Cultivation Begins with Caring for Sister-in-law

Chapter 788 - 793, - 794: Found

Upon hearing this, the joy Lin Xuelan felt upon seeing Chen Mo vanished instantly, and she said softly, "Young Master Mo, I understand. Indeed, I shouldn’t harbor any hope, the Eldest Princess is gone, how can Princess Deti help?"As she spoke, Lin Xuelan lifted her head, forcing a smile on her face: "Thank you, Young Master Mo, no matter what, your great kindness and virtue, Xuelan will never forget."

"Alas." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed, saying, "Then Miss Lin, Miss Yuzhu, you should rest early, I’ll take my leave first."

...

Not long after Chen Mo left, Yuzhu noticed that Miss Lin neither cried nor spoke, and couldn’t help but ask, "Miss, what are you thinking about?"

Lin Xuelan showed a hint of determination in her eyes and said, "Yuzhu, promise me one thing."

Yuzhu was taken aback: "Miss, what is it?"

"If I’m not here anymore, then you must, on my behalf, repay Young Master Mo for his kindness," Lin Xuelan said.

Yuzhu’s face changed: "Miss, what are you planning to do?"

"Rescue from the execution ground. I can’t just stand by and watch as my father dies in front of me, and do nothing. Even if I die, I want to die with him. As for Young Master Mo’s kindness, only you can repay it for me," Lin Xuelan said.

Upon hearing this, Yuzhu’s heart was in chaos, and she suddenly raised her voice: "No, if anyone goes, it should be you. It’s your Lin Family that owes Young Master Mo, not me, why should I repay it? Go ahead and die, then let your mother collect your body, let her mourn holding your corpse, let her have the pain of a white-haired person sending off a black-haired one. Perhaps she might not be okay, and could be overwhelmed by the news of you and your father’s mishap, and also..."

As Yuzhu spoke, she too broke down crying.

Lin Xuelan knew that Yuzhu said all this just to stop her from going. She held Yuzhu’s shoulders and said, "Yuzhu, promise me, please, I beg you."

"Never." Yuzhu stubbornly said: "Go on, die. When you’re dead, I’ll be free too, no longer having to be a servant of the Lin Family."

"Yuzhu..."

"Never, never, never..." Yuzhu said three times, then wept: "I have lived in the Lin Family since childhood, the Lin Family taught me to read, write, and cultivate, and my duty is to protect you, Miss. If you’re not here, can I still survive?

If you want to rescue from the execution ground, I’ll go with you."

"Yuzhu."

The mistress and servant embraced each other, and started to cry bitterly.

...

The next day.

A light rain began to fall.

At the Princess’s Mansion.

Xingyin continued to show great attentiveness to Princess Deti.

Princess Deti originally didn’t want to pay him any mind, but remembering last night’s events, she suddenly spoke: "Third Prince, can you hand over Lin Kong to me?"

Xingyin was taken aback: "Deti, what do you want Lin Kong for?"

"Since the Lin Family is associated with Shuang’er, then I want to use Lin Kong to draw out the Lin Family in the city, find Shuang’er, and slay her to avenge my mother," Princess Deti said.

Xingyin laughed, "Deti, rest assured, cousin will avenge aunt. The day after tomorrow at the Meridian Gate for Lin Kong’s execution, I have set a trap for the Lin Family in the city. If they dare show up, I ensure they won’t escape."

Princess Deti pursed her red lips, pondered for a moment, and said: "Thank you, Third Prince."

"No need for formalities with your cousin."

...

In the late morning.

The rain continues to fall.

A small tavern on the street opened its doors for business as usual, just as it had every day for over a decade, even in the rain.

At the breakfast stall diagonally opposite the small tavern, the four of Chen Mo were eating wontons, their gazes occasionally drifting towards the small tavern.

To avoid arousing suspicion, Chen Mo and his group couldn’t keep watch from the tavern opposite indefinitely, so they occasionally changed locations.

On rainy days, there weren’t many pedestrians on the street, and not many people visited the tavern.

Soon, a sturdily built middle-aged man walked out of the tavern, took the raincoat placed outside, draped it over himself, and left the tavern.

At this point, a young man also emerged from the tavern, waved in the direction where Chen Mo’s group was, and pointed at the departing man in the raincoat.

The young man was one of the people Chen Mo had hired.

"There’s something going on." Chen Mo said while eating his wontons, without moving.

"I’ll follow." Si Song, seated at the table behind Chen Mo, stood up, took the conical hat placed aside, put it on, and followed.

Shortly after Si Song left, Liang Mu also got up and went to the tavern.

About half an hour later, he came out of the tavern and then went into a fabric shop.

In the fabric shop, Chen Mo and Nalan Yiren, posing as a couple, were choosing fabrics. As Liang Mu passed by, he said, "Under the locust tree behind the well in the south of the city, go get the Immortal Powder."

"I’ll go," Chen Mo volunteered.

Nalan Yiren grabbed his arm and said, "You’ve helped me enough, let me take care of the rest."

Saying this, Nalan Yiren called to the shopkeeper not far away, "Boss, this fabric is nice, wrap it up, I’ll take it."

"Alright."

...

Following the man in the raincoat, Si Song arrived in front of a civilian house and saw him enter it.

Instead of entering immediately, Si Song looked around, confirmed there was nothing unusual, circled the house once, and then carefully climbed into it.

Inside, Si Song saw the middle-aged man, having removed his raincoat, chatting and laughing with a well-featured woman in the hallway, who was holding a child. They looked like a happy family of three, the scene was quite idyllic.

Realizing this wasn’t the lair of that beast after all, Si Song quietly left the house. By keeping a watch on this person, he figured he would eventually catch that beast.

But Si Song didn’t know that his every move was being closely watched by a pair of eyes as he followed, entered, and left the house.

Elsewhere.

Nalan Yiren also arrived under the locust tree behind the ancient well in the south of the city, and after a bit of simple searching, found a porcelain bottle containing the Immortal Powder.

Upon confirming the method of the Immortal Powder inside was from the Poison King Valley, Nalan Yiren’s delicate body couldn’t help but tremble.

Fifteen years.

At last, she finally found a clue in the Yelang Kingdom.

"Grandfather, you can finally rest in peace in the afterlife,"

Nalan Yiren said with tears in her eyes, then she put away the Immortal Powder, looked around, and found nothing unusual.

After she left, a small black bird sheltering from the rain on the locust tree took flight and left as well.

"How was it?"

Worried for Nalan Yiren’s safety, Chen Mo had been following closely, but kept a certain distance, vigilantly surveying the surroundings to ensure Nalan Yiren wasn’t being followed or watched, but everything went smoothly, and Chen Mo noticed nothing amiss.

"The method is from Poison King Valley, it’s definitely refined by that beast, that beast is in Yelang," Nalan Yiren said.

"Great, now as long as we track the person Elder is watching, sooner or later we’ll find that beast," Chen Mo said with a smile.

"Hmm." Nalan Yiren nodded, feeling that after so many years, this matter was finally reaching a resolution.

...

Amidst the continuous drizzle, a black dot gradually enlarged—it was a blackbird about the size of a palm, cutting through the rain, flying over rooftops and into a pavilion, landing on a black-robed man’s shoulder.

The black-robed man raised his hand, placing it near the blackbird’s beak, with a pile of crushed corn kernels in his palm, which the blackbird pecked at until they were gone. The blackbird chirped and landed on the man’s arm.

The black-robed man, stroking the bird’s feathers, spoke in a hoarse voice laden with excitement that was hard to conceal: "Even you felt afraid, indeed, indeed, it’s the aura of the Taotie Gu, it seems my junior sister has come here herself.

Hahaha, all my efforts these years haven’t been in vain, they finally paid off, she finally came..."