Chapter 643: A Half-baked Doctor (10)
Just as Li Shichu was giving acupuncture to a patient, someone on the street outside suddenly started shouting, "Oh no! Oh no! Soldiers are attacking us! Everyone, run!"
Li Shichu was stunned for a moment, but fortunately she had a strong psychological quality, so the silver needle in her hand did not pierce the wrong acupuncture point, but fell steadily where it should be.
However, her patient was not as calm as she was. He stood up in shock and asked, "Another war?"
"Hurry up, the enemy is about to enter the city!" The streets suddenly became chaotic, and pedestrians ran around in panic. The patients in Li Shichu's clinic also said to Li Shichu in a panic: "Doctor, we don't want to see you today!"
After saying that, she ran away. The man in front of Li Shichu looked at her with embarrassment and anxiety, and said, "Doctor Li, I, I also want to go home. There are elderly people and children at home..."
"Okay." Li Shichu certainly wouldn't stop others from escaping. She immediately and quickly pulled out the silver needle stuck in the patient's head and said, "Let's go!"
The patient then ran away, and Li Shichu was the only one left in the clinic. She thought about it and put all the medicine cabinets back into her own companion space, so that even if the enemy troops came in to burn, kill and loot, her losses would not be too great.
Just as she was about to close the door of the clinic, she found that almost all the pedestrians on the street had left, with only a few left, looking terrified and walking hurriedly. It was obvious that everyone was running for their lives very quickly.
I just don't know which group of people are coming to attack Funing City this time. Li Shichu remembered the "caravan" led by the red-faced man that he met when he went out of the city to collect herbs not long ago. Could it be them?
Bao Daqiang wondered if he could organize a resistance? Probably not. After all, the people he trusted most were the fellow villagers who had fled with him. They had no military skills at all. If they encountered a more regular enemy force, they would probably only be able to give up their lives or surrender.
Living in a turbulent time, human life was worthless. The people in Funing City were unable to take care of themselves. Some fled, some hid, and the enemy army was already in chaos before they could even invade.
Li Shichu closed the door of the clinic, disguised himself as an ordinary middle-aged man, and quietly jumped onto the five-story Buddhist Incense Pavilion, the tallest building in Funing City, and looked towards the direction of the city gate.
Holding a telescope, she clearly saw a large crowd of soldiers outside the city besieging the city gate. Among those guarding the city, there were no people like Bao Daqiang. Only some ordinary guards were left. Those guards did not run away, but remained holding their ground.
But after all, they were outnumbered, and Li Shichu soon saw the city gate being pushed open by the enemy outside using several thick logs. The guards who were loyal to their duty were killed, and the enemy rushed in.
Li Shichu had already taken out a lot of medicinal powder at this time. If the enemy troops entered the city and slaughtered the civilians wantonly, she would fight back.
Fortunately, these leaders were not so cruel. Although they entered the city, they did not condone the soldiers to do whatever they wanted. Instead, they led their troops straight to the government office in the center of the city.
Li Shichu heaved a sigh of relief, knowing that the leader of this group of people was not the type of robber who would burn, kill, loot and run away, but an ambitious person who planned to occupy Funing City and planned to own it for a long time.
This means there is no need to worry too much about the safety of the lives of the people in the city.
Sure enough, when Li Shichu came down from the Buddhist Incense Pavilion and returned to the clinic and stayed there for most of the day, he did not hear any wailing or crying of the people being killed.
It's just that Bao Daqiang and his men probably didn't end up well, but Li Shichu didn't care too much. After all, the winners are the kings and the losers are the bandits. Isn't it that the rebels kill each other? Those who know the situation and surrender in time can still have a good ending.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Li Shichu, she is just an ordinary doctor.
It was the other uprising forces, not the ones from the nearby prefectures and counties, who seized control of Funing City. This surprised Li Shichu a little, but it didn't matter which side they were from, as long as they had a bottom line of not massacring the city and not harassing the people. Li Shichu had very low requirements.
The streets were quiet for two days, then gradually became lively again. The people were accustomed to this unstable and turbulent life with managers being replaced from time to time, but life had to go on, so once they realized that the new managers had no intention of harming them, they had to come out and work hard for a living.
Li Shichu's clinic reopened. This time, some of her patients looked like soldiers. They were suffering from severe wounds, but they were not serious. Li Shichu cleaned the wounds, applied medicine and cured them.
"Doctor Li, are those people with cuts and stab wounds on their arms and legs the soldiers who previously captured our city?" The patient who had come to Li Shichu for acupuncture because of frequent headaches asked secretly.
Li Shichu glanced at the curious man and said, "If you want to know so much, why didn't you just ask them directly?"
"How dare I ask this? What if I anger them? Will I still be alive?" the patient blurted out.
"They shouldn't kill people casually. If they were going to kill, they would have done it on the day they attacked. The fact that they don't kill now shows that they are not allowed to kill innocent people casually." Li Shichu said lightly.
The patient laughed dryly and said, "Haha, Doctor Li, you are right. Maybe the people in power want to win over the people and will not kill all of us innocent people to anger the people."
"You are quite knowledgeable." Li Shichu said with some surprise, "You even know that the higher-ups want the support of the people."
"Hehe, at least I have read a few years of books. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. Aren't we, the people, the water?" The patient, with a head full of silver needles, smiled foolishly, like a furry hedgehog.
Li Shichu couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.
Just as I had inserted the silver needle into the patient's head, there was a sudden noise at the door, and then three young men rushed in, carrying a person who was holding his stomach and wailing on a wooden board.
"Doctor, come and see my brother. He was stabbed in the abdomen by a long knife and is bleeding a lot..." One of the people carrying the injured man said anxiously to Li Shichu.
Li Shichu hurried forward to check the wound of the injured person. He saw that his left abdomen was a bloody mess, and even the squirming intestines inside his abdomen could be seen. He didn't know whether other organs were injured.
"Doctor, you must save him. He was stabbed because of me..." A man with red eyes pleaded with Li Shichu sadly.
"Doctor, please do your best to save him!" others also made the same request.
"I'll do my best." Li Shichu quickly used silver needles to pierce the wounded man's acupuncture points to stop the bleeding, and replied, "He needs a quiet and clean place for surgery. Carry him to the small room next door.
The small room was the operating room prepared by Li Shichu. She thought it might not be used, but she didn't expect that it would be used now.
Following Li Shichu's instructions, the three men carried the injured person to a small room that was well-lit, quiet and hygienic, and then looked at Li Shichu eagerly.
(End of this chapter)
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