Chapter 76: Just Applying Medicine—no Suturing At All?
“Abdomen?” Lin Xin thought for a moment, “Is the wound big?”
“Not big, originally an arrow wound, he didn’t handle it well at the time, and after rushing all the way, the wound split open.”
“So the originally round wound has now become long!”
Cui Shi nodded, “Pretty much.”
“Then you just applied medicine and bandaged it, without suturing? That would take forever to heal!”
“What? Suturing?” Cui Shi turned to look at Lin Xin, “What is suturing?”
Lin Xin’s mind went blank. Cui Shi was a master physician, yet he didn’t know suturing? In the time and space she came from, Hua Tuo already knew suturing, and records showed the technique was quite mature. Here no one knew suturing, so mentioning it like this might cause big trouble.
“Tell me quick! What is suturing?”
Urged again by Cui Shi, Lin Xin had a flash of inspiration and said: “I was just thinking, if clothes tear, you sew them with a needle, so why can’t you sew skin and flesh?”
“Hey, I thought it was some treatment method I didn’t know, but it turns out it’s just your wild idea!” Cui Shi glanced at her and snorted.
Mo Ziyuan, however, stared at Lin Xin in deep thought. He intuitively felt that the suturing she proposed could be achieved and might even play a huge role in the future.
“Alright, if you want to chat, go outside! Let him rest properly.” Seeing Mo Ziyuan’s gaze never leaving Lin Xin, Cui Shi’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly drove the others out.
“Yes, yes, let’s talk outside and let Zi Yuan rest well.”
The several big men walked out arm-in-arm, conveniently taking Lin Nan with them.
“What are you thinking, young man?” Once only the three of them remained in the room, Cui Shi asked Mo Ziyuan with a stern face.
“Nothing can be hidden from you, Old Cui,” Mo Ziyuan flattered Cui Shi, earning a cold snort from his nose. He smiled and continued: “I’m thinking about the suturing technique Miss Lin just mentioned. If it can really be achieved, then in the military there wouldn’t be so many dying from severe injuries and unstoppable bleeding. I want to find someone to try it. Could Old Cui help?”
“Heh, this old man has practiced medicine for half a lifetime and has never heard of suturing technique. As for trying it as you said, do you know that’s a human life? How can you use it for your trial?” Cui Shi glared at him fiercely and said.
“I can do it. I happen to have a wound on my body, so I can try the suturing technique Miss Lin mentioned.” Mo Ziyuan said solemnly, and Lin Xin and Cui Shi could both feel his seriousness.
“Don’t mess around. Suturing isn’t just about having a needle and thread; it requires many preparations. With existing conditions, it’s indeed hard to achieve.” Lin Xin thought for a moment and advised as well.
“Just hard to achieve, not absolutely impossible, right?” Unexpectedly, Mo Ziyuan quickly seized the loophole in Lin Xin’s words and pursued relentlessly.
“This······” Actually, suturing was simple for Lin Xin. In the apocalypse, there were no hospitals or professional doctors. When injured on missions, they basically handled it themselves. She’d done suturing wounds and removing bullets from flesh countless times.
Her space even had several complete sets of surgical knives and various surgical instruments, plenty of anesthetic too. A small suturing surgery was no problem at all. The issue was she couldn’t explain why she knew these things or the source of the instruments and anesthetic. If word got out and they asked her for the prescription, where would she find it?
But Mo Ziyuan was driving with her to the capital city tomorrow night. Without suturing, his wound would definitely split open, and if any accident happened then, she feared she couldn’t control the situation.
The entanglement on her face was too obvious. Not only did Mo Ziyuan notice, but even Cui Shi sensed something off. He rolled his eyes and asked: “Brat, what are you thinking?”
“Ah?” Caught off guard, Lin Xin instinctively let out an “ah.”
“I asked what you’re thinking!” Cui Shi repeated.
After hesitating repeatedly, Lin Xin honestly said: “Thinking about suturing.”
Mo Ziyuan’s eyes lit up, “You think it can be achieved too, right?”
Facing Cui Shi’s dark face, Lin Xin nodded, “Yes, I think it can be achieved.”
“Hmph! You’re all so capable, this old man is done with you.” After saying that, Cui Shi left them with a stubborn back and went out the door.
“I won’t ask anything, I just want to know if you can do this suturing?” Mo Ziyuan spoke first before Lin Xin could.
“······Yes.”
“Can you try it on my wound?”
Lin Xin hesitated, then nodded, then shook her head.
“What do you mean?”
“Trying it on your wound is fine, but not here. There are many little worms here that we can’t see with the naked eye. They parasitize in our wounds, absorb our nutrients, erode body tissue. Flesh eroded by little worms will fever, rot, and even······death.”
“Is there no way to deal with these little worms?” Mo Ziyuan asked in disappointment.
“There is, but with current technology it’s not possible, at least not on a large scale.”
“Then can you do it for me today?” Mo Ziyuan couldn’t explain why he was so persistent about this suturing technique, but a voice in his heart told him it would definitely be useful in the future.
Seeing his expectant gaze, Lin Xin gritted her teeth and nodded in agreement, but still made him promise not to tell others, fearing his friends would drive her away.
Mo Ziyuan happily agreed and asked: “When should we start?”
“I’m fine anytime, as long as you can deceive them into not coming in.”
“How about tonight? After they all sleep.”
Lin Xin shook her head like a rattle, “Of course not! Do you think I’m a fairy who can suture your wound in the dark? The environment needs to be bright, you know?”
“Then······”
“Leave this matter to this old man!” Cui Shi’s voice came from the doorway. Lin Xin and Mo Ziyuan looked over to see him standing there with a dark face, angrily watching them.
“Old man, you made no sound at all. Trying to scare who to death?”
“Hmph, I knew you wouldn’t give up and wanted to try it. Sure enough, I guessed right. I’m not stopping you, but I have to be there. If something goes wrong, I can remedy it, saving you from playing away your life!” Cui Shi said irritably.
“Then everything is entrusted to Old Cui.” Mo Ziyuan gratefully looked at Old Cui.
“If you mess around less and anger me less, everything’s fine.”
“Brat, whatever you need to prepare, hurry and prepare it. I’ll go drive away those little brats.”
“Got it!” Lin Xin agreed cheerfully, then quickly searched in her space.
Suture needle and thread, anesthetic, surgical knife, iodine, hemostatic forceps, etc., were one by one taken out from her space by her and placed on the bedside small table.
Then she disinfected her hands and those instruments.
Meanwhile, Cui Shi, who had sent everyone away outside, felt faintly excited in his heart. Though he wasn’t optimistic about this so-called suturing, he still had to support the young man’s idea.
At this time, he didn’t know that in just over half an hour, he would completely submit during the surgery and begin researching it, later playing a huge role on the battlefield and reducing countless unnecessary casualties.
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