Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 140 Who Eats Whom

After waiting for a few more days, Qiao Lili found an excuse to go out in front of the old Duke's wife and went to the villa with Doctor Feng.

These days, Bai Junzhe has been tortured by the real scenes in his dreams. He has been hoping to see Qiao Lili again, but no one pays attention to him, not even to interrogate him.

He heard that his mother Bai was taken out for interrogation, and it seemed that she was tortured and cried out all night.

He also knew that Lou Xinyue had been taken away for interrogation, and more than once. Every time she came back, she would cry for a long time. It seemed that she was tortured.

He couldn't figure out who had locked him up. He thought he hadn't offended anyone and he didn't have such a deep hatred with anyone. Later, he found out that the people being interrogated were Bai and Lou Xinyue, and he thought he might have been implicated.

A faint hatred for them arose in my heart.

At the same time, a glimmer of hope arose. If the third princess knew that he was imprisoned, she would definitely come to rescue him.

*

After Qiao Lili and Doctor Feng arrived at the villa, they interrogated Miesha. Miesha initially hoped for luck and tried to fool Doctor Feng with lies she had prepared. After being exposed, Qiao Lili kept her word and let Shang Zhen cut her face twice, and she told the truth.

It turned out that she had obtained more than one poisonous insect. There were message insects, obedient insects, and poisonous insects. There were two or three of each kind, ranging from seven to eight, and the obedient insects were the most numerous.

She was quite careful in raising the poisonous insects at the beginning, but after a long time, she neglected to manage them. She was not a professional poisonous insect keeper, and some of the poisonous insects died or were lost. In the end, only two were left: a message poisonous insect and an obedient poisonous insect.

It turned out that she didn't want to poison Wen Xi, but the poison was gone, so she gave her an obedient Gu instead.

I thought it would be a good idea to make her obedient, so that she would hand over the treasure if she was obedient.

Unexpectedly, an obedient Gu caused Wen Xi to lose her life, and she did not get any clues about the treasure. In the end, even the message Gu that she sent out did not come back. No one informed her whether she should go back to Panhu Barbarian, and no one informed her what to do next. She just felt at ease and became a marquis' wife in the capital.

Qiao Lili, Doctor Feng, and Shang Zhen were discussing their guesses in the study room in the villa.

Qiao Lili and Shang Zhen's ideas were really just guesses, because the poisonous insects were too unfamiliar to them, and Shang Zhen had never even heard of them before.

Doctor Feng frowned and fell into deep thought without saying a word. Slowly Qiao Lili and Shang Zhen also became quiet.

Qiao Lili turned her head to the window. Outside the window was a large bunch of bright red hibiscus flowers, which were in full bloom. Each flower was like a small trumpet. Qiao Lili looked at the flowers one by one and inadvertently found a small spider weaving a web. The spider was very small, only the size of a bean, and the web it made was only about the same size as the hibiscus flower.

After making the web, the little spider hid under a flower and waited. After a while, a hornet came in and its wings were stuck in the web. It struggled for a while, broke the web and fell to the ground. Unfortunately, the web stuck to its wings and it fell to the ground and could not fly.

At this moment, a spider silk hung down, hanging the little spider. The little spider fell on the wasp, and the wasp stopped struggling. Perhaps the little spider poisoned it.

Qiao Lili watched the little spider eating a wasp that was ten times bigger than itself. Soon, the wasp's stomach was gone. After the little spider was full, it climbed up the hibiscus branch along the spider silk and continued to weave a web to hunt.

Qiao Lili's mind moved, and she seemed to have figured something out.

"Grandpa Feng, when the poisonous insects meet, will they kill each other? Whoever loses will be eaten?" Qiao Lili asked.

"The Gu worms can eat their own kind to meet the various requirements of the Gu keeper." Feng Wuzui said, "If a Gu worm wants to survive, it has to keep eating its own kind. Otherwise, it will be eaten."

"Grandpa Feng, if the poisonous insect that Miesha mentioned is not dead or lost, is it possible that it ran into another insect jar and was eaten, for example, eaten by the obedient insect." Under normal circumstances, when the poisonous insect and the obedient insect meet, the poisonous insect will definitely eat the obedient insect.

However, since the little spider can eat the giant wasp, it is possible that the obedient Gu ate the poisonous Gu by accident, such as when the poisonous Gu was weak after not eating for many days.

"Then, after eating the poisonous Gu, is it possible that the obedient Gu will become an obedient Gu containing poison?" Qiao Lili asked Doctor Feng.

Doctor Feng's eyes lit up: "Girl, your guess may be the truth."

"Meisha is lazy about raising the Gu. The poisonous Gu may have crawled out of the jar, got injured, or was starving to death, and accidentally entered the jar of the obedient Gu. There are seven or eight obedient Gu in it. In this case, the poisonous Gu may be eaten by the obedient Gu."

"Miesha also said something. On a certain day, only one obedient Gu was left alive." Doctor Feng found another piece of evidence from Miesha's words: "Other obedient Gu ate the poisonous Gu and died. The remaining one survived, but the Gu itself underwent a change."

At this point, it's almost the truth.

But it got stuck here.

On the way back, several questions kept turning over in Qiao Lili's mind: the letter that her mother asked Concubine Yun to deliver to Wuxiang Grocery Store, the fire in Wuxiang Grocery Store, and whether her mother was dead. To get answers to these questions, she had to open the coffin.

But Qiao Lili found opening the coffin too difficult.

As for what the treasure that Miesha was talking about was, and whether it was the same one that Lou Xinyue was looking for, she didn't care at all. At the moment, nothing was more important than the mystery of her mother.

*

Back in the outer study of Duke Dingguo's Mansion, Yunwen Yunwu came to report that the first batch of goods purchased from Dunhua Ancient City had arrived and would be distributed to various stores in the capital starting tomorrow.

Qiao Lili's eyes swept over the jade carvings of dancers on the windowsill. They were brought back from the ancient city of Dunhua and had been placed there all the time. She would come here to look at them several times every day. When she saw the flame-shaped flower ornaments between their eyebrows, her heart suddenly moved.

She was very familiar with this flame shape. Her mother had it on her forehead, and so did she. It was innate, but her mother never showed it to anyone. Her mother also warned her time and again not to reveal the mark between her eyebrows.

She remembered what the owner of the jade carving shop said that day. Dunhua Ancient City was the first place where people began to wear flower ornaments between eyebrows, and the earliest pattern of flower ornaments was this flame.

Qiao Lili felt like she was about to grasp something, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she had not grasped it. Just as she was trying hard to sort out a certain connection, someone came to report something, interrupting her train of thought.

Things were dealt with one after another, and the piece of news that made Qiao Lili happiest was that the orphanage could accept orphans. Although the yard had not been completely renovated, there would not be many children in need of help at once, so it could be run and renovated at the same time.

The emperor's calligraphy was sold for 480,000 taels of silver. In the short term, the orphanage will not be short of money.

"Sister, sister," a young boy rushed in from outside the door.

"Sister, sister, big brother is coming back, did you know?"