Chapter 230: First Aid
“Quick, first put the person on a flat spot!”
“Torch!”
Su Qingshan saw the situation and quickly called to the people around him who were still dazed, “Haven’t woken up yet? Hurry and move! Make the most of the time to let Ning Ning do first aid and see if the person can be saved!”
This shout was like a splash of cold water on the head, instantly bringing back to their senses the crowd around him who couldn’t help but redden their eyes and sink into sorrowful reminiscence.
They gathered in a hubbub, raising the torches in their hands high, making the area even brighter.
“Spread out jackets on the ground!”
Some quick-handed ones grabbed the pile of jackets, not caring whose they were, and spread them out neatly on the open ground.
The three men carrying the person immediately and carefully placed her on the spread-out clothes upon seeing this.
The one adult and two children all had their eyes tightly closed in an unconscious state. Su Ning, after a simple initial check, didn’t tend to the two little ones first but took out a small porcelain bottle and a needle pack from the medicine box.
This silver needle was given to her by Teacher Ge before he left. Although he still said he wouldn’t take her as an apprentice, he had taught her some knowledge and techniques for silver needle first aid.
Because he was also a barefoot doctor, he knew that in rural areas with backward conditions and especially poor medical environments, these were truly lifesaving in emergencies.
Fortunately, Su Ning, who understood his good intentions and purposes clearly, learned very seriously. Even though she hadn’t truly practiced it yet, she had achieved perfect theoretical understanding of everything she needed to know and understand.
Taking a deep breath, she now only hoped that Wang the Cripple’s wife had merely fallen into a brief state of suspended animation, so she still had a chance to save her.
Thinking this in her heart, her hands didn’t pause for a moment. She opened the needle pack and simply disinfected it, then pinched a needle and inserted it into several major acupoints as Teacher Ge had instructed.
Time passed bit by bit, but the person showed no reaction, making the crowd holding torches and gathered around not even dare to breathe heavily.
Hurry, she must survive! Even for those two children, she couldn’t just go like this!
As if hearing everyone’s prayers and pleas, when drops of bright red blood flowed from the successively pricked fingertips, her eyelashes trembled slightly.
“Ah, she moved! She moved! I saw her eyelids move!”
“Is this saved? Oh my god, brought back from the dead—Doctor Su is too amazing! My god!”
The scene erupted in clamor as the crowd couldn’t control their excited emotions and spoke up one after another.
“All shut up, quiet!”
Su Qingshan’s heart, which had been hanging high without settling, heard the chattering noise and immediately roared at the top of his lungs.
Damn it, hadn’t they seen that Ning Ning’s first aid wasn’t finished yet? One by one like boiling thin porridge—did they think it wasn’t chaotic enough already?
What if she got startled and her hand shook, the needle went in crooked, and the person died—who’s fault would that be?!
Surrounding crowd: No, Brigade Leader, your shout just now was louder than anyone’s, okay? Do you have no idea about your own voice volume?
In fact, the brief clamor and noise didn’t affect Su Ning at all. By now, she had automatically blocked out external sounds and focused only on the rescue.
Every extra second was seizing more chance for Wang the Cripple’s wife to survive.
Until she confirmed feeling the almost imperceptible pulse at her neck, in that instant Su Ning’s eyes uncontrollably moistened.
She quickly turned sideways, opened the small porcelain bottle placed nearby, carefully fed her some, then nodded to Su Qingshan, who looked anxious but didn’t dare speak and could only ask with his eyes.
“Good, good! Too good!”
“Old man, her internal injuries are very severe. Although rescued, she’s just hanging on by a breath. Still need to hurry to the hospital.”
“Good, I…”
“Wang Quezi’s mother is saved! Saved! Quick, Doctor Su!”
Wang Quezi’s mother was far from the room where her son and daughter-in-law were buried. In the emergency, everyone naturally prioritized rescuing the person right under the debris, so she naturally fell to the last.
Fortunately, though old, her daughter-in-law had feared her getting cold and covered her bed with the thickest quilt in the house. The falling beam and pillar luckily spared her with a tricky angle.
Although still buried, miraculously she wasn’t injured at all.
“Where’s my daughter-in-law? Has she been rescued? How are she and the children? Hey, I’m already this old, lived long enough—why bother saving me first? Save them, save them first!”
“Auntie, all saved, all saved—don’t get agitated first, or you’ll fall again!”
“All saved? Then them, how are they?”
Strangely, after such a big incident, upon being freed, Granny Wang’s first question was about her daughter-in-law, not her son or grandson.
One could imagine that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law usually got along very well.
Which family had a daughter-in-law whose status surpassed that of a biological son? It was rare in the surrounding villages.
“Auntie rest assured, temporarily fine. Doctor Su saved her, but she said there’s internal injury—need to get to the hospital quick!”
“What internal injury? Doctor Su clearly said internal injury.”
“Then is your family’s belly not internal but external?”
“Don’t say, Doctor Su is really amazing—snatched the person back from the king of hell even after dead!”
“Hiss~ Speaking of which, do you think Wang the Cripple’s wife is really alive and not a zombie? My man saw clearly back then—she really had no breath.”
“What nonsense, Doctor Su said it was a state of suspended animation caused by breath not coming up. Cuihua’s mom, watch your mouth and accumulate some virtue!”
The crowd chattered from eager responses to shouting exclamations, leaving Granny Wang momentarily dizzy: died and came back to life? Zombie?
What exactly happened to her daughter-in-law?!
After the family of five were laid out in a row.
Seeing her family all saved intact, except the son muttering in pain from his mouth, the other three motionless.
Looking again at the large patch of blood in front of her daughter-in-law, her face deathly pale, scaring Granny Wang’s heart nearly to stop.
“Juan’er, Juan’er don’t scare mom, wake up!”
“Choudan, Ya Ya! Juan’er, wuu wuu wu, oh heavens what to do, what to do! Take my worthless old life instead, why not!”
“What are you all standing around for? Ox cart’s here—quick, lift everyone on!”
Su Qingshan called a few people to lift Wang the Cripple’s whole family onto the cart, glanced at Granny Wang still wailing, “Alright, Wang Quezi’s mother stop crying—person’s not dead yet!”
“Qingshan old brother, are they really okay?”
“Isn’t this hurrying to the hospital? Save your strength and catch your breath—when we get there, you can look after them more.”
“Da Ming, Da He…”
Naming four or five helpers, Su Qingshan checked that the village’s introduction letter, official seal, and such were all properly brought, then went with them to the county town.
The clanging gong sounds hadn’t stopped; those sleeping deeply or farther away were successively woken, and upon understanding the situation, hurried onto rooftops to clear accumulated snow, lest they become the second family buried.
This night, destined for everyone in the village to sleep poorly and stay vigilant, constantly on edge.
“Ning Ning, come, I’ll take you back!”
As Su Qingshan and others drove the ox cart away, everyone else dispersed in twos and threes back to their homes.
Su Jianqun rubbed his frozen red hands, saw her pack up the medicine box and lock it again, then spoke.
“Good, thanks young man.”
“Still go to the health clinic first?”
“No, take it home first.”
Just in case, better to bring the medicine box back together, or it’d waste time to go back for it later.
After Su Ning bid farewell to the young man who escorted her back, braving the howling wind and snow to the old residence gate, she saw Yan Bei waiting there, almost turned into a snowman.
Immediately feeling both heartbroken and annoyed, she quickly ran to him, “Why didn’t you go inside?”
“I just came out not long ago, really!”
“It’s late, grandparents, Uncle Fu, Old Man Liu—they all went back first.”
“Snow’s too heavy, Jiaming and I boiled two whole large pots of hot water for you. Come, hurry inside for a hot bath and change into dry clothes!”
Her clothes and shoes were all soaked through. Yan Bei took the medicine box from her hand, held her ice-cold little hand while speaking, and walked into the courtyard.
Hearing the sound, Fu Jiaming, who had been waiting with him, poked his head out from the kitchen, “Su Ning you’re finally back—if not, I really couldn’t stand this guy’s nagging and was gonna go find you!”
“How are the people…”
“Let her take a hot bath and warm up first before you ask!”
“Cough, I’ll go carry the wooden bucket for you!”
Realizing her state wasn’t suitable for questioning and answering, Fu Jiaming quickly reacted and nimbly went to the bathroom to help move the big wooden bucket for bathing.
One chapter today for now—haven’t eaten dinner yet. By the time it’s ready and eaten, probably not enough time for the second chapter. Let me be lazy, haven’t eaten all day—really starving.
