"Your advertisement said that young people cannot apply to be doctors?"
Everyone burst into laughter, but Lu Qingwan showed no signs of shame. She coldly looked at the shop assistant.
The shop assistant felt inexplicably awkward. Just as he was about to reply, a voice called out, "Who dares to cause trouble in my Ci'an Hall?"
The shop assistant quickly said, "Manager, this person says she wants to be a doctor at Ci'an Hall. Look at this..."
The person who arrived was around forty or fifty years old, with a goatee, the image of a doctor in most people's minds.
He casually glanced at Lu Qingwan, as if inspecting merchandise, "Ci'an Hall does not keep idlers. If you cannot even handle such matters, pack your bags and leave!"
With that, he turned and went back into the inner hall.
Seeing this, the shop assistant, like a triumphant rooster, puffed out his chest and said, "Did you hear that? Get lost, don't delay our business!"
"Such a prejudiced pharmacy, I should thank you for your generosity in not needing me."
Lu Qingwan said, flicking her sleeve and leaving.
The shop assistant took her departure as a sign of her being angered by rejection. He smugly snorted at her retreating back and continued to call out, "Those who have paid the VIP fee, queue here! Those who haven't, queue behind..."
A perfectly good pharmacy, run like a place of ill repute.
Lu Qingwan shook her head in disappointment, planning to find another place. Just then, she heard sounds of agony and desperate pleas for help, interspersed with familiar scolding.
"Ci'an Hall does not save those on the verge of death. You only bring the person here when she is close to a double fatality. Are you intentionally ruining the reputation of Ci'an Hall? Go away, go away!"
"Please, save my wife! We don't want the child, just save my wife's life, and I will be eternally grateful!"
In this era, to face such a choice and still choose his wife?
Lu Qingwan's curiosity was successfully piqued. She walked closer and saw a woman being carried on a plank, groaning in pain, clutching her abdomen.
Beside her, a man knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to Ci'an Hall. The patients in the queue were murmuring amongst themselves.
The doctors and shop assistants of Ci'an Hall watched coldly, completely refusing entry.
Seeing the growing crowd, the doctor even instructed the shop assistant, "Quick, quick, get them away. Don't let them ruin Ci'an Hall's reputation!"
The shop assistants immediately stepped forward to drive them away. Lu Qingwan, unable to bear it any longer, said to the man, "Stop kneeling. Even if you kneel to death here, they will not save your wife.
Your wife's condition cannot be delayed any longer. If it is, it will truly be a double fatality!"
The man looked up in a daze, his forehead bleeding from kowtowing. "Then what should I do? If Ci'an Hall cannot save her, then no one can save my wife!"
"Who says there isn't?"
Lu Qingwan said decisively, "If you don't want your wife to die, then get up and carry her to the nearest pharmacy. I will save your wife and child."
"You?"
It was clear that the man did not have much faith in Lu Qingwan's medical skills.
The doctor who had been driving them away sneered, "The fetus's pulse is weak, and the mother's strength is already exhausted. If you can save her, I, Ci'an Hall, will close our doors permanently!"
"Then prepare to close your doors!"
Lu Qingwan looked at the man. "Tell me, do you want me to save her?"
The man gritted his teeth. "Fine, let's try anything. If you can save my wife, I will be deeply indebted.
But if you can't, do not let her suffer too much. Otherwise, do not blame me for turning ruthless!"
"Enough talk, where is the nearest pharmacy?"
"There's one right here!"
Some sympathetic patients in the crowd shouted, parting to reveal a pharmacy directly opposite Ci'an Hall.
Compared to the lavish decoration of Ci'an Hall, this pharmacy was so understated that it was almost impossible to notice.
Even the signboard of "Bai Xing Lin" was so dilapidated that it was hard to recognize it as a pharmacy.
Perhaps due to the commotion, the manager and shop assistants inside had also noticed the situation.
Upon hearing this, the manager opened the door and said humbly, "Although our shop is small, it has all the necessary facilities.
Young sir, if you do not mind, please come here to treat the lady. Time is life, do not delay any further."
"Quick!"
Lu Qingwan gave the order. The man and his servants immediately lifted the woman and hurried towards Bai Xing Lin.
"Prepare a clean bed, everyone else, get out."
The woman's strength was weakening, and she could no longer speak. Lu Qingwan signaled for the servants to place the woman on the bed before she drove everyone out.
The man was uneasy. "Do I have to go out too?"
Lu Qingwan: "If you want your wife and child to die, then keep dawdling."
The man reluctantly retreated.
Lu Qingwan quickly took out surgical instruments from her spatial laboratory, decisively administered anesthesia to the patient, placed a slice of ginseng under her tongue, and then began preparing for the surgery.
A Cesarean section was a fundamental surgery for Lu Qingwan, but she still meticulously prepared everything before starting.
The mother was young, not yet twenty years old. Lu Qingwan, thinking that women cared about their appearance, decided to perform a horizontal incision.
"So it's nuchal cord entanglement!"
When checking her pulse earlier, she felt the fetus's pulse was a bit strange. With its own umbilical cord wrapped around its neck twice, how could the pulse not be weak?
Lu Qingwan methodically delivered the mischievous baby from the mother's womb. The infant's face was already purplish.
She gave its bottom a slap, and the baby let out a loud cry.
There was a sound at the door. Lu Qingwan sternly shouted, "Don't come in!"
She took a few steps and, through the gap in the door, handed the baby to the elder doctor. "Take good care of the child."
The elder doctor took the baby. The man tried to rush in, but as he met Lu Qingwan's cold gaze through the door, he froze on the spot.
Taking out the baby was easy, but the subsequent process of clearing the uterus and suturing left Lu Qingwan so exhausted that she almost fainted.
After finishing everything, she said in a hoarse voice, "You can come in now!"