Li Chengfeng stared in shock at the dark-skinned man behind him. Could this be Black Egg's brother?
The old woman was stunned when she saw the man carrying the pole, then looked at the embarrassed Li Chengfeng. Before she could say anything, she immediately hugged the man and wailed, "My son, I'm so glad you're fine."
The man was also embarrassed. He patted the old woman in his arms and said, "Mother, I'm fine now, aren't I?" He glared at Li Chengfeng.
The old woman snapped out of her daze and glared at Li Chengfeng. "You bastard, why did you curse my son?"
Li Chengfeng smiled awkwardly. "Maybe I got the wrong person."
The old woman was about to say something when someone quietly tugged at her sleeve and whispered into her ear, "Are you crazy?
This is a cultivator! "
The old woman shivered and took a closer look. Sure enough, there were two young men wearing cultivator robes standing beside them. They were glaring at her and her son.
The old woman immediately knelt down and kowtowed. "I'm blind, I offended a cultivator! I deserve to die, I deserve to die!"
The face of the dark-skinned man carrying a pole was also flushed red. He felt suffocated if he knelt, but he was terrified if he didn't. It was only when the old woman pulled him down and pressed his head to the ground that he knelt down.
He was about to kowtow when Li Chengfeng stopped him. He smiled bitterly. "It's my fault for this misunderstanding. Please get up."
Li Chengfeng helped them up and asked the man, "You're called Black Egg too?"
When the man saw Li Chengfeng's friendly expression, he was slightly relieved. "Yes, everyone around here knows my name is Heidan."
Li Chengfeng asked, "Is there anyone else called Black Egg?"
The man who had stopped the old woman suddenly said, "There are at least eight or ten people called Heidan here."
Li Chengfeng glanced at him. Other than being skinny, there was nothing special about him. "Why are there so many people called Heidan here?"
The thin man laughed and said, "Master Cultivator should know that in the south, the sun is very fierce every day. Our lives are cheap and we are exposed to the wind and the sun all day long. How can we not get dark?
When a great general wants to go to war, he pulls people from all over the southern provinces, so naturally there are more people with the lowly name of Heidan. "
Li Chengfeng finally understood. He described Black Egg to them and asked, "Do you know this Black Egg?"
The skinny man was clearly a local here. When he heard this, he immediately fell silent and said with an ugly expression, "I do know him, but the cultivator master knows his mother. I'm afraid he won't be able to find her."
Li Chengfeng said sternly, "We must find a way to find it!
No matter where she was!
I must send this pension to her! "
The skinny man sighed and said, "I'm afraid this old woman doesn't have such a good life. After her son secretly ran off to join the army, this old woman missed her son all day long. Every few days, she would sit at the door and cry until her eyes went blind.
When Suizhou was hit by a disaster, she fled here with us to receive help from the great general. However, her body was already broken from missing her son and she died not long after she arrived. "
Xiaobao and Han Tianxing looked at each other, both feeling terrible.
Li Chengfeng was even more shocked. "She died?"
The skinny man nodded. "Yup."
"Where was she buried?"
The skinny man smiled bitterly. "Everyone's lives are cheap here, why would they care about a place to bury her?
Many people died during that time and the officials were afraid of the plague, so anyone who died would be dragged away and burned! "
Li Chengfeng was dumbfounded. His heart felt heavy, as if there was a huge stone pressing on his chest. He was so stuffy. He promised Heidan that he would send the pension to his mother, but now it was impossible to fulfill his last wish.
After a while, he asked, "Does she have any other children?"
The skinny man shook his head. "If she did, she wouldn't have cried so much just because her son joined the army."
Li Chengfeng sighed, holding Black Egg's compensation in his pocket felt like he was holding a hot rock. He took out some silver and thanked the three people, then brought Xiaobao and Han Tianxing for a stroll in the disaster zone.
At this moment, all he could see were emaciated refugees and wailing widows. Even the breasts of pregnant women who were breastfeeding on the streets were as shriveled as a rag bag. The babies lying on top of them tried their best to suck, but they couldn't produce any milk and could only cry loudly.
Most of the people here had no light in their eyes. Even the news of a great victory could not stimulate them. It was as if their souls had been harvested by ghosts and gods, and they had become a group of walking corpses that only had survival instincts.
Xiaobao and Han Tianxing's mood grew heavier as they walked. After a street, Xiaobao could not help but say, "Young Master, let's go back. This place is too creepy."
"Creepy?" Li Chengfeng mumbled. "Yes, this place is too creepy."
Han Tianxing shuddered too. "Thank goodness we won this battle!
If not, Great Qi would be in danger! "
"We won?
Did we really win? "
A familiar voice rang out from behind. The three of them turned to see Gao Shenghan standing behind them with a half-smile. They did not know when he had arrived.
Gao Shenghan was wearing an ordinary military uniform, with two cultivators in black robes behind him. He waved at the two cultivators who were protecting him, then walked in front of Li Chengfeng and smiled. "What makes you think we've won this battle?"
Han Tianxing was a little unconvinced. "We completely destroyed the Puppet Kingdom and the Dijon Kingdom. How is that not a victory?"
Gao Shenghan snickered and swept his gaze around. "You think we still have the power to fight?"
Han Tianxing fell silent in the face of such a tragic scene.
Gao Shenghan said, "I can only say that we fought this battle with all our might. From a certain perspective, we did win. But if we really think we've won completely, then we're too naive!"
Li Chengfeng could hear the hidden meaning in Gao Shenghan's words. "Please enlighten me."
Gao Shenghan said, "After the war, there's still negotiation. If we don't negotiate well, we might lose everything we won on the battlefield."
As he spoke, he looked deeply at Li Chengfeng. "You're about to return to the Divine Capital. That place is a hundred times scarier than the battlefield here!
Because over there, you don't know who your enemies are, and you don't know if your friends are your friends! "
The more Li Chengfeng listened, the more he felt something was wrong. "What do you mean?"
Gao Shenghan said meaningfully, "Lord Li knows better than me."
Li Chengfeng wanted to say more but Gao Shenghan had already sent him off. "Alright, my army is busy, I won't send you off."
When Li Chengfeng left the tent, Han Tianxing asked in confusion, "Senior Brother, what's he playing at?"