Mo Lingxi looked at Tao Lengshuang with a cold gaze.
Tao Lengshuang awkwardly raised her hands. "Alright, alright, I said the wrong thing. I promise I won't speak carelessly again."
She had just made a joke, and this person was acting like this. It was so boring.
Mo Lingxi pinched his brow, signaling her to go entertain Aunt Shen the Second and Aunt Wang the Third. He felt he would be angered to death by this woman one day.
Tao Lengshuang scurried back to the main hall and discussed the matter of going into the mountains to pick things with Aunt Shen the Second and Aunt Wang the Third.
After seeing the two women off, she saw a young man dressed in blue brocade, with a pale complexion, looking a bit weak, and with gentle eyes, walking towards her with the help of an attendant.
Was this the patient Mo Lingxi had mentioned?
"Mo Lingxi, someone is here to see you."
She called out to the house. Her gaze fell on Xiao Feng, who was squatting in front of the chicken, duck, and pigpen. She chuckled, "Xiao Feng, if you keep staring at them, they won't lay eggs all the time."
Xiao Feng held up the rotten vegetable leaves in his hand for her to see. "Mother, I'm feeding them."
"Father said that if we feed them more, we'll have lots and lots of eggs, and then we can all eat delicious eggs." kuAiδugg
Tao Lengshuang felt a pang of sadness and heartache. She took his hand and led him to the kitchen, taking out three eggs from the basket hanging there.
"Xiao Feng, how about Mother boils you some plain eggs to eat?"
Xiao Feng swallowed hard, but obediently shook his head. "Xiao Feng doesn't want plain eggs."
"Mother, let's save the eggs to sell for money. When we have money, we can buy meat."
He wanted to eat fatty meat even more. Fatty meat was delicious.
Tao Lengshuang said that eating eggs would lead to fatty meat too. She boiled the plain eggs with a slightly sour smile, and then heard Mo Lingxi calling her.
She told Xiao Feng to stay obediently in his room, and then went to the main hall.
There, she saw the young man sitting on the heated brick bed, and Mo Lingxi sitting on a new stool. He raised an eyebrow slightly.
"Should I start taking his pulse now?" she asked Mo Lingxi.
Mo Lingxi nodded.
Tao Lengshuang asked the young man to extend his hands, sat on a stool beside him, and took his pulse, asking about his condition, ignoring his scrutinizing gaze.
The young man looked at Mo Lingxi with surprise and curiosity, then continued to examine Tao Lengshuang.
This was a young woman wearing coarse cloth, who was very, very fat. Her appearance, figure, and everything else were not good. Yet, she had married his younger uncle and had a son with him.
However, her eyes were quite beautiful.
After Tao Lengshuang's diagnosis, it was discovered that the young man was not weak, but had been poisoned by a Gu.
Mo Lingxi * young man: "Gu?"
Tao Lengshuang did not know if there were any places similar to Miao Jiang here, nor did she understand the local medical standards. She hummed, "Gu is a worm with potent poison. Do you know about it?"
The young man and his attendant indicated they were unaware of such a thing.
Mo Lingxi had heard of it. "It is said that there is a mysterious tribe known for its strange medical skills."
"This strange medical skill uses a certain type of worm to treat illnesses. I don't know if it's the same as what you're talking about."
Tao Lengshuang was not entirely sure, as she had not seen it with her own eyes.
"Gu worms can be used to treat illnesses and save lives, or to harm people. It depends on how the holder uses them."
Mo Lingxi and the young man understood.
"How can he be saved?" Mo Lingxi was most concerned about this. "Will it harm his body?"
Tao Lengshuang took out silver needles and listed the medicinal herbs she needed. "I will first apply acupuncture to temporarily put the Gu worm in his body to sleep."
"Once you bring me the medicinal herbs I need, I will help him get rid of the Gu worm, and then he will recover after some recuperation."
She paused and then added, "However, I must remind you two that since the other party can secretly place the Gu, it is possible for him to be poisoned again in the future."
The young man's expression darkened, but he showed no panic.
Mo Lingxi's eyes showed ferocity. "Are there any preventive measures?"
Tao Lengshuang said no. She lacked modern detection equipment, and it was impossible for her to constantly follow the young man, so how could she prevent it?
"Gu worms that have not yet entered the human body are very small egg larvae. They only hatch after entering the human body, feeding on the person's flesh and blood, and are controlled by the mother Gu."
"Mother Gu?" Mo Lingxi and the young man exchanged a glance. Where did this mother Gu come from?
Seeing this, Tao Lengshuang had no choice but to explain the related matters of Gu poison in detail.
Gu worms are actually bred by confining countless insects in a sealed place and feeding them with special methods. The worm that survives is then cultivated through a series of processes, eventually becoming a Gu worm.
All Gu worms are controlled by the mother Gu.
The mother Gu is equivalent to an emperor; the son Gu must obey the mother Gu's commands unconditionally, and the mother Gu is controlled by its owner.
The owner uses special means, perhaps a flute or something else, to control the mother Gu.
However, there are also cases where the mother Gu backfires.
Mo Lingxi and the young man understood after listening.
"Is there a way to deal with the mother Gu?" Mo Lingxi narrowed his sharp eyes, his mind racing.
"There is a way... it's not impossible," Tao Lengshuang glanced at the young man.
A question mark slowly appeared on the young man's head. He looked at her warily. "Does it have anything to do with me?"
Tao Lengshuang smiled slightly. "Actually, dealing with the mother Gu is not difficult, and it might even be possible to deal with the person controlling the mother Gu."
"The premise is that you can withstand the pain, the pain of the son Gu tearing at your internal organs."
Just hearing it made the young man's hair stand on end, and he moved further away. "You, you're not joking, are you?"
Tao Lengshuang spread her hands, indicating she was not joking, and explained that to deal with the mother Gu, or the person controlling it, one could only start with the son Gu.
However, if one acted against the son Gu, it would resist fiercely, releasing its poison or tearing at the internal organs.
Few people could endure such pain.
The young man's cold sweat broke out instantly. He trembled and looked at his uncle. "Uncle, this...?"
Uncle?
Tao Lengshuang curled her lips meaningfully. This was very interesting.
Mo Lingxi pondered for a moment, then looked at her with a frown. "How confident are you? Can you both resolve the mother Gu and protect him?"
Tao Lengshuang made an 'eight' gesture with her fingers. "The premise is that you prepare what I need."
"Oh, and even if the controller cannot be killed, simply resolving the mother Gu can injure him. Generally speaking, the mother Gu and the controller have a strong connection.
For example, feeding it with one's own heart's blood, or raising it within one's own body, and so on."
She felt a bit regretful that she hadn't studied Miao Jiang's Gu worms properly in her previous life, otherwise she could have resolved this matter more easily.
Upon hearing this, Mo Lingxi asked another question. "If the mother Gu is resolved, will he still be poisoned by Gu?"