CHAPTER 25: CHAPTER 25: BITTEN BY A CENTIPEDE

EDITOR: INSCHAIN

At this time, in the west wing, Mrs. Yang was comforting the sullen Jiang Erlang, "Don’t worry, when the grain is threshed, I will go to the neighboring village to find Matchmaker Qian, and have her find you someone good."

Seeing her son still unhappy, Mrs. Yang added, "Could it be that you’re still thinking about that bringer of bad luck?"

"She’s so skinny, weighing less than a catty, what’s there to think about?"

"Rest assured, your mother will have Matchmaker Qian find you someone with a broad backside who’s easy to bear children."

Jiang Erlang didn’t respond, leaving with a somber face.

It’s not that he must marry Gu Yunjiao, but he couldn’t help thinking about the meat he didn’t get to eat.

Moreover, Gu Yunjiao had let him suffer a great loss, and he hadn’t even avenged it yet.

Thinking about it made his arm ache faintly again.

Gu Yunjiao came out from Mrs. Chen’s room, just in time to see Jiang Erlang emerge from the west wing across the courtyard, and they exchanged a look. Gu Yunjiao turned expressionlessly and went back to her own room.

Inside, Sanya was playing with a string game by herself. Gu Yunjiao patted her head and smiled, "Don’t let Grandpa see you playing this."

"It’s almost harvest time. If it rains, Grandpa will surely spank you."

The local elders say that playing the string game will bring rain.

Sanya stuck out her tongue and quickly put the string away.

Just then, a burst of crying came from outside the courtyard.

Gu Yunjiao leaned out the window to see Liu Lang running inside, holding one hand awkwardly.

Jiang Youzhi reacted quickly, rushing out from inside and asking, "What happened? Why are you crying?"

Liu Lang held his finger up to Jiang Youzhi’s eyes, "Woo woo woo, I got bitten by a centipede, it hurts so much."

Mrs. Chen also came out of the room, grabbing Liu Lang’s hand for a look, and cried out in alarm, "Oh, this centipede’s venom isn’t mild, his hand is swollen!"

Liu Lang had only been crying from the pain, but now hearing Mrs. Chen mention the poison, he cried even more, "Woo woo woo, I’m going to die from the poison, woo woo woo, I don’t want to die ah ah ah—"

This crying made Mrs. Chen panic, and even though she knew that centipede venom generally isn’t too severe, not likely life-threatening, she still began to tremble all over and could hardly stand.

First she lost her husband, then her eldest son, if anything happened to her youngest, she really couldn’t bear it.

Jiang Youzhi hurriedly supported her.

Gu Yunjiao rushed out of the room, first checking Liu Lang’s hand.

There was a clear wound on Liu Lang’s index finger, still oozing blood, and the area around it was already red and swollen.

She asked, "Where’s the centipede that bit you?"

Liu Lang paused his crying and pointed to the courtyard entrance on the right, "Over there, I stepped on it."

He had been playing with that centipede in his hand, not expecting it to bite him.

Gu Yunjiao lifted her skirt and ran to the courtyard entrance, picking up the red-headed centipede that Liu Lang had stomped on. It was not small, more than ten centimeters long.

Behind the village was a mountain, where the centipedes were particularly large.

Holding the centipede, she walked back into the house, calling to Liu Lang, "Come quickly, I’ll apply medicine for you."

Liu Lang held his hand stiffly and came inside, still crying.

Mrs. Chen was also supported into the house by Jiang Youzhi.

Gu Yunjiao called to Sanya, "Light the lamp."

Sanya took the flint from the table and skillfully lit the oil lamp.

Gu Yunjiao sat down and carefully pinched off the pincers next to the centipede’s head, then applied the juice from the broken pincer ends to Liu Lang’s hand.

Both pincers were pinched off by Gu Yunjiao, and their juice was all smeared onto Liu Lang’s wound.