The eldest, second eldest, and the others from the Zeng Family hurried back into the house.
They carried what we needed: stove ash, charred grains, salt, yellow mud, and peppercorn oil.
They were all ordinary things, but when mixed together, they could kill the Rice Gu Worm.
"Jiang Ning! Everything's here."
"Ningzi, my mother and Second Brave are in your hands."
"..."
The Zeng Family was extremely polite to me now.
I did not waste any words and simply nodded.
"Get me a clean basin."
The Zeng Family quickly went to do so, while I followed Aunt Tang's instructions.
I ground the stove ash and charred grains into powder, mixed them with the yellow mud and salt, kneaded them into little black mud balls, then soaked them in peppercorn oil for several minutes.
Then I had Second Brave take one first.
Second Brave had been terrified by that worm. Without a second thought, he swallowed it.
We all stood nearby, watching for changes in his condition.
The Zeng Family was also waiting anxiously for Second Brave.
After taking it, other than his throat feeling numb, Second Brave did not feel anything else.
But after a little over ten minutes, the bloody streaks that had emerged on his stomach gradually faded.
The medicine was probably taking effect.
Seeing that it worked and had no side effects, I had someone from the Wang Family give Grandma Zeng one of the prepared mud pills.
Grandma Zeng was lying on the bed. Perhaps because of her age, the Gu poison had acted up early.
She had also struggled for so long before, and her body had been severely drained.
She even needed help taking the medicine now.
But after she swallowed the mud pill, the effects were just as obvious.
Ten minutes later, Grandma