Chapter 20: The Heroine Knocks Her Head

  "What." Xiao Furen suddenly stood up, anger accumulated in her chest, tightly grasping the red tassel spear, gritting her teeth and about to lead the troops to kill their way up the mountain. A barbarian hastily advised: "Young master, the Han people are at a high vantage point and it's nighttime, it's not good to go up the mountain now, what's urgent is treating the king's injury."

  Xiao Furong looked at Ye Wu Tie's weak and feeble appearance, her heart was burning with anxiety. But where could she find a doctor? The barbarians usually used some herbal medicine, but now the mountain stronghold was inaccessible, and they didn't even have any herbs. Xiao Furong felt a deep sorrow, she squatted down, hugged Ye Wu Tie, and didn't know what to do for the best.

  "If Aguada were here, he would be the best one to treat external injuries. He is our tribe's best doctor." a barbarian said.

  Another barbarian retorted: "What's the use of saying this now? Agu Da is far away in Chenxi, and it's impossible to rush over."

  Xiaofeng listened to the barbarian's words, and became more bewildered and at a loss. However, amidst her sorrow and despair, she saw from afar the bright lights of Liu Zhang's military camp, and suddenly felt a glimmer of hope. Holding onto Yan Wu's half-unconscious body, she rushed towards the Shu army's main tent.

  The barbarian army came and went, and Liu Zhang had already been informed by scouts. Liu Zhang smiled at his generals and said: "This Xiaofeng still has some strategy, imitating the year Jia Xi, daring to kill a certain official with a single shot, but it's also too much fanfare."

  The surrounding crowd burst into laughter, Liu Zhang emerged from the tent surrounded by his troops and saw Xiao Furen leading the barbarian army approaching. He shouted from a distance: "Xiao Niang, you've come back again! This time your sneak attack failed, and you've been captured for the third time!"

  A soldier next to him laughed and said, "I think this little girl is savoring the flavor of being caught by the master." The surrounding soldiers all remembered the insults from the battle the day before and burst into loud laughter, their voices echoing through the entire dark night.

  Xiao Furen didn't bother with them, walked up to Liu Zhang and suddenly knelt down. Liu Zhang's face still had a smile on it, but he was immediately stunned, and asked in confusion: "Miss Xiao, what are you doing?"

  Xiao Furong wept and said: "Please, sir, save my father. I will be eternally grateful. Xiao Furong will never forget your great kindness."

  "Is that Ye Wuti? The Iron King?" Liu Zhang was shocked, and only then did he carefully look at the man in Xiao Furen's arms. Ye Wuti's eyes were closed, and fresh blood was still slowly flowing out, but it had all turned black. The gruesome sight was shocking. Liu Zhang immediately shouted: "Summon the military doctor."

  Several military doctors arrived quickly, took Ye Wuti from Xiao Furan's arms, and frowned at Ye Wuti's injuries. After a flurry of activity, an old military doctor stood up and said to Liu Zhang: "Your Excellency, I apologize for my incompetence, but we cannot treat this barbarian's injuries."

  The old military doctor's words had barely left his lips when Xiao Furen's face turned deathly pale, her body suddenly going limp and collapsing to the ground. But then, her eyes snapped open again, and she knelt down in front of Liu Zhang, sobbing and pleading: "You Han people have advanced medical skills, you must be able to save my father! Please, sir, save my father! I'll do anything, just please save him!"

  Xiao Furong said, knocking her head on the ground, tears constantly dripping onto the grass. Now she had no other choice, all her hopes were pinned on Liu Zhang. From a young age, she and her father had relied on each other for survival. Although his endless bragging was annoying, Xiao Furong only had this one relative, and she really couldn't bear to watch Ye Wu Tie die in front of her.

  Liu Zhang glanced at Xiao Furan and frowned at the old military doctor, "Really no way? You military doctors should be good at trauma?"

  The old military doctor sighed and said, "Your Excellency, this barbarian has over a dozen knife wounds on his body. Each wound is extremely deep, and he hasn't stopped bleeding for a long time. The blood in his body is no longer enough to sustain his bodily functions. Moreover, the most important thing is that he not only suffered external injuries but also poisoned with Night Tail Red toxin."

  "Night Red?" Liu Zhang wondered: "What is this thing?"

  The old military doctor said, "Your Excellency is unaware that Ye Wei Hong is a highly toxic poison from the southern border. Its toxicity is extremely potent and ordinary people who are poisoned will die within an hour. It's only because this barbarian has a strong physique that he can suppress the toxin. The time for Ye Wei Hong to take effect is short, and there is no antidote. What we can do now is to stop his bleeding at most, but he has lost too much blood and may not make it through tonight."

  Xiao Furan's head buzzed as soon as she heard this, and she almost fainted. Liu Zhang hastily supported her. Xiao Furan had also heard of Ye Weihong's great name, but she didn't expect the Han people she took in to use such a deadly poison on her father. Overcome with grief, she pushed Liu Zhang away and shouted: "You Han people are all bad, you're all evil, repaying kindness with enmity, despicable and shameless! I won't ask for your help, we'll leave."

  Xiao Furong picked up Ye Wuti's body and was about to leave when Liu Zhang suddenly shouted: "Wait!"

  Liu Zhang was pushed by Xiao Furan with great force, and he felt like he couldn't breathe, only managing to balance his breathing with great difficulty. He said to Xiao Furan: "You can resent the Han people, you can also resent me Liu Zhang, but if you leave like this, your father will definitely die."

  Xiao Furan gazed out at the endless black night, her eyes scanning the horizon as tears streaked down her face. "Can we survive by staying here?" she asked.

  Liu Zhang looked at the barbarian woman and sighed, then turned to the old military doctor and said: "Do you know how to do a blood transfusion?"

  "Blood transfusion?" The old military doctor shook his head in confusion.

  Liu Zhang said: "It's just that one person's blood is transfused into another person's body to make up for the other person's lost blood."

  The old military doctor was stunned for a moment and said: "This method is quite novel, it sounds feasible."

  Liu Zhang shook his head. With the medical conditions of this era, blood transfusions were basically a pipe dream. There were no clean needles, it was hard to control the speed of the transfusion, and most importantly, they couldn't do cross-matching tests, so they didn't know what blood type matched. But since Ye Wu was going to die anyway, they might as well give it a try.

  Liu Zhang said to Xiao Fu Rong, "I have a very dangerous method to cure your father. The success rate is estimated to be less than one in a hundred. Are you willing to give it a try?"

  "Could it be that not one of them survived?" Xiao Furen murmured.

  "Maybe not." Liu Zhang remembered that the first Roman Pope to receive a blood transfusion was done for, and their medical conditions were much better than here.

  Xiao Furan looked at Ye Wuti, who was on the verge of death, and then glanced at the black mountains. She walked out of Liu Zhang's military tent, outside which was a vast darkness. Where could she go to save Ye Wuti? In the end, wouldn't she still be watching her father die?

  Xiao Furan hesitated for a long time before finally nodding and saying: "Even if the hope of success is only one in a thousand, I still want to give it a try."

  Liu Zhang sighed, now giving her hope, but didn't know if it was good or bad. If Ye Wu Tie still died later, would it be an even greater blow to her? Liu Zhang shook his head and roughly explained the blood transfusion method to the old military doctor. He didn't know much either, only that you needed a clean tube to transfer one person's blood into another person's vein.

  The old military doctor listened with great curiosity, but also felt uneasy. Liu Zhang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be nervous, whether it succeeds or not has nothing to do with you, just do your best. If it fails, that girl will only scold me."

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