Crossing Over to Yamada Love

"The Mo family killed someone's wife and are still so vicious. They are truly unreasonable. We should avoid dealing with such families in the future."

"That's right, the Mo family, young and old, have become so greedy for money that they've turned their hearts black."

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The onlookers began to discuss the matter.

"Your wife died? When did that happen? How did she die? What does it have to do with my family?" Mo Quan frowned and asked suspiciously.

"How can it not have anything to do with your family! My wife went up the mountain to pick mushrooms and got bitten by grasshoppers. If it weren't for your family harvesting these damned mushrooms, my wife wouldn't have been bitten by grasshoppers. You're the ones who killed my wife. Waaah, if she's gone, how am I supposed to live?" Liu Dagou said, then squatted down on the ground, holding his head, and started crying.

"My poor daughter-in-law! She insisted on making those few ill-gotten gains from the Mo family, and in the end, she lost her life. Give me back my daughter-in-law's life!" Liu Dagou's mother said, and was about to pounce on the Mo family members when she was pulled back by the people around her.

"Big Dog's wife got bitten by a tick. She probably won't live more than two days. Poor thing."

"Yes, a few years ago, Chen Dazhu was also bitten by a grasshopper and died just like that."

"We can't go up the mountain to pick mushrooms anymore. If we get bitten by grasshoppers, we won't be alive to spend the money we earn."

Many people sighed and started discussing it.

The Mo family members also fell silent. They were upset that she had been bitten by a tick, but they couldn't blame themselves for her being bitten while picking mushrooms! They were just collecting mushrooms; they hadn't forced anyone to pick them.

“Uncle Big Dog, you’re a farmer, you’re selling grain, right? If something happens to you, can you hold the grain buyers accountable? In previous years, some people were bitten to death by grasshoppers, are you going to hold us, the Mo family, accountable for that too? We collect mushrooms, but we don’t force anyone to go up the mountain to pick them. We pick them ourselves, don’t we? Now that something has happened to you, you’re blaming us? There’s no such logic in this world!” Mo Lan wasn’t afraid of the situation and spoke loudly about her reasoning.

"I don't care! My wife only came up the mountain because your family was harvesting mushrooms. You're the ones who killed my wife." Liu Dagou couldn't argue with Mo Lan, nor would he try to reason with her. He was convinced that the Mo family was responsible for his wife's death.

"Does Aunt Big Dog never go up the mountain in previous years?" Mo Lan asked Liu Big Dog.

“She went up the mountain in previous years, but she wasn’t bitten by the grass. This year she only went up the mountain because of your Mo family. You have to give us an explanation.” Liu Dagou and Mo Lan argued stubbornly.

"So if anyone in the village gets into trouble on the mountain in the future, will it all be blamed on the Mo family? There have been quite a few accidents on the mountain over the years, should they all come after the Mo family? Do you even have any sense of reason?!" Mo Lan's voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for everyone to hear.

"It's not really the Mo family's fault. She got bitten while picking mushrooms on the mountain. It's her bad luck to blame the Mo family. It's unreasonable for them to hold her accountable."

"Who else should we go after if not them? The Mo family is rolling in money these days, they should at least pay them some compensation."

There were all sorts of opinions in the crowd. Some thought the Mo family had suffered a huge loss, while others thought the Mo family had too much money and should compensate the Liu family.

Mo Lan stopped talking and pondered the matter. These ticks are also called ticks. She knew about them because she had been to the mountains in her modern life. People who lived in the mountains all year round basically had to get vaccinated every year. If you were bitten by a tick, there was a chance of contracting tick-borne encephalitis. Although the chance of contracting tick-borne encephalitis was very low, once you were infected, there was no cure and death was the only way out.

People in ancient times didn't understand these things. It's estimated that some people died from tick-borne encephalitis after being bitten by ticks, so they believed that being bitten by ticks was certain death, and they were terrified of ticks.

"Uncle Big Dog, where is Auntie now?" Mo Lan didn't think that being bitten by a grasshopper meant certain death. What if there was still hope? She needed to figure out the situation first.

“She’s lying on the kang (heated brick bed) inside. What? You think we’re trying to extort money from your family? If she were perfectly fine, why would we bother coming here to cause trouble for your family? My wife has a huge lump on the back of her neck; that’s a tick in there.” Liu Dagou yelled at Mo Lan.

"Uncle Big Dog, since you've pinned this on us, you should at least let us go see the person. Maybe they can still be cured." Mo Lan didn't shout. Although she was also angry, the other party was, after all, a human life. She wanted to see the person first.

"Can it be cured? What do you know, you little brat! Who can cure a tick bite? Go and have a look, so you won't say we're trying to scam you." Liu Dagou was quite straightforward and led the group ahead.

The Mo family left Qiu Dajun and Mo Changhai to watch the shop, and left Liu and Qiu to work on the backyard. Qiu was worried and wanted to go with them, but Wang insisted that she stay. Liu couldn't handle all the work by herself.

On the way there, Mo Lan spoke to Madam Wang in a low voice. Madam Wang remained silent, her expression serious, with a cold glint in her eyes. After listening, she simply nodded slightly.

The men all stayed outside. Mo Lan followed Wang Shi into the house and saw Big Dog's wife lying on the kang (a heated brick bed).

She was in her early twenties, her face ashen, whether from fright or something else, her eyes lifeless, lying there motionless.

Next to her sat a little girl of about five years old, crying and calling for her mother. There was also a two-year-old boy who was wailing loudly.

Liu Dagou stepped forward and helped his wife up, turning her around and pointing at her neck, saying, "Look for yourselves, isn't this a tick bite?"

Wang led Mo Lan forward and saw that Da Gou's wife did indeed have a large lump on the back of her neck.

When this grasshopper bites someone, it enters the person's body and sucks their blood. Since it only has one mouth and no other way to excrete, it also excretes through its mouth, thus excreting dirty blood into the person's body. With this cycle, it's no wonder the person's body can't get better.

“Big Dog, everyone says that being bitten by a grasshopper is a death sentence. Auntie has a method that might save your wife. Let Auntie try it and see if it works?” Wang asked Liu Dagou, looking at the large package.

"Auntie, don't lie to me. How can you recover from being bitten by a grasshopper?" Liu Dagou didn't believe Wang Shi's words at all.

"Since you think it can't be cured, what's wrong with letting your aunt give it a try?" Wang's face remained expressionless, giving people a sense of inscrutableness.

"Auntie, can you really save me? I don't want to die. My child is so young, what will they do if I die?" Big Dog's wife had been in despair, but after hearing Wang's words, her eyes lit up. She tugged at Wang's sleeve, her face filled with a glimmer of hope.

"Auntie wants to try it, but this method is a bit painful. Can you bear it?" Wang Shi stroked Da Gou's wife's hair and asked her affectionately.

"Yes, I can endure the pain, as long as it gets better. Auntie, tell me what to do." A resolute look flashed across Big Dog's wife's face as she nodded to Wang.

"I need a small earthenware jar, liquor, a clean knife, and cotton cloth. Go and find them for me," Wang instructed the people in the room.

Soon everything was ready, and everyone brought what they had. A crowd gathered in the courtyard and inside the house, eager to see how Wang would deal with the grasshoppers.

A large bowl filled with liquor was lit and began to burn rapidly.

After the wine had been burning for a while, Wang smothered it with something to put it out. She then used a clean cotton cloth to wipe the back of Big Dog's wife's neck, and then kept wiping the knife. Lan told her that this was for disinfection. Although she didn't understand, she believed her granddaughter's words.

Wang calmed herself down, controlled her hands to keep quiet, and then slashed the bag behind Big Dog's wife's neck, making a cross shape with the knife. Blood began to flow out.

Wang said to Liu Dagou, who had already washed his hands, "Quickly squeeze out the blood, squeeze out all the dirty blood."

Liu Dagou used all his strength to squeeze out the blood, while his wife felt numbness in the back of her neck and could no longer feel any pain.

"Brother, you're here! Please have a seat." Wang, who was watching from the side, saw Doctor Chen enter with his medicine chest and hurriedly greeted him.

"I rushed over as soon as I heard the news. I've prepared all the herbs my sister-in-law wanted. They're ready to use anytime. How is the situation at Da Gou's house now?" Doctor Chen took out the prepared herbs from his medicine box and asked about Da Gou's wife's condition.

“The big dog keeps squeezing out blood, but the grasshopper’s head is still inside. We have to squeeze the head out before we can talk about anything else,” Wang replied. In fact, she wasn’t sure herself, but she couldn’t show it on her face.

"This? This is the head of a grasshopper, isn't it?" Liu Dagou's voice trembled as he pointed to the blood flowing from his wife's neck and asked the two of them.

Madam Wang and Physician Chen rushed forward and saw a small black thing in the flowing blood. Physician Chen examined it carefully and nodded.

Wang saw that the grasshopper's head had come out, but the blood flowing from the back of Big Dog's wife's neck was still a darker color than normal. She lit the earthenware pot, and after it was heated up, she pulled it off the spot where Big Dog's wife had been bitten by the grasshopper. Big Dog's wife cried out again. She had already been sweating profusely from the pain of the cut, and now she felt even more uncomfortable as the earthenware pot sucked into the back of her neck, as if it was trying to suck her whole body in.

Calculating the time, she took the pottery jar down. Big Dog's wife's neck was already bruised and purple. Wang looked at the wound and saw that the blood flowing from it had returned to its normal color, indicating that all the poisonous blood had been drawn out. She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Auntie, is Cui Cui not going to die?" Liu Dagou asked excitedly as he saw Wang Shi's expression soften, even calling out his wife's name.

"If the bleeding stops, and she doesn't have a high fever or headache tonight, then she should be fine." Wang felt relieved. The lice had been removed, and the toxic blood had been cleaned up. As long as she didn't get that unfortunate encephalitis that her granddaughter had mentioned, she should be alright.

After hearing what Wang said, Doctor Chen hurriedly took out the pounded herbs and applied them to Da Gou's wife, then bandaged her up. He left two packets of herbs and departed amidst Da Gou's profuse thanks.