HCB Chapter 1160 The Role of Maltose
Chapter 1160 The Role of Maltose
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Jiyuan walked out of the house with a serious expression.
Sitting at the table, he noticed that the little boy's cheeks looked particularly red in the candlelight.
Jiang Jiyuan quickly reached out and gently touched the child's forehead, asking with concern, "What happened? Why is his face so red? It's a little hot, could he have a fever?"
Jiang Jiyun followed her brother's gaze and saw Xiao Qi staring blankly at a pile of cleanly gnawed beer duck bones.
She couldn't help but swallow, then replied thoughtfully, "Could it be... he's drunk? He ate a lot of beer!"
Upon hearing this, Xiaoqi realized that the strange reactions her body had experienced earlier were not due to successfully absorbing enough merit, but simply because the alcohol had made her slightly tipsy.
At this moment, although Xiaoqi could still sit up steadily, her body began to sway from side to side involuntarily.
Seeing that he was about to become restless, Jiang Wenming quickly put down his chopsticks and stepped forward to pick up Xiao Qi and take him back to his room to rest.
After dinner, Zhang An and Chen Meng followed Jiang Jiyuan to Chaotian Temple to further gather intelligence.
The rest of the group stayed home to help make the pills and were fully prepared to set off as reinforcements at any time.
Jiang Jiyun remained leisurely seated at the table, sorting through various Chinese medicinal herbs.
Just as she was about to sing a song with great enthusiasm, her uncle Jiang Wenming, who was quick-witted and agile, suddenly stuffed a piece of malt candy into her mouth, silencing her.
When Jiang Wenxun and the others saw Jiang Jiyun sit down, they all stuffed the cotton back into their ears, but after a long time they still didn't hear any sound.
Everyone was puzzled and looked up at the same time, their eyes falling on Jiang Jiyun, who was working with his head down.
Jiang Jiyun parted her lips slightly, but no sound came out; at the same time, she kept shaking her head, as if she was immersed in her own world.
Seeing his cousin Jiang Wenming bustling around beside him, Jiang Wenxun couldn't help but reach out and pull the cotton out of his ear, asking, "What exactly did you do to her?"
Jiang Wenming lowered his voice and replied, "I stuffed a piece of extremely sticky maltose into her mouth."
He secretly ate one while cooking, and it stuck to his teeth, so he couldn't speak for a long time.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wenxun glared at his cousin and complained, "If you had this thing, why didn't you take it out this afternoon?"
Jiang Wenming glanced at his cousin and retorted, "Where would we have found this back then? We only brought it back from Qujiang that evening."
Despite having his mouth stuffed with candy, this did not dampen Jiang Jiyun's enthusiasm for shaking his head.
Although she can no longer sing out loud, she can still have a great time deep down.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a deafening roar came from afar.
Lu Yi and the people grinding herbs with him reacted almost simultaneously, quickly standing up with alert eyes.
At that moment, when Jiang Jiyun tried to stand up, Jiang Wenming pressed her firmly down on the wooden stool.
She looked at Jiang Wenming with a suspicious expression, not understanding what he meant.
Jiang Wenming quickly explained, "Before your brother left, he instructed us not to get involved. He said they would handle the situation there. He told us to quickly make more antidote pills in case of emergency, so we can save people at any time."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Jiyun seemed to wake from a dream. He immediately turned around and shouted loudly to Xiao Tian and Xiao Wei, who were focused on brewing the medicine, "Brother, add a few more stoves and speed things up! Be quick!"
Immediately afterwards, she watched as Jiang Wenxun and his uncles put on thick bulletproof vests, took up guns, and carried heavy ammunition boxes on their shoulders, running out and disappearing from sight.
She did not insist on joining the battle anymore. After finishing the sorting of the medicinal materials, she focused all her attention on the process of rolling the pills.
Xiao Tian and Xiao Wei set the boiled ointment aside, and Jiang Wenming scraped it all off after it cooled down. Jiang Jiyun then used a tool to roll the ointment into pills.
At this moment, she had no heart to sing a song, nor was she in the mood to sway her head to the rhythm.
Instead, she pricked up her ears, trying her best to catch every sound from the outside world.
Although the intermittent gunfire was difficult to hear clearly, the occasional explosions were distinctly audible.
Xiao Qi is now awake, and he came out to help with the work, putting the pills he had made into the glass bottle.
Time passed second by second, and dawn finally broke, but they still did not stop working.
At this moment, the fierce battle in the distance showed no signs of ending.
Jiang Jiyun frowned and muttered to himself, "Something's strange... Why do I feel like the gunshots are getting closer and closer?"
Not only her, but Jiang Wenming and others also noticed this situation.
Qin Heng made a quick decision and instructed Qin Zhi beside him, "Xiao Zhi, take the family head and Xiao Qi to a safe place to hide. We'll handle this."
After saying that, he and the others began to move.
Jiang Wenming and Xiao Tian quickly packed up their belongings, grabbed their guns, and rushed to the door, keeping a close watch on the surroundings.
Jiang Jiyun was locked inside the house by Qin Zhi, who personally guarded the door with a weapon.
Xiao Qi was thus carried into the room by Jiang Jiyun like a chick.
Unable to get out, the two simply leaned against the window and peered outside.
After a long time, Xiao Qi still hadn't seen anything, so she couldn't help but ask Jiang Jiyun, "Sister, do you want to go out and take a look?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Jiyun turned around and glared at him helplessly.
She said irritably, "Isn't Sister Qin Zhi guarding the gate? Besides, Uncle and the others are lying in ambush at the gate and the courtyard wall. How could we possibly get out under their noses unless we have the ability to burrow underground?"
Xiao Qi pointed to the drain, her eyes gleaming, and said, "We can definitely leave through this sewer. The sewers in the city are all interconnected. When I was kidnapped to the city by those traffickers, I managed to escape by crawling through the sewers."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Jiyun stared at Xiao Qi in astonishment, as if he had witnessed something unbelievable.
She asked incredulously, "What? You actually got caught by kidnappers? Please, you're a system! Logically speaking, someone like you should possess extraordinary abilities and the power to overturn rivers and seas! How could you be caught so easily?"
Faced with Jiang Jiyun's doubts and incomprehension, Xiao Qi seemed somewhat helpless.
He could only smile wryly and explain, "Alas! I am just an ordinary human being now, without any special abilities whatsoever."
He looked at Jiang Ji pitifully and continued, "Moreover, compared to you, my situation is much more miserable. Not only do I have to fill my stomach, but what's worse, if I want to continue to maintain my human form, I have to consume a lot of merit. If it weren't for you agreeing to give me merit, I would have dissipated in at most fifty-odd days."
At this point, Xiaoqi felt a headache coming on.
It should be noted that, in a critical situation, the owner of the house traded away all of his merit points.
Because his merit points were far too limited to support the energy required for an adult body, he didn't even have time to stop his master before he was transformed into a chubby little guy in a daze.