"Yunzhi, we're alright."

Lin Yiheng cupped his hands in thanks to Yun Mo and the other three, saying, "Thank you for your righteous help, Young Master Yun."

"Young Master Lin, who is this?" Yun Er looked at Su Yunzhi, who seemed familiar with the brother and sister.

"This is my younger sister's betrothed since childhood, Su Yunzhi."

Lin Yiheng turned around and introduced Yun Mo and the others to Su Yunzhi, "Yunzhi, these people are..."

When Yun Mo heard the word "fiancé," her heart sank. She lost all interest in listening to Lin Yiheng's words; she had actually gotten engaged.

Lin Yinan noticed his surprised look and felt a little confused, so she ignored it and walked quickly toward Li Shulan.

After everyone left, Yun Mo looked back and said somewhat sullenly, "Yun Er, let's go. Mother is still waiting up ahead."

Yun Er raised his whip and urged the carriage onward.

As they passed by other villagers' resting place in Linjia Village, the four heard a sharp female voice.

"What is Lin Yinan that makes the whole village stop and wait for her alone?"

"Peach, keep your voice down, or people will start talking about you again," the woman said.

"That's true, and you won't even let people say it." The woman's voice was full of resentment.

Yun Mo frowned, then suddenly opened the carriage window, his two cold gazes sweeping over the woman.

Lin Qiutao was startled by his cold gaze and shrank back behind her mother.

This person's eyes are terrifying, like they want to devour her.

Yun Mo snorted coldly and closed the window again.

How superficial!

If it weren't for that little girl, none of them would have been able to leave the city safely.

Yun Er thought Yun Mo was in a bad mood, so he gently comforted her, "The young lady is only engaged, not married yet. Besides, even if she were married, she could still get a divorce."

Yun Mo pursed his lips and remained silent. He was only interested in the girl's skills and the sect's secret medicine, but Yun Er misunderstood that he would marry no one but her.

What kind of thought process is this?

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yun Er thought she had touched a nerve.

He continued, "Besides, there are so many unexpected events along the way south; we can turn the impossible into the possible."

Yun Mo's face darkened, and he clenched his fist.

Yun Qi quickly tugged at Yun Er's sleeve and winked at him, "Second Brother, don't say that. Master won't fall for a little girl so easily."

"Hey, aren't you overthinking things? I'm just curious about her."

Yun Mo was speechless, and only after much restraint did he refrain from making a move against him.

"Haha, Master, you don't understand matters of the heart. Curiosity is interest, and interest is liking."

Yun Er laughed twice; he understood matters of the heart best.

"Master, Madam and the Second Miss are there."

Yun Wu, with his keen eyesight, quickly spotted Yun Mu and her group outside the Shili Pavilion.

Yun Qi and Yun Er only felt a flash of a figure before Yun Mo jumped down from the carriage and knelt down in front of a middle-aged beautiful woman.

"Mother, your son is back!"

Lu Xueying wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, bent down and helped the person up, "Get up quickly, the ground is cold. Mother has finally waited for you to come back, are you hurt?"

Since the son went to war with his father at the age of thirteen, he has always returned with injuries of various sizes.

“My son is fine and unharmed. He is unfilial and has caused his mother to suffer.”

Feeling ashamed, Yun Mo stood up and greeted his eldest sister-in-law Li Huishan, his second sister and her husband Yun Yan and Luo Shouxin, his third sister-in-law Lu Yashuang who was six months pregnant, his sixteen-year-old sister Yun Ying, and his fourteen-year-old brother Yun Ming.

Then he took out a cloth-wrapped object from his pocket and handed it to his mother.

"Mother, Father asked me to give this to you."

When Lu Xueying heard him mention her husband who died on the battlefield, she leaned on her second daughter and wept uncontrollably.

Yun Mo glanced at his sister-in-law, whose face looked haggard and who had aged more than ten years in an instant, and felt a pang of pity. In the end, he still stuffed the things in his arms into her hands.

"Sister-in-law, this is what my brother asked me to give you before he left for the war. He said that the three children can be raised by my mother and me, and that you don't need to wait for him."

After years of loving marriage, Li Huishan was overcome with grief and burst into tears, crying out, "Yunfeng, how could you be so cruel to me!"

Li Huishan and Yunfeng's two sons and one daughter were so frightened that they rushed forward to hug her and kept calling her "Mother".

Their eldest daughter was seven years old, and their youngest daughter was only three.

Second sister Yunyan and younger sister Yunying rushed forward to comfort her.

Yun Mo was also filled with grief. He picked up his youngest niece and turned to Lu Xueying, saying, "Mother, it's not safe here because it's close to Sword City. We need to leave as soon as possible."

Lu Xueying sniffed and stepped forward to comfort Li Huishan, "Shan'er, don't cry. Whether you choose to go back to the capital or come with us to the south, from now on you are my daughter."

Li Huishan was deeply moved upon hearing this, but she had been taught by etiquette since childhood that a woman should obey her husband after marriage and her son after his death.

With her two sons still so young, and the Yun family no longer able to leave the capital, she had no choice but to flee south with her entire family to seek a way out.

Even if the Yun family gave her a divorce certificate, she would still spend the rest of her life in the ancestral temple if she went back to the Li family. It would be better for her to stay with her children and raise them to adulthood.

"Mother, I won't leave. Wherever you go, I'll go!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

Lu Xueying said "good" three times in a row, "Our Yun family will definitely not treat you badly."

Yun Mo didn't see Yun Yi and the others; there were only a dozen or so guards around him.

"Mother, where are Yunyi and the others?"

My second brother-in-law, Luo Shouxin, came out to explain, "After receiving your message by carrier pigeon, I sold off our family property in the capital. These are bad years, and the grain stored in the warehouse hasn't been dealt with yet. Mother asked Yunyi and the others to take the grain and wait for us in Gudao County. My family is in Gudao County, and my parents have also stored a batch of grain there, just waiting for us to come and meet them."

“My brother-in-law is very thoughtful. The journey south is long and our numbers are large, so we need a lot of food.”

Yun Mo nodded. With natural disasters and wars occurring frequently in recent years, and so many people under his command, it was naturally good to prepare food in advance.

"Mother, how is my third brother's injury?"

He remembered that before the city fell, his third brother, Yunye, was seriously injured and unable to walk. His father forced him to return home to recuperate.

“Your third brother’s injuries haven’t healed yet; he’s still lying in the carriage,” Lu Xueying said.

"Yun Wu, go check on my third brother's injuries," Yun Mo said to Yun Wu.

Yun Wu has a keen sense of smell and is skilled at tracking scents. He also has in-depth knowledge of drugs and poisons.

“Yes, young master, I will go right away,” Yun Wu said.

While the family was still exchanging pleasantries, the Lin family's group had already set off.

People passing by the Yun residence all craned their necks to look.

Yun Mo caught a glimpse of Lin Yinan's family, who were still walking at the back, and a glint flashed in his eyes.

"Mother, it's getting late, let's set off as soon as possible."

"Okay, Mother will listen to you." Lu Xueying patted his hand.

The Yun family had a total of three carriages, but Si Shangyun brought four.

The eldest sister-in-law, Li Huishan, and her three nephews rode in one car; the second sister and her three sons rode in another car; the mother, Lu Xueying, and the third brother and his wife rode in another car; and the remaining car was used to transport grain and various daily necessities.

Yun Mo did not ride in the carriage, but followed beside it, talking to his mother as he walked behind the Lin family.