After swallowing the Gu Pills yesterday, though she failed to completely extract the Devouring God Gu from her body, it alleviated her condition considerably. She pondered that, with Gu Kings like the ones from yesterday, eating another dozen or twenty of them, even if it was going to be a slow process, might gradually exhaust the Soul Devouring Gu to death. Now it was just a matter of time.
With a slurping sound, she finished her porridge. Before she could leave the house, Shen Qiuyang, worried she hadn’t eaten enough, stuffed a few pancakes into her arms.
"Take these, eat some pancakes if you get hungry, and try to come back early."
"Okay!" She cheerfully responded, then stepped out with her little feet. Suddenly turning around, she saw Zhi Chen following her.
She blinked, "You’re leaving?"
Zhi Chen slowly adjusted his robe sleeves, "Do you really want me to leave that much?"
"Uh..." His question left her at a loss for words.
Zhi Chen smiled, "Let’s go, aren’t we going to catch insects? Having another person could help out a bit more."
So he wanted to help her?
"Sure, thank you!" She called Da Bai over with a beaming smile. She was about to climb onto Da Bai’s back, but then she looked back at Zhi Chen and changed her mind.
Dong Huiying’s limited impression of Liang Zhichen was that he was scheming, profound, and a big dark horse!
Among the six people in the Liang family, she spent the most time with Yixuan, followed by Yue Ning, then Shujun, and after that, Liang Haoming. However, she seldom interacted with Liang Zhichen and Liang Shuyu, even when she was at home. To be honest, she felt quite unfamiliar with these two. In their presence, she also found it hard to relax.
But as the entire day went by, watching Zhi Chen follow her closely, not minding the filth or fatigue, helping her catch insects in the mountains, the handsome and elegant man transformed into someone looking like a dirty ghost, which made her feel somewhat guilty.
Ever since being stung by the poison bees yesterday, Zhi Chen had become very cautious about safety, often able to predict danger in advance and warn Dong Huiying to avoid it. His extensive jungle experience and life experiences had taught him to think before acting, and his sense of the big picture was quite remarkable, always considering things comprehensively. And since he had to support a family at a young age, even the skills his brothers possessed were largely inherited from him.
This was a highly knowledgeable man, his expertise vast and varied. He could even predict where the habitats of venomous creatures were, playing a crucial role in this insect-catching venture.
At least based on the results, that day, with Zhi Chen’s help, Dong Huiying caught dozens of poison insects, which equaled her usual harvest of four or five days.
As dusk approached, on their way back, Dong Huiying opened the pottery jar, glanced at the poison insects inside, and smilingly gave Zhi Chen a thumbs up.
Zhi Chen remained silent, but seeing her smile so sweetly and her large eyes curving into little crescents, he, perhaps infected by her mood, involuntarily found his lips curving slightly as well.
But in the evening, after dinner, when Zhi Chen entered the room and lit an oil lamp for her, he saw her methodically crafting Poisonous Gu, and his heart involuntarily hung with concern again.
Crafting Poisonous Gu Pills was time-consuming. First, she needed to refine the caught poison insects into Gu, then let these Gu fight each other until the last Gu King was decided.
She was busy with this the whole night, and just as dawn was about to break, she rubbed her eyes and turned around to see him blowing out the oil lamp, the oil in the lamp holder almost completely burned out.