After bypassing a few streets, the group came to the outskirts of the city, and stopped in front of a courtyard with a somewhat dilapidated gate.

"This is my home. ”

Feng Yuerong looked at the courtyard wall, compared to other houses, it looked a little simpler, and then said, "Then let's go in quickly." ”

Tong Xinlan pushed open the door and led the three of them in.

When I arrived in the courtyard, it was the same as ordinary people's homes, with a pile of firewood piled up in the corner of the wall, as well as some farm tools placed on the side of the wall, and many bamboo baskets, and nothing else.

Then, a little boy of seven or eight years old ran out of the room, and was shocked to see so many people at once.

Tong Xinlan introduced: "He is my younger brother, Tong Xinpeng. ”

Then, Tong Xinlan said, "Xinpeng, this is our benefactor, how is my father now?"

Tong Xinpeng looked a little shy when he saw so many strangers at once, and said, "Dad's illness seems to be serious again." ”

Tong Xinlan said anxiously: "How can this be, isn't it okay during the day?"

Tong Xinpeng shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on, sister, have you bought the medicinal herbs you bought for your father?"

Tong Xinlan handed the rope leading the sheep to her younger brother and said, "I haven't bought the medicinal herbs yet, you tie the sheep first." ”

Afterwards, Tong Xinlan hurriedly ran to the room to see her father's condition, and Feng Yuerong and the three of them also walked in.

After entering the house, there was a middle-aged woman taking care of her at the bedside, and it seemed that it should be Tong Xinlan's mother.

After Feng Yuerong introduced the identities of the three of them, Tong's mother was overjoyed and hurriedly walked over, almost longing: "You are doctors, that's great, can you save Xinlan and her father?"

Chu Feng said: "Auntie, don't worry, my uncle will take a look now." ”

Then, Chu Feng walked to the side of the bed and looked at Father Tong's blackened palm, as if it had been dyed with a layer of ink, although it was bandaged, the gauze had been stained with blood and water, and it also emitted a slight foul smell.

Chu Feng said, "Uncle, I'll show you first." ”

Father Tong stretched out his arm, and then Chu Feng began to take his pulse, and after taking the pulse, he untied the gauze wrapped around his hand, and everyone couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the wound that had begun to fester.

Feng Yuerong was surprised: "How can it be so serious?"

Tong Xinlan said bitterly: "My father was bitten on the hand a few days ago when he was feeding a Gu worm, and he didn't care about it at the time, just casually applied a little medicine, but a day later, the wound suddenly began to become inflamed, but the place where the palm wound began to turn black, and it continued to expand, and later, my father felt dizzy and nauseous, and he had no strength, and now, he can only lie on the bed." ”

After listening to Tong Xinlan explain the situation in detail, Feng Yuerong asked, "Chu Feng, do you have a cure?"

Chu Feng thought for a moment and said, "There is a way, but there is some trouble now, and now the wound is too serious, and it must be treated quickly." ”

Tong Xinlan said hurriedly: "Young Master Chu, how should it be treated?"

Chu Feng said: "Uncle is not sick, but he has been poisoned by Gu, as long as the Gu poison is resolved, Uncle's illness will naturally be cured, I will prescribe a prescription first." ”

Subsequently, Chu Feng wrote a prescription and handed it to Tong Xinlan, and after Tong Xinlan took the prescription, she went directly to the pharmacy to buy medicine.

When Tong Xinlan went out to buy medicine, Chu Feng first gave Tong's father a detoxification pill, although it was just an ordinary antidote pill, it couldn't cure Gu poison, but it could stop the continued spread of Gu poison.

After Tong Xinlan bought back the medicinal materials she needed, Chu Feng began to boil the medicine herself, and Feng Yuerong also helped Chu Feng with some external medicines, so that she could treat both internal and external treatments, and better detoxification.

After the medicine was boiled, Tong Xinlan took the decoction and served her father to drink it, and after that, Chu Feng applied the external medicine to the wound, changed it to new gauze, and then bandaged it again.

After doing all this, it was already late, everyone hadn't eaten yet, the Tong family wanted to leave Chu Feng and them to eat at home, so they went out to buy some fish and meat, and Tong Xinlan and her mother cooked together. Under the graciously retention of the Tong family, Chu Feng and the others also agreed to stay and eat together.

After making dinner, Tong Xinlan first brought some to her father, and took care of her father to eat, Tong's father was not in good health, and after eating a little, he stopped eating, which is also because of Gu poison, in just a few days, he has lost a lot of weight, and he also looks very haggard, and now after taking the medicine, he is a little sleepy, so he has a good rest.

After taking care of her father and falling asleep, Tong Xinlan also came out to eat together. In order to thank Chu Feng and them, the Tong family kept saying words of gratitude, because there was no wine, Tong Xinlan also replaced the wine with tea and toasted everyone.

Although there was no wine, Chu Feng felt very good, and this feeling was just like what he had been at home before. At that time, every time it was time for the New Year's holiday, my mother would also prepare a lot of delicious meals, and I and my mother ate very happily. When I think about it now, I feel very happy and satisfied.

Today, Chu Feng felt the feeling of the year again, and couldn't help but think of his mother, if his mother was still there, how good it would be.

Just when Chu Feng was recalling the past, Tong Xinlan asked, "Young Master Chu, how long will it take for my father's illness to be cured?"

Chu Feng came back to his senses and said, "According to my uncle's current situation, it should take about five or six days to recover." ”

Chu Feng's words reassured the people of the Tong family, and they respected Chu Feng even more.

Chu Feng said: "That's it, tomorrow, I'll come to see my uncle again." ”

Feng Yuerong also smiled and said: "Uncle's illness, leave it to us, we will live in the Yuelai Inn in the city, if you have anything, you can go to us directly." ”

Tong Xinlan thanked: "Miss Feng, your great kindness to us, Xinlan will never forget, even if you are a cow and a horse, a slave and a maid in the future, Xinlan will definitely repay you." ”

Feng Yuerong asked with some curiosity: "Sister Xinlan, I saw that many of the Gu insects raised in the yard are poisonous insects among the five poisons, these things themselves contain highly poisonous, why do you raise so many poisonous insects?"

Tong Xinlan said: "The people here are all raising these Gu worms, and the ones we raise at home are centipedes, although centipedes are poisonous, but the medicinal properties are also very good." ”

Chu Feng said: "I look at those centipedes, they are not the same as ordinary centipedes, they seem to be red-headed centipedes. ”

Tong Xinlan nodded and said, "Yes, what I raise at home is a red-headed centipede, which is relatively large and has very good medicinal properties." ”

Feng Yuerong asked curiously: "Sister Xinlan, I see that those centipedes in the yard are all kept in baskets, how could my uncle be bitten, this kind of red-headed centipede, I have also heard of it, it is not very fierce, and it rarely attacks people." ”

After Feng Yuerong finished asking, the Tong family was also a little silent, as if they were hiding something.

Chu Feng asked: "I see that my uncle's wound was bitten by those centipedes, and there is more than one wound, how could my uncle be bitten by so many centipedes?"

Tong Xinlan looked at her mother, thought for a while, and then said, "Actually, this is the case. My dad was deliberately bitten by those centipedes. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chu Feng and the others were also shocked, and they didn't understand why?

"It was deliberately bitten by a centipede, Sister Xinlan, aunt, uncle, why did you do this?"

After hesitating for a moment, Tong Xinlan told the truth: "In the past, like other people's families, we also used the livestock at home to raise those centipedes. Later, after the livestock died, there were no more livestock in my house, only the last sheep remained, because these centipedes had not yet grown, so they could not be sold now, and they still needed to be raised for a while.

Originally, we were also thinking about buying some livestock or something, but those livestock were too expensive, and we couldn't afford them at all, so my father let those centipedes bite and drink his own blood in order to continue to raise those centipedes. But I didn't expect that my father was poisoned by Gu and became so sick all of a sudden. ”

After knowing the specific reason for the poisoning, Chu Feng and the three of them also felt a little chilled, and let those poisonous centipedes drink their own blood, and they felt a little hairy when they thought about it.

Feng Yuerong said: "How can my uncle do this, those are poisonous centipedes, they are already highly poisonous in the body, and now after becoming a Gu worm, the toxicity is even stronger, if you are bitten, you will definitely be poisoned, if you don't treat it in time, you will definitely die of poison." ”

The Tong family also regretted it very much, and Tong's mother regretted it: "Miss Feng, we really regret it now, at the beginning, I shouldn't have let Xinlan's father feed those Gu worms with his own blood." At that time, after the death of the Gu worm livestock, we have not been able to buy suitable livestock, if those Gu worm livestock are fed, they will all die, and at that time, we will really lose all our money.

Xinlan's father was anxious, seeing that those Gu worms were hungry day by day, we really had no choice, Xinlan's father wanted to feed those Gu worms with his own blood first, saying that if he fed them once or twice, he would be fine, but now that he thinks about it, he really regrets it. ”

Chu Feng asked: "Those centipedes have turned into Gu worms, if they are poisoned, it is difficult to remove the Gu poison with ordinary antidotes, and now the Gu poison in my uncle's body is about to spread to the internal organs, and if it is a little later, there is really no way to cure it, and now it is fortunate that the spread of loneliness has been stopped in time." Auntie, in the future, you must not do this. ”

Tong's mother nodded again and again: "No, in the future, I will never let Xinlan's father do this again." Master Chu, you must save Xinlan's father. ”

Chu Feng promised: "Auntie, don't worry, I will definitely cure my uncle's illness." ”

After dinner, it was already very late, and Chu Feng and the three of them were about to go back, and the Tong family came out to see each other off and sent them to the door.

Feng Yuerong said: "Auntie, Sister Xinlan, go back, take good care of your uncle, and we'll come back tomorrow." ”

Tong Xinlan nodded and said, "Wind girl, Chu Gongzi, Tie Gongzi, then I will trouble you." ”

After saying goodbye, Chu Feng and the three of them also walked towards the inn together.

As the night deepened, and the street was empty, Chu Feng suddenly sighed.

Feng Yuerong asked, "Chu Feng, what are you sighing about?"

Chu Feng said with some sadness: "When I think of what Miss Tong said just now, I feel in my heart that something is not good. ”

Tie Shan said: "Brother Chu is talking about Uncle Tong feeding those centipedes with his own blood?"

Chu Feng nodded.

Thinking of using Tong Xinlan's father to feed the Gu worms with his own blood, Tie Shan also felt a little uncomfortable in his heart: "I think it's also a little bad, those livestock were drunk by the Gu worms and died, and now Uncle Tong is feeding the Gu worms with his own blood, isn't this the same as those livestock, how could Uncle Tong do this." ”

Feng Yuerong said casually: "Isn't it to make money?" ”

In Feng Yuerong's words, Chu Feng and Tie Shan also agreed very much. Unable to afford livestock and feeding Gu worms with their own blood may sound a little incredible, but when you think about it, this is a normal thing, especially for the poor.