"Move our general manager into a private room," he said to the two women helping the manager in. "I need to perform emergency treatment on her."
With gritted teeth, the two women realized it was too late to call for an ambulance. They'd have to take a chance on this.
Following Chu Yang's instructions, they brought Chen Xi to the resting room.
"Where is the snakebite?" Chu Yang asked.
One of the women pulled back Chen Xi's collar and pointed inside, saying, "It's here."
Chu Yang's gaze followed down the neckline to the snakebite, which was situated in a very private area. However, saving a life meant breaching some boundaries: "Get me a sterilized scalpel."
"Oh, right!" One woman hurried out and quickly returned with a sterilized scalpel for Chu Yang.
Chu Yang made a cross incision at the site of the snakebite on Chen Xi, and dark purple venomous blood began to ooze out.
"Clean off the venomous blood," Chu Yang ordered.
The woman beside him immediately used gauze to wipe away the oozing dark purple venomous blood.
Chu Yang did not hesitate, bending down to suck the venomous blood from Chen Xi's wound with his mouth.
In such an urgent situation, mouth suction was the most direct and effective method, but it also carried significant risks. If Chu Yang had any inflammation, wounds, breaks in the skin of his mouth, or if he accidentally swallowed the venomous blood, he too could be poisoned.
This method should only be used as a last resort.
The two women standing by were shocked to see Chu Yang performing venom suction on Chen Xi.
The site of the snakebite was particularly private for a woman, but life was at stake, so they couldn't afford to think too much about it.
Chen Xi, still unconscious, felt a sharp pain in her chest as if something was sucking there — especially in the upper body, which felt sore and itchy, prompting a few involuntary whimpers.
"Ptui." Chu Yang spat the blood from his mouth into the wastebasket.
He looked at Chen Xi's face, which had regained color, the previous pall of black qi had faded, and her previously dark purple lips were now pinkish, her breathing gradually stabilizing. It seemed that Chu Yang's rescue attempts were effective.
"The venomous blood at the wound isn't completely clear yet," said Chu Yang as he bent down once more to suck out the venom.
This time, the unconscious Chen Xi felt an even stronger sore and itchy sensation, her hands instinctively wrapping tightly around Chu Yang's head.
Chu Yang was startled, almost swallowing the blood in his mouth, which gave him quite a fright.
That exaggerated, illogically large bust made it difficult for Chu Yang to breathe.
"Cough cough... This beauty has quite the strength... She's squeezing me so tight I can barely breathe," Chu Yang removed Chen Xi's hands, stood up from her, and once again spat the blood into the wastebasket.
He instructed the two women to go out and find certain herbs, grind them into medicinal powder, and apply it to gauze.
The women set out to do as Chu Yang told them.
Chu Yang glanced at Chen Xi and murmured to himself, "You're quite lucky to have met me and have your life saved."
"But the bosom of a woman who has had children is different from one who hasn't."
"Sister-in-law Qianqian's is soft and supple."
"Chen Xi's is like an inflated balloon."
Chen Xi, who had been unconscious, gradually regained consciousness, aware of what had happened. She tried to wake up and open her eyes, but her eyelids were as heavy as if they'd been filled with lead and impossible to lift.
Chu Yang's words were heard loud and clear by her, causing shame and annoyance to swell in her heart, as she thought this guy was truly despicable.
Crack.
The door was opened, and the two women who had left earlier came back in, carrying the medicated gauze.
Chu Yang took the gauze smeared with medicinal powder and applied it to Chen Xi's snakebite wound, then said to the two women, "Wrap the wound with the gauze properly. Do not bathe or touch water for three days, and change the dressing twice more. After that, the snake venom in her body will be completely removed."
"Additionally, your general manager has regained consciousness and will wake up before long," Chu Yang said before leaving the room.
The people waiting outside saw Chu Yang emerge and hung their heads in shame.
From what the two women had said, they knew Chu Yang had saved Chen Xi's life. They had been looking down on Chu Yang with contempt.
"Hmph." Chu Yang snorted coldly and left Qingcao Hall.
Not long after Chu Yang departed from Qingcao Hall, Chen Xi woke up. The memory of Chu Yang sucking out the poison for her brought both a touch of gratitude and a flush of bashfulness to her heart.
Chen Xi straightened out her clothes and walked out.
"The general manager is all right, the general manager is fine. This is truly great news."
"That young man is really a miracle doctor. He really saved our general manager's life."
"Indeed! Even though the young man is a farmer, his medical skills are solid. True valor does not flaunt itself. Those who were too quick to judge him almost cost the general manager her life," someone spoke up indignantly for Chu Yang.
Those who had looked down on Chu Yang for his appearance and farmer status now had sullen faces, clearly displeased.
Especially the tall, contemptuous female sales clerk who cursed bitterly, "That stinking farmer just got lucky and saved the general manager's life, making me lose face. He deserves to die."
Chen Xi looked icily at the tall female sales clerk, "You're fired. Get out of here."
The tall sales clerk's face turned ashen.
After leaving Qingcao Hall, a man with raised eyebrows, a prominent nose ridge, and a bean-sized mole on his nose, chuckled slyly, blocking Chu Yang's path, "Hehe, young brother, I heard you have some herbs for sale?"
Chu Yang sized up the man before him. The fellow's face was gaunt, resembling a weasel, which made Chu Yang instinctively wary, "How do you know that?"
"Hehe, I had been observing you from outside Qingcao Hall just now," the mole-nosed man said, his eyes the size of mung beans, flickering towards the backpack that Chu Yang was holding.
Chu Yang thought for a moment and then spoke, "Indeed, I do have some herbs to sell."
The mole-nosed man grinned sleazily, "Brother, you've found the right person then. I'm in the business of buying herbs."
"As long as the herbs you've got are good enough, rare enough, I can pay any price."
Chu Yang's interest was piqued.
He had come to Qingcao Hall specifically to sell the herbs, and after facing rejection there, Chu Yang wasn't sure what his next step should be.
This guy approached Chu Yang just in time.
Chu Yang didn't care who he sold the Mountain King Ginseng to, as long as he could get the money.
"Brother, what kind of fine herbs do you have in there?" the mole-nosed man leaned in closer, lowering his voice.
Chu Yang responded indifferently, "It's a thirty-year-old Mountain King Ginseng."
"What?" The man with the mole on his nose shouted, a look of astonishment flashing across his eyes.