Chapter 90 Accident

  Xing's family servant went to Xu's pharmacy to invite Xu Yi and also went to Liu's house to invite Liu Lingsheng.

  The two doctors asked: "Who is ill?"

  "It's not illness, it's Master San of our household setting bones..." said a servant from the Xing family.

  Xu Yi and Liu Ling had their own plans in mind.

  The fight at Xijie Quanjiao in the afternoon quickly spread to every street and alley in Wangxian. Xu Yi ran a pharmacy on the street, with many people coming and going, and he was always the first to hear any news.

  Xu Yi had already known that Chen Jing had dislocated Xing Wendian's arm.

  The perpetrator has been caught and brought to the county government office.

  Xu Yi had dealings with Chen Jing before, it was when he treated Old Master Chen San's illness in Jingzhong Alley.

  That time was not pleasant. There was no bad feeling, nor was there any good feeling. Later, he humbly asked Chen Jing for advice, and Chen Jing also told Xu Yi about the process of treating the disease.

  So Xu Yi didn't bother to settle old scores with Chen Jing.

  After that, there was no more contact.

  Xu Yi was not clear what Chen Jing's skills were. He even suspected that Chen Jing had removed Xing Wendian's arm. Like Xu Yi, he also knew where the joints were, which didn't mean he could easily remove someone's arm.

  To unload the goods, force is needed.

  "...How could Chen Er Ye, a weak and sickly young man, possibly have disarmed Xiang Wen Ding?" Xu Yi had always been skeptical of the rumor.

  He thought to himself and followed Xing's family servant to Xing Mansion.

  Xu Yi was a good doctor, and whenever a patient's family invited him to make a house call, he would go.

  Arrived at Xing's house and found another doctor Liu Lingsheng had already arrived.

  Fellow practitioners are enemies, Xu Yi and Liu Lingsheng did not get along. The two practiced medicine in Wangxian County and had many conflicts. Two years ago, Liu Lingsheng prescribed a treatment, but the prescription was wrong, he refused to admit it and insisted on saying that the medicine was fake.

  There are indeed many counterfeit drugs.

  Some pharmacists or doctors may have poor eyesight and buy fake medicine from the market, which is also possible. There are many skilled people who process medicinal materials, but some of them use fake ones to get a high price.

  However, Xu Yi would not take fake medicine.

  Xu Yi and his master, Zhou Dafu, were both experienced and had exceptional eyesight. When he was young, he once made a mistake and bought fake medicine, which ended up causing him to lose teeth and swallow blood. He admitted his fault and never put fake medicine on the shelves again.

  Running a pharmacy business, Xu Yi insisted on his last medical ethics.

  Liu Lingsheng, however, did not care. He made a mistake in his own prescription and shifted the blame to the pharmacist. The patient's family could not distinguish between genuine and fake medicine. Since the doctor said it was fake medicine, the patient's family naturally thought it was fake medicine and came to make trouble.

  At that time, there was a commotion. Xu Yi and Mr. Zhou were of good character, known to the neighbors, and many people spoke up for them. Therefore, the disturbance did not ruin the reputation of Xu Yi and the Xu's pharmacy.

  But there is also an impact.

  Those few months business plummeted, relying on old capital to support it.

  Xu Yi resented Liu Lingshen.

  Liu Lingsheng was not a doctor, but he pretended to be one in the countryside. He had high intelligence and good medical skills, but his medical ethics were too poor. However, Liu Lingsheng was good at socializing and handling relationships, which made patients overlook his medical ethics and trust him very much.

  "Brother Xu." Liu Lingsheng saw Xu Yi and warmly greeted him.

  In front of the Xing family, Xu Yi didn't want to appear too aloof, so he barely managed a courtesy. But thinking of Liu Lingsheng's previous attitude, Xu Yi felt somewhat displeased in his heart and his expression wasn't quite natural either.

  Two people went into the inner chamber and helped Xing Wendeng set his bones.

  Xing Wendin cried until he almost fainted. After being in pain for several hours, he was already slightly numb, his spirit weak and on the verge of collapse.

  The doctor arrived and the servants helped him up again.

  In the process of getting up, his dislocated arm hurt again, his face turned pale and he shouted loudly.

  "Be more gentle, you fool!" Xing Wendeng's mother, Zhang Shi, scolded the young servant.

  Xu Yi and Liu Lingsheng both knew Zhang. The whole Xing family was controlled by Zhang. This woman was very fierce, once she was dissatisfied, she would scold people.

  She was a shrew from the very beginning, with a violent temper.

  Now she has good luck, her elder cousin became a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and she also rose to prominence, but her temper got worse.

  The little servants carefully lifted up Xing Wendeng.

  Liu Lingsheng hastened to step forward before Xu Yi, and said: "Madam, I am Liu Lingsheng. This is my first visit to the mansion. Let me examine your son's injury first, what do you think, madam?"

  Liu Lingsheng is very good at grasping opportunities.

  He would seize every opportunity to advance himself.

  "What's all the noise about? You're here to see a doctor, aren't you?" Zhang said with an unpleasant tone, but without any malice.

  Liu Lingsheng stepped forward to examine Xing Wendian's injuries.

  Xing Wendian's dislocation had passed for several hours, and his ten fingers were stiff, with both arms feeling cold. Liu Lingsheng understood in her heart that if she couldn't reset it quickly, there would be lingering damage afterwards.

  After examining the injury, Liu Ling-sheng was certain that it was a dislocated clavicle.

  Looking at this situation, it should be going down.

  But upon closer inspection, Liu Lingsheng felt that something was off. If it were just a bruise from the fall, there wouldn't be a depression on the back of the shoulder, nor would there be a bulge in front of the shoulder blade.

  This is half a mile away.

  It's hard to catch when it falls from below and halfway down.

  But as he continued to look, Liu Lingshen's heart turned icy: not only had he dislocated his shoulder and half of his arm was paralyzed, but the joint of his shoulder was also half-dislocated. If he tried to move his dislocated arm, the joint would become fully dislocated due to the movement.

  How can I get there?

  Liu Lingsheng has been practicing medicine for half his life and this is the first time he's seen such a tricky dislocation!

  If it was an unintentional injury, then Xing Wendeng was indeed unlucky to be injured so badly; if it was a deliberate act, the other party's skills were astonishing.

  Liu Lingsheng did not go out today and has not yet heard about Chen Jing and Xing Wendeng's fight.

  He didn't know it was Chen Jing's doing.

  "This injury is too tricky. If I cure it, it's just a minor fracture and can't show off my medical skills; if I don't cure it, I'll have to shut down the clinic. Looking at Mr. Xing's injury, today's operation will probably end in shutting down the clinic!" Liu Lingsheng muttered to himself.

  Thinking of this, looking at Xu Yi again, he had an idea.

  He pretended to be relaxed, and said to the Xing family and Zhang Shi: "It's just a dislocated arm, a trivial injury, easy to treat. Don't worry, Master and Mistress, Third Brother can also rest assured..."

  The Xing family was overjoyed on the surface.

  Only Zhang's face was calm as still water.

  The doctor Zhang trusted most was Doctor Nai. Doctor Nai said that the injury was difficult to cure, and Zhang knew he had never misdiagnosed before. On the other hand, this Liu Lingsheng spoke lightly and casually, and may not have examined accurately.

  Zhang didn't say anything.

  "...Then hurry up and connect with San Er." Xing Fu heard that his son was not seriously injured, overjoyed, and urged Liu Lingsheng.

  Liu Lingsheng glanced at Zhang Shi.

  Zhang's eyes slightly chilled, turned to look at the silent Xu Yi, said: "This doctor also take a look..."

  "Yes." Xu Yi replied.

  He went forward and examined the wound in the same way.

  Every doctor has his own strengths and weaknesses. For Xu Yi, trauma surgery had always been his weakness. He was also strict with himself, but there was something called innate talent that he lacked.

  He went forward and felt the bones, feeling for half a day, but only saw injuries that had fallen off.

  He felt a slight dislocation in his wrist and ankle joints, but he vaguely felt that something was off, yet he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

  Liu Lingsheng had spoken before, Xu Yi thought for a moment and finally said: "Indeed, it is an injury that can be ignored."

  Liu Lingsheng was overjoyed when he heard this.

  Xu Yi misdiagnosed.

  However, upon further reflection, I thought that such a difficult dislocation could only be diagnosed by Liu Lingsheng's exceptional medical skills, and it would be strange if others didn't misdiagnose it. Thinking of this, I felt complacent.

  It's hard to achieve merit today, it's already good if no mistakes are made.

  It just so happens that Dr. Xuyi misdiagnosed, so let him take the blame and shift the responsibility away. Compared to the patient's condition, Liu Lingsheng is more concerned about his reputation and future.

  Being a doctor is his means of making a living, he won't ruin his own rice bowl for one patient.

  So Liu Lingsheng didn't mention Xu Yi's mistake, but instead helped to spread the rumor and flattered Xu Yi: "The Xu family is a hundred-year-old aristocratic family, and Mr. Xu's medical skills are superb. I am just a humble man who learned halfway, and I'm not worthy of comparison. Today, with Mr. Xu present, I dare not show my ugliness. Please, Mr. Xu, take over the treatment..."

  Liu Lingsheng is a clever and eloquent person.

  Most people like him.

  However, Zhang had previously only invited Ni Daifu, and she took the lead in entering, feeling that all the imperial physicians should be as reticent and steady as Ni Daifu to be reliable.

  Xu Yi was a man of few words, his speech steady and composed, somewhat like Ni Daifu's style, which made Zhang even more trusting of Xu.

  Liu Lingsheng again lifted Xu Yi on that side, and Zhang's family became even more biased towards believing in Xu Yi.

  "Since that's the case, Master Xu, would you please set my son's bones?" Madam Zhang said, her tone much softer and with a hint of politeness.

  Xu Yi glanced at Liu Lingsheng.

  Now, Xu Yi also felt something was off.

  This is not Liu Lingshen's style.

  Since the two diagnoses were the same, why would Liu Lingsheng voluntarily give up the opportunity to take the lead to Xu Yi? Xu Yi and Liu Lingsheng had been dealing with each other for many years and knew him very well.

  Xing Wendeng cried out in pain again, his face twisted in agony, and Xu Yi couldn't think any further.

  Xu Yi couldn't bear to see patients suffer.

  Now that the diagnosis was clear, Xu Yi stepped forward and took a look at the method of reduction for the fracture, to help Xing Wendeng set the bone.

  To reset a dislocated shoulder, one person can't do it easily, and two apprentices are needed to help.

  Xu Yi went out for a medical consultation, bringing only one apprentice carrying a medicine box. So he said to Liu Lingsheng: "Doctor Liu, please help us..."

  "Our two families have different techniques, I don't dare to secretly learn from Brother Xu's craftsmanship." Liu Lingsheng grandly refused.

  Xu Yi was stunned.

  This remark, when heard by outsiders, makes Liu Lingsheng seem like a kind person. However, all doctors know that just looking is not enough to understand, and one needs a master to teach them hand in hand.

  Xu Yiyue felt more and more unusual as he arrived here.

  He felt a faint sense of unease in his heart.

  But Liu Lingsheng was unwilling to help, and said that he didn't dare to steal the master's skills, and actively avoided going out, retreating to the outer room. Xu Yi had no choice but to call a strong and sturdy young servant from the Xing family to come and assist.

  He just needs someone to hold up the patient, no need to use his hands, a servant can do it.

  Xu Yirang asked Xing Wendeng to sit up.

  He first received the left arm.

  First, use one hand to overlap with the injured limb's palm, grasp the thumb, and slowly pull the patient's left arm forward and downward. Then, hand it over to the medicine boy, letting him slowly stretch it as well. Xu Yi himself pressed both hands on the humerus. Feeling that the head of the humerus had moved, Xu Yi used his thumbs to grasp the humerus again and exerted strength to lift it upward.

  That's all for today's chiropractic adjustment.

  When Xu Yi's body was lifted up, it should have been a faint sound of bones closing together.

  Unexpectedly, Xu Yi heard a crisp and unusual sound, his mind suddenly went numb.

  "Ah!" Xing Wendings mournful cry rang out beside her ear.

  This lift was extremely painful and unbearable, Xing Wendeng almost fainted from the pain.

  Everyone looked over.

  His arm was not good, but at Xing Wendian's collarbone, a lump protruded abruptly, as if the bone had bulged up.

  The shoulder joint is completely dislocated.

  Xu Yi only felt a bucket of ice water, poured over his head, cooling him from the top of his head to his heart. He shivered: How could this be?