Chapter 183

183 Neat and Clean

Mo Ruyue hated it the most when people knelt down for no reason. But in this time and space, kneeling was as common as drinking water and eating cabbage. Especially when civilians met nobles, not kneeling was an offense, and they would be punished if they did.

However, she didn’t have that many rules here, so when she saw the little beggar kneel down, she immediately scolded him.

The little beggar usually begged for money and food, and kneeling had become an instinct. Now that he was scolded by Mo Ruyue, he was a little dazed. For a moment, he only knelt on the ground and looked at her in a daze. He only reacted after being poked by the person in the queue next to him and immediately got up.

“I’ll go with you after I’m done with this person.”

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After Mo Ruyue finished speaking, he said apologetically to the people in line behind him, “Everyone, let’s change to another doctor today. This is also a matter of life and death. I have to go over and take a look at the situation.”

Although Mo Ruyue had always treated people coldly, everyone knew that she was a good-hearted person, so they didn’t have any objections when they heard this reason.

After seeing the patients at hand, Mo Ruyue immediately carried his medicine box and brought the little beggar who had been waiting for a long time to the headquarters of the beggar sect.

It was an abandoned village outside the city. It was said that there was a locust plague that year, and all the crops in the village were not harvested. The villagers fled and abandoned the village, which had been abandoned to this day.

Mo Ruyue didn’t believe this rumor. Even if the villagers had fled because of the locust plague, it was said that the weather had been good for the past ten years. Moreover, the village was just outside the county, and the transportation and resources were good. It shouldn’t have been abandoned like this.

There must be another reason for this.

However, these were not things that she needed to care about. No matter why the village was abandoned, it had now been occupied by a group of beggars with a large number of people and had become the headquarters of the county’s beggar sect.

The little beggar’s speed wasn’t slow, but compared to Mo Ruyue’s, it was far behind. If she didn’t have to wait for him to catch up, she would have already arrived.

“Lady Qin, you run really fast!”

The little beggar was panting as he ran. On the other hand, Mo Ruyue was running as fast as the wind with the huge medicine box on her back. Not even a strand of her hair was messy, let alone the change in her expression.

Soon, the two of them left the city and came to the abandoned village outside. As soon as they arrived at the village entrance, a few adult beggars came up to them, all of them looking extremely anxious.

“Lady Qin, you’re finally here!”

“Lady Qin, quickly save our boss!”

They all swarmed up and begged Mo Ruyue.

“Then don’t block the way, take me there to see!”

When Mo Ruyue said this, the beggars immediately made way for him. A younger beggar took the initiative to say, “I’ll take you there! The boss is in the house in front!”

The house looked like it belonged to a rich family in the original village. The yard was very large, and there were six rooms for the people to live in, not to mention the kitchen, warehouse, woodshed, pigsty, and cowshed.

There were many beggars surrounding the south-facing door of the main house in the courtyard. Each and every one of them looked into the house worriedly, and occasionally they would whisper to each other.

Mo Ruyue’s arrival had obviously brought them hope. They had wanted to come over and say a few words, but they were all driven away by the young beggar.

“Go, go, go, don’t delay Lady Qin’s treatment of Boss!”

While he was maintaining order, Mo Ruyue had already entered the house. The moment she entered, she smelled an extremely strong stench.

It was the rancid smell of rotting wounds. If he had been poisoned today, the poison must be extremely potent to produce such an effect.

The beggar sect’s leader was a middle-aged man in his forties. His dirty and tangled hair and long beard were tangled together, making it impossible to see his facial features. The clothes he was wearing were torn into a pile of rags, and there were a few deep wounds on his exposed chest. His skin and flesh were rolled up, and he looked very ferocious.

It was obvious that it was a knife wound. How could it have been caused by a wolf’s claw? Even if it had been scratched by a wolf, the wolf’s claw did not have such a strong poison that would make the wound rot to this extent in less than half a day.

The beggar boss must have accidentally bumped into something on his way up the mountain and was almost killed to silence him, but for some unknown reason, he managed to escape from death. Perhaps this was why he chose to lie to cover up the truth of his injury, for fear of being exterminated by the roots.

Mo Ruyue didn’t have time to think and immediately went forward to treat the beggar boss.

She first disinfected the wound with alcohol cotton and iodine. The beggar boss had fallen into a coma, but he still had a strong reaction to the stimulation of the wound.

He had just struggled for a moment when Mo Ruyue immediately asked the beggar beside him to avoid his wound and press on him.

She then took out the anesthetic that she had refined from the medicine box and poured it on a clean cotton cloth. Then, she covered the beggar’s sect leader’s mouth and nose. Soon, he calmed down and fell asleep again.

Mo Ruyue first pried open his mouth and placed a piece of ginseng under his tongue to prevent him from losing his strength due to the poison. Then, she began to clean the rotten and smelly flesh around his wound with a scalpel.

The scalpel was made of the metal refined from various ores provided by the magistrate. It was as sharp as the steel scalpel she had used before.

Thick black blood spurted out. Fortunately, Mo Ruyue always wore a mask when she performed surgery, so the blood didn’t spray on her face.

The stench was getting stronger and stronger. The beggars at the side couldn’t help but cover their mouths and noses, but Mo Ruyue was still unmoved. She was still carefully and quickly cutting the rotten meat.

After about the time it took for an incense stick to burn, all the rotten meat was cut off. The blood that gushed out had turned bright red, indicating that the poisoned parts had been dug out.

However, several bowl-sized holes were left on the beggar’s chest, which looked even more terrifying than before.

At this moment, Mo Ruyue began to use a sterilized thread instead of the suture line and began to sew up the beggar boss’s wound. Her stitches were very fine, so after all the stitches were completed, the three big holes were left with only three narrow threads of thread.

Finally, she sprinkled some medicine to stop the bleeding and regrow muscles on the wound, then wrapped it up with a clean bandage.

This set of procedures was done cleanly and quickly, and it did not take long. It made the surrounding beggars even more shocked.

Even if it wasn’t the first time they had seen Mo Ruyue treat people, they would still be amazed by her technique.

Seeing their boss’s breathing gradually calm down, the beggars all heaved a sigh of relief.

“Alright, take good care of your boss for the next few days. Don’t let him move too much, and don’t let him eat any meat or spicy food. I will prescribe two different medicines, one for external application and one for oral consumption. You will be fine after a period of good rest.”

Mo Ruyue knew that these beggars looked very poor and in dire straits, but as the biggest local snake, they did not lack food or money. So only after the first few free consultations, the rest of the time, they collected money however they should.

“Alright, Lady Qin, don’t worry. We will definitely cure boss!”