The Humble Family’s Daughter Has A Spatial Pocket! - Chapter 756

Chapter 756: Chapter 676, Landslide_1 Chapter 756: Chapter 676, Landslide_1 Daohua spent the Minor New Year with her family and then packed up her things to go to Taohua Village.

As it was still the period of mourning for Granny Gu, this year’s New Year celebrations for Daohua and Gu Jian were pretty subdued. Fortunately, one was busy with the preparations for spring plowing after the New Year, and the other with processing medicinal herbs, so they weren’t too bored.

Time flew by, and before they knew it, it was already February.

On the first day of February, Yan Zhigao’s appointment came through. He was not transferred to Beijing, but continued to serve as the Magistrate of Ningmen Prefecture.

At this, the entire Yan Family was somewhat disappointed.

Upon hearing the news, Daohua couldn’t help but frown, “Considering that he discovered potatoes, Father’s political achievements should be considered top-notch. When the Imperial Censor from the Ducha Courtyard left last year, he had a pretty good impression of Father and wouldn’t have given too low a rating. So why wasn’t he transferred to Beijing?”

Seeing his apprentice worried, Gu Jian knew what she was concerned about and reassured her, “Now is not a good time to be in Beijing. Anyway, Yeyang and your two brothers are still at the Northern Frontier. Going to the capital is of no use now. Besides, it would only involve you in various power struggles. Once Yeyang returns to the capital, he will definitely find a way to get your father transferred to Beijing.”

Daohua looked doubtful, “Can an official’s transfer be accomplished just because he wishes it? Moreover, it wouldn’t be good to use his position for personal reasons,” she said, and then sighed, “I’ll have to find a way myself.”

Gu Jian glanced at his apprentice, his eyes filled with amusement.

The little apprentice had one particular strength that he greatly admired: she never relied excessively on others, always preferring to solve problems herself without troubling anyone else.

When there was a loss of military supplies, he had been prepared for his apprentice to come seeking help. Yet, within just a few days, she had completely resolved the issue.

In the matter of the Guo Family tarnishing the Yan Family’s reputation, this girl acted decisively as well. Anyone else might have considered the relationship since, after all, the Guo Family was Yeyang’s maternal home.

She didn’t choose to suffer in silence or compromise, nor did she hesitate and miss the best opportunity to salvage the Yan Family’s reputation.

It’s said that Yan Zhigao and his wife didn’t know about it in advance–this girl made the decision all by herself!

After finishing the busy work of spring plowing, Daohua accompanied Gu Jian on a trip around the area.

They didn’t travel far, just toured around Ningmen Prefecture.

In late February, while passing through a mountain town, the master and disciple encountered a landslide.

The mountain town was built against the mountain, and the landslide affected a large area; many homes were buried. Moreover, it happened early in the morning, and many people didn’t manage to escape.

Daohua and Gu Jian were lucky; the inn where they stayed was just outside the area of the landslide.

“Oh, where are you, my husband?”

“My boy, my dear boy!”

“Someone come quick, there are people buried here!”

In the mountain town, cries and shouts shook the sky as the locals scrambled to save people.

Upon seeing this, Daohua left Caiju to take care of Gu Jian while she, along with other servants, joined the rescue efforts.

The government officials from the county office arrived quickly, and villagers from nearby communities came to help. With more people, they managed to rescue many victims.

The town only had two small medical clinics, which couldn’t accommodate too many injured. The kind-hearted innkeeper took the initiative to offer his inn as a place for other victims.

Seeing the shortage of doctors in the town, Gu Jian rolled up his sleeves to help.

When Daohua returned from outside, she saw her master rushing about to attend to the injured.

“What are you standing there for? Don’t you see how many injured people there are? Come and help immediately,” Gu Jian yelled at Daohua, and then he went back to treating the wounded.

It was now late afternoon. After learning from Caiju that her master had eaten lunch, Daohua quickly ate some pastries in her room to fill her stomach, and then came down to aid in treating the injured.

The number of wounded was overwhelming, and even after two days of continuous work by the doctors, more than half of the victims still hadn’t received treatment. To make matters worse, the town’s medical supplies were running low.

“What are we going to do?”

“I wonder if the county office can send some medical supplies over?”

The doctors at the inn were frantically pacing, when a skinny, bearded, limping middle-aged man spoke up: “I have some medicines in my hut. Have someone fetch them to tide us over for the time being.”

Daohua had already noticed this man. The reason being, he had excellent stitching techniques; any patient with extensive injuries was treated by him.

In modern times, this man would undoubtedly be a key surgeon.

“Ge Xun, save my life!”

Just then, a middle-aged man, covered in blood, rushed in carrying a teenager on his back. After entering the inn and briefly looking around in panic, he hurried towards the skinny, limping middle-aged man.

“Ge Xun, please save my son,” the middle-aged man pleaded as he set the boy down, desperately trying to stop the bleeding from the boy’s abdomen.

Seeing the flow of blood from the boy’s abdomen, doctors at the scene all frowned.

Ge Xun also furrowed his brows, looking distressed as he said, “How did Xiaojian get hurt so badly?”

The middle-aged man said anxiously, “When we went to rescue people, a suddenly broken tree trunk scratched Xiaojian, and he ended up like this.”

Ge Xun pursed his lips tightly, his face set in concentration as he started to treat the young boy’s wounds. Before long, sweat had seeped out on his forehead. After a while, Ge Xun let out a defeated sigh, and said to the middle-aged man with difficulty, “Xiaojian’s injuries are too severe, they’ve reached his internal organs. We don’t have any medicine now, I can’t treat him.”

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man’s face filled with despair, and he suddenly grabbed Ge Xun, “Xiaojian is your nephew, you can’t just not save him.”

Ge Xun, probably feeling desperate too, raised his voice a notch, “I want to save him too, but I’m not a god. How can I save him without medicine?” Saying this, he cast a reproachful look at the middle-aged man. “Xiaojian is still a child, how could you as a father not keep an eye on him?”

Seeing the two argue, the people around them quickly tried to intervene and calm things down.

Daohua glanced at Wang Manman, “Bring over my medicine chest.”

Wang Manman nodded and approached Ge Xun with Daohua’s medicine chest, “Here, we still have some medicine here, take it quickly and save him.”

Ge Xun looked up at Wang Manman, then turned to look at Daohua, who was watching them, and Gu Jian, who was so absorbed in saving others that he paid no attention to his surroundings, “Thank you.”

He had noticed these few people quite early on.

Not for any other reason but because the elderly doctor was treating the most severely injured present. By the effortless way he worked, it was clear that his medical skills were extremely advanced.

Ge Xun, without another thought, hurriedly opened the medicine chest. Looking at the wide variety of finished medicines inside that he could not understand, he felt bewildered.

Wang Manman, worried he wouldn’t know how to use them, stepped up and began to explain, “This is for stopping bleeding, this is Powder for Anesthesia, this is medicinal alcohol, for disinfection…”

“Manman, don’t waste time, just give the doctor whatever he asks for!” Daohua interrupted Wang Manman’s explanation.

Wang Manman quickly nodded and then looked at Ge Xun.

Ge Xun recovered his focus and began to concentrate on treating his nephew. Initially, he had been worried that he might not have the specific medicines he needed, but to his surprise, whatever he asked for, the other party could provide, and the effectiveness of the medicine was astonishing.

He kept busy until well into the night before Ge Xun managed to deal with his nephew’s wounds.

Looking at his nephew who was now breathing steadily in his sleep, Ge Xun let out a heavy sigh of relief.

The nephew was the only blood relative his sister had left him. If he had died in front of him, Ge Xun feared he would never be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.

Seeing that it was finally over, Wang Manman got up and walked over to Daohua.

After Daohua had finished treating the wounds of the person in her hands, she asked, “Has the boy been saved?”

Wang Manman nodded, “Miss, that Dr. Ge is really impressive. He managed to sew such a big wound up.”

While they spoke, Ge Xun approached and bowed deeply to Daohua, who was dressed as a man, “Thank you for gifting the medicine.”

Daohua hurriedly responded with a bow, “Dr. Ge is too polite. I only offered a modest contribution.”

Ge Xun handed back the medicine chest.

Daohua smiled, “Dr. Ge, keep it for your use.” Pointing to the wounded people around them, she added, “There are still so many who need treatment.”

Ge Xun looked at Daohua again and thanked her once more.

It wasn’t until 1:00 AM that Daohua and Gu Jian went to rest.

The next day, after having breakfast and preparing to continue treating the wounded, Daohua and Gu Jian saw the innkeeper sighing and lamenting.

“Boss, what’s wrong?” Daohua couldn’t help but ask.

The innkeeper said with a worried frown, “The county reported that there is a war on the Northern Frontier, and the herbs have been requisitioned. They can’t provide any support with medicinal herbs for us, telling us to work it out ourselves. But what can we do? Even if we go up the mountain to collect herbs, it would still take time.”

Daohua knew about the requisition of medicinal herbs ordered by the Governor’s Office of Ningmen Prefecture. After pondering for a moment, she said, “Boss, make a list of the medicinal herbs you need, and I will help you raise them.”

Hearing this, the innkeeper was overjoyed, offering repeated bows to Daohua in thanks and then ran off to ask the doctors in the inn.

Gu Jian glanced at his apprentice and said nothing.

The doctors, after hearing what the innkeeper said, were also very pleased.

Once the needed herbs had been listed, Daohua summoned Yan Ying and asked him to transport the medicine from the city.

The required herbs, which were all commonly used, were available at the medicine store. By the next afternoon, several carts of medicinal herbs were delivered to the mountain town.

Observing the quality of the delivered herbs, Ge Xun immediately found the innkeeper, “These are all top-grade herbs. The villagers here in the mountain town are not wealthy; I’m afraid they can’t afford them.”

The innkeeper smiled, “Don’t worry. These medicinal herbs were donated by the generous person without charge.”

Hearing this, Ge Xun was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, “The generous person truly has a healer’s kind heart.”

The innkeeper nodded, “Isn’t that the truth? And we’re also very grateful for the generous person and the apprentice. Otherwise, how could we possibly have managed with so many injured?”