Chapter 369: Chapter 366: Sever an Arm

Qin Liuxi came to Old Mrs. Qin just to confirm whether the Qin Family’s Third had an accident or not. Now that it was confirmed, the prescription was written, and she did not stay long. She performed the ritual and left as if she truly came just to check the peace pulse for Old Mrs. Qin without any delay, leaving Mrs. Fang from the northeast, who was chatting with the Old Lady, baffled.

“Miss is really straightforward, speaks her mind, and is quite decisive,” Mrs. Fang remarked meaningfully.

In other families, which girl wouldn’t try to please their grandmother and say nice things? Only her, came just to check the pulse, and even spoke unpleasantly without fearing to upset the elder.

From her perspective, it seemed like Qin Liuxi deliberately belittled someone.

Old Mrs. Qin was unsettled these past few days, and with those few words from Qin Liuxi, she wasn’t pleased, waving her hand, “She’s considered an outsider after all, different from the real great clans. Let’s not talk about it. Mrs. Fang, you shall set off back tomorrow. Don’t mention too many upsetting matters to Yingniang; taking care of the pregnancy is important…”

Seeing her low spirits, Mrs. Fang tactfully continued along this topic.

Qin Liuxi, unaware of being eyed, even if she knew, wouldn’t care; in her eyes, these petty tricks were not worth mentioning.

As she walked out of the Old Lady’s courtyard, she encountered several young ladies coming to pay respects to the Old Lady. Although they were dressed in cotton dresses and thin cloaks, which was a significant improvement from when they first arrived, their hair adorned with twin bead flowers.

Their outfits and appearance were apt and youthful, indeed a beautiful sight.

Qin Liuxi glanced at them, thinking that the young Miss Qin claimed hardship but wasn’t truly suffering. They were still rather fortunate; others might end up as lowly servants or maids.

Seeing Qin Liuxi, they instinctively stopped and bowed their knees in greeting.

Qin Liuxi nodded her head and walked on without uttering a word.

Qin Mingyue was annoyed as she straightened up, vexed at her legs for weakly giving in.

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Northwest.

It was with great difficulty that Qin Yuanshan and his group moved out of the refugee camp and settled into a humble civilian house. However, their joy didn’t last long as they plummeted to despair.

Because Qin Boqing met with an accident and was carried back home covered in blood, his left arm missing.

On seeing this, Qin Yuanshan almost fell backward but forcefully bit his tongue to keep from fainting and shakily rushed to Qin Boqing’s side, trembling hands wanting to touch but not daring to: “What happened, how could this be?”

Crying, Qin Mingmu said, “Third Uncle was saving me.”

They had found tough labor carrying stones at a quarry, but unexpectedly, a craftsman splitting stones lost grip of his iron wedge, which flew directly towards where Qin Mingmu was standing. Located two steps away, Qin Boqing instinctively lunged forward, blocking and pushing.

The extremely sharp iron wedge, due to the momentum, severed Qin Boqing’s hand entirely.

Hearing this, Qin Yuanshan staggered and fell to the ground.

“The doctor’s here, the doctor has arrived.” Qin Boguang pulled a scruffy doctor, who hurried over. Poor old doctor, so elderly that his shoes fell off in the rush.

Inside the dimly lit house, the old doctor moved forward, grimacing as he cut open the blood-clotted sleeve with scissors. Seeing the cleanly cut limb, he sighed, “It was severed by a clean strike; at least he’s spared the agony of amputation.”

“What nonsense are you talking about!” Qin Boguang exclaimed angrily.

The senior doctor shrank visibly and said, “What I said was not wrong. If it’s a clean break, it’s still okay. But if it’s a partial break, it needs to be cut off, and if it’s crushed, it’s even more tragic; you’d have to saw it off, isn’t that even more painful?”

“You!”

Qin Yuanshan pushed him away, his voice trembling as he asked, “Doctor, can my son’s hand not be reattached?”

The senior doctor shook his head: “It’s broken like this, how can it be reconnected? Where’s the hand?”

Qin Mingmu hurriedly unwrapped the severed hand that was wrapped in clothing.

The senior doctor looked, shook his head, and sighed, “It’s useless, it can’t be stitched, and even if it were stitched, it would be useless. Look at these tendons, they must be connected for the stitching to work. It’s not just that I lack the medical skills, no one in the entire Northwest has them.”

Qin Mingmu sat down on the ground and slapped himself several times, holding the severed hand and crying out in pain.

Qin Yuanshan, unable to hold back any longer, fainted, and a pale-faced Qin Mingyan could only hold him and cry out, “Uncle, come quickly.”

Qin Bohong entered the chaotic scene, first placing a large bundle he carried on the table, then seeing his younger brother’s arm still bleeding, he bit his tongue fiercely and said, “Doctor, stop the bleeding for my third brother first. Second brother, go fetch some clean warm water. Mingmu, stop crying, take your grandfather back to the room with Yan’er, and take good care of him.”

His eyes red, his hands clenched into fists, thinking of something, he opened the large bundle, took out a bottle of golden sore medicine.

Originally, when he received the news of the letters and goods sent by his family, he was overjoyed, but in the blink of an eye, this disaster occurred, Is heaven implying that they hadn’t suffered enough?

With Qin Bohong’s arrangements, everyone took their places, the priority being Qin Boqing’s arm and stopping the bleeding, otherwise, if it continued like this, he would bleed incessantly and eventually die.

Cleaning the wound, just as the senior doctor said, the amputated arm was clean cut, without any excess flesh, also eliminating the trouble of having to cut it off, cleaned the wound, then sprinkled golden sore medicine and bandaged it.

“Use this.” Qin Bohong handed over the medicine.

The senior doctor took it, sprinkled it on, and in just a few breaths, the wound stopped bleeding, he couldn’t help but be surprised, “This medicine…”

Qin Bohong was also shocked, took back the medicine, and said, “Bandage it.”

The senior doctor didn’t ask further, quickly bandaged it while saying, “After all, it’s a severe injury, he still needs to be watched for fever tonight.”

Qin Bohong looked at his younger brother who lay in bed with a deathly pale face, then at the severed arm beside him, his lips tightened into a straight line. Wiping away a tear from the corner of his eye, how was he to explain this to mother and his youngest brother and sister?

Meanwhile, at another Merchants’ Association, a steward hastily entered the master’s room to report, “Sir, Qin Boqing has had an accident, his hand was severed by an iron wedge.”

Gong Bocheng was flipping through a folktale, upon hearing this, he didn’t even lift his head, saying, “Is the person alive?”

“Only his left arm was severed, and coincidentally, the Qin family received goods sent from Li City today, including the golden sore medicine given by the young lady, and several peace charms.”

Gong Bocheng curled his fingers and tapped the table, saying, “Then, once Qin Family’s Third has recovered, arrange a lighter duty for him.”

“Yes.” The steward asked, “And Qin Bohong?”

“No need to bother with him, the person who should suffer the most is him, why wasn’t it his arm that was severed? Really dog-luck.” Gong Bocheng said coldly.

The steward glanced at his own master, thinking to himself that he must be jealous, that man, being the young lady’s biological father, was as disgusting as swallowing flies.

Gong Bocheng put down the book and said, “Prepare the ink, we must inform her about this.”