Chapter 52: The Whole Tribe Rests

The humans of this era are truly too tough; such wounds make Baifeng's scalp tingle, yet he only said it was a bit painful, without wailing like patients after hemorrhoid or perianal abscess surgery.

After the tribe had an experience with a woman giving birth without a delivery room, the tribe specifically built a small house to handle such emergencies; that woman and her husband, the Potter, are now living harmoniously, and especially after having a child, they have experienced the joy of being parents.

Actually, this is just the result of Baifeng's strict crackdown; after the Potter was able to enter the delivery room, he completely ignored the newborn, but fortunately, Baifeng often went to see the child, otherwise, even the child's rations would have been snatched, and he wouldn't have discovered that the mother was being monopolized for long periods, leaving her no time to care for the child.

Baifeng was furious, and only felt relieved after breaking I don't know how many bamboo strips, but in reality, after Baifeng's anger subsided a little later, he realized this was mainly his own responsibility; if he hadn't messed around with arranged marriages, could such a thing have happened? So he wanted to stop in time, perhaps there is currently no foundation for establishing a family at all.

But the Potter was the first to refuse, begging Baifeng not to take back his wife, and promising that he would absolutely never snatch the child's rations again, nor would he monopolize the child's mother for long periods, and promising that he would take on the responsibility of caring for the child when he was off duty.

Seeing that he was sincere enough, Baifeng still felt like giving him another chance, and giving himself a chance too; however, every day Baifeng would irregularly go to check the situation to see if he had implemented his promise, and as a result, the child has been growing sturdily ever since, the couple has also been living in harmony, and the Potter is capable and can obtain more food, so the whole family has been living more and more comfortably.

Baifeng also developed this habit of irregularly checking and asking about the living conditions of married families, and punishing and criticizing cases of casual marital infidelity; now the Potter's family has become a model couple under Baifeng.

Speaking of which, Baifeng not only prepared an emergency house but also crafted a medical kit; there is nothing else inside, and no medicine, because Baifeng does not yet have the conditions to make pills or powders.

Inside the box are only sharp scalpels, which haven't been used yet, tweezers, curved suturing needles, and sheep intestine sutures scraped from sheep intestines, all wrapped in steamed Hemp Cloth, with steamed Hemp Cloth also available as spare bandages.

Everything is too crude, and some steps and links are not handled properly, so there is little difference between the overall sterilization of the instruments and having no sterilization at all. Baifeng left Yi as an assistant and drove the other uninjured people back to process the wolves' carcasses.

Only now did they realize their feet were almost numb from the cold, and one by one they requested if they could go home to warm their feet and rest for another day today; Baifeng only agreed that they could bring the wolf carcasses back into the house to process, and in the end, the meat and skin must be handed over, it's just that it is warmer in the house.

Baifeng admired the physique of the people of this time immensely; except for the one with the injured lower leg, the other dozen or so people with minor injuries had their bleeding almost stopped, their blood-clotting ability being extremely formidable.

There is no sugar or anything like that, nor are there disinfectants like iodophor, only warm water that has been boiled and cooled; there are no conditions even for distilled water, so he used water to rinse the wounds, and the wound surface looked generally clean, but the blood was still flowing.

Baifeng used an Iron Needle heated until red and placed it at the blood vessel, replacing the function of a surgical electrocautery knife of later generations; fortunately, the effect was very good, the bleeding stopped, and after cleaning it again, Baifeng began to suture layer by layer with needle and thread, constantly explaining the essentials to Yi.

Yi had no suturing experience, so Baifeng didn't dare let him try, only intending for him to find a piece of meat to practice on first; doctors all come up that way.

The first two layers were sutured very smoothly, and the patient didn't resist or shout, staying quiet; Baifeng felt like he was performing surgery on a patient under general anesthesia, suturing the skin in one go, then bandaging it up; Baifeng felt it was perfect, but he didn't know if it would get infected. He went to call the patient, only to find that he had long since fainted from the pain at some point.

Turning to look at the several lightly injured patients who had observed the whole process, they all looked as if they had seen a devil, preferring to bleed dry rather than let Baifeng treat them; Yi listened to Baifeng's teaching the whole time and also saw the transformation from a terrifying wound to a perfect suture, and he felt that the Tribal Chief was not scary at all, his master Baifeng was simply so amazing that it couldn't be described in words.

Only after repeatedly promising that he would not treat their bodies like cloth to be sewn did they tremblingly agree to let Baifeng treat them; Baifeng only cleaned and bandaged them before letting them leave, just hoping they wouldn't get infected; the brother with the injured leg had just woken up and looked at his bandaged leg in disbelief, although the pain told him it wasn't a dream.

Leaving him here to continue recovering, trying to stay as far away from those dirty tribesmen as possible, whether he can live depends entirely on whether he gets an infection; as long as he holds on and doesn't get infected, he will be a good man again, if he doesn't hold on, then in eighteen, no, it should be fifteen years later, he will be a good man again.

The harvest of thirty-one wolves, once the skins are peeled and tanned, will be very high-quality fur; it's just that Baifeng doesn't really dare to use it, for fear that if he goes out and the alpha wolf recognizes that he is wearing its second uncle, he might be torn apart on the spot.

Baifeng only promised that everyone who participated in this battle could get a share of wolf skin; it is impossible to give the whole tribe a pair of shoes each this year, but he can give these Soldiers a piece of skin, which can be tied directly to the feet for warmth, and if they want to make Boots, they can do it themselves, it's not very difficult.

It is impossible for Baifeng to make shoes one by one for these rough men.

Wolf meat can be eaten, but it is not delicious, being sour and tough, but no matter how bad it is, it is still meat, and there is no right to waste it.

It's just that now they need to close the doors and windows tightly at night, and reinforce the doors and such; wolves are very vengeful, and it would be terrible if they came to raid again at night.

Today, he originally wanted to let them clear the Snow from the tribal grounds together, but in view of their brave performance today and these harvests, he would no longer be demanding of the tribesmen; the Heaven is too cold and the Snow is too thick.

The whole tribe rests today.