My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"Let's go." I replied.

Xiao Shenshen heaved a sigh of relief and plunged into my arms, "I missed you so much, Young Madam."

"Are you really so afraid of Yu Longting?" I casually toyed with the Ginseng Flower growing on Shenshen's head.

The little girl would sneak around just to see me.

She only dared to show up after Yu Longting had left.

Xiao Shenshen, quite seriously, said, "Young master, he's fierce~dah!"

"Actually, Yu Longting wouldn't really eat you, he's just teasing you." I sat with Xiao Shenshen in a pavilion by the Lotus Pond.

Xiao Shenshen was very clingy, yawning against me, "But he's a jealous snake."

"Uh." I had to admit Shenshen's description was spot on.

Even Xiao Shenshen knew about Yu Longting's jealousy, to the point he could drown in his own vinegar, was he not going to reflect on it?

Seeing Shenshen getting sleepy, I tucked her petite body into my robe, "Didn't sleep well last night?"

"Without the Young Madam, I couldn't sleep." Shenshen murmured, drifting into slumber.

Early spring in the Lotus Pond, quite a few koi surfaced, blowing bubbles, but their scales were all very strange.

All stood erect, as if they had exploded into bloom.

One fish swimming in the water burst into a cloud of blood mist.

The color spread in the water, and soon there was no flesh on the body of the fish, only the pale bones sinking to the bottom of the pond.

I took out the green scale I had found and felt a sense of foreboding, "It's that evil aura again."

"Brother, sister-in-law~save me~" Yu Rongling's scream came from the sky, and I saw a Green Snake wriggling toward us at high speed.

The voice was so loud, Xiao Shenshen groggily woke up, rubbing her eyes.

I stroked Shenshen's small head, utterly bewildered.

Could it be that the dumbass had inadvertently offended Yun Hao and was getting beaten up?

Ah, Xiao Yuer.

You really know how to cause trouble!

I sighed helplessly, "Your brother is not here; what happened?"

"Sister-in-law, one of my Snake Scales turned inside out, and it's both itchy and painful." Yu Rongling complained as if deeply aggrieved, twisting his snake body to show me his belly.

Several of his scales on his soft belly had stood upright.

A chill ran down my spine as I immediately connected this to the fish with Exploding Scales in the Lotus Pond, "How did this happen?"

"I was climbing a tree to collect honey, and suddenly I turned into a snake, and my scales exploded open." Yu Rongling's Snake Tail swung back and forth in discomfort, the tip beating the ground, creating a series of sounds.

As a result, seven or eight snakes with Exploding Scales crawled out and joined Yu Rongling in beating the ground with their tails.

Yu Rongling screamed in terror, "Ouch, my phobia has kicked in, why have all the snakes in your courtyard got Exploding Scales?"

"It seems that the scales have been contaminated with some evil energy, let me take a look." I activated my Spiritual Eye and carefully examined the upright scales on Yu Rongling's belly, "The evil energy is traveling through the gaps in the scales, spreading through the body, don't move, any movement will accelerate the spread of the demon Qi."

"I won't move, I won't move, if it spreads throughout the body, won't I end up like them?" Yu Rongling looked at the other snakes with Exploding Scales as a cautionary tale, his body tensed so much he dared not move, yet he couldn't endure for long, "I can't take it, it's too itchy and painful. Is there a way to cure this??"

"Using purifying substances should cleanse the evil Qi, like pomelo, but…" I hesitated, my gaze cooled as I focused on the affected area of Yu Rongling, the simultaneous occurrence of Exploding Scales among so many snakes couldn't be a coincidence.

Yu Rongling became even more anxious, furiously rubbing the afflicted area with the Exploding Scale on the uneven ground for relief, "But what? Sister-in-law, just say it all at once, you're driving me crazy with worry."

"But while pomelo leaves can wipe away the evil Qi, they also react to the Demon Qi in your body, so it's like injuring the enemy by a thousand and losing eight hundred yourself."