Pagoda Sugar

Seeing the boy's resistance, Gu Zuozuo waved the slightly yellowish thing in her hand and handed it to him directly.

"Try it."

The boy licked it, and his eyes lit up immediately.

"Go home and check if there are any worms in his stool. Come back to me tomorrow and I'll clean out the worm eggs."

Although she didn't believe that a piece of candy could cure a stomachache, the woman still took the child home with a skeptical attitude. In any case, she still trusted Gu Zhiqing to some extent.

After seeing off the last acupuncture patient, Gu Zuozuo thought for a moment, then picked up her basket, locked the door, and went up the mountain.

There weren't many pagoda-shaped candies. Families with many children in the village usually had at least four, and some had as many as eight or nine. It was impossible for everyone to have pagoda-shaped candies.

Traditional Chinese medicine can also be used to expel roundworms. She needs to go up the mountain to collect several kinds of herbs, go back and boil them into a decoction for them to drink, so that they can expel the worms together.

It was July, the hottest month of the year, and the wheat in the fields had grown to knee-high, while the rice was beginning to turn yellow.

The cicadas chirping in the trees were irritating, but Gu Zuozuo's eyes lit up.

Newly emerged cicada nymphs, cleaned and fried in oil, become crispy and fragrant—an indispensable summer delicacy. I've been so busy with the health station these past few days that I completely forgot about it.

Deep-fried cicada nymphs

"System, should we accept the cicada larvae?"

【receive! ! 】

The answer was firm and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Gu Zuozuo smiled and caught a cicada; her wood-type ability was like a cheat code among cheat codes.

As you walk halfway up the mountain, the sweltering air begins to cool down, and you can occasionally see a few friends hiding here to escape the heat.

Ever since the people who were supposedly eaten to death by wild animals in the forest were sent home by the government, the forest has started to come alive again. Those who are a little bolder can go a little further in and occasionally they can even find pheasants and rabbits, which they can bring home to add some meat to their dinner table.

The only regret for the villagers was that the children who died from wild boars at the beginning were truly killed by wild boars and never had the chance to come back.

Just as she picked a herb and got up to continue walking, she suddenly caught sight of two suspicious-looking people behind her out of the corner of her eye.

Kan Lei?

As for the other one, she looked somewhat familiar, but I didn't remember her well; she was probably a girl from the village.

"Brother Lei, are you really going to marry me?"

"Xiaofang, I'm serious!"

"But didn't you used to like Sister Su Su?"

When Ma Su was mentioned, Kan Lei's face twisted slightly. He never expected that the woman who had secretly met with him just the day before would return to her parents' home with her newlywed husband the very next day.

He still feels disgusted thinking about how he felt back then, as if he had eaten shit.

"She...she changed her mind and got married. I wish her well..."

The girl looked at his dejected face with heartache, and couldn't help but shyly step forward and take his hand. Her heart was pounding and her cheeks were flushed.

"Then... Brother Lei, can you come to my house to propose marriage? Don't worry, after we get married, I will definitely try to get you a place at the Workers' and Peasants' University!"

"Really! Xiaofang, you're so good to me! Don't worry, I will definitely not let you down! After I graduate from university, I will bring you back to the city so you can eat braised pork and drink soda every day!"

Gu Zuozuo looked at the couple pouring their hearts out to each other under the tree with an expression of utter disbelief, and couldn't help but roll her eyes.

This girl is beyond saving; she's the kind of girl even Wang Baochuan couldn't save even after digging up all the wild vegetables on the mountain.

Knowing full well that this man had been threatening violence for another woman the day before, she still believed that he had been hurt in love and had turned to love her, this devoted man.

"Being brain-dead isn't a disease, but when it happens, it can be deadly."

Gu Zuozuo narrowed her eyes and a smile appeared on her lips.

Great. I was planning to find some time to hang out with him, but since we've run into each other today, why not seize the opportunity?

[Host, murder is illegal...]

The system gave a subtle reminder to one of the hosts, who was already getting excited, and, noticing the host's displeasure, quickly added,

[You should have notified me before he died. I blocked myself from seeing the host commit murder, so the mainframe couldn't determine that I had violated the rules and put me in the dark!]

Gu Zuozuo... You're the best at showing off!

The mastermind...did I see it, or did I see it, or did I see it?