Chapter 18: The Yin-Blood Centipede
"Mrs. Zhou, don't worry," Wang Yan stabilized Mrs. Zhou's emotions.
"As far as I know, there is a poisonous insect in the mountains called the Yin Blood Centipede. It's just that this centipede is very rare, and it only lives in dark and damp places deep in the mountains, and feeds on the blood of female animals. The animal that has been sucked by it is only weak at the beginning, but if it is sucked for more than two months, the toxicity of the yin-blood centipede will accumulate too much, and it will slowly be reflected in the animal, and it will be poisoned and died after the last time. It's just that the poison of the yin-blooded centipede is different from what people usually think, and it is very difficult to see this centipede even in the deep mountains, and almost no one knows about their existence.
It was also by accident that I discovered this yin-blooded centipede, and I learned about it by observing them carefully.
Miss's symptoms are very similar, and I suspect that there are yin-blooded centipedes here. Miss's pure yin body attracted this centipede, and it treated Miss's blood as a delicious food and sucked it every day, causing Miss's current situation.
It's just that I wonder how the Yin-Blood Centipede could be here? “
After listening to Wang Yan's words, Mrs. Zhou suddenly remembered something, and immediately said: "Two months ago, the dart bureau once received a dart order, but the heavy rain for several days delayed the trip, and it was about to expire. It was after that time that she came back, and within a few days, Shan'er began to get sick and slowly became bedridden. ”
"That's it, it's very likely that someone inadvertently brought back this Yin Blood Centipede. After finding Miss, he began to suck Miss's blood. But that's still just speculation. Wang Yan's words turned sharply, scaring Mrs. Zhou into a cold sweat.
"Is there anything wrong?" Mrs. Zhou was about to despair again.
"Everything must be evidenced, and there must be no sloppiness. This is especially true for treating diseases and saving people, often the negligence of a detail will cause misdiagnosis. I still need to prove a little bit before I can make a final decision. ”
"Tell me, what else do you need to prove?"
"The yin-blooded centipede has a habit of sucking blood and preferring to be in the same area. Once recognized, it does not change with each snort, but the signs of its bite are not noticeable and heals quickly. However, if you smoke it in the same part repeatedly, there will always be traces of abnormality. Now ask Mrs. Zhou to carefully examine every inch of the lady's body to see if there are any bites. If there are, be sure to confirm that there are several in total to prevent multiple Yin Blood Centipedes from appearing at the same time. I waited outside the house, and after my wife's examination, we discussed the treatment. After speaking, Wang Yan walked out.
Mrs. Zhou didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately took off her daughter's clothes, and carefully examined her from head to toe, every skin in front of and behind her body several times, and sure enough, she found two faint traces of being bitten.
"Go and tell the master, and say that Shan'er is saved. After discovering the traces, Mrs. Zhou, who was overjoyed, couldn't help but ask the maid next to her to inform Zhou Zhengxiong of the good news before she heard Wang Yan say the cure.
Mrs. Zhou covered her daughter's quilt before she asked Wang Yan to enter the house and told him that she had found two bite marks.
"Mrs. Zhou, are you sure there are only these two?" Wang Yan had to answer in the affirmative.
"Yes, double-checked several times, and apart from these two, there is no more. Mrs. Zhou replied.
"That means there are two Yin Blood Centipedes. Wang Yan can now be sure that his judgment is correct.
Zhou Zhengxiong, who came after hearing the news, was also excited, he really didn't expect this young man to be so good, with good martial arts and high medical skills.
"Tell me how to cure Shan'er's illness?" Zhou Zhengxiong hurriedly asked Wang Yan.
"Old hero Zhou," Wang Yan's words just began, and was interrupted by Zhou Zhengxiong: "Don't call me an old hero, see me more, just call me uncle." “
"Uncle Zhou, to cure Sister Shan'er's illness, you need to catch those two Yin Blood Centipedes first. Wang Yan also changed his name to Sister Kaishan'er. "Uncle Zhou will immediately transfer Sister Shan'er to another house, and I will boil some herbs in this room and smoke out the two Yin Blood Centipedes. Only by removing them can Sister Shan'er be treated, otherwise if she is bitten again by the yin-blooded centipede, all treatment will be useless.
"It's easy to do. Zhou Zhengxiong immediately instructed the maid to transfer her daughter to another house far away from here. After doing all this, he looked at Wang Yan: "Tell me what herbs you need, I'll go and prepare." ”
"Uncle Zhou, I have the herbs for the Yin Blood Centipede, I don't need you to prepare. But you need to prepare the medicine for Sister Shan'er's illness. Originally, this disease is not difficult to treat, in the beginning, it can be cured with some warm tonic medicine, if it is a month, it can be cured with a large tonic medicine, but by two months, only blood ginseng can be cured. Sister Shan'er has been sick for two months, so Uncle Zhou has to go and get a blood ginseng back to be cured. ”
"What? Are you saying that Shan'er's illness can only be cured by blood ginseng?" Zhou Zhengxiong's heart suddenly sank to the bottom again. He had heard of blood ginseng, a precious herb, but had never seen one. Now I am afraid that I will be bankrupt and I will not be able to find blood ginseng within three days.
"Uncle Zhou, don't worry, I know how there is blood ginseng. This morning, I just sold a blood ginseng to Boss Wang in the pharmacy, and I also sold it for ten taels of silver. Uncle Zhou only needs to send someone to the pharmacy to buy it back. Wang Yan said very calmly.
"How much did you sell blood ginseng?" Zhou Zhengxiong couldn't believe his ears.
"Ten taels of silver," Wang Yan felt a lot.
"You've been fooled, you can't buy blood ginseng for two hundred taels of gold. Tell me, what's going on?" Zhou Zhengxiong hated the owner of the pharmacy to death, so deceitful that heaven could not tolerate it.
Wang Yan talked in detail about selling medicine in the morning.
After hearing this, Zhou Zhengxiong thought for a moment, "Don't hesitate, I'll go to the city lord immediately to report this matter and ask him to send someone to arrest the owner of the pharmacy." Zhou Tong, you quickly bring some people to watch the pharmacy, and don't let the owner of the pharmacy run away. Yan'er, you just catch that yin-blood centipede here, and wait for me to bring back blood ginseng, so that Shan'er can be cured. And when he had finished commanding in one breath, he immediately went to see the lord of the city.
First of all, Zhou Zhengxiong hurried to the city lord's mansion, saw the city lord Yue Fei, and told the city lord in detail about the pharmacy owner's deception of blood ginseng.
After hearing this, the city lord Yue Fei also felt very angry, and ordered the chief of the guard beside him: "You take someone to follow Zhou Daotou, capture the owner of the pharmacy, and be sure to recover the blood ginseng." When that's done, put the damn drugstore owner in a dungeon and wait for it to be released. ”
"The subordinates understand. The chief of the guard immediately gathered ten guards and came to the pharmacy with Zhou Zhengxiong.
After meeting the housekeeper Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong told Zhou Zhengxiong and the guards of the City Lord's Mansion: "The guy at the pharmacy said that their boss didn't go out all day, and he would still sleep in the back room." “
"That's it. Without hesitation, the chief guard led the men into the pharmacy.
At this time, Boss Wang of the pharmacy was still lying on the bed holding the blood ginseng, and was dreaming of his thousand autumns. He dreamed that he had sold a lot of blood ginseng for a lot of gold, and he was building a mansion, and he was hugging beautiful women, and he was happy to shed a bunch of them.
When the head of the guard kicked open the door of the inner room of the pharmacy, the boss of the pharmacy woke up: "Who are you?
"We are the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, and you dare to do something to deceive people about precious herbs under the leadership of the wise City Lord, and the City Lord has ordered you to be taken into the dungeon. “
"No, I was wronged. The boss of the pharmacy Wang shouted grievances while trying to hide the blood ginseng.
Zhou Zhengxiong snatched the blood ginseng, carefully confirmed that it was blood ginseng, nodded to the head of the guard and said, "It is this blood ginseng." “
"Now that everyone is dirty, what else do you have to say?" the chief of the guard glared at the owner of the pharmacy with his eyes, "Take it away, lock you up in the dungeon for ten years, and see if you dare to lie to people again." “
Zhou Zhengxiong took the blood ginseng, returned to the city lord's mansion, and expressed his gratitude to the city lord Yue Fei.
"Alright, take the blood ginseng and go back to your daughter. City Lord Yue Fei said to Zhou Zhengxiong.
Besides, Wang Yan came to the house where Zhou Shan used to live, closed the doors and windows, selected some of the herbs he had brought with him, put them in an iron can, poured water, and began to boil the medicine. It didn't take long for the room to fill the room with a strong smell of herbs.
The smell of this herb made the two yin-blooded centipedes very uncomfortable, and they crawled out of the corners where they were hiding.
Wang Yan began to search carefully in the house, and when he saw the two small centipedes that had climbed onto the bed, a relaxed smile finally appeared on his face.
Carefully use a wooden stick to clamp the two Yin Blood Centipedes into a porcelain bottle and fasten the caps.
When Zhou Zhengxiong came back with blood ginseng, Wang Yan also happened to catch the Yin Blood Centipede. Asking for a porcelain vase from Wang Yan's hand, Zhou Zhengxiong and his wife wanted to see what kind of centipede almost ruined their daughter's precious life.
I saw that these were two centipedes with the thickness of adult fingers, more than two inches in length, and blood-red bodies, running in the porcelain vase at this time, as if they were trying to find a way out of the porcelain vase.
Seeing these two yin-blooded centipedes, Zhou Zhengxiong was almost so angry that he turned his back on it, isn't this the insect that fell from a big tree when he walked into the deep mountain path. At that time, no one had ever seen this kind of bug, and looking at the blood-red color of the bug, he was curious and put it in a bottle and brought it back, but after he came back, he forgot about these two bugs because he was busy with other things. When I remembered it, I found that the bottle was empty, and the bugs didn't know where to go.
I didn't expect all this to be caused by myself. If it weren't for Wang Yan's arrival, his daughter would have died because of her momentary curiosity.
Lifting the porcelain bottle containing the Yin Blood Centipede, Zhou Zhengxiong was about to fall these two harmful insects to death, Wang Yan hurriedly stopped: "Uncle Zhou, don't fall." This yin-blooded centipede is dried and ground into powder, and with some other medicines, it can be used to ward off poisonous snakes and beasts, and the effect is good. “
After Wang Yan carefully put away the two Yin Blood Centipedes, he began to boil medicine for Zhou Shan with blood ginseng. After drinking medicine for ten days in a row, Zhou Shan was finally able to get up and move. After recovering from a serious illness, although her body is still a little weak, her life is no longer in danger.