CHAPTER 776: 【751】BEAST WORLD FARMING 61 (1 MORE UPDATE)

When the ground thawed, she sent Yin Ye and Lang Sen to the place where they had previously found wheat to see if there were any wheat spikes they could bring back; she just prayed that the spikes hadn’t rotted but instead had been frozen. Even if they had germinated, it would be better than if they had rotted.

According to the harvest time in the fall, the wheat should have begun to sprout during the rainy season, taking over eight months to mature. So before the Cold Season arrived, it was time for the wheat to be ready for harvest, as the grains they had brought back last time were already close to maturity, and they would be able to harvest in just over a month.

With a restless heart, Tiantian anxiously waited at home; to her, nothing was more nerve-wracking than this.

The seeds in the field had been sown, but the fields also needed to be leveled, and the bamboo walls around the fields needed to be secured to prevent wild animals from going in and gnawing on the newly sprouted shoots.

Long before the ground was leveled, a Cold Season’s worth of animal dung had been collected and spread on the land—chicken droppings, pig dung, sheep feces, and even though some cow dung was used for growing mushrooms, the rest was also used as fertilizer in the fields.

As for the fertilizer from their household toilet, it was spread on the vegetable plot in front of and behind their house; this was a necessary task every year when the land was turned over.

After turning over the soil, they flattened the ground by using a wooden board shaped like a comb. Two people pulled from the front, and one pushed from behind, smoothing out the large clumps in the ground to make it suitable for planting.

With the beastmen not at home, their family meals, whether three times a day or twice, were simplified a great deal. Sometimes they would slaughter a chicken, stew a pot of chicken soup, roll out some noodles, and have a meal of noodles with meat and broth, accompanied by some pickled vegetables.

For dinner, sheep milk, eggs, and a pot of milk custard were stewed to satisfy the children. After the dessert before the meal, stewing a dish and sticking a pancake filled them up nicely.

"Sister, today when Songling went to the toilet, he pooped out a lot of worms, it scared me to death,"

As Tiantian was eating, Jimmy swung his tail with a disgusted face, complaining about his little friend next to him.

She was startled by this news, and as soon as Jimmy finished speaking, Black Falcon, Xiong Yong, and Ling Yue consecutively brought up several friends’ names, and their symptoms were all identical—some were even rolling around on the ground. Yet, she hadn’t known about these incidents.

She quickly asked her children, "How about you? Did you expel any worms?"

The children shook their heads, "No, we listened to Sister and didn’t drink unboiled water; we washed our hands frequently and kept clean."

On the side, Lili retorted, "Nonsense! Would you wait for me to boil the water when you are thirsty? Didn’t you sneak and drink the raw water?"

Tiantian frowned but still took this matter to heart. After all, roundworm disease could affect pups and adults alike, to varying degrees.

Naturally, in severe cases, there was even a risk to life.

This disease wasn’t exactly an emergency, but it was disgusting. Severe cases could lead to malnutrition, intellectual disabilities, and developmental issues since the worms could infiltrate anywhere. When they burrowed into the wrong places, symptoms might include restlessness, irritation, teeth grinding, itching, and even convulsions.

Some people might also suffer allergic reactions like vascular neurogenic edema, persistent urticaria, and sometimes even cause biliary ascariasis, intestinal ascariasis obstruction, intestinal perforation, peritonitis, and other severe complications. Just thinking about this made her feel that she couldn’t sit idly by.

Although she didn’t have medication to treat roundworms, she could use traditional remedies.

The first option was to take Black Plum Pills. Black Plum has a sour and astringent flavor and is considered temperate. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that roundworms subside in acidic environments, making Black Plum especially effective in treating children’s intestinal roundworm illness, particularly when it causes abdominal pain due to worm accumulation. However, since her arrival in Beast World, she hadn’t seen such an item, so she would have to ask the well-informed Jin Han to help her look for it.

The second method was to take Sichuan peppercorn, which was easy to find. Ever since her family had successfully transplanted the Sichuan and numbing peppercorn trees, other females in the tribe had also started to grow them because Sichuan peppercorns made the food taste particularly good; thus, nearly everyone planted them.

Upon realizing this, she immediately went to Witch Doctor Mu Nai to inquire about the situation with roundworm disease in the tribe. She was startled when she learned that every year there was a period when many people fell ill, and some even vomited worms. The thought made her stomach churn in discomfort.

She immediately taught the methods to Witch Doctor Mu Nai and asked her to help spread the word.