"No, no," Luo Xiuyan said hesitantly. She didn't know who to talk to. Before Tian Cai came, she had the best relationship with Chen Xiang, the daughter of Chen the Carpenter. After Chen Xiang got married, she had no one to talk to. Such private words of a little girl were always too embarrassing to tell her family. "He just asked me if I would like to be his partner. If I did, he should ask his mother to come to my house to propose."
"Then what do you think?" Tian Cai felt that the girl was so innocent and cute at this moment. She was so embarrassed before anything happened.
"I don't know either. I just think Brother Songbai is a nice person. I know his sister Songhua too. We played together when we were young. Besides, Brother Songbai's mother is also very familiar with my mother and is very nice to me." When Luo Xiuyan said this, she gradually let go of her shyness. She didn't have any particular feelings for him. She just wanted to marry into the same village to be closer to her parents. Besides, Kaoshan Village was where she grew up, so she felt more confident there.
Tian Cai didn't know what to say. At that time, getting married was a lifelong commitment, and no one in the village had ever heard of anyone getting a divorce because of a bad life. It was as if divorce was such a heinous crime.
Just like Li Dasheng in the village who beats his wife every day. She has seen his wife washing clothes by the river with a bruised face and nose several times. Isn't it because he is afraid of being stabbed in the back by others that he doesn't want to divorce?
In this kind of situation, no one can do anything unless the person involved holds you accountable.
The two were chatting when they heard Aunt Du calling Luo Xiuyan home outside the courtyard wall, saying that her aunt had come.
Only then did Luo Xiuyan say goodbye to Tian Cai and go home.
Tian Cai took out a few potatoes from the cellar, washed and cut them into pieces, and stewed them with the pheasant. He also made cornmeal pancake pot stickers. After they were ready, he sent a bowl of them to the Luo family.
This dinner successfully kept Tian Cai full. Since she felt uncomfortable sitting, she simply took off her clothes early and lay on the kang to read. Soon she fell asleep in a daze.
Tian Cai was awakened by a sudden knock on the door. When he opened his eyes, he heard a faint voice calling from outside, "Doctor Tian! Doctor Tian!"
"Doctor Tian! Help!"
Tian Cai sat up from the kang, put on his cotton trousers, took his shirt and put it on while walking out.
The man who opened the door was a man in his thirties, his face filled with anxiety. Despite the cool early winter night, he was sweating profusely. When he saw Tian Cai open the door, he knelt down and said, "Doctor Tian, please save me! Please help us, I really have no other choice, Doctor Tian!"
Tian Cai tried to pull the man up but failed. "If you have something to say, please talk to him nicely. Don't panic. Only when you explain clearly will I know what to do!"
The man was so anxious that he was about to cry. His hands and feet were so weak that he couldn't even stand up. "It's my wife. She's giving birth, but she's bleeding a lot. I don't know what to do. Aunt Zhou also said she can't deliver the baby. I don't know what to do. What should I do? Please, what should I do?" He was already a little incoherent, repeating these few words over and over again.
Tian Cai almost understood what he heard, "Just wait!"
She went back to the house and took out the bamboo medicine box left by Cai Ping. She picked up a few medicinal herbs that could be used for production. After thinking about it, she decided to install the steel needle. If a caesarean section was really needed, she would have no way to do it. She was a self-taught surgeon and did not have the strength of a regular surgeon.
The man seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He slowly stood up by holding the door frame and looked expectantly at Tian Cai who came out carrying the medicine box.
"Don't you live in Kaoshan Village?" Tian Cai had seen everyone in the village before, but this man looked unfamiliar and should not be from the village.
The middle-aged man nodded, his eyes red. He wiped his tears with his sleeve before saying, "My family is from Qingshan Village."
Qingshan Village was more than half an hour away from Kaoshan Village. She carried the medicine box on her back and said, "Let's run faster and don't waste time!"
The man responded repeatedly and gradually quickened his pace. A faint hope arose in his heart, thinking that maybe Cuihua could still be saved!
The two men quickly ran out of the mountain village and turned onto a smaller path that was closer. Fortunately, the moonlight was good tonight and Tian Cai had good eyesight, so running on the mountain road at night had no effect at all. Instead, the man didn't see the road clearly and fell.
"How long has your wife been pregnant? How did she have a difficult birth? Has she seen a doctor before? How is the pregnancy?"
The man ran forward panting. He could not keep up with Dr. Tian's speed. He really couldn't understand why a grown man like him had less physical strength than a woman.
He wiped away the tears that began to flow again and said, "My wife is more than seven months pregnant. This is our first child. We went to the commune clinic before and the doctor said she was fine. I don't know what happened today. She was fine when I left this morning."
This path was told to Tian Cai by Sun Aiguo when she went to the county before. At that time, Tian Cai only noted down the approximate location. There seemed to be no professional doctor in Qingshan Village. There was only a woman named Zhou who knew a little about herbal medicine and occasionally treated the villagers for headaches and fevers.
The man's name is Zhang Daniu. He lives in Qingshan Village with his wife Cuihua. Since there are only two people in the family, Zhang Daniu signed up to clean the village cowshed during the slack season in order to earn more work points.
His wife was fine before he went to the cowshed this morning. When he came back for dinner in the evening, he saw her lying on the ground with her pants covered in blood.
He was so scared that his legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. When he came to his senses, he quickly carried her to the kang, but Hu Cuihua was still unconscious and had not opened her eyes.
After he settled his wife, he went to ask Aunt Zhou from the village to come and see the patient. However, after examining the patient for a long time, Aunt Zhou said that she could not cure the disease and asked Zhang Daniu to send the patient to the county for treatment.
He went to the team leader and wanted to borrow the team's tractor to take his wife to the county health center, but the team leader said that the tractor had been sent to the commune for repairs and was not in the village at all.
He felt like the sky was falling. Wasn't this going to kill the couple? Later, the team leader's wife said that Doctor Tian in Kaoshan Village was a very good doctor, so she asked him to come and find someone.
From this, Tian Cai realized that his daughter-in-law must have had some accident at home that caused the bleeding, and she might be facing premature birth or even dystocia, and the mother was unconscious now.
"Run faster!" Tian Cai said. She couldn't help but make the worst plan. If the mother had an accident at home and it was a long time before he returned, the hope of saving her would be very slim. Tian Cai couldn't help but feel anxious and couldn't help but speed up.
Zhang Daniu lifted his numb legs and followed Tian Cai closely. The journey should have taken half an hour, but the two of them took a shortcut and ran all the way, arriving in just over ten minutes.
After Tian Cai asked about the basic condition of the parturient, he kept thinking about the treatment methods for women with difficult labor and the available prescriptions while running. He thought about the dosage of the herbs he had and practiced them over and over in his mind.
To be honest, although she had read all the medical books left by Cai Ping, and even knew several of them by heart, and had all the memories of the original owner's medical skills, she had never really treated such difficult and complicated diseases. Her confidence level was only 30%. With the help of dew, it could probably be increased to 50%.
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