Silly Bride

Chapter 179

to Josiah, he didn’t dare to move the latter’s body around carelessly. Instead, he gently slapped the doctor’s cheeks.As Josiah’s body had no blood, Winnie determined it wasn’t caused by an external injury.After swiftly examining his body, she realized the entirety of his left leg was swollen.Upon rolling up his pant leg, she saw two round, deep, and bloody circles on his calf. Clearly, he was bitten by a snake.Her reaction was fast. She immediately tore his pant leg away, pulled out her foldable knife, and swiftly drew a cross on the wound with the knife to squeeze out the venom.Then, she bandaged his calf to stop the venom from spreading further into his body. “Quick, carry him back to Old Mr. Xander! He must’ve been bitten by a venomous snake!”When Louis saw Josiah’s leg as well, he realized the snake that bit the doctor was definitely not an ordinary one.He hurriedly carried Josiah on his back and ran back to the building.Initially, Winnie was going to return with him. However, her attention was grabbed by a nearby plant.Without hesitation, she sprinted toward that wild flower.When she returned to the building, Sebastian had already fed Josiah an antidote. Upon seeing Winnie’s return, the old man praised, “You treated Dr. Houghton’s wound very well. There are indeed snakes in my backyard, and I was able to guess which one bit him. The antidote I gave him earlier is specially used to treat a wound from this kind of venomous snake. After a while, pinch his philtrum. He should wake up pretty soon. However, the external injury on his leg still needs to be treated with herbs from the backyard.”“You mean this one?” Just as the old man finished speaking, Winnie handed over the plastic bucket in her hand.The interior of the bucket was already covered with a shallow layer of herbs.Those herbs had oval, elongated leaves, thin stems, and faint pinkish-white petals that resembled half of a lotus flower.“If my memory serves me right, I believe this is called lobelia. When I was reading a book about the foundations of traditional medicine earlier, I saw a case mentioning this particular herb. It said that lobelia could be used to treat snake venom effectively, whether it was applied on the wound or consumed,” Winnie explained.“That’s right!” Sebastian was