Chapter 371: Why Are You In A Hurry To Leave?
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Duke Jingguo was brought into the interspatial store.
Su Ying put on a pair of surgical gloves and cut off the bandages wrapped around his stomach before examining the wound.
There were two wounds on his stomach. The wounds weren’t big, and they had been stitched up. She cut the stitches and widened the wound opening on his stomach. Then, she reached her hand in.
After an examination, she found that Duke Jingguo’s spleen had indeed been stabbed, but the injury was not serious. There was only a small incision. After it was sutured, he just had to wait for the spleen to grow back and he should be fine.
The part which was more seriously injured was the left kidney. The entire left kidney had been pierced. The other party might have been worried that Duke Jingguo would not die, so he even twisted his sword around in Duke Jingguo’s stomach, causing the entire left kidney to be damaged. Not even Su Ying could repair this mangled-up kidney. Since she could not repair it, she could only cut it out.
Su Ying actually had an artificial kidney in her interspatial store, but after this thing was installed, there would be some complicated maintenance later on. If she was not in the capital in the future, it would be easy for problems to arise if no one could do the maintenance.
After careful consideration, Su Ying decided to remove the necrotic left kidney.
Although having only one kidney had some effects on the body, based on Duke Jingguo’s condition, it would not be a big problem for him to live for eight to ten years if he took good care of himself in the future.
Kidney removal was not difficult to perform. Before the operation, she did a detailed examination to ensure that there was no problem before she began the operation.
Duke Jingguo also had a major problem with excessive blood loss. Su Ying kept giving him blood transfusions throughout the surgery, and by the time the surgery was over, the blood bag was also almost empty.
After she was done, Su Ying didn’t rush out at once. Instead, she stopped administering the anesthesia and patted Duke Jingguo’s face.
“Duke Jingguo? Duke Jingguo?”
Duke Jingguo felt his entire body turn cold. His eyelids trembled as he opened his eyes, and he met Su Ying’s two calm eyes.
At this moment, she had already brought him out of the interspatial store.
“Duke Jingguo, you are awake.”
Duke Jingguo wanted to speak, but his throat felt unbearably dry. Su Ying used a wet cotton pad and dabbed it with some glucose water to wipe his lips so as to moisten his lips and throat.
“Princess Consort…” Duke Jingguo had been unconscious since that night and did not know that Xiao Jin had been conferred the title of Crown Prince.
“It’s good that Lord Duke is awake. Your life was hanging by a thread just now. Fortunately, 1 arrived in time. You are not in danger anymore.”
Duke Jingguo was slightly surprised. His severe injuries had made his brain not as bright anymore, and he only understood Su Ying’s words to probably mean she had saved him.
“Thank you, Your Highness…”
“Although Lord Duke is out of danger, you have lost too much of your blood vitality. The follow-up treatment cannot be stopped. In a few days, 1 will come over to check on you again.”
Duke Jingguo was even more surprised. Could it really be Su Ying who had saved him?
Su Ying told him to rest for a while before she got up and opened the door to go outside.
Outside, the sun was high overhead. It was already past noon.
The people from Duke Jingguo’s Residence were all waiting outside the door. When they saw Su Ying open the door, they all went up to her.
“Your Highness, how is Father?”
“Everyone, don’t worry. Lord Duke is fine for now, but 1 still need to explain his situation to everyone.”
Mrs. Duke Jingguo looked at Su Ying’s expression. “Your Highness, please come inside.” After saying that, she looked at the younger family members behind her and said, “All of you wait outside.”
When those people heard what the old lady said, they did not go forward. Instead, they waited obediently outside the house.
Mrs. Duke Jingguo followed Su Ying to the side room and gestured for the maidservant to go out and close the door before asking, “Your Highness, tell this old woman the truth. How much time does Lord Duke have?”
They had all seen Duke Jingguo’s condition at that time, and even the Imperial Physicians in the palace shook their heads and told them to prepare for his funeral. Mrs. Duke Jingguo still did not trust Su Ying that much, and felt that the possibility of her curing Duke Jingguo was not high.
Su Ying knew that the old lady didn’t trust her, but she wasn’t angry. She simply said, “Mrs. Duke Jingguo, you think that I am bluffing you?”
The old lady sighed. “1 know you’re worried that we will be sad.”
“Of course not. My medical treatment has always been practical and realistic. If 1 think it’s doable, then it’s doable. If I say Lord Duke is fine, then he’s fine.”
When she saw that Su Ying wasn’t joking at all, the old lady’s dim eyes lit up.
“Your Highness, you mean Lord Duke… he is really alright?”
“He’s not completely fine, but he won’t die. There are two sword wounds on his body. One of them did hurt his spleen, but it’s not serious. The other one was more lethal. It damaged his left kidney. This left kidney can’t be kept anymore, so I removed it. Although there’s only one kidney left in his body, as long as he doesn’t overwork and doesn’t do heavy work, it won’t be a problem for him to survive.”
Mrs. Duke Jingguo had no choice but to believe Su Ying when she heard the latter’s detailed and solemn explanation.
As the dignified Crown Princess, she couldn’t possibly joke about such things.
Mrs. Duke Jingguo was so grateful that she wanted to kneel down in front of Su Ying but was stopped by her.
“Mrs. Duke Jingguo need not be so polite. Lord Duke is an important official who had served two dynasties. The Crown Prince is worried about him. If 1 can help Lord Duke recover, I am also very happy.”
“You… you and the Crown Prince are the benefactors of our Duke’s residence! You are our benefactors!”
Su Ying helped the old lady to a chair to sit down. “However, Mrs. Duke Jingguo, you may exercise your discretion on what to tell Lord Duke lest he thinks too much.” At the end of the day, one of his kidneys had been removed.
If Duke Jingguo couldn’t accept this reality and felt that his body was incomplete, it would affect the recovery of his injuries.
The old lady understood Su Ying’s meaning. “Your Highness has considered things very thoroughly. I’ll keep this matter a secret and not tell anyone.”
“As long as Mrs. Duke Jingguo knows what to do, it’s good enough.”
Su Ying left some medicine for Duke Jingguo, but she didn’t stay too long in Duke Jingguo’s Residence. She left immediately after giving some detailed instructions for post-operation care.
Bai Shuang was still a little curious after they left Duke Jingguo’s Residence.
“Why are you in such a hurry to leave, Your Highness?”
The people from Duke Jingguo’s Residence wanted to keep Su Ying for afternoon tea. Wasn’t this a good opportunity for her to get close to Duke Jingguo’s Residence?
“Isn’t it very inefficient to treat only one patient a day?”
Bai Shuang choked and felt that it made sense.
However, what Su Ying didn’t say was that she wanted to leave without any dilly-dallying.
Xiao Jin said that only then would this make the people of Duke Jingguo’s Residence feel that her original intention was only to save Duke Jingguo’s life and not to take the opportunity to rope them in.
Su Ying did not deliberately hide her whereabouts. The people of Duke Jingguo’s Residence would know where she was going if they asked. If they knew that Su Ying had gone elsewhere to treat other officials, it would prove that she really wanted to retain these court officials who had been harmed and was sincerely thinking of the interests of the Chu State.
Su Ying couldn’t be bothered with such convoluted thinking. She would just do whatever Xiao Jin said.
“Where are we going next?”
Bai Shuang flipped open the booklet in her hand and looked at it. Then, she frowned at once. “The Prime Minister’s Residence.”
Su Ying’s eyebrows jumped. She thought that Bai Shuang had seen wrong. She reached out to take the booklet for a look. “It is really the Prime Minister’s Residence..”