Chapter 313: Killed her at the 306th stab
All the students in this batch are novices. Only Tang Yuxin seems to have so foundation, so she should be a promising seed, who appears set to be a qualified dical personnel.
Tang Yuxin removed the needle for Ting Yuan, then washed her hands, preparing to let others needle her. In fact, she wasn’t too afraid. They all started from this mont. She had needled herself and had done it many tis. She had even hurt herself while practicing the Chen-style Acupuncture thod, even making a ss of herself. She had also needled her second uncle, who really loved her and was willing to let her practice acupuncture on him.
Thinking about it now, only your relatives could love you and ache for you without asking for anything in return.
She washed her hands and reached out.
Ting Yuan took a deep breath, then grasped Tang Yuxin’s arm. But Tang Yuxin’s arm was so white, she didn’t dare to needle it, she just couldn’t make herself do it.
She held onto Tang Yuxin’s hand and felt the coolness on her skin. However, she no longer slled sweet due to the dicine she had taken to mask the scent.
She had already tied a tourniquet around Tang Yuxin’s arm. Tang Yuxin was very thin, so it was easy for her to find her vein. With a vein so apparent, it must be easy to insert the needle.
She closed her eyes to calm herself. As it was her first ti, her hands were trembling, with sweat in her palms. The sweat on her forehead trickled down her face.
It was only until she opened her eyes, after taking several deep breaths, that she gritted her teeth and impaled the needle into Tang Yuxin’s vein.
The sudden pain made Tang Yuxin frown, but unlike others, she did not scream.
She missed.
The ntor on the side saw this and said, “Haven’t I told you many tis to aim for the vein? Why do you keep aiming for the skin? This isn’t tattooing, it’s injecting, intravenous infusion, get it?”
“I…I…I’m sorry…”
Ting Yuan was shaking like a leaf now.
“It’s alright, try again.”
Tang Yuxin pulled out the needle herself and offered her other hand to Ting Yuan.
With tears welling in her eyes, Ting Yuan felt truly sorry for Tang Yuxin.
“It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt,” Tang Yuxin comforted Ting Yuan. However, she chuckled bitterly in her heart, how could it not hurt? It was extrely painful, and if it wasn’t for her tolerance, she would have scread like the others.
Seeing Tang Yuxin in this state, Ting Yuan could only try again.
“Here,” Tang Yuxin guided her, pointing at her hand, “Insert here, exert lighter force, and maintain the correct angle.”
Sweat dropped from Ting Yuan’s forehead once again. She shook as she tried for a second ti and succeeded, although, she caused Tang Yuxin pain again. Regardless of being a doctor or a nurse, mastering the skill of needling was essential.
So people had readily visible veins, while others had veins that were really hard to find. Therefore, it required the doctor or the nurse to have good vision and experience.
When class ended, Tang Yuxin looked at the back of her hands. Both were bruised. If her skin was dark, it would not have been noticeable. Unfortunately, her complexion was exceptionally fair. This was the shortcoming of having fair skin – even the slightest injury was clearly visible.
Ting Yuan didn’t dare to look at Tang Yuxin’s hands. It was because of her incompetence that Tang Yuxin had to endure the pain of two needles.
No, it was two for the price of one.
“It’s alright, just keep practicing,” Tang Yuxin didn’t take the injuries on the back of her hands seriously, “It looks serious, but actually, it’s not that painful. It just appears more obvious because I’m too fair.”
“Indeed,” Ting Yuan chid in, “If you were as dark as , even if you got hit in the face, it wouldn’t show.” While saying this, Ting Yuan seed quite proud. She finally found an advantage of having a darker complexion – if she had to practice injections with others in the future, at least she couldn’t see the bruises.
In actual fact, she was mistaken. The reason she couldn’t see any injuries on the back of her hand was not because she was dark, but because Tang Yuxin was really skilled. If it was another classmate, given that they were all novices, should she let them try?
Lets’s see if her hand could end up looking like a pig’s trotter.
In the afternoon, Tang Yuxin had to clean her house and buy so disinfectants. Not long after, there would be a severe shortage of it. This was especially true in Beijing because it was one of the worst affected areas during the epidemic.
She went into the supermarket and imdiately took ten bottles of disinfectant off the shelves.
She couldn’t carry any more. It was okay, there were still over half a year before the outbreak of SARS. She had plenty of ti to prepare.
She put all the disinfectants she bought into her house. There was nothing else in the room, just the four empty walls. She put the disinfectants in the corner, and the bruises on the back of her hand seed rather startling.
But she didn’t mind, just as she said, while it looked serious, it actually didn’t hurt much, did it?
She didn’t have classes in the afternoon, rendering her ti to stay and recharge. Therefore, Tang Yuxin continued to buy more disinfectants. However, she wouldn’t buy them all from one place. She purchased from different places, and after several trips, she had already bought more than fifty bottles. Afterwards, she grabbed a duster and started cleaning up. After a few rounds, the whole room was cleaned, including the stone table outside, which had not a speck of dust on it. Whenever she ca here, she could feel events from another ti happening in the flowing air around her.
In the silence, there were always so peculiar sounds.
Like that of birds chirping, wind, and rain.
If it rained here, it must be quite a sight.
She sat at the stone table, resting her cheek on her hand, thinking that when her finances were better, she would purchase so furniture for the house. Although her father provided her with a generous allowance, it might not be enough if she were to buy furniture. She considered taking on a part-ti job, but then she realized that other than being a doctor, she wasn’t good at anything else.
In her forr life, she was a nondescript woman.
Besides going to school, the only thing she did was make money. She worked part-ti jobs to make money, tutored as a ho teacher to make money, earning her living expenses and tuition fees. She had once handed out flyers, delivered milk in the early morning, sold newspapers, and even shined shoes. Whatever job that could earn her money, she took it. She never really got to choose her job. It was not her choosing the job, it was the job choosing her.
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