Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1612: Siege and Pest Eradication [4]

What?

There are worms in the vomited blood!

"Ugh—" The women started vomiting again, some so scared that their legs went weak. They’ve never heard of such a disgusting thing in their lives.

"Are they really worms?" Gu Jinli breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, they’ve found the cause of the illness, and asked, "Where are the worms? Did you kill them? Are any still alive? Bring them to me for a look."

All the women present were stunned and stared at Gu Jinli as if they were looking at a madman... They knew she was ruthless towards disruptors, but didn’t expect her to be even harsher on herself. Those are worms, not your favorite Company Commander Qin and Silver, what are you looking at?!

Ms. Gao Lei was also taken aback. The Gu Family’s daughter’s courage was too big. She advised, "Better not look at it. That thing can burrow into the human body and cause harm."

Gu Jinli: "I must look. If we don’t figure out what kind of worm it is, it won’t be easy to kill them."

She chuckled at them: "Don’t be afraid, it’s just worms. Some of you have eaten cicada pupae before, just treat these worms like fried cicada pupae — crispy and fragrant."

Ms. Gao Lei’s mouth twitched twice. With that analogy, even if they’re ever tempted again, they won’t dare catch and eat cicada pupae.

Still, she agreed to let Gu Jinli see the worms, saying, "Let Kid Feng bring them to you in a pottery bowl. Just don’t touch them, look from afar."

Gu Jinli nodded: "Fine, Xiao Ji, quickly tell Feng Jin."

"Got it." Xiao Ji held back his nausea and ran off again.

Gu Jinli looked at Ms. Gao Lei and said, "Please inform the others in the separate yard. Have everyone undress and check themselves for any small red dots? If anyone has red dots, immediately gather them together and move them into the same yard, and don’t let them go anywhere else."

"If any livestock suddenly fall ill, don’t be sentimental, just set them on fire."

"Check the well to make sure there are no dead birds fallen in. Check the water again before use. Don’t use it if you see worms. Also, check the grass, flower bushes, and woods in the separate yard, and set on fire if you see dead birds."

"Advise the children not to pick up birds or other animals to eat, and not to play with worms or earthworms, otherwise they’ll end up ill like Wujin, Daying, and Er Ying!"

Be sensible now, at a time like this, no fooling around. Stay put, and when the battle is over, I’ll slaughter pigs and sheep for you all!

"Fine, I’ll personally inform everyone in each camp and ensure they comply." Ms. Gao Lei knew she was the one who could best command the camp women. She readily agreed and told Gu Jinli, "San Lang’s Wife, I’ve already sent someone to call over Dr. Fang. As for the poisonous insects, you can wait for him to deal with them."

Ms. Gao Lei didn’t want Gu Jinli to touch the poisonous insects, as they are terrifying. If she were to contract an illness, it would be disastrous.

However, there was no more time to wait.

"Qing Pu, Qing Hui, Siqing, hurry inside. Wujin is struggling to breathe again!" Nanny Tao was holding Wujin, shouting outside. She didn’t call for Gu Jinli, holding the same hopes as Ms. Gao Lei, not wishing for Gu Jinli to handle people with poisonous worms in their bodies.

A few immediately rushed inside.

Wujin, struggling to breathe, began rolling his eyes and clutching his throat, constantly writhing.

Nanny Tao hugged Wujin tightly and said, "Good child, don’t be afraid, you will be alright."

Yet Wujin continued to struggle, and Gu Jinli hurried over, pricking him with a needle to knock him out.

Wujin’s body collapsed, no longer struggling.

Gu Jinli immediately checked his breathing, turning to the tearful Mrs. Kuang who had rushed in, and said, "Don’t worry, he’s still breathing."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Kuang’s deathly pale face regained some color.

Gu Jinli continued, "I will use some worm-attracting medicine on him, but I don’t know if it will succeed. If..."

"Aunt believes in you, you’ll do everything you can to save Wujin!" Mrs. Kuang knew what Gu Jinli wanted to say and interrupted her.

Having spent the last few months together, Mrs. Kuang trusted in Gu Jinli’s abilities. Even if she failed... then that was Wujin’s fate.

Mrs. Kuang wiped her tears and said, "Aunt will leave now. If there’s anything... just send a servant to inform Aunt, and Aunt will be fine~"

Saying no more, she turned around and left. She couldn’t stay there; she would fall apart.

"Ma’am, I’ve got the herbs." Ye Jingzi brought the herbs listed on the prescription from the medicine store, along with two mortars.

Gu Jinli was overjoyed, pouring all the herbs into the mortar, saying, "Crush everything. I need to open up a hole to stuff the medicine inside. Crush it as finely as possible."

What?

Open up a hole to stuff it inside? How to open it? Slice the flesh?

Everyone has questions, but no one spoke nonsense, and they immediately got to work.

Qing Pu occasionally checked Wujin’s breathing, reporting each time, "Ma’am, Wujin is still breathing."

Whenever Gu Jinli heard this, her heart would feel a bit more at ease, and she urged Ye Jingzi and them, "Crush it faster."

Having said, she opened the medicine box, took out the longest needle, rubbed her hands, the long needle, and Wujin’s back neck with distilled alcohol. Once the herbs were sufficiently crushed, she told Nanny Tao, "Nanny, hold Wujin tight. I’m going to prick."

She wasn’t pricking his airway but the back of Wujin’s neck. The long needle slowly rotated into the red dot on Wujin’s back neck, creating a needle-sized long wound.

Gu Jinli paused, saying to Jingzi, "Combine the crushed medicine powder with fresh blood to make a paste, give me one, and put another in Wujin’s mouth and nasal cavity, to see if it can lure the poisonous insects out."

Using fresh blood with the medicine is because many worms that crawl into human bodies are bloodthirsty.

"Yes." Ye Jingzi replied, immediately slicing his wrist to drip blood into the mortar, turning the medicine powder into paste, and then rolled it into small strips by hand, handing it to Gu Jinli.

Gu Jinli took it, applied the paste to Wujin’s neck wound, and pushed over an inch inside.

Then she took the medicine paste, placing it in Wujin’s mouth and both nostrils, and then waited.

Nanny Tao looked uncertainly: "Ma’am, will this work? Just waiting for the worm to come out on its own?"

Gu Jinli: "We can’t cut Wujin’s throat to extract the poisonous insects, nor do we have oral medication that kills the poisonous insects, so we can only lure them out this way."

This was the quickest, safest, and currently the only method.

After hearing this, Nanny Tao could only stop questioning, holding Wujin tightly and watching him intently.

Gu Jinli occasionally checked Wujin’s breathing with her hand. If Wujin breathed smoothly, it meant the dangerous insect was moving, either crawling out or burrowing into his viscera.

Strangely, Wujin’s breathing remained weak, and the poisonous insect appeared unmoving.

How could this be?

The prescription she had was from a previous life, given by an old traditional Chinese medicine professor, which not only could lure insects out, it could make leeches dizzy, stopping them from growing bigger by sucking blood.

"Ma’am, the worms are here." Xiao Ji was almost scared to death, carrying two boxes in, telling Gu Jinli, "Ma’am, one box has worms, the other has a dead bird... The worm vomited by Old Lady Zhao was burned to death, but there was a dead bird in the Zhao Family’s flower bush, Brother Feng..."

At this point, Xiao Ji gagged a few times, restraining his disgust to say, "Brother Feng extracted more than ten poisonous insects from the dead bird, which he said were the same as the ones the old lady vomited... So he brought the poisonous insects and the dead bird to you together."

Gu Jinli was overjoyed, even finding the first host bird was excellent.

She hurriedly said, "Quickly open them for me to see."

Xiao Ji, seeing her excitement, almost cried: "Ma’am, let’s not look at them."

Gu Jinli said, "Hurry and open, I’ve prepared the oil pan, if they don’t behave, they’ll be deep-fried! Afraid of them?"