Village Doctor's Women-Chapter 106 - 101 Magic Needles for Removing Insects, Incredibly Skillful

Chapter 106: 101 Magic Needles for Removing Insects, Incredibly Skillful

It wasn’t just Mrs. Zhao. Even Li Dayu, who had witnessed the horrors of Gu Poison, took a silent step back, feeling physically and psychologically disturbed. Zhao Guozhi and Li Shuang were even more shaken, feeling a wave of nausea. Zhao Guozhi truly hadn’t expected to see such a sight beneath the clothing.

This is too horrifying, Li Shuang muttered to himself, guessing he would have nightmares tonight.

Everyone present felt a chill, except for Wang Jian. He merely furrowed his brow, his eyes and hands never leaving the task before him.

Just as Zhao Guozhi and the others stood there puzzled, Wang Jian’s hand moved. He spread open the needle pack Li Shuang had passed him and plucked out a soft, palm-length needle, the kind long enough to pass completely through a person’s thigh.

"What is this for?" Zhao Guozhi felt uneasy just looking at the needle. He couldn’t bear to watch the writhing under the skin, so he kept his eyes fixed on Wang Jian. "Is this Acupuncture?"

Zhao Guozhi was stunned. He hadn’t known Wang Jian practiced Chinese medicine; he only knew he was a doctor.

The silver needle was very long, but its shaft seemed soft—so soft that Zhao Guozhi thought it couldn’t even pierce the skin. He’d seen needles before that were too soft to break the skin. Seeing that Wang Jian only had one good arm, a new doubt arose. With just one hand... he probably won’t even be able to pierce the skin, will he?

Zhao Guozhi’s gaze fixed on Wang Jian’s hand. But Wang Jian didn’t reply. He swiftly inserted the needle near a writhing area. With a twist of his wrist, the silver needle, as if it had eyes of its own, instantly pierced the skin. As Wang Jian adjusted the angle, it darted directly toward a squirming spot.

"There!" Wang Jian felt a slight resistance from the needle, and the corners of his mouth lifted. "Found you."

Wang Jian hadn’t suppressed his voice, so Zhao Guozhi and the others heard him clearly. Just as they were exchanging puzzled glances, they saw Wang Jian’s hand tremble slightly before he pulled back and flicked it outward. A long, thin worm was yanked out. The motion was so fast it looked like he had flung a streak of silver light. Only when it landed on the ground did they realize it was a worm.

"Amazing!" Li Shuang’s eyes widened, his fear momentarily forgotten. Wang Jian’s skill had completely shattered his worldview. A straight silver needle that could turn corners to find a worm was already outrageous, but to then fish it out from inside the body? It was simply divine. Not only Li Shuang, but Li Dayu was also dumbfounded. His impression of Wang Jian, already reshaped from the day before, was once again completely overturned.

While they stood there in a daze, Wang Jian continued to insert the needle and pull out worms with incredible speed and without the slightest pause. In just three minutes, all the areas under the skin that had been visibly writhing were completely cleared. On the ground, however, more than a dozen small worms squirmed.

"Go, get a bottle," Wang Jian said.

"What?"

"What for?"

Zhao Guozhi was startled. Wang Jian was speaking to him. Seeing his lack of reaction, Wang Jian had to repeat himself. "Go get a bottle and put these worms inside. When the ambulance gets here, give it to the doctors to take back for pathological analysis."

"I’ve only removed the worms I could get to," Wang Jian explained further. "Once he gets to the hospital, he’ll still need to be treated for parasites. He’ll likely be recovering for quite some time."

Hearing this, Zhao Guozhi finally snapped out of it. He said something to his wife beside him, but then, feeling he shouldn’t just stand there either, he also ran out.

The room suddenly fell silent.

Wang Jian turned back to check on Zhao Chunming’s condition. With the worms removed, there was no longer any visible writhing under the skin. He made a point to check other parts of the body as well before finally letting out a small sigh of relief.

"Xiao Jian..." Li Dayu called out.

When Wang Jian turned, he saw Li Dayu carefully stepping around the worms to approach him. His face still held a look of lingering fear, his eyes betraying his rattled nerves. Li Shuang, right behind him, was no better off, looking as if he wished he were a million miles away from the worms.

"Is it over?" Li Dayu’s voice was weak, clearly shaken by what he had just witnessed.

Wang Jian shook his head. "It’s not completely over. Removing the worms was just the first step. The bigger problem is whether any eggs remain, which will have to be checked for at the hospital."

Are there eggs? There must be. Given the number of worms I just removed, there are definitely a lot of eggs inside Zhao Chunming’s body. If they aren’t dealt with, this parasitic disease will be impossible to eradicate. The treatment process is tedious, a real hassle. Fortunately, western medicine’s approach to this is very direct and more effective at getting to the root of the problem than Chinese medicine’s method of fighting poison with poison, even if it’s a bit slower.

Wang Jian had just taken Zhao Chunming’s pulse. Given his current state, he was no longer suitable for the aggressive ’poison against poison’ therapy of Chinese medicine. The slightest miscalculation, and both the patient and the worms could be lost. Direct surgical removal of the eggs would be far more suitable for Zhao Chunming now.

"Do we really have to go to the hospital?" Zhao Guozhi asked, returning with a plastic bottle. "Will this work, Doctor?" After witnessing such a miraculous procedure, Zhao Guozhi was completely convinced of Wang Jian’s abilities. "Doctor, can’t you treat him here? My dad went to the hospital before and they couldn’t figure anything out. You were the only one who could solve it. Going back to the hospital seems useless..."

Li Dayu felt the same way.

Wang Jian smiled. "It wasn’t detected before because Secretary Zhao didn’t show symptoms of a parasitic infection. But it’s different now. The medicine I gave him has agitated the worms and brought them out. Any doctor will now know to treat him for parasites.

"Although I have my own treatment methods, they are no longer suitable for Secretary Zhao’s current physical condition. Let me give you an example. If he were still active and his symptoms were mild, I might have used a ’poison against poison’ approach. I would have prescribed a powerful medicine to kill both the worms and the eggs directly. The price would be a temporary decline in his physical health, which we would then restore with subsequent medicine. But now... you’ve seen it for yourselves. Secretary Zhao is in shock. That kind of treatment isn’t appropriate anymore. It would be much better to send him to the hospital, find where the eggs are, and have them surgically removed."

After Wang Jian’s explanation, Zhao Guozhi understood completely and nodded repeatedly. He held up the bottle. "So, Doctor, this bottle..."

Wang Jian pointed at the floor. "Use something to pick up the worms and put them inside."

"Oh, right away..." Zhao Guozhi agreed quickly, but then he looked at the worms on the ground and grimaced. The thought of where they had come from made his skin crawl. But for the sake of his father, Zhao Guozhi gritted his teeth, found a piece of paper, and began stuffing the worms into the bottle one by one. After finishing, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Just then, the wail of an ambulance siren cut through the air. The vehicle had reached the village entrance. Before anyone could react, the sound grew closer, and soon they heard it stop right outside the door. Wang Jian immediately recognized a familiar voice.

"Hurry, get the stretcher ready!"

"Where’s the patient?"

"Follow me."

When his wife had gone to get the bottle, Zhao Guozhi had told her to wait at the door for the ambulance. Now, she was the one leading the doctors into the house.

As soon as the emergency doctor stepped inside, he spotted Wang Jian and exclaimed, "Doctor Wang, what are you doing here?"

It was Zhao Zhe, the head of the emergency department and a friend of his senior, Liang Xiu. He was the one who had tried to recruit Wang Jian at the City Hospital. Before Wang Jian could answer, Zhao Zhe cried out in surprise, "What is this?"

Zhao Zhe’s eyes quickly swept over the room, noticing the large number of people inside. The patient was on the bed, and a strange smell hung in the air. Then, his gaze fell on the bottle in Zhao Guozhi’s hand. At that moment, Wang Jian walked over from the bedside. "Can I have a word?"

"Sure." Zhao Zhe nodded. He turned to the paramedics with him. "Get the patient onto the ambulance." Then he followed Wang Jian to the side. "Doctor Wang, you’ve already examined the patient. So, what about those worms?"

Wang Jian quietly explained his suspicions.

"Gu Poison?" Of course, Zhao Zhe had heard the term before, but this was his first time encountering a case. "So those worms in the bottle... you removed them?"

And they’re still alive, he added silently. As an emergency doctor, he had certainly dealt with patients suffering from parasitic diseases before...