forward to check the temperature of the other person's chest and armpits. The feeling was obviously much better than when she had just rescued him, but compared with the temperature of a normal person, it was still relatively low.
She quickly covered the injured person with the quilt and said to Wu Yulong:
"Brother Yulong, please get two charcoal basins. We'll need to take off our clothes when we reset the system, and the temperature in the room must be raised."
"I'll go right away!" Upon hearing this, Wu Yulong turned around and left, quickly getting busy.
Wu Fengyu, who stayed in the house, stood silently by and watched Chen Yin's preparations.
I saw her taking out silver needles and alcohol from the medicine box, preparing to disinfect, and her posture looked quite intimidating.
After a while, Wu Yulong came back with his men and the charcoal basin, closed the door, and let the temperature in the room slowly rise.
After Chen Yin confirmed that the temperature reached her standard, she quickly instructed two people to help turn Wu Yufeng over so that his body was in a prone position.
At this time, the three of them could see Wu Yufeng's injuries clearly at a glance.
Even people who are not familiar with medicine know that once the spine is injured, paralysis of the lower limbs is inevitable.
Seeing that the injuries were so serious, Wu Fengyu and Wu Yulong's movements became a little stiff.
She thought: What if Wu Yufeng's injury can't be cured, and he becomes paralyzed and relies on herself? Before the two of them could think of a way to escape, Chen Yin had already disinfected the silver needles and inserted them into Wu Yufeng's body one by one.
The two were dazzled by the cold light reflected by the silver needle and subconsciously closed their eyes.
As time passed, their palms began to sweat, and on this cold day, they felt a sense of heat.
Wu Fengyu licked his lips nervously and tried to make a sound, "Yin..."
Chen Yin's sudden voice immediately interrupted the words he was struggling to utter.
"Uncle Fengyu, please hold Brother Yufeng's legs and stand behind me. Brother Yulong, please stand at the head of the bed and hold Brother Yufeng's shoulders tightly. No matter what happens, Brother Yulong must not move in the slightest."
"Come on! Uncle Fengyu, try your best to pull his body towards you, then slowly lift Brother Yufeng's legs up so that his lower body is hanging in the air on the bed."
At this moment, their brains had already become a mess, and they only knew to follow Chen Yin's instructions.
While the two of them were working hard, Chen Yin was not idle either.
She overlapped her hands, clasped her fingers together, and slowly pressed down on the bulge on Wu Yufeng's back.
When Wu Yulong saw this scene, he opened his mouth in surprise, and his hands unconsciously exerted force, leaving white indentations on Wu Yufeng's shoulders.
Under his horrified gaze, Chen Yin's hand kept moving with the protruding position of the injured person's spine as the center of the circle.
When she withdrew her hand, the bulge disappeared without a trace.
Wu Yulong blinked in disbelief, fearing that he was dreaming.
I thought: How could someone forcefully press down on a person's protruding bone? Could Yufeng be dead?
After all, the nerve network on the spine is complex, and such rough recovery techniques are really not reassuring.
Not only him, Wu Fengyu also had the same idea.
Just thinking of Chen Yin's previous achievements, he felt that he could trust the other party's approach this time.
Chen Yin withdrew her hand and told the two again, "Don't move yet. I still need to bandage Brother Yufeng."
Wu Yulong loosened his hands slightly and then tightened his grip on the shoulders again, not daring to relax at all.
Then, Chen Yin took the wood pieces from outside, cut them all into the length of Wu Yufeng's back, stuck them all on his back, and tied them tightly with gauze.
Looking at this scene, the two onlookers showed the same expression.
Because the scene in front of him was so similar to the scene of people bandaging broken hands and legs, it felt both reasonable and unexpected.
"alright."
Chen Yin tied the last knot and nodded with satisfaction. "Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Fengyu and Brother Yulong. You two can let go now. Help Brother Yufeng return to a supine position and then you can go and rest."
With the protection of the wood chips, the two of them were not so nervous when they helped to turn over this time.
At the same time, Chen Yin wrote a prescription for Wu Yufeng and asked Wu Yulong to go to her house to get the medicine and boil it for Wu Yufeng to take.
Afterwards, she worked tirelessly to reposition and treat Uncle Qi's fractured radius.
This time the action seemed much easier than before, and the onlookers were not as nervous.
As time passed, the child, who was immersed in a warm sleep, gradually woke up and cried loudly, which made everyone feel distressed.
"Just now I said that the child was sleeping soundly. Could it be that he felt that his family members were still asleep and started crying out of fear?"
"Xiao Hao is also pitiful. Come, let auntie hug you."
"It's not good for the child to continue crying like this, Yinyin, do you have any solution?"
It is understandable that a child is restless after waking up and facing unfamiliar environments and people, and there is really no need to use medication.
Chen Yin thought about it and said:
"Why not let the child sleep with his mother? I guess the child will stop crying when he smells the familiar smell."
"Yinyin, your idea is great! Mother and child are connected by heart. Who knows, Xiaomei might wake up soon after hearing the child's voice."
Before he finished speaking, a group of people carrying the child hurriedly walked towards the child's mother's room.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet. After writing down a prescription for her seventh uncle's family who had hypothermia, Chen Yin quickly rushed to the next family whose house had collapsed.
Although they were not buried under the snow, they still needed to check if they needed help.
Finally, Chen Yin arrived at Wu Yuzhu's house with her feet almost frozen.
I saw that the dilapidated roof had collapsed under the weight of snow, and the two floors below were also crooked, looking unsuitable for human habitation.
Now, everyone in the village is busy helping the grandparents and grandchildren clear out the wood, bark and thatch on the second floor.
Of course, the original house was definitely no longer habitable, and all the things were piled up in the small kitchen.
As soon as Chen Yin appeared in the yard, she was immediately discovered by the dejected Wu Yuzhu.
Although their house was not worth much, its sudden collapse still caught her off guard.
She lost her spirits when she thought about the medical expenses she still owed Sister Yinyin and the cost of rebuilding the house.
"Sister Yinyin, you're here."
"The house collapsed and can be rebuilt. As long as no one was injured, that's all that matters."
Chen Yin rubbed Wu Yuzhu's head and comforted her softly.
Wu Yuzhu's heart was soothed by these words, and the dissipated energy was instantly recharged into her heart. She nodded heavily with high morale and replied:
"It's cold now, so grandma and I can stay in the kitchen to rest and keep warm."
"I'm glad you think so." Chen Yin raised the corners of her mouth slightly and quickly changed the subject.
"Although no one in the family was injured, I'm here now. Where is your grandma? I'll take her pulse and see how she's doing."
Upon hearing this, Wu Yuzhu's eyes shone brightly.
She suddenly raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the kitchen. "Over there—Sister Yinyin, I've been carefully reading the medical book you gave me recently, and I also want to try to take grandma's pulse, but I..."
The person who was cleaning the house saw the harmonious atmosphere between the two and couldn't help but joked:
"You know what, Yuzhu now looks a bit like she did when she was an apprentice."
"To have a doctor like Yinyin as a teacher, becoming an apprentice is a stroke of luck. Yuzhu and her grandchildren, the poor couple, must have met a good person."
When it came to the situation of Wu Yuzhu and her grandson, no one continued talking.
Inside the house, Chen Yin diagnosed Grandma Quan and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with her body.
It’s just that I was seriously injured before, so I need to have a good rest and not overwork myself.
After telling Wu Yuzhu about the diagnosis and exchanging some study knowledge with her, she started walking towards home.
As soon as they got home, her mother took off Chen Yin's rubber boots without saying a word.
"You, you! I knew that once you go out, you will be busy running around outside and not pay attention to your health at all."
As soon as Wu Dongmei touched her daughter's feet, she felt a biting cold, and hurriedly dragged her legs towards the fire so that her daughter could warm herself by the fire.
Chen Yin smiled embarrassedly. The situation was critical and she couldn't care less about anything else.
At the same time, Wu Qingluan brought the cold-relieving soup that had been prepared long ago.
"Sister Yinyin, drink it quickly, be careful not to catch a cold."
"good."
Chen Yin took the cold-relieving soup and drank it in one gulp. A warm current instantly flowed into her originally cold body, and the warmth spread from her stomach to her limbs.
She moved the bowl that was blocking her view away, and wisps of white steam emerged from her socks, causing her five toes to clench unconsciously and her cheeks to turn red with embarrassment.
She quickly freed her feet from her mother's grip, stuffed them into her cotton shoes, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Dongmei glared at her daughter helplessly and began to prepare dinner for tonight.
Because there were limited rubber shoes at home, only Chen Yin, Wu Qiufeng and Wu Wenbo went out to help, while the others waited at home.
Seeing that it was getting late, Wu Dongmei and An Hongying began to prepare food.
When Wu Qiufeng and Wu Wenbo rushed back, the food was just about to be cooked.
"Haha! Perfect timing!"
Wu Qiufeng excitedly rubbed his almost frozen hands, walked quickly towards the fire, and kicked the ground with his feet to dispel the cold.
Wu Wenbo was still rational. He changed his cold rubber shoes first before sitting down next to his sister.
As soon as I smelled the fragrance at the tip of my nose, my mind was filled with nothing else.
The Chinese New Year just passed, and the house was filled with delicious meat and dishes, which made people drool just by smelling them.
“It smells so good!”
"Are you hungry?" Wu Dongmei couldn't help but joked when she heard this.
Then, he immediately handed the bowl to his nephew and said, "You've been busy all day, eat more."
"Hehe." Wu Wenbo smiled embarrassedly and quickly took the bowl.
Everyone understood that the father and son were very hungry, so no one wanted to talk nonsense. They quickly distributed chopsticks and bowls and started dinner time.
While eating, Wu Guicai began to inquire about the specific information about several houses that collapsed today.
"There are three houses in total. How come you are so busy now?"
"Grandpa, today we mainly rescued Uncle Seven's family and dug them out from under their house. For the other two families, we simply cleaned up the accumulated snow, which didn't take long. The main reason we've been busy until now is mainly because the Party Secretary said we're helping reinforce the houses of those in the village that look unstable."
Upon hearing this, Wu Gui nodded in agreement. No one could find fault with this approach.
It’s too late to save the houses that have already collapsed, so it’s better to take precautions against other houses that haven’t collapsed yet.
But he couldn't help sighing as he looked at the sky where it was still snowing.
"Qiuxiang and her family were supposed to come with their children today. I don't know how their family is doing."
"Dad, just relax. Qiuxiang's house is made of bricks and tiles, nothing will happen to it."
As soon as the words fell, everyone seemed to remember something and turned their eyes to Wu Dongmei and Chen Yin.
"It snowed so heavily in Qingshan Village, could it be snowing in the town too?"
In this case, the clinic is not a brick and tile house, but a wooden house like home. With heavy snow, there is a high probability that problems will occur.
The family, who had been reluctant to let Wu Dongmei and her daughter return to town, decided to go back to town together tomorrow to take a look.
But Chen Yin did not agree. There were limited suitable shoes at home, so it was enough to let her uncle accompany her and her daughter for the time being.
Wu Dongmei also agreed with her daughter's suggestion, packed up her things and prepared to rush back to the clinic.
The next day, at noon when the temperature was the highest during the day, Chen Yin and the other two set out on their return journey.
The heavy snow covered the sky and the earth, and all that could be seen was a vast expanse of white, devoid of any life.
After looking for a while, one's eyesight became blurry and one had to use a stick to feel the way as one walked.
Along the way, they found that not only Qingshan Village, but other villages also had houses collapsed by the snow.
Obviously, this snow disaster is extremely harmful to the entire Tongxi Town.
The scene in Qingshan Village is still vivid in my mind. The collapsed houses can be rebuilt, but if people are not treated in time, their lives will be in danger.
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The author has something to say: ① "Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics"
②Yang Shuwen, Beijing Hospital
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