kvmb Chapter 56 She must be hungry
Chapter 56 She must be hungry
Lu Yangyang used strong liquor and flames to disinfect the blade and needle repeatedly. Before she started, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "I almost forgot, does the palace have anesthetic powder?"
She was used to living in the countryside, where few people could afford such precious medicine. Even when setting bones, they would only use some pain-relieving herbs and would not use anesthetic powder.
But she had heard the old doctor mention that such things existed in the capital.
“No need,” the Crown Prince suddenly said.
"Hmm?" Lu Yangyang looked at him.
“No painkillers are needed,” the prince replied.
Lu Yangyang looked at him in shock: "It hurts a lot. I didn't think it through. I used to live in a small town where I didn't need these things, so I forgot to ask..."
“Miss Lu, you may not know this, but when His Highness was injured, the palace and some skilled people from outside tried many methods, but His Highness could not withstand one of the ingredients in the anesthetic powder and almost died. Therefore, His Highness cannot use this anesthetic powder,” Eunuch Cao explained to her.
Lu Yangyang looked at the Crown Prince with sympathy: "Then you should bear with it. If you really can't stand it, then..."
Lu Yangyang handed him a handkerchief and instructed Eunuch Cao, "You should blindfold him. The scene later might be a little...unseemly. If he really can't take it anymore, hold him down and make sure his legs don't move."
"Don't worry, young lady," Eunuch Cao replied.
With his assurance, Lu Yangyang quickly got into the swing of things. This surgery was still very complicated for her. Although her aunt had trained her to use small animals many times before, humans and animals are different. This was the first time she had performed such a complicated surgery on a human.
However, she has one advantage: when she focuses on doing something, she becomes completely absorbed.
She had practiced countless times how to control her strength to the perfect degree, so whether it was making an incision or suturing tendons, it was as simple as eating and drinking for her. As long as she placed her hand on it, she would never tremble.
Time passed slowly, and during the intervals between stitches, Lu Yangyang would glance at the Crown Prince's condition. To her surprise, when she thought the pain would be unbearable for a normal person, the Crown Prince did not move at all, at most clenching his fingers.
If it weren't for the fact that his face had long since lost all color, and the cold sweat that had soaked through the blindfold, she would have really thought he wasn't in any pain at all.
Lu Yangyang had lost count of how much time had passed. It was so long that it got dark outside. In order not to disturb her, Eunuch Cao lit many lamps around her until he was sure they wouldn't obstruct her view before he continued to stand quietly to the side.
When the moon was high in the sky, Lu Yangyang cut the last thread with scissors, washed her hands with water from a basin, and said, "All done."
Then he let out a deep breath, his figure swaying slightly.
Almost fell.
Then one hand gripped her wrist tightly.
She looked at the Crown Prince in surprise.
He leaned against the soft couch, the blindfold having been changed several times. He gripped Lu Yangyang's wrist with one hand, and reached for the blindfold with the other.
"Wait, wait a minute." Lu Yangyang quickly leaned over and covered his eyes with her freshly washed hands.
Lu Yangyang twitched her eyelids slightly, looking at the scene before her that resembled a crime scene, and turned to Eunuch Cao: "Excuse me, could you please tidy up first?"
I was so tired that my voice was trembling.
“Don’t worry, young lady. His Highness has seen all kinds of situations. You must be exhausted. Leave things here to this old servant. Please go to the bed in the next room and lie down for a while. This old servant will have someone prepare hot water for your bath and dinner for you,” Eunuch Cao said gently.
Hearing him say that, Lu Yangyang breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "Okay, don't move him yet. After you've cleaned him up, use some warm water and keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't get too hot. I'm going to lie down for a while."
Lu Yangyang was really exhausted. As expected, her aunt hadn't lied to her. To do this job, you not only need perseverance, but also physical strength. Fortunately, her physical strength was still pretty good.
She released her hand from the prince's eyes, unaware that as she did so, the eyes beneath her palm trembled slightly.
Lu Yangyang didn't care about anything else. She walked to the bed in the cubicle, lay down, and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.
Meanwhile, the crown prince reached out and pulled off the blindfold covering his eyes.
The scene before him truly resembled a crime scene. Even though Lu Yangyang had cleaned up the bloodstains on his leg after stitching up his wound, there were still bloodstains on the soft couch, his clothes, the floor, and even on Eunuch Cao, who was helping out. Several copper basins on the floor contained handkerchiefs used to wipe away blood.
It was somewhat like the day he was injured and carried back home.
He opened his eyes, and there was blood everywhere.
It looked like it was about to be swallowed up by blood.
After that, countless famous doctors came and went in the Eastern Palace. His legs were pricked tens of thousands of times. At first, the pain was so bad that he needed to use datura to relieve the pain. In the end, his legs completely lost sensation, and he became addicted to datura used for pain relief.
It has only been a little over seven months since the injury.
But for him, it felt like he had lived half a lifetime.
Every day was a torment worse than death.
Every day is worse than the last, and there is no hope in sight.
He wasn't able to endure the pain; he simply wanted to break free from the addiction that had taken him to the brink of madness.
But today, even though it still hurts so much, for some reason, it brought him a long-lost peace. Countless times, as he tried to tear off the cloth in front of him, for some reason, her calmness gradually soothed the turmoil in his heart.
"Your Highness, how are you feeling now? Should we..." Eunuch Cao reached out to help him change his clothes and leaned in to ask in a low voice.
"No need." Perhaps because he hadn't spoken or drunk water for too long, his voice was very hoarse, yet incredibly clear.
“Go see her,” he said softly, closing his eyes.
When Eunuch Cao paused in changing his clothes, he immediately understood what he meant. After tidying himself up a bit, he turned around and glanced into the cubicle.
Lu Yangyang was fast asleep on the bed, probably exhausted. She lay sprawled on the bed, emitting soft snores.
Eunuch Cao turned back and said to the Crown Prince, "Your Highness, Miss Lu is exhausted and has fallen asleep."
The prince lay motionless on the blood-stained couch with his eyes closed. In the flickering candlelight around him, he didn't look like a real person, but rather like someone who had lost all life.
Eunuch Cao's eyelids twitched violently.
"Your Highness?" he called out tentatively.
"Hmm," the Crown Prince replied almost inaudibly. "Go prepare some food."
"She must be hungry."