Chapter - 304 Baby Girl In a City That Was Going to Fall (15)

Yang Guo was afraid and immediately took back his sword. His voice was shaking as he said, "You've hurt the baby?"

When Li Mochou saw how much he cared for the baby, she was even more convinced that he was the father and said, "Right now it's alive, but if you don't follow my orders, do you think I'll keep it alive?"

A chill went through Yang Guo. He knew that she was a cold blooded murderer; if someone merely offended her just one little bit she would kill them and destroy their whole family. Killing a newly born child would be nothing to her. He said, "You are my Martial Uncle, as long as you don't insult my Master, of course I'll follow your orders."

Li Mochou could hear that he was willing to back down and knew that as long as the baby was in her hands, he could do nothing. She said, "Fine, I won't insult your Master, you'll obey me. Go out and take a look and see how they are doing against the poison."

Yang Guo obeyed and went outside. He took a look around and didn't see anyone, but he was wary that Fawang was hiding around somewhere so he hacked and slashed the surrounding trees and bushes. He found no one so he returned to the cave and said, "They're gone, the poison must have scared them off."

Li Mochou said, "Huh, even if they ran, how far are they going to get after falling victim to my poison? Go and pick up the "Soul Freezing Needles" from the cave entrance and hand them over to me."

After hearing the non-stop cries of the baby, he knew that he should go out and find something for the baby to eat so he followed her instructions. He wrapped his hand with a piece of cloth and gave the needles back to her.

Li Mochou put the needles away and headed for the exit. Yang Guo followed and asked, "Where are you taking the baby?"

Li Mochou said, "Back to my home."

Yang Guo said anxiously, "Why do you want the baby? It's not yours."

Li Mochou blushed before saying with a serious tone, "What are you saying? If you hand over the Ancient Tomb's "Jade Maiden's Manual", I'll hand the baby back to you without harming a single of its hair." She then started to use her lightness kung fu and headed north.

Yang Guo followed her and said, "You've got to feed her some milk first."

Li Mochou turned around with a flushing face and shouted, "What the hell are you saying boy?"

Yang Guo said with surprise, "What? I'm just saying that the baby needs milk, otherwise, won't she starve?"

Li Mochou said, "I'm a pure and chaste virgin, how will I have milk for her?"

Yang Guo smiled, "Martial Uncle Li, I'm saying that you should find some milk for her to drink, I'm not asking for your milk…"

When Li Mochou heard this, she couldn't help but laugh. She had stayed single and chaste, she lived a life of swords and sabers, and she knew nothing about caring for a child. She said, "Where can we get milk? How about feeding her rice?"

Yang Guo said, "Has she got any teeth?"

Li Mochou opened her mouth and shook her head, saying, "Not even one."

Yang Guo said, "We'll go to a village, find a woman who's just given birth and can produce milk to feed her, how about that?"

Li Mochou said with delight, "You are indeed full of ideas."

They climbed to the top of a hill and looked all around. Far away in the west, there was smoke. The two of them traveled very quickly and arrived at a small settlement in a short period of time. The area around Xiangyang had been incinerated and the Mongols had destroyed the large towns and villages near the main roads, the only types of settlements remaining were those in the wild and secluded valleys.

Li Mochou checked the houses one by one and when she got to the fourth one, she found a woman feeding a year old child. Li Mochou was delighted that she had found someone, she went in and picked up the child from the woman's arms and flung it away towards a bed. She then placed the baby girl's mouth in the woman's breast and said, "This child's hungry, feed it."

The woman's child was flailing its arms and legs, crying its eyes out on the bed. The woman quickly went to pick up her child. When Yang Guo saw that the woman was exposed, he quickly turned his back to her before hearing Li Mochou say, "I told you to feed my child, didn't you hear? Who told you to hold your own child?" Yang Guo heard a thud and quickly jumped around just to see the woman's child by the wall with its head covered in blood.

The woman was distraught and put Guo Jing's daughter down and threw herself onto her child, crying and sobbing as she did so.

Li Mochou was furious and she lifted her fly whisk to strike down onto the woman's back.

Yang Guo quickly used his sword to block this blow and thought, "How can there be such an irrational woman?" However, the words that came out of his mouth were, "Martial Uncle Li, if you kill her, there won't be anyone else left to feed the child."

Li Mochou replied angrily, "I'm looking out for your child yet here you are sticking your nose in where it's not wanted."

Yang Guo thought, "This child isn't mine yet you keep on saying so, and if it is, then how can I be sticking my nose in?" He smiled and said, "The baby is hungry, the most important thing right now is to feed her." He then stretched out his hands for her.

Li Mochou raised her fly whisk and blocked his arm, saying, "You dare pick her up?"

Yang Guo took a step back and smiled, "Fine, fine! You take her."

Li Mochou picked up the baby and was just about to place it back into the arms of the woman when she discovered that she was gone. While the two were arguing, the woman had slipped out with her child. Li Mochou was filled with rage and dashed outside to see the woman running away. She flew up and struck down with her fly whisk with a gust of wind; both mother and child died under that strike. She went to find another woman to feed the child but the settlement was filled with men. Li Mochou became even angrier and she killed a few people at random. She then picked up a burning stick from a stove and set a few thatched houses on fire before leaving the settlement.

Yang Guo sighed to himself when he saw how vicious Li Mochou was. They didn't say a word as they wandered across the plains for several li. The baby had cried itself to sleep in Li Mochou's arms.

Li Mochou suddenly stopped in her tracks; there were two leopard cubs in front of her playing with each other. She took a step forward with the intention of kicking them away when she heard a roar from the side as a leopard leapt at her. She was startled by this and moved to the left. The leopard immediately turned around and leapt forward once again, clawing and slashing. Li Mochou raised her fly whisk and struck the leopard between the eyes. The leopard growled in pain and became even more vicious showing its sharp white teeth. It crouched on the ground and stared at its enemy with its gleaming eyes, waiting for a chance to attack.