At this time, Song Qinghan was completely absorbed into the operation, so he didn’t notice Yuan Wenxuan who was giving his whole attention to this scene. It seemed the whole world he faced currently was just filled with bloody human tissues. He was quite professional at various operations that he knew where he could start and how to avoid any risk of it.
Both the master and the apprentice devoted themselves completely to the operation. Yet the leader boy of the acrobatic team was suffering from the great pain out of it.
Only dead people would not feel any pain from such a big incision on belly. And moreover, it would be a terrifyingly helpless moment for the leader boy if he woke up from the pain and found himself tied up like a pig on the bed. That was an endless despair.
The creepier thing was that there was a grown-up and an adolescent standing right aside the bed staring at his belly, the whole scene was like a horrifying scenario that there stood two ghosts of the fox which hunted for human organs. In that thought, he was completely frightened and didn’t even dare to move but just stay stiffly.
If the leader boy made a sound, Song Qinghan and Yuan Wenxuan would probably know that he had already waken up. Unfortunately, after Yuan Wenxuan tied the leader boy up, he tucked a piece of fabric into his mouth in case that he would bite his tongue off and kill himself for not suffering. Moreover, Song Qinghan neither praised over his movement nor did he object. So Yuan Wenxuan just regarded his Master’s attitude as a tacit forbearance.
The leader watched helplessly at his intestines exposing from his stomach. Again, he passed out while the unbearable pain and despair overwhelmed and occupied all his nerves.
On the other side, though Song Qinghan had detected something strange from all the organs which showed an unsteady rhythm, he didn’t think further at all but just considered that this patient just lost too much blood. In that consideration, he payed more attention on this operation, while draining the dead blood out of his stomach in a quick move and adjusting the ribs to the right position, and then commenced sewing up.
At the moment Song Qinghan finished sewing the leader boy’s belly for the last step, he finally came to a relief and then heaved a sigh heavily. And then wrapped the the wound tightly using gauze and started cleaning up everything.
Yuan Wenxuan noticed that Song Qinghan’s hands were slightly trembling, as if he was unable to exert himself. Seeing that, he finally came to know that such an operation wasn’t that kind of easy though it seemed to be.
He then took the initiative to give Song Qinghan a hand, while saying humbly, “Master, so in the ensuing course, we just need to wait until this guy recovers, and then take out those threads. Right?”
Song Qinghan shook his head and sighed, explaining, “He got his ribs fractured, and the fractured parts stabbed tightly in his organs. That causes a hemorrhea. In that case, waiting for his ostensible recovery would be such a careless and unprofessional action. At least we should wait until he gets his fractured ribs recovered.”
Yuan Wenxuan subconsciously touched his ribs, and, recalling the scene just happened, he could somehow feel a bit pain on his own ones.
Before leaving, Song Qinghan finally noticed that there was a fabric right in the mouth of that leader boy. That was why he felt the ambience a bit weird while he was operating, it turned out that the SCREAM HAD GONE.
He removed the fabric in the leader boy’s mouth, and then turned to Yuan Wenxuan, saying, “Did you tuck it into his mouth to avoid him biting his own tongue off and killing himself?”
Yuan Wenxuan nodded honestly, as if he had found out that his behavior might be kind of abrupt.
Noticing that the boy was still in comma, Song Qinghan pondered for a moment and immediately, he placed his hand on the leader boy’s chin, while explaining, “If you want to stop someone from biting his tongue in the future, just dislocate his lower jawbone. This is the most effective and convenient way to make it. It not only can keep the patient breathing, but also help to release foreign matter if the patient gets in his throat.”
“Furthermore, it allows the patient to get us informed in time if he gets something uncomfortable and talk to us immediately, so we can adjust the strategy of the operation at once. Keep it in mind that the method you adopted just now is not a good one since it might cause a failure to the whole operation if you encounter some mistake. Luckily, we got a smooth one instead and nothing bad happened.”
Hearing the crisp “Clicking” sound delivered by the lower jawbone of the leader boy, Yuan Wenxuan subconsciously touched his own one, while asking hesitatingly, “So what should we do after the operation?”
With a nimble move on wrist, Song Qinghan got the lower jawbone of the leader boy reset. Everything was just going smooth and it seemed that nothing happened at all.
He smiled while saying naturally, “Then just reset it back. As for the method, you have to practice as many as you can using your own jawbone. Alright?”
The lower jawbone dislocation wasn’t a big problem that would cause an irreversible trouble. Song Qinghan did do the trial on his own before, and that was why he didn’t worry about Yuan Wenxuan and would suggest him to do so. After all, making several trials on his own could not only bring him a direct observation, but also offered him a chance to practice. So next time if he encountered again such a situation, he would take that action without hesitation.
Yuan Wenxuan looked up showing his young and tender face, begging, “Master, can you please give me a demonstration? Let me see how painful it is…””
Song Qinghan couldn’t help laughing. Well, child is always a child, the fear of pain is always their inborn nature.
He got his hand moved slightly, and then it was another move, and then said calmly, “Alright. That’s it now.”
Yuan Wenxuan touched his own face strangely while suppressing the excitement in his mind, “It doesn’t hurt at all! I’ll start practicing it from now on!”
After they packed up everything in the room, Song Qinghan went to open the door, but only to see that people outside the room were all eagerness to enter. Song Qinghan stretched forth one of his hands to stop the group, while warning, “Come on in if you wish him to die!”
The whole group sank into a silence all of a sudden after getting informed by Song Qinghan, one of them asked with a great anxiety, “Doctor, how is our big brother? Have you finished open… opening his belly yet?”
Song Qinghan nodded, explaining patiently, “The operation has been completed. It seems to be successful as far as I am concerned, but I can’t make sure that he is able to recover smoothly. Further observation of his situation is still required. So if you guys have nothing important to get us informed, then let your brother rest. I will just allow one of you to stay here, me and my apprentice will take a shift in days to check him out.”
The word “Successful” seemed have attracted everyone’s attention in the room. Those acrobatic members stared at each other, while they were all showing expressions of relief.
Seeing that Song Qinghan was massaging his temples in fatigue, the members of the acrobatic team came to know that it was late currently, and it would be annoying to keep bothering, so one of them suggested, saying, “Doctor, please take good care of our big brother. We will go out and find somewhere to have a rest, and tomorrow we will resort to earn some coins. Trust me, we’ll surely gather the coins enough for paying the treatment and the checking-in fee.”
Song Qinghan knew that they got no money at all, and then he asked in astonishment, “Where are you going? Rest on the street?”
With such a great embarrassment, the members of the acrobatic team still intended to confess, answering honestly, “Right. We’ll head to the nearby temple, and spend a whole night there. Don’t worry, we did that before as long as we got no money.”
Song Qinghan sized them up and down and he noticed that these boys were still injured while some of them were badly hurt. He turned to Wu Dahu while nursing a sympathy to the group. And at the moment he caught a glimpse at Wu Dahu, he got the signal of the inspiration from his husband, so he suggested, “I’ll get you a room, just make do with such an environment. Moreover, if some of you get a serious one of injuries, come and find me. Those who just got a skin trauma get a medical cream to apply.”
After that, he took out a box of medical cream and put it into the hands of the senior one among the team.
The boy was kind of touched when he received the box from Song Qinghan, he responded in gratitude, saying, “How… How can we accept this? We have owed you so much since you’re able to cure our brother! We will never expect any further assistance of kindness from you.”
The rest members of the team nodded, echoing, “Right, right, we will stay at the temple tonight. Such a place has already been our habitat, we prefer to stay there. Thank you so much for your kindness, Doctor.”
Finally, Song Qinghan gave up persuading the boys about their accommodation. But he insisted on giving them the medical cream. He was afraid that these boys’ wounds would fester.
They left the youngest member in this room. And Song Qinghan helped the boy disinfect on his wounds and then explained to him everything that he should keep in mind. Since the boy was kind of earnest, Song Qinghan let him go inside the room.
After everything was settled, Song Qinghan was exhausted. Wu Dahu had prepared and served him a warm bath. And after that, they got into bed together with Little Shitou.
The next morning, after breakfast, Song Qinghan entered the room where the leader boy stayed with a bowl of congee. Seeing that the guarding boy rose all of a sudden, he came up and spoke to the boy gently, saying, “Go and have your breakfast, and get a good rest. We will take good care of your big brother.”
Hearing that, the young boy didn’t say anything but seemingly sank into a long hesitation. But then he noticed that Song Qinghan grabbed a wooden bench over and just sat aside the bed. He finally came to a relief and took over the bowl while gobbling down the congee with satisfaction and then got into another bed and commenced sleeping.
Song Qinghan got himself disinfected after the young boy slept, and then untied the gauze on the leader boy’s body and checked the wound out. He heaved a sigh with relief when he noticed that there was no bad situations like inflammation or festering.
After he helped the leader change the medicine, he was about to wrap around the new gauze again. But at the moment he was about to take action, he caught a glimpse of the leader boy in bed and found that he had awaken. Raising head, he asked in astonishment, “You awake?”
The leader boy recognized that the man right in front of him was the one who delivered him the silver coin, while noticing the gauze in his hands, he couldn’t help but recall the terrifying scene yesterday, murmuring, “It’s you who saved me…”
Song Qinghan quickly wrapped the gauze and then explained patiently, “You should move since you got the most serious injury, that’s why we adopted such a strategy to tie you up both arms and legs. Now we will untie you, but you shouldn’t move without my permission. Alright?”
The leader boy nodded obediently. He could still feel the faint pain on his belly, but compared to the pain from last night, such a faint pain was nothing.
Yuan Wenxuan walked over and untied the quilt on the leader boy. Seeing a heavy ligature marks at the arms of the leader boy, he felt quite guilty and embarrassed while scratching his head uneasily.
Song Qinghan took the congee and patiently fed it to the leader boy. After the boy finished eating, he noticed that Wu Dahu was knocking on the door, so he spoke to Yuan Wenxuan, saying, “It will fall to you today to take care of him, just follow to what I’ve taught you before. We will go out for looking for an accommodation, alright?”
He made such a decision not to stay in a lodge not because they couldn’t afford it, but since they had made up their mind to relocate here in the provincial capital. The earlier they could find an accommodation, the better situation they would gain. After all, cleaning and arranging everything should be a time-consuming task.
Yuan Wenxuan nodded obediently. He knew that his Master was going out to do something important, so he naturally wouldn’t make a fuss, but he still felt a little nervous. After all, this was the first time he faced a real patient himself.
Wu Dahu carried Little Shitou in arms and walked down the stairs with Song Qinghan in parallel.
While Song Qinghan was busy absorbing himself in the operation, he had already asked the local people about the local housing, so they didn’t even have to search around like headless flies. They just needed to go to the selected places he had picked.