"Doctor! Please think of a solution! Please! We'll give you any amount of money! Even if it means selling everything we have!"

Yuan Zhenliang's voice was hoarse and filled with tears.

"It's not about the money!"

Doctor Sun shook his head in pain and broke free from his hand. "It's really gone! This is all we have in stock in the entire hospital! Aminophylline... There are only a few oral tablets of aminophylline left, which is a drop in the bucket! This... this..."

He was so anxious that he turned around in circles, sweat on his forehead, but he was helpless.

In the early 1980s, it was common for grassroots hospitals to be short of doctors and medicines, especially antibiotics, which were as scarce as gold!

Despair, like an icy tide, instantly flooded the small treatment room.

Dongdong's mother was originally slumped on a long wooden chair against the wall, like an empty shell without a soul.

When she heard the words "no medicine", her body trembled violently, and a short wail like a dying animal came from her throat. Her eyes suddenly widened and stared at her dying son on the bed. Her eyes were as empty as two dry wells, bottomless, and only dead despair spread.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out, only tears flowed silently and violently.

That look was more heartbreaking than any heart-wrenching cry.

When several female neighbors saw this scene, who all had children, they couldn't bear it anymore. They covered their mouths tightly and couldn't stop crying.

The neighbors crowded at the door, watching this desperate scene, all with heavy faces, sighing, but helpless to do anything.

The air was as solid as lead, making it hard to breathe.

Only Li Xiangnan stood beside the bed like a clay sculpture, motionless.

He stared at the baby's purple face and the chest that was rising and falling with difficulty. His eyes were as sharp as a knife, as if he wanted to penetrate the tiny body and see the disease raging inside.

The cold rain flowed down his hair and cheeks, dripping onto the cold concrete floor, leaving a small dark stain.

Time passes by minute by minute, and each second is like cutting flesh with a blunt knife.

The baby's breathing became weaker and weaker, and the intervals between them became longer and longer. That little bit of life was like a candle in the wind, which could be extinguished at any time.

Just when this suffocating despair reached its peak, Li Xiangnan suddenly raised his head!

His eyes were no longer solemn, but burning with an almost crazy determination and desperate edge!

"Doctor Sun!" Li Xiangnan's voice was not loud, but it resounded like thunder in the deadly silence of the treatment room, with an unquestionable penetrating power. "Listen to me!"

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on him.

"Immediately arrange for someone to call Nianwei Hospital and ask them to borrow some medicine from our ward first. Make a list of what's needed and have Director Lei from the emergency department deliver it quickly by ambulance! Inject half a vial of penicillin intramuscularly immediately! The more stable they are, the better!"

He spoke quickly and decisively, "Also, crush the aminophylline tablets, dissolve them in warm water, and find a way to feed them! Even if it's just a little bit!"

Doctor Sun was intimidated by his aura and nodded subconsciously: "Okay...Okay!"

"besides!"

Li Xiangnan suddenly ripped open the collar of his sweatshirt, which had been soaked and clung to his body, revealing his chest, which had been washed cold by rain and sweat. His eyes swept over everyone present, and his voice was hoarse with a desperate tone:

"Find me some flashlights! The more the better! The brightest ones! And find me the flattest desk! A long desk is best! Quick! Now! Right now!"

His orders came like a barrage of cannonballs, with the urgency and majesty of a commander on the battlefield.

Everyone was stunned by his roar, and then they reacted!

"Flashlight? I have one at home! It's new! It needs three batteries! I'll go get it right away!" A neighbor who was attracted out of the ward by the arrival of the crowd was the first to react. He turned around and rushed into the room.

"I have one too! Wait a minute, I'll find it for you!"

Another neighbor also reacted. He immediately squatted on the ground and began to search in the wet shoulder bag. His wife was standing hunched over with her seven or eight-year-old child on her back. It was obvious that she had also come to see a doctor in the rain at night.

Soon, shouts, discussions and calls for help were heard in the quiet corridor, followed by the sound of people looking for flashlights everywhere.

"Table...table..."

Doctor Sun was so anxious that he slapped his forehead. "Next to the treatment room! In the warehouse! There's an old desk that was discarded! It's still relatively flat!"

He stumbled out.

For a moment, the door of the emergency room, which was originally silent and hopeless, was in an uproar!

The neighbors seemed to have been injected with a shot of adrenaline. On this stormy night, they burst out with amazing energy for the sake of a little life they had never met before!

Some people rushed home to get flashlights, some followed Dr. Sun to the storeroom to lift a table, some spontaneously went to the boiler room to get hot water, and some took out clean towels they had brought from home and handed them to Dongdong's mother, who was soaking wet and shivering...

Chaos, yet with a heart-warming order.

In less than five minutes!

An old desk covered in dust but with a relatively flat surface was carried into the already narrow treatment room by two neighbors and placed in the middle.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen flashlights were handed over!

These flashlights are new and old, but all of them have beams of light that are incredibly bright!

"President Li! Here!" Yuan Zhenliang breathlessly stuffed the flashlight into Li Xiangnan's hand.

Li Xiangnan took the heavy flashlight, and the cold metal shell made his fingertips tremble.

He took a deep breath and handed one of the brightest flashlights to Doctor Sun. "Doctor Sun, take this, stand across from me, and shine the light on the child's chest! Keep it low! Everyone, help shine your flashlights, shining from top to bottom, and try to avoid any shadows!"

This is to temporarily create the effect of a shadowless lamp!

This place is different from Nianwei Hospital. The emergency department has been fully established and all the facilities are relatively complete!

Without conditions, Li Xiangnan had no choice but to create conditions to save the child.

"it is good!"

Doctor Sun had now completely become Li Xiangnan's assistant. Without any hesitation, he immediately took his position, holding the flashlight tightly in both hands, and the beam of light accurately hit the baby's thin chest.

Li Xiangnan picked up the other two flashlights and handed one to Yuan Zhencheng, who was still relatively calm. "Brother, take it, stand to my left, and shine the light on my hand!"

He handed the other one to Yuan Qingzhu: "Uncle! Stand on the right! Keep the light steady! Don't shake!"

Yuan Qingzhu nodded vigorously, bit his lower lip, used all his strength to steady his slightly trembling hands, and cast the beam of light towards the position where Li Xiangnan was about to operate.

In the dim treatment room, three beams of light of varying intensities and slight swaying light struggled to focus on the lower left side of the baby's pitifully thin chest wall - near the armpit.

Then more than a dozen beams of light were shone one after another. Under the pale light, the baby's purple skin and rapid breathing were clearly visible.

The air solidified again.

Everyone's heart was in their throat, their eyes fixed on the intersection of the dozen or so beams of light, and on Li Xiangnan's hands, which had distinct joints but were now unusually steady.

Li Xiangnan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle. All his fatigue and panic were suppressed, leaving only an almost cold concentration.

He picked up a 5ml glass syringe that gleamed with a cold light from the sterilized aluminum box that Doctor Sun hurriedly handed over to him.

Then, he did something that made everyone gasp - he picked up the smallest spare disposable injection needle from the medicine tray next to him, and used the nails of his thumb and index finger to rub it back and forth on the rough cement windowsill very quickly and accurately!

The needle tip scraped against the cement surface, making a subtle but teeth-grinding "crunching" sound.

A few seconds later, the already sharp needle tip reflected an even sharper and more dangerous cold light under the light!

What is he going to do? !

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