Chapter 54 Surgery

  The operation required an assistant, and Zhen Shiniang had previously given special training to the four maids of the old lady, teaching them one by one how to recognize and remember the surgical instruments in the Silver Building, so that they could be handed over conveniently during the operation.

  Who would have thought that with such thorough preparation, as soon as they went on stage, the old woman's nose was slashed open, oozing out bright red blood, and Xiāo Huā Xiǎo Yuè let out a "Ma!" before fainting.

  Xiao Yu's second wife and others who were guarding the door rushed in immediately.

  "Mother!"

  Look, the old lady was covered from head to toe with a white cloth, just like a dead person being coffined. Zhen Shiniang held a silver surgical knife in her hand, which was still dripping with blood. The second wife let out a mournful cry and fell to one side, but was caught by the maid behind her. "Second Wife!"

  The people crowded in the back couldn't see what was happening inside the operating room, saw the second lady fainting, thought it was the old lady who had passed away, and immediately followed with wailing and crying, the operating room instantly became chaotic.

  "…all of you, get out!" Zhen Shi Niang suddenly turned around, her voice rarely stern.

  This is where the poison was just eliminated.

  The loud noise suddenly stopped, and everyone was stunned, standing there in a daze, looking at each other, until they all turned to look at Xiao Yu together.

  "Don't want anything to happen to Old Lady, everyone just leave!" Zhen Shining also looked at Xiao Ye, her tone softened a bit.

  Xiao Yu came back to his senses, looked at Xi Hua Xi Yue who was getting up from the ground like a soft-shelled shrimp, and loudly ordered everyone, "...... All of you go out and wait."

  "Cherish flowers and moonlight, fear seeing blood, cherish autumn and spring, leave it behind!" With a crisp tone, Zhen Shi Niang turned around to continue her busy work.

  No blood transfusion is available, nor are there oxygen tanks or other emergency measures, and the window has already been opened. Every moment of delay puts the old lady's life in greater danger!

  "Me... I'm also afraid of blood..." Originally already trembling with fear, when Zhen Shi Niang told them to stay behind, Xi Qiu was so scared that her legs were shaking uncontrollably, and Xi Chun had already fainted.

  Zhen Shining felt a bit dizzy.

  Couldn't help but stop again, "...just shed some blood, nothing to be afraid of." The sincere tone was tinged with a hint of urgency, "The old lady's nasal corner has been cut open, can't stop, I need someone to help me." Seeing Xiāo Qiū shake her head, he coaxed her again, "It's okay, you don't have to look at my hand movements, just look at the instruments on the silver plate, listen to my instructions and pass them over, don't lift your head and you won't be afraid..."

  Everyone stared at her, Xi Qiu trembled all over, and with a sideways glance, she saw Xi Chun fainting on the side, so she flipped her eyelids and pretended to be dead as well.

  "I'll give it a try." Just as he was saying this, Xiao Yu pushed open the door and walked in.

  "Who?" Zhen Shi'niang was taken aback, "......As an assistant, you need to be familiar with these instruments."

  Anyone can be an assistant, she doesn't have to worry now, just call in a few bold women.

  "I've seen the list." Xiao Yu rolled up his sleeves and went to get the instruments from the silver tray. "Just tell me what Doctor Jian wants, I'll remember it all at a glance." The list was full of diagrams and he never forgot anything once he saw it.

  "Don't move!" startled Zhen Shining, shouting loudly at him, pointing to a nearby basin of medicinal disinfectant solution, "...you first wash your hands, remember, use a brush to scrub all ten fingernails clean." After finishing speaking, Zhen Shining turned around and continued to be busy.

  She thinks his hands are dirty!

  As the youngest Grand Councilor of the Great Zhou, even the elder statesmen would show him courtesy and no one had ever dared to give him orders in such a tone.

  And it's a woman!

  Xiao Yu looked down at his clean and white hands in dismay, his ten fingernails neatly trimmed. Where was the dirt?

  The fox's eyes narrowed slightly.

  Those who know Xiao Yu well understand that he is now furious.

  Unfortunately, Zhen Shiniang didn't have eyes in the back of her head.

  There was no movement behind her, so she urged, "...... Hurry up!" With a tight body and mind, Zhen Shiniang worked busily with skilled movements, having long forgotten that this was ancient times, as if she had suddenly found herself in an operating room of the past. Her tone was brief, efficient, and left no room for doubt.

  Xiao Ye stared at Zhen Shining for a good half day before he came back to his senses, his gaze falling on the old lady lying quietly under her surgical knife. Suddenly, as if stung by a hornet, he quickly walked over to the Chinese medicine disinfectant solution.

  Hemostatic forceps, tweezers, surgical knife, gauze, ring forceps...

  Facing Zhen Shining's bloody and ugly surgical window, Xiao Ye was also frightened, but as a seasoned man, he quickly entered the state, and with Zhen Shining's concise commands, he handed her the surgical instruments one by one.

  Without nasal endoscopy, in order to minimize the surgical incision, Zhen Shiniang imitated a disposable ring applicator commonly used in previous life's nasal polyp surgery, made one with gold thread soft line. However, without an assistant to help pull, it was not easy to get the large polyp through the narrow space...

  Fine sand flowed down the leaky pot one grain at a time, Zhen Shiniang's forehead was covered in sweat, she blinked her eyes hard, repeatedly using force to shake off the sweat drops that blocked her line of sight...

  Finally caught it.

  One hand grasped the exposed golden soft line at the other end of the loop... moved down... tentatively tightened... succeeded!

  Zhen Shining let out a long sigh, her energy relaxed, and she only felt dizziness in front of her eyes. "Ginseng soup..." she called out.

  Have you had your meal?

  Xiao Yu reflexively looked at the silver plate in his hand, "...... Where is the ginseng soup?" He searched back and forth twice before reacting, realizing that ginseng soup was not a utensil. He raised his eyes to see a bowl of light ginseng soup cooling on the rack, hastily picked it up and handed it over. Half a day passed without anyone coming, he finally lifted his head.

  Zhen Shining was concentrating on collecting the hoop with her hands, where did she have a hand to receive the soup.

  Besides, her hands were all bloody...

  Xiao Ye thought for a moment and then handed the medicinal soup to her mouth.

  Zhen Shiniang gulped down more than half a bowl, closed her eyes for a moment, felt her heartbeat stabilize, and then took two deep breaths. She handed the loop extractor to one hand and stretched out the other, "Scissors... forceps..."

  With a pair of tweezers, she carefully pulled out a cluster of crimson-colored flesh... filled the hemostatic gauze and inserted the drainage tube... finally finished, Zhen Shiniang raised her head to glance at the water clock, it had taken exactly one and a half hours.

  "Is it done?" Xie Yun asked, seeing Zhen Shiniang wipe away the bloodstains on Old Madam's cheek with a sandalwood strip, removing the white cloth covering her, and gently turning Old Madam's head to one side. His tone was somewhat anxious, "Mother won't...won't have any problems, will she?" The old lady had been unconscious for a long time, he didn't know if it was due to the anesthesia or something else, did this count as a success?

  "Hmm..." Zhen Shi Niang used a pair of chopsticks to carefully inspect the silk threads on the tray, which were stained with blood. "Observe for another two days, if there's no infection on the wound, it'll be fine... twenty-six, twenty-seven..." She bent down to pick up one that had fallen on the ground, twenty-eight... Two more remained in her nostrils...

  The number of yarns finally matches!

  Zhen Shining only felt her legs trembling, and she didn't have the strength to count the other instruments. She thought that after all, it wasn't a cesarean section, and the probability of other instruments falling into the nasal cavity was almost zero. It was just a habit of being meticulous from her past life. Zhen Shining ordered, "Call someone in to check against the list, take them out to wash and then boil them in boiling water for two hours." Her tone was crisp and unquestionable, "Remember, you must match the number on the list exactly, not one can be missing!"

  Xiao Yu's fox eyes narrowed slightly.

  She really treats him like a servant!