After finally seeing Jiang Xuelan off, I breathed out a sigh of relief and said, "Time flies so fast. It only takes two hours after going to bed like this. Are you hungry?"
"I ate too much earlier, but I still don't feel hungry yet."
I nodded and said, "I forgot to feed you just now. You shouldn't be hungry."
Ah Yao said angrily: "Please don't say these frivolous words all day long! I used to fool around in the casino all day long, so I didn't find these words disgusting, but now I feel that these words give goosebumps to those who hear them."
I smiled and said: "Okay, okay, then I won't say anything from now on. One is to tell, the other is not to tell. Which one do you choose?"
Ah Yao was stunned for a moment, thinking that if I became a well-behaved person, that would be fine. Wouldn't it mean that I would change from a meat-eating monk to a vegetarian? But if she expressed her approval, I would take advantage of her verbally.
It will immediately lead to unimaginable consequences. If you are in a dilemma, you can only keep silent.
I laughed loudly, full of victory, and said to Ayao: "Just now you called me husband obediently, but I thought it was still not enough. Now call me louder to hear it."
At this time, Ayao was buttoning my buttons in front of me. Hearing this, his whole body went weak, and he leaned on me and said tremblingly: "Don't scream!"
"Your mother just said that we will get married soon, but why are you getting shy? Now let's get used to it by calling me a few times. Anyway, you will always call me from now on."
Ah Yao was so embarrassed that he shook his head and said, "No, no, no!"
I held Ayao in one hand and said with a smile, "It's okay not to scream. I'll carry you to bed right away..."
Ah Yao screamed in horror: "No!"
"It's time to go to bed!"
Ah Yao was shy and scared, so he finally called me "husband", glanced at me and said, "I only know how to bully others all day long."
I suddenly listened carefully and wondered: "Why is there the sound of moving things down there?"
Ah Yao replied: "The servants are making arrangements for tonight's feast. Now they are moving musical instruments. It seems to be very lively tonight?"
I felt hot in my heart and said, "I wonder if any of the musicians coming tonight are women, and how do they look?"
Ayao put on a pretty face and said, "If you try to seduce other girls, I will definitely be rude to you."
I said with a bitter face: "How dare you, husband, disobey your wife's discipline?"
Ah Yao rolled his eyes at me and said, "I call you my husband, and I call you my enemy. You can choose one."
"I love listening to both, and I'm not willing to throw them away?"
Just then a maid came in and said, "Miss, the master sent me to ask you and your uncle to go down."
"Okay, I understand, you can go down first." Ayao let go of his worries and stood up to walk down.
When I saw no one was around, I hugged her and kissed her enough before letting her go and saying, "Are you happy?"
Ah Yao blushed from my kiss and nodded shyly.
When I was about to go down, Ayao held me back.
I wondered: "What are you worried about this time?"
Ah Yao rolled his eyes at me and said, "You made me look like this, teach me how to meet people."
I laughed and said: "Anyway, no one will come up, so we can just chat here?"
Ah Yao's cheeks were flushed and he stamped his feet in disbelief: "If you keep teasing others, won't you never be able to get off? My father is still waiting for us!"
It made sense when I thought about it, and said: "How about we think about where we will live in the future? Let me
Ask your father for a house and a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, so that you can concentrate on giving birth to my child."
Ah Yao listened leisurely and fascinated, his beautiful eyes lit up, and he said with infinite longing: "It would be great if a boy could be seven or eight points like you. He would definitely be able to charm girls to death."
I moved over, pressed my hand against the ladder wall, leaned forward slightly without touching Ah Yao's body, and lowered my head to look lovingly at Ah Yao's upturned face.
Ayao whispered: "Husband! Kiss me!"
I said in shock: "Isn't your father still waiting for us?"
"But I couldn't help it."
I kissed her. Ah Yao made a sound, wrapped his delicate hands around my neck, and pressed his body against me, panting and twisting.
Footsteps sounded above.
The two were frightened and separated.
Liu Bin strode down and we huddled together. He laughed and said, "You are such a lustful kid. You can do this kind of thing anywhere."
Ah Yao was so ashamed that he lowered his head and said, "Dad, don't blame him, it's my fault!"
Liu Bin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "What does it matter? Love between a man and a woman is not bound by any customary etiquette. What's more... Hey... Besides, your mother has already chosen a wedding date for you, sooner or later.
I can’t take care of this family anymore.”
Ayao said shyly: "Dad, why don't you make any sound when you walk!"
"I always make no sound when I walk. It's not like you don't know. Besides, who told you not to come down all the time? The tea I've been waiting for has gone cold."
"You have the nerve to say that!" Ah Yao was embarrassed and angry. I knew she was afraid that others would see her pretty face after being moved by love.
Liu Bin put his hand on my shoulder and walked down. He didn't let me go until he reached the exit.
A large platform was built near the stairs, with two rows of eight chairs placed on it. Directly opposite the door, there were three smaller platforms on the left and right sides with chairs. There were vases with flowers on the tables beside the chairs.
The aroma is overflowing.
"All the girls here tonight are the most famous girls in the capital." Liu Bin said with a smile.
I was very interested and asked: "What happy event is there today?"
Liu Bin shook his head, "It's not a happy event. I just invite people to come to my home to sing and have fun."
I thought to myself that this Liu Bin was really a strange old man, who worked so hard just to satisfy his ears.
"You called us here because you must have something to explain." I tried.
"The Liu family of the Five Meridians Red Sect has enjoyed a reputation in the world for hundreds of years. Although I, Liu Bin, don't have a good reputation, there are some things that I, Liu Bin, still know how to measure for the sake of the Liu family's brand." Liu Bin said coldly.
I was quite surprised when I said this.
"This is natural." I said solemnly.
"Actually, I know exactly what your kid is planning. Let's not talk secretly in front of people today. Since you nodded and acknowledged this family relationship, I have no intention of hiding it. As there are comings and goings, you also
If it’s not a loss, I won’t compensate you either.”
I nodded, "Please enlighten me."
"It's hot summer now. Have you ever felt one of the characteristics of summer?"
I raised my head and heard the endless chirping of cicadas in the yard. I smiled and said, "You mean this cicada chirping?"
"Hahaha, you are really smart. My ears have become calloused these days listening to the chirping of cicadas, so I invited someone to come and set up a stage to sing."
Cicada larvae live in the soil and have a pair of strong digging front legs. They use piercing-sucking mouthparts to suck sap from plant roots, weakening the tree, causing branches to die and affecting tree growth. They usually stay in the soil for several years.
Even for more than ten years, when in the soil, the larvae will undergo four molts, so there are expressions such as "17-year cicada" and "13-year cicada".
"What do you mean by this?" I looked at Liu Bin curiously, "Do you mean that what happened that year is related to this cicada?"
Usually, cicadas will emerge from the soil in June-July. The cicadas will climb to the trees on the ground and complete the fifth molt. Finally, they will grow into adults. This is what we call emergence. Because life is too short, in
Reproduce, lay eggs, and die within 4-6 weeks. The eggs hatch and enter the next life cycle.
"Don't rush to make blind guesses." Liu Bin said calmly, "Before uncovering the dusty truth, I will introduce you to something. This is a fungus."
"Fungi?" The more I listened, the more confused I became. But since Liu Bin was going to tell the truth, I didn't just say it for a moment, "Please tell me."
"Scientists have discovered that, apart from various natural enemies, the main threat to the survival of cicadas is actually a fungus, and its name is Polyspora."
According to Liu Bin, in addition to the fungus attacking the larvae when they emerge from the ground, research shows that 2-5% of periodic cicadas are infected with this fungus called Polyspora before they burrow into the ground.
And attached to their exoskeleton, they will continue to accumulate strength, dormant in the body of the larvae, and begin to invade the cicada's abdomen when the larvae break out of the ground.
The growing fungus finally bursts out from the cicada's butt, growing a ball of white spores. You must know that cicadas have no pain nerves. Pain is generated by electrical signals sent from the central nervous system to the peripheral nervous system.
The peripheral nervous system is only responsible for transmitting electrical signals.
The nervous system of insects is composed of a series of ganglia. The hypopharyngeal ganglion affects the activity of the insect, is the activity and coordination center of the mouthpart appendages, and has a stimulating effect on the thoracic nerve center. Insects generally have 3 pairs of thoracic ganglia, respectively.
They are located on the somites of the anterior, middle and posterior thorax. Their motor neuron axons extend into the muscles of the thoracic segment and the leg muscles, mainly controlling the movement of insects.
Therefore, the fungus eats away at the tail of the cicada. The cicada does not have any consciousness, and can even only move. They drop spores as they fly, and the spores falling from the buttocks infect other cicadas.
This fungus is very cunning. After losing the terminal abdominal compound ganglion, the cicada has actually lost the ability to reproduce, but the cicada itself does not know it, so the fungus will disguise itself as the cicada's abdomen and control the cicada's behavior.
It becomes a controlled "zombie cicada", and the fungus will make these "zombie cicadas" mate wildly.
For example, fungi can cause male cicadas to flap their wings crazily. This is originally the main way for female cicadas to attract the opposite sex. In this way, other male cicadas will come after seeing the courtship signal sent by it and try to complete reproduction with it.
During the process, these cicadas will be infected with fungi. It can be said that this is a very scary epidemic virus in the cicada world.
After research, scientists found that this fungus can produce the hallucinogen psilocybin, which is a type of neurotoxin with neuropsychedelic effects. Psilocybin mexicanus, psilocybin feces, etc. containing this type of toxin are similar to
Other related species are collectively called "sacred mushrooms" or "hallucination mushrooms", which mainly act on the autonomic nerves, causing nerve excitement, hallucinations, severe tachycardia, and pupil dilation.
Not long ago, there was an incident of little elves with blue hands. After a patient accidentally ate green hands, he would see little elves flying in the sky. Anyone who accidentally ate green hands saw little people with different shapes and colors.
Chapter completed!