AWB Chapter 431 As long as the hoe is swung well
Chapter 431 As long as the hoe is swung well
Hearing the commotion, many people gathered around and quickly surrounded Lu Yangyang.
People started discussing it.
"Whose ignorant young lady is this? How can she use her sewing and embroidery skills on a person?"
"I just saw it! She stuffed that woman's exposed intestines back in! It terrified me!"
"Is this saving someone or harming them? How can you sew up such a long wound with an embroidery needle? It's simply absurd!"
"But that woman is clearly beyond saving, so what she's doing is pointless, isn't it?"
"This young lady saved many people before and was very brave when fighting pirates. She probably took pity on this woman and wanted to help, but the woman is so badly injured and has almost bled out. There's no way to save her!"
Lu Yangyang ignored the old doctor's words and was not disturbed by the surrounding noises. She calmly and quickly stitched up the wound, and the lines were not crooked at all.
Seeing that Lu Yangyang completely ignored him, the old doctor angrily said, "Young lady, I don't care what you do, you can't just treat people haphazardly because you know a little about bandaging!"
Lu Yangyang didn't even raise her head.
The old doctor was surprised by Lu Yangyang's rudeness and said to two women in the crowd who were watching the commotion, "Go and pull her away. Don't let her play with people's lives like this!"
The two women hesitated and did not step forward.
The old doctor stepped forward, intending to pull Lu Yangyang away, but the little girl kneeling beside her, anxiously watching her mother, grabbed her leg and pleaded, "Please, please, let this older sister save my mother! My father is dead, and I have a two-year-old brother. If my mother dies, my brother and I will have no way to survive. Please, please..."
The old doctor, his beard bristling and eyes wide, exclaimed, "Let go! This is utterly absurd! How can she be treating your mother like this! Your mother is so badly injured, she's beyond saving! You're young and don't understand, so I won't hold it against you, but I absolutely will not allow anyone to mistreatment a dying person like this!"
Lu Yangyang had already stitched up the last stitch, cut the thread, sprinkled medicine powder on the wound, and then wrapped it with a clean cloth. After wiping her hands clean, she took the woman's pulse: "There's nothing else wrong. You're just a little weak from blood loss. I'll prescribe some medicine for you later. Have someone get it for you, brew it, and drink it for a few days to help you recover. Also, don't let the wound get wet. Change the dressing every three days. I'll remove the stitches in seven or eight days, and then you'll be fine."
The woman, incredulous and with tears welling in her eyes, grabbed Lu Yangyang's hand and asked in a trembling voice, "Won't I... I won't die?"
Lu Yangyang replied confidently, "The wound isn't deep, it didn't damage any internal organs, you won't die, it's a minor injury."
The woman burst into tears, stammering, "Thank you, thank you, thank you..."
"Nonsense! Nonsense! Utter nonsense! Such an injury, a wound three or four inches long, and you call it a minor injury! If you don't understand, don't spread rumors here! It's absurd, absurd!" The old doctor, hearing the conversation between the two, was so angry that his face turned red. He didn't care about his image and pointed at Lu Yangyang, shouting loudly.
Lu Yangyang stood up and turned to look at the old doctor, whose face was flushed with anger: "Old doctor, we are all treating patients and saving lives, and there is no difference in quality between us. But I want to ask you, you only glanced at her just now and refused to treat her or even give her medicine. Was it because you thought her injuries were too severe to be treated, or because she is a woman?"
"What difference does it make?" the old doctor retorted. "Her injury is incurable. Even if I give her medicine, she can only leave it to fate. So many people are waiting to be treated, why waste medicine? Besides, her injury is in her abdomen. Even if I examine her, it will damage her reputation. Why should I bother?"
"She was injured by pirates. Her husband is dead, and she's struggling to make a living at the docks to support her children. Now she's injured but doesn't even deserve treatment. Doctor, tell me, what did she do wrong? If she didn't go out to earn a living, her children would starve. The pirates were brutal and injured her; should we blame her? You say treating her would ruin her reputation. Please forgive my ignorance, but if healing and saving lives are based on gender, then what chance do women have? You keep saying you don't accept female disciples or teach women medicine to avoid suspicion, but now they're innocently suffering, and you use your so-called reputation as an excuse not to treat them. I treat her, and you jump out to stop me, blaming my lack of medical skills. She, and all the other women injured at the docks today, what crime have they committed? They clearly deserve treatment, yet they don't even deserve it!" Lu Yangyang looked at the old doctor. "Please tell me."
"You, you, you're utterly unreasonable!" The old doctor was so angry he was incoherent. "I won't argue with a young woman like you. You're completely clueless! Treating the sick and saving lives shouldn't be done in such a playful and reckless manner! I stopped you because I was afraid you might hurt someone's life!"
"Did you see just now that her bleeding has stopped? Am I being ridiculous? Why don't you take her pulse and see if her life is in danger?" Lu Yangyang stepped aside. "Or are you insisting on concluding that she is going to die without even taking a look?"
"You, you..." The old doctor was speechless, yet he found it unbelievable. He had initially thought Lu Yangyang was being ridiculous, but he had indeed witnessed the bleeding stop before Lu Yangyang bandaged the wound. The reason such a long wound couldn't be saved was because it was too large, the bleeding couldn't be stopped, and he would inevitably die from excessive blood loss.
But if it stops...
The old doctor's expression shifted for a moment, making it impossible to determine the cause.
Lu Yangyang raised her hand high and said, "All the girls, if you have any injuries, come to me. There is also a Miss Wen, who is a little fairy doctor from the Immortal Island. Her medical skills are extraordinary. We will bandage your wounds. Girls who are not injured, please help us. We will go to another place. I promise that as long as there is still hope, we will heal all the injured girls!"
Many of the women present who had suffered minor injuries but couldn't get treatment heard Lu Yangyang's call and excitedly came out one by one. Without Lu Yangyang's instruction, they took the initiative to help each other and quickly moved from the crowd that was already scorching hot to a quieter place, where they lined up neatly and even volunteered to help out, waiting for Lu Yangyang to treat them.
Lu Yangyang had someone call Wen Qingqing over and instructed those who were not injured to notify the others to come over so that all the women who needed medical treatment could have their wounds treated.
Having witnessed the entire commotion, Lin Wuji crossed his arms and stared blankly in the direction of Lu Yangyang. He then turned to his men and asked, "Do you think we can dig down this corner of the wall if we swing the hoe well enough?"