Chapter 109: The Mother in the Tower Cleans the Snow Maggots from Lord Li's Body
Qin Yuqing and his group arrived at the prefectural government's gate. Lord Li got out of the car and opened the door, then led everyone to a tall tower.
The towering building reaches the sky. Except for a small and cramped window at the highest point, the rest is made up of impenetrable black walls. The only entrance and exit is a wooden door.
The guards at the door saw Lord Li coming and bowed respectfully to him, "Master."
Lord Li nodded, looking upwards with concern, his voice filled with uncontrollable heartache: "Madam, how are you doing lately?"
The guard sighed and said, "Madam, you are still sitting in front of the window embroidering today."
Lord Li's face was filled with sorrow, his eyes filled with remorse and guilt. "It's all my fault, it's all my fault. Ah Wen made this choice."
Hearing this, the guard shook his head: "If it weren't for the master and the mistress, Yongzhou City wouldn't be as peaceful as it is today."
Lord Li shook his head, but did not argue. He turned around with a slightly vicissitudes of life, looked at Qin Yuqing, and said with a forced smile.
"Sixth Princess, all your curiosity will be answered in the tower. Before that, could you please agree to my request?"
Qin Yuqing nodded slightly and looked seriously at the haggard-looking man standing at the foot of the tower. "Please speak."
Lord Li looked at Lu Jingchuan with some fear, then bowed respectfully to Qin Yuqing, his trembling voice filled with a desire for life.
"Please ask the Sixth Princess to give me medicine."
Although the content of the medicine was not specified, except for the guards, everyone present more or less knew what Lord Li's medicine meant.
Qin Yuqing looked at Lord Li with deep eyes, complex emotions surging in her eyes. How many people knew about the blood matter and how many people were coveting it were things Qin Yuqing didn't know.
"Okay." Qin Yuqing was about to pull up his sleeves and take out the dagger when he saw Lord Li shaking his head slightly at him.
"I will take the Sixth Princess and her group upstairs. You all guard the door." After giving his instructions to the servants, Lord Li extended his hand towards Qin Yuqing and said, "Sixth Princess, please, let's go upstairs and talk."
Qin Yuqing smiled, nodded lightly, and walked into the tower.
Lu Jingchuan followed Qin Yuqing closely, keeping his eyes on her from beginning to end. As for what others said or did, Lu Jingchuan didn't care. He had already explained everything he could to A Ruan, and he believed that A Ruan would make the most appropriate choice.
The moment you step into the tower, countless oil lamps light up, illuminating the narrow passage along the winding stairs.
Lord Li watched the door being completely closed. He stood beside Qin Yuqing and said, "Please, Sixth Princess, give me some medicine."
Qin Yuqing took out a porcelain bottle from her arms. Lu Jingchuan stretched out his hand and placed it on Qin Yuqing's arm. Qin Yuqing looked along her arm and met Lu Jingchuan's worried gaze.
Qin Yuqing knew that Lu Jingchuan had always harbored a grudge against Lord Li, but even if it was something that happened in the original book, it was only caused by Lord Li being controlled by the snow maggots.
Could it be that Lu Jingchuan has experienced more than one time and space?
Thinking of this possibility, Qin Yuqing recalled the voices he had heard on the snowy mountain before, those voices were full of resentment, especially after seeing him, they became even more angry.
An unexpected possibility, some bold ideas appeared in her mind.
Thinking of this, Qin Yuqing concealed her emotions calmly. With a smile in her bright fox eyes, she blinked at Lu Jingchuan and said with a smile, "It's okay. I believe in Lord Li."
As he spoke, Qin Yuqing opened the porcelain bottle, poured out a red and white pill and handed it to Lord Li.
Lord Li trembled as he reverently took the pill with both hands and poured it into his mouth, savoring the aroma of snow lotus mixed with the stench of blood. Suddenly, a line of tears appeared on Lord Li's wrinkled face.
The next moment, his body shook violently, he made a sound of pain, and fell to the ground.
Li Muyan rushed forward, hugged Lord Li, and hurriedly reached out his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of Lord Li's lips.
Lu Jingchuan stepped forward, grabbed Li Muyan's hand, and before Li Muyan could scold him, he said, "Take a closer look, what on earth is this!"
The emotionless words at this moment were like a basin of ice water, calming Li Muyan down. He then realized that the blood at the corner of his mouth was not liquid, but a combination of bright red "worms".
The moment these "bugs" touched the ground, they all turned into "blood water" and then disappeared from the ground without a trace.
"Are these snow maggots?" Li Muyan had a general understanding of what they were after Yao Yu's explanation on the way here, but when he really saw these things, Li Muyan felt his scalp tingling.
The thought that these things had been lurking in their house for decades, maybe even longer, made his scalp tingle and a chill run up his spine.
Perhaps because he had calmed down, Li Muyan discovered that as the snow maggots were spit out, Lord Li's complexion became worse and worse, and even the white hair on his temples and the wrinkles on his face increased a lot.
Lord Li suddenly looked dozens of years older.
"Although these snow maggots will suck people's essence/energy, people will not age so quickly with these things." Qin Yuqing walked forward and saw that Lord Li no longer spit out snow maggots, so he took out another porcelain bottle.
"The person behind the scenes clearly controlled the snow maggots, allowing them to simply parasitize the body without immediately consuming all the food."
As Lord Li swallowed the white pill in the porcelain bottle, his complexion slowly recovered, the white hair on his temples and the wrinkles on his face gradually decreased, and he finally returned to the way he looked when they first met.
"Now all the snow maggots in Lord Li's body have been discharged." Qin Yuqing looked at Lord Li, whose breathing was steady, and estimated that Lord Li would wake up soon. Since he had already arrived here, there was no rush to go up, so he sat down and rested.
"This is for you." Qin Yuqing handed the small porcelain bottle to Li Muyan. This was given to her by Lu Jingchuan on the road. Lu Jingchuan used his own blood as water and completely merged it with the snow lotus to make the pill.
Li Muyan reached out his hand blankly and took the small porcelain bottle handed over by Qin Yuqing. His eyes were full of disbelief: "Is this it for me?"
"What else? Give it to a ghost?" Qin Yuqing's fox eyes turned, and he said with a wicked smile, "If you don't accept it, I will take it away." As he said that, Qin Yuqing pretended to take it away.
Li Muyan subconsciously retracted his hand, but after realizing his behavior, his cheeks flushed red, and he embarrassedly extended his hand forward again, his speech stuttering a little.
"This is too expensive. I can't accept it."
Qin Yuqing chuckled, patted Lu Jingchuan on the back, and signaled with her eyes.
Lu Jingchuan understood and walked forward to take the porcelain bottle from Li Muyan's hand.
Li Muyan stared blankly at the porcelain bottle that was taken away, opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.
"Open your mouth." Lu Jingchuan suddenly approached Li Muyan and said in a cold voice.
"Ah?" Li Muyan opened his mouth in confusion, and the next moment, a small pill that melted in his mouth, was cold, and had a medicinal aroma was stuffed into his mouth.
"Just in case." Lu Jingchuan covered the small porcelain bottle and threw it back to Li Muyan. Then he walked to Qin Yuqing and sat down, serving as a human backrest for Qin Yuqing.
Qin Yuqing leaned lazily in Lu Jingchuan's arms. She observed Li Muyan's expression and made sure that he did not feel any discomfort after eating, nor did he vomit snow maggots like Lord Li and the other person before.
Qin Yuqing finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Li Muyan was no longer dead.
"The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light. There is no other way but to let you eat another one to make sure there are no snow maggots in your body." Perhaps because he was relaxed, Qin Yuqing explained with a smile.
"We've already eaten. You'll probably be traveling with us later, so I'm not only responsible for you, but also for the people who follow me."
Li Muyan had already realized what Qin Yuqing meant. This time, he looked at Qin Yuqing and his group, his eyes no longer filled with suspicion and fear, and he spoke with gratitude.
"Thank you, Sixth Princess, for saving the Li family's life."
Qin Yuqing waved her hand, her eyes fell on the dark stairs. Lord Li's condition was very serious, with tens of thousands of snow maggots pouring out of his mouth.
I can't believe how a person can stay awake and survive with tens of thousands of snow maggots like foreign objects in his body.
Qin Yuqing didn't even dare to imagine how many snow maggots were in the body of Madam Li who locked herself in the high tower, and what unspeakable pain she was enduring.
Just as Qin Yuqing guessed, not long after, Lord Li slowly opened his eyes.
Seeing Li Muyan's anxious face, and then seeing the Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing and the people who came with her sitting around her, they sat around her.
Lord Li moved his arms and felt that his body was lighter than before. There was no strange feeling when he moved. He immediately realized that the strange thing in his body had been cleared.
Tears fell, and Lord Li, supported by Li Muyan, knelt down in front of Qin Yuqing and kowtowed heavily.
Qin Yuqing raised an eyebrow, stood up, walked to Lord Li, knelt down, extended his hand to help Lord Li up, and said, "This matter was caused by me, and I should end it."
"Lord Li, you are also implicated by me, so there is no need for such a grand ceremony."
Lord Li stood up with trembling hands and slapped Li Muyan in the face.
Li Muyan touched the back of his head and looked at Lord Li in confusion. The pain filled his eyes with physical tears: "Dad! What are you doing!"
"Does it hurt?" Lord Li did not answer, but continued to ask.
Li Muyan touched his head aggrievedly: "How can this not hurt! I can even hear the noise!"
Lord Li breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that I'm not in a dream. It hurts."
Li Muyan: So love will disappear, right?
"Lord Li, it's time to take us to see your wife." Qin Yuqing said. When she was feeding Lord Li medicine, she seemed to hear a slight sound coming from above the stairs.
When Lord Li woke up, the faint sound was heard again, but this time the sound was getting softer and softer, as if someone was slowly leaving here.
Lord Li nodded quickly and said, "Please follow me." Lord Li shook off Li Muyan's hand and walked upstairs with big strides.
Qin Yuqing followed. If she heard correctly, Madam Li should be waiting for us at this moment.
Lord Li pushed the door open, sighed silently, and then stepped aside.
Even though Qin Yuqing was mentally prepared, he still took a breath when he saw Mrs. Li's appearance.
She had never seen someone so broken and yet whole.
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