Chapter 201: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 201: Moving into a New Home, Xin'er Faints (1)
The slap from Xiao Ruiyuan left the red python feeling dizzy and disoriented. It angrily emitted sharp hisses towards Xiao Ruiyuan and swung its thick tail heavily at him.
Humph, it hadn't forgotten that this guy wanted to kill me.
But Xiao Ruiyuan was not easy to deal with. He didn't use a sword but instead grabbed the snake's tail tightly as it swung towards him.
With one person and one snake at a stalemate, neither could do anything to the other.
"Alright, stop making trouble. Let's finish the surgery early so you can go home sooner," Mo Yan said. She didn't come here to watch them fight. She patted the red python's head, signaling it to stop.
Reluctantly, the red python withdrew its tail and rubbed its tongue against Mo Yan's hand. Its eyes, as big as bronze bells, were full of grievances. It just wanted to follow her and didn't want to go home.
To perform surgery on red python, Jingshan Villa had specially prepared a long table measuring six zhang in length and about two chi in width, as per Mo Yan's request.
Mo Yan had the red python lie down on the long table and made it drink a basin full of bitter medicine.
There was no anesthetic in this era, so this bitter medicine could only paralyze the muscles. After drinking it, the red python wouldn't move around randomly during the surgery, but it would still feel intense pain.
Mo Yan knew this was cruel, but there was no other way. If it moved during the surgery, it could easily lead to failure or even damage its gallbladder during bile extraction. If there wasn't enough time to use Spirit Spring Water to repair the wound, it would die.
"It will be painful later, but bear with it. Once the surgery is done, I'll give you something delicious to eat," Mo Yan comforted the red python. She would make sure it had enough food and drink.
As red python lay on the long table, gradually losing control of its body, its eyes lit up. Its large head nodded slightly with difficulty. It still trusted this human.
When the red python's body was completely immobilized, Mo Yan took out the surgical knife, clean gauze, a needle combined with a drainage tube, and a large basin of clear water, which was actually Spirit Spring Water.
The drainage tube connected to the needle was made of resilient chicken intestines and could be freely angled. It was only an inch long, with the other end connected to a long piece of jade pipe slightly thinner than a pinky finger.
Jade wouldn't react with the red python's bile, ensuring that the bile wouldn't be contaminated. After much consideration, Mo Yan had settled on this combination.
The Ghost Doctor was very interested in the instruments Mo Yan brought out, especially the strangely shaped but extremely sharp surgical knife. In his opinion, it wasn't much different from a dagger.
After the Ghost Doctor located the red python's gallbladder, Mo Yan drew a circle with ink to mark the spot. Then, the Ghost Doctor began to pluck the scales from that area with tweezers.
Red python's scales were very tough, and each time one was plucked out, it brought with it a strand of blood. Mo Yan couldn't help but feel sorry for the red python.
After one scale was plucked out, Mo Yan explained the steps of extracting the gallbladder to the Ghost Doctor, both verbally and with gestures.
"Use the surgical knife to cut here. There's a layer of skin, a layer of flesh, and finally the mucous membrane. Try to keep the incision intact. After extracting the bile, you need to sew up the wound layer by layer with sheep gut thread to ensure that the wound heals faster."
The Ghost Doctor nodded earnestly. Although he had many questions in his mind, the most important thing now was to extract the bile.
Xiao Ruiyuan stood on the side, watching Mo Yan's every move and expression attentively, his eyes focused and his mind entirely on her.
Though it was just ordinary actions, he seemed to never get enough of watching her, his emotions fluctuating with her movements, his eyes carrying a gentleness that even he himself hadn't realized.
Mo Yan was fully focused on the surgery and didn't notice his strangeness. Otherwise, even if she were dull, she would have understood someone's different feelings.
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