Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers

Chapter 62: Chapter 62 White Rhino

Li Yuan was already in a total panic, his eyes vacant. Besides begging Qi Yue for help, he could barely speak.

Zhao Yongzhe and Zhao Yonglian had also returned, busily recounting the events.

That morning, they had agreed with some seasoned residents to go clear some wasteland together.

No sooner had they begun than they heard the veteran residents raising the alarm, saying that the natives had arrived.

Upon hearing this, everyone grabbed their tools and ran.

A few newcomers, in their panic, had left their tools behind and went back to retrieve them, only to be caught and brutally hacked by the natives.

Li Yuan’s second son, Li Shen, was one of them.

Because his injuries were severe, they dared not move him and had to leave someone to guard him while the others rushed back for help.

The subject of going back for their tools was not because they were foolish.

The tools were issued by the overseer and needed to be strictly accounted for.

If lost, especially if they fell into the natives’ hands, the person responsible would be sent to Nanling to dive for pearls with criminals.

Once there, that was truly a fate worse than death.

Under such circumstances, Qi Yue could not refuse and hurriedly followed them to the wasteland clearing site.

The site was far from their dwellings, and by the time Qi Yue arrived, the few who had been chopped were all unconscious.

The most critical was Li Shen, who had been stabbed in the chest by a native and had already slipped into a deep coma.

Qi Yue quickly examined him and came to a conclusion.

“His lung is seriously injured, and he needs thoracic surgery; otherwise, there’s nothing I can do.”

“Open… open the chest?” Li Yuan repeated the words with difficulty.

Remembering that the people of this world did not understand surgery, Qi Yue gave a simple explanation.

“It means cutting open his belly and stitching together the punctured lung inside.”

Qi Yue described it casually, but Li Yuan’s face turned pale as he listened.

“But if you cut open the belly, can he still live?”

“Hmm, he can’t live if we don’t open it,” Qi Yue answered earnestly, suddenly feeling much better tempered.

According to her temper right after she had crossed into this time, she would have said, “He can’t, prepare for his burial.”

Seeing Li Yuan trembling and speechless, she stuffed a pill into Li Shen’s mouth.

“This medicine will keep him alive temporarily, but if you want him to survive, surgery is necessary. Think about it.”

The other individuals also had various degrees of knife wounds.

One had a large gash on his shoulder, and another was stabbed in the leg.

Another person was stabbed in the back, but the wound was shallow, and while it bled profusely, it was not fatal.

Qi Yue took out needle and thread from her sleeve, deftly stitching up the wounds of several people.

This time she was generous, not only giving them quality medicine but also administering some Spiritual Spring Water to each one.

After drinking the medicine, the three gradually regained consciousness, aside from being unable to walk, there were no other issues.

Li Shen’s elder brother, Li Chong, was too shocked to speak upon witnessing this scene.

He had never seen someone sewn up like mending clothing before.

“Dad, after the belly is cut open, it can be stitched back. Why not listen to Miss Qi?”

Eventually, father and son decided to be desperate and asked Qi Yue for medical intervention.

Qi Yue looked around at the scattered dead wood and rotting grass, shaking her head.

“Make a stretcher and carry him back. We can’t perform the surgery here.”

Carrying him back wouldn’t solve where to place him, since the Li family had not yet built a house, only setting up several triangular grass huts.

Qi Yue could only play the good Samaritan to the end, letting them accommodate the person in the guest room of her home.

With everyone waiting outside, Qi Yue locked the door, administered an anesthetic to Li Shen, and took her to the space.

This minor surgery, she could perform outside as well, but she preferred the convenience.

The medical room in the space was more handy to use.

Half a shichen later, the surgery was over, and Qi Yue moved the patient back out.

When Li Yuan saw his son’s waxen complexion turn pale white and his breathing return to normal, he immediately knelt down and uttered a string of expressions about laying his liver and brain on the ground or dying to repay her kindness.

Qi Yue extended her hand to help him up, preventing him from kneeling, and then said something that took everyone by surprise.

“There’s no need for empty thanks, your son has dirtied my guest room, you owe me a pharmacy.”

Li Shen was out of danger, and Li Yuan, relieved, agreed on the spot.

“Don’t worry, Miss Qi, I will start tomorrow and definitely satisfy you.”

When people learned that Qi Yue wanted to build a pharmacy, many came to offer help, actually all were making plans for the future.

This place was fraught with dangers, never knowing when they might fall ill…

Qi Yue did not react openly to everyone’s enthusiasm, but she took mental note of these people.

Thus, during the days of Li Shen’s recovery, Li Yuan led his eldest son, Li Chong, along with some spontaneously gathered folks, and quickly finished building the pharmacy.

Li Yuan truly was an expert from the Ministry of Works; the pharmacy seemed small from the outside, yet it was fully equipped inside.

Medicine cabinets, consultation desks, examination tables, and even a sickbed were present.

Qi Yue reviewed and praised it repeatedly, and the people around all breathed a huge sigh of relief.

— Now they wouldn’t fear having no place to receive medical treatment!

After this event, people dared no longer clear the wildland, frightened of being caught and killed by the natives, but the tasks assigned by the supervision office still had to be completed, so they all ran to Zhao Family to find Qi Yue, hoping she would think of a solution.

Qi Yue dismissed them with a single sentence.

What can I do? Can’t you learn from the long-term residents and run when you see the natives coming?

It wasn’t that she was being temperamental; she just felt these people were too dependent, seeing her as capable and wanting to exploit her as a cheap labor force—she wouldn’t be fooled.

Seeing that their flattering tricks were ineffective, everyone left dejectedly.

Zhao Yonglian and Zhao Yongzhe followed the seasoned local residents, playing a cat-and-mouse game with the natives, struggling to complete the tasks assigned by the supervision office.

Qi Yue knew it wasn’t a long-term solution to carry on this way, but without negotiations with the natives, she had no better strategy.

Fortunately, after the natives secretly mended the fence, they no longer attacked the houses, which relieved Qi Yue considerably.

After finishing these tasks, the weather grew a bit colder, but compared to the severe cold in the Capital City, it could be considered warm here.

Shen Yu, Cong Zhonglan, accompanied by Zhao Shuanghua, rushed to make clothes, giving every member of the Zhao Family a new, thick garment.

Qi Yue, not adept at needlework, just waited to wear the ready-made clothes.

As a result, Shen Yu and Cong Zhonglan each made her a red casual outfit.

“Our Yueyue has fair skin and should wear red.”

Every time they saw her, Shen Yu was as delighted as anything, and she would say this phrase eight times out of ten, then Zhonglan would agree with her.

Qi Yue had no way to deal with these two, so she let them talk.

Once the pharmacy was in place, she spent most of her time there, organizing some common medicines into honey pills.

She had also thoroughly researched Zhao Xiyan’s leg problem, and still concluded that a cure would definitely require the horn from the head of a White Rhino.

Having realized this, she started browsing through books in the space.

It was a good thing she had emptied Zhao Yongzhe and Zhao Xiyan’s study room, otherwise she wouldn’t now be able to find such a complete collection of local records.

After over ten days of continuous reading, having gone through the entire library, she finally found a legend about the White Rhino in a book titled “Records of Savages.”