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Chapter 559: 559: Brother-in-law, you have to save me
Chapter 559: 559: Brother-in-law, you have to save me
Chapter 559: Chapter 559: Brother-in-law, you have to save me
(Seventh installment)
Luo Ziling and Ling Ruonan both turned their heads, only to see a handsome young man quickly catching up from behind.
Who else could it be but Yang Qingye?
Yang Qingye had a face full of fury, looking at Luo Ziling with clear hostility.
Since Yang Qingye had seen Luo Ziling dressed like this two days ago, he recognized him immediately. After glaring at Luo Ziling a few times, he impolitely said to Ling Ruonan, who was wearing sunglasses, “Who are you? How dare you seduce my brother-in-law? He’s my sister’s boyfriend; keep away from him.”
Seeing the seriousness on Yang Qingye’s face, his handsome features flushing red, Ling Ruonan couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
She took off her sunglasses and looked at Yang Qingye with a smile, “Mr. Yang, you’re being a little rash here!”
Yang Qingye recognized Ling Ruonan but had never interacted with her.
As a notable figure among Yanjing’s elite, Yang Qingye knew almost everyone.
There was no choice, for they must know public figures like Ling Ruonan; it was one of the basic principles of socializing. Otherwise, showing a clueless face upon meeting would be considered rude. Yang Qingye couldn’t believe that the long-legged beauty walking hand-in-hand so intimately with Luo Ziling was actually Ling Ruonan, which left him stunned and unable to react for a while.
“Ling… Miss Ling, no… Mrs. Ling,” Yang Qingye’s handsome face turned even redder as he stammered in embarrassment, wishing he could just vanish into a crack in the ground.
He dared to call Luo Ziling “brother-in-law” in front of Yang Qingyin, but he definitely wouldn’t dare to call Luo Ziling that in front of Ling Ruonan.
The relationship between Luo Ziling and Yang Qingyin hadn’t been confirmed, and it was opposed by the Yang Family. Yang Qingye wasn’t sure about Ling Ruonan’s attitude, considering she might still be unaware of Luo Ziling and Yang Qingyin’s relationship. Now that he had blurted out the news today, if Ling Ruonan found out and it led to another fiasco like beating the lovebirds with a stick, then he would certainly be hunted down by both Yang Qingyin and Luo Ziling.
What’s more, he had just charged at Luo Ziling and Ling Ruonan with a few angry shouts.
Shouting at Luo Ziling didn’t really bother him; he knew Luo Ziling wouldn’t hold it against him.
But shouting at an elder like Ling Ruonan was quite impolite.
Fortunately, he hadn’t rushed forward and been rude to Ling Ruonan, or he really wouldn’t know how to deal with the aftermath.
Seeing Yang Qingye standing there dumbfounded, Ling Ruonan restrained her laugh and said nothing more, but she also let go of Luo Ziling’s arm.
“Qingye, why are you strolling around alone?” Luo Ziling glanced around and saw no one else, feeling quite curious. “Got some business here?”
He felt that a playboy like Yang Qingye wouldn’t possibly be wandering the streets alone; he must have arranged to meet someone, or have a beauty accompanying him.
Hearing Luo Ziling ask this, Yang Qingye became even more embarrassed, not knowing how to respond.
In the end, he first apologized to Ling Ruonan, “Mrs. Ling, I didn’t know Ziling was out shopping with you and thought he was meeting with some other girl. Mrs. Ling, dressed so young and beautiful, I really didn’t dare recognize you. Look, everyone is turning their heads to look at you. Ha, that person even bumped into someone else.”
Following Yang Qingye’s gesture, Luo Ziling indeed saw a middle-aged uncle who, in turning back to look at them, got too absorbed and collided with someone else, causing quite an embarrassing scene.
The amusing sight made it hard not to laugh and somewhat alleviated the awkwardness.
“What did Mr. Yang call Ziling just now?” Luo Ziling hadn’t shared much with her about Yang Qingye, so Ling Ruonan was unaware of her son’s close rapport with Yang Qingye. The fact that this Mr. Yang of the Yang Family had publicly referred to Luo Ziling as brother-in-law took her by surprise.
The young man’s name was Luo Ziling.
He had grown up in this small mountain village since he was a child, living with his grandfather Luo Liansheng in the small mountain village for twenty years.
Grandpa’s medical skills were quite good, and Luo Ziling had also learned medicine from him since he was young. Although he hadn’t reached the level where he could miraculously cure most diseases like his grandfather, he was still considered a skilled doctor—at least that’s what everyone who knew him said.
Grandpa thought so too, saying that Luo Ziling had already mastered his true teachings and that with more experience, his medical skills would surpass his own.
The woman Luo Ziling had brought back, although seriously injured and having lost a lot of blood, didn’t worry him too much after he checked her pulse and heartbeat. All he needed to do was to remove the bullet that remained in her body, and she would be fine.
The woman had suffered a gunshot wound, and there was still a bullet inside her body. Fortunately, the bullet hadn’t hit her heart or major blood vessels.
The woman had simply fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss and the shock from multiple traumas.
After preparing the necessary medicines and instruments and turning on the shadowless lamp, Luo Ziling began to treat the injured woman.
Lifting the blanket that covered the woman’s body, her form was once again exposed in front of Luo Ziling.
Despite the bloodstains all over the injured woman’s body, her allure was hard to conceal, and Luo Ziling couldn’t help but swallow hard. He had to take several deep breaths, forcing himself to cast aside any distracting thoughts.
“Not to be looked upon without consent, not to be looked upon without consent,” he muttered to himself a few times before finally fully stepping into the role of a doctor. After administering local anesthesia and stopping the bleeding with his skilled acupuncture techniques and self-prepared medicines, Luo Ziling put on disposable gloves, lit the alcohol lamp, and prepared to extract the bullet.
The woman was quite lucky; the injured area on her chest was about two centimeters away from her heart and major blood vessels. Otherwise, if the heart or major vessels in the chest and abdomen had been hit, and the bleeding couldn’t be stopped, even a divine doctor couldn’t save her life.
The injured woman’s muscles were quite firm, and her body had very nice curves without an ounce of excess fat, clearly the result of long-term labor or consistent exercise. Long-term labor or exercise had made her body develop very well.
Her well-developed body not only disturbed Luo Ziling’s mind but also made the surgery more difficult.
He quickly became parched and his heartbeat and breathing became rapid.
At twenty years old, a young virgin was at the peak of his vigor, and he had almost no resistance to the temptation of a woman’s body.
If Luo Ziling’s temperament hadn’t been out of the ordinary, he might have already been weak in the knees and clueless about what to do under these circumstances.
Eventually, it took him a Herculean effort to extract the bullet that was lodged in her chest cavity.
The bullet hadn’t penetrated deeply, making it easy to remove.
Of course, if it had gone deep into the chest cavity, the woman might have already been dead.
The anesthesia from the acupuncture and homemade medicine worked quite well. While extracting the bullet from the injured woman, her body didn’t react too much and she slept soundly. However, Luo Ziling expended a lot of physical strength, and sweat dripped continuously from his forehead.
After extracting the bullet from the injured woman’s body, treating the wound, applying anti-inflammatory and hemostatic medicines, and bandaging the wound, Luo Ziling was drenched in sweat, his whole body soaked.
But he didn’t rest, as the injured woman still had a gunshot wound on her left thigh, with another bullet to be removed.
While extracting the bullet from her chest cavity, the injured area bled profusely again, and blood flowed over her body, staining it everywhere. Luo Ziling carefully took a clean towel and wiped off the bloodstains from her body.
Some of the bloodstains had already coagulated, and it took Luo Ziling quite some effort and vigorous rubbing to clean them off.
Luo Ziling also noticed that there was a large black mole under her right breast.
At first, he thought it was a bloodstain or dirt and rubbed it vigorously twice until he realized it was a mole and stopped.
He felt embarrassed, and although the woman was still in a coma, he blushed as if he had done something shameful.
He swore to himself that he didn’t mean to take advantage of the woman; he truly thought it was dirt.
The woman had a great figure, but she had many scars on her body that marred the overall aesthetic.
Especially the long scar from her left breast to her shoulder blade, it looked so shocking.
This woman must have been injured many times; otherwise, she wouldn’t have so many scars.
What was her identity? Why did she have so many scars?
This was the doubt that Luo Ziling couldn’t suppress in his heart.
Luo Ziling also wanted to use their Luo family’s ancestral medical skills to remove these scars from the injured woman.
By cutting away the old scars and applying the medicine he and his grandfather had formulated together, the wounds would heal without leaving any scars.
Although the woman hadn’t opened her eyes and he couldn’t fully see her face, from her delicate nose, long eyelashes, perfect face shape, and slender neck, he could infer that this woman wouldn’t be unattractive.
A beautiful woman with so many scars on her body, he found it heart-wrenching and couldn’t help but feel a compulsion.
He eventually suppressed his compulsion; the woman’s wounds hadn’t been treated yet!
“Yes, yes, you’re right, Mrs. Ling. I’ll keep my mouth shut from now on,” Yang Qingye quickly admitted his mistake, feeling a sigh of relief. Judging by Ling Ruonan’s reaction, she probably wouldn’t oppose a relationship between Luo Ziling and Yang Qingyin, which eased his worried mind.
“I’m just accompanying my mom shopping, buying some stuff,” Luo Ziling said, wary that his whereabouts might be discovered by the Yang Family. He felt certain that Yang Qingye wouldn’t be out alone; just like Yang Qingyin was always accompanied by Ye Xiaoli, there must be bodyguards with this Mr. Yang of the Yang Family as well. If it became known to the Yang Family members that he was going shopping with Ling Ruonan, it wouldn’t be good news.
“Then you guys enjoy your shopping, I’ll be going now,” said Yang Qingye as he prepared to take his leave.
He wasn’t keen on dealing with Ling Ruonan, mainly because to most people she seemed a very serious and aloof woman, hard to get along with. More importantly, Ling Ruonan was Luo Ziling’s mother, and possibly his sister’s future mother-in-law. He worried that any blunder on his part might spoil his sister’s impression, and that would be a terrible mistake.
Luo Ziling bid farewell to Yang Qingye as well. But after Yang Qingye had walked a few steps, he came back, apologized to Ling Ruonan, and then pulled Luo Ziling aside, whispering, “I have something I want to ask you.”
Luo Ziling could only follow Yang Qingye to the side with a puzzled look on his face.
“Brother-in-law, you know a lot about medicine, right?” Yang Qingye whispered. “Could you do me a favor?”
“What favor?”
“It’s… uh… Are there any pills for abortion?” After struggling to get the words out and blushing, Yang Qingye finally mustered the courage to explain, “Jiang Xiaojin refuses to have an abortion and is threatening to make me marry her using the child as leverage. But there’s no way I can marry her, so… I was hoping you could help me out. Brother-in-law, you have to help me with this, or I’m a dead man.”
“How did this happen?” Luo Ziling was taken aback, “Does your sister know?”
“I just came from the hospital, I haven’t told anyone,” Yang Qingye said with a downcast expression, grasping Luo Ziling’s hand and pleading, “Brother-in-law, you have to help me, otherwise I can’t go on living.”
“Didn’t you two come to an agreement?” Luo Ziling was getting a headache, “Why is she refusing now?”
“She agreed to the abortion before we got to the hospital today, but after taking a few phone calls there, she changed her mind.” A look of frustration marred Yang Qingye’s attractive face. “No matter what I say, she won’t agree, and she’s even threatening suicide.”
“I think you should still discuss this with your sister,” Luo Ziling felt quite troubled, “Shall I call her right now?”
“No, definitely not,” Yang Qingyin hurriedly shook his head, “If my sister finds out things have come to this, I’m as good as dead too.”