Chapter 485 (First Update)
Gu Chengfeng thought that the remnants of the previous dynasty and the Chen army must have lost their minds from being soaked in the rain, actually locking people in the wine cellar!
What kind of operation is this?!
Gu Jiao wanted to go inside.
He raised his hand to stop Gu Jiao: "Wait, let me go in first."
After learning that he had almost delivered himself to someone's death, Gu Chengfeng became extremely vigilant. He left Gu Jiao outside and went into the wine cellar to check it carefully. Only after confirming that there were no hidden traps or dangers did he say to Gu Jiao, "Come in."
Gu Jiao entered the room and closed the door behind her.
The wine cellar had no windows, and once the door was closed, the room became so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
Gu Chengfeng took out a tinderbox, blew on it, and came to the old Marquis. He knelt on the cold ground and reached out to help the old Marquis up.
"Wait a minute."
This time, it was Gu Jiao who blocked Gu Chengfeng's hand.
The old marquis's breath was very weak and shallow; he didn't seem quite right.
As a doctor, she had an almost instinctive intuition about this situation. Gu Jiao untied the red-tasseled spear from her back and placed it on the ground. Then she knelt down on one knee next to Gu Chengfeng and, by the light of the tinderbox, saw the old marquis's appearance clearly.
To describe him as covered in wounds is not enough; he had clearly been tortured severely, with bloodstains covering every inch of his body.
"Bring the tinder closer," Gu Jiao said to Gu Chengfeng.
Gu Chengfeng brought the tinder closer.
The firelight could actually conceal some of the color of a person's face, but even so, the old marquis's paleness was still impossible to hide.
Gu Chengfeng's heart clenched, his throat bobbed, and he called out softly, trying to suppress his emotions, "Grandfather, Grandfather."
The old marquis did not respond to him.
Gu Chengfeng's heart clenched even tighter.
Gu Jiao's expression remained unchanged. She calmly and composedly unbuttoned the old marquis's clothes and began to examine his injuries one by one.
Gu Chengfeng has naturally suffered many injuries and witnessed many others being injured in order to develop his current skills. However, if the injured person is his own grandfather, he is somewhat afraid to continue watching.
I don't know how this girl managed to stay so calm.
That's true, she wasn't the real Gu Jiaoniang; to her, her grandfather was just an ordinary injured person.
The tinderbox wouldn't burn for long, and the light wouldn't be enough, so Gu Jiao opened the small medicine box, took out a small emergency flashlight, turned it on, and handed it to Gu Chengfeng: "Use this."
Gu Chengfeng was used to her always coming up with strange and unusual things. It was just a luminous pearl, wasn't it? It just emitted a longer and brighter light.
Gu Chengfeng extinguished the tinderbox and shone a small flashlight on Gu Jiao: "Is my grandfather's injury serious?"
“It’s serious,” Gu Jiao said. Her movements were very light, but she didn’t miss any bone. “There are both internal and external injuries, and multiple comminuted fractures in his body.”
Gu Chengfeng was terrified: "It's...it's shattered into powder?"
Gu Jiao sighed: "A fracture that breaks into three or more pieces is called a comminuted fracture."
It didn't say it necessarily shattered into powder.
It's not a bone crusher.
Besides the fractures, he also had numerous whip marks all over his body, and the bloodstains on his body were left by these whip marks.
These whip marks looked frightening, but they were not the main cause of the old marquis losing consciousness.
Gu Jiao then took out a blood pressure monitor and measured the old Marquis's blood pressure.
"That's strange, why is my blood pressure so low?"
The reason why the old Marquis lost consciousness has been found: hemorrhagic shock.
However, the old marquis's whip marks were only superficial wounds, with mottled bloodstains, but the total amount of bleeding was not large.
"Internal bleeding?" Gu Jiao murmured, her eyes narrowing.
Gu Chengfeng couldn't understand a single word she said, and even if he did, he felt it might not mean what he thought it meant.
Gu Jiao took a pair of gloves from the small medicine box and put them on, then took out a long puncture needle.
Gu Chengfeng's brow twitched. What was this girl up to now?
After witnessing Gu Jiao perform suturing surgery on Gu Chenglin last time, Gu Chengfeng didn't eat a single meat dish for half a year. Gu Chengfeng's psychological trauma had just begun to heal, and he couldn't let this girl poison his little soul again!
He decisively turned his face away!
"Hey," Gu Jiao called out to him.
"I'm not afraid!" he said, his voice trembling with fear.
"The flashlight is pointing crooked," Gu Jiao reminded her.
"Where is it crooked?" Gu Chengfeng didn't dare to turn around.
Gu Jiao pulled his hand and moved the flashlight forward a little: "Don't move."
Gu Chengfeng: "Oh."
Gu Jiao performed an abdominal paracentesis on the old Marquis and extracted non-clotting blood, indicating that the patient had bloody ascites. Considering his injuries, it should be that there was a rupture of a substantial organ.
Gu Jiao put away the puncture needle, quietly looked at his abdomen, and then began to gently touch and press down along his ribs.
When the pressure was applied to his upper left abdomen, his body convulsed slightly.
Has he not completely lost consciousness? He can still feel a little pain.
The affected area should be here.
Gu Jiao's gaze turned cold.
This area is the spleen.
"Have you finished checking? If you're done, let's hurry and get my grandfather out of here. I have a feeling it's not safe here; it seems like those people might come back at any moment!"
“He can’t leave,” Gu Jiao said. “He’s injured.”
"Can't we go back to the inn to heal? I know that injured people shouldn't be moved easily. I'll go find a stretcher! I won't let his injuries get worse!"
Gu Jiao looked at her blood pressure, which was still dropping, and shook her head, saying, "I can't wait any longer."
"What do you mean by 'can't wait'?" Gu Chengfeng turned around and looked at her in astonishment.
Gu Jiao said, "He needs surgery."
Gu Chengfeng was startled again: "Here...here?"
Gu Jiao nodded solemnly: "Here." Seeing Gu Chengfeng's struggle and hesitation, she added, "If he doesn't have the surgery immediately, he will die."
Having spent so much time with Gu Jiao, Gu Chengfeng naturally understood that this girl, apart from liking to overcharge when collecting consultation fees, never exaggerated anything else.
Gu Chengfeng gave Gu Jiao a deep look: "Are you sure you want to do this?"
He didn't need to remind her of the risks of performing surgery on enemy territory; she was saving her grandfather, but she was also risking her own life.
He continued, "If we're discovered, the three of us might not be able to leave."
Without hesitation, Gu Jiao took out a scalpel: "I'll do it as soon as possible."
"Why did you do this? Have you accepted him as your grandfather?"
"No." Gu Jiao unsealed the scalpel. "He's not my grandfather, but it's only right that he'd go to great lengths for his brother."
She's serious about becoming sworn brothers!
Completely misunderstanding, Gu Chengfeng felt a surge of emotion and a pang of sadness in his heart. It turned out that in her heart, he was her brother!
Gu Jiao: You're overthinking it.
You are not the one lying on the ground; that is.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Gu Chengfeng asked with a heart full of righteous indignation!
Gu Jiao decided to put aside the issue of seniority for the time being. She took out a scalpel and anesthetic: "Find something to seal the cracks in the door so that no light can get through."
There wasn't a rag or anything in the wine cellar, so Gu Chengfeng tore off his undergarment and cut it into strips with a dagger to block the cracks and gaps in the door.
The border region was freezing cold, and there was no heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) in the wine cellar. To prevent the old Marquis from experiencing hypothermia during the surgery, Gu Jiao had Gu Chengfeng dismantle the table, pour some strong liquor on it, and start a small fire.
Snowflakes began to fall from the sky, pattering against the eaves and the ground, perfectly masking the sounds of the burning firewood.
Gu Jiao moved very gently and remained calm.
She put an IV drip on the old Marquis and had Gu Chengfeng find a stand to hang the IV bag.
The old marquis suffered severe internal bleeding, making epidural anesthesia inconvenient, so Gu Jiao administered general anesthesia to him.
The old marquis lost his last shred of consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.
The conditions at the scene were not suitable for using surgical drapes, so after disinfecting the old Marquis's entire body, Gu Jiao made an incision in his upper left abdomen.
Bloody ascites gushed out from the wound.
Gu Chengfeng even held his breath!
Gu Jiao successfully freed the spleen and removed it from the incision. Gu Chengfeng almost fainted on the spot after just one glance!
Gu Jiao calmly continued the surgery. She found the active bleeding point on the spleen and sutured it. If the bleeding could not be stopped after suturing, the only option would be to remove part or all of the spleen.
The spleen is not the appendix; you can't just remove it.
The sequelae of splenectomy are lifelong; once the surgery is performed, the old Marquis will never be able to go to the battlefield again.
Time passed slowly, and the snowflakes outside stopped falling at some point, plunging the prefect's mansion into complete silence.
The fire crackled intermittently, and with each crackle, Gu Chengfeng's heart tightened.
Gu Jiao was completely absorbed in her work, and her hands were already covered in blood.
The effect of suturing is very obvious; there is no need to remove the spleen, only to repair all the tears with sutures.
The spleen repair surgery has been completed, and the operation is now in its final stages. The next step is to suture the abdominal wound.
Gu Chengfeng clenched his fists, silently praying, "Please don't let anyone come, please don't let anyone come..."
(End of this chapter)
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