funbook-pk Chapter 140 Not long-sighted
Chapter 140 Not long-sighted
After the two men asked in detail, they learned that the old woman's surname was Ye and she lived in Yangjia Village, ten miles outside Liangcheng. Her husband's surname was Yang, who died very early. She only had a lame son, and the family was not well off.
Years ago, Mrs. Liu married an orphan girl to her son. The orphan girl was beautiful, but she was born mute. However, the family of three lived in harmony.
There has been unrest in the area around Liangcheng in recent years. In order to live in peace with the bandits, the magistrate Li Quangui basically turned a blind eye to what the bandits did, so that this group of bandits became rampant in the Liangcheng area.
They often raped women and robbed houses, as if the homes of the common people in Liangcheng were their granaries.
Knowing that the surrounding environment is not peaceful, the old woman is reluctant to let her daughter-in-law leave the village.
However, this morning when her daughter-in-law was feeding chickens in the yard, a bandit passing by their house had evil intentions when he saw the old woman and her daughter-in-law. Several of them stepped forward, grabbed the old woman's daughter-in-law, and carried her away.
When the old woman and her son heard the noise outside, they hurried out and begged the bandits to show mercy. When the bandits saw that the old woman's son was lame, they not only ridiculed and insulted him, but also beat her son to death.
When the villagers saw this, they were afraid that they would be implicated, so they all retreated into their homes and dared not help.
After the bandits left, the villagers came out to help the old woman and carried her son's body to the mass grave and bury it.
Now the old woman's son is dead and her daughter-in-law has been kidnapped. She has no way to sue, so she plans to commit suicide in front of her son's grave tonight.
Until she met Mu Jin and Nangong Min. The old woman saw that the two men were holding swords and had extraordinary bearings. She thought that they might be chivalrous men in the martial arts world, so she planned to ask them to help her find her daughter-in-law.
"Bandits again!" Mu Jin said with a stern face. Nangong Min knew that Mu Jin was thinking about the time when she was kidnapped by bandits and taken to the mountain.
The two men planned to send the old woman back to her home first and then make other plans.
Because the old woman had a broken leg, the two men were afraid that putting her on the horse's back would hurt her wound, so Nangong Min carried the old woman on his back and walked towards her home at the foot of the mountain.
Fortunately, the journey was not far, and they arrived at the entrance of the old woman's village after half an hour.
When the three men entered the old woman's yard, the dark yard was still hung with white cloth used for funerals held during the day.
Nangong Min put the old woman back on the bed and lit the lamp.
Mu Jin helped the old woman check her wound and found that her leg was severely swollen. He couldn't help but frowned slightly.
At this time, Nangong Min boiled water in the kitchen, brought it into the room, and helped the old woman clean the wound together with Mu Jin.
Mu Jin fed the old woman some pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory pills. He found that although the old woman's bones were broken, they were not displaced. He then took two wooden sticks and placed them on both sides of the old woman's wound and tied them up with cloth strips.
The old woman held Mu Jin's hand and cried, "My hero, can you please help me? My son is dead and I can't live without a daughter-in-law. Otherwise, there is no point in my living."
With Mu Jin's personality, sending the old woman home was already her limit, because she knew that at that time in Dongyue, there was a foolish emperor and corrupt officials corrupting the entire country, and Beiqi was eyeing her covetously. She didn't like this country, and everything about it.
Even if she occasionally showed compassion, her own limited power would not be able to shake or change this deeply rooted status quo.
Originally, she wanted to send the old woman home with Nangong Min and then leave. But tonight, for some reason, she couldn't bear to refuse the old woman who was begging for mercy.
Mu Jin asked the old woman, "Grandma Ye, do you know where the bandit's hideout is?"
The old woman was suddenly stunned, but she really didn't know what was going on.
After a long time, the old woman sighed tremblingly and said, "Life and death are determined by fate. I, an old woman, should not fight against fate. Thank you two heroes for saving me."
Mu Jin fed the old woman some tranquilizer pills, and when he saw that she had fallen asleep, the two of them left her room.
It was almost midnight by the time the two of them had been busy. If they went into the city again, they thought the inns would be closed, so they decided to spend the night in the old woman's kitchen.
The two of them sat in the kitchen, and Nangong Min said to Mu Jin with a guilty conscience: "I wronged you again tonight. If I hadn't insisted on saving Grandma Ye..."
"Do you think I should blame you for having a kind heart?"
Nangong Min didn't finish his words when he was interrupted by Mu Jin with a smile.
Mu Jin continued: "Do you want to help Grandma Ye find her daughter-in-law?"
Nangong Min frowned and said nothing, watching the old woman's son just die and her daughter-in-law being snatched away. If the old woman's daughter-in-law really couldn't be found, the old woman would probably not live long.
Just like tonight, if she hadn't met him and Mu Jin, the old woman would probably have died in front of his son's grave tonight.
However, if I help the old woman find her daughter-in-law, it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble and will inevitably delay the time to return to Nangong Divine Sect.
Seeing that Nangong Min didn't say anything, Mu Jin smiled and said, "If you want to help, then help. These bandits are so high-profile in Liangcheng, I believe it won't be difficult to find out where their hideout is. It won't take too much time."
Nangong Min took Mu Jin's hand with some gratitude, placed it in his palm and squeezed it gently.
Since he was young, he had accepted the legacy of "saving the people as his mission" passed down from generation to generation by the Nangong Divine Sect. He could predict that the old woman would not be able to find her daughter-in-law and would eventually die. If he did not help, his conscience would not be at peace.
"Thank you, Ah Jin. Within two days, I will find that mother-in-law Ye's daughter-in-law and return to Nangong Divine Sect as soon as possible. After dealing with Nangong Ce's affairs, I will immediately go to the border with you to find General Mu, okay?"
Mu Jin closed his eyes, leaned on Nangong Min's shoulder, curled his lips and said, "Okay!"
On the new day, the two men changed the medicine on the old woman's feet, fed her some rice porridge, and told her that if her daughter-in-law was still alive, they would help her find her within two days.
When the old woman heard that the two men wanted to help her find her daughter-in-law, she was so excited that she struggled to get out of bed and kneel down to thank Nangong Min and Mu Jin, but she was helped back to the bed by the two men.
The two entered Liangcheng at noon. Liangcheng was not big, there were not many inns, and there were even fewer with good conditions.
After asking around, the two found what was said to be the best inn in Liangcheng.
This inn not only provides food and accommodation for guests, but also has private rooms for daily banquets. It is indeed the best inn in Liangcheng.
The two men entered the inn and chose two upper rooms. They washed up first before going downstairs to the inn lobby, intending to eat some food while finding out the location of the bandits' lair.
Mu Jin was wearing ordinary men's cloth clothes. She had fair skin, long hair tied up at her waist, and only a white jade hairpin on her head. Although her clothes were not luxurious, she looked very ordinary among the people of Liangcheng.
It was the peak dining time and the lobby of the inn was full of people. Mu Jin and Nangong Jin ordered three dishes and a soup, planning to finish their meal and then ask others for the location of the bandit's lair.
Suddenly, several drunken men walked out of the box behind Nangong Min and Mu Jin, arm in arm. When they passed by Mu Jin's table, one of them stumbled and fell at Mu Jin's feet, and almost hit Mu Jin.
"Who is so blind as to dare to bother you here?"
The drunk who fell down cursed.
Mu Jin sneered, and the man couldn't help but get angry when he heard Mu Jin's sneer, but when he met Mu Jin's captivating eyes, he stopped and held his voice.