Chapter 81: Underground Ambush
"What! What happened to Uncle Wu?" Li Zhang stood up and asked loudly when he heard the yamen runner's words, with an anxious look on his face. Wasn't Lu Wu still fine when he left this morning?
"It's not Lu Banto, it's the guy who Lu Banto took him to be injured!" The yamen runner gasped for a few breaths and replied again.
When Li Zhang heard that it was a wild dog that was injured, he was even more anxious and immediately urged the yamen runners to take him over. However, after just a few steps, he turned back and ran upstairs and came down with a box. Then he told Douzi who came to take care of the shop, and then followed the yamen runners along the street.
I don’t know how many streets I ran through, but in the end the yamen runner took Li Zhang to a clinic. When Li Zhang broke in, he found Lu Wu standing there covered in blood, with a tall and thin figure lying on the bed next to him, and a white-bearded old doctor was treating him.
"Uncle Wu, how about the wild dog?" Li Zhang rushed forward and grabbed Lu Wu's arm and asked anxiously.
"The wild dog was stabbed several times and was seriously injured!" Lu Wu said with a look of guilt at this time. If it weren't for the wild dog's desperate efforts to protect him, he might not have come back this time.
Li Zhang was even more anxious when he heard this. He hurriedly stepped forward to check. The doctor was also helping the wild dog's wound to stop bleeding, but the other wounds were fine, but the two wounds on the chest and abdomen were too deep. The blood gushed out washed away the powder and could not stop the bleeding at all. The doctor was so anxious that he was sweating profusely that he could only cover the wound with gauze to prevent the blood from flowing out.
Seeing this situation, Li Zhang immediately put down the medicine box and started to treat the wound for the wild dog. He first cleaned the wound around it, then checked the wound, and then took out the needle and thread from the medicine box to start sewing. Since the wild dog practiced martial arts and cleaned up some ghost beggars from time to time, Li Zhang was worried that he would be injured, so he always had a medicine box at home, which happened to come in handy.
Although the two wounds were very deep, they did not hurt the internal organs, which was also a great blessing in disguise. Otherwise, if internal bleeding occurred, Li Zhang would have no way to recover. As the wound was sutured, blood finally stopped gushing out. Then Li Zhang took out a yellow powder and scattered it on the wound.
The medicine powder is called Puhuang. It is a yellow stick grown by the pony grass in spring. It is dried and ground and can stop bleeding and remove blood stasis. Li Zhang was injured when he was a child. The elderly at home often use this thing to stop bleeding. Later, he learned medicine and realized that this is a very effective hemostatic medicine.
"Brother is good at medical skills!" The old doctor next to him couldn't help but praise him when he saw that Li Zhang had used a strange method of suturing.
However, Li Zhang also stopped at this point. He did not have medical equipment from later generations, and he was not aware of the current injury of the wild dog, so he immediately bowed and said, "Please help him take his pulse and see how his injury is now?"
The old doctor did not refuse, and immediately took the pulse of the wild dog, then stroked his beard and said, "This injured young man is extremely strong. Even if he suffers such a serious injury, his pulse is still strong, but he loses a lot of blood. If the wound is not ulcerated, he should not be in danger of life!"
The so-called ulcer is actually a general term for wound inflammation and infection in traditional Chinese medicine. Because ancient medicine was backward, wounds were easily infected by microorganisms. There were no antibiotics in this era. As long as the wound was inflamed, the injured could only rely on physical fitness to stand up.
Although Li Zhang believed in the physical fitness of wild dogs, in order to prevent it, he asked the old doctor to catch some dandelions and decoct them in water, and then cleaned the wound of the wild dog again. Dandelions are said to be natural antibiotics and have a good inhibitory effect on wound infection.
"How is the situation? Are the wild dogs okay?" At this time, Lu Wu quickly stepped forward and grabbed Li Zhang's arm and asked.
"It shouldn't be in danger of life, but how could a wild dog be so seriously injured?" Li Zhang said in the end with some confusion. The wild dog was born with night eyes, fast movements and strong power, and it was like a tiger in the dark environment of the sewer. Even a master like Lu Wu was probably not afraid. Even if he encountered a dozen ghost begs besieged, he could escape calmly, let alone be injured.
"It's all my fault that I was too careless. I was ambushed by the other party. Three brothers died at the other party's hands. If it weren't for the wild dogs trying to save me, I'm afraid my life would have been thrown to the ground!" Lu Wu said again with a self-blame face. When he said this, his body shook and was about to fall. Fortunately, Li Zhang was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he held him up and stood up straight.
"Uncle Wu, are you injured?" Li Zhang realized that Lu Wu was weak and seemed to be very difficult to stand.
"It's okay, it's just a little injury. If I were a few years younger, this little injury was nothing!" Lu Wu said stubbornly at this time, but Li Zhang hurriedly helped him aside and sat down, and then checked him personally.
As a result, when Li Zhang untied Lu Wu's clothes, he was shocked. He saw that the wounds on the front and back of Lu Wu's chest were horizontal. Although they were not very deep, their flesh was very scary to open. Before, Lu Wu was standing there covered in blood. Li Zhang thought it was the blood of a wild dog or other people, but now it seems that it was more of Lu Wu's own blood.
"Uncle Wu, why are you so injured?" Li Zhang hurriedly took clear water to help Lu Wu clean it. Fortunately, these wounds were not deep, and many of them were no longer bleeding. Otherwise, Lu Wu would have fallen down due to excessive blood loss.
"The Wild Dogs have said before that those ghost beggars are organized. I was a little suspicious, but today I encountered the ambush of these ghost beggars, and there was also a master among them. The Wild Dog and I were both injured by each other's men..."
Now Lu Wu told the story. It turned out that after they came to the wealthy family where the child was thrown away, they quickly entered the sewer to look for it. It was said that this wealthy family deserved it. Now the ghost beggar is so fierce that many families are busy blocking the sewer entrance, but the owner of the family is a stingy person and is reluctant to spend the money. As a result, the ghost beggar broke into the house and snatched his young son away.
After Lu Wu and the others entered the sewer, the wild dog immediately followed the traces. According to the previous agreement, he would mark the hole at each turn to facilitate Lu Wu and the others to chase after him. After all, the wild dog is extremely fast and ordinary people can't keep up with him.
But just as Lu Wu and the others chased them down for nearly an hour, the wild dog suddenly ran back with blood all over his body and told them to run away quickly. However, it was too late. Dozens of ghost beggars rushed out of the hole next to them and surrounded them and killed them. Fortunately, Lu Wu was very skilled in martial arts, protecting everyone with one sword and retreating while fighting.
If nothing unexpected happened, Lu Wu could have protected everyone to escape safely, but just as they were about to escape, a person suddenly appeared among the ghost beggars, and the other party used a stone to knock off the torch in the yamen runner's hand as soon as they made a move. Lu Wu and the others immediately became blind.
In fact, not all ghost beggars have the ability to have wild dogs. They usually need torches when they are underground. Of course, they are familiar with the path and find the right path even in the dark. But if there is no light, they are also blind. Lu Wu even thinks that they have wild dogs, who can see things at night, may take advantage of them.
But Lu Wu soon discovered that he was wrong. The master who knocked off their torches was not affected by the darkness. The two fought dozens of times in the darkness. Lu Wu suffered a loss that was invisible to his eyes and was quickly cut by the other party countless times. However, the other party seemed to be playing tricks and was not in a hurry to kill him, but wanted to slowly kill him, so the wounds of these swords were not deep, otherwise Lu Wu would have died long ago.
It was also under the attack of this master that Lu Wu was no longer able to protect the others. In the end, three yamen runners died. The wild dogs had been seriously injured before, but after seeing that Lu Wu was in a critical situation, he tried his best to carry Lu Wu on his body and escape. He fainted as soon as he came out. Lu Wu sent the wild dog to the clinic regardless of his injuries. This is what happened the whole thing.
"Uncle Wu, are you sure the other party is like a wild dog and can move freely in the darkness?" Li Zhang asked with a frown while helping Lu Wu treat his wound.
"You can definitely not be wrong. You have seen the eyes of wild dogs. They glow green in the dark, just like wolves, and the same is true for that person's eyes. Moreover, his target does not seem to be us, but wild dogs, so the wild dogs were seriously injured." Lu Wu said again at this time. When he said this, he turned his head and looked at the wild dogs in a downturn. At the beginning, he didn't want Li Zhang to take in the wild dogs, but he didn't expect that it was the wild dogs who fought to death to save his life today.
Li Zhang was also stunned when he heard this. The body of a wild dog is different from that of an ordinary person. After all, the world is so big that there are all kinds of strange people. Even in later generations, there are many strange people. Li Zhang always thought that the physical condition of a wild dog might be a genetic mutation. Coupled with the influence of his living environment, he had some ordinary people without ability, but he did not expect that there were people like a wild dog in this world.
"Is it genetic? If so, the person who injured the wild dog may have a certain blood relationship with him!" Li Zhang suddenly thought of a possibility again, and he couldn't help but whisper to himself. The life experience of the wild dog is also a mystery. He didn't want to say it before, and Li Zhang never asked, but now it seems that the life experience of the wild dog may involve some secrets, and actually asked his relatives to kill him.
"Boy, the man who hurt me is very skilled in martial arts. Even if he fights openly, I may not be able to beat him. Moreover, this time he obviously set up a trap to target the wild dogs. He can't let the wild dogs enter the sewer in the future. In addition, you must be careful, I am worried that they will find your place to live!" Lu Wu said again at this time. When he said this, his face also showed a look of worry.
Chapter completed!