Shen Qiyin listened calmly, but a bead of cold sweat trickled down her forehead.
I understand.
If you were to try to pull out the arrow, the hanging blade would slit open the wounded man's chest, leaving him mortally wounded.
But if the arrow isn't removed, excessive blood loss, coupled with poisoning, will also lead to death.
The Imperial Medical Academy dared not take on this hot potato.
Because if someone says "I can't cure it," at worst they'll be told their medical skills are lacking. But if they kill someone, being called a "quack doctor who harms people" is a minor offense; being held accountable by the Thousand Eagle Guards would be a much bigger one.
Thus, this mess fell to Shen Qiyin's shoulders.
Seeing that she stopped talking after hearing about the barbed arrow, Xiong Lu couldn't help but feel anxious.
"Doctor..." she began, then quickly lowered her voice, remembering that the "young master" in front of her was a woman, "Can Fourth Brother's life be saved?"
"I have a method that might be worth trying, but..."
"Go ahead and try!" Xiong Lu gritted his teeth, thinking that those old bastards in the Imperial Hospital were too much trouble to even give it a try, so he decided to take a gamble.
"It is his fate to die, but as long as we can keep him alive, you will be the benefactor of the Thirteen Eagle Guards. We will go through fire and water for you!"
Chen Xiyin's eyes flickered slightly.
She looked at Xiao Yan, who was not far away.
He glanced at them and simply said, "Please."
Shen Xiyin wanted his attitude!
She was not a kind person, and her medical practice was never for the purpose of saving lives.
This is her livelihood and means of making a living. What she needs to consider is how to maximize her profits while ensuring her safe withdrawal.
The road to revenge is not smooth; she needs more help.
The Thousand Eagle Guards are clearly among the best.
Because she had arrived in a hurry and in a disheveled state, Chen Qiyin had not brought her medicine box or any medicinal herbs, so Xiong Lu quickly went back to get them.
While waiting, Chen Qiyin had a frame about half a foot high erected and had Qianxing carried up it.
She removed Qianxing's clothes, but the blood from his wounds had stuck his skin and clothes together. To avoid forcibly pulling them off and causing new wounds, she could only use tweezers to peel them off little by little.
A group of grown men stood by the bed, holding their breath and waiting. Only when they saw that Shen Qiyin had stripped down to her inner clothes did they suddenly wake up and go to wait outside the curtain.
Chen Xiyin was completely absorbed and unaware of anything.
She paused for a moment only when she saw the bulge under Qianxing's bra.
However, it only lasted a moment before she recovered and continued what she was doing.
Her calm gaze and steady movements reassured the group waiting outside the gauze curtain.
When the imperial physician arrived, upon learning that Qianxing was a woman, he refused to examine her wounds directly.
Although there were female physicians in the palace, most of them served as assistants, like medicine apprentices, and their medical skills were not particularly refined.
Following the imperial physician's instructions, she tore open Qianxing's clothes to examine the wound, but hesitated for a long time before finally picking up the scissors. However, her hands trembled so badly that she almost dropped them and cut Qianxing.
Fortunately, Xiong Lu caught it quickly; otherwise, Qianxing would have been stabbed to death by her scissors before being poisoned.
Actually, you can't really blame the female doctor.
Their existence stemmed from the fact that imperial physicians needed to avoid suspicion when examining concubines. Many symptoms required them to personally observe the concubines and then verbally describe them to the physicians. Following the physicians' instructions, they would bandage or apply medicine to the sick or injured concubines.
But how many external injuries could a concubine kept in the deep palace suffer? Even a mosquito bite was considered serious.
Therefore, in comparison, Shen Qiyin gave these rough men of the Thousand Eagle Guards an indescribable sense of "security".
When Xiong Lu returned, she not only brought Shen Qiyin's medicine box and the medicinal herbs she needed, but also, as she had asked, brought back a man.
He was tall and big, with bronze skin and a full beard, looking like a wild man.
He is Shen Qiyin's senior brother.
He calls himself "Dazhuang".
Shen Qiyin knew that it wasn't his real name, just like when she called herself "Er Ya" at Guangrentang, it was just an alias to conceal her identity.
Dazhuang took out a mask from his apron pocket and put it on.
While listening to Shen Qiyin describe Qianxing's injuries, he personally examined the wounds, without letting Qianxing's female identity affect his actions in the slightest. He looked at her with the same eyes that he would look at meat on a chopping board.
His hand movements paused noticeably when he heard "canine barb arrow".
When he looked at Shen Qiyin, his hawk-like eyes were sharp: "You want to learn from your master, stab someone through the back, and then pull the arrow out from her back?"
"Um."
“It won’t work.” Da Zhuang shook his head: “Back then, that person wasn’t hit in a vital spot, but the arrow wound on her was near her heart…”
"right."
"What?"
"Her heart is on the right side."
She had discovered this when she was examining Qianxing's wounds, which is why she dared to take the risk.
However, after removing the arrow, she needed to stop the bleeding immediately, detoxify at the same time, and then stitch up the wound. She couldn't handle it all by herself, so she asked Xiong Lu to bring her senior brother over.
They gave Qianxing a dose of Xiaoyao Powder to prevent her from struggling wildly in her excruciating pain.
Shen Qiyin gripped the arrow's fletching tightly with one hand, exchanged a glance with Dazhuang, and then thrust the arrow in with a sudden burst.
The movements were swift and decisive!
It exudes a ruthless spirit.
Qianxing groaned, but did not wake up.
The arrow pierced her back, and Shen Qiyin cut off the remaining part of the arrow shaft. At the same time, Da Zhuang, working in perfect harmony, pulled the broken arrow out from behind Qianxing.
Immediately, blood gushed out, splattering all over Dazhuang.
Shen Qiyin quickly used acupuncture to sew up her acupoints, but Qianxing was seriously injured, and this only temporarily stopped the bleeding.
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