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Peace Talisman: 'An ordinary Peace Talisman, carrying ordinary aspirations.'
What in the world is Yuebing Gege?
It seems there's no custom of eating mooncakes in the Southern Border...
Li Mo was about to ask.
A woman's sobbing voice came from beside him; the gaunt woman rushed to Fuyingzi, tightly hugging the little girl.
She had seen this young man save her daughter with her own eyes.
But she had also seen him smash apart a military formation with one punch.
"Sirs, your great kindness is impossible to repay..."
"A simple home-cooked meal will suffice."
Li Mo smiled gently.
The woman was silent for a few seconds, then nodded, pulling the little girl with her.
So Li Mo glanced at Murong Xiao and Huang Donglai, and the two followed him.
Entering the town, the group walked along the winding paths between the bamboo houses. Fuyingzi's family lived in a remote area, requiring crossing a river and climbing a mountain.
This was probably what her parents called the path to school.
"Brother Li, how did this case suddenly become clear? It was clearly an injustice from the start!"
Murong Xiao was filled with indignation, yet he didn't know how to express it.
He was in the prime of his youth, full of passion, and pure-hearted, unable to bear such things.
Though Li Mo had memories from his time in the womb, he also found such matters absurd.
He felt Murong Xiao was right.
Huang Donglai was silent for a few seconds, then said with a bitter smile:
"That's right, the people who wrong you know better than anyone how wronged you are."
"Perhaps after we leave, this little girl's family will still face retribution..."
"They are soldiers in name but thieves in reality; we should simply eliminate them for the people!" Murong Xiao said, clenching his fists.
Li Mo thought for a moment: "If that's the case, we should act covertly. Mixing laxatives into Paraquat would surely be effective."
Huang Donglai: "..."
Mixing laxatives into Paraquat?
He had never concocted anything so outrageous.
After a moment of silence, he sighed and said, "What if the town is attacked by Disaster Beasts or Yao Beasts after the garrison leaves?"
Li Mo asked, "Then... should we clear out the Yao Beasts around the town?"
"Yao Beasts and exotic beasts all have their territories. If the lord of this area dies, a new one will naturally take its place." Huang Donglai shook his head.
Murong Xiao stopped talking.
Scratching his bald head, his CPU was almost smoking from overthinking.
Li Mo looked at the frail mother and daughter in front of him, and the dilapidated bamboo house they were about to reach.
Among his peers in the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, he could be considered a rare talent.
However, his power couldn't even change a small town.
Because this was the 'general trend' of the Southern Border, a torrent that human power could hardly stop.
If one day, the Qingyuan Sect was also swept away by the general trend.
How different would he be from this mother and daughter who yearned for peace and joy?
Xiao Li stroked the Peace Talisman sewn from red cloth, his mind filled with myriad thoughts.
The group entered the bamboo house; there wasn't even a stool to sit on inside, so Li Mo and the others sat on the ground.
"Yuebing Gege, here you go."
Fuyingzi came over with three not-quite-full bowls, containing a not-very-thick paste.
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Li Mo took a bite. This should be a powder ground from the roots and stems of a starchy plant; the taste was, of course, not good.
"Why do you call me Yuebing Gege?"
"Because Yuebing Gege is Yuebing Gege."
Fuyingzi tilted her head, then ran barefoot to the side, carefully opening a box.
Inside was half a mooncake, with a Q-version boy with a large head drawn on it.
"The missing lotus seed paste mooncake?"
Li Mo was momentarily dazed.
A scene suddenly popped into his mind.
Under a dark and windy night, a certain Ice Cube, seeing no one around, stealthily sneaked into the kitchen, and by the moonlight, picked out all the lotus seed paste mooncakes with his drawing on them, putting them into a boy with a large head, a hint of pleasure appearing in his eyes...
Xiao Li thought blankly.
Even if he borrowed a brain, he wouldn't have thought that the mooncake thief was Ice Cube!
It was Han Xianzi, who was regarded as a Heavenly Immortal in Hengyun Sword, as cold as the moon, and already among the top ranks of the Qianlong Ranking at the age of sixteen... frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
Why did she take all the lotus seed paste mooncakes?
It certainly couldn't be because she liked eating lotus seed paste {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} too much...
"Yuebing Gege?"
Fuyingzi extended her small hand and waved it.
Yuebing Gege's expression was a bit like Fairy Sister's.
Li Mo snapped back to reality and took out an ice-skin red bean mooncake from his System space:
"Nothing. If you like eating mooncakes, I'll give you this one."
"Wow, it's Fairy Sister!"
Fuyingzi was full of surprise, then ran to the side again to show the mooncake to her mother.
Seeing Li Mo and the two other tall boys squatting on the ground, nonchalantly drinking the paste, the woman's wary expression finally relaxed a little.
"Young master, did you come here to ask about the woman on it?" the woman asked.
"Precisely."
"I didn't have much contact with her and don't know where exactly she went, but anything I do know, I will tell you without reservation."
The woman was very cooperative; that day, she was concerned about her daughter and never took her eyes off her.
So she meticulously recounted everything she had seen.
Li Mo nodded: "She stood on the Peng Demon's body and flew away? This Peng Demon doesn't seem to be very fierce."
"Hiss... Its head feathers were all shaved off? If it were me, I'd probably be well-behaved too..."
Murong Xiao empathized inexplicably.
"Ying Xianzi is truly intelligent. She didn't venture deep into the Southern Border alone. Peng Demon is extremely fast and knows the way clearly."
Huang Donglai praised.
...
Li Mo recalled the time when he asked Ice Cube to look at a map, and Ice Cube pointed to his home.
The directionally challenged Ice Cube likely did it to prevent herself from getting lost...
However, where Ying Bing went, this mother and daughter did not know.
Without clarifying her exact whereabouts, Xiao Li always felt uneasy.
Before going to Brother Murong's hometown, he wanted to at least clarify this matter.
This meant he could only ask that Peng Demon.
The group exchanged glances.
Li Mo stood up and said, "Thank you for the information. We won't disturb you further."
As they were about to leave, the woman hesitated for a moment, ultimately not speaking her true feelings, only saying:
"Young masters, have a safe journey."
"Mm."
Before Li Mo left, his eyes flickered obscurely.
At the door, Fuyingzi, however, ran out when her mother wasn't looking.
"Yuebing Gege, I... I want to ask you for a favor."
"What is it?"
"Mama misses Papa so much, just like Fairy Sister misses you. She even wrote a letter to Papa, but she doesn't know how to send it."
Fuyingzi took out a few pieces of straw paper from her embrace, covered with dense writing. Her voice grew softer and softer:
"I miss Papa too..."
Li Mo took it and saw that the letter was to be sent to the military camp; Fuyingzi's father was also a soldier.
He smiled gently:
"Yuebing Express, mission accomplished!"
"Thank you, Yuebing Gege!"
Fuyingzi was overjoyed.
With the letter full of longing in his arms, Li Mo couldn't help but look towards the dilapidated bamboo house.
He saw the woman scraping clean the leftover paste from the three bowls, putting it into a small bowl for her daughter to eat, while she herself stood beside them, her tired, gaunt face showing the relief of surviving a disaster.
"Peace and joy..."
Li Mo's breathing softened, lost in thought for a moment.
These four ordinary words seemed to carry much more weight than he had imagined.
A moment later.
"Silly child, why did you give the letter to a stranger?"
"Because Yuebing Gege looks like a good person..."
The woman anxiously pulled Fuyingzi and chased after them, but where could she still see the figures of Li Mo and the two others?
She only saw a few bags of dry rations piled by the fence.
And a bright red Peace Talisman hanging on the fence, swaying lightly in the wind.
"There are hard little beans inside!" Fuyingzi curiously pinched the Peace Talisman.
The woman untied the bag of the Peace Talisman, and was stunned for a long time.
"Mama, do you think Papa will see your letter?"
"Yes, he will."
