Ruan Zeqiu snorted beside him; even though Sun Cao had not said a word, he knew what was going on in the head of the foolish mer. Did he really think that his sister was such a coward that she would run away and not return? If his sister were that big a coward, then she wouldn’t have even come here.
Sun Cao’s expression turned a bit sheepish when he heard Ruan Zeqiu’s snort. He raised his head and smiled at the mer flatteringly before turning to look at Ruan Chanchan. When he saw the heavy bowl that she was supporting, he immediately reached out and took it from her, noticing her struggle.
Upon seeing the greenish-white liquid, he raised his head and questioned, "Chanchan, what is this?"
"It’s a kind of medicine that will help your daughter pull," Ruan Chanchan replied. She looked at the little girl who was writhing in pain on the ground and explained, "Worms are growing inside of her intestines—I mean body." She corrected it. As soon as she finished speaking, Sun Cao’s face turned pale.
"Worms? Are there worms in the body of my daughter?" Sun Cao was stupefied. He turned and looked at his daughter, and all of a sudden burst into tears. Sun Cao had heard about a few children dying due to growing worms in their stomachs; it was found out after their corpses in the burial mound of the tribe decomposed, and a bunch of long and ugly-looking worms, different from the maggots, crawled out of their bellies.
The people of the tribe said that it happened because the parents of the children angered the beast goddess. Did he do something to make the beast goddess upset with him? If that was the case then she should punish him instead of his daughter. What had the little girl even done?
Though they didn’t understand much, Sun Cao and the others knew that those worms were the cause of the deaths of the children. Now that his daughter was unfortunate enough to catch such a disease. What was he going to do?
When Ruan Chanchan saw the mer burst into tears, she was startled, as she didn’t expect the little mer to suddenly start crying. She widened her eyes and questioned, "What happened? Why are you crying all of a sudden?"
"Chanchan, you just told me that my daughter’s stomach is infested with worms. So how can I not cry? With such a terrible thing happening to my daughter, I just know that she is going to die! No wonder Priestess Yuan told me to prepare for her funeral."
Because the mer was too distressed, he ended up saying the truth, and when Ruan Zeqiu heard his words, his eyes popped out of their sockets, and he exclaimed in anger, "So you knew that this kid was going to die, and you still brought her to my sister. What were you thinking? Do you even know if this kid died while under the care of my sister? We would have been drowned by the spit of the tribe members."
When Ruan Zeqiu thought about the trouble that might have befallen them after the death of this little girl, he felt a hatred like never before. He wished he could rush right up and scratch the face of this sly mer. They chose to help him, and here he was lying and hiding things from them. He was really too much!
Ruan Chanchan was simply stupefied. She didn’t expect the situation to escalate in such a manner; she pinched the bridge of her nose. Raising her hands in the air, she said to Ruan Zeqiu and Sun Cao, "Alright, there is no need to make a fuss. You two should listen when someone is talking to you. I told you that this medicine can clean the worms inside the stomach of your daughter, Xiao Cao. There is no need for you to worry about her dying or anything like that."
She did say it quite clearly, did she not?
"You did, darling. It’s their fault; they were not listening to you at all." Xiao Xi had been paying attention to the two mers and knew that they were not listening to a word that Ruan Chanchan had said to them because they were lost in their own thoughts. This certainly couldn’t be blamed on his dear host.
Ruan Chanchan heaved a sigh of relief. As long as she was not the one in the wrong.
"What? You mean to say that your medicine can save the life of my daughter?" Sun Cao raised his head and questioned Ruan Chanchan. His eyes were no longer filled with desperation and were now surging with a newfound hope.
Ruan Chanchan was slightly frightened by the gaze with which the mer was looking at her. However, she still nodded and explained, "As long as you feed this medicine to your daughter, she will start pulling in an hour or so. And this time around, the worms in her stomach would come out as well, so she will be fine in a day or two as long as she eats proper meals."
The reason those children died was simply because their nutrition couldn’t keep up with the parasites growing in their intestines. Because they didn’t get enough to eat, most of the nutrients that they ate were leached off by the parasites. This caused them to weaken. With their bodies turning weak, it wasn’t a surprise that they died in a few months.
Sun Cao nodded. At that moment, even if the stone bowl consisted of poison, he was going to give it a shot. Anyway, with the condition of his daughter, no one would take the risk of treating her. Since Ruan Chanchan had told him that her medicine could help his daughter, he might as well grasp it.
Ruan Zeqiu opened his mouth to stop the mer, but before he could make a sound, Sun Cao had already fed the medicine to his daughter.
AHHHH! Listen to me at least!