Rebirth: I'm a Daddy's Darling in the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 57 Heimlich Maneuver

"My son, it's all my fault. If you leave like this, how will I live?"

Yinzhuo was awakened by a series of cries. He turned his head and saw Yinzhi and Yinzhen, who had just woken up as well. The three of them looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion.

"Dexi, what's going on outside?"

Dexi was sweating profusely with anxiety when he heard Yinzhuo's voice and hurriedly walked in from outside, accompanied by Suhaqi, the manager of the garden.

"My lords, please forgive us for disturbing you. This servant will have them carried away immediately..."

The commotion clearly indicated a life-or-death incident, and since it happened right under their noses, and this was Yinzhuo's territory, he naturally couldn't possibly remain silent!

"It's alright, tell me what's going on outside first."

Before Dexi could speak, Suhaqi, whose eyes had been red since he came in, spoke first, his voice choked with emotion.

"It's all because of my good-for-nothing youngest son. He's always been the biggest glutton. Today, when he saw the peaches that the masters had taken away from their lunch, his cravings kicked in again. He insisted on having a peach, and my wife, who dotes on him the most, secretly gave him one when she saw him making a fuss. Who would have thought that the child would eat it so fast and accidentally choke on the peach pit... He's about to die..."

Upon hearing Suhaqi's words, the expressions of the group immediately changed. Yinzhuo even jumped up from the recliner and, without even putting on his shoes, dragged Suhaqi outside.

"Where are they now? Take me there quickly, if we get there early there might still be a chance to save the child..."

In his previous life, Yinzhuo had learned the Heimlich maneuver during his university military training and knew that this method would be useful in the current situation. Naturally, he would not stand idly by and watch someone die, presumably because of his status. Suhaqi was caught off guard by this sudden turn of events and was at a loss when he heard Yinzhuo's words. He immediately felt like he had found his pillar of support.

"My lord, is there really any hope for my youngest son?"

They had been patting and hitting the child for a long time, but he still hadn't vomited anything. Suhaqi had already given up hope, so Yinzhuo's words were like a lifeline, and Suhaqi naturally wanted to grasp them.

"I can't guarantee anything, let's go over and take a look first."

The place where the accident happened was very close to the waterside pavilion. Almost as soon as he stepped out of the pavilion, Yinzhu saw a woman holding a child and crying under a tree not far away. It was the hottest part of the afternoon, and the stone-paved ground was scorching hot. Yinzhu was not wearing shoes, and his feet felt a burning sensation when he stepped on it. But he obviously couldn't care less about that at the moment. He grabbed Suhaqi and ran quickly toward the place where the accident happened.

Upon arriving at the destination, he didn't bother to explain anything further. He snatched the child, whose face was turning purple from holding his breath, from the woman's arms, and patted his cheek to check if the child was still conscious. Seeing that the child was already dazed, he quickly laid him flat on the ground, placed his hands on the child's upper abdomen, and pressed down hard with the heels of his palms. He repeated this more than ten times until the child on the ground finally reacted. Seeing that the child had vomited up the foreign object he had swallowed, Yinzhuo finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you so much, Master, for saving my little treasure! Thank you so much, Master! Little treasure, come quickly and kowtow to Master..."

When the child's mother had her child taken away by Yinzhuo, she had originally thought of trying to snatch the child back, but Suhaqi stopped her from behind. Now, seeing that Yinzhuo had really brought her son back to life, the woman was overjoyed and kept kowtowing to Yinzhuo while holding the child, saying words of gratitude.

"Alright, this isn't a big deal. The child is still young, so you have to be careful when feeding him in the future. If this happens again, just do what I just did: find a fist's width above the navel and press down with your hands, one on top of the other, until the child spits it out."

Although this method may not be able to save everyone who is choking on something, it is still better to make an effort and not succeed than to watch someone die, isn't it?

After this incident, Yinzhuo, who had originally planned to continue strolling through the garden in the afternoon when it wasn't too hot, completely lost the desire to continue. Since he wasn't going to stroll around anymore, there was no need to stay there, and the three brothers immediately decided to head back home.

"I told you long ago that your delicate skin is too fragile. Look at you, you just ran around barefoot for a bit and you already have blisters on your feet. When Consort De finds out, she'll be heartbroken..."

Yinzhuo was already annoyed as he was being helped along by Yinzhen, and when he saw that his third brother not only didn't come to lend a hand but was also making sarcastic remarks, he immediately became unhappy.

"Third brother, let me correct you. The lap I ran was on a scorching hot stone path in the afternoon sun. If you went, you would get blisters on your feet too. And you're wrong. My mother has been annoyed with me lately. If she saw me like this, she would most likely scold me rather than be heartbroken like you said."

Yinzhuo admitted that he had indeed developed a good physique from being pampered all these years, but a man, no matter when, can't say he's no good. He would never admit that he was incapable of prostitution. He wasn't before, and he wasn't now. Besides, he was walking barefoot on the scorching hot stone road in the summer afternoon sun. He didn't believe that his third brother would be any better off standing on it.

As Yinzhuo predicted, Consort De was genuinely startled when she first heard the news of Yinzhuo's injury. However, when she rushed to Shufeng Pavilion and saw that he only had a few blisters on the soles of his feet, her worries vanished. Naturally, she then unleashed her full fury, relentlessly criticizing him. This served as a way of venting the resentment she had accumulated when the boy escaped last time. The unfortunate Fourth Prince, Yinzhen, also couldn't escape this time. Although he wasn't the one his mother scolded the most, he still got his share of the blame.

Just after seeing off Consort De, his father sent people over, carrying him in a palanquin. They carried Yinzhuo directly to Qingxi Study. As soon as he entered, good heavens, the sight of them almost scared Yinzhuo so much that he turned and ran away.

"Father, you're exaggerating! The Imperial Medical Academy is gathering here at Qingxi Bookstore for a training exercise. If my son didn't know that I only had a few blisters on the soles of my feet, he would have thought I was terminally ill."

No wonder Yinzhuo was so alarmed; the scene inside Qingxi Study was truly terrifying. It seemed that every renowned physician from the Imperial Medical Academy had arrived.

"What nonsense are you spouting, brat? Come here first and let Physician Li take a look at your foot injury. Then I have some questions for you."

The blisters on Yinzhuo's feet didn't seem like injuries to him, and of course, they weren't injuries to Physician Li either. He just popped the blisters and applied some medicine, and told him not to walk around too much for the next couple of days. He didn't even tell him not to get them wet.

"Yinzhuo, I heard you went to Enze Garden today and saved a child who was nearly killed by something stuck in his throat. Is that true...?"

Well, so that's why we made such a big fuss. You should have said so earlier. You scared him for nothing.

“Huihan Ama, your son did go to Enze Garden today, and he did indeed use the Heimlich maneuver to save a child.”