Wu Tao Wen Guan

Chapter 360 Finding a Witness

"Auntie Chen, can a tumor be killed with a single needle?"

Bai Jing's face, eyes, and heart were filled with disbelief.

She didn't understand medicine, but she had basic common sense. It wasn't a grasshopper or a cockroach; could a tumor be killed with a needle?

"No..."

Chen Wan'er stopped halfway through her sentence and shook her head.

"Why don't you believe us?"

Aunt Pang grew anxious. "Everyone in the village knows. You can ask anyone you want."

"I..."

Chen Wan'er's expression was complex, and she couldn't speak.

"Wait here, I'll get a witness."

Aunt Pang turned and left in a hurry.

Facing Bai Jing's questioning gaze, Chen Wan'er slowly said, "Surgery for a ventricular aneurysm is a large and complex systemic project. Even city hospitals don't have the capability to perform it."

"Because the tumor in the blood vessel can cause a massive increase in blood pressure, making the vessel walls thinner and thinner. When it becomes critical, artificial blood vessel replacement is usually unavoidable."

"To accomplish it requires the collaboration of several departments, a team of over twenty people working together, and the support of more than ten high-end pieces of equipment."

Chen Wan'er sighed softly. "I participated in one with the vice-dean. The surgery took a full three hours, with hundreds of sutures. The patient's blood was essentially completely replaced."

Bai Jing frowned tightly and interrupted, "Then that Aunt Pang just now must have been lying."

"It's hard to say. The symptoms sound very similar."

Chen Wan'er's mind was in a turmoil.

Based on her basic medical judgment, it was highly likely that Aunt Pang had a ventricular vascular aneurysm.

But the idea of a tumor being killed with a single needle was something she simply couldn't fathom.

"I suddenly thought of a joke."

Chen Wan'er gave a bitter smile. "How many steps does it take to put an elephant into a refrigerator?"

"Open the refrigerator door, put the elephant in, and close the refrigerator door."

Bai Jing pursed her lips and smiled. "That sounds about right."

The heart is the engine of the human body, ranking alongside the brain as the most crucial organ.

For Lin Fan to find the diseased site in the fine and complex blood vessels without any medical equipment, and then kill the tumor with a needle, Chen Wan'er felt like laughing at the absurdity of it.

It was pure fantasy!

A moment later.

Aunt Pang returned with another woman of similar age.

"This is our neighbor, Old Zhang. She was watching at the time. Come on, tell them what happened back then. What exactly did Xiao Fan say?"

"Don't you already know everything? Why are you making me say it?"

Aunt Zhang glanced cautiously at Chen Wan'er.

Everyone was saying that this was Secretary Tian's mother.

Out of her timid nature, Aunt Zhang dared not speak carelessly.

"Just say what I tell you to say! They don't believe me!"

Aunt Pang urged.

Aunt Zhang hesitated and then said, "I went with her at the time. Her husband carried her, and I helped support her from behind, for fear he couldn't carry her alone."

Aunt Pang twitched her mouth helplessly. "Who asked you to say that? Just tell them how Xiao Fan cured me."

"Well then..."

Aunt Zhang thought for a moment and said, "Xiao Fan said that you had a tumor in your heart's blood vessel, and it was almost blocking your artery. The situation was very dangerous."

Chen Wan'er's eyes narrowed sharply. "Are you sure he said that?"

"Could it be fake? That's exactly what he said."

Aunt Zhang recalled and nodded. "Xiao Fan took a needle this long, and had her husband unbutton her clothes. He plunged most of it in."

She gestured with her hands, indicating a length of about twenty centimeters. "I was so scared, I didn't dare to look!"

"When I turned my head, Xiao Fan was already pulling the needle out. I quickly looked away again, but I saw blood all over the needle. It was terrifying."

"After a while, she woke up, and everyone happily went home."

She grinned. "Xiao Fan only charged fifty yuan, and I even paid it for her."

"Alright, alright, you'll get your share."

Aunt Pang shot her a glare. "My husband helped you build your garden wall and didn't even eat a meal at your place. Why aren't you counting that?"

"I'm not asking you for anything, why are you so anxious?"

The two bickered as they went off to work.

Chen Wan'er's ears buzzed, and her head felt as if it had been struck by a sledgehammer.

These words were spoken so lightly and simply by the villagers.

Only she knew what surgery for a ventricular vascular aneurysm truly entailed.

She was forty-two years old this year, and her greatest dream was to one day perform such a major Class IV surgery for a ventricular aneurysm herself.

And yet, in Luofeng Village, at the hands of Lin Fan...

It was only worth fifty yuan!

In an instant, her entire worldview collapsed!

"Auntie Chen! Auntie Chen, what's wrong?"

Seeing her sway, Bai Jing quickly supported her and called out anxiously.

"It's nothing."

Chen Wan'er shook her head. "I just feel a bit dizzy."

She forced a smile at Bai Jing. "Don't worry, I'm very aware of my own health."

Bai Jing remained unconvinced, her expression tense.

"I say, if you're not feeling well, why don't you go down the mountain to Xiao Fan's clinic and get it checked?"

Jiao Dajun said kindly.

"Hmph, my aunt is an expert from the provincial hospital. She doesn't need to go to your village's little clinic,"

Bai Jing retorted indignantly.

"Hey, you... that Lu Dongbin guy..."

Under Bai Jing's threatening gaze, Jiao Dajun swallowed the rest of his words.

"Auntie Chen, let me help you to the car to rest. It's too windy outside."

The two returned to the car.

After drinking some water and chewing a piece of mint gum, Chen Wan'er, whose head was still heavy, felt a little better.

"Auntie Chen, is that Lin Fan's medical skill very impressive?"

Although Bai Jing was reluctant to admit it, she knew in her heart that what the villagers said was likely true.

"Jingjing."

Chen Wan'er gave a bitter smile. "I feel like I've wasted twenty years of medical study. If Lin Fan really performed surgery for a ventricular aneurysm with just a needle."

"It's not certain yet. They don't even know what a ventricular aneurysm is,"

Bai Jing said.

"Yes, precisely because they don't know, it's most likely true."

Chen Wan'er looked at her well-maintained hands. She had always looked forward to the day when she could use them to hold a scalpel and perform the world's most precise and complex heart surgery.

But now, was there still any point?

Someone had cured it for fifty yuan!

The surgery she had participated in had cost at least two hundred thousand yuan just for the materials.

"Auntie Chen, just tell me, if it's true, how amazing is Lin Fan?"

Bai Jing's curiosity was piqued.

"How to describe it..."

Chen Wan'er thought for a moment. "If it's true, Lin Fan would immediately shake the global medical community!"

"He could attend any medical conference in any country, at any level, and be treated as an honored guest."

"He would be highly sought after by major medical research institutes, admired by countless people, and lecture to masters and doctoral students at various universities."

"It's even possible he would be received by top government leaders."