Chapter 65: Chapter 65
Guo Yong was the first to react, scared out of his wits, and bolted away.
Seeing the government officers run away, the crowd descended into chaos, scattering in all directions away from the red sedan chair.
Ruan Mian was also pulled along by Cui Zhu, as the family looked out for one another, but how could she believe in tales of ghosts and gods.
She told Cui Zhu to go ahead while she hid behind a rock and picked up stones, hurling them at the sedan chair without hesitation!
One by one, the stones hit the sedan chair only to bounce off, but an angry male voice emanated from inside the sedan!
"Who has a death wish!" The man?
By now, everyone in the group had run off, but out of nowhere, a few figures emerged, cornering some of the people.
Among them, Li Mao and his mother were chased to a cliff!
Madam Bo was terrified, and in her fright, she lost her footing, stepping on a stone and falling heavily!
With an "Oh my," she fell right off the cliff, and with a scream, the old lady from Uncle’s Mansion suddenly grabbed onto Li Mao’s ankle!
Li Mao fell to the ground heavily, and as she was about to drag him down the cliff, he quickly grabbed onto a tree root nearby.
He managed to hold himself up with all his strength, but his mother was already dangling over the cliff, screaming in fear.
"Mao’er, Mao’er!! Save me quickly..."
Li Mao was running out of strength, and he could hear the commotion from those people behind him. In his fear, he looked at Madam Bo and suddenly spoke coldly.
"Mother, at this point, you have to let go! I can’t pull you up."
The old lady looked at her son, whose eyes were cold, her heart overwhelmed with shock and coldness, incredulously widening her eyes.
"Mao’er, I am your real mother!! The one who gave birth to you and raised you! How can you leave me to die?! You must pull me up no matter what!"
Li Mao strained to keep himself steady and said, "If I could pull you up, I would, but Mother, if I pull you up, I might die with you."
"If I die, who will protect the descendants of the Li Family? My son is still waiting for me in Wuheng, and my other sons outside are also waiting for me in Wuheng!!"
He gripped her hand, and thinking her son was about to pull her up, the old lady immediately showed joy and struggled upward.
However, Li Mao only took out the purse on her, the silver notes hidden in her inner clothes, the gold bars, as well as the gold hairpin and gold leaf in her hair.
Without pulling her up, Li Mao slowly pried her fingers open one by one.
The old lady looked on in shock, panic, and urgency as she witnessed her son cut off her hope of survival, bit by bit!
Her heart filled with despair, accompanied by the fierce wind in her ears, as curses echoed up from below the cliff: "Li Mao! This is matricide! You will be punished by the heavens! You will not die a peaceful death!"
The rest of the words were completely swallowed by the wind at the bottom of the cliff.
Li Mao lay coldly on the cliff, watching Madam Bo fall completely off the cliff and disappear without a trace.
In that instant, he extinguished the slightest regret from his heart. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net
At this point, there was no blaming anyone.
Better one dead than two!
Moreover, this mother had always favored his elder brother since he was a child, and the year his brother died in an accident, she even blamed his death on him.
The money from the Chaling Restaurant sale wasn’t given to him, instead, she scolded him for being unfilial.
Since, in her eyes, he was already unfilial, why should he risk himself to show filial piety?
Weighing the jewelry and gold, Li Mao chuckled, stuffed them into his clothes, and got up to leave.
But unexpectedly, a figure suddenly lunged at him from behind!
Caught off guard, Li Mao cried out in pain as he was pushed off the cliff by the newcomer.
In terror, he saw the all-too-familiar face of Mrs. Yao...
On the cliff, only Li Mao’s shoe remained.
Mrs. Yao, pale-faced, picked up the shoe.
These were the shoes she sewed for him overnight, because she worried he would get cold on the road to exile, she was willing to even dismantle her own shoe soles to sew an extra layer for him.
She married into Uncle’s Mansion at a young age, respecting her husband, and diligently managed everything in the mansion for him.
He wanted concubines, she assisted in taking concubines for him.
He had sons with an outside woman, and she was willing to adopt them under her knee, treating them as her own.
But what did so many years of uncompensated dedication bring her? In the end, it all amounted to nothing.
Moreover, seeing him not even care about his birth mother, how could she dare to hold hope for such a selfish person anymore?
If he didn’t die, she would be the next one dead!
"Li Mao, what goes around comes around, you go and pay your mother back with your life."
Mrs. Yao quickly ran into the forest, but still couldn’t escape those men in black, yet she did not see that on a tree below the cliff, Li Mao was gripping the branch tightly...
Meanwhile, their entire group was completely surrounded.
The people surrounding them were all injured, some with wounds so severe that their faces were hideously contorted, completely unrecognizable.
And the red sedan chair contained not a bride but a man in red.
His face bore a ghastly burn scar, and he approached Ruan Mian, pulling her to him!
"Since when did the Xuanjia Army include so many women, children, and elderly?"
In the original book, the Xuanjia Army was a troop stationed at the border, mostly under King Yan.
Ruan Mian suddenly looked up: "We are only a group of court exiles; we don’t know what the Xuanjia Army is, if we offended..."
"What is the Xuanjia Army?" The man sneered.
"Burning cities and slaughtering civilians!! You tell me what the Xuanjia Army is? Now that you are in our hands, don’t think of getting out alive!"
Seeing this, Ruan Mian quickly touched the Jade Bracelet and pulled out the token she had previously taken from Pan Chen in the space.
As it dropped to the ground, the man’s gaze was instantly drawn to it.
His face changed slightly as he swiftly picked up the token!
In the original book, the Xuanjia Army was the troop confronting Pan Chen, now this man hates the Xuanjia Army so much, perhaps he was connected to Pan Chen.
So, Ruan Mian took out the token to test.
As expected, after seeing the token, the man’s face turned drastically, pulling her over in nervous surprise to question!
"How did you come by Brother Pan’s token?!"
Seeing this, Ruan Mian explained, "We really are court exiles, nothing more, the Brother Pan you mentioned, is he Pan Chen?"
"We encountered him on the way to Jixian County, and helped him by accident, so he gave me this token. As for where they went, I’m not quite sure, I only know they headed west."
The man frowned, skeptical.
Ruan Mian smiled, easing the atmosphere: "If you still don’t believe it, we have the relevant documents and the official seal that the Lord can check, certainly not spies of the Xuanjia Army."