Chapter 226 Life or Death
Li San Niang called out to Xu Jingzhen twice, pressing down on the ground with her hands. There lay a young man on the ground whose hair was either naturally curly or curled from being burned.
Young men have the strongest survival instincts, so there's a high chance they can be saved!
After Li San Niang called out, Qiu Xiang immediately knelt down next to the other person lying on the ground. Qiu Xiang knew about the CPR technique that Li San Niang was talking about. This was a life-saving tool that Mr. Bu Ke had spent a lot of effort to get from Li San Niang.
Quite a few people in the Bad Guys actually went to learn this method, at least Qiu Xiang and her master both knew it.
Qiu Xiang ripped open the man's clothes on the ground, exposing his chest. She crossed her hands over his heart and, like Li San Niang, began to press down with her arms vertically.
"Nineteen, there's no time to find Xu Jingzhen. Do what Third Sister and I did and save this person on the ground. Quickly!"
Without saying a word, Shijiu knelt down and began to imitate how Qiuxiang did it.
When Li Kui arrived, he saw the female doctor he knew kneeling on the ground, pressing on the chest of a man who had just been rescued. Although Li Kui didn't understand why she was doing this, he could tell that she was trying to save him.
The fire started with the wind, and in no time, the house of the largest acrobatic troupe in the West Market was burned down, leaving only a skeleton.
Later, many more people came to help put out the fire, but the fire was only a drop in the ocean when the soldiers and civilians poured water on it, and they could not stop the raging flames at all.
Those who were rescued and those who escaped on their own either had good fortune and simply choked to death, or they had already met their demise.
Even after a safety cordon was set up on both sides of the troupe's territory to ensure that the surrounding residents would not be endangered, Li San Niang was still performing acupressure.
Xu Jingzhen and Di Renjie arrived at the place where the crowd had formed a circle, looking disheveled. The soldiers pushed through the crowd, and the two saw the scene of the three people kneeling on the ground saving people.
Xu Jingzhen ran over and knelt down beside Li Sanniang, asking, "Do you need me to give you breath control?"
Li San Niang didn't hear Xu Jingzhen's words at all, so Xu Jingzhen had to shout loudly again before Li San Niang realized that Xu Jingzhen had returned.
My arms ached as if they had been twisted into pretzels, and I was only able to keep going by sheer willpower.
"Pass on the breath! I say start, so you start."
Xu Jingzhen had previously learned this skill from Li San Niang at the Li family home, using Fang Chengxian as the human model.
When Xu Jingzhen cleared the man's mouth and nose and then breathed into him mouth-to-mouth, the people around, who already found Li San Niang's method of saving people strange, erupted in a deafening roar.
"This woman was strange to begin with. Why did she keep pressing something on the dead person? And she even removed their clothes."
"That's right, that's right. It looks like the guy coming up next is an official. Look at the hat he's wearing!"
"I know about this Rabbit God, but the person is dead. How can you desecrate a corpse like this? Isn't this the greatest disrespect?"
There were surprises, fears, disbelief, and even some vulgar language—you name it.
Di Renjie arrived here with two officials. Seeing this scene, what else could he not understand?
This is a rescue operation!
The people who had accidents tonight were all victims of undeserved misfortune; we should save as many as we can.
Foreigners are still people under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the people in the theatrical troupe in the West Market.
After Di Renjie gave the order, the soldiers drove away the surrounding people, making room for Li Sanniang and her group.
Li San Niang felt she couldn't hold on any longer; she was indeed no match for the endurance of a martial artist.
Li San Niang wanted to ask which of the surrounding soldiers would replace her, but she saw that Xu Jingzhen had stopped administering the breathing technique.
"Third Sister, this person has resumed breathing!"
Li San Niang quickly stopped. The light was too dim to see clearly. Li San Niang reached out and touched the man's chest, which was rising and falling.
It's alive!
Li Sanniang, having exhausted her strength, collapsed beside the man. In just a couple of breaths, she mustered her strength and made her way to Qiu Xiang's side, where Di Renjie and Xu Jingzhen also arrived.
It's unclear what switch was flipped, but the one under Qiu Xiang's hand, without anyone helping to breathe, had his heart start beating again.
Qiu Xiang pressed her hand tightly against the man's chest, feeling the pounding of his heart. An indescribable feeling welled up inside her. "I've saved this man's life!"
"I actually saved someone!"
After holding out for another quarter of an hour, Li San Niang intervened and stopped Nineteen.
"Let go, it's probably not going to work."
Nineteen blankly removed his hand, looking at the person on the ground who had already grown cold, not understanding how he had managed to save someone who had died.
"This person is probably in his forties. His skin looks sallow, which suggests he has a pre-existing condition. In addition, he must have inhaled a lot of smoke and dust while inside. It's normal that he can't compare to the two young and strong people that Qiu Xiang and I rescued. We did our best, and that's enough."
Nineteen remained silent.
Two people were rescued by others, but their injuries were minor. They only coughed for a while and then watched Li San Niang and the others rescue people.
At this moment, the two of them helped each other to Li San Niang's side, and knelt down with a "plop" and kowtowed three times loudly.
Not only was Li San Niang herself stunned, but the onlookers were also stunned by this scene.
One of them looked up at Li Sanniang and said, "Thank you so much for saving me, my benefactor! The one you saved is my brother! He's my only brother now! Thank you so much, my benefactor!"
Li San Niang looked in the direction the man was pointing; it was the man that Li San Niang and Xu Jingzhen had rescued.
The other man stood up, walked over and knelt down beside Nineteen, reached out and covered the eyes of the man who was already cold on the ground, and said to Nineteen in a choked voice, "Thank you for saving Uncle Cripple. Uncle Cripple didn't come back. It's not your fault, it's just that he wasn't blessed."
After saying this, the man kowtowed to the nineteenth person.
This left 190 people, who had initially thought they were only capable of killing and not saving lives, completely bewildered.
Although soldiers were surrounding them, the move that Li San Niang and her group made still shocked many people.
Li San Niang had previously saved someone with her CPR technique—the young lady from the Liangguo Duke's mansion who had fallen into the water—and even made headlines in Chang'an gossip circles because of it.
However, Chang'an City is really too big, and there are too many new things to see.
The story of Li San Niang saving people only lasted a few days before other interesting things took over people's gossip and conversation during their leisure time.
Therefore, Li San Niang's method of saving people was only circulated among the Chang'an Medical Alliance and ulcer doctors. It is estimated that only a number of people from Mr. Bu Ke's gang of bad guys, ulcer doctors, and a dozen or so doctors in the alliance had actually learned it.
So, the onlookers were startled when they saw the doctor, who had come to the scene with the soldiers, giving acupuncture to the person on the ground. After only a few breaths, the person let out a muffled groan.
"They actually brought him back to life? Did I hear that right? The one on the ground did make a sound?"
He asked someone nearby for confirmation, and that person also widened their eyes and exclaimed in astonishment, "He's alive! He's really alive! Oh my goodness, he's really been saved!"
"You're not kidding, are you? I just saw that it wasn't breathing."
"He was out of breath then, otherwise he wouldn't have been lured to this corner by others."
"Was the one whose eyes were covered beyond saving?"
"Hey, if we could save them all, that would be even better than the King of Hell himself!"
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