Chapter 44: Detoxifying The Snake Venom
When the group of people who were frantically carrying Xu Duojin down the mountain heard the shout coming from behind them, they quickly turned around to look at the owner of the voice. Among those in the group, there were several people who instantly recognized Lu Jiao.
If it weren't for this woman's refusal to pay for the treatment of Brother Yunjin's injury, why could Brother Xu go up the mountain to hunt some large prey to sell it to raise money for Brother Yunjin's treatment? This made them feel extremely disgusted.
Brother Xu eventually succeeded in hunting a large prey.But who'd have thought that, while he was going down the mountain, he'd be attacked by a poisonous snake? Judging from the appearance of Big Brother Xu, they were afraid that he would not be able to hang on till they reached the bottom of the mountain. Furthermore, even if a person bitten by the golden ring snake is cured, he will suffer from brain haemorrhage and may become paralyzed.
Brother Xu's life has been turned upside down.
The more these people thought about it, the more annoyed they became, glaring at Lu Jiao with indescribable anger in their eyes, but Lu Jiao simply disregarded their glares and walked towards Xu Duojin.
But she was stopped in her tracks before she could reach Xu Duojin's stretcher, "What are you doing?"
Lu Jiao raised her eyes to look at the person who had stopped her. It was a hunter from Xie Clan Village, an elderly man with a face full of lines left by the years gone by. From her memories, Lu Jiao recalled that he seemed to be surnamed Xiao, and everyone called him Old Man Xiao, but Lu Jiao was concerned about Xu Duojin right now.
"Detoxifying him, you should not delay. I'm afraid he won't be able to hang on till he is carried down the mountain. If you delay, even if he survives, he will be paralyzed for the rest of his life."
Old Man Xiao was taken aback when he heard the words of the girl in front of him.
Someone beside her, with an ugly face, cursed at her, "The one who's going to die will be you!" Lu Jiao ignored him and continued to walk towards Xu Duojin.
Just as that man wanted to continue cursing, Old Man Xiao raised his hand to stop him, and the man was taken aback, "Uncle Xiao?"
Old Man Xiao ignored him and turned to look at Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao was busy using silver needles to seal the poison around Xu Duojin's wounds to prevent the snake venom from spreading further.
"What kind of snake was he bitten by?" she asked Old Man Xiao, who was standing behind her after she had sealed the poison.
As Old Man Xiao saw how good she was at sealing acupoints with silver needles, he could make it out that she knew medicine, so he immediately answered her question, "He was bitten by a golden ring snake."
Lu Jiao nodded, indicating that she understood. Then, she put her right hand in her left hand's sleeve and took out the scalpel from her space, opened Xu Duojin's wounds, and forced out the black blood.
In fact, if an anti-venom is available, a single injection of it will suffice, but there is no snake anti-venom in her space. In fact, she used to keep one, but it was also used up later, and she forgot to add a new one.
After squeezing out the black blood, Lu Jiao took a bottle of water and repeatedly cleaned the wound.
When she was done cleaning, she quickly stood up and looked at the people around her and said, "Wait a moment, I'll get some herbs for the snake anti-venom, and it will be all fine right away."
In fact, some of the herbs Lu Jiao had previously picked could detoxify snake venom, but she didn't want to reveal her secrets in front of others, and there were still some herbs missing, so she said that.
Lu Jiao quickly got up and left.
"Uncle Xiao, let's carry Big Brother Xu Duojin down quickly," a few hunters said to Old Man Xiao, the senior most person in their group, while looking at Lu Jiao's leaving back.
"How could that damn fat woman have the ability to detoxify the snake venom?"
"Yes, let's hurry up and carry him down the mountain."
Old Man Xiao looked at Xu Duojin, who was in an unconscious state at that moment, and he was afraid that it would be dangerous to carry him down the mountain so rashly while Lu Jiao was in the mid of treating him.
Old Man Xiao turned around to look at the people around him and said with a heavy heart,
"Duojin is currently in serious condition. Even if he is carried down the mountain rashly like this, I'm afraid he will die before reaching the bottom. For the time being, we can only let Yunjin's wife try. Maybe there is still a chance."
The people around him wanted to say more, but seeing Xu Duojin, who had passed out earlier and was still in an unconscious state, they didn't dare speak.
Lu Jiao quickly gathered up the herbs and, at the same time, took out some of the herbs available in the space.
She rubbed the detoxifying herbs between her hands and crushed them into small pieces before applying them to the wound where the snake had bitten Xu Duojin.
After that, she rubbed, crushed and fed two antidote herbs, Banzhilian and Longdan, into Xu Duojin's mouth.
When the people beside her saw how fervently she was working, they all stepped forward to help, and Lu Jiao gladly accepted their help.
Even though he was in an unconscious state, Xu Duojin was still conscious of swallowing. As Lu Jiao fed him the antidote, he swallowed it subconsciously.
Lu Jiao took this opportunity to feed him some of the spiritual spring water while maintaining the same posture.
The paleness which was earlier evident on Xu Duojin's face had now partially faded away. When Lu Jiao looked at his face, which seemed to be regaining color, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She quickly put away the silver needle and turned to look at the people around her and said,
"Okay, his life is out of danger for the time being. You guys hurry up and take him down the mountain. After going down the mountain, I'll give him a prescription for snake anti-venom. Have someone give him the medicine immediately. He should take three doses per day. He will be okay in a few days."
She stood up after she finished speaking, sweating profusely and looking visibly exhausted.
"Will there really be nothing wrong with him?" Old Man Xiao and the people behind him questioned her in disbelief.
Seeing that it was getting late, Lu Jiao hastily nodded. "He'll be fine."
"Won't he be paralyzed?" Old Man Xiao asked again.
"No, the krait is a snake that has neurotoxic venom. He will not be paralyzed or have any problems as long as the prescription is given to combat against those toxins which had already spread in his body."
Lu Jiao ignored these people after she finished speaking, lowered her head, tidied up her basket, slung it over her back and continued her journey down the mountain.
Behind her, Old Man Xiao waved his hand, signalling people to carry Xu Duojin down the mountain.
As soon as the group of people carrying Xu Duojin resumed their journey down the mountain, three people came out of the forest behind them. All three of them were dressed like commoners. The leader of the three had handsome features, but his eyebrows were cold and distant, and his gestures had a noble air.
The sweet and gentle-looking man next to him said enthusiastically, "Lingfeng, isn't this the same lady who went to our Medical Hall last time to sell the Ganoderma lucidum? I wasn't expecting her to know anything about medicine. She seemed to have been explaining about the venom of the golden ring snake. When she said that there would be no sequelae, do you think she was telling the truth?"
The krait venom easily damages the nerves of the human body. Even if the poison is detoxified, it will usually leave sequelae which may range from acute kidney injury, brain hemorrhage, myotoxicity, delayed sensory neuropathy or even neuromuscular paralysis.
Qi Lei couldn't wait to chase after her and ask her if there would really be no sequelae.
Zhao Lingfeng turned around and glanced at his friend beside him. He really couldn't change his passion for medicine.
"That's what she said. We can't say for sure if there would be or wouldn't be anything wrong."
Qi Lei reached out and grabbed Zhao Lingfeng's hand, saying, "You make your people pay attention to the victim who was bitten by the poisonous snake. If the venom of the golden ring snake really leaves no sequelae, this is a great deed for the benefit of the common people. You must know that I have a large number of such cases every year. Many people have died from poisonous snake bites, and among those saved, the sequelae due to the snake venom have rendered many of them paralyzed."
As soon as Qi Lei mentioned it, Zhao Lingfeng also thought of paying attention to this matter, so he replied, "Okay, I will let my people pay attention to that injured man."
The group of three people talked all the way down the mountain and left Xie Clan Village.
Lu Jiao was completely unaware of this. As soon as she got home, she went to the east bedroom to look for a writing brush, ink, and paper.
As a scholar, Xie Yunjin has no shortage of writing brushes, ink, paper, and ink stones at home, but he was kicked out earlier, and all of those things were piled up in a mess in a corner of the east bedroom.
In the east bedroom, Xie Yunjin and the four little ones were staring intently at Lu Jiao, wondering what she was looking for.
The Youngest Child was not at all afraid of her now. He dashed over to Lu Jiao's side and softly asked, "Mother, what are you looking for? I'll help you find it."
"Have you seen your father's writing brush, ink, paper, and ink stone?" Lu Jiao asked, turning to face the Youngest Child.
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