Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 423: Chapter 287 I want her to vanish without a trace Chapter 423: Chapter 287 I want her to vanish without a trace When it comes to human life, Gu Changsheng has never hesitated.

She had never killed anyone with her treatments, and this time would be no exception!

She couldn’t stand by and watch Tan Nv, who had sacrificed herself to save her, lose her life! Absolutely not!

With several quick flicks of her fingertips, the silver needles in Gu Changsheng’s hands unhesitatingly approached the area around Tan Nv’s heart meridian, intent on protecting Tan Nv’s heart meridian!

Panax ginseng could keep Tan Nv hanging on by a thread, and as long as she could protect Tan Nv’s heart meridian, she could buy time to save her life!

“What are you waiting for? Call Uncle Song and Dong Lei over here!” Gu Changsheng, her hands constantly maneuvering the silver needles, inserted thirty-six needles in succession while urgently shouting at Kun Nu.

Caught off guard by this, a surprised look crossed Kun Nu’s face.

“Mistress, we are here, what do you need, just say it!”

“Mistress, we’re right here! Wuu…”

Before Kun Nu could react, the anxious, worried voices of Uncle Song and Dong Lei were heard.

Seeing Uncle Song and Dong Lei, Gu Changsheng’s face briefly lit up with joy, and she quickly instructed, “Uncle Song, neither Tan Nv nor Nian can be moved, the tent, I need a tent! Right here!”

“Boiling water, cotton cloth, strong alcohol, soup for stopping blood and replenishing it, hemostatic powder, get them from the Medicine Tower, and hurry!”

Time was life, and she had no time to consider anything else.

Even she hadn’t expected Tan Nv’s internal injuries to be so severe!

Gu Changsheng’s eyes were razor-sharp as she could clearly see Tan Nv’s chest slowly bulging, a sign of internal bleeding accumulating in the pleura, she couldn’t wait any longer, waiting would truly be too late!

“Yes!”

“At your command!”

Uncle Song and Dong Lei, having followed Gu Changsheng the longest, responded immediately.

The corpse of the Futu Demoness lying in the distance had clearly been selectively ignored by everyone, as now their sole focus was on Tan Nv and Borjigin Nian!

Fortunately, Borjigin Nian’s wound was in the shoulder, a bit further from the internal organs!

“What are you doing standing around? Strong alcohol and quicklime, disinfect this entire area thoroughly!” Gu Changsheng coldly commanded the house servants rushing over while paying attention to Tan Nv’s injury.

About a dozen half-grown boys, never having seen such an array, were immediately frightened and didn’t know what to do.

“Throw them out!” Gu Changsheng, seeing this, commanded coldly.

The next instant, Kun Nu sprang into action, ruthlessly throwing the inexperienced boys out with no mercy.

“Mistress, the kindling and burning oil have arrived.” Si Xi dropped the kindling from his back and the oil in his hands to one side, quickly approaching.

Gu Changsheng cast a sinister glance at the corpse of the Futu Demoness and spoke coldly, “There’s no time to deal with these now, go help Uncle Song and Dong Lei!”

Uncle Song had already brought a tent from the storeroom, and Gu Changsheng, seeing this from a distance, quickly instructed.

Si Xi and Ning Er did not dare to hesitate and immediately leapt forward to assist.

Kun Nu, with a sack of quicklime on one arm, swiftly scattered it around the area centered on Gu Changsheng.

Dong Lei arranged all the items needed for the surgery next to Gu Changsheng, swiftly set up the medicinal stove, and quickly fetched the medicine according to Gu Changsheng’s instructions, starting to prepare the decoction.

The area at the foot of the artificial mountain became the noisiest yet quietest place in the Gu Residence.

Everyone was busy in an orderly fashion, yet all faces were heavy, and even their breathing was exceptionally soft.

“Changsheng…” Mr. Ban Shan called out with concern from a distance.

Within the tent, lit brightly by a dozen lanterns, Gu Changsheng’s face, illuminated by the flickering lights, was expressionless.

Hearing Mr. Ban Shan’s soft call, Gu Changsheng’s heart grew tense.

“Dear daughter, do all you can but let fate take its course, life and death can’t be forced, just do your best!” Mr. Ban Shan’s somewhat somber voice came through.

Hearing this, a determined look flashed in Gu Changsheng’s eyes as she firmly responded, “Foster Father, I’ve lived my life with a clear conscience, if I can’t even save the person who saved me, how could I live up to my medical skills?”

“I won’t let Tan Nv come to harm! Even if Yama Raja himself wants to take her, he’ll have to ask whether I, Gu Changsheng, agree or not!”

Having finished speaking, Gu Changsheng looked toward Dong Lei and nodded.

Although it was the first time Dong Lei assisted Gu Changsheng in surgery, her trust and admiration for Gu Changsheng were heartfelt. Sensing her mistress’s look, she immediately understood, picking up the cotton cloth nearby and, as Xiao Cui had once taught her, coordinated with her mistress’s actions.

Pleased to see her composed and unflustered, Gu Changsheng’s eyes flashed with approval, and her confidence soared; her hands, soaked with strong alcohol, slowly wiped over Tan Nv’s swelling chest.

She was uncertain whether the bleeding was pleural or internal…

The best method now was to use an elimination approach!

It was late at night, she couldn’t conduct open chest surgery, she wasn’t fully prepared! All she could do was to drain the blood accumulated in Tan Nv’s chest, hoping that the heavens would be kind, that it was merely a pleural bleed and not a ruptured organ…

Otherwise, in at most one Shichen, she would have to perform exploratory thoracotomy on Tan Nv!

The lack of blood reserves, that was what was truly fatal!

But, no matter how difficult it was, she had to try!

She couldn’t just watch Tan Nv wait for death!

With this thought, Gu Changsheng’s hands, without a moment’s hesitation, cut into Tan Nv’s chest…

“Hemostatic forceps!”

“Blood vessel clamp!”

“Cotton cloth, absorb the blood…”

“Not enough! More!”

Han Qiu and Xiao Cui were absent, and for Dong Lei, who was doing this for the first time, the situation was as urgent as facing a formidable enemy, so he didn’t dare to be even slightly negligent.

Outside the tent, only the brief and forceful commands of Gu Changsheng could be heard, along with the busy and focused silhouettes of two people cast on the tent…

“Tan Nv will be alright, won’t she?” Ning Er asked in a lowered voice as he looked towards Si Xi beside him.

Si Xi spoke with a worried face, “I also hope she will be alright…”

“Both being martial artists, with all five viscera damaged, have you ever seen anyone survive that?” Kun Nu interjected with a gloomy face, interrupting their private whisperings.

No one wanted Tan Nv to be safe more than him, but reason told him it was all wishful thinking!

With such serious internal injuries, how could she possibly be unscathed?

Kun Nu watched the brightly-lit tent at the base of the rockery anxiously, perhaps the Tan Nv he had fought alongside for many years would never come out again…

Inside the tent, Gu Changsheng’s eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the wound that no longer bled, placing the prepared bloodletting tube over the area where blood had accumulated in the pleura. After a careful inspection, he began to suture.

“Cotton pad!”

“Remove the hemostat!”

“Wipe the blood!”

“Suture thread!”

“Hemostatic Powder!”

As Gu Changsheng’s voice sounded, everyone outside the tent felt their hearts leap to their throats.

Uncle Song, who was preparing the medicine, looked up hopefully upon hearing this.

Typically, his wife would come out soon after saying these things after finishing the surgery!

He had always known His Highness Prince Mu had secretly assigned men to protect his wife, but he had never expected the Secret Guard Lord, a dragon seen and not sought, to be gravely injured for her sake today…

Uncle Song couldn’t help but pray silently that everything had to be alright; Tan Nv had to be safe!

Otherwise, his wife would definitely blame herself!

Mr. Ban Shan stood not far away, his face solemn, eyes fixed on the tent, unblinking.

Although he had not been with his foster daughter for long, he could tell that his daughter had a pure and kind heart!

If someone died because of her, she would surely be overwhelmed with guilt!

With evident tension in his eyes, Mr. Ban Shan stood anxiously contemplating.

“She’s out! The wife is out!”

Uncle Song called out softly, standing up first from beside the medicine furnace, his face eager as he looked towards Gu Changsheng who emerged from behind the curtain.

Gu Changsheng, in her blood-drenched red clothes, now darkening, had a grave and somber expression as if she could drip ink, solemnly stating, “The situation is not optimistic, the possibility of internal organ rupture cannot be excluded!”

Upon hearing this, everyone’s hearts once again leaped to their throats.

Gu Changsheng scanned over her family with a heavy expression and said firmly, “I need people! I need a lot of people! Uncle Song, go to Liuzhou Medical Guild immediately, and have Hu Yihai gather all doctors to my residence. And bring along any healthy and strong men from the household as well!”

Even though Uncle Song was puzzled, he didn’t ask any questions, he called over a young man to prepare the medicine and hurriedly ran out.

“Remove the yolks from the eggs! I need the whites!” Gu Changsheng continued to direct.

She had to prepare a serum separator as quickly as possible!

If it truly was an internal organ rupture, they would have to perform open cavity surgery as soon as possible!

She needed fresh blood! Blood that successfully matched Tan Nv’s type!

Because open cavity surgery was not like Butcher Wang’s surgery, she didn’t know which organ might be damaged, nor how much time the exploratory surgery would take, and what unexpected events might occur!

In this era devoid of precise instruments, performing open cavity surgery was like fighting against the heavens!

But she had no choice! She needed Tan Nv to live!

“Lamp wicks, copper mirrors, I need to focus the light!”

“Small saw with fine teeth, steel wires, more potent alcohol-soaked cotton pads… the infusion device I made in the Medicine Tower, catgut sutures… have everything ready!”

“…”

With a cold voice, Gu Changsheng gave orders one by one; the young men of her household, after months of teaching by Uncle Song, naturally did not dare to slack off and quickly went to prepare.

Seeing this, Mr. Ban Shan knew he could not be of help and thus stood still in the distance, watching quietly.

He believed in his daughter!

Gu Changsheng’s eyes swept over the place where the Futu Demoness’s body lay with a murderous aura bursting forth as if it were tangible.

“Si Xi, pour the kerosene over the dry wood, I want to obliterate her remains!”

She had stormed into her residence, almost taking her life! Not one of her close associates escaped injury, all were hurt, some severely!

Borjigin Nian was cursed with a gu and remained unconscious to this day.

Tan Nv hung by a thread, her fate between life and death uncertain!

The rage inside Gu Changsheng raged uncontrollably, reducing the Futu Demoness to ashes was not enough to quell the hatred in her heart!

It wasn’t just the Futu Demoness she wouldn’t let go of, but also Huo Shuixian, the one who sent the Futu Demoness!

One day, she would make her pay with blood!

No one could harm her people and get away unscathed! Xiao Chengwen couldn’t, Huo Shuixian couldn’t either!