Chapter 281 Laying Eggs
She rushed forward, grabbed Mu Qing's hand, looked around, and asked in panic, "Husband! Were you also injured when we were besieged by archers earlier?"
Mu Qing was startled, and thought carefully: "I have not been injured."
"How do you feel now? This parasite has an incubation period. Could you have been infected?" Hu Xin'er's voice was already filled with tears.
Yin Li also became nervous. He picked up an inkstone, opened the cloth bag and put the insect inside.
Seeing that he actually touched her directly with his hand, Hu Xin'er quickly reminded him, "Are you also infected?"
Yin Li was about to laugh at her, but after seeing the genuine worry in her eyes, she swallowed the sarcasm that was about to come out of her mouth.
He snorted and laughed, "Girl, you still worry about me? You have a conscience."
Hu Xin'er was speechless: "What time is it? You still have the mood to chat with me!"
Yin Li's eyes softened for a moment. "Don't worry, silly girl. If this insect is revived, it will smell the blood and disappear into the host's body, leaving only the shell outside. So if your husband is really parasitic, it won't matter if I touch this shell."
Hu Xin'er was terrified when she heard this: "Then take a quick look and see if this insect is alive or not. Otherwise, you should wear gloves or something."
Yin Li ignored her and stared intently at the poisonous insect in the inkstone. He took out a needle and stabbed it in.
His ears moved, catching a faint whimper from the shell. He looked at the insect warily, and only after finding that it did not move abnormally did he breathe a sigh of relief and wrap it back in the cloth.
"You're lucky, kid." Yin Li regained his cocky demeanor and gave Mu Qing a rather provocative grin. "This insect hasn't revived."
"I remember now, this should be the blood of Chu Taibao!" Mu Qing suddenly had an idea. There seemed to be blood on Chu Taibao's hands. Maybe he was injured when he was trying to escape from the people sent by the prince to track him.
"But that's blood, too. How could it not have triggered the poison?" Hu Xin'er asked, still a little apprehensive. "How about Yin Li, can you help my husband take another look? What if this poison is a twin, and one has burrowed into his body while the other remains in its shell?"
"Twins? How could you come up with that!" Yin Li raised his eyebrows, looking as if saying, "How dare you not believe in the judgment of this Pavilion Master?"
Hu Xiner was worried and kept pestering him to help Mu Qing again.
Mu Qing said without hesitation: "Xin'er, I don't need him to help me."
Although Yin Li was unwilling to help Mu Qing, she immediately felt unhappy when she was disliked.
He stretched out his hand to grab Mu Qing's wrist. Mu Qing was not paying attention for a moment and his wrist was firmly grasped. He was immediately shocked and angry!
One of them was cocky, the other arrogant. Seeing this, Hu Xiner shook her head repeatedly: "Don't move!"
Yin Li touched Mu Qing's hand twice, then shook her own hand in disgust: "Nothing's wrong, it's just that I've been a little too yang-filled lately. You can tell from looking at it that you often sleep in the study, right? Hahahaha, rubbish."
Mu Qing looked at Hu Xiner silently: See, I told you not to let this guy take your pulse.
Hu Xiner's face suddenly flushed: She has been too busy recently. She ordered Mu Qing to conserve his energy, but she never thought that this would cause her husband to have too much... Yang energy.
Oh my God, this scoundrel Yin Li actually knew this secret. She really wanted to go to the street and buy a piece of tofu to kill herself.
Yin Li realized that she had caught the two of them, and in a good mood, she opened her fan and waved it very comfortably: "Hehe, actually, I also have some research on kidneys..."
Hu Xin'er and Mu Qing shouted in unison: "Shut up!"
Then, Mu Qing said calmly, "At least my Yang Qi is still normal, and you..."
Hu Xin'er held her forehead in her hand silently, her cheeks burning hot: "Stop talking, stop talking!"
Isn't Mu Qing usually a quiet person? Why is he talking so much in front of Yin Li this time?
Ah! Hu Xiner complained inwardly in despair, blaming men for their damned desire to win.
Yin Li looked at their expressions and felt as if his heart had been hit by a thousand critical points.
He suddenly remembered that he was the only single person present...
"Back to the topic," Yin Li curled her lips, "Chu Taibao's blood didn't activate the Gu worm, probably because he was already poisoned at the time."
Hu Xiner knew that her husband was not poisoned, and the heavy stone in her heart finally eased.
She asked curiously, "How do you tell if there are Gu worms in a person's body?"
Before, Feng Ge had a mark similar to a cinnabar mole on his wrist. When Old Man Dou poked it, the poisonous insect under the skin began to wriggle. In other words, the presence or absence of a cinnabar mole was a sign of being poisoned.
However, there was no red mole on Mu Qing's body. Yin Li seemed to have just touched it casually twice, but he was able to conclude that there was no poisonous insect in Mu Qing's body.
Yin Li explained, "After being infected by a Gu worm, the pulse will change, and there will be tiny bumps on the surface of the skin. The Gu worm will feed and reproduce immediately after entering the human body, so it usually builds a nest not far from the wound."
"I know about eating, but how about reproduction?" Hu Xin'er was very surprised. "How does a Gu worm reproduce?"
Yin Li explained, "This insect is hermaphroditic. Once it burrows into a human body and feeds, it will reproduce. It usually takes half a day to a day for obvious signs to appear, which is the so-called cinnabar mole."
"So the cinnabar mole doesn't appear until so late?" Hu Xin'er was a little surprised. Feng Ge didn't tell her this.
Yin Li suddenly asked, "Do you know why you have to wait so long?"
Hu Xin'er wondered, "Why?"
Yin Li suddenly smiled wickedly: "During this period of time, they will lay eggs crazily until they can no longer hold them. When you see a Gu worm, it means that there are already countless more in places you can't see."
If that were the case, Feng Ge was scratching his skin because his body was already full of insect eggs and...
Thinking of this, Hu Xiner shuddered and her stomach suddenly felt rumbling. She couldn't help but bend down and start to retch.
Yin Li was shocked: "Why is your mental endurance so poor?"
Mu Qing quickly came over and patted her back soothingly: "It's okay, Xin'er."
Hu Xin'er's mind kept replaying the scene before Feng Ge's death: the insects bursting out of his body, Feng Ge's body covered in blood holes, and the dense and fast-moving poisonous insects swarming towards him like a tide...
Yin Li looked at Hu Xin'er, whose eyes were filled with tears, and sighed: "You have been overworked recently. Go back and rest for a few days."
Mu Qingyi's face was full of worry: "Xin'er, how are you? Otherwise, go back and get some sleep first. We are here."
Hu Xin'er reluctantly said, "No, I can't finish the work. What if His Majesty blames me? I can't leave."
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