Chapter 187 First Aid
Li Sanniang unfolded the large cloth and wrapped the man's protruding intestines with it. Seeing the soldier still standing in front of her, she couldn't help but feel a little angry: "What are you still standing there for? Didn't you hear the shopkeeper say that he has strong liquor?"
The squad leader, who was patrolling and dealing with problems, came over and overheard Li Sanniang's impatience with the soldier. He saw Li Sanniang pulling the man out of the pile of corpses, but he felt that it was better to save the few who were still breathing than to save the man who was sure to die.
The captain watched as Li Sanniang carefully wrapped up the soldier's intestines, as if she had a way to save him.
"Listen to this female doctor, you should go."
Only then did the soldier step into the wine shop.
After seeing someone go to get what she needed, Li San Niang turned her attention back to the heartbroken man.
In modern times, the person would be rushed into the operating room, the wound cleaned, any severances severed, and any sutures that could be sutured. The wound would then be carefully pushed back into the abdominal cavity, sutured layer by layer, a drainage tube would be left in place, antibiotics would be administered, and blood volume would be replenished.
Young and strong patients can be transferred to a regular ward after two nights in the ICU, and after another ten days or so, as long as they don't develop secondary infections, they can walk out of the hospital on their own.
But this isn't modern times. There are no sterile operating rooms, no antibiotics, nothing at all.
There is only one female doctor here who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology.
Even so, looking at the overwhelming will to survive in the man's eyes as he struggled to open them, Li San Niang felt that there was still a chance to fight back.
A doctor should never give up on his or her patients!
After wrapping up the exposed intestines, Li San Niang folded a small square towel into a circle and placed it against the wound to create some space and prevent the protruding intestines from being squeezed and necrotic. She then took the last piece of cloth from her medical kit and covered the person's abdomen with it, pressing it down in the hope of reducing the chance of infection.
When Li Sanniang saw the captain approaching, she told him to find two soldiers to dismantle a door panel and carry the man on the ground into the wine shop.
During this time, Li Sanniang patted the man's face. Seeing him struggling to open his eyes, half-dead, Li Sanniang leaned close to his ear and said loudly, "You'd better live well until I put your intestines back in! I won't give up on you, and you can't give up on yourself!"
At this moment, Dr. Li, Dr. Cui, and Dr. Gao, who were a bit slower on their feet, also ran over.
Li San Niang didn't have time for formalities and told them to go find Tang Mingyue, where there were three seriously injured people who hadn't been treated. Perfect, one for each of them.
"Female doctor, the water is all boiled. I have some strong liquor here, is that alright?"
Li San Niang directed the two soldiers to carefully move the heartbroken man to the door panel, which was then dismantled from the wine shop.
Seeing that the lighting inside the wine shop wasn't very good, Li Sanniang ordered the soldiers to dismantle the other door as well, and then carried the heartbroken man, along with the door panel, onto a table inside the wine shop.
"Shopkeeper, do you have fine salt? And has the boiling water cooled down?"
"Female doctor, Old Li's house at the top of this street sells salt; you're sure to find the best fine salt there."
Li San Niang turned around, pulled off her purse, and handed it to Qiu Xiang, urging her to hurry up and buy it.
When Qiu Xiang brought back the fine salt, Li San Niang had already washed her hands and face with hot water, cleaned up the bloodstains, and changed her clothes.
The woman in the clothes shop across the street saw Yishan rescuing people from the second floor of her own shop. There were no more bad guys on the street, so she dared to send her apprentice to ask if there was anything she could do to help.
Li San Niang then stopped the young waiter and asked him for a clean set of clothes.
Now, with his shirt cut open, the heartbroken man lay there shirtless. As Li Sanniang put on the surgical gown from her medical kit, she wondered how she would save him.
Previously, Li San Niang's system, which had little presence, rewarded her with a chance to use a sterile room when she completed the second task.
Li San Niang had never had the chance to use this reward before, but now she felt it was time to do so.
However, Li San Niang was unsure whether she should use it.
Li San Niang didn't know if she would actually end up in the operating room if she used it. If she did, even if she saved the person, she would definitely be treated like a monster.
If it only serves the purpose of an operating room, such as providing a sterile environment, then it's fine.
At least they wouldn't be captured and tortured like monsters or burned alive.
Li Sanniang was waiting for the boiling water to cool down so she could add fine salt and roughly prepare a saline solution to cleanse the intestines and abdominal cavity of the person who had suffered a heart attack.
While Li San Niang was thinking about what to do and whether to use the reward, she was still pondering what to do.
At this moment, only Li Sanniang and Duan Changren were in the wine shop; everyone else had been driven out by Li Sanniang and told to wait at the door.
The wine shop owner was also arrogant. He and his assistant dismantled the other two doors as well. At this moment, they were all standing outside the other two doors that had been dismantled. There was no one in front of Li San Niang's door, which did not affect the lighting for Li San Niang's surgery in the future.
Tang Mingyue, whose clothes and hands were stained with blood, was holding the equipment bag given to her by Li Sanniang when she arrived at the door. Just as she was about to enter, Qiu Xiang stopped her from the side.
At this moment, Tang Mingyue saw that only Li Sanniang was standing in the wine shop, dressed in the same outfit as when she spoke at the Alliance, wearing a mask, a cloth wrapped around her head, and a surgical gown with ties.
Before Tang Mingyue could speak, several horses stopped by the roadside. It was Dr. Sun, the surgeon from the Imperial Medical Bureau, who had arrived with several surgeons.
It turned out that the doctors in the military camp in the suburbs of Beijing had also learned about the deployment of this brigade of Jinwu Guards. Therefore, Medical Supervisor Sun took three doctors and followed the brigade of Jinwu Guards, thinking that there would definitely be casualties in such an event, and that they could go and rescue people.
Although there are small medical clinics of the Imperial Medical Bureau next to the Wuhou Shop in each ward of Chang'an City, most of them only have one doctor and one apprentice. The casualties from such a large-scale battle are certainly not something that one doctor from the Imperial Medical Bureau in a ward can handle. Therefore, Physician Sun decided to go there in person.
However, Sun Yijian and his men received the news a little too late. After the Imperial Guards rode out of the camp, they realized that even riding fast horses, they were still too late.
Upon arriving, they were surprised to find that people were already treating the injured, and they headed towards the entrance where the crowd was gathered.
Before even entering, Dr. Sun saw a person standing inside wearing a light green surgical gown, a hat, and a mask. He immediately recognized her as Li San Niang.
Of course, Sun, the medical supervisor, did not know that the reason for the mobilization of the military camp was because of the assassination of Li San Niang. He only thought that something had happened in Chang'an City, which made Emperor Wu issue an order to send this brigade of soldiers into Chang'an City and surround the city gates.
Sun, the medical supervisor, naturally realized that the shop was currently off-limits, so he asked, "Is that Madam Li San inside?"
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