"Mr. Bai, these are the expected effect diagrams of various cosmetic surgery plans, all simulated by computer, take a look." In Xiaobai's ward, a doctor in a white coat handed five or six color pictures printed from the computer to Bai Shaoliu, Zhuang Ru had something to do and was not here.

  Bai Shaofeng took over the picture and looked at it carefully, frowning and asking: "Professor Chen, is this the actual effect?"

  "This is the best possible outcome under ideal surgical conditions."

  "Seems like, seems like..." He couldn't continue speaking.

  Professor Chen: "It still looks very difficult and strange, right? This is a reparative cosmetic surgery, not a routine medical beauty treatment. Ms. Zhuang's facial muscles and fascial tissues were all cut and displaced, let alone the surface skin damage. Even if we do a large-scale skin grafting, it's impossible to complete it in one operation, and multiple surgeries are needed to repair the damage. It's impossible for her to look like a normal person... At the level of medical technology in Wuyue, this is all that can be done, going abroad might be slightly better, but I don't think there will be much difference."

  "Is she... is she going to be like this from now on?"

  Professor Chen: "Compared to her original appearance, she has recovered a lot. In fact, this surgery is more of a spiritual comfort and repair for the individual. If you want to restore your previous face, we don't have that ability, unless..."

  "What if?"

  Professor Chen smiled wryly: "Unless you can find a divine medicine like 'Tian Xiang Duan Xu Gao' in fantasy novels, just kidding."

  Bai Shaoliu: "Thank you Professor Chen, I understand! Has Zhuang sister seen these pictures yet?"

  Professor Chen: "Miss Zhuang hasn't seen it yet."

  Bai Shaoliu: "Professor Chen, I have a favor to ask of you. Before all the surgeries are completed, please don't let Zhuang Jie see these things."

  Professor Chen: "I understand what you mean now, it will be done this way, and patients will also find it easier to cooperate."

  Professor Chen left, Bai Shaofeng sat on the bed and looked at these computer simulation effect diagrams, shaking his head and sighing while looking. The most "beautiful" one among these diagrams, how to describe it? A beautiful doll was torn half of its face and then stitched together with another material. If there's any improvement, that is still recognizable as a doll's face. This diagram is like this, let alone the others. At this moment, I heard the footsteps outside the door, it was Zhuo Ru who came back, Xiao Bai hurriedly hid all the pictures under the pillow.

  In the middle of the night, Xiaobai suddenly woke up from his sleep and saw Zhuo Ru sitting on the sofa in the dark, covering her face with her hands and shaking slightly. She was crying, but not making a sound. Xiaobai quickly sat up, and the creaking of the bed startled Zhuo Ru. She secretly wiped away her tears and asked in as calm a voice as possible, "Xiaobai, why are you awake? Do you need to use the bathroom?"

  Bai Shaoliu: "I'm fine, why aren't you sleeping, Zhuang Jie?"

  Zhuang Ru: "I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd sit for a while, you go to sleep." Her voice concealed a desperate mood. Xiao Bai felt something was off and reached under the pillow, only to find that those few pieces of paper were gone!

  Xiaobai understood why Zhuang Ru would secretly cry at night, because she saw these post-operative effect pictures. Originally, Zhuang Ru had gradually become accustomed to her disfigured appearance in front of Xiaobai and her emotions had calmed down. However, suddenly having the hope of surgical repair again, her calm mood was stirred up with a turbulent kind of excitement. But now, seeing these things, it's like falling from the peak to the bottom of the valley all over again, even more painful than the second injury - the effect of the surgery is worlds apart from her expectations.

  Xiao Bai didn't know how to comfort Zhuang Ru, so he got down from the bed and took a few steps to the side of the sofa. He silently hugged Zhuang Ru's head into his chest and abdomen, and in the darkness, he stretched out one hand to stroke her face that was half-covered with scars: "Zhuang Jie, don't be sad anymore, isn't the hardest time already over? Having surgery is much better than not having it, right? The situation will only get better, not worse."

  This didn't persuade her, but when Zhuang Ru was persuaded, she couldn't hold back anymore. She shook her shoulders and finally burst into tears, with tears flowing again to wet Xiao Bai's hand. In a sobbing voice, she said: "Xiao Bai, thank you, and thank you, Miss Luo, but I won't have this surgery no matter what. Is there a difference between scaring someone to death twice and only once? ... At such a great cost, and still leaving such a big scar on my leg, it's not necessary, it's not worth it!" After finishing speaking, she sobbed loudly.

  "Alright, alright, you say we won't do it then we won't! Don't cry anymore, okay?... Actually, besides plastic surgery, there are other ways to think about it..." Xiaobai knew that reasoning was useless at this time, and could only coax her first. However, when he said this, he suddenly remembered something, and his voice stopped.

  Zhuang Ru heard his unusual tone and stopped crying temporarily, lifting her tearful eyes to ask: "Xiao Bai, what's wrong with you? ... You just said there was another way?" Although Zhuang Ru was crying, she clearly heard every word Xiao Bai said.

  Xiao Bai furrowed his brow and said five words: "Golden wound adhesive!" The expression in the darkness seemed to be recalling a distant memory.

  "What glue?"

  Bai Shaoliu: "Zhuang sister, don't speak for now, let me think carefully! ... I'll tell you, there's a kind of compound Chinese medicine that treats external injuries with an amazing effect, it might be able to cure the scar on your face. ... Someone told me the prescription and how to use it, I'm thinking." Xiaobai thought of something, he thought of something that happened a long time ago in his hometown, Xiaobai Village.

  At that time, Bai Shaofeng was only five years old, and it was the age when he had just started to remember things vaguely. In their village, there was a young man named Bai Jiangmin who joined the army with honor, and later returned home on leave to find someone to treat a scar on his arm from childhood. It is said that because the air force academy was about to select pilots from grassroots units, Bai Jiangmin also wanted to attend the military academy, but an old soldier told him that at that time, the selection conditions for pilots were extremely harsh, and with such obvious scars, he would not pass the physical examination in the first place. Bai Jiangmin had a mind to do it, and secretly went to the hospital to ask the doctor if he could cure the scar? The doctor told him that it was impossible, but he still did not give up, and took advantage of his leave to return to his hometown to inquire around, wanting to see if there was any way in traditional Chinese medicine.

  Here is the translation:

  This explains that the traditional medical research of Zhixu Guo focuses on the running of Qi and blood in the viscera, meridians and collaterals, emphasizing treatment based on symptoms rather than differentiating diseases and treating manifestations. The methods used include internal administration of decoctions, external application of ointments and powders, scraping and pressing to correct, needling and stone puncturing, etc. Because Zhixu Guo has been the central empire of the Kunlun continent since ancient times, its traditional medical techniques over the past three thousand years are called Chinese medicine.

  Bai Jiangmin inquired all around and actually found an old Chinese doctor who nodded and said he could get rid of his scars, and even came to Xiaobai Village to treat him. The old doctor's surname was Jin, from Shizhu Village at the foot of Zhaoting Mountain in Wucheng, and he was very old. People from all over the countryside called him Grandfather Jin. At that time, the external medicine used by Grandfather Jin to treat scars was called "Jin Pian Duan Xugu Jiao", which was an improvement on the ancient external wound medicine "Jin Pian Tie Shan San" prescription based on his decades of medical experience and self-created.

  Ten days later, Bai Jiangmin's wound really healed, and the original place on his arm only left a faint scar, which was slightly darker than other places. No matter how you look at it, you can't see that there is a scar, and you will only think that it is an inconspicuous birthmark.

  Why did Xiaobai suddenly think of something so far away? Because when he casually coaxed Zhuang Ru saying "you can think of other ways", he remembered what Professor Chen said during the day, "Unless you can find a divine medicine like 'Tian Xiang Duan Xu Gao' in martial arts." The two words "Duan Xu" flashed in his mind, like opening a memory gate, and the five words "Jin Chuang Duan Xu Jiao" came out of his mouth. Then he vaguely remembered the past when Old Man Jin, an old Chinese doctor from Weicheng, treated scars.

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