Chapter 35: Temptation at the Edge

"Kraft, Kraft? Are you in there? ”

Kraft was awakened by a sharp knock on the door, and reflexively lifted his forehead, which had been pressed out of the edge of the table, trying to touch his non-existent phone, for fear of missing something important.

The hilt of the sword at his waist pulled him back to reality, and his consciousness came back from the fantasy night shift scene, realizing that he had long since stopped being on duty, and it was not a colleague who was slapping the door in a hurry.

The back of the black robe was hot, and it seemed to be afternoon now, so he didn't sleep long, less than four hours.

But the exhaustion on his body has been swept away, and the dry energy has been restored. He rubbed his eyes and stood up, not quite used to the sudden transition from dark sleep to harsh sunlight.

He dreamed that he had found all sorts of strange things, with which he had reproduced a modern hospital and was on the night shift. The dream is really illogical, otherwise why would I have to work the night shift even after running a hospital?

Fortunately, he was woken up, otherwise he would have to continue this unpleasant dream.

"I'm here." Kraft answered as he opened the door, "Lucius? ”

Outside the door was Lucius, his brown hair was a little messy and smelled of beer. This image made Kraft frown.

"Didn't you go to the tavern for a drink?" Kraft covered his nose, and he didn't feel like he was coming back to him, but after a hangover.

Lucius didn't care about Kraft's dislike, and said with a smile, "Although I don't want to disturb your sleep, Liz is awake, and I think you will be willing to go and see it anyway." ”

"Liz is awake? So fast? ”

Kraft had a sense of time being out of place, waking up with the whole world taking a big leap forward, only he hadn't kept up.

Lucius looked at him suspiciously, then suddenly realized and laughed out loud, "You don't think it was yesterday afternoon, do you?" ”

"Yesterday? I slept all day?! ”

Kraft was agitated and came to his senses, "How's Lis?" Are there any special circumstances? Why didn't you call me yesterday? ”

The first thing he thought about was whether he would miss the best time to deal with complications, and then his major medical records were not yet complete, and he didn't explain more postoperative precautions to Gris.

"It couldn't be better, Gris wants to thank you in person." Lucius straightened his brown hair, straightening them to the sides.

"Where are they? We'll go over now. Hopefully Gris didn't feed her anything. ”

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In the observation classroom, because Kraft didn't wake up yesterday, everyone fully obeyed his orders, did not move Lis, and let the girl sleep here for the night.

Fortunately, someone did not completely forget the father and daughter, and Liston also broke free from the celebration procession, found the blanket that Lucius brought and put it on the patient, and he and Gris waited together today until Lisy woke up.

"I don't know how to thank you." The father, who had been forcing himself to calm down, finally couldn't hold back his tears when he saw his daughter wake up, "I still have some savings, and if I don't have enough, my tavern is worth a lot of money." ”

"No, not really." Kraft couldn't take it anymore, grabbed a piece of clean linen that hadn't been used up yesterday and handed it to him, telling him to wipe his tears, this scene made him look like an unscrupulous black clinic that used huge medical fees to defraud single-parent families of their savings.

Gris reminded the native part of Kraft's soul of his grandfather. In his attitude towards young Kraft, he always showed a care and seriousness that did not match the image of a reckless man, although sometimes he did not express it in a satisfactory way.

He has seen such feelings in many parents, who are unreservedly invested in their children's worries, and are willing to exchange anything for their safety and health.

Therefore, the disease is never limited to the patient, but affects the whole family, and is the pain of more people, affecting all kinds of imaginable and unexpected aspects such as mental and economic.

"Take it easy, the money side is ......" Kraft was stuck, not wanting to wait for Gris to quote a good price, but suddenly found that he didn't know how to calculate.

He probably knows about the medical charges in this world as much as he knows about the ingredients in the clinic's herbal soups. He knew that the herbal soup was water, and when he charged, he knew that what he had to charge was money, and it was a blind spot of pure knowledge.

The herbalist in Woodtown came to the castle to treat people, and all the way was the family's small treasury, and Old Wood looked at it, and Anderson calculated, what was the matter with him Craft? I haven't seen it.

“…… Anyway, don't worry, let me see Lisy first, today is the first day, and the cloth on the wound needs to be renewed. He quickly changed the subject, and when he walked up to Lisy and Griss couldn't see it, he looked at Lucius and Liston for help.

Lucius shook his head blankly, he was still a student, and he didn't understand this because he was just reading books and doing experiments with professors every day.

Liston, however, was as reliable as ever, and after a moment's thought, he poked his hand out of his sleeve and stretched out five fingers.

Clough nodded in understanding, and bent down to look at Liz.

"Hello, little Lis, do you still feel pain?"

Lisy looked at the black-robed guy vigilantly, she still remembered that she was fed a strange liquid by the black-robed man yesterday, her eyes closed and opened, and when she woke up, she found that she had an extra dull pain wound on her stomach.

"Lis, obedient." Gris walked to the side and crouched down, holding Lis's hand, giving her a sense of security, "Tell the doctor if there's anything wrong." ”

"Here." Liz pointed to the wound and continued to stare at Kraft defensively.

Kraft glanced at her expression, the acute appearance of the painful flush had faded, and she had the energy to think about who she was, it should just be a normal little wound pain after surgery.

He removed the gauze wrapped around Lis's waist, uncovered the cloth on the wound and took a look, there was only a slight oozing blood on it, the wound was in good condition at present, it was not red and swollen, and I hoped that the condition inside was just as good.

"It seems good now, but don't think it's over."

Lis's wound was replaced with a new cloth and fixed with a strip of linen, but unfortunately there was nothing that could be directly applied to disinfect. I don't know how many days I left povidone-iodine solution, and Kraft silently missed it in his heart.

If there is a chance, we should really get the distilled spirit technology out, so that there is a high concentration of alcohol for disinfection.

"I was supposed to stay for a few more days, but the environment of the college was not necessarily suitable for the patient to recover." Kraft twisted the blanket on the stone platform, and it was enough for one night, and if it was okay to lie down for two nights, something would happen, "so let's go back, and only give her something thin to drink during this time." ”

"As for the wound, it will take six or seven days for the outside to heal, try to avoid activities on the ground, and I will remove the stitches for her when the time comes."

"Oh, yes, the doctor's business." Kraft patted his head, and Liston's five fingers flashed in front of him, "Five silver coins, right?" ”

This understanding is based on Liston's actions, combined with the medical charges in the minds of visitors from the other world. Five kingdom silver coins were a little more expensive to him, and one official coin of this kind could be worth two or three privately minted black silver coins, depending on the situation.

He didn't say anything specific, if it was high, Gris could still choose how many Kingdom silver coins there were in the five.

Gris's reaction was not what he had imagined. He froze in place, confirming that Kraft was not joking.

He opened his mouth, but finally said nothing, revealing the same respectful look that Kraft had seen many times in the past two days, but it was a little different.

Counting out the five kingdom silver coins from the money bag on his body and handing them to Kraft, Gris said seriously: "In the future, your consumption in my tavern will be free, as long as I Griss is alive for one day, it will be valid forever." ”

Craft, who had somehow obtained a permanent meal ticket, watched as Gris left the classroom with Liz in his arms and disappeared from view, the man's eyes still red before leaving.

"Tsk." Liston said in an inexplicable voice behind him, "What do you think St. Simon will do when he sees you back from the dead?" ”

"Huh?" Kraft realized that he might have misunderstood what Liston meant, but the topic jumped so much that he, who had not touched the scriptures much, could only ask a simple question.

"He's going to have to find a way to kill you, because of the vicious competition." Lucius covered his face, "Go to the church and find a priest to read a few words, and dare to ask for a few kingdom silver coins." ”

"Wasn't it free?"

"What blessings are claimed, how can it be free? Don't tell me you haven't been to church. Liston's tone could be smelled resentful and sour.

Kraft hadn't really been to church, and his grandfather's reverence for religion was limited to when they could control themselves, and the local part of the soul had little religious practice in such a family.

The otherworldly part belongs to the kind of "pragmatist believers" who jump on the edge of the stake, believing in God is like going to the toilet, reciting two sentences when you are in a hurry, and you will never remember it afterwards, which is worse than infidels.

"I really don't know, but what does this have to do with us?" Kraft brings the conversation back.

"I'm actually talking about five gold coins."

"Are you crazy?" Kraft was shocked and refreshed his view of money.

There are almost no privately minted gold coins, because except for Westminster gold coins, which were jointly minted by the king and several great nobles, no one else has the ability to use gold to mint coins.

Therefore, the gold coins are all default Westminster gold coins, which are less than half the diameter of the silver coin standard, and only one-third of the thickness, which is about the same as five cents in another world.

With such a small area, the tower of Westminburg was stamped, and the side and edge patterns were innovatively added to prevent someone from grinding off the circle and then using it as a full amount.

One Gold Westminster Coin is worth as much as seven Kingdom Silver Coins, and is generally only useful for large amounts of trade, and is not very popular in the market. This netherworld exchange ratio is not innate, but because of the change in the price of precious metals, it has changed from the earliest one to five.

"The treatment method that crosses the generations, is the only one, and it consumes drugs that I have never seen before." Liston stretched out five fingers, "The two lecturers put aside a day's class to do it themselves, isn't it too much to count him thirty-five silver coins?" Griss is not a poor man, and his savings are completely affordable. ”

"Then this surgery is completely unpopular, and not many people can afford it."

"Didn't you say that the last bit of family secret medicine, how can it still be popular?" Liston had long felt that the truth of this statement was doubtful, but he did not expect Kraft to change his mind so quickly.

"I changed my mind, don't care where it came from, it's not the last bit anyway." Kraft looked in the direction where the Geris father and daughter had left, as if he could see their backs through the walls, "It's just a bit dangerous, wait until we look at Liz for a while." ”

"So we have a chance to have such an operation in the future?" Liston was overjoyed.

"Maybe, if that's all right, maybe it's just us. I'll go back and sort out the main points of this case in terms of human body structure and put them in a future lecture. ”

He said that he would observe and observe, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that Liz's condition made him very satisfied, and he was already preparing for more surgeries, but there was still one straw left to help him make up his mind completely.

Kraft packed up his things and walked out of the classroom, followed by Lucius, and the two returned to the professor's room.

"I want to talk about black liquor." Kraft closed the door. The process of surgery can be let go, and the black liquor still has to be discussed in private.

Lucius wasn't surprised, "I knew you would realize its value sooner or later and change your mind. ”

"Professor's ......"

"When the mentor comes back, I'll say I've given you the idea. Anyway, it was a foregone conclusion, and Professor Morrison's status as the discoverer of black liquor would not change anyway. ”

"No, in other words, you just made a suggestion about using black liquor for surgery, and I decided to implement it. If anything goes wrong, Professor Kallman will come to me first. "Kraft stopped Lucius's big deal.

This matter has one foot on the edge of the professor's confidentiality request, and the main responsibility lies with Lucius's words, which is not conducive to the trust relationship between him and the professor, and it is better to let yourself carry this black cauldron.

"When the professor brings back their results, the decision can be published, and we just announce the true composition of the diluent together, which is not a violation of confidentiality." With this logic, Kraft thought it was good, and said that he had conducted an experiment at the request of Professor Kallman.

One step from discovery to application is also what Professor Kallman would be happy to see.

"So we can do a lot of surgery?" Lucius's passion for this is as high as Liston's.

"Far from it, we have to observe Liz, at least half a month, the longer the better." Kraft gave what he felt was a conservative time, "And you, too, will be included in the scope of observation, and I will personally make a written record of the next inspection once a day." ”

Liz's case had made him firm in his idea of using black liquor, but not to the point of losing his mind.

"If nothing goes wrong, we will continue to observe patients who can only be surgically treated in a small area. Probably until the professor comes back, we're still in a very small space. ”

This was Kraft's plan, carefully and slowly rolled out. When the professor returned, he also completed the initial verification, and agreed with Kalman to scale up and benefit as much as possible.