"My Xia family has been in the medicine business for generations and has never deliberately made enemies with anyone." Xia Qingshan said thoughtfully, "However, there are some competitors; we may also have offended some forces unintentionally."
"The Red Flame Clam is a highly poisonous beast. It is extremely fast and its hunting ability is much stronger than ordinary toads or other poisons." Chu Xiu said softly, "It has stayed here for more than two months. If it is not man-made, there must be something else. s reason."
"What do you think it is?" Xia Qingshan asked calmly.
Chu Xiu raised his eyes and looked around, and finally his eyes fell in the direction of a mountain stream not far away, "I don't know much about the Red Flame Clam. However, before coming to Lingshan County, I specifically checked some habits of the toad.
In spring and summer, it is the spawning period of toads. "
"Spawning period?" Xia Qingshan was slightly startled.
Chu Xiu explained: "You can compare it to...a chicken laying eggs."
Xia Qingshan's face turned dark and he said angrily: "I know what laying eggs is."
Chu Xiu laughed and arrived at the creek.
"Do you suspect that the red clam has been staying in this medicinal forest to lay eggs?" At this time, Xia Chuxue's voice sounded.
Jiang Rou and Xia Chuxue walked over together.
"It's just a guess." Chu Xiu said, he was not sure.
Mainly, the various ancient books he came into contact with contained too few records about the Red Flame Clam.
"If it's laying eggs...does that mean there's still a male red clam?" Xia Chuxue said while thinking, her pretty face couldn't help but blush.
She was a woman after all, and she was too shy to talk about laying eggs with a man.
Chu Xiu's eyes moved slightly and he shook his head, "It's unlikely."
"The male red clam ran away?" Xia Chuxue frowned, and the image of a male red clam abandoning his wife and son appeared in his mind.
"The Crimson Flame Clam is a strange beast. It's very rare to see just one." Chu Xiu muttered, "It's really unlikely that there are two. If there were two, they would probably have appeared last night. The strange fragrance of the Duanmu girl It’s not ordinary.”
"What I mean is that there is still a male red clam, but it did not appear in this medicinal forest." Xia Chuxue felt that Chu Xiu did not understand what she just said.
Chu Xiu looked back at Xia Chuxue, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why do you think there is another male red clam?"
Xia Chuxue frowned and said angrily: "You just said that the Red Flame Clam stayed in this medicinal forest to lay eggs."
"Who said that male clams must be required to lay eggs?" Chu Xiu said leisurely, with a bit of a teasing smile in his eyes.
Xia Chuxue was stunned, her pretty face turned red, and she glared at Chu Xiu fiercely.
Xia Qingshan and Jiang Rou looked at each other.
"This kid..." Xia Qingshan felt a little unhappy. He felt that Chu Xiu was teasing his daughter in front of him.
"Haven't you heard of Yunying eggs?" Chu Xiu said with a smile.
"Yunying eggs?" Xia Chuxue was stunned, then frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
"It means... eggs laid by hens when there are no roosters." Chu Xiu said leisurely.
Black lines appeared on Xia Chuxue's face and she glared at Chu Xiu, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
Can a hen lay eggs without a rooster?
"Ahem, Chuxue, what Xiao Xiu said is right." Jiang Rou coughed lightly, with a slight blush on her cheeks.
As the head wife of the Xia family, Jiang Rou still has some common sense in life.
"Yes?"
Xia Chuxue was stunned.
Can hens lay eggs without roosters?
In Xia Chuxue's opinion, this kind of thing was extremely absurd and completely nonsense.
If Chu Xiu was the only one to say it, she would think that Chu Xiu thought she was a fool and was deliberately teasing her.
But her mother also said the same thing, which made Xia Chuxue couldn't help but have some self-doubt.
Can hens really lay eggs without roosters?
"Uncle." Chu Xiu glanced at Xia Qingshan, "Send someone to search the streams, mud caves, wet rocks, grass and other places in the medicinal forest to see if there is anything special."
"Okay." Xia Qingshan nodded, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking for?"
"The eggs excreted by Zhu Clam." Chu Xiu muttered, "They may be in the shape of threads or lumps."
Xia Qingshan paused and didn't quite understand.
However, after Chu Xiu lured out the red flame and red clam last night, his contempt for Chu Xiu has been greatly reduced.
Xia Qingshan left.
Chu Xiu walked slowly along the stream, scanning everything in the stream.
Jiang Rou followed Chu Xiu and said softly: "Xiao Xiu, tell your story to my aunt again."
Hearing this, Xia Chuxue followed Jiang Rou calmly.
"My story..." Chu Xiu said while scanning the stream, "Actually, there is nothing to tell. Before I was twelve years old, I didn't know the existence of martial arts. At that time, I thought that if I wanted to change my life, I could only live in poverty. Study hard.
Until I was twelve years old, I met a Taoist priest in green robes..."
Except for the time traveler and Tianhuang Iceworm, there is nothing to hide.
Jiang Rou and Xia Chuxue, mother and daughter, listened with rapt attention.
"The serious illness you mentioned before was cold poison, right?" Xia Chuxue suddenly asked.
Chu Xiu hummed softly.
"You also said that your uncle was always taking care of you during your illness?" Xia Chuxue raised her eyebrows slightly.
Chu Xiu's eyes flashed and he hummed again.
Xia Chuxue snorted softly: "You are very dishonest. You have been seriously ill for five years. It was obviously your uncle who took care of you for five years, but in your mouth, it was you who took care of your uncle for five years."
She remembered that Chu Xiu had said at the dinner table that he was the one taking care of his uncle except when he was sick, but he did not say that this serious illness lasted five years.
"You are thinking too much." Chu Xiu immediately denied it and said, "You should know how lazy your uncle is."
Xia Chuxue hesitated for a moment.
The alcoholic uncle is indeed very lazy. Every time he comes to Xia Mansion, he seems to have done nothing else except drinking.
Jiang Rou joked: "My brother is indeed a bit lazy. I'm afraid the apprentices he trained are already better than others in terms of laziness."
"Auntie, you have a big misunderstanding of me." Chu Xiu looked helpless. Compared with his master, Jiu Taoist, his attainments in laziness were still far behind.
Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about eating. The wine Taoist can endure half a month without eating in order not to cook. But if he doesn't eat for three days, he will be so hungry that he is completely incomparable.
"Really?" Jiang Rou was noncommittal.
It didn't take long.
Xia Qingshan led a team of guards to the stream and started searching along the bank.
"There is a golden line on the water plants at the bottom of the river." When they came to a place with dense water plants by the stream, Xia Chuxue, who had been following Jiang Rou, pointed to the stream and said.
Chu Xiu stopped and looked back at Xia Chuxue. Looking in the direction Xia Chuxue pointed, there were dense dark green asparagus grass growing in the stream, with long and narrow leaves like strips.
After staring carefully for a while, he didn't find the 'golden thread' in Xia Chuxue's mouth, so he couldn't help but look at Xia Chuxue again.
Jiang Rou also looked at her daughter Xia Chuxue.
