the other side.
When Mo Jin returned from the back mountain, it was already sunset.
He was covered in blood, and he was carrying a young man in red on his shoulders.
"Brother Mo Jin is back!"
The children were the first to see him and discovered that he was covered in blood. "Oh no! Brother Mo Jin is badly injured!"
"Someone come quickly!"
The adults were also alarmed, and someone screamed, "Mo Jin, don't walk anymore, we'll carry you back!"
Mo Jin said: "This is not my blood, it is from a poisonous beast, don't touch me."
After a pause, he explained, "Touching the blood of poisonous beasts will also cause poisoning. I have applied ointment from home, so it's okay, but you have to stay away from me."
The villagers didn't dare to approach him, so they could only follow him and asked, "Mo Jin, didn't you go to the back mountain alone? Why did you come back with a person on your shoulders?"
Mo Jin replied, "Not alone. I went to the back mountain first, and not long after, my brother went to the mountain to find me."
"What about your brother? It's impossible that the person you're carrying on your shoulders is your brother..."
Mo Jin shook his head and said, "No, I picked it up... My brother and I had just killed a poisonous beast in the back mountain. Before we had time to count the spoils, we saw a man in red running towards us."
At first, the Mo brothers were alert and thought that the other party was up to no good. However, they found that the young man in red was pale and fainted when he ran to a position not far from Mo Jin.
"I discussed it with my brother and decided to rescue the person. My brother said we should clean up the blood and footprints on the ground, so I carried the person back first."
Mo Jin said as he walked towards his home.
Many villagers came running after him, carrying buckets of water. "Village Chief Mo, we've got some water for you. When you get home, go wash yourself. Even though you've applied ointment on your body, it's not good to be in contact with the blood of poisonous animals for a long time."
"Yes, Brother Jin, when you get home, take off your coat and soak it in water immediately."
"Brother Jin, the man you are carrying...can he withstand the blood of the poisonous beast?"
If a normal person touches the blood of a poisonous beast, he will not be poisoned to death immediately. At most, he will feel uncomfortable. However, the young man in red is very weak. At this time, even a small amount of poison can become the last straw that breaks the camel's back and poison him to death.
Mo Jin paused and said uncertainly: "He...should be fine."
Mo Jin quickly carried the young man in red to the yard.
Behind him followed a group of villagers who came to join in the fun.
Nowadays, the people in Mojia Village are united and friendly with each other. If anyone encounters problems, the neighbors will help each other enthusiastically. What's more, Mo Jin is a person favored by God and the village chief, so everyone should help him even more.
"Women and children, please go out. I need to clean the poisonous blood from my body." Mo Jin said.
Only the men were left in the yard.
Mo Jin first took off the clothes of the young man in red, and the men helped to boil water and pass basins.
Someone said weakly: "Brother Mo Jin, the immortals are not in heaven, right? Otherwise, you and this young man would be naked..."
Mo Jin's expression froze.
He looked up and found that there was nothing in the sky. He breathed a sigh of relief and urged, "Hurry up, just give me some cold water. I'm strong and not afraid of the cold."
As for the young man in red, he was already in a coma and had many wounds of varying depths on his body, so he was given warm water.
"Who is this person? Why does he have so many wounds on his body?"
"Brother Jin, will you bring back a troublemaker? There are not many girls in our village. The man you brought back is so handsome, he will definitely be liked by the girls."
"Mo Jin, even though you have a kind heart, you can't just pick up things from strangers. What if they are bad guys..."
Mo Jin quickly washed off the blood on his body, changed into clean clothes, and replied: "If he is a bad guy, then throw him out of our village."
Someone nearby said, "Don't be afraid. There are fairies protecting the village. It will soon be time for the fairies to feed us."
The children were not actually that hungry. They went to Tianliu Village for a wedding banquet at noon and ate very well. They also did not do any physical work in the afternoon, so they did not digest much.
The unconscious young man hadn't woken up yet, so Mo Jin roughly cleaned him and changed his clothes.
The men helped dilute the blood on the ground and moved the young man into the house.
"Why hasn't my brother come back yet?" Mo Jin was worried and asked others to help look after the injured young man while he went to the back mountain to look for someone.
…
Shangguan was not at home at the moment. She was holding a basin and picking flower petals on the Xianjuan Terrace.
The locust flowers are very fragrant and smell very nice. Shangguan likes them very much and can't stop smiling.
Until a child about ten years old ran over and said to her: "Auntie, go back and see, Brother Jin has picked up someone and brought him back!"
"You picked up someone?" Shangguan was stunned and asked subconsciously, "A man or a woman?"
The child replied, "It's all blood, man."
"It's all blood?" Shangguan's face changed slightly, and she quickly stood up and walked home, while not forgetting to thank the child, "Thank you for coming to tell me this, I'll bring you something delicious next time I make it."
"Great!" The child jumped up and cheered. He had only come to report the news, but he didn't expect Shangguan to promise him delicious food. It was such a pleasant surprise.
When Shangguan returned home, she saw many people in her yard.
Shangguan asked, "What's going on? It's so lively today, everyone is staying at our house."
The villagers replied in unison:
"Mo Jin picked up a handsome man!"
"Let's come over here and see if there's anything we can do to help."
Shangguan was surprised and asked, "Where are my Hanshi and Ajin? Why can't I see them?"
"Mo Jin came back, but he left again. He must have gone to the mountains to look for Han Shi."
Shangguan was worried: Will her two sons be safe?
She had a psychological trauma about the back mountain because her husband died there, and his body was nowhere to be found. If her sons also died there...
The more Shangguan thought about it, the more anxious she felt. She wanted to ask an immortal for help, so she asked, "Where is Jiang Yanfeng? Why can't I see him?"
Someone answered: "He should be at home. He taught the children to read in the afternoon. Afterwards, the children went home and we didn't see Village Chief Jiang anymore."
Shangguan put down the petals she had picked up and said, "I'm going to find Jiang Yanfeng."
One of the men said, "Ma'am, you stay at home and I'll go find him."
Shangguan was stunned for a moment, then said to the others, "Everyone, please stop standing there. I'll go get you some water."
"Don't bother, Auntie. We're not thirsty."
Shangguan moved a few more chairs out of the room and wanted everyone to sit down.
The villagers waved their hands and only two people stayed to look after the injured young man. The rest quickly dispersed as they did not want to cause trouble for the Mo family.
After a while, the person who ran errands to find Jiang Yanfeng came back and said, "Auntie, Village Chief Jiang is lying down now, and he looks a little weak..."
Shangguan's heart skipped a beat and she asked with concern, "What happened to him?"
"Village Chief Jiang said that he talked a lot with the gods this afternoon, and his body and mind couldn't bear it. He was sleepy and tired... After he told me this, he fell asleep again."
Shangguan said: "It seems that he is very tired, so let him sleep for a while and don't disturb him."
Shangguan was a little worried because the immortals would start feeding everyone soon, but there were only two adults in the village who could communicate with the gods, Jiang Yanfeng and Mo Jin. Now that they were both gone, she still wanted to ask the gods to save her sons. Should she ask the children to pass the message? Jiang Yanfeng seemed to always like to take Chen Qi with him, but Chen Qi was a taciturn child who never liked to talk, so she had to find another child...
"Auntie, don't worry. Brother Mo Jin is blessed by the gods. Good people will have good luck. Nothing will happen to him."
Shangguan nodded, "I know, but I just can't control myself. I have to see them return safely before I can rest assured."
Shangguan couldn't stay in the room, so she simply went outside the village and waited at the foot of the mountain.
She did not go up the mountain because she knew that even if she did, she would not be able to help much and would only be a burden to her sons, so she could only wait at the foot of the mountain.
…
Luo Mingyue fed the little people from Mojia Village a little later than usual today, because she was a little addicted to watching the little people from Tianliu Village fall in love, just like watching a TV show, always wanting to watch it a little later...
It was not until Liu Dashi finished his meal and the newlyweds returned to their room that Luo Mingyue remembered that she had not fed the little people in Mojia Village dinner.
She hurried to the top of Mojia Village and found that many little people were already cooking in their homes.
"The locust flowers given by the immortal are so fragrant."
"It's a pity that there are no eggs, so I can't make scrambled eggs with locust flowers."
"Hehe, if there are no eggs, then there is no eggs. The immortal has already fed us eggs many times in various ways, such as boiled eggs, steamed eggs, scrambled eggs..."
"The locust flower dumplings I made today are also delicious."
"How about making Sophora japonica dumplings tomorrow?"
The little ones are all independent and will not starve themselves.
Luo Mingyue replaced the water in the water bowl on the Xianjuan Terrace with clean water and irrigated the farmland.
She saw Chen Qi playing with the puppies in the yard, and remembered that she had not prepared food for the pets, so she put steamed pumpkin, boiled eggs, millet porridge and goat milk on the fairy platform.
Luo Mingyue had never raised a dog before. She only knew that puppies could not eat meat, otherwise their intestines would be upset and they would easily die. They also could not eat too much salt. As for other things, she didn't know.
What Luo Mingyue put down were all common meals. Not only children can eat them, but puppies should be able to eat them too.
She put down some fresh grass leaves and millet grains to feed the sheep and chickens, but the pets had not yet finished eating the grass leaves and millet grains she had put down last time.
"Hey, did the immortal feed us? But we've already eaten..."
The little people noticed the movement in the sky and went to the Fairy Terrace to get food to take home.
Chen Qi didn't know how to cook, so he took the puppy to Xianjuantai. He took a bite of pumpkin and then threw a piece of pumpkin to the puppy. Then he drank a bowl of millet porridge and poured some millet porridge into the dog bowl.
After filling their stomachs, the man and the dog slowly returned home.
The puppy wagged its tail happily and stayed guarding its little master.
At the same time, the two Mo brothers finally came down from the back mountain.
Mo Hanshi's face was frighteningly pale, and he was carried on Mo Jin's back.
Shangguan's eyes were red, "Hanshi, Hanshi, what's wrong with you?"
Mo Hanshi forced a smile on his face and said, "Mom, I'm fine."
Mo Jin said in a muffled voice: "It's my fault. I shouldn't have left my brother alone on the mountain."
Shangguan asked, "Hanshi, were you injured by a poisonous beast? You need to detoxify quickly. Is the injury serious? Does it hurt?"
Mo Hanshi said: "It's not serious, I'm not poisoned, I just fell down accidentally and broke my leg...it hurts a little."
Mo Hanshi lied.
Before, his younger brother Mo Jin carried the young man in red away on his back. Mo Hanshi thought that the young man in red looked like he was running for his life, and maybe someone was chasing him, so he had to clean up the footprints and other traces on the ground. But the problem was that Mo Hanshi was not professional enough, he was just an ordinary citizen. Even if he specially dragged the corpse of the poisonous beast and left bloodstains on the road and covered up the footprints and the like, he was still found by the "pursuers".
There were two people in total responsible for hunting down the young man in red.
To be precise, there were actually hundreds of people, but most of them were led away by the clone of the young man in red. Hundreds of people dispersed to look for the young man in red, and only these two people were "lucky" and found the right direction.
These two men were officers and soldiers, but they were wearing ordinary people's clothes. They subdued Mo Hanshi.
Mo Hanshi was quite smart. He acted weak and servile on purpose, answering whatever the two men asked.
But his answers were all wrong.
Unfortunately, the two soldiers were not fools. Based on the situation on the road, they quickly discovered that the direction of Mo Han's index finger was wrong.
"Well, you unruly commoner, how dare you lie to us!" The two men were furious. They poked several holes in Mo Hanshi's legs with a knife and forced him to tell them the whereabouts of the young man in red.
Mo Hanshi cried out in pain and said aggrievedly, "I didn't see anyone! I just came up the mountain to pick up some bargains. I wanted to send the poisonous beast's corpse to the town and exchange it for some money..."
The two officers asked coldly, "Why did you lie just now?"
Mo Hanshi thought, of course it was to delay time, he stammered: "I think if I help you find the person, you will definitely reward me, so I want to help you, if I'm lucky enough to point to the right direction, then I'll make money, wuwuwu, I didn't expect that I would point to the wrong place..."
The two officers and soldiers were obviously not so easily fooled and did not believe his lies at all.
Just at this time, Mo Jin went up the mountain.
Mo Jin was furious when he saw his brother injured. He clenched his fists and rushed forward to beat the man without saying a word.
Both soldiers had knives in their hands, but Mo Jin was so strong that he could twist the soldiers' arms into a knot!
With one punch, he could punch through a person's chest!
Mo Hanshi was not idle either. He was a vengeful person. He saw his brother knock down one of the soldiers. A long knife happened to fall not far from Mo Hanshi. Mo Hanshi endured the pain, picked up the knife, crawled over, and stabbed the fallen soldier more than ten times.
It was his first time killing someone, he had no experience and was very panicked. By the time Mo Hanshi came to his senses, he felt so nauseous that he vomited.
Mo Jin dealt with another soldier, then turned around and saw his brother frantically finishing off the soldiers. He looked a little crazy and didn't dare to stop him for a moment. After his brother had finished killing, he went over, bent down, snatched the knife from Mo Hanshi's hand and threw it away.
Mo Hanshi trembled, "Ajin, I, I killed someone..."
Mo Jin comforted him: "It's okay, I killed him too."
Mo Hanshi murmured, "I killed someone... I didn't even kill ants or mosquitoes before..."
Mo Jin: "…"
He was not very good at comforting people. He tore off his clothes, tied up the wound on Mo Hanshi's leg to stop the bleeding, then carried Mo Hanshi on his back and ran down the mountain. He originally wanted to ask for help from the immortals as soon as he ran down the mountain, but who would have thought that Shangguan was guarding him at the foot of the mountain.
Neither brother wanted to make their mother worry, so Mo Hanshi said that his leg was broken. Actually, it was not broken, but there were just a few bloody holes and it hurt so much that he couldn't walk.