Following her call, Xiangju and Maogui hurried over. As soon as they entered, they saw the scorpion crawling forward. Xiangju exclaimed: "That's it, the one I saw before."
Scorpion!"
Mao Gui protected Wei Jingxuan by his side and waved at the scorpion, hoping to drive it away. However, his action made the scorpion crawl faster. After a while, it was already at his feet. Mao Gui hurriedly protected Wei Jingxuan.
He stepped back and at the same time raised his foot and stepped down hard. Unexpectedly, the scorpion moved very flexibly and quickly crawled to the side to avoid Mao Gui's kick.
Just as Mao Gui was about to lift his foot and step on it again, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his instep. Looking down, he saw that the scorpion had raised its tail and stabbed his instep hard at some point.
"Damn beast!" Mao Gui screamed in pain, bent down and grabbed the scorpion, threw it to the ground hard, and then stepped on it. This time without any accident, the scorpion was trampled into a puddle of mud.
Seeing that the scorpion was trampled to death, Xiangju took a long breath and said to the frowning Mao Gui: "How are you, does it matter?"
Mao Gui endured the pain and said: "It's nothing, the sting won't kill anyone, it's just a little painful. Fortunately, there was only one and it didn't hurt the master, otherwise it would be unthinkable."
After he finished speaking, there was a groaning sound outside the door. Xiangju stared at the darkness outside the door with an ugly face, and said in a trembling voice: "Seriously... is there only one?"
As soon as she finished speaking, several dark red scorpions just like before crawled out from the darkness and crawled toward everyone with their teeth and claws. Xiangju screamed in fright. Although Wei Jingxuan did not scream, her face turned pale and her expression changed.
I was uneasy and tried my best to avoid those scorpions.
Mao Gui endured the fear in his heart and picked up a stool nearby and threw it at the scorpions. However, he only hit one, and the remaining ones walked around the stool and quickly crawled toward them.
Xiangju was so frightened that she almost cried, "Why are there so many scorpions? Where do they come from...ah!" While she was talking, a scorpion climbed onto her foot. She was afraid but did not dare to touch it.
She felt frozen and didn't know what to do. Seeing the scorpion raising its ugly scorpion tail to sting her, Xiangju felt weak all over. At this moment, a silver hairpin passed through the scorpion's body with force and stung her.
On feet.
The person holding the silver hairpin was Wei Jingxuan. She was heard shouting: "What are you still doing? If you don't want to be stung by scorpions, just find a way to get rid of them!"
Xiangju agreed repeatedly, enduring the pain in her legs and pulling out the silver hairpin from her hair like Wei Jingxuan, trembling and staring at the remaining scorpions, waiting for an opportunity to prick them.
After an extremely tense confrontation, all but one of the scorpions escaped and the rest were killed. However, a few people did not dare to relax and stared at the darkness outside the door, lest another scorpion would crawl in.
, fortunately, no more scorpions came in after this call.
Xiangju closed the door and used cloth strips to stuff the cracks in the door to ensure that no scorpions would crawl in. Then she took a long breath and said in a trembling voice: "It's really scary. What...the hell are these scorpions?"
Where did it come from? I have been in Yongshou Palace for several years and have never seen a single scorpion. Why are so many of them popping up all at once?"
Mao Gui was also frightened and turned blue, "Is there a scorpion nest somewhere?"
Hearing this, Xiangju trembled all over and looked around: "If this is true, there will be scorpions coming. What...what should I do? I won't even be able to sleep peacefully in the future."
Wei Jingxuan clasped her hands together, trying to calm down, and said in a deep voice: "When I was a child, I once saw scorpions. They often grow on rocky hillsides. I heard that some also grow in the desert. There is one in the Forbidden City.
There is no hillside and no desert, how can there be a scorpion nest? This is unreasonable."
Mao Gui echoed: "Master is absolutely right, and for so many years, I have never seen a scorpion. It's really strange that so many of them suddenly appeared. In addition, there is another thing that is very strange."
"What is it?" Facing Xiangju's question, he frowned and said, "When I was a child, I was stung by a scorpion. Those scorpions were all black, but the ones just now were dark red. I have never seen them before.
"But, I don't know, Master..." Halfway through his words, he suddenly showed a look of pain and fell to the ground. Seeing this, Xiangju quickly went over to help him and said, "What's wrong with you?"
Mao Gui covered his foot and said in pain: "The place where I was stung just now is getting more and more painful. I can't even stand."
Hearing this, Wei Jingxuan's heart moved. She ordered Xiangju to take off Mao Gui's shoes and socks. She saw that the place where she was stung had become red and swollen, and black and red blood was oozing out from the wound.
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Wei Jingxuan looked solemn and said: "This is not an ordinary scorpion. Its tail is highly poisonous. I'm afraid Mao Gui's situation is not good!" After that, she said to Xiangju: "You can help Mao Gui to rest in the house first.
, try to drain out the poisonous blood, and then bandage his wound."
Xiangju had already lost her mind and quickly helped Mao Gui down as instructed. When it was almost dawn, she hurried in and said eagerly: "Master, I will follow your instructions and let out the poisonous blood as much as possible."
, but Mao Gui’s feet are still very swollen and have a fever, do you want to ask the imperial doctor to come over and take a look?”
Wei Jingxuan glared at her angrily and said coldly: "I would like to invite a doctor, can you please come?"
When she said this, Xiangju immediately remembered their current situation. They were under house arrest in Yongshou Palace and could not leave even a step. How could they go to the imperial doctor?
Xiangju said in a panic: "Then... what should I do? Mao Gui's situation is really bad, and I'm very worried."
Wei Jingxuan couldn't think of any good ideas for a while, so she had to let Xiangju help her go to visit Mao Gui. Although Xiangju had already told Mao Gui about Mao Gui's situation early in the morning, she was still shocked when she saw it.
The foot was swollen like a steamed bun and had a black-gray color.
"I've met the master." Seeing Wei Jingxuan come in, Mao Gui struggled to stand up and salute. His face was abnormally flushed, and he was obviously having a fever.
Wei Jingxuan frowned and said, "Do we have any antidote in the palace?"
"My slave has searched everywhere and only found a bottle of heat-clearing and detoxifying ointment. I have applied it to Mao Gui. I don't know if it will be of any use."
Mao Gui gasped and said: "This is the first time I have seen such a poisonous scorpion slave. If there is a scorpion nest nearby, we must find it quickly, otherwise we will all be in danger."
"I attracted this nest of scorpions for no reason and I don't know how. It couldn't be because of those pots of flowers, right?" Xiang Ju's casual words made Wei Jingxuan think of something, and she immediately said: "Go and move those pots of flowers in."
Xiangju followed the instructions and brought the five pots of flowers in, and said doubtfully: "These are just the most common roses, chrysanthemums and hibiscus. No matter how you think about it, they won't attract scorpions."