"That's because you are smart. It was you who discovered the method of eating purple fruit. We used to use such delicious purple fruit rice to decorate caves and feed birds and animals!" The little chubby face was wrinkled with heartache, which was very funny.

"Okay, I'll make you something delicious today, thank you for your help!" Ji Nuan touched her hair which was a little messy because of her help.

Ge Ye's eyes lit up when he heard that, but then he pouted his lips in disappointment and said, "No, Di Feng wants to make fried pork slices today, and he specifically asked me to go back for dinner."

The smile on Ji Nuan's lips froze; this dog food came unexpectedly.

(Ahem ~ cold dog food slapped randomly on the face!)

Outside the cave, out of sight of the two females, a tall figure was quietly hiding in a corner. The cunning expression on his cold and handsome face couldn't be more obvious.

Xiu Yan snorted inwardly with pride: I will kill anyone who competes with me for the female cub, hum~

Humming a proud little tune in his heart, he happily headed to the river with the prey on his shoulder.

Well, I will continue to cooperate with Di Feng and others tomorrow.

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"Ah!!!" The quiet of the tribe in the afternoon was broken by a terrified cry. Ji Nuan stood up from the animal skin, washed the mud off her hands in a wooden barrel, and ran quickly to the open space of the tribe.

On the way, they met Go Ye, whose face was covered with tears. The girl's usually rosy face turned pale, and her eyes were full of fear.

After seeing Ji Nuan, he howled and threw himself into her arms, crying out loudly and gasping for breath, his body shaking with fear.

Ji Nuan patted her back gently to comfort her, her voice soft, "What's wrong? I just heard a female scream, did something happen?"

"Bugs...hiccups...worm disease!" Ge Ye sobbed and Ji Nuan was confused.

Song Yu sighed, "It was Lei'er's sister. Bailan had an outbreak of infestation. Just now when she was pickling meat in the open space, she suddenly screamed and rolled on the ground. Then, insects came out of her mouth, nose and ears. Xiao Ye was also scared!"

Ge Ye raised his head from Ji Nuan's arms: "Wuwuwu~A Nuan, I don't want to wait until the insect disease breaks out, it's too scary, wuwuwu~"

Outbreak? It sounds like there is still a latent period!

Holding Ge Ye's hand, Ji Nuan asked anxiously, "Do you also have a bug disease?"

Ge Ye nodded: "All the females in the tribe have infestations, even many beastmen have them. There are so few females in the tribe now, and they all died because of the outbreak of infestations. Wuwuwu~ An Nuan, I'm so scared!"

Ji Nuan was stunned. Does this mean that she also has this disease?

He handed Ge Ye to Song Yu and said, "Song Yu, you can take Xiao Ye back first. I'll go to the open space to take a look."

Song Yu nodded, picked up Go Ye, who was crying and hiccuping, and ran towards his own cave.

The closer we got to the open space, the clearer the screams became.

The two tall beastmen were spinning in circles anxiously, pulling their hair with tears streaming down their faces. Facing the terrible insect disease, they were helpless. The beastmen before them were also like this, watching their partners die in pain.

"Grandma witch doctor, what happened?" Ji Nuan walked to the witch doctor and Chief Ge Xing. The tribesmen around them looked at the tumbling figure on the open ground with red eyes. The atmosphere was depressing and sad.

Another female was about to die. The witch doctor felt heavy in his heart and shook his head weakly.

Carefully passing through the herd of beasts, Ji Nuan finally saw the female figure writhing in pain on the ground. Surrounding her were long white worms entangled and wriggling, and some were trying to poke their heads out of her nose and ears. Bai Lan's expression was extremely frightening because of the pain.

Ji Nuan's eyes froze. This is...

Ascaris?

How can there be so many? And these roundworms are really powerful!

Suddenly, as if she thought of something, she turned and ran towards the stream at the edge of the tribe.

She remembered that there were several large pumpkins that were ripe by the river, but she did not pick them because she wanted to wait to collect some seeds and plant them in the tribe next year.

I forgot where I read this before, but drinking dried pumpkin seeds ground into powder seems to be able to cure ascariasis.

The big pumpkin by the river had been eaten half by some animal. It was exposed to the sun and the water inside had been sucked out.

Ji Nuan picked up the pumpkin and returned to the open space of the tribe. She picked up a stone bowl and a wooden stick, poured the dried pumpkin seeds and the pulp into the stone bowl, and quickly mashed it into a slightly rough powder.

He poured all the powder into the wooden barrel next to him, picked up the barrel and squeezed into the crowd.

"Ji Nuan, come out quickly, be careful of these bugs getting into your body!"

"Come out quickly, don't go in!"

When the tribesmen saw Ji Nuan like this, they quickly grabbed her. What could a little female cub like her do if she went in to deal with such a scary insect? Even the witch doctor couldn't do anything about it, right?

Being held back by the tribesmen, Ji Nuan, a little girl, had no way of struggling. She handed the wooden barrel in her hand to one of Bai Lan's companions and said, "Hurry up and give her this water to drink. I put medicine powder in it."

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