"Ah …"
Hearing the leader's words, the other two young men came back to their senses.
The two charged Li Mo with ferocious expressions. Even the youth Li Mo sent flying was now charging Li Mo.
Li Mo was still in the 9th stage of the Body Tempering Stage against the three strong youths.
Even Li Mo's appearance was sickly. But while Li Mo's power was suppressed, he still had his battle experience.
Even the hidden qi he used to send the youth flying didn't exceed the 9th stage of the Body Tempering Stage.
Thus, Li Mo's power was lacking against these three youths. But every time he struck, he struck at their weak points.
These three ruffians were full of holes in front of Li Mo.
Even if Li Mo didn't use his full power, a few punches landed on their weak points and sent them flying.
The three on the ground were dumbfounded, looking at Chen Datong as if he was a ghost.
After that, the three of them looked at the injuries on their bodies. In the end, it was the young leader who shouted.
"Go!
Hurry! "
The other two youths also didn't want to stay here any longer, so when they heard the leader's words, they immediately left.
The three of them ran towards the back, scared witless.
"Cough, cough …"
Seeing their backs, Li Mo coughed a few times.
Since he was pretending to be Chen Datong, he should at least look like a sickly ghost.
"Thank you, Chen … Uncle Chen."
Enduring the pain in his body, Ah-Shui trembled as he stood up to express his thanks.
Because he never spoke with Chen Datong, he didn't know how to address Chen Datong.
"Ah."
Li Mo opened his mouth and looked at Aqua with a questioning gaze.
Ah Shui was smart enough to know Li Mo's meaning.
Therefore, Aqua looked at the injuries on his body and smiled.
"It's fine, Uncle Chen.
I'm used to it. "
It was just a few short sentences, but it was filled with endless sorrow.
The children of the poor took charge of the household early, especially children like Ah Shui. At a young age, he was already a pillar of the family.
"Ah Ba."
Li Mo pointed at Aqua's foot and took out a pill from his storage pouch.
Looking at the storage bag on Li Mo's waist, Aqua's childish eyes were filled with curiosity.
Although Ah Shui was at the fourth stage of the Body Tempering Realm, he had never seen a storage bag before.
However, in Ah Shui's impression, Chen Datong did have a storage bag on his waist.
With Chen Datong's Body Tempering Stage Nine cultivation, he should be able to protect his storage bag in this small Eagle Mountain Gang.
In other words, the people at the bottom could not snatch away Chen Datong's storage bag.
As for the middle and upper clansmen, none of them had the slightest interest in Chen Datong's storage bag.
After all, in the eyes of those upper-class people, Chen Datong was like a beggar. Who would have any thoughts about a beggar's wallet?
As for Li Mo, the pill in his hand was the one Mei Ding gave him with a pained expression.
It was a decent healing pill, so Li Mo crushed it.
Li Mo then poured the pill into the medicinal wine and swirled it before passing it to Aqua.
"For me?"
Watching Li Mo's every move, Aqua couldn't help but ask in shock.
Seeing Chen Datong in tattered clothes handing him something, Aqua's heart was filled with rejection.
But recalling how Chen Datong uncharacteristically helped him today, not drinking Li Mo's medicinal wine wasn't a good idea.
So Aqua pinched his nose and took Li Mo's gourd of medicinal wine, gulping it down.
"Cough, cough …"
Just as he took a big gulp, Aqua spat half of it out.
Aqua's childish face tensed, his tongue stuck out as he shouted.
"Spicy!
Spicy!
So spicy … "
Li Mo grinned at Aqua's appearance.
From the looks of it, Aqua had never drunk wine before.
Aqua was about to complain about Li Mo giving him such a spicy wine, but before he could speak, Li Mo felt the pain in his body recede.
Ah Shui felt the pain in his body gradually lessen. Even his sprained ankle was slowly getting better.
"So miraculous?"
Feeling the change in his body, Aqua said in shock.
His childish eyes couldn't help but take another look at the masked Chen Datong. Chen Datong was becoming more and more mysterious in Aqua's eyes.
The medicinal pill in the wine was useful even to a Golden Core Stage expert.
Li Mo was afraid of damaging Aqua's foundation, so he used the wine to dissolve it.
But to Ah Shui, who was at Body Tempering Stage Level Four, the medicinal effect was like a divine healing medicine.
Li Mo took Aqua's wine and put a finger to his lips, silencing him.
"I know. Don't worry, Uncle Chen.
I won't tell anyone about what happened today. "
Aqua nodded solemnly. Aqua grew up in the lower class.
But he didn't lose his ruffian personality like the other three youths. The untainted Aqua knew gratitude.
Aqua didn't know how much this miracle medicine was worth.
But in the eyes of the stronghold's bigwigs, it was bound to be priceless.
If others knew Chen Datong had such a miracle medicine, it would only add to his troubles.
Li Mo grinned in satisfaction, but his heart was vexed.
Li Mo now knew why Mei Ding was so stifled for half a year that he almost lost his mind.
Any normal person would find it hard not to speak from dawn to dusk.
"Uncle Chen, I will go see my mother."
Aqua said to Li Mo in adoration and went to a shabby wooden house.
Li Mo stomped his feet in anxiety as he watched Aqua's back.
Li Mo was speechless. He didn't even ask Aqua where he lived!
"Pretending to be a mute!
Whose idea was this? "
Li Mo roared in his heart. He had no choice but to wander around.
The wooden houses at the foot of the mountain might be shabby, but there were many of them.
Some were empty, covered in a layer of dust. It was clear that no one had lived in them for a long time.
Some of the wooden houses had youths in tattered clothes lying in twos and threes.
These people acted as if only one person had eaten his fill and the whole family was not hungry. They slept leisurely in the house.
Looking at these people, Li Mo thought of a word from the future: vagabonds.
Of course, most of them were the lowest rung of society.
These people were the old, weak, sick, and disabled, a part of the village that had been forgotten.
Li Mo wandered for an entire afternoon and the sky darkened, yet he still couldn't find his house.
"Uncle Chen."
Just as Li Mo was vexed, a tender voice reached his ear. "Little girl, you're just a little girl.
Li Mo turned to see Aqua.
At this moment, the injuries on Aqua's body had all healed, and the clothes that had been torn during the fight had been changed.
Although the clothes he was wearing were made of coarse cloth, he could see that they were very clean.
It seemed Aqua's family was poor, but his mother took good care of him.
"Ah …"
Li Mo shouted, but his heart was bitter.
All he could do now was whimper.
"Uncle Chen, my mother told me to invite you over for dinner."
Aqua said with an innocent smile on his face.
It was obvious that Ah Shui had told his mother everything that had happened today when he got home.
But Aqua promised Li Mo to keep Li Mo's sacred healing medicine a secret.
Hearing that Chen Datong saved her life, Ah Shui's mother sent Ah Shui to have a meal with Li Mo.
Li Mo wasn't hungry and was looking for his room.
But Li Mo's eyes flickered.
Then Li Mo rubbed his belly, pretending to be hungry, and went to their house with Ah Shui.
As soon as he entered the house, it was not very big.
The door was facing a wooden bed full of weeds.
There was a small pot of freshly stewed rabbit meat on the ground. Surrounding the rabbit meat were bowls of emerald green wild vegetables.
"Brother Chen is here."
A middle-aged woman came to greet Li Mo.
The clothes on the middle-aged woman's body were also sewn and patched, but compared to the other clansmen who lived at the bottom of the hierarchy, they were very clean.
The woman's face was deathly pale and Li Mo could see the calluses on her hands.
This middle-aged woman should be Ah-Tu's mother, Lu Yun.
Li Mo didn't know Lu Yun, but luckily he couldn't speak.
So Li Mo hummed and laughed it off. Lu Yun and Chen Datong didn't know each other that well.
If Chen Datong didn't save Ah Shui, Lu Yun wouldn't have asked him out for a meal.
Therefore, even though the Chen Datong in front of him had changed, Lu Yun didn't notice it at all.
"Come eat, it's getting cold."
Lu Yun pulled Ah Shui to eat with him, with Li Mo following suit.
This family was so poor, not to mention a table, they didn't even have a chair.
So they could only sit on the ground and eat.
"Uncle Chen, try my mother's rabbit stew. It's delicious."
Ah Shui introduced to Li Mo and Li Mo nodded.
Li Mo picked up his chopsticks and put a mouthful of rabbit meat in his mouth. Li Mo was used to eating delicacies in his two lives.
This rabbit stew couldn't compare to those delicacies, but Li Mo found something else in it.
It was simplicity. So when the rabbit entered his mouth, it was a different kind of taste.
"En …"
Li Mo's eyes brightened on purpose and he gestured for Ah-Tu and Lu Yun to eat.
Seeing Li Mo so satisfied with the rabbit meat, Ah Shui snickered.
Ah Shui picked up the rabbit meat and gobbled it down along with the vegetables.
Looking at Aqua and Lu Yun's expressions, the wild vegetables looked like rice.
How many times did such a poor family get to eat rice in a year?
Most of the time, they relied on the vegetables in the mountains to stave off hunger.
Li Mo couldn't help but feel uncomfortable at the thought of their lives.
Li Mo fished out the wine gourd from his storage bag and took a bite of meat and wine.
Through the numbness of the alcohol, Li Mo could vaguely hear Lu Yun's earnest and well-meaning advice for Ah Shui.
"Ah Shui, you're still growing. Eat more meat."
"No, mother, eat more to nourish your body.
With father gone, Ah Shui will take care of you. "
"Mother doesn't need to eat, but Ah Shui, eat more.
When you're strong, you won't be bullied.
But remember, when you're strong, you can't bully others. "
"I know, mother."
"…"