Zhu Yanyi thought it was better to ignore the Zhu family for now. If she healed them, they might cause trouble again. She decided to handle the people in her hands first.
At nine o’clock, Zhu Yanyi entered the operating room on the fourth floor to operate on Linda.
The surgery was mainly to reconnect the severed nerve. Zhu Yanyi used gold needles to anesthetize Linda first, then began the operation.
Nerves are very thin and fragile. One mistake could cause Linda to go blind permanently. Even with full confidence, Zhu Yanyi stayed highly focused. With her special ability helping, she accurately found the broken nerve.
She used gold needles to fix the severed nerve, then connected it with special fusion thread. She used her ability to clear the blockages before stitching it up.
The eye surgery was very successful and quick. A normal doctor would take seven or eight hours, but Zhu Yanyi finished in just over an hour without much effort.
When she came out, she saw Chief pacing outside. Zhu Yanyi walked over and said, “The surgery was very successful. The blood clots are gone, so don’t worry. Next is recovery. If you follow the doctor’s orders, the stitches will come out soon, and she can go home.”
“Thank you, little divine doctor.” Chief heard the answer he wanted most.
Nurses pushed Linda, still asleep, out. Chief accompanied her back to the ward.
Zhu Yanyi cleaned up and went to see Luo Zhengwei and the other three men.
Besides Luo Zhengwei, the others were Chen Dabing’s father, Chen Dabing’s comrade, and Zhen Ting’s uncle. All three had drunk the poisoned wine.
When Zhu Yanyi arrived, Qu Zhong was checking their bodies. She saw her and asked, “Little Junior Sister, how was the surgery?”
“Very successful.” Zhu Yanyi nodded with a smile. She took their pulses and looked at Qu Zhong. “What does Second Senior Brother think of them?”
“Fortunately, they didn’t drink much, and it hasn’t been long.” Qu Zhong felt the abnormal pulse.
Zhu Yanyi nodded slightly. “Yes, luckily it hasn’t been long. So, Second Senior Brother, our next step is to make them expel the unhatched corpse worm gu eggs.”
Qu Zhong hummed. “The eggs are the reserve army. Once expelled, the remaining corpse worm gu will be weak. We can use medicine to kill them slowly. But if the eggs stay, new worms will hatch every day, and we can never kill them all.”
Zhu Yanyi gave a thumbs-up. “Exactly. It seems Second Senior Brother is very skilled in poison. I might not catch up to you.”
The four men listened, confused. They didn’t understand, so they just waited. They thought simply, “The little divine doctor won’t kill us.”
“You’re teasing me. You, a famous little divine doctor, can’t catch up to me? Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at?” Qu Zhong laughed and scolded lightly.
Zhu Yanyi didn’t mind. “Let them laugh.” Then she said, “So next, we start detoxification. Does Senior Brother have any good suggestions?”
Qu Zhong thought for a moment. “Usually, corpse worm gu is poison. Using poison to fight poison might work, or it might not. Poison gu is actually the enemy of poison, so we can’t use poison to kill it. Since we can’t use poison, we must use other methods. One is medicine, the other is acupuncture. But I think acupuncture won’t help much with expelling eggs. So we use medicine, and not oral medicine.”
Zhu Yanyi hummed. “Corpse worm gu enters the body silently. They are very sensitive, especially to danger. So we must kill them silently, without letting the worms know they are in danger. Therefore, we can’t use oral medicine. We must use gas. More broadly, nebulization is best. They breathe the medicine in, and it slowly expels the toxins.”
“Hmm. First, we need clay pots to boil the medicine. We must boil it until it dries up.” Qu Zhong started listing the items needed.
Zhu Yanyi smiled. “Next, we write the prescription and prepare the medicine.”
Zhu Yanyi paused, then said, “First, twenty grams of detoxification grass, ten grams of licorice, three grams of coin grass…” She listed a series of herbs. Qu Zhong wrote them down while looking at her prescription. When she finished, she gave her a thumbs-up. “Little Junior Sister says I’m good? Look at your prescription. That’s truly excellent.”
Zhu Yanyi smiled. “That’s the result of discussing with you, Senior Brother.”
Zhu Yanyi didn’t join the next step. Qu Zhong took over. Soon, the medicine was ready. Qu Zhong brought four clay pots to the ward to boil the medicine.
The pots were placed on the bedside tables. As the medicine boiled, the patients smelled the aroma.
This treatment, smelling and absorbing medicine, isn’t just through the nose. The whole body absorbs it. So, patients must be unclothed during boiling. This was why Zhu Yanyi didn’t appear, letting Qu Zhong handle it.
Of course, if Qu Zhong wasn’t there, Zhu Yanyi would have to do it. To doctors, there is no gender, only patients and healthy people. But with Qu Zhong there, Zhu Yanyi felt relieved and left it to her.
Qu Zhong knew a lot about poison, so he was familiar with this.
After absorbing the medicine, the four patients kept running to the toilet. They expelled the worm eggs through excretion. Each person ran to the toilet at least seven or eight times a day.
Such frequent excretion usually makes people tired. But because Zhu Yanyi added herbs like salvia to protect their energy, they weren’t too tired. However, after a day of this, everyone seemed to have lost some weight.
When they couldn’t expel anything more, Zhu Yanyi came over. She took their pulses again and prescribed more medicine.
For those poisoned by gu, Zhu Yanyi wouldn’t let them rest and recover now. If their bodies recovered, the gu worms might grow. So, she had to press the advantage.
“Next, we kill the gu worms.” Zhu Yanyi brought four bowls of clear medicine. If not for the strong smell, no one would guess this clear liquid was medicine.