As a modern person, this is basic common sense, but it's strange that the original owner of this body was a sheltered young lady who knew nothing.
"I..." Xu Zhuohua awkwardly tried to find an excuse, "I was hospitalized last time with a fever, and the nurse told me what she said, and I wrote it down."
Xu Jixin had no doubts. "It's rare that you can remember so accurately. You're not bad."
Having narrowly escaped death, Xu Zhuohua breathed a sigh of relief, but when she turned her head and saw Cheng Muyun raising an eyebrow at her, her breath caught in her throat again.
She knew that Xu Jixin was easy to fool, but Cheng Muyun was not.
Anyway, the reason was sufficient, so I managed to get away with it.
Xu Zhuohua stuck out her tongue.
“Penicillin is a precious medicinal material, very rare, and we don’t have it here,” Xu Jixin said.
Xu Zhuohua frowned. Cheng Muyun's current condition was probably quite serious, with severe inflammation. If antibiotics were unavailable, traditional remedies might be effective.
"Second brother, do you know how to prepare traditional Chinese medicine?"
Xu Jixin's fingers, holding the scalpel, were long, slender, and fair—clearly the hands of a surgeon. "Unfortunately, I'm not interested in traditional Chinese medicine."
"Are there any home remedies that can reduce inflammation?"
"Yes, wound medicine will do; it promotes tissue regeneration and stops bleeding."
Xu Zhuohua's eyes widened. "Is there really such a thing as wound medicine?"
She thought it was something made up in a martial arts novel.
Xu Jixin smiled and handed the prepared items to Xu Zhuohua, "Of course they're fake."
Xu Zhuohua recalled the Chinese medicine Cheng Muyun had just drunk, "Who prepared the Chinese medicine he drank this morning?"
"Chen Sihai".
Xu Jixin limped to the bedside, poured out some alcohol, wiped his hands, disinfected them briefly, and then picked up the scalpel.
Cheng Muyun bent down and leaned closer.
Xu Zhuohua frowned as she looked at the gruesome wound and the cold scalpel.
Cheng Muyun said, "Zhuohua, turn your back."
Xu Jixin's knife had already slashed down, and he ripped out the pill buried in the wound in one swift motion.
Cheng Muyun's shoulders trembled with pain.
Xu Zhuohua naturally saw it all clearly.
Xu Jixin said, "I think Zhuohua will definitely watch it, otherwise she won't be afraid."
Xu Zhuohua held a tray of surgical instruments in one hand and grabbed Cheng Muyun's fingers with the other. "Cheng Muyun, if it hurts, hold my hand."
Without hesitation, Xu Jixin cut off a piece of rotten flesh, causing Cheng Muyun to shudder in pain.
His handsome face was contorted, and the muscles in his arms were trembling, but he just couldn't bear to hold Xu Zhuohua's hand.
Xu Zhuohua became a little anxious, "Second brother, can you be gentler? Look how much pain he's in."
"Even a light touch will hurt, so it's better to cut the Gordian knot quickly."
As Xu Jixin spoke, his hands never stopped moving.
Near an inflamed and swollen wound, all the rotten flesh must be removed. After cutting, it must be picked up and then cut away from the part that is connected to the normal skin.
The moment the skin, flesh, and nerves are cut, Cheng Muyun gasps in pain.
This step needs to be repeated dozens of times.
Despite the cold winter, Cheng Muyun was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat. Blood mixed with sweat flowed down his chest.
If we're talking about feeling sorry for someone, Xu Zhuohua truly feels sorry for them, and also feels a sense of disappointment and frustration.
They could have used anesthesia, but they refused, and the pain was pointless.
I was both angry and heartbroken.
Moreover, from beginning to end, even when a knife was inserted to dig out rotten flesh, Cheng Muyun groaned, but never once gripped Xu Zhuohua's hand tightly.
Instead, they held hands gently and tenderly, just like two people would normally hold hands.
Xu Jixin finally finished cleaning up all the rotten flesh, put down the tweezers and knife, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"I'm exhausted. I'm sweating all over in this freezing weather."
Xu Zhuohua rolled her eyes at him, "Second brother, it's easy for you to say that when you're not in his shoes. He's in so much pain, you could wring sweat out of him."
Xu Jixin took out iodine and said, "Hey, you're really like a daughter who's been married off, like water spilled out, always siding with outsiders."
After saying that, he poured all the iodine in the bottle onto Cheng Muyun's wound without hesitation.
Although iodine is not irritating, it is very cold, so cold that Cheng Muyun had to tilt his head back.
This time, he gripped Xu Zhuohua's hand tightly.
His pain was transmitted to Xu Zhuohua's palm through their intertwined fingers.
Seeing the person you love suffer, so this is what it feels like, Xu Zhuohua thought. She didn't want to see Cheng Muyun get hurt at all.
Xu Zhuohua raised her hand and punched Xu Jixin. "Couldn't you have gone a little easier?"
Xu Jixin covered the spot where he had been hit, rolled his eyes at the couple, and said, "Sorry, I'm a bachelor, I'm not good at being gentle."
Xu Zhuohua carefully wiped the iodine off Cheng Muyun's body, muttering, "Does this have to happen every day? When will this wound heal?"
Xu Jixin sprinkled the medicine powder on the gauze, and then sprinkled the remaining medicine powder on Cheng Muyun's wound.
"The wound hasn't been cleaned for the past few days because of a high fever. If all goes well, today will be the last time the wound is cleaned."
Xu Zhuohua breathed a sigh of relief. If this happened every day, even if Cheng Muyun could stand it, she couldn't.
His body was wrapped in bandages again. Cheng Muyun slowly buttoned up his clothes. He was probably exhausted from the pain earlier, and his fingers were a little weak.
Xu Zhuohua reached out to button his clothes.
Xu Jixin packed up his tools, "Ah, this is great, I even want to get married now."
Xu Zhuohua said, "Go ahead and marry her. Nobody's stopping you. The First Madam has introduced you to so many eligible women."
Xu Jixin pursed his lips and said, "What I'm looking for is a soulmate."
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