Volume 1 Chapter 89 On the Brink of Death

  Her eyes opened a slit, staring straight at the disappearing figures of Shen Zhongge and Rong Sheng, before Autumn Chrysanthemum let out a long breath and muttered softly, "......Miss's trick really works."

  She had always been bold and decisive, but never quick-witted. Usually, it was Xian Shi Niang who taught her that when faced with someone's questioning and couldn't think of a response, she would simply pretend to faint, lying on the ground and slowly thinking of a countermeasure. At the time, she had laughed and said that she wasn't some missy, her body was sturdy like an ox, and even in eight lifetimes, she wouldn't be able to pull it off convincingly. Who knew that today she would actually use this tactic.

  Moreover, she was even more afraid of those two tall and powerful men than him.

  Qiu Ju's heart swelled with pride.

  At the same time, she was secretly worried that she had not revealed her identity as a young lady from a wealthy family, but she could not stop Shen Zhongge either. Whether or not her true identity would be exposed depended on her own luck now.

  This isn't her evading at the last minute, Miss said, "If you know something can't be done, don't force it, leave it to clever people to do, maybe there will be unexpected gains." Although she's not big, Qiuju has always remembered Zhen Shiniang's reminders in her mind.

  As soon as Shen Zhongge stepped out of the door, he heard a heart-wrenching cry coming from the western wing. He paused for a moment before walking over.

  "General!" Rong Sheng hurriedly ran a few steps forward and blocked his way, "That house is full of women." From the sound inside, there wasn't even a man. They were so rude to barge in like this, it was very embarrassing for everyone. "Why don't you wait a bit? The madam will definitely come out."

  It's not too late to ask questions when the time comes.

  ……

  Zhen Shining entered the western room and was immediately hit with a strong odor that assailed her face.

  Several young wives were chattering in front of the soft couch. Dogzi's mother cried almost to the point of fainting, "What kind of sin have I committed? This is a big New Year..."

  "Shut up! What are you yelling about!" Yu Liang, Dogzi's father, was annoyed by the crying and shouted, while using his hand to lift his son's head, looking around for help, "Whose fingers are thinner, come and try to pick it out...". His fingers were thicker than a stick. Even Dogzi's eyes couldn't fit in.

  As soon as the dog was beaten, several young wives who were standing around instinctively took a step back, and the room fell silent in an instant.

  Li Qizhen's wife turned her head and saw Zhen Shiniang coming in, hastily shouting, "Everyone make way, make way... Jian..." She swallowed the two words "strong doctor" and changed her mouth to say, "Ayou has arrived, Ayou has arrived... Let her take a look."

  They were all neighbors, although they didn't know that Zhen Shiniang was actually Jian Dafu. However, everyone knew that this Miss Jian was literate and could read medical books due to her poor health. Having been ill for a long time, she had become quite knowledgeable about medicine, and usually, she could even diagnose minor ailments like headaches and fever. Upon hearing that she had arrived, they automatically made way for her.

  Zhen Shining raised her eyes to look, and saw that the dog was lying straight on the soft couch, its face purple. It seemed to have stopped breathing already, giving her a big fright.

  But she was choked by peanuts. The dog's house is just across the alley from hers, and it would take less than a minute to get there in her past life, so how could it be so serious?

  She felt puzzled in her heart but didn't ask more questions and quickly walked past.

  "The bowel and bladder are both out of control, it's hopeless......" Xian Shi Niang didn't say another word and let Yu Liang help her flip the dog over onto its back with its head facing downwards. Neighbor Zhang Da Niang whispered in her ear, "A You, don't intervene."

  Yu Liang and his wife had been married for many years, and they had three daughters in a row. It was not easy to have this son, so they treasured him like a precious gem. If anything were to happen to him, who knows how they would react?

  Zhang Dàniáng is Zhang Zhì's mother, because Jiǎn Shí Niáng cured her asthma, she has always treated her as a close daughter, seeing Jiǎn Shí Niáng about to intervene, she quietly reminds her.

  She is always a past master, with more experience than Zhen Shiyin.

  Zhen Shining's body shook slightly.

  This child shouldn't be saved!

  Not to mention that he had already lost control of his bowels and was having trouble breathing, whether or not he could be saved was secondary. The fact that Shen Zhongge was waiting in the east wing meant that she absolutely couldn't make a move!

  Ke Douzi was about the same age as Jian Wu, and often came to her house with Jian Wen and Jian Wu. She would call out "Auntie" in a delightful manner, which still lingers before my eyes. How could she just stand by and watch him die right in front of her?

  She is also a mother who knows the kind of pain that comes with losing a son.

  A doctor's benevolence, treating illnesses and saving lives, these were the words of her mentor in her past life's first lesson, "When patients entrust their bodies and lives to us, we have a duty to do our utmost to cure them!"

  In this life, it's not that her body and identity don't allow her to practice medicine and save people, she absolutely won't bear the severe pain of personally destroying the "Jian Daifu" signboard that she had worked hard to establish!

  Struggling for a moment, Zhen Shiniang calmly supported Dogzi's shoulder and asked in her mouth, "What's going on?"

  "Miss..." Yu Liangzheng was about to speak, when a magpie suddenly cried out, "The dog has made a mess, let's clean up first, it's all over you." She covered her mouth with one hand, suppressing a wave of nausea, and called out to Dong Juan who was standing on the side, "Quickly go fetch some water."

  Take a shower?

  The dog is almost out of breath, now time is life, what else can she care about?

  "No need!" Zhen Shining said resolutely. She took a deep breath, raised her hand and struck the dog's shoulders with force, "Slap", "slap"…

  Everyone held their breath.

  The atmosphere is abnormally stifling.

  The little girl's hands were tightly covering her mouth, and a low sobbing sound was being suppressed with great effort, escaping from between her fingers, causing everyone's heart to tremble along with it.

  Yu Liang's face turned pale and he stood numbly to one side, tightly clenching his fists as he wondered what to do. He thought of Zhen Shi Niang's previous question and began speaking incoherently:

  “……The big girl came back home yesterday, bringing some peanuts. The dog was barking to eat them. This morning, his mother roasted them...... Just then, his aunt Li brought Spring Brother over to play. The adults were talking, the children playing on one side, no one paying attention. Suddenly, Spring Brother shouted out that the dog had choked......” The Li Aunt in Yu Liang's mouth was Li Qizhen's wife, and Spring Brother was Li Qi's youngest son. “His mother fumbled around for half a day, then found Doctor Ma......” Remembering Doctor Ma's words, Yu Liang's face turned deathly pale.

  Ma said the four-year-old daughter of Zhou Lao San's family in the east of the town choked on a soybean during New Year's, trying to catch it in mid-air like her brother. He was also kind-hearted and helped by patting her back, digging and rubbing, but after struggling for half a day, the girl still died, and the medical sign almost got smashed by Zhou Lao San's family.

  Last time it was just a soybean, this time it's a peanut, and it's grown by an entire order of magnitude! If the dog can survive, that would be a miracle! Just looking at the dog rolling its eyes, Dr. Ma shook his head like a wave drum, his feet didn't even touch the ground as he turned around and left, no matter how much Ren Yu Liang's family begged him to come back, he refused to turn his head.

  It was Li Qizhen's wife who said that Zhen Shining recognized characters and read medical books every day at home, and arranged for people to be carried over. The person had already become numb, and Yu Liang didn't care how a woman like Zhen Shining could treat this. A whole family followed Li Qizhen's wife like puppets on strings.

  Jian Zhen's tenth daughter really started to take action, and he finally came back to his senses from his daze, with fear and unease filling his eyes.

  All the doctors said it was hopeless, can she be cured?

  Yu Liang's eyes were fixed intently on Zhen Shiniang, his heart taut like a bowstring. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, "The dog is moving!"

  The air suddenly became light, and everyone rushed up.

  The dog's body suddenly shook violently and let out a fierce cough.

  "What's wrong again?" Seeing her son not moving again, Dogzi's mother let out a sharp cry, "Dogzi, Dogzi!" She looked up at Zhen Shimu, "Ayou, what's going on?"

  "It was just blocked, I only relieved the symptoms a bit, and the peanut is still in the trachea..." Zhen Shiniang explained, "You continue to shout loudly, see if he has any reaction?" Chao Yu Liang shouted, "Quickly, Brother Yu, help me turn the dog's body over."

  The dog was laid flat on the soft couch, Zhen Shiniang went forward and unbuttoned his sweater, her left fist stuck to his abdomen between his navel and ribs, her right hand grasped her left hand, took a deep breath, and suddenly used force, pressing down violently...

  Having received the instruction, the dog's wife stuck to the dog's ear and shouted loudly, "Dogzi, Dogzi..."

  The dog didn't react at all.

  Gradually, pea-sized sweat beads rolled down Zhen Shiniang's cheeks, "Stop shouting, he's lost consciousness..." She weakly straightened up, her heart sinking to the bottom of the valley.

  Look, the dog's face turned purple and almost lost its breath. She judged that it had an acute respiratory obstruction and used a back pat to rescue it urgently. After the blockage was relieved, she changed to use the Heimlich maneuver, which is the hand method she just used. This is a famous tracheal foreign body first aid technique in the previous life. When the abdomen is suddenly impacted, an upward pressure will be generated, compressing the lower part of both lungs and forcing the residual air in the lungs to form a stream of air that rushes straight into the trachea, thereby expelling the foreign object from the trachea.

  She used all her strength, but the peanut in the dog's trachea had been pressed and rubbed by Yu Liang before, and it had already slipped deep into the airway. Moreover, since the dog had lost consciousness, this method was no longer effective.

  What should she do next?

  In the past, directly advancing into the operating room was a simple routine operation under bronchoscopy to remove foreign bodies from the airway.

  But this is ancient times!

  "Is it all over?" Dogzi's mother asked vaguely as Zhen Shiniang stopped her rescue efforts, then suddenly threw herself onto Dogzi's body and wailed loudly, "I won't live either!"

  Yu Liang's face turned deathly pale.

  The room suddenly became a mess, "It was you, it was you who killed my brother!" Er Ya, the second sister of Dogzi, suddenly pointed at Chun Ge and cried out, "I saw it with my own eyes, it was you who grabbed my brother's armpits, he couldn't help but laugh loudly and then choked!" Grabbing Chun Ge's collar, "You owe me a brother! You owe me a brother!"

  At that time, it was indeed the case, but it was playing with Dogzi, and Spring Brother didn't think it would become like this. Seeing Dogzi really couldn't be saved, he was scared out of his wits and burst into loud crying, "Mother!" He hid behind Li Qizhen's back with all his might.

  Li Qizhen's wife turned pale, and Gouzzi and Chun'ge were making a ruckus right in front of her. At that moment, she also saw the situation and knew that if Gouzi really died, her own son would not be able to escape responsibility, so she gritted her teeth and brought people to find Zhen Shiniang.

  Who would have thought that Zhen Shi Niang, who had always been able to cure any illness with a mere touch of her hand, was also unable to save him.

  "Is Dogzi really beyond salvation?" She looked at Zhen Shiniang with an unyielding gaze.

  "I'm done with you!" She had been busy rescuing the puppy, and the puppy's mother had not known how it was choking. Hearing Er Ya's crying calls, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she turned around like a fierce wolf and pounced on Li Qiu's wife:

  "If we're going to die, let's all die together! No one should think they can get away with it!"