Chapter 28 Dystocia
"It’s so late," Li Ang observed, frowning. He walked to the door and asked, "Who is it?"
"It’s Lu Yi. My mother and I met you, Doctor Li, during the Dragon Boat Festival," the young girl’s voice cried from outside. "Please, you must save my mother!"
"Hm?"
Li Ang glanced through the door’s seam. Memories of the mother and daughter he had seen buying hairpins by the riverbank during the Dragon Boat Festival flashed through his mind. He immediately unbolted the door and asked the teary-eyed little girl, "What’s wrong with your mother?"
"My mother, my mother’s having a difficult labor," Lu Yi said through her tears. "The midwife said... she said there’s no hope left."
"How long has the labor been difficult?"
Li Ang instantly shook off his reading fatigue and hurried back into the inner room. He grabbed his medical bag filled with various items and, with a casual kick, flung open the front door. "Where is she?"
"In East City, not far..." Lu Yi managed, struggling to stop crying as she ran ahead to lead the way.
Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao followed. They crossed Yizhou Bridge, wound through the alleys, and after several twists and turns, arrived at a secluded courtyard. As soon as they entered the house, they heard the heart-wrenching screams of the woman in labor.
BANG!
Li Ang pushed the door open. Lu Yi’s mother lay on the bed, drenched in cold sweat, her knees bent and covered with a cloth. The old midwife sat on a stool at the foot of the bed, her forehead soaked with sweat.
Seeing Li Ang burst in, the midwife started. "Young Master, how can you just barge in...?"