I hope Your Majesty will understand
"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" The old lady looked flustered, but still refused to admit it.
Cong Mo's expression was indifferent. "Do you want me to call out your enemy?"
"You..." The old woman clenched her fists, finally unable to bear it any longer. "What do you know? It was the resentful master who saved us and gave us hope of life. We shouldn't have been able to live in this world! The village trapped us, so we should repay the resentful master's kindness."
"So you stole other people's lives for her?"
"Why not? We were abandoned here in the first place. They gave up on us first. Why can't we kill them?"
"If you want revenge, we won't interfere. Revenge is the way to go. If you do something wrong, you must be punished. That's the rule." Cong Mo lowered his eyes and looked at her with a look of suspicion. "But many of the people you hurt were innocent. Could it be that they also did something wrong and lost their humanity, harming innocent people and losing their lives? Then how are you different from those people back then?"
"I..." The old lady's pupils suddenly shrank, her body went limp, and she almost fell to the ground.
Leng Can wanted to go forward and support her, but Cong Mo did not stop him and let him go, "Grandma."
"Don't call her grandma." Cong Mo looked at the two of them. "She's even a few years younger than us."
"What?" Leng Can widened his eyes.
"It seems that you really know our vengeful master." The old lady helped Leng Can to his feet, "You even know this secret."
"Life is short, and you are old. You have indeed suffered."
"I can let you go." Cong Mo sighed and said, "But you will have to atone for your crimes afterwards."
The old lady's dejected expression suddenly became a little cheerful. "How do we leave?"
"The village is surrounded by demonic energy fueled by resentment, forming a natural barrier that isolates you. The root cause is the overwhelming resentment. I have sent my companions to the capital to find the emperor and ascertain the truth. We will do what is fair."
"Now take us to the courtyard that is not infected by the evil spirit."
The old lady hesitated for a moment and agreed.
"Sister, why did you come at this time? I'm hungry." As soon as the old lady came in, she was thrown into the arms of a little girl.
"Today my sister made your favorite snacks, so I came a little late."
The little girl looked at Leng Can and Cong Mo behind her, "Sister, are these pretty brothers and sisters here to play with us too?"
"Yes." The old lady nodded and beckoned the two of them, "Come in, this is the courtyard where the resentful master dispels his resentment."
Cong Mo and Leng Can followed her in and walked around a winding path. The path was lined with bamboos, which was deep and quiet.
The old lady held the little girl's hand and asked, "What did you do today? Are you happy?"
"Xiao Douzi hasn't woken up yet, so I heated up some steamed buns for myself, and Xiaohua and I..."
The little girl's cheerful voice accompanied us all the way, making this place feel like a paradise.
After crossing the path and entering the yard, I saw about seven or eight children inside. The oldest was only seven or eight years old, and the youngest could only walk as soon as he was born.
The children had never been out before, and when they saw outsiders coming for the first time, they were curious and circled around Cong Mo and Leng Can.
"Brother is so beautiful..."
"Sister, where are you from..."
"Brother, sister..."
They were too enthusiastic, and Cong Mo couldn't handle it. He was at a loss when his hands were grabbed, and a confused expression appeared on his face. Leng Can, on the other hand, was very good at it. He picked up a little girl with one hand and walked into the yard, "Children, come here for some snacks."
The children were naturally attracted by the food and temporarily lost interest in Cong Mo. Leng Can was surrounded by the children and coaxed them with a smile.
"Aren't these children adorable?" The old lady stood beside her. "The Master of Resentment expended energy to build this secret garden. We should protect these children from harm and consider it a good deed for us."
She did not deny the wrong she had done. Cong Mo turned his head to look at her, his eyes moving slightly, with some confusion, "Why... do this?"
"You mean protecting the children?" The old lady laughed. "At first, we didn't think of doing this. It was a woman who begged us. She was a concubine, and her husband sent her here in exchange for treasure. When she got here, they discovered that she was pregnant..."
The concubine was surprised at first. She thought that with the child in her belly, she could win back her husband's heart and return home. The master took pity on her and did not eat her. Instead, he gave her a chance to choose. If she wanted to go back, the master would do his best to send her home.
The concubine begged the master repeatedly, and the master used all his strength to send her back, and she even lay dormant for nearly a year.
Goodbye, she was sent back again with her baby daughter in her arms in exchange for more silver.
"Why did you come back again?" the resentful master asked her.
"They disliked me for giving birth to a daughter." The concubine was emotionally agitated, with a large pool of blood under her abdomen. She handed her daughter to the culprit, "Please, help me, I want her to live..."
He died before he could say a few words.
The grudge maker only had resentment and evil spirits, and could not help others prolong their lives, so naturally she could not save her. However, the crying child in her arms made her unable to be cruel, so she built this place.
“…The children who were later sent here were all raised here.”
Cong Mo was speechless.
How can we sort out all the trivial matters in the world? They have harmed people and done bad things, but they have built a high wall to protect their clean and pure children.
How can the weight of this mistake and this gain be compared equally?
Can they be offset equally without holding any fault?
The book says that mistakes should be punished and rightness should be rewarded, which is the only way for the rules of the world to continue in a perfect cycle.
But it was not their fault, they did something wrong and tried to make up for it by doing other good things.
Cong Mo couldn't figure out the complex mix of emotions and couldn't figure out the root cause of the mistake.
Humans are extremely complex creatures, and she couldn't make a decision on this.
"Xiao Mo, come here quickly!" Leng Can called her, "Try the snacks, milk, ugh, my sister made them so delicious!"
"good."
By the time they finished coaxing the children, it was already noon. The children went into the house to take a nap, and they sat in the yard to bask in the sun.
"How come you are so good at coaxing children?" Cong Mo asked.
"Maybe... I learned it from you." Leng Can scratched his head. Whenever they were alone together, he would think of the lingering kiss last night and Cong Mo's current cold attitude.
It's just a touch of lips and tongues, why should we be responsible?
Leng Can was about to explode when he thought of what she said. There would always be such, such... shameless people in the world.
Doing something intimate but refusing to take responsibility is not as meaningful as being a flower thief.
After all, everyone knows clearly that the flower thief is not a good person.
"Xiao Mo, we haven't finished talking yet. What exactly was that kiss last night? It can't be called lips touching lips or tongues entwining tongues." Leng Can spoke first, "Didn't Ji Shufeng read you a book? You also know that this kind of behavior has meaning between men and women."
"Um...it's true that I was at fault first." Cong Mo rested one arm on the table, supporting his head, his posture quite relaxed. "Then just treat it as a mistake I made, and last night was just a dream, you can forget it."
Leng Can was a little anxious, "How could you forget about this?"
"It will take time." Cong Mo said without any emotion, "When you get married and have a wife, you can always..."
"You can't marry someone else."
A gentle voice suddenly interrupted the two of them. Leng Can was so frightened that he forgot about his sadness. He quickly walked over and hugged Cong Mo's arm tightly, "Who? Stop playing tricks!"
"Alas!" Cong Mo held his forehead helplessly, "Come out and stop making trouble."
"Mo'er is so boring." The vengeful master transformed in front of the two of them, his entire body a white shadow, "Xiaocan, come here..."
Cong Mo raised his hand to block her hand, "Don't touch him."
"Tsk... stingy." The vengeful master plopped down in Leng Can's original seat. "How... they're finally here."
"It's a long journey. I just used my spiritual sense to talk to my senior brothers. They just arrived in the capital and settled down."
Cong Mo patted Leng Can's hand and motioned him to go into the house to look after the children.
Leng Can was timid and didn't want to stay with a white shadow, so he nodded and went in.
The culprit watched him leave with a look of regret on his face, "It's not the time to get emotional like last night..."
"Stay away from him. I only give you one hour." Cong Mo raised his eyes to look at her, with a hint of coldness in his eyes. "If you continue like this, my men will show no mercy."
"You are such a heartless person! Others only see a blurry image of me." The resentful master said, "They can't tell we look alike. Besides, you and I are one person, so why can't you?"
"You have no human form, and that's the main reason," Cong Mo said. "He has no intention of cultivating the Way of Mercilessness. He will definitely leave the mountains and return home to marry and have children. You are wrong to tease him like this."
"But he already likes me, so why can't I deepen our relationship?"
"Don't joke, I'm a heartless person."
The grudge was growing increasingly unhappy. "I have lost all my love, so what else can I be but a heartless person?"
"So I originally practiced the ruthless way, and it would be of no benefit to me to have anything to do with him."
The resentful master couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "Xiaocan is really blind to be so deeply in love with me."
"If you have nothing to say, you can leave." Cong Mo said with a hint of displeasure, "At least Xiaocan is still practicing the Way of Mercy. Simply saying that he has romantic feelings for me is just a rumor. It's not good for him or me."
The complainer opened his mouth but could not refute anything.
Why is it so difficult to communicate with myself?
"Whatever I say, anyway..."
"Stop." Cong Mo paused, "Senior Brother and the others have already met the Emperor."
"Abandoned and returned to the village?" The emperor, dressed in a green gauze robe, sat in the main seat, his face filled with worry. "I have indeed never heard of this place. General, do you know anything about it?"
"I..." The general, tall and muscular in his turquoise uniform, which matched the emperor's outfit perfectly, fell into deep thought. "I seem to have heard of this place two years ago when I was leading troops on an inspection tour. It's an isolated village, but we were in a hurry and didn't go in."
Yin Yi knelt and said, "I hope Your Majesty will understand this. The truth behind the famine that caused the dramatic loss of newborns is revealed here."
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