Chapter 7 The window paper that took more than a thousand years to pierce
It was already late in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day, but the few servants who came in and out were still shivering from the cold.
I felt the wind blowing on my face, like cutting flesh with a knife.
This is called cold weather when it snows, and even colder weather when snow melts...
Li Chengzhi rubbed his hands vigorously and looked at the group of big men kneeling outside the door.
They have been kneeling for an hour, but their eyes are still firm and their backs are straight. If it weren't for the hot breath exhaled from their noses, Li Chengzhi would have thought he was frozen.
In this era, it is really not something that ordinary people can do to raise such a group of strong-willed warriors.
"Open your teeth!" Hu Xin shouted loudly.
The dozen or so subordinates didn't know why, but they all opened their mouths obediently.
Li Chengzhi walked around like he was picking animals and chose two with neat teeth and clean mouths.
After choosing a person, he pondered for a moment, looked at Hu Xin and said: "If your general is not rescued, whether it is hanging or wiping his neck, I will naturally not be able to care... But he is not dead yet, and my courtyard will be frozen first.
How do you want me to live in the future if a few of them die?"
After saying that, he took the two he picked into the side room.
It wasn't until the door closed that Hu Xin turned his head and said with some emotion: "Li Langjun is indeed benevolent and righteous..."
Li Song blinked his eyelids and rolled his eyes.
If you want to save someone, just say so. Why take such a big detour?
As a retainer, it is the greatest dereliction of duty to be unable to protect the general. It would not be unjust if he really froze to death. Why worry about them?
Mr. Lang is really smart, but he has some womanly kindness...
Li Song sighed sadly: "Go to the east chamber, there are also earth dragons there..."
A group of big men were moved to tears...
The two strong men who were brought to the main room carefully rinsed their mouths with strong liquor, each took a piece of copper pipe with cooked sheep intestines on both ends, and listened attentively to what Li Chengzhi explained to them.
"When I say blow, you just blow, and breathe evenly... Stop when I say stop, especially you..."
Li Chengzhi pointed to the person who was arranged to blow air into Yang Baozong's mouth, "Don't cover your mouth too tightly, let the air leak out slowly, do you understand?"
"Understood!" His subordinate nodded heavily.
"And you two, please don't shake your hands. Be careful not to tie the intestines into knots. Don't put them in too fast or too slow... um..."
Li Chengzhi calculated silently: "Just fill it out within ten breaths!"
"Yes!" the two doctors responded loudly.
As for Li Song and Hu Xin, their jobs were relatively simple and they had nothing to explain, as long as they had a steady hand.
When everything was ready, Li Chengzhi breathed out slowly.
What he had to do next was the most difficult step in the entire treatment process: filling the intestines back.
The reason why the ancients regarded intestinal perforation as a terminal disease was firstly because of infection, and secondly because, based on the experience of doctors of this era, there was no way to fill the intestines that had leaked out.
Because the gas retained in the abdominal cavity has been evacuated, the original space has been reduced a lot, and even the ribs will tighten. Without some skills, there is no way to create a position to put the intestines in.
Although I don’t know how the doctors in my previous life handled it, in my hometown, I saw how the veterinarian filled the intestines of a calf that had been impaled by a big cow...
In fact, just like allicin, it is very simple to say, just like separated by a layer of window paper.
But just this layer of window paper took the ancients more than a thousand years to pierce...
"Well, let's get started!" Li Chengzhi nodded towards the doctor.
One doctor carefully picked up the basin containing the intestines, and the other reached into the basin and held up the intestines...
Li Chengzhi pointed at Li Song and Hu Xin, and they grabbed the four strings on Hu Baozong's belly.
The string had already been threaded by Li Chengzhi to both sides of the wound. When they lifted it slightly, Hu Baozong's belly was lifted up.
"Pull it up again...lightly...lift it up again...ok, hold on steady!"
When the belly was lifted to a suitable position, Li Chengzhi grasped the wound and intestines with quick eyes and hands, and pinched them together with a little force.
"Blow!" Li Chengzhi shouted loudly.
The two men blew at the same time. The air blown by the first one entered the abdominal cavity through the wound, and the belly bulged up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The second blow entered the lungs through Yang Baozong's mouth, squeezing the chest and stomach. When the two sides were superimposed, the belly swelled even higher, like a rubber ball.
Feeling that the tension on the wound was getting bigger and bigger, it was so swollen that his hand could hardly hold it anymore, so Li Chengzhi gave the order: "Stop!"
The man who was blowing air on his mouth pulled out the copper pipe and quickly covered Hu Baozong's mouth and nose.
The copper tube on his stomach was also removed. Li Chengzhi loosened the wound slightly, looked at the doctor and said, "Let it go!"
The two doctors knelt straight, one holding a basin, and the other holding his intestines with both hands, letting it slide along the wound.
The intestines were wet and smooth. With the sound of "chichichichi" coming out of the wound and mouth and nose, space was made in the stomach, and the intestines slid into the abdominal cavity very quickly. The whole process took less than half a minute.
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The moment the tail of the intestine slipped into the abdominal cavity, Li Chengzhi quickly grabbed four strings, intertwined them two by two, and tied them into a cross knot.
The intestines were just... filled in?
Everyone thought it was so unreal!
Especially Li Song and Hu Xin.
It's not like they haven't been on the battlefield before.
I don’t know how many times I have seen a soldier’s intestines stabbed out, but the doctors tried their best to stuff them in.
Of course, you can choose to force it, but the result is often a face full of shit...
These six people all looked at Li Chengzhi as if they were gods, especially the two doctors, as if they were looking at the founder...
Could this also be seen from history books?
In fact, Li Chengzhi felt very happy, but he still kept a straight face, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said coldly: "It's not time to be happy yet, wait until he comes back to life..."
Everyone woke up suddenly and nodded repeatedly.
The next step is relatively simple: suturing the wound.
He was afraid that if the doctor's hands shook, his intestines would be ruptured, so he chose to do it himself.
The hardest part of the intestines has been filled in, and his hands are not shaking much, but are a little sore...
Li Chengzhi knew for the first time that human skin was so tough?
He wants to find an awl...
Others bared their teeth... Every time he inserted a needle, the corners of these people's mouths would twitch...
They dare to swear to God that they have never seen human flesh and skin sewn like clothes, and the needle angle is so big?
This feeling is worse than being stabbed twice...
After finishing the last stitch, Li Chengzhi was exhausted and covered in sweat. He took a look at the wound that was stitched like a large "chrysanthemum". He took a long breath of relief and put the silk soaked in garlic wine and dried in the air.
The towel was wrapped around Hu Baozong's belly.
Finally, I touched my forehead and found it wasn't too hot?
Of course, it is not ruled out that fever may occur at night.
Several jars of spirits were prepared for scrubbing and cooling, and several doses of annealing and heat-removing medicine were prepared. The rest could only depend on Hu Baozong's luck...
"Give him some clear rice soup, and after two hours, some medicinal wine... Well, just one bowl... I'll go to the side room to rest for a while. Call me if you need anything..."
"No!" Everyone, including Li Song and Hu Xin, saluted him respectfully.