Chapter 208: Chapter 208: Kunshan Night Glow

It wasn’t until after five o’clock in the afternoon, almost twelve hours had passed, that the surgery still wasn’t over.

As the surgery progressed, the more bone fragments were cleared, the more Xu Qinghuan felt the difficulty of the surgery. Fortunately, she was very experienced and had great stamina, allowing her to sustain a long surgery like this.

“Everyone, hang in there a bit longer, it should end in about an hour.”

As time dragged on, Xu Qinghuan had no choice but to encourage her assistants with an adrenaline rush. Not everyone could maintain high energy for over ten hours and sustain intense operation for so long like she could.

The people who heard her were instantly revitalized.

The first assistant was a male doctor around his thirties. Initially, he held a reserved attitude towards Xu Qinghuan, pondering if they would be implicated in case the surgery failed as he assisted her on the operating table.

Would it be hard labor on a farm, or living in a cow shed in the countryside?

At the start of the surgery, he couldn’t keep up with Xu Qinghuan’s pace at all, nearly making mistakes several times. It was only when Xu Qinghuan shot him a sharp glance with her clear eyes that his mind cleared up like a bell, and he focused on collaborating to the best of his ability.

Outside the operating room, as time slowly elapsed, the light in the hallway gradually dimmed, the last rays of the sunset withdrew from the window glass, and the overhead lights turned on at some unknown point.

Huo Zhenqing had waited all day. It concerned his most outstanding son, the pillar of the next generation of the Huo Family. Even if he wasn’t here, he wouldn’t be able to do anything this day.

It could be said his heart was boiling with anxiety.

Shao Lizhong accompanied him, as did Huo Chi and other members of the Huo Family. No one took a single step away from the operating room. The whole day passed, and the people inside hadn’t had time to eat or drink, nor had those outside had a drop of water.

Finally, the light in the operating room went out, and everyone’s hearts were on edge. Huo Chi rushed over like an arrow off the string, nearly colliding with the assistant doctor who came out the door.

“How is it?” Shao Lizhong asked anxiously.

The doctor, with a tired face, leaned against the doorframe, exhausted in speech but with a relaxed smile, “The surgery went well, everything was repaired in place, Doctor Xu truly is remarkable!”

He sincerely praised, having witnessed it with his own eyes, saying that Xu Qinghuan’s capability was vividly undeniable to them.

Huo Zhenqing finally showed a semblance of a smile, stepping forward eagerly in two steps, unable to wait. He wanted to ask Xu Qinghuan properly to what extent recovery would be possible?

In the operating room, after Xu Qinghuan completed the suturing, she placed a medicinal pill, self-made from her past life, into Huo Zui’s mouth, the type that promotes bone growth.

No matter how successful the surgery was, much necrotic bone was still cleared away. Many fragments indeed couldn’t be reattached and needed to be removed, leaving many gaps, as well as some hollow areas between the bones.

But Huo Zui was an adult, and without the aid of medication, recovery in the knee area, particularly after a gunshot, wouldn’t be possible.

And Huo Zui, as a soldier, needed unwasted combat power.

From beginning to end, regardless of how much Shao Lizhong and others exalted Xu Qinghuan, Huo Zui never placed too much hope in her.

He swallowed the pill reluctantly and coldly asked, “What did you give me to eat?”

Xu Qinghuan glanced at him coolly, “I’m a doctor. Naturally, I’ve given you medicine to treat your injury.”

With that, she ignored Huo Zui and instructed, “Push him back to the ward. I will write the prescription, and the medication will be arranged for him shortly.”

Xu Qinghuan quickly wrote a prescription and handed it to the first assistant, considering the current hospital system and those bizarre things encountered at the county hospital before, “Make sure the inpatient department uses the prescribed medication, no one should alter my prescription. If the efficacy lags, I will investigate.”

The implication was that she knew what kind of efficacy was expected at every step.

Fortunately, this was the Army General Hospital, not some unorthodox place without proper procedures like the county hospital, where prescriptions would be altered at will.

Moreover, this concerned the eldest son of the Huo Family, and no one usually wanted to get involved.

Huo Zui was first wheeled out, looking somewhat unusual.

Seeing his son finally not looking hopeless, Huo Zhenqing breathed a sigh of relief but became instantly worried at his son’s peculiar expression. “How are you? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?”

Huo Zui didn’t know how to describe it. Perhaps it was an illusion. Ever since the bullet hit his knee, he had lost feeling below it. Even if an axe were chopped on it, he wouldn’t feel any pain.

But at this moment, he felt a gentle and cool force penetrating his knee and spreading down to his calf, a tingling and slightly itchy sensation, like being pricked by ants, densely covering his entire calf.

It was truly a mix of pain and pleasure!

“No!” said Huo Zui.

“Then your leg…” Huo Zhenqing stopped mid-sentence, rationalizing that even with a successful surgery, with anesthesia still present, how could there be any sensation?

However, Huo Zui turned to Shao Lizhong, “Dean Shao, my leg is both itchy and prickly, though not seriously. What’s going on?”

“Where is it itchy? Where is it prickly?” asked Shao Lizhong, taken aback by the question.

Under normal circumstances, even if the anesthesia had worn off, there shouldn’t be sensation so soon, so Shao Lizhong didn’t think it was Huo Zui’s injured leg.

“It’s the leg that was shot, below the knee,” said Huo Zui, feeling a bit uncomfortable but not daring to move the leg, even if he wanted to, because it was in a cast.

“What?” Shao Lizhong was startled, and at that moment, Xu Qinghuan came out.

She removed her mask, scanned the crowd, and immediately saw the young man waiting at the corridor’s end. He was well-dressed, with a short military haircut, deep eyes showing some anxiety. Upon seeing the person waiting, his eyes instantly lit up like fireworks bursting.

“Huanhuan!”

Jiang Xingye swiftly reached Xu Qinghuan, pushing Shao Lizhong aside, enveloping her in his arms with care, “Tired?”

“A bit tired,” Xu Qinghuan said, leaning on his arm, then turned to look at Shao Lizhong, asking with her eyes, what do you want to say?

Shao Lizhong glanced at Huo Zui, indicating for Huo Zui to speak for himself.

Huo Zui’s gaze fell on Xu Qinghuan’s face, seeing his doctor’s full appearance for the first time.

He didn’t expect her to be so young.

With exquisite features and a cool gaze, standing beside the young man, she drew everyone’s attention, yet remained serene like a white Kunshan jade in the May, radiant and noble, stunning beyond comparison.

He was momentarily dazed.

Until he sensed two sharp gazes, like being watched by a fierce beast, carrying an oppressive aura. Startled, he turned to look at the young man.

Huo Zui hadn’t intended to challenge Jiang Xingye. After considering his words, he said, “Doctor Xu, below my injured knee, the whole calf is both itchy and prickly, though not seriously.”

“It’s normal. I used medication. This is a normal reaction,” Xu Qinghuan responded nonchalantly.

Having said that, she ignored Huo Zui and disregarded everyone’s shock, signaling Huo Chi, “Help push the patient to the ward, administer the injection, and I’m going to rest.”

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