Chapter 34: Xia Mo’s Delicate Side, Confirmed

“I’m fine, just a minor injury.” Xiao Jingyuan saw how much she still had the energy to talk and said irritably, “But you, why do you even have the time to worry about me?”

Hearing the two of them bicker, the old man stroked his beard and chuckled.

In his eyes, their arguments weren’t real fights—it was just the way close brothers interacted.

Xia Mo was speechless. After taking a sip of water, she turned to the old doctor and asked,

“Doctor, my arm isn’t broken, right?”

“Don’t worry. Your wound was treated in time, and the medicine applied was top-notch. Your arm can be saved. But you’ll need to keep the splint on for a few more days. Based on my years of experience, I suspect there’s a slight bone fracture.”

Xia Mo was a little surprised. This old doctor seemed quite skilled—he could tell she had a fracture just from experience alone.

After chatting with him for a bit, she sent him away and entered her mystical shop to check if there was anything useful for her arm.

The shop didn’t disappoint. Not only did it have medicine and bandages for her injury—huh? There was even a rabies vaccine?

Seeing all these medical supplies, she didn’t even need an X-ray to guess the condition of her arm.

She trusted her golden finger—the mystical shop—and took out everything she needed.

Xiao Jingyuan looked in shock at the pile of strange objects that suddenly appeared on the bed.

“What are these? For your arm?”

“Yes. The old man’s splint won’t do. Help me reapply the treatment.”

Xiao Jingyuan stared at the unfamiliar items, feeling at a loss.

“How do I use them?”

“Take these outside for a bit, pretend to do something, and come back in a while. I’ll teach you then.”

Xiao Jingyuan was skeptical. He wasn’t knowledgeable about treating fractures at all. The only reason he managed to handle her wound earlier was because he happened to have some hemostatic and disinfectant medicine on him.

“Doctors don’t like being overshadowed. Why don’t we just leave first and find an inn to treat it there?”

“No way. I don’t trust you. If you mess it up, we’ll still have to call the old doctor to fix it.”

“Then why did you ask me to do it in the first place? You should’ve just let the doctor help you.”

“That wouldn’t do. Didn’t you just say that doctors don’t like being overshadowed?”

Xiao Jingyuan: “…” Somehow, they had circled back to the same topic. He really couldn’t understand the way her mind worked—it was so contradictory.

She didn’t want to rely on the doctor, but she also didn’t trust him.

In the end, Xiao Jingyuan couldn’t argue with Xia Mo. He slung a bundle over his back and left through the back door.

A while later, he strolled back through the front door, still carrying the same bundle.

“Hey, young man, did you just go out?”

“Yes, my fourth brother asked me to buy some things. Sir, when can we leave?”

“I’ve already treated your fourth brother’s arm. You can leave now. Have you found a place to stay?”

Xiao Jingyuan shook his head. “Not yet.”

“Then try to find an inn nearby. If anything feels off, bring him back to me immediately.”

“Understood. Thank you, sir.”

The old doctor quickly busied himself with other matters.

Back in the room, Xiao Jingyuan locked the door to prevent interruptions.

He set the items down on the bed and asked, “What do I do now?”

“Help me sit up first.”

Xiao Jingyuan found her fussy—wasn’t it just an injured arm?

So delicate.

Still, he carefully helped her up.

“Alright, now unwrap it for me.”

“Okay.”

“Gently. I’m scared of pain.”

Xiao Jingyuan: “…” Xia Mo’s delicate side was officially confirmed.

“Fine.” His tone was impatient, but his hands were gentle as he carefully removed the splint.

Even though he was being extra cautious, Xia Mo still cried out in pain several times.

“It’s off. What’s next?”

“Give me the shot. I helped you last time, so you know how to do it, right?”

Xiao Jingyuan nodded, recalling how she had given him an injection before stitching up his wound. It hurt a little at first, but after the shot, the stitching didn’t hurt at all.

“And then?”

Once the injection was done, the pain eased, and Xia Mo let out a sigh of relief.

Looking at the deep bite marks on her arm, she found them rather horrifying.

Luckily, she was a doctor herself and had seen all kinds of gruesome wounds before.

Treating a wolf bite was the same as treating a dog bite.

“Alright, now open that packet. That’s soap. Use it and some clean water to wash off the medicine from these bite marks.”

Xiao Jingyuan frowned. “That medicine was for stopping the bleeding. The bleeding has already stopped—why wash it off?”

Xia Mo explained, “A wolf bite isn’t the same as a knife wound. For a knife wound, stopping the bleeding like this is fine. But with a wolf bite, if you don’t treat it properly, you could get rabies.”

“Rabies? What’s that?”

“It’s also called hydrophobia. Have you heard of it?”

Xiao Jingyuan was silent for a moment. “Mad dog disease?”

Xia Mo: “…” Fine, mad dog disease it is.

“Yes. Since wolves and dogs bite in a similar way, improper treatment could lead to rabies. Enough talking—help me.”

In this cold weather, using water to wash a wound was absolute torture. Even with several braziers burning in the room, they barely helped.

Xia Mo took out a whole pile of bottled water, and Xiao Jingyuan continuously poured it over her wound. Only after using more than ten bottles did she finally tell him to stop.

After washing, she disinfected the wound with alcohol, administered the rabies vaccine, applied medicine, bandaged it up, and had him secure the splint again.

Xiao Jingyuan remarked, “You said the old doctor’s splint wasn’t good enough.”

“Of course. He didn’t treat me properly or give me a rabies vaccine. I had to remove it. If you get rabies, even the gods won’t be able to save you.”

Just thinking about what wolves ate made her heart race.

Who knew how many bacteria were in a wolf’s mouth? It was terrifying.

Suddenly, she remembered—the Qian family members had also been bitten by wolves. They probably hadn’t treated their wounds properly. If they didn’t get a rabies shot within twelve hours, they’d be in real danger.

“Hey, I remember Uncle Qian and the others were bitten too, right?”

“Yeah, I left them some medicine.”

“That medicine is only for regular wounds. It won’t prevent rabies. Xiao Jingyuan, you need to find them quickly. If they don’t get vaccinated within twelve hours, they’ll be in trouble.”

Xiao Jingyuan hesitated. Bianzhou City was huge—where was he supposed to look? Plus, it was already getting late.

“We haven’t even found an inn yet.”

“Bianzhou City is big, but there should be plenty of inns. Once we find one, we can go look for them. Let’s ask the old doctor—chances are they went to a medical clinic.”

Xiao Jingyuan thought back to the first clinic they saw upon entering the city and suddenly had an idea. “I think I know where they might be.”

That clinic’s doctor had mediocre skills. When he saw that Xia Mo had passed out from her injuries, he was afraid of getting caught up in a medical malpractice case and refused to treat her.

Even though he refused, he still pointed them toward a better doctor—this very one.