Fu Ying had seen Zhou Xuan treat people before, back in China, at Hong Ge's house. But Zhou Xuan always took people to a room for private treatment. She wondered if he was going to treat them in a room now, or in the living room? Judging from her aunt's tone, it seemed he was going to treat them in the living room in front of everyone.
How could Zhou Xuan not understand? However, the power of ice energy is not visible on the surface. Anyway, it can heal, whether he is in the room or not, the result is the same. Everyone will think it is miraculous. If his second aunt wants to be in the living room, then so be it. She is worried that he will mess around and make his second uncle's leg more injured!
Zhou Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Since Second Uncle is here, let's have him in the living room; it's quite convenient. Um..." He then turned to Aunt Yu and asked, "Aunt Yu, do you have any soft cushions or stools at home?"
Yuwa quickly replied, "Yes, yes, yes!" Li Junjie also quickly helped, and the two of them carried four over.
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "There's no need for so much!"
Then they moved two chairs side by side in front of Li Tao, so he could sit in the wheelchair, and then gently lifted his legs and placed them on the soft cushions.
His leg was still wrapped in bandages. Zhou Xuan could have healed it like this, but it would have been too surprising, not even applying any medicine. This wasn't Zhou Xuan's intention; he always removed the bandages after the healed process, as it would have been better this way.
"Second Aunt, because we need to apply medicine, we have to cut the bandage with scissors to expose the leg so that we can treat it!"
Fearing that she might hurt Li Tao because she wasn't very dexterous, Zhou Xuan suggested that her second aunt do it herself, since she and Li Tao were husband and wife and would be more in sync.
To be honest, Fu Zheng really didn't want Zhou Xuan to cause trouble. Now that the bandages were off and the medicine was gone, they'd have to go to the hospital again for treatment, and it would just be her husband who suffered the consequences.
Fu Zheng thought for a moment, glancing at her father, but Fu Tianlai remained expressionless, showing no sign of objection. This was something he had already agreed to; if she spoke up now, he would likely still object.
Fu Zheng was also somewhat helpless. If it were her nieces, nephews, or brothers who said it, it would be fine. As the eldest, she could simply disagree. But she couldn't object to what her father said. In her memory, her father had always been an extremely strict person. How could he also go along with the children's nonsense?
Despite her anger and thoughts, Fu Zheng knew she couldn't object. She carefully took the scissors and began cutting the bandages off her husband's feet, starting with his left foot. The injury there was much minor, and he could manage some movement. If things looked bad, she would stop him, hoping her father would then relent.
Li Tao's legs were swollen. After the bandages were cut off and removed, his legs were covered in ointment.
Zhou Xuan asked for another bowl and a bottle of wine. However, the Fu family's wines were all of the best. He poured in a little wine, then put in the pills that Fu Ying had brought back and mixed them into a paste.
Fu Zheng followed Zhou Xuan's instructions and gently scraped the medicine off her husband's leg with a small bamboo sliver. Then she asked Zhou Xuan, "Should we apply your medicine now?"
Zhou Xuan shook his head and said, "No need, Second Aunt, please move aside!"
After Fu Zheng moved aside, Zhou Xuan dipped his left hand into the bowl, soaked it in the paste-like ointment, and then placed his hand on Li Tao's left leg as if giving him a massage.
The whole family gathered around to watch, except for Fu Tianlai and Fu Ying who were confident. Everyone else thought Zhou Xuan was joking. Li Tao's injury required surgery in the hospital to remove the bone fragments and then implant steel nails in the leg bone. It couldn't be cured by just applying some medicine.
Zhou Xuan secretly channeled his icy energy to Li Tao's legs to examine them. He found that the injury on Li Tao's left leg was not too serious and would heal naturally with time. However, the injury on his right leg was much more severe.
There was no need for the ice energy to transform the broken bones in Li Tao's left leg injury. Zhou Xuan directly used the ice energy to stimulate the self-healing function of Li Tao's leg injury, and then stimulated the growth cells to regenerate. Where the ice energy passed, the injury was quickly restored.
Li Tao frowned, his left leg trembled, and he said, "My leg is so itchy inside, like insects are scratching me. It's so itchy!"
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Second Uncle, just bear with it. This is just a normal phenomenon as the muscles absorb the medicine and recover from the injury. Just bear with it, it will be fine in a while!"
Fu Zheng was somewhat stunned. Her husband's expression didn't seem to be one of pain. Zhou Xuan's explanation did seem plausible, but could it really be cured with just some topical ointment? She still couldn't believe it; it was simply too hard to believe!
Zhou Xuan naturally ignored Fu Zheng. This injury was a hundred times easier than treating the old man's pain. He applied medicine to his hand and used ice energy to violently impact Li Tao. After about six or seven minutes, Zhou Xuan withdrew his hand.
Li Tao's left foot injury had basically recovered, and he felt that the itching that came from his bones had disappeared, and the discomfort on his face was gone. Seeing that Zhou Xuan was sitting in the chair without moving, he thought to himself, "Is this all it takes?"
Zhou Xuan pointed to Li Tao's left foot and said, "Second Uncle, move it and see if it feels better now?"
Fu Zheng naturally didn't believe it. Her husband's legs were still immobile, and even the slightest movement would cause him excruciating pain. Could it be that Zhou Xuan could move them just by applying a few drops of medicine?
"It's Li Tao's leg," Zhou Xuan said. Li Tao still moved his left leg slightly. Before, even moving it would have hurt, but now he moved it without feeling any pain. He let out a soft "Eh," then used a little force to lift his left foot, dangling it in the air and swinging it slightly. Because Li Tao didn't feel any pain, he didn't think much of it, but Fu Zheng was stunned!
Her husband's leg injury has always been her biggest worry. Although more than a month has passed, the injury is still very serious, especially his right foot. His left foot is better, but he can't move it. If he moves it, the pain will be excruciating. This morning was no exception.
When Fu Zheng helped her husband get out of bed, the moment she sat him in the wheelchair, it aggravated his injury. Her husband was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat, but now he was waving his left leg in the air a few times, something Fu Zheng could never have imagined!
Volume One: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter 194: The Miraculous Pill - Chapter 196: Transparent Red Underpants
While Xiaozheng was still in a daze, her husband Li Tao bent his left leg, stretched it out, and Yao Zhuchuan did the same movement several times. Finally, he even swung his leg around a few times!
Fu Zheng was stunned and speechless. Suddenly, Li Tao cried out in pain!
Fu Zheng was shocked and quickly helped her husband up. Li Tao reached out and hugged his foot, crying out "Ouch, ouch!" But Fu Zheng immediately realized that the foot her husband was hugging and crying out in pain was not his left foot, but his right foot, which Zhou Xuan had never touched!
It turned out that when Li Tao excitedly wiggled his left foot, he bumped into his right foot. The pain was excruciating, especially since his right foot was already more injured.
Fu Zheng asked, "Where did you run into? Or is there a problem with his treatment?"
"What's wrong? It's been cured perfectly. I bumped my right foot myself, ouch!" Li Tao cried out in pain while defending Zhou Xuan. Others might not be able to feel it, but it was his own leg. He knew perfectly well whether it was okay or not, whether it hurt or not. After Zhou Xuan treated his left foot, the pain was completely gone, and he could move it freely, as if it had never been injured. How could he not be happy? He even forgot that he had just been doubting Zhou Xuan.
After Li Tao had recovered from the pain, Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Second Uncle, let me treat your right foot again to relieve the pain."
"Okay, okay!" Li Tao responded repeatedly, quickly pulling his left leg back to make it easier for Zhou Xuan to apply the medicine. His left foot was no longer a problem, so he pulled it back and placed it on the wheelchair frame.
Zhou Xuan dipped his hand into the bowl and applied the paste-like liniment. He then gently smeared it onto Li Tao's right leg. When he applied it to Li Tao's right foot, it was so light that Li Tao could barely feel it. Zhou Xuan's icy aura was then subtly placed on Li Tao's right foot. In Li Tao's right leg, the injury to the leg bone was much more severe. At the fracture site in his lower leg, the leg bone was shattered into fragments, not only shortening the leg but also embedding dozens of bone fragments into the muscle.
Zhou Xuan first transformed the bone fragments and spurs into gold, and then devoured it. All of this was done without Li Tao's knowledge. After cleaning up the bone spurs, he then began to restore the broken leg bone. Because the leg bone was broken in one section, it was much more difficult to restore than the muscle.
Zhou Xuan channeled the icy energy from the pill into a single bundle, trying to keep it from dispersing. The concentration and purity of the icy energy were far higher than when it was dispersed. He then directed it all to the broken part of Li Tao's leg bone. The icy energy stimulated the regeneration of the leg bone with unprecedented force. Bone cells grew at a rate of hundreds of millions, which was invisible to outsiders and Li Tao himself. Only Zhou Xuan could see that Li Tao's leg bone was growing at a rate visible to the naked eye. If anyone could actually see this scene, they would probably be so shocked that they wouldn't be able to close their mouths!
Of course, those watching in the hall could only see Zhou Xuan applying the powdered medicine to Li Tao's leg with his hand; no one knew what the actual effect was.
Stimulating bone growth depletes the ice energy significantly, and Zhou Xuan felt it was as strenuous as when he was treating the old man's cancer!
Sweat streamed down Zhou Xuan's forehead as he focused intently on treating Li Tao, not even bothering to wipe it away.
Apart from Fu Tianlai and Fu Ying, who knew that Zhou Xuan was genuinely tired, the others were still a bit puzzled. Zhou Xuan was just applying medicine to Li Tao with his hands, so how could he look as tired as if he had done heavy physical labor?
This process of stimulating leg bone growth lasted for five minutes. Zhou Xuan was drenched in sweat, and Fu Ying quickly found a towel to gently wipe away his sweat.
Once the leg bone had grown to the appropriate size, Zhou Xuan began to stimulate muscle growth to repair the injured area. The recovery of muscle injuries was much less damaging than the growth of the leg bone.
Zhou Xuan had gotten used to using the ice energy. Even when fighting pirates in Somalia recently, the consumption of ice energy was not as great as when he treated Li Tao's leg bone. This was something Zhou Xuan did not expect. He knew the effects of healing injuries and knew that he could heal, but he did not expect that healing Li Tao's leg bone would consume so much ice energy. He was so tired that he almost had to lie down!