Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 171 Untitled
After Izumi Heiji handed Saito Dosan's letter of patronage and suicide note to Yuanye, he seemed to have unloaded a huge burden. Mental relief and physical fatigue appeared almost at the same time, and his old face became gray in an instant.

Yuanye didn't bother to ask for more details and first treated his and Aqian and Ayu's wounds.

Asahi and Ayu's injuries were relatively minor, and they were obviously well protected, or they were not the enemy's main targets, so they were not in serious condition. However, Izumi Heiji's injuries were extremely bad.

He had four knife wounds on his body, seven wounds similar to arrow wounds, and countless abrasions, all of which had been soaked in water. At this moment, the skin and flesh of these wounds were rolled up and swollen, with a dead fish white color. Even after some emergency treatment such as bandaging and burning, they still began to emit a faint stench.

Quan Pingci also looked down at the hideous wounds on his body, and he no longer had much hope of surviving. After a day and a night of fighting in the mountains, he had to cross the river many times to avoid the enemy's pursuit. His wounds were all contaminated, and he was already very old, and his resistance was far less than when he was young. It was inevitable that the wounds would rot and fester, and he was almost dead.

He was lucky to find Yuanye this time and hand the letter to him, as he did not have to drag his seriously injured body to Kiyosu Castle and be hunted down, and was able to complete the task easily. It was also a kind of alternative "entrustment of an orphan" - bringing the letter to Oda Nobunaga was definitely a great achievement, and should help Aman and the others get better treatment in Yuanye after his death.

At his age, he no longer cares about life and death. He was just about to persuade Yuanye not to worry too much about him and just bandage him casually. But unexpectedly, Yuanye observed his wound for a while, his expression was very calm, and he looked up and said to him: "It's not a big problem, it's just... it will be a little painful, old man, you need to bear it."

Quan Pingci couldn't help but take another look at his wound and asked curiously, "Can this wound be cured?"

"Sure." Yuan Ye smiled and consoled him, then turned to A Qing and said, "Prepare saline solution and allicin!"

He spent a lot of effort on the army. In order to minimize the casualties of the war, he racked his brains on treating external injuries. He once wanted to prepare penicillin by traditional methods, but the effect of this thing prepared by traditional methods was not as good as he imagined. There were too many impurities that were difficult to remove, the yield was extremely low, and it was quite troublesome to use. It was also easy to kill people instead of treating injuries. So he had to settle for the second best and chose allicin, a traditional medicine that can also fight bacteria and reduce inflammation, even though it was less effective than penicillin.

The main reason is that allicin is easy to prepare. You only need to peel and mash the garlic, add an appropriate amount of clean water and heat it quickly, evaporate the allicin along with the water vapor, and then purify it by condensation. With the current drug preparation conditions he has, the output of allicin is more suitable for the military and more cost-effective.

Izumi Heiji didn't understand all this. In his eyes, Yuanye was actually a stranger. He was very suspicious for a moment, but Yuanye had already entered the "Mongolian Miracle Doctor" state and no longer cared about the patient's thoughts - what he said was downplaying, just a habit to comfort the patient. Izumi Heiji's injury was actually a bit tricky, so he just used strong medicine directly.

After washing his hands carefully, he began to clean Izumi Heiji's wound with saline solution. Some of the rotten dead skin and flesh were simply cut off. Then, depending on the depth of the wound, he applied allicin ointment or filled it with gauze soaked in allicin solution.

As a personal bodyguard who has been following Yuanye for a long time, A Qing has cooperated with him many times. He knows what he needs as soon as he raises his hand. To outsiders, it seems like they have a telepathic connection and there is a strange sense of harmony.

Quan Pingci looked at Aqing silently for a while, and felt that this "granddaughter" had changed a lot. Then waves of severe pain came, and he forced himself not to groan. As a result, he could no longer pay attention to the changes in Aqing. Allicin is not actually a very good external medicine. Applying it directly on the wound will make people suffer from excruciating pain. They might as well die. But that was how it was in the ancient times. Anything that can save lives is a good thing. It doesn't matter if it hurts!

Soon, the excessive pain made him drowsy and unable to think. In addition, he had overdrawn a lot of physical strength from the previous continuous fighting and escaping, so he gradually fell asleep.

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Quan Heiji did not have a restful sleep. He first felt very cold while he was groggy, and then he kept being fed medicine and soup. Sometimes he seemed to hear someone calling him from a very far distance, and sometimes he felt himself being tossed up and down, as if he was in the clouds.

When he woke up slowly, he opened his eyes and saw his granddaughter, Aman, the legitimate heir of Koga Komei-ryu, who was sitting cross-legged beside him and dozing with her chin in her hand. He looked at this granddaughter who had been able to set up her own business and whom he had not seen for a long time, then turned around and looked around, and found that he seemed to be lying in a tightly wrapped ox cart compartment.

He lay there for a while, then slowly clenched his fists. Feeling that he had regained some strength, he used his one arm to support himself and tried to sit up. This immediately startled Ah Man, who instantly woke up and looked at him in surprise for a moment before rushing forward to support him. He breathed a sigh of relief: "You are finally awake. If you had continued to sleep, I would have thought you were going to die!"

If Yuanye hadn't repeatedly assured her that being unconscious for such a long time was normal and a natural sign of the body's recovery, she might have gone to prepare a coffin.

Quan Pingci ignored this chatterbox granddaughter for a while. He first pressed the deepest wound on his body. He could no longer feel any swelling. He didn't expect that Yuanye actually dragged him back from the gates of hell. He was very surprised for a moment. Ah Man knew what he was thinking by looking at his expression. She immediately raised her eyebrows and said proudly, "That guy is quite skilled in medicine. He can at least be ranked among the top three in the world." After that, she didn't wait for Quan Pingci to answer. She remembered something and immediately lifted the curtain, stuck her head out of the car and shouted. Soon the ox cart stopped. Then she turned back and said to Quan Pingci, "You must be hungry, right? I'll ask them to get you something to eat, but you can't eat anything good now. You can only drink rice porridge to nourish your stomach. Make do with it for now! When you get better, I'll stew an old hen for you!"

Quan Heiji was not actually very hungry. In fact, his mouth was full of garlic odor, which made him feel nauseous and he had no appetite at all. However, he still leaned against the wall and nodded, but immediately asked, "Where are we going?"

"Xinwanjin." Aman said directly, "Our territory!"

"Your territory..." Izumi Heiji chewed on these words and said softly, "It is Lord Nohara's territory, right?"

"No, it's our territory." Aman said bluntly, "I am also a member of the Nohara family, and I also have a share of Shinwanjin. Even if you ask him, he will admit it, so it is our territory."

Izumi Heiji's expression gradually became serious. He looked at Aman for a while before he said in a deep voice, "We are the Koga clan. We only accept employment and never..."

Ah Man was no longer buying into his nonsense and interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Alright, alright, he's different. I haven't lost my freedom, and he's never asked me to do anything against my will. Besides, Ah Qing and I have been with him through thick and thin. If someone else had begged to be his retainer, he wouldn't have accepted them, let alone you. He has no intentions towards you."

After a pause, she added, "Qing and I are special cases, and he doesn't really regard us as retainers. We are actually more like his family."

She hesitated again after she finished speaking, feeling that this statement seemed ambiguous, and quickly added again, "Not that kind of family, I didn't sleep with him. I am the kind of family member who is like a good friend, old man... uh, grandpa, you understand?"

Quan Pingci looked up at her carefully and found that she had grown up a little, but her appearance had not changed much, especially her brows were still the same, which matched her small round face and was still very funny. She still looked like a big Shiba Inu. He nodded involuntarily and said, "I believe this."

He could fully understand why his eldest granddaughter had never won people over with her beauty and had a bad and overbearing personality, so she had not developed a romantic relationship with Yuanye.

Ah Man scratched her face, thinking that her old man's words were not right, a bit sarcastic, but he was injured now, so she didn't bother with him, and started to complain again: "Don't always blame me, did those two little beasts, Ah Qian and Ah Yu, bring you the words I asked them to bring? I told you to come to me a long time ago, why didn't you listen at all? Saito Dosan only gave you a few dollars, and look at what you have done to yourself? You are old, can't you let me be more careful?"

Quan Heiji sighed silently, and found that not only did Aman's appearance not change much, but his personality was also the same as before. He was still as annoying as before. He could only shake his head and said, "We are the Koga clan and cannot destroy our reputation. As long as we receive money, we must do our best."

"All right!" Ah Man waved his hand again, not caring about this old antique. "Since you are like this now, I will support you from now on! Haven't you always wanted to build a small village? I have already made an agreement with him. When we get to Xinwanjin, I will allocate a piece of land to you. You can do whatever you want. You just need to be an honest old man and take care of yourself in your old age!"

"He... is willing to give you land?" Izumi Heiji couldn't help but be surprised again.

Ah Man was proud in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he said nonchalantly: "It's just a piece of land, it's nothing. Even if you want to live in his house and eat and drink for retirement, given the relationship between him and me, he won't have any objection."

Quan Pingci was silent for a moment. A piece of land, the lifelong pursuit of so many people...

But he thought about it and felt that he had only heard A-man chattering since he woke up, and he still didn't know anything about the Nohara family. He immediately said to A-man: "Tell me about Shinwanjin and Lord Nohara!"

He wanted to compare Harano and Saito Dosan to see which one was better.

(End of this chapter)