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Chapter 210 - 206: A Familiar Feeling_1
Chapter 210 - 206: A Familiar Feeling_1
Chapter 210: Chapter 206: A Familiar Feeling_1
Translator: 549690339
With Yingbao’s reassurance, Doctor Li felt relieved. He ordered his grandson to bring the medicine box and took out the tools to clean the young man’s wounds.
Of course, he had to put a little Powder for Anesthesia on him before sterilization, to prevent the young man from fainting from severe pain.
“Don’t use the Powder for Anesthesia on him.” It’s highly toxic; a small mistake could make the already weak boy breathe his last.
Yingbao took out a medicine pill from her own medicine box and shoved it into the boy’s mouth. She then told Doctor Li, “Let’s start with this.”
It might hurt, but he won’t die.
After some hesitation, Doctor Li put back the Powder for Anesthesia and took a scalpel to scrape the necrotic flesh from the boy’s wounds.
Before he even made a few scrapes, the boy let out a howl and began to struggle.
“Hold him down quickly!” Yingbao ordered Xiao Mo who was nearby. It will just make things worse if the boy is accidentally injured.
Xiao Mo, along with the martial general, quickly stepped in, pinning the boy down on the bed from both sides.
Doctor Li wiped sweat from his forehead and continued the excision of necrotic flesh.
Finally, after much screaming and struggling, the task was done. Yingbao then gave the young man a bit of water to drink.
“Suture.” Yingbao commanded.
Doctor Li had no choice but to reluctantly take out a catgut thread to stitch up the wound.
Amidst more screams, this time the young man passed out.
Xiao Mo and the martial general were sweating bullets, both glaring unhappily at the young girl.
As if oblivious to their stares, Yingbao took her time to remove a packet of medicine powder from her medicine box, sprinkled it slowly on the boy’s wounds, and then instructed Doctor Li to wrap it up with sterile gauze.
Afterward, she made some medicine of her own. After instructing Li Lin to fetch it, she personally went to boil it.
When the medicine was ready, Yingbao quietly added half a bowl of a special liquid essence into it and stirred it with a long-handled spoon.
She left the task of feeding the medicine to Xiao Mo’s trusted aide, whom Xiao Mo had brought along to attend to the young man.
After drinking the medicine, the boy slept on, not waking up even when the trusted aide wiped his face and cleaned his body.
By this time, it was completely dark. Yingbao was staying with Li Xihua.
Li Xihua wasn’t as enthusiastic as before, but still chatted a lot with Yingbao.
“Yingbao, can you actually cure that man?”
Li Xihua wore a puzzled expression, “My grandfather said he wasn’t so sure.”
“I’m not sure either. We will only find out tomorrow.” In truth, Yingbao herself wasn’t too confident either. The boy’s injuries were quite severe.
Not only was his injury severe, but his internal organs had also been affected by the heavy dose of drugs given to him by the previous doctor, and he was showing signs of exhaustion.
His survival depended on whether he could get through this night.
Li Xihua relaxed, “I knew it. How could your medical skills possibly surpass my grandfather’s? But Tiantian insisted that you possess a miraculous medicine pill, that anyone could heal the young lord of the Xiao Family if they get their hands on that pill.”
Yingbao’s eyes narrowed slightly.
How did Chen Tiantian know about the magic of her pills?
“What else did she say?” Yingbao asked.
Li Xihua shook her head, “Nothing else.”
The two laid quietly on the bed for a long time after that, before Li Xihua couldn’t help but ask, “Yingbao, does your family really have a secret ancestral formula?”
Yingbao thought for a moment and said, “That’s just rumors people are spreading. However, all of my medicine pills are refined using the Xue’er fungus.”
Upon hearing this, Li Xihua’s spirit picked up considerably. Her eyes shone brightly in the dark, “Really?”
“Of course.” Yingbao lied.
Li Xihua: “Then I’ll tell my grandfather tomorrow that your medicine pills are extracted from Xue’er. You don’t mind, do you?”
“Not at all.”
Why would Yingbao mind? She was looking for a reason to raise the price of their Xue’er fungus anyway. This was the perfect opportunity.
She believed that as long as the boy was cured, from then on, the price of their Xue’er would double.
Perhaps even more.
They both remained silent for the rest of the night.
Early next morning, when it was still barely dawn and Yingbao was in a daze, she heard someone knocking on the door: “Miss Jiang, wake up!”
Yingbao jumped up in surprise, clumsily got dressed and ran out the door.
She saw two people at the door – it was Xiao Mo and the martial general.
“Whawhat’s going on?” Yingbao immediately grew anxious.
Did the patient die? Did they come to place the blame on her?
Xiao Mo turned to her, “Doctor Jiang, quickly check on my younger brother.”
“Oh” Yingbao quickly made her way to the ward.
Upon entering the room, she saw that Doctor Li had also just arrived. His gray hair was in disarray, scattered on his shoulders, looking rather disheveled.
Yingbao furrowed her brow, making her way closer to the young boy’s bed.
She saw the boy lying there, his eyes darting back and forth, and when he saw Xiao Mo standing behind Yingbao, he said, “Brother, I’m very hungry.”
Yingbao let out a sigh, bent forward to lift up his quilt, ready to examine his wounds.
“What are you doing?” The young boy glared at Yingbao discontentedly, gripping the corners of his blanket.
The trusted aide quickly explained, “Young Master, this is the doctor who had been treating you.”
The young boy looked surprised and turned to his older brother. “A doctor so young saved me?”
Xiao Mo gave her a slight smile, “Yes, Chengjun, remember to thank Doctor Jiang and Old Master Li. They saved your life.”
Seeing his younger brother awake and talking about hunger indicated good progress, but Xiao Mo was reluctant to make a decision about feeding him. He summoned Doctor Li and Yingbao.
Yingbao abruptly looked up, her gaze locked onto the boy.
Chengjun? Xiao Chengjun? The name seemed familiar—it felt as if she had heard it somewhere.
She studied him carefully.
His childlike face was similar to Xiao Mo’s. His sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, straight nose and delicate lips, good-looking in a mischievous way, felt oddly familiar.
In her past life, she didn’t think she ever met him, neither did she hear that Xiao Mo had such a brother.
Right, in her previous life she didn’t have the ‘golden finger’ skill or know any medical arts. He probably died young back then.
Yingbao and Doctor Li checked over his wounds and applied another layer of their homemade medical powder.
At that moment, Chen Tiantian ran over, saying softly, “I’ll go make the medicine.”
Yingbao glanced at her, then looked at the boy lying on the bed. She seemed deep in thought.
Xiao Mo intervened, “Let Doctor Jiang do it.”
Chen Tiantian lowered her eyes, unwillingly passing the medicine pack to Yingbao.
Yingbao didn’t want to make the medicine at all. But since the Xiao family had said so, she felt obliged to follow through, especially considering she hadn’t received her consultation fee yet.
She arrived at the medicine decocting tent and poured the medicine slices from the bag into the pot. Seeing no one around, she added the Pupil Spring water.
Started with five bowls of water, boiled to just one bowl. When pouring out the medicine, Yingbao didn’t add the Five Tripod Ganoderma, instead, she took out a medicine pill.
She’d put this out in the open and would tell Xiao Mo about the costs later.
She brought the medicine to Xiao Chengjun and first handed him a medicine pill, “This medicine is precious. Take this pill first before drinking the medicine.”
Xiao Chengjun obediently took the pill and ingested it, then he picked up the bowl and drank all the medicine.
The trusted aide then brought over a bowl of red date rice porridge to feed him spoon by spoon.
Eventually leaving the ward, Yingbao began to get ready for the day.
As soon as she finished, Doctor Li hurried over to ask, “Yingbao, is that medicine pill really extracted from the Golden Fungus in your house?”
“Yes,” Yingbao replied seriously, “But the extraction process is my family’s exclusive secret and cannot be passed on to others.” She preemptively cut off what Doctor Li was about to say next.
Doctor Li wasn’t bothered by it and asked, “Yingbao, would you be willing to sell some of your family’s Golden Fungus to me?”
“My father handles the sale of our Golden Fungus, why don’t you ask him directly, Grandpa Li?”
Yingbao was saving her own Golden Fungus for Madam Wen, but she didn’t mind if her father and uncles had plans to sell their share, whether to Doctor Li or the Steward Zhou Mao, they were to act in their own discretion.
“In that case, I’ll go find your father!” Doctor Li hurried off to find Jiang Sanlang.
Jiang Sanlang was just coming back in when he saw Doctor Li coming straight towards him. He was taken aback.
“What’s the matter?” He had been worrying about his daughter’s ability to treat the patient. He had spent a night at the inn tossing and turning, unable to close his eyes for a moment, anxious that he might receive bad news.