Seeing Xu Jiayin walking towards the kitchen of the bamboo house, my master Zhang Chu and I followed him.
When I lifted the lid of the pot, I saw a leftover fish on the plate inside the iron pot.
The only difference was that the fish's head was gone, and the fish meat on one side had been eaten away. The fish's bones were not white, but black. This was very abnormal.
“That’s the fish.”
Xu Jiayin put the pot lid aside and said something carefully.
I looked at the fish and then turned to my master Zhang Chu and said, "Master, this fish has been eaten to the point where there is nothing left, which means there should be nothing wrong with the fish itself. If there was a problem, I'm afraid Xu Jiayin would have the same symptoms as his wife."
Xu Jiayin also looked at my master Zhang Chu with concern.
But what I didn't expect was that my master shook his head and said to me: "Tianyi, you may not know that corpse worms are parasites. Their bodies are very small before they grow up, about the thickness of a needle, and it is difficult to identify them. The most important thing is that once they encounter fish, they will parasitize the fish's head."
After hearing this, I understood something.
I quickly looked at Xu Jiayin and asked, "Brother Xu, did your wife Chen Jiaojiao eat the fish head?"
Xu Jiayin nodded woodenly before he understood what I meant.
It suddenly dawned on me, and I thought, it looks like this fish is the culprit.
Zhang Chu said: "It seems that my guess is correct. In all likelihood, the problem lies with the fish. It was because Chen Jiaojiao accidentally ate the fish head that the corpse worms entered her stomach. Ordinary stewing is difficult to kill the corpse worms. Therefore, the corpse worms survived in Chen Jiaojiao's stomach and began to develop inside it. This is why the following situation occurred."
Xu Jiayin finally understood what my master Zhang Chu said.
He squatted on the ground, his body trembling.
He held his head with his hands and began to cry loudly, and while crying, he slapped himself with his hands.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on catching that fish, my fiancée Jiaojiao wouldn't have gotten into trouble. It's all my fault, it's me who harmed Jiaojiao, it's me who harmed her..."
Looking at the heartbroken Xu Jiayin, I shook my head and said comfortingly, "Brother Xu, now is not the time for you to blame yourself. We should first deal with the corpse worms in your fiancée's body."
Xu Jiayin raised his head slightly, reached out and held the hand of my master Zhang Chu, and said in a choked voice: "Master, you must save my fiancée, I can't lose her..."
Look, here he comes again. There is really no way to deal with Xu Jiayin.
My master Zhang Chu curled his lips and said seriously: "Don't worry, we will do our best. Now we have a way, it depends on whether we can save your fiancée in time."
But what we didn’t expect was that soon after my master finished speaking, the voice of the young monk Yuquan suddenly came from the main room of the bamboo house.
"Oh no, oh no, Brother Yang, Uncle Zhang, this woman is bleeding from her mouth. Her breathing has become weaker."
When we heard this, we rushed into the main house.
Chen Jiaojiao's body was still shaking, and her belly seemed to have grown a little bigger.
A stream of black blood appeared at the corner of her mouth and kept flowing out from the corner of her mouth.
The black blood also had a foul smell, which was very unpleasant.
"Tianyi, quickly open your third eye and see what's going on?" my master Zhang Chu said anxiously.
Xu Jiayin, who was standing on the side, thought that his fiancée was dying, so he knelt on the ground, beating his chest and scratching his head.
I circulated the Qi of Yin De and injected it directly into the Heavenly Eye of my right hand.
Suddenly, the third eye opened.
The palm of his right hand was facing Chen Jiaojiao's belly, and the green light of the Heavenly Eye penetrated into Chen Jiaojiao's belly.
At this time, the corpse worms in Chen Jiaojiao's stomach kept rolling, and their black bodies kept sliding like loaches.
What I didn’t expect was that those corpse worms were actually fighting!
That's right, they were fighting!
Their dark bodies were entangled together, biting each other continuously. Their teeth didn't look very sharp, but when they bit each other, they were like scalpels that could easily cut through each other's flesh.
For a moment, the stomach and intestines became bloody, and the gastric acid and gastric juice were stirred, making the stomach wall covered with black and red blood spots.
That blood was not Chen Jiaojiao's blood, but the blood of corpse worms.
Because there was not much food left in their stomachs, the corpse worms started fighting over it. In the process, they started to fight. It looked quite bloody.
"How is it? Tianyi, what's the situation in her stomach?" my master asked.
I said, "It's those corpse worms fighting. There's not much food left in the intestines and stomach, so they're fighting each other fiercely."
My master Zhang Chu and the young monk Yuquan were also surprised when they heard what I said.
I thought about it and said to my master, "Master, let's give Chen Jiaojiao something to eat first. Otherwise, if the corpse worms get mad, they might damage her organs."
But my master shook his head and said, "No! You can't give her food. Don't you see that her belly is already so big? If you give her more food, her belly will definitely burst from the corpse gas and waste excreted by the corpse worms."
The word "burst" used here makes me feel inexplicably disgusted.
I thought of a water-filled balloon. If Chen Jiaojiao's belly really exploded like a water-filled balloon, the scene would be quite scary.
And at that time Chen Jiaojiao would definitely die.
I was also a little anxious. "But Master, we can't just stand by and watch her die, can we? The corpse worms are causing so much trouble now. If we don't provide them with food, they might just devour Chen Jiaojiao's organs. By then, it won't be that easy to save her."
My master still shook his head and said, "Then we can't provide any more food! ... ... It seems that we can only let the gas out of her stomach directly."
"Deflate?"
I didn't understand what my master Zhang Chu meant.
Zhang Chu nodded and explained, "What I mean is that we should first deflate Chen Jiaojiao's stomach and let her hold on for a while. As for those corpse worms fighting each other, we will ignore them for now. When the time comes, when both of them are injured, we will take action."
I had no choice but to follow my master's advice.
However, my divine eye looked through Chen Jiaojiao's belly and noticed that one of the corpse worms in her stomach had died, and the other corpse worms actually swallowed the dead corpse worm as food.
This is truly the law of the jungle.
At this time, my master Zhang Chu looked at me and said, "Tianyi, you have the best control over the acupuncture points, and you have a strong Yin De Qi in your body. You are the best person to acupuncture the acupuncture points. Wait, you will do as I say, and we will expel the corpse Qi in Chen Jiaojiao's stomach first."
I nodded.
Afterwards, under the instructions of my master Zhang Chu, he controlled the silver needle and used the perspective of his third eye to start acupuncture on Chen Jiaojiao's belly.
At the beginning, I was not sure whether this method would work, but after inserting more than a dozen silver needles, I found that the corpse qi in Chen Jiaojiao's body was actually coming out along the silver needles.
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As time went by, wisps of corpse qi rose from the dozens of silver needles that had been inserted.
However, as soon as the corpse qi appeared, it was absorbed by the young monk Yuquan who was helping with glutinous rice water.
Glutinous rice has a strong adsorption effect on corpse gas.
Soon I was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Jiaojiao's belly was shrinking little by little, but the speed was very slow.
The glutinous rice water in the porcelain bowl in Yuquan's hand was bright white before, but now it has turned pitch black, as if a few drops of ink had been dropped into it.
There was still a hint of coldness in the corpse's qi, and a little frost appeared on the surface of the silver needle.
However, this method did not last long. After just over half an hour, the hole where the silver needle had been inserted into Chen Jiaojiao's belly stopped emitting corpse gas.
Those holes have been sealed by the frost formed by the corpse qi.
"No! This method can only temporarily alleviate the situation. Tianyi, take out those silver needles first."
I then quickly took action and removed the silver needles on Chen Jiaojiao's belly.
The blood stopped flowing out of Chen Jiaojiao's mouth, and her face became a little red.
But she was still whispering, "I want food, I want food... Jiayin, give me food..."
Chen Jiaojiao's face was facing the direction of Xu Jiayin, her eyes wide open.
Kneeling on the ground, Xu Jiayin, feeling extremely guilty, quickly stood up and rushed to Chen Jiaojiao.
He held Chen Jiaojiao's bound hands and said in a trembling voice, "Jiaojiao, hold on for a while. Once you get through this, everything will be fine."
But Chen Jiaojiao simply refused to listen to Xu Jiayin's words. She shook her head and cried, "No! Jiayin, please give me something to eat. I beg you. I'm so hungry. If you don't give me food, I'll starve to death."
However, at this time, Chen Jiaojiao screamed in pain again: "Ah! It hurts! My stomach, my stomach seems to have something biting me. Ah! It hurts! ... Jiayin, save me, save me..."
I looked over with my divine eye and found that there was only one left among the corpse worms.
After devouring the other corpse worms, the corpse worm actually started to bite Chen Jiaojiao's intestines.
"Oh no, Master. There is only one corpse worm left. It has started to attack Chen Jiaojiao. We need to use food to appease the corpse worm first."
There was no other way, so my master sighed and said, "Then give her food quickly and let her eat something."
Yuquan put down the porcelain bowl in his hand, hurried to a bamboo cabinet, took a pork elbow from the plate on it, and handed it directly to Xu Jiayin in front of Chen Jiaojiao.
Without saying a word, Xu Jiayin held the bone of the pork elbow and put the meaty side next to Chen Jiaojiao's mouth.
Chen Jiaojiao opened her mouth and started to gnaw on the greasy pork elbow.
The way she ate was like a hungry dog snatching food.
After taking a few big bites, Chen Jiaojiao swallowed half of the pork elbow without even having time to chew it.
"Slow down, slow down, Jiaojiao, eat slowly!..."
Xu Jiayin was trembling, crying, and mumbling.
But Chen Jiaojiao did not change her eating habits and continued to eat voraciously.
As for the corpse worms in the stomach, they gradually settled down after getting food. Fortunately, Chen Jiaojiao's stomach did not suffer too much damage.
Time waits for no one, and we were all very anxious.
I kept thinking to myself, Boss Li, Boss Li, you've been gone for so long, why haven't you come back yet
In fact, just over two hours had passed.
But for us, every minute and every second seems very urgent.
(to be continued)
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