Chapter 992 Ice Silkworm!
Qiao Ran stopped applying the medicine and looked at him:
"Me? If the next emperor is King Ping, then of course I would rather it be you than him. After all, if someone like King Ping becomes emperor, not only will the people of Daiyue suffer, but my family and even our entire village will be retaliated by him, so I don't want him to succeed to the throne. Other princes are probably not suitable either. So far, I haven't heard of any prince who is a good one."
After a pause, she continued, "I'm very curious. The Dingbei Palace and the Dingbei Army have been persecuted like this. Don't you have any desire to resist?"
If anyone dares to attack her family, she will do everything she can to kill him!
Mo Beihan saw the cold light flash in her eyes, and thought that she was a very protective person. She definitely would not want him to be a soft bun who was bullied by others, and he was indeed not one of them.
The emotions in his eyes:
"How could it be possible that I didn't? In fact, when I first worked for the emperor, I knew that he used me as a sword to kill people and a thorn in his side. My existence threatened his throne."
"If I hadn't been young when my great-uncle passed on the throne due to illness, this position might not have been his. So he used me while wanting to kill me. But my great-uncle was still alive and my grandfather had 150,000 Dingbei troops, so he didn't dare to act rashly."
"In the past two years, his actions have become more frequent, and my grandfather and I have noticed it. I talked to my grandfather, and he told me to hide my shortcomings and conserve my energy. We have also been waiting for an opportunity."
"Grandfather is waiting for me to grow up, waiting for us to have the ability to compete with the emperor. After all, my great-uncle is only the emperor now. The man on the throne now will not be willing to give up his position to others. He is even wary of his own son, let alone us?"
"But if that day ever comes, I don't want to be the emperor."
He raised his eyes and looked at Qiao Ran again:
"If it were in the past, I might have been willing to be trapped in the palace in order to protect the Dingbei Palace and the Dingbei Army. But now..."
He smiled and said, "I think that grandpa is not too old now, and after taking the health-strengthening pills you gave him, he is even stronger and more vigorous, as if he is 20 years younger. He should be able to fight for another 20 or 30 years. When I have a child, I will give it to grandpa to teach and train him to be the next emperor."
Qiao Ran stared at him in amazement:
"Does your grandfather know that you schemed against him like this? You even didn't spare your unborn child."
Mo Beihan chuckled:
"I can't help it. Who told you not to like being restrained? I don't like it either, so I have to trouble Grandfather."
Before she could say anything, he said solemnly:
"Besides, this country was conquered by my grandfather and my great-uncle together. The throne should be taken in turns by my great-uncle and grandfather. This was also the agreement between them."
"The Dingbei Army has always belonged to my grandfather. I left Northern Frontier when I was young, so I don't have a deep relationship with the soldiers of the Dingbei Army. Those generals only love me because of my grandfather."
"If I were to succeed directly, I would not be able to directly reward them according to their merits and arrange suitable official positions. Grandfather does not have this concern. It will be good for everyone if Grandfather ascends the throne."
Qiao Ran thought about it and agreed with him:
"That's right, Grandfather is only in his sixties, but after taking my body-strengthening pills, his physical condition has become twenty years younger. Maybe he can have a second life and give you another uncle!"
"You dare to tease Grandfather? I'll tell Grandfather about you when I get home!"
Mo Beihan threatened her with amusement.
Qiao Ran stuck out her tongue and fought back:
"Then I'll also complain to Grandpa Mo that you were plotting against him behind his back!"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
To Qiao Ran, this conversation was just a joke, but it was Mo Beihan's true words.
He knew that Qiao Ran didn't like entering the palace. She was like an eagle soaring in the sky. She liked freedom and being unrestrained. She could go wherever she wanted and stay wherever she wanted.
And he didn't want to restrain her.
He wanted to spend a leisurely and free life with her. If she wanted to travel, he was willing to accompany her to travel all over the world and see the beautiful scenery.
Qiao Ran had no idea of Mo Beihan’s thoughts. After she applied medicine and bandaged him, the two of them left the space.
At this time, we were still on top of that big protruding rock, and the cold wind was blowing. Although the sun was out, the temperature was very low, and snowflakes as light as catkins were floating down.
The snow scene was beautiful, but I stayed there for too long, especially on the hillside of a steep snow-capped mountain, so my mood wasn’t very good.
Just as Qiao Ran was about to continue going down the mountain, she unconsciously looked into the cracks in the rocks and her eyes widened in surprise:
"Ice silkworm!"
Sure enough, this trip to Xuelian Mountain was a good decision. Isn’t the baby here?
First there was the extremely rare Ice Golden Lotus, and now she has discovered the even rarer Ice Silkworm, each one is more surprising than the last!
This ice silkworm is also called snow silkworm. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica and Wang Zinian's Records of Lost and Prohibited Things say:
It can be seen that it not only has the effect of detoxification, but the silk it spits out is also very useful.
I remember that in the martial arts novels I read before, there were female knights who liked to use ice silk as a weapon to kill people invisibly. Ice silk is made into soft armor, which cannot be cut by knives, stabbed by swords, or burned by fire. It can be regarded as a life-saving weapon.
How could Qiao Ran miss such a good treasure?
She pulled Mo Beihan, who had half of his body sticking out of the rock, and motioned him to wait a moment, and she walked towards the gap between the big rock and the mountain wall.
Seeing her like this, Mo Beihan knew that she must have found some great treasure again, so he climbed onto the stone again.
Qiao Ran squatted in front of the crevice and dug at the snow pile with her gloved hands, and found a nest of four snow silkworms hidden inside!
The four snow silkworms that were dug out were trying to burrow into the snow. Qiao Ran was quick-witted and quickly took out a transparent, large-bellied glass bottle from the space, put the four snow silkworms in it, and then grabbed two handfuls of snow and put them into the bottle.
Snow silkworms love cold weather and only grow in snow that never melts all year round. Therefore, Qiao Ran put the glass bottle in the refrigerator to keep the ice and snow in the bottle from melting.
She also wanted to try to breed these snow silkworms and let them produce more silkworms, which could be used as medicine or as food. The ice silk they produced was a rare and precious item that could not be bought with money.
"Please keep an eye out for me and see if you can find more of these little things. They are called ice silkworms, also known as snow silkworms or snow maggots. I will keep them for great use."
"it is good!"
Mo Beihan had just seen the characteristics of the ice silkworm, so he naturally agreed to help Qiao Ran keep an eye out.
However, until they reached the foot of the mountain, the two did not find any other ice silkworms, but they did pick a lot of snow lotus.
