Traveling through ancient times: living a different life

The days passed by uneventfully. Biyue insisted on exercising and practicing martial arts with Tingsong and Tingwei at 7 o'clock every day.

At eight o'clock, after breakfast, everyone went about their business. Tingsong went to school, and Biyue went to Doctor Lin's house to study.

As usual, in the morning, there were occasionally people coming to Dr. Lin's house for consultations and prescriptions, and there were also people visiting patients' homes for treatment. Most of the time, Dr. Lin went to see patients alone.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, a man in his thirties hurried into Doctor Lin's house with an anxious look on his face. He said that his son had rolled down the hill and had a big cut on his left leg.

Saving a life is like putting out a fire. Doctor Lin took the medicine box and hurriedly followed the patient's family.

Bi Yue put down the book in her hand and followed from a distance, wanting to see the excitement and observe.

After walking for more than ten minutes, we arrived at the west end of the village. The patient's surname was Yang. The one who came was called Yang Shuigen. The injured one was his son Yang Hai. He said that today he and several half-grown boys from the village went to the mountains to chop firewood. While chasing a rabbit, he accidentally fell down and scratched his leg. The rabbit was caught, but the man was also injured.

Doctor Lin didn't say much and entered the Yang family's house. He saw a boy about fourteen years old leaning on the bed, covered with a thin blanket, with only half of his injured leg covered. He didn't look very well.

Biyue stood quietly behind the adults and saw Doctor Lin taking the patient's pulse. He then lifted the quilt and saw that the cloth wrapped around the outside of the thigh had seeped out a lot of blood.

Ask the child's father to find a taller stool, preferably level with the bed, and place the stool close to the bed. Place the patient's calf flat on the stool to avoid dirtying the sheets. Untie the cloth that simply wrapped the wound. There are some unknown herbs on it. The wound looks a bit creepy.

Doctor Lin said: "If the wound is not treated properly, it will get infected. The wound is so big and the weather is getting hotter. It will take a month to heal. You can't touch water during this period."

Doctor Lin asked if there was any wine at home. If not, he could quickly go and borrow some from villagers who had wine, or buy some. Yang Hai's father went to another room and got a bottle of wine and asked, "Do you think this is okay?" Doctor Lin opened the bottle cap and smelled it. The wine was a little light, and it would be better if it was stronger.

No one knew who had the liquor at this moment, and everyone was so busy that they were confused.

Doctor Lin said, "Shuisheng, go ask the village headman's family, and Chunsheng's family. His father loves to drink, and every time Chunsheng comes back from work in the county, he brings some wine."

"Okay, I'll go ask now."

Then he hurried off to find some wine. After giving the order, he turned around and saw Bi Yue was there too, but she didn't say anything.

The room was crowded with people just now. A few of them left, and now there were Yang Hai's grandfather and a girl about ten years old. Everyone saw Bi Yue and was very curious. Isn't this the girl from the Chen family? Why is she here? No one knew that Bi Yue was studying medicine.

Doctor Lin said that Biyue was her student and was learning medicine from him. The Yang family became even more curious. They heard that Doctor Lin did not accept female disciples, so why did he accept this little girl?

Biyue was very confused, not knowing how Dr. Lin would treat Yang Hai's wound. So she whispered something in Dr. Lin's ear, and Dr. Lin followed her out to the yard.

Bi Yue asked, "Master, Yang Hai's wound is long and deep, how do you treat it?" Doctor Lin said, "Wash it with wine, pour the medicine powder I made on the wound, and wait for it to scab over and it will heal, but it will take a long time, at least a month, and the scar will be a bit ugly after it heals."

Bi Yue said: "The wound is so big, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Why don't we use another method? Sew the wound up with thread, apply medicine on it, and then bandage it. Wouldn't it be more conducive to the wound healing?"

Doctor Lin was surprised and said, "Like sewing clothes, this method is really good. How did you come up with this idea? If this method works, it can save many lives. Yue girl, you are really smart."

At this time, Yang Shuigen came in from outside holding a small jar, his head covered with sweat. He walked up to Doctor Lin and handed the wine to him. Doctor Lin opened it and smelled it, and was very satisfied.

After entering the house, he asked Yang Shuigen to find some cotton thread, a needle, two small bowls, and a new cotton cloth, preferably white, to clean the wound.

Yang Shuigen was a little confused, but he still went to prepare. He put the prepared things on the table and asked everyone in the room to leave, leaving Bi Yue behind.

Biyue asked Doctor Lin to bend the needle a little, thread it, put it in a bowl and soak it in wine, then pour strong liquor in another bowl and use a clean cotton cloth to clean Yang Hai's wound.

Doctor Lin: "It will be a little painful when you wash it, just bear with it." Yang Hai said: "Okay, I can bear it."

Doctor Lin began to wash the wound, then began to sew, apply medicine, and bandage it. It took more than half an hour to finish. Yang Hai's face was sweating from the pain, but he didn't say a word.

Doctor Lin praised him as a little man. The person outside came in after seeing that the doctor was done, said words of thanks, and paid the consultation fee. Then the master and disciple went back.