Chapter 1432: Chapter 1513: Threading the Needle
The old man just smiled at Li Yinong not far away, then withdrew his gaze, not in a hurry to act, but looked at her grandfather, smiling as he said, "Old man Li, why insist on competing? Although both the old lady from the Dong Family and the old man from the Zhang Family lost to me, it’s because their medical skill is subpar. From what I’ve seen, your medical skill isn’t lacking either, so why insist on challenging me?"
Li Yinong’s grandfather said indifferently, "Medical skill has its levels."
"Is there a hierarchy in healing and saving people?" the old man asked in response.
"..." Li Yinong saw her grandfather remain silent for a moment, then said, "Start the operation. The anesthesia effect only lasts about twenty minutes. If you don’t act within these twenty minutes, when the person wakes, it will be excruciating."
"Twenty minutes?" The old man was momentarily stunned.
"What, is twenty minutes not sufficient? How about we administer another shot of anesthesia, give you an hour, is that enough!" someone in the crowd suddenly said.
Li Yinong looked over; it was one of her younger uncles speaking, young but quite arrogant, with poor character.
For some reason, Li Yinong suddenly felt worried for the old man, but then she saw the old man shake his head, smiling as he said, "Twenty minutes is too long, ten minutes should do."
"Ten minutes? Such boasting!"
"This is absurd, stop speaking big!"
"This is about extraction, it’s not as simple as stitching up a belly!"
"Wait until you fail, let’s see if you continue bragging!"
All the people from the Li Family were mocking and ridiculing, Li Yinong looked at her grandfather again, his expression indifferent, but unlike the others, his demeanor was extremely solemn and tense.
It was at this moment that Li Yinong saw the old man place a medical kit on the ground, roll up his sleeves, and squat down.
Then she saw the old man unlock the medical kit.
The lock was unlike any ordinary lock, looking rather peculiar, requiring pointer rotation to open, but the old man opened it with ease.
The next moment Li Yinong saw the old man extract one surgical instrument after another from the kit, beginning to operate on the person on the ground with a large opening in their belly.
Li Yinong gradually became tense, involuntarily glancing at her wrist’s children’s watch, calculating time.
Time passed by second by second.
After three minutes passed on the minute hand, Li Yinong suddenly heard a ding sound and saw the old man toss a nail dripping with blood onto the ground using forceps.
Even as a middle school student, Li Yinong instantly understood that the nail was hidden in that person’s belly and the old man was responsible for locating and extracting it.
The entire procedure took less than three minutes.
At this moment, Li Yinong saw all the uncles and elders present undergo a significant change in expression as if they’d been slapped in the face, their faces glaringly unpleasant.
It was as if a wrongdoer’s evil activity had been exposed.
Li Yinong suddenly found it somewhat amusing.
Li Yinong quickly refocused, seeing the squatting old man start to suture the large opening in that person’s belly, his technique skilled, his movements oscillating between a butterfly’s graceful flight and the sudden downpour of thunder.
Li Yinong quickly glanced at the time again; unbelievably, it had been barely two minutes, but the person’s belly was sewn up.
But it wasn’t over yet!
The old man drew out several silver needles from the medical kit, inserting them into various acupuncture points on the person on the ground.
At that moment, Li Yinong didn’t understand the reason, but she learned as she grew up that those acupuncture points could almost mimic the effect of anesthesia, minimizing the pain for the person upon waking.
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