Chapter 424: Chapter 424 Luring the Gu (Thanks to Liang Sheng Liang Yi Liang Xin for the extra - )
The young Emperor was shocked beyond belief.
"What does she mean by that? Could it be that the Gu Poison in her body was planted by the King of Nanjiang?"
Ji Youze nodded. "Just now, in her mutterings, she was also pleading for mercy, and she was calling out to the King of Nanjiang. I don’t know if what she said in the Imperial Study earlier was true or false!"
After Ji Youze said this, Princess Ata on the bed began to mutter again.
"Stop tormenting me, you impostor! Give me back my father! Ah... it hurts, please give me a quick end! Ah... it hurts... please... Father... spare my life... ah... spare me..."
The person on the sickbed kept rolling around, weeping and begging for mercy.
"Suisui! Can you draw out this Gu Insect or not?"
Once Ji Youze spoke, the young Emperor and Ji Youzhi’s gazes both turned towards him in unison.
Ji Youze couldn’t help but touch his nose and look upward at the ceiling.
"COUGH COUGH COUGH! Suisui, if you can’t draw it out, then don’t!" the young Emperor coughed a couple of times and said to Xiaosuisui.
"No! Suisui, you need to find a way to draw out that Gu Insect!" Ji Youze immediately interjected.
Xiaosuisui looked at her adoptive father, the Emperor, then at her eighth maternal uncle. After looking, her gaze rested on Ji Youzhi and didn’t move away!
Ji Youzhi felt Xiaosuisui’s gaze and involuntarily looked back at her. "What are you looking at me for?"
Xiaosuisui pouted and asked, "His Majesty, your adoptive father, and Eighth Uncle have both spoken. Seventh Uncle, aren’t you going to say anything?"
Ji Youzhi had a puzzled expression on his face. "What do you want me to say?"
Xiaosuisui said, "His Majesty, your adoptive father, says that if the Gu Insect can be drawn out, draw it out. If it cannot, then let it be. Does that mean it’s okay whether Princess Ata lives or dies?"
The young Emperor nodded vigorously. "Exactly, good girl, that’s exactly what Dad means!"
Ji Youzhi and Ji Youze both stared at the young Emperor. "Your Majesty! You are her adoptive father!"
The young Emperor gritted his teeth and was about to say something else when he heard Xiaosuisui ask Ji Youze, "Eighth Uncle said we must find a way to draw out the Gu Insect, which means Princess Ata cannot die! Why is that?"
Ji Youze’s already expressionless face became even more so. "You’re a little girl, not even five years old. How can you have so many questions? Quickly draw out the Gu Insect! Otherwise, His Majesty, your adoptive father, won’t let you have the tasty food he just ordered from the Imperial Kitchen!"
Hearing that there was going to be food, Xiaosuisui’s eyes opened wide and shone brightly. "Is there really yummy food?"
Ji Youze nodded vigorously. "There is, there is, just hurry up! If you don’t hurry, she’s going to meet her real father soon."
"Huh?" Both Ji Youzhi and the young Emperor looked at Ji Youze in surprise. "Why are you in such a hurry, Youze?"
Ji Youze: "..."
"Eighth Uncle, you have to keep your word!" After Xiaosuisui finished speaking, she abruptly tore off Princess Ata’s outer clothing!
"Stop!"
Seeing her action, everyone in the room’s expression changed, and they all called out to her to stop.
Xiaosuisui looked at them with a puzzled expression on her face. "What’s the matter?"
"Why... you... why are you tearing off her clothes?" Ji Youze got anxious. There were so many grown men in the room; how could this little girl just tear someone’s clothes off like that?
Xiaosuisui blinked her eyes, a look of confusion on her face. "I don’t know how to untie her clothes, so I could only tear them!"
Ji Youze was speechless. Is this a question of whether she knows how to untie clothes or not?
"What I mean is, why are you trying to undress her?" Ji Youze helplessly asked out loud.
"Only by opening her clothes can I see where the Gu Insect is. I have to make a cut on her body to catch the Insect!"
Ji Youze’s previously expressionless face seemed to crack a bit at those words. "You mean, you have to strip her naked in order to catch the Gu Insect?"