Chapter 12

In the early morning, the coal smoke from the boiler room of the military hospital had not yet dissipated.

Shen Nanxing had half a piece of peach cake in the pocket of his white coat, which he was reluctant to eat.

Back then, whenever my father came home to visit, he would always bring back a few pieces.

She couldn’t bear to eat it, so she left most of it to Shen Xiaoman.

This was given to her by the old director after he rescued a peasant woman who was poisoned by pesticides last night.

At that time, the dean stopped her at the door of the duty room and stuffed this snack into her hand:

“Fill your stomach. I have an important surgery today.”

Shen Nanxing pushed open the door of the emergency room, and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.

An aluminum thermos is placed on the table on the dressing cart.

Open the lid and you will see red date millet porridge inside.

A tiny “Lu” character is engraved on the enamel spoon handle.

“Doctor Shen, you are so lucky.”

Big-butt head nurse Li Shufen swung the thermometer while observing Shen Nanxing’s facial expression.

“Captain Lu will bring you a nutritious breakfast at five o’clock.

Chief Jian is more punctual than our duty alarm clock.

Even Mr. Li from the cafeteria is annoyed by him.”

Shen Nanxing pushed the thermos to the edge of the windowsill.

“Nurse Li, if you like, I’ll ask Captain Lu to prepare an extra copy for you tomorrow.”

“Hey, look at what you said, we don’t have your ability.

Your divorce notice hasn’t expired yet, and you’ve already hooked up with Captain Lu. You’re the most capable person in the entire army.”

Although Li Shufen no longer had the arrogance of the previous day, she still looked down on Shen Nanxing for marrying Lu Zhanye for the second time.

Yesterday, when the Military Region Political Department approved Lu Zhanye’s marriage application, the entire hospital was in an uproar.

“Have you heard? Doctor Shen’s ex-husband is a pig farmer in Qinghe Village. He divorced her because he disliked her infertility. How dare she get so frivolous as to hook up with Captain Lu…”

Shen Nanxing could hear the whispers in the locker room next door very clearly.

She didn’t care at all, because the “contract” between her and Lu Zhanye could be terminated at any time after Shen Xiaoman recovered.

“This second marriage is incredibly valuable. I heard that Captain Lu actually replaced all his specially supplied brown sugar with medical cotton just for her…”

Shen Nanxing didn’t care about brown sugar or medical cotton, just let it go.

She turned on the faucet, and the freezing winter water rushed through the cracks of her chilblains.

The stabbing pain made her more awake.

The old dean’s figure was reflected in the mirror.

He was collecting hot water in an enamel jug.

“You just arrived, so there are some things you don’t need to pay attention to. The pharmacy said that many of the supplies Captain Lu requested are for you. Go take a look.”

Lu Zhanye’s supplies?

What a hassle…

She nodded to the dean.

“Doctor Shen! The peasant woman poisoned by pesticides in the makeshift bed is convulsing again!”

The intern nurse pushed open the door of the duty room.

“Clang…”

In a panic, he knocked over Li Shufen’s lunch box.

“Oh my god, what are you so anxious about? Why are you so impatient? Doctor Shen can’t get away.”

Shen Nanxing patted Li Shufen’s shoulder.

“Don’t be angry. Tomorrow, I’ll have Captain Lu bring breakfast to you, oh!”

This was the first patient Shen Nanxing saw besides Lu Zhanye.

She hurried towards the makeshift bed.

Li Shufen followed closely behind and continued to curse and pinch.

“Bah, this second marriage is a bad omen for the husband, and it’s not even possible to save the person!”

In the temporary ward area, Shen Nanxing pried open the peasant woman’s clenched teeth.

The garlicky smell of organophosphorus pesticides mixed with the smell of blood is a bit choking.

Without saying a word, she took out the silver needle she carried with her and inserted it into the Ren Zhong acupoint. She turned around and shouted to the nurse:

“500 ml of 0.9% saline plus 1 gram of pralidoxime, intravenous push!”

The young nurse was in a panic, while Li Shufen was absent-minded.

Then, there was the sound of glass breaking in the medicine cabinet.

It was Li Shufen who accidentally broke the last two liquid bottles.

Seeing this, the old director who was watching from the side put the teacup in his hand heavily on the emergency table.

Everyone knew that the old dean was angry.

“Xiao Shen, use this!”

He took out two imported ampoules from the inner pocket of his white coat.

“Thank you, Dean!”

When Shen Nanxing opened the neck of the ampoule, broken glass pierced his palm and caused frostbite.

The old dean reached out and held her wrist, comforting her:

“Listen to me, treating patients requires speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, just like acupuncture.”

Then, he dipped his finger in the water from the teacup and drew a diagram of the heart’s anatomy on the table:

“Look, the vagus nerve is right here. Inserting the needle half an inch deep will stop the tremors.”

Shen Nanxing nodded gratefully.

“I understand. Thank you, Dean.”

“Those who are remarried are really amazing. They really know how to order people around!”

Li Shufen, who was standing by, had been very dissatisfied since the first time she saw Shen Nanxing.

Seeing the dean’s careful guidance, she was even more confused.

After treating the pesticide poisoning patient, Shen Nanxing came to the dean’s office.

I saw the old dean leaning over the wooden table analyzing the X-ray film in his hand.

“Come, Xiao Shen, watch this movie.”

Shen Nanxing looked at the situation on the X-ray film and felt a sharp pain in his heart.

She was all too familiar with the film’s situation. “The shrapnel was stuck between the right ventricle and the diaphragm, only three millimeters away from the coronary artery… I’ve dealt with similar cases before.”

“Oh, tell me about it!”

As Shen Nanxing’s mind flashed with the image of himself being shot by Lu Zhanye on the execution ground,

There was the metallic clatter of a cart in the corridor.

“Get out of the way! Get out of the way now, the steel bars are piercing through me.”

Before the patient arrived, Zhao Tiezhu’s roar echoed throughout the emergency corridor.

“Dean, excuse me…”

When Shen Nanxing rushed out,

A military jeep had stopped in front of the emergency building.

Lu Zhanye jumped out of the car and came to Shen Nanxing immediately.

His training uniform was stained with yellow mud from the training ground:

“A new recruit from the third battalion made an operational error and the steel bar penetrated his left chest.”

Shen Nanxing didn’t care about the look Lu Zhanye gave her after he got out of the car.

Following him to the back of the car…

The moment the carriage door was opened, the smell of blood hit me in the face.

As soon as Shen Nanxing’s fingers touched the injured man’s wrist pulse, a feeling of suffocation came instantly.

This is a steel bar inserted diagonally three fingers below the right lower abdominal rib arch…

“Are you okay?”

Lu Zhanye noticed something was wrong with Shen Nanxing and reached out to show concern.

Unexpectedly, Shen Nanxing blocked it with one hand.

“I’m fine. Saving people is more important.”

She endured the discomfort and said to the nurse beside her:

“Prepare for laparotomy! Transfuse 500cc of plasma first!”

Lu Zhanye’s eyes were always fixed on her pale face.

The next second, Lu Zhanye reached out and pressed the stretcher:

“The experts from the Military Region General Hospital are on their way. You don’t look well, go get some rest first.”

“By the time they arrive, the person will be dead!”

Shen Nanxing snatched the consent form for surgery and wrote down his own opinion on it.

The handwriting and the posture are not what a country woman or a barefoot doctor should look like.

Apart from the fact that she is Shen Huaishan’s daughter, Lu Zhanye is becoming more and more interested in the wife he “picked up”.

“The right lower abdomen was penetrated, and the liver is suspected to be damaged…”

In the emergency room, Shen Nanxing lifted the blood-soaked collar of the wounded man and found that the angle of the wound was exactly the same as the angle of the bullet that pierced his chest in his previous life.

In the operating room, the smell of disinfectant suddenly became more pungent…