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"But this is too strange." Xiao Mao looked at the countless winding paths in the forest around him with a stupefied expression. "Where should we go?"

"Didn't you come before?" Lu Jinfeng looked at Chen Mu Mu Mu Mu, "You should still remember the way out, right?"

"What do you think?" A bewitching smile appeared on Chen Mu Mu's face.

She only knew that there was a road that led to the Linzhou City and it wasn't too far away from it, but looking at the many other paths, all of them seemed to be the same. So she asked where she was going, how did she know?

She did not navigate, and was not afraid of getting lost wherever she went.

"Sigh." Lu Jinfeng held his forehead, "When I saw your smile, all the hair on my body stood up."

"Then where should we go now?" Madam Li stared at the four paths in front, back, left and right, his face twitching, "We cannot return to the Apricot Rain Village for the time being."

Chen Mu Mu Mu looked at Madam Li in astonishment, this was the first time she felt that Madam Li's IQ had caught up to her.

In the eyes of the people of the Apricot Rain Village, they were already dead. If they were to return, it would definitely cause a panic, and they would also have to tell the government how they managed to escape and alert the enemy.

They were too passive, it was so easy for them to feign death and escape. If they were to return after getting rid of the situation where the enemy was in the dark, they would simply be courting death.

"But, mother, we don't have any money on us." Chen Ergou spread out his hands, "If we don't return to Xingyu Village, we will have to sleep on the streets."

"Going back to the Xingyu Village doesn't mean that they won't sleep on the streets." Lu Jinfeng said, "Those people are more powerful than anyone else, all of our family's wealth was burnt away in that big fire. It's the Lu family again, they won't help us."

"Xiao Feng is right." Madam Li was so worried that his two eyebrows were twisted together, "Now that I have no money and no room, when I go back I will be laughed at. I might as well just take a break outside."

The problem was, he had to spend money to get out.

"There must be a path for humans to walk on top of the mountain. One step at a time, one step at a time. A living person can't be choked to death by urine." Ning Yuan said.

Chen Mu shook his head when he saw the worried looks on everyone's faces. "There's no need to worry about the money, I have it on me."

Madam Li and Lu Jinfeng heard and looked towards her, "We came out in a hurry, why are you so rich?"

"How can I not be shrewd when I'm outside?" As she said this, a trace of pride flashed through Chen Mu Mu's eyes. "Especially the hassle of the assassins these few days. I brought some important things with me, especially some silver notes."

She fished out some silver notes from her pocket. "Although this fire burned a lot of our things, we didn't lose anything important."

She had not lost her life, her money, nor her precious needles. That was enough.

People can't be too greedy.

"Little sister, you're so awesome. You can even count that." Chen Ergou went over to look at the notes in her hand, and her eyes lit up, "Eight hundred silver! It's enough for us to eat for a lifetime! "

Eight hundred taels of silver, not eight!

When everyone looked at Chen Mu Mu Mu's eyes, they subconsciously carried a bit of reverence.

As the saying goes, one loves money to this extent. Only a few people could match up to him.

"Unfortunately, although I was considered to be from another world, I didn't manage to calculate my own life." Chen Mu Mu Mu shook his head, "If it wasn't for that tunnel, I think we would have already died in the fire." No matter how much money he had, it was not as important as his life. If he lost his life, money would be useless.

"The past is in the past. At least for now, the problem that troubled us the most has been solved." Lu Jinfeng was the one who saw it the most, "Now we need to quickly leave this place."

Chen Mu Mu Mu looked at the paths for a while and said, "We don't know which path we should take, so we might as well pick one. If we are unlucky enough to return to Xingyu Village, we'll have to accept it."

This was the worst that could happen. If he wasn't afraid of the worst outcome, what was he afraid of?

"Then that's it." Lu Jinfeng nodded his head, and casually pointed to the middle road, "There are more footprints here, so let's go there."

No matter which one they picked up, it would be the same. No one had any objections and followed Lu Jinfeng.

After walking along the road, Chen Mu finally thought of a question, and asked Ning Yuan: "Did you bring all the medicine?"

Ning Yuan's poison, could only be used to create an antidote. Meng Jiu was already dead, and the antidote was the final antidote, she used it and refined a bottle of his antidote. If he lost the antidote, then he would have to pay with his life.

She had no skills, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make a new one without the pill.

Hearing that, Ning Yuan laughed: "Don't worry, I've brought such an important thing."

Such a precious thing was equivalent to his life, so he naturally had to take good care of it. "I've always carried this bottle with me."

How could he, a martial artist, not sense the danger that Chen Mu could smell? However, without her concern, he only brought his medicine when he woke up in the middle of the night. He didn't bring anything else with him.

It was a good thing that Chen Mu Mu brought money with her. Otherwise, they would have to endure the cold and hunger of the streets, which would have been embarrassing.

"You are quite meticulous." The corners of Chen Mu Mu's lips curled up as he spoke in an indifferent tone.

This person seemed to be a rough old man who roamed the martial arts world. However, with his personality, who would dare to treat him as a rough old man?

With Ning Yuan by her side, he hoped that it was good.

"Same here." Ning Yuan's brows drooped slightly as the corner of his mouth curled into a slight smile, "After all, someone used their life to exchange for this life of mine. I still have a unfulfilled wish, so I must cherish it."

She couldn't say anything to his words.

With a faint smile, Chen Mu Mu declined to comment.

After surviving the calamity, and not having to worry about hunger and lodging, Chen Ergou was in high spirits and said a lot of things to cheer up.

Ning Yuan led the way, Xiao Mao was not willing to approach Ning Yuan, and was also not willing to approach Madam Li, Lu Jinfeng and a few others, thus he returned to Chen Mu Mu Mu Mu's side, and followed behind her.

Chen Mu Mu looked back at him with cold eyes and said impolitely, "Little brat, could it be that you can't tell that I don't like you?"

"But everyone says I'm cute." The devilish brat raised his head. His eyes were moist like a black grape soaked in water. "Big Sister Chen, why don't you like me?"

"Because," Chen Mu sneered, "what did you and Cao Yue do to me before, have you forgotten?"

"I'm still a child, how can you care about a child?" The devilish brat said with dissatisfaction.

"I'm sorry, I'm a child too." Chen Mu Mu giggled as he glanced at him, "I'm only a few years older than you, I can't bear to let you go."

"..." "Indeed." The devilish brat stared at Chen Mu Mu for a while before he mumbled, "Actually, I've never seen you as an adult before."

"Is that so?" "But why do I feel that the way you look at me is as though you're looking at your own mother?"

"I don't have a mother." The devilish brat's eyes carried a bit of melancholy and desolation. "I am a child abandoned by others."

"Oh." Chen Mu Mu Mu replied indifferently, without a trace of sadness or joy.

"You really are cold-blooded. You don't have any sympathy at all." The devilish brat saw that she was too calm and collected, and he couldn't help but feel a bit angry.

"There's nothing I can do about it. I don't have any parents, and I don't have any other children." Chen Mu pouted. "But I'm not like you. I can still live well without my parents, and I even adopted a mother of my own."

"I do not wish to admit that they are all hypocrites. None of them have truly treated me with sincerity." The devilish brat cautiously looked at Chen Mu Mu. "Of course, if you're willing to be my mother, I can recognize you."

"But I'm not sincere to you either." Chen Mu Mu Mu rejected him on the spot.

What kind of joke was that? How old was she? No, how old was she? She was just a mother and had picked up a cheap son. How was she going to date a handsome man in the future?

Most importantly, she did not like this son of hers.

"But you don't have a bad heart." The devilish brat said, "You are the first person who did not discriminate against me."

Pausing, her wet eyes looked at her, her gaze pure and clear, "You are a good person."

"It's no use putting on a tall hat." "I've never thought of myself as a good person. Not only that, I'm just too lazy to bother with you, so that doesn't mean that I don't discriminate against you."

Looking up at Ning Yuan, he said softly: "Also, your character is bad, too mischievous, and too annoying. If not for your father's value, I would not even want to talk to you."

"He's clearly such a good-looking person, but why is his mouth so hateful?" The devilish brat couldn't help but give her a supercilious look. "I'm still a child, can't you be merciful with your words and amass yourself a bit of kindness?"

Chen Mu laughed lightly, lowered his head and whispered into the brat's ears, "Let me tell you, don't talk about morals, right now, the thing I want to do the most is to leave you far behind." I'm already suppressing my nature. Try teasing me again? I don't mind beating the kid. "

As expected, the devilish brat was intimidated by her words. It was only after a long while did he come back to his senses and stammeringly said, "Chen Mu Mu Mu, no wonder people often say that only small people and women are hard to take care of. You truly deserve to be a little girl."

Hearing this, Chen Mu Mu Mu's eyes narrowed immediately, "You have the guts to say it again?"

The devilish brat immediately ran towards the Madam Li and made a face at her. "Little girl!"

Chen Mu Mu was speechless.

Thus, the devilish brat was the most detestable.

While talking, a few of them had already walked out of the forest and were looking ahead. Chen Ergou called out: "There is a manor in front of us."

These days, there were many manors with rich people, but most of them were built in towns and cities. There were very few manors outside of the wasteland.

Chen Mu Mu glanced over, only to feel that the contours of the manor were somewhat familiar. He hesitated before saying, "I seem to have been there before."

"You did come." Lu Jinfeng said, "Shangguan Bai's courtyard."

"So it's his territory. No wonder it looks so familiar." Chen Mu pondered for a moment before replying, "Since we're already here, let's head over to his place to rest."

Right now, they could be considered to be in trouble, no matter where they went it wouldn't be good. Compared to others, Chen Mu Mu Mu Mu was more willing to believe that Shangguan Bai had cooperated with him a few times.

Lu Jinfeng was unwilling: "This is only his house. What if he isn't here?"