Chapter 437 She Wants to Cure the Gu Poison? They Cannot Be in the Same Room
Zhao Mingyan gently raised his right hand, and the soldiers lowered the cage.
Chi Rui frowned slightly and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, is there something amiss?"
Ji Qingwu composed herself and stepped forward, with the mother wolf following closely beside her.
She took a silver needle from her sleeve and reached it into the cage.
The wolf king, whose territory in the cage had been invaded, bared its fangs. The mother wolf guarding Ji Qingwu howled at it, and it could only close its mouth and turn to lie down obediently.
Ji Qingwu stroked the mother wolf's head, and then used the silver needle in her hand to pick up the small red dot that was pretending to be dead on the bottom bar of the cage.
Ji Qingwu frowned. She hadn't been mistaken; it was indeed this thing. She just hadn't expected it could control not only humans but also beasts.
Zhao Mingyan's gaze darkened, and he asked, "You've seen him before?"
Ji Qingwu nodded and said calmly, "Last time at the Ji family, the eunuch serving Prince Yong was controlled by this little spider and tried to lure me to the imperial prison."
Zhao Mingyan looked down at her fingertips and said with certainty, "This should be Xijin's spider gu."
Upon hearing about the Spider Gu, Chi Rui and the soldiers' expressions changed.
During the conversation, the little red spider suddenly spread its legs and moved, quickly burrowing into Ji Qingwu's sleeve along the silver needle.
"careful!"
As soon as Zhao Mingyan spoke up to remind her, he discovered that Ji Qingwu was actually prepared. She conjured a small, clear bottle in her left hand and put the silver needles and the little red spider inside.
Ji Qingwu put the frosted stopper back on, and Little Red Spider started playing dead again. She flicked the bottle with her finger, and Little Red Spider fell to the bottom.
Zhao Mingyan frowned and said, "You still want to keep it?"
Ji Qingwu said, "The person who controls the spider gu should be able to sense the location of the red spider. Once the gu poison leaves the host's body, the person behind it can control it to continue searching for the next host."
Zhao Mingyan said with a deep look in his eyes, "It was trying to burrow into your body just now. We shouldn't have kept this dangerous thing around."
It is indeed very dangerous.
Ji Qingwu looked around and saw that this young general looked intelligent. She handed the small bottle containing the red spider to Chi Rui.
"I will make several kinds of medicine powder. I would appreciate it if you could help me feed them for a few days."
Seeing that Emperor Wusu did not object, Chi Rui took the small bottle, holding it in his hand with trepidation.
"You want to cure this spider poison?" Zhao Mingyan said disapprovingly, "This poison is a secret technique of Xijin. Only members of the Xijin royal family can learn how to cast poison, and no one has been able to cure it to this day."
Ji Qingwu said, "I want to try and see if it's feasible."
Zhao Mingyan stared at her for a moment, then finally nodded and said, "Alright, whatever you say."
Although he believed that the chances of successfully curing the poison were extremely slim, he wouldn't spoil Ji Qingwu's enthusiasm since she wanted to do it.
Chi Rui was even more shocked. Not only could she make the emperor back down, but she also seemed to have the ability to cure poison. Where did this girl come from? What was her background?
Ji Qingwu thought of something and asked in confusion, "Could it be that they put spider poison on every single wild animal in order to control it?"
Zhao Mingyan pondered for a moment and said, "No, the red spiders in the desert are rare creatures, and very few can be made into Gu."
Ji Qingwu immediately understood and continued, "So, what Your Majesty means is that only the leader of the pack is cursed, just like a wolf. As long as the wolf king is cursed, the other wolves will obey the wolf king's commands."
Chi Rui and the other soldiers suddenly realized why the wolf king had pounced directly on Emperor Wu Su; the pack of wolves was merely assisting.
Zhao Mingyan nodded: "Awu is very smart, he understands things very quickly."
Ji Qingwu curved her lips into a smile, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.
"Capturing the wolf king and inserting the poison into the back of its ear is much more difficult than administering the poison to a person."
Zhao Mingyan said calmly, "That's not difficult."
Ji Qingwu pressed further, "Why isn't it difficult?"
Chi Rui and the other soldiers pricked up their ears, waiting for what was to come.
Zhao Mingyan, however, kept everyone in suspense, saying, "Let's talk in the tent."
Ji Qingwu said, "That little wolf..."
Can I stay?
Ji Qingwu looked at him with her watery eyes, her eyes filled with a thousand pleading thoughts. The mother wolf lay quietly at her feet, her green eyes also filled with reluctance and dependence.
Zhao Mingyan sighed inwardly, but spoke with a cold and solemn expression: "If it does not want to leave, it can stay outside, but it must not enter the tent, harm anyone, or steal food."
Ji Qingwu knew that this was already a concession from Emperor Wusu.
She nodded with a smile, pressing down on the mother wolf's neck to nod in her own honor.
Ji Qingwu remembered that there was one braised pork bun left, so she fed it to the dog.
The mother wolf carefully nibbled on the bun using her hand to avoid hurting her with her sharp teeth.
Seeing this, Chi Rui and the soldiers smiled. They still held a certain appreciation and awe for wolves, and had no objection to leaving one wolf in the camp as long as it didn't harm anyone.
The wolf king was released outside the camp. The mother wolf did not see him off. Instead, after the wolf king had left, she climbed to the highest point in the camp and howled to the sky.
From the other side of the mountain, the faint echo of the wolf king could be heard.
Then the mother wolf returned to the outside of the main tent, but she could not enter the tent and could only wander around outside.
Chi Rui stood guard outside the tent, watching the figure approaching from afar.
He cupped his hands and said, "General Wei."
Wei Ting looked at the gray wolf running around the main tent, gripped the scabbard of his sword at his waist with his right hand, and asked in surprise, "Is this the one we caught yesterday? Why is it outside?"
Sensing the hostility of the person in front of her, the mother wolf stopped running, crouched down, and assumed a posture ready to attack at any moment.
Chi Rui hurriedly said, "General Wei, please do not draw your sword. This wolf will not harm people; it is not the same wolf as yesterday."
Wei Ting's hand remained on the scabbard as he asked, "Then where did this wolf come from?"
Chi Rui said, "General, this was left behind by order of the Emperor. It is the mother wolf that once fed the little prince with wolf milk."
As Chi Rui spoke, he remembered seeing a woman who had accompanied Emperor Wusu somewhere before.
Isn't she the female military doctor who was pestering General Wei earlier?!
Although they only look 70% alike, their lively manner of speaking is unmistakable!
Emperor Wusu was also in the army at the time, so it's impossible that he didn't know about this kind of joke about women pursuing men.
Chi Rui was shocked. After learning this secret, he stared intently at Wei Ting, determined not to let the three of them be in the same room.
Wei Ting scrutinized the wolf; he had also heard of the strange tale of a mother wolf nursing a human infant.
But he had come on important business, and asked, "Is His Majesty inside?"
Chi Rui replied, "Exactly."
Wei Ting said, "I have something to discuss with the Emperor. Please inform him for me."
Chi Rui, his face ashen, said, "General Wei, it's best not to go in now..."
Wei Ting asked, "Are there other people in the tent?"
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