Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 159
Inhale 7 (with illustration)
After finishing the story and waiting for a while, Bin-i, Cho, and Yo-hwa came back after washing the bodily fluids off the bedbugs at the water’s edge.
And maybe because of the water, they each started to groom themselves.
-Square, square.
-Churp churp.
Usually, a raccoon’s grooming begins with its antennae.
As expected, Cho and Bin grabbed the tentacles with their upper jaws, brought them to their mouths, and began to lick them thoroughly.
The appearance of the fairy putting its front leg into its mouth.
Since they are spirits, they washed their bodies at the water’s edge, but the normal way that martens and spiders wash their bodies is by licking them with their mouths like that.
You could say it’s similar to a cat.
However, since they do not shed hair, they can be said to be cleaner animals than cats.
‘Oh my, you guys should be neat.’
People often mistake raccoons and spiders for dirty animals, which is a really bad misconception.
Because both foxes and spiders are incredibly clean animals.
Since they live in damp places, civets are susceptible to mold, so they always keep their bodies clean, and spiders also groom themselves frequently to prevent their bodies from becoming sticky due to their webs.
In particular, it is standard for both civets and spiders to thoroughly lick their antennae and fangs after finishing a meal.
My kids don’t eat, so I don’t get to see this kind of thing very often, so I just stared at them blankly.
This is a very precious scene, with a large raccoon and spider licking every nook and cranny of the body in a cute and adorable way.
‘Oh my, so precious. So sweet.’
I think I understand why parents record videos of themselves raising their children.
I really lamented the fact that I didn’t have a cell phone or a camera, and I pictured the guys getting ready in my head.
This was a scene that had to be engraved in the mind and never to be missed.
It was while I was blankly watching the guys grooming themselves that I found myself staring blankly at them.
A question from Seol’s sister heard from the side.
“Ryong-ah, you said you were going to sell the land when Bin came back.”
“Oops!”
I had forgotten for a moment while watching the children get ready, but then I realized that we had to dig a moat around the village.
Because bedbugs usually avoid water itself, it was thought that digging a moat around the village would effectively keep them out.
They are not spirits, they are just bigger creatures, so they still have the same habits as when they were small bugs.
I quickly turned my head and looked at Bin.
I was just trying to say let’s dig the ground.
“Binah? Huh···.”
-Tsurut?
But the moment I turned my head again while calling Bin-i, what caught my eye was one of Bin-i’s antennae shining brightly in the light.
I was speechless because I was in the middle of getting dressed and had to start digging again.
It was a situation where I had to tell it to go back into the dust even though I had washed it so cleanly.
‘Is this okay? I feel a little sorry for Binnie.’
Binyi licks all of the right antenna and passes about halfway through the left antenna.
Without stopping his mouth, Bin-i asked again as if asking why he had called.
-Huh?
‘Hey, will it be okay?’
I was a little worried, but I thought it would be okay, so I asked in a cautious voice.
“Bin-ah, I feel bad asking you to do this after washing up, but… Could you do me a favor, Dad? It’s nothing special, I just need to dig the ground a little.”
Then, the tentacle that Bin-i was biting slipped out of his mouth, and Bin-i glanced down at his body as if checking it out.
Next, Bin’s body trembles.
Come to think of it, even our Bin had a very clean personality.
‘I took a bath and put on makeup, but does it feel like my dad cleaned it for me?’
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It was natural for Bin to get annoyed when he was asked to dig the ground by a child who had just taken a bath and was almost done with grooming.
But Bin said he would dig the ground, even though he was annoyed at his father’s request.
“Then, I guess we’ll just have to dig with the men and use shovels… If we dig all day, we’ll end up digging everything….”
-Tsrrrr!
I told him that I would just spend the whole day digging the ground with the guys, keeping an eye on the guy’s expression, and Bin told me that he was yelling at him, asking who said he wouldn’t dig.
That’s Bin’s charm.
-Quadduck.
A mound of dirt that rises up like a mole crossing the ground as the bee burrows into the ground and crosses the ground.
Soon the rising mound of dirt split in half, leaving a long trench-like pit.
He watched the scene from the sky with Cho, and when Bin-i jumped out from the other side, he gave a signal to Itae, who was waiting at the starting point.
“Itaewon! Now is the time!”
“Understood, Little Dragon!”
Itae, destroying the bank near the river with the watermen under my instructions.
The remaining dam collapsed and water surged in, rushing madly into the spot where Bin had passed.
-Gulp gulp gulp.
And the water, riding on its momentum, swept away the surrounding dirt and rushed to the other side.
The water that ran along the canal that Bin-i dug.
The water reached the end of the canal roughly and burst through the thin mound of dirt before pouring back into the river.
Then, slowly, the width of the water channel widened and the water flow began to stabilize.
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The village, which was once a waterway and a village built on a reed field at the foot of a mountain, has now become an island.
As I turned my head to confirm that water was flowing around the village, I saw Hwa-eun approaching from the direction where the people who had taken refuge were gathered, with a few men and a demon.
It seemed that they had confirmed that the waterway construction was complete.
Hwa-eun’s voice is heard right after.
“Little Dragon, I’m ready!”
“Let’s go down! Let’s go down, Choya.”
-Tsur!
Hwa-eun brought a few people and a demon as promised before starting the waterway construction.
As we slowly descended down the slope, Hwa-eun took the lead and walked along the defensive line that had been used to block the lice yesterday, asking:
“I think that would be okay?”
“Yes, I think that house would be good, just in case there is anything further outside.”
They had almost reached their destination, and the place Hwa-eun pointed to was an old house standing near the place where the bedbug blocking had been placed.
Hwa-eun, who had entered, closed her eyes, raised her nose, and looked around as she spoke.
“Thank goodness, I think it’s here.”
What Hwa-eun is doing now is tracking the scent, using her keen sense of smell to find where the bedbugs are hiding.
Hwa-eun, who had been closing her eyes for a moment and looking around every corner of the house, pointed to the bamboo wall inside the house and spoke.
“There it is. Between the walls, between the walls!”
As the men cautiously approached Hwa-eun’s words, bedbugs began to poke their heads out from the gaps between the bamboo walls.
During the day, they hide in dark crevices like this, and when a person approaches, they sense the temperature and stick their heads out, so they reacted when the number of enemies approached.
‘Oh, is it the same coin as the Tang family?’
If you think about it, if Hwa-eun hadn’t been left behind to check for poison on the body, the bedbug guys might have been found sooner.
I asked the fairy right away.
“Hey, catch all those guys!”
-Kissit!
At my command, I drew out the demons that had poked their heads out with spider webs, one by one, and put them all into a large bag made of demon thread.
Sample bed bug capture completed.
The reason we caught the bedbugs was to test Hwayangi’s poison.
I thought that since it was a poison that would burn the body, it would probably work well on the bedbugs.
“Let’s take these guys and go to the ship.”
“Okay, Little Dragon.”
A total of eight guys were caught.
I headed to the ship with the guys struggling inside the pouch made of fairy thread.
And as soon as they got to the ship, they took one of them out and fixed it on a wooden board with a stick, as if they were specimens of insects.
A guy who was struggling with his legs but was stuck in the beam and couldn’t move.
I immediately scooped up the water that Hwayang was swimming in and dropped it gently on the guy’s stomach.
-Crunch.
Because the respiratory organs of bedbugs are located in the abdomen, it was thought that the abdomen would be a better place to inhale the venom.
However, the bedbugs showed no reaction to the poison.
“Hmm… What is it?”
It was a poison that made me spit fire, but there was no reaction at all.
“Is this something only people hear?”
The first suspicion that arose was whether it was a poison that only affected mammals.
Because there may be nothing wrong with the poisonous insects that people can eat and die from.
Frankly, the idea that you can eat fruits that animals or insects eat when you’re shipwrecked is not true.
Is this a very reasonable suspicion, considering that some insects eat poisonous mushrooms?
But Hwa-eun had a different opinion.
“Is it because there isn’t enough sheep? After all, it’s like eating something mixed in water.”
I think it might be because the poison is weaker since it has been diluted in water.
Frankly speaking, no matter how poisonous it was, it didn’t mean much to us.
The poison that Hwayang can extract on her own is limited, so if she needs the original poison, it would be difficult to use.
“Well? Let me check it out.”
But I needed to check first, so I took out another bedbug and fixed it next to the one I had already fixed.
This time, instead of using the water Hwayangi was swimming in, he rubbed Hwayangi’s body with a wooden stick and then rubbed it on the bedbugs.
But even after waiting for a long time, there was no response from the guy.
Although it was a bit disappointing, I thought that I should return to my family and take a closer look at it with the elders of the family.
I was definitely addicted, but it felt like something wasn’t working for the bedbug.
“I don’t think it’ll be easy for the two of us to find out more here.”
“Yes, I should go back and ask my grandfather.”
It was a bit disappointing, but I decided to focus on the night for now since I would be safe until my stomach got better even without the poison.
So, the one that had been coated with the original liquid was left fixed to the board, and the one that had been hit by the water that Hwayang had swum in was put back into a bag made of fairy thread and thrown onto the deck.
And just in case there was a chance that the bedbugs might come across the water, I was trying to sleep in the cabin in preparation for the night.
At that moment, I was sleeping soundly in the cabin, holding Bin-i, who had suffered today, tightly like a corpse, as I had not been able to sleep at all yesterday.
A pungent smell tickles the tip of your nose.
-Tsrrrr!
-Kissit!
When I opened my eyes to the sound of children making a fuss, blue flames were rising from the dining table in the cabin.
-Wow.
“What, what!?”
Let’s check what’s burning in the rising blue flames, and what we see is a bedbug fixed on a wooden board, spitting out blue flames from its mouth and belly.
But strangely enough, only the bedbug is burning.
Unlike when I was vomiting blood, the fire wasn’t burning the trees or anything else around it.
“This, this is.”
Hwa-eun, who was sleeping in the next room, heard the commotion and came running. She opened her eyes wide in surprise at the sight of the burning bedbugs.
And then the voices of surprised sailors were heard from the deck.
“Oh, it’s fire!”
“Fire!”
As we head out, holding a wooden board with a blue flaming scallop on it, something else is also burning on the deck.
He quickly ran and threw the wooden board into the water, and threw out the pouch made of burning yarn with the wooden sticks the sailors were holding.
Eight lice, whose threads of magic burn out in the air and scatter over the water, spitting out flames.
The guys continued to spew fire on the water for a long time, and then sank into the water after a while.
As I watched the sinking lice, I thought to myself that it would take some time for the poison to take effect.
Hwa-eun said as she looked at the sinking bedbug with me.
“It seems like it takes more than three hours for the poison to take effect. At this rate, it’s hard to use it even if the poison gets to them.”
It’s been about three to six hours since I poisoned those guys earlier.
Perhaps, as Hwa-eun said, the poison took effect and it seemed to take some time for the symptoms to appear.
But there were some things wrong with Hwa-eun’s words.
This is not a poison that is difficult to use, but it is probably the perfect poison to use as an insecticide.
“No. It’s the perfect poison for the situation.”
“It fits perfectly?”
The bedbugs would come out in droves at night and when the sun rose, they would group up and sneak into dark places. If there was one addicted one among them, it was certain that they would burn up in a chain reaction of addiction, just like the ones in the devil’s pouch.
It is a poison exclusively for killing insects.
There isn’t much time left until the sun sets.
When I asked Hwayang to spew more venom through Bin-i, Bin-i translated just one word.
‘rice.’
Perhaps it means that more rice is needed to create more poison.
Dry reeds and bamboo were piled up in the village square, and as a large flame rose up, it all began to be sucked into Hwayang’s mouth.
And when the flames had all died down, Hwayangi, who had grown to his forelegs, was looking up at me while holding onto the rim of the water jug.
