Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside
Chapter 235: Healing Wounds

Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Healing Wounds

"Come in quickly." Gu Dashan shouted from inside the house.

Wang Yongfu brought the doctor and an attendant carrying a medicine chest into the guest room.

The guest room was divided into an inner and outer space, with the latter being the reception area. Gu Dashan brought Li Daxi and the others into the outer room, asking the doctor to look at the wound on his hand.

The doctor was from Qingshan Medical Hall, surnamed Xiao, who had served as a military doctor in his early years. He was particularly skilled in treating bone fractures and cuts.

"Sang Yazi, cut off the tattered cloth wrapped around his hand," Dr. Xiao ordered, pointing at Li Daxi’s right hand, as he took a seat.

"Alright, Master," Sang Yazi placed the medicine chest on a nearby chair, opened it, fetched a sharp pair of scissors, and with several snips, cut off the coarse hemp cloth and his half sleeve wrapped around Li Daxi’s right hand.

With a ripping sound, he then pulled off all the ragged cloth hanging from the hand.

"Hiss~" Li Daxi winced in pain as his wound was touched.

"Pain is a good sign," Dr. Xiao commented, looking at Li Daxi’s right hand, noting that from the elbow down, it was bruised and swollen terribly.

Dr. Xiao glanced inside the room, pointed at Qin San Lang and Wang Yongfu, and instructed, "You two, hold him down for me so he doesn’t thrash about."

Qin San Lang and Wang Yongfu quickly grabbed Li Daxi by his shoulder and upper arm, pinning him firmly in place.

After they secured Li Daxi, Dr. Xiao reached out and pressed down hard on the most swollen part of the injury, then after rubbing it twice from bottom to top, he withdrew his hand.

"Ah—"

In just a brief moment, Li Daxi’s pain was so intense that he almost passed out.

"Daxi, just bear with it a little longer; it will feel better once the pain subsides," Gu Dashan consoled Li Daxi and quickly asked Dr. Xiao, "Doctor, can my nephew’s hand be healed? Please, I beg you to help treat his hand. He’s still young; his life can’t be ruined like this."

Dr. Xiao said, "It can be treated. The tendons weren’t damaged; it’s just that the bone was set incorrectly. Luckily, the injury is recent. Resetting the bone should suffice. However, it will be very painful; he must endure it."

Upon hearing that his hand could be healed, Li Daxi’s face lit up with joy, and he said to Dr. Xiao, "Please go ahead, doctor. No matter the pain, I can handle it."

Li Junping had intentionally broken his right hand, aiming to cripple him for life. He must get his hand healed and make something of himself again, refusing to be looked down upon by the Li Family.

Hearing this, Dr. Xiao looked at Li Daxi and, without saying much, instructed Gu Dashan, "Boil two pots of water, add some salt. Keep one pot ready and in the other, boil a piece of white cotton cloth for half an hour before turning off the heat."

"Right away," Gu Dashan responded, and shouted toward the outside, "Old Zhu, Changshou, quickly boil two pots of water and add salt to both, keep one pot as is and boil cotton cloth in the other!"

Father and son Old Zhu hurried off to the kitchen to busy themselves.

Seeing that Dr. Xiao was quite skilled, Gu Jinli was very pleased. He looked at Li Anzi beside him, pushed him forward, and said to Dr. Xiao, "Doctor, could you take a look at his leg as well? Can it be healed?"

He added, "His leg injury occurred over two months ago while protecting food supplies from starving refugees during a famine."

Li Anzi’s leg wasn’t congenitally lame, but was injured by refugees robbing food while he was protecting the Li Family’s supplies on the road.

His aunt’s family had been wholeheartedly devoted to the Li Family, yet the Lis still treated them terribly.

And these past few days, she had examined Li Anzi’s leg wound and knew it could be healed.

Doctor Xiao didn’t mind checking an additional patient. After all, he could charge a consultation fee, and his fees were not cheap. Hearing Gu Jinli’s words, he looked at Li Anzi and said, "Come here, roll up your trouser leg and let the old man see your foot."

Li Anzi obediently rolled up his trouser leg, revealing his injured leg.

Doctor Xiao examined Li Anzi’s injured leg and saw a distinct bulge where his shinbone had a bump that protruded higher than that of the one who had injured his hand. Frowning, he touched the injured area and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Li Anzi shook his head: "It doesn’t hurt."

Upon hearing this, Doctor Xiao pressed down hard with both hands at once.

"Hisss~ Ow, it hurts now," Li Anzi cried in pain and hurriedly spoke.

Doctor Xiao withdrew his hands and said to Gu Dashan, "The bone has almost healed; it can’t be treated now."

Upon hearing these words, Li Anzi felt quite distressed. He didn’t want to be a cripple for life, but since he had been limping for more than two months, he was nearly accustomed to it, and after some sadness, he calmed down.

However, Gu Dashan and Third Grandpa were very anxious, and they said to Doctor Xiao, "Doctor, please think of something. You must heal Anzi’s leg; he can’t be crippled for life."

Although Li Anzi was not as clever as Li Daxi, he was still Gu Dashan’s nephew, dear to him nonetheless.

Third Grandpa also said, "Doctor, please help. Treat this child. He’s not married yet, and if his leg remains crippled, finding a wife and starting a family will be difficult."

Doctor Xiao said with difficulty, "If his leg had been brought to me two months earlier, before the bone had healed, I would have had a way to treat it. But now that it’s already healed, how can it be treated?"

"What can we do?" Li Duofu was also anxious. If Anzi became a cripple, he would be the laughing stock for the rest of his life.

Gu Jinli looked at Doctor Xiao and said, "Old doctor, if we break his injured leg again and then set it properly, are you confident you can heal him?"

"Hmm?" Doctor Xiao finally looked Gu Jinli squarely in the eyes upon hearing this, "How did you come up with such an idea?"

Gu Jinli said, "You mentioned earlier, if we had come to you two months ago while his leg injury was still fresh, you could have healed it. So let’s re-break his leg, let it get injured again, and treat it anew. That should do it."

She spoke so casually, but everyone present was shocked.

Gu Dashan said, "Xiao Yu, is that possible? If we break it again and it doesn’t heal properly, what then?"

Gu Jinli said, "If it doesn’t heal, he’ll be left with a limp, which is already the case for cousin. It can’t get worse than it is now. Why not give it a try?"

Third Grandpa nodded in agreement, "Xiao Yu is right. Since Anzi is already limping, the worst that can happen is that he’ll remain limping. Let’s break the leg again and set the bone. Doctor, do you think this method could work?"

Doctor Xiao said, "Indeed, it’s a method."

This method had been suggested by doctors in the past, but those with leg injuries feared that it might not heal and they would suffer needlessly, so they didn’t agree and even beat up the doctor who suggested it.

After this incident spread in the medical community, many doctors, for their own protection, stopped mentioning this method lightly.

"Since you are willing to go through the suffering again, then I’ll try this method. However, the task of breaking the injured leg needs someone who knows how to measure their force. Otherwise, if they shatter the bone, not only would it not heal, but it could also become permanently disabled," Doctor Xiao warned.

This was a tricky matter, and it would be best for someone from Gu Daya’s family to do it themselves. If an outsider did it and it was not done well, they could be blamed.