EBE Chapter 616: Life and Death 1 Promise
Chapter 616: Life and Death 1 Promise
Zhou Chang was extremely grateful and did not forget to inquire about the old man's current location and his name.
The old men told him frankly that his surname was Tao, and everyone in the entire fishing village was also surnamed Tao, so it was called Taojia Village.
There are dozens of households in the village, and half of them who have relatives in the city went to the city to celebrate the New Year, leaving the rest of the poor people to stay in the fishing village.
So Zhou Chang called the old man "Mr. Tao".
Mr. Tao is planning to go fishing today with his two neighbors. Although it is still the first month of the year, he is thinking that any seafood he can catch will be good, and maybe he can even exchange it for some money.
The other five people who were traveling together were our neighbor Tao Da and his two sons. Tao Lao brought one of his sons and an apprentice.
Yuan Qi and Shouhou were carried directly to Mr. Tao's home.
In addition to his son and apprentice, Mr. Tao's family also includes a wife and a daughter.
After hearing the news, Mr. Tao's wife and daughter had already boiled some hot water and vacated the room.
Neighbor Tao Da brought some powder that was said to stop bleeding.
There is no doctor in the village. If we go to the county or town to invite one, it will take at least a day to go back and forth, which is obviously too late.
Taojia Village is full of low houses. Although Tao's family is not penniless, it is indeed very simple and they cannot have too many demands.
Zhou Chang was in a state of confusion all the way, but he made a decision when he got home.
First, ask Mr. Tao's wife and daughter to settle Yuan Qi, change her clothes and cook ginger soup for her.
After all, if Yuan Qi caught a cold after falling into the water and had a high fever, there would always be a way to relieve it.
But the skinny monkey had a dagger in his abdomen, and if he didn't act quickly, he might really lose his life.
Zhou Chang watched Yuan Qi being sent into a room, and Tao Lao's wife and daughter followed in.
There are no beds in the rooms in the north, but instead they have steaming hot brick kangs.
After taking a last look at Yuan Qi, Zhou Chang turned around and sent the skinny monkey into another room. He also moved him to the kang, took off all his wet clothes, and covered him with a quilt.
After all the struggle, the skinny monkey's breathing became weaker and weaker, and he couldn't delay any longer.
Afterwards, Zhou Chang sent away all the helpers and asked the Tao family for a pair of scissors, a large needle for sewing quilts, the thinnest fishing line, an oil lamp, and two jars of liquor.
Everything else was available, except for liquor. The people of Taojia Village were not rich, so they didn't have that much.
Finally, our neighbor Taoda and two other families came over and brought a large bag of black powder, claiming it had the ability to stop bleeding.
Looking at the pile of rough objects on the table, Zhou Chang finally made up his mind to "perform surgery" on the skinny monkey.
Perhaps because the room was warm, the skinny monkey opened his eyes after a while. However, due to excessive blood loss, his face became paler, and due to the pain in the abdominal wound, his body twitched from time to time, causing the wound to bleed again.
To make matters worse, the front end of the dagger was less than a finger long, and now the entire blade was embedded in the abdomen.
Zhou Chang was sweating and fed the skinny monkey some warm water first.
The skinny monkey struggled to open his eyes, his gaze was unfocused.
"Monkey, cheer up. I'm going to draw my sword in a moment, you can't faint." Zhou Chang used a cloth dipped in cold water to wipe the skinny monkey's forehead, hoping that he would be more sober.
The skinny monkey swallowed his saliva and began to focus his eyes. He didn't know if he heard Zhou Chang's words. He said weakly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat roast chicken again. I have a few words to say..."
"Okay, you can talk later." Zhou Chang was afraid that the skinny monkey would tell him about his last wishes, so he stuffed one of his hands into a corner of the quilt and held him down on the edge of the kang with the other hand. "Don't faint even if it hurts. It may be easier to hold on to something with both hands. Don't move your body, or I'll tie you up again."
The skinny monkey had a dazed look in his eyes and no one knew what he was thinking.
Zhou Chang knew this was not a solution, so he had to guide the skinny monkey to talk to him: "By the way, you just said you wanted to eat roast chicken, what else do you want to eat, just tell me, as long as you tell me now, I will buy it for you no matter how much money you pay later, how about it?"
As he spoke, Zhou Chang began to use strong liquor to disinfect the dagger that Yuan Qi had given him, then the needle and thread, and finally the clean cloth.
I'm not sure how strong the liquor is and whether it can completely kill bacteria, but based on common sense from my previous life, the high mortality rate among ancient people was not due to excessive blood loss, but bacterial infection caused by wound rupture. Therefore, this step must be done as carefully as possible.
The skinny monkey seemed to be really thinking about what to eat, and began to mumble in his throat: "Roast chicken, roast duck, roast goose, prawns, braised pork elbow, braised carp..."
"Very good, as long as you get through this, you can eat it every day, anytime, however you want, as much as you want..." Zhou Chang said, and handed the cloth he had just cut off his body to the mouth of the skinny monkey, "Bite this, just treat it as a chicken drumstick, and don't bite your tongue if it hurts a lot."
The skinny monkey opened his mouth and bit it in a daze.
Zhou Chang was so nervous that he could hardly breathe, but he pretended to be relaxed and patted the thin monkey's face: "Wake up, wake up... take a deep breath, relax your stomach, and bear it no matter how painful it is, understand?"
The skinny monkey sensed Zhou Chang's nervousness and asked in a daze, "What is the prince going to do?"
"I'm going to pull out the dagger, hold on." Zhou Chang's hands and legs were shaking.
The skinny monkey suddenly widened his eyes, looked up with difficulty at the dagger still stuck in his stomach, and pulled the cloth out of his mouth: "No, no..."
Zhou Chang was already panicking, so he went over and held the skinny monkey down, fearing that it would hurt his wound. "You've lost too much blood, and you won't be able to hold on for long. Just think about eating. Believe me, you'll make it."
"No, no... the prince is not a doctor..." The skinny monkey still had the strength to shake his head.
"I can't help it. There is no doctor here. The soonest doctor will arrive tomorrow. Your injury can't be delayed any longer." Zhou Chang tried hard to hold back his tears.
The skinny monkey struggled for a while, and suddenly gave up, perhaps because he had lost his strength or was unconscious: "I, I have something to say..."
Zhou Chang had to take care of the skinny monkey's emotions at this time, and spoke as gently as possible: "Whatever you want to say, wait until I pull out the dagger, so you have to hold on, otherwise it would be a shame if you didn't finish what you wanted to say."
As he spoke, he was about to stuff the towel back into the skinny monkey's hand.
The skinny monkey was terrified and refused to bite the towel: "No, no..."
If we delay any further, there will be no way to save the situation.
Zhou Chang also made up his mind: "Don't be afraid, if you die this time, I won't live either. I will kill you immediately with this dagger and go to accompany you."
To prove that he was not lying, he placed the dagger on his neck and made a throat-cutting gesture.
Just now at the beach, the moment the skinny monkey was stabbed in the abdomen by the black-clad pirate, Zhou Chang felt that he could even give up his life, and Prince Yi fainted the moment he thought the skinny monkey was dead.