Chapter 87: Ruan Chanchan: I know a thing or two
Nan Zhi didn’t understand what Ruan Chanchan meant by ’boiling the water,’ but he still nodded and rushed out of the cave. When he saw Ruan Zeqiu pacing around the cave, he lowered his head and said to him softly, "Ruan Chanchan asked me to get boiled water, can you give it to me?" He wondered if this boiled water was some kind of heavenly medicine.
When Ruan Zeqiu heard his request, he frowned hard. But he still nodded and then went inside the cave. Nan Zhi followed him, and what he saw made his eyes widen with shock. He saw Ruan Zeqiu picking up a stone bowl and filling it with water before putting it on the Holy Flame! However, before Nan Wu could ask how Ruan Chanchan and Ruan Zeqiu got the Holy Flame from Preistess Yuan, Ruan Zeqiu said to him, "This is not the holy flame that is sacred sign of our tribe, this flame was created by my sister. So don’t get any funny thoughts."
Ruan Zeqiu was worried that the mer would start a new round of rumours about his sister in the tribe, thus, he decisively put an end to his thoughts.
Nan Zhi had no intention of letting the secret out but when he heard that this holy flame was created by Ruan Chanchan, he was so shocked that his mouth hit the ground of the cave. But before he could even ask Ruan Zeqiu how Ruan Chanchan did such a godly thing, the latter handed him the hot water bowl and said to him, "You better take the water back to the cave, if its get cold then it will be of no use."
Nan Zhi immediately closed his mouth and hurriedly returned to the cave, more than getting the answers to his questions, the life of his sister was more important!
Ruan Zeqiu watched he mer leave and snorted.
Look at that jerk go. The last time when he came to their cave, he was filled with arrogance and now he was tucking his tail sharply between his legs. What a flexible mer!
Nan Zhi had no idea what Ruan Zeqiu was thinking. At that moment, he was rushing past the crowd, ignoring the burning heat in his hands and placed the bowl of steaming hot water near Ruan Chanchan. When Ruan Chanchan saw the water, she nodded and then took out a clean piece of animal hide that she was carrying with her. It would have been better to use the pieces of rags inside her supermarket but she knew that if she took out something so refined, these people might end up treating her as the Beast Goddess’s incarnation rather than someone who was blessed by her.
She wiped the wound carefully and started applying the remanining medicine that was still lying in her supermarket, it was a good thing that she had saved half of it or else Nan Wu would have turned into a lifeless corpse thanks to her own father. Fortunately, the damage was not severe. A little cleaning and ointment would do the job.
Ruan Chanchan used the remaining water in the bowl and mixed the fever medicine in it. She had already crushed the medicine into a fine powder and now it resembled a fine bone powder. Stirring the bowl with her two shaking hands, she slowly fed Nan Wu the fever medicine.
"Don’t lick her wound again," she warned sternly just as she managed to pour the last of the medicine in Nan Wu’s mouth and tipped her head back down. "If you lick her wound again, then even gods will not be able to save her. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you then."
She no longer had any extra medicine in her supermarket and Ruan Chanchan didn’t believe that Xiao Xi would be able to get her another one as this medicine came with tool kit for the mission.
Father Nan nodded tearfully. He was really scared just now, and with Ruan Chanchan telling him that the reason his daughter fell sick all over again. He just wanted Nan Wu to get better quickly. If she didn’t get back on her feet then the family would fall into ruins. They had no food to eat and without Nan Wu going out to hunt, they were close to dying out of starvation. But who would have thought that his good intentions would cause his daughter more suffering? At the same time he couldn’t help but wonder why Ruan Chanchan said that his daughter would die if he licked her wound?
He used to do it all the time when Nan Wu was young, how come this time aroud it was different!?
This question was burning in Priestess Yuan’s mind as well. Chasing after Ruan Chanchan who had already left the cave after treating Nan Wu, she asked her, "Why did you stop Father Nan to not lick Nan Wu’s wound?"
"Saliva is not sanitary. Nan Wu’s wound is too severe and licking or touching it would contaminate it with germs. If its get contaminated then the body would end up fighting against the germs instead of focusing on healing. Its better to keep wounds clean with boiled water rather than licking it." Ruan Chanchan explained.
Prirestess Yuan’s eyes turned brighter with every word that she listened to. Hanging onto every word spoken by Ruan Chanchan, she asked, "Then what about treating the wound with mud?"
"Thats even more dangerous. There are a lot of germs and bacteria in mud –if you apply it on an open skin wound like this, then unless the patient is heaven defying strong, then there will be no chance for their survival," stated Ruan Chanchan.
Priestess Yuan’s eyes were shining brightly as she understood why so many beastwomen died after she applied the mud on their wounds. It was due to this reason! She often wondered why some women survived and why most of them died. It seemed like this was the case—those who survived were much stronger than the ones who died.
And here she foolishly thought that she was doing something wrong.