Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation Chapter 97 – Chapter 97: Chapter 97 Hospital Ward

Chapter 97: Chapter 97 Hospital Ward
 

Wednesday morning.

Jiang Ning took the last two classes off and first rode his bike back to the rental.

The cement floor of the kitchen bore a blue Array and in the center of the Array sat a flowerpot with a sprout of tender bamboo planted in it.

Blue Spiritual Energy emerged from the Array, nourishing the bamboo continuously.

This sprout of bamboo was lush and had bright colors, looking full of life.

Jiang Ning said, “It's just right for use in medicine.”

He rubbed together a ball of Spiritual Fire and tossed it at the bamboo. The terrifying high temperature instantly burnt it to nothingness, leaving behind only a clump of muddled green liquid.

The Spiritual Fire enveloped the green liquid; its temperature was now very low and didn't evaporate it.

This was bamboo that Jiang Ning had grown using the ‘Mu Yi Array,' which had the essence to alleviate pain and accelerate the healing of wounds.

Once, in the Luoyun Sect where Jiang Ning had been, half of Immortal Bamboo Peak was planted with Immortal Bamboo, which, if consumed by mortals, could cause shattered bones to regrow.

However, with Jiang Ning's current conditions, due to the limitations of environment and time, he couldn't grow that caliber of bamboo in haste.

So he had gone to the riverbank and picked a bamboo shoot, which he had nurtured for three days using the Mu Yi Spirit Array.

Yet now, the medicinal effect was sufficient; it was perfect to give to Aunt Gu and wouldn't raise any suspicion from the doctors.

As the Spiritual Fire roasted the Spiritual Liquid, some black impurities emerged, and Jiang Ning used his Spiritual Energy to pick them out, then continued roasting until the green liquid turned transparent.

Jiang Ning opened the Jade Bottle and guided the liquid inside.

…

Yu Zhou Third Hospital.

In ward number five, as surgery time drew near, a tense atmosphere began to spread.

Xue Yuantong sat by the bedside, silent.

Jiang Ning leaned against the door; Xue Yuantong hadn't gone home to cook at noon, so he had no food to eat, and he was too lazy to make any. He planned to buy something outside after the surgery ended.

“Bed 36, bed 36, it's time to move, bring the medical records and the X-ray of the fracture; we're going to the operating room,” an older doctor, holding a blue folder, called out.

Xue Yuantong helped Aunt Gu and followed, and Jiang Ning also stepped up his pace.

They walked through the corridor, took the elevator, and headed to the operating room on the fourth floor.

As the elevator doors opened, they were greeted with a large hall where numerous anxious or expectant relatives sat on benches, showing a range of emotions.

“Please wait here for a moment; they are preparing inside.”

Several people sat down on the benches, and a younger doctor approached:

“Do you need a pain pump?”

“What is that?” Xue Yuantong asked.

“It's like the IV drips we normally give. With this, post-operative pain can be relieved a bit, making it easier for you.”

“Many patients use this. A pain pump is seven hundred per bottle and cannot be reimbursed. Would you like to use one?”

Xue Yuantong was about to speak when Aunt Gu said:

“Thank you, no need.”

“Okay, fine.” The young doctor turned back.

Aunt Gu hadn't thought that much; enduring the pain once to save seven hundred was certainly something she was willing to do.

Before long, the operation room door opened, and Aunt Gu was called in.

As the door to the operating room closed, Xue Yuantong returned to his seat on the bench.

Jiang Ning, however, spread his Divine Sense out to prevent unforeseen events.

In truth, he had considered giving Aunt Gu the Spirit Bamboo Liquid before the surgery, but it was best used during the healing phase.

The procedure for implanting a metal plate for a bone fracture required cutting through the skin, pushing aside nerves, slicing open the periosteum, and drilling holes in the bone to screw the metal plate in place. The operation was complex, and the Spirit Bamboo Liquid's potent healing properties might affect the doctor's performance.

Moreover, patients are not allowed to eat or drink for a period before surgery.

Jiang Ning dispersed his Divine Sense; should any abnormalities arise, to spare Xue Yuantong any heartache, he might take measures to preserve Aunt Gu's life.

That was the worst-case scenario and generally, given the level of modern medicine, such an incident would only occur under the most unlucky circumstances.

Actually, after a long three-hour wait, the surgery ended successfully.

When the nursing bed was wheeled out of the operating room, Xue Yuantong, seeing her mother lying on it with her eyes closed, finally let out a sigh of relief.

The older doctor followed, pushing the nursing bed towards the ward.

“Make way, make way!”

“Give us a hand and lift the patient onto the bed.”

A few Little Nurses gathered around, moving Aunt Gu onto the patient bed and then brought over a small TV-like machine to connect it to Aunt Gu, after that they placed an oxygen bottle.

After a while, when everything was sorted, the nurse instructed:

“For six hours, no drinking water or eating, and don't raise the bed.”

Next to bed number 36, in bed number 37, there was a man around sixty years old.

The old man, looking at the bustle here, sighed and said, “Such suffering!”

The old lady in the bed across from him said, “That's for sure, ugh, just thinking about it makes me mad. My leg, you know.”

“That old fool, I told him but he wouldn't listen, had to drive so fast!”

Xue Yuantong listened to their conversation and thought to herself, here we go again.

Having been in the hospital for a few days, she was quite familiar with the conditions of the other patients in the ward. The old lady in the bed across was known for her fiery temper.

Her husband drove a tractor, transporting grain with her, and Xue Yuantong had seen the old lady's husband once two days ago, a silent and reticent old man.

The silent old man drove the tractor fiercely. When the old lady, sitting on the back of the tractor, told him to slow down, he didn't listen but instead sped up until the tire exploded and they fell into a ditch by the road. The old man was mostly fine, but he ended up sending his wife to the hospital.

The old lady would curse her husband at least eight times a day, with each session lasting anywhere from three minutes to half an hour, mainly depending on whether the other patients intervened or not.

As for the old man in bed 37, he had fractured a vertebra, fortunately not too severely, but he could only lie in bed all day and needed to be fed by others.

He was from Tu County, and the people from there always had a sense of superiority, not holding Yuzhou in high regard.

The old man would spend his days either cursing the doctors or boasting about how great Tu County was, until one day, perhaps he bragged too hard, and the old lady across from him's son couldn't stand it and said,

“If your Tu County is so great, why did you run to the Third Hospital in the middle of the night instead of going to your county's hospital?”

The old man got so angry that he sat up in bed and started arguing with the young man, shocking everyone in the ward, since before then the old man could only lie in bed to recover due to his spine injury.

Now, the Little Nurse came over with the machine to take the patient's blood pressure. When it was the old man's turn, he waved his hands:

“I'm not testing, I'm not testing, you're just making up charges. I'm losing a big sum every test!”

The Little Nurse, feeling helpless, reasoned, “The doctor has ordered this, you definitely need to test!”

“I won't do it, even if you bring in your head nurse, I still won't do it.”

So the Little Nurse went to report with the machine.

Then the head nurse came over, scolded the old man thoroughly, and then gave him a fright, explaining the dangers if something went wrong. The old man was silenced and cooperated obediently with the test.

Xue Yuantong looked towards Aunt Gu and noticed she had woken up:

“Mom, how are you feeling?”

Aunt Gu's mouth was a bit dry, “I'm fine, just a little dizzy.”

“Does it hurt?”

“It doesn't hurt.”

Indeed it didn't hurt, as the effects of the anesthetic hadn't worn off yet.

Xue Yuantong stayed by her side, keeping an eye on the IV, unable to leave.

Jiang Ning saw that there wasn't much to do, so he said, “I'll go buy us something to eat, let's have a little something for now.”

By the time he returned with food, it was nearly four in the afternoon, and they started to eat.

The uncle in the diagonally opposite bed was howling,

“Hungry, so very hungry, I haven't eaten since midnight yesterday.”

He had fractured his collarbone playing soccer and had only recently come out of surgery, so he couldn't eat yet.

The son of the old lady across from him said cheerfully,

“Uncle, are you going to play soccer again in the future?”

The uncle replied, “If I play again, I'm a dog.”

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