A Western Doctor's Happy Farming Life

Chapter 9 Another Rescue

 

Translator: LiamHW

 

It was a fit of noises knocking on the door as long as Song Qinghan woke up from his nap, he asked in front of the door in an alert tone, “Who’s there?”

“..It’s me… Xiaoqing.” answered the man outside.

Hearing that, Song Qinghan opened the door and looked at the man outside the door, who was pinching the corner of his clothes, he frowned and asked, “Are you coming here for Dahu again?”

Young Qing shook her head in responding the question of Song Qinghan, and then he handed over the basket in his hand and whispered, “My femina dad has been better these days, he wants me to come cover to show our gratitude.”

Song Qinghan glanced at the basket, which was filled with fruitful of soy beans and six eggs on the top.

He didn’t show any hesitation and take the present in his hands without a second thought, and at the moment he noticed Xiaoqing was about to leave, he thought for a moment and considered that it was not good for him to accept the gift without responding, so he spoke to Xiaoqing, saying, “Hold on, I will come with you and make a visit to your family.”

What Song Qinghan said was definitely matched the idea of Xiaoqing, he was just embarrassed to speak it out as soon as Song Qinghan took the present that quick.

They were in no hurry this time. They walked along the way slowly, and neither of them uttered a single word forwardly.

It finally fell to Xiaoqing who broke the icing situation and couldn’t bear the silence,  he asked in his curiosity, “Speaking of the wound sewing stuff, how do you know the technique of that? Is it a innovative medical treatment from the town?”

Facing the question he would never meet in a modern world, Song Qinghan had to find an excuse to explain right now. Otherwise, it would be difficult to make things clear, so he just nodded to show his agreement to Xiaoqing’s opinion.

Young Qing just wanted to praise the people from towns for the advanced technique, but in the thought that Song Qinghan was forced by those Town Folks to live in the village, he didn’t dare to mention any details of it, concerning it would hurt him again. But he changed words in another meanings, saying, “Oh, the town! How impressive you are! No wonder Brother Dahu would marry you. ”

With the voice fell, another dreadful and sluggish silence came to the two again. Xiaoqing blamed himself for being dumb mentioning something like that. No one didn’t know that the one Song Qinghan really wanted to marry was Lin Dafu? Song Qinghan didn’t even get a feeling for Wu Dahu.

Song Qinghan nodded and answered in a serious tone, saying, “Well, I’m quite impressive to marry Wu Dahu.”

Hearing that, Xiaoqing seemed to taste the sour grapes, while the jealousy popped out of nowhere deep in his heart.

Fortunately, the two of them had already arrived at Xiaoqing’s house. Otherwise, he might have said something with other meanings.

Song Qinghan checked out the wound for Xiaoqing’s femina dad, and he nodded with satisfaction, saying, “It’s recovering very well. I will come over again to take out the stitches in about 15 days if this recovering situation keep its momentum. If I forget it those days, remind me.”

Xiaoqing covered her mouth in surprise, saying, “Do the stitches still need to be taken out?”

Song Qinghan raised his eyebrows and said in a teasing tone, saying, “Or you want your femina dad to keep them forever, and mix and grow together with his flesh? ”

Xiaoqing’s femina dad imagined the scenario of his flesh of back growing together with those stitches, he hushed to say in a worried look, “Take it out, take it out. It must be taken out. Then I’ll trouble you again, Childe Song.”

Song Qinghan nodded, he felt like he had to go back now since he had done the visit stuff to his patient.

As soon as he went out, his attention was attracted by a group of men who were walking by quickly.

“The blood is unremittingly flowing out. It’s coming out of the belly all the time. No one is able to stop it!” One man in the crowd said.

“Ah, that horrible? What a pitiful man he is! How could he be saved?” Another man echoed.

“Don’t be silly to try to save the man. As long as the child is safe, nothing will be worth mentioning though. What can be seen from that situation is that although the man is saved for his fortune, he is doomed to die within days.” The other man said.

It fell to Song Qinghan to take their conversation seriously as being a doctor himself. He took a few steps forward, grabbed the corner of one’s clothes and asked, “What do you mean the blood? Who got the trouble?”

The man turned his head and was just about to reply, but when he saw that the person who asked was Song Qinghan, he pulled back his clothes and patted them, saying grumpily, “What a day! How unlucky I’m to meet this such a jinx!”

The other two were acting the same, dodging from Song Qinghan and keeping in distance. And one of them even spat out a mouthful of saliva on the ground, landing next to Song Qinghan’s feet.

Xiaoqing had witnessed what had been happening in the yard and then he walked out, urging, “He has learned some medical skills in the town. Would you mind taking leading him the way to have a look. Maybe he can save his life.”

The man who was spitting out saliva looked at Song Qinghan from bottom to the top and then amused. His disdain overflowed in his words and he dragged his voice, saying, “He? Maybe he just got a skill of seducing men.”

After that, the three looked at each other and laughed.

It was Xiaoqing who made the request first but since they got so annoying and said something frivolous, he couldn’t help but become rather angry and then pointed at his house, saying, “My femina dad was cured by him, if you got nothing to know, just shut up.”

The man of best temper among the three tried to said something to persuade, saying, “Xiaoqing, we have watched you growing up. What we know must be much more than you know. We just don’t want you to get so closed to such a man. What if he influence your reputation, at that time, you will suffer losses.”

Being rather mad at what the man said, Xiaoqing got his face red-rimmed in his anger, he shared no common with the group of the chirping men to judge on others. He just turned over to look at Song Qinghan, the one lowering his head and seemed to be quite guilty himself. At that moment, Xiaoqing felt so much for him and then pulled his hand, he seemed to make a firm decision, saying, “I’ll take you there! I believe I can find the mansion since the place is so tiny.”

Song Qinghan was in a daze but then followed up behind Xiaoqing.

Actually, he wasn’t feeling guilty about the judgement from those jerks, he was just conceiving a way to beat them up in an easier way. But since he carried a baby in his belly, he had to pay more attention.

It was probably at that moment the baby inside his belly seemed to sensed the idea of him, he got a hit on belly, which made him a pause on the way.

Xiaoqing noticed Song Qinghan was at his rest, he asked in a hurry, “What now? Don’t you want to go there now?”

Song Qinghan shook his head inexplicably, and then motioned Xiaoqing to keep leading the way. But his right hand was quietly placed on his belly, as if he wanted to confirm that the pain just now wasn’t from his illusion.

It was right as Xiaoqing said, the village wasn’t that big to take a long time searching, they found the mansion in a quite short time.

Seeing the scene of people with rather sullen faces, who was anxiously waiting outside the room, and several servants passing on the pots full of blood one after another, Xiaoqing seemed to have realized what was going on. Suddenly, he grabbed Song Qinghan’s hand and said, “You can’t go in. The man inside is in his parodynia.”

Well, that was a common rule against the backdrop of the traditional custom, which forbade pregnant man and  unmarried femina male entering the room of the pregnant man in parodynia. It was best not to enter the courtyard, otherwise they might get a bad luck, for they probably would get a parodynia too in the future.

Song Qinghan didn’t know this custom. And even if he did, he would hate and ignore it.

It would be a nonsense and a superstition for him to believe in the bad luck thing rather than the fact of the improper position or the over-size of the fetus based on the scientific reference. HELLO NO!

Seeing that Song Qinghan insisted on entering the room, Young Qing wasn’t able to stop him. He gritted her teeth and followed him up into the yard.

Seeing a foreign pregnant man walk in with an unmarried femina male, a man in the yard shouted with anger and surprise, “What the heck! What do you think you are going to do in here?”

Song Qinghan frowned and quickly pulled up his sleeves, saying coldly, “Let me go in and check out, probably I can save him!”

His words probably struck everyone’s sensitive nerves. One of the young men jumped up and shouted loudly, “What do you mean? Huh? My husband will be fine!”

A few older men also said one after another, “God will bless our Zhuer. In the prospering of the god, Zhuer will be fine for sure.”

“Yeah, he is wearing a protective talisman that I have begged in the temple. It is said that the temple is very intelligent. It will definitely protect him and the upcoming child.”

“…”

Song Qinghan mercilessly exposed the superstitious lie of him, saying, “What are you talking about? You are not aware of the bad situation he is getting through RIGHT NOW? So will the god show his appearance in front of you to help your husband deliver the child? My goodness, just get out of the way for me!”

Song Qinghan quickly pushed the door open and walked into the room before they even regained their wits.

There was a hubbub from outside. It sounded like everything was in a mess, but no one dared to break in. It was likely that one was afraid of breaking the blessing atmosphere of the delivery man, while they were also frightened to get unlucky from that.

A smell of heavy blood pervaded full of this room, Song Qinghan became worried, knowing that the current situation was worse than his prediction.

The man who was helping midwifery inside the room noticed the big belly of Song Qinghan, which frightened him, he said in a concerned tone, “How dare you! How can you carrying a baby in your belly come in the room? Get out of here.”

Song Qinghan ignored him and pushed the man away and walked to the bed.

The delivery man who had been called Zhuer was heavily sweating in the bed, being soaked everywhere, with a hole showing on the top of his belly. There was something inside struggling to come out, with a rush of blood flowing out.

Song Qinghan was shocked. He never expected that a man delivered a fetus in such a way, but he didn’t show any confusion on his face and asked calmly, “So what should we do next? Why did you claim that he was in parodynia?

Getting no ideas to dissuade Song Qinghan to leave while the situation of Zhuer getting worse, the midwifery man didn’t waste time to answer Song Qinghan’s question but rushed to Zhuer, wiping the sweat on his forehead with a towel, saying anxiously, “It should be all opened right now. But the hole of his is still tightly shut. The fetus is not able to come out while the blood is unremittingly coming out!”

“If this situation is getting worse…” said the midwifery man as he paused for a second and then claimed firmly, saying, “We should give up the adult to save the baby.”

Song Qinghan frowned tightly and continued to ask, “If we can cut the mouth of the hole wider, we probably can get the fetus out.”

The midwifery man looked at the man in pregnancy as if he was looking at a troublemaker and said in a serious tone, “This shut mouth is based on the length of the mouth. If you open it wider beyond a precise measurement, you will be unable to shut it up at that time. Will he still get a chance to live?”

Although Song Qinghan didn’t know what it meant about a shut mouth, he could understand the words of the the midwifery man. He put himself into a serious consideration for a while, and then confirmed, asking, “Except for one certain part which cannot be shut, is there existing a risk of other side effects…umm, I mean, the drawbacks?”

He thought that probably the midwifery man would understand the word “Side Effect”, so he had to changed it to another word.

The patriarch looked at him in a rebuking way. If it hadn’t been carrying a big belly, he probably would have kicked him out.

“At this point, he can’t even shut the mouth of his belly, so where did the drawbacks come? Get out of here, don’t mess up.”

Song Qinghan sighed in a relief hearing that. An expression of calm came back to his face again as he was in any surgery operation. He turned around and opened the door, saying to the outside, “Help me prepare the strong liquor, well-dressed stitches, boiled water and scissors. Hand them to me in half an hour, otherwise Zhuer will probably die!”

After that, he closed the door and didn’t allow the midwifery man to open. He said in a low voice, “Give me a hand. If you want a fame, you have to listen to me and follow my steps today!”

Realizing his intention, the midwifery man was shocked and asked, “Have you got a way to save both the man and his child?”