Save people

The fire was moved into the cave.

The cave became much brighter.

The unconscious woman was placed on the stone bed, and the pale old man stopped pretending to sleep.

Seeing the woman's condition, the old man seemed to forget his own pain and said in shock: "She... is seriously injured. If she is not treated in time, she will not live long!"

"Nonsense! Does she look like she can survive tonight?" Xia Shang frowned and rolled his eyes at the old man.

Although he didn't know this woman, it was not a good experience to watch her die in front of him.

"Alas! Beauty is short-lived! It's a waste of a good makeup."

Helpless, Xia Shang could only sigh.

"My dear, it is important to save people first."

"It's not that I don't want to save people, but I don't know how to save them. Not to mention that I am not good at medicine, there is no medicine in this simple cave. What can I do?"

Although Xia Shang has read a lot of medical skills, curing diseases and saving people is not something that can be solved by reading books. Simple colds and typhoid fever are easy to deal with, but for a woman like this who is on the verge of death, an experienced doctor must come and sufficient medicine must be used.

But now there are no conditions...

"My dear, I... I am a little bit familiar with medical theory. Although there are no medicines here, if I can have a few silver needles, I can give it a try."

Xia Shang narrowed his eyes: "Just silver needles?"

"But there are none here!"

Others don't have them, but Xia Shang does.

The hidden crossbow that Xia Shang carries with him is loaded with medical silver needles, which are very thin, but they are highly poisonous.

That's okay, just put it on the fire and burn it for a while.

Xia Shang took the silver needle and said, "Old man, how sure are you?"

"This woman has too much blood in her heart veins, and most of her souls and spirits are gone. It's difficult! I will do my best."

Xia Shang did not ask much and handed the silver needle over.

Unexpectedly, the old man's hands were shaking so badly that he could not hold the silver needle at all.

"What's wrong with you? How can you give me acupuncture when you are shaking so badly?"

Being questioned by Xia Shang, the old man shook even more, thinking that if you didn't hit people without knowing it, would I be so scared?

Seeing the old man's fearful expression, Xia Shang understood in his heart, and rubbed his nose a little embarrassedly: "Then what should I do?"

"For now, you can give me acupuncture."

Xia Shang was not surprised, and there was no other way at this time. Fortunately, Xia Shang knew the acupuncture points of the human body, and as long as the old man told him where to put the needle, there would be no problem.

Before the two men could finish their discussion, the unconscious woman suddenly twitched and trembled continuously as if she was hit. She looked very scary.

"Not good! The heart blood is blocked in the trachea. She will be suffocated to death. Insert the needle one inch above the clavicle, slightly tilted, fast in and slow out."

"One inch above the clavicle? Isn't that the throat?"

"Don't ask, hurry up, it will be too late to save her."

Xia Shang no longer hesitated, ran to the bed, hugged the woman tightly from behind, and didn't care whether it was accurate or not, just gave one needle based on feeling.

"Pull it out slowly."

Following the old man's voice, Xia Shang pulled out the silver needle little by little. When it was almost pulled out, a stream of blood spurted out, which scared Xia Shang.

"Continue to give two more needles. It's important to save her life first."

After two more needles, the blood clots in the throat were released.

The woman's convulsions finally stopped, but then she started to cough violently. Blood began to seep from her eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. Her face, which should have been charming to everyone, was as scary as a ghost.

"It's okay. It's all blood clots. It will be fine once she leaves. Take off all her clothes now."

"Take it all off?!"

"That's right. There's a gas stuck in the blood vessels of this woman. Her heart is stuffy and her blood is blocked. If she has another layer of clothes covering her body, it will only make it more stuffy, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury."

"But... she's a woman!" Xia Shang was a rare gentleman. The key point was that it was a bit strange to take off a woman's clothes in front of an old man.

"A doctor is like a parent. Why is there a difference between men and women?"

"Okay, okay! A doctor is like a parent. Just take off the clothes. Anyway, I'm not the one who suffers."

After a while, when a graceful body appeared in front of him, Xia Shang couldn't help but secretly praise it, but immediately restrained his thoughts and listened to the old man's explanation attentively.

"Press the Tianchi with your thumb and insert the needle one finger below the chest..."

...

Time passed quickly, and the sky was already turning white without knowing when.

The morning breeze blew into the cave, blowing out the last bit of fire in the burnt-out fire, and it made the people in the cave feel a little cold.

The old man had already fallen asleep, but Xia Shang still held the woman and dared not relax for a moment, and he was sweating profusely without even noticing.

There were ten silver needles inserted into the woman's body, distributed in various important acupoints. The silver needles needed to be rotated once every quarter of an hour, and this cycle lasted for six hours.

Six hours, a full half day!

Xia Shang decided to give it a try.

Perhaps this was the kindness hidden in Xia Shang's heart.

Although the woman looked a little scary at the moment, let alone beautiful, he still wanted to try his best to save her.

After a night of hard work, the woman's qi and blood gradually calmed down, and she no longer showed extreme pain in her sleep.

An hour passed...

Two hours passed...

Three hours passed...

Xia Shang still maintained his original movements, looking at a soft and delicate body with a calm expression.

Xia Shang didn't think about anything. Repeating one thing for a long time, his body formed a conditioned reflex. Every quarter of an hour, he would turn the silver needle, and then put his hand back to the original position and continue to stare.

At some point, when Xia Shang's hand was about to help the woman turn the silver needle again, he felt his hand being pinched.

"Shameless... shameless thief, what... did you do to me... me?"

It turned out that the woman woke up, which cheered Xia Shang up.

At this moment, the other party was looking at Xia Shang weakly, so weak that she didn't have the strength to make any expression, but her words had already explained her mood at the moment.

The woman's behavior was understandable, Xia Shang didn't care, easily twisted her hand, held the silver needle and twisted it gently.

The slight pain made the woman squint her eyes, squeezed out a few drops of bloody tears, crystal clear like crystal.

"You'd better stop talking and think about it. If I weren't there, would you have woken up?"

No one knows her body better than the woman. From the moment she fell into a coma, she knew she was dead. Now that she has woken up, it means that he saved her.

Looking at the silver needles on her body further proves this point.

But why did he... why did he take off my clothes?

This is the point that the woman can't stand the most. She was about to refute the other party's ill intentions, but she saw that the man holding her had pure eyes and twisted each silver needle without the slightest fluctuation. His focused look was as quiet as a painting, and there was no trace of ill intentions.

The woman wanted to say that she wanted to put on clothes, but after seeing the other party's quiet and focused eyes, she swallowed the words and silently...silently closed her eyes.

"You...what's your name?"

"Xia Chunqiu."

"Why did you save me?"

"I was just trying. It wasn't me who saved you. It was the old man who was sleeping in the back who saved you. I just did what he said."

"You...you don't ask me what my name is?"

"Then what's your name?"

"Yue Haitang."