After coming out of the coffin shop, Zhang Wenyuan felt very unhappy, so he walked around the street and visited a few shops to see if he could find any business opportunities. During this time, the family was so poor that it was almost impossible to get rid of the problem. Li Dalian lost his job again, and both husband and wife were unemployed at home. He had to find a way to make money. But what he didn't expect was that this time he was kicked out of the store where he used to walk in and yell at him casually before he even entered. The owner of the store seemed to have suddenly changed his face. He was always shunned and cold-faced! What's more, some shops kicked people out when they saw him coming in, as if he was carrying the plague.
Zhang Wenyuan was speechless when he was so ignored by someone he had looked down on before. Well... the events of the past few days had been really big. His reputation was completely ruined and he was like a street rat.
The first time he went out, he encountered a major setback. Zhang Wenyuan was helpless. In addition, the weather was too hot, and the injury on his buttocks was aching again. He wanted to give up and go back, but when he thought about having three women to support at home, it would be painful to go back. , it would be better to be looked down upon outside.
After visiting several more shops, Zhang Wenyuan was met with a blank stare without exception. Zhang Wenyuan was so disheartened that he just wanted to go back and suffer. Suddenly I saw a carpentry shop in front of me, and I remembered that the shopkeeper Li Er and his eldest brother Zhang Wenning were brothers and had some friendship with the original owner, so I decided to try my luck again.
Arriving at the door of the store, shopkeeper Li Er was busy working inside with his shirt off. Zhang Wenyuan hesitated for a moment, but then he went in and said, "Shopkeeper Li, are you busy?"
Li Er was stunned when he saw it was him, and said with a dry smile, "Ah, it's Mr. Zhang, you've been suffering a lot during this time!"
Finally meeting a normal person, Zhang Wenyuan felt relieved and said with a smile, "Ahem... I'm crying if I talk too much! You won't kick me out too, will you?"
Li Er wiped his sweat, waved his hand and said, "Hey... Third Master, what are you talking about? You have helped me so much in the past, and I will not do such ungrateful things!"
"Ahem... We finally have a righteous man in Yuncheng County!" Zhang Wenyuan laughed, took out the drawing and handed it to him, "Look, can I make this box?"
Li Er took the drawing without looking at the drawings inside. Instead, he was attracted by his drawing technique, "Third Master, where did you get this drawing? It's really exquisite!"
"I just draw for fun when I have nothing to do!" Zhang Wenyuan said in his heart, isn't it just a three-dimensional view? What's so subtle about it? It’s really rare and strange. “Can such a mold be made?”
Li Er hummed and asked again, "This is simple and can be made naturally. I just don't know what the magic is for you to make such a mold?"
Zhang Wenyuan smiled awkwardly, "You also know that I lost my job at the county government, but I still have a family to support, so I came up with the idea of selling tofu. This is just for serving tofu!"
Li Er had no doubt that he was there, "It's not difficult to make a box like this, but your requirements are a little more precise and require more labor than usual. It depends on whether you are in a hurry..."
Zhang Wenyuan said hurriedly, "There's no rush, just do it slowly and give it to me in three to five days. The price is easy to say, as long as the work is done well, it doesn't matter if you pay a little more!"
When Li Er saw him taking the initiative to mention the price, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Logically speaking, I shouldn't charge you money, but the villain's wife is seriously ill, and he goes to the doctor every day for medicine and ends up at a huge loss. The third master is so pitiful, and he gives five Ten coins will do it."
Hearing that his wife was sick, Zhang Wenyuan said one more thing, "Oh, what disease does Mrs. sister-in-law have?"
Li Er smiled awkwardly, "Well... no, it's nothing. I just have a sore on my back, which has been broken. It's hurting a lot these days!"
"A sore on your back?" Zhang Wenyuan suddenly thought of the most fatal "back gangrene" in ancient times, and said in shock, "Could it be back gangrene, right?"
When he talked about his woman's illness, Li Er's originally sullen face suddenly fell down, and he sighed, "No, I was fine for the first half of the month, but suddenly a sore appeared, and it turned into pus in a few days. It’s not good for a doctor either. A good person is tortured to the point where he only has half his life left! Hey... pity my two children, how will I live without my mother in the future!"
The so-called back gangrene is actually boils, which is called acute suppurative cellulitis of the back in Western medicine. Because people in ancient times did not pay much attention to hygiene, they were easily infected with Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and other bacteria, which in turn caused local abscesses. In addition, in ancient times, medical conditions were poor and surgical skills were low, and conservative treatment was generally adopted. Therefore, as long as you get this Disease is basically a death sentence.
Hearing that she really had back gangrene, Zhang Wenyuan felt extremely moved when he thought that he had been looked down upon by everyone and only he treated her as he always was. Secondly, my current image is so bad that I must do a few good deeds that will shock the whole city to change the people's view of me; thirdly, if I cure his woman, it will be equivalent to saving a man who is on the verge of damage. family, then he will definitely be grateful to him in the future, and he will have a confidant.
Thinking of this, his heart skipped a beat and he said with a smile, "I know a way to treat back gangrene. Why don't you take me to see it?"
"You know how to see a doctor?" Li Er's eyes widened, "When did you learn to see a doctor?"
Zhang Wenyuan smiled lightly and said, "I am also a scholar after all. Although I can't feel the pulse, I have read a few medical books. If you believe me, I will go and take a look."
Li Er had no choice but to worry, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll ask you to go and have a look. I'll admit it if it can't be cured!"
Zhang Wenyuan followed him to the backyard. When he reached the eaves, he saw a topless woman lying on the bed moaning. Seeing Zhang Wenyuan, she instinctively struggled to get up and put on clothes. But at this time, she was in pain and had no strength to maintain her last life. He lost his dignity and could only plead in a low voice, "Erlang, why did you bring him in? Let her out quickly... let her out!"
A bunch of black lines suddenly appeared on Zhang Wenyuan's head, and he thought to himself, "You are not a beauty who is like a fish and a geese. Should I take advantage of you?"
Li Er took a piece of clothing and put it on her back, and said hehe, "Madam, Mr. Zhang said he would cure your illness, so I'll take him here to have a look!"
"He can cure diseases?" Mrs. Li turned her head hard and said resolutely, "No, no! I don't dare to let him touch me. Even if I die, I must be innocent!"
This woman was so staunch, Zhang Wenyuan shook his head helplessly, looked at Li Erdao, "Since Mrs. Sister-in-law values innocence more than life, then forget it!"
Li Erke didn't care about all that, and while holding Zhang Wenyuan, he persuaded his wife, "Madam, if you don't think about me, you should also think about our children. If you leave, what will they do? ?”
When the child was mentioned, Mrs. Li was not so determined, but the look in Zhang Wenyuan's eyes was still very unkind. Zhang Wenyuan did not force anything and quietly waited for Li Er to continue to enlighten her. Li Er was a businessman, so he naturally had no say in words. With his coaxing and deceiving, the stubborn woman finally agreed to let Zhang Wenyuan take a look.
Li Er was so happy that he took off the clothes that had just been covered on her body and said earnestly, "Sanlang, come and take a look!"
Zhang Wenyuan came to Mrs. Li's bed, took one look at the sores on her back, and took a deep breath, "I'll go, it's so big!"
The abscess on Mrs. Li's back was already the size of a goose egg, and the one in the middle was so white that it shone brightly. It spread everywhere when touched with her hands, and there was a risk of rupture at any time. Once the wound burst and became infected, the abscess would rupture. The fate is basically given. Xiang Yu's younger brother Fan Zeng, the great poet Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty, Lin Chong who was still living in Liangshan and became a bandit, Qin Hui, who was still a young official, Xu Da who would be born two hundred years later, and Nurhachi who single-handedly destroyed the Ming Dynasty. This is how he died. These people, whether they are rich or noble, are not immune. Mrs. Li is just an ordinary citizen, so how can she escape?
Li Er saw the troubled expression on his face and couldn't help but ask, "How about it? Can you cure it?"
Although this thick sore is scary, it is actually not difficult. As long as the wound is incised, the pus and blood are drained, the slough is removed, disinfection is done during the operation, and some anti-infective drugs are used after the operation, it will be fine. Although Zhang Wenyuan is not a medical student, his mother is a surgeon and he has learned a lot since he was a child. He also learned first aid knowledge in the army, so it is natural to perform such an operation. The only troublesome thing is the problem of postoperative infection, but Mrs. Li is in the prime of life, has a strong body, and the abscess has not affected the blood system, so she should be able to handle it.
"It can be cured!" Zhang Wenyuan made up his mind and said firmly, "Small surgery, very simple!"
"real?"
"Of course it's true!" Zhang Wenyuan looked at him and said firmly, "Go and boil a pot of water, find a knife and a piece of cotton cloth, and I'll go back and get something, and we'll do the surgery right away to drain the pus."
"Well, okay!" Li Er also took the risk, "Thank you very much, I'll go get ready right away!"
Zhang Wenyuan returned home and fetched the unused alcohol in the morning. Now that there was no iodophor, he could only use alcohol for disinfection. However, the alcohol was too little and it was not enough. He simply moved all the equipment for distilling wine that he had made in the morning. coming. Li Er saw him coming with a bottle of wine and a bunch of messy things, and asked in confusion, "What is this for?"
"The one who steams the wine!" Zhang Wenyuan ordered while throwing the knife, cotton cloth, chopsticks and other surgical materials into the pot to cook, "This wine is not enough, you can buy a few more kilograms of wine, and I will distill some more!"
Li Er said oh, and hurriedly asked his eldest son Gou Wa to sell wine, while he went to light the stove. By the time Gou Wa brought the wine back, they were almost ready.
Zhang Wenyuan directly poured the wine into the pot and boiled it, and asked his youngest son Goudan to bring a big bowl to take it while he went to disinfect the knife and cotton cloth for a second time. Li Erzheng was taking care of the stove with his two sons. Seeing him doing the preparations in an orderly manner, some doubts in his heart were slowly dispelled at this time, "What, Sanlang, what should I do?"
Du Jiang sterilized the surgical equipment, and Goudan also received a bowl of high-alcohol wine, and gave him a splint. "It's still under anesthesia now, but it will be very painful in a while. Let my sister-in-law bite this, and you can hold her down next to me." , don’t let her move!”
Li Er hummed and asked his little daughter to take care of the stove. He and Gouwa came to Madam Li's side, stuffed the splint into her mouth, and warned, "Madam, please bear with me!"
Mrs. Li also took the risk and said through gritted teeth, "Well, okay, come on!"
Use a rope to tie Mrs. Li's legs to the bed, and then let Li Er and Gou Wa hold down one of Mrs. Li's shoulders. After all the preparations are done. Zhang Wenyuan began to perform the second operation in the Song Dynasty. He first used chopsticks to hold a piece of gauze soaked in alcohol and disinfected her carefully. After thoroughly disinfecting, he picked up the knife and gestured. , and then decisively took the knife.
When the knife went down, pus burst out. Li Er's eyes were hot, he frowned and shouted, "Well, he is indeed an expert, so neat!"
Zhang Wenyuan ignored him and cut again. After two cuts, it cut into a cross shape, and then spread to all sides, and soon the wound was completely opened. At this time, Mrs. Li finally felt the pain, she screamed ouch, and her body began to shake. Fortunately, she had been tied up with a rope before, otherwise an accident would definitely happen now.
Seeing that she was in unbearable pain, Li Er quickly comforted her and said, "Madam, just bear with it, you'll be fine soon."
After the wound was completely opened, Zhang Wenyuan changed a pair of chopsticks and began to squeeze out the pus. When the pus was almost squeezed out, he shaved off the slough. Although this kind of debridement surgery was not difficult, it was the first time to do it after all. After the whole process was completed, it was still very satisfying. He was sweating profusely and his clothes were soaked.
Because alcohol is irritating and can irritate nerves and cause increased pain. Secondly, using alcohol to wipe the wound will destroy the body's protein and dissolve fat, which is not conducive to wound healing. Therefore, alcohol cannot be used to disinfect wounds in future generations. However, Zhang Wenyuan can't get iodophor and other disinfectants now, so he can only make do with them.
"Okay!" Seeing that there was no more rotten flesh, Zhang Wenyuan washed the wound for the last time. As the warm alcohol soaked into the skin, Mrs. Li almost fainted from the pain.
Zhang Wenyuan didn't care so much. He made a drainage strip with a thin noodle and placed it in the wound, and then started to bandage it. By the time he finished all this, it was almost dark.
The operation was finally completed. Zhang Wenyuan washed his hands and breathed out heavily, "It's really better now!"
Li Er breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his wife was still alive, and then asked, "Don't you need any medicine?"
Zhang Wenyuan smiled awkwardly, "Let's take a look first. If you don't have a fever at night, don't worry about it. If you have a fever, you have to go to the pharmacy to get medicine to reduce the fever. You can use some medicines such as dandelion, rehmannia glutinosa, rehmannia glutinosa, and isatis root. I’m not good at this, just ask the doctor directly!”
Li Er carefully noted it down, and when he saw that it was getting late, he wanted to keep him for dinner. Zhang Wenyuan decisively refused, "Tonight is the key to whether my sister-in-law can recover from her illness. You must keep an eye on it. So I will give him this meal." Don’t eat, let’s talk about it later, it’s getting late, I should go back!”
How could Li Er be willing to let him go back for nothing? He hurriedly ran to the restaurant opposite and ordered some hard dishes, and bought a jar of wine and asked them to send it directly to Zhang's house. He then asked Gou Wa and Gou Dan to take care of him at home, and then personally sent him back.
