Mu Run: "Does Qiao Dongzi know?"
Qiao Niangzi replied casually, "He's busy. I'll talk to him when he's free."
Mu Run suddenly realized: "No wonder he didn't show it off to anyone. If he had known you were pregnant, he would have told us long ago."
"Haha, that's just the kind of person he is. He doesn't care about anything. As long as he doesn't feel embarrassed, he doesn't care whether others feel embarrassed or not. Your Highness, please forgive him. He's just a simpleton." Madam Qiao's words clearly showed her protectiveness towards Qiao Dongzi.
Mu Run smiled and said, "He's doing fine."
As Mu Run and Madam Qiao were chatting casually, a palace maid entered carrying two jade-covered bowls and placed them in front of them. "These are fresh fruit wines newly made by the imperial chef. Please enjoy them, Your Highness and Madam Qiao."
Mu Run nodded. "Mm."
"Then this servant will take her leave." The palace maid, carrying the tray, bowed and left.
Huanhuan ran in from outside, thirsty. She snuggled up to Murun, picked up Murun's fresh fruit wine, and drank it all in one gulp.
"It's so delicious, Mom, I want more!" Huanhuan looked at Qiao Niangzi's bowl.
Madam Qiao immediately said, "We can't let the child go hungry, so Aunt Qiao, you should drink this bowl too."
"No, no," Mu Run quickly stopped her. "If she wants to drink, we can just have a maid get her some more."
Before she could finish speaking, Huanhuan suddenly clutched her stomach and cried out, "My stomach hurts so much, Mommy, my stomach hurts so much!"
Mu Run asked anxiously, "Why does your stomach suddenly hurt?"
Ziwu was waiting outside the palace gate when he heard the noise. He rushed into the palace without paying any attention to the palace maids' attempts to stop him. "What's wrong with Huanhuan?"
Mu Run replied, "She suddenly said her stomach hurt."
Ziwu stepped forward, observed Huanhuan's expression, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "She's been poisoned."
"Poisoning! How could that be?"
What did she eat just now?
"I didn't eat much, just had a sip of fruit juice." Mu Run handed the empty bowl to Zi Wu, as well as the untouched bowl of Qiao Niangzi.
Ziwu smelled the remaining fresh fruit juice and the full bowl of Qiao Niangzi's drink.
"It's *Gnaphalium affine*."
Mu Run knew that the intestinal worm was a deadly poison with no antidote! His face turned deathly pale instantly, and everyone around him was also stunned, especially the palace maids, who all knelt on the ground.
“There’s something wrong with the palace maid who brought the fruit drink just now.” Lady Qiao got up and walked out, grabbing the palace maid without Mu Run’s permission.
Mu Run looked at Zi Wu and, seeing no sign of tension on his face, asked with a heavy heart, "Is...is there any hope?"
Ziwu replied, "Of course. She and Tuantuan have both been infected with the Poison King Gu by the King, so there's no need to worry about any poison they get; the Poison King Gu will absorb it."
"The Poison King Gu?!" Mu Run didn't know about this, and Long Qian hadn't told her either.
"Yes. This Gu was nurtured with the King's heart's blood, and Huanhuan and Tuantuan are the King's blood relatives, so they can be infected with the Gu. Others cannot be infected."
Listening to Ziwu's words, Huanhuan remembered being bitten by the Poison King Gu. She rolled up her sleeve and saw a purple insect-shaped Gu mark on her arm. "Is this what Uncle Ziwu is talking about?"
"Yes, that's it." Ziwu nodded in satisfaction. "You see, it's purple now, right?"
"Mm." Huanhuan nodded.
Ziwu said, "That's because it helped you absorb the poison from the intestinal worm. You have to treat it well from now on, okay? It will help Huanhuan too."
Huanhuan nodded emphatically, "My stomach doesn't hurt anymore."
Mu Run observed her expression and saw that she had indeed returned to normal. "Really, it doesn't hurt anymore?"
Huanhuan nodded, "It doesn't hurt anymore."
"That's settled then. Oh, and here, this is for you." Ziwu took a box out of his sleeve pocket.
The box contained a dozen or so Gu Beans.
Huanhuan grabbed the dozen or so Gu beans and scattered them on the coffee table.
The poisonous beans immediately scattered, rolling everywhere, some even falling to the ground.
"Your water curse has been dispelled as well," Zi Wu said with a smile.
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