Chapter 1614: Siege and Pest Removal [6]
Chapter 1614: Chapter 1614: Siege and Pest Removal [6]
After all, the lives of Doctor Wu and his daughter have been hard enough. Her daughter and granddaughter’s lives may be over, but let’s at least let Doctor Wu lead a peaceful life without bringing too much trouble to him.
Dr. Fang is not foolish; he stopped asking questions and began discussing the prescription with Gu Jinli.
Doctor Qi wanted to ask more questions but was afraid of Ms. Gao Lei and didn’t dare say much.
When he saw the poisonous insects writhing in the bowl, he approached and pointed at them, asking, "Are these the poisonous insects that make people sick? These insects don’t even have mouths—how can they bite through human skin and burrow inside to harm people?"
Doctor Qi didn’t believe it, thinking that the wife of the southern soldier was lying.
Gu Jinli laughed, "If you don’t believe it, you can put your hand in the bowl and see what happens."
Will they bite you?
Doctor Qi, hearing this, turned black in the face and angrily said, "You woman, I was only asking, and you want me to touch these disgusting poisonous creatures, really..."
Ms. Gao Lei sneered, "Doctor Qi, you could enter because Qi Vice Magistrate said so, to let the government’s doctors see the harmful poisonous insects. If you don’t believe it, you can leave."
Ms. Gao Lei was not polite and directly told Doctor Qi to get lost.
Doctor Qi was very embarrassed, stopped talking, tapped the rim of the bowl and looked at the poisonous insects, and ended up in a mess.
The poisonous insects, sensing the presence of a living being, had two of them crawl onto his hand, and while Doctor Qi was in shock, they climbed up to his wrist, in two blinks they burrowed into the blood vessel through a hair follicle, crawling inside along the bloodstream.
"Ah!" Doctor Qi was terrified, "They’ve gone inside, the insects have burrowed inside, please save me!"
"Doctor Lu, move aside!" Gu Jinli shouted, as she kicked the frightened Doctor Qi to the ground with a bang.
Doctor Lu quickly realized, pounced on Doctor Qi, and pinned him down, saying, "Don’t move, if you knock over the bowl with the poisonous insects, we’ll all die!"
A whole bowl of poisonous insects, and you’re jumping next to a pottery bowl, trying to get us killed?
After scolding Doctor Qi, he hurriedly asked Gu Jinli, "Mrs. Qin, how do we get the poisonous insects out?"
Gu Jinli said, "Before the poisonous insects crawl too deeply, just cut open the arm’s blood vessel and remove the insects."
Doctor Lu was an excellent doctor, even better than Doctor Wu, and he had a wealth of experience in dealing with external injuries. In the past, when brothers from the Eagle Food Gang had poisonous insects burrow inside their bodies, he had cut open the flesh to remove them.
After hearing this, he took the small knife offered by Gu Jinli, rolled up Doctor Qi’s sleeve, felt Doctor Qi’s arm up and down, and asked, "Can you feel anything foreign?"
Doctor Qi, after all, was a doctor and had calmed down, carefully sensed the foreign movement in his arm, pointed two inches above his elbow, and said, "It should be here, quick, stab it."
Once the poisonous creatures get inside, they move faster; after a while of dawdling, they might crawl into his stomach. He didn’t want them to cause internal bleeding, his abdomen swelling and leading to death.
With a tearing sound, Doctor Lu swiftly cut open with a single stroke, scooped, and picked; one poisonous insect emerged.
With a bang, Gu Jinli stomped the poisonous insect flat with a foot, fearing it wasn’t entirely dead, she poked it with a long needle and threw it into the oil pan to fry.
The other one had already escaped.
Doctor Lu could only touch upward again, and when he felt something near the shoulder, he opened another incision, successfully extracting the poisonous insect.
Gu Jinli stomped it again and tossed it into the oil pan to fry.
Doctor Qi endured two slices, and the pain made his old face turn white, crying out, "Carry me out~"
There were so many poisonous insects in the room, he didn’t want to stay there anymore.
Ms. Gao Lei, speechless, said, "Someone, carry Doctor Qi out."
Useless thing, staying in the room is only causing trouble.
"Yes." Two skilled maids carried Doctor Qi out of the room, letting him recline on a Taishi Chair in the corridor.
Seeing no one came to bandage his wound, Doctor Qi had to let the attendant he brought take action.
Inside the room, Doctor Lu stated something very important, "Your insect attractant cannot draw out the poisonous insects from Wujin’s body; perhaps it’s missing carrion."
Gu Jinli was dumbfounded, "Add carrion?"
Doctor Lu nodded, "Yes, Rong witch doctors treat and poison differently from us in Great Chu. They use red meat for medicinal guidance and add rotten red meat for poisoning. These poisonous insects must have eaten carrion during cultivation, carrion would attract them, adding carrion might be effective."
Red meat is human flesh; the witch doctors in Da Rong like to craft such terrifying things.
Gu Jinli said, "Wujin’s situation is too critical; where can we find carrion now?"
Digging a grave would also take time.
She pointed to a dead sparrow in another box and asked, "Can we use the meat of a dead sparrow? It smells rotten; it should work."
Doctor Lu: "Let’s try it first."
Then he asked Gu Jinli to step back, "Mrs. Qin, no need for you to handle it, I’ll do it."
This was, after all, the Young Marquis’s official wife; he couldn’t let her touch such filthy things, he should handle it instead.
"Thank you, Doctor Lu." Gu Jinli was more than willing, as the poisonous insects were plump but still disgusting, and the dead sparrow had been parasitized by them. She didn’t want to touch it either, promptly stepping aside to check on Wujin’s condition.
Doctor Lu acted swiftly, quickly slicing out a few pieces of fingernail-sized sparrow carrion, took a small cup, mashed the carrion, divided it into portions, placed one in the bowl of fresh blood, and added a portion of Gu Jinli’s prepared insect attractant.
The result...
The insects, which had been lying still in another medicine bowl, went crazy, scurrying to the medicine bowl with the carrion.
Gu Jinli was overjoyed, "It’s working, quickly, add carrion to Wujin."
Wujin was nearly suffocated to death; if not quickly saved, it might be over.
Hearing that this was the Company Commander Niu’s son, Doctor Lu knew that if he died, it might affect the Young Marquis’s relationship with Company Commander Niu. He dared not delay, seeing it was effective, immediately placing the carrion into Wujin’s nostrils, mouth, and small wound on the back of his neck, "Wait."
Saying that, everyone held their breath, eyes fixed on Wujin’s mouth and nose.
In a short while, everyone saw something seemed to move in Wujin’s neck.
Half an hour later, from Wujin’s nostril, crawled out a fat, fly larva-like poisonous insect.
"It’s out!" Doctor Lu was excited, and upon seeing the insect emerge, he immediately jabbed it with a silver needle, piercing it, and shook it into the small cup in his other hand.
The cup lacked fresh blood and medicinal mud, and the insect couldn’t stay inside, constantly trying to crawl out.
Doctor Lu dumped it out and stomped it to death.
"San Lang’s Wife, how is Wujin? Can he recover?" Mrs. Kuang cried as she saw the poisonous insect crawl out of Wujin’s nostril, anxiously asked.
Though Mrs. Kuang had left earlier, how could a mother not worry about her child? Seeing Ms. Gao Lei bring in some great doctors, she couldn’t help but follow in.
Gu Jinli smiled, "He’s fine now; he’ll wake up soon."