Chapter 37 To do a good job, one must first have the right tools.
The Li family members discussed the matter animatedly for half an hour, and finally reached a consensus to leave it at that for now. After all, apart from their own family, no outsiders would know that they had two unofficial members in their household.
On the bright side, perhaps having this identity will make it easier for Third Sister to join the Chang'an Medical Alliance and open a clinic in the future.
On the worst, it might just mean sacrificing the whole family, but in this era, we all rise and fall together. We are all blood relatives, and our relationship is inseparable.
Since we've come to Li's father and Li's third sister-in-law for treatment, we should just do our job as doctors and focus on treating their injuries.
There's no use worrying about the future now; we'll just have to deal with whatever comes our way.
Having determined their future course of action, Li's father waved his hand, dismissing everyone. It was almost dawn; they hadn't slept all night, and day was about to break.
Li San Niang returned to the house, cuddling the sleeping, adorable Lu Zhu'er, but in her mind, she opened the task system again and looked at it once more. Suddenly, she really wanted to complete task four as soon as possible and start task five.
Today I feel like I've started reading the tropes of martial arts novels again, and I'm a little worried about my health and safety. I'm thinking, what if this damn mission system suddenly takes pity on me and gives me a superpower reward like super strength, fire-breathing, or lightning-summoning?
I kissed a dewdrop, shook my head from side to side, abandoned the wild thoughts in my mind, and decided to go to sleep with my darling.
By the time Li San Niang got up, the sun was already high in the sky.
The moment I opened my eyes, I was met with the dewdrop's dark, big eyes staring straight at me.
"My dear mother, the sun is high in the sky, and you're still sleeping."
As she spoke, Dewdrop imitated Li Silang's usual manner of rubbing her face with her index finger, making this strange gesture to embarrass Li Sanniang.
Li San Niang picked up Lu Zhu'er and the two rolled around on the bed, playing a tickling game together.
After a while of commotion, Li San Niang finally washed up and went to eat the meal that Li Da Sao had saved for her, after being called by her.
Shen Qiuniang was really afraid that she would be seen as a freeloader. As soon as Li Sanniang came to the courtyard, she saw her learning to process medicinal herbs under the guidance of Li's mother.
Li San Niang and Shen Qiu Niang were just sorting through the medicinal herbs that Li Er Xiong had collected during his trip to the countryside when Li Gui came in and delivered an invitation.
This post looks expensive; how could it not be expensive with gold foil stamping? It also has a pleasant fragrance.
Upon unfolding it, it was indeed a flower-viewing banquet hosted by the Duke of Liang, inviting Li San Niang to admire the roses in the Duke of Liang's garden in ten days, and specifying that family members could be brought along.
Nobles and royalty are very concerned about their image. They wanted to thank Li Sanniang but couldn't bring themselves to do so. They probably thought that introducing Li Sanniang into the upper-class aristocratic circle was the best way to express their gratitude.
Li San Niang thought to herself, "This is nothing special. It would be better to thank her with real gold and silver."
I am such a vulgar and despicable person! Come on, throw money at me!
Well, it was just a thought. Li's mother even came over to admire the invitation, saying that the clothes she had made for Li San Niang at the tailor shop last time were probably almost finished, and she could wear them to the flower viewing banquet.
When things are peaceful, people can gather together and chat endlessly. But when something really important comes up, one thing after another comes up, leaving no time to spare.
Having just received the invitation from the Duke of Liang to admire the flowers, Li Gui sent another invitation, also embossed in gold and carrying a fragrance, but this time it was from the Gao family, who had once been surrounded by the Imperial Guards.
Despite being the Minister of Revenue, his family and servants were very down-to-earth, which may be related to the fact that Minister Gao came from a wealthy merchant family and rose to officialdom.
Last time, the steward who came to give gifts to express his gratitude praised Li San Niang in various ways. This time, the person who delivered the invitation was also very good at talking, making Li Er Xiong and Li's mother smile from ear to ear. They wished they could keep this person at home for dinner so they could hear more flattery.
The post stated that three days later, the matriarch of the Gao family would come with her daughter to personally express her gratitude.
Sister-in-law Li, being experienced, suggested that they invite Chef Wang from the neighborhood to come over, saying that given the Gao family's attitude, they shouldn't mind.
Even if they really dislike it, these kinds of people will still put on a show of it.
Li's mother immediately agreed, saying that it would be done that way. After all, her family was just an ordinary family, and it was impossible for them to become sophisticated and refined overnight.
For lunch, Li San Niang had eaten too late for breakfast and wasn't hungry. She ate a little with Lu Zhu'er, coaxed her to sleep, then opened the system, took out the reward equipment pack from her backpack, laid them out one by one, and used her basic skills from elementary school art class before transmigrating to carefully draw them one by one with her homemade charcoal pencil.
There are quite a few. Besides the essential instruments used for vaginal delivery and cesarean section, there are also the instruments necessary for surgical suturing. The rest are nothing more than the basic surgical items such as masks, caps, gloves, surgical gowns, and drapes.
Gloves are out of the question. Under the current conditions, unless we rapidly evolve to the Industrial Revolution, this small-scale agricultural economy will take hundreds of years to even see the beginnings of an Industrial Revolution. As for latex gloves, that's just a pipe dream.
In the future, we must pay attention to whether the injured person has any infectious diseases and avoid having any wounds on our own hands to minimize the risk.
However, we can discuss with Mr. Li and his second brother later whether we can use certain Chinese medicinal herbs to make a decoction for soaking hands to achieve the purpose of sterilizing latex gloves and protecting doctors.
When Luzhu woke up with her eyes half-closed, Li Sanniang was still engrossed in drawing. Only Luzhu, being a child, couldn't see the equipment on the table because no one was holding her. Otherwise, she really wouldn't know how to cover up this lie.
After calming down Dewdrop and asking her to feed Little Yellow water, Li San Niang quickly put her things into her backpack, patted her chest, and breathed heavily, almost revealing that she was a "monster".
After receiving the silver, Li San Niang took the blueprints and asked Chen Qiu Niang to help her carry the dewdrops for a while. She then told her mother that she wanted to go to the blacksmith's shop to make some things.
Because of Li San Niang's "previous record," Li's mother was really worried about her going out alone. Instead, she put down what she was doing with Li's sister-in-law, wiped her hands, and said directly, "I'll go with you."
Having no other choice, Li Sanniang reluctantly replied, "Alright."
They called a car and arrived at the blacksmith's shop, but the old blacksmith said that there were some things he couldn't make himself. For example, the more delicate needle holders and curved needles, to achieve the size, hardness, and ease of use that Li San Niang wanted, were not things that an ordinary blacksmith like him who could only make kitchen knives could do.
I recommended that she go to a gold and silver shop to see if the master craftsmen there could do it.
Left with no other option, Li San Niang and her mother went to the gold and silver shop again. The shopkeeper looked at Li San Niang's drawings and listened to her description of how the item was used and what it was for. He then told his assistant to go to the back and invite the craftsmen he had hired.
Li San Niang then described in detail what she wanted to be made to the craftsman. After asking a few more questions, the craftsman said that he could make some of it, but not the rest. This could be considered a technical barrier. It was estimated that only the most skilled craftsmen in the Imperial Workshop could make the items that met Li San Niang's requirements.
Furthermore, the parts that we can make ourselves would require at least two master craftsmen spending over a month to produce a single set, and besides the cost of materials, the labor cost is not cheap.
Therefore, Li San Niang temporarily gave up her idea of making machinery. It seems that if she wants to make suitable tools, she has to develop industry first.
However, the surgical gowns, masks, caps, and cloths that Li San Niang wanted were quite simple. Li's mother said there was no need to find a shop to make them. The styles were not difficult to make. She could just buy some white raw cloth and ask Qiu Niangzi, a skilled craftswoman in the neighborhood, to make them. It would be cheaper that way.
After finishing her dinner, Li Sanniang found her father, showed him her drawings, explained their purpose, and asked, "Father, do you think it's feasible for me to directly pass a message to that Mr. Bu Ke from the Bad Guys? Their operation is so large, surely they can find a master craftsman to make this for me?"
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