The Martial Doctor-Chapter 86 - 85: Bai Feng Is Injured

Bang, bang...

The sudden knocking startled Mr. Xie, who was asleep in the gatehouse.

"Who is it, at such a late hour?"

When Mr. Xie opened the door, he was even more shocked. It was Su Chen, and he had a woman on his back, covered in blood, rushing inside.

"Quick, wake up Lin Miao, save a life!"

"Mr. Su, who is this that you’re carrying..." Mr. Xie naturally recognized Su Chen, the son of the richest man in Lanzhou and a friend of the master.

This kind of friend, he used to want to make but couldn’t, yet the astute young master is friends with him without reservations.

How does one make sense of this?

He has come to understand the gap between people. Working as a steward in the Lin Family until retirement isn’t something he can’t accept.

"It’s my mother, she’s injured!"

"Bai... Bai Feng..." Mr. Xie stammered in fear; it was the famous Bai Feng from the martial world, a top-tier master. How could anyone injure her like this!

The attacker who hurt Bai Feng must possess astounding martial skills!

"Quickly, Xie, call people, save a life!" Su Chen ordered. He knew his own medical expertise well; the one who could save his mother, whom he could find and would act, was only Lin Miao.

Why does he trust him so much?

He’s seen Lin Miao revive someone from the dead. In his life, he’s seen such a feat only from Lin Miao.

Though Lin Miao is very young, it doesn’t matter, as all three great medical sages were famous from a young age, and their medical skills surpassed those steeped in practice for a lifetime.

"Oh, okay, I’ll go call people..." Mr. Xie agreed while sprinting away.

Lin Miao typically goes to bed around the beginning of the Hai hour, and at most, sleeps by the end of the Hai hour, maintaining a good routine.

He wouldn’t stay up late unless absolutely necessary.

Thus, Mr. Xie’s knocking on his window startled him; knocking on a window at such a late hour is terrifying.

Su Chen quickly brought Bai Feng, who was severely injured, seeking help at night.

Lin Miao immediately jumped out of bed, quickly dressed, and instructed Mr. Xie to wake up the maid Yuzhu to boil water in the kitchen.

Su Chen directly took his mother Bai Feng to his guest room at the Lin Family; it was fully equipped, quite convenient.

"Wake up Xia Zhu as well."

"Mr. Su, how did Aunt get injured?" Lin Miao asked while observing Bai Feng’s complexion.

"I don’t know. She didn’t have a chance to explain before fainting with blood." Su Chen anxiously replied, sweating profusely, "Brother, please check my mother’s condition now?"

"Don’t worry, Mr. Su, I will do my utmost to treat Aunt." Lin Miao understood Su Chen’s feelings at the moment; mother and son are closely connected.

After checking her pupils, finding no major issues, Lin Miao sat down to check her pulse.

Su Chen watched Lin Miao’s technique, three fingers feeling the pulse; he had never seen such a method, but his current concern is his mother’s injury, so he couldn’t bother about this.

Anxiously waiting beside him.

"Pulse exerts three movements per breath, hollow pulse, indeed quite dangerous." After focusing intently for a moment, Lin Miao concluded, "Mr. Su, may I examine Aunt’s injured abdomen?"

"No problem, a healer does not shy away!" Su Chen, being knowledgeable in medicine, naturally understood this principle.

Lin Miao nodded, stretched out his hand to unbutton Bai Feng’s coat, then her padded jacket, leaving just the underwear underneath, which still covered a corset.

Although Bai Feng was over forty, as a martial artist, she maintained excellent physique, appearing just over thirty, with a remarkably admirable figure, but Lin Miao being a healer harbored not a notion of "depravity."

Through the underwear, a distinct palm print was seen clearly on the lower left abdomen, skin showing a bluish tint.

"The Moon Worship Sect’s Profound Spirit Palm technique!" Seeing this palm print, Su Chen exclaimed, evidently recognizing the origin of the palm imprint.

"Profound Spirit Palm?" Lin Miao hadn’t heard of it, yet regardless of the palm technique, it’s a form of energy. For Lin Miao to check Bai Feng’s internal abdominal injury without diagnostic tools, it was solely through tactile sensation.

"Aunt, my apologies!" Lin Miao apologized before examining.

Upon touch, he immediately sensed something amiss; his sense acuity far beyond before, Bai Feng’s injury was evidently much graver than initially considered.

The pulse indicated she was a martial artist, possessing greater internal energy, maintaining her vitality from rapid deterioration.

Spleen rupture! Possibly accompanied by bleeding!

How ruthless must one be to inflict such an injury?

"Mr. Su, there’s only one method to save Aunt now; it depends on whether you’re willing to trust me." Lin Miao made an instant decision.

Rescue like putting out a fire, he couldn’t afford any hesitation.

"Tell me."

"I need to perform surgery on Aunt, removing the damaged visceral tissue." Lin Miao said.

"You mean, to open my mother’s stomach?" Su Chen, hearing this, turned pale instantly. Isn’t that what a coroner does during an autopsy?

"When I felt it earlier, there’s a high chance that Auntie has a spleen rupture. If we don’t operate, even if Auntie has strong internal energy to sustain her, it won’t last long. Moreover, the sooner the surgery is done, the quicker the recovery," Lin Miao said. "Of course, surgery also carries risks, but I will minimize them."

"Brother, are you confident?" Su Chen was momentarily unsure. If this were not happening to his mother, it would be easier to decide.

"Given the current situation, it’s fifty-fifty."

"And if we don’t perform the surgery you mentioned?" Su Chen asked.

"I can’t guarantee anything; at most, there’s a ten or twenty percent chance. Unless, Mr. Su, you can find a physician with a better method than mine?" Lin Miao replied.

"Chen’Er, listen to Mr. Lin. Life and death are determined by fate. This time, my life depends on destiny!" At this moment, Bai Feng unexpectedly awakened. Hearing their conversation, she forced herself to speak.

"Mother, this means they’ll make an incision on you..."

"I’ve only heard of the skill to cut open the belly for treatment. I never thought Mr. Lin would master this method." Bai Feng squeezed out a smile and said, "Rest assured, Mr. Lin, even if I’m unfortunate enough not to make it, it won’t be your fault. Chen’Er, remember your mother’s words: tell your father the same in the future. Don’t hold anyone responsible, understand?"

"Thank you, Auntie, for your trust. I will do my utmost to cure you." Lin Miao solemnly cupped his hands. "Xia Zhu, prepare the Mafei Soup!"

"What is Mafei Soup?"

"Go to my study, on the left side of the bookshelf, the third row, the fourth booklet. Take it down; the recipe for Mafei Soup is in there. Just prepare it according to that."

"Yes, Mr. Lin!" With that, Xia Zhu quickly turned and left.

"Yu Zhu, boil a bowl of Blood Stopping Soup first." Lin Miao quickly wrote down a prescription for Blood Stopping Soup and instructed Yu Zhu.

"Yes, Master." Yu Zhu also left upon receiving the order.

"Auntie, I need to first apply acupuncture to stimulate your body’s self-repair mechanism." Lin Miao added.

"Alright."

"Sanshui, what should I do?"

"Gather all the mirrors in the house. I need them," Lin Miao instructed.

"Mirrors? What do you need mirrors for?" Su Chen was baffled.

"Chen’Er, just do what Mr. Lin asks, why ask so many questions?" Bai Feng rebuked her son.

He first administered acupuncture, then had Bai Feng drink a bowl of Blood Stopping Soup, followed by more acupuncture. Bai Feng, eventually, succumbed to her severe injuries and fell into a deep sleep.

The preparations for surgery were busily underway.

Fortunately, Lin Miao had earlier crafted some tools he might need, including a scalpel and even some alcohol.

He didn’t want to wait until it was necessary to prepare them; it would be too late then.

It’s best if they weren’t needed; if they were, it would certainly not be a minor ailment. Little did he expect that the equipment would be in use shortly after acquiring it.

Otherwise, even if he could perform the surgery tonight, it would be like a smart woman making bricks without straw, and the post-operative infection would be uncontrollable.

Now, at least human factors he could foresee were eliminated.

The only unforeseen issue was the shadowless lamp. There was no way; in a world without electric lights, creating a shadowless lamp was only possible by using the reflection principle of mirrors to build a relatively shadow-free environment.

With no sterile cloth available, he had to substitute with boiled white gauze.

Preparation took over an hour, and the surgery began at the first moment of dawn. With no surgical gown ready, he resorted to using a clean apron and wrapping his hair with a headscarf.

"Xia Zhu, have you seen a human dissection before?"

Xia Zhu nodded.

"That’s good. I was worried you couldn’t handle it." Lin Miao nodded, "Soon, you’ll be my assistant. Do exactly as I tell you; you can move slightly slower, but you must not make mistakes. Understand?"

"Yes, Mr. Lin." Xia Zhu was visibly nervous; it was her first time in such a scene.

Actually, what she didn’t know was that it was Lin Miao’s first time too. He only observed surgeries often, forensic dissections weren’t new to him, and he had operated on dogs but never had the chance to practice surgery on humans.

Everything has its first time; he didn’t expect his first would be on a living person. Lin Miao didn’t know whether he had become braver after time traveling or if he naturally had an adventurous spirit.

The effect of the Mafu Powder had taken hold.

Lin Miao picked up the scalpel with one hand and gently probed Bai Feng’s abdomen with the other, pinpointing a location. Taking a deep breath, he made the incision.

As expected from his examination earlier, it was indeed a spleen rupture, with the edge of a strike landing on the spleen. Fortunately, only a small part was damaged, and even if removal was necessary, only the shattered portion needed to be excised.

He could preserve most of the spleen’s function, and it might gradually regenerate and recover over time—this was the greatest fortune.

Apart from the spleen, Lin Miao also found a section of the intestine had totally deteriorated, which he naturally excised and re-joined.

He cleaned the abdominal cavity of clotted blood, washed it with warm saline solution, and finally closed the cavity after ensuring no bleeding points remained.

The procedure took a full hour.

Lin Miao, entirely focused during the surgery, didn’t think much of it, but Xia Zhu, watching silently for an hour, was overwhelmed. She was too scared to speak or move, her legs quivering with fear and cramps.

Once the surgery concluded, and Lin Miao told her she could leave, the girl dashed out and vomited profusely with her hand covering her mouth!

He truly admired her for lasting this long.