Lin Yi heard Gu Jiayue's call and stopped abruptly.
He subconsciously thought that his uncle in the hospital bed was in critical condition, and his face was instantly filled with anxiety. He didn't even bother to adjust his clothes and rushed into the house as fast as he could. Halfway through, he stumbled and almost fell.
The people outside the door also felt a tightness in their hearts and tried to follow.
Gu Jiayue called out to Lin Yi while running towards the door, and happened to stop the family members who were about to enter the house.
He quickly pushed the door shut.
The door slammed shut, and she said urgently through it, "Don't come in. Too many people in the room will make the air mixed, and it will affect Doctor Lin's treatment!"
This is true. Surgery is inherently taboo to have too many people involved. Furthermore, given the current poor conditions and incomplete disinfection, too many people could introduce more bacteria, ultimately leading to various infections.
But the most important thing is not to let too many people see the appearance of the flashlight.
Outside the door, the aunt's wife twisted the corners of her clothes tightly with her hands, her knuckles turning white. She asked in a trembling voice with tears in her eyes, "Jiayue, is your uncle... is he not well?"
Gu Jiayue poked her head out from the crack in the door, trying to look calm. "It's okay, auntie, don't overthink it. Doctor Lin is working on something. Just relax and wait."
After comforting the people outside, she closed the door completely. She quickly walked to the bedside, picked up the head-mounted flashlight on the bed and handed it to Lin Yi. "Try using this to see if it can meet the lighting requirements for surgery."
Lin Yi took the strange object and looked at it over and over again.
His fingertips slid across the smooth shell again and again, his eyes filled with confusion. "What is this? It looks strange. I've never seen anything like it in all my years of medical practice."
"It's a new gadget Miss Ye made recently, but it's just been made and hasn't been tested yet, so I haven't told you about it for a long time. Don't worry about it, just try it first." Gu Jiayue said the excuse she had thought of long ago.
When Lin Yi heard that it was made by Ye Yuntang, he no longer doubted it.
After all, this little girl always has some wonderful ideas and creates some strange and bizarre gadgets.
Seeing that Lin Yi stopped asking questions, Gu Jiayue breathed a sigh of relief.
He reached out to help him put the thing on his head, pressed the switch, and a clear beam of light suddenly shot out, and the room that was originally shrouded in dim candlelight suddenly became mostly brighter.
The sudden bright light made the two of them close their eyes reflexively.
After a while, they both opened their eyes. Lin Yi curiously put his hand under the light and could actually see the hair on his hand clearly.
Gu Jiayue stared at Lin Yi, with a subtle nervousness in her voice: "Is this okay? Is it bright enough? Can the surgery be done?"
If that wasn't enough, she would have to consider taking out the searchlight.
Lin Yizhi stared blankly at the shimmering hair on his arm, and then a little excitement welled up in his eyes.
Miss Ye is really a treasure girl. She can create such a magical thing.
But he quickly suppressed his emotions. Now was not the time to be curious about such things. The most important thing was to perform surgery on his uncle. "That's enough! It's better than lighting a hundred oil lamps!"
"Then I'll help you." Gu Jiayue said, took out a small bottle from her arms, and sprayed some alcohol on her and Lin Yi's hands.
The conditions are currently very poor, so this is the only way to disinfect it.
In fact, Lin Yi had already prepared for the surgery. He had previously figured out many of the techniques on his own, and later, with the medical book given by Gu Jiayue, he refined the steps in detail. So, although this room was small, he had gathered some basic equipment.
It's just that learning medicine is not something that can be done overnight, so Lin Yi has not yet trained a capable assistant. Although Gu Jiayue is also a layman, he is much better than those apprentices because he has learned a lot of things and has a system in his head that knows everything.
Gu Jiayue was also very nervous. The operating environment was too simple and did not meet the conditions for surgery at all.
But there is nothing that can be done in this situation.
However, when she saw Lin Yi washing his hands, disinfecting the knife, inserting and removing the needle, performing the operation, and preparing the medicine, every step was done steadily and without any panic, Gu Jiayue's heart was relieved a little.
Maybe my uncle can really get through this time.
The Gu family members all stayed in the yard, and no one spoke.
Only grandma would raise her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes from time to time, and my aunt turned her back to me, her shoulders shaking.
I don’t know how long it took, but when a faint layer of fish belly white appeared on the horizon, the door of the house was finally opened with a "creak".
The people who were originally drowsy leaning against the pillars were suddenly awakened.
Gu Yushan was the first to rush forward, his voice crackling. "Doctor Lin, how is my father?"
Lin Yi rubbed his red eyes. Although his face was filled with fatigue that he couldn't hide, he still raised the corners of his mouth. "The operation went smoothly. As long as the fever goes down, I will be out of danger."
"Thank God!" Grandma's legs went weak and she almost fell down. Gu Yuchuan quickly supported her.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and surrounded Lin Yi, thanking him repeatedly. "Thank you for your hard work, Doctor Lin. You've been tossing me around all night."
Lin Yi waved his hand, "It's your job, don't all stay here, just leave two people to look after it, and the others can go back and rest first."
After saying this, he left quickly. He had a lot of insights and experiences from this operation, which had to be recorded immediately.
As for the lamp that Jiayue gave him, he wanted to find a brocade box to keep it well so that he wouldn't be at a loss next time he encountered such a situation.
After a heated discussion and debate, the Gu family finally agreed to let Gu Yushan and his aunt stay behind to guard the place, and Gu Jiayue and Gu Yuchuan would take their places at dawn.
On the way back, Gu Yuchuan, who was walking last, suddenly stopped and looked at Gu Jiayue beside him. "Just now, I seemed to see a light shining out from the room. What was that?"
He was not a person who liked to pry into other people's affairs, but he always felt a little uneasy.
His uncle was injured for no apparent reason, and then a glowing object appeared. Everything seemed so strange that he couldn't help but think too much.
Gu Jiayue was mentally prepared, and a natural smile appeared on her face. "It's nothing special. It's a lighting gadget that Miss Ye was thinking about some time ago. It's just not very well made. I only dared to use it last night because the situation was urgent."
He repeated the excuse he gave to Lin Yi to Gu Yuchuan.
Ye Yuntang is well-known in the school for her love of tinkering with new things, so it is reasonable to put the blame on her.
Gu Jiayue was sure that even if Gu Yuchuan went to verify it specifically, Ye Yuntang would react quickly and help her cover it up.
Gu Yuchuan nodded and didn't ask any more questions. But then his face darkened. "Speaking of which, Uncle's case is really strange. He was just going to his aunt's house, and that was a well-used official road. Logically, nothing should have happened to him, so how could he have been injured so badly?"
Gu Jiayue paused, "Maybe... this injury is related to my aunt?"
Gu Yuchuan glanced at her, his tone a little serious: "I thought so too, but I didn't dare to say it first."
He was afraid that his words would be too hurtful and his family might not be able to accept it.
"I have asked Hu Zi to walk along the way to my aunt's house again to see if he can find anything." Gu Yuchuan added.
After all, Hu Zi is Gu Jiayue's man. The situation was urgent when he gave the instructions, and he should have told Gu Jiayue afterwards.
Originally, he wanted to let the newly hired servant go, but then he thought, Hu Zi is good at fighting and is reliable in his work, so it would be more reassuring to let him go.
Gu Jiayue naturally would not disagree, but she kept this matter in mind and asked Madam Cai to give Hu Zi more when the salary was paid this month.
It's considered overtime pay.
As the two were talking, they happened to see Hu Zi running towards them, panting, with a very ugly look on his face.
"Girl, something happened!" Hu Zi wiped the sweat from his face.
"What's wrong?" Gu Jiayue's heart skipped a beat.
"Aunt...Aunt's whole family is gone!" Hu Zi swallowed and said with difficulty.
"What did you say?" Gu Jiayue's pupils shrank suddenly, and she looked at him in disbelief. "Are you sure you didn't find the wrong place?"
Hu Zi nodded heavily, his tone very certain. "No doubt about it! I went to the village and asked a family, and then I followed their directions. My aunt's family was completely gone... ten people, not a single one left. And every one of them was deadly with a single blow. They were obviously skilled with a knife."
"Did anyone report the case?" Gu Yuchuan asked, his face so gloomy that water could drip out of it.
"When I came back, the village chief had already sent someone to the county town to report to the authorities. I guess the bailiffs should be here by now." Hu Zi nodded and told everything he saw.
Both of them were silent. They originally thought that the uncle was injured because the aunt accidentally hit him during another argument with him.
But now the eldest aunt's family has all been murdered, and things are obviously much more complicated than they thought.
Could it be that my uncle saw a criminal committing a crime?
But if the murderer was so cruel, why did he spare my uncle's life?
Doubts are swirling in my mind, making it hard to breathe.
"Don't tell grandpa and grandma about this first." Gu Yuchuan spoke first, his voice low. "Wait until the county government has the results of the investigation, or wait until uncle wakes up and finds out the situation."
Gu Jiayue nodded in agreement.
My grandparents are old and were just frightened by what happened to my uncle yesterday. If they knew the bad news about my aunt's family, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to bear it.
No matter how bad my aunt is, she is still my grandparents' daughter. How can her parents bear such a blow?
The two were just about to discuss it again when there was a sudden commotion in the village.
Someone shouted at the top of their lungs, each voice rising higher and higher, filled with inexplicable excitement and fear. "Come out and see! A miracle has happened in the village! A miracle!"
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