The ewe was held firmly on the operating table by the four strong men, including Su Feng, leaving it no room to move.
Old Sun picked up a sharp scalpel, and with a swift motion, began.
The fur was shaved clean from the ewe's belly.
After cleaning and disinfecting with alcohol, a different scalpel was used, and the cut began slowly.
Baa~~~~~~!
With the ewe's cry of agony, an opening about a foot long was made in its belly.
Perhaps due to the abdominal pressure during the ewe's scream, its internal organs were squeezed out, red and green, steaming.
Blood gushed from the wound, and Fang Er quickly took saline solution to rinse it, allowing Old Sun to observe.
Only the sheepskin had been broken, and the capillaries were injured. Soon, the bleeding slowed down, no longer hindering the observation of the abdominal organs.
Seeing sweat bead on Old Sun's forehead, Fang Er took a cloth and wiped it for him, afraid of it getting into his eyes.
Old Sun placed the scalpel back onto a metal tray beside him with a crisp clink.
Then, his gloved hands began to search through the ewe's abdomen.
Found it!
He parted the ewe's stomach and intestines, revealing two sheep kidneys, still trembling with the blood flowing within them, to everyone's sight.
However, he frowned at the part where the kidneys connected to the body.
"Little friend, this is troublesome!"
"How so?"
Fang Er's heart tightened.
"I can't see clearly on the kidneys."
Old Sun said, shaking his head.
"Ah!"
Fang Er breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was due to some other reason.
"It's just that it's unclear? What kind of problem is that?"
"Old Sun, please wait, I'll go get something."
With that, Fang Er turned and left the operating room.
Outside, he used the intercom to have Zhu Zi bring two sniper scope sights from the Dragon's Tooth sniper rifle.
Then he took a mining headlamp from his space, removed the lamp body, and kept only the head strap.
The scope sight, combined with the strap, was modified into a head-mounted microscope, though its magnification was quite limited.
He tried it on himself, adjusted the focus of the scope sight slightly, and upon seeing the clear lines on his palm, he opened the operating room door and walked back in.
"Old Sun, here, put this on, and you'll be able to see clearly."
He walked up to Old Sun and helped him put on the head-mounted microscope.
After putting it on and looking at the magnified object before him, Old Sun chuckled.
"Hahahaha, you're the one with the ideas, kid!"
"Alright, with this, it will be much easier."
He looked at the two sheep kidneys again, the blood vessels on them incredibly clear.
After carefully examining them and memorizing the overall structure, he no longer hesitated. With a flick of his scalpel, one of the sheep kidneys was cut off.
As the kidney was severed, a large amount of blood immediately gushed from the incision.
Old Sun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked at the instruments Fang Er had prepared – the clamps!
He casually grabbed one and clamped it onto the severed end of the blood vessel, and the blood flow immediately reduced.
Old Sun nodded with satisfaction: "Kid, this thing is good!"
"Of course it's good. Fang Er made this based on the structure of hemostatic forceps he saw online. It can clamp the blood vessel ends without damaging the vessel, thus preventing further bleeding."
Holding the kidney in his hand, he examined the severed end again.
"Masterful! Truly masterful!"
After exclaiming, he began to re-suture the sheep kidney.
On the plate, Fang Er had prepared sutures of various diameters.
From one millimeter to half a millimeter.
The thread was the dissolvable suture material obtained from the pharmacy earlier, also in various thicknesses.
At this point, Old Sun finally understood the usefulness of the items Fang Er had prepared. It could be said that without these, organ transplantation would be impossible!
After placing the kidney in the correct position, he said to Fang Er without looking up.
"Kid, here, hold this steady."
Fang Er remained silent, walked up, and took the sheep kidney.
Old Sun threaded the needle and needle holder. With the head-mounted microscope, threading the fine suture and curved needle was effortless.
The renal artery, renal vein, and ureter – Old Sun handled them with extreme care. The entire suturing process took a full hour and a half.
When he finally sewed up the sheep's belly, Old Sun let out a long sigh.
"Phew~! Whether it works or not, we'll know tomorrow!"
Throughout the entire process, Fang Er had also held his breath.
This was a groundbreaking surgery!
The first organ transplant surgery of this era.
No, perhaps "organ suturing surgery" would be more appropriate.
A bottle of saline solution was hung up, and the infusion needle was inserted into the ewe's neck.
Of course, all of this was proposed by Fang Er and performed by Old Sun.
Old Sun had his own methods for finding the artery and vein. With a couple of pats on the ewe's neck, he located the correct spots.
"You four take turns watching. If there are any issues, notify me immediately."
After Fang Er instructed Su Feng and the others, he pulled the exhausted Old Sun away from the operating room.
The two, who had expected everything to go smoothly, were woken up by Su Feng at the first hint of dawn.
"The ewe is dead!"
Old Sun frowned, looking at the ewe's corpse, unable to figure out what had gone wrong.
Fang Er thought for a moment and said, "Old Sun, why don't we dissect it and see?"
Old Sun nodded, picked up his scalpel, and unpicked the sutures on the ewe's belly, revealing the internal organs.
The kidney that was sutured last looked almost indistinguishable from the one that remained intact. It shouldn't be the kidney's fault.
"Then, where did the problem lie?"
Old Sun's hand fumbled inside the ewe's belly.
Suddenly, his gaze settled on the sheep's intestines.
The sheep's intestines, which should have been fine, were tied in a knot!
In addition to this, there were several places where they had become adhered.
"Perhaps I was careless when placing the knotted section, but what about this adhesion?"
Fang Er thought for a moment and guessed, "Could it be that because the surgery took too long, the organs adhered as the mucus dried?"
"Let's do it again!"
Old Sun stood up and said with determination.
Thus, the deceased ewe became an extra dish on the table that day.
The second surgery proceeded much faster than the first, from incision to suturing and closing the abdomen, taking only an hour.
Upon leaving the operating room, they saw Liu Dacheng personally escorting over a hundred people standing in the courtyard outside.
"My Lord, I have brought the death row inmates you requested."
Fang Er nodded. He wasn't interested in what crimes these people had committed, as long as they were condemned to death.
"Old Sun, since we're waiting anyway, why don't you trouble yourself again and find someone among these people whose blood type matches Ashina Boli?"
Fang Er didn't know how blood matching was done in later generations.
But all he could do now was to find death row inmates with the same blood type as Ashina Boli.
As for rejection...
"Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are bestowed by heaven."
Everything depends on Ashina Boli's fortune!