Chapter 44 – The Desired Kiss

Shen Qi’s head was on the side of the soft pillow, face outward, eyes closed tightly, brows locked in pain, cheeks crimson to the point of abnormality, hot air exhaled from between the chapped lips, a trace of it, light and heavy, as if it was difficult to sustain.

Su Yan fingertips from his hand, moved to his face, smoothing the tight lines between the eyebrows, whispered, “Very moment to do very thing, if you wake up, do not blame me for trespassing …… No, rather you blame me, but also have to hold out this pass, quickly wake up ah!”

He turned his head to the maidservant and said, “Thousand Household’s eyes are in such a state, and medicine and stone are ineffective, I have a prescription on hand, so let’s give it a try.”

The maidservant bowed her head and saluted, “Thousand Household Lord explained before he fell unconscious that if Lord Su came to visit, no matter what he did, none of his subordinates would be allowed to obstruct him, and if he had any commands, he would follow them. Everyone in this mansion has seen Lord Su’s portrait.”

Su Yan only then reacted, after entering the Shen House why all the way unimpeded, even the subordinates see him trespassing into the inner room, there is no color, just respectfully asked for peace.

Shen Qi had expected him to come. Or rather, sending Gao Shuo to give him the evidence to bring down Feng Daoyu, and telling him that he was seriously injured in order to force him to come.

But Su Yan was not unhappy about this – he knew that Shen Qi was used to playing tricks, and could not change until he died, and Gao Shuo’s “slip of the tongue” was fake, but this close call was real.

Shen Qi’s move was not to see him one last time. Why could he not bear to see the blame with the heart of the machine?

Su Yan said to the maidservant, “In order to make medicine, I need some artifacts, you report it to the steward, let him immediately order it down to be ready as soon as possible, saving people is like putting out a fire.”

When the maidservant heard this, she hurriedly said, “Lord Su, feel free to command, the subordinates will never dare to be the slightest bit negligent.”

Su Yan used the pen and ink on the bookcase next to him to write down a myriad of tools and materials on the paper: bamboo strips of gauze cotton made of filtering funnels, large bamboo tubes with holes at the bottom, canola oil, charcoal powder (he noted that it is best to use the beast of gold charcoal or silver bone charcoal, and the purer the charcoal powder, the better), distilled water, white vinegar, seaweed ……

This large jar of green hair was unpurified Penicillium, it could not be used directly on Shen Qi, or else he would in all likelihood die from the mold secretion, and die faster than if he didn’t use the medicine.

Although Su Yan read a lot of miscellaneous books in his previous life, there is a Tang people on the book has been mentioned, Chang’an tailor by scissors cut his hand, the wound inflammation pus, is full of green hairs with glue compress, and finally cured – but this is just a lone case, what if it is because of the tailor wound is not big and lucky? What if the author is just fooling around?

This method is too original and dangerous, Su Yan dare not use it.

Then it’s just a matter of trying to refine it yourself.

Penicillin’s earthen method of refining, the network in the previous life is all over the place, Su Yan has also seen, very skeptical of the success rate.

Because high-yielding strains basically come from laboratory cultivation, the probability of natural mutation is low. Not to mention the need for at least seven days of cultivation time in the early stages. Although the culture solution is easy to obtain, rice juice mixed with taro juice, but the time is limited, he had to omit this step, and can only hope that the monks dozens of mustard vats full of Penicillium, to win in quantity.

Filter funnels can be made ready-made with simple materials, they just need to be sterilized with care.

It is not difficult to distill the water; the age abounds in flower dews, which can be purchased by going to a flower dew workshop.

For acidic water use white vinegar.

For alkaline water, without soda, use seaweed to make juice. Seaweed can be bought at aquatic stores. As early as the Song Dynasty, there were already aquatic stores in the capital, and dried clams, scallops, and shrimp could be shipped from the sea, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, when commerce and logistics were more advanced.

Separation tube …… This is more complicated, really can’t be made ready, can only use the bamboo tube with holes underneath to barely make do.

Shenfu’s housekeeper was chosen by Shen Qi, smart and capable, got the list and immediately divided the work to dispatch servants, buying the buying, making the production, boiling the boiling, before and after an hour, rushed, finally all the utensils ready.

Su Yan for the first time to the theory into practice, the operation is extraordinarily careful, lest which step wrong, leading to the abandonment of the previous work.

He skipped the step of strain cultivation and filtered the jar of green hair water directly through a funnel, then added canola oil and stirred it to rest. The liquid was divided into three layers, and only the lowest water-soluble layer contained penicillin, which was exported through a small hole at the bottom of the bamboo tube.

Such a solution still has many impurities that need to be further separated and purified.

He adds charcoal powder to the solution and stirs it. The charcoal powder would absorb the penicillin, then distilled water was injected to wash out impurities, white vinegar to wash out alkaline impurities, and the juice of boiled seaweed to detach the penicillin from the charcoal powder. Thus, what comes out of the infusion tampon at the very bottom of the bamboo tube is the purer penicillin.

In order to verify whether these penicillins were effective, it was necessary to do a potency appraisal, but it took time. This is what Su Yan – accurately Shen Qi lacks the most, skip regardless.

The last step is to do a skin test, if it is a penicillin allergy …… just assume that all his previous efforts are all in vain, and Shen Qiandu can only ask for his own good fortune.

There was no injection equipment, so he could only pick a very small amount and dot it on the edge of the wound skin, Su Yan was almost holding his breath as he waited. Two quarters of an hour later, there was no abnormality, he was greatly relieved.

When using penicillin, it should be infused intravenously or injected intramuscularly, but there is no corresponding equipment, so he can only learn from the countryside barefoot doctor and apply penicillin directly on Shen Qi’s back for anti-inflammation and sterilization.

At this final step, all that could be done, Su Yan had done his best to do.

The rest only depended on God’s will and Shen Qi’s own physique and luck. In a word, do your best and listen to God’s will.

If this trick worked, we would see the results within an hour or two. Su Yan intended to guard Shen Qi’s side and said to the maidservant, “You can step back first, leave this place to me.”

The maidservant bowed and retired after preparing the copper basin with fresh water, clean gauze, and a host of other objects.

It was already dusk, the slanting sun shot through the window, the afterglow melted like gold. Su Yan in the cold water basin wringing sweat towel, wipe Shen Qi hot forehead, from time to time to replace. And also use the tube to suck salt and sugar water, inserted from the corner of his mouth, unconscious half flow half swallowed, but at least also drank in a little, not to dehydration. He also had to replace the gauze that was infiltrated by blood and tissue fluids in a timely manner, and he was busy all the time.

During the period the maidservant sent the evening meal in, he had no desire to eat and drink, and only hurriedly used a bowl of eight treasures congee.

By the end of the eleventh hour, he stroked Shen Qi’s forehead and felt that the heat had finally dropped, and worried that it was an illusion, he pressed his own forehead against it and carefully felt the body temperature.

The fever has indeed receded, currently estimated to be below 38 degrees, and stabilized for two to three hours. Su Yan’s heart strings were loose, fatigue and drowsiness suddenly swept in like a tidal wave, holding the back of Shen Qi’s hand, lying on the edge of the bed and fell asleep in a daze.

This sleep was extremely uneasy, shallow dream after shallow dream, Su Yan did not take long to suddenly wake up, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Shen Qi’s face.

Shen Qi was gazing at him quietly and greedily, his gaze deep and blazing.

Su Yan’s face was relieved, “You finally woke up! How do you feel?”

Shen Qi opened his mouth, unable to make a sound for a moment. Su Yan busily brought a cup of warm water and sent the dipper to his mouth. Shen Qi made an extremely weak appearance, barely sucked two mouthfuls, water flowed a pillow.

Su Yan was helpless and said, “Take your time, suck it in little by little.”

Shen Qi’s voice was hoarse like sandpaper, and he said in a hard voice: “I can’t suck …… you feed me a mouthful ……”

Su Yan frowned in embarrassment, suspecting that he was drunk.

“Just a Bite …… Thirst ……”

Su Yan thought, he had a high fever and coma for a long time, and this is just out of the danger period, maybe it is really swallowing powerlessness …… to send the Buddha to the west, or to help. Medical care should not have been taboo, just as artificial respiration.

At that thought, he took a small sip from his glass of water and lowered his head to feed.

Shen Qi met his lips and honestly swallowed the water without any extra moves. Su Yan put down his heart and finished feeding a cup of water.

Shen Qi finished drinking the water, his voice grew stronger and said, “You came to see me for the last time?”

Su Yan patted the back of his hand: “Don’t talk nonsense, you can’t die. Since the fever has receded, it means that the earthen penicillin has been effective, and then with the anti-inflammatory and detoxifying tonics, you will soon get well. By the way, I have some Diannan secret medicine here, to remove the decay and regenerate the muscle, the treatment of traumatic injuries has a miraculous effect, back to give you also put on.”

It is the Yu Wang sent after the previous cane, heavy large bamboo canisters, he did not use up, and now there is still half a canister left.

Although Shen Qi didn’t know what “penicillin” was, he also realized that this time he could wake up, which should be attributed to Su Yan. He held Su Yan’s hand in his backhand, his fingers interlocked, and his palms were tightly pressed together.

Su Yan felt that this action is too intimate, draw a hand, no, even Shen Qi involved in the wound “hiss” sound, had to listen to it.

Shen Qi said, “It was Lord Su who saved my life.”

He intentionally used polite title, placed in the scene at hand and intimate action, but showed a kind of ambiguity.

Su Yan sat on the wooden pedal in front of the bed, one hand in Shen Qi’s hand, lips still remaining wet water stains and the other party’s body temperature touch, inexplicably some panic, ears hot.

Unwarrantedly recalled that in his previous life, his girlfriend first promised to date him, he took the opportunity to hold her hand when crossing the road, also this heartbeat ear …… soul can not help but send out a silent roar: absolutely impossible! Laozi is Yu straight steel straight, would rather die than bend!

“That’s because you’ve saved me before too, so one for the other, two for the price of one.”

Shen Qi’s gaze was condensed, and the hostile will to seize people between his brows could not be held back even by his weakened qi. He looked straight at Su Yan and slowly said: ”I said before in the small south courtyard, Lord Su is the calamity of my life, I am willing to respond to the calamity. If you can pass this calamity, you will never be able to get rid of me in this life. Could it be that Lord Su thinks that I am just talking off the cuff?”

Su Yan was pierced by this gaze and cringed inwardly, snapping, “I know you’re not a good person ……”

Shen Qi’s heart was cold when he heard this, as if ice water had been poured over his head on the ninth day of the year.

Su Yan himself also felt that this sentence is strange to say in person. But he couldn’t say, “You’re a good person, but we’re not right for each other,” which was not only weird, but also fake.

“I know you are not a good person, but also know that is the situation forced. Surrounded by tigers and wolves, if you are not for the tigers and wolves, you will be eaten by others, but a little bit of softness, is the end of this today. But you know you will be involved in your own life, but still want to risk their lives to save me, so deep kindness and righteousness, I am not grass, who can be merciful?

“From now on, you and I will be lifelong brothers. As long as you don’t do anything harmful to the heavens and the conscience, I’m willing to stick my knife in both sides for Qilang, and after that, we’ll share the same suffering and wealth together, and we’ll be friends all our lives, and we’ll never be separated from each other.”

After finishing in one breath, Su Yan looked at Shen Qi with a straight face, expecting his answer.

Shen Qi only felt a fishy sweetness in the mouth of his throat nearly spewing out, his teeth clenched, and he swallowed back the blood in his heart.

“Brothers …… good brothers ……” He ho low laugh, the bottom of his eyes as if surging with a touch of scarlet red, even with the laughter is tainted with the cold blood on the broken blade.

Su Yan listened with some hairiness, forced himself to calm down and asked, “Thousand Household Lord this is agreed?”

Shen Qi gritted his teeth, almost word for word: “How can I disagree? Simply get what you want!”

Su Yan’s heart was not happy, but he was also happy, and said to him, “You have to meditate on your injuries and get well quickly. Don’t worry about Feng Deiye’s side, I will take care of him and avenge you.”

Shen Qi thought viciously: Of course I want to get well quickly! If you are suffering from a disease, you have to take medicine for the disease, and if you are suffering from a disease, you have to hit the drum hard. Now I have realized that if I don’t force you to get a better understanding of the disease, you’ll never know the benefits of being my “good brother”! Even if you want to hate me afterward, just hate me, I have plenty of time in my life to be with you until death.

Su Yan did not know in front of this newly recognized brother, has been in the mind of him to implement the crime of rape, but also the heartache of the other side of the injury and illness for a long time without food, greeted the maidservant to send white porridge in, will be a layer of the top of the boiling thick porridge oil, one by one fed to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi can’t sit and stand can’t lie down, can only lie on his back, it is quite difficult to feed with a spoon, plus he is deliberately doing it again, the porridge are pattering on the pillow mat.

Su Yan had no choice but to feed him with his mouth again.

After honestly eating a few bites, Shen Qi moved his side out of the edge of the bed a bit, more convenient to feed. Su Yan saw half a bowl of white porridge to the bottom, did not dare to feed more, for fear of hurting the long absence of the stomach and intestines. He was about to set aside the bowl, Shen Qi’s lips and tongue abruptly curled up and kissed back.

Su Yan’s mouth was filled with the fresh scent of white porridge, and the kiss made him a little dazed.

Different from the ferocity and aggressiveness of that time in the Imperial Prison when he was pressed on the stone wall and forced to kiss, this time Shen Qi’s lips and tongue were hot and lingering, very emotional, gently nibbling his lips, licking his teeth one by one, and using the tip of his tongue against his sensitive palate, hooking back and forth to sweep back and forth. Strong tingling sensation from the mouth straight to the top of the head, and along the spine downward spread, he provoked a goosebumps.

Su Yan couldn’t help but duck backward, a soldier’s rout.

Shen Qi, however, did not allow him to retreat, towards the bed outside the hand hooped his arm, like a circle of gold and stone armlets, to lock him firmly in this kiss. For this reason, he did not hesitate to pull the wound on his back, and the newly changed gauze was dyed red and yellow again.

Su Yan looked at all for his pain, but also angry that he does not care about the body, a bite on his lips: “Shen Qianhu know, do not make death will not die?”

Shen Qi’s back hurt so much that he couldn’t come up for air, “Saying goodbye to being a brother, but then you have a mouthful of ‘Shen Qiandu’, what kind of reasoning is that? It turns out that they are all lying to me.”

Su Yan had to say, “Seventh son, don’t fool around, it’s okay for us brothers to be close, but not kissing.”

Shen Qi snorted coldly in the bottom of his heart: more than kissing, I want to make you cry, so that your honey-like little mouth can’t say anything hurtful except screaming and crying.

When he thought of this wonderful light in the future, he was not in a hurry, it was better to recuperate from his injuries first.

“I’m in so much pain that I can’t move ……,” Shen Qi rested half of his face on Su Yan’s shoulder nest, and said in a breathless voice.

“You’re doing this to yourself, you deserve it!” Su Yan scolded him on one hand, and carefully supported his head and sent it back to the pillow on the other.

He got up with the bowl, moving a little sharply, and his eyes went black for a moment, so he couldn’t help but reach up and hold onto the bed frame, waiting for the vertigo to pass.

Shen Qi asked anxiously, “What’s wrong, but are you not feeling well?”

Su Yan slowed down and smiled, “There is no harm, these few days of running back and forth, some fatigue, just sleep.”

Shen Qi said with heartache, “You didn’t eat or sleep and guarded me all night, your mind and spirit are too depleted. Go and use some light porridge and rest here today.”