Chapter 39: Emergency on Train【39】3
“This is wonderful. Aunt Fang was overjoyed and said, “Xie Xie you, Doctor Lin, I can’t thank you enough, you truly are a good doctor. Old man, just hang in there, once we get to the Capital we’ll get you an appointment with a specialist, just like Doctor Lin said.”
Sun Rongfang, sitting opposite them, felt that Uncle Fang didn’t seem to be suffering from a toothache at all. She anxiously grabbed her daughter’s hand and urged Aunt Fang, “I think something is seriously wrong with your husband. Shouldn’t you listen to my daughter and get him off the train to a hospital right away? It looks like he’s in unbearable pain—”
“What are you talking about!” Aunt Fang and Mother Lin turned their heads and yelled at Sun Rongfang.
Xie Wanying stood in front of her mother defending her, addressing the two women, “He’s going to faint. Let him lie down first, don’t move him around carelessly, and wait for the ambulance at the next stop.”
“My old man couldn’t possibly—” Aunt Fang bellowed these words when suddenly there was a loud ‘bang’.
A woman’s scream then filled the carriage.
Everyone looked and saw that it was Lin Liqiong who was screaming. Her screams stood every strand of her hair on end because Uncle Fang had suddenly fallen down right in front of her, spraying a mouthful of foam onto her exposed white socks.
Aunt Fang knelt down next to her partner, her trembling lips asking, “Old man, what’s wrong with you, talk to me.”
Uncle Fang had already become unconscious.
“He’s dying!” someone shouted.
Aunt Fang burst into tears, crying out, “Doctor Lin, please, save my old man!”
Lin Liqiong kept backing away, her dirty socks quivering at the tips of her toes. Mother Lin hid behind her daughter. Now, everyone could see Uncle Fang was in trouble; this wasn’t a toothache.
“Why aren’t you saving my old man?” Aunt Fang turned and shouted at Lin Liqiong and her daughter.
Lin Liqiong and Mother Lin kept retreating, their faces showing terror.
“What to do, what to do?” Aunt Fang cried out loud, “Who will save my old man?”
“Make way!” Xie Wanying rolled up her sleeves, forcefully pushing away the Lin mother and daughter.
Lin Liqiong and Mother Lin stumbled, nearly falling to the ground. Seeing Xie Wanying approach and squat beside Uncle Fang, the pair started shouting, “What are you trying to do, you’re not a doctor!”
Ignoring what everyone else was saying around her, Xie Wanying’s fingers touched Uncle Fang’s carotid artery. Feeling the pulse was abnormally rapid, she knew there was a problem with his heart. Based on Uncle Fang’s profuse sweating and cries of pain, it was very possible that a myocardial infarction had caused a life-threatening arrhythmia.
Her eyes moved to Uncle Fang’s chest, and in her mind emerged the image of a heart rapidly and strangely contorting with every beat. At this moment, instead of performing chest compressions, it was better to do—
All eyes were on her as the girl with two long braids suddenly clenched her fist and struck the chest of the man lying on the ground, like a hammer coming down.
A chorus of gasps echoed around; her precordial thump had scared them half to death.
Only a man who had hurried to the scene felt a sense of admiration when he saw the act, his glasses flashing a bright light: that Precordial Thump was beautifully executed.
“What are you doing? You’ll kill him, you murderer!” Mother Lin tried to push Xie Wanying’s shoulder while telling her own daughter, “Quick, you save the man.”
By then, Lin Liqiong had snapped back to reality, saying, “Right, the patient needs chest compressions, everyone back off!”