“Yes, there is, but your illness is difficult to cure…” Miao Nanyan frowned, spread her hands, and looked somewhat embarrassed.

This poison either draws out the poisonous insects or kills them inside the abdomen.

However, she had just tested it and found that it wouldn't work without the fragrance of the cang tree. The leaves of the cang tree in Nanyang might not have grown yet, so the medicinal effect was very poor. She lit the cang tree leaves, but the Third Prince's body did not react at all.

"Whatever the method, please give it a try, Consort Nan!" Ah Xiang looked at Miao Nanyan eagerly.

"There is a way, but the Third Prince may not be willing."

Miao Nanyan glanced at the Third Prince Yun Yishu, only to find that his attention was entirely focused on the plate of pastries, completely unaware that the person they were discussing was himself.

"When this poison is first administered, it will make people irritable, impatient, and often hungry, so they will eat a lot."

“Slowly, the person afflicted by the Gu will begin to lose their mind. When the person who cast the Gu casts the last Gu, the afflicted person will be at the mercy of the person who cast the Gu every full moon night, becoming a puppet.” Miao Nanyan took a sip of tea, looking at Yun Yishu with pity in her eyes.

"Gradually, the person afflicted by the Gu will eat more and more, and when their body can no longer bear it, they will die suddenly." Miao Nanyan sighed. Since ancient times, there has been constant infighting in the palace. Now, even a few-year-old child has to become a pawn in someone else's hands, a weapon to kill.

[The puppet, suddenly dead?!]

[It's that serious!]

Yun Duoduo clenched her little fists. [Who on earth wants to harm her third brother?!]

Yun Duoduo looked at Miao Nanyan, then at her third brother Yun Yishu. She seemed to have figured it out. The person who cast the Gu poison might be trying to harm her. Otherwise, her third brother wouldn't have repeatedly sleepwalked into her room late at night.

Could it have been done by the Third Prince's mother, Consort De?

Yun Duoduo shook her head. Consort De's thoughts would be clearly written on her face; she didn't have that kind of brain.

[Besides, why would she use her own son as a pawn?]

Who could it be? And last time they tried to put a sack over someone's head, but they still didn't catch the killer.

Inside the palace, layers of mist obscured her view, making it difficult for her to see clearly.

“This Golden Silkworm Gu cannot be killed by ordinary poisons; we can only find its nemesis,” Miao Nanyan continued.

"A nemesis?" Ah Xiang frowned.

"We need to find a live earthworm, swallow it, and it will enter the Third Prince's body and eat the golden silkworm inside him, thus curing his illness."

Live earthworms?!

Yun Duoduo thought about the brown, slender, still-wriggling earthworm and felt a wave of nausea.

"After the Gu worm is eaten by the earthworm, a decoction made of realgar, garlic and calamus is needed to cleanse the remaining poison from the body. In less than half a month, the Third Prince will be fully recovered."

Yun Yishu was enjoying her meal and didn't pay much attention to their talk about Gu poison and Gu worms. She assumed they were talking about someone else.

"Thank you, thank you, Consort Nan." Ah Xiang expressed her gratitude. She glanced at Yun Duoduo and, seeing that there was nothing else, said nothing more.

"Okay, then I'll head back first." Yun Jin helped Miao Nanyan walk outside.

"I'll take you there."

Ah Xiang saw Miao Nanyan off out of Fu Shuang Palace. Yun Duoduo sat on the bed, pondering how to get her third brother to eat a live earthworm.

This is a bit tricky.

The decoction made from realgar, garlic, and calamus is easy to make; just have Aunt Xiang go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to get some medicine and brew it.

However, this earthworm matter is easier to handle under the cover of darkness.

...

That night, everyone at Fu Shuang Palace went to sleep.

Yun Duoduo opened her eyes and looked around. She listened carefully for a while, and after confirming that everyone was asleep, she climbed out of bed.

She gently pushed open the door, walked into the yard, picked up a twig, squatted down on the soil, and began to dig.

The soil here is damp; you might find earthworms if you dig around.

[Ugh, what's going on here? It's so dark and windy, and they're just bending over digging for earthworms!]

This was something she had never even dreamed of.

After digging for a while, Yun Duoduo felt her legs go numb, and she hadn't even seen a trace of an earthworm.

Oh dear, it's not here either.

Yun Duoduo wiped the sweat from her forehead. She muttered to herself, not daring to make a loud noise. She prepared to change her spot and continue digging. In the instant she turned around, she suddenly saw a small figure about the same size as herself.

Wow!

Yun Duoduo was so frightened that she sat down on the ground with a thud.

What, what is going on here?!

Between her, there was a small, thin man with single eyelids, Jin Zhuangzhuang, who squatted down beside her, holding a wriggling earthworm in his hand.

He was staring at her.

[Jin Zhuangzhuang?! Why is she out of bed?]

[That expression...is she possessed by something?!]

"You, want, this?" Jin Zhuangzhuang asked Yun Duoduo incoherently. If there were an adult nearby, they would be surprised by Jin Zhuangzhuang's comprehension ability, but at the same time, they would definitely not understand what Jin Zhuangzhuang was saying.

However, as a level ten infant language cultivator, Yun Duoduo naturally understood what Jin Zhuangzhuang was saying.

I never expected to have such a helpful assistant.

"Go to sleep." Yun Duoduo said in a slightly commanding tone.

Jin Zhuangzhuang was very obedient. He put the earthworm in Yun Duoduo's hand, and slowly swayed back, half crawling and half walking.

Yun Duoduo, holding an earthworm, tiptoed to the side hall where Yun Yishu slept, pinched his nose, and threw the wriggling, live earthworm into Yun Yishu's mouth.

Seeing that he had swallowed the earthworm and started snoring and sleeping again, she left with peace of mind and returned to her own bed.

Jin Zhuangzhuang was fast asleep on the bed.

Jin Jinzhi watched the two silently from the shadows until Yun Duoduo returned to bed, at which point he closed his eyes again.

...

The next morning, just as dawn broke, Yun Duoduo woke up. She rubbed her eyes and glanced at Jin Zhuangzhuang, who was sleeping soundly beside her. The events of the previous night still felt somewhat unreal to her.

What's going on with Jin Zhuangzhuang? Although, when Empress Zhaoyuan was teaching her to speak and walk, Jin Zhuangzhuang did learn quite a bit from her.

But how did they come up with this extraordinary comprehension ability?

Why would she suddenly come to help me in the middle of the night?

She wiped the drool from her mouth, climbed out of bed, and prepared not to let these worldly distractions ruin this beautiful morning.

She rubbed her little hands together, excitedly preparing to see what treasures were inside the box used for the first birthday celebration, and to lightly tap on her possessions.

As she got out of bed, she was suddenly bumped by something under the mattress.