Chapter 74 The Little Schemer's Humanoid Taste-Seeking Rat
When Ajiu rushed into Xiao Yu's inner room like a little cannonball, Chu Xuanyi was changing Xiao Yu's dressing.
Seeing her rushing in, Chu Xuanyi's temples began to throb again.
"Ajiu! Why are you here? Who asked you to come?" Chu Xuanyi frowned and tried to show some dignity of a national teacher.
But Ajiu didn't even look at him, his big eyes staring straight at Xiao Yu lying on the couch.
Xiao Yu had just finished changing the dressing, and the stinging pain from the wound made him frown slightly. Hearing the noise, he opened his eyes and met Ah Jiu's clear, yet worried, eyes.
"Brother Xiongxiong, are you in pain?" Jiu ran to the couch and asked cautiously.
Xiao Yu looked at her without saying anything.
Ah Jiu, however, tilted his little face upwards and stared hard at the top of his head, his little nose wrinkled as if he was smelling something.
Chu Xuanyi held his forehead with his hands. It was over. This girl started it again. He was really afraid that she would say something shocking like "Your Highness, you have grass growing on your head" next.
really.
"Alas..." Ah Jiu suddenly sighed deeply, his face full of worry, "Your flowers are wilting."
Xiao Yu: “…”
Chu Xuanyi: "...Ajiu, shut up."
Ah Jiu ignored him completely. Pointing her little finger above Xiao Yu's head, she complained to Chu Xuanyi, "Look, sir! That little pink flower has faded a lot, and its petals are drooping. It looks lifeless."
She paused, her brows furrowed even tighter, and there was even a hint of disgust and discomfort on her face.
"Also, the flowers... are covered in so much grey thread! It's wrapped so tightly around them, it's so uncomfortable to look at! It's so dirty!"
Gray lines?
Chu Xuanyi's heart moved, and he subconsciously looked at Xiao Yu.
When Xiao Yu heard the words "the grey thread is wrapped so tightly", he felt a chilling pain in his poisoned arm, as if it was being entangled and tightened by countless fine threads.
He had never described this feeling to anyone.
But... you actually... saw it?
"Can you see?" Xiao Yu spoke slowly, his voice a little hoarse.
"You can see it!" Ah Jiu nodded as a matter of course. "It's gray, like a spider web, but even more disgusting than a spider web. The smell is not good either. It's a bit like the smell in that big spider hole. It's unpleasant to the touch."
As soon as these words were spoken, Chu Xuanyi and Xiao Yu looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
The evil spirit of the Wugut tribe!
These cultivators and martial arts masters can only sense the existence of this power through their pulse and internal strength, which is abstract and vague.
But when it came to Ajiu, she "saw" this evil energy so concretely and vividly - gray, spider-web-like threads!
Chu Xuanyi felt that his worldview would sooner or later be torn down and rebuilt by this little girl. He took a deep breath and asked in a calm tone, "Ajiu, can you remove those threads?"
This may be the key to detoxification!
Ah Jiu shook his head in annoyance: "It's too tightly wrapped. I can't reach it, and I can't tear it apart. It's annoying just looking at it."
As she spoke, she suddenly seemed to think of something, her eyes lit up, she clenched her fists, and said to Xiao Yu seriously: "Brother Xiongxiong, don't be afraid! When I get back, I'll make you a slingshot! I'll use the slingshot to knock off those pesky gray lines for you!"
Xiao Yu: “…”
Chu Xuanyi: “…………”
He covered Ajiu's mouth with his hand and smiled awkwardly at Xiao Yu: "Your Highness, children's words are without restraint. I will take her back now and will not disturb your rest."
After saying that, he ignored Jiu's "woooo" protests and half dragged and half carried the little ancestor out.
Silence returned to the inner room.
Xiao Yu lay quietly, but Ajiu's words kept echoing in his mind.
"Gray lines..."
Ajiu was taken back to the Imperial Master's Mansion by Chu Xuanyi and ordered to stay in his own yard and not run around.
She agreed verbally, but in her heart she was still thinking about the "gray lines" and the "wilted flower" above Xiao Yu's head.
After walking around the yard twice, she felt extremely bored. She saw the guards watering the flower beds and went over to them.
"This water smells bad." She said, pinching her nose.
The guard looked bewildered: "Miss, this is well water, it's sweet."
"No, I mean the soil." Jiu squatted down, grabbed a handful of moist soil, put it under his nose and sniffed it, then said with certainty, "Well, it's nice-smelling soil, fragrant. The flowers and grass will definitely like it."
The guards were no longer surprised by her strange behavior and just smiled and shook their heads.
Jiu threw away the dirt in her hands, clapped her hands, and decided to go play in the bigger garden. The garden of the Regent's Palace was much bigger than her small yard, and more fun.
So, while the guards were not paying attention, she slipped out of the corner door of the yard like a clever kitten and headed straight for the Regent's Palace.
The guards at the Prince Regent's Palace naturally recognized her. This little ancestor was a headache for both the Prince and the Imperial Master, so no one dared to stop her. After informing her, and with the Prince's tacit approval, they let her go.
Ajiu was having fun in the back garden of the palace, which was comparable to the imperial garden. He was chasing butterflies, talking to the koi in the pond, and having a lot of fun.
As she was running, she suddenly stopped and sniffed the air hard with her small nose.
Um?
This taste...
So familiar.
It's a little different.
It was like the smell in that big spider cave, but much weaker, and mixed with the smell of wood and earth.
"It doesn't smell good!" Jiu frowned and said to himself.
Like a exploring hound, she followed the smell that made her uncomfortable, sniffing around the garden.
The servants of the palace watched from afar, thinking that the little girl was playing some new game again, and no one paid any attention.
Ajiu sniffed all the way and finally stopped in front of a huge rockery.
"That's it!" she said confidently. "The smell is coming from the cracks in the rocks!"
She circled the rockery and finally stopped in front of a very hidden crevice. The crevice was blocked by a clump of lush maidenhair ferns and could not be found without careful observation.
Jiu stretched out his little hand, pushed aside the fern leaves, leaned his whole little face forward, and sucked hard.
“That’s the taste!”
She reached her hand into the crevice and groped for a while, and soon her fingertips touched a cold, hard object.
She pulled the thing out with force.
In the sunlight, Jiu spread out his little hands.
Lying in the palm of her hand was a small piece of wood that was only half the size of her palm.
The wood's material was indistinguishable; it was dark in color and cold to the touch. On its front, a twisted, withered vine had been carved with extremely crude knifework. A painfully agonized human face seemed to be growing on the vine, a truly eerie sight.
On the back of the wood, there were some simple runes carved that she couldn't understand, like small insects crawling.
Ajiu tilted his head and looked at the small piece of wood that emitted a "bad smell", his big eyes full of confusion.
"What is this?"
She held up the small piece of wood, shook it in the sunlight, then put it under her nose and sniffed it, frowning her little face in disgust.
But the next second, a flash of lightning seemed to flash through her little head!
This is the "stinky hometown"! She found it!
Jiu jumped up from the ground, his short legs seemed to be equipped with hot wheels, and he ran towards the study in one breath.
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