Chapter 128: Heavenly Silkworm (4)
“Ah, no, wait. Hyang, spit it out for now. Ptooey ptooey. Quickly.”
I was startled and immediately asked where she had caught the bug, but that was the wrong question to ask first.
As a father, I was worried that Hyang might get bitten and hurt by the bug, so I told her to spit it out. Hyang quickly spat out the bug she had in her mouth.
The bug was about the size of an egg, with a translucent white body, antennae, and short legs.
It was significantly enlarged, but it was definitely a bug I knew well.
‘That’s a termite!?’
It was definitely a bit plump and large, but it was unmistakably a termite.
What Hyang had brought over was a white ant, or baiyi as it’s called in Middle Kingdom.
‘But there are no trees here, so where could it have come from?’
As I was blinking in surprise at the fact that Hyang had brought a termite, I suddenly heard her thoughts in my mind, which I had forgotten to ask earlier.
‘Daddy, there are lots of them over there! Hyang saw them!’